[WIQPmail] WIQP-Mail Digest, Vol 46, Issue 19

[James Sexton]

if you dont mind , what type of rig do you have?

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>    1. WiQP KE0TL mobile (Rolf Krogstad)
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> From: Rolf Krogstad <rolf.krogstad at gmail.com>
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> Another fun time driving through NW Wisconsin.  We should drive the same
> route when there are leaves on the trees and no distractions from the
> radio.  It really is beautiful country.  For once, Murphy did not pay a
> visit...unless you count the time that the power cable to the old XP laptop
> (with almost no battery) wiggled loose and we didn't notice until the
> computer shut down!
>
> Highlights - three QSOs with Laci OM2VL in the Slovak Republic, two on 40
> and one on 80.  I can't believe working that far on 80 meter mobile given
> the totally inefficient Hustler vertical and tiny ground plane.  He must
> have a great antenna AND especially great ears.  Another first was being
> called on 20 meters by JO7WXN.  In 12 years of Mn and WI mobile QSO parties
> I have never been called by Japan.  Most QSOs by callsign:  NU0Q 10 (Iowa),
> AF8A 8 (Ohio), K9CW 8 (Illinois), plus multiple people at 7.
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> Taty only operated about 30 min on SSB but just couldn't get anyone to hear
> her so she turned the radio back to me.  She can't wait for the sunspots to
> return and make possible a repeat of her first WiQP experience when she
> operated the entire 7 hour contest on 40 SSB without ever touching the VFO.
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> The last hour was the best with 92 QSOs - at times it was a wall of sound,
> nearly all zero beat - all while barreling down some lesser traveled road
> with the computer bouncing and causing typos in the callsign or report and
> causing my finger to hit the wrong F-Key macro.  It is a real trip (excuse
> the pun).
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> The day concluded with what has become a WiQP tradition, dinner at
> Tippycanoe's in Osceola with Mark WA0MHJ and XYL Julie.  Mark didn't
> operate mobile in Wisconsin this year because of his Covid vaccine at 3pm
> in Duluth.  As he puts it: "I made it to POLK county with three minutes
> left in the contest, and no radio".
>
> Here is the breakdown of our score:
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>  Band   Mode  QSOs     Pts  Mul
>    3.5  CW     118     236    7
>      7  CW     245     490   35
>     14  CW     122     244   19
>     14  USB      3       3    2
>  Total  Both   488     973   63
> Score: 98,408
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> 73
> Rolf NR0T
> and Taty KE0TL (a.k.a. OA4ABC)
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