[WIQPmail] N9SD mobile 2021 WIQP

[Chuck Dellis]

Nice job!

 

Working the mobiles from a fixed station seemed a bit more challenging this year.  The pileups were remarkable.  Maybe it was due in part to propagation on 40 from my QTH was medium and going long between 3 & 4 pm.  40 was never real short for me—stations less than 60 miles or so were pretty weak.  On a positive note, after about 3 pm, I could pick up mults almost coast to coast on 40 and leave the rest of the county mults to 80.

 

Chuck, 

W9WLX

 

From: WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail-bounces at warac.org> On Behalf Of Scott Dawley via WIQP-Mail
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2021 12:24 PM
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Cc: Scott Dawley <sdawley999 at gmail.com>; Scott Dawley <Sdawley1 at gmail.com>
Subject: [WIQPmail] N9SD mobile 2021 WIQP

 

On our first time mobiling for the WQP, my son in law, Dave, and I had such a blast yesterday. Dave isn’t a ham (yet) and did the driving while I operated. Not only did we see some parts of Wisconsin neither of us have been to, but conditions on the air were great.

Being our first time out, I would have been happy if we had gotten 400 or 500 contacts. My goal was just to avoid any major catastrophes. So to end up with 759 contacts and 64 mults was nothing short of totally surprising.

 

The last hour, when we crossed into JEF and were fresh meat on 80m, was wild. The pileup felt like it was 15 or 20 stations deep. Thanks for everyone’s patience as I tried to sort them out. 

And thank you to everyone who listened to us poor, weak mobiles. The pileups were amazing and folks really new how to work them. It was great to be on the other end of the pileup.

Already thinking about improvements for next year!





Total Contacts by Band and Mode: Band CW Phone Dig Total % ---- -- ----- --- ----- --- 80 231 0 0 231 30 40 379 0 0 379 50 20 148 1 0 149 20 -- ----- --- ----- --- Total 758 1 0 759 100 CW points: 758*2 = 1516

SSB Points:    1 Multipliers: 64 Power mult:      1.5

Total points:  145,632





Bonus: 13*500 = 6,500 





Final score:   152,132





73,

 

Scott

N9SD

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