[WIQPmail] WiQP KB9S SO Mobile LP

[Mark]

My antenna is mounted on a GMC Serria pickup with Breedlove stake pocket bracket. I also have a couple guys going to the front of the pickup box.
When I mounted the 80, 40 and 20 meter resonators on the VP-1 the resonate point was lower on all three bands.  Which required all three resonators whips to be shorted.

73, Mark KB9S


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From: Scott Dawley <sdawley1 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 11:29 AM
To: Mark <kb9s at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WIQPmail] WiQP KB9S SO Mobile LP

Nice job! You and I made almost the same number of contacts! This was my first time out and I never would have believed I could make this many contacts mobile. The pileups were intense, particularly in the last hour when we crossed into our final County.

We used the Hustler rm80 on 80 m and ham sticks on 40 and 20. I was so impressed with the Hustler on 80 m that I bought the vp-1 and 20 m and 40 m resonators yesterday. Like you I want to minimize the hassle of band changes.

Did you have any tuning challenges with all three resonators mounted? Where did you mount the antenna? Ours was on a tri-magnet mount in the middle of the roof with two  guy ropes going to the front bumper.

Sure was fun!!!

73,

Scott
N9SD


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On Mar 15, 2021, at 9:20 PM, Mark via WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail at warac.org> wrote:


                   Wisconsin QSO Party - 2021

Call: KB9S
Operator(s): KB9S
Station: KB9S

Class: SO Mobile LP
QTH: WI
Operating Time (hrs): 7

Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
------------------------
  160:
   80:    244
   40:    338
   20:    167
   15:
   10:
    6:
    2:
  UHF:
------------------------
Total:    749       0  Mults = 66  Total Score = 155,302.0

Club: Eau Claire ARC

Comments:

Thank you to the West Allis Radio Amateur Club for sponsoring the Wisconsin Qso
Pary.
This was our second year of going mobile. Only major equipment change this year
was to add a Hustler VP-1 tri-band antenna mount so changing bands was much
easier than having to stop and change band coils like last year.

Our route plan worked out well. My wife Kitty K9KTT did the driving and keep us
on course hitting all 15 counties on our planned route. In Taylor county she had
to navigate though Amish buggy traffic and in Pierce county the GPS took us down
an interesting township road that you wouldn't want to drive in the winter!

Qso rates were good the entire day and at times it was hard to pull out a single
call from the pileup.
Thank you to all the stations that followed us along our route all day.
Here are top ten:
12 - NU0Q
11 - K0SN, K9CW
10 - AF8A, 4BAI, N0UR
 9 - K9CT, K9NW, KI0F, KU8E, W9HB


73, Mark KB9S


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