[WIQPmail] Upper Bands

[Robert Lunsford]

 I will speak to this from both IN STATE and OUT OF STATE.
In State:In the past years that I have set up shop in the Super 8 parking lot in Dodgeville (Iowa County) I have tried 20m SSB specifically and had DISMAL results at best making ANY Qs.  Not sure if it is a time of year thing, since I have similar results in Winter Field Day (from multiple different states) or just what the problem is.  So not sure it is a promotion thing or just a conditions thing.  I have not tried 20m CW from WI in the QP yet, did for Field Day and it worked well.  I know by June when I do the KY QSO Party I still have dismal results on 20m SSB but 20m CW has absolutely rocked.  40m has always been my money band in WI (QP and FD both).
Out of state:Granted, I am in OH so I am close enough for 40m.  The gaggle of guys on 40m worked great for me!  A couple times I had the amp in stand by after re-tuning from CW to SSB or the other direction and still busted the pile up with a mere 24 to 32 watts.
I have had similar results the first weekend in May doing IN QSO Party.  At the end of August doing OH QSO Party 20m is money all contest long.  Saturday I was trying my best to work some OK and ID QSO Party contacts and I ended up with 1 OK on 20m SSB and 1 ID on SSB and 1 ID on RTTY, and that was it.  Otherwise 20m was ALL DX.  10m was HOT all weekend, if you wanted to work everyone in PY, LU, and CE.
Just one guy's observation from West-Central Ohio and South-West Wisconsin over a few years.
Rob KB8UEY
    On Monday, March 11, 2024 at 10:22:53 PM UTC, Joe via WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail at warac.org> wrote:  
 
    On 3/11/2024 5:17 PM, Joe wrote:
  
 I wonder how we can promote more Wisconsin Stations to operate on 20 and up more.
 I understand there are more mults to be grabbed on 80/40 for the Wisconsin Stations.
 Just seems like the contest is a WIQP, and only for Wisconsin Stations.
 
 I did the upper bands as much as possible, but the RUNS were just not there to be had.
 
 Joe WB9SBD
 
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