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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Wisconsin QSO
Party<BR><BR>Call: NE9U<BR>Operator(s): NE9U KK9K N9BCA<BR>Station:
NE9U<BR><BR>Class: Multi-Op Mobile LP<BR>QTH: wi<BR>Operating Time (hrs):
7<BR><BR>Summary:<BR> Band CW-Dig Qs Ph
Qs<BR>------------------------<BR>
160:
<BR> 80: 280
28<BR> 40:
236 0<BR>
20: 35
0<BR>
15:
<BR>
10:
<BR>
6:
<BR>
2:
12<BR>
UHF:
<BR>------------------------<BR>Total:
551 40 Mults = 67 Total Score =
121,371.0<BR><BR>Club: Honey Badger Contesters<BR><BR>Comments:<BR><BR>Worst
year in 10 years! Bad conditions and self inflicted wounds....<BR><BR>AS
others mentioned, 40 was long from start, as was 20. 20 actually
sounded<BR>pretty good, but no one was on it...too bad....<BR><BR>Luckily 80
came to life at end....made just about half our qso's in last 2<BR>hours!
First 5 hours were steady, but slow...<BR><BR>TR4W says we had 70 minutes of
down time......(the self inflicted wounds) <BR>Murphy kept on
striking...<BR><BR>At start, computer wouldn't send code (worked fine
Saturday!)<BR>Radio powered up to PLL ERR<BR>My config files wouldn't run at
county line changes....<BR>Code sending went berserk a few times....<BR>Battery
for our antenna tuner was bad...luckily found Saturday and had time to<BR>buy a
new one...<BR>Antenna stopped tuning half way through contest....biggest down
time of 17<BR>minutes...was a real head scratcher until we say it smoking!
Insulation broke<BR>and it was arcing to some metal....fixed with 3m tape and
solved that<BR>problem....<BR><BR>Because we were behind schedule and saw the
snow coming we skipped our last two<BR>counties so we would end close to home
instead of 100 miles away....<BR><BR>But even though there were problems, the
local bar near my cabin had a special<BR>event steak night just for us on
Saturday night! Ribeyes on the charcoal<BR>grill!!! Can't beat
that!<BR><BR>Also had a great breakfast Sunday morning at another little up
North cafe.<BR><BR><BR>Looks like Michigan is a no go for us this year due to
Easter Weekend. We are<BR>having some irrational thoughts of driving 1000
miles to Florida for their<BR>party a week later.......we will
see....<BR><BR>73<BR><BR>Scott NE9U<BR>Ron KK9K<BR>Art
N9BCA<BR><BR><BR>Rig :k3<BR>antenna: home brew base loaded
vertical<BR>Software: TR4W</FONT><BR><BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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