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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.</div>
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on the VP-1 the resonate point was lower on all three bands. Which required all three resonators whips to be shorted.</span></div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 16, 2021 11:29 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark <kb9s@hotmail.com><br>
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<div dir="auto">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
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>Sure was fun!!!</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Mar 15, 2021, at 9:20 PM, Mark via WIQP-Mail <wiqp-mail@warac.org> wrote:<br>
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Call: KB9S<br>
Operator(s): KB9S<br>
Station: KB9S<br>
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Class: SO Mobile LP<br>
QTH: WI<br>
Operating Time (hrs): 7<br>
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Summary:<br>
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs<br>
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160: <br>
80: 244 <br>
40: 338 <br>
20: 167 <br>
15: <br>
10: <br>
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Total: 749 0 Mults = 66 Total Score = 155,302.0<br>
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Club: Eau Claire ARC<br>
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Thank you to the West Allis Radio Amateur Club for sponsoring the Wisconsin Qso<br>
Pary. <br>
This was our second year of going mobile. Only major equipment change this year<br>
was to add a Hustler VP-1 tri-band antenna mount so changing bands was much<br>
easier than having to stop and change band coils like last year.<br>
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Our route plan worked out well. My wife Kitty K9KTT did the driving and keep us<br>
on course hitting all 15 counties on our planned route. In Taylor county she had<br>
to navigate though Amish buggy traffic and in Pierce county the GPS took us down<br>
an interesting township road that you wouldn't want to drive in the winter! <br>
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Qso rates were good the entire day and at times it was hard to pull out a single<br>
call from the pileup. <br>
Thank you to all the stations that followed us along our route all day. <br>
Here are top ten: <br>
12 - NU0Q<br>
11 - K0SN, K9CW<br>
10 - AF8A, 4BAI, N0UR<br>
9 - K9CT, K9NW, KI0F, KU8E, W9HB<br>
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73, Mark KB9S<br>
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