[ILQSO] AE8M mobile report

[John Buchert]

This was a fun contest with perfect weather, decent propagation and good
activity.  I am not sure it could get much better.  Thanks to all who called
with special thanks to NS9I 7 Qs, N8II 7, W8TM 6, KV8Q 6, K9CT 6, and a host
of others with 5 or less.  And of course, thanks to the sponsors who made
all this fun possible and also to the poor souls who now have to compile all
the results. 

 

As the results below show, 20M was good for me. The DX stations gave my
score a good boost.  I also had some surprisingly good runs on 40M SSB.  I
tried 20M SSB several times but always got run off the frequency.  I stayed
on 40 and 20 until dark (basically the first 4 counties) without trying
80/75 because the rates were good and it takes precious time to switch
antennas.  

 

BAND     CW     PH     MULTS

==========================

80       31      20      6  

40      121     108     54  

20      108       1     22  

15        0       0      0  

10        0       0      0  

 

Contact Points:   CW(260 * 2) + PH(129 * 1) = 649

Multipliers: 47 IL Counties, 34 States/Provinces, 5 DX, 86 total

   WriteLog counts IL as a mult, but I did not.  Don't know which is
correct.    

Claimed Score:  55,814

 

County      Qs      Minutes    Rate (Qs per hour)

 

EDWA        53         58           55

WABA        73         53           83

LAWR        69         56           74

CRAW       105         62          102

CLRK        64         73           53

 

 

I worked 8 EU countries and 1 SA (thanks YV5OIE).  DX accounted for 24 Q's.
I park to operate and the actual operating time was 5 hours, 2 minutes with
approximately 3 hours off the air while driving.  The round-trip, home to
home, covered 531 miles.  The mobile setup was a K3 and hamsticks. 

 

My apologies to the few stations that I just could not pull out of the
noise, even utilizing my QRP skills.  I am sure N8XX was in there somewhere,
but I could not dig him out.  At the other end of the S-meter, it seemed
like whenever I would start in a new county the loud signal of W8TM would be
first or second in the log, followed soon thereafter by NS9I and N8II.