[ILQSO] KI9A Fixed + thoughts

[John Geiger]

Chuck,

You were loud here, as usual.

Yes, participation was really down on CW. Usual mobiles who were missing 
this year were:  KJ9C, AJ9C, W3DYA, NY4N, KF9D, NN9K (who was portable 
instead), and probably a few others I can't think of off the top of my head. 
That is a lot of missed QSOs right there.

I finished with 67 counties, which is better than I thought I did.  No food 
prize this year, but will try again next year.  Looking at the activity map, 
there were quite a few planned counties I missed.  Not sure what I should 
have done differently.  I looked at the W6RK cluster throughout the contest, 
I scanned both CW and SSB pretty well.  Guess these missed stations were 
just on a different band than I was.

73s John AA5JG
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Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:48 PM
Subject: [ILQSO] KI9A Fixed + thoughts


> Wow..
>
> Not sure what happened, my score is down about 10% from last year.   Had
> high hopes this year would be much better, with improved propagation. Got 
> to
> go thru my logs and figure out what happened. As of now, I think
> participation  seemed way down, especially on CW. Add the fact I was 
> dealing with a
> weird  Writelog/Microham "lag" issue with my logger. i know I missed time
> dealing with  that...sometimes, it would be a 1 second lag after I hit a 
> key, to
> either log,  or send a report. Sometimes, it was just fine.
>
> In years past, I could always get sustained runs on 40/80 CW.  I felt  it
> was really sporadic this year. Had many stations comment on my signal, and
> that it was loud, so, can't blame that. ( feel free to let me know my 
> signal
> was).  Didn't spend any time in pileups for mults, got thru on 1st call
> most of the time. I might have stayed on 10 meters a bit long,  hoping to 
> get
> a run of west coast stations going. Ran several EU, and, had some decent 
> DX
> call in, 7X5, and A61 on 10.
>
> I am looking forward to seeing what the other 100k + fixed stations felt
> about condx.
>
> Still drives me absolutely crazy, seeing mobiles going rare county to rare
> county, and staying on 20 meters, knowing I have little chance of working
> them..arrrgh! Seems everytime I looked at W6RK, they were spotted on 20. I
> understand they are maximizing their scores there, and the big guns..the
> guys  with higher, better antennas, have a better chance of hearing them 
> on
> scatter,  and groundwave, where us peashooters don't.
>
> I love the way the county map filled in. Another great job by Jim, Danny,
> and everyone at WIARC. Also, a tip of the hat to Dennis, KM9O, for 
> lighting
> a  HUGE fire here in SW IL, and making several portable, and fixed 
> stations
> active  down here. Right now, I'm thinking of doing a portable county line
> op next  year.
>
> Not sure how to promote more mobile participation though. Mel, KJ9C, had
> shoulder surgery, and, that's no excuse! LOL! ;-) If I had enough talent, 
> and
> equipment, I'd give it a shot. No way I could drive, operate, and log.
>
> results:
>
> BAND        CW        SSB
> 80               63           53
> 40              119          150
> 20                48           100
> 10                6            17
>
>                236            320        121 mults  = 95,832pts
>
>
> 73! SEE YOU IS NOV SS!
>
> Chuck KI9A
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