[ILQSO] ILQP plans & Shameless Plug, hi hi

Simpson, Troy tsimpson at watseka-u9.k12.il.us
Thu Oct 11 23:03:40 EDT 2012 

Good Evening All!

I'm still planning on getting on air during the ILQP to activate Iroquois County...aka "The Buckle of the Cornbelt" mostly SSB, but might try doing some RTTY. 

 If anyone wants to warm up their radios though the week before and work a few "9-Land" school stations...The October edition of the School Club Round-Up lands the week before the ILQP from Monday the 15th through Friday the 19th.  We'll be operating from Glenn Raymond School in Watseka (yes, Iroquois County) as W9GRS and I know Steve Bonser will have Pana High School on air as NQ9P.

W9GRS has been in the top 4 for the Middle School Division the last 4 years, including top honors twice.  NQ9P has been showing great strides in their first 2 years on air.  If you get a chance, give us a shout out.  W9GRS will be on Mon-Wed. before and after school, mostly digital in the mornings, SSB in the afternoons.  I will be visiting fellow 9-Lander School K9SOU, led by Neil Rapp, Thursday on my way to the National Science Teacher's Conference in Louisville and helping them out (yes, I know they're in Indiana, but us 9-Landers stick together when it comes to competing with the big guns found in the East Coast and Texas).

Hope to hear you all on air and I look forward to handing out Iroquois County in a week or so.

73's!

-Troy W9KVR

ps(Lake Carlyle mobile sounds interesting.  Would put an interesting twist to the ILQP!)
 

Troy J. Simpson
8th Grade Science Instructor - Glenn Raymond School
Head Girls Track Coach - Watseka Community High School



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From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net [ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Funk [jfunk at fossna.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:15 PM
To: Illinois QSO Party
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] On Lake Carlyle...

"Nothing good can come of this..."

-----Original Message-----
From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Pitchford
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 8:57 PM
To: Illinois QSO Party
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] On Lake Carlyle...

I believe dragging such a line is where it all started to go wrong for Humphrey Bogart in the Cane Mutiny.
Don, W9EBK

--- On Thu, 10/11/12, Zig Markowski <km9m-zig at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Zig Markowski <km9m-zig at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] On Lake Carlyle...
To: "Illinois QSO Party" <ilqso at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012, 4:34 AM

Trolling in a tight circle pulling leadcore or copper doubling as radials? ;-)

KI9A at aol.com wrote:

>I live about 30 min from Carlyle, and have been on it MANY times. If
>there is even a breath of wind, the lake is crazy. So, unless you are
>immune to sea  sickness, several hours anchored...yikes!
>
>73- Chuck KI9A
>
>
>In a message dated 10/10/2012 11:10:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>jfunk at fossna.com writes:
>
>There  was a maritime mobile in the Cal QSO Party for several years who
>anchored at a  4-county corner west of San Francisco.  Given my
>propensity for motion  sickness, I don't even want to THINK about it....
>
>If you are serious  about doing this someday, you might just nose
>around in the area of the lake  and see if someone else has a boat that
>would rent for a more reasonable  figure.  Not sure how large a craft
>you would need, and I'm sure it would  depend upon the wind and
>weather; one might have great plans and be derailed  by winds high
>enough to make the whole operation unsafe.
>
>Interesting  thought,  nevertheless.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>On Behalf  Of Hank Greeb
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:05 PM
>To:  ilqso at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [ILQSO] On Lake  Carlyle...
>
>
>Tnx, Danny:
>
>Two items concern me.
>
>1. I  looked at renting a pontoon boat from one of several of the
>nearby marinas -  they all say the boat must be returned by 7 p.m.
>That's 0100Z  The  ILQP times say I could operate until that time but I
>need at least 30 minutes  or so to motor back to the dock and check in.
>Guess this isn't insurmountable, since I'm never in real contention for a plaque.
>
>2. The  pictures of the pontoon boats I see wouldn't provide much
>protection from the  weather.  When I was at the Champaign, Vermillion,
>Douglas, Edgar county  corner I about froze because of low 40's
>temperatures and 30+ MPH winds.   I had to move into my automobile
>every couple hours to warm up for
>15 minutes  or so. :)  These olde bones are even a bit more creaky that
>5 years or so  ago when I was there!
>
>The upside - the Corps of Engineers say the lake  is quite shallow, so
>anchoring at or near the county intersection would be  possible.
>Downside - $400 per day plus fuel is outside my usual  budget for such
>an expedition, but there are always exception.  Maybe I  could find a
>willing ham who has a pontoon boat to loan for less?   :)
>
>Lettuce c what happens in the next couple years.  Maybe I could  be the
>first county line Maritime Mobile (not really, to be Maritime Mobile
>one needs to be outside the territorial waters of a sovereign country,)  but.....
>
>You've got me thinking.
>
>72/73 de n8xx Hg
>QRP  >99.44% of the time.
>
>On 10/10/2012 10:25 PM, Danny Pease  wrote:
>> Hank
>>     I went looking and what I found in  the FAQ section
>(http://www.w9awe.org/ILQP%20FAQ%20Page.html) was one cannot  operate
>from a structure, such as a bridge, over a river or stream (safety
>issues). It does say some awards programs do not recognize operation
>from a  "wet" county line, it says nothing at all about operating on
>lake in a boat  (or otherwise). I was under the impression no "wet"
>county lines were allowed,  but it appears that is not correct. I know
>of a county line on the Sangamon  Rover where you could activate a couple of semi-rare counties, Mason and  Menard.
>>
>>     For ILQSO you will classified either  Rover or Portable if you
>operate from a county line or multi-county corner,  regardless of
>antennas. I am pretty sure you only qualify for Rover if you  operate
>from more than one location.
>> 
>>
>>  Danny  NG9R
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