[ILQSO] N9WEW Results

[Josh Kittle]

Now that the log is submitted here is my recap of the contest!

                   Illinois QSO Party

Call: N9WEW
Operator(s): N9WEW
Station: N9WEW

Class: Mobile LP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  CW-Dig Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:
   80:               5
   40:             217
   20:              14
   15:
   10:
    6:
    2:
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Total:     0       236  Mults = 90  Total Score = 21,240

Club:

Comments:

First time to operate mobile in a QSO Party. This was a fairly casual
operation
as I was coming home from a wedding in MO and had to travel across IL
anyway. I
decided the week before to attempt this and gathered up antennas from a few
local hams. I wasn't sure how well a hamstick would work mobile, but having
a
good ground seemed to be the key. I would have liked to have stayed in Piatt
county longer, but at the same time wanted to get home and get the car
unloaded
before dark. Ended up having an antenna problem the 40M stick half way
through
Champaign county. Got out once to redo the connections and inspect it, but
it
was intermittent at best. Decided to wait till I got home in Vermilion
county
to take a look at it and since I had a spare 40M stick I just put that on
there
and worked from that the rest of the contest. I was contemplating going to
another county such as Ford or Iroquois for a while, but decided to stick
with
Vermilion since I would have wasted 30 minutes or so just driving there and
I'd
lost my driver (wife) to laundry by that time! The last hour and a half of
the
contest I worked from my driveway on the same mobile setup but with the new
40M
stick. Seemed to be doing fairly well until the end and then switched to 80M
which was pretty dead from the contest perspective and only ended up with 5
Q's
there to wrap things up.

All in all I learned a lot and the best part is I had a lot of fun doing
it. I
think this experience will strongly make me consider a mobile operation for
a
future QSO Party.

73,
Josh
N9WEW