[ILQSO] ILQSO Digest, Vol 121, Issue 16
Jim Funk
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Mon Oct 23 13:20:05 EDT 2017
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: KI9A IQP (Jim Funk)
2. 2017 Log Submission (Jim Stoeber)
3. AF5CC-Out of state perspective (John Geiger)
4. ILQP N9WEW (Josh Kittle)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 05:18:51 +0000
From: Jim Funk <jfunk at fossna.com<mailto:jfunk at fossna.com>>
To: Chuck <ki9a at aol.com<mailto:ki9a at aol.com>>, Illinois QSO Party <ilqso at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ilqso at mailman.qth.net>>
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] KI9A IQP
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Thanks for coming to the party!
73, Jim N9JF
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From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net> [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Chuck via ILQSO
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2017 8:32 PM
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Subject: [ILQSO] KI9A IQP
Illinois QSO Party 2017 Oct 22 Claimed Score
Click on a call below for a list of all the contests for which that call sign is listed as an operator. Click on the [email] link to send an e-mail to the contester who posted the claimed score.
Call: KI9A
Operator(s): KI9A
Station: KI9A
Class: Fixed HP
QTH: Scla
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Location: In State/Province
Summary: Compare Scores
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
160: 1
80: 102 56
40: 173 189
20: 31 20
15:
10:
6:
2:
Total: 307 265 Mults 134 Total Score 119,010
Club: PRIME,ARA
Comments: [email] 2017-10-22 18:21:42
Wow...what nice time operating without an S8-9 noise level for the first time in several years! This is fun again! I wanted to give myself another antenna option on 40, other than my 135' ling, open wire fed perverted V ( 50' one leg horizontal, one leg down as a vee.) So I put a 40m loop, apex up, fed on bottom up about 40'/4' on bottom, and an elevated radial wire vertical. Didn't really see much if any difference. The last hour was horrible...with these poor condx, might be worth the organizers to consider moving this back one hour... Sent from my iPad
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:27:44 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jim Stoeber <wi9x1989 at yahoo.com<mailto:wi9x1989 at yahoo.com>>
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Subject: [ILQSO] 2017 Log Submission
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:20:25 -0500
From: John Geiger <af5cc2 at gmail.com<mailto:af5cc2 at gmail.com>>
To: Illinois QSO Party <ilqso at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ilqso at mailman.qth.net>>
Subject: [ILQSO] AF5CC-Out of state perspective
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It was an interesting couple of days leading up to the ILQP. We started
getting our kitchen remodeled on Wednesday, and the work on Thursday put a
nice layer of dust over the center of the house, including the shack. So,
I had to completely dissemble the shack, clean off the rigs and
accessories, and store everything in the bedroom. I was hoping they would
finish the dust causing part of the construction by Friday, but they
didn't. Friday also brought in a new (for me) rig, a Kenwood TS950SD.
Since the 950 has an internal PS and an internal tuner that loads up about
anything, it was the logical choice to temporarily hook up over the weekend
since it would need the minimum amount of connections and accessories. It
is a BIG radio, though. Spent part of Saturday afternoon constructing a
special shelf for it to sit on in the computer desk I use for the shack so
it would be in front of me at eye level.
On Sunday the sermon at Church ran long (but was good) so my start to the
ILQP was delayed 15 minutes or so. I first went to 20 meters and heard no
ILQP activity, so figured we didn't have propagation and went to 40 meters,
where I was able to hear some of the loud IL stations. Things didn't look
too good at the start. After working what stations I could on 40, did
check 20 again and found a few stations there, so spent the first few hours
bouncing between the 2 bands, but 40 definitely seemed the place to be.
Luckily 40m was fairly long as there were stations to work most of the time
on that band.
I have an intermittent noise from time to time that sounds like a loud,
raspy hash type sound, and it decided to show up all day on Sunday. It
will be on for 2-3 seconds, go away, and come back 20 seconds or so later.
It was hitting S8 at times on 40 meters. I am pretty sure it isn't in my
house, and am still trying to find out where it is coming from. The noise
blanker on the TS950 pretty much took it out, but also hurt receiver
performance. So, for most of the contest it was switching the NB off and
on, finding out what lead to best copy, and occasionally switching on the
10DB attenuator as that reduced some of the IMD products generated by the
NB. I am sorry for some of the repeats I needed from Illinois stations,
there were times when the noise clobbered the exchanged.
I used the W6RK and DX summit clusters more than I probably have in the
past ILQPs and it really paid off. Thanks to all of the mobiles out there
as well, and they kept it interesting by changing counties often. I didn't
realize K9CQ was mobile until a few hours into the contest, I probably
missed a few counties he or she visited. There seemed to be more
county-line portable stations on as well, which was greatly appreciated. I
worked quite a few new counties that was.
Was anyone on from the WBGO/BOON/OGLE/DEKA intersection? If they were, I
never heard them. I didn't get Boone or Ogle Counties at all. I saw a
mobile spotted for Ogle but missed them.
I probably made more QSOs on 40 meter SSB than usual thanks to the good
receiver on the TS950. I can say that I can definitely see the difference
between a contest quality radio and a non-contest quality radio, and some
of the receive tools on the 950 definitely enabled me to make some QSOs I
wouldn't have with a different radio. The 150 watts out was nice also,
especially on SSB.
I don't think I made more than a couple of QSOs on 20m after 4pm, as
everyone seemed to be on 40 by that time. The last hour of the contest I
went to get on 80 meters, and even though my dipole isn't too good on 80, I
heard nothing! I then remembered that the internal tuner on the TS950 only
functions on transmit and the dipole I use for the low bands isn't close to
resonance on 80. I had meant to redo it in the past week, but that didnt
happen. It looked like 80 might be a bust but then a flash of insight told
me to get the MFJ manual tuner and hook it up. I did that, bypassed the
internal tuner, and made a few QSOs at the end on 80m CW. I didn't try 80
SSB at all.
All in all it was a great contest, lots of activity, interesting
propagation and I made by goal of 75 counties and a food prize! I worked
77 counties in total.
Some counties I usually work that I missed this year: Greene, Jo Daviess,
Carroll, Ogle, Boone, Menard, McClean (where was K9ZO?). Was there much
activity from those counties? It was nice to see Dave NN1N come back to
Illinois to operate.
It was a great time and I am looking forward to ILQP 18!! It will be
interesting to see what other out of state stations have to say about
propagation and activity.
73 John AF5CC
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:09:07 -0500
From: Josh Kittle <josh at kittle.com<mailto:josh at kittle.com>>
To: Illinois QSO Party <ilqso at mailman.qth.net<mailto:ilqso at mailman.qth.net>>
Subject: [ILQSO] ILQP N9WEW
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I had an out of town commitment on Saturday night with a stay overnight in
Indiana, so by the time we got back home I only had a little over 2 hours
on the contest. I started on 20 for a bit and ran a few west coast stations
before switching to 80M. I'm having antenna issues on 40M, so I didn't get
a chance to check it out. I thought I could run quite a few counties at the
end of the contest on 80M, but it didn't work out so well. I ran S&P
through the band once and then came back down to look for a clear
frequency. Thanks to K4BAI for helping me get a clear frequency! I
contacted several stations until about the last hour and then my calls went
unanswered. I spun through the band again and didn't hear much local, so
the band either got really bad or went long. However, I only heard a few
strong signals on the band elsewhere, so I'm guessing it just got bad with
the incoming rain.
Here's the few contacts I could hand out for VERM, which I hope helped. I
saw only one station on the map for VERM. Not sure if anyone else was one
or not.
Total Contacts = 77
Total Points = 4,004
Operating Period: 2017/10/22 22:40 - 2017/10/23 00:58
Total op time (breaks > 30 min deducted): 2:18:26
Total op time (breaks > 60 min deducted): 2:18:26
Avg Qs/Hr (breaks > 30 min deducted): 33.4
Total Contacts by Band and Mode:
Band CW Phone Dig Total %
------- -- ----- --- ----- ---
80 0 58 0 58 75
20 0 19 0 19 25
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Total 0 77 0 77 100
73,
Josh
N9WEW
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