[ILQSO] K9IR rover from WBGO/DEKA/OGLE/BOON

[John Geiger]

Hi Paula,

Thanks for activating that intersection, even if I missed it. Didn't
realize it was raining yesterday in Illinois.  In SW Oklahoma we received 2
inches of rain on Saturday evening, and had some tornadoes northeast of us
but quite a few miles, but Sunday was very nice WXwise here.  Guess maybe
our storms moved into 9 land for Sunday.

Every portable or rover operation is a learning experience, that is for
sure!
73 John AF5CC

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Paula M. Uscian <pmuscian at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> To answer AF5CC's question, yes, there was someone operating from the
> intersection of these 4 counties, and that was me. I was active from the
> start of the contest on both CW and SSB until just after 4 pm local time,
> when I decided that I should take advantage of the remaining daylight and
> lull in the rain to take everything down and pack it away.
>
> Sorry I missed getting you in the log. I was using an OCF for much of the
> contest, but had to switch to the backup mobile screwdriver antenna when
> the SWR on the OCF inexplicably went beyond 3:1. Not sure if it was the
> rain or another issue I will need to t-shoot.
>
> This was my first ILQP and first time as a rover in any contest.
> Everything went more or less per plan, but the SWR issues, RFI preventing
> any operation on 20M, some op error when logging multi-county Qs, and
> needing to check periodically that the tarp still covered the generator
> without blocking the exhaust meant some lost on-air time. Lessons learned
> for next year!
>
> Most important, I had fun.
>
> 73 Paula k9ir
>
>
>
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