[ILQSO] KJ9C rover op

[Mel Crichton]

Wow! That was a busy planned six hours that turned into a full 8 hours, and 
left me too far from Indy to make my weekly sked with pals in TN and MI .... 
so I tried it on 75 meters using the hamstick, and surprisingly it 
worked....very few other 75 meter contacts, though... and 80 cw was rough as 
well.... noise blanker was on all the time

Had a few 100+ hours and the rate meter even topped 150 a few times! If 
there was a slow period, I didn't see it.... it may have been when I was 
stopped to retrieve my 20 meter hamstick that got knocked off the roof by a 
low branch and dragged for a few yards... or maybe when I had to inspect the 
rock chip in my windsheild from being passed on a gravel road by a farmer 
who thought I was driving too slow...   or the slow period may have been 
when I was driving along busier roads, which also seem to have the most 
power line noise.... in some places I was totally deaf in spite of the K3's 
noise blanker.

Speaking of gravel roads... I went rover this year so I could drive slower, 
and on less busy roads (usually county lines are not busy) and put in at 
least 40 minutes in each of the counties .... not going for a win, just 
trying to be sure I got into as many logs as possible.... and yes, OM2VL was 
loud on 20 AND 40 meters....he often broke the pileups, and some pileups 
were total bedlam.... sorry if you got frustrated trying to work me, as many 
stops lasted much longer than the planned 40 minutes  and  I still did not 
work everyone

First time ever.... running a big pileup on 40 meter PHONE (thanks to a spot 
by K1RO).... Hope I got everyone;  it seemed my 100 watts and hamstick were 
working really well on phone for once.

Will take a while to tear the mobile station apart and retrieve the 
laptop.... hope to have a score within the week...

Mel KJ9C


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