[NLRS] W9FZ/R MNQP scores...

[Bruce Richardson]

Hello, finally worked my way through the log and the results are:

210 Phone QSO's 210 Qpts
139 CW QSO's   278 Qpts
Total Qts  488 pts

Mults 16 counties + 1 other State = 17 mults

Total score = 8295  (NLRS entry)

Some other interesting statistics:

QSO's in respective counties (in order):

64  Dakota
63  Ramsey
57  Washington
39  Anoka
43  Chisago
11  Pine
19  Kanabec
19  Isanti
20  Mille Lacs
14  Sherburne

Some of the runs of QSO's were with amazing rates.  For instance, those 64
Q's in Dakota only took an hour and 20 minutes.  Same with Ramsey an hour
and 20 for 63 Q's.

The following ops contacted me for x number of Q's:

W0GHZ  92 Q's (46 SSB, 46 CW)
W0ZQ   84 Q's (40 SSB, 44 CW)
K0SHF  59 Q's (31 SSB, 28 CW)
WB0LJC 33 Q's (21 SSB, 12 CW)
N0KP   18 Q's (15 SSB, 3  CW)
KC0IYT 11 Q's
KB0ZKX  6 Q's

4 Q's KC0P, W0JLF
3 Q's KC0BZE, WK0X
2 Q's W0LER, KC0JFY, K9MU, KT8O
1 Q   KB0OLI, N0RUQ, NG0E, KC0TJ, N0HJZ, KB0LYL, W0AL, N0PI

In one respect, it was actually good that I cranked a bunch of Qpts early
and then gave out new mults later without worrying about bagging that many
Qpts at that stage of the game.  This many Q's were clearly driven by the
ability to make 2 QSO's per operator per band.  IF the rules were not
structured that way, then the behavioral results would have been different.
While the top 3 or 4 guys were able to give me LOTS of Q's, it also took a
certain amount of time to run through all these Q's which meant that I was
not on any calling freq (rover waterdish or otherwise) trying to churn new
contacts.  If only one q per operator per band were allowed, I think I would
have cranked through the universe of available operators sooner and then
actually hit the road sooner and perhaps been able to activate more
counties.

The other thing that was good about this is that it caused us to use our
equipment and frequency bands.  So there we are on a Saturday in February
out making 2 GHz and 10 GHz QSO's--excellent!

As I said in my initial transmission--it was a fun day of radio and it was
nice that other guys wanted to play radio all day too.  I really enjoyed the
drive.  If not for this MNQP, I never would have driven down some of the
roads that I did in northern Isanti county or Mille Lacs county.

I might try HF (only) mobile next year.  We'll see.  Thanks again to all of
you who got on for the MNQP.

Bruce Richardson - W9FZ

...Riker to Enterprise:  beam down Troi and a sixpack.