N4Q in NCQSO PARTY

[James Jordan]

Call: N4Q
Operator(s): K4QPL N4CWZ
Station: K4QPL/M

Class: Mobile Mixed LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 8.75

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Dig Qs
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   80:    0     0       0
   40:  183     0       0
   20:  733     0       0
   15:   11     0       0
   10:    0     0       0
    6:    0     0       0
    2:    0     0       0
----------------------------
Total:  927     0       0  Mults = 64  Total Score = 177,984

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

This was a Sunday Funday for us. K3TD retired and moved to TX so I missed
having him on the team. Dave, N4CWZ, jumped into his place with gusto and
got his first taste of bouncing keyboards, tuning a screwdriver antenna by
ear, and handling pileups when the Rx antenna is nothing like the antenna
back home. But he got his sea legs very quickly and helped put up a very
good mobile score. The town and country powerline noise was a continuous
factor. Stronger signals helped a lot with only a couple times that the
noise brought operations to a halt until we passed through.
Conditions were not multi-band good although we hoped to include some 10M
runs. We never saw anything on the bandmap that was worth giving up the
great pileups on 20 and later on 40. We did do a brief excursion to 15 but
again, the rate just wasn't there. Crossing even the biggest counties there
was always activity from one county line to the next and often we felt bad
having to leave some folks waiting in the pileups when we had to move on.
Plans changed a bit when we realized how much time it would take to
navigate the top of Stokes to get into Surry. We sort of made up for it
later by a short excursion into Richmond.

Raw stats:
Counties: 17
Miles: 370 (about 600 Km.)
QSOs: 927
Mults 64
Peak Rate: 287
Contest Average: 105

A mobile qso party is a unique experience and having so many followers made
you all like friends. And we REALLY didn't bust your calls as often as it
seemed. Typos are rife with a bouncing keyboard that always seems to throw
a wrong letter or number in there somewhere! Thanks for being there and
your understanding.
73,
Jim K4QPL
Dave N4CWZ