[FQP]Re: [FCG] FQP Addendum

[N4KM at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/29/2004 3:19:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Georgek5kg writes:

> In a message dated 4/29/2004 2:35:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> ku8e at bellsouth.net writes:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> I will dissect your questions below:
> 
> 
> George...  did you stop in a county and continue to work a pileup down or 
> just keep on driving ???  
> We blew right on thru the counties.  We were in and out of Nassau on I-10 
> only long enough to change logs and make 2 Q's!  This was our decided strategy in 
> order to maximize counties.  Of course, we realized that we were leaving 
> pileups wanting but, as I say, it was our strategy to NOT stop.  In fact, the only 
> stopping was for QTP and QTF (that's to pee and to fuel).
> We planned to do 35 counties but only ended up doing 29
> because the pileups in many of our counties just didn't die down....  Also, 
> there were some counties that we stopped becuase we were just cutting through a 
> corner...  I am almost thinking it's better to plan a route where you are in 
> a county about 20 mins MAX and just keep on going and try to activate as many 
> as you can.... even if you still have a pileup..
> 
> 20 mins would be a good amount of time needed to work off that initial 30 - 
> 50 Q's that are always there.  Any longer, and it drags out too long.
> I also think you need to hit many of the southern counties if you want to 
> have a winning score... the propagation seems better the further south you go. I 
> noticed the EU stations got louder and we even started working them on 15 
> meters when we were in south Florida. I also remember working the east coast on 15 
> meters when we were further south. We were able to work the west coast from 
> both north and south Florida...
> 
> We did South on Saturday and North on Sunday.  I can't say that I recognized 
> any difference in propagation from North to South, although you may be right 
> about 15m and the East Coast.  Last year, we did North on Saturday and South on 
> Sunday.  I think that Jim and I both felt that this years routing was much 
> better than last years.
> 
> Both years, Orange Cty and that WHOLE ORLANDO MESS ("WHO") was a nemesis.  We 
> got lost after dark on Saturday, and spent way too much time in WHO.  At the 
> end of the contest on Sunday, I made a wrong turn in CIT that probably cost us 
> two counties.  We got stuck for 25 minutes behind a 20 mph'er whom we 
> couldn't get around.  And don't you know, he had ham radio plates on his car!  We 
> suspect that he was a plant sent out by the N4KM / K0LUZ team, but that has yet 
> to be confirmed by the privated eye we have hired to investigate!
> 
> 
> BTW how many SSB QSOs did you guys have ????
> 
> I don't have an SSB count yet.  Probably around 5%, but 
> that is a guess.


Darn George discovered our secret weapon! That was K4SLO!

73,
Kevin N4KM