[FQP] N4EEB FQP Results

Tue May 1 18:55:45 PDT 2007

    Are you Schurr about those Begali's, John?  [I'm sorry, but I looked at 
the photo and I just couldn't resist].

    I see you in my log in four places and I think at least one of them was 
a new county, so thanks!

    73,
    Gary, VE1RGB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bayne" <jjbayne at mindspring.com>
To: <fqp at kkn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:41 PM
Subject: [FQP] N4EEB FQP Results


> Hello everyone,
>
> This was my first FQP and my first experience with HF mobile.  What a 
> blast!  I can't wait for next year.
>
> I put together an HF mobile station at the last minute.  I learned about 
> noise from switching power supplies on laptop computers, low trees and 
> Newton's laws of motion (... an Icom in motion will stay in motion until 
> acted upon by the operator's face.)
>
> Here are the results of my semi-serious seven county run:
>
> THE FLORIDA QSO PARTY
>
> Call Used N4EEB      State/County  FL/Volusia
>
> SINGLE OPERATOR with DRIVER
>
> Category     Power        Mode       License Class
> MOBILE       LOW          MIXED      ADV
>
>                 BAND    CW QSOs    PHONE QSOs
>                  40       426            40
>                  20        74             2
>                  15         0             0
>                  10         0             0
>                         -------    ----------
>         Tot QSOS          500            42
>
>         QSO Points       1000            42
>
>         Total Points            1042
>         Multipliers               60
>         Subtotal               62520
>         Power Multiplier           2
>         Final Score           125040
>
> Club or School Name:  Florida Contest Group
>
> It started out a little slow for me.  I operated the first hour and a half 
> parked in a bank parking lot waiting for my driver XYL to get off work. 
> Shortly after we got mobile, RF got into the touch pad of my laptop and 
> brought up at least ten instances of my logging software all stacked in 
> perfectly aligned windows.  The text in each one of the boxes said, "Are 
> you sure you want to start a new contest?"  After a reboot I somehow only 
> managed to lose about twenty contacts or so.  Then, the CW speed control 
> on my software got stuck at a dreadfully slow 15 WPM. Trying to increase 
> the speed jumped it to about 50 WPM with nothing in between.  I wasted a 
> lot more time trying to get that issue all figured out.  It improved, but 
> I never did totally fix it.  Then there was that sharp turn in Brevard 
> County that my lovely wife made which left me wearing my radio.  The 
> Begali stayed put on the desk though!
>
> For me, the low part of the weekend was 20-meter prop late Saturday 
> afternoon.  It was so bad that I almost convinced myself that I had an 
> antenna failure.  At one point I could not hear a single signal across the 
> entire band.
>
> The highlight of my weekend was 40-meters during the last three hours of 
> Saturday night.  At one point my rate peaked to over 100 CW Q's an hour 
> and stations from Europe to California were calling me loud and clear.  It 
> was a lot of fun.  I made an effort to get something going on SSB, but it 
> was not to be.  The out of state interest in this event really surprised 
> me.
>
> I enjoyed the FQP, and I've enjoyed meeting a lot of ya'll on the air this 
> weekend.  Thank you for welcoming me to the club.
>
> Here are a couple pictures my XYL Tracy took:    73 - John N4EEB
>
> http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p173/ExtremeQ/FQP%202007/IMG_0758.jpg
>
> http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p173/ExtremeQ/FQP%202007/IMG_0771.jpg
>
>
>
>
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