[FQP] FW: MiQP WI9WI Mobile Solo Op LP
Christopher Blake
cqdenx4n at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 17:15:32 PDT 2013
Hi Jim!
Sorry I missed the WiQP; wow, what a ride you had! Hope to work you this
weekend as well; lots of mobiles on this year (20+) so happy hunting!
73,
Chris, NX4N/m :-)
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 4:28 PM, <Georgek5kg at aol.com> wrote:
> Hey Jim,
>
> Tnx for all the gory details. I really must try mobiling in the north
> woods sometime! I actually did that a few years ago when in the summertime
> from ND, VE5, VE4, VE3.
>
> Yes, you really must work K4KG this weekend from our planned 51
> counties...maybe more.
>
> 73, Geo...
>
> George Wagner, K5KG
> Sarasota, FL
> 941-400-1960 cell
>
>
> In a message dated 4/24/2013 2:33:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jhfitzpa at wisc.edu writes:
>
>
> I think that NE9U got up there late Saturday morning after taking care of
> their vehicle and equipment problems. They were actually probably better
> off coming up later because they didn’t have to deal with the snow and
> slippery roads Friday night and early Saturday morning. By late morning
> the roads
> were getting a lot better and by mid to late afternoon they were pretty
> normal, at least on the main roads. I made several strategic errors on
> this
> one. When I started out Saturday morning and decided to backtrack through
> Wakefield up to 28 I should have stopped at the GOGE/ONTO county line and
> started from there rather than go further east to BARA and working my way
> back. After a couple of hours at GOGE/ONTO I could have headed east
> through
> HOUG, and BARA and then on to MARQ. The roads were a lot better by mid
> afternoon and I wouldn’t have lost so much time driving. Then I could
> have gone
> south from MARQ to DICK and IRON. That would have given me 3 more
> counties.
> From IRON it’s about a 1.5- 2 hr drive back to Ron’s cabin.
> The other error was not hooking the mike up when I set up the radio. I
> should spend more time on SSB. When people started asking for SSB I went
> to
> plug it in and the connector was wrapped around some other cables behind
> the
> radio. Rather than just start yanking things I ended up having to get out
> of the car, walk around to the other door, and untangle things under
> direct
> vision. You can see my setup from the picture. I have the K-3 on a box
> with
> the keyer. The battery is behind the seat and connected to a rig runner
> behind the radio. The antenna coax come in through the window. This is
> obviously not a permanent setup. The paddles are next to the radio. My
> little
> homemade plywood desk holds the computer and mouse pad and I just hold it
> on
> my lap. I keep a paper pad handy to make notes. My operating style and
> objectives are different from most mobiles. Because I don’t operate while
> driving I try to choose my route to minimize actual time driving during
> the
> contest. I tend to go to far fewer counties and spend more time in each
> one I’m
> in. I try to maximize the chances for anyone who wants to work me by
> spending more time in each county and also operating at 26-30 wpm rather
> than
> 35-40. I think I get more casual operators this way. I do virtually no
> S&P. I’
> m not really trying to maximize my score by working a lot of mults. The
> only other mobile I heard was Dan W8CAR. He called me from one county. I
> never
> heard IR, NE9U or MR. I stuck pretty much to the same freq on both 40 and
> 20, but did have to move a couple of times.
> I hope to work KG from every county in FL this weekend.
> 73
> Jim
> WI9WI
>
>
> ____________________________________
>
> From: Georgek5kg at aol.com [mailto:Georgek5kg at aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:36 PM
> To: jhfitzpa at wisc.edu
> Cc: ve7zo at hotmail.com; ronkk9k at gmail.com; k8mr at arrl.net; fcg at kkn.net;
> fqp at kkn.net
> Subject: Re: FW: MiQP WI9WI Mobile Solo Op LP
>
> Jim,
>
>
>
> You did a great job...tnx for the Qsos from WAY UP NORTH. Your story is
> amazing, and you should really send it into the NCJ for us DOWN SOUTH
> SISSIES to read. Your signal was not loud, but was easily copyable. A
> few
> times you were within a few HZ from K8MR, and I had to crank down the
> bandwidth
> to get you.
>
>
>
> When I was working you early on Saturday, I was not hearing NE9U at all.
> I guess that Ron's truck had a problem and, from what you wrote, they must
> have gone back to change vehicles. That must have been a joy! Later in
> the day, I worked NE9U several times. Neither of you were smashingly
> loud.
>
>
>
> Jim, K8MR, by far and away the best mobile, followed by W8CAR. (Best in
> the sense of high speed operating and rapid county changes.) MR, CAR and
> NE9U were Mixed, and I worked them several times both modes (MR many times
> both modes). Jim was moving us to 14,151 which, by the way I loaned him
> that
> frequency for the weekend, as it is our proprietary FQP freq! Later he
> was moving the pack, first to 7133 and later to 7140. 7140 turned out to
> be
> the better freq, since 7133 became inhabited by some dx stns without a
> sense of humor.
>
>
>
> A point I want to make for all of our listeners is that it really helps if
> the mobiles always keep the same frequency. That way we can map them on
> the band so we know where we know to find them. MR would occasionally
> change his CW freq up or down a kHz or two, and this made finding him a
> bit
> tricky, although his signal always had the distinctive sound of a high
> speed
> bumble bee!
>
>
>
> 73, Geo...
>
>
>
> PS. Ron, now we need the NE9U story.
>
>
>
> George Wagner, K5KG
> Sarasota, FL
> 941-400-1960 cell
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 4/23/2013 12:22:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> jhfitzpa at wisc.edu writes:
>
> Florida QSO Party Northern Division. You guys are a bunch of sissies
> driving
> around in your T shirts, sandals and underwear.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: webform at b41h.net [mailto:webform at b41h.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:01 AM
> To: 3830 at contesting.com; jhfitzpa at wisc.edu
> Subject: MiQP WI9WI Mobile Solo Op LP
>
> Michigan QSO Party
>
> Call: WI9WI
> Operator(s): WI9WI
> Station: WI9WI
>
> Class: Mobile Solo Op LP
> QTH: 4 counties
> Operating Time (hrs): 6
>
> Summary:
> Band CW Qs Ph Qs
> --------------------
> 80: 0 0
> 40: 113 9
> 20: 102 28
> 15: 0 0
> 10: 0 0
> --------------------
> Total: 215 37 CW Mults = 52 Ph Mults = 22 Total Score = 34,558
>
> Club: Minnesota Wireless Assn
>
> Comments:
>
> This one didn't quite work out the way it was planned. The initial plan
> was
> to
> drive up from Madison Friday afternoon to Manitowish Waters and have
> dinner
> and
> spend the night with the NE9U crew at KK9K's cabin. I would then make a
> loop
> counterclockwise through IRON, DICK, MARQ, BARA, HOUG, ONTO and GOGE
> returning
> to the cabin at the end of the QSO party. About 1330 on Friday I called
> NE9U
> and he said that they were about an hour from departure from KK9K's place
> near
> Wisc. Rapids. I left Madison about 1430. The snow started just north of
> Wausau,
> and by the time I got near Manitowish Waters it was near whiteout
> conditions. It
> was wet heavy spring snow and the roads became very slippery quickly. When
> I
> got
> to the cabin at 1830 no one was there. I called NE9U and got voice mail.
> About
> 30 minutes later he called back and said they had some problems with their
> set
> up and got held back several hours but were on the way. I went to the
> nearby
> Bear Restaurant to get something to eat, and while there KK9K called and
> said
> they had had a major vehicle problem and were turning back and would come
> up
> the next morning in a different vehicle. The long drive downhill to the
> cabin
> from the road had several inches of ice on it covered with about 4 to 6
> inches
> of new heavy wet snow. I worried that if I drove down it I might not get
> back
> up, so rather than opting to carry all my gear down on foot that night and
> back
> up the next morning I drove to Hurley, just on the WI side of the WI/MI UP
> border, and got a motel room. The 40 mile drive took over an hour due to
> very
> slippery roads. The next morning it was bright and sunny. I started the
> trip
> toward IRON County about 8 AM. The roads were quite icy due to the traffic
> packing the snow down during the night. By the time I got to Wakefield it
> was
> obvious I couldn't drive more than 35-40 mph safely. Parts of US 2 were
> unplowed at that hour. I figured it would take me at least 2 hours to get
> to
> IRON Cty and then another to DICK. So I turned around and went up to Hwy
> 28.
> It
> was in better shape than 2 so I drove to the BARA/HOUG line. What should
> have
> taken about 80 mins took over 2 hours. I usually operate from waysides,
> boat
> landings, county parks and off the highway on town roads. None of these
> were
> plowed and most still had 2 to 3 feet of winter snow on them. I have no
> driver
> and don't operate while moving. I don't feel safe doing it. So I found a
> snowplow turnaround and parked out of the way and got set up. Everything
> worked
> fine except the 40 meter antenna but that was easily fixed by changing the
> coax.
> Conditions were good. Over the next few hours I worked my way back
> through
> HOUG,
> ONTO to GOGE, operating from plow turnarounds. While in GOGE my RV battery
> started dying. My options were to hook up to the car's electrical system,
> which
> only takes a few minutes, and continue in GOGE, hook up to the car and
> move
> on
> to IRON Cty back through Wakefield, or go home. By mid afternoon after
> plowing
> and some sun the roads were in very good condition, and highway speeds
> were
> fine. I figured it would take me about 80-90 min to get to IRON. But it
> was
> in
> the wrong direction, and after operating there I would have to backtrack
> nearly
> 100 miles to get to the cabin or continue on home. So I packed up and
> drove
> the
> 300 miles back to Madison arriving an hour before the contest ended. In
> retrospect I probably should have hooked up to the car battery and
> operated
> another hour or so from GOGE. That means running the car while operating.
> There
> is a bit of noise, but it is not intolerable.
>
> Gear: K-3 running about 50 watts (RV battery lasts longer)
> Microham keyer
> Netbook computer with Writelog
> Hustler whip for 20
> Texas Bugcatcher for 40
>
> A few stats:
>
> County Time 20 meters 40 meters Total QSOs
> BARA 51 min 24CW/0P 23CW/0P 47
> HOUG 58 26CW/0P 18CW/0P 44
> ONTO 113 42CW/27P 22CW/8P 99
> GOGE 47 11CW/1P 39CW/2P 53
>
> Hopefully next year the weather will be better.
>
> Thanks for all the QSOs.
>
> 73
>
> Jim
>
>
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