[FQP] [FCG] FQP N4GI/M M/S Mobile CW

[K0LUZ]

Blake and Chris,

You did GOOD - excellent numbers.  Congrats.

73
Red K0LUZ

-----Original Message-----
From: FCG [mailto:fcg-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of Chris Plumblee
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 9:24 PM
To: Florida Contest Group; fqp at kkn.net
Subject: [FCG] FQP N4GI/M M/S Mobile CW

Florida QSO Party

Call: N4GI/M
Operator(s): N4GI WF3C
Station: N4GI/M

Class: M/SCW LP
QTH: FL
Operating Time (hrs): 19.5

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
   40:   114
   20:  2091
   15:
   10:
--------------------
Total:  2205    0  CW Mults = 71  Ph Mults = 0  Total Score = 626,220

Club: Man Cave Contest Consortium

Comments:

Thanks again to N4GI for providing the truck, rig, and antenna(s) for our
operation. I provided the computer and route planning, or should I say
"planning."

Early counts have us missing four counties that were on my overly-aggressive
itinerary: SEM, ORA, LAK, and OSC. Preliminary count shows a total of 41
counties activated.

It's no coincidence that SEM, ORA, LAK, and OSC were at the ends of each
day's activity plans. Both routes looked to be in the neighborhood of 9.5
hours driving. I assumed that all our stops (for gas, food, and to operate
in counties where we would spend only a short time) would be a lot shorter
than they turned out to be. Traffic on some of the rural roads also turned
out to be problematic.

It's valuable experience. Last year, we made only a modest effort at
planning a route and stuck close to the interstate for the entire day
Sunday. This year we crisscrossed I75 and I10 regularly to add counties.
I'll have more realistic expectations next year and will attempt to pick up
a few more counties and
300-400 more QSOs.

Finally, apologies for the slow CW speed at the beginning of the contest on
Saturday. I eliminated some speed changes within the messages at the very
beginning of the contest, and I got the speed as fast as I could. However,
there is apparently an upper limit on the speed within the WinKey dialog
within CQ/x that was set at 26wpm. As soon as Blake sat down to operate
about 5 hours in to the contest he said that we would have to speed up the
keying or he was going home. He was able to figure out the problem with CQ/x
and get the speed up above 30wpm. I had loaded the messages and verified
that keying worked, but don't have a mobile HF rig so didn't actually play
the messages through anything with sidetone, so didn't verify that setting
the speed at 32wpm didn't actually make the program send at 32wpm.

Thanks to all the out of state stations who make mobile operation such a
pleasure.

Rig: IC7000
Ant: Hamsticks mounted on a truck toolbox
Software: CQ/x on a Dell D630 laptop running Windows 7

Thanks to the following stations for 20+ QSOs:

VE3DZ(41)
K9CT(38)
K9NW(38)
VE3KZ(38)
K9PG(36)
K3WW(35)
WA3HAE(33)
K7SV(33)
K8IR(31)
K0HC(30)
N9CK(30)
N5ZK(29)
K2DFC(28)
K8MFO(28)
N3EN(27)
WI9WI(27)
K0RC(26)
W8PI(24)
K5WA(24)
WA8CDU(24)
K8GT(23)
VE9ML(21)
VE1RGB(21)
NS9I(21)
N1CC(21)
K6LA(20)
K7GM(20)
K2DSW(20)
NW0M(20)

73,
Chris WF3C

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Chris Plumblee
407.494.5155
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