[FQP] 2018 FQP summary for KØRC in MN

[Christopher Blake]

Bob,
A terrific score, a terrific tool and a terrific guys - thanks as always
for your super FB support each year.

vy 73/OJ,
Chris, NX4N

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Robert Chudek - K0RC <k0rc at citlink.net>
wrote:

> FQPers. . .
>
> During the 2018 FQP I logged 445 QSOs (one TN station sneaked in there)
> and I will try to claim a 67 county CW sweep again this year. The last
> county was logged on Sunday with an hour or so to go. Okaloosa is near
> the tip of the panhandle and I believe NO5W/m activates those counties
> as he exits the state and heads home. Some fellows pull off a sweep the
> first day but I have always come up short by a half-dozen or so. I
> needed seven counties as the activity closed on Saturday evening (FRA,
> GUL, HAM, LIB, OKA, SEM, WAL).
>
> There was no propagation on 10m and I only found K4W and N4CC on 15m.
> Other than those two QSOs, 10m & 15m were not open into my area. But 20m
> was a different story. I believe the distance between MN<>FL must be a
> perfect skip distance because when the band is open, signals boom into
> my receiver. That would be the case again this weekend. . . well not
> 'always' booming, but certainly Q5 when stations are active on the band.
> (Exception coming up. . .)
>
> This weekend it was mostly a 20m contest for me. At some point on
> Saturday afternoon the FL mobiles abandoned 20m and headed down to 40m.
> I could hear stations working the mobiles but I could not pull a single
> QSO off when they first moved. Toward Saturday evening 40m picked up and
> I put about three dozen QSOs in the log during the last hour (8 ~ 9 pm
> local). On Sunday 40m was a little better and it allowed me to put
> another 30+ QSOs in the log.
>
> Here's the N1MM+ score tally:
>
>   Band   Mode QSOs     Pts  Mul  Pt/Q
>       7  CW      69     272    2   3.9
>       7  LSB      5      10    5   2.0
>      14  CW     294    1172   64   4.0
>      14  USB     74     148   43   2.0
>      21  CW       2       8    0   4.0
>   Total  Both   444    1610  114   3.6
> Score: 183,540
> 1 Mult = 3.9 Q's
>
> Here's some log stats from the FQP Log Analyzer:
>
> Top 10 counties worked:
> BRE=22,
> MAD=14,
> ALC=13,
> CIT=11,
> ORA=11,
> IDR=10,
> SAR=10,
> SUM=10,
> BRO=9,
> DIX=9
>
> Mobile QSOs:
> K4KG=60, (Savage Ops!)
> K4OJ=32,
> N4TO=29,
> NO5W=29,
> K1XX=27,
> N4FP=27,
> AD4ES=23,
> K8MR=23,
> N4CW=23,
> KN4Y=16,
> KU8E=12,
> KC4HW=9.
>
> I don't have a current FCG member list but comparing my QSOs to the 2015
> list of 330 calls in the Log Analyzer, I worked 26 members who provided
> 216 QSOs toward my score. The number count would probably be higher if
> my list was current and the 1x1 calls were included as well.
>
> N1MM+ tells me I operated 17:15 hours out of the 20 available. If I did
> my math correct (444/17.25) I see my average is 25.7 QSOs per hour. This
> rate doesn't hold a candle to all the blow-torches running around the
> state operating mobile! :-) But mine are all S&P QSOs, so I'm good with
> that!
>
> A final note, I uploaded a "new & improved" FQP Log Analyzer a few
> minutes ago. Look for Rev 2.0.9 in the top level directory using the
> link below. I added a "2018 Spelling Bee" table to the Uniques worksheet
> and this tabulates the number of QSOs found in your log for each 1x1
> call sign.
>
> (Please remember you need to download these workbooks to your local
> drive because the online Excel software does not support the advanced
> VBA macros used in these tools.)
>
> Here's the link to all the Excel workbooks for Florida:
>
> https://onedrive.live.com/?id=D96C61FEB759DC6E%211266&cid=D96C61FEB759DC6E
>
> Overall I enjoyed this year's event. Thanks to everyone involved with
> putting the FQP on the air again this year!
>
> 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN
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