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<font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman">Tired but happy.<br>
<br>
The Mayor of McClure welcomed me to the village of McClure. It
has everything an itinerant contester desires - two or three
restaurants, a gas station/convenience store, and a hardware
store! PLUS, a village park with a large picnic shelter.
Numerous antenna supports - one could make a full wave 160 metre
loop antenna by stringing an antenna between the 60+ foot poles
around a lighted baseball field. However I chose to put up a
100' dipole fed with open wire line between one of the poles and
a strategically located tree. This made a difference, I'm sure.<br>
<br>
Highlights were meeting local hams - KC8TCQ was in town on
Friday, and we had a nice chat. He reported he contracted a
bug, and couldn't make it on Saturday. Another ham (who I
forgot to note in the log) came over and we had a nice chat,
while I was trying to get my "new" Heath QRP tuner to work -
never got it to work, and in so doing missed W1NN/M as he was
driving through HENRy county. :(<br>
<br>
W1NN and I had a good eyeball QSO before the event - wow! what a
nice setup for mobiling! We had met during a Field Day effort
when we used his call K8HVT/4 in northern Kentucky some 47 years
before. We did change a bit in physical appearance during those
intervening years.<br>
<br>
Firs stats - 212 Q's, 98 on SSB, 114 on CW. Marginal conditions
on 20 and 40, didn't even try 15 or 10 because of the conditions
on 20. Again, 75 Phone surprised me - several "runs" of 15 or
so Q's in a row. Did anyone spot me on the DX clusters? 125
multipliers total, which is near a record for me. <br>
<br>
I gave up at 0200Z, things were getting slow on 75 and 80
metres, the ball game was over, and they were threatening to
turn out the lights on the ball field!<br>
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Anyone wanting a paper QSL, send a SASE to N8XX QTHR.<br>
<br>
73 de n8xx Hg<br>
Operating N8Q/HENRy county during OQP 2010<br>
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