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Ohio QSO Party<BR><BR>Call: K8MR<BR>Operator(s): K8MR, AC8E<BR>Station:
K8MR<BR><BR>Class: Rover LP<BR>QTH: 23 Counties<BR>Operating Time (hrs):
12<BR><BR>Summary:<BR>Band CW Qs Ph
Qs<BR>--------------------<BR> 80: 296
58<BR> 40: 195 56<BR>
20: 96 5<BR> 15:
0 0<BR> 10: 0
0<BR>--------------------<BR>Total: 587 119 CW Mults =
66 Ph Mults = 60 Total Score = 162,918<BR><BR>Club: Northern Ohio DX
Association<BR><BR>Comments:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>By county, in order of appearance:</DIV>
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<DIV> CW
SSB<BR>LAKE 15
0<BR>ASHT 24
0<BR>GEAU 12
1<BR>TRUM 25
0<BR>MAHO 23
0<BR>COLU 32
0<BR>CARR 27 41<BR>JEFF
16 0<BR>HARR
31 0<BR>BELM 45
11<BR>MONR 56 37<BR>NOBL
39 5<BR>GUER
11 6<BR>MUSK
24 6<BR>LICK
32 3<BR>FAIR
17 1<BR>FRAN
24 3<BR>DELA
20 3<BR>MORR
25 0<BR>RICH
25 2<BR>ASHL
24 0<BR>WAYN
19 0</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>ST 35
23<BR>CTY 31 37</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>A beautiful day to be driving around Ohio. I do wonder if it was too
beautiful in other nearby places, keeping people away from the radios until
later in the day. Things plugged away during the daytime, but with rarely any
good bursts of activity. For a while I thought it may have been the Tennessee
QSO Party from all the TN guys in there, but their party is this coming
weekend.</DIV>
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<DIV>This year we had an excellent turnout of mobiles in Ohio, so I decided to
do a shorter route and stop in a few rare counties to put up a dipole to be loud
enough to pass out some rare counties on SSB to the deserving. Our first stop
was in Carroll county, where we found a closed business with a nice tree by the
parking area in the back. I had difficulty getting the EZ-Hang to get off a good
shot to get the string in the tree, but eventually did and got the antenna up. I
did do an A/B comparison with the Hustler on 40 meters, which the dipole won by
about four S-units. Had some decent luck working other Ohio counties on 40,
which is something I had not run into in recent years.</DIV>
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<DIV>We had next planned to stop in Belmont county, but we were by then runnning
behind my time estimates, so decided to not stop there. Good thing, as the rest
area on I-70 where we had planned to stop was closed due to reconstruction of
the westbound lanes of I-70. </DIV>
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<DIV>The second stop was at a small church near Miltonsburg in Monroe county. It
was a beautiful site, on top of a small but steep hill with a beautiful view,
especially to the west. Setup here went better. We did mostly 80/75 from this
stop. Tried 40 which sounded open, but not much success.</DIV>
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<DIV>We were out of there as the sun was setting. From there it was back to the
interstates, through Columbus and back toward Cleveland. Decent but not
spectacular rates most of the way, until things finally got very good in the
last hour, mostly on 80 CW.</DIV>
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<DIV>No major problems, a few missed turns but none that had major impact.
Thanks to all who participated, thanks to driver John, AC8E, and thanks to the
great PR job by Kenny, K2KW, for bringing out the tremendous activity among Ohio
stations, for many of whom I suspect may have been one of the first contests
they have operated.</DIV>
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<DIV>73 - Jim K8MR</DIV>
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