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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Ohio QSO Party<br><br>Call:
K8O<br>Operator(s): K8NZ W8CAR<br>Station: K8O<br><br>Class: Mobile LP<br>QTH:
OHn<br>Operating Time (hrs): 12<br><br>Summary:<br>Band CW Qs Ph
Qs<br>--------------------<br> 80: 378 17<br> 40: 214 37<br>
20: 77 24<br> 15: 0 0<br> 10: 0
0<br>--------------------<br>Total: 669 78 CW Mults = 73 Ph Mults = 31
Total Score = 147,056<br><br>Club: North Coast Contesters<br><br>Comments:Great
fun in the mobile this year. As usual the first few hours were somewhat of a
struggle. Even though 20 sounded open with a few loud signals the activity
didn’t seem to be there. 40 was THE band (as it usually is in OH-IO). The last
two hours had Ron honking in the back seat with two over 90 hours, mostly on 80
with occasional QSYs</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">Only two minor antenna glitches that were
easily fixed on the side of the road, each only taking a few minutes. The
equipment and antennas all worked well and the ops weren’t too bad either. One
of the highlights of the contest was OM2VL, who had the most QSOs with us of
anyone. Laci had 30 Qs and at one point late in the afternoon he moved us from
40 cw to ssb then to 20 ssb then 20 cw- four Qs in 2 minutes! We even had two Qs
on 80 with him and he emailed that he heard us other times but we couldn’t hr
him. That was lots of fun. Other big log stuffers were N8BJQ, N4PN, AD8J, K1LT,
K8T, KU8E, all WB5JID all with 16 Qs or more in the log.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman">No problems on the route and no real traffic
tie ups. We had a new setup this year with a separate monitor, keyboard and
mouse used outboard from the laptop-mad it much more comfortable than frying
your legs!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri">Station:
K8O</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri">Elecraft K3, Winkey keyer,
hamsticks for 20, 40 and 75 and the ever evolving Frankentenna for 80
CW</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri">XP laptop with separate
monitor, keyboard, and mouse</font></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri">Route prepared using TYRE,
Google maps and Earth and navigated with a TOM TOM</font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri">Once again thanks to all
who got on and made Qs with us-that is what makes it fun!</font></font></div><font face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman"><br><br><br>Dan W8CAR<br>Ron K8NZ</font><br></div></div></div>