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Montana, Missouri State Contests	Reply
by KD8IZZ on April 6, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I'd like to hear how you did in the Montana and MIssouri QSO contests. I didn't fair so well. Only 5 contacts into Montana and 17 for Missouri. I kept hearing the same stations over and over again as I scanned through the SSB general class bands. On the other hand I contacted 20 Polish stations in their QSO party, not bad. Several weeks ago I contacted over 70 stations in the VA QSO party so I am very disappointed with this weekends results.

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by KD8IZZ on April 7, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Is there a better website or yahoo group to discuss the state QSO parties?

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by KF7CG on April 8, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
Those both seem to be QSO parties that didn't happen! My results were worse than yours by a factor of about 5. Propagation might have had something to do with a little of it; I had tremendous random noise with QSB on it on 3.5, 7, and 14. I would have thought the noise was local buit it faded in and out with the signals though not always in phase. KF7CG

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by NI0C on April 8, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
As a Missouri ham, I think that a better weekend could be chosen for the MO QP. It overlaps with not only the SP contest and MT QP, but also a QRP ARCI Sprint and the QCWA contest. A couple of years ago, I pointed this out to the MO QP sponsors, but my comments went unanswered. My participation in this year's MO QP was limited to about ten minutes of Cq'ing on 40m CW, working a dozen stations. 73, Chuck NI0C

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by KE7VUX on April 29, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
I managed 101 contacts. About half were on 20m, at 14.292, on Saturday morning before our usual coffee, and that was thanks to AA8LL spotting me, and advertising that I was on LOTW and a bunch of triple-play seekers came hunting. I fooled around on 15m (21.295 or so) for a while later on Saturday with nothing heard. Went back to 20m, made one mobile contact around 14.292 on my way to dinner, 50w and a hamstick. I spent most of Sunday afternoon either S&P on some Missouri Stations, or calling CQ on 40m (in the general portion, just up from a foreign BC station). Made my 100 (101 after I found a missed entry in my chicken-scratch log, ironically AA8LL) not too long before the end of the weekend. Kinda decided calling CQ for 4 hours isn't my idea of fun. The hour or less on Saturday morning with a run of callers was fun, but all of Sunday afternoon wasn't nearly as exciting. Anyhow.. I was there, trying. No beam here, just a vertical, so everyone had an equal chance. I did work a few stations in Ohio and my native Pennsylvania, so propagation was there at least some part of the time. I'll probably find some time this weekend for the 7 call QSO party, but likely won't be out on any County Expeditions.. I have both kids to watch this weekend while my wife is at a scrap-booking retreat. -Tom KE7VUX, Helena MT, Lewis & Clark County

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by NN3W on May 1, 2009	Mail this to a friend!
In most QSO parties, the major activity comes from mobile and rover stations that roam from county to county and keep interest and activity up. You will find that because these rover stations have Texas Bug Catcher or similar compromise type mobile systems, the vast majority of the activity will be down in the CW portion of the bands since CW is more effective in compromise situations. Looking at the Florida QSO party (which is a relatively popular QSO party), you had county mobile statins like W4AN which made close to 1900 QSOs - 95% of them were on CW. N4PN was active on both modes, but at least 80% of Paul's QSOs were on CW. N4EEB was exclusively CW with over 2000 QSOs. So, that pretty much should answer why you see a lack of activity. I'll note that the CWing that takes place in QSO parties is not QRQ CW that you would see in major DX contests or in Sweepstakes. The mobilers are trying to work anybody and everybody, and will often dial back the code speed to below 20 WPM (don't expect 5 WPM though).

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