2010 Michigan QSO Party
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K2 + Doublet
- AB0CD Bands seemed to be noisy.
I enjoyed using the program, it made logging much easier -
AB8SA Good activity; tks for all the contacts -
DL3DXX Difficult conditions
this year. High level of static discharge noise, making it very hard to hear and
to be heard. Situation on 20m became much better with time, but then the same
thing on 40m. However, almost every op kept listening hard until that serial was
copied. Thanks for a fun party - DL3GA
Great contest, always fun to connect with my old home state -
K0RJW Lots of activity....many thanks
to the mobiles!!!!!!! The prep work and long hours of travel, fighting Murphy,
weather leaving the comfort of an operating seat at home... they put in are
truly to be applauded!!!! Special thanks to N9NE; 3 counties, NE9U 3 counties,
and W8JJ , WI9WI, K8MR; 2 counties. And as for my first real try running SSB...I
might as well be in a milliwatt contest...my signal just doesn't seem to be very
strong....thanks for all the stations who hung in me while I tried as hard as I
could to get Kilo 1 Quebec Oscar out there. 73/88 Ann -
K1QO Generally poor daytime conditions on 75 keeping
county count down. Only 2 mobiles worked. Good to give out Ingham since I
think only one or two of us were on the air. Found 75 phone had more than
a few contest haters; sure didn't want to get onto a wrong frequency or bare the
brunt of their wrath!! Maybe all CW next year is the way to go. I did 5%
cw 95% ph this year. Thanks to all who logged me. 73, Dave -
K8GVK Up about 100 QSOs from last
year, mults about the same. Best band 80 after dark. Over 40 DX QSOs -
K8IR/M Lots of fun; Berrien County
was unreal! 80 and 40 were pretty busy - K8IY
It seemed like there were a lot of new hams on this year which is great. I ended
up with 62 counties for a PB. Good to hear W8JJ going mobile. OM2VL and DL3DXX
had a great signals on 40 and 80 - K8MM
Once again, we operated from W8MJ's FB QTH in Livingston County. We had one
additional station and an additional op but fewer QSOs. The difference was
40M SSB which just wasn't as good as last year -
K8MQP Once again, a nice time driving around MI for the
MiQP. Often I see my last snow of the year on the MiQP drive, laying in a
shady area in the far north. This year we saw snow, but in the air in several
places. Nothing sticking though. Unfortunately we did our part to reduce
the Michigan deer population in Mecosta county. Fortunately Bambi did not keep
us from continuing our route and getting home, but she did make for a $2600
repair job (covered by insurance) - K8MR/m
Our focus was to work counties rather than go for a quantity of contacts.
As an EOC, we are more concerned with being able to contact counties in
Michigan. This year we worked 57 counties, one more than last year. We
only heard 6 counties that we did not work. Forty meters was not much for
us do to some high SWR on the antenna. We used the equipment that is our
permanent EOC station - K8OSE
First time doing MI-QSO party, had a blast - K8RUS
Operated from family deer camp in Iosco county. Set up antenna in
the cold (34F) and snow showers. Operated seven clock hours but time in chair
was much less. Enjoyed the chance to put Iosco on the air and will probably do
it again - K8SIA This was our
first try at multi op except for FD. We felt that we did pretty good except for
some minor problems like our logging program not accepting DX contacts until we
added leading zeros to the serial number and SWR problems on 40. We used K8UO;
the USECA club call - K8UO Nary
a Q on 40! It was somewhere between long and nonexistent from the get-go.
Could hear Michigan only on 80, and then only those directly across the lake
until later in the afternoon - K9BTQ
I was in Chicago most of the day, but got home in time to work a few.
Station: ICOM IC751, Windom Ant at 30'. Hope to be in town to work more next
year - KB8M My first solo
effort at MI QSO Party! Had a blast, see you next year! 73s -
KB8ZGL Enjoyed the few hours of
operation - KB9NK TU FB MiQP
agn this yr es 73 - KB9YGD SD
worked very well for the contest. We enjoyed working our first pileups -
KC8KCU Bands were a little
worse than last year. I'm always amazed at what can be accomplished with a
dipole in a tree - KD8AUZ Great
fun! Thanks to the mobiles that activated multiple counties, and thanks to the
MRRC for sponsoring this great party! Hope to see you in AZQP in October -
KE7DX This was my first MiQP and
it was great! I had planned on being mobile - KN8N
After several years of mobiling in WIQP and MNQP and 3 wins (2 MN, 1 WI), it was
a ton of fun making a serious fixed operation from my station in far NW
Wisconsin. My plans for a full time operation were dashed when I had a lousy
flat tire on the way out from my home in Duluth. The resulting 2 hour delay
caused me to miss the first 1 hour and 10 minutes, and at least a couple of
never-to-be-seen-again mults. Started gaining on the serious other out of
state guys, but couldn't quite catch up. I was just too close to get much out of
20--only worked 4 of the big fixed stations. Although I couldn't hear the UP
mobiles very well at first, they came on near the end, and made it real
interesting. Most of the mobiles hit 80 often which was good for me. Good
participation by fixed stations and UP mobiles, but if it wasn't for K8MR, the
whole contest would not have been half as much fun, as we had 33 SSB and CW
QSOs. Clearly, a few more active full time mobiles are needed in the LP. It was
good to have multiple Q's with W8JJ, W8CAR, and W8RU in the LP and the hard
working UP guys, NE9U, N9NE and K8IR.
It was very nice to see most of the HP fixed serious guys stay away from 7045
and 3545 by at least 1 or 2 Khz so we could find the mobiles. All in all,
a very interesting and fun contest. Thanks to Dave and the MRRC for the well
organized event - NĜIJ Had a great time. See you next year - N1ABY
Thanks for the sponsors and promoters. This is always a fun contest.
Specials thanks to my friend Jim/K8MR, for always being willing to change bands
and modes. He heads the list again this year with 29 Qs. Next came
K8IR (14), NE9U (12), W8CAR (8), N9NE (7) and another ole buddy, Jim/WI9WI (4),
and W8JJ (4). Thanks also to the other mobiles and fixed stations -
N4PN First time using GenLog -
N7NSL Decided to come out of
retirement for the QSO party from a portable location in Ogemaw County -
N8FGB Nice to hear all of the
out of state calls working MI - N8HKU Found 40M to be long, Worked only a
few MI counties on 40M. 80M was the place to be. Really enjoyed the
party this year. Lots of great operators out there. Thanks to all and 73 -
N8KBG Nice contest, think I did
more eating then operating, Scott/NE8E, stopped by to help -
N8MRC Lots of fun with a brand
new county, never before activated as a fixed station in the modern era of MiQP.
Was amazed what 75 phone yielded, fortunately the antenna and tuner worked great
on 80/40/20, although 20 and 40 were puny compared with 80/75 meters -
N8Q (N8XX op.) This was a club effort
and first MiQP. We sure made all of the rookie mistakes but had lots of fun!
- N8SL This year the N9FN/K9FN
team operated from my brother's lake house on Omena Lake, just north of Sturgis,
MI in St Joseph County. Our antenna was a simple trap inverted-V with the center
supported at 40' to 45' by a conveniently located tree. The rig was my IC-756
Pro and an SG-500 amp. At times the bands were relatively quiet, but then we
would get S9+20db noise that completely wiped out our receive and would last
from a few seconds to several minutes at a time. I was running the power supply
through an APC UPS, so I killed the main breaker to the house during one of the
noise events, but it made no difference, so the noise did not appear to
originate from something in the house, at least not something that was running
on AC power. I know we lost several QSO's due to the noise bursts. If all of a
sudden we couldn't hear you, that's why! We had a great time as usual -
N9FN Had a lot of fun. Great
QSO party. See you all next year - ND3R
My second MiQP - great contest. In 2008 I had 142 QSO, 90 MULTI, 22.140pts
total and 65 different counties - worked mostly on CW. This year I was
hesitating about the way of contesting: worked mostly on CW and get ROVERS from
the most possible counties or exchange CW and SSB although I knew the risk of
this way (missing some counties on CW). I decided for the second way, and
I think that was the right decision. On 20m many stations from Michigan
answered on my CQ on SSB, and I also some multipliers. Of course when I was on
SSB missed some (or many, I don't know) rovers. I Worked a total 79
stations on 20m SSB. Sometimes I had a little pileup. I think 49
multipliers on SSB are so good. Somebody told me that many stations are on
40m when I CQed on 20m SSB, I tried 40m, but I didn't hear any stations so I
went back on 20m. My first contact on 40m (when 20m closed!) was at 2335Z
and on 80m at 0008Z. 40m was not so good and changed 40m and 80m. I
tried 40m SSB and made 10 QSOs, but missed many stations who were operating
above 7200; I can work only up to 7200 KHz. 80 CW was excellent. I didn't
try 80m SSB because I can only operate up to 3800 KHz and most stations from MI
were above 3800. But on CW made 22 QSO and also 9 multipliers. I
made QSOs with all stations which I heard on 80m, only once had some problem
make QSO; K8IR/m from ALPE county took 15 minutes, but at the end we made the
QSO :) I think he had big pileup from the USA. The top rovers I
worked: NE9U/m (16 QSOs), K8IR/m (15 QSOs), K8MR/m (12 QSOs), N9NE/m (5 QSOs),
W8CAR/m (4 QSOs), and WI9WI/m (2 QSOs). I worked 64 different counties (1
less than in 2008). Thanks a lot for the nice contacts and a FB contest.
Please QSL for my US County award. My working condx: XCVR: IC7700 + OM3500
amplifier, ANT: 80m: 2el YAGI 50m up + Beverage, 40m: 3/3 YAGI 46/21m up, 20m:
6/6/6 YAGI 38/25/12m up. 73, Laci - OM2VL
Thank you for this great contest. Rig: FT-950, 40m
full wave loop on 40m/80m - VE2EZD
The test was enjoyed very much. SD helped for logging -
VE5BCS Fantastic party once again.
The mobiles did a great job. Had a lot of fun -
W4IHI Thanks for sponsoring, organizing, and administering
this event - W4JHU Poor
conditions this year. Then, I was forced off the air by a thunder storm.
I seemed to have better propagation to the U.P. than to the "mitten". Rig:
Ten-Tec OMNI VI and 100m horizontal loop - W5ESE
Fun being 'rare Dx' and giving everyone a chance for GRAT -
W8AWE Great contest and lots of
fun. Too bad the Ontario QSO Party was running at the same time; but in the
spirit of ham radio I worked several VE3 stations and gave them a few points as
well - W8DCQ Band conditions
started out bad plus problems with the the rig but still a good time. Great
contest 73's - W8DW Bands were
way, way too long. If it weren't for the mobiles in the U.P., there
wouldn't have been anyone to work for the first four hours -
W8EDU 40m was long from OH -
W8KNO Finally had the software up and
ready at the start, but not without a minor difficulty. Tough time hearing
the mobiles, but 40 to the U.P. was great. Ran 3 stations @ 100 W, two of which
where on G5RV's less than 10 m up. Still managed to keep busy and have a great
time. Our thanks go to all the participants, organizers, and sponsors. CU
in MiQP 2011 - W8OAK I operated
mobile for first part of contest. Contacts were few and far between -
W8QN From my QTH in Illinois, the
MiQP was a single band contest. Too close for 20, and I did not hear
anyone on 40, which seemed a little unusual. So, I concentrated on 80
phone and had some good runs. I did much better than the last time I entered.
Thanks to everyone for a well run contest. Hope to see you again next time -
W9QL 100 % CW. RIG: FT-897D 50
watts; battery power; 80 m. dipole up 45 feet. Tnx to all the stations who
pulled me out of the QRM QRN QSB; Lots of participation -
WA8REI This was my first time, and
still learning the logging program. Thanks for this nice contest and the
club option - WA8TBL
IC-756PROIII 100W; ant vertical - YL3DX