Illinois QSO Party - 2023
Call: WT9P
Operator(s): WT2P WA0O
Station: WT2P
Class: Mobile LP
QTH: IL
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band CW-Dig Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80:
40: 504 307
20: 155
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 659 307 Mults = 96 Total Score = 156,000
Club: Metro DX Club
Comments:
Fun time, this was my first time doing the ILQP mobile. It started out as a joke
between me and WA0O at the W9DXCC convention about ILQP. Things came together
about 3 weeks before and we decided why not.
We planned on this route, starting in Winnebago, heading west, then south. The
goal was to get some of the rarer counties on, especially Rock, Mercer,
Henderson and Warren before heading back north east.
With Joe's Scorpion antenna, band changes between 40 and 20 was easy once I got
the hang of using the tuning mechanism. During the day, I tried to split my time
between 40 and 20 CW to get some of the out of state and DX (OM2VL).
The pileups grew more intense as the contest went on, and really grew when we
got into Rock Island county. As AD4EB said, it was difficult at times with
everyone calling practically zero beat (on my end it sounded literally like a
single tone). I was able to snatch some of the people who shifted slightly off
quicker. SSB pileups were a bit more manageable, but people not using phonetics
in a pileup (i.e. AA9XX instead of alpha alpha 9 xray xray) made it harder to
actually pick you out, especially with marginal signals.
The thrill of a pileup at each new county made this a lot of fun. I never had a
single moment of boredom. We started out with over 100/hr, with some lulls as
the pileups waned, then getting slammed once we crossed into a new county. Talk
about a rush!
We didn't get to all of the counties we wanted, I think next year We will start
a little bit south and spend more time in the south western counties that are
rare (Henderson/Warren).
Stats:
QSO Parties (US and Canada) - 2023-10-22 1700Z to 2023-10-23 0100Z - 977 QSOs
WT9P Max Rates:
2023-10-22 2301Z - 7.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 420 per hour by
2023-10-22 2306Z - 4.4 per minute (10 minute(s)), 264 per hour by
2023-10-22 2337Z - 2.9 per minute (60 minute(s)), 171 per hour by
QSO's By County -
WBGO - 61
STEP - 57
JODA - 92
CARR - 97
WTSD - 60
ROCK - 136
MRCR - 110
HNDR - 91
WARR - 76
KNOX - 92
STAR - 105
Thanks to all who were in the pileups throughout most of our counties, K9CT,
W9PDS, N9TTK, AB9YC, KC9EOQ, W9W crew. Thanks to OM2VL for 9 Q's across the
various counties.
It was fun, thanks to everyone chasing and following us on the live ARPS feed.
Special thanks to WA0O for the driving and logistics. Hopefully next year we can
get WA0O behind the mic for a bit!
Equipment:
Flex 6400 sitting in the back of the Subaru, Scorpion antenna with 102"
whip, my gaming laptop on a novel shelf mounted to the back of the front
passenger seat.
Looking forward to next year,
73
WT2P & WA0O
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