Tom,

Sorry we didn't cross paths.  It was by far my worst MI QP in memory. 
Once I root out the dozen or soVE3 stations  I worked for the ON QP, I 
may only have  75 or 80 from Michigan.

40 was bad at the start and I walked away from it for a while.     Only 
did a couple on 20 and only a few on CW.    I knew this wasn't going 
anywhere, so  didn't go nuts over it.

I did work W8CUB, but at the time didn't remember it was Lou's friend.


You did very well under the circumstances.  While I heard a few Michigan 
stations with big numbers,  the vast majority were way under 200.

All in all, not my best effort, but best I could do from out of state, 
and I still had fun.



73, Steve KW3A


On 4/19/2014 11:12 PM, Tom Behler wrote:
> Hi, all.
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> It's getting late here, and tomorrow is going to be a rather busy Easter
> Sunday, so I thought I'd give you a quick report on my Michigan QSO Party
> effort.
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> First of all, band conditions on 40 were extremely poor, especially at the
> beginning of the contest.  I'd say that, for the first two hours of the
> contest, I only heard a few Michigan stations, which was very unlike the
> situation last year.
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> The band did improve as the afternoon went on, but it did take a while.
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> 80 was in better shape tonight, but even then, there were substantially
> fewer people on the band than I recall being the case in previous years.
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> After a little more than 9 hours of operating, I put 255 contacts into the
> log.  I'd estimate that almost half of those contacts were "out of state"
> contacts.
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> I did mostly CQing, and probably spent equal time on SSB and CW.
> Interestingly, I got a much greater number of CW contacts than SSB contacts
> this time around.
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> I did manage to work WD9GUT (Jim in Minesota), and a blind ham named Scott
> from a county in the southern part of the state.  His call was W8CUB, and I
> believe Lou knows him rather well.  I also worked Paul (N4PN) from Georgia
> several times, which is always a neat bonus in any contest.
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> I think that another reason for the lower than usual number of participants
> was that this year's contest fell on Easter week-end, which is really
> unfortunate.
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> Anyway, if anyone tried to work me, and I missed you, I truly do apologize.
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> This was just one of those days when the HF gods simply were not completely
> on our side.
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> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
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