Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Minnesota QSO PARTY, 2022


Let's see...I  covered ANO, ISA, KNB, MIL, BEN, SHE, and STR counties. And, I have 11-1/2 pages, 15 contacts each, to plug into N1MM. It was a long though adventurous day! My only sticking point was after the 2nd stop on the Google maps itinerary, the App kept trying to direct me back home. I finally figured out it was a no-win battle, and started popping the next town into Maps one at a time. From then on it went smoothly. But there was some waisted time, exasperations, and prayers of desperation before then! LoL
I used a full length 20 meter hamstick on a tri-mag mount on the roof of my Kia Nero hybrid. Put it on at the first stop, and left it there throughout the day's driving withouta hitch. No problem. Though the mag mount did seem to whistle a bit at 55mph. Ha! I was 20 meters only today. And, 20 meters worked fine until the last couple hours. Then, I started getting weaker signals, and in the last hour, fewer of them. 



Thanks so much to Roger, K0MPH for getting me setup with the route. It worked really well, and his years of traveling it served me well. I really enjoyed the roving overall. I'm already used to doing that with POTA, and today was like doing 7 parks in one day! LoL 

Now to the shack and to logging! :)

Minnesota QSO PARTY, 2022

Let's see...I  covered ANO, ISA, KNB, MIL, BEN, SHE, and STR counties. And, I have 11-1/2 pages, 15 contacts each, to plug into N1MM. It...