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2012 MNQP (QSOs for Saturday)

Ben (N2BEN) and I worked the Minnesota QSO Party on a casual basis today. We worked about 2 hours this morning and then headed to lunch. We visited the Crow River Club (W0CRC) operating at KDUZ and borrowed a couple slices of pizza and then headed out for a couple of tacos and some errands. We returned home and operated the last two hours of the contest. (Total operating time was about 4 hours)



All of our time  on SSB was spent running. The rate on 40m in the morning was ok, but the rate on 20m was pretty brisk. People like hearing a child's voice (11 year old) on the radio and it was pretty distinctive on the voice keyer.  :-)  Ben did a great job running the pile-up and I focused on the logging the contacts.



Most of the MN counties were in the morning while we were working CW search & pounce chasing the rovers. In the end we had 75 multipliers which is decent given our limited time on the air.

Since I was looking at scores I thought that it would be fun to look at over previous years.

2012: 25,050 points
2011:  8,282 points
2010:  7,074 points
2009:  2,668 points
2008:  4,653 points (first year with Ben operating)

73 de NG0R

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QSOs for Saturday

I am working the Minnesota QSO Party today with N2BEN from our QTH.

(Click on the desktop image if you want to see it full size.)

Since Writelog does not natively run on Linux and I end up running it from an XP session within a VirtualBox session. I am tied to Writelog since I like the use of a VoiceKeyer and my K1EL USB Winkeyer (for CW). 



Here is map showing the rovers out-and-about cruising the state activating the rare grids.

73 de NG0R