2025 OK-QSO-PARTY Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K5CM We had a cold rain just about all the time on Saturday, but at least it keep the noise down. Conditions were fair but not all that great especially on Sunday. Activity was good which made for some real nice pile-ups. All Q's are important, but here are some of the most worked. 86 OM2VL 63 N8II 50 WB9HFK 46 NE8P W5TM 42 VE3YT 39 AC0W 37 N6MU 35 W0PI W2FU 32 W0ELT 31 N0HJZ N5TJ 29 K4DR 26 AA3R K9CW KT0P 24 F4EUG W9QL WB2PJH 23 W5XG W7GF 22 WA2JQK 21 N2CU 20 WN4AFP 18 K4FT K4ZGB K5DB KR4AE 17 K0TRL K2YG NY9P WA0MHJ WA5SOG 16 NW0M W5VS WA9YI 15 K2MN KB1AWM N4IJ W0ZQ W7LG 14 K2AL KW4EE N2DGQ VE3RGO W4NZ W4SIG 13 AA0AW K0XF N9SM WA1SAY 12 AA5JF DL3DXX KD2KW KF8I N7EPD VE3SIF W8PI 11 AI5G K0AP K8TE KC2WUF KD4S KE0TT LY5W NM2A NU1O 10 K4BAI KC7V W5ESE 73, Connie / K5CM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ W0BH Score includes 7,500 mobile bonus points for working at least 10 stations in each of 15 counties. Log has been submitted to the QSO party sponsor. 2025 Oklahoma QSO Party by Bob Harder, W0BH The OKQP is always on my list of planned operations, but this year I forgot to put the date on Lorna's calendar, so she scheduled an event until about noon on Saturday. With no way to change it, we left Kansas at noon for a 2pm arrival in Kay county. On the plus side, I asked if she would help at county line stops, and she said yes! Saturday Our route this year was a vertical run from central Oklahoma to several counties south of Oklahoma City. Rain was forecast several counties in, but the first three-county line was dry, so we stayed there longer that scheduled with a nice runs on 15, 20 and 40. Lorna operated as promised and we settled into a nice two operator rhythm on SSB. All good things come to an end, so we headed south and sure enough, sprinkles soon turned into steady rain. Before the party started, I used up lots of electrical tape taping my Hustler resonators against moisture. The big high power ones eventually picked some moisture up inside causing a higher SWR. I could only run about 50W out instead of the usual 100W, but at least I could still operate, so the tape helped. The taped smaller low power resonators worked fine the entire time. I use the bigger ones to give me greater bandwidth, but I might have to consider switching them out for smaller ones when rain is forecast. I just kept the really big 80m CW resonator in the van. We had had one rainy county after another. We always look forward to the four-county line southwest of Oklahoma City. I noticed on the OKQP web site, that another operator was also planning to run there. The run in from the east is a long, narrow rather poor stretch of cracked pavement with lots of rain water pools. Lorna did a terrific job playing boat captain as we sprayed water everywhere with the van. It was dark, so you couldn't always see the deep puddles and there was a fair amount of traffic. Not a pleasant experience. Given the conditions and knowing that the line itself wasn't a great place to park, we decided to run two two-county lines instead. We did work a very loud K5DB/m from, guess where, a four-county line! It was too dark and rainy to stop and chat. We were planning to continue south, but time ran out and we were close to the hotel. We ended the shorter day with 1336 combined Qs in the log in about 7 hours of operation. It was really great chatting with N6MU on the phone afterwards. Great to have John back in the game! Sunday I brought the antennas inside overnight and propped them up over the heater vent in the hotel room. They were nice and dry by morning with full power restored! It was great to see the sun, and it was a beautiful Sunday to operate. With the time change taken into account, we started from the hotel and continued south. Conditions were great most of the day with the best run at the Caddo/Comanche county line. If it could only be like that all the time. After working CW on three bands, Lorna came on SSB as a second callsign and kept a continuous stream of callers coming. We both enjoyed it! One stop, I forgot to note which one, we were observed by a longhorn bull who, along with his colleagues, was quite interested in the goings on. I took a picture and will post it to my QRZ page soon. The problem with this route was the duplication of counties heading back north. It turned out to not be a problem, because so many bands were open that I could always find ops who had yet to work me from the county. We ended up on I-35 heading north about even with the original three-county line. Stats Operated 11.6 hours, 1787 Qs, 385 unique calls, 54 dupes, 387 OKQP miles, 2185 combined Qs (not counting dupes). States not worked : AK HI ND WY Canadian mults worked (5): AB NB NF ON QC OK worked (10) : CAN CLE GAR KIN LOG MCL MUS OKL OKM PAY POT SEM TUL WAG DX worked (11) : DL EA F HA I OM W0BH Rates (includes dupes) 1787/11.6 = 154.1 Qs/hr (2024 rate 205 Qs/hr) Block QSOs/hr --- 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1500-2100 251 = 206--191--171--149----0--111--76---79----95--104---51--119---66 (Sat) 2100-0200 782 = 137--213--123--119----0---72--99---87---108--126---97--104---78 (Sat) Sunday 754 = 127--167--135--140--142---71--91---98----97--101---71---82---79 (Sun) County Breakdown (in visited order) ------------------------ Saturday (139 miles) 01 KAY 192 Kay 02 GAR 155 Garfield 03 GNT 155 Grant 04 NOB 61 Noble 05 PAY 90 Payne 06 LOG 72 Logan 07 OKL 31 Oklahoma 08 CAN 129 Canadian 09 KIN 111 Kingfisher Sunday (248 miles) 11 GRA 120 Grady 12 CAD 158 Caddo 13 COM 158 Comanche 14 GRV 68 Garvin 10 MCL 103 McClain 15 CLE 44 Cleveland OKL 14 LOG 19 PAY 15 NOB 28 ------ 1733 ** --------- Special thanks to my top scorers: 37: N8II 34: N6MU 32: AC0W 28: N5TJ WB9HFK 27: OM2VL 26: W0PI 24: N0HJZ 23: W0ELT 22: NE8P W2FU 21: KT0P 19: AA3R VE3YT 18: NU1O W7GF WB2PJH 17: W4NZ 16: K4DR K9CW W8PI 15: KB1AWM N4IJ W5TM W5XG 14: K2AL K4ZGB WA5SOG 13: F4EUG KJ6XC N6TR W9QL 12: N7EPD WN4AFP 11: AA5JF VE3SIF W5CW W5VS WA2JQK WA9YI 10: K4BAI K8TE N2CU W0ZQ W1FJ W4SIG OK Mobiles Worked: K5CM K5DB WR5X Bonus Counties: 15 W0BH Award Winners ----------------- First Place -- Very Honorable Mention ------- Most overall Qs - N8II/37 ------ N6MU/34 -------- AC0W/32 Most CW Qs ------ N6MU/34 ------ N5TJ/28 -------- W0PI/24 Most PH Qs ------ N8II/15 ------ AC0W/13 -------- WA9YI/11 Most counties --- W0PI/N8II/N6MU/N5TJ/15 -------- VE3YT/AC0W/14 --------------------------------------------------------------- Afterwards Thanks to Connie/K5CM (and Pam/N5KW) for getting things organized and keeping all of us updated. Now the log checking begins! The 2025 Kansas QSO Party is scheduled for August 30-31, the last weekend in August. This year there are five weekends in August and we are the LAST weekend, so the KSQP should be really special. With 105 counties, we need all the help we can get, so mobiles, head this way (and shoot me an email)! Everyone else, thanks for the Qs in Oklahoma. See you down the log in 2025 .. 73, Bob/w0bh and Lorna/k0why ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N4CD Thanks for all the calls. Lots of folks were frequent callers. Looks like 44 US states (no AK, HI, DE, RI, ME), 2 VE areas, and 6 DX entities. 4 OK counties. 85% of Qs on 20M. Rest on 15m. All CW. Ran 13 Counties for credit. 500 pts per . N4CD report The OK QP was coming up. I”d run in this QP many times- over a dozen times. Maybe two dozen times. Well, it's only 75 miles from the house in Plano TX to OK. It's a good thing I didn't check the weather. Heck, it should be warmer up in Oklahoma, right? After all, it is nearly spring. Well, read the forecast here in TX....good weather but OK– which I didn't bother to check! If I had, this trip would have been different. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. - - - NWS prediction......If I had bothered to check it..... Although Texans will set their clocks one hour ahead this weekend as spring nears, parts of the state will remain stuck in a dangerous winter. Forecasters said Friday set a winter weather advisory for much of the Texas Panhandle, as they expect up to six inches of snow to blanket the area over the weekend. Heavy wet snow targets the southern Texas Panhandle and northern Rolling Plains (8 March 2025) "This system will still bring impacts to the Panhandles as snowfall totals upwards of 5 to 7 inches will be possible across the north central and northwest," wrote the NWS on Friday. - =- - PRedicted Snow in Childress TX – which I will pass through the day before at noon....snow started early Friday night into Saturday ....they got 4-5 inches of snow... Traveled up to Canadian TX in eastern part of TX panhandle - 20 miles from OK for the night. No problems. Just cold in 30s. Ran two nearby POTA parks. Early next morning headed over to Ellis County OK. Ran two parks (Ellis County WMA and Lloyd Vicent State Fishing Lake ) before the QSO Party started. Was ready in eastern part of Ellis County when the QP started. Quickly made a run of Ellis, then to DEW/WDW line. Good quiet spot. Band conditions seemed fair but putting 50+ QSOs in log each stop The rig is a 2016 Chevy Malibu with 173,000 miles, a 4 magnet mount on roof, hamsticks for 40/20 and Hustler resonators on 54 inch mast for 17, 15, 12 and 10m. Only used 15M a few times. Weather was cold - and the rain started before noon and kept up all day. That's the good news. Just south of me they had INCHES of snow in Harmon, Greer and likely other counties. I managed by sheer luck to skirt the snow. After MAJ, ran Dewey WMA for both park chasers and QP folks on 15m cw. 25 min detour to get there and back including dirt roads. This park has eluded me on other trips to determined to get there! After that, went south through Taloga. This part of OK is sparse. Ellis County has about 5000 people. Same for Dewey County. 50-80 years ago, they had at least double. Main streets of small towns are mostly boardded up buildings from the past. Sad to see. Good roads - as I headed south in the rain. down through Custer to Kiowa to Tillman. Getting dark - so headed into Commanche for the evening at Lawton Days Inn. Had dinner nearby and had a near disaster. What looked like a 4-5 inch step down in the rain and dark was about a foot drop. N4CD wound up on the ground as polst polio leg gave out. Fortunately, no damage other than bruised and bloody elbow. Could have been a lot worse. This was the night we went to Daylight Saving Time. Tried to sleep in but up at 6am and QP didn't start till 10am. Headed down to Stephens/Cotton Line to start. Headed east to Jefferson/Carter Line. After that, getting tired and after noon. Headed to I-35 to get to Love Valley WMA and ran Love County. Now about 2:30 and the QP goes to 5pm today. Decided to head on home - less than two hours. Had good time. More QSO's made than any other QP for me. Wow....the pileups lasted 30 minutes. I'm not a speed demon. Use paper logs and can't write faster than 24 wpm so that's where I operated. All hand sent code. Don't have to be squinted at computer display and worrying about sunlight on screen. hi hi. Of course, not much sun this trip - rain after 11 or so Saturday, very cloudy Sunday. Lucked out and missed the snow. Likely affected panhandle counties and SW corner of OK - Harmon, Greer, etc. Just rain for me. Whew! 73 de N4CD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K9JK 31 'real' QSOs (22 SSB and 9 CW, including 6 on SSB as I was mobile in Wisconsin for their QSO Party on Sunday) but I get to count 42 QSOs thanks to several QSOs with stations at multi-county borders. Thanks to all who participated and to the 'host of the party', Connie, K5CM. 73, JK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KN6VTC Changed class to closest to Portable to reflect my status for the new State QSO Party Portable/Mobile overlay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ N5KW Score includes 13 counties bonus. 27 OM2VL 18 N8II 16 KT0P 15 WA9YI 12 WB9HFK 10 W0ELT W9QL WA1SAY 9 AC0W KY7M 8 VE3RGO 7 AA3R K4DR Connie and I shared the radio as single ops, but I think I shared more than him. 73, Pam / N5KW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KI5MM Went mobile in OK for first time. Ran solo. No logging partner made this one a little harder. Cold and wet but still a good time. Worked in 11 counties for 10 or more Q's. 9 POTA Parks. Had some great help for followers mostly East US. Not sure what happened to West coast. OM2VL of course helped with DX. Thanks for those who gave me the QSO's and folks who put it on. 73 Lee KI5MM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K5ZZR Includes 1,500 Bonus Points. Well, Saturday things started off great and then came the heavy rains. Fortunately, there was no lightning in my area which was quite surprising to me, so I was able to operate some anyway. By Sunday the skies were only partly cloudy and conditions seemed pretty good although lots of QRN which really hurt the weaker signals. I'm mobiling now in an older Sprinter 3500 (6 wheeled) van and it seems to give me a good ground plane for the Tarheel antenna which I mounted close to the center of the roof. I installed an actuator to raise and lower the Tarheel, and since in two days I'll be 76 I appreciate that it saves me a lot of physical effort. My Flex 6300 and the laptop complete the set up. Looking forward to this year's QP's which I hope to participate in as a mobile in the neighboring states of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Missouri and Arkansas. 73's Russ K5ZZR ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N5OT Rus K2UA came out from NYQP country to join me in Oklahoma for the OkQP. I think he did it "just for the fun of it." Especially kind of him, since I lost my wife in February to pancreas cancer and doing the Oklahoma QSO Party with him definitely cheered me up. We had the BEST TIME. Trading off between driving and operating, we hammered together for 17 hours, grinning ear-to-ear. Thanks especially to all the stations out there who kept an ear on our frequency, tracking us through 32 counties in two days. Some of youall commented that it was like you were here in the car with us. We felt like you were, too. It was a weekend of camaraderie with a bunch of friends, some of whom we have never met! The statistics tab in our logging program (N1MM+) shows the following QSO totals with individual stations: N6TR 66 N2IC 59 N6MU 54 N5TJ 54 OM2VL 52 W2FU 47 VE3YT 43 N8II 39 W9RE 38 N5RZ 37 W0PI 35 WB2PJH 34 K9CW 34 N2MG 32 W4NZ 30 These stations that made 30 or more QSOs with us account for 26.6% of our total QSOs. Many more stations made 20 or more QSOs with us as we drove around the great state of Oklahoma for two days. Did I say 17 hours? The contest was 18 hours long. Oops. We failed to see a discrepancy between the end time of the contest listed on the OKQP web site and the WA7BNM Calendar web site. We turned the radio off at 2100 and left a whole 'nother hour on the table! Live and learn. People are asking about our set-up. We ran a Kenwood TS-480 (the one with the antenna tuner, not the one with 200 watts output). We had a modest 12VDC solid-state amp - an Ameritron ALS-500 - that runs something like 275 watts on 15 and 20, and maybe 300 watts on 40 and maybe 350 watts on 80 (definitely need to upgrade to something stouter). This was all powered by 300Ah (@12V) of LiFePo4 batteries, separate from the 12VDC in the vehicle, but grounded to the vehicle chassis. The batteries definitely needed a charge between Saturday and Sunday. We had two antennas - a dedicated 40 meter antenna (100 watt Hustler-Frankenstein) and a Tarheel that could tune from about 3.3 MHz to about 22 MHz (at Full Power). Exceptional care was given to chassis bonding as it relates to the coax shields at the feed points, absolutely bypassing all mounting fixtures and hardware. We also made great effort to reduce all sources of RFI. We had none of that stuff going on to wreck our weekend. K2UA absolutely knows his stuff and steered me clear of many "Newbie Mistakes." Being able to switch to the separate 40 meter antenna allowed for quicker bandchanges, since getting to 80 meters was about as much fun as FT8 QSOs. But because we did it this way we ran 100 watts on 40 meters. 100 watts was adequate but we might have controlled the pileup better with a louder signal. When the sun went down, 40 got downright gnarly. 80 was better because we could transmit with more watts. I think there's a warning label on the back that says "WARNING: Could be habit-forming." Thanks again and see you on the air in more State QSO Parties! 73 - Mark N5OT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W5TM FLEX8600 FLEXPGXL FLEXTGXL DIPOLES 80-10M SLOPER ON 160M DXE PROLOOP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N5TJ Great job by the /M stations! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N5RZ Good short skip on 20M helped a lot! Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Gator -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DL3DXX Plan was to collect new counties on 10,15 and 40 meters. 10m was poor on Saturday. Most European stations heard with Aurora sound. However 15m was almost OK. Even more strange propagation on Sunday. 15m signals weak and nothing at all on ten. 40m was a struggle competing with every US caller but worked most. Could not get WR5X Sunday on 15m. He had big QRM (local from car?) and gave up. I do feel his frustration not hearing most of the callers. Just carry on and make the next party more successful! Thank you to all for beeing there. 73 Dietmar DL3DXX ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AF5J Thanks for the Qs - 73, HAL AF5J Rig: Elecraft K3S/P3/KAT500/KPA500 Ant: Zero Five Ground Plane 43\' vert @ 8\' AGL K4KIO Hex Beam @ 23\' RX Ant: W6LVP Receiving Loop Key: Begali Signature paddle SW: N1MM+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LY5W Thanks for new counties: DEW - N4CD MCL - W0BH NOW - K5DB OKF - K5CM PLEASE QSL! LOTW doesn't count for USA-CA. Sam LY5W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KF6NCX Thanks for the qsos! 73, Larry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K0VBU K3 100/P3, Ac0m 1000, TH6DXX up 50\'. Trap Inv V for 40/80. 73, Bill K0VBU ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W1QK Thanks for the OK QSO Party contacts. 73-Dan, W1QK ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K1EBY IC-7300 - AL80B - C4XL(+2ele 40M Yagi)- 40M Delta Loop - 80M Sloper (West) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W3AAN ICOM 7610 (TNX FRC) SO2V KPA 1500 @ 800 W (HP ONLY) FAN DIPOLE AT 30 FT N1MM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N6NU With just a handful of fixed stations the mobiles kept it interesting. Ten was open Sunday and I was able to lure a few up there. Sure nice to be back in the action albeit a little slower now. 73... John, N6MU TS-570 & 5BTV --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WB2PJH An outstanding QSO Party, with great participation. Special thanks to all those great CW mobile operators. My best score in any state QP! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ K2MN Used two indoor fan dipoles and 90 Watts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ N9MN K3 at 100w. Dipole antenna. This is one of my favorite contests. Despite terrible weather conditions; there were plenty of OK ops and rovers on the air for the whole contest. Band conditions were not too good, but the ops were very patient and tried so hard to work us. The rovers were amazing as always, sitting on 1, 2 or 3 counties. The pileups were sometimes huge, as expected, but the experienced rover ops handled it with ease. Many thanks to all of those ops who tried so hard to work me. I had a great time and am looking forward to doing it again next year. Hopefully the weather will be better with less nasty storms. Many thanks to the contest committee. You do a great job of running this contest! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ K3ZA Thanks for the Qs. First time for me in OK, Qso prt. Fun chasing down the mults. Hope to see you all next year. 74 //Tony//. . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ K9WX Alpha Delta DX-CC dipole Butternut HF9V Cushcraft A503S 160m sloper Flex 6600 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ N2ZN Operating remote with only an IC-705 and the SDR-Mobile app. With only 10w, I'm not the loudest station on the band, but I could usually get through. Thanks to the mobiles for the great activity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NM2A FT-950/85W A3S Tribander @50ft. 80/40 Trap Dipole @40ft. N1MM+ w/WK-USB 73, Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W9RE Great job by the mobile ops. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N8DNA TEN-TEC EAGLE 100W TO END FED 130FT WIRE ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KQ4EFL FTDX10 67\\\\\\\' Off Center Fed Dipole or G5rv Lite for 80 meters Vibrokeyer Deluxe CWOps #3492 NFARL Member ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W3WHK Elecraft K3S 100w. G5RV ant. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NJ8J Icom IC-7610 LDG AT-200Pro II Automatic Antenna tuner ZS6BKW antenna Logger: N1MM+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NN7O 100 watts and a non-resonant vertical overlooking the mouth of the Columbia River. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WO4O POTA activation from US-1889 Lake Griffin State Park. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W1FJ Thanks to the mobiles for generating a lot of fun and having good ears ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KE0TT K3/10 at 5 watts to wires. Thanks for the fun! Good condx this time. C U next time, 73, Dan ke0tt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NQ2W Yaesu FTDX10 at 5W. Mosley TA-33-JR-N at 32ft, 40m dipole at 60ft, 80m dipole at 50ft. Used SD by EI5DI for logging and WinKeyer USB for keying. Thanks for the Qs and the opportunity to participate. 73, Will, NQ2W ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KE3V It was a beautiful, sunny weekend for radio. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N5UM 3 hours Saturday afternoon/evening, and 1 hour Sunday afternoon. All running - no S&P. N5UM Runs >10 QSOs: 2025-03-08 1751 - 1825Z, 14041 kHz, 79 Qs, 137.9/hr N5UM 2025-03-08 1828 - 1833Z, 21041 kHz, 11 Qs, 121.1/hr N5UM 2025-03-08 1839 - 1905Z, 14254 kHz, 85 Qs, 196.5/hr N5UM 2025-03-08 2003 - 2009Z, 14041 kHz, 12 Qs, 116.1/hr N5UM 2025-03-08 2020 - 2028Z, 21041 kHz, 12 Qs, 81.8/hr N5UM 2025-03-08 2226 - 2240Z, 7041 kHz, 25 Qs, 105.0/hr N5UM 2025-03-08 2242 - 2302Z, 14040 kHz, 42 Qs, 121.9/hr N5UM 2025-03-09 0126 - 0142Z, 3540 kHz, 26 Qs, 96.5/hr N5UM 2025-03-09 0146 - 0200Z, 7038 kHz, 36 Qs, 151.9/hr N5UM 2025-03-09 1822 - 1828Z, 14040 kHz, 13 Qs, 125.1/hr N5UM 2025-03-09 1837 - 1901Z, 21042 kHz, 32 Qs, 78.7/hr N5UM 2025-03-09 1906Z - 1924, 14042 kHz, 25 Qs, 84.7/hr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OM2VL Thanks for the QSOs! Nice mobile activity. Unfortunately during last 4 hours I missed OK stations, because I was very busy with WI stations. Most QSOs: K5CM 82/16 N5OT 55/32 K5DB 34/25 W0BH 28/12 N5KW 24/13 N4CD 19/14 KI5MM 13/8 K0WHY 7/5 WR5X 4/4 K5ZZR 2/2 (9): W5CW (7): AD5OK (5): N5VBP (4): 7x Missed counties: BEA, BEC,CIM, GRE, HAR, HRP, JAC, LEF, MCU, RGM, TEX, WOO. 73, Laci ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VE3YT Thank you to all the mobile ops who kept this QSO Party interesting and fun! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K4BAI Thanks for all QSOs, especially the mobiles. Band conditions from GA to OK were generally OK on 40 and 20M. Look for the GA QSO Party the second full weekend in April. 73, John, K4BAI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W3US Flex 8600, Flex PGXL, Hustler 6-BTV flagpole vertical. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AA4TI Another good showing from OK stations. Mobiles were again very active and generally easy to work. Lots of good ops in this party. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K1BZ K Line & 160G5RV @ 40' /DL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W4ANT Came home from work an hour early to get some Q's in for QSOPARTYCHALLENGE. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ K4VBM My new home - great fun the first time as a resident! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ N8II I was not intending to do more than a few hours, but got sucked in by the mobile activity which kept it fairly interesting. The OK WX was far from nice Saturday with a "blizzard" in western OK and heavy rain almost everywhere. W0BH/M reported poor Hustler antenna performance due to rain in the coils. His signal seemed fine on 20M. I think N5OT might have had some rain trouble around 21-23Z also. The home station activity was low as usual; I remember very few new calls. Except for 10M, despite the high K index, the prop to OK was mostly good. 40 was unusable from about 1545Z-2120Z here. Both 40 and 80 opened before OK sunset well. 20 stayed mostly excellent, but with a decrease in signals midday. 15 was open the majority of the daylight hours, some signal drop off to eastern OK Saturday afternoon, but it came back. 10 never opened to OK from here; I think all 4 of my Q's were with a whisper of a signal from Con K5CM/M, just goes to show what others could have done. Beaming roughly south for scatter QSO's is the best; I don't think many tried it. Never truer than with OKQP, the mobiles made the party! Many thanks to the host/admin. Con K5CM/M for 50 QSO's, with XYL Pam N5KW adding another 21. Also thanks to Bob W0BH for 38 with XYL Lorna K0WHY 14 even with a late start. The mobile team of Mark, N5OT and Rus K2UA? were worked 38 times and also supplied a ton of multipliers. Don K5DB/M was active almost the whole time with 31 QSO's; I missed him on 2 county lines Sunday that I know of on 20 SSB that would have added 5 more. Next time please remember 15M. Got an email from Lee KI5MM hoping to work me; we did it 16 times, thanks. The majority of the mobiles were from out of state thanks so much for traveling those long miles. Next year I vow to operate seriously in WIQP, so don't expect a big effort then. Thanks much for the QSO's, virtually all S&P. 73, Jeff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NE8P Wow, the mobile stations were a buzzin! Great job! Thanks to all who participated. Mike, NE8P TS-590SG, 20/15/10 Rotatable Dipole @ 32 feet, 160/80/40 Vertical (49 ft tall) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AC0W Thanks for great QSO Party. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N0HJZ A fun weekend of following the mobiles around! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WN4AFP Thanks for all the Qs especially all of the mobile ops...too many to include. 73 Dave WN4AFP Station: IC-7300 - 80m OCF Dipole NW/SE at 20' ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K4DR Kudos to all the hard working mobile stations! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W4NZ Great work by all the mobiles. They kept things interesting. 73, Ted W4NZ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KT0P Good strong signals on 15, 20 and 40 were generally weak to ESP level. Had a great time with this contest regardless. Thanks for the QSOs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N2CU Stationary mobile. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K2AL IC-7300 Doublet, 3-El Mini Beam. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WA9LEY Attic dipoles. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VA6RCN I saw that there had been no entries from Alberta in 2023 or 2024...so I thought I would get on for a bit and hand out the AB multiplier to those that could hear me. GL everyone. Kevin VA6RCN (Royal Canadian Navy). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W0PR Activity picked up a bit, so I added a few more Qs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W2LC Nice to work everyone! 73 Scott W2LC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KC2WUF 100W (except 50W PSK31 contact) Elecraft K4D with 40/20 ladderline inverted-V ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- K0MPH EQUIP: FTDX10 80-10 deck verticals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NQ1B Good contest and a great deal of activity. It was great to work 16 counties. I don't think many other Vermont stations participated. I'm sure I could have worked more if I had more time to spend in the contest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W0PMO Used Gap vertical ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WD6T Not enough OKs, but the ones that were on were easier to work than WI. Went LP to save electricity, plus I could work most of what I could hear (the latter being the limiting factor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K5QQ Too close to the state so signals were weak and few in between --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WA6TQT This was a disappointing IDQP contest - NO action on Saturday and NO Spots. That means we missed working OK stations on 80/40 meters Saturday evening. By 17:00 Sunday morning things finally started up, except 10-meters was a DuD. The WA7BNM contest calendar said the event was over at 21:00z, when in fact the OKQP website correctly reported it as 22:00z. I almost quit early. I was running 5-watts into stacked arrays for 40-meters thru 10-meters and a 4-Square vertical array for 80-meters. LooK for a write-up at: http://WQ6X.Blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WA9YI Thanks to all, bunch of new counties this year. 73 Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- W2CSI GREAT QSO PARTY -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AJ4LN 100 watts and wire antennas. Kenwood TS-590SG or TS-590S, I have both. SDRPlay RSP1 panadapter, connected to either Kenwood. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N4MCC 100 watts and a wire. I wish ALL contests had a category for just wire antennas only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- K0TJT a few Q's for the QSO Party challenge. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM THE CAB FILES ab2nm.log FUNNY STORY: I'M WORKING ON MY 5BWAS, NEEDING ID ON 80M, AND WI ON 15 & 10M. STATE QSO PARTIES ARE A 'GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY' TO FILL THOSE EMPTY STATE/BAND SLOTS. YA KNOW, I NEVER HEARD ID ON 80, NOR DID I HEAR WI ON 15 OR 10 ... BUT I HEARD LOTS OF OK STATIONS. (I HAVE OK ON ALL FIVE BANDS ... DON'T IT FIGURE?) LUCKY YOUZ GUYS WERE ALL OVER! THANKS. THIS WAS FUN. dl3dxx.log AURORA ON SATURDAY! JUST A FEW QSOS ON 10 BUT FAIR ON 15M. TERRIBLE PROPAGATION ON SUNDAY. TKS FOR ALL BEEING THERE. ea5ko.log FT 757GX, MOXON, 100W. THANKS QSO. f8pdr.log NOT MUCH TIME THIS YEAR FOR THIS CONTEST, TOO BAD. ix1ckn.log ONLY ONE QSO, BUT I HAD FUN. THANKS A LOT AND 73! k2mn.log USED TWO INDOOR FAN DIPOLES AND 90 WATTS. k3tw.log "GREETINGS FROM WARM AND SUNNY FLORIDA." k5qq.log OK IS SO CLOSE EVERY STATION WAS AT THE NOISE LEVEL! k9jk.log OPERATED FROM HOME IN ILLINOIS ON SATURDAY, WITH ANTENNAS MOUNTED ON MY VEHICLE PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY, THEN OPERATED FROM WISCONSIN ON SUNDAY, MOBILE IN THE WISCONSIN QSO PARTY, AND FOUND A FEW STATIONS PATICIPATING IN THE OKLAHOMA QSO PARTY WHILE THERE ka0pqw.log DIDN'T HAVE MUCH TIME THIS YEAR. THANKS 73 MATT KA0PQW ke0tt.log K3/10 AT 5 WATTS TO A 66' INV VEE FED 21' AT APEX. TWO CONTACTS WERE MADE FROM THE WIQP ON SUNDAY. THANKS FOR THE FUN! 73, DAN KE0TT ke9ex.log TNX FOR ALL THE ROVERS. MORE OF THEM THAN FIXED STATIONS, IT SEEMS. LOTS OF CW ACTIVITY; THAT'S GREAT. I WENT TO TULSA UNIVERSITY AND XYL IS FROM TULSA. ki5mm.log 10 OR MORE CONTACTS FROM: MARSHALL, BRYAN, ATOKA, COAL, JOHNSTON, MURRAY, CARTER, LOVE, CHOCTAW, PUSHMATAHA, PITTSBURG, TOTAL MOBILE BONUS = 5500 FUN RUN FIRST TIME OK MOBIL kj9c.log THREE QPS IN ONE LOG ... HOPE I PARSED IT RIGHT... NO SOFTWARE FOR THIS ONE kq4nmv.log KQ4-NMV USING A IC-705 (10W) AND A HOMEBREW EFHW ANTENNA. n5uua.log WAGONER OKLAHOMA IN WAGONER COUNTY RUNNING A FTDX3000 INTO A VL1000 AND EITHER A 5BTV OR INVERTED-V DIPOLE w1end.log RIG WAS FTDX101 AND BUTTERNUT VERTICAL. YOU GUYS GET AROUND. THANKS FOR ALL THE Q'S. SEE YOU NEXT YEAR. w5ese.log HAD A GREAT TIME AND THANKS FOR SPONSORING IT!X wa1say.log THANKS FOR QSO PARTY.