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Ontario QSO Party 2003

Portable Operation in Hastings County

Well, my wife wanted to get away on Easter weekend in 2003 to visit her family in Hastings county (near a little village called Maple Leaf). It was the same weekend as the Ontario QSO Party. Having never operated from her family's farm, I thought it would be a neat thing to do. I did bring our camper trailer in order to cut down the noise in the house. The contest runs for a 24 hour period. The only noise problem turned out to be the electric fence used to keep the cows in their proper pasture.


Two contests at once!

Don't try this at home folks! It turns out that the Michigan QSO Party is on the same weekend as the Ontario QSO Party. I was being a little silly and tried to operate in both contests by running two instances of the logging/scoring program on my laptop computer, thinking that one click of the mouse would immediately bring up the other contest. Didn't work out that way. I got mixed up a couple of times entering the contact in the wrong contest. I managed a new record for Hastings County and as a bonus my in-laws still talk to me. They did wonder why I banished myself to the trailer for 24 hours though.


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