2025 Kansas QSO Party

Results

The best part of this year’s KSQP was providing the last county for a sweep to N6MU, N8II, and OM2VL. As we were leaving Pratt on Sunday morning I got a call from organizer Bob. He asked if we could modify our route to include Rawlins and Cheyenne counties so that N6MU and OM2VL would have a chance for a sweep. We shortened our start on the Kiowa/Edwards line from 30 minutes to 15 minutes and made 57 Qs there. Next we dropped Stafford and Barton plus cut out the planned lunch stop in Great Bend so we could add RAW and CHY. With an hour and half to the end of the Party, we hit RAW and N6MU found us 10 minutes later for his sweep. With 40 minutes to the end of the Party, we hit CHY and OM2VL found us two minutes later for his sweep. N8II got us in both RAW and CHY for his sweep. It was very pleasing to be able to provide the last needed counties for those fellas.

In the contest we made 1,051 Qs with 45 mults for a claimed score of 141,885. We started on the Cheyenne/Sherman county line where in 30 minutes we collected 76 Qs. From there, the northwest corner of KS, we headed south to the southwest corner. Counties in that area are about 30 miles on a side which makes for a handy 30 minute time in each of them. After heading east along the bottom row of counties, we stopped on the Barber/Harper county line where Jay collected another 78 Qs in 35 minutes. By the end of Saturday in Pratt, we had 644 Qs.

Our most frequent customer was N5RZ, Gator, in TX who got us in 22 of our 26 counties. John, N6MU, in CA, one of the sweepers, was next up with 21 counties. Others with 15 or more were K9CW, Andy, in IL; K9PW, Peter, in IL; and OM2VL, Laci, one of the sweepers, in the Slovak Republic with 20 Qs; N8II, Jeff, one of the sweepers, in WV and WB9HFK, Mark, in IL with 18; VE3YT, Vic, in ON and N7US, Jim in IL, with 17; and DL3DXX, Dietmar, in Germany with 15 Qs. A total of 26 folks worked us 10 or more times.

The mobile was a 2002 Ford Ranger with a KX2 and KXPA amp at just 50 Watts this year to a Scorpion 680 antenna mounted in the center of the truck's bed. Logging was done with a 14" screen HP laptop running N1MM+.

Jay and I thank everyone who worked us and those who tried, but we didn't get you in the log.

Pictures and comments from along our route

It is Saturday and we are parked on the BAR/HPR county line. In 20 minutes Jay was able to collect 39 pairs of Qs for one of our best rates of the party. After wondering where the pop-pop-pop noise was coming from, I walked down the dirt road and found an oil pumping unit with a gas powered engine that was making the noise.

We are in the city park of Bird City in CHY county. There are only a few minutes left in the party. It is here and the short distance from the RAW/CHY line that we handed out the last county for N6MU, K8II, and OM2VL to get their sweeps.

The Plan

Jay, WA0WWW, and I will activate 26 counties in the Kansas QSO Party, August 30 and 31 using the 1x1 call of N0Q. We will be CW only. During the day we will try to be on both 20 and 15 m with excursions to 40 m on frequencies ending in 034, such as 14.034 MHz. After our sunset around 0115 (UTC) we will be less on 15 and more on 20 or 40 m. In each county we will try to be active for at least 30 minutes.

You can work us each time we change counties or frequencies.

Our call of N0Q will be one of three "Q" calls that contribute to the spelling of "QSO Party" using the last letter of the 1x1 calls.

In addition to the RBN, the KSQP Hub Spotting Page will be a great site to follow us, the other mobiles, and thee fixed Kansas stations.

Here are the counties we hope to be in during our morning, afternoon, and evening for both days.

Saturday, August 30, 1400 to 1700 (UTC)

Cheyenne/Sherman (CHY/SMN), Sherman (SMN), Wallace (WAL), Greeley (GLY), Hamilton (HAM), Stanton (STN)

Saturday, August 30, 1700 to 2300 (UTC)

Stanton (STN), Morton (MTN), Stevens (STE), Seward (SEW), Meade (MEA), Clark (CLK), Comanche (COM), Barber (BAR), Harper (HPR)

Saturday, August 30, 2300 to Sunday, August 31, 0159 (UTC)

Harper (HPR), Kingman (KIN), Pratt (PRA)

Sunday, August 31, 1400 to 1700 (UTC)

Kiowa/Edwards (KIO/EDW), Edwards (EDW), Pawnee (PAW), Stafford (STA), Barton (BRT)

Sunday, August 31 1700 to 2159 (UTC)

Barton (BRT), Rush (RUS), Ellis (ELL), Rooks (ROO), Phillips (PHI), Norton (NOR)

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