I worked all weekend long on emergency power.  That’s all I had in the RV parked in rural Eastern Washington for the Salmon Run Contest (Washington State QSO Party).  A few stations said they were participating in the EPOE event.  I suppose I should have said that in more of my QSOs but I didn’t.  I was too busy trying to gin up contacts. 

            We were operating from the side of the road and right on top of the county line (border between two sparsely populate counties).  By running signals from the county line we got twice as many points and lots of folks seemed to like getting “two counties for the price of one!”  Unfortunately our SB-220 sometimes caused the air conditioner to cycle on and off and on and off.  We also had to disconnect the RV speakers which were affected by the RF.  The three of us from Oregon had a good time though.  The total round trip from the Portland area was 755 miles (at 8 mpg plus 25 hours of 7 KW generator time, it wasn’t cheap).

            73/Greg W7OZ

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From: Bruce Frahm KØBJ [mailto:bfrahm@st-tel.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:01 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:13084] Re: Public Awareness Day EPOE

Coy, K0FJ and I were gonna do it, but he tuned around at 9AM and had a similar experience to yours so we didn't run and get the generator. However when I worked W6C they staed they'd logged quite a few emerg. power stations, and we hrd W1AW comment that half their Qs today were emerg. powered ones.

(Karlyn and I had a cultural afternoon -- there was a "Mud Bog" being run in trench silos only 3 miles from our QTH.  nwKS has an interest group. The wimpier trucks compete for distance, and the larger classes can usually complete the course so it's a timed event for them.  We have a hard time keeping him out of puddles with his trike when it rains, so I KNEW he'd enjoy the afternoon)

Bruce