AA5JG
Only played in the contest on Sunday but had a good time. Sounds like there was lots of activity on both days from what I heard Saturday while doing the Ohio QSO party.
AE1T Thanks to ops for being patient. Antenna stuck pointing north because of Irene.
EA6AZ
My First KS QSO Party. Looking for counties and giving the chance to work EA6 all others. 73 and good job.
K0A/KC0AHN
The Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society (BEARS) operated K0A for a 100 point Bonus station. We operated three stations and gave out 717 Bonus Qs – thanks to all the operators!
KC0QIE – James Enix - SSB Station from N0LD in Butler county
KD0FIP – Robert Johnstone - Digital Station from KD0FIP in Butler county
N5GUI – James Whitfield - SSB Station from N0LD in Butler county
N0LD – Randy Wing - SSB Station from N0LD in Butler county
W0HGJ – Harvey Jones - SSB Station from N0LD in Butler county
WA0N – George Pinick - SSB Station from WA0N in Sedgwick county
This year, Brian Moran, N6MNE, is a steady, silent contributor to the KS QSO Party. Brian authors the software that has reduced the time to score the contest by a factor of 10! Thank you, Brian!
Thank you to Bob Harder, W0BH, for his creativity and coordination in preparation of this years 1x1 calls and special awards. Without his hard work and dedication, we wouldn’t have DOUBLED the number of logs submitted! – Randy, N0LD
K0E/AD0DX
First time mobile in a contest, had a great time.
K0LDS A JOY TO WORK THE KANSAS QSO PARTY...I'M GETTING CLOSE TO WORKED ALL KANSAS! THANKS!
K0PVW First of all I worked a couple of the mobile stations out there and I want to say a big thanks to the ones that had the patience to accept my slow CW! CW is not a strong point, but this may be a driving factor to get back in and get proficient at it again. Thanks again for being willing to work the slow operator. - Rob
K0RU Wow just checked I have 118 confirmed already for N0A via LOTW wow... Haven't spent 1 dime in postage for those hahaha!
KØS/WØBH Bob has a rather lengthy entry, so we are linking to his 3830 write-up . Enjoy!
K0W/K0AP It seems like year after year KSQP is becoming more and more popular. IMO even the number of the DX stations participating in KSQP have increased which leads to a conclusion that good organization and planning has been put in place. I am very proud to be selected to run one of the 1x1 calls and gave my best to provide the "W" to as many stations as possible. I was QRV most of the day on Saturday. Unfortunately, due to some family obligations I could not avoid, I was only able to be QRV for only 30 minutes on Sunday. Anyway, great fun is all I had and I am looking forward to next year's KSQP. Big thanks to the organizers of this great event! 73 Dragan K0AP, Z32XX
K3TW
Thanks for all activity. It was fun to work the 1 X 1 callsign stations to qualify for the special certificate.
K5BZH
My experience with the Kansas QSO Party was very pleasant. A fun event, lots of 1x1 calls, with fun things to chase (KANSAS and SUNFLOWER). Keep up the good work!
K6CSL
This was fun. However I never found Haskell County, which I was looking for. Maybe next year.
K6LJC Great QSO Party!
KB0DTI
Had limited time. 40 not in great shape. - Ron
KB3AAG
Lots of fun as I enjoy the frustration of working QRP from a bad location! My shack is in a valley surrounded by 350 foot high hills on all sides. I have an 80 meter vertical loop the top leg at 30 feet so my antenna is 320 foot underground ! Thanks to all who dug me out ! Frank
KB3UYT
I regret not having more time for the nice QSO Party! I liked “collecting” the letters for “Kansas”. I’ll try again next year. Best 73, Eric.
KC0DEB Great event, and having the 1x1 stations out there really made a difference! To all the mobiles and portable stations.. Thank You!
KC2CK
Could have done better, xyl to take care of, worked KS0KS, K0A for bonus, got all letters for Kansas & Sunflower. All who worked me u got my call BACKWARDS See u next year!
KC7YE
These 599 reports were really 599+ signals just booming into hee 30 miles north of Seattle. Enjoyed the QSO Party, worked 11 new counties!
KI4CBF
Thanks for putting the QSO Party on the air! Chris
KJ4OAP
Had a great time working several stations several times! Many thanks goes to K0O/M for coming back EVERY county that I heard him in. Meal times and a few other odds and ends made me miss a few of his counties. I have spent some time in KS for work mostly in Ellis county, but unfortunately I never heard a station from there. Maybe next year. Glad I got KS0KS after many tries! Thanks! This is a really awesome twist to the usual QSO party contest.
KJ4WRE
Nice contest! Hope ya’ll did well. Thanks for the contact. Blessings to you are yours!
KJ8O
I was quite fascinated with the challenge of completing the phrase, and hope that I am in the running for one of the certificates with the commemorative stamp. Thanks for a great QSO, and am already looking forward to QSO with my friends in Kansas next year. - Joe Miller, KJ8O
KK6MC
I had a great KSQP as N0R. It was a great success and a lot of fun. I will do it again next year if you will have me. This is a good contest. You guys do things right up there. I operated SSB exclusively as my CW interface took a dive at the beginning of the contest. I also had problems loading the 40M antenna to more than 50 Watts, so the majority of my operation was on 20M. It is difficult to get everything operating without problems in a mobile operation. I had more than enough takers on 20M though. I managed to pretty much hit my county trip plan and I really like those nice orthogonal midwest county roads every mile. I grew up in South Dakota and had forgotten how easy it is to navigate on them without looking at a map much. I did have to make small detours a couple of times when the road stopped for a slough and although the map showed a county road bridge over the Arkansas River, it was not there and that cost a half hour or so. I should have suspected as much. For the most part it was possible to find very quiet spots from which to operate and an RF quiet location is truly a joy. I left NM on Friday about 1100 or so and got to Liberal at 1700. Started from there on Saturday morning, worked my way north and west on Saturday and then south on Sunday. I dismantled the antenna and left for home about 1415 on Sunday and got home to NM at 2000. Sunday was interesting as I went back and forth between MDT and CDT time zones many times as it ran close to the county lines. Worked a small bit of DX, namely G, OM, OK, and TI. Lots of fun. - Duffey
KN4Y
A great QSO party, plenty of mobile CW operators to keep the interest. I worked KB0, did not hear K0A on CW. Spelled out both Kansas and Sunflower. It was 100 degrees outside and this was cool fun.
N4ARO
Great QSO party. Loved the "name game" aspect, all the mobiles were great. Excellent job by all.
N4PN
THANKS TO ALL FOR A GREAT QSO PARTY....KUDOS TO THE MOBILES LED BY BOB, W0BH (K0S) AND LORNA, K0WHY..LOTS OF FUN...CU NEXT YEAR!! SCORE INCLUDES 200 BONUS PTS -- (K0A & KS0KS).
N4POY Thanks for the QSO Party! Hope you had a great weekend! Jerry
N4ZQA
Neat type of contest – hope to see this again next year.
N6MU
WORKED ALL 105 COUNTIES!
N7VS Thank you for an interesting contest. Congratulations on organizing an outstanding contest. I enjoyed it very much. My hat is off to all the mobiles who went out under these difficult weather conditions.
N0W/KØKU
It is ALWAYS a good time returning to the K0KU shack, whether it be for a contest, or a little
DXing....brings back those old college days for sure. Its even more fun when we have the chance to get the new generation on this great equipment and watch them strut their stuff. I was truly amazed by the skills of our operators this weekend.
Most of them have only operated HF sporadically, yet when the giant Pile up hit, they mastered it with calm & speed! Thanks for the great opportunity for KU to represent Kansas in this unique qso party. The organizers really came up with some innovative awards to motivate the paper chasers!
Lastly, I invite any young hams who might not have had the opportunity to operate from a power station like K0KU to contact me. We operate contests and qso parties from the shack in Learned Hall regularly, and we are always looking to put a new young ham on the mic.
Actually, I invite anyone who would like to come up to the station, just let me know, I would be glad to put you on the air there also!) 73 KC0BS
OM2VL - 2 QSO parties were on this weekend: Kansas and Ohio. Also YO DX contest on CW/SSB and SCC RTTY contest. During the whole week I was thinking about which QP party to take part in. There were three possibilities 1. Kansas, 2. Ohio, 3. Kansas and Ohio.
KSQP had started 2 hours earlier so I began making QSO on this party. As to make Kansas stations is more difficult I thought I will do it during the Ohio party, so the same time two parties. Because from Kansas I have confirmed only ten counties I paid more attention to Kansas stations. As I took part in two parties, it is not possible to win any of them. I think I missed many mobiles from OH when I made contacts with mobiles from Kansas – backwards was the same.
The QRM from European stations in contests was terrible, so it was hard to find mobiles around 14,040. On 7mhz around 7040 it was impossible to hear any station because of RTTY. Stations from KS was so week, but I made QSO with ALL stations which I heard. Thanks a lot!!!
Despite of all these facts my score is not so bad.
Worked 74 different counties, 29 different 1x1 callsign (missed: W0K, W0N, K0F, K0L)
Thanks for the QSOs. Please your QSLs for my US County award. 73 Laci, OM2VL
SM0BYD HI! This attempt being my very first at your US QSO PARTIES but, NOT the last... THANKS VERY MUCH INDEED! A THRILL and THANKS for all new counties! Setup: REMOTELY OPERATED VIA SK0UX, WITH an RRC-1258 MKII and a TS-480 (90W) and a 12 element LPDA. 73/88 and stay healthy! ENJOY HAM RADIO and have a great Fall! – Hans.
VA3RKM
K2, 5w, vertical. Lots of fun, especially trying to get the needed letters!
VA7KO
I RAN USING CW BUT NO KS STN. PSE QRV FOR BC-QP ALSO.
VE3GSW Congratulations to the organizers of the event and the Kansas amateurs for a most enjoyable QSO Party. Hope to see you again next year. 73 VE3GXW
VE3KZ A great celebration on the air! Congratulations!
W0CEM
FUN! WHAT A VARIETY OF CALLING STATIONS. SOME ESCAPING IRENE, DX WANTING TO WORK ALL OF KS, THOSE COMPLIMENTING KS ON THE UNIQUE CONTEST FORMAT. PROABLY MOST OF ALL WHEN YOU GAVE A STATION THAT SAID I WAS THE LAST LETTER HE NEEDED--THAT WAS EXCITING FOR HIM AND ME TOO!!
W0K/K0RCJ
Hope these come thru.. I had a blast.. I vote we keep KANSAS SUNFLOWER for all QSOP's in the future in some form or another.. If not 1X calls, some other way.. Missed it by one..the "R".. Oh well.. better luck.
W0L/NY0T I enjoyed putting some of the counties on the air for the QSO Party as W0L! I drove and parked – then got on the air! After the QP – was tired and hot – drove 203 miles. I contacted QRZ, in regard to putting a note for W0L on there… It seems that the St. Louis club has a monopoly on W0L! Thanks for the help! Very 73s, Phil.
W0N/K0WJ
The FUN part was it was Ham Radio.....in a contest.....giving out counties. The not so fun part was not feeling very well at the start and getting progressively worse. Got so bad that driving dirt roads, I did not even know that I had blown through Jefferson and Jackson counties without a single contact. Got home and fell into bed. Next year will be better. I had anticipated a great contest as 10 minutes before the start, I worked ZS6CCY in South Africa. Worked several other nice DX contacts DURING the contest, but only ended up with two-thirds of my score from last year. Still, it was fun.
W0S/K0BJ - 20 was weird and short Saturday; lots of loudish KC-area stns. Fun to work ARRL
board buddies K0CA and W9GIG, and DJ7RD who I visited in January. Plus lots of area friends, 2 stns on USS Hornet, etc. Last 45 minutes had QRN from a storm to the east -- it collapsed, produced 70 mph outflow and knocked off power 30 min. after the contest. RTTY contest made Saturday Baudot problematic, and I never got a run generated Sunday. Otherwise things were sweet -- I even earned both certificates after being only halfway to KANSAS and 2/3 to SUNFLOWER, at intermission. Tnx to W0BH and the other organizers/promoters, all the out of state guys, and KX9X for getting this whole all-state QP thing ripping.
W2GXJ Was a great diversion from the hurricane, thanks!
W4IHI
Had great time but unfortunately limited involvement. Look forward to next year.
W4JHC THANK YOU.
W4UCZ
Congratulations to all on a spectacular party!
W5ESE
A LOT MORE D LAYER ABSORPTION ON 40M THIS YEAR. THANKS TO ALL THE KANSAS STATIONS FOR MAKING IT FUN. TEN-TEC OMNI VI @ 5W WITH 100M HORIZONTAL LOOP. I HAD FUN, ALTHOUGH IT WAS HOT HERE. MY SHACK IS MY GARAGE. THANKS A LOT FOR SPONSORING IT.
W5IL
SPELLED BOTH KANSAS AND SUNFLOWER.
W6GMT
SATURDAY ONLY HAD TO WORK SUNDAY.
W7ON
Kansas did it right! It's what a great QSO Party should be! Tremendous planning and execution put all 105 counties on the air at some time, on many bands and modes. I worked over half the counties plus the bonus stations. WOW! In addition to many home stations, numerous mobiles with published routes (and a second op) were usually on the move, occasionally stopping on county lines. Mobiles avoided wasted driving time by running a list (log of the previous county) after crossing into a new county instead
of sorting through bedlam pileups. Smooth operators! And, the KS QP was time split by shutting down overnight to give the mobiles a safety rest. Smart.
For a neat twist, an unusual "prize" certificate was offered to any station working the many KS special event stations where the 1X1 suffixes spell out "KANSAS" and "SUNFLOWER" (State Flower). My log says I did it! Congratulations and thanks to all the sponsors for a fabulous time had by all!!
The Kansas QP was worked simultaneously with the Hawaii and Ohio parties. Whew!
~~~~~~ 73, George W7ON
W8KNO
ONLY HAD SUNDAY TO PLAY. SPENT SATURDAY DRIVING FOR K8MR IN THE OH QSO PARTY.
WA0MHJ
Enjoyed participating this year. Other that the beginning of the contest, the skip was just too long to bust the pile-ups heard on 20 meters. I managed all the letters but one in the first 90 minutes. Happy to catch more than half the counties with the time I had. Top three mobiles here in order were K0S, W0O, and N0U. 73's.
WA5TRX
Had an enjoyable time working the 1x1s My thanks to Bobby K0O for 14 counties. The 1x1s were everywhere. My thanks too for the Ops that gave me both KANSAS & SUNFLOWER 73 & C U nxt Yr.
WD0FAA
VERY FUN CONTEST. MY FIRST STATE QSO PARTY.
WY0I
I had a great time for my 1st KS QOS party, I was mobile low power SSB. I worked the surrounding counties around Thomas. I didn’t contact many in state hams due to the Vertical I was using made a lot of contacts to east and west US. Worked mostly 20 meters and a little 40.