North American QSO Party, RTTY
Call: WX4TM
Operator(s): WX4TM
Station: WX4TM
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: AL
Operating Time (hrs): 5.5
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 90 33
40: 134 39
20: 132 39
15: 0 0
10: 0 0
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Total: 346 111 Total Score = 38,406
Club:
Team: SO1R
Comments:
Mercy sakes alive! Is the moon still full? The gremlins were sure with me in
this one. Talk about blowing it but good! A series of operator errors,
equipment failures, WL goof ups (mine) and pure bad luck led to the worse
contest start I've ever had. By the time I got it right, I gave up on antenna
switching problems with the Six Pak; re-cabled antennas to the DX Engineering
switch box and later thought it was going bad when I discovered the plug had
pulled out a bit apparently when I moved it to a more convenient location;
thought I had sound card problems; thought I had Rigblaster problems; thought I
had radio problems; thought I had mmtty.ini problems; and finally uninstalled
and reinstalled WL twice (because I didn't do it right the first time). The
biggest problem apparently was a corrupt WL.INI file causing MMTTY to go nuts
(intermittent no receive due to overflow) which I feel sure I probably caused
but sure don't know how. As it turned out, I only got, then lost, 28 QSO's btwn
contest start and 0030Z (6 1/2 hrs of pure unadulterated po'd frustration).
After that, it was smooth sailing for the next 5 1/2 hrs. I apologize to my
SO1R team members and to those whose QSO's I lost for not being 'up and ready'
for this one. I hope I can say I learned some simple but very valuable lessons.
Ah well, I guess thats what happens when one gets over confident and doesn't
check, check, and re-check before contest start. 73 de Tom WX4TM
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