CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY
Call: W4PK
Operator(s): W4PK
Station: W4PK
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 29.8
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts State/Prov DX Zones
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80: 147 242 35 24 12
40: 369 804 45 48 14
20: 395 944 40 58 24
15: 731 1987 33 64 19
10: 571 1569 21 55 19
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Total: 2213 5546 174 249 88 Total Score = 2,834,006
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Wow! 10 and 15 Meters was hopping on both days! What a difference from the
SARTG contest a month ago where I couldn't make one QSO on 10 meters and they
were hard to come by on 15.
Highlight of the contest was being called by VU2KNS toward the end of the
contest, which is always a though path from here.
This score is a personal best for me and I do thank the good conditions and of
course all of you for allowing me to accomplish this score.
I did have a problem with my logging software where several times during the
contest I would get a 'Run Time Error 91'. This of course caused the program
to terminate. This invariably happened while I had a nice run going and I
apologize to those of you I had left hanging when this happened. I did go
through and reload the full version of the program and the update that I had
used back during the CQ WPX contest. I had no problem with it then so this
makes me think something has changed on my computer since that time.
I elected to not use packet this year as I have found that I couldn't break the
pileups that they would cause on semi-rare stations. Somebody must have spotted
me on 20M toward the end of the contest as I had bedlam when I finally showed up
on that band after spending all day on 10 & 15M and started CQing. Of course
this was one of the times that my logging program decided to hang.
It seems to me that I had more than the usual number of dupes when I was
running this year. I logged them regardless as I know that sometimes people
forget to press the right key on their logging program.
But overall I had lots of fun and didn't lose too much sleep. About 30 hours
is about all that I can do these days.
73, Sam W4PK
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