ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: K7NV
Operator(s): K7NV
Station: K7NV
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Next State East of S
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 100
40: 282
20: 315
15: 358
10: 208
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Total: 1263 Sections = 80 Total Score = 202,080
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
It was kind of exciting to get the little station fixed and up and running after
a couple years of abscence & neglect! Tons of stuff got fixed in the 4 days I
took of from making a living to fix it (there's not enough time & bandwidth to
try to explain all of that!).......
Too bad I didn't really get it ALL exactly right!
I decided to finally take the plunge and retire my trusty old TS930's & put my
two new radios into the station....one FT1000MP Mark V (thanks to my Dad,
W6KUT,SK), it had only been sitting on the floor of my office for 2 yrs, and a
FT1000MP (Many thanks to N6RO for a "good friends" exchange for some hours on
towers, etc...!!!).
Now, that I had these radios on hand, with no more places to park them....I had
to do something to get them out of my office and truck!
I think I like these radios! I know everyone else is running all the latest
best gear.....I'm always a decade or two behind everyone else in that
department.
The contest went pretty ok for me into Sunday morning.....but then the wheels
seemed to fall off!
I expect one of the reasons was that I encountered one of my stoopid oversights
thrashing to rebuild the station & putting the MP's into the station with my old
tried & true homebrew audio switching system built for the 930's back in 1985.
It all went totally wonky and I had to abandon the headphones, and spent all
day Sunday doing SO2R listening to everyone thru the MP's native speakers! Some
of you guys sound pretty good that way ;-)
Y'all ought to try it sometime, it's a real hoot, but not terribly efficient!
I know what that problem is all about now....just one more thing to fix....but
since I "played hooky" last weekend with you guys, who knows when I'll ever
get around to it ;-)
Assisted Living In the Contest:
I signed up for the Assisted category, because maybe it would be better for
me.....I was connected off & on to the N7TR Telnet connection all weekend. My
wireless laptop is not connected to my logging computer, so there is no "click
& call" here. I was so busy operating most of the time my laptop just went to
sleep all the time and disconnected from the telnet.
I never made a single qso, or found a mult from it! All the mults called me,
except PR, which I found on the second radio after midnight Saturday.
But, I did use the Assistance to check the solar conditions, and go find others
to see how far I was behind them to motivate me to go work my headphoneless SO2R
extraveganza more earnestly.....
Thanks to all for the very entertaining contest time!
It's good to have the little K7NV experiment back on the air, and get to use it
again!
Station:
Same old little low antennas as shown at k7nv.com, but they were all working
again ;-)
73, Kurt
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