ARRL 160-Meter Contest
Call: K1WHS
Operator(s): K1WHS
Station: K1WHS
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Maine
Operating Time (hrs): 16
Summary:
Total: QSOs = 908 Sections = 73 Countries = 37 Total Score = 235,400
Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Comments:
I had a weird problem on Friday night. I started to notice that I was messing up
entering the calls. I then concentrated on the computer screen and saw that the
cursor would jump around between boxes at a random rate. For example, I would
enter the call and TAB to the next box. After about 2 seconds the cursor jumped
back to the call box. Rather than operate in a nice 160 contest and enjoy
myself, I was digging into why the computer was not working properly. I finally
got rid of the offending laptop and went and found another laptop. Then I
started over and had to deal with two logs. I did manage to merge the files
eventually, then went and got some sleep. I did not work much on Friday night.
I had better luck on Saturday. I tried some CQing to improve my CW skills. I
got up to about 120/hour. Not sure how accurate I was. Conditions seemed great,
but my country totals do not show it. I think I missed a lot when I bailed out
on Friday. I did work four Asiatic Russians on Saturday, but missed many other
countries that are normally easy to work. My USA beverage dveloped some RFI
problem. I heard music and the noise level was up 25 dB making it impossible to
use. I need to figure that out soon! Rig: K3 with new synthesizers, KW amp,
shunt fed vertical.
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