To make a long story short: My NA crash somehow left TWO identically-named
.QDF files in my NA directory (but no NA.EXE!) After using a file manager
to c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y extract those two files, I found my first 386 Q's in
one, the rest in the other. After a LONG afternoon of retyping:
AC1O/4 WALT FL Hours of Operation: 09:55
band QSOs mults
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160 3 2
80 68 30
40 133 39
20 191 45
15 72 27
10 26 15
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TOTAL 493 158 SCORE: 77,894
Club or Team Name: FLORIDA CW CONTEST GROUP
COMMENTS: A series of wicked thunderstorms Saturday afternoon zapped my
carefully-honed game plan and forced me to take all two hours of "off time"
between 1933Z and 2221Z (and conditions during another 90 minutes when I had
to operate no matter what, to get my 10 hours in, were marginal at best).
>From then on it was "scratch and try to catch up"; the 10 meter Sporadic E
was a nice feature Saturday evening, but I then lost more big ground when my
80 meter Inverted-V (at 70') wimped out on 160. (This was also my first NAQP
using a PRO-96 at 80' instead of an R-7 at 33'; despite everything, my score
WAS up 56% from a year ago!) Best part: So many great ops (many of whom
seemed like old friends after all the reflector postings) on the other end
of my Q's. (And congrats to K1ZX for his record FL August CW NAQP score!)
73 de Walt, AC1O/4 "ac1o@delphi.com" "Multipliers Are (again!!)"
>From Robert Penneys <penneys@brahms.udel.edu> Tue Aug 9 00:15:36 1994
From: Robert Penneys <penneys@brahms.udel.edu> (Robert Penneys)
Subject: NERDS team results
Message-ID: <199408082315.TAA08730@brahms.udel.edu>
NAQP CW, N.E.R.D.S. team #1
K7SV 558/199 111,042
K4PQL 533/171 93,024
WA4PGM 512/174 89,088
WN3K 452/152 68,704
K3TLX 294/129 37,926
GO N.E.R.D.S.!!!!!!!
Bob Penneys, WN3K Frankford Radio Club N.E.R.D.S.
Internet: penneys@brahms.udel.edu Work: Ham Radio Outlet, Delaware
U.S. Mail: 12 East Mill Station Drive Newark, DE 19711 U.S.A.
>From Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv@VNET.IBM.COM Tue Aug 9 04:34:04 1994
From: Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv@VNET.IBM.COM (Robert A. Wilson)
Subject: Serial boards
Watch out. You can run out of IRQs very quickly if you get a serial
board that only lets you chose IRQs 2-7. IRQ 5 is often good for the K1EA
DVP. IRQ2 is often used by a mouse. With these devices, you have no
room for COM3 and COM4 unless you use a more expensive board.
You will have much more flexibility if you look for a serial board
that lets you chose IRQs 10-15 for your COM3 and COM4 ports. Yes,
they cost more because they are 16-bit AT boards, not 8-bit XT boards.
On the subject of running out of IRQs, has anyone ever found a BUS
MOUSE card adjustable for IRQ 10 or more? That would allow four COM
ports, the DVP, and a mouse, with IRQ2 left open for a Sound Blaster
or whatever.
73,
Bob, N6TV
>From Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv@VNET.IBM.COM Tue Aug 9 04:38:31 1994
From: Robert A. Wilson" <n6tv@VNET.IBM.COM (Robert A. Wilson)
Subject: Serial Boards
I wanted my message about serial boards to go to CT-USER@MLO.DEC.COM,
but I goofed. Please do not discuss here; send comments to CT-USER or
directly to me.
Sorry.
73,
Bob, N6TV
N6TV@VNET.IBM.COM
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