Call: WO1N Country: United States
Mode: CW Category: Multi Single
BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES
160 10 8 0.8 6
80 27 74 2.7 13
40 73 238 3.3 56
20 135 219 1.6 107
15 23 28 1.2 13
10 0 0 0.0 0
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Totals 268 567 2.1 195 = 110,565
Operator List: NF1A, WO1N
Equipment Description: FT1000D, R7, 160-40M trap dipole
Club Affiliation: Yankee Clipper Contest Club
Story:
This was a small effort to give deserving YCCC's a place to operate, even
if only for a short while. Art, NF1A showed up and put in about 3 hrs
Friday night. Conditions weren't bad at the start but by the time I
pulled the plug Friday night I could tell Saturday was going to be ugly.
Early Sat. morning I pulled a real boner. I decided to upgrade to CT
V9.37.
Very ugly. As soon as I hit a key to send a message (F1 through F7), the
CW would lock-up, sending a continous tone. This is using the parallel
port
for keying on a laptop. I have now encountered this same problem on two
different laptops, using the parallel port/DOS 6.2/CT V9.37. I was able to
rollback to V9.27 where the keying works fine. I didn't notice all my
time/dates got munged until I was preparing the log for submittal.
Fortunately I didn't make a lot of Q's and it was fixed up via Alt-F.
Just as I rolled back to V9.27 I got a visit from K1MRI, his first
exposure
to an HF contest. I spent about an hr with him S&Ping while explaining
what
I was doing/hearing etc. He didn't operate, but I think we might have a
future contester here.
Sat. was a bust with T-ball games, yard work and in-law visits. I'd grab
a few q's here and there as I would pass through the shack.
Sunday wasn't much better, but fortunately the weather took a major down
turn in the Northeast. I was able to work the last few hours since I
couldn't do the yardwork thing anymore (breaks my heart....not). The bands
seemed to open up a bit better, also. As always, good fun.
Ken
WO1N
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