ARRL June VHF Contest - 2020
Call: W4PK
Operator(s): W4PK
Station: W4PK
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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6: 17 9
2:
222:
432:
903:
1.2:
2.3:
3.4:
5.7:
10G:
24G:
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Total: 17 9 Total Score = 153
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
A couple of hours before the contest started N1MM started sending me a bunch of
error messages telling me that its database was "malformed". To make
a very long story short I ended up replacing the hard drive on my ancient
Windows 7 32-bit machine. Fortunately I had cloned a spare hard drive and I was
able to swap it out. I had just finished adding WSJT-X to N1MM when I saw a few
Europeans being decoded. I even started calling one of them but they were all
in the process of fading out. This was about 6:00PM Saturday and I made only 7
contacts with FT8 stations before calling it a night.
Sunday morning I made the mistake of upgrading N1MM to the latest version and
now I started getting error messages again, but this time only a couple of them
having to do with SQlite and something about a "VACUUM". But in the
process of trying to figure out what was going on I lost the 7 QSO's I had
logged last night!
I also found out that in order to use WSJT-X with my IC7800 radio I had to set
the radio type to "NONE" in N1MM in order for WSJT-X to work properly
(i.e, shift the transmit frequency depending on which part of the audio band I
was transmitting). So if I wanted to switch to cw I had to close out WSJT-X and
change from "NONE" to 7800 as the radio type. Otherwise I could not
key the radio! I am sure that there are ways of making the mode switch easier
but I was fast losing interest in solving this problem.
I also noted that WSJT-X does not inform you that you had already worked a
station when using the NA contest mode. I did look in the "settings"
tab and it was set. However, it does work for non-contest contacts, at least
for me.
The older I get the less I know.....
73, Sam W4PK
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