ARRL 10-Meter Contest
Call: W2UP
Operator(s): W2UP
Station: W2UP
Class: SO CW HP
QTH: PA
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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CW: 545 64
SSB:
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Total: 545 64 Total Score = 139,776
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
This isn't my kind of contest - 10m with no sunspots. I like DX contests with
big rates, not stateside snorefests. However, once I got started, I put in
more time than I expected. The band was so quiet, with plenty of room for
everyone, so it wasn't hard to stay on. During slow periods, I set the Auto-CQ
and caught up on some reading.
It's always interesting how propagation changes from minute to minute on 10m.
Pipeline to MN one minute, FL the next (actually FL a lot), and so on. In the
last hour was surprised to pick up NM (N2IC where were you?) and AZ for 2 new
mults. Other than a 20 minute opening to CA, during which I also worked UT and
NV, but nothing in the Pac NW. Just about everything else was east of the
Rockies, including no CO (or ND) contact. Only state I missed in the east was
ME, which is not surprising after the ice storm. I was surprised to work a
couple of NH guys.
Only EU worked was F5IN, who was my first QSO in the contest on Sat. morning.
In AF, I worked an EA8 and Z29KM (answered my CQ!). No ZS. A few SA and
Caribbs, and also had VP8NO answer my CQ.
After having Writelog malfunction in CQWW CW with random periods of garbage CW,
I switched to N1MM for this one, which worked great. Only problem I had was
when in the smart-Enter key mode, and using the paddle, I tried to save the
QSOs without transmitting with Shift-Enter, which is the way it's done in WL.
Unfortunately, I probably lost 10-15 QSOs before I realized they weren't being
saved (and read the Help file to find Alt-Enter is the correct way.) Some guys
I worked again, and some refused (QSO B4.) Unfortunately, some will get dinged
with a N-I-L. Sorry guys.
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