Russian DX Contest
Call: K2PO
Operator(s): K2PO
Station: K2PO
Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 23:20
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Countries Oblasts
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160: 7 0 3 0
80: 55 0 11 3
40: 127 5 35 6
20: 277 15 55 59
15: 167 19 40 11
10: 13 10 14 0
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Total: 646 49 158 79 Total Score = 870,975
Club: Willamette Valley DX Club
Comments:
Well that was interesting.
Murphy struck early with N1MM band maps that were agonizingly slow to update as
I tuned the rigs. After multiple restarts and reboots to try and set things
right, I finally posted my problem to the N1MM reflector. A short time later,
ON5ZO reported similar symptoms. Tom, N1MM, was monitoring the reflector
traffic, asked a few diagnostic questions, disappeared briefly (while he coded
a fix), and then released an updated version of the N1MM program that solved
our problem. How's that for amazing (and free) customer support?!!
My other N1MM issue (self-inflected) didn't resolve as satisfactorily.
In the rush of the contest, in trying to correct a typing mistake in a logged
QSO serial number, I did something (I still don't know what) that messed up the
Sent QSO serial number counter. Instead of sending serial #278, the program
sent #971, and started incrementing from there. I tried, repeatedly, to set
things right (e.g., by editing the last QSO number, hoping it would increment
from the new value), but no luck. I posted, again, to the N1MM reflector,
asking how to fix the problem. No response was received - except for a
friendly comment "Don't �" just pretend you are a big gun and keep
going!" So that's what ended up happening. I gave out serial numbers
that put me in the realm of CN2R, and the big multi-ops. (The huge numbers
slowed me down, as most stations needed multiple repeats to copy my surprising
serial numbers.) So, for the curious, I did *not* have 1393 QSOs as a low
power, west coast single op!
Otherwise it was a fine contest. I'll see you next weekend as AD7JP.
73,
/Bill, K2PO
Portland, OR
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