ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: K8ND
Operator(s): K8ND
Station: K8ND
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: OHIO
Operating Time (hrs): 22:00
Summary:
Band QSOs
------------
160: 0
80: 429
40: 326
20: 119
15: 84
10: 100
------------
Total: 1058 Sections = 83 Total Score = 175,628
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
It's been a long while since I operated Sweepstakes for more than 200 QSOs. I
used this contest as a way to get familiar with N1MM Logger+, which I will need
to use at PJ2T for CQWW CW since someone made a decision to scrap Writelog.
In addition to the things I already dislike about N1MM+ (I have a growing
list), it crashed *twice* during the contest period, locking up and requiring a
full PC reboot to recover each time. It dumped error logs each time, which I
assume that someone will want to examine.
I didn't really have an offtime strategy, as I wasn't planning on more than a
few hours of serious operating. I kept setting a series of small goals, and
that ended up with 22 hours of operating (and rebooting my PC and N1MM).
I found just before the contest that the 20m part of my KT-34XA tribander would
present a high SWR on keying peaks at powers over 800W, kicking the amp offline,
but when I put a tuner in front of it, it behaved well enough to use at full
power. I needed it to work VY1AAA for the Sweep!
Long ago, when I set up this station for Sweepstakes, I included some NVIS
antennas for 40 and 20 meters, and those long-gone antennas were missed this
weekend!
Radio: Elecraft K3/100
Amp: Alpha 91B (With new tubes!)
Antennas:
80m: Inv-V @ 65-feet
40m: 2-elements @ 75-feet
20/15/10: KT-34XA @ 70-feet
Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
______________________________________________
3830 mailing list
3830@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/3830
|