IARU HF World Championship
Call: W2IRT
Operator(s): W2IRT
Station: W2IRT
Class: SOAB(A)CW HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 8.6
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs Zones HQ Mults
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160:
80:
40:
20: 314 34 44
15:
10:
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Total: 314 0 34 44 Total Score = 78,700
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
Well, I screwed myself royally. I didn't read the rules, didn't pre-configure
the station correctly, got no sleep beforehand, slept in at the start and just
couldn't concentrate.
I had planned to do a CW-only entry, which I normally don't do--I'm usually
SOAB(A) Phone HP. I failed to read the rules correctly, and, not realizing
there's no such thing as a single band entry, I limited myself to 20m CW only.
I did OK, but with 20m sucking eggs to Europe I didn't have a lot of takers.
Had a few runs but mostly S&P.
Had no end of computer problems. N1MM+ locks up and keeps sending strings of
dits or my call over and over and over at random. Radio and antennas were OK,
but logging was an absolute nightmare. I will have to fix this before CQWW but
I have NO clue what's wrong or where to start looking. I have 20-30 ferrites in
the system now already. It doesn't do it in my general-purpose logger, just
N1MM+.
A line of severe weather knocked me off the air for 2 hours last night and when
I got back I didn't have much propagation. Glad to see the end of this one.
Lessons learned for next time.
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