CQ WPX RTTY Contest
Call: KG4IGC
Operator(s): KG4IGC
Station: KG4IGC
Class: SOAB LP
Class Overlay: TB-Wires
QTH: South Carolina
Operating Time (hrs): 12:07
Summary:
Band QSOs
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80: 16
40: 69
20: 59
15: 12
10: 0
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Total: 156 Prefixes = 107 Total Score = 34,882
Club: Swamp Fox Contest Group
Comments:
Unfortunately, my efforts in this contest were minimal. Starting Friday night,
my Windows 10 machine started crashing and would not stop for a day and a half.
Any time that I tried to do anything, I would get the blue screen of death and
the error code KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. At one point, I was able to access
the internet briefly before the machine crashed again and saw that this error
was common with Windows 7 & 8. The "fix" was to update your
graphics card driver, of which I did. Unfortunately, this was not the answer,
the computer continued to crash, only now I got the following errors:
SYSTEM_SERVICES_EXCEPTION, SLEEPSTUDY_HELPER.SYS, STOREPOINT.SYS, &
DXMNS2.SYS, all preceded with the KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED error. After
pulling my hair out for almost two Days, I installed a program that I bought
many years ago called Registry Booster 2010. I was quite surprised that it went
right out and found that there was a current version so after doing the updates
I rean it on my machine. This program found over 1700 errors in my registry and
over 700 operator errors and fixed them all. After that, I was able to boot my
machine again without crashing. While I am unsure if I actually fixed anything,
I was able to finish out the contest. Unfortunately, at some point while the
machine was crashing, it did a system restore and totally wiped out N1MM, so I
lost all my settings and logs. I had about 50 some odd contacts before the
crashes began. Knock on wood, my machine has been running for a day and a half
with no issues, hopefully it will continue this trend.
Rig: Yaesu FT-DX3000
PWR: 100 watts
ANTS:272\' Horizontal Loop. Super Loops X2 20/40 & 12/15/30, 80 Meter
Inverted V
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