North American QSO Party, RTTY - February
Call: W4PK
Operator(s): W4PK
Station: W4PK
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs): 8:56
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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80: 162 34
40: 185 38
20: 135 27
15: 64 11
10: 0 0
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Total: 546 110 Total Score = 60,060
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team: PVRC CVA
Comments:
I had a hard disk crash back at the begging of this month, and it has taken me 3
weeks of data recovery, reinstalling programs, sound cards, drivers, etc. to get
most everything back to working again. The biggest problem I had was with N1MM+
as it said my database was corrupt. After reading through the help files I was
able to repair it with a program called SQLite Expert Professional. I finally
finished repairing it this last Friday evening.
I use SO2R where I right-clicked in the DI windows to select which radio to
enable for transmitting messages. Left-clicking on call signs, names and
sections allowed me to keep both radios going sequentially, and on a couple of
occasions I even used call stacking.
However, every hour of two the N1MM+ screen would go dim and I would get a
message that basically said that the "Windows operating system has
encountered a problem and that it needs to close". Fortunately the log was
not affected but it did take me a few minutes to get it up and running again. I
had intended to operate for the 10 hours allocated but the last time it happened
I just called it quits. I was monitoring CPU usage and I did note that normally
it was in the 15-30% range but it would peak up to 100% when this happened.
However, several other times it would peak up but N1MM+ kept on working. For
those of you I had left hanging I do deeply apologize!
Early in the contest when I noted that propagation on 15M to the West was decent
I did try calling CQ on 10M, but nothing. 15M went dead soon after.
In summary, I am very grateful that I was able to recover my computer. It is an
old Dell 755 OptiPlex 32-bit machine running W7 and it is equipped with a real
4-port RS232 card that works great for RTTY! It just has to hang on for a few
more years as I go through the process of down-sizing, selling our farm and
moving into town.
73, Sam W4PK
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