CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
Call: W4ATL
Operator(s): W4ATL
Station: W4ATL
Class: SOAB(A) HP
QTH:
Operating Time (hrs): 14
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Zones Countries
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160: 21 8 11
80:
40: 87 20 54
20: 123 20 68
15: 69 19 44
10: 20 6 14
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Total: 320 73 191 Total Score = 227,040
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
Equipment: Orion, K2, Alpha 374, A4S Tribander @ 50', 40 Dipole @ 45',
160M Inv.L
This is always a very frustrating contest for me since most of the
people on the band I can't work for credit. I had hoped an amplifier
would make the contest more fun. I think I was able to get through
about 3 pileups, but the rest was useless. I had hoped to run some on
20 and 15 but only got a few callers. It gave me a lot of time to S&P
on the second radio. I was most successful running to SA on 15. Thanks
to the 10 PYs and LUs for coming back to my lonely CQ.
I tried N1MM logger for the first time, since the version of Writelog I
had did not support the Orion and I did not feel like shelling out more
money for it. It took a while for it to key CW with the Orion. I had
to change a setting on the Orion "PTT on CW=None". Once that was taken
care, it worked great. The S&P features are different than with WL so
it took some time to get used to it. I like the other features such as
tuning away from a dupe will automagically put it in the band map and
clear the screen. I had to keep telling myself to not hit Alt-W all the
time. No need to do that any more. It is going to take me a while to
digest the Help file and see what other neat hidden features it has to
make life good.
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