[3830] WPX CW K5KG SO(A)AB HP

[k5kg at arrl.net]

                     CQWW WPX - CW
                    
Call: K5KG
Operator(s): K5KG
Station: K5KG

Class: SO(A)AB HP
QTH: Florida
Operating Time (hrs): 36
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs   Prefixes
-------------------------------
  160:      1
   80:     52
   40:    335
   20:    497
   15:    711
   10:    471
-------------------------------
Total:   2067 x    737  =  4,266,493

Club: Florida Contest Group

Comments:

This was my first major contest [other than the ever popular FQP!] from the new 
Florida QTH.

Antennas:
160 - Inv L
 80 - Inv V
 40 - 2L EF240X @73'
 20, 15, 10 - C31XR @61'
 10 - 6L F12 @32' fixed south

Rig:
IC 781 & IC4KL - 1kw
Timewave 599ZX

At this new QTH I have been bothered by local noise that comes and goes.  
However, this weekend the noise was there with a never-let-up vengeance,  
forcing me to use the radio's noise blanker and every imaginable feature of the 
599zx to work through the bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.  The noise was most bothersome on 
15 meters, many times making the weak ones unworkable.

Despite the noise - which I will be on a mission to locate this week - the 
contest was excellent.  Conditions, although not great, were ok.  10 meters was 
fun in the late afternoon when I pointed the antenna into the sun to work 
Europeans and even a loud 4X.  For the most part, I found Asians to be pretty 
weak. I only managed to hear and work the B5 one time, and I did not have any 
good JA runs.  I was pleased to find contest manners to be outstanding.  The 
few times I had to tell stations "QRL pse QSY", I got no resistance.  And I 
tried to do the same.

This was my first contest using DX Telnet with Write Log.  The Telnet spots 
contained many call sign mistakes, especially whith 6Y1A, who was spoted time 
and time again as BY1A!  The FG/russians were invariable posted incorrectly, as 
were "o" and "0" in call signs.  Also, having world-wide spots is not a good 
thing - such as, the JT1 being posted by a JA!

Write Log's way of handling spots leaves a lot to be desired, and I wish the 
developers would study how CT handles spots and use the same methods.  There is 
no way of calling a spot off the list with a ctrl- or alt- command; it requires 
a mouse click [with the same hand that is using the paddle].  And I could find 
no way of deleting known incorrect spot [such as BY1A] off the spot window.  If 
anyone knows solutions, please let me know.  At one point I had to reboot the 
computer which caused Write Log's time-on, time-off counter to reset.  This too 
is not a good thing, and I will make a request that that be changed.

And then there is always next year!  Tnx everyone for the Q's.

73, George, K5KG

P.S.  Look for us in from J75KG in IARU again this year.






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