[3830] ARRLDX CW TI5KD(N2BA) SOSB/15 HP

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                    ARRL DX Contest, CW

Call: TI5KD
Operator(s): N2BA
Station: TI5KD

Class: SOSB/15 HP
QTH: Costa Rica
Operating Time (hrs): 

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:           
   80:           
   40:           
   20:           
   15: 2374    59
   10:           
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Total: 2374    59  Total Score = 420,198

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

I also made 20 QSOs on 7Mhz, so if you worked me there, it will be in my log.

Rig: IC-756 Pro II, Linear KW.

Antenna: 3 element quad.

Thanks to Keko (TI5KD) for letting me use his marvelous rental station, and to
Costa Rica for being such a wonderful country. I will be back and I will try
harder next time - I do not think I've made maximum use of this amazing
station. 

I too noticed lots of dupes on Sunday, and while I have experienced this in
many prior contests, I also wonder if someone was spotting me incorrectly,
either intentionally or otherwise. If people have me in the log with a bad call
they picked up off of a spot, they do not have my sympathies.

My rig control crapped out on my old windows XP computer (also, halfway through
the contest I lost my sound driver too, and I have no idea where it went!).
Eventually got rig control working again. The discussion about requiring
computerized logs that include frequency is an interesting one, but I'm not
sure I would support it, given my problems. (BTW, I worked the entire contest
on essentially 2 frequencies, one below 21025 (lost it) and 21033.) 

I also wonder if there is a way for me to log stations in N1MM that are not in
the contest (such as DX) and have them not count; perhaps not even be exported
in cabrillo. Some times I worked DX because they were enough of a pest if I
didn't, and other times just because the rates were slow. Does anyone have a
workaround? Perhaps I should log everyone /W7 in Wyoming and then prune them
out later?

73,

Brooke, N2BA


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