[3830] Rus DX K2PO SO Mixed LP

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                    Russian DX Contest

Call: K2PO
Operator(s): K2PO
Station: K2PO

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: Oregon
Operating Time (hrs): 23:20
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Countries  Oblasts
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  160:    7      0        3         0
   80:   55      0       11         3
   40:  127      5       35         6
   20:  277     15       55        59
   15:  167     19       40        11
   10:   13     10       14         0
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Total:  646     49      158        79  Total Score = 870,975

Club: Willamette Valley DX Club

Comments:

Well that was interesting.

Murphy struck early with N1MM band maps that were agonizingly slow to update as
I tuned the rigs.  After multiple restarts and reboots to try and set things
right, I finally posted my problem to the N1MM reflector. A short time later,
ON5ZO reported similar symptoms.  Tom, N1MM, was monitoring the reflector
traffic, asked a few diagnostic questions, disappeared briefly (while he coded
a fix), and then released an updated version of the N1MM program that solved
our problem.  How's that for amazing (and free) customer support?!!

My other N1MM issue (self-inflected) didn't resolve as satisfactorily.

In the rush of the contest, in trying to correct a typing mistake in a logged
QSO serial number, I did something (I still don't know what) that messed up the
Sent QSO serial number counter.  Instead of sending serial #278, the program
sent #971, and started incrementing from there.  I tried, repeatedly, to set
things right (e.g., by editing the last QSO number, hoping it would increment
from the new value), but no luck.  I posted, again, to the N1MM reflector,
asking how to fix the problem.  No response was received - except for a
friendly comment "Don't �" just pretend you are a big gun and keep
going!"  So that's what ended up happening.  I gave out serial numbers
that put me in the realm of CN2R, and the big multi-ops.  (The huge numbers
slowed me down, as most stations needed multiple repeats to copy my surprising
serial numbers.)  So, for the curious, I did *not* have 1393 QSOs as a low
power, west coast single op!

Otherwise it was a fine contest.  I'll see you next weekend as AD7JP.

73,

/Bill, K2PO
Portland, OR


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