[3830] IARU W2IRT SOAB(A)CW HP

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IARU HF World Championship

Call: W2IRT
Operator(s): W2IRT
Station: W2IRT

Class: SOAB(A)CW HP
QTH: 
Operating Time (hrs): 8.6

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs  Zones  HQ Mults
-------------------------------------
  160:                           
   80:                           
   40:                           
   20:  314            34      44
   15:                           
   10:                           
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Total:  314     0      34      44  Total Score = 78,700

Club: Frankford Radio Club

Comments:

Well, I screwed myself royally. I didn't read the rules, didn't pre-configure
the station correctly, got no sleep beforehand, slept in at the start and just
couldn't concentrate. 

I had planned to do a CW-only entry, which I normally don't do--I'm usually
SOAB(A) Phone HP. I failed to read the rules correctly, and, not realizing
there's no such thing as a single band entry, I limited myself to 20m CW only.
I did OK, but with 20m sucking eggs to Europe I didn't have a lot of takers.
Had a few runs but mostly S&P.

Had no end of computer problems. N1MM+ locks up and keeps sending strings of
dits or my call over and over and over at random. Radio and antennas were OK,
but logging was an absolute nightmare. I will have to fix this before CQWW but
I have NO clue what's wrong or where to start looking. I have 20-30 ferrites in
the system now already. It doesn't do it in my general-purpose logger, just
N1MM+.

A line of severe weather knocked me off the air for 2 hours last night and when
I got back I didn't have much propagation. Glad to see the end of this one.
Lessons learned for next time.


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