[3830] FT RUp NN7SS(K6UFO) SO Unlimited QRP

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                    FT Roundup - 2019

Call: NN7SS
Operator(s): K6UFO
Station: NN7SS

Class: SO Unlimited QRP
QTH: WA
Operating Time (hrs): 4
Remote Operation

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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   80:     
   40:    3
   20:   94
   15:    3
   10:     
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Total:  100  State/Prov = 30  Countries = 7  Total Score = 3,700

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Comments:

I started at 1800 to get setup. I had forgotten a lot since WW DIGI contest. 
I had it setup in 30 minutes, but had a hard time getting QSOs started. RBN 
heard me on 10m, and there were stations like North Dakota, but no answers. 
So, try 15m. A couple stations in the recommended contest sub-band, but 
WAY more people on the usual FT8 frequency.  A move to 20m brought 
even more action. About half were "late callers", i.e., no answer,
then 
a minute or two later completing the QSO. Seems a little crazy but if I got 
exchange info, they're in the log. It seemed I had to intervene a lot to get a 
QSO in log.  

After an hour, I noticed Mults weren't being identified correctly, and I was 
calling Dupes! I paused to ponder what was mis-configured... and tried fixing 
all the usual suspects. Eventually I exported a ADIF and saw the mode on 
some QSOs was "SSB" (which was the rig setting) and others were
"FT8."
Changing them all to "FT8" and importing to a new log fixed the dupe
marking, 
but it would still enter some new QSOs as SSB.  I never found a simple solution

for this in the software, sorry if I duped you.

Then I got distracted by lunch, a walk, some cat videos on the internet, ... and

didn't get back on for a couple hours. The new config settings seemed to work, 
but my favorite click became "Log QSO As-Is" to get finished and move
on.
Lots of JA activity in my late afternoon (23z), good ears and great operators!
20m faded away west about 0130z, so I went to 40m to get me to 100 Qs.

Yes, I know there's no QRP category. I just have more satisfaction making 
QSOS that way. 

Thanks for the fun.

NN7SS (K6UFO)

Remote to Elecraft K3 at 5 watts
10m, 15m, 20m: GXP 3 element yagi at 72 feet
40m: GXP 2 element yagi at 72 feet
Writelog and DigiRite software


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