[3830] CQ160 SSB WA3EKL Multi-Op HP

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                    CQ 160-Meter Contest, SSB - 2023

Call: WA3EKL
Operator(s): WA3EKL K6ZO KB3VQC K3MTR W1TRT N3DPB
Station: WA3EKL

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: SEVERN, MD
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 433  State/Prov = 46  Countries = 17  Total Score = 67,032

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WEEK CAN MAKE IN PROPAGATION.  LAST WEEK 160 WAS MUCH BETTER
FROM THIS QTH.  I NORMALLY REPORT NO EQUIPMENT FAILURES OR COMPUTER ISSUES.  
HOWEVER THIS TIME I CANNOT DO THAT! WHEN THE SECOND OPERATOR RELIEVED THE FIRST
OP, IN THE FIRST 2 HOURS OF THE CONTEST, HE MADE ONE Q AND WINDOWS DELETED COM
PORT 1 THEN REINSTALL ANOTHER SPECIAL COM PORT 1 WHICH WOULD NOT COMMUNICATE
WITH THE RADIO.  I HAD SET UP THE CONTEST ON TWO SEPARATE SYSTEMS SO WHEN THIS
SYSTEM WENT DOWN WE TRANSFERRED THE DATA TO THE SECOND SYSTEM AND KEPT ON GOING.
 WE DID SOLVE THE COM PORT ISSUE LATER BUT STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHY WINDOWS
SUDDENLY CHANGED THE COM PORT.  

OUR BEVERAGES SERVED US WELL AND EACH WE HAD A GREAT TIME TESTING OUR HEARING
LIMITS ON SOME OF THE DX STATIONS. 
 
THE FOOD WAS OUTSTANDING AS USUAL DUE TO THE COOKING OF WA3EKL/N3DPB'S
GRANDDAUGHTERS AND N3DPB.

WE THANK ALL WHO CAME BACK TO US AND LOOK FORWARD TO ARRL DX PHONE NEXT WEEKEND.


73 FROM OUR CREW, WA3EKL K6ZO KB3VQC K3MTR W1TRT N3DPB


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