NV6O cw sprint

[EDWOODS at PACTIME1.SDCRC.PacBell.COM]

I'm afraid my XQ is very low this time.  My family let me quit yard work
at 2100Z so I could put a new run of coax to the 75M vee and then make
new cw pigtails.

My 11 year old daughter cooked dinner - chopped hotdogs in canned chile
with grated cheddar cheese.  Nummmmm.

The Toshiba and Titan were placed on the operating table and hooked into
the 765 with an hour to go before start.  I eyeballed the 204BAS to make
sure that it was pointed at New Jersey, not Panama.  I turned on the
lights in the shack so I wouldn't have to get up later.

In fact, my wife was so helpful that she removed some household
paperwork from underneath the laptop's power cable at about 0030Z.  Yep,
there went the ac.  Oh well, just reload - 2 minutes.

Three hours of vfoA/B and CQ and tune later, I attempted to change cw
sending speed while simultaneously changing the partial check window.  I
think the keystrokes were:  ALT-f10-f8.  Not positive.  Got dumped to
c:>.  Did not reboot since this was at 0352Z.

How do I remember 0352Z?  Simple, NA would not use any other timestamp.
Also, cw memories in f1 to f7 started sending in cyrillic.

Reboot at 0358 helped the program, didn't help the score.

209 X 34.  Getting there.

OK, time for the N4BO signal survey.  Was I:
        1       So far down in the mud that you tuned by me (puny)
        2       Detectable only when the freq was clear for 5 khz
                (wimpy)
        3       Just another sprint station but sounding confused
                (dopey)
        4       Loud but not answering calls ( deaf)
        5       Loud but out of sync ( clueless (#))

Great fun.  CU on SSB.

Eric, NV6O
edwoods at pacbell.com

>From jholly at hposl42.cup.hp.com (Jim Hollenback)  Mon Sep 12 19:18:47 1994
From: jholly at hposl42.cup.hp.com (Jim Hollenback) (Jim Hollenback)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 11:18:47 -0700
Subject: the /125 thing
References: <199409121536.PAA06737 at eco.twg.com>
Message-ID: <9409121118.ZM1612 at hpwsmjh.cup.hp.com>

On Sep 12,  8:32am, zf8bs at twg.com wrote:
> Subject: Re: the /125 thing
> See the trick?  I don't have to listen to the pile scream again, 'cause
> I've got a nice long list I made that I can "stand by for".  

sure glad this the contest reflector. Mention of a list on the DX
reflector and the flames would be flying for at least three weeks.

> 
> Like I said, these guys had the biggest piles.  How else could you ever get
> such a pile going from the rare country of North Texas???
> 
could it be that the pilee's are so use to trying to get on the list
they automatically jump in and start shouting at the vagest hint 
that a list is being taken?

But then again, I decided to work mine all on cw so I did not hear
the fun on the other part of the band. Seemed like the EC's and all
were doing a good job on the piles I worked. The strangest thing I 
found was that there was a HUGE pileup on one guy, and a KC or two
away another one was saying 'anyone, please!'. After wandering through
the band working the ones with no/little pileup, I went back through and
the big pileups were gone, or greatly reduced. It was an interesting
and fun thing.

Will you take last two for CQWW, Bruce? I'll program the DVK now just
in case.

Jim, 'DELTA-MIKE, I have your info', WA6SDM
jholly at cup.hp.com