[Fourlanders] Fwd: [VHFcontesting] KM4KMU FM Category + Some N1MM problems

Wed Sep 12 09:31:57 EDT 2018

Wow! Guess I will have to up my game for next June's VHF contest (I don't
usually do January). Need to put a 70cm pre-amp on my wish list now.

Ryan
WG4I

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 7:50 AM Ron Rogers <ww8rr at charter.net> wrote:

> Thanks Sherman,
>
> His post  also got my attention.... but I too, assumed he should have
> logged mobiles as /R
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> Ron
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> WW8RR
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> *From:* Fourlanders [mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Sherman Banks
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:33 AM
> *To:* 'Fourlanders'
> *Subject:* Re: [Fourlanders] Fwd: [VHFcontesting] KM4KMU FM Category +
> Some N1MM problems
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> N1MM calculated score doesn’t matter. Only the analysis of the generated
> Cabrillo file by the ARRL log checkers matters. He should have known that
> he needed to mark mobile stations with /R but now he knows.
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> *From:* Fourlanders [mailto:fourlanders-bounces at contesting.com] *On
> Behalf Of *John Kludt
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2018 6:21 AM
> *To:* Fourlanders <fourlanders at contesting.com>
> *Subject:* [Fourlanders] Fwd: [VHFcontesting] KM4KMU FM Category + Some
> N1MM problems
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> Folks,
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> Interesting post.
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> Johnny
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *John Young via VHFcontesting* <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
> Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 10:47 PM
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] KM4KMU FM Category + Some N1MM problems
> To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
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> John YoungKM4KMUFM Only CategoryOperated From Reddish Knob FM08, deep
> inside the National Radio Quiet Zone (with permission) at 4,400 ft.
> Conditions were fantastic.  I was inside of light clouds for most of the
> contest and it misted or rained most of the time but that also put me on
> top of a heavy rain laden cloud layer for most of the contest which provide
> great propagation.  A leaky surface based duct that I was on top of.  Much
> like January of 2016.   I reach out between 250 and 275 miles regularly.
> The new SSB mast mounted pre amp for 446.000 was stellar.
>
> Claimed score will be 14,749255 FM QSO's worth 343 points43 FM
> multipliers.I operated 28 of 33 hrs.Since the FM record is currently just
> over 8,000 points.  I think I might have done well.
> I also did some SSB work, not much but a little to give away some points
> as I was super busy on FM.  Yes my rate was only 13/hr but on FM its good
> to rag chew a little to make people know you appreciate them being there
> and to make some noise.  I also learned a lot about a history, radio and
> some great folks that I was privileged to meet on the air.
> On SSB I made 12 contacts in 7 grids, 3 of them unique to SSB (no FM
> contact those grids).
> If I put all the QSO points and unique FM and SSB multipliers together my
> score was 16,330.
>
> Here is the bad. Last September I simply posted my N1MM results and got
> docked A LOT of points after log checking. I never quite figured out what
> was wrong until now.
> Apparently N1MM calculates you score funky if your FM ONLY.  I always
> select FM ONLY as my category on N1MM.  If you get a grid on SSB before FM
> (for a given band) you get zero points and no credit for the grid or
> station on FM if you are FM only.  If you get the FM Q before the SSB the
> opposite it true.  N1MM calculated my total score (combined FM and SSB) as
> 16,284, not too far off from the 16,330 after correcting for the zero point
> contacts.  I have no idea how the FM score would be in he N1MM calculation
> since it lumps everything together as though I was LP SSB + FM station.
> Not upset with the N1MM team.  Its a fantastic piece of software and I love
> it.  After what are there what, 10 maybe 15 people across the country that
> use N1MM for FM ONLY?
> Another problem I ran into last September: I also use to mark mobiles as
> /M and Rovers as /R.  Now I lump the mobiles in with the Rovers.  ARRL log
> checking software invalidated many of my mobile FM's last year.  When fixed
> stations who could not reach me on high bands and went mobile to hill tops
> to make 220 or 432 Q's on FM or went mobile to new grid squares ARRL either
> deleted the QTH contacts or the mobile contacts and this cost me a bunch of
> grids and points last year.  Again, not upset its just part of the terrain
> of your one of us FM only odd balls.
> I am going to include all my FM and SSB contacts in my submission to make
> sure that KJBZYB/R, N3HBX, K1RZ, W3SO, K3ZO and WB7PMP get credit for
> contacting me on SSB but until I am sure I can trust N1MM to get my FM
> scores correct (it takes hours to get this untangled) I will NOT just
> submit a Cabrillo log blindly until I sort it and make sure I get credit
> for all the FM contacts.
> I don't want to sound like a whiner.  It was a great contest.  All the
> bands were great.  I had fantastic propagation, though there seemed to be a
> big sheet of RF absorber wrapped around eastern PA near Philly that I could
> not penetrate. The FM turn out was fantastic.  I set up my rig at the
> Berryville Ham Fest and handed out over 100 flyers asking for FM QSO plus I
> emailed everyone I had ever made a contest QSO with and asked them to get
> on the air for the contest.  I think almost everyone did. FM Simplex is
> normally a desert.  Last weekend it was crowded.  I had lots of pile ups.
> I may have even dropped a few Q's and grids because I didn't handle them
> right.
> Big thanks to W7IY/R, KG4HOT/R, WB3CEH, WB3JEK, KE4VNC and especially
> W4JEC in coastal North Carolina who heard me from FM08 and gave me that
> FM15 grid at 275 miles.  FM simplex at 275 miles?  WOW.
> VHF/UHF contesting is great.
> 73JohnKM4KMU
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