After much work, I finally managed to get the cabrillo log made up
properly and submitted to ARRL for the contest. After more work I
got the adif files correct to get submit to lotw, Maybe I can be
more efficient at that in future. Quite a few immediate confirms on
lotw but of course I was a couple of weeks later in getting stuff
in. I also posted on 3830 scores as they have finally added the EME
contest category. Not so many using it yet though. Much
consternation on the moon reflector about the problems with log
submission for the EME contest. None of the logging programs have
made a proper template for it and many gymnastics with original
files, spreadsheets and ADIF Master were needed. If only.......
I think we did pretty good this year even though I thought things
weren't going well during the contest but it was mainly conditions.
We did have some station problems the first contest weekend. No
problems at all the second weekend except for conditions and tired
operators!
Here is the confirmation from ARRL:
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Analysis of your uploaded log:
Contest: ARRL-EME
Call Sign: W4ZST
Other Calls Used: (none)
Operator(s): K4VBM KI4US NX9O W4ZST WG8S WW8RR
Operator Category: Multi-Op
Mode Category: ALL
Band Category: ALL
All Eqpt Amateur Owned: Yes
E-mail:w4zst@windstream.net
QSOs in Log: 103
Raw Score: 707,000
Scoring Summary:
Band CW/Ph Dig US States VE Provs DXCC Entities
50
144 0 53 17 1 16
222 0 10 10 0 0
432 0 34 12 0 10
902
1.2G 0 4 1 0 3
Total 0 101 40 1 29
Log received at: 2023-12-14 21:14:28 UTC
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Other multi-op scores and certificates we have gotten in the past:
2016 180k 5th place (W4NH)
2020 135k 7th place
2021 320k 6th place
2022 117k 10th place
So this 707k may end up better I think, but probably still no higher
than 5th because of the big guns that have microwave weekend scores
added.
They are our W2SZ contest type nemesis for scoring. Making more Q's
on 1296 and other bands in the future will help us also.
Thanks to all the guys for operating the contest here. Brian,
Bill, Ron, Kim and I the first weekend and Kim and Bob and I the
second weekend. We ate well in the Fourlanders tradition. Brian
had his portable 1296 EME setup here for the first weekend and made
the 4 Q's on Sunday. He was still plagued with problems with the
new setup but finally got it working. Our 10 Q's and 10 states on
222 for the contest were fantastic. We worked almost everyone who
was on 222 except for a couple of guys who were moonrise only and I
didn't hear about them till later and one new 222 station that only
had 100W. But Marshall worked those three. I tried with the new
station but just not enough on his end.
73, Bob W4ZST