[NCC] Fw: OhQP K8BL Single Op LP

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

Hi Bob,
 
Yes, we mobiles do spend out time CQing, especially on CW.  About 99%  of 
my CW contacts were CQing. 
 
Thanks for calling in during the last 10 minutes or so.  It was my  Lake 
county CW multiplier!
 
 
73   -  Jim   K8MR
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/4/2010 11:31:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
k8bl at ameritech.net writes:



Ohio QSO Party

Call: K8BL
Operator(s): K8BL
Station:  K8BL

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: LAKE
Operating Time (hrs):  10.5

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph  Qs
--------------------
80:  195     164
40:  100     115
20:   29   27
15:    0     0
10:    0       0
--------------------
Total:  324    306  CW Mults  = 95  Ph Mults = 104  Total Score = 189,846

Club:  

Comments:

Started out pretty good and found nice amount of  activity on 20M. However,
Murphy struck again this year big-time.   First, my logging program crashed!
NA did this to me 3 out of the last 4  years! The one year it didn't was
because I didn't operate OQP. 33 Q's into  the Contest NA died and I 
couldn't
get it restarted. The Q's were still  there, but I got an Error 09 message
after configuring and trying to run.  Finally, in desperation, I configured
it as some other contest and it came  up. I shut it down and brought it back
up as OQP and it ran OK. I  disconnected all radio and packet connections to
the computer since I  really didn't need them anyway. NA ran FB the entire 
rest
of the Contest  (WHEW!!!). Strangely, the computer and radio were entirely
different from  the previous years when NA crashed.

Murphy decided to strike again a  little while later. This time, my new 
IC-7700
went ZAP and FLASH while I  was CQ'ing!!! Radio went lights out & dead. I 
could
not get it to power  back up! Luckily, I kept my trusty old IC-775 as a 
backup
and pressed it  into service. Jockeying these heavy beasts is no longer easy
or fun for an  Old Timer like me! The 775 worked great for the rest of the
Contest  although I sorely missed the built-in DVK of the 7700 when on  
phone.

Spent most of my time CQ'ing and had some very nice runs.  Activity was a 
very
pleasant surprise for a Summer contest. Missed many of  the Ohio Mobiles and
I think it's because they were probably CQ'ing, too,  instead of S&P.
I'm submitting my score with the local Club since there  has been a push to
get more HF interest among the membership and they asked  for participants
in their  group.