[NCC] W8CAR SS CW

[Dan]

                ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2020

Call: W8CAR
Operator(s): W8CAR
Station: W8CAR

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: oh
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:  510
   40:  304
   20:   88
   15:   56
   10:    0
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Total:  958  Sections = 83  Total Score = 159,028

Club: Mad River Radio Club

Comments:

Great fun! Everything worked and nothing broke. Had rates for most of the contest but it did get Really slow in the waning hours. Searched high and low for a VY1 but never even heard a pileup other than on VE6 and AL1G.
I use N1MM and had no problem with the mult window. But, I just got a new computer (probably no help there) and I kept the mult window on the second monitor-saw somewhere if you move it it’s fine. Had a weird happening –looked at my score tally and noticed   besides Qs on 3.5, 7,14,21 I had 2 Qs on 35mhz! This was about 1 in the morning. Turns out I had restarted the 1000mp and the computer didn’t pick it up so logged two Qs on the wrong band,when I corrected the  frequencies I added an extra zero (zeros DO matter). That problem kept my foggy brain from processing for a few minutes. One of my favorite contests and always lots of fun to work friends. 

We may have to change the idiom from “There’s no meters like 40 meters” to “There’s no meters like 80 meters”

73 Dan W8CAR