[SECC] W4AN 2002 CQ WW CW

[John Laney]

Hello all:

A review of the CQ WW file brought just a few downward adjustments in
the claimed score.  Two times I managed to log the same station on both
rig and rig 2 on different bands.  I am quite sure that I worked these
stations only on the run rig.  Apparently I worked someone else on rig
#2 and didn't notice that the computer logged the wrong call.  Bill's
computer monitor is too high up for me to comfortably view it through my
bifocals.  So, I had to delete those two claimed QSOs and I have no way
of knowing who I actually worked on rig #2 those two times.  I'll have
to be much more careful next time.

Also, I had made a couple of typos that I hadn't caught.  I had a spare
"6" in front of someone's call (fat fingers mistake, I guess) and it had
been counted as a mult that I hadn't actually worked.  Also, I had
logged L59 (a special call for a LW9 station) as W59 instead of L59. 
That actually added three points, since otherwise not only would it have
been a busted call, but it would have been a zero point US QSO if it had
somehow been counted as a unique.

So, this appears to be the actual claimed score:

2697 QSOs, 144 zones, 481 countries, score: 7,761, 250.  

Already it is clear that I am way down in the middle teens of the high
claimed scores, so it is likely it may not even make the top 20.  The
only higher score reported from the fourth call area so far is K4ZW,
Ken, but a lot haven't been reported yet that I have seen.

I did the analysis of second radio QSOs.  It appears that I made 171
true second radio QSOs.  That is, 171 QSOs on another band, while
running CQs on rig #1.  Many of these were new multipliers.  So, there
is no doubt that it is a big help.  Had it been possible to run more--to
run on 20 and 80--there would have been more second radio QSOs.  Just to
be clear to those who aren't familiar with SO2R, the software is set up
so that it never transmits on more than one band at the time, but you
can listen to both frequencies.

73,


John, K4BAI.