[SECC] SS CW NJ8J Single Op LP

[Ben Coleman NJ8J]

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: NJ8J
Operator(s): NJ8J
Station: NJ8J

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 14:28

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:
   80:   82
   40:  109
   20:   31
   15:   26
   10:
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Total:  248  Sections = 74  Total Score = 36,704

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:
Equipment:
Alinco DX-77T
LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna tuner

Antennas:
40 through 10: 110' OCF doublet fed with ladder-line

Logger: yfktest

Didn't come as near to full-time as I had intended.  Pooped out a bit
Saturday evening, then got a second wind, but overslept Sunday.  Got
started a half-hour late trying to make sure the logging program had all
of the sections until I figured out it didn't keep track of them at all.

Lost about 45 minutes Saturday evening when I noticed after going to 20
that the LDG wasn't getting the doublet tuned correctly.  Checked one
end of the doublet and found that it was still up.  Figuring that maybe
the other end had come down (and it's not easy to get to, particularly
when it's getting dark), I added about 10' of wire to the easy-to-get-to
end, figuring that that was going to change *something*.  Got back to
the shack to figure out that the problem was that one side of the
ladder-line had become disconnected.  Things still tuned up (and the LDG
can now tune the ladder-line on the lower end of 10M, though I'll still
be playing with the half-square), so went back to contesting.

Had a computer crash at one point, and lost 3 QSOs.  I arranged for the
logger to skip those QSO numbers, and it did...but it later doubled up 3
(different) QSO numbers.  Is there any way when I submit my log that I
can tell the log checkers that the ops on the other end shouldn't be
dinged for the QSOs I lost?

Ben
-- 
Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
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