NCCC Sprint Ladder - Aug 18 Call: K4BAI Operator(s): K4BAI Station: K4BAI Class: Single Op LP QTH: GA Operating Time (hrs): 0.5 Summary: Band QSOs Mults ------------------- 160: 0 0 80: 8 7 40: 20 17 20: 12 6 15: 0 0 10: 6: ------------------- Total: 40 30 Total Score = 1,200 Club: South East Contest Club Comments: FT1000MP, 100W, TH6DXX, dipole, zepp, inverted vee. At 0210Z I was all set up for the ladder event and my laptop used for logging started upgrading Windows. I thought surely it would finish in 20 minutes, but it didn't. In fact it was still slaving away at 0310Z when I shut the station down and went to bed. This morning, it had finished, I guess, but did another quick upgrade when I turned it on. So, I was relegated to pen and paper logging and sending, like K7SS does. 15M was completely dead. 20M was open only to W6/7, but did manage a QSO with N4AF. No other eastern stations heard and none from TX either. 40M was pretty good all over outside the 4th district. Again N4AF only 4 station worked. 80M was OK with readable signals from the west coast, but none of them heard me. Got confused trying to return the zepp from 40 to 80M and used the inverted vee, which is not as good as the zepp to the north east. Thanks for all QSOs. Hope you work you all in the Solar Eclipse QSO Party on Monday. 73, John, K4BAI. Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/