[VHFcontesting] FW: ARRL Jan VHF N8RA Single Op LP

[Chet S]

                    ARRL January VHF Contest

Call: N8RA
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CT FN31
Operating Time (hrs): 14.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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    6:  141    38
    2:   72    20
  222:    9     5
  432:   11     6
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Total:  233    69  Total Score = 17,457

Club: Yankee Clipper Contest Club

Comments:

Well, that was fun! 

With this contest’s now free-for-all rules for single ops, it was hard to settle on a strategy that would still be fun and competitive without wanting to do any dog work of online chatting and arranging skeds. And, the wonderful recent interfacing between N1MM+ logger and WSJT-X also portended that the FT-8 mode was going to be even more popular this time around, further complicating the choices of what mode and what band and when. 

The Saturday evening snow-to-sleet-to-freezing rain-to-rain-to-wind-to-single digit arctic freeze event took its toll. Early Sunday morning all antennas except one had high SWRs making them unusable, so QSO progress was very slow.  I should have slept in. Late morning, I needed to get the ankle-deep slush off the driveway knowing it would freeze into a solid block later that afternoon. After lunch, the antennas started to shed their ice and come alive again.

Sunday afternoon I finally got in the groove for changing which software on which computer had which rig control. That, plus some station equipment troubleshooting, computer networking hiccups and a crash kept me hopping through to the end. 

Special thanks to the N1MM logger and WSJT-X teams, and especially to Rick, N2AMG, for the decode list implementation and hot fix in the middle of the event.

73,
Chet, N8RA

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