August 1998 NAQP SSB W7GG Claimed Score
Call: W7GG SO/AB
Exchange: Bob, OR
Hrs Opr: 10
Qso's = 885
Mults = 157
DX Mults = 6
Score = 162,511
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Story: Was pumped for this one cuz 10M openings were starting to
happen here in the NW. Went over to radio Qth Friday afternoon to
get things ready. Always a lot of prep work to do especially when
your shack is remote from your regular Qth. Mine is half way across
the state, approx 150 miles East.
Got everything setup, however my main PC was acting up for some
reason.
Was further encouraged by lots of sigs on 10 and 15M after dark!
Went to work on the PC problem but got no where......it would not
even
recognize A or C drive...bummer. Finally put PC 2 on line only to
find that it was having what appeared to be video problems resulting
in a scrambled image on screen. Now I'm starting to panic. Went
to bed around midnite with no working PC. No more hand logging for
this guy.
Decided to take both machines into Madras Sat AM (small town) about
30 mile but two PC shops! Nice but one had gone outa biz and the
other was closed on Saturdays...strange way to run a comsumer
oriented
biz if you ask me.
Its now 9:30AM and no PC so start driving to next town 30 miles away.
Got on the Cell fone trying to find someone open there...no luck so
said to hell with it and headed back to the shack. Got there at
10:50AM....ten minutes to start time! Decided to try the PC's again.
Wound up swapping A drives and when I turned number 2 PC on it came
up with good video. Since I had everything else ready all I had to
do was setup my TR Logcfg.dat file and go to work at 18:45 GMT......
45 minutes late but still time to op full ten hours!
Strated on 15M with run radio and scanned 10M with radio 2 but no
sigs.....fooey. Put radio 2 on 20M and found plenty sigs there.
Back to 10 often but only wked about 9 stations....WC4E had a huge
signal....only hope I was as loud somewhere as he was....only problem
was that he was running stations! Can only imagine what some of
the scores will be for this one! In the end 15/20 my best bands
although best hour was on 40. May have waited to long to move radio
1 to 40M but 20 was producing well with lots less Qrn. Was finally
able to hold a good run freq on 20M which usually happens around
evening grayline times. 80/160 did not produce too much...especially
160. Was bouncing between 20 and 40/80/160. In the end pretty
happy with the results although had a goal of 1000 Qso's and 200
mults.
If 10 had panned out mite have made the 1000!
All equipment and antennas played without flaw. Unforntunately,
after the test I tried to copy the log files over to A floppy it
would not respond.....I then shut the PC off and naturally it would
not reboot!! Hence the abbreviated sumary above.
Thanks to all for the Q's and for moving to other bands.
Bob, W7GG
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