Call: WK6I
Class: SOAB LP
QTH: CA
Summary:
Band QSOs Pts States DX Zones
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80: 8 10 6 2 3
40: 10 12 8 2 3
20: 161 328 37 44 24
15: 262 509 45 49 25
10: 160 304 41 35 20
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Total: 601 1163 75 132 137 = 400,072
Station Description: FT1000D - Sony VAIO laptop - writelog/mmtty plugin
Antenna(s): C3SS, wire loop for 40/80
I have lots of comments and questions, but will save them for later
when I have time. Biggest comment/question is regarding the exchange and
knowing that the other station got it when you are doing S&P... It seems
to me if you send "QSL" while I am still transmitting, I'm not going to
see it (unless everyone else has QSK RTTY and I am the last to know?).
More than once I came out of sending my exchange to find the other
station halfway thru their CQ - did they get my exchange or give up?
Or maybe they were working a similar call and I incorrectly assumed
they were answering me (e.g., 2KYI). So, I got a few "B4"s because I
was unwilling to log the uncertain exchange - which of course wastes
everyone's time. In other cases I was apparently justified (no B4 anyway).
Enough venting - I really had a great time and was tickled to just make
it over 400,000 points and 600 QSOs claimed in the last 15 minutes.
(Special thanks to the KH6 who gave me the missing multiplier on 10m
to put me over the top!). Considering I could not even -spell- RTTY a
year ago, I feel pretty OK about this...;-)
73! - jeff wk6i
jeff stai
radio stuff: WK6I in DM13
rocket stuff: NAR #21059 TRA #3356 Level 2 Cert.
email: jstai@home.com or wk6i@arrl.net
ROC web page: http://www.rocstock.org/
LDRS web page: http://www.ldrs20.org/
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