CWops Mini-CWT Test - 1900Z Dec 7
Call: N8XX
Operator(s): N8XX
Station: N8XX
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: MICHIGAN
Operating Time (hrs): 1
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 0
40: 29
20: 4
15: 0
10: 0
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Total: 33 Mults = 33 Total Score = 1,089
Club: Mad River Radio Club
Comments:
It was Cold in Hell.... errrr.... Rockford Michigan today. (editorial aside, it
WAS only 1 ºC in Hell, Michigan - near Pinckney - when I set up in Rockford. :)
Temperature was barely 1ºC whe I set up along the North Country National Scenic
Trail, as a contestant in the CWops weekly CW mini Test (CWT), but also a
participant. by location, in the ARRL's National Parks On The Air. I did
(almost) my usual strategy, namely, find a spot on 40 meters, call CQ CWT, and
never move. I dunno if my one variation this time was more fruitful than if I
had stayed, but I listened to 20 meters, and found that there was some space,
i.e., sometimes I found people calling CQ CWT with no response. So, for about
20 minutes I poked around 20 meters, but netted only 4 Q's. Nil
"running" but I might have picked a spot which apeared to me quiet,
but others might have bee using it within my skip zoe. I did work the West
Coast, Texas, and a W9 (didn't look him up.)
This wasn't anything about which to write in a letter home. Worked out the 40
meter band before moving to 20, but 20 was sort of a bust too. 33 Q's, in 60
minutes ain't no barn-burner, that's for sure, but I plead as an accomplice
because of cold fingers which made typing on the computer a challenge. I had
M5PHT written for N5PHT, which is one I remembered, and put VIC505 for K9UIY's
name. I did fix these in real time and I thank these two folks for putting up
with slowness in returning to the exchange.
Some of my local comrades in arms question my sanity in going out on such a
windy, cold day. To whom I respond, "Well, doesn't anyone who sits for an
amateur radio operator have to be somewhat mentally unbalanced? I rest my
case."
p.s. If you ain't got a sense of humor, do you really belong it this madness?
:) It's fun, fun, fun!
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