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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