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CQWW CW 2014 - K1PU - 11-30-2014 Well, I got some 'chair time' on this one. Thanks to the long weekend and the snow on the griound so I didn't have to do outside chores! Her is the damage .... START-OF-LOG: 3.0 LOCATION: CT CALLSIGN: K1PU CLUB: Meriden ARC CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: CW CATEGORY-POWER: LOW CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 744480 OPERATORS: K1PU NAME: Mark Mokoski 723 QSO, 744,480 points [attachment=48] http://www.k1pu.com/misc_files/cqww_cw_2014.jpg Incase the screen shot didn't load, here is the summary in text style Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty 3.5 62 178 10 33 7 219 633 17 63 14 144 408 18 56 21 151 432 22 65 28 147 417 20 56 Total 723 2068 87 273 Score: 744,480 K1PU CQWW CW 2014 - N1API - N1API - 11-30-2014 Well Mark you got me on the score. But of course you had 40 and 75 meters to play on. Here are my results, stories follow. START-OF-LOG: 3.0 LOCATION: CT CALLSIGN: N1API CLUB: Meriden ARC CONTEST: CQ-WW-CW CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED CATEGORY-BAND: ALL CATEGORY-MODE: CW CATEGORY-POWER: LOW CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE CLAIMED-SCORE: 638574 OPERATORS: N1API NAME: Al ADDRESS: ADDRESS-CITY: ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: ADDRESS-COUNTRY: United States CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V14.9.0 Summary Band ------ QSOs ------ ZN ------ Cty 20 -------- 189 ------- 36 ------ 106 21 -------- 123 ------- 34 ------ 110 28 -------- 229 ------- 30 ------ 110 Total ----- 541 ------- 100 ----- 326 Score: 638,574 So, the weekend starts off with N1MM driving me nutz. Normally when you log a stations and you have the bandmap window open and you work a station the call turns gray to show that you've worked him and when you run up and down the band you don't need to check there again. Well for some reason the call disappears from the bandmap. Calls that you discover and work don't go into the bandmap. If you try to stOre a call in the band map that you worked it still does not go in there. I did find out that if you roll over a worked call that has been spotted is shows in the "precall" area of the main entry screen. I thought that maybe there was a "switch" that had changed in the configuration but I could not find one. I did send in a bug report, let's see what they say. Well I guess you can see how the bands were. HOT HOT HOT! 10 meters was amazing! I played this one a little differently. Thanks to Dave's N1MM demo, I use the "Available Multis and Q's Window" for the first time. I usually search and pounce by going down and up, (yes I usually start from the top and work down, less competition up on top), and hit the green or red calls for the multis. I did this for most of the weekend up to about the last couple of hours of the contest when the multis were running out, (worked them to zero on 20 meters, the other bands were multis that I could not hear or were bogus). It seemed to me that there was more Africa, Asia and Pacific then I usually see. Many I worked two and three bands. One which I was glad that I worked on 3 bands was the 3B8MU, I need that on 15 and 20 meters. He's number 312 on 20 meters and was on my 20 meter "hit list" I hope he uploads to LBOTW. All in all a pretty good weekend. Wonder if 10 meters will hold up for the contest in two weeks? Only time will tell. Hope you all had some time on the air this weekend. If you did don't forget to credit Meriden ARC with you contest score as the club score. Let's see if we can get our name in lights! -73- RE: CQWW CW 2014 - W1CTN - 12-01-2014 Congrats to both of you on your scores. 73 Dave W1CTN Radio Ansonia RE: CQWW CW 2014 - W1CTN - 12-01-2014 This is a copy of my YCCC post. As I said before you guys did great low power. To all: Lot's of action with good to great conditions from 80-10 meters. I found 160 to still be in the dumpster, but that's the way it should be at the peak of a sunspot cycle. I spent way too much time on top band hoping for more DX. I did have 2 visits from a Chinese Irishman "Mr. Fookin Murphy" during the weekend. Once he thought it would be funny to stop my rotor when it was pointed south. I'm glad I know the fix for that from the shack His second visit occurred on 20 meters when he would randomly lock my amp in transmit. Until I found out that my keying line was picking up RF I operated at 100 watts for a couple of hours. I have never had an RF problem like that before with the VL1000. 19 hrs in the chair - 17 high power, 2 low power. 100% S&P, Ditmore method. I'm still in therapy. He is my log: CQWWCW Summary Sheet Start Date : 2014-11-29 CallSign Used : W1CTN Operator(s) : W1CTN Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Assisted Category : ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : 5 Gridsquare : FN31LL Name : DAVE ARRUZZA Address : 32 BENZ STREET City/State/Zip : ANSONIA CT 06401 Country : UNITED STATES ARRL Section : CT Club/Team : YANKEE CLIPPER CONTEST CLUB Software : N1MM Logger+ 0.19.4312.0 Band QSOs Pts ZN Cty 1.8 38 91 11 25 3.5 154 433 16 65 7 228 650 22 78 14 197 565 32 90 21 164 466 30 99 28 178 507 28 99 Total 959 2712 139 456 Score : 1,613,640 Rig : FT2000 VL1000 Antennas : 160L, 80/40 DIPOLES, 20-10 T10 LOG PERIODIC |