CQWW CW 2014

[K1PU]

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

   
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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

[N1API]

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-

[W1CTN]

Congrats to both of you on your scores.

73
Dave
W1CTN
Radio Ansonia

[W1CTN]

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