WOW! I say again… WOW!
I was looking forward to this contest and wasn’t disappointed. My BIC time, according to the N1MM Logger calculation was 22h-47m… put in about 4 hours on Friday night, got a full night sleep on Sat night (From what I hear, I guess I missed the exciting mag storm event from the CME a couple days ago .
To the best of my recollection, I heard the following club members at least once… K1NEF, W1WBB, KI1G, and KS1J. Sorry if I forgot anyone, but I don’t take notes during the contest.
I think that this is the personal best score for me in this contest from home. Actually, to NOT coin a phrase, it was like shooting fish in a barrel using the telnet generated bandmap and S&P I was able to keep up a rate greater than 75 for long periods of time. Overall average for my operating time was about 58/hour. I know, I know… why didn’t I spend more time running! Well, I tried Runnin’ & Gunnin’ several times and was never able to get a rate that warranted more, so most of these QSOs were from S&P.
Call: K3IU Operator(s): K3IU Station: K3IU Class: SOAB(A) HP QTH: USA - RI Operating Time (hrs): Summary: Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 0 0 0 80: 71 14 45 40: 180 20 79 20: 359 35 111 15: 306 31 115 10: 328 27 118 ------------------------------ Total: 1124 127 468 Total Score = 2,100,945[I tried putting the HTML Preformatted tags in the above score listing]
73,
Ken Wagner K3IU
Portsmouth, RI
Ken,
Nice going. John and I operated from his place using my call. We had a VERY laid back effort. I will post the summary when I get it to open on my computer. We ended just under 900K with somewhere around 800 Q’s.
I found the same thing you did. We could shoot the fish faster than we could reel them in. I have to learn how to sort the spots by beam heading though. That would save time and wear on the rotor.
I had a ton of fun on 10 and 40 working all kinds of call signs that I hardly recognized.
I don’t know how much time we put in, but that’s in the log too.
73, Mike, K1DM
Call: W1XX
Op: W1XX
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: RI
Summary
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Band Qs DX Z
160 27 15 11
80 13 11 9
40 12 4 5
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Totals 52 30 25 Score = 6270
Club: CTRI Contest Group
Nice score, Ken!!
I really don’t know how this happened, but when I imported the ADIF file exported from N1MM into WriteLog (I like the reports and graphs that you can generate in WriteLog), the first thing I noticed was that the scores werent the same. N1MM was saying 2,100,945 and WriteLog was saying 2,097,414. A closer look at the summaries revealed that N1MM was saying that on 40 meters, I worked 20 zones; and WriteLog summary showed that I had worked 19 zones on 40. My very first contact on 40 was C4N in Zone 20 and N1MM was correctly showing that as a Multiplier. However, about 1.5 hours later, I worked LZ5N in zone 20. N1MM was saying that this was also a zone multiplier. Hmmm… that can’t be. I opened up the advanced Edit on LZ5N and re-entered 20 into the Zone Field, clicked on Update, and, voila… the score changed to 2,097,414, the same as WriteLog showed.
I know that this does not make any difference to the score calculated by the contest robot, but it is just a reminder that sometimes it pays to check when they do not look right.
Sooo… my score summary above should show 19 Zones for 40 meters and a Total score of 2,097,414.
Whew…
73
Ken K3IU
Ken,
Thanks. I know and used that window, but I didn’t know how to sort it. Pat did that with WriteLog last year, so I knew it was possible.
73, Mike, K1DM
Mike:
I actually like the way that WriteLog presents that information better than the method used by N1MM Logger. Maybe that’s because it is what I used first 🙂
73, Ken K3IU