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NN7SS 2019 World Wide Digi Contest

Best 60 min QSO rate: 31.
Log segment below includes 1 invalid QSOs that were not counted for the record.*

From ../publiclogs/2019/nn7ss.log

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
CONTEST: WW-DIGI
CALLSIGN: NN7SS
LOCATION: WWA
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED:
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-POWER: QRP
CATEGORY-MODE: DIGI
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 16376
NAME: Mark Aaker
OPERATORS: K6UFO
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CREATED-BY: WriteLog V12.43A
SOAPBOX: I'm very pleased and honored to participate in the very first
SOAPBOX: WW Digi DX Contest! As usual when I contest, I entered QRP.
SOAPBOX: I couldn't schedule to be at the station, so operated remote, with a
SOAPBOX: new internet connection just installed yesterday
SOAPBOX: lots of glitches... sigh, its sometimes hard being at the far end of
SOAPBOX: a long wire.
SOAPBOX: I got up before sunrise for the start to try low band to Asia. On
SOAPBOX: 80m worked a lot of USA West Coast
SOAPBOX: VK and KH6.
SOAPBOX: 20m busy, but I seemed to take w-a-y too many repeats.
SOAPBOX: But there were always FT4 stations to call, so I kept at it.
SOAPBOX: At one point I found my clock was 0.6 seconds slow. Yikes,
SOAPBOX: I've never had that problem, and a restart fixed it. "Maybe"
SOAPBOX: QSOs went faster with less repeats...
SOAPBOX: I would stop and check if my frequency was clear, and at
SOAPBOX: QRP it hardly ever was... so find a new freq and start again.
SOAPBOX: Otherwise, I tried to have a TX every cycle either a CQ or
SOAPBOX: to call someone. Not that it helped when QRP...
SOAPBOX: Overall, I think QRP has less of a "disadvantage" than in
SOAPBOX: other modes. If I had a clear frequency, and called in the
SOAPBOX: right cycle - I had a "reasonable" chance of getting anyone
SOAPBOX: above SNR -10 or so.
SOAPBOX: For a supposed "automatic" and "robot" mode - I sure had to
SOAPBOX: do a lot of monitoring and clicking and maintaining to keep
SOAPBOX: things working and progressing!
SOAPBOX: Family activities took up most of midday, but I contested for an
SOAPBOX: hour or two here and there.
SOAPBOX: Lots of unlogged QSOs because the sequence was messed up
SOAPBOX: and people wanted Signal Reports and didn't send RR73 so it
SOAPBOX: didn't auto-log. Rules don't require signal reports - come on!
SOAPBOX: I caught a few, but I'm sure I missed a bunch.
SOAPBOX: Tried some FT8, but not as many stations, and s-l-o-w.  I copied
SOAPBOX: Europeans on 20m FT8 but no good working them QRP from WA.
SOAPBOX: I only used the "contest" frequencies, and FT4 when I seemed to be
SOAPBOX: getting through efficiently, or switch to the FT8 when I needed more
SOAPBOX: reliability getting through. I'd guess there was twice as much FT4
SOAPBOX: action as FT8 action on the bands.
SOAPBOX: I tried CQing on 15m, but no luck. During the mid-afternoon slump
SOAPBOX: I seemed to do better on 20m FT8 scaring up some South Americans
SOAPBOX: and JA's for 3 points each!  No sunspots, A of 36! and it showed on
SOAPBOX: the bands... really weak. 40m was okay later, 80m very noisy and
SOAPBOX: weak, I copied a bunch on 160m, but couldn't get an answer.
SOAPBOX: I finally pulled the switch at 05
SOAPBOX: again before 12z. Done!
SOAPBOX: A great introductory contest for new modes and a new exchange
SOAPBOX: and scoring system. The software worked well, the operators
SOAPBOX: "mostly" worked well. I rate it an A-minus!  Thanks for the fun.
SOAPBOX: NN7SS Burt WA (K6UFO op)
SOAPBOX: 15m, 20m
SOAPBOX: 40m
SOAPBOX: 80m, 160m
SOAPBOX: Elecraft K3 at 5 watts
SOAPBOX: RemoteHamRadio.com
SOAPBOX: Writelog and DigiRite
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best 60 minutes --->
1 QSO: 7090 DG 2019-09-01 0342 NN7SS CN87 N9OU EL87 2 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0345 NN7SS CN87 ZW5B GG54 3 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0345 NN7SS CN87 KM6JD DM26 4 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0346 NN7SS CN87 K5OA DM14 5 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0350 NN7SS CN87 KT9L EM69 6 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0350 NN7SS CN87 K5PI EM10 7 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0353 NN7SS CN87 K6TD CM97 8 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0357 NN7SS CN87 KR1DX DM13 9 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0358 NN7SS CN87 NA5NN EM50 10 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0358 NN7SS CN87 N5OT EM16 11 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0359 NN7SS CN87 WR0H EM47 12 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0359 NN7SS CN87 N9WG EM69 13 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0401 NN7SS CN87 AE6JV CM97 14 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0403 NN7SS CN87 W7CD CN87 15 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0405 NN7SS CN87 AF6SA CM98 16 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0406 NN7SS CN87 K9OM EN65 17 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0406 NN7SS CN87 W4UWC EM77 18 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0414 NN7SS CN87 KT5V EM12 19 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0417 NN7SS CN87 AA2IL DM12 20 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0421 NN7SS CN87 N5WRX EL17 21 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0422 NN7SS CN87 W6RC CM98 22 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0423 NN7SS CN87 K6PAD DM13 23 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0424 NN7SS CN87 K6TQ CM98 24 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0427 NN7SS CN87 K5JAZ EM32 25 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0427 NN7SS CN87 AA5AU EL49 26 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0428 NN7SS CN87 W6IA CM88 27 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0429 NN7SS CN87 K6GHA CM97 28 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0431 NN7SS CN87 W9ZV EN51 29 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0432 NN7SS CN87 N3QE FM19 30 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0433 NN7SS CN87 WX6V CM98 31 QSO: 7079 DG 2019-09-01 0440 NN7SS CN87 AG5JW EM40 32 QSO: 3579 DG 2019-09-01 0441 NN7SS CN87 W7CT DN41 <--- end highest rate
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View complete log: ../publiclogs/2019/nn7ss.log The best 1 minute rates were: 2 QSO/minute 6 times 1 QSO/minute 20 times

*Definition of valid QSOs

The rate calculation includes all QSOs that count for raw score credit. The following are not included in the rate record calculation, but may be included in The log above.

The intent of removing these QSOs is to reward records based on valid QSOs by removing QSO lines that are invalid or incomplete.

 

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