Working WFD CW today.
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Working WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, but I'm trying to do WFD not a contest.
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Working WFD CW today. Didn't yesterday due to doing storm preparations. Not a serious contester here, just pulled up not1mm, and am using it to send code so that I don't slow down more serious folks with my bad keying, just using the key when I need to send something that I didn't have a macro for, or to send slowly. Just now, I was delighted that I copied a 2x3 call on first hearing at 35WPM and then was deflated to hear "TEST" afterwards. I didn't know what contests are currently active, but I'm trying to do WFD not a contest.
Yay, I worked @kb6nu
Even though I'm doing this from home, I decided to operate QRP, so I have the rig turned down to a measly 5W. Operating QRP is an exercise in patience to get through, but I'm now to the point that most of the calls I copy get a big red DUPE in not1mm. I got two on 40m, which was two more than I was expecting. I won't have a map handy until I load from not1mm into wavelog, but so far south Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Quebec, and Ontario bound the stations I've worked so far.
Almost everything has been on 20m but a few 40m QSOs.
One more hour.
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Yay, I worked @kb6nu
Even though I'm doing this from home, I decided to operate QRP, so I have the rig turned down to a measly 5W. Operating QRP is an exercise in patience to get through, but I'm now to the point that most of the calls I copy get a big red DUPE in not1mm. I got two on 40m, which was two more than I was expecting. I won't have a map handy until I load from not1mm into wavelog, but so far south Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Quebec, and Ontario bound the stations I've worked so far.
Almost everything has been on 20m but a few 40m QSOs.
One more hour.
@mcdanlj Hey! My pleasure, Michael. 😀
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Yay, I worked @kb6nu
Even though I'm doing this from home, I decided to operate QRP, so I have the rig turned down to a measly 5W. Operating QRP is an exercise in patience to get through, but I'm now to the point that most of the calls I copy get a big red DUPE in not1mm. I got two on 40m, which was two more than I was expecting. I won't have a map handy until I load from not1mm into wavelog, but so far south Florida, Connecticut, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Minnesota, Michigan, Quebec, and Ontario bound the stations I've worked so far.
Almost everything has been on 20m but a few 40m QSOs.
One more hour.
40m came alive in the last hour, as we started to get close to evening, and as 20m was frankly played out.
I was going to plug my rig into battery, but then saw in the rules that your computer has to be on battery power as well, and I didn't have a way to plug my shack computer into battery, so I didn't bother running the rig off battery.
Then when I went to submit my log, I saw that actually your logging computer can be mains powered, so the rules must have been about the computer you are using for digital modes. Which I wasn't. I did all CW, no multi-mode multipliers for me!
So I could have gotten another multiplier for my 2-point CW QSOs for my solar-charged battery, as well as the 4x QRP multiplier. I could have had 510 points instead of 408 points. Which doesn't matter at all because I'm not actually in any form of contention for anything; I worked only about five hours thanks to all the winter storm prep. And even if I'd worked the whole time I still wouldn't be competitive. I only hunted, I didn't run.
And running only 5W, I didn't even make the antenna wire warm enough to melt the ice that was covering it.
Maybe next year I'll run instead of hunting. But probably still QRP, and maybe actually in the field...
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