I spent some time yesterday sending in my results from the NJ QSO Party.
I'm pretty sure I probably messed up ........royally.
"What's to ,mess up?" you might ask? Let me put it this way .......it's a good thing that contest reporting is not part of the Amateur Radio exam process!0 I'd probably still be a Novice.
The extent of my contesting is various QRP Sprints. Those usually involve filling out a log summary form on 3830.com, or e-mailing in a log summary like we use for the Skeeter Hunt. I am not used to the world of Cabrillo files. Heck, I'm not even sure how you pronounce that!
CA- BRILL-O or maybe CA-BREE-YO?
You can tell I'm not into the contesting gig. I do not use N1MM and that has, in fact, kind of led to my ceasing participation in the QRP Fox Hunts. Using N1MM is an important part of the Real Time QSO Map feature that they employ.
I'm lucky that I can walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone use a computer for logging QSOs. No, I am an old fossil who paper logs and then transfers to digital storage. While that's easier for me, it also has a drawback. Sometimes, when I get a flurry of activity, I write so fast that I sometimes have a hard tie deciphering my own chicken scratch!
So I probably messed up my NJ QSO Party entry, and if there were any mistakes, they were definitely not intentional. Not that it matters, anyway, as I'm just a small fish in a large pond. But it would still be interesting to see how I did compared to other stations - that is if they don't reject my entry altogether.
I wouldn't be surprised of that happened and I got an e-mail back saying, "You've got to be kidding!"
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
One of the many reasons I don't play game radio. After retiring, the last thing I'm gonna do is be in a certain place at a certain time and then report my activities for review. I don't even keep a log for myself any longer!
ReplyDeleteIf you want to talk and answer me while I'm using my HW-9, random wire antenna the " gurus" say will never work and my homemade straight key, great!
If not, I won't even know you were there, so there's no issue.
I do use the computer for one radio related thing. I check the RBN at the end of the day to see how far my puny signal went.