Operating

Maybe life ISN’T too short for QRP

I was tun­ing around my dilap­i­dat­ed and total­ly neglect­ed sta­tion (more on that lat­er) and came across a bunch of slow­ish, hand-sent, con­tin­u­ous wave sig­nals on 20M send­ing “CQ NA”. What? A quick look over at the WA7BNM’s web­site (THE author­i­ty on con­tests hap­pen­ing regard­less of coun­try of ori­gin or spon­sor­ing enti­ty) con­firmed I was hear­ing the monthly …

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TNQP Results: K4TCG M/​2 LPK1GU

We encoun­tered some quirk­i­ness in the log­ging soft­ware (WriteL­og) at the start but we got over it soon enough. I real­ized lat­er that some­how we were trig­ger­ing a coun­ty line change even though we were not mov­ing. Once all oper­a­tors (includ­ing me) cycled through a few con­tacts, all was sol­id on both com­put­ers. We lost one Q to …

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