Dave Heil wrote:

N2EY wrote:

In article , Dave Heil
writes:


N2EY wrote:

Yep, it really was a blast. Excellent wx, good conditions, no major

foulups.

Now to recopy the logs and get the final score.

73 de Jim, N2EY

1B EPA

It was pleasant days and a chilly night for the Marshall County WV ARES
bunch, atop the hill at Grandview Park overlooking the burg of
Moundsville. I'm not sure of the final tally yet but it should be in
the neighborhood of 26 to 27 k points. The CW duo was good for about
950 QSOs. We didn't manage a WAS on CW though--missed Alaska and
Hawaii.

Excellent!

I worked you guys on CW. What were you running?


Same rig/antenna as the last two years from here on the hill--FT-1000MP
"Field and Stream", Johnson Matchbox and 200 foot skywire fed with open
wire. It seems I'm never the guy to work you on FD. N8NN was the op
you worked.

My math skills are showing in the comments above. Score should read
"2.6 to 2.7 k points".

Okay, I was in awe there for a moment. But that's still okay.


We were one of those stations which should not have been running 5A. In
the middle of the night, we had only two stations running. We would have
been better candidates for 3A.

Members of a local Boy Scout troop visited and were given an overview of
amateur radio by the county EC. They then visited all of the stations
in operation. They spent the most time and showed the most interest at
the CW tent. The ancient mode users had the only station doing computer
logging (TR).

The old ops using the old mode were responsible for about 2000 of the
points and that from a single station.


We were not certain how many CW ops were coming out. Fortunately, we
had a CW op for about 75 percent of the time. The final tally was pretty
close between CW and Phone. The GOTA station probably tipped things in
favor of the Non-voice modes. I'll know in a little bit when I add up
the scores.

I had one of those pucker string moments when I had computer trouble
after the event. But I got it fixed, and am doing newsgroup to relax
before diving into the scores again.

I think we were around 3500 points altogether. WE were running 2a plus
the GOTA.

- Mike KB3EIA -