[ILQSO] KJ9C Rover

Thu Oct 25 12:24:48 EDT 2007

John, it will probably be like getting a kid to wash dishes: by the time
they are big enough to help, they don't want to !!

I also logged on paper this year.  I've done it with TrLog many times,
including sending with the program, mostly with a separate driver but at
least 3 or 4 times without one.  Last year, I used an experimental
Windows-based program that worked fairly well, but I didn't have time to
work with it again prior to Sunday and elected to go with the old
charcoal and shovel method.

73, Jim N9JF

-----Original Message-----
From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:40 AM
To: Illinois QSO Party
Subject: RE: [ILQSO] KJ9C Rover

It is also fun to try and log on paper while driving
and running mobile-did that in the ILQP, CQWPX and a
couple of VHF contests before.  Can't wait until my 4
year old gets old enough to write so she can do the
logging HI HI.

73s John AA5JG

--- James Funk <jfunk at fossnorthamerica.com> wrote:

> Mel, you are an animal.  I tried running mobile
> without a driver a few
> times (INQP once, MOQP twice) and it is a zoo.  
> 
> One commentary we will definitely be wanting
> post-contest is how
> everyone felt about the addition of the "Rover"
> category.  The special
> "everyones" will be those of you who tried it this
> time and those who
> elected to remain "mobiles".
> 
> I can't help you with the N1MM issues; I was a TrLog
> beta-tester and
> still like it.  Yeah, find an 11-volt laptop :)
> 
> As for the log-checking, I don't think anyone will
> get dinged for your
> logging glitches.  That's one advantage to being
> "mostly manual".
> 
> 73 and thanks a heap!
> Jim N9JF
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
> Mel Crichton
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 7:25 AM
> To: IL QSO Party
> Subject: [ILQSO] KJ9C Rover
> 
> "Rover" is appropriate.... this QSO party was a dog.
> Spent three days
> getting everything ready and shook down. Spent a lot
> of money on
> inverters and DC adapters and a laptop that I did
> not use. For once I
> had no RFI problems in the computer or rig, but
> using N1MM for the first
> time on my Win XP laptop caused a number of
> problems..... never try to
> use a mouse while driving on downstate Illinois' 
> finer gravel roads. 
> 
> Apologies for disappearing in the middle of a run...
> sometimes I warped
> to the wrong VFO (N1MM), a couple times I blew a
> fuse - once on the
> laptop plug (it DOES draw more than 3 amps), once to
> the rig.... the
> battery booster overheated (odd), and I had to QRP
> to 70 watts for the
> last 7 1/2 hours.... not a lot of dB loss, but
> probably noticeable.... I
> tried to give N9UM a number of unique mults, but he
> never heard me. And
> he was LOUD. In general SSB was poor, but I did make
> a few 75 meter
> QSOs... a rarity.
> 
> Because of the strange way N1MM logs comments, I am
> not sure if my log
> shows the county that I was in correctly.... I did
> not catch this glitch
> until late in the day, so there's a chance that
> stations worked just as
> I crossed a line got the right county from me but
> were logged wrong by
> me.
> 
> Still not sure that my log has every contact in
> it.... about half as
> many as last year but it did not feel like I was
> running half as fast.
> There are no major gaps, but maybe MM did not log
> all the contacts it
> flagged as dupes. There were a couple holes in the
> log for fuse
> replacement and rest stops....  If the log checkers
> are handing out a
> lot of Not-In-Log dings to others who say they
> worked me, then we'll
> withdraw the log. On the other hand, maybe it really
> was a down year,
> but at my advanced age it felt fast.
> 
> Got to stop on three 3-county corners and one or two
> county lines (when
> the deserving were heard in the pileup). Worked few
> IL mobiles, and had
> to go to 80 around sunset to get my first IL county.
> 
> 485 CW, 42 SSB, 997 QSO points, 40 SPC, 26 counties
> = 65 K points....   
> 
> Next year - buy a good Win 98 laptop that will run
> on 11 volts and go
> back to TR for logging. 
> 
> Anybody want to buy a nice Compaq Armada with Win
> 98? Needs 16 volts to
> run.
> 
> Mel KJ9C
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