[NLRS] The Test

[Clair J. Robinson]

Well, after a few passes at it, I just got the ARRL Robot to accept my 
log. I finally coaxed it up to 86 QSOs. Ohs and zeros are NOT the same!

Roverlog had me at only 80 QSOs, but I knew that was wrong because it 
had insisted that W0ZQ/R in EN34 was a dupe with W0ZQ in EN34. Does 
anyone know where to set Roverlog to understand the difference? Do I 
need a new version of Roverlog?

I was only able to operate on Saturday and on Sunday afternoon and 
evening. As it happens, I mostly skipped Saturday evening and Sunday due 
to really bad conditions and lack of activity.

So after some manual correction, I believe that my counts should be:

Band    QSOs    Value   Pts     Mults

50      21      1       21      8
144     33      1       33      15
222     12      2       24      6
432     16      2       32      6
1.2     4       3       12      3

Total   86              122     38

Claimed score: 4636

Downers: The conditions. Listening to signals from loud 2m stations fade 
to inaudibility as we went up in frequency. Total inability to work 
K0AWU on 1296, usually a guaranteed new multiplier. Bill can usually 
hear me better than I him, but this time he couldn't hear me at all!

Uppers: Working W9FZ/R in EN67 on 2m SSB while conditions were still 
relatively OK. Working NT0V in EN08 and W0PHD in EN18 on 2m SSB after 
conditions had largely tanked. Both signals were like whispers in the 
noise but they were there. I wonder whether a serendipitous airplane 
reflection might not have been helping us out?

Maybe next time?

73, CJ K0CJ