[NLRS] CQ WW VHF W0ZF (analog edition)

[Dave Fugleberg]

I was able to get on for a couple hours Saturday morning, and 6M was
hopping for much of that time.  I did listen briefly later in the afternoon
before the thunderstorms rolled in, but didn't hear anything then, so I
guess the opening didn't last.

I was monitoring 144.200 on the bandscope as well, but only had a couple
contacts there.

I kept getting requests for repeats on my grid...turns out my winkeyer
clone was dropping the first element on every transmission.  W0VX emailed
me to let me know.  I found and corrected the issue - had to increase the
'Lead Time' parameter in the Winkeyer setting on N1MM+.  Of course, it does
NOT affect the sidetone on the K3, so everything sounded fine to me.  My
paddle is plugged in to the keyer, so even the fills I tries to send with
the paddle dropped the first element.  So my grid came out as N34
instead of EN34.  I suspect I missed that setting when I replaced the shack
PC recently.

It was SO GOOD to make some SSB and CW QSOs on 6M again ! I hope the
contest organizers keep the analog only session on the calendar.

        Band   Mode  QSOs     Pts  Grd  Pt/Q
          50  CW      18      18    6   1.0
          50  USB     43      43   26   1.0
         144  USB      2       4    1   2.0
       Total  Both    63      65   33   1.0


            Score : 2,145

73 de W0ZF
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