[OKDXA] 2007 OK QSO Party - K5HP

[Terry Hackworth]

Don't know if this is appropriate or not but here goes.

Got off to a great start for me.  Ended day 1 with 389 CW QSO's, 12 dupes, 2 
of which I think would be eventually counted.  TRLog made them dupes.  They 
were out of state mobile's that worked from two different states.  I had 44 
states worked and 4 Canadian provinces.  I was surprised with the level of 
activity.  80 was good early except for static crashes that finally drove me 
off.

Got off to a good start Sunday morning on 80 then the system crashed and I 
lost my entire data file.  I thought I had been making backup's but I forgot 
to put a drive designator on the save as file name and apparently was just 
writing over my real file.  When it got big enough it locked up and somehow 
erased it completely.  I had a backup from when I ran a multiplier check 
earlier in day 1 so got back 250 Q's leaving me with a missing 139 QSO's. 
Sorry to those that will be affected by "not in log" during log checking.  I 
hope the log examiners take note of what happened, but I know they have 
pretty harsh rules, "not in log" is "NOT IN LOG" period.  I think I worked 
about 9 hours of contest.

So after the disaster I lost my oomppphhh.  But I did find out what a great 
contest this is.  There sure is a lot of interest.  My high "water" mark was 
working 'Frog' at or near the lilly pad located at the Electro-magnetic 
center of the universe.  I sure hope it was frog, I got real excited, acted 
just like a NOVICE.

Many thanks to all that called and I cannot wait until next year.  Heck I 
love this stuff.


Terry R. Hackworth, K5HP
Piedmont, OK
USA