[OKDXA] 2007 OK QSO Party - K5HP

[Jerry Chouinard]

Appropriate indeed Terry.  Fun to read the musings of other participants.
I have a large laundry list of things to put in a report on my operating 
happenings!
Right now however putting logs that are showing up in a safe place.  Already
almost as many in hand as the total for last year - whew!

K5YAA

At 06:21 PM 3/11/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
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