[PVRCNC] PVRCNC Digest, Vol 120, Issue 15
Robert Lukaszewski
k4ha at att.net
Mon Jan 13 16:14:06 EST 2014
Nathan, shoot Joe K4JRA and email.. he still has the 4 element 20 at his
house $175 if interested
K4jra at nc.rr.com
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Today's Topics:
1. W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up (W4KAZ)
2. Re: W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up (Nathan Moreschi)
3. 20M Yagi Wanted (Nathan Moreschi)
4. Re: W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up (W4KAZ)
5. NAQP CW NC4KW(@N1LN) M/2 LP (Bruce Meier)
6. NC4KW (Howard Hoyt)
7. Re: NC4KW (Bruce Meier)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:09:56 -0500
From: W4KAZ <w4kaz at arrl.net>
To: pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [PVRCNC] W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up
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Apologies to Team #2.
The 2:00pm squall line dropped a tree across the power lines up the block,
dropping power, closing the street to thru traffic, and breaking a utility
pole. We were dark for about 15 hours(restored 5:00am Sunday), along with
about 30 other houses. Only two houses away from civilization and the
lights of the Big City.....
:(
On the up side I was tuning around right before the start of the test and
found ve5mx on 15m. My QSO#1, after he worked a few others first.
Logged him a bit later on 10m - he had a really nice signal on 10m.
Not sure how many Q's yet, but I was casually S&P before going dark so it
ain't near as many as it could have been. Then there was that tough choice
of pulling out the genny to go full-FD-in-the-rain or dinner-anna-moovee
with the xyl.
So. Dinner was nice. ;)
73 de w4kaz
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:14:46 -0500
From: "Nathan Moreschi" <n4ydu at yahoo.com>
To: <w4kaz at arrl.net>, <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [PVRCNC] W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up
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Fun times!
Any antenna damage?
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From: W4KAZ
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:09 PM
To: pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [PVRCNC] W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up
Apologies to Team #2.
The 2:00pm squall line dropped a tree across the power lines up the block,
dropping power, closing the street to thru traffic, and breaking a utility
pole. We were dark for about 15 hours(restored 5:00am Sunday), along with
about 30 other houses. Only two houses away from civilization and the
lights of the Big City.....
:(
On the up side I was tuning around right before the start of the test and
found ve5mx on 15m. My QSO#1, after he worked a few others first.
Logged him a bit later on 10m - he had a really nice signal on 10m.
Not sure how many Q's yet, but I was casually S&P before going dark so it
ain't near as many as it could have been. Then there was that tough choice
of pulling out the genny to go full-FD-in-the-rain or dinner-anna-moovee
with the xyl.
So. Dinner was nice. ;)
73 de w4kaz
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:21:58 -0500
From: "Nathan Moreschi" <n4ydu at yahoo.com>
To: "'PVRCNC'" <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [PVRCNC] 20M Yagi Wanted
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Club,
Anyone have a 3 or 4 element 20M yagi they want to sell?
73,
Nate/N4YDU
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:44:40 -0500
From: W4KAZ <w4kaz at arrl.net>
To: pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [PVRCNC] W4KAZ NAQP CW - Blown up
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Not any discernible visually. Had a lot of branches shaken loose. The
power actually did the hokey pokey twice before everything went dead about
five minutes later. So the logging computer may have hosed itself. Should
have moved it to the UPS with the skimmers down.....whoops.
Going to boot it now. I managed to have everything turned off before the
blackout. If it can boot, most of my log should be there. All 20
Q's....lol
kaz
> Fun times!
>
> Any antenna damage?
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:31:49 -0500
From: "Bruce Meier" <bemeier at bellsouth.net>
To: <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>, "'PVRCNC'" <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [PVRCNC] NAQP CW NC4KW(@N1LN) M/2 LP
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North American QSO Party, CW - January
Call: NC4KW
Operator(s): AA4FU N4YDU W0UCE N1LN
Station: N1LN
Class: M/2 LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 194 42
80: 424 57
40: 431 58
20: 330 60
15: 214 51
10: 134 38
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Total: 1727 306 Total Score = 528,462
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Team:
Comments:
As with every NAQP-CW outing the team was really looking forward to another
fun time. There were a couple of potential factors that could take away
some of the fun like the lingering impact of the high solar activity during
the previous week and the unknown impact of the heavy storms moving through
the area during the first half of the contest. But when the starting gun
went off at 1800 UTC off we went.
Yup, Jack and Nate were off on 10 and 15. Alan and I were off watching the
weather channel, and numerous weather radar displays for what was soon to
arrive. In about 1 hour, by 1900 UTC, the sky went black, the wind started
to kick up and the rain came down harder. We were under a tornado warning,
severe thunderstorm warning and a high wind warning. Jack and Nate kept
going.
Alan
and I kept watching. We got lucky again! By 1930, only 30 minutes
duration, the storm blew through and it was over. No thunder or lightening,
no tornado, and according to our weather station, the wind hit about 42 mph
and the max rain rate was just under 11 inches per hour. We never had to
shut down and none of the antennas were impacted. But, having dodged that
bullet there were others just around the corner.
The biggest headache of the contest was the recurring loss of network
connectivity between the two stations. It happened 4 times and in 2 of the
cases the computers had to be rebooted. The other two only took stop /
starts of N1MM. In all cases resyncs were necessary. We still don't have
any idea what caused the network issues, but during the testing we were
always able to ping all the network devices, files could be sent back and
forth between the ham shack computers, and the print server on another
networked computer worked fine from one of the ham shack computers.
Connectivity would come back and be fine for anywhere from 1 hour to 4
hours. Total lost time was in the area of
45 minutes.
Then around 2400 UTC we lost the Skimmer Cluster. We use the VE7CC software
and were connected to the AE5E telnet node. So a quick reconfigure to
select a different node and off we went. Well, almost. Had to revisit the
configuration settings once more to enable SKIMMER spots. Lost time was
only about 10 minutes. Unless I am doing something wrong, which is quite
possible, AE5E is still down today.
So at this point our total lost time was almost 1 hour and that is too much
to lose in a 12 hour contest.
Fortunately everything else went well. From out QTH the low bands were much
better than the high bands as our Q and Mult count show. The storms did
leave some artifacts around in the form of high QRN and S9+ static crashes,
but we continued to push on.
When the closing bell sounded, much to our surprise, we exceeded last years
Q count, mult count and of course total points.
Thanks to Jack (W0UCE), Nate (N4YDU) and Alan (AA4FU) for making this
another successful M2 outing. Also thanks to everyone that called us for
the Qs and for the patience, especially on 80 and 160, while we asked again
and again for repeats.
Next week I will be on as a Single Op in NAQP-SSB.
Until then, 73 -
Bruce - N1LN
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:10:04 -0500
From: Howard Hoyt <n4af at n4af.net>
To: PVRCNC <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [PVRCNC] NC4KW
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Fantastic job guys !
Amazing you were able to break last years score ! Even without the storm
shutting you down, the noisey condx made it less than ideal.
Your multi score should push NCe easily into the chapter competition lead.
73, Howie
http://n4af.net
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 16:00:04 -0500
From: "Bruce Meier" <bemeier at bellsouth.net>
To: "'Howard Hoyt'" <n4af at n4af.net>, "'PVRCNC'"
<pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [PVRCNC] NC4KW
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Thanks Howie !! We all appreciate both your words of encouragement and the
end results.
Regarding N1MM nw issues that I mentioned in my write-up. I found a couple
things...
1. WriteLog would not connect either.
- didn't really think MM was the issue, this confirmed it 2. Been
looking around for why -
- I am running CA anti-virus / internet protection sw on all my home
systems
- also have Microsoft Essentials running - same, all home systems 3.
Could not turn off the software FW in MSE even though it was shown as "ON"
4. Found it in CA AV
5. Disabled the SW firewall - - WriteLog immediately connected
- shut down WriteLog / started up MM
6. MM - also immediately connected
7. Let it run for about 2 hrs.
- went out to remove 2 6" trees from my NW and NE beverages. They
still worked last night being almost on the ground. Guess they were
BOGS.
8. Came inside - MM was still running.
9. Turned the FW back on - still running.
10. Shut down either computer - won't connect.
11. Turned off Firewall - IMMEDIATELY CONNECTS.
So - looks like I need to shut down the SW firewall when running M2.
/Bruce
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Fantastic job guys !
Amazing you were able to break last years score ! Even without the storm
shutting you down, the noisey condx made it less than ideal.
Your multi score should push NCe easily into the chapter competition lead.
73, Howie
http://n4af.net
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