I did a little more CQing than in previous North American QSO Parties.  But 
I don't stay on one frequency calling CQ with no answers for more than a 
couple of minutes.  As someone on the Potomac Valley Radio Club reflector 
said, you have to be in ADHD mode, not allowing yourself to stay in a mode 
too long if it is not producing QSOs or multipliers.  The QRN level was 
terrible around here on Saturday night on 80.  And I messed up the logs for 
a few QSOs because I didn't always notice that I had not hit the spacebar 
between the station's name and his state, so N1MM would not properly accept 
the next one or more QSOs.  I don't know whether using a braille display 
would help this; I tend to interrupt the speech very quickly.  Talk about 
ADHD.




Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Behler
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 6:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: KB8TYJ N A Q P CW Results

Lloyd:

Did you do S and P, call CQ, or a combination?

In this particular contest, I always find myself doing too much S and P, and
probably not enough C q ing.

I also find it tempting to stay on certain bands too long, which probably
short-changes me in the end when it gets to 80 and 160.

I know that strategies vary from contest to contest, so I'm still in
learning mode here.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lloyd Rasmussen
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 9:43 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: KB8TYJ N A Q P CW Results

Good going!  In about 4.5 hours of operating I made about 224 QSOs, 86 state
or province multipliers and 4 countries, for a score of just over 20,000
points.



Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Behler
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: KB8TYJ N A Q P CW Results

Hi, all.



Yesterday was fairly successful for me with regard to the North American QSO
Party CW contest.  I made a total of 302 QSO's in approximately 9 hours of
operating.  I got 136 multipliers as well, which led to a total score of
41072 points.



I had a lot of fun on 10 through 40 meters.



Didn't do as much operating as I would have liked on 80 and 160, but at
least was able to add to my mults on those bands.



80 and 160 were quite noisy, due to thunderstorms in the southern and
southeastern US.



The only person from the list I heard was Lloyd late last night on 80
meters.



My one disappointment was that I did less operating on 80 and 160 than I had
planned.  For some reason, which I have to figure out between now and next
week-end's SSB contest, my timer in the N3FJP software indicated an
incorrect total hours of operating time.  My Cabrillo log that was just
submitted to the National Contest Journal is accurate, but N3FJP incorrectly
noted my total operating time.  This is why I operated only 9 hours, instead
of the 10 hours I could have operated.  If I had been able to operate the
full 10 hours as I had intended, I probably would have broken my record of
329 contacts from last January.



Tom Behler: KB8TYJ