Well, Lloyd, this is a continuing learning effort here, and it will be
interesting to see how I do in the SSB contest this week-end.

I don't think I will do quite as well, since my antennas for the higher
bands are not the greatest, but I will try anyway to do the best I can with
what I have.

And, yes, I agree, the QRN was quite rough even up here in the north country
on 80 and 160.

Will see what this coming week-end brings.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ



-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Lloyd Rasmussen
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 7:24 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: KB8TYJ N A Q P CW Results

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