Another are you ready for - ARRL Sweepstakes (CW)

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW: Nov 7, 2100Z to Nov 9, 0300Z

 

This is probably the only contest I have never worked before, due to my work schedule. What the hell is up with the exchange? Might as well throw mother's maiden name in there too.

 

Dave,... Do you have any rig to get on-the-air with ?

 

Could/would you have use for a:

Heathkit HW-9(WARC)
HFT-9
HM-9
SP-99
HWA-2036-3 (sorry, don't have the matching power supply)

I know that, with you, this gear would have a good home !

(I'm in the Christmas spirit) Besides,... I'm almost 74 & have come to the conclusion that "Life's too short (for me) for QRP" - I'm back to 100w & a wire

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Sending PM

 

I was ready. I knew I had some fiddling to do with N1MM. In the process of setting it up with the 7610 for FSK (for the last big RTTY contest), I knew I'd changed some things I should not have changed. Luckily, I knew where the problem probably lay.

Got done, went on the air for Sweepstakes in my no longer quite so hardcore fashion and had a great weekend.

Now? Hard to believe another Sweepstakes has come and gone. Oh, I know there'll be the phone edition...but to me that always seems a little more like work and less like fun than CW.

 

I dunno, OM. Seems pretty simple to me. No RST or anything. Just serial number, class, check number and section. I suppose they could leave the class out...but not a big deal to send and A or M or whatever.

 

I was actually ready this year...the first time in 48 years that SS didn't catch me by suprise! So-so conditions at the beginning, but much better for the last 1/3. Lotsa fun....I might even submit a log!
Eric

 

I've been using DXkeeper for logging ever since I discovered electronic logging...hasn't been all that long. A little convoluted converting a Cabrillo file, but I figured that out. Otherwise I like DXkeeper more than N1MM.

 

I think I am sticking with N1MM...I am more comfortable with it every time I use it...and I really, REALLY like the big bandscope display it delivers with my IC 7610. The problem I had with it was me not really understanding what I needed to do to set it and MMTTY up for FSK for RTTY. Doing that with the 7610 requires using one port and one virtual port on the rig. That's the point were poor W4NNF's head began to swim.

But I figured it out...and I've now gone back and corrected the wrong settings I entered in the process of trying to make it work.