October 18, 2010 – Order of Boiled Owls of New York

NYQP NA2M SOLP Mixed

My tale of woe… I lost all 150 40M QSOs when I tried to use N1MM to send a CW exchange. I received a message that a file was missing, e.g. DLPORTIO.dll. It was not missing, but the computer locked up and after an hour trying to fix it I gave up and had to reinstall N1MM. I had saved…

NYQP K2QMF SOCW LP

Hoot, Saturday was a crazy day here so didn’t have much time for NYQP. Did manage to get on for an hour or so and below is the meager results.. I did work KA2D and K2LE on 80 CW. Sorry I missed the rest of the flock… 73, Ted K2QMF P.S. – Keep those cards and letters coming. ——— Forwarded…

NYQP N2FF SOLP Mixed

Operated some 6 and a half hours with a number of computer hang ups and slow CW response. As Mike noted there were a lot of Owls to work. That was great! Operated low power using telnet (rules say nothing/nada about assisted) and was posting many stations As Tom mentioned I operated no RTTY as the JARTS contest was on…

NYQP KS2G SOLP SSB

Hoots! Was able to operate only 5 hours. Had to QRT at 17:00 Local to head for Big Apple for dinner and chamber music concert at 92nd Street Y. (Excellent performance by Takacs Quartet!) So missed out on the opportunity to work 75 meters — which was my biggest band last year (139 Q’s). Still did better this year in…

NYQP K2LE SOCW HP

Worked a few Owls : N2YBB, W2LK, K2QMF, N2FF never heard NA2M. Was looking for KS2G on CW – still looking K3 radio functioned perfectly. Hooties Andy K2LE ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Date: Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:29 PM Subject: NyQP K2LE SOCW HP To: 3830@contesting.com, K2LE@arrl.net New York QSO Party Call: K2LE Operator(s): K2LE Station: K2LE Class:…

NYQP N2YBB SOLP Mixed

Worked the contest for 10 1/2 hours SOLP Mixed. I don’t think I ever worked so many Owls in one contest: KS2G, N2FF, NA2M, W2LK, K2LE, KA2D, K2LE. Here is the summary: Band Mode QSOs Pts Sec Mul 1.8 CW 1 2 0 0 1.8 LSB 2 2 0 0 3.5 CW 23 46 1 0 3.5 LSB 110 110…

NYQP KA2D SO LP mixed

Hoot hoot NYQP Call: KA2D Class: SOMixed LP Operating Time (hrs): 5 +/- Summary: Band CW Qs Ph Qs Dig Qs —————————- 160: 0 0 0 80: 54 0 0 40: 108 48 0 20: 0 0 0 15: 0 0 0 10: 2 0 0 —————————- Total: 164 48 0 Mults = 68 Total Score = 25,568 Club: Order…