Might I suggest a slightly new strategy? Jump on the contact as soon as you can
then listen for his (or her) next contact transmission and correct if
necessary. Every good contest logging program has a means of correcting an
entry.
Try it out week after next in the NAQP Phone contest. Maybe the Server gods
will cooperate.
73,
Jim, N5DTT
On Sunday, August 2, 2015 9:37 PM, Michael Rapp via BVARC
<[email protected]> wrote:
Well, I was all ready to help out in the 10-10 contest this weekend. I knew
the conditions probably weren't going to be all that great, so I resolved to at
least every hour or so tune around and see if anyone was calling CQ.
So, I sit down at the radio and no sooner had I adjusted my antenna tuner for
10 meters, my cell phone text message chime goes off. And goes off...and off
and off and offoffoffoffoff. That can mean only one thing. A server, probably
an important one, has just unceremoniously eaten itself at the University.
Yep, it was one of my database servers saying, "Uh, Michael...you know that
system drive that holds important stuff like the OS?....it seems to
be...well...uh, gone. It was here a moment ago. Thought you should know.
BTW, I'm about to cras--"
So that was my weekend. Nevertheless, I managed amid the chaos to make at
least one contact with a station in Ohio, so I was able to contribute something
to the effort. :)
I probably would have made more contacts, but I have a bad habit in phone
contests. I am so fearful of messing up sometimes, that I will wait until I
hear the running station give their full exchange before I even try calling
them. With conditions as they were, some stations were only audible (to me)
for maybe 60-90 seconds. If I had just called when I first heard the CQ, I
possibly would have gotten them, but as I waited, they faded out before I could
get them.
73,
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