26/11/2006
GO 5A7A...
It is sunday, November 26 and we have 16 hours to go in the contest. The network is running stable, and with the exception of restarting a logging program here and there everything works as planned. What a relief! After the
"M$ Window$ reboot festival" of last week I had expected the worst. But the regular (paid) version of Win-test we are running seems to work well. We now have some 12.000 qso's in the log and 25 Million points. With 16 hours to go...The pile-ups on 15 are incredible. We are working simplex but the pile-up is 1 kHz wide. It is impossible to grab more than a few letters from a callsign. And once you have it complete you have to give the report 3 times since the station will not hear you are giving it. This slows the rate down to about 100 - 150 per hour.
Oh well, lets call it a luxury problem... 15 will be open until 19:00 Z, lets go again.... CU on 15.....
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