June VHF Contest

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Lance Collister, W7GJ

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Jun 15, 2009, 5:24:42 PM6/15/09

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Well, after spending about half as much time making up the Cabrillo file submission
as I did in the contest, I finally got something that pleases the log robot there at
ARRL ;-) I didn't work the contest full time and I only operated on 6m, but I was
pleased to work 293 stations in 125 grids. Unfortunately, I don't think any of them
were new grids for me - I didn't have prop to any of the rare grid DXpeditions that
were taking place over the weekend :-( If there are any more 6m outings to rare
grids this summer, I hope to be able to work them on D layer scatter using JT65 mode.

Now that I have figured out how to make a Cabrillo text file from an EXCEL file from
my TRX-Manager log file, it should be a lot less painful to actually get on and enter
a contest next time... I may even untie the 2m array for W7MEM next time around ;-)

In case it is of interest to anybody, I have attached a copy of my log submission.
If it would be of any help to anybody, I can provide the EXCEL file where I import my
log data and convert it to the Cabrillo format required by the ARRL. Let's hope for
some great Es to the Carib over the next few weeks!

VY 73, Lance
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Lance Collister, W7GJ (ex: WN3GPL, WA3GPL, WA1JXN, WA1JXN/C6A, ZF2OC/ZF8)
P.O. Box 73
Frenchtown, MT 59834 USA
QTH: DN27UB
TEL: (406) 626-5728
URL: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj
2m DXCC #11/6m DXCC #815