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All of our time  on SSB was spent running. The rate on 40m in the morning was ok, but the rate on 20m was pretty brisk. People like hearing a child’s voice (11 year old) on the radio and it was pretty distinctive on the voice keyer.    Ben did a great job running the pile-up and I focused on the logging the contacts.

Most of the MN counties were in the morning while we were working CW search & pounce chasing the rovers. In the end we had 75 multipliers which is decent given our limited time on the air.

Since I was looking at scores I thought that it would be fun to look at over previous years.

2012: 25,050 points
2011:  8,282 points
2010:  7,074 points
2009:  2,668 points
2008:  4,653 points (first year with Ben operating)

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Since Writelog does not natively run on Linux and I end up running it from an XP session within a VirtualBox session. I am tied to Writelog since I like the use of a VoiceKeyer and my K1EL USB Winkeyer (for CW). 

Here is map showing the rovers out-and-about cruising the state activating the rare grids.

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I also worked 6Y3M on 15m CW (Jamaica)

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Age: 55-64
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How did I find this?  I heard something on Public Radio yesterday while I was in the car. So of course I googled the info and found:  http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

If you go there it will show your info and give you a change to change some of it.

So how did Google do:

• I like movies and music
• I am a professional IT Architect and amateur Electrical Engineer
• I spend time looking at Internet & telecom related items and I am an amateur radio operator
• I like guns and visit the target range on a regular basis
• I use online electrical calculators for projects & do a lot of online research
  
• I am not 55-64… I am 39.

I would say that they had it about 83% correct. From a marketing point of view they completely blew my demo because they were ~20 years off the mark on my age.  –I have a couple of years before I need to think about AARP membership, but thanks for the thought Google.

I also worked HU2DX on 20m CW (El Salvador)

http://www.hu2dx.de/

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