Again, thanks to all for your efforts this year. I posted the results on "cumulative" page of the sign-in sheets. My target was 25,000 QSOs. We got 26,506, a great surprise to me, given the number of empty slots. As in the past, I will be commissioning a genuine K2B mug this year, similar in design to last years - see animation, attached (but with this year's QSL card, of course), personalized with your callsign. I'll let you know if the $20 pricing remains same as 2023. I will be buying one each for the top five scores, and one for our great QSL manager, Rhonda, W0MAN. There may be more little surprises in the envelope with your certificate. K2B bling. On the cumulative sheet, you will also see a summation of top 20 K2B ops, which is 24,875. This was the idea of Ken KU2US, to level the playing field among colonies. This will be the score that's used for comparison in the hyper-competitive (ugh) inter-colony rivalry. (double ugh) May I ask for comments / complaints / suggestions? W2RU had one comment: I thought the real-time google docs spreadsheet worked very well, with the single exception that it was too easy for me (and others, too, it appears!) to accidentally change the contents of a cell. I have no idea whether that can be easily corrected with a special “Enter” key combination, but I wouldn’t give up the “real time” aspect of that shared spreadsheet — it made it very possible to dodge the frequent sporadic lightning alerts we had down here all week and sign up for hour-long slots at the last minute. I plan to reserve a table (Horticulture Room - yes they have AC this year) at Berryville Hamfest, August 4, maybe an impromptu K2B meet-up at lunch time? Also, if you have gear you'd like to sell, I am happy to accommodate. If there's demand, I will get two tables. Let me know, off-thread. Maybe email me off the thread for a casual RSVP, if you would. Hoping I can snag Bud W2RU and Jeff K0ZR to buy or get autographed a copy of their books. (also on Amazon) I am starting to feel like we are family .... in a good way. Or more aptly, a band of brothers ... having been through an ordeal together. 73, David, K2WPM

Hey folks, I was adding in my cumulative totals to the tracking spreadsheet and noticed that the formulas expect values every day of the week (except those before your first day). W4TEA, NT8B, and K0ZR, I filled out your rows by taking your final count and copying it right. Feel free to put in the actuals if you did operate those days. I was just trying to make the totals work as you weren't being counted. Sean N3RTW -- Sean Walberg <sean@...> http://ertw.com/

How should I submit my K2B log? Post it here, or email it directly to David? --- Mike N4CF

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