ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: NS3T
Operator(s): NS3T
Station: NS3T
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 196
40: 54
20: 42
15: 18
10: 0
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Total: 310 Sections = 72 Total Score = 44,640
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Just like two weeks ago, I squeezed every minute out of this contest, when
I wasn't doing stuff with the family, etc.
I was SO2R, but that was because the second radio was usually tuned to the
baby monitor, so I could figure out if all hell was breaking loose upstairs
during my repeated 5-minute runs to the shack.
I only had two turns in the chair of two hours in a row, one late
Saturday night (with the 3-month old harmonic asleep in my lap)
and then on Sunday evening, while I navigated the zoo on 75 meters.
I must also give a shout out to W3SO, who told a 6-land station to bug off
when he decided to try to take my frequency on 75 meters.
As usual, if you had a QSO with me, it was all on tape. This was the best
version of my voice files yet and it will only improve once I tweak some of
the files that didn't sound good on this one. I also need to add things
like "Hey, you're 40 over 9, you couldn't hear me CQ'ing on this frequency??"
As usual, my low power signal attracted the National Tune Up Frequency Club.
The winner in that was W2DAV, who decided it would be cool to test his
signal and not listen to see if anyone was on Sunday morning on 75. The
best part about it was he kept ID'ing in the midst of my CQ's.
I really don't like SSB contests, but I find the voice file thing really helps
me deal with the yahoos who want to hear you get frustrated while they QRM
you with whistles, FSK, recordings of your own CQ's, etc. For about 10
minutes
on Sunday evening, I just let the ole CQ repeat and repeat while someone
tried to bait me repeatedly. While he was QRM'ing me, I just sat there and
did a bunch of work for Monday morning and waited him out. Soon enough he
was gone and I was back to making contacts.
I'll try to be on as much as I can the next three weekends, but sooner or
later the XYL and Harmonic Gods are going to strike me down. There's only
so many times I can run to the shack without being found out...
73 Jamie NS3T
TS-2000's on HF and the baby monitor
80 meter inverted L and inverted vee
40 meter inverted L, dipole and W4OP end fed dipole
20/15/10 W4OP end fedz dipoles
QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour 80 40 20 15 Total Cumm OffTime
D1-2100Z 6/4 - - 10/7 16/11 16/11
D1-2200Z 3/2 - - - 3/2 19/13 50
D1-2300Z 14/2 - - - 14/2 33/15 37
D2-0000Z 1/0 4/3 3/3 --+-- 8/6 41/21 34
D2-0100Z - - - - 0/0 41/21 60
D2-0200Z 2/2 1/0 - - 3/2 44/23 30
D2-0300Z 9/6 - 7/1 - 16/7 60/30
D2-0400Z 2/0 - - - 2/0 62/30 53
D2-0500Z 22/6 - - - 22/6 84/36 47
D2-0600Z 18/6 16/12 - - 34/18 118/54
D2-0700Z 23/4 9/4 - - 32/8 150/62
D2-0800Z 13/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/1 163/63 43
D2-0900Z - - - - 0/0 163/63 60
D2-1000Z - - - - 0/0 163/63 60
D2-1100Z - - - - 0/0 163/63 60
D2-1200Z 13/0 2/0 - - 15/0 178/63 26
D2-1300Z 11/0 - - - 11/0 189/63 38
D2-1400Z 2/0 8/0 7/2 2/1 19/3 208/66 4
D2-1500Z - 5/0 4/1 1/0 10/1 218/67
D2-1600Z --+-- 6/0 --+-- 1/0 7/0 225/67 23
D2-1700Z - - - - 0/0 225/67 60
D2-1800Z - - - - 0/0 225/67 60
D2-1900Z - - - - 0/0 225/67 60
D2-2000Z - - - - 0/0 225/67 60
D2-2100Z - - 4/2 4/2 8/4 233/71 31
D2-2200Z 3/0 3/0 3/1 - 9/1 242/72
D2-2300Z 5/0 - 5/0 - 10/0 252/72 43
D3-0000Z --+-- --+-- 9/0 --+-- 9/0 261/72 50
D3-0100Z 31/0 - - - 31/0 292/72 4
D3-0200Z 18/0 - - - 18/0 310/72
Total: 196/33 54/19 42/10 18/10
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