ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KD4D
Operator(s): KD4D
Station: N3HBX
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Poolesville, MD
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 563
40: 664
20: 341
15: 25
10:
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Total: 1593 Sections = 80 Total Score = 254,880
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use the "farm." I lost
the beverage switching box early Saturday night, so I had to listen
using the transmit inverted vee on 80 which made for a long night.
I wanted to really push 80 meters, but due to the loss of the beverages
and having better antennas on 40, I ended up having more QSO's on 40
than 80 this year.
A personal best for me in SSB SS. First time over 1500 QSO's! :-)
I used a couple of tips from Ty, K3MM, that I think helped. First,
I really concentrated on running for the first ten hours. That helped
my rates and kept my run frequencies clearer. Second, I didn't lose
my run frequency any on Saturday trying to pull out the REALLY weak
stations. That helped a lot. Trying to copy these guys on Saturday
would sometime result in a loud CQ getting an answer on my run
frequency - and then no more run frequency.
I don't think I made any MAJOR blunders this time in strategy. I
wished at 8:25PM that I had some more operating time, but who knows?
I tried 40 for the last few hours a few times, but could never get
anything going so ended up on 80.
This is the first time I ever worked more than one NT (I ended up
with three). I remember thinking "I need VY1JA" when I went from 40
to 20. I turned the beam to about 320, called CQ, and worked J.
in 1 MINUTE as my third QSO on 20. Thanks, J.
I used the second radio to pick up PR and VI on Sunday morning while
CQ'ing on 40. I just pointed the beam southeast and found WP3R and
KP2D. The last sections were (in order): A and BC on 40 before my
first break, VI and PR on 20 when I got on Sunday morning, and then
MB and NL.
I worked at least two of each section - a first for me I think!
Lots of MDC, VA, and even DE stations on.
Great fun. Go PVRC!
2006 SS SSB - KD4D @ N3HBX
HOUR 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
21 0 6 70 0 76 76
22 39 47 2 0 88 164
23 79 1 0 0 80 244
0 88 0 0 0 88 332
1 59 6 0 0 65 397
2 7 73 0 0 80 477
3 0 90 0 0 90 567
4 7 68 0 0 75 642
5 42 37 0 0 79 721
6 1 78 0 0 79 800
7 43 25 0 0 68 868
8 23 13 0 0 36 904
9 0 0 0 0 0 904
10 0 0 0 0 0 904
11 2 7 0 0 9 913
12 44 22 0 0 66 979
13 3 35 9 0 47 1026
14 1 53 3 0 57 1083
15 0 66 6 0 72 1155
16 0 23 44 0 67 1222
17 0 6 59 0 65 1287
18 0 0 21 2 23 1310
19 0 0 52 1 53 1363
20 0 0 29 18 47 1410
21 0 0 41 4 45 1455
22 10 2 5 0 17 1472
23 48 1 0 0 49 1521
0 49 4 0 0 53 1574
1 18 1 0 0 19 1593
TOTAL 563 664 341 25
2006 SS SSB - KD4D @ N3HBX
1. Il 98
2. Va 76
3. Mdc 64
4. Mn 60
5. Mi 54
6. Oh 53
7. Scv 51
8. Nc 40
9. Co 37
10. WWa 36
11. Sv 34
12. Wi 34
13. In 33
14. NNj 33
15. On 31
16. NTx 29
17. Ep 27
18. Mo 26
19. STx 26
20. Ga 26
21. Or 25
22. ENy 25
23. Ct 24
24. NFl 23
25. Nh 23
26. Em 23
27. Az 22
28. Tn 22
29. Ok 21
30. WNy 20
31. SFl 19
32. Ia 19
33. Ks 18
34. Org 18
35. WPa 18
36. NLi 18
37. Eb 18
38. Ky 17
39. Sdg 15
40. Ew 15
41. Al 15
42. Ne 14
43. La 13
44. WcF 13
45. Nm 13
46. Bc 13
47. Mt 12
48. Ar 12
49. Nv 12
50. Wv 12
51. Sjv 11
52. Sc 11
53. Lax 10
54. SNj 10
55. Sf 10
56. Sd 9
57. Id 9
58. Vt 9
59. Wy 8
60. Me 8
61. De 8
62. Ri 8
63. WMa 8
64. Ab 6
65. Sb 6
66. Ut 6
67. Pac 6
68. Ak 6
69. WTx 5
70. Sk 5
71. Mb 5
72. Nd 4
73. Nl 4
74. Mar 4
75. Qc 4
76. NNy 3
77. Ms 3
78. Nt 3
79. Vi 2
80. Pr 2
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