ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KA1ARB
Operator(s): KA1ARB WB1ADR
Station: KA1ARB
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 697
40: 516
20: 338
15: 18
10:
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Total: 1569 Sections = 80 Total Score = 251,040
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
After two and a half days of hard work in the pouring rain, we finally got some
wires up on 40 meters to give us something beyond an inverted V (we also
managed to snag the wires in every single tree limb in the yard, but that's
another story). The wires did help, but our big-time sweepstakes antenna is
still the low 80 meter dipole over the house. Go figure.
Lee, WB1ADR, remains the rate king, but Rob, KA1ARB, is catching up. And Rob
gets to deal with the late night hours while Lee insists on a full night's
beauty sleep. We got off to our best start ever, with the first several hours
averaging over 90 Qs/hr. We got caught staying on 20 meters too long in the
23:00Z hour, then we tried to slug it out on 40 meters. Only when we went to
80 meters did get get going again. We stayed cooking on 80 meters until 6:00Z
hour, and stayed there too long (notice a theme here?) until going to 40 meters
around 7:00Z. Wow, it took off again for 45 minutes until the bottom dropped
out and we called it a night.
Sunday was mostly 40 meters with a few excursions to 20 meters and one brief
visit to 15. We ended up between 40 and 80. We took two more breaks on Sunday
when things slowed down, but it never felt like there was a real shortage of
people. The ARRL ought to have it's 75th anniversary every year!
Even after we found VE8EV (and WBIADR snagged him quick - wow!), a sweep was
looking very doubtful without a PR. Couldn't ever hear one (where's Rich,
KE3Q, when you need him?) But the gods were smiling on us after our penance in
the rain, and WP4SK called in on 40 meters at 1:00 Z Sunday. Yippee! Missing a
sweep because of PR would have been hard to bear.
Thanks to everyone for the Q's and for lots of fun.
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