ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: W5KFT
Operator(s): WM5R
Station: W5KFT
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: EM00st
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 105
40: 721
20: 867
15: 51
10: 0
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Total: 1744 Sections = 79 Total Score = 275,552
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Station W5KFT: http://www.w5kft.org/
Beverages - 900' long, fixed 30° (NE), not terminated
80 - Sloping dipoles - NE, NW from 150', SE from 135'
40 - Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 150', rotatable
Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 70', fixed NE
20 - Hy-Gain 204BA @ 157', rotatable
Hy-Gain 204BA @ 105', fixed NE
Hy-Gain 204BA @ 53', fixed NE
Hy-Gain TH7DXX @ 75', rotatable
Hy-Gain TH7DXX @ 45', fixed NW
15 - Hy-Gain 155CA @ 135', rotatable
Hy-Gain 155CA @ 90', fixed NE
Hy-Gain 155CA @ 45', fixed NE
Radio 1: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1500
Radio 2: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1200
Headset: Heil Proset
DVK: W9XT Contest Card
Software: TR Log 6.78
Other: Ameritron RCS-8V switches, ICE bandpass filters,
Top Ten Devices DXDoubler, WX0B SixPak, CDE rotors
Thanks to Bryan W5KFT for letting me operate from his station
in the Sweepstakes again. We took a lightning strike last
spring that broke a few things in the shack. The only thing that's
still not repaired is the Top Ten Devices band decoders, so I
had to remember to manually switch the SixPak and the bandpass
filters this time around. Fortunately, there are relatively few
times in the Sweepstakes when one has to change a radio to another
band as an SO2R operator.
On Saturday, I had an acceptable rate starting on 20 meters,
but making the transition down to 40 meters this year turned
out to be a disaster. It wasn't until sometime in the 0300 UTC hour
(probably when a lot of east coasters had already migrated to 80
meters) that I got going again. This was my worst Saturday
performance in a long time and it just kind of demoralized me.
There's literally no way to recover in this contest if you have a
couple of bad hours on Saturday.
My Sunday was a lot more variable than previous years - instead of
having consistent 60-70 hours, I would have a few hours well
above 70 QSOs/hour and then a few well below that. In the end,
I had marginally more Sunday QSOs this years than last, but not
nearly enough to make up for what I lost on Saturday.
I never found a Puerto Rico station. Based on post-contest
discussions with others, I should have checked 15 meters earlier
on Sunday than I did.
I finally beat K5TR in a contest, but I don't think I can let
this one count.
HOUR 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
21 0 0 138 0 138 138
22 0 0 111 0 111 249
23 0 6 99 0 105 354
0 0 87 0 0 87 441
1 2 80 0 0 82 523
2 22 39 0 0 61 584
3 0 83 0 0 83 667
4 0 98 0 0 98 765
5 0 95 0 0 95 860
6 8 59 0 0 67 927
7 42 12 0 0 54 981
8 11 11 0 0 22 1003
9 0 0 0 0 0 1003
10 0 0 0 0 0 1003
11 0 0 0 0 0 1003
12 19 6 0 0 25 1028
13 1 64 0 0 65 1093
14 0 16 48 0 64 1157
15 0 0 62 0 62 1219
16 0 2 70 0 72 1291
17 0 0 40 7 47 1338
18 0 0 11 39 50 1388
19 0 0 32 2 34 1422
20 0 0 67 3 70 1492
21 0 0 91 0 91 1583
22 0 2 43 0 45 1628
23 0 8 49 0 57 1685
0 0 32 6 0 38 1723
1 0 21 0 0 21 1744
2 0 0 0 0 0 1744
TOTAL 105 721 867 51
Distribution by section
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1. Oh 106
2. Il 105
3. Va 105
4. Mn 73
5. Mdc 71
6. Nc 61
7. Mi 61
8. In 48
9. Wi 48
10. Sv 45
11. Scv 41
12. WWa 37
13. On 35
14. Ga 33
15. Ct 32
16. Tn 32
17. Ep 30
18. NFl 29
19. Or 28
20. WNy 26
21. ENy 26
22. NNj 24
23. Em 24
24. Sjv 24
25. Sc 23
26. Co 22
27. Org 22
28. Nh 21
29. WPa 21
30. SFl 21
31. Mo 21
32. Ky 21
33. WcF 20
34. Eb 18
35. SNj 17
36. Nv 17
37. NLi 15
38. Az 15
39. Sdg 15
40. Wv 14
41. Lax 14
42. Ks 14
43. Ia 13
44. Al 13
45. WMa 12
46. Ut 12
47. Sf 12
48. Mt 12
49. Id 11
50. Ri 11
51. Ne 10
52. Ew 10
53. STx 10
54. NTx 9
55. Sb 9
56. Sd 8
57. Mar 8
58. La 8
59. De 7
60. Wy 7
61. Qc 7
62. Me 6
63. Bc 6
64. Vt 6
65. Ak 6
66. Ab 6
67. Ar 6
68. NNy 5
69. Sk 5
70. Ms 5
71. Pac 5
72. Nd 5
73. Mb 4
74. Ok 4
75. Nm 4
76. Vi 2
77. WTx 2
78. Nt 2
79. Nl 1
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