ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: NN7SS
Operator(s): K6UFO
Station: NN7SS
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: WWA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 68
40: 245
20: 253
15: 165
10: 2
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Total: 733 Sections = 79 Total Score = 115,814
Club: Western Washington DX Club
Comments:
I'm really pleased with making 700 QSOs while QRP!
This would be 4th place based on last year's QRP scores.
I came within 6 QSOs (or one last mult) of reaching
the stellar WWA QRP Record of K7RI(NÃ?AX op). Maybe next
time if 10 meters will be fully open. In fact, I spent
way too much time in "10 Meter Optimist Mode" tuning
the band and listening to weak, weak signals that I'd
never be able to work while QRP. Finally, only 2 worked.
I started on 15m and had two good hours. Sunday had 15m
as quirky as ever, going strong to weak and back again
in the same hour. Less crowded than 15m, so a QRP'er
could call CQ and stay awhile.
20m was packed with stations up to at least 14.090 KHz!
I could tune for hours until finding a hole, and then
this QRP'er could CQ for about 2 minutes before getting
stomped... so back to search and pounce.
40m was surprisingly good, helped by my 2 element yagi
at 78 ft on top of a hill looking down to salt water
to the East. Stations would double check my "Q" prec
and say "FB". I'm glad the hundreds of hours of work
and thousands of dollars of tower and antenna pay off.
Before the contest I checked both rig's power outputs
with a digital power meter and had 3.5 to 4.9 watts
depending on the band/antenna combo.
The less said about 80m while QRP, the better. I wish
I could spend less time there too, but "the crowd"
moves there pretty early in the evening. I actually
did better on 80m before sunrise on Sunday morning.
I don't worry about Mults, most show up eventually.
I only missed NL (VO1) and never heard any during my
extensive tuning. I spent brief times in the pileups
to get KE0Z/VE4 and VY1EI, but they are fairly close
and had good loud signals, so a little RIT/XIT magic
and some bold calling got me through.
A big THANK YOU to the stations who listen carefully
and spend a couple of rounds pulling the exchange out
of a weak signal! I really appreciate it!
NN7SS (K6UFO op)
20m-10m: C-31XR at 71ft, C3 at 50ft, Steppir-3el 40ft.
40m: Force 12 Delta 240 at 78ft, 40-2CD at 50ft.
80m: Half-slopers from 60ft or 48ft.
Yaesu FT-1000MP at 5 watts.
Kenwood TS-2000 at 5 watts.
Writelog software and W5XD SO2R box.
QSOs by hour and band.
80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total Cumm Off
21Z - - 17 31 - 48 48
22Z - - 23 40 - 63 111
23Z - - 26 13 - 39 150
00Z- -+- 9 32 ---+- ---+ 41 191
01Z - 28 - - - 28 219
02Z - 31 - - - 31 250
03Z - 15 - - - 15 265
04Z - 29 - - - 29 294
05Z 5 17 - - - 22 316
06Z 6 24 - - - 30 346
07Z 13 13 - - - 26 372
08Z- -+- 2 ---+- ---+- ---+ 2 374 56
09Z - - - - - 0 374 60
10Z - - - - - 0 374 60
11Z - - - - - 0 374 60
12Z 13 2 - - - 15 389 35
13Z 14 23 - - - 37 426
14Z 9 18 - - - 27 453
15Z - 8 - - - 8 461 40
16Z- -+- ---+- 8 14 ---+ 22 483 23
17Z - - 9 31 - 40 523
18Z - - 30 1 2 33 556
19Z - - - 20 - 20 576
20Z - - 24 7 - 31 607
21Z - - 42 3 - 45 652
22Z - - 17 5 - 22 674
23Z - - 22 - - 22 696
00Z- -+- 6 3 ---+- ---+ 9 705
01Z - 20 - - - 20 725
02Z 8 - - - - 8 733
Tot: 68 245 253 165 2
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