ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: N4AF
Operator(s): N4AF
Station: N4AF
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: nc
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40:
20:
15:
10:
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Total: 1237 Sections = 83 Total Score = 205,342
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Great condx. Thunderstorms passing thru Sunday night were a problem as they were
just south of us.
As usual, 40M was THE band. Sweet to have expeditions covering VY1 and VO-
actually both VY1EI and VO1XX were begging for QSOs (at times). Maybe first
time worked at least two of every mult. NE and Dakotas were out in full force
;-)
We had added 'ON' to logging in anticipation, zero problems with VE3 giving new
mults correctly tho.
A great showing from PVRC, they seemed everywhere.
Full breakout of rates @
http://n4af.blountscreek.org/stats/2012%20ARRL-SS-CW%20N4AF/graphs_qsbyhour_All.htm
(if that long url gets broken http://n4af.blountscreek.org/stats/ )
My two pet peeves seemed slightly better this year:
1) station calls; give exch; he comes back with <HIS CALL> not mine. Unless I
blew his call- WHY waste air space ? Even more prevalent in DX tests.
2) CW challenged station (we were all there) comes back and insists on
REPEATING all elements of his entire exchange. WHY ?
--Having said that, I thought level of civility was at an all time high this
year, I was impressed.
Oh, one last thought: DUPES. In this computer age, typically if someone says
'dupe' it translates to a blown call. If possible, when a station is a dupe, it
would be a nice courtesy (if not repeating the exch) to give the qso number
received previously; something like "dupe qsl your # 123". In some cases, it
seemed as fast to just give out the qso again-esp if response 'n.i.l' would
subsequently follow.
Thanks for the qsos, great to work all of the Thursday night Sprint gang !
My apologies to friends in Ukraine, I no longer had the UR DX log loaded and
had no way to give out the right numbers. Maybe next year I will keep a sheet
of paper.
73, Howie N4AF
ARRL-SS-CW SUMMARY SHEET
CONTEST: ARRL-SS-CW
START DATE: 03-11-12
CALLSIGN USED: N4AF
LOCATOR: FM15
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: CW
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-POWER: HIGH
CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club
NAME: Howard Hoyt N4AF
ADDRESS: 549 Bluebird Trail
ADDRESS-CITY: Blounts Creek
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: NC
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 27814
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: USA
EMAIL: N4AF@PVRC.ORG
OPERATING TIME: 23:57:23
CQ COUNTER: 4534
RUN/SEARCH: 901/346 Qs
UNIQUE CALLSIGNS: 1237
SOFTWARE: TR4W v.4.246 http://www.tr4w.com
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80CW 190 189 378 4
40CW 642 634 1268 14
20CW 306 305 610 48
15CW 109 109 218 17
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Totals 1247 1237 2474 83
Final Score = 205342 points.
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