ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KD4D
Operator(s): KD4D
Station: N3HBX
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: MDC
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 266
40: 821
20: 178
15: 269
10: 99
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Total: 1633 Sections = 83 Total Score = 271,078
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use his Poolesville station
again. The new 40 meter stacked OWA antennas work great - as you can see from
my 40 meter numbers. LOTS of those QSOs were on the inverted vee though.
What fun! A personal best for me in SS SSB. :-) I did two things
differently:
1) Really concentrated on maintaining a high run rate when conditions were
good.
2) Changing bands or frequencies when rates seemed too low and not worrying
about holding a frequency for hours.
Previously, my best hourly rate on SSB in Sweepstakes was 100. This year, I
had FOUR hours over 100 - including a 114 hour running on 40!
"Conventional wisdom" in MDC is to avoid the high bands and on
Saturday night, 80 meters is the place to be. Well, I started on 10 and stayed
on 15 until I went to 40. I didn't run on 20 meters until Sunday morning!
I couldn't get good runs on 80 Saturday night (or Sunday morning for that
matter) and ended up spending a lot more time on 40. Sunday night, I couldn't
get good rates on 40 and went to 80 for the last hour or so.
This weekend showed that I have to be more flexible and CHANGE my plans if
something isn't working...even if it worked last year.
I heard LOTS of comments about how many MDC and VA stations were on...a good
sign! A high point was an SSB QSO with N2YO - our first on SSB! Great to hear
you, Chip.
Alberta was my last section for the sweep - VE4 and VE5 were EASY, but not
VE6.
Hourly rates and QSOs by section follow.
Thanks for the QSOs!
2013 Sweepstakes SSB - KD4D QSOs per band (Dupes removed)
80 40 20 15 10 Hour Total
21 0 0 0 30 72 102
22 0 5 0 68 17 90
23 0 108 0 6 0 114
0 18 47 0 7 0 72
1 45 25 0 0 0 70
2 4 104 0 0 0 108
3 57 28 0 0 0 85
4 0 107 0 0 0 107
5 6 82 0 0 0 88
6 11 53 0 0 0 64
7 19 45 0 0 0 64
8 7 29 0 0 0 36
11 18 3 0 0 0 21
12 14 39 1 0 0 54
13 0 52 8 0 0 60
14 0 44 21 0 0 65
15 0 2 34 12 0 48
16 0 0 0 15 4 19
17 0 0 6 39 1 46
18 0 0 16 6 0 22
19 0 0 38 8 0 46
20 0 0 0 18 4 22
21 0 0 11 36 1 48
22 0 0 27 23 0 50
23 0 7 13 1 0 21
0 9 40 3 0 0 52
1 55 1 0 0 0 56
2 3 0 0 0 0 3
Total 266 821 178 269 99 1633
QSOs by section (Duplicates removed)
MDC 78
VA 75
MN 62
WWA 57
IL 54
SCV 51
CO 48
MI 48
NC 46
OH 45
NTX 44
OR 35
SV 32
AZ 32
WI 30
EB 30
MO 30
IN 27
EPA 26
AL 24
WNY 23
STX 23
ENY 23
KS 22
TN 22
SJV 22
IA 22
NFL 20
LAX 20
GA 20
EMA 20
NH 19
NV 19
CT 18
AR 18
MT 18
SC 17
SF 17
NNJ 17
NE 16
ORG 16
NM 16
NLI 16
LA 15
UT 14
WMA 13
SB 13
KY 12
WPA 12
SNJ 12
BC 12
MS 12
WTX 11
OK 11
EWA 11
WCF 10
WY 10
ME 10
ID 9
SFL 9
WV 9
VT 9
ONE 9
SDG 8
ONS 7
SD 7
QC 7
ND 6
MAR 6
SK 6
PAC 5
RI 5
ONN 5
DE 5
AK 4
MB 4
NNY 4
GTA 4
NL 3
NT 2
AB 2
VI 1
PR 1
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