ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: K4QPL
Operator(s): K4QPL
Station: K4QPL
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 120
40: 231
20: 150
15: 40
10: 7
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Total: 548 Sections = 81 Total Score = 88,776
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
This was the year I should have said no to SSCW. But I didn't. Weekend started
4:30a.m. on Friday morning, out to the airport RDU-ATL, rental car to Macon,
GA, to meet up with former roommate, K4BAI, and the 50-year reunion of the
Class of '64 at Mercer University. (Yeah, the Mercer Bears that upset my second
favorite Duke in the first round of the NCAA!). Class dinner plus endless
"do you remember? sessions" ending up late in the hotel bar Friday
night. Then breakfast, campus tour and official luncheon for the
"Half-Century Club". Dash back to ATL, arrive RDU 2215, rush home,
unpack the Orion which arrived back from Ten-Tec only on Friday, connect
everything for first QSO at 2341! Exhaustion caught up at 0400, break until
0630 which kept me going until 0815. Another long break until 1230 and then
other breaks during the day managing to be at least officially on the air for
18hrs.
As I didn't know if the Orion would arrive in time for the contest, Dan, N3ND,
kindly loaned me an ICOM 7600 to pair up with my TS-480 for SO2R. With the
Orion slotted in, the ICOM was moved to Radio 2 and was a great resource and
more than 25% second radio Q's. Thanks, Dan!
SO2R/QRP is a challenge at the best of times and in my depleted physical and
mental condition I had a few moments of trying to send, listen or log on the
wrong radio and also forgetting to kill the other radio audio to dig for harder
copy QSO's. Not looking forward to the LCR!!
Never heard NT but was frustrated to hear VE2's S&P ahead of me. I kept
trying to guess which way they were moving and jump in front of them with a CQ
but was never successful so missed Qc as well. Are they just too polite to run?
;-) And they never found me when I was running, or rather as QRP,
"trotting".
Not surprisingly, score was down from last year, but I don't regret
"burning the candle at both ends" this time.
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