ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: N9TF
Operator(s): N9TF
Station: N9TF
Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: IL
Operating Time (hrs): 15
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 1
80: 115
40: 139
20: 109
15: 59
10: 19
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Total: 442 Sections = 83 Total Score = 73,372
Club: Society of Midwest Contesters
Comments:
13" of heavy wet snow fell from the wee hours of Saturday morning through
Saturday afternoon. Antennas were loaded with thick ice and snow, which made
for some RF loading issues and intermittent erratic SWR swings. Most of the
issues were with the 80m OCF dipole as one leg over the roof was buried in
several inches of snow and the 90 foot leg ended up getting wrapped into tree
branches from a drooping "wet snow" weighted cherry tree. Auto tuner
on the K3S got a workout Saturday night. Made it somewhat difficult to get a
good rate going Saturday night. Things improved throughout the day Sunday, as I
was even able to hold a run freq on 40m for an hour at the top of the band.
Peaked at 89/hour, and finished that hour with 75 contacts.
Saturday night was also a little bit of a learning curve with N1MM+. Keyboard
controls are a bit different that what I had "grown up on" with
N3FJP. Once I got all the windows in a comfortable position on the two
monitors, and trained the brain to use the space key instead of the tab button,
and remember to use F12 to wipe, things got a whole lot better. If only I didn't
have to keep worrying about the fluctuations of the SWR :(
When I pulled the plug at 2am Sunday morning for sleep I was at 207 Q's (7
hours S&P)and 68 mults. I had already taken care of all the
"risky" mults early in the contest. NT PAC and AK were in the log, so
I was pretty confident I would be able to get the remaining 15 Sunday. OK ended
up being my last section, which I finally found one late in the afternoon
Sunday. I was getting a bit worried I would miss a sweep by one.
I had set three goals for this contest, 1) Sweep, 2) score over 50k and 3) 500
Q's. Made 2 out of three.
Had a lot of fun and worked a bunch of SMC. The SMC call history file which I
uploaded to to N1MM was a really nice tool to identify members. Thanks for the
help with that Anthony! (space bar, not tab!)
Operating conditions: K3S 100 watts, 2 element trband at 37', 80m OCF dipole at
35', N1MM+ logging.
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