ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KA1ARB
Operator(s): KA1ARB,WB1ADR
Station: KA1ARB
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 700
40: 375
20: 345
15: 23
10:
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Total: 1463 Sections = 80 Total Score = 230,880
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Nice quiet bands - I wish there were some sunspots! But there were lots of new
hams with checks 05-07 that made up for the bottom of the cycle. 80m was the
money band here; it seemed bottomless using nothing more than our magical
dipole at 40 feet.
Thanks to three days of effort from Lee, WB1ADR, and the heroic last minute
arrival of Bruce, N1LN, we managed to get our first tower up and the tribander
on top. This allowed up to make the same number of contacts that we've made
for the last five years. What a great investment of my time and money!
All the focus on the tower meant negleting the other antennas. This led to the
80m dipole dying early saturday night (fixed on the roof, in the dark), and the
40m wires never working until Sunday afternoon. Murphy also brought a power
outage for an hour on Sunday morning.
We found good rates until 10:00Z Sunday before our first break, and saved time
off for Sunday afternoon. Took a couple of breaks Sunday afternoon, and we had
our best two hours at the end until we ran out of operating time before 03:00.
We've already started our plans for what improvements we can make to allow us
to make the same score for yet another year!
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