ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: AA4FU
Operator(s): AA4FU
Station: N4AF
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 481
40: 265
20: 83
15: 133
10: 0
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Total: 962 Sections = 80 Total Score = 153,920
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Thanks to Howie for letting me use his station for the contest. This was the
first time I've been in a SSB contest with a good signal.
The contest didn't get off to a good start. Howie and I are both CW ops and we
spent about 2 hours trying to get the wav files in N1MM to play. For the first
3 or 4 hours I was operating in manual mode without the wav files. I also
couldn't use the ESM feature of N1MM, so I forgot to put it in Run mode at the
beginning and was spotting all the stations I worked. Sorry about that.
Finally after several hours I took a break and did a little more investigating
and decided the problem was the cable between my laptop and the K3. It was a
stereo cable and needed to be mono on the K3 end. To make a long story short,
I tried inserting the DPDT switch I use for reversing CW paddles and by
reversing the left and right audio, it started to work.
Later in the contest I finally experienced what others have said about the poor
quality of some of the Heil headsets as the right headphone went dead. So the
last 12 hours I had regular headphones on my ears and the Heil headset around
my neck so I could use the microphone.
Even with those problems I still had a good time. My goal going into the
contest was to try to match what I did in the CW half. The number of QSOs was
down slightly but I did get the sweep, which made up for missing those
additional QSOs.
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