ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB - 2019
Call: K3WJV
Operator(s): K3WJV
Station: K3WJV
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: PA
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 502
40: 246
20: 120
15: 24
10:
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Total: 892 Sections = 83 Total Score = 148,072
Club: Frankford Radio Club
Comments:
SO1R operation. Other than a 58 QSO score in 2017 just fooling around this is
the first time I've really put a big time effort into SS ssb. If I didn't have
the dvk I don't think this would have been possible with the amount of running I
did. Had a lot of fun and worked many friends who I generally only contact on
cw. I apologize to those I neglected to acknowledge as after so many hours the
callsigns all started sounding very familiar like I knew everybody. I did cheat
and looked at QRZ for a few names but I have always been rough remembering
names. I thought I was good at recognizing callsigns until the point I reached
after too much time spent in a domestic phone contest. I'm a cw guy but scared I
might do something like this again.
I sure wish more guys would spot people they work when answering a station in a
phone contest. For as much running as I did it would have been nice to get
spotted a little more. It sure makes for some nice spurts after a spot unless of
course you get spotted with your callsign being wrong. I only logged a small
number who weren't real sure if they worked me when I told them we already
worked. The others told me not to bother and I didn't.
I only called 2 guys who turned out to be dupes because of bad spots. One was a
K9 who was spotted as an N9 and the other was KH7XS who was spotted as KH7HS. I
found a few others on my own but those two I mentioned were on Sunday afternoon
and I was multi tasking watching football and they slipped through the cracks of
my mental skimmer. Pesky things they can be.
Thanks to those guys who on Sunday night work a few of us serious SS people and
have low serial numbers. They are doing us a big favor. Instead of breaking off
my run when contacts got to be every 2 or 3 minutes I kept letting n1mm and my
dvk call another CQ and just watched some more football highlights. It paid off
in the end after realizing I would be tuning the band and finding everybody I
already worked anyway. I wound up working 3 or 4 stations in the last half hour
by tuning vfo B to a spot I needed and kept my CQ freq going thanks to the dvk.
Rural wooded location 1255ft ASL
FT1000MP & Acom 2000a
K3/P3 & KPA1500
2el K4KIO 5 band Hexbeam @30ft G-450A rotor & Green Heron controller
Inv vees @ 50ft for 40m-80m-trapped 160
Rx ant - 200ft NE/SW kd9sv rbog
SO2R >> TopTen DxDoubler-Band Aides-relays-W2VJN stubs
(not full blown so2r yet - need 2nd beam)
N1MM+ contest logger & DxLab master logger
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