ARRL Sweepstakes, CW
Call: N4VI
Operator(s): N4VI
Station: N4VI
Class: SO LP
QTH: CO
Operating Time (hrs): 12
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 8
40: 113
20: 86
15: 142
10: 108
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Total: 457 x 76 = 69,464
Club:
Comments:
Rig TS870
Antennas:
80/40/20/15/10: 40m dipole fed with open wire line
Tuner: MFJ 949E
On some bands I had both the 870 autotuner and the MFJ tuner in line.
Op time: 12 hours
Sections missed: NM, NWT, WY, Quebec. Heard NM numerous time, but couldn't
track them down. Pileup on vy1vy on 15m Sunday afternoon was just too big.
Sections not heard: WY, Quebec
We moved out of the condo back to our remodeled (rebuilt is a better word)
house the Friday prior to CW SS. With everything going on I just couldn't get
any antennas up. So Saturday afternoon after the (phone) contest had started I
put up a 40 meter dipole up about 30 feet and fed it with open wire line. Of
course, what get's lost in such a simple statement is the throwing rocks over
trees, etc! That in itself would be worth a video!
Awards go to the following ops:
w6een on 40m ssb: Band conditions changed and a booming signal turned into a
signal in the mud. Doug said I'll try as long as you want. It actually didn't
take very long, but what a great attitude!
k0srl who I chased down to get IA. we had to qsy twice to find a spot to "make
it happen". He hung in there, of course I worked a few more IA's before the
test was over.
Biggest scare:
Sunday morning, I went to the "ss01ph" directory and there was NO log! Luckily
it was in the ss01cw directory! I was in quite the panic for a few minutes.
Highlights: @0845z worked 24 stations in 14 minutes with my 40m "dipole" at
30'
70Q hour @ 1700z on 10m
This was a casual effort, between getting the antenna up, I had to do stuff
like hook up the washer/dryer, wire up the cable TV, get phone lines hooked up,
help the neighbor cut down some trees! As a casual effort it was alot of fun.
Hope to have some real antennas up for NAQP CW. There's a 5 element 10m and 3
element 15m beam(s) laying on the ground in my back yard. Perhaps Harry Potter
could have levitated them for me!
73
chris, n4vi
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