ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: KB0VVT
Operator(s): KB0VVT, KC0UNB
Station: KB0VVT
Class: School Club HP
QTH: MO
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 206
40: 476
20: 423
15: 40
10: 2
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Total: 1147 Sections = 80 Total Score = 183,520
Club: Raytown South High School ARC
Comments:
SS CW 2005
Much has happen since last year?s Sweepstakes when the KBØVVT SS CW 2004
Multi-op team placed 5th in the Nation.
My family and I traveled to Hawaii to vacation in late December 2004. I had
planned to operate Kid?s Day in January, 2005 from KH7X but my sponsor had to
cancel. I still hope to operate at KH7X during an actual contest someday.
During the 2005 Dayton Hamvention, I helped at the ARRL EXPO Youth table and
operated the N8D special event station at the ICOM booth. Dayton is always a
lot of fun and it is great to spend time with all of my amateur radio friends
from all over the world. I especially love participating in the KCDX Club CW
Pile-Up competition.
Over this past summer, Stan, K5GO and Kevin N5DX, invited me to his station to
operate the IARU HF World Championship contest using the call W1AW/5. The
station is located about 2000 feet above sea level on top of Gaither mountain
that overlooks Harrison, Arkansas. It was great to operate with the others from
such an awesome station.
In case you had not heard, during the summer, I was honored as the recipient of
the annual ARRL Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award. I received the award for
among other things, my accomplishments in academics, participation or leadership
in organizational affairs, amateur radio operating activities, public relations
activities, and for community service and involvement. I would like to thank
the ARRL and the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Award selection committee for
selecting me for this prestigious award. See the following link for the
complete story:
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/07/20/3/?nc=1
I am now a senior in High School so it is time for me to decide on which college
I want to attend next fall. I am interests are in studying Mathematics and
Engineering. In early August, my family and I traveled from coast to coast
visiting the University of Missouri-Rolla, Caltech, MIT, and along with a road
trip to ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. I am guaranteed a spot at
UMR but I am still entertaining the thought of attending MIT. After the campus
tour, I was able to locate the MIT Amateur Radio Club antennas along with the
building that houses the station. The building was being remodeled but I still
entered and climbed the many flights of stairs but all I was only able to see
the frosted glass door with the radio club logo. I am not sure where I am going
to attend college next fall, but whichever college it is, I plan to put their
Amateur Radio Club back on the contesting map!!
Early this school year, I convinced Dr. Overfelt, the Principal of Raytown South
High School, to sponsor the newly formed Raytown South High School Amateur Radio
Club (RSHS ARC). I decided to mix things up a little bit for Sweepstakes since
it is my last year of high school. A fellow RSHS ARC member, Joe Watts KCØUNB,
and I ran Sweepstakes under the SCHOOL Category!!!!
The RSHS ARC does not yet have a club callsign or club station. The Sweepstakes
rules state that, ?A club may operate from a member's station only if no
on-campus station exists.? This being the case, we operated from my station
using the KBØVVT callsign. The station is located on a 100? by 100? city lot
with my parent?s house located in the center. There is a KLM KT34A tri-band
Yagi and a Alpha-Delta DX-A sloper on a 50? Universal self-supporting tower in
the backyard. We used a beat-up R7, that I have used since I was 8 years old,
and a Cushcraft A3S that is up about 25 feet. We also tried to use the new
Cushcraft MA8040V, that I put together, that worked fine on 40 meters but it
kept faulting the amplifier when used on 80 meters. The reflected power would
start creeping up until it would flash over and fault the amplifier. I do not
know for sure, but maybe the top 80-meter coil cannot really handle full legal
power. I wasted several minutes of the contest fooling around with this
antenna. It is a good thing I had the Alpha-Delta Sloper or we would have been
in real trouble. I sure wish I had 2 or 3 elements on a 40-meter beam along
with some listening antennas for the low bands.
I ran for 24 hours, and Joe came over to my station a few times during the
weekend to help out. For the first time ever, I had to operate the radio the
whole day without the help of a multi-op team. I stayed up until 2:00AM Central
Standard time and got back up to catch the morning rush at 6:00AM Central
Standard time. I spent Sunday afternoon working the contest and studying for my
Advanced Placement Biology test that I would take the next day over the Lac
Operon and Hox genes (I got 100%). I also decided to adopt the Multiplier Bell
System (the system where you ring a bell every time you get a new multiplier) at
my station.
Joe does not really know CW, but with the help of the Writelog CW Decoder, he
was able to squeeze-in 20 contacts, on the 100 Watt ICOM IC756 PROII, which
included a few new sections that we needed. The remaining QSOs were made by me
running full legal power.
A few photographs will show-up soon at the ARRL soapbox located at the following
link:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/?con_id=96
For more information about me, please see the following link:
http://www.qrz.com/kb0vvt
Well, that is a Sweep!!!
Well, it was nice to hear you all on Sweepstakes CW? I hope to see you at
Dayton. Until next year ?
I Am Proud To Be a Know Code Ham,
73,
Rebecca Rich, KBØVVT
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