SWEEPSTAKES PHONE SUMMARY SHEET
Callsign Used : K1AM
Operator : K1AM
Category : S/O HP
Default Exchange : # B K1AM 59 RI
Team/Club : Yankee Clipper Contest Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80SSB 259 259 518 14
40SSB 290 290 580 22
20SSB 377 377 754 39
15SSB 172 172 344 3
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Totals 1098 1098 2196 78
Final Score = 171288 points.
Soapbox: This contest went well until about 0300z when it seemed like
I just could not
hear anyone in 1 and 2 land. It appeared that 3 thru 0 land were all working
each other and
we couldn't do anything in the northeast until about 0500z when the skip was
long and short
on 40 and especially 80m. I sort of lost interest when the bands got screwy.
When I got back
on in the morning things were hopping on 80-20m. My interest was renewed and
I operated the
rest of the contest and had fun (well, as much fun as one can expect on ssb).
With the help of my good friend Dave, K1MO ex- K1HMO, I put up a
3 ele. ^ wire
beam on 40m, 50' boom and it was much more quiet than the 2 ele. yagi at 100'
so I used that
all weekend. We strung it between 2 trees and now I'm thinking of adding 2
more elements,
that will make it 5 elements on 100' boom. This antenna will come in handy
not only for SS
but almost all RTTY contests if it works as well as I hope it does.
As for mults. this weekend, they pretty much came to me except
for VY1JA who I
found after searching 15M for a while. It took the 3 stack to work him though
the pileup as
the band was dropping out in the northeast.
It was fun test driving my new call. K1 Alpha Mike is much better
than K1 India
Uniform. Good callsign for tailending. Too bad my heart wasn't in this
contest. Guess I'm
just tired after 5 consecutive weekends of contesting (2 of them RTTY). 3
plaques out of 5
weekends, not bad.
See you in the piles this weekend, can't wait. THIS IS THE
BIGGIE! I hope I can
stay awake for most of the contest.
73, Jeff Bouvier K1AM ex-K1IU k1iu@ids.net
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