I thought I had gotten rid of all my gremlins from my recent lightning hit a
couple months ago, but...
I spent a day and a half fixing up a lot of known problems before the
contest, but still didnt have time to fix them all and managed to miss a
couple. Unfortunately, I found a few more just 1/2 hour before the start
and ended up 20 minutes late. ...it's amazing how many bad and even worse
leaky diodes are packed into all my switching controls!
I was amazed at the short skip prop available on all 3 high bands, yet I
didnt seem to be able to produce a big run. Judging from others results, I
must not have tried hard enough! hi! I got really depressed when I got some
much higher numbers from primo op's only a few hours into the contest.
Obviously I missed something? I never worked the second radio as hard as
this weekend...Sunday was tough, tough, tough!
Here are the numbers:
2000 ARRL NOVEMBER SWEEPSTAKES
Call used: K3MM Location: MDC
Category: Single Op All Band Mode: CW Power: 1500
Callsign of Operator: K3MM
Exchanged Information: nr B K3MM 73 MDC
Hours of Operation: 23:51
band QSOs points
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160 0 0
80 117 234
40 572 1144
20 335 670
15 108 216
10 98 196
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TOTAL 1230 2460 X 79 multipliers = 194,340
Club or Team Name: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments: Despite a valiant effort, I couldnt find a VE1 anywhere!
Activity seemed lower than usual, and Sunday was a real SO2R workout! I was
more careful than ever trying to get everything copied 100 percent.
Hopefully it'll show.
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