ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: N6MW
Operator(s): N6MW
Station: N6MW
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: VA
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 10
40: 13
20: 17
15: 13
10: 27
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Total: 80 Sections = 80 Total Score = 12,800
Club:
Comments:
I got off to my usual slow start on 10 with nearly 3 min/QSO due to accidently
running on the dummy load for the first 3 hours. Finally discovered problem and
by 0500 I was up to 60 min/QSO over an hour, a personal best. Although I had a
rather nasty hangnail that limited my ability to tune the second radio, things
went well until my neighbor fell against my door claiming I was getting RF into
his pacemaker. I switched to the 17 element beverage array pointed to the east,
which I had just put up by pulling an all-nighter during the ice storm. This
solved the problem by going exclusively long path for the rest of the contest.
It also had the benefit of blasting one of those 75m complainers, with his lame
story about some orphan rescue net traffic. Luckily, I overslept and completely
missed the Sunday doldrums. The highlight of the contest was when Jay called me
in desperation on 160 with only a minute to go begging for VA for his sweep.
Unfortunately, he faded into an aurora just as he gave his section over and over
again, which sounded something like Futon or You Can but I just couldn't make
it out. Sorry Jay, maybe we can work next year for that sweep, I usually try to
make VA available.
QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm
D1-2100Z - - - - 18/18 18/18 18/18
D1-2200Z - - - 8/8 8/8 16/16 34/34
D1-2300Z - - 9/9 3/3 - 12/12 46/46
D2-0000Z --+-- 8/8 --+-- 1/1 --+-- 9/9 55/55
D2-0100Z - 4/4 2/2 - - 6/6 61/61
D2-0200Z 3/3 - 3/3 - - 6/6 67/67
D2-0300Z 5/5 - 1/1 - - 6/6 73/73
D2-0400Z 1/1 1/1 - - - 2/2 75/75
D2-0500Z 1/1 - - - - 1/1 76/76
D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 76/76
D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 76/76
D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 76/76
D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 76/76
D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 76/76
D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 76/76
D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 76/76
D2-1300Z - - 1/1 - - 1/1 77/77
D2-1400Z - - - 1/1 - 1/1 78/78
D2-1500Z - - - - - 0/0 78/78
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 1/1 79/79
D2-1700Z - - 1/1 - - 1/1 80/80
Total: 10/10 13/13 17/17 13/13 27/27
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