ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: WF4DD
Operator(s): KG4CZU
Station: W4NC
Class: School Club HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 8
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 27
40: 193
20: 26
15: 23
10: 0
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Total: 272 Sections = 59 Total Score = 32,096
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
Best guess at my score having just the raw log data in front of me. It's really
a bit of a pain to count everything by hand.
This was going to be a serious effort until I stayed up with my girlfriend on
Friday night much later than I intended, got up earlier than I intended, and
then went to a semi-formal with her from midnight to 2am on Sunday. Needless to
say, after about 10 hours of sleep for the whole weekend, I scrapped Sunday
afternoon in favor of some sleep.
Things to do: must retune sloper for closer to center of 75m for domestic
contests. 3830 is a good frequency of resonance for CQWW and other DX stuff,
but I found out that the tuner that I thought would stretch that range,
wouldn't.
Thoughts on packet: this is the first sweepstakes I've tried without packet,
and I think I can see everyone's point. Though my score would have been higher
had I chased some mults, I worked about 10 more mults than I thought I would by
midnight on Saturday, and I feel pretty confident that between tuning around the
bands and calling CQ, I would have found at least 15 more. I may never connect
the TNC again, at least for sweeps.
Antennas:
80m-Alpha/Delta Sloper @ 65'
40m-Force12 C4XL @ 70'
20m-Force12 C4XL @ 70'
15m Force12 C4XL @ 70'
Rig:
Ten Tec OMNI VI+ driving Ten Tec Titan 425 amp
Operator:
Hack college student who needs to work on staying awake for the entire contest
or finding somebody to relieve him.
73,
Chris
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