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Subject: [3830] SS CW N3BB Single Op HP
From: webform@b4h.net
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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:23:10 -0800
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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: N3BB
Operator(s): N3BB
Station: N3BB

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:    0
   80:  137
   40:  397
   20:  267
   15:  449
   10:   49
------------
Total: 1299  Sections = 80  Total Score = 207,840

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

Man oh man-what work!  It's like water torture trying to find someone you have
not worked toward the end!

I didn't want to prolong the agony so kept at it and ended the agony at 0140
with my final one hour and 40 minutes required off-time.  30 hours has rarely
felt so long a period of time!

This one will be my best, however, I suppose.  40 and 15 were the QSO bands,
with 20 about half those numbers.  10 Meters was a "sucker band" as it sounded
so good with some real pounder-inners, but was too "thin" in terms of footprint.
 80 was open too but not many casuals were there.  It seems there always are
some new guys in there.  Looking at the band totals, I suppose I worked a lot
stations on 80 after all, but didn't seem like it at the time.

We had company Saturday AM before the contest as Tom, W0GG, and Nancy stopped by
here to visit from Colorado as they were in San Antonio for a conference.  It
was great seeing Tom and Nancy, very good friends for over twenty five years,
but it meant I raced to the station just before the contest started.  I missed
the news reports that a mass of charged particles was on the way, and had I
known that, I might have taken off when things got slow Sunday AM.  But like
N2IC stated, I also slogged on.  Looking at the hourly rates of 45-24-31 for the
first three full hours after getting on Sunday AM, I probably made a mistake. 
But heck, that was OK compared to the Sunday afternoon and evening BLAHS!

Speaking of dying, my Alpha 87A died Sunday.  Well, it didn't die.  That fan
which had started making noise died, so you can't operate w/out a cooling fan. 
It was like a 747 in terms of noise and shrieking.  So I hunkered down with one
amp (Alpha 76PA) on the run station and did all my Sunday S&Ping with 100W. 
Hardly even noticed the difference except for some backscatter stuff.  Other
than that, the gear all worked OK, and TR 6.78 was flawless for me.  I finally
feel really comfortable with it.  For CW SO2R there is no better.

I tried to make 1300 QSOs, and had it teed up with 1299 with five minutes left
for me to operate.  A W6 called but was a dupe, and no one else.  Darn!  So I
missed the elusive 1300.  Oh well.  This really is a hard contest!

BAND   Raw QSOs   Valid QSOs   Points   Mults
__________________________________________________
80CW      137         137        274       8
40CW      397         397        792       6
20CW      267         267        534      11
15CW      449         449        894      51
10CW       49          49         98       4
__________________________________________________
Totals     1299        1299       2592      80

Rate


  HOUR   80CW    40CW    20CW    15CW    10CW    TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
   21       0       0       0      92       7      99      99
   22       0       0       0      74       8      82     181
   23       0       0      33      60       1      94     275

    0       4       0      61       7       0      72     347
    1       7      53      10       0       0      70     417
    2       6      78       0       0       0      84     501
    3      13      57       0       0       0      70     571
    4      12      52       0       0       0      64     635
    5      15      49       0       0       0      64     699
    6      20      36       0       0       0      56     755
    7      29      16       0       0       0      45     800
    8       0       0       0       0       0       0     800
    9       0       0       0       0       0       0     800
   10       0       0       0       0       0       0     800
   11      18       5       0       0       0      23     823
   12      12      25       8       0       0      45     868
   13       0       9      15       0       0      24     892
   14       0       5      21       5       0      31     923
   15       0       0      14      34       0      48     971
   16       0       0       2      39       3      44    1015
   17       0       0       1      23       3      27    1042
   18       0       0      13      25       1      39    1081
   19       0       0       7      27       1      35    1116
   20       0       0       9      23       5      37    1153
   21       0       0       0       2      20      22    1175
   22       0       2      20       3       0      25    1200
   23       0       3       7      25       0      35    1235

    0       1       5      19      10       0      35    1270
    1       0       2      27       0       0      29    1299

  TOTAL   137     397     267     449      49


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