ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K0HW
Operator(s): K0HW
Station: K0HW
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: SD
Operating Time (hrs): 22:20
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 5
80: 273
40: 155
20: 145
15: 160
10: 0
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Total: 738 Sections = 79 Total Score = 116,604
Club:
Comments:
Wow, fast contest and I ran out of stations to work at the end! I started out
on 15 with a great run for an hour and 45 min, took a break and never got back
into it until about 1 in the morning 07:00Z. It was great for the next hour and
a half but then ran out of stations on 75. I heard a few stations on 10 but
never tried calling any as there were pleanty on the lower frequency bands. It
is always fun to work SS as the friendships are renewed. I got my DVK system to
work this year with some laid back reports but only used it about half time to
send the report. I wanted to speed things up during the runs and I was faster
than the computer. I tried to work a station near the end that I did not have
in my log but he would not work me, said I was a dupe and gave me the time and
contact number and I had another station in my log and the call signs were 5
charactors each but the only thing the same was the first letter of their call
sign. I have listened to the recording and the one I have in the log is the
only one I hear on the recording. All I can say about it is be sure the station
you are working repeats YOUR call sign. I sure hope I was not the only SD
station he had in his log!
I used the amp and the 500' loop antenna at about 40' in the air for the entire
contest and it seems to have worked out real well. I looked back and did better
last year but I didn't take a break until 5-7 hours into the contest.
Someday I will learn to look back at what worked and didn't work the last
time.
I missed NL for a clean sweep and it was not that I didn't hear them, I just
couldn't get through the pile-up. I gave up after a half hour of calling and
decided I would look the last 2 hours and they never appeared that I could find
in the last 2 hours.
Well it looks like we have the next 4 weeks lined up with CQWW CW, ARRL 160
CW,
ARRL 10 and the RAC Winter contest. 73 Jim, K0HW
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