ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: N4GG
Operator(s): N4GG
Station: N4GG
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 7
80: 139
40: 907
20: 156
15: 31
10: 0
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Total: 1240 Sections = 80 Total Score = 198,400
Club: South East Contest Club
Comments:
As others have pointed out, the sleepy little backwater called unlimited
category seems to be waking up - causing amazing packet pileups at the end.
I didn't get the sweep until fairly late - missing AK the first night due to
the poor 20M antenna situation here. ID seemed to be MIA the first day as
well, but I worked three of them the second day. Meanwhile, a packet review
tells me they were there on day 1 - so where was I? Getting a sweep seems like
a different mystery each year.
I lost an invite to a superstation late in planning due to my host's
unanticipated illness, so I put the dipoles back in order here at home and ran
sans-aluminum once again.
The bands sounded really FB except 80 had plenty of QRN to the West the second
night from a wx front out by Texas. Courtesy seemed at an all time high as did
activity. As usual, 15 was not productive from here - SS from the East Coast is
a low band activity until the sunspots return. Congrats to those 1300+ Q folks
- how do you do that?
2X: FT-1000MP+Inrad & ACOM 2000A; Homebrew SO2R, Writelog, Wires in the woods.
Past posts have gotten me requests for descriptions of the wires - so here's
what I used all weekend: 80: Inverted Vee at 65 feet, 40: dipole at 75 feet,
20: the 80M inverted vee with a a matching stub. These are on a modest sized
residential lot down in a hole. SO2R is what makes it happen around here. The
gear ran perfect all weekend. GG.
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