ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K0HC
Operator(s): W0BH N0LRA K0WHY + 8 STUDENTS
Station: K0HC
Class: School Club HP
QTH: KS
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 419
40: 683
20: 359
15: 17
10:
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Total: 1478 Sections = 80 Total Score = 236,480
Club: Hesston College Amateur Radio Club
Comments:
After spending Thursday evenings practicing logging, QSOs and pileups, and after
"warming-up" in the Pennsylvania and California QSO parties, and after
installing an additional Butternut vertical and 30 ground radials for the
search and pounce station, the 8-student Hesston College Amateur Radio Club
team (all non-hams) was more than ready to go!
We got off to a slow first hour (43 and don't ask!), but things had to get
better and did as we got into the swing of things. This year, all the students
took turns operating both the search and pounce station and the run station and
enjoyed checking off sections as we got closer to the magic 80. As many others
have reported, PR was hard to find this year, but we finally broke through a
pileup and worked NP4Z at 1943Z on Sunday which resulted in significant
additional QRM in the shack with the expectation of a 75th Anniversary Clean
Sweep mug for all. Later, another PR station called us on 40m, which left only
NL as a solo section this year.
As always, it was fun working and chatting with other schools: W1YK, W8SH,
N9YN, W1MX, N0UNL, K4FAU, W6YX (great job!), W8EDU and N5XU. Welcome to W5ZD
(Texas A&M), N4VVJ representing Eastern Mennonite University in VA, and a nice
surprise to work local K0KU (Kansas University) for the first time as well.
>From Keith, Taylor, Tessa, Donovan, BJ, Levent, Chris and Sam: THANKS for all
the Qs!
73, Bob, w0bh
trustee, k0hc
Hesston College Amateur Radio Club
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