ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K3TN
Operator(s): K3TN
Station: K3TN
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: mdc
Operating Time (hrs): 13
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 244
40: 304
20: 88
15: 36
10:
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Total: 672 Sections = 80 Total Score = 107,520
Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
Comments:
TS-850 to Windom at 45', ALS-600 500w
Phone Sweepstakes is to CW SS as mountain bike racing is to road bike racing:
mostly identical activity using similar equipment but at the end of the former
you end up a lot more sore and muddy than you do after the latter.
Just a part time Points for PVRC (PfP) in the club battle effort. Went to bed
on Saturday night at 0400z needing all the hard VEs and a bunch of easy ones. I
got back on at 1000z to put in a few hours of running on 80. This was my first
use of packet spotting in SS - I had a decent rate but in the spot window saw
VO1HP (a section I needed) put out TX3A (a country I need) on 3524 saying
"Loud!" but I stuck to my guns and kept running. Right before shutting down for
the morning I trolled the bands and managed to poach VO1KVT from someone's run
frequency - thanks for the QSY, Ken!
Managed to close out the sweep with VE8EV and several KL7s on 15m when I got
back on in the early afternoon, after that it was all PfP operating as time
permitted, mostly trying to run on 40 and 80. You sure can see a lot more CKs
beginning with zero in the SSB SS - no-code definitely caused an influx.
A lot of bad .wav files in use out there. Several QSOs were like working
talking elevators. Mea culpa: since I didn't have the .wav files working in
N1MM and never hit F1, *and* had "Spot all S&P QSOs on," I was one of the lids
putting out spots on my run frequency til I figured it out. I also spent the
first day hitting enter twice to log QSOs before I figured out having ESM on
made no sense if I wasn't using .wav files.
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