ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 17
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 141
40: 160
20: 341
15: 116
10:
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Total: 758 Sections = 78 Total Score = 118,248
Club: Orca DXCC
Comments:
2010 -- Flux: 85 | A: 1 | K: 0
2009 -- Flux: 71 | A: 0 | K: 0
2008 -- Flux: 68 | A: 1 | K: 0
* FT-2000 and N1MM Logger, SO1R unassisted
* tribander at 27'
* 40M Steppir dipole at 27'
* 80M 2 x elevated verticals
* 270' Beverage E-W
Well, can't complain about conditions on the bands -- they were pretty good.
Most seemed in good cheer about us all being in the same crowded boat.
Ended Saturday night with 443 Qs, 74 mults, and 65,564 points -- missing NE,
RI, VT, NL, NWT and QC.
Sunday morning, I woke up at dawn to a raging wind and rain storm. It was over
within minutes, and I could hear the doink-doink drips in the dead-calm silence
that followed. Was walking down the stairs to the radio room when the house went
dark. The storm cell had moved on and took some trees with it. Power was out for
more than three hours. I was very demoralized sitting at the desk with no power
yet at 1700z.
I got some extra sleep but missed a lot of great radio time. When the power was
back on, I got all but NL and NWT with a few hours to go. Spent a valuable hour
combing 15M, 20M and 40M hoping to find them, but no luck. No sweep.
Finding new stations was very hard on Sunday afternoon, and unable to find a
place to run on 20M or 40M, I went to 80M and managed to work a few -- WCF from
BC in broad daylight. Pulled the plug with more than half an hour to go: rate
was below 10/hour by then and the dinner bell rang. The lost hours in the
morning had put me a long way behind my previous LP best (last year), but I
closed to within 18 Qs and 2,700 points of that.
Thanks for the Qs. Will be on for WAE RTTY, and perhaps some of SS Phone. See
you in there.
-- Bud VA7ST
http://www3.telus.net/va7st
http://orcadxcc.org
Year QSOs Pts Sec Score
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2010 758 1516 78 118,248 LP 17 hrs
2009 775 1550 78 120,900 LP 20 hrs
2008 902 1804 80 144,320 <- HP 19 hrs
2007 837 1674 78 130,572 <- HP 21 hrs
2006 648 1296 79 102,384
2005 527 1054 73 76,942
2004 580 1160 80 92,800
2003 182 -- 52 18,928
2002 370 740 72 53,280
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