ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: N9RV
Operator(s): K5TR
Station: N9RV
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Mt
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 98
40: 333
20: 676
15: 569
10: 500
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Total: 2176 Sections = 83 Total Score = 361,216
Club:
Comments:
Over the last few years that I have been thinking I would like to operate
the SS from some places that are not in Texas. I know this will sound strange
but I think it would even be fun to go do the contest from some station that
just has some dipoles. Something different. Maybe that will be next year.
This year marks the 36th time I have done this contest.
http://www.k5tr.net/ssb-ss.html
32 of them have been high power.
I still find the SS to be fun and interesting but it might be more
interesting to do something different. I have even been considering going QRP.
Anyway - I had talked to N9RV about it last year and for various
reasons it just did not workout. He sent me a message on the Thursday
a week before the contest asking if I still wanted to do it - so I
checked airfare and found that the prices were OK and there were still
seats so I bought a ticket. I flew to Missoula on Friday morning and got
there about 2pm. Pat picked me up at the airport and took me out
to his station. Pat lives about 30 minutes from Missoula. Pat gave me
a tour of the station and we took care of a few tasks like unlocking
the 20/40 meter tower so it would rotate and tweaking the tuning of
one of the antennas. Pat has three towers on his 5 acres with a 4
square for 80 meters. Inside he has an IC-7800/commander amp and a
IC-781/Alpha 87a. A very nice setup
I took some photos can you can see here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/102519573247562609174/N9RVSSSSB2014?authuser=0&feat=directlink
The contest went well - 10 meters was a bit flaky all weekend - looking back
it might have been better starting on 15 meters. Last year Pat had two 180+
hours on 10 meters for the first two hours but I was just not getting enough
callers to get that sort of rate at the start. But the rate was good until
the 04z hour when it just dropped into the 60's and just stayed there the
rest of the night. Sunday was pretty much as I expected. Until the 21z hour
when I could not seem to find the right place to call CQ and that hour was
a very poor 47. As always I had a great time - looking forward to next
year - where should I go?
Congratulations to Dan - W7WA on a great finish. And to K5TA and AA5B with
their mostly dipole stations - WOW. Maybe that is what I need to do next
time.
Lots of numbers:
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80SSB 98 98 196 0
40SSB 342 333 666 8
20SSB 698 676 1352 3
15SSB 585 569 1138 9
10SSB 507 500 1000 63
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Totals 2230 2176 4352 83
Final Score = 361216 points.
CALLSIGN: N9RV
CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
OPERATORS: K5TR
-------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y ---------------------
Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct
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2100 0 0 0 0 0 167 167 167 7.7
2200 0 0 0 0 0 160 160 327 15.1
2300 0 0 0 0 94 59 153 480 22.2
0000 0 0 0 1 128 0 129 609 28.1
0100 0 0 0 123 24 0 147 756 34.9
0200 0 0 0 115 0 0 115 871 40.2
0300 0 0 129 0 0 0 129 1000 46.2
0400 0 2 60 0 0 0 62 1062 49.0
0500 0 25 37 0 0 0 62 1124 51.9
0600 0 11 58 0 0 0 69 1193 55.1
0700 0 39 25 0 0 0 64 1257 58.0
0800 0 19 23 0 0 0 42 1299 60.0
0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1299 60.0
1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1299 60.0
1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1299 60.0
1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1299 60.0
1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1299 60.0
1400 0 0 1 6 10 0 17 1316 60.8
1500 0 0 0 61 12 0 73 1389 64.1
1600 0 0 0 84 1 10 95 1484 68.5
1700 0 0 0 2 51 25 78 1562 72.1
1800 0 0 0 0 45 27 72 1634 75.4
1900 0 0 0 0 51 29 80 1714 79.1
2000 0 0 0 0 46 14 60 1774 81.9
2100 0 0 0 29 18 0 47 1821 84.1
2200 0 0 0 1 74 8 83 1904 87.9
2300 0 0 0 53 15 1 69 1973 91.1
0000 0 0 0 75 0 0 75 2048 94.6
0100 0 0 0 68 0 0 68 2116 97.7
0200 0 2 0 48 0 0 50 2166 100.0
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Total 0 98 333 666 569 500 2166
Gross QSOs=2219 Dupes=53 Net QSOs=2166
Unique callsigns worked = 2166
The best 60 minute rate was 174/hour from 2114 to 2213
The best 30 minute rate was 190/hour from 2342 to 0011
The best 10 minute rate was 204/hour from 2348 to 2357
The best 1 minute rates were:
5 QSOs/minute 1 times.
4 QSOs/minute 55 times.
3 QSOs/minute 235 times.
2 QSOs/minute 383 times.
1 QSOs/minute 470 times.
U.S. Call Areas Worked
Area QSOs Pct
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0 213 9.8
1 130 6.0
2 170 7.8
3 166 7.7
4 320 14.8
5 233 10.8
6 257 11.9
7 152 7.0
8 220 10.2
9 220 10.2
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Total 2081 96.1
Sweepstakes Precedents
Precedent QSOs Pct
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A 1127 52.0
B 429 19.8
Q 63 2.9
M 137 6.3
U 391 18.1
S 19 0.9
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