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Subject: [SECC] SS Summary
From: gmacie@xmmcorp.com (Macie, Gordon)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:20:29 -0500
Great Score... Looks like cw and ssb will be ahead of last year by a good bit.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sherman Banks (W4ATL) [mailto:w4atl@arrl.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:39 PM
> To: GTARC Reflector; SECC
> Subject: [SECC] SS Summary
> 
> 
> SOLP
> 1208   QSOs
> 80  Sections
> 193280 Claimed Score
> FT-920, A4S Tribander and dipoles for 80/40.
> 
> This was my first contest when I was a student at Georgia 
> Tech (way back in
> 1982), and it is still my favorite (but NAQP is challenging to be my
> favorite.)  I continued to participate occasionally from 
> Georgia Tech when
> they needed operators, but with the advent of the "S" 
> category I have been
> encouraging them to make a run to win that category.  That 
> left me to do a
> single op effort, which I have not done seriously before.
> 
> My goal was to break 1000 QSOs, and I exceeded my 
> expectaions.  I got on 15M
> to start, thinking I couldn't hold my own on 20M.  I made 
> several contacts
> before the contest and everyone said I was loud.  But when the contest
> started the rate was lousy.  I never could get anything going 
> on 10 or 15.
> 
> I bounced around 20 and made a small run.  Then I moved to 40 
> and things
> picked up.  But after midnight it was as if someone flipped a 
> switch.  I had
> incredible runs on 40 and 80.  I was planning on getting some 
> sleep around 1
> or 2 AM when the rates eased, but people kept calling me.  So 
> I kept working
> 'em.  Stopped for breakfast when the rates finally died down 
> around 6 AM.
> 
> Then I decided to see what was happening on 20M.  A few 
> people were making
> QSOs, but the band was relatively clear.  I decided to get on 
> 14207 and make
> a run - for the next 4 hours.  Stations above and below 
> finally caused me to
> move, but I held the frequency for a long time!
> 
> At this point I needed YT, AK, NV, UT and SF.  I only had one 
> radio, so I
> decided to S&P every hour or so in the afternoon to try and 
> pick up the
> needed mults.  SF and UT finally called me in the afternoon.  
> I heard VY1JA
> working someone early in the morning on 40M and he said he 
> was moving down
> in frequency but I never heard him. I had to get VY1MB who 
> was running on
> 10M.  KL7G was also loud on 10M Sunday afternoon.  Then I 
> finally heard NV
> on late Sunday for the sweep.  It took me 15 minutes to break 
> the pileup.
> 
> Tons of people kept telling me that they needed GA - even late in the
> contest.  I heard lots of stations with 00-02 checks.  
> Hopefully they will
> get hooked too!
> 
> Thanks to all the SECCers who gave me a QSO.  Some I couldn't 
> remember the
> names with the call - sorry! Blame it on a lack of sleep.  
> Worked K4BAI,
> AE4Y, KU8E, K4WI, NQ4I (whining about only having an 80M 
> vertical), K4JRB
> (sorry I had a hard time hearing you!)  Maybe some others - sorry if I
> missed you.  Heard W4NTI work someone else.
> 
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