[3830] ARRL SS SSB N4VI SO LP

[n4vi at arrl.net]

                     ARRL Sweepstakes, SSB
                    
Call: N4VI
Operator(s): N4VI
Station: N4VI

Class: SO LP
QTH: CO
Operating Time (hrs): 12
 

Summary:
 Band     QSOs
-------------------------------
  160:       
   80:      8
   40:    113
   20:     86
   15:    142
   10:    108
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Total:    457 x     76  =  69,464

Club: 

Comments:

Well duh, this is my phone score, I only made one Q on CW using 8' wire plugged 
into the back of my rig!  Sorry for the BW, next time I'll wait until the next 
day to post my score and get it right!

chris, n4vi

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Rig TS870

Antennas:
80/40/20/15/10:  40m dipole fed with open wire line

Tuner:  MFJ 949E

On some bands I had both the 870 autotuner and the MFJ tuner in line.

Op time:  12 hours

Sections missed:  NM, NWT, WY, Quebec.  Heard NM numerous time, but couldn't 
track them down.  Pileup on vy1vy on 15m Sunday afternoon was just too big.

Sections not heard:  WY, Quebec




We moved out of the condo back to our remodeled (rebuilt is a better word) 
house the Friday prior to CW SS.  With everything going on I just couldn't get 
any antennas up.  So Saturday afternoon after the (phone) contest had started I 

put up a 40 meter dipole up about 30 feet and fed it with open wire line.  Of 
course, what get's lost in such a simple statement is the throwing rocks over 
trees, etc!  That in itself would be worth a video!  

Awards go to the following ops:

w6een on 40m ssb:  Band conditions changed and a booming signal turned into a 
signal in the mud.  Doug said I'll try as long as you want.  It actually didn't 

take very long, but what a great attitude!

k0srl who I chased down to get IA. we had to qsy twice to find a spot to "make 
it happen".  He hung in there, of course I worked a few more IA's before the 
test was over.




Biggest scare:

Sunday morning, I went to the "ss01ph" directory and there was NO log!  Luckily 

it was in the ss01cw directory!  I was in quite the panic for a few minutes.


Highlights:  @0845z worked 24 stations in 14 minutes with my 40m "dipole" at 
30'

                70Q hour @ 1700z on 10m


This was a casual effort, between getting the antenna up, I had to do stuff 
like hook up the washer/dryer, wire up the cable TV, get phone lines hooked up, 

help the neighbor cut down some trees!  As a casual effort it was alot of fun.  

Hope to have some real antennas up for NAQP CW.  There's a 5 element 10m and 3 
element 15m beam(s) laying on the ground in my back yard.  Perhaps Harry Potter 

could have levitated them for me!

73


chris, n4vi


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