[3830] SS SSB WB6BWZ Single Op QRP

[wb6bwz at arrl.net]

                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: WB6BWZ
Operator(s): WB6BWZ
Station: WB6BWZ

Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: Atlanta, GA
Operating Time (hrs): 21

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:    6
   40:   52
   20:   92
   15:   55
   10:   37
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Total:  242  Sections = 73  Total Score = 35,332

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

It was a lot more challenging to operate SS-SSB-QRP vs SS-CW-QRP with a stealth
wire antenna in trees than I had anticipated. Especially during the first 10
hours of the contest which was sheer bedlam.

My "long time-off" was scheduled for 0830z Sunday when I had to leave for the
office. I rejoined the contest at 1300z and found operating conditions on all
bands to be "normal." (Hooray!) It remained that way until the end of the SS.

Sections missed: DE SC SFL WCF AR PQ YT. I heard all the missing sections but
PQ. Just could not break through the pile ups.

   I didn't realize how difficult it would be to work NV in this contest. I
copied W7TTT working pileups early in the contest when, "Poof! No more NV! The
next time I heard W7TTT I decided I would have to join the pileup if I wanted
NV. It took 10 minutes (max time I had allocated) of calling before W7TTT picked
my QRP sigs out of the pileup. (Thanks!)

   KY was another challenge. N4RZ was always in the midst of a big pileup on 75M
(near the end of the contest). I called several times with no success.

   Fortunately I found KY4AA higher up the band with about 20 minutes remaining
in the contest for my KY (and last) section.

Thanks to all of you who took the time to work my QRP sigs.

Setup: Yaesu FT-817 QRP xcvr, 5 watts to 5-MHz OCF 28-ga insulated wire stealth
antenna up 40 feet in trees (leaves are falling...hooray!) next to I-75 in
downtown Atlanta industrial area.


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