[3830] SS CW N3BB Single Op HP
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Mon Nov 8 18:23:10 EST 2004
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: N3BB
Operator(s): N3BB
Station: N3BB
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 137
40: 397
20: 267
15: 449
10: 49
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Total: 1299 Sections = 80 Total Score = 207,840
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Comments:
Man oh man-what work! It's like water torture trying to find someone you have
not worked toward the end!
I didn't want to prolong the agony so kept at it and ended the agony at 0140
with my final one hour and 40 minutes required off-time. 30 hours has rarely
felt so long a period of time!
This one will be my best, however, I suppose. 40 and 15 were the QSO bands,
with 20 about half those numbers. 10 Meters was a "sucker band" as it sounded
so good with some real pounder-inners, but was too "thin" in terms of footprint.
80 was open too but not many casuals were there. It seems there always are
some new guys in there. Looking at the band totals, I suppose I worked a lot
stations on 80 after all, but didn't seem like it at the time.
We had company Saturday AM before the contest as Tom, W0GG, and Nancy stopped by
here to visit from Colorado as they were in San Antonio for a conference. It
was great seeing Tom and Nancy, very good friends for over twenty five years,
but it meant I raced to the station just before the contest started. I missed
the news reports that a mass of charged particles was on the way, and had I
known that, I might have taken off when things got slow Sunday AM. But like
N2IC stated, I also slogged on. Looking at the hourly rates of 45-24-31 for the
first three full hours after getting on Sunday AM, I probably made a mistake.
But heck, that was OK compared to the Sunday afternoon and evening BLAHS!
Speaking of dying, my Alpha 87A died Sunday. Well, it didn't die. That fan
which had started making noise died, so you can't operate w/out a cooling fan.
It was like a 747 in terms of noise and shrieking. So I hunkered down with one
amp (Alpha 76PA) on the run station and did all my Sunday S&Ping with 100W.
Hardly even noticed the difference except for some backscatter stuff. Other
than that, the gear all worked OK, and TR 6.78 was flawless for me. I finally
feel really comfortable with it. For CW SO2R there is no better.
I tried to make 1300 QSOs, and had it teed up with 1299 with five minutes left
for me to operate. A W6 called but was a dupe, and no one else. Darn! So I
missed the elusive 1300. Oh well. This really is a hard contest!
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80CW 137 137 274 8
40CW 397 397 792 6
20CW 267 267 534 11
15CW 449 449 894 51
10CW 49 49 98 4
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Totals 1299 1299 2592 80
Rate
HOUR 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
21 0 0 0 92 7 99 99
22 0 0 0 74 8 82 181
23 0 0 33 60 1 94 275
0 4 0 61 7 0 72 347
1 7 53 10 0 0 70 417
2 6 78 0 0 0 84 501
3 13 57 0 0 0 70 571
4 12 52 0 0 0 64 635
5 15 49 0 0 0 64 699
6 20 36 0 0 0 56 755
7 29 16 0 0 0 45 800
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 800
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 800
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 800
11 18 5 0 0 0 23 823
12 12 25 8 0 0 45 868
13 0 9 15 0 0 24 892
14 0 5 21 5 0 31 923
15 0 0 14 34 0 48 971
16 0 0 2 39 3 44 1015
17 0 0 1 23 3 27 1042
18 0 0 13 25 1 39 1081
19 0 0 7 27 1 35 1116
20 0 0 9 23 5 37 1153
21 0 0 0 2 20 22 1175
22 0 2 20 3 0 25 1200
23 0 3 7 25 0 35 1235
0 1 5 19 10 0 35 1270
1 0 2 27 0 0 29 1299
TOTAL 137 397 267 449 49
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