[3830] SS CW VE4GV Single Op LP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: VE4GV
Operator(s): VE4GV
Station: VE4GV

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: MB
Operating Time (hrs): 10

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:     
   40:     
   20:  568
   15:     
   10:     
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Total:  568  Sections = 76  Total Score = 86,336

Club: 

Comments:

As many of you already know,Derrick VE4VV recently passed away in Sept. and I
felt an obligation to him to try to replace the mults he routinely provided. SS
CW was HIS contest and he was the king of VE4 CW land. I'm gonna miss that SOB,
not only becasue he used to routinely wax me on CW  - but because I no longer
have anyone to call up after the test and bitch to - about condx or mults. 48
is much too young to be SK. Miss ya, OM.   

As you can also see I lost the feedline to the 2 el 40 stacked beam on top of
the KT34XA and its gonna take some work to fix...next summer. In the meantime,
if you missed me on the low bands...that's why.  I'm going to try to put
something up for 40 and 80 in the next couple of weeks. We're years away from
doing anything on 10 and 15 - at least from here.

In the meantime I planted myself on 20 and ran as hard as I could while the
bands were open.  Missed WI, ND, MN and NE - all of which I would have gotten
with 40 m. I was hoping for a one band sweep ( has anyone ever done that?) but
that's impossible from here. 

One tip - PLEASE - you guys who are using packet to qsy - DON'T zero beat the
last qso!! Move up a bit. If everyone QSYs and calls on exactly the same freq,
it makes it almost impossible to distinguish a signal. Spread em out a bit! 

Its been a tough few years up here because of band condx and I admit that my SS
interest had been waning. But, with Derrick being gone and seeing the need for
VE4, I'm going to try to fill in as much as I can. Kelly VE4XT and Ed VE4YU
will be available too, to provide the mult. I hope to be on for SS SSB ( my
contest favorite) but its possible that the local pro football team ( Go
Bombers!)  could be playing in the Canadian version of the Super Bowl that
weekend and if things go right I could be in Toronto Aargh.  

Good to be back and I hope to QSO many of you in SS SSB. 
73 es GL 

Rob VE4GV


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