[3830] SS CW K5NA Single Op HP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: K5NA
Operator(s): K5NA
Station: K5NA

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: STX
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:   81
   40:  764
   20:  458
   15:   31
   10:     
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Total: 1334  Sections = 80  Total Score = 213,440

Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club

Comments:

I didn't do a very good job of testing my setup the week before the contest
because of out-of-town family obligations until Friday. When the contest
started I discovered that my keying was intermittant and distorted. So my first
hour of SS was very poor while I tried to fix things by re-booting the computer
and changing keying configurations. You never get the first hour back in a SS.

I never got the problem completely fixed and suffered the entire contest with
choppy and intermittant CW sending from the computer. I found that if I never
sent over 28 wpm, the sending could be readable most of the time. Above 28 wpm,
it got really bad. I still don't know what was wrong with my Writelog/Microham
MK2R+/desktop computer combination. It seemed that the computer was stealing
cycles from the CW sending. 

But it worked fine the last time I SO2Red during the WPX CW Contest in May. I
had best fix this problem before the 2007 CQWW CW Contest.

I thought conditions were down from last year, but it may have been just me in
my de-moralized state as I kept on slugging through the contest. 15 meters was
almost non-existant for running from here and I can never get much going on
80M, regardless of conditions. So it was a two band contest, 20M and 40M.

Multipliers were numerous and I worked at least two in each section. I found
and worked VY1JA on the 2nd radio and later a VE4 started a pileup right next
to my run frequency. But on Sunday I had VY1EI and another VE4 answer my CQ.
This is the first time I remember having a sweep with every section answering a
CQ. That was nice.

I was disapointed with my results even though this was my second best SS CW
score ever. Maybe I was expecting too much. It was my fault for poor
preparation.

73, Richard - K5NA


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