[3830] SS CW NN7SS Multi-Op HP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: NN7SS
Operator(s): K6UFO KO7P
Station: NN7SS

Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: WWA
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
------------
  160:     
   80:   60
   40:  294
   20:  640
   15:   80
   10:     
------------
Total: 1074  Sections = 80  Total Score = 171,840

Club: Western Washington DX Club

Comments:

My best SS-CW QSO numbers ever (by 8 QSOs), but I had 
great help from Doug KO7P - who with a narrow filter 
would happily sit and run stations all day! That left 
me to search for the multipliers. As usual, I worried 
too much about finding all the "rare" sections. We had 
78 of the 80 sections within the first 5 hours, leaving 
only WTX (not a problem) and NL - who hadn't been spotted 
at all on Saturday. But Sunday morning they were spotted, 
and they were there - but weak and it took some hard 
pileup work by KO7P. After that, we just ran as much 
as we could, mixed with search and pounce for any 
unworked stations.

We knocked off at local midnight the first day, although 
continuing on another two hours would have beat the 
snail's pace later in the last two hours of the contest.
On sunday afternoon Doug was happy with 1,000 QSOs and a 
picture of his smiling face, and went home, leaving me to 
slog out the last three hours. 

Last year this station won 1st Place for Multi-single in 
the West Coast Region, NW Division and WWA Section - and 
this year we wanted to keep the title, so I put in a lot 
of station improvements. I got a reliable 80m antenna 
working (and not blowing out at high power), automated 
all the antenna and filter switching for the two radios, 
and got a second computer networked for our Multi-single.
This worked well, and should also be useful for SO2R in 
the future. We had some network glitching, which might 
have been RF. Otherwise, everything held together - yeah!

Thanks for all the contacts, see you in SS-SSB!

NN7SS
Mark K6UFO and Doug KO7P

Equipment:
Two Yaesu FT-1000MPs
Ameritron AL-1200 amplifier
3-el SteppIR at 55'
C3 Tribander at 55'
Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50'
80-meter half-sloper
Two TopTen Band decoders, two ICE-419 filters
Coax stub filters for 80, 40, 20
Microham 2x6 antenna switch
Writelog software

QSO/Sec by hour and band
Hour    80      40      20      15    Total   Cumm  OffTime

2100Z    -       -     68/31    5/4    73/35    73/35  
2200Z    -      3/3    65/13    2/2    70/18   143/53  
2300Z    -      6/5    83/6      -     89/11   232/64  
0000Z  --+--   10/6    54/2    --+--   64/8    296/72  
0100Z    -     36/5    20/0      -     56/5    352/77  
0200Z    -     54/1      -       -     54/1    406/78  
0300Z  11/0    10/0      -       -     21/0    427/78  
0400Z  18/0    18/0      -       -     36/0    463/78  
0500Z   8/0    30/1      -       -     38/1    501/79  
0600Z  15/0    29/0      -       -     44/0    545/79  
0700Z   1/0      -       -       -      1/0    546/79   59
0800Z  --+--   --+--   --+--   --+--    0/0    546/79   60
0900Z    -       -       -       -      0/0    546/79   60
1000Z    -       -       -       -      0/0    546/79   60
1100Z    -       -       -       -      0/0    546/79   60
1200Z    -       -       -       -      0/0    546/79   60
1300Z    -       -       -       -      0/0    546/79   60
1400Z    -       -       -       -      0/0    546/79   60
1500Z    -      7/0    44/1      -     51/1    597/80   15
1600Z  --+--    5/0    51/0     9/0    65/0    662/80  
1700Z    -      1/0    47/0     5/0    53/0    715/80  
1800Z    -       -     55/0     8/0    63/0    778/80  
1900Z    -       -     22/0    29/0    51/0    829/80  
2000Z    -       -     26/0    10/0    36/0    865/80  
2100Z    -      1/0    29/0    10/0    40/0    905/80  
2200Z    -      8/0    38/0     2/0    48/0    953/80  
2300Z    -     10/0    34/0      -     44/0    997/80  
0000Z  --+--   32/0     4/0    --+--   36/0   1033/80  
0100Z   2/0    21/0      -       -     23/0   1056/80  
0200Z   5/0    13/0      -       -     18/0   1074/80  

Total: 60/0   294/21  640/53   80/6


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