[3830] SS CW NN7SS Multi-Op HP
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Mon Nov 5 17:34:40 EST 2007
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
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160:
80: 60
40: 294
20: 640
15: 80
10:
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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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