[3830] SS SSB AA4FU(@N4AF) SO Unlimited HP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: AA4FU
Operator(s): AA4FU
Station: N4AF

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:  481
   40:  265
   20:   83
   15:  133
   10:    0
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Total:  962  Sections = 80  Total Score = 153,920

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Thanks to Howie for letting me use his station for the contest.  This was the
first time I've been in a SSB contest with a good signal.  

The contest didn't get off to a good start.  Howie and I are both CW ops and we
spent about 2 hours trying to get the wav files in N1MM to play.  For the first
3 or 4 hours I was operating in manual mode without the wav files.  I also
couldn't use the ESM feature of N1MM, so I forgot to put it in Run mode at the
beginning and was spotting all the stations I worked.  Sorry about that.

Finally after several hours I took a break and did a little more investigating
and decided the problem was the cable between my laptop and the K3.  It was a
stereo cable and needed to be mono on the K3 end.  To make a long story short,
I tried inserting the DPDT switch I use for reversing CW paddles and by
reversing the left and right audio, it started to work.  

Later in the contest I finally experienced what others have said about the poor
quality of some of the Heil headsets as the right headphone went dead.  So the
last 12 hours I had regular headphones on my ears and the Heil headset around
my neck so I could use the microphone.  

Even with those problems I still had a good time.  My goal going into the
contest was to try to match what I did in the CW half.  The number of QSOs was
down slightly but I did get the sweep, which made up for missing those
additional QSOs.


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