[3830] SS SSB VA7ST Single Op HP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: VA7ST
Operator(s): VA7ST
Station: VA7ST

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: BC
Operating Time (hrs): 20.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:     
   80:   57
   40:   60
   20:  453
   15:  385
   10:  255
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Total: 1210  Sections = 83  Total Score = 200,860

Club: Orca DX and Contest Club

Comments:

After just 20.5 hours in this one, I'm wiped out -- nothing as tiring as
listening to over-stuffed phone bands. But I feel pretty good, too, because I
got the sweep for a second consecutive year, broke through 1,000 Qs by a wide
margin, and added 83,000 to my 2008 high-power previous best.

Didn't go in with a goal, except to press hard. I did that in the first several
hours, which included a 200+ run on 10M out of the gate. 

That was followed by a 132 run on 15M, then 106 on 20M before I had to go to
40M. At that point, the wonderful 100+ hours fell into the abyss, with the only
other 100+ hour at 1500z Sunday morning.

Closed the first night at 0830z with 570 Qs and 77 mults, needing ND, ID, MT,
ONE, QC and SK.

Was back at it at 1445z, and got 'em all except ID fairly quickly in the
morning. Wasn't until almost 2030z that an ID station called in -- then I
worked three more on 20M and 40M over the next few hours.

With the broom put away, I was able to loaf along not worrying about whether I
needed to be sweeping the bands. Packed it in with 200,000 points in the log,
and skipped the final hour as 20M rate was down to nothing and 40M was just a
soup of audio already strained for Qs.

10M was the mult band (only because it was first); 20M was the overall rate
band.

Kudos to IL, MDC and VA for filling up so much of the log in BC -- great
turnouts! Worked multiples of everything except singles for PAC and PR.

Special thanks to VY1EI and VE8GER for the NT mult -- always a wonderful relief
to hear them in the headphones. 

Hope to see everyone next weekend for the all-out best weekend of the year,
CQWW CW.

-- Bud VA7ST

http://www.va7st.ca/home.html

The Orca DX and Contest Club...
http://orcadxcc.org

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
         3.5      57     114    3
           7      60     120    0
          14     453     906   15
          21     385     770   27
          28     255     510   38
       Total    1210    2420   83
  
       Score : 200,860

Year-over-year (raw)...

2012 SOHP 20hr  1210     83      200,860
2011 SOLP 14hr   667     80      106,720
2010 SOHP 11hr   554     73       80,884
2009 SOLP 16hr   500     74       74,000
2008 SOHP 16hr   753     78      117,468
2007 SOHP 11hr   421     77       64,834


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