[3830] SS CW N1CC Single Op LP

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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: N1CC
Operator(s): N1CC
Station: N1CC

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 20

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:  106
   40:  104
   20:  258
   15:  232
   10:   40
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Total:  740  Sections = 81  Total Score = 119,880

Club: North Texas Contest Club

Comments:

Rig: Elecraft K3/100.  Force 12 C-3 at 64', 80/40 Fan Dipoles @50' broadside N-S
and E-W.  WriteLog version 11.20d.

Good News:  Beat last-years score in one hour less time on the air.
Bad News: Never even heard Nebraska or Northern Territory.  First time sweep
has been missed in five years.

The K3 has very narrow filters and superior DSP capabilities.  The
"mob" was insistant about pulling in within 40 Hz of your center
frequency and blasting out with their KW "testosterone".  Early on I
just moved. Late Sunday by the time a major competitor in his class, one W#XXX,
plunked down on top of me on 15 Meters at 1621Z - I stopped, told him off in a
not-aggressive manner and moved.  That W#XXX is now on my personal blacklist..
he made a comment back to me that had I recorded it he would lose his ticket.

Only three guys tried to dupe me.  Two of them claimed I was not in thier
log...none of them were needed multipliers so they are stuck with thier
mistakes.  The third guy said, "whoops" and left as they all should
have done.

With the narrow 250 Hz bandwith only 22 people called me off frequency far
enough that I had to tune RIT for them.  They were all big guns... why can't
they tune their radio?  This year there were a TON of QRP guys, only a very few
were in the mud ... is the K3 that much better to pull the QRP guys into play?

There was the usual number of key click folks, the worst of all of them was a
N4 by 2 call that had loud clicks over a 25 kHz bandwidth with only a S7 signal
on his main signal.  The discussion before the contest might have helped keep
the other signals that are that bad off the air till they fix or replace their
transmitters.

10-Meters was my worst band, probably because I had worked about 400 folks
before I tried 10 on Sunday...lots of guys there, most I had worked already. 
80 Meters was better than 40M, a surprise indeed.  The overcrowding situation
is a "good thing" when it comes to activity on the air, learning
again how to be a gentleperson seems to have been forgotten.


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