[3830] SS SSB NW6P(W9KKN) SO Unlimited HP

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ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: NW6P
Operator(s): W9KKN
Station: NW6P

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Cupertino, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    0
   80:  125
   40:  339
   20:  443
   15:  225
   10:    0
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Total: 1132  Sections = 82  Total Score = 185,648

Club: Pizza Lovers 259

Comments:

Special thanks to Tom (NW6P) for graciously hosting me at his exceptional
station again!  

I'm a firm believer that if something doesn't go wrong before the contest, that
just means that something really bad will happen during it, but in this case, I
was nearly convinced that the show was off. We had a bit of a scare earlier in
the week where the SWR was 7+ and everything was super attenuated across all of
the antennas. I suspect that the rain got into something it should not have in
the coax to the antenna relay or whereabouts. I lowered the tower to take a
closer look at the problem, and it disappeared. Hmm. 

I started off with 15m and Saturday afternoon and was able to get a bit of
traction, or at least enough to stay there, but I think I was a bit late to the
party on 20m -- the band was full and didn't last very long by the time I got
there. Luckily, Tom's station is super loud on both 40m and 80m, so I was able
to rack up a good number of points Saturday night. It's always nice to get
compliments on your 80m signal from the East Coast!

Sunday morning was active, and I was able to make up some lost ground on 20m
and occasionally find some action on 15m, but as the day went on, the pickings
got really thin really fast, and I was mostly just yelling at the noise trying
to shake contacts out of low-power stations. Toward the end, 80m never really
did anything for me, but 40m was open very early, and the East Coast had
already migrated.

The only section I missed from the sweep was Puerto Rico, and I managed to see
them a few times on the cluster in a few short appearances, but they were
getting heavily dog-piled, I could barely hear them, and I could not break
through.

Thanks to all of the spots throughout the contest from W6OAT, W6FB, K6MM, and
various other KBers -- Those were super helpful!

73 & Thanks for all the Q's everyone!
-- Bill/W9KKN


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