[NCC] Fwd: SS CW K8AZ(K8MR) Single Op HP

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: K8AZ
Operator(s): K8MR
Station:  K8AZ

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Ohio
Operating Time (hrs):  6
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band  QSOs
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160:     
80:  241
40:  191
20:   35
15:    66
10:     
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Total:   533  Sections = 74  Total Score = 78,884

Club: Mad River Radio  Club
 


Comments:

The final stop on my four station SS tour.  Although my route is determined
mostly by geography, saving the best station  for last is a lot of fun. 

The high bands did seem to close down, or at  least become not useful, 
rather
early. Not many second radio qsos, just a  matter of making the several band
changes easier.

Lot of good pileups  here. At one point on 80 had the 10 qso rate timer at
151/hour. That's not  bad even for a DX contest, let alone SS. This was the
first time I broke 500  qsos in a six hour stint.

Missed EW, AK, PAC, NL, NT, and  PR.

Overall for the weekend, my four station total was 1661 qsos in 22:20  
hours.
Total points were 246,304, which is equal to 1540 and a sweep. I never  
heard
PR. I had only single qsos with SK and VY1. The SK was VE5ZX calling in  
very
late on 80 from AZ. I had heard him a couple of time earlier calling  
people.
One of those time he was calling a guy in Nebraska, so at least I did  get 
a new
mult out of that one.

Once again I profitably used my VE  rule: if you hear a VE??? who then gets
covered up in a pileup calling you,  go back to VE?. I did and that was my 
VE4
qso from K8AZ. However, when that  happened it also turned out that the 
next QSO
was K1DG who gave me my only ME  qso from there.

As always, I highly recommend the fun of doing multiple  stations in CW SS!

73  -  Jim  K8MR