[NCC] Fwd: SS CW K8MR Single Op HP

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

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Subj:  SS CW K8MR Single Op HP


ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

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

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

Summary:
Band   QSOs
------------
160:     
80:     
40:   54
20:  264
15:   73
10:   37
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Total:  428  Sections =  82  Total Score = 70,192

Club: Mad River Radio  Club

Comments:

Home sweet home! Stop three on the tour. Late  morning to mid afternoon on
Sunday.

No meters like 20 meters at this  stop! The band was open from coast to 
coast,
with only several hundred  miles of a skip zone, and even some stations 
sneaking
in from within that  distance. 

OTOH with the great high band conditions, 40 meter activity  was dead at 
midday.
My home station is a tribander sort of station, so SO2R  with 40 as one of 
the
bands was not productive.

I did have a minor  visit from Murphy. After the great opening run on 20 and
some local mop up  time on 40 I went to 15. Shortly after that NA started
thinking I was on  160SSB. The messages in memory worked intermittently, 
but ESC
would not  stop them. I eventually out that RF was getting in via the serial
cable to  the new (to me) FT1000MP (on grateful loan from N8TR). This was 
the
first  time I'd used it in this configuration with high power on 15 or 10
meters.  My junk box had a honking big toroid that a few turns on the cable 
 did
enough to settle things down. While all this was going on my wife also  
showed
up to complain that there was a tire low air warning light in her  car, so I
also used some time off to pump up the low ones.

I missed  only Nebraska. I've never had a clean sweep in six hours from a  
single
station, and only once before came up only one multiplier short.  Best 
mults were
hearing a very weak V..?? station call in on 20. I thought  it may have 
been a
VO, so started moving the beam around from 260 degrees.  The signal came up
enough to figure out it was VY, and once the beam made  it to 315 VY1EI was
still weak but Q5. Second place was my first CQ on 10  meters - VO1BQ came 
back
for my NL mult. But no joy from the  Cornhuskers.


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