[NCC] SS SSB K8BL SO Unlimited LP

[Dan Kovatch]

Awesome score Bob!

-----Original Message----- 
From: R.T.Liddy
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 6:23 PM
To: ncc at contesting.com
Subject: [NCC] SS SSB K8BL SO Unlimited LP

                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB





Call: K8BL
Operator(s): K8BL
Station: K8BL

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: OH
Operating Time (hrs): 22

Summary:
Band  QSOs
------------
  160:
   80:  306
   40:  271
   20:  107
   15:  263
   10:   79
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Total: 1026
Sections = 83  Total Score = 170,316

Club: North Coast Contesters

Comments:

Happiness is having the XYL go out of town for SS!! No distractions, no TVI
complaints, phone goes off-hook & no calls - Nirvana!!!

Happiness is also working VO1, VE8, KP4 & KP2 in the FIRST HOUR! (...and
5 WY's!!)

Last five Sections for the Sweep were: ORG, WV, QC, VT and finally AK. Had
all but AK before 11 PM and had to wait until 3:30 Sunday to work it. I 
heard at
least 5 AK's on Saturday, but they were very weak and had big pileups from
the Western States, so I figured they'd be easy on Sunday.

All the Bands were in great shape with little QRN and activity was very good
all the way up to the end. It was tough to find a spot to run since there 
were
so many very broad signals that overlapped. Some of these folks should
see
their signals on a BandScope!!

A big problem for me operating Unlimited is seeing something show up on the
Cluster that I just HAVE to work that takes me away from the Contest. First,
I saw HV0A spotted on 40 SSB which I needed and went off to work. Later, it
was SV2ASP/A on 10M RTTY which I needed for both Band AND Mode!! After
an hour of trying, I gave up and went back to SS - PHOOEY!!

Gripe Section:
- Guys that are having a roundtable QSO every day/night on the same 
frequency
  and leave looooong pauses in their discussions making it appear the
  frequency is vacant. You ask if the frequency is in use and nobody 
responds.
Then, you start calling CQ Contest and 5 guys jump down your throat!!! I 
think
  they do it on purpose to get their jollies.
- Folks that use Cardinal Numbers when giving you their Exchange instead of
  Integers, such as fifty-nine instead of five-nine. It gets confusing and
  difficult in marginal conditions or when people have accents or poor 
audio.
  I don't know how many times I had to ask for a repeat when somebody said
  fifty-nine and it was actually sixty-nine, or with several other 
combinations.
  And, a hundred-seventy sounds very similar to a hundred-seventeen. But, 
the
  number one-seven-zero sounds NOTHING like one-one-seven. Think about
  starting to type "a hundred-sev..." and it turns out to be 
"one-one-seven". It
  seems trivial now, but experiencing it hundreds of times in a Contest can
  become very irritating.

These things have persisted for years and are unlikely to change.
They have
always been part of the challenge of Contesting and that is why we LOVE it!
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