[SCCC] SS CW 2011

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ARRL  Sweepstakes CW 2011 
Call:  NC6Q 
Operator(s):  NC6Q 
Station: HOA  restricted QTH of NC6Q 
Class: Single  Op All Low 
QTH: Signal  Hill, CA 
Operating  Time: the whole weekend, off and on 
Summary 
Band     QSOs    Sections 
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80 
40         49 
20         21 
15         33 
10         33 
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136            66     Totals 
Points:  17,952 
Club: Southern  California Contest Club 
Comments: 
Rig: Kenwood  TS-50 
Antenna:  multi-band attic dipole w manual antenna tuner 
QTH altitude  maybe 250 feet on eastern slope of hill 
N3FJP logging  software 
Far far  surpassed my first attempt at SS CW of 2009. Glad to have passed 
the 100 Qs  milestone and to see the many Sections I worked as the time went 
on. Pretty cool  to start approaching that magic number of 80. 
During one  break in the action, it occurred to me how similar it all is to 
fishing in a  river. You have the 40 meter pool over here and the 10 meter 
pool over there.  And all the fish are jumping and most are biting and they’
re all making noise.  And they all migrate to the pool where the propagation 
is best and the food is  plentiful. When conditions change, they all move 
to another pool. The Contest  Gods caused them all to do that at 2100 Z on 
Saturday. Then, at 0259 Z on  Monday, the Contest Gods caused all the fish to 
stop jumping and biting, and the  waters became all calm and silent. Spooky 
but  cool.