[SCCC] N6WIN 2011 ARRL Sweepstakes SSB, SOHP ORG

[Timothy Coker]

                   ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: N6WIN
Operator(s): N6WIN
Station: N6WIN

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: ORG
Operating Time (hrs): 21.5

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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 160:    0
  80:  104
  40:  261
  20:  115
  15:  545
  10:  325
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Total: 1350  Sections = 80  Total Score = 216,000

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

This was my first full weekend effort at SS. I didn't put in the full 24 as
I
simply wanted to spend some time with the kids before work on Monday, but
otherwise it was the best that I could give. I was distracted trying to get
my
SO2R controller to work properly, until I figured out that I broke a
microphone
output relay and I was simply going to have to do without the second
transmitter. That did distract and frustrate me quite a bit on Saturday
night
when the initial rate dropped down a few hours in and I had time to try my
hand
at my new SO2R equipment. The positive is that I am good to go for SO2R next
weekend in the CQ WW CW as the rest of the hardware is now setup and has
been
learned.

The initial goals were a clean sweep and 1,000 Q's. Both of those were done
with by Sunday morning. I was running some 80-100+ rate clock hours on 15m a
few hours into Sunday morning when I made the decision to go looking for
PR. I
found Tony on 10m running a crowd of thinly organized contesters simplex. It
was taking a while for him to get each QSO into the log, but he was working
hard with the crowd and doing a decent job of it. It's times like this that
I
am glad for 7 elements and the full gallon. Once he was in the log I
breathed a
sigh of relief and took a forty minute break to play with the kids. Then it
was
back to running 15m and milking it the rest of the afternoon until dinner
(quiting) time.

I also had a lot of fun running a loose competition with Bob, AA6PW. He is a
fellow SCCC member with a darned near identical setup of equipment as I and
is
also located in the same section. In the end Bob won out as he was willing
to
commit more time in the chair and used the pre-competition rules to it's
fullest as one should. We were within two QSOs at the time I needed to call
it... I do believe we will have lots of additional contests in the future in
which we can motivate each other to keep working hard in the name of local
competition.

This was a fun contest and I believe at least one SS per year is in order
for
my contest commitments.

Operating equipment:
Elecraft K3
Acom 2000A
LM354HD 54' Tower
Force 12 C31XR
Cushcraft XM240 (also my 160m antenna)
80m inverted-v
N1MM