[SCCC] Sleepstakes - WN6K SOLP

[Bill Haddon]

I discovered a way to avoid the Sunday SS boredumb::   Visited a local
winery on Saturday afternoon with XYL and some friends, then had an early
Thai dinner out.

So started the contest on 80 meters Sat night.  By midnight, 280 Q's and 63
mults using LP in the "UL" category -- almost all on 80 as I couldn't find
a spot on 40.   Pileups were exquisite with rates often 70-90.

On Sunday I slept late and started about noon, commencing a 15m run of 508
continuous Q's  on the same freq. I uttered the words "CQ-ss" only three
times in 5 1/2 hours.   Thus the average Sunday afternoon rate was about 80
Q's/hr under almost continuous and massive pileups.  Finally went to 40 in
the last couple hours, where rate was slightly lower but pileups continued
for about an hour.

The result was 900 Q's in about 13 hours --142,200 points; about equaling
my 2004 LP SF record but with just over half the operating time.

However this was a special year, and SF was as rare as hens teeth (whatever
that means).   Most of the big-time SF ops either lost interest, were on
travel to VK for the eclipse, or in one case had to devote time to a young
daughter and her broken leg.  K3FIV, AA6DX, N6YEU   and a  few others
helped to hand out SF Q's.

73 Bill n6zfo


On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where's the Sunday afternoon "Book Report" ???
>
> ;-)
>
> N6KI
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 18, 2012, at 6:34 PM, PAUL DOREY <wn6k at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB Call: WN6K
> > Operator(s): WN6K
> > Station: WN6K Class: Single Op LP
> > QTH: SDG
> > Operating Time (hrs): 22 Summary: Band  QSOs
> > ------------ 160:      80:   71 40:  159 20:  137 15:  215 10:  204
> > ------------
> > Total:  786  Sections = 80  Total Score = 125,760 Club: Southern
> California Contest Club Comments: Missed PR,VI and QC ...Huh The 'late'
> ending does nothing for me - seemed I was calling a lot with little
> > or no returns and I was out of books to read. Got a call from the local
> cemetery last night to say I need to tone it down, I
> > was waking up the locals -  Did not seem to be fun for me this weekend.
> WN6K, Paul
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