[SCCC] W6PH SS CW SOHP

[W6ph at aol.com]

                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW



Call: W6PH

Operator(s): W6PH

Station: W6PH



Class: Single Op HP

QTH: Lone Pine CA

Operating Time (hrs): 22.0



Summary:

 Band  QSOs

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  160:    4

   80:  149

   40:  233

   20:  699

   15:   20

   10:    0

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Total: 1105  Sections = 83  Total Score = 183,430



Club: Southern California Contest Club



Comments:



Equipment:  K3 Expert 1.3-FA  Win-Test



Ant: 5L 15m yagi on 60 ft AB-577 #3

     3L 20m yagi on 60 ft AB-577 #2

     40-2CD on 60 ft AB-577 #1

     80m half sloper below 40-2CD

     160m inductively loaded sloper below 3L 20



I started on 20m after listening to 15m right before the contest started.  
It

didn't sound populated enough   Twenty ended earlier than last year.  I 
went to

40m and found that the propagation foot print was strange.  I worked what I

could and went to 80 where I found the band had gone long and the 6's were 
real

weak.  I tried 160 and worked four stations.  I knocked off early on 
Saturday

night because the foot print was not producing a good rate.  I didn't set an

alarm and woke up seven hours later and dragged myself out to the shack at 
5:30

PST.  I worked what I could and just slugged away on Sunday.  The rate was

fairly stable all day until an hour before the end.  I couldn't find any new

stations and I bailed with an hour left.



I sense that a paddle is becoming an antique.  On many occasions I asked 
for a

single fill of the exchange and got a whole exchange instead.  Many of the 
QRP

stations were barely audible and had to have many repeats.  I suggest that 
QRP

contacts should be worth 5 points instead of 2 points.



The only sections I had to call were NT and VI.  All the other sections

answered my CQs.



I didn't have a single Murphy considering there were no antennas in the air

three days before the SS and I didn't have the station wired up.  I was

recovering from pneumonia and didn't feel like doing anything until about a

week before SS.



I still get enjoyment from the SS.  It is one of the last contests where you

actually have to copy something unless you are lame and use a call history

database.



73, Kurt W6PH





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