[SCCC] Fwd: SS CW N7VM Single Op LP

[Bill Ralston]

                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW - 2025

Call: N7VM
Operator(s): N7VM
Station: N7VM

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 24
OpMode: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:
   80:   37
   40:  180
   20:  259
   15:  273
   10:  151
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Total:  900  Sections = 84  Total Score = 151,200

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Even though I did better than last year, it felt slower for some reason...
perhaps the let down from being DX in the Caribbean last weekend for CQWW.
 I never even heard the reported NL pileup - but probably just as well as
it can be more frustrating to hear and not work the last mult you need for
a sweep.  I am in good company not finding them all this year.

The top LP QSO totals are very close: I think we were all struggling to
clean up every last possible Q on Sunday.  It simply isn't possible to
compete without running SO2R: some stations will only answer CQ's, so you
have to be CQing to work then, but then you also need to sweep the bands to
find those who get on late Sunday just to run and enjoy being "fresh
meat".  Only on Sunday ARRL Sweepstakes would I find myself busting a
pileup just to work a "fresh meat" Californian who isn't even a multiplier,
while a few kHz away NP3A is begging for Q's.  I probably spent too much
time dual-CQing on Sunday and instead should have been doing more S&P on
the second radio.  There was plenty of room so it was easy to find a hole
and CQ away (panadapter is super helpful in finding a clear frequency
quickly).  I didn't have too much trouble holding (two!) frequencies (on
adjacent bands). It wasn't real 2BSIQ because q's were so infrequent; only
a couple of times did I grab a caller on the second radio and interleave
part of the exchange. I think my score would have been better if I'd spent
more time doing S&P on the second radio, although the few times I swept the
band, the bandmap wound up filled with dupes and maybe one new station I
couldn't work.  After years of feeling like this was a "must operate"
contest, I might not bother next year.  But the "hardwood" from last year
arrived just a few weeks ago - just enough time to plan ahead and not
enough to remember the year before...

And so the cycle repeats, one q at a time, in this crazy radiosport of
ours.  Thanks all for the Q's.

--Bill
Stn: 2x(K3-100+P3), u2AT, N1MM, huge mess of filters, triplexers,
power-splitters, and antennas, DM13ih