[SECC] Claimed Score, K4BAI, ARRL SS CW 2004 (SO2R)

[John Laney]

                     ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: K4BAI
Operator(s): K4BAI
Station: K4BAI

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: GA
Operating Time (hrs): 23:55
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
  Band  QSOs
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   160:    0
    80:  328
    40:  343
    20:  352
    15:   84
    10:    3
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Total: 1110  Sections = 80  Total Score = 177,600

Club: South East Contest Club

Comments:

FT1000MP (2), Alpha 78, AL811H, TH6DXX, zepp, dipole, inverted vee.  NA 
version
10.  80 meters was much more important this year than it has been for a 
number
of years.  After several years of doing this contest SO2R from W4AN, I 
used SO2R
at home this year.  The last few hours were difficult with aurora sounding
signals and very weak signals generally on 80 meters.  20 closed early. 
  40 had
loud signals with aurora.  My last section was from KH6NF on 40 M about 
8 AM our
time.  KH7X had a huge pileup on 20 M about sundown Sunday.  VY1JA and KL7WV
both called me on 80!  Thanks for all the QSOs.  Didn't make many QSOs on 10
because don't have a good antenna for the second rig for that band without
retuning the zepp from 40M.  Probably should have marked the tuner and 
made the
band change.  But that would have required manual insertion of another 
bandpass
filter, since I had used up all the switches and jumpers I could find. 
Radio
Shack had no switches or jumpers or coax couplers on Saturday.  By the 
time I
put rig #1 on ten meters, I had worked on another band nearly every 
station I
could hear on ten.

This was my 50th SS, since my first one was 1955.  Well, it would have 
been the
50th except the US Army sent me to Korea for a time that included the 
1968 SS
and HL9KQ was not eligible to participate.  So next year will be the 
50th, the
good Lord willing.

73,

John, K4BAI.


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