[SECC] Fwd: Sweepstakes CW W4IX SOABLP

[John Colyard]

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> From: jrcccd at aol.com
> Date: November 4, 2012, 8:27:41 PM EST
> To: secc at contesting.com
> Subject: Sweepstakes CW W4IX SOABLP
> 
>        
>  ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
> 
> Call: W4IX
> Operator(s): W4IX
> Station: W4IX
> 
> Class: Single Op LP
> QTH: SC
> Operating Time (hrs): 15.28
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs
> ------------
>   160:    0
>    80:  141
>    40:  258
>    20:  114
>    15:  125
>    10:    9
> ------------
> Total:  647  Sections = 81  Total Score = 104,814
> 
> Club: South East Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> I drove home from Northern NJ on Saturday, got home at 10:30pm, had to get all
> my antenna feeds together from outside and run them into the radio room, set up
> the N1MM logger, fire up the radios and get them tuned and ready. Made my first
> QSO at 0324Z. Worked for 5 hours and pulled the plug for some sleep. Got up at
> 1300Z and got back on the air soon after. Bands were really sounding awesome.
> Just started plugging away from band to band, some running, some S&P. Made my
> last QSO at 2325Z and decided to call it after breaking the 100,000 point
> margin. Missed 2 sections, NLI ( did not hear a single staion ) and ONN ( did
> not hear any one from here either ). Great contest, great cw ops, and great
> condx made this one alright. Wish I could have had time to prepare and do a
> serious LP effort as I only had a roughly made Inv L with 2 radials for 80
> meters and a small meter sloper @ 30 feet for 40 meters. TH7DX for 10-20 meters
> @ 40 feet. ( I had a feedline go bad so I had to share the good feedline between
> the yagi and sloper ). It was nice to work so many great ops out there this
> weekend. CW is definitely kickin!! 73's to all and see ya all in future
> contests...
> 
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