ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: N1CC
Operator(s): N1CC
Station: N1CC
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: NTX
Operating Time (hrs): 18
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 29
40: 26
20: 118
15: 126
10: 15
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Total: 314 Sections = 81 Total Score = 50,868
Club: North Texas Contest Club
Comments:
Station: Elecraft K3/100 running 5 Watts output. F12 C3 @64' and 80/40 Meter
Fan Dipoles at 50', one broadside E-W and the other N-S. Most of the puny 80
and 40 operation used the E-W Fan Dipole as it seemed to work better. Tried
CQ's on 160M, never got an answer and did not see any stations on that band
while I was there.
Since QRP class does not use spots ... I was curious as to if I had been
spotted by the U and M gang so after closing my log I signed on the Cluster and
checked. On 11/21 at 2217 I was spotted on 21422 by N3DXX; and on 11/22 at 2041
I was spotted on 21236.1. The first spot showed a run of 25 calls after the
spot out of the 30 contacts made with that run attempt - that was my best run
on SS Phone. The second was made after I already had ten contacts on that
frequency, and the spotter KB8O was the last of those QSOs - so nothing was
produced you could correlate to the spot. The first one may have doubled what
my own CQing was generating.
Unlike CW using QRP I needed to give fills for most of the contacts, only the
top operators did not need a fill. Several Q's did not make it into the log
because the station working me didn't want to do any more fills ... probably
slowing their rate down a bit, hmmm.
I came "close" to a sweep with 81 Sections. I missed NL that I tried
to work several times, not able to bust the unruly gangs calling the VO1
stations. I missed STX, because I did not hear any stations from STX ... not a
single one. Plenty of LA, MS, NM, WTX, OK, and NTX stations ... didn't hear any
STX.
Worked 3 stations in NT and several AK, VI, and HI stations - all were easy for
the QRP signal to bust their managed pile ups. Saturday a "new" OTH
Radar was on 14.209 through 14.214 with a 30 dB over nine modulated buzzing
broadband signal from the Gulf of Mexico... one KP2 had to give up on 20 Meters
- this may be a sign of an enemy radar operation from one particular island, as
it did peak on that Island's central highlands.
There are 5 other "Q" class stations in my log. I stopped early
because I had worked every station I could hear and was finding and 80 and 40
were too long to hunt for STX, 20 and above were just the strongest west coast
signals ...
Saddened to hear of KL7RA becoming SK at the start of the SS period. A top gun
was lost this weekend.
See you all in the CQWW.
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