In my annual effort to make CW SS fun on Sunday, I traveled to six stations
this year in my Single Op Multi Station effort. The results, listed in order
of appearance:
N8TR 277 72 39,888 4:04
AC8E 310 72 44,640 4:12
K8RM 311 71 44,162 4:19
K8MR 311 73 45,406 4:07
W8AJ 306 68 41,616 4:03
K8MAD 305 72 43,920 3:28
1820 259,632 24:17
All were High Power
K8MAD @ K8AZ
AC8E: John made a few more qsos Sunday afternoon, making our entry a Multi
entry. This score above is only for my single op part.
I worked all the sections from one place or another. I had one qso in VY1
(@K8RM) and one in Wyoming (@AC8E).
I haven't seen a score from WP3R, but it is likely that this is the first
time in my SOMS efforts that my combined scores have exceeded the top single
op score. The last time I did this seriously (1998) I had the stations
available to do it, but a serious geomagnetic disturbance hurt me and helped
the southern stations. This year propagation cooperated.
20 meters was great in Ohio. At W8AJ I started about 19Z. After 6 qsos on 15
I fired up on 14058. When I left that frequency I was at qso # 285. In that
time I had worked just about everything from WPA to the west coast. I also
had over 200 qsos on 20 from home, with an unlikely low of 11 qsos on 40 from
there.
The coolest QSO: At AC8E, while CQing on 80, I found N6KI on 40 on the
second radio. But when I was ready to call him, he disappeared, probably for
a second radio QSO. So after a couple of "?"'s and about 2 unanswered CQs,
comes KH8/N5OLS for my Pacific mult! Then N6KI returned and we engaged in a
few minutes of frequency fighting until I decided I had better things to do,
and moved on.
The contest ended on a high note: With the last 100 qso rate timer at 93,
the final qso was W0OF in Iowa for a new (at K8MAD/K8AZ) multiplier, with 10
seconds to spare.
As always, I'm amazed that more people haven't tried this approach to SS. It
remains the best radio fun this side of 25 degrees north latitude.
73 - Jim K8MR
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