Fun was had. This is the first clean sweep in CW Sweepstakes for the
University of Texas station since 1989, and our second highest score ever! I
operated almost eight hours doing 15 - 20 wpm, and Robert K5PI operated the
remainder at significantly higher speeds! :-) We ended up using an emergency
backup keyer, which took me a while to rig together, as the PC interface I
built earlier this week refused to cooperate at the start, but otherwise
things went rather well.
We used an historic transceiver this weekend. The Kenwood TS-930S
was donated to our club station by alumnus Trey N5KO (who made 1458 QSOs this
weekend from the W5KFT ranch about 60 miles NW of us!) It has been used to
win the Sweepstakes SOHP twice, CQ World Wide a few times, and has made
well over 100,000 QSOs in something like 6 or 7 different CQ Zones in North
America, South America, and the Pacific. It has genuine Galapagos Islands
rust spots on it!
ARRL Sweepstakes/Collegiate Championships
Contest Dates : 07-Nov-98, 08-Nov-98, 09-Nov-98
Callsign Used : N5XU
Operators : K5PI, KM5FA
Category : Multioperator
Default Exchange : # B N5XU 21 STX
Name : University of Texas Amateur Radio Club
Section : South Texas (STX)
Team/Club : Central Texas DX and Contest Club
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80CW 21 21 42 0
40CW 378 376 752 18
20CW 359 356 710 59
15CW 30 29 58 2
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Totals 788 782 1562 79
Final Score = 123,398 points.
Equipment:
Kenwood TS-930S
Heathkit SB-220 (original tube)
Force 12 C-4 tribander + 40M dipole at ~100'
80M dipole at ~90' fixed N/S
Super CMOS Keyer III + Bencher BY-1 paddles
TR Log 6.32
Rate Sheet (minus dupes):
HOUR 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
21 0 0 2 0 2 2
22 0 0 15 0 15 17
23 0 0 23 0 23 40
0 0 0 18 0 18 58
1 0 0 16 0 16 74
2 0 0 54 0 54 128
3 0 34 20 0 54 182
4 0 64 0 0 64 246
5 0 51 0 0 51 297
6 0 50 0 0 50 347
7 0 5 0 0 5 352
8 0 0 0 0 0 352
9 0 0 0 0 0 352
10 0 0 0 0 0 352
11 0 0 0 0 0 352
12 0 4 0 0 4 356
13 0 13 1 0 14 370
14 0 0 17 0 17 387
15 0 0 17 0 17 404
16 0 0 23 0 23 427
17 0 0 46 0 46 473
18 0 0 2 23 25 498
19 0 0 37 6 43 541
20 0 0 41 0 41 582
21 0 0 23 0 23 605
22 0 25 1 0 26 631
23 0 49 0 0 49 680
0 0 33 0 0 33 713
1 0 46 0 0 46 759
2 21 2 0 0 23 782
TOTAL 21 376 356 29 0
Most worked sections (20 or more QSOs):
1. Il 39
2. Va 32
3. Oh 27
4. WNy 27
5. Mi 24
6. Mn 24
7. Mdc 24
8. WWa 23
9. Ep 23
10. STx 21
11. Em 20
12. Co 20
13. NTx 20
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto" kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: KM5FA
Department of the Computer Sciences President, UT Amateur Radio Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of the Linux Laptop Home Page
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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