ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KB0VVT
Operator(s): KB0VVT, KG0UT, KG0US
Station: KB0VVT
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MO
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 191
40: 234
20: 497
15: 23
10: 3
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Total: 948 Sections = 80 Total Score = 151,680
Club: Kansas City DX Club
Comments:
This phone contest has turned into the mother daughter contest over at our
house. I basically just get to work the late night shift on this one. We ended
up several hundred QSOs down from last year when we ran low power. We got a
knock on the door Saturday night from a neighbor complaining about RFI on his
satellite TV. We normally only get radio complaints from our neighbor right
next door to us to the north. This neighbor is actually much further away to
the northeast east of us about a half a block. We were operating on 40 meters
on an Alpha Delta DX-A sloper with the apex at about 35 feet. When I answered
the door, he said "please don?t tell me your victor victor tango". I explained
that I am not but that my daughter is KB0VVT. The neighbor was nice about it and
said that he would be going to bed in about an hour. I made a compromise that
we would not operate during the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday afternoon. It
was at this point that I made a fatal mistake in our planning. I decided to
stay up and operate all during the night so that we would minimize the
interference to the neighbors on Sunday during the day. I essentially gave away
the best operating times. I learned that it is not necessarily how much you
operate but when you operate that can make a huge difference in the score as
evident by this years score being several hundred QSOs down. Another
catastrophe occurred during Saturday night. Forty meters propagation all but
completely disappeared. I do not even think the short wave broadcast stations
could be heard. This forced everyone to 80 meters. We did not have an antenna
with low enough SWR to run the amplifier on 80 so this even hurt us more. Next
year, I do not know what to do about the neighbors RFI but I will make sure we
have an antenna that works on 80 meters so that I have less than 150 Watts of
reflected power.
Dave KG0US
Barb KG0UT
Rebecca KB0VVT
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