ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: K6NV
Operator(s): K6NV
Station: K6NV
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: SV
Operating Time (hrs): 19
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 179
40: 18
20: 279
15: 34
10:
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Total: 510 Sections = 76 Total Score = 77,520
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
This was my first really serious effort on SS CW, in the past I have been out of
town this weekend. These totals are my all time high. As luck would have it,
during WW SSB my neighbor called and said I was blasting her out on 15m, until
I get her problem figured out I choose to limit my effort on 15m, I believe
that probably hurt some. Here in the evenings 40m has been really bad, Sat
evening had a very high noise level, but 80m made up for it. I also noticed
that until it got dark even though I could hear people on 40m I just couldn't
get anything going- gotta get that low dipole up higher. I also had a guy send
"please copy.......", then a guy spelled out his call. Those "whisper" QRP guys
just killed me off, tough copy for me. I had a couple of good runs on 20m with
my rate meter showing a sustained rated of 40-50 per hour for a couple of
hours, after that my brain was totally fried. Then, what happened the last few
minutes on 80, with still 4-5 minutes to go it just went dead, nobody answering
my CQ's. Overall a good time, missed the sweep by 3 (when I check the log I
believe I will pick up at least 1 more section). "Hats off" to those who put
together the pre-fills, what a great tool that was and not that many changes
were necessary.
The station performed very well, the Thursday night NS pratices have sure
helped to fine tune that part- now to get my brain tuned better......
FT-1000MP
AL-80B, 700-950w out
TH-3 @ 60' in the trees
Inverted vees for 80 and 40, 160m slopper that also works well on 80m.
Writelog with an ancient Dell PC running Windows 98
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