ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: KT0R
Operator(s): K0OB K0AD NN7L KT0R
Station: KT0R
Class: Multi-Op HP
QTH: MN
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 312
40: 682
20: 538
15: 130
10: 0
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Total: 1662 Sections = 80 Total Score = 265,920
Club: Minnesota Wireless Association
Comments:
Well, another year of Sweepstakes has come and gone. We had another fine top
notch dedicated crew. Everyone was here and willing to help out however they
could. I want to thank Greg K0OB, Al K0AD, and Jason NN7L for a fine job. We
had kind of a rocky start. I had to leave at 3:40 to pick up my son from a
birthday party. I was gone for an hour. Greg K0OB had to leave for a wedding
party from 4:40 till around 9:30. But Al and Jason stepped up to the plate and
did a great job.
All the equipment worked flawlessly. The DOS software TRLog never crashed once.
I just canâ??t say enough about TRLog. I keep hearing all the horror stories
about writelog and the other window base software. TR log you can run on a $10
computer and just goes and goes. The only down side to TRLog is RTTY. But for
CW and SSB I think a great program.
Our rates the first few hours were very good. Greg started out on 20 and we
finished the 1st hour with 165 hour followed by a 103, 98,111, and 89 hours.
Things stayed steady for the evening hovering around 50-60 hour mark. 40 meters
seemed to go long a bit early so off to 80 meters we went. I think going to 80
early helped. I think we got on the band before a lot of others. This is the
first year that we didnâ??t have too much trouble with the rag chewers on 75
meters. We were on 3863 all night and no one really said boo to us. Well as far
as I can remember. We just kept plugging along on the low bands. Jason and I
kept operating until we were famished around 9:00 pm and we ordered some great
pizza from Frankieâ??s. Wow it was good. Thanks Jason. Greg returned around
10:00pm and gave us some relief and left around 12:30am. Jason and I pulled the
plug at 2:00 am and QRTâ??d till 8:00 am CST. We had 908 Qsoâ??s and 79 mults.
Needing only NL.
On Sunday morning Greg was here bright and early. Our first qso was with VO1TA
14:03 UTC for the Sweep. We started out on 40 and 20 meters. 40 was in good
shape and remained good till almost 10:00 am. Our morning rates were 94,88,69
and then 39. Then 20 and 15 got going and things picked up. The last 3 hours
were spent on 80 and 40 with low rates in the 30â??s. We felt had good signals
but, just could not get much going. Nice to hear KR0B on my freq for a new qso.
The band was strange you were very weak for some reason. I knew I had to get
your attention. If you started running there I would have been pushed out and
75 meters was packed. Next year should be better with the expanded frequencies.
Sunday night we were on 3783 for the duration. The bands just seemed strange
this year.
It was so nice to hear so many old friends and familiar calls. Sunday can be a
grind but, sure is nice to have a few guys together to make it fun. We had many
laughs and chuckles and looking forward to next year, despite our score being a
bit lower than expected.
Congrats to everyone that got on for the contest. It was nice to hear K0FVF on
the band. We worked 51 Mn stations. It was state # 6 tied with OH. Va won with
93 and IL with 90.
Thanks to everyone that called in and we will be in there for CQWW !
Vry 73 Dave KT0R
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