ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K6IF
Operator(s): K6IF
Station: N6NF
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: SCV
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 214
40: 596
20: 634
15: 293
10: 0
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Total: 1737 Sections = 80 Total Score = 277,920
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
I'd forgotten how bad things are on 20 and 40 - my ears still hurt :-) I ran
the K3's with the bandwidth between 1.8 kHz and 2.1 kHz all weekend, and still
had a very difficult time with the QRM.
I'd hoped for a personal best this year from Tom's wonderful mountain top
station, but it wasn't to be. I got off to a very tough start, and was 80 q's
off my previous best pace after 4 hours. I clawed all of that back by the time
I went to bed, but couldn't get anything going Sunday morning and fell behind
again.
Amazing local competition kept me going during the mid-day doldrums - hearing
N6BV, W6YX, WC6H, N6DE and K6YT all pounding away pushed me through.
For the first time that I can remember, I had to go after mults. Neither PR
nor NT called me - and without the packet I probably wouldn't have found them.
What was the story with WP3R anyway?
K6IF was:
K3 + AL-1500
K3 + Alpha 77
C-31XR's at 45' and 85'
Mag 340N at 75'
Mag 180S at 90'
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