ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
Call: W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: W6PH
Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Lone Pine CA
Operating Time (hrs): 22.0
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 4
80: 149
40: 233
20: 699
15: 20
10: 0
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Total: 1105 Sections = 83 Total Score = 183,430
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
Equipment: K3 Expert 1.3-FA Win-Test
Ant: 5L 15m yagi on 60 ft AB-577 #3
3L 20m yagi on 60 ft AB-577 #2
40-2CD on 60 ft AB-577 #1
80m half sloper below 40-2CD
160m inductively loaded sloper below 3L 20
I started on 20m after listening to 15m right before the contest started. It
didn't sound populated enough Twenty ended earlier than last year. I went to
40m and found that the propagation foot print was strange. I worked what I
could and went to 80 where I found the band had gone long and the 6's were real
weak. I tried 160 and worked four stations. I knocked off early on Saturday
night because the foot print was not producing a good rate. I didn't set an
alarm and woke up seven hours later and dragged myself out to the shack at 5:30
PST. I worked what I could and just slugged away on Sunday. The rate was
fairly stable all day until an hour before the end. I couldn't find any new
stations and I bailed with an hour left.
I sense that a paddle is becoming an antique. On many occasions I asked for a
single fill of the exchange and got a whole exchange instead. Many of the QRP
stations were barely audible and had to have many repeats. I suggest that QRP
contacts should be worth 5 points instead of 2 points.
The only sections I had to call were NT and VI. All the other sections
answered my CQs.
I didn't have a single Murphy considering there were no antennas in the air
three days before the SS and I didn't have the station wired up. I was
recovering from pneumonia and didn't feel like doing anything until about a
week before SS.
I still get enjoyment from the SS. It is one of the last contests where you
actually have to copy something unless you are lame and use a call history
database.
73, Kurt W6PH
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