Great Score... Looks like cw and ssb will be ahead of last year by a good bit.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sherman Banks (W4ATL) [mailto:w4atl@arrl.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:39 PM
> To: GTARC Reflector; SECC
> Subject: [SECC] SS Summary
>
>
> SOLP
> 1208 QSOs
> 80 Sections
> 193280 Claimed Score
> FT-920, A4S Tribander and dipoles for 80/40.
>
> This was my first contest when I was a student at Georgia
> Tech (way back in
> 1982), and it is still my favorite (but NAQP is challenging to be my
> favorite.) I continued to participate occasionally from
> Georgia Tech when
> they needed operators, but with the advent of the "S"
> category I have been
> encouraging them to make a run to win that category. That
> left me to do a
> single op effort, which I have not done seriously before.
>
> My goal was to break 1000 QSOs, and I exceeded my
> expectaions. I got on 15M
> to start, thinking I couldn't hold my own on 20M. I made
> several contacts
> before the contest and everyone said I was loud. But when the contest
> started the rate was lousy. I never could get anything going
> on 10 or 15.
>
> I bounced around 20 and made a small run. Then I moved to 40
> and things
> picked up. But after midnight it was as if someone flipped a
> switch. I had
> incredible runs on 40 and 80. I was planning on getting some
> sleep around 1
> or 2 AM when the rates eased, but people kept calling me. So
> I kept working
> 'em. Stopped for breakfast when the rates finally died down
> around 6 AM.
>
> Then I decided to see what was happening on 20M. A few
> people were making
> QSOs, but the band was relatively clear. I decided to get on
> 14207 and make
> a run - for the next 4 hours. Stations above and below
> finally caused me to
> move, but I held the frequency for a long time!
>
> At this point I needed YT, AK, NV, UT and SF. I only had one
> radio, so I
> decided to S&P every hour or so in the afternoon to try and
> pick up the
> needed mults. SF and UT finally called me in the afternoon.
> I heard VY1JA
> working someone early in the morning on 40M and he said he
> was moving down
> in frequency but I never heard him. I had to get VY1MB who
> was running on
> 10M. KL7G was also loud on 10M Sunday afternoon. Then I
> finally heard NV
> on late Sunday for the sweep. It took me 15 minutes to break
> the pileup.
>
> Tons of people kept telling me that they needed GA - even late in the
> contest. I heard lots of stations with 00-02 checks.
> Hopefully they will
> get hooked too!
>
> Thanks to all the SECCers who gave me a QSO. Some I couldn't
> remember the
> names with the call - sorry! Blame it on a lack of sleep.
> Worked K4BAI,
> AE4Y, KU8E, K4WI, NQ4I (whining about only having an 80M
> vertical), K4JRB
> (sorry I had a hard time hearing you!) Maybe some others - sorry if I
> missed you. Heard W4NTI work someone else.
>
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