My record is unblemished. I have continued my tradition of never having a
clean sweep in the CWSS. I never heard NT.
It's been a long time since I operated full time in a contest and the first
few hours were not fun. I was rusty as all get-out. I suspected early on
that I would not beat my personal best. That, plus the fact that I had a
TV with me in the shack and was watching TRLog with one eye and the GA/FL
game with the other -- well, with me being a Bulldog fan you get my
drift. Oh well.
I was surprised by the activity late in the contest, right up to the
end. For a number of years in the past I would plan to take the final two
hours off but I'm glad I didn't do that this time.
Wasn't the disturbance on Sunday afternoon weird? I tuned across every
band, well, except for 160, and only heard one station. Now I wish I had
noted who it was. They were in the midwest. That was so strange, right in
the middle of the SS.
As I told someone earlier today, one of fun things about this contest is
that you contact people who you have contacted in the same contest for many
years. And even though I wouldn't know 99% of them if I met them on the
street, and even though the contact only lasts for seconds (hopefully),
that friendship developed over the years is pretty neat.
Many thanks to the club folks who got on for a few QSOs.
Anyway, here's the bottom line:
BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults
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80CW 172 172 344 1
40CW 286 286 572 10
20CW 367 367 734 56
15CW 79 79 158 7
10CW 24 24 48 5
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Totals 928 928 1856 79
Final Score = 146624 points.
2003 CWSS Rate
HOUR 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM
---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- -----
21 0 0 65 0 0 65 65
22 0 0 51 0 1 52 117
23 0 19 19 4 5 47 164
0 0 23 18 0 0 41 205
1 0 18 21 10 0 49 254
2 0 63 0 0 0 63 317
3 28 22 0 0 0 50 367
4 2 22 2 0 0 26 393
5 47 0 0 0 0 47 440
6 64 0 0 0 0 64 504
7 19 16 0 0 0 35 539
8 9 3 0 0 0 12 551
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 551
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 551
11 0 0 0 0 0 0 551
12 0 24 0 0 0 24 575
13 0 4 35 0 0 39 614
14 0 0 25 7 0 32 646
15 0 0 32 7 0 39 685
16 0 0 11 7 3 21 706
17 0 0 0 9 3 12 718
18 0 0 3 11 3 17 735
19 0 0 20 5 5 30 765
20 0 0 19 0 0 19 784
21 0 0 21 2 2 25 809
22 0 0 16 15 0 31 840
23 0 24 6 2 2 34 874
0 0 8 0 0 0 8 882
1 0 23 2 0 0 25 907
2 3 17 1 0 0 21 928
TOTAL 172 286 367 79 24
73,
- Jay
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