SS SSB Soapbox built 12-7-2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 46,662 44th Sweeps participation, methinks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 64,000 Operating Conditions: IC-756PII, 3el SteppIR with 30/40 add-on, Inverted Vee for 80/160. My first Sweep!!!! I sure enjoyed 10M!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6PW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 239,040 I was able to work this one for the whole duration of the contest. The last mult was Puerto Rico finding Tony on 10 meters Sunday morning. Band conditions were favorable and there were some very big scores. Looking back over the log I'm sure I missed some rate opportunities on 10 meters Sunday morning. The first four hours of the contest was able to hold rates for over 100+ an hour. The new Force 12 C31XR seems to be performing well. Murphy was present in this one. Everything was FB on Saturday. Sunday morning when I powered up the station the rotor control appeared to not be working. Not a good situation for me with the 40 meter beam directed Northeast and the high band beam Northwest. Upon further investigation I found the rotor was actually working. The controller direction indicator was not working. With the help of my supporting wife we were able to direct the antenna Northeast. 73, Bob AA6PW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6YX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 199,680 S15 noise level at night really limits 80/40 and thus Op Time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA8IA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,800 I hadn't originally planned on getting on, but I ended up playing in spurts on both days. I mostly went looking for Qs from people who sounded like they were having fun. Quite a few school stations on. Was good to say hi to a few guys I normally only work on RTTY/CW - K8MR, K7HP and K7IA. Hope everyone had fun. Thanks for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB1OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,124 Just a few Q's between items on the honey-do list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 120,160 Rig: Icom 756 Pro III Amp: Acom 2000A Antennas: 80m inverted L, 40m delta loop, 20m delta loop, 10-15 G5RV First time in over 10yrs I've made more than a couple hundred QSOs in SSB SS. Had a great time, especially on 80m where I have a good sig and can hold a frequency. Highlights included having a VE8 answer my CQ Sun afternoon on 20m, and making a sweep by 10A on Sun. 73 Darrell AB2E SNJ Section ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB3CX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 218,400 Thanks to Ray W2RE for permitting me to operate his contest station in Summit, NY. Equipment was identical to that I used here two weeks ago in the CW SS; 80M INV Vee, C31XR at 96 feet and Magnum 240 2 element 40M yagi at about 90 feet. Conditions were ideal on the high bands. There were no nasty surprises form the gearn and all went well. Hopefully I recover well for the CQ WW next week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB3IC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 46,800 My butt hurts and my ears will be ringing for a week. But I had a great time and completely enjoyed myself. About 1/2 way through I started to wonder if my decision to operate unassisted - but its has been a many year goal of mine to get a sweep unassisted... Perhaps its time to realize that a man has to know his limitations... Last year's numbers were 153 Q's, 59 Mults / 16,992 total points. My goal for this year was to at least double last years total points. I can't promise to do that for next year, but I'll try... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 101,120 Was working for the sweep. Sunday afternoon I headed out to work outside...feed the horses, clean pastures...etc. When I left I still needed Newfoundland. When I got back to the shack I started hunting again and bam...there was VO1KVT but it would not be easy as there was 20 over QRM close by. I cranked the K3 filter down to 1.5 kHz and with good timing and lots of luck I got him! Way too much noise on the lower bands. 40 was very disappointing but I admit I did not give it much of a chance. Time to put the mic away again till next time...maybe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 155,540 Conditions were excellent, wish I had gone full time. Missed NL, NWT, SK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4L Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 115,040 Got the run frequency from heaven on 20 and was working stations as fast as possible when I noticed a weird crackling noise and started smelling that truly evil smell of roasted electronics. Then I noticed the amp meter lights dimming in time with my voice. A breaker popped next. The trusty SB200, age 46, died while giving all it had, and a few quick tests confirmed it was not anything transient. So I did most of the contest with whatever the TS-850 could get out. Got super tired Sunday afternoon and spent an hour sounding like Elmer Fudd. I was just getting over bronchitis and was very surprised to make it through the weekend, only getting real laryngitis in the last hour. Thanks to W4MR (AA4NC) and K4HA for the local cluster. It allowed me to pounce a PR very quickly and get my weak signal through well before the thundering herds. That was the only sweat for mults. 3 el @ 27 feet for 20/15/10, trapped dipole @ 40 feet for 80/40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE1P Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 167,360 Sweeps are My favorite contest.... I'll never win this.. but, will always have fun trying. Enjoyed hearing all the familiar voices I hear every Nov SS. Nice to say Hi to W6TA,N4PN,AF1T,K1PU,N1KWF and VE4EAR, and to many others to list..Thanks to all... Several Highlites were working PR on 40m split first call just after he went down to 7.081 for 79, Then Working KP2M early Sunday with just 50w on 10m (no amp for 10..yet)for the Sweep, Thanks! It was nice to catch W1AW on Saturday nite, then work Sean, KX9X on Sunday nite. Nice to get Derek,W1WWW, into his first SS, (He's hooked!) and lastly...It was great to see all the "10"and "11" checks, Nice upcoming crop for the years to come! Thanks to all again...see you in SS "12" ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE4EC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 24,192 REMOVED SCORE AND 4 DUPS MADE EARLY IN CONTEST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE4TX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 40,480 First time participating in the SS. I learned a lot, had a bunch of fun, and got a Sweep! Going for more QSO's next year. Thanks everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6Y Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 75,668 Due to work and family commitments, just a part-time effort. 15 and 10 were sure jumping Sunday morning! 73, andy ae6y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF6OP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 46,350 Previous post was not via 3830 reflector - newbie error ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG1T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 23,660 Had a blast. My first contest as a single op at my QTH. Wish I could have played longer but we had a family function to attend. Can't wait until next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK7AZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 15,458 I had no intention of doing this contest as I need to clean up my property... badly. But, I could not resist and decided to see what all this SS hub-bub was about. Well, now I know... and I will be scheduling this contest into my schedule in its entirety next year!! What a fun and unique contest!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL1G Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 145,440 First time I ever got a sweep!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL9A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 148,160 My first sweep ever! Not much I can add to that except this was a whole lot more fun than the previous unbroken string of missing the sweep. Not only did I break through the pile up to work VO1TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DU Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 312,640 WE NEED TO IMPROVE IN SEVERAL AREAS ! THANKS TO ALL FOR THE CONTACTS . JERRY K0DU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HC Class: School Club HP Total Score = 258,560 This year, the Hesston College ARC Sweepstakes team included three unlicensed aviation / air traffic control students, all YLs! Emma, Rachel, and Cee Cee had a great time, learned a lot, and all wanted to try another contest soon. The final five countdown to the Sweep was PAC, VT, NL, ND, and PR, with KH2RU/KP4 doing the honors at 23:40Z. NT, which was hard to get on CW, was easy to find this time around. ND was really rare. The only equipment malfunction came near the beginning with a headset microphone cable semi-shorting out. We had to use a hand mic during a nice run until things slowed down enough to change the headset. It's always fun to chat a bit with the other schools. This year we put 13 in the log : W1AF W6RFU K0VVY W8SH W5UH W0EEE W6YX W5YM W1YK W4UAL K2CC WD4EOG and W8UM. Good job all! Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and thanks for the Qs. Until next year ... 73, Bob, w0bh trustee, k0hc Hesston College ARC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0KE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 94,080 Rig - FT1000D set at 5w Ants KT34XA @105' fed w/ LDF7, M2 8el LPDA w/ 40m dipole @100' fed w/ LDF5, 4 SQ elev radials (80m) At the last minute decided would try QRP, a new experience just to see where I would end up. What a frustrating mistake! While I got many glowing reports, trying to hold a run freq with 5w is an exercise in frustration, constantly losing the freq to the HP boys. By the first nite I was resigned to S & P for virtually the rest of the contest. Tuning the bands constantly and checking for dupes was NOT enjoyable. Life is truly TOO short for QRP. The real satisfaction was a sweep. Tnx to all that took the time to pull me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0LUZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 68,960 Goal was to obtain a clean sweep. Although I've been operating the contest for over 50 years, a personal best was obtain by completing the sweep in about 6 hours and 30 minutes into the contest. Interesting that my last three needed sections were WPA, SC and KY (the last one). Enjoyed talking to all the guys I consistently work on SSCW. I'm sure it would be fun to just stop, chat and reminisce with each of them, but rate is always paramount. Enjoyable, although not being able to use a .250 khz filter was a disadvantage. 73 Red K0LUZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 80,700 Limited Time. I just ran on 10 and 40, not trying to work mults. I did a few Q's on 20 and 80, again mostly running. I did not try for a SWEEP as I had limited time. Surprised that I worked 75 sections without trying for a sweep. I used the spotting cluster under a dozen times to work stations. It is wonderful to see 10 meters open. I enjoyed all of the nice comments on my audio quality - thank you W2IHY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 104,800 Part time effort, and then went low power after EFI complaints Sunday noon. Last mult was VO1 around 18:00 Sunday, #79 was SB acouple of hours earlier. Tnx all for the Q's and the fun. K0OU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 90,218 Yes it saids QRP....Will never do that again....Thanks for the Q's......Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 98,560 I was able to spend more time on this than the CW weekend. The weather was just to good during CW weekend to stay to long behind the rig. This weekend the snow helped to allow for more BIC time. It is nice to get a sweep, but the unassisted sweep is more of an accomplishment. Got my 2nd sweep. This time assisted. The first one unassisted. I had RI, OK and PR left with 6 hours to go. I called NP4A quite a while on 10, but the crowds were to big for me. So I went to 20 and got a very good run going. Up to then I was not doing so well rate wise and I had not spent much time on 20 yet. Could not quite get the score over the 100K mark. I heard a few comments from stations that they heard a LOT of MN on this weekend. We should have a good club score! 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 219,778 Spectacular conditions on the high bands this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 7,380 Sweeps, always enjoyable. Tnx All. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 268,800 The first three hours were some of the best rates I've experienced in SS. With heavy use of the second radio to keep rates going on Sunday, I was able to ride the wave to a new personal record. Thanks for all the Q's and see you next time! Oh, and congrats to one of my long time contesting mentors, Mitch W1SJ, for the huge performance from VT this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1OU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 132,160 A new radio and some new wire antennas definitely helped this year. I ran low power to see how effective the antenna changes were, and I am pretty happy. I think I will go back to high power next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 27,360 Pretty nice conditions on the radio. This surely will be remembered as The Clean Sweep Weekend; even I did it, and I don't even understand how to operate "phone." Elecraft K3, Ameritron ALS-600, wires in trees. Jim Cain At The K1TN Superstation Frigid, Wisconsin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 49,416 Fun operating the last 3 hours. 4 VE8s and a bunch of KL7s. Memorable stretch was working 4 different new hams in SJV who were training together, several of whom had just upgraded to Extra. Looking forward to next weekend's CQ WW CW. The SOABHP lineup is formidable! Happy Thanksgiving. 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2CYE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 4,536 I had to work all weekend so I was only able to spare an hour. I had a good rate going for the hour and it would have been nice to put in more time. Thanks to all who worked me. 73, Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DSL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 55,040 Clean sweep #2 for me. 100w, wire antennas, one radio and lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2OAK Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 65,760 Great conditions this weekend. Sections we hardly ever heard before were logged in multiple QSOs, and gave us our first Clean Sweep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2RP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 12,800 80-80 (80 Sections is 80 Qs) First sweep in 52 years of hamming! Thought I'd do it this way to save vocal cords. Last ones were RI & UT. Maybe getting too old to work dozens of WWA, IL, STX, GA, EMA, etc! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,708 Good contest with limited time to play. Rhode Island was the missing section. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 27,966 Just got for a little bit while packing up the station to go to V31 tomorrow. Glad to give out a few SC mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3FIV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 24,180 Only a few hours to play, but it was fun. Working the high bands with 100W and a dipole was a challenge to say the least. Wall to wall signals virtually all the time. I had a new (for me) contesting experience - a TwoFer. The bands were so full that on many frequencies I could hear two or three stations simultaneously running. Either they couldn't hear each other or they were really good at ignoring the QRM. Usually one was much louder than the others. So, I'd wait for the right part of the rhythm, and drop my call into the fray. A TwoFer is when you get *two* confirmations and exchanges for a single call in response to a CQ/QRZ. In this case the stronger signal came back to me, but after he finished I heard the weaker one also confirm - I think also with me. By the time I realized it, the strong station was well into the next QSO. So, someone's going to get a NIL. Sorry about that. I guess that's one of the costs of keeping exchanges short and fast, so it's not always clear who's talking to whom... 73, /Jack de K3FIV Rig: Flex-3000, 100W Ant: 135' Carolina Windom at 35' on all bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3KU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,550 My biggest 'phone effort in over 30 years; biggest ever from home station. Had mid-Sunday social commitment w/ YF, so missed about 6 hrs in the middle. Had almost no western sect's when I stopped for that, so I spent a lot of time on 10/15 Sunday afternoon scarfing them up. In SS CW I had missed VE4 for the sweep, so of course I worked two on SSB. Big deal. Not surprising to miss even MS, SB, SDG, and UT with a part time popgun effort, but how did I miss WI???? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MIM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 198,720 The father (Bob, w3idt) / daughter (Miriam, k3mim) contest team at w3lpl: 1. We wish once again to express our appreciation to Phyllis for letting us occupy part of her home during a non-dx contest, and of course we thank Frank, w3lpl, for the use of his station for our sweepstakes effort. This year we also thank Mark, kd4d, for the use of a laptop and software wizardry to permit two separate spotting streams into the two separate logging networks. 2. At 08:00, the 11 hour mark, we were at 841/76 and 815/75, each with an average rate of 75/hour and, as usual, very close - reasonable given that we switch bands roughly each hour. k3mim was missing VT; w3idt was missing SD; both were missing three of NT, NL, PR, and VI. Neither had used the spots yet to look for missing sections. 3. We intended a 4 hours break: Eat some food, sleep 3 hours, then some wake up coffee and food. Bob, w3idt, however, didn't sleep at all: Successive periods of shivering and profuse sweating, tossing and turning. Two cups of coffee helped for the next few hours, but the maladies persisted and got worse. In the middle of the afternoon, k3mim decided - correctly - that it was time to take the old man home. 4. Final result: k3mim: qsos: 1258 sections: 80 score: 198,720 w3idt: qsos: 1269 sections: 80 score: 200,800 5. Oh, nearly 24 hours in bed, with copious amounts of the xyl's brew of "black and green tea with honey and various spices" and who-knows-what from the medicine cabinet seems to have revived w3idt, though some weakness persisted for a couple of days. 6. Quote of the contest from a K7, "Can't some of you many MD guys sign DE?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 61,440 That was rough. I don't know how you SSB contest guys do it; even with my 2.1 kc filter in my TS-850S I heard splatter and those Donald Duck noises all over the place. It was nearly impossible to find a clear spot to run; at least with CW I can crank down to my 500 Hz filters and have some peace and quiet. You guys have my respect. I will now put away my mic for another full year; the only reason I endure this unpleasantness is for PVRC. I'm not joking, it really is unpleasant. I spent almost ALL of my time running; I figured if I am going to do something I really don't enjoy I would at least do it running. I bet my rate could have been better S&P since I was U, but anyway. Never figured out how to do voice files; since I do this once per year figured it was not worth the effort in learning to become a computer person and generate a "wav". Some of the harder sections called me (NT, ND, SD, VI, PR), and it was a STRUGGLE to work SV and SB for my sweep. How strange. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs and your patience with this inexperienced phone op. GO PVRC! Let's hope our sacrifice was worth it. paul Kenwood TS-850S, Ameritron AL-811; MFJ tuner (got a WORKOUT with my CW-cut antennas) 20/40 fan dipole up 40 feet broadside NE/SW; 100' long ladderline dipole up 60 feet broadside N/S; 80 meter inverted L (50 feet vertical) with about 20 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 37,440 Inverted L 30'H x 75'L and Par Omniangle @ 14' for 10 meters. IC-7700 N1MM My first sweep - thanks everyone for the Qs! 73! Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 73,440 K3/KPA500 TS-850/Ten Tec Titan to Windom at 45' Saturday was spent hiking to the top of Snowy Mountain, PA with WA3SEE to operate a K1 with a dipole to activate the firetower summit as part of the Summits on the Air program. What a contrast - at 1700z I was listening to the pure tones of QRP CW operators from a quiet hilltop, then a few hours later got home and sat down a bit late, put the headphones on and joined in the BWAAMWAAMWOPBWAP sounds of SSB SS. As much as I love CW SS, the SSB version doesn't have that thrill. Its like the difference a crab cake and a fish stick to me, probably cause I'm not a great fone operator. But it also has a different rhythm, different patterns to it that I've never caught on to. Its kinda like going to Home Depot after years of going to Lowes for hardware - the same parts are in there but in slightly different places so I can never find anything. So, SSB SS is just an effort to feed the PVRC battle in the annual competition with NCCC. I worked VE8EV and the other hard VEs early on, and the hard 6's called in while I was running so I had the sweep pretty early. I mostly focused on trying out SO2V S&Ping on the high bands, and running on 80/40. I had the headphones in stereo mode pretty much the whole time, just to get used to hearing radio/vfo A in one ear and radio/VFO B in the other as I slowly edge towards SO2R. A lot of great phone ops out there, but a lot of really awful sounding audio, too. Nice to have old friends, like Ketchup Mayonaisse 3 Tomato drop in. I always gave QSO number 466 to someone who gave me back #666 with a check of 66. I got duped a lot, I don't know if Bill W3TN was out there or K1 TN was miscopied, but a few are going to find NILs. Good to hear a lot more S stations on for fone SS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3YDX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 63,200 Good time had. Enjoyed getting the sweep but have to say using spotting does make it a bit easier! Last sweep for me was in 1991 and usually in SS I don't go assisted but figured it might help the overall score from the multipler standpoint so went with it. Biggest section problem for me was EB and UT and resulted in a lot of S&P'ing. W6's were 10.6% of my total QSOs as compared to MDC at 9.6%, VA at 6.8%, and NC at 2.5%. Worst part of the weekend was taking the time Sunday to watch the dreaded Cowboys take another one from the 'Skins! 73 Hank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4B Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 232,690 Thanks to Jack Hammett K4VV and Sharon for the use of their great super-station and creature comforts of their well-appointed lower living area. I was so excited about Sweepstakes SSB (a favorite of mine) that I couldn't sleep Friday night and was actually exhausted by the time the contest started. Ran out of steam just before midnight and went to bed. Couldn't sleep - overtired! Finally got to sleep at about 2:30am, and slept well until 8:30am....got back in front of the radio with a headache at 9:30am. At 2:00pm after some food and aspirin, I started having a great time and the rates magically improved. Had to tough it out and try for 1,500 QSOs - I got close and the rate steadily improved until contest end... 40 meters was definitely the highlight for me, the band was open all over the place and kept on giving. 20 was not the immediate "gold rush" it has been at contest start - however it was very productive. It was fun coaching a record number of new participants (at least 10) through the exchange. I'm happy to see this type of interest! Jack's station plays like a dream with his FT-1000mp's and Acom 2000 amplifiers. It also helps that there are just stacks upon stacks of monobanders everywhere you look, and we are on a beautiful hilltop location in the woods. Congratulations to Bill K3WI (using K4VV) on a great score and Dennis N8IVN (using KV3B) on his improved score and first ever sweep! Now it's time to get ready for some contests with a less lengthy exchange: CQWW CW, 160, and the 10 meter contest, which should be particularly fun this year! 73, Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 233,280 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW, TH6DXX, dipole, inverted vee. Thanks for all QSOs. Hope to work you all from PJ4/K4BAI Nov 23-29 and PJ4A in CQ WW CW next weekend. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EDI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 101,594 Worked this one for our local club here in Bristol. Great working K4TCG early this morning! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 116,000 Sweep accomplished in first six hours.... Thanks for the Q's.... 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FTO Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 35,400 Rig: K3 + MFJ tuner w/N1MM logger & PC-XT Antennas: Attic dipoles, 80m trap vertical Tried to set up some audio file clips but they only got as far as the output of the sound card but no luck getting the K3 to recognize the clip. (Setup has worked fine for AFSK) Macro was written as per the manual with clip in proper format and subdirectory. N1MM macro button muted the receiver but I had to hit the escape button to return to the receive condition. Maybe I'll figure it out for next ssb contest. Missed SB, SC, PR, NLI, MT sections. Heard all of them answering other CQs except PR. Assisted (U) mode was of help in tracking down the many W6 (9) sections. (Shouldn't Virginia have at least two sections? ie: NVA and SVA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 19,200 Part time operation. Tried for the sweep. No go this year. Missed RI, SC, SFL and KP4. Better luck next year. Rig: TS-2000 90 watts Antennas: Dipole and 160M Inverted "L" w/MFJ tuner. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4QPL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 120,000 Part time phone effort as usual. Nice to see the high bands were open but happy 80 and 40 weren't penalized. Some very good QRP signals and ops. The low 2-El wire tribander fixed NW outplayed my higher tribander almost every time. Sweepstakes is a great leveller which puts the emphasis on the operator. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 66,044 Some SSB points for the TCG. Missed Newfoundland. C U in CQWW CW this weekend. Thanks to W4SVO who followed me from K1TO's frequency for my sole SFL mult. 73, Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TCG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 211,520 Honored to use TCG club callsign. No packet/internet and barefoot second station but we all had fun. Brad/WF7T and Kevin/KJ4WLN did almost all of the operating - Ted/NZ and I got a lot done around the station. I didn't even get in the chair until Sunday morning. Happy Thanksgiving to all - CU in CQWW 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TOJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,662 I'm going to have to lament to the fact that when you have two young children and a wife who's not feeling well, that getting time in the chair is a bit difficult to accomplish (unless you don't want to sleep, which I cherish). At least I was able to get some time in. AND I did get 15 QSOs on 15 meters which is pretty cool. Used a Kenwood TS-930SAT with a G5RV at 32' Looking forward to next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WES Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 47,728 Saturday night was a little tough using a wire on 80m with high SWR. Luckily I had another wire for 160m that tuned up on 80m and that worked well from there on. While running, I noticed that after working a station with precedence of U, that I would get a surge in Qs. :-) Great encouragement for an LP to run more often, even with short runs, it proved to work better than S&P. Had a good surge in Qs (27) near the last hour on 80m for 18 minutes, so that was a nice way to end the contest. I missed the following sections: RI, VT, SNJ, and QC. I didn't do as well as last year (56k), but at least it ended well. It'll be interesting to see the backlog on LoTW this week. ;-) It was great to hear comments on the air about all of the MDC and NC stations on this weekend. Thanks for all the Qs! 73 de k4Wes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WI Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 11,844 Part time effort only... fun time thanks , Cort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 55,632 Having to catch a plane at 8 Sunday morning meant this was destined to be a part time effort. Starting at 5PM ET because SS CW started at 5PM ET meant missing the first hour of the contest, doh!! My goal was simply to get some points for my club while getting enough sleep to make it to the airport Sunday morning. I normally try to get 100K points in each SS but about half that was all I could manage this time. I was fairly surprised to have 75 sections worked by midnight and one more in the half hour before leaving for the airport, including two NT's. ND, SDG, SK and PR eluded me. Short effort and mercifully short writeup :) ! Thanks to all for the Q's, I always find I enjoy SS SSB more when I get into it than I expect. Hours of talking seems tiring to contemplate, and I still enjoy CW more, but this was... OK, I admit it, it was fun! 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4YCR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,070 Single Butternut vertical, K-3, non-assisted. Lotsa fun working in all directions ... AZ one QSO with Virgin Islands the next QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5CX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 16,500 Really enjoyed the contest. The best part was bumping into old ham buddy's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5IID Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 80,000 My goal was a sweep. Once I finished that I didn't want to stop, so I kept going to 500 Qs. 10 and 15 meter conditions were very good. Been a long time since I tuned 10 meters with S0 noise level and all of a sudden there was a 20 over S9 signal. Memories of years past! Can't wait for next weekend and hope the conditions will be as nice. Tom K5IID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 107,040 Last five sections were NLI, SC, DE, VT, and PR. A lucky find was a group of PR stations on 28,315 rag chewing in Spanish. I managed to break in and work four of them in my broken-Spanish. After a few minutes, KH2RU/KP4 joined in speaking English, so I worked him too. I spotted him, and he took over the rapidly-growing pileup, even though he said he was not in the contest. Hopefully, he stayed long enough to satisfy the masses. On Sunday afternoon, I turned the station over to Jim, K8MR, who was visiting from Ohio. Being fresh meat at that time, Jim had a strong run to the finish. I managed to work four ND stations, and Jim worked a fifth, N0UD, who was my host when I went to ND last year for SS CW. The op at W0JER was N7IV, a regular in SS from ND. I commented to N7IV, that there were a lot of ND stations this year, and he said that their section manager, Lynn, W0ND, had encouraged them to get on. Tnx Lynn, it worked! Loaded my log into K0RC's Log Analyzer, and squeezed out the following stats: Sections most worked MDC - 42 VA - 30 MN - 29 Checks most worked CHECK 76 - 27 CHECK 58 - 24 CHECK 62 - 22 States most worked STATE CA - 100 MD - 42 VA - 40 GOT A DOUBLE SWEEP BEST HR 123 Tnx to all for the Qso's. 73, George, K5KG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 285,920 The Station at K5NA: ==================== 10 Meters 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 152', rotatable 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 115', fixed NE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 78', fixed NE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 100', fixed NW 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 42', rotatable 15 Meters 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 170', rotatable 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 128' fixed NE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 86' fixed NE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 44', rotatable from 315 to 140 degrees 20 Meters 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 190', rotatable 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 128' fixed NE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 70' fixed NE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 45' fixed SE 5 element Cushcraft monobander @ 104' fixed NW 40 Meters 2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 200', rotatable 2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 128' fixed NE 2 element Cushcraft XM240 @ 70' fixed NW Inverted Vee @ 35'. 80 Meters NE - Two element phased vertical array NW - Two element phased vertical array SW - Sloping dipole @ 170' Inverted Vee @ 150' 160 Meters Full sized Rohn 25G vertical with insulator at 30' and raised radials Receiving Antennas Nine Beverages: SW, W, NW, NNW, N, NNE, E, SE Radios: ====== Radio 1: Elecraft K3, Acom 2000A Radio 2: Elecraft K3, Elecraft P3, Acom 2000A SO2R Controller: microHAM MK2R+ Headset: Heil Proset HC4 Software: WriteLog V10.80F I greatly appreciate Susan K5DU and Richard K5NA letting me come out to their farm for the contest. This was my 17th consecutive ARRL November Sweepstakes Phone, and the 10th I've operated as a single-operator. It doesn't seem like I'm making much progress up the standings of late. I don't really get on the air outside of my major contests, and I think that might be holding me back. I had a much better start that last year, with the first five hours in a row over 100 QSOs/hour, and much higher peak rates than last year. The transition to 40 meters always gets me. In recent years, I have struggled intensely at this point in the contest. I eventually had one good hour on 40 meters, but overall it was not a good transition. My Sunday was not as good as last year, either, despite making many more second-radio contacts. -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 0 43 98 141 141 7.8 2200 0 0 0 0 57 75 132 273 7.3 2300 0 0 0 70 47 0 117 390 6.5 0000 0 0 0 130 0 0 130 520 7.2 0100 0 0 0 128 0 0 128 648 7.1 0200 0 0 36 35 0 0 71 719 3.9 0300 0 0 82 0 0 0 82 801 4.6 0400 0 0 112 0 0 0 112 913 6.2 0500 0 10 41 0 0 0 51 964 2.8 0600 0 2 48 0 0 0 50 1014 2.8 0700 0 7 38 0 0 0 45 1059 2.5 0800 0 9 34 0 0 0 43 1102 2.4 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1102 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1102 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1102 0.0 1200 0 0 9 19 0 0 28 1130 1.6 1300 0 0 0 50 2 0 52 1182 2.9 1400 0 0 0 48 5 0 53 1235 2.9 1500 0 0 0 18 33 3 54 1289 3.0 1600 0 0 0 1 72 0 73 1362 4.1 1700 0 0 0 25 25 1 51 1413 2.8 1800 0 0 0 30 2 15 47 1460 2.6 1900 0 0 0 0 0 41 41 1501 2.3 2000 0 0 0 0 0 77 77 1578 4.3 2100 0 0 0 2 0 56 58 1636 3.2 2200 0 0 0 17 9 18 44 1680 2.4 2300 0 0 0 61 1 4 66 1746 3.7 0000 0 0 0 34 5 0 39 1785 2.2 0100 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1787 0.1 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1787 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 28 400 670 301 388 1787 Gross QSO's=1799 Dupes=12 Net QSO's=1787 Unique callsigns worked = 1787 The best 60 minute rate was 155/hour from 2124 to 2223 The best 30 minute rate was 166/hour from 2124 to 2153 The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 2131 to 2140 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSO's/minute 1 times. 4 QSO's/minute 25 times. 3 QSO's/minute 146 times. 2 QSO's/minute 340 times. 1 QSO's/minute 564 times. There were 93 bandchanges and 39 (2.2%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 3 4 726 5 689 6 368 9 1 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- VA 0 1 20 33 14 21 89 4.9 MDC 0 2 14 32 16 21 85 4.7 OH 0 2 22 33 11 9 77 4.3 IL 0 1 24 33 8 6 72 4.0 MI 0 0 16 24 14 6 60 3.3 WWA 0 2 5 25 6 19 57 3.2 WI 0 0 14 19 8 6 47 2.6 EPA 0 0 4 10 15 13 42 2.3 MN 0 0 15 17 7 2 41 2.3 NC 0 2 13 18 6 2 41 2.3 EMA 0 0 2 13 8 17 40 2.2 OR 0 0 1 20 6 11 38 2.1 SCV 0 0 8 7 7 15 37 2.1 NNJ 0 0 6 7 10 14 37 2.1 CT 0 0 3 6 7 20 36 2.0 CO 0 0 6 22 7 0 35 1.9 ENY 0 0 3 11 4 17 35 1.9 WNY 0 0 5 11 8 10 34 1.9 SV 0 0 4 11 5 12 32 1.8 MO 0 1 18 10 1 1 31 1.7 AZ 0 0 9 12 8 0 29 1.6 NLI 0 0 1 10 9 8 28 1.6 ON 0 1 2 12 2 11 28 1.6 TN 0 0 14 11 3 0 28 1.6 KS 0 1 14 9 2 1 27 1.5 NH 0 0 4 6 5 11 26 1.4 IN 0 0 10 8 4 4 26 1.4 LAX 0 0 7 10 1 8 26 1.4 IA 0 1 3 9 6 5 24 1.3 GA 0 0 8 11 3 0 22 1.2 SNJ 0 0 4 7 6 4 21 1.2 SJV 0 0 3 4 1 13 21 1.2 EWA 0 0 1 10 2 7 20 1.1 WPA 0 0 2 9 5 4 20 1.1 EB 0 0 2 8 2 7 19 1.1 WMA 0 0 7 2 4 5 18 1.0 SDG 0 0 2 12 4 0 18 1.0 NFL 0 0 8 7 3 0 18 1.0 ORG 0 0 5 7 2 3 17 0.9 NV 0 1 3 7 1 5 17 0.9 UT 0 1 4 5 6 0 16 0.9 SF 0 0 1 6 4 4 15 0.8 NM 0 1 3 11 0 0 15 0.8 SFL 0 0 4 7 3 0 14 0.8 WCF 0 0 2 7 5 0 14 0.8 KY 0 0 7 4 3 0 14 0.8 BC 0 0 2 2 2 8 14 0.8 WY 0 0 2 7 3 2 14 0.8 ID 0 0 0 4 3 6 13 0.7 NE 0 0 5 7 0 1 13 0.7 NTX 0 2 8 1 0 1 12 0.7 SB 0 0 3 6 0 3 12 0.7 AL 0 0 3 7 2 0 12 0.7 OK 0 0 5 6 1 0 12 0.7 STX 0 1 2 2 3 3 11 0.6 DE 0 0 2 5 2 2 11 0.6 SC 0 0 3 4 3 0 10 0.6 ME 0 0 0 1 1 8 10 0.6 WV 0 0 4 3 1 2 10 0.6 AK 0 0 2 3 3 1 9 0.5 NNY 0 0 1 2 2 4 9 0.5 PAC 0 0 1 1 1 6 9 0.5 SD 0 1 4 1 1 2 9 0.5 AB 0 0 2 1 2 4 9 0.5 AR 0 1 0 6 0 1 8 0.4 MT 0 0 3 3 0 2 8 0.4 QC 0 0 2 0 4 1 7 0.4 WTX 0 1 1 5 0 0 7 0.4 MS 0 2 3 1 1 0 7 0.4 MAR 0 0 1 3 2 0 6 0.3 RI 0 0 2 1 0 2 5 0.3 SK 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 0.3 LA 0 1 0 4 0 0 5 0.3 NL 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 0.3 MB 0 0 2 1 0 1 4 0.2 ND 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.2 VT 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.2 VI 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.1 NT 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0.1 PR 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 28 400 670 301 388 1787 Sweepstakes Checks Check QSOs Pct ---------------------- 00 21 1.2 01 19 1.1 02 12 0.7 03 18 1.0 04 20 1.1 05 23 1.3 06 29 1.6 07 43 2.4 08 36 2.0 09 43 2.4 10 35 2.0 11 29 1.6 12 1 0.1 13 1 0.1 14 0 0.0 15 0 0.0 16 2 0.1 17 0 0.0 18 0 0.0 19 1 0.1 20 0 0.0 21 2 0.1 22 2 0.1 23 0 0.0 24 1 0.1 25 0 0.0 26 0 0.0 27 0 0.0 28 0 0.0 29 1 0.1 30 1 0.1 31 1 0.1 32 2 0.1 33 0 0.0 34 0 0.0 35 0 0.0 36 0 0.0 37 1 0.1 38 0 0.0 39 1 0.1 40 1 0.1 41 0 0.0 42 0 0.0 43 0 0.0 44 1 0.1 45 1 0.1 46 1 0.1 47 4 0.2 48 1 0.1 49 3 0.2 50 2 0.1 51 8 0.4 52 10 0.6 53 12 0.7 54 25 1.4 55 28 1.6 56 18 1.0 57 40 2.2 58 36 2.0 59 46 2.6 60 34 1.9 61 37 2.1 62 33 1.8 63 44 2.5 64 30 1.7 65 30 1.7 66 29 1.6 67 35 2.0 68 27 1.5 69 47 2.6 70 28 1.6 71 29 1.6 72 27 1.5 73 31 1.7 74 31 1.7 75 32 1.8 76 66 3.7 77 60 3.4 78 47 2.6 79 28 1.6 80 20 1.1 81 16 0.9 82 17 1.0 83 21 1.2 84 16 0.9 85 15 0.8 86 20 1.1 87 24 1.3 88 15 0.8 89 26 1.5 90 29 1.6 91 44 2.5 92 46 2.6 93 36 2.0 94 37 2.1 95 22 1.2 96 18 1.0 97 17 1.0 98 26 1.5 99 15 0.8 Callareas Worked Area QSOs Pct ------------------ 0 193 10.8 1 162 9.1 2 206 11.5 3 200 11.2 4 201 11.2 5 76 4.3 6 216 12.1 7 215 12.0 8 166 9.3 9 152 8.5 Sweepstakes Precedents Precedent QSOs Pct ---------------------- A 970 54.3 B 305 17.1 Q 62 3.5 M 129 7.2 U 305 17.1 S 16 0.9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 237,600 As always I really look forward to the ARRL SS SSB contest each year. This is my 33rd time to operate the fone SS. http://www.k5tr.net/ssb-ss.html But this year I was a bit worried in the days before the contest as my voice was not doing so well - and I was not sure that I would be able to make it work for the entire contest. On the Friday before the contest the decision was made to put up some new antennas that I have been working on and it just happened that everything fell into place and so I ended up spending all day working on the antenna install. I don't think yelling from the top of the tower not to mention spending the day in a cool wind helped my throat. But I now have a full sized 4 ele 40 meter OWA yagi up in the air - so I hope in the longer term it will have been worth it. As it turned out my voice was in very bad shape before the contest started. Because my voice was not very strong I was not very aggressive and ended up starting on 20 meters when I should have been on 15 but I had this great frequency on 20 and it never got bad so I just stayed. At one point I did go looking for a 15 meter frequency but then the rate would sort of pick up and I was not finding much room on 15. As a result my first two hours were not as good as they should have been. My second hour was really poor. So I sounded bad from the start and while it did have it's ups and downs I finally could no longer work people at about 04z. Form that point on I just kind of worked what I could when I could start talking at midday Sunday and I did some things that I would not have done if I were trying for a bigger score. I ran some folks on 40 meters (new antenna) in the middle of the day. I went to 40 way too early and stuck it out to the end on 40 meters because after the months of building this beast I wanted to use it. You can see it here: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/4c_Eb43CIYbe5IqS8Yneww?feat=directlink I will be adding more photos as soon as I can get to it so check back in a week or so. Congrats to all the great scores. Nice to see N9RV doing the fone SS and doing well. Despite the disappointment of not being able to put in a full effort I still had fun when I could talk and run folks. It was also fun to listen around to others when I was not able to run - this is something that I usually do not get a chance to do except for the second radio - so it was different. If all goes well the 40 meter yagi will get a workout in the CQ WW CW contest. There is also a new 6 ele 10 meter yagi above the new 40. Still need to get it hooked up but maybe it will get some use in the ARRL 10 meter contest. Station: http://www.k5tr.net/ 2x Elecraft K3 radios (tnx k5ot) 2x AL-1500 amps 160 - 1/4 wave sloping verticals sloped east and west - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 120'. - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 40 - 4 element yagi at 120' - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 87' - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 20 - 6 element yagi at 80' fixed NE - 6 element yagi at 80' - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE 15 - 6 element yagi at 70' - 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE 10 - 6 element yagi at 60' - 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: K5TR CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH SSB OPERATORS: K5TR -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 128 2 0 130 130 8.8 2200 0 0 0 106 1 0 107 237 16.0 2300 0 0 0 146 0 0 146 383 25.8 0000 0 0 0 155 0 0 155 538 36.2 0100 0 0 0 145 0 0 145 683 46.0 0200 0 0 1 106 0 0 107 790 53.2 0300 0 0 0 79 0 0 79 869 58.5 0400 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 879 59.2 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 879 59.2 1100 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 881 59.3 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 881 59.3 1300 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 882 59.4 1400 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 890 59.9 1500 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 900 60.6 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 60.6 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 900 60.6 1800 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 909 61.2 1900 0 0 0 2 8 9 19 928 62.5 2000 0 0 16 0 0 53 69 997 67.1 2100 0 0 0 9 40 14 63 1060 71.4 2200 0 0 31 0 41 0 72 1132 76.2 2300 0 0 93 0 0 0 93 1225 82.5 0000 0 0 73 0 0 0 73 1298 87.4 0100 0 0 101 0 0 0 101 1399 94.2 0200 0 0 86 0 0 0 86 1485 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 413 894 93 85 1485 Gross QSOs=1492 Dupes=7 Net QSOs=1485 Unique callsigns worked = 1485 The best 60 minute rate was 161/hour from 0009 to 0108 The best 30 minute rate was 168/hour from 0005 to 0034 The best 10 minute rate was 186/hour from 0011 to 0020 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSOs/minute 32 times. 3 QSOs/minute 179 times. 2 QSOs/minute 272 times. 1 QSOs/minute 276 times. There were 21 bandchanges and 0 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 3 4 686 5 576 6 217 8 1 9 2 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- Il 0 0 22 49 3 0 74 5.0 Va 0 0 18 39 2 6 65 4.4 Mdc 0 0 11 43 3 4 61 4.1 Mi 0 0 13 35 3 4 55 3.7 Oh 0 0 25 19 4 5 53 3.6 Mn 0 0 18 27 4 0 49 3.3 Az 0 0 7 28 3 0 38 2.6 Co 0 0 6 32 0 0 38 2.6 Nc 0 0 9 25 3 0 37 2.5 Wi 0 0 9 21 3 2 35 2.4 Scv 0 0 4 19 1 9 33 2.2 Tn 0 0 13 16 3 0 32 2.2 WWa 0 0 8 22 1 1 32 2.2 Mo 0 0 6 23 1 1 31 2.1 Or 0 0 8 17 3 0 28 1.9 EMa 0 0 8 14 1 4 27 1.8 EPa 0 0 11 11 1 3 26 1.8 ENy 0 0 8 10 2 5 25 1.7 Ga 0 0 11 10 2 0 23 1.5 Eb 0 0 5 18 0 0 23 1.5 In 0 0 7 13 2 1 23 1.5 On 0 0 4 16 1 1 22 1.5 Nh 0 0 6 13 2 1 22 1.5 Sv 0 0 6 14 0 2 22 1.5 STx 0 0 12 6 0 4 22 1.5 Ks 0 0 7 13 0 0 20 1.3 WPa 0 0 6 9 4 0 19 1.3 WNy 0 0 4 13 1 1 19 1.3 NTx 0 0 15 3 0 1 19 1.3 Ky 0 0 5 12 2 0 19 1.3 Ct 0 0 4 13 1 1 19 1.3 Lax 0 0 5 9 5 0 19 1.3 Nm 0 0 1 17 0 0 18 1.2 SNj 0 0 5 11 1 0 17 1.1 Org 0 0 5 12 0 0 17 1.1 SFl 0 0 9 4 2 0 15 1.0 Ia 0 0 2 10 1 2 15 1.0 NLi 0 0 5 8 1 1 15 1.0 Al 0 0 6 9 0 0 15 1.0 Me 0 0 3 7 2 2 14 0.9 NNj 0 0 3 9 0 2 14 0.9 WcF 0 0 6 3 4 1 14 0.9 Wy 0 0 3 9 1 1 14 0.9 Sc 0 0 4 6 3 0 13 0.9 WMa 0 0 2 8 3 0 13 0.9 Ut 0 0 1 10 2 0 13 0.9 Sf 0 0 0 13 0 0 13 0.9 Sdg 0 0 2 10 1 0 13 0.9 Bc 0 0 3 6 1 2 12 0.8 NFl 0 0 7 2 2 1 12 0.8 Nv 0 0 0 8 0 3 11 0.7 Ok 0 0 3 6 0 1 10 0.7 EWa 0 0 0 8 1 1 10 0.7 Sjv 0 0 2 6 1 1 10 0.7 Ak 0 0 0 8 1 1 10 0.7 Ar 0 0 3 6 1 0 10 0.7 Ms 0 0 1 8 0 0 9 0.6 Sd 0 0 3 5 1 0 9 0.6 Ab 0 0 4 4 0 1 9 0.6 Wv 0 0 5 4 0 0 9 0.6 Pac 0 0 0 7 1 1 9 0.6 La 0 0 3 5 0 0 8 0.5 Id 0 0 1 6 0 1 8 0.5 Qc 0 0 2 5 0 0 7 0.5 NNy 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 0.5 Ne 0 0 3 4 0 0 7 0.5 Vt 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.4 Mar 0 0 2 4 0 0 6 0.4 De 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 0.3 Sb 0 0 1 2 1 1 5 0.3 Mb 0 0 2 2 0 1 5 0.3 Mt 0 0 2 3 0 0 5 0.3 Sk 0 0 2 1 0 2 5 0.3 WTx 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.3 Nt 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2 Nd 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 Pr 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1 Nl 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1 Ri 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0.1 WWa  0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 Vi 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 0 413 894 93 85 1485 Sweepstakes Checks Check QSOs Pct ---------------------- 00 20 1.3 01 12 0.8 02 14 0.9 03 20 1.3 04 11 0.7 05 19 1.3 06 23 1.5 07 28 1.9 08 26 1.8 09 32 2.2 10 28 1.9 11 11 0.7 12 2 0.1 13 1 0.1 14 0 0.0 15 0 0.0 16 2 0.1 17 0 0.0 18 0 0.0 19 0 0.0 20 0 0.0 21 0 0.0 22 2 0.1 23 0 0.0 24 1 0.1 25 0 0.0 26 0 0.0 27 1 0.1 28 0 0.0 29 0 0.0 30 0 0.0 31 1 0.1 32 1 0.1 33 1 0.1 34 0 0.0 35 1 0.1 36 0 0.0 37 0 0.0 38 0 0.0 39 1 0.1 40 0 0.0 41 0 0.0 42 0 0.0 43 0 0.0 44 0 0.0 45 1 0.1 46 1 0.1 47 5 0.3 48 1 0.1 49 6 0.4 50 1 0.1 51 4 0.3 52 9 0.6 53 15 1.0 54 23 1.5 55 28 1.9 56 18 1.2 57 28 1.9 58 32 2.2 59 47 3.2 60 32 2.2 61 29 2.0 62 30 2.0 63 39 2.6 64 25 1.7 65 28 1.9 66 20 1.3 67 37 2.5 68 27 1.8 69 36 2.4 70 26 1.8 71 30 2.0 72 30 2.0 73 25 1.7 74 19 1.3 75 30 2.0 76 55 3.7 77 55 3.7 78 33 2.2 79 31 2.1 80 20 1.3 81 16 1.1 82 14 0.9 83 15 1.0 84 14 0.9 85 11 0.7 86 22 1.5 87 15 1.0 88 12 0.8 89 26 1.8 90 21 1.4 91 27 1.8 92 26 1.8 93 32 2.2 94 27 1.8 95 16 1.1 96 17 1.1 97 13 0.9 98 14 0.9 99 13 0.9 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 174 11.7 1 120 8.1 2 129 8.7 3 118 7.9 4 197 13.3 5 95 6.4 6 164 11.0 7 152 10.2 8 129 8.7 9 136 9.2 -------------------- Total 1414 95.2 Sweepstakes Precedents Precedent QSOs Pct ---------------------- A 767 51.6 B 269 18.1 Q 50 3.4 M 105 7.1 U 285 19.2 S 9 0.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 293,440 This is my personal best. I've gotten the station running much better than the operator but it made the experience much more pleasant. I actually wasn't overly drained at the end with only a couple of hours sleep. It seems like we had lots of new players in the contest and that was great to hear even though it was painful to explain the rules over and over. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to point them to a specific frequency where they could ask questions from an "instructor" about exchange format. Who wants to volunteer to sit on that frequency for 30 hours? ;-) I had very few deliberate jammers but I was VERY happy to use the K3s AUTONOTCH which completely eliminated the jammer. I was able to continue running even through the interference. The only way I knew a carrier was on frequency was that the S-meter was hung at 20 over when he transmitted. The jamming actually seemed to improve the rate by "clearing" the frequency! SK was my last mult but got a couple after that, as usual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5XA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 12,800 Rig : Elecraft K3 Antennas : F12 C31-XR@128'; F12 C31-XR@81' Fixed 44°; F12 Mag 240N@ 137'; 1/2 Wave 80M Sloper > 45° Amp : Ten-Tec Titan Rig : Elecraft K3 Antennas : F12 C31-XR@128'; F12 C31-XR@81' Fixed 44°; F12 Mag 240N@ 137'; 1/2 Wave 80M Sloper > 45° Amp : Ten-Tec Titan Soapbox : We had company over the weekend - our 25th anniversary - so I had to find a way to do this with a chance of a sweep. I decided to do SOA HP UNLIMITED - all S&P and try for an 80/80 sweep- not a good choice, as I think I spent more time in the shack that Ruthie would tolerate. I got the sweep, but at what cost? I wound up needing WNY for the last one, and fortunately found W2BC on 15 meters on my own! Now I guess I'm forced to buy a cup! Maybe I'll use it to make up with Ruthie. Think she'll go for that deal?? N1MM has me down for 7 1/4 hours of operating, but I'm sure it was more than that hunting the sections that didn't wind up on the cluster. I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2011-11-21 Signature : I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2011-11-21 Signature : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,920 Station best score in SS-Phone. Twice last years phone score. Conditions were good. This was fun. However I sure would have liked to have found more of the mults. This was fun, but lots of hard work. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CTA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 28,396 With Thanksgiving approaching and the kids coming home from college, there were just too many things that needed to get done (besides get on the radio). Did manage a few hours Sunday morning. Thanks for the Q's. 73, Ed - K6CTA Equip: Elecraft K3/P3 Alpha 89 8 ele yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GHA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,000 It being so close to Thanksgiving, I have to note a few things that stand out about this contest. First, this was my first sweep. I was able to get this in the books mid Sunday morning so I was able to relax a bit and have some fun. Second, it was the first time I made more than a few contacts on 40 and 80m (I still need that beam for Christmas Santa!). And Last, a few thanks are in order for those that stuck through pulling out my weak signal (WY7SS, WN8R, K8NV, and NP4A for completing my sweep!!!). I appreciated their good sportsmanship when they could have easily gone on to other contacts. It was nice to see it happen with some of the other less than stellar activities heard over the weekend. I only was able to work 19+ hrs as I was hit with a bout of something that left me 'in disposed' for the last part of the contest. I would have liked to some more contacts to have reached my QSO goal, but the sweep was actually the high point for me, and I topped my last contest totals. Upward and onward, KB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6III Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 33,072 Was going to do a 10m Only entry, but did not realize that I had switch to another band. So made a few contacts on several other bands late on the 2nd day. Made a lot of spots to hopefully benefit the NCCC and others using the Spotting Networks. All Hunt-n-Pounce mostly hunting for sections. My modest station runs about 400w and Force12 C4 beam at 17m. The most difficult mult to work was KP4... a huge pile up. Missed the Sweep by 2(NNY and WPA). Heard the elusive sections several times but they were all Hunt-n-Pounce modes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 52,480 When I got up on Saturday, a shipment of Murphy had arrived, un-noticed. When I opened it up, out it sprang and I really never got a full handle on it. Suffice it to say that without my ANC-4 helping get around the noise and relay switching issue, I wouldn't have had even this few QSOs. It was really tough to get a run going. The bands souned like mush throughout the weekend. Still there were many fun moments and thank you to each and every one of you who gave me a QSO, went through crazy lengths to get the exhange across correctly, and BIG kudos for those who spotted me; it really helps when you're a little pistol station like mine. I ran into an issue with some skipped numbers in my log because I was also monitoring my station log via a network connection on another computer. My main computer had Writelog freeze and so when it came back up there were QSOs with a red D next to them. After some panicking I realized that as long as I kept everything in sequence all was OK since my reported score is not related to the number I gave out. Still it was a pain, but I learned some cool things about Writelog networking. 73! Jack, K6JEB Rig: Yaesu 857D 100 watts Amp: Dentron GLA-1000 500 watts Antennas: Cushcraft A3S up 25 feet, Butternut HF9VX Ground Mounted, JPS ANC-4 with longwire for noise elimination. Logging Software: Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6KO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 25,986 Thanks for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 183,360 With the high bands hopping, I thought low power would give me a good chance to make the top 10 and would be fun. Looks like I was right about the first part, but except for the first few hours, low power was not as much fun as high power. QRPers in Phone SS must be complete masochists. Once 20m closed Saturday evening, the rest of the contest was brutal. I don't remember not working the entire 24 hours before. Did every ham in MDC get on for this one? KL7, NL and NT also had lots of activity. Can Rich go back to PR now so that is once again an easy mult. 73, Ken, K6LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 288,960 Official op time is 22 hours, but it was more casual than that, with frequent breaks to visit with yl, and otherwise keep in touch with the real world. Just like last year, I tried to hit the high point of the contest, like the high rate times, and avoid those painful hours of grinding out the lower rates, or enduring the extreme QRM times, that really mean the difference between winning and losing. I basically tried to redefine "winning" in this contest as having fun, and not being a slave to a few position points in the results. For me, this approach transformed the whole event from pain to pleasure. It's always fun to keep the SS tradition alive, and hook up with the contest regulars, especially before the holidays. Thanks for all the Q's. 73 Dave Hachadorian, K6LL Yuma ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 73,320 Missed VE5 & KP4. Thanks to all for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 204,000 My personal best from the home QTH. 10M was better Sunday than Saturday. Lots of new 2x3 callsigns jumping into the contest all day Sunday -- and asking for help with the rules & exchange. Kind of a nice trend. Good to see the growing interest in SS. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John K6MM. K3 + ACOM 1000 + 3-element SteppIR w/40-30 dipole + G5RV + N1MM Logger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6OK Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 41,344 Excellent conditions, great contest! Tantalizingly close to a sweep because I could hear the missing sections but could not work them, either because I couldn't get through the pile or if they did hear me they said I was too weak to complete the QSO. Small pistol, 100W, dipoles for 10, 20 and 15/40. All search and pounce. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ST Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 81,528 missed PR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TU Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 136,160 Thanks to everyone who tolerated my "robot" voice keyer. Nearly lost my voice on Saturday due to the tail end of a head cold that also put paid to an all out effort. Despite the slow start Saturday, I put in a personal best single station contribution and enjoyed the Sunday Qs! Thanks for all the contacts and the clean sweep! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6YL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 83,520 My first Clean Sweep felt good! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ZH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 101,600 First the 'hairball.' Whenever I do an SSB contest I quickly remember why I prefer CW contests! [I normally do SS CW but this year we were out of town.] Having said that, my goal here was a Sweep - so I could get another coffee cup :-) and 100K points. Made both. I went to bed Sat. night with 78 sections worked - needing only VE2 and VO1. Started up again around 9 a.m. local on Sunday - VE2HIT called me around 10 a.m. on 15 mtrs. I then headed to 10 meters to tune the band, and Presto: found VO1TA and worked him in a couple of calls! So I made the sweep in less than 12 hours of operating time. 'Twas really hard to get runs going. Had a nice one on 15 mtrs a couple of hours into the contest, a fair one on 20 a little later, and a very beneficial one on 75 around 8 p.m. I needed all of the W6 sections except SDG, and they all called me in a matter of 30 minutes! W6YI worked virtually everyone in the contest, of course, but I got 'thanks for SDG, needed that' from quite a few people. Excellent band condx on 10, 15, and 20. So-so on 40, and not much in terms of long distance on 75. But I use 75 to work the W6 sections and that's about it. So, why 100K points? It's a holdover from the days when we (SCCC) used to 'pledge' a score for contests, and I would usually volunteer for 10K for Sprint and 100K for SS - and usually make it. Kinda fun, kinda long (many unanswered CQs). But got the Sweep! 73 - Jim, K6ZH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 18,720 Got a SWEEP - all 80 sections. That was my only goal for SS. It took 117 Q's to complete the SWEEP. Strictly S&P. Jim K7EG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,008 This mode is not my cup of tea. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,000 Bands pretty good. Nice to get the sweep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 59,280 I split the time between SS SSB and the more musical LZ DX (CW only). Nearly all S&P, unassisted. I'm not much of a SSB op, but I began getting the hang of it on Sunday afternoon, when I began running. The K3 has been at Elecraft since mid-October (longer backlog than anticipated followed by very careful attention from Rene to discover hidden issues--thanks Rene!). K3 now en route home via 2nd day air (taking no chances for next weekend!!), so the rig de jour for SS was ICOM 706MK2G with interconned mods made in the past week: adaptors for boom mic and microKEYER and interface for linear amp relay--thanks, K6XX!). The little rig worked well, but it lacks the bells and whistles that could have made SS phone easier (DSP bandwidth, Rx equalizer, autonotch, monitor, etc.) I surprisingly knocked off the "elusives," NWT and NL early in the event--so early that I thought a Sweep might be possible. But copy fatigue limited my time in the SS chair, and I missed VT, PR, QC, and WTX. WTX?? QC??? Nothing is predictable in this avocation! Only one ragchew was heard on 160. All other bands were very busy with good conditions. Hope it lasts for CQ WW CW next weekend. Thanks to all ops for the SSB lessons. 73, dan k7ia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IDX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1 Had all states before dark, finished early Sunday morning. Surprized that usual scarce sections were abundant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7IR Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 329,920 What is it about Sweepstakes? For us, it evolved into something like a "Ham Thanksgiving," where the friends and family from near and far gather to temporarily put together a multi-op station and contest. Some members of our team only participate in this one contest each year! This year our goals were to better than last year, be ready at contest start, learn some new techniques to help us get better, and have fun. Though we were 'ready' at the beginning of the contest, our first hour was more hectic (and the rate lower) than we would have liked as we worked out the jitters. We all fell into the groove as the contacts on 10 and 15 meters poured in (with the occasional cry of anguish as the other operator was locked out). This year we had the luxury of using two K3's and two Alpha 87As, which helped to reduce operator burden; three SteppIR antennas: DB32, DB36, and 4 element beams. Thanks to all for the contacts, see you in the next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7JQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 51,192 First time using assistance. It helped me get all but one section...missed Idaho. I heard one on backscatter, but obviously he didn't hear me. Even though I only put in a little over nine hours, I still hear voices in my head :>) Thanks for the Q's, and see you in CQWW CW. 73, Bob, K7JQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 105,440 Just duncing around here, as time allowed that weekend, to check out my new radios and station repair efforts, before flying out Monday morning to go to the K0RF CQWWCW M/M station prep project... Had a good time running some minutes of some rate as fresh meat....;-) Tnx to all for the Q's & a good time! I think some stuff is working here again....next round will come with some more work...this station has been dormant & in total disrepair for several years.... Someone,(lots of friends) told me I should get back on & get it fixed......I stole a couple of days out of my life to go work on that......it was fun, wish I could do it more often.... It was great to put K7NV back on the air again, even if it's not back up to it's original real small station capability yet, I hope to find time to work on all of that down the road......only circumstances of life & time will tell. 73, Kurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ONP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,280 gave out a few points...looked for the locals..didn't find many ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 334,240 Congratulations to big scorers N9RV, KH7X, KL7RA, and W7WA for great efforts. Aside from losing about an hour of prime operating with a computer/software problem, I clearly did not spend enough time on 10 meters. Definitely a big mistake. Speaking of 10 meters, it was great to hear so many new hams getting their feet wet in this contest. 10 meters was the perfect springboard for it and hopefully it will catch on and grow with this new group. Admittedly, the dark side of 10m is overly excited CBers that interject in the middle of a QSO, “Hey Washington, you got a copy on central Indiana?” Some of these guys are very persistent. I tried to work one guy that intentionally gave me his call sign, but refused to let me help him with the exchange, because as he put it, “My ego is not so big that I need to participate!” Wait, are really saying that you are better than contesters in general because all contesting is ego driven? Hmm, that sounds like an ego driven comment :-) Thanks to all for the Qs and Happy Thanksgiving. 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7VU Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 164,960 Sore ears! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 162,880 SWEEP!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a personal Best in SS SSB! Lost 2 hours Sat due to fixing the 40/80M antennas after a huge windstorm the day before (50MPH W/80MPH Gusts) Low Bands were Noisy & Strange. 10M was open but full of rolling QSB, 15 & 20M Were Awesome! The Last Hurrah From This Location In Fallon NV... Went out with a bang! QSL 100% Via LOTW! Kept My Butt In The Chair As Long As Possible. Stopped 2 Hours Early, Tired & Spent. KB NCCC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 54,880 Extremely pleased to get an unassisted Sweep on both modes this year! Going after the Sweep definitely kept me in the chair. Thanks to all who get on from those remote and rare sections and put up with pileups of us from common sections. 73, --Ethan, K8GU/3. http://www.k8gu.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 148,764 A big thank you to George, K5KG, for inviting me in for a Sunday afternoon/evening SS fix while on vacation here in WCF. The station played very well, and the rate just kept going. Missed VT, PR, and NT. Fun adding a bit of variety to the contest data bases, and smiling at those who told me that I should be in Ohio. Back to cold reality in Ohio on Tuesday. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 248,960 Another field day style setup at the new contest station with all the issues of operating a station that has not been tested. I had to tear down the station Friday because of electrical work being done in the shack. Saturday was a flurry of work. Progress has been made since CW and had better access to antennas and rotation. Setup a 3 element Steppir with 40m loop at 40 foot and a 60' 80m dipole....key antennas for SS. I checked several times during the contest and these antennas play better than higher antennas and gain antennas for most contacts. The rate was pretty good in the first few hours and like CW weekend found 10m was good to the west coast with good rate. Slid down the bands as the prop changed. Took my first break at about 11 hours and had 79 sections before taking a short sleep on the floor. Sunday was a difficult day. I had some trouble finding the right band to be on to run. It seemed like skip was long and not favorable for me to anywhere. If I heard strong signals from the coasts, they were working over my head. I jumped to almost every band trying to find the right place but no rate. Too many times I had EU calling me and had to dissuade them from calling! Just crazy..... One problem that I could not conquer was the induced RFI in my SO2R setup. I just did not have time to work this out and this made listening the to second radio a pain plus the issues of listening to such harsh monitor audio was tiring. This will be resolved!!! All in all, it was a great shake down for a domestic contest and I learned a great deal for next time. The score is less than last year and I attribute that to the less than favorable prop on Sunday or my basic bad decisions as to where to be. I listened to NA border stations racking them up and just could not duplicate their pileups. Getting the sweep is the second contest within this contest. It was so cool to run into VY1EI on 10m before the contest and had him in my second radio as the contest started....no way was I going to let NT go to last. Ended up with FOUR NT stations!! My last four mults were VT, VI, ND and PR. PR was last for me and found NP4A about 1845 Z on 10M working a station. I tried calling him but it was not his freq so I took a chance and moved up about 5 with an antenna at PR and called CQ. Within 3 minutes, he found me and I was his contact #92. How cool is that? He said he had heard me call but did not want to use the other stations QRG, so he searched me out....very nice. So then I did my usual giddy sweep dance as another goal was met. Another chapter on ARRL SS closes for another year...great to run into so many friends during the test. 73 and CU in CQ WW CW. Craig K9CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 48,356 Not much time available for this one. Only op time on Sunday was the last 2 hours and 15 minutes. Missed SK, NL, ans SFL. Fortunately, made a sweep in CW SS a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for the Qs and Ms. 73, Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9RJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 20,976 K3 ACOM 2000A 80 meter dipole, 40 meter wire full wave vertical loop, 20 - 10 F12 GT5. Had time for a few hours. Really like N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9YC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 207,840 This was another personal best, and only the second time I've done a full time effort from my home QTH. Two K3s, each driving a Titan amp, YCCC SO2R box. Everything worked. I'm finally starting to get the hang of this SO2R stuff. I'm feeling like the main thing limiting me at this point is a somewhat higher horizon than the big guns. As always, especially in SSB contests, it's really frustrating to suffer massive splatter from lids who don't know (or care) how to adjust their mic gain, computer playback, and compression. K3MIM, operating at W3LPL, was only one of hundreds of operators in this category -- her sidebands were killing me 5 kHz down the band, but she failed to fix it, even when I complained several times about it. Voice messages are often recorded with excessive background noise, and that background noise creates more splatter. Voice messages are also recorded with excessive lows, which wastes TX power, and also increases splatter. N8II was in this category, and he killed me when he set up shop 2kHz away on 10M. Computer sound cards also produce distortion when they are overloaded, and even when they are operated too close to max output even when not clipping -- the distortion in mine is 10dB lower if I turn the output level down by 6dB. Ditto for those who insist on using older radios that transmit much greater phase noise, rather than upgrade to cleaner rigs like the K3. Indeed, the P3 spectrum display for the K3 clearly exposes the huge differences between the good guys and the LIDS. Being an appliance operator, and being in love with outdated gear are CAUSES, not an acceptable EXCUSE. If you can afford high power, a QTH on a hill, or a big antenna farm, you can afford decent gear -- in fact, you OWE it to your fellow contesters to use it! Transmitting massive splatter, phase noise, and clicks are like running down the basketball court with your elbows flying and your feet tripping the other players. It's LONG past time for us to insist that these LIDS clean up their acts. It is simply not fair that the biggest, dirtiest signals give them an advantage over the cleaner stations. 73, Jim K9YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2D Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 48,800 What a NASCAR Race! Tony Stewart #1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB4KBS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 37,088 I had to split my operating time in half because of a Sunday Morning job so I put in 7 hours on Saturday and 8 hours on Sunday afternoon and evening. I am not happy with my results, but can only blame the operator and the station. I did manage to work 76 of the 80 sections but will have to XQSO my NWT contact for being out-of-privileges, so a net of 75. I missed SFL, WTX, EB, and NL. I did make what I think is a wise decision for my operating environment, that is to slog through the pile ups for the rare stations and not put them off for sometime later. This obviously killed my rate, but for my set-up, 16.3 Q's per hour is probably a personal best. I didn't use the DVR enough so I'm sure I'll be hoarse all week. The N1MM software performed admirably and did not crash at all this time. I probably can filter out-of-privileges spots to prevent those mistakes, or I can just suck it up and upgrade to Extra. Thanks to all for the contacts... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB9OWD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 192,000 This again marks my best outing in this one so far (previous best 917Q for 148K). My usual QTH for sweepstakes W9BCV was not available as Duane had moved during the offseason. Further, sadly, W9BCV became a SK a few weeks ago. He was a member of our local club for nearly 80 years since it began. He was a great contest mentor to me over the years and will be missed by many! With no major plans, I threw up a G5RV a little higher than it normally is, with the peak at about 30 feet. I also threw up a 10 meter dipole Friday afternoon figuring 10 my be a flurry of west coast activity. Noting the limited antennas and LP, I didn't have big things in mind. I hoped for a sweep! I got lucky in the first half hour and had a VE8 call me on 10 as well as several KL7 and KH6. I also snagged all of the 6 and 7 land mults in the first 2 hours! The weekend was marked by a few lucky moments, a few of which likely bagged me the sweep. On Saturday evening I was on 80 running and had basically run it out. I found K8PO in the 2nd VFO for a mult on 40 and decided to slide up the band to run. As I passed around 7195 I found a huge pile. I figured it was NWT and after having a listen, I found it to be NP4Z. Thankfully, I got there about 5 minutes before he went split so I knew what was up. It took 15 minutes or so until things fizzled out a bit but I got thru for the mult. The only PR I heard all weekend. I also popped up to 20 after a bit and found KP2M and then heard a strong short skip VE4EAR way up on 14.312 for another mult! I worked straight through until 0800Z. About midnight local, I started to get a major sore throat. I had no voice keyer this weekend and literally talked the whole 24 hours. I figured this was the reason for a sore throat, but little did I know Sunday would bring a full fledged head cold. I went to bed Saturday evening needing MAR, NL and QC. I got back on at 1200Z and went straight thru 13 hours until I was out of time. I literally got up for 30 seconds 2 times to use the facilities, otherwise I didn't move all day. As the day went on, a sore throat turned into being all plugged up, sneezing and coughing etc etc. By the end, I was in long sleeves, long pants and wrapped in a blanket with the chills. Great stuff! I found MAR early on Sunday on 20 cqing and was down to 2. I was running around 14.308 and asking folks about my last 2. A guy told me a VO1 was up on 14.333 area. I ran up there and lost my frequency but after about 10 minutes was down to 1. I went to 40 and ran a bit since I lost my frequency and had a good run about 1400Z. I was asking most about QC and most had worked one or more and I was a bit worried I hadn't even heard 1. At 1500Z I went back to 14.316 and had a great run for 5 hours. My LP signal held 14.316 for 5 hours with little to no noise on the sides. It helps having 15 and 10 open and lots of folks there. I ran for 5 hours with rates of 60 to 70 an hour, with the last 10 over 250 at times. In this stretch, a VE2 called in, then another, then another and next thing I knew I had about double digit VE2's. All that worry for nothing. About 2000Z as folks started to head back to 20, my frequency folded up and I went to 10. Didn't seem as good as Saturday and I picked off a few. I then made a sweep of all bands, working anything new and killed 45 minutes. At the end, I headed back to 40 and planted down on about 7.273 about 23Z. I had instant rate and ran a 91 hour at 23Z on Sunday, wow! So, I came in expecting little and put together strings of great runs and hours. It just seemed like a never ending string of callers on 20 and 40. Coming into Sunday morning, I had single digit Q totals on 20!!! Had the rate not been like it was, I would have pulled the plug early as I felt horrible and it got worse as the day went on. As the rates kept coming, I started thinking that central division LP may be within reach and that kept me going. Thanks to everyone for all the qso's. My apologies if I sneezed or coughed in your ear. I tried to hit the VOX when I felt it coming on, but didn't always win that race! Happy Thanksgiving!!! 73, Ryan KB9OWD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB9UWU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 203,360 Haven't done this one since 2004. This is the 3rd time I've participated in this contest and the 3rd time I've quit after exactly 19 hours. Call me a wimp but I just can't take much more of the insanity of 20 and 40 packed wall to wall with contesters and frequency owners. VE8DW is the last contact in the log at 0009z, he found me CQing on 15 meters and I gladly shut 'er down after that. It's great to be back on the air and hear so many familiar call signs. Thanks to K9BF and N9DOG for their hospitality and company. Equipment: 1000MkV, AL-800H, 3 element Steppir @ 53', 40/80 fan dipole at 50'. I logged with CT for nostalgia. 73 Matt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC0W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1 Got on for a few hours to test out some antennas. Broke the 500 QSO mark at only 4 hours into the contest.............I started DXing on 12 meters early Sunday morning & never returned back to SS. The big stations construction here is going very well. I'm building it for all amateurs to come to North Dakota and use it 100% FREE OF CHARGE. Please check my bio on QRZ.com for the latest information on the progress I'm making on this Herculean effort at constructing a World Class Contesting/DXing station. See ya in the next 'test & best 73 from ND, Tom KC0W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 136,906 No 10m or 15m antennas. 204BA @ 108' 40m Delta Loop @65' 80m inverted vee at @65' FT2000D and Centurion Amp. Everything played very well. Missed 3 sections/provinces (SJV, PR and NL). Had two VE8 call me on 20m right at the end of the contest--thanks. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 127,140 My tower motor had gone bad, so it has been in the retracted position for the past 9 months. About 3 weeks ago, I finally ordered the replacement and I wired it up on Friday before SS. On Saturday I finished the installation and the tower went up in time for SS. Still, had only a little time this weekend to dabble, so I figured I'd forgo QRP and go with 100W. Operated for 10 hours total. Amazing what can be done when you can hold a frequency without a ton of effort. Basically, I beat my best QRP score in about 9 hours. The only thing missing was the sweep. Missed PR and MS. Never heard either. A VE4, VO1, and VE8 called me, which was really a treat (thanks). The VE8 was my #9, which is the earliest I ever put that one to rest. I was on 10 mtrs a bit, but my schedule was such that my timing was off - 20 and 15 were doing much better. Anyway, had fun and managed to somewhat have a normal weekend. CU -Al ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD0S Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 81,276 First time QRP for me in SS, work would not allow a full effort so tried a new category instead of B. Was great fun, but at times was like an outsider looking in!! Best band by far was 15m, had a couple good hours of runs there, the other bands mostly S/P. 20m was loaded end to end, and 40/80m, especially 80m was a struggle QRP.. 10m didn't produce any sustained runs from here.. All in all a great time, worked many old and new friends, a LOT of the Thursday nite NS gang, K7SS, N1LN, W1UJ, K4BAI, W7OM, NN7SS, WF7T, and others, thanks much for the Q's, 73 God Bless, Todd WD0T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 229,440 Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use his station. I don't recommend phone Sweepstakes with bronchitis - I'm very glad I had a voice keyer! I tried too hard to make 80 meters work here - I should have been on 40 which was great. I heard LOTS of comments about how many MDC stations were on. :-) GO PVRC! 2011 SS SSB - KD4D HOUR 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 21 0 0 18 59 0 77 77 22 0 9 35 27 0 71 148 23 0 62 7 0 0 69 217 0 17 59 0 0 0 76 293 1 77 7 0 0 0 84 377 2 65 11 0 0 0 76 453 3 76 7 0 0 0 83 536 4 70 13 0 0 0 83 619 5 53 10 0 0 0 63 682 6 14 70 0 0 0 84 766 7 19 46 0 0 0 65 831 8 21 26 0 0 0 47 878 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 878 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 878 11 7 2 0 0 0 9 887 12 19 25 0 0 0 44 931 13 0 29 21 0 0 50 981 14 0 28 19 0 0 47 1028 15 0 5 33 7 0 45 1073 16 0 0 5 49 0 54 1127 17 0 0 9 7 0 16 1143 18 0 0 43 6 0 49 1192 19 0 0 49 0 10 59 1251 20 0 0 1 0 2 3 1254 21 0 0 5 14 0 19 1273 22 0 0 7 27 0 34 1307 23 17 11 0 0 0 28 1335 0 39 5 0 0 0 44 1379 1 14 31 0 0 0 45 1424 2 5 27 0 0 0 32 1456 TOTAL 513 483 252 196 12 2011 SS SSB - KD4D 1. Mdc 75 2. Il 73 3. Va 66 4. Mn 64 5. Oh 60 6. Mi 50 7. WWa 37 8. Wi 37 9. Mo 34 10. Nc 34 11. Co 31 12. WNy 30 13. ENy 28 14. Az 26 15. Ga 26 16. NTx 26 17. In 26 18. Tn 23 19. Scv 23 20. Ct 23 21. Lax 22 22. STx 21 23. Em 21 24. Or 20 25. Ks 20 26. Ia 20 27. On 19 28. Ep 19 29. Al 18 30. NFl 17 31. WcF 17 32. Nh 17 33. Nm 16 34. WPa 16 35. Sv 15 36. Eb 15 37. SNj 15 38. WMa 15 39. Ky 14 40. Sdg 13 41. Org 13 42. Ew 13 43. NNj 13 44. Bc 12 45. Ut 12 46. Id 12 47. Ok 12 48. Sd 11 49. Ar 11 50. La 11 51. NLi 11 52. Nv 11 53. Ak 11 54. Wy 10 55. Sjv 10 56. SFl 10 57. Ne 10 58. Me 9 59. Sf 8 60. Ms 7 61. Wv 7 62. Qc 7 63. Mar 7 64. WTx 7 65. Mt 7 66. Nd 7 67. Ab 6 68. NNy 6 69. Sb 6 70. Sc 5 71. De 5 72. Ri 5 73. Sk 5 74. Vt 4 75. Mb 3 76. Nl 3 77. Pac 3 78. Vi 2 79. Pr 1 80. Nt 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3X Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 181,920 We had a dinner party to attend Saturday night, so many thanks to Pete Stafford, K2PS for coming over and operating the first 7 hours of this contest, so I was free to score some 'XYL Points' and we could still maximize the score for PVRC via a 'take-turns' Multi-Single. We had some nice runs on 20-M and 40-M on the second afternoon and evening, with the rate meter briefly up to 150 or so, which is new territory for this station, so happy overall. Also the 28.300 - 28.500 mhz range served up some good rates. This weekend was the 'shakedown cruise' for SSB contesting at KE3X - no surprise some issues surfaced: - an 8-pin connector on the DX Doubler interface cable failed 2 minutes into the contest, so the goal of SO2R went out the window - still short one 8874 tube for the Alpha 78, so no 2nd amp anyway - continue to have RF problems with the Yamaha boom mic - only got the DVK working well on Sunday, so Pete nearly lost his voice on Saturday night calling CQ the old-fashioned way (sorry Pete!) Dumbass moment: while I was using the second FT-1000MP to calculate band change strategy on Sunday, I forgot I had left it on the 20-meter dipole ... next thing I knew I was beaming 1200 Watts from radio 1 on the same band from the tribander right through it from 15-feet away. This 'high power SO2R' stuff is starting to get expensive (although cheaper than drag racing, from what I hear ...) Go PVRC! Ken KE3X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE7AUB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,050 Had lots of fun, even with a mic going rouge and a massive headache which began Sunday at noon, curtailing my fun. (: Thanks to all who worked me. 75 sections is a new record for me in my 7th Nov Sweeps participation. Proof again that even a wee station with draconian evil HOA, is able to still have fun - especially when our yellow star is being cooperative. Great to hear the usual cast of characters and a lot of new stations. Kudos to those usual cast of characters in walking the new entrants or ops tipping their toe in the contest pool of fun. I heard quite a few walk-throughs. Also a big thumbs up to the MT station licensed this year and running a frequency in SSB SS. I hope you had a real blast - it sure sounded like you had fun. 73 Andy KE7AUB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF6T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 204,160 Very fun on the upper bands. Tough to get much going on 40 or 80 especially with LP. Thanks for the Qs! Jack - KF6T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 259,360 Mahalo for the QSOs! Hope to work you all in the CQWW CW test. Aloha Rob, NH6V www.kh6lc.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7X Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 360,000 Conditions on every band up and down like a big bunch of yo-yo's here all weekend... Thanks to NP2B for finding me just 3 hours before the end. I looked for that last mult for hours on the 2nd radio Sunday but just could not find it, then he showed up on my run frequency and called me... perfect! Really looking forward to listening to, and playing a more pleasing flavor of music this coming weekend. Aloha - KH6ND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7Y Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 164,478 Missed VE2 this weekend, a part time effort. Ten meters was hot both days. started out looking for the sweep and spent most of Sunday looking for VE2..Nuts Ready for CQWW next weekend, please look for KH6LC M/2 mahalo for the QSOs.. Aloha, Fred KH7Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ4LTA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,392 Had fun, but did not operate that long. 73's Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ5T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 243,360 I had the pleasure to once again be invited to single op this contest from the KU5B/NX5M contest station in Somerville, TX. Probably learned the most during this contest about the improvements I need to make in my strategy. While my 1500 Q's is the most I have ever had in a single operator effort it was 500 Q's short of my goal of 2000. For a complete write-up of the contest visit www.kj5t.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK4CIS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,144 Rig: FT897D, 100 watts through 15, 20 and 40 meter dipoles. My first ARRL Phone Sweepstakes; I had a blast and can't wait for next year's contest. All S&P. Tried running a few times but never seemed to attract any takers (a whopping total of 4 Qs while running). I was a little surprised that a SFL station didn't attract more attention based on the small number of submitted logs from SFL last year. Was also very surprised that 40m was my most productive band (50% of Qs), as my 40m dipole is only 20' off the ground (PAC was logged on 40m). 20m was very difficult at all times. 15m was good, and the pileups on 10m were very hard to break through, but did manage to log a number of Canadian stations on 10m (many thanks!). Never heard VT or CT the entire contest. In hindsight I should have stuck around for the lone NT station I heard early on in the contest, despite the epic pileup, as I never heard another. Who knew MDC had so many active contesters . . . . Top 10 Sections Rank Section % of Total Qs 1 MDC 9% 2 VA 6% 3 NC 5% 4 TN 5% 5 STX 4% 6 IL 3% 7 MN 3% 8 SCV 3% 9 WMA 3% 10 EPA 2% Top 3 Checks: Rank Check Year % of Total Checks 1 1958 5.2% 2 1955 4.6% 3 1999 4.0% Many thanks to everyone who pulled my signal out of the muck. 73 KK4CIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK7AC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 103,680 Sweep! At the 22 hour point in finally got Santa Barbra on 40. After that I figured there is not much else to do (since I completed the true objective) so I shut it down. Alot of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK7YL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,820 K3 with 20m & 10m monobanders N1MM-Logger V11.11.2 One hour Sunday night S&P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL2HD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 31,088 Fun. Best contest to date by number of QSOs. I was surprised I worked so many sections. Missed Maritime provinces, PR and a couple states (ID?!). Not bad though for a Low Power station. Lots of "Let me swing the beam around to you" as I was hitting the sides of all those beams pointed east and west. Grrr. Issues with radio this contest and it needs to go in for repair: ALC is not adjustable and Po about 25 watts. Able to switch to another radio, but it was not hooked to the computer so that was awkward and slowed things down quite a bit. Several spots gave me a lot of QSOs on 10 and 15m, but they were as the bands were dying (and everyone had cleared out and could hear me Low Power). Inlaws visiting this week and newborn baby needs kept me away more than I wanted, but better showing than last year so that's progress. 73, Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 344,800 Many thanks to everyone for the QSOs - and to Rich, KL7RA on being a great host. Arrived here on Wednesday night - no power - no heat. It was the full eskimo experience!! There were some really big winds on Tuesday. Power came back on Friday morning and the contest was a go. Rich had enough extra antennas that we could work around the broken ones. Used the same pair of IC-781s I used on CW - still an impressive rig. This was my first time using a windows logging program and it wasn't bad at all. N1MM has taken many of the features I am comfortable with in my own program and taken them to the next level. Rich had the voice keyer stuff all integrated with the YCCC SO2R box and things all worked very well. Only glitch was when we had a power hiccup (which brought my stomach up into my throat) and the computer rebooted. I really didn't do much of anyting with the second radio. I was either totally S&P or totally focused on my run frequency. I think N6RO was the one 2nd radio QSO I made. As you can see by the CBS generated data below - the wheels pretty much fell off when I QSY'd to 40 meters. Also - the first couple hours on Sunday morning were very painful with auroral buzz all over the band. That hour of 7 had no breaks in it!! However, when things opened up - it was off to the races like I never have before on Sunday. Big congrats to John, VE8EV on his great score much furthur north than I was. 73 Tree N6TR/KL7 Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: KL7RA CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE OPERATORS: N6TR -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 0 0 193 193 193 9.0 2200 0 0 0 0 0 182 182 375 17.4 2300 0 0 0 0 24 125 149 524 24.3 0000 0 0 0 0 151 0 151 675 31.3 0100 0 0 0 53 54 0 107 782 36.3 0200 0 0 6 92 0 0 98 880 40.8 0300 0 0 10 2 0 0 12 892 41.4 0400 0 0 79 0 0 0 79 971 45.1 0500 0 0 62 0 0 0 62 1033 47.9 0600 0 10 18 0 0 0 28 1061 49.2 0700 0 7 28 0 0 0 35 1096 50.9 0800 0 7 4 0 0 0 11 1107 51.4 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 51.4 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 51.4 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 51.4 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1107 51.4 1300 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 1114 51.7 1400 0 0 11 3 0 0 14 1128 52.3 1500 0 0 0 5 2 0 7 1135 52.7 1600 0 0 0 45 0 0 45 1180 54.8 1700 0 0 0 3 118 0 121 1301 60.4 1800 0 0 0 0 125 0 125 1426 66.2 1900 0 0 0 0 96 3 99 1525 70.8 2000 0 0 0 0 0 105 105 1630 75.6 2100 0 0 0 0 0 123 123 1753 81.3 2200 0 0 0 0 0 114 114 1867 86.6 2300 0 0 0 0 69 11 80 1947 90.3 0000 0 0 0 0 72 0 72 2019 93.7 0100 0 0 0 52 17 0 69 2088 96.9 0200 0 0 0 67 0 0 67 2155 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 24 225 322 728 856 2155 Gross QSOs=2159 Dupes=4 Net QSOs=2155 Unique callsigns worked = 2155 The best 60 minute rate was 193/hour from 2100 to 2159 The best 30 minute rate was 204/hour from 2100 to 2129 The best 10 minute rate was 216/hour from 2113 to 2122 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSOs/minute 1 times. 4 QSOs/minute 50 times. 3 QSOs/minute 240 times. 2 QSOs/minute 424 times. 1 QSOs/minute 382 times. There were 22 bandchanges and 1 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSOs. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 837 5 866 6 446 7 1 8 2 9 1 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- IL 0 0 5 16 31 36 88 4.1 VA 0 0 9 16 27 30 82 3.8 WWA 0 2 17 17 17 27 80 3.7 OH 0 0 5 11 28 34 78 3.6 MDC 0 0 11 8 25 28 72 3.3 MN 0 2 2 11 19 36 70 3.2 MI 0 0 3 8 29 26 66 3.1 NC 0 0 5 6 23 23 57 2.6 CO 0 0 5 7 20 24 56 2.6 AZ 0 0 6 10 15 25 56 2.6 OR 0 1 8 7 11 23 50 2.3 WNY 0 1 4 6 19 15 45 2.1 MO 0 0 2 8 18 15 43 2.0 WI 0 0 5 9 10 18 42 1.9 STX 0 0 2 3 16 20 41 1.9 TN 0 0 5 0 19 17 41 1.9 GA 0 0 1 1 15 23 40 1.9 SCV 0 4 10 6 14 6 40 1.9 NTX 0 0 5 2 10 21 38 1.8 ENY 0 0 4 5 16 12 37 1.7 EPA 0 0 3 7 13 14 37 1.7 SV 0 1 6 6 13 8 34 1.6 IN 0 0 2 4 15 13 34 1.6 WPA 0 0 0 5 16 12 33 1.5 LAX 0 0 8 5 13 7 33 1.5 EMA 0 0 2 2 11 17 32 1.5 NNJ 0 0 4 3 10 14 31 1.4 CT 0 0 2 4 8 15 29 1.3 WCF 0 0 5 5 4 14 28 1.3 ON 0 0 1 3 13 10 27 1.3 IA 0 0 2 5 7 13 27 1.3 ORG 0 0 1 8 13 5 27 1.3 NFL 0 0 5 6 5 10 26 1.2 NH 0 0 4 2 5 14 25 1.2 SDG 0 0 1 2 14 8 25 1.2 BC 0 1 2 5 5 11 24 1.1 SJV 0 3 2 6 6 6 23 1.1 AL 0 0 2 4 5 12 23 1.1 KY 0 0 1 0 13 9 23 1.1 NV 0 1 4 3 5 8 21 1.0 KS 0 1 1 3 5 10 20 0.9 EWA 0 0 5 2 5 7 19 0.9 EB 0 2 6 2 2 7 19 0.9 SNJ 0 0 2 2 6 8 18 0.8 NM 0 1 3 3 6 5 18 0.8 OK 0 0 0 8 4 6 18 0.8 SF 0 1 4 0 8 5 18 0.8 NLI 0 0 0 2 8 8 18 0.8 LA 0 0 0 1 5 11 17 0.8 SC 0 0 1 3 6 7 17 0.8 ME 0 0 2 3 4 7 16 0.7 UT 0 0 4 2 4 6 16 0.7 SFL 0 0 0 2 7 7 16 0.7 AR 0 0 0 2 4 9 15 0.7 NE 0 0 0 6 2 7 15 0.7 WY 0 0 2 3 6 4 15 0.7 ID 0 0 3 1 1 9 14 0.6 WMA 0 0 2 3 6 3 14 0.6 DE 0 0 0 1 10 1 12 0.6 WV 0 0 2 2 2 6 12 0.6 AK 0 0 4 1 4 2 11 0.5 MS 0 0 0 2 4 4 10 0.5 MAR 0 0 1 3 4 2 10 0.5 MT 0 2 1 3 2 2 10 0.5 SB 0 0 1 5 3 1 10 0.5 AB 0 0 0 1 3 6 10 0.5 NNY 0 0 2 1 3 3 9 0.4 WTX 0 0 1 1 4 3 9 0.4 SD 0 1 0 2 3 3 9 0.4 VT 0 0 1 0 4 3 8 0.4 QC 0 0 0 0 4 4 8 0.4 RI 0 0 0 1 2 3 6 0.3 SK 0 0 0 1 3 2 6 0.3 ND 0 0 1 1 2 2 6 0.3 PAC 0 0 1 2 2 1 6 0.3 NWT 0 0 3 1 0 1 5 0.2 MB 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 NL 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.1 PR 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0.1 VI 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 24 225 322 728 856 2155 Sweepstakes Checks Check QSOs Pct ---------------------- 00 23 1.1 01 22 1.0 02 25 1.2 03 24 1.1 04 12 0.6 05 26 1.2 06 30 1.4 07 49 2.3 08 49 2.3 09 56 2.6 10 42 1.9 11 35 1.6 12 1 0.0 13 1 0.0 14 0 0.0 15 0 0.0 16 2 0.1 17 0 0.0 18 0 0.0 19 1 0.0 20 0 0.0 21 1 0.0 22 1 0.0 23 0 0.0 24 1 0.0 25 0 0.0 26 0 0.0 27 0 0.0 28 0 0.0 29 1 0.0 30 1 0.0 31 1 0.0 32 1 0.0 33 0 0.0 34 0 0.0 35 3 0.1 36 0 0.0 37 3 0.1 38 0 0.0 39 1 0.0 40 2 0.1 41 1 0.0 42 0 0.0 43 0 0.0 44 0 0.0 45 2 0.1 46 1 0.0 47 6 0.3 48 4 0.2 49 5 0.2 50 2 0.1 51 10 0.5 52 14 0.6 53 20 0.9 54 42 1.9 55 41 1.9 56 29 1.3 57 46 2.1 58 43 2.0 59 51 2.4 60 43 2.0 61 48 2.2 62 56 2.6 63 60 2.8 64 41 1.9 65 40 1.9 66 35 1.6 67 44 2.0 68 30 1.4 69 46 2.1 70 35 1.6 71 41 1.9 72 32 1.5 73 33 1.5 74 43 2.0 75 39 1.8 76 76 3.5 77 73 3.4 78 46 2.1 79 31 1.4 80 29 1.3 81 19 0.9 82 22 1.0 83 23 1.1 84 16 0.7 85 10 0.5 86 28 1.3 87 22 1.0 88 18 0.8 89 34 1.6 90 30 1.4 91 40 1.9 92 48 2.2 93 43 2.0 94 36 1.7 95 30 1.4 96 22 1.0 97 14 0.6 98 25 1.2 99 23 1.1 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 243 11.3 1 162 7.5 2 200 9.3 3 166 7.7 4 286 13.3 5 151 7.0 6 240 11.1 7 262 12.2 8 171 7.9 9 178 8.3 -------------------- Total 2059 95.5 Sweepstakes Precedents Precedent QSOs Pct ---------------------- A 1205 55.9 B 380 17.6 Q 68 3.2 M 115 5.3 U 374 17.4 S 13 0.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM6I Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 154,720 Highlight: getting called by my alma mater W8UM while I was running on 10M. Go Blue! Great to hear you active in a contest. Shared-station operation at Kevin, AD6Z's place in the mountains above Silicon Valley (2 completely independent operations using an SO2R capable station). Missed last year's score by about 100 Qs, in spite of the improved conditions. Thanks, Kevin, for the opportunity to play radio! - Gordon KM6I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,552 work killed this for one, more so than CW weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 44,000 Double Clean Sweeps this year! I wasn't really interested in working this one because it's SSB, but thought for kicks I'd try to work 80 qso's to get my 80 sections for the sweep. That went well for the first 67 qso's, but then someone I thought was in SNJ turned out to be in EPA and I'd already worked someone in EPA so that ended my goal. I still concentrated on the sweep since I had NT out of the way in the first hour of the contest, and then after I got the sweep I started adding to the score. Although I didn't work much on 10 meters, I was impressed when I was hearing AK stations 20 over 9 this afternoon. Looking forward to the CQWW this weekend. Hope everyone who reads this has a nice Thanksgiving. Scott KN3A Kenwood TS 450SAT Dipole 75 Watts N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4KL Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 51,520 Great time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4QD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,260 Some really loud stations out there this year. Heard several that were 40-50 over here. See you next week in CQWW CW (my personal fave). K3, Hexbeam, OCF Dipole, N1MM logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO4OL Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 46,970 SSSSB Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2011-11-19 CallSign Used : KO4OL Operator(s) : KO4OL Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : SSB Default Exchange : A 80 KY Gridsquare : EM77US ARRL Section : KY Club/Team : Kentucky Contest Group Software : N1MM Logger V10.3.7 Band QSOs Pts Sec 3.5 102 204 26 7 44 88 8 14 75 150 21 21 21 42 4 28 63 126 18 Total 305 610 77 Score : 46,970 Rig : FT990 Antennas : CAROLINA WINDOM 80 AND TA33 TRIBANDER Soapbox : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 72,480 Brian had a nice run on 15 meters Saturday afternoon. All the bands seemed to be excellent. Our last section was VE4 - thanks to VE4EAR for the QSO. A very weak WP4 called me on 10 meters but he was too weak to copy. I finally worked NP4A up the band for my only PR QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ0C Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 221,440 I had at least 2 in each section except MB... only VE4EAR there. As with recent contests, lots of action on 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ8RP Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 41,610 Conditions were great and now with some activity on the high bands it makes QRP so much fun. I put up a 300 foot loop and it was by far working the best. I gave my voice keyer a workout in the pileups. Thanks to all who had the patience to work a QRP contact. Rig: Flex 5000 running 5w, Antenna: 80m Horizontal Loop, Inverted L and 43 foot Vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2E Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 44,160 IC-746 PRO, AL-811 Restricted antennas - low wires and ground verticals. My first SSB sweep. Thanks for the Q's. 73.........Paul.....KR2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS4X Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 20,480 Got the sweep qrp ,thanks to all for hearing me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7E Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,760 That was fun. This was our Thanksgiving dinner weekend so we had lots of family around this weekend. So, I had limited time on the radio untill mostly Sunday. Thanks to all that I worked and your patience. I couldn't find SK or NL missed them. 73 all KT7E Joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU0G Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 164,160 I absolutely had a blast with this year's SSB Sweepstakes weekend! Got the last multiplier (KP4) before I hit the rack for the night. Able to sit back and run on the various bands without having to wander around most of the day Sunday. Had a great run on 40m from about 22z onward. My very best SSB Sweepstakes effort ever this year! It's so much more fun when the higher bands are open. Looking forward to seeing all the new QSL's in LOTW on 10 and 15 meters in the coming weeks now! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 108,320 Second year of SS from own shack, and second time full sweep - but with DX cluster , it is way too easy. I will have to try without assistance next year. Bands were weird - could not hold a frequency on 20/40 on Saturday; on Sunday it was much easier, but time was already lost. Hit the brick wall of too much noise and splatter on Sunday afternoon, and decided that enough is enough. Thanks for all the Q's, and big Thanks to OM from PR - he was dealing with pileup with amazing grace and politeness. Always nice to recognize familiar call signs on the air. Vy 73, de KU1T _zjt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY4F Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 23,256 Not much of a phone op here. Wanted to just do better than last year (mission accomplished). Then, when I got NWT I thought maybe, just maybe the sweep was possible. Alas, no joy. Missed EB, SB, EPA and RI.... Really? I mean I can understand RI..... but the rest? Especially EPA from Alabama.. Oh well. Still a fun time. Thanks for the Q's 73, Doug KY4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY7K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,776 I did not plan to work the contest, but later decided to try and fill in some needed states for WAS band endorsements. This was my first SS and all I can say it Wow, what a fun contest! I won't miss it next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0AH Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 107,200 Can someone please find a few more MS and VE4's for SS (-: UT was last section. Thx for the Q's- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 84,800 Thank you for all the Q's. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0EOP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,628 Enjoyed the contest and the activity level on 10 meters was very good. Using FT-920 100 watts into Gap Titan. All contacts were S&P. Got to continue building up my strength so that I can really put in an honest effort. THANKS to all that worked me and hope that you enjoyed yourself as much as I did. 73 Dave N0EOP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 161,950 Spent all day Sunday fixing antennas for next week. Missed SK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0JK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,288 Had to work both days. Was able to get on 10 Meters during a short work break Sunday afternoon. Used a stock Radioshack CB mag. mount whip on the car (set for 27 MHz) and my FT-897. High swr, but it seemed to get out. Noted Es to Texas, and logged NR5M and K5WA in STX. VE8EV and WL7E had huge signals out of the northwest. 10M is a great band for the low power simple antenna stations. Got home from work Sunday eve. at 8 pm (0200 utc) and loaded up the "rain gutter downspout" of our duplex to hand out a few more QSOs on 20 and 40M. Es to Texas, AL, and KY on 20 with big signals from KM4RO and KC4HW. 40 was noisy and the gutter antenna not efficient, but handed out 6 more contacts in the last 15 minutes. N4ZZ TN, K3ZO MDC, K4SSU GA, W7WA WWA, KW8N OH, and K8JQ WV going in the log right at the end. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0LD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 4,800 Enjoyable... gave everyone I heard in one pass a contact on 15m during the time I operated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0MA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 151,360 Lots of new ops who search for mults instead of running and letting the mults rush to them. Busted calls were worked by Jack Daniels or his brother Yukon Jack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1CC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 128,000 Rig: Yaesu FT-990 to 100Watts. ClearDSP Audio filter, MFJ Noise Cancellor. WriteLog. Antennas: Force 12 C3 @ 40 Feet. Alpha-Delta DX-LB inverted vee apex at 40 feet. DX Engineering 43' Vertical, 32 Radials, MFJ Remote Tuner at base. This operation without any assistance, after using assistance of packet on CW. I was able to make the sweep after 10 hours of operation, with a foray to 40 SSB mid-Sunday calling CQ AR to get that elusive close-in multipler. The only one left then was KP4 ... found NP4A working folks S&P, called him and got him to move off and work me for #80! I was able to run on 10, 15, and 20 Meters ... and 80% of my multipliers called in to my CQ's. Aobut 70% running and 30% hunting to get the other mults. Late Sunday was surprised at the number of comments that NTX was hard to find...and I think a LOT of the guys were active. 73, Jim N1CC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 208,000 Once again I was not able to keep my BIC for the allowable 24 hours, but due to the outstanding band conditions and activity level my original goal of 1000 Qs was reached very early. The new finish lines kept being moved out but when the 1300 Q goal was reached it was time to rejoin the rest of a typical Sunday afternoon....Football. Saturday evening started on 15 meters with a goal of quickly working all the sections in US zones 6, 7, 0, KL7, KH6 and possibly the western Canadian provinces. That ended up working well. In the first 80 minutes there were 43 confirmed sections in the log and the cluster was only used to work NT. Unfortunately, I focused on 15 and 20 too long and my move to 40 came too late. The band was already very crowded, so after trying to get a decent run frequency a few times, the next gamble was decided upon. Go to 75 early and camp out while focusing on 40 mtr SP on the other rig. At 0025 UTC I moved one K3 to 3815 and stayed there for the next 4.5 hours. That move put 458 of the 75 mtr Qs in the log. An average rate of 101 for SS was not too bad. At some point in the 75 meter run my section count reached 79 with PR being the only missing mult. At about 0745 UTC I saw PR popup on the cluster. After a quick jump from my run frequency, PR was in the log and the sweep completed at 0750 UTC. It was time to head off to bed. Sunday morning started up again at 1200 UTC Sunday for a few more 40 and 75 Qs then off to 15 and 20. At about 1400 UTC it was time for Murphy to arrive. My lower 15 meter yagi developed a high SWR. So, time for a quick tower climb. As there was nothing visual that could be identified, all connections were removed and reinstalled and the SWR came back to normal. Fortunately that was the final Murphy visit. The rest of the day was spent reaching the final goal of 1300 Qs and contributing to the overall PVRC club score. 73, Bruce N1LN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 237,280 Fell off a ladder in the house replacing air filters on Friday. My back is already bad and this put me in pain the entire weekend. Had trouble staying in chair which reflects my score down almost 100'qs from last year. Had problem with 40M antenna throughout contest casuing my rate to be down on this dependable band. Good news is I finally got my MicroHamKeyer II DVK wokring thanks to the assistance of AL9A Gary thanks, and Craig K9CT , thanks Craig. I know some of the non traditional contesters were freaked out as sometimes my levels were a little differenct and they thougth someone was stepping on top of me but it was my DVK giving the report! Wow. I will get that closer but glad to have the Voice keying working thanks again Gary AL9A and Craig K9CT as it has taken 4 months!!! Thanks for all the q's. My wish list is for Foreign Broadcast to "GO AWAY" completely on 40M we need the space that band is packed for SSB contests! Thanks for the Q's. Barry N2BJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 315,360 Steve, Thanks again for giving me the opportunity to operate from N2IC this year. Steve's station performed flawlessly although I wish I could say the same about the operator. Despite giving it my best effort I was unable to generate the rates I had expected during the initial hours of the contest. I believe a highly skilled operator could win SS SSB from N2IC. Thank you Steve and Kathy for being fantastic hosts. I had a great time touring around the Silver City area after the contest. Thanks for all of the contacts! 73, Ken N0QO -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 0 0 142 142 142 7.2 2200 0 0 0 0 0 135 135 277 14.1 2300 0 0 0 0 37 65 102 379 19.2 0000 0 0 0 8 77 0 85 464 23.5 0100 0 0 0 139 0 0 139 603 30.6 0200 0 0 32 50 0 0 82 685 34.8 0300 0 0 118 0 0 0 118 803 40.7 0400 0 0 91 0 0 0 91 894 45.4 0500 0 0 27 0 0 0 27 921 46.7 0600 0 0 67 0 0 0 67 988 50.1 0700 0 2 71 0 0 0 73 1061 53.8 0800 0 23 4 0 0 0 27 1088 55.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1088 55.2 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1088 55.2 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1088 55.2 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1088 55.2 1300 0 0 26 31 1 0 58 1146 58.1 1400 0 0 0 55 9 9 73 1219 61.8 1500 0 0 0 0 7 60 67 1286 65.2 1600 0 0 0 0 3 82 85 1371 69.6 1700 0 0 0 0 1 77 78 1449 73.5 1800 0 0 0 0 64 5 69 1518 77.0 1900 0 0 0 0 60 7 67 1585 80.4 2000 0 0 0 0 27 42 69 1654 83.9 2100 0 0 0 0 1 67 68 1722 87.4 2200 0 0 0 0 3 42 45 1767 89.6 2300 0 0 0 17 2 8 27 1794 91.0 0000 0 0 0 66 0 0 66 1860 94.4 0100 0 0 3 64 0 0 67 1927 97.8 0200 0 0 44 0 0 0 44 1971 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 25 483 430 292 741 1971 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 24,000 This is definitely the year of the sweep and the beginning of West Coast domination. Thanks for the qsos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MUN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 90,060 Never heard Santa Barbara (SB) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2QT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 100,000 It was a weekend for interuptions but tried to make the best of the time I had. Nice runs on 15 and 40 had to be cut short, and then it was hard to reestablish rate when starting back up again. Last two sections were NLI and PR. Of course running assisted takes the luster off the sweep. Came short of the 800+ q's I promised to match N4UA's CW outing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,322 Lack of energy is my poor excuse, or was it motivation? Compliments to many I heard who were taking time to explain the exchange to the many newcomers. Think the funniest comment I heard was "Once you've worked 1500 contacts, you're willing to work anyone to add a QSO." NM and KL7 were booming in here on 10. Funny, it took me years to work Alaska on 10, now they're "common" ;o) Happy Thanksgiving to all! 73, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2YO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 64,000 I never planned for this, but this is my first sweep in the SS/Phone! 73s de Chip N2YO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 44,000 All S&P with limited time in the chair. Needed NNJ for the Sweep and didn't get him until 0100Z Sunday night. Very strange. IC-756 Pro3 AL-811H Force 12 -C-3SS @ 50' Inverted L @ 48' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3CA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 75,000 Thank you to W3ZZ for the use of your station!! This was a Sunday-only effort from around 10am until I got tired of the radio at a nice round number. I haven't operated in a while, so it was good to dust off my call and make a few QSOs. Go PVRC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ME Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 160,000 Whew! Wore the olde man out this time - not bad I think with a single dipole located about 18" above the roof line directly parallel with the roof. K3 performed well as did my 25 + year old Ten-Tec Titan Linear, which never quite got warm much less overheated. Thank goodness for N1MM and voice files... Thanks to all my fellow PVRC members for their contacts and for encouraging me to plod on. Last year accomplished 606 contacts and set my goal for this year to be 700, but then got caught up in the excitement and it turned out well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3UM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 155,680 My goals this year: break 150 K claimed for the first time (vs 149.5 K last year!) and get an SSB sweep for the second time (first was in '06). I was pleased to do both: claimed 155.7 K, and found NT on 20 m. at 0013 Z for nr. 80. I started on 20 m., 17 min. late. Good rate for 2.5 hr, mostly running. Went to 40 m. at 2340 Z after 20 m. rate dropped abruptly. As usual, I just could not get much going on 40 m. SSB, neither running nor fast S&P: after 38 Qs in 45 min., I went to 80 at 0030 and did much better: ~80 QSOs/hr for 2.5 hr., then a 42-min. break, 18 Qs in 18 min, and finally ~70 QSOs/hr for 2 hr. At 06 Z, 01 EST, I had 516 QSOs and 72 sections vs 511 and 71 last year, and decided to literally quit while I was ahead instead of pushing on for an hour or so more as I've done in recent years. I'm nominally recovered from surgery done 10/7, but did not want to push it. Sun. AM starting at 12 Z, 40 m. was flat: made only 68 Qs and no mults before the rate dropped, vs. 118 Qs and 3 semi- rare mults last year. Then, 20 m. was only slightly better, 80 Qs in 1.8 hr. and the last medium-rare mults (SF, SK, MB). I went to 10 m. for only 15 min. and got my first PR QSO, with KH2RU/KP4, his nr. 161, then for insurance WP4I, his nr. 9. He was gamely learning the SS exchange as he went. The sweep came with ~3 hr. to spare at 0013 when I found VE8EV for NT up near 14.3 for his nr. 1586 B, easy copy, no pileup, after searching 15 m. for NTs and finding none. For several years I've found lots of Qs on 80 m. in the last 3 hr. of SSB SS, lots of casual ops with nr. <200. This year, less so: 61 fewer QSOs than in the last 3 hr. in 2010. In the end, 15 and 10 m. put me over the top with 27 more total QSOs than my previous best in 2010, despite getting 104 fewer total QSOs on 80 and 66 fewer on 40 and 20 combined. I did it with 1.3 fewer hours BIC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 32,550 Managed to get in some time today between trips to the airport. Heard, but did not work DE, SC, AR, WV and NE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4DJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 117,600 The Clean Sweep came early this year. I even had multiple QSOs with every section! 73, Don N4DJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 80,000 Lots of hardware problems here. Had to use wires, tribander fried. Good conditions. Looking forward to antenna rework for next year. Very nice to hear all the familiar calls. 73 John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KH Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 52,000 Started out just to give out some Q's, but conditions were great and I quickly had several of the usually tough sections in the log. Kept going and finally found WA6FGV in SB for the sweep on Sunday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4MM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 69,920 All was S and P. No Packet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 227,360 Glad 10 and 15m was open. This could have been a long weekend with all the activity. Did about what I expected on 80, 40 and 20, but was able to go back and forth on 4 bands and find a little wiggle room. 10 and 15 made the difference.. Nice to get Eric, VY1EI, early and not have to worry about NWT. Ended up with a "bunch" of NWT's. Heard a KP4 on 10m early but didn't turn the antenna as was sure that one wouldn't be a problem. Wrong again! Worked Pedro, NP4A, after hearing that unbelievable pileup and not knowing who it was...finally gave his call when I could hear him thru the pileup. Then he went split (on 40m) and got him for the sweep. Ended up with three other KP4's! Worked at least two stations in every section. ND showed up in mass for this one. Also, many from SD. SS is always great because so many contest buddies show up... Thanks for all the contacts...condx were outstanding! 73, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4QQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 134,560 First SSB sweepstakes ever! High Power...Low Antennas -- trap 40/80 dipole plus single 20 loop. Unassisted. Very surprised to complete the Sweep early Sunday afternoon. Definitely will do this again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4RRL Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 7,820 Rig : TS-570S(G) Antennas : LongWire 5-30’ High with SG-237 Smartuner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4WW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 225,466 Station worked as well as could be expected, but the operator was not up to snuff this weekend. Doc's station has top-10 potential as K0LUZ proved on CW, but I need more SO2R practice to make Sunday as productive as it has to be. Missed PR - NP4A was loud on 10m but had a huge pileup and apparently went QRT when I was working someone on my run radio. I kept dropping my call in with the lowest 10m yagi turned as far toward KP4 as I could turn it while he was there, but no good when I had a break on the run radio. Never heard another PR. Radio 1: FTDX-5000 + Alpha 77Dx + MFJ Voicekeyer (We've never run down the conflict between Doc's computers and his MicroKeyer 2's that prevents them being used properly on phone; these will be the last phone contacts made from N4WW for the year though) Radio 2: TS-940 + Amp Supply LK800A + Kenwood Hand Mic 10m - 5/5/5 on a 100' tower 15m - 5/5 on a 100' tower 20m - 4/4/4 on a 140' tower (middle antenna fixed to EU and not used) 40m - 4-ele @ 160' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,450 Nice conditions - everything seems to be working in the shack - hopefully it will stay that way. 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 274,080 This reminds me each year how much more I enjoy CW & RTTY contesting. Still nice to meet new hams and old friends on phone. It's getting harder to get started the second day. I used almost all my off time thinking about do I want to do the second half. After the second mug of coffee I decided to just get on 20 meters and see what happens. About 5 hours later I could see the end was not to far away if I could stay in the chair with out taking any breaks. Thanks for all the qso's and me asking for repeats. My ears seem about back to normal this morning. They were really ringing after coming off 75 meters the first night. Was surprised when A KL7 and a VE8 called me on 75 meters. See you all next year! 73 Don-n4zz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 184,000 It was a last minute decision to go low power. I'm not sure when I last used my amplifier, but it has been at least a year. On Friday afternoon I went through the bands marking the settings on the amp. All was well until I reached 20M where the amp started arcing. I had to lower the power down to about 400 watts before it would work, then went to 40M where the same thing happened. Since this is the first year to operate Multi-Op Low Power as a formal category, we decided to switch to LP. The N5DO station has one short (55 foot) tower with two antennas on it: a standard 3-element SteppIR at 30 feet, which is fixed in a NE-SW direction, and a relatively new DB-18 at 55 feet, which rotates. High winds last spring caused the DB-18 to spin, breaking the pin on the rotator and sawing through the control cables and coax. Those problems were fixed this summer, but one of the elements on the DB-18 appears to not move, making the antenna into a dipole on 40M and a 2 element beam on the high bands. Usually the top antenna is better than the bottom antenna, even with only two elements. But this weekend the bottom antenna was almost always better than the top one except, of course, on 40M. So most of the contest we were handicapped by using an antenna that wouldn't rotate and was pretty low. Given all that, it went very well. We tried using two rigs in this contest for the first time since we tried it some years ago. That attempt led to total failure, because without a lock out device we could not stop transmitting both rigs at the same time. We ended up not submitting our log and went back to using one radio, with one operator at a time, in our multi-op operations. This year we used the N6TV design for a lock-out using two K3s. It worked very well -- we constantly tried to key both rigs at once and the result is to shut down both transmitters at once (and some obligatory swearing). Not only is impossible to break the rules, it also teaches you to check before transmitting. Thanks to Bill, KE5OG, for the use of his K3 and P3 and doing the heavy lifting during some good runs. We were especially impressed with a great run he had during the last 45 minutes on 40M -- it seemed like there were a lot of stations available to work even that late in the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5QQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 364 Oh well........ de QQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5RZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 172,692 Well --- another two operation contest from the N5RZ QTH. Deborah, KF5HHD was at one operating position getting first choice on the bands/antennas, and I got whatever else was available. The antennas available were an 80M inverted vee, 40M rotary dipole, TH6DXX, and a 3 el 15M yagi with high SWR above 21250. Started on 15M at the beginning on the TH6DXX since KF5HHD was still at work. decent rate till I had to QRT at 2250 to go to a dinner/dance. Got back & I got on 80M & HHD got on 40M. I had the owner of the oilfield electric lines out Saturday morning to fix the noisy pole I found, and was crystal clear when they left. However the noise was back in the evening making the east beverage pretty useless - still have some work to do on that pole - ugggh. Got back on Sunday morning - me on 10M and Deborah on 15M. There was a legal limit antenna tuner at her operating position so she could use the 3 el 15M yagi no problem. We swapped off later on & I got 15M & she went to 10M. Had to crank the solid state amp down to about 100-150W so it wouldn't fault into the hi SWR. I was on 15M off and on between some other chores until right before sunset when I went to 40M. Wow - over 300 Q's in just over 3 hours on 40M - my best sustained rate of the contest! And zero QSO's on 20M. Missed VT and KP4 since I didn't tune much, none called in, and never ran across either when I was doing S&P on 15M. Deborah did well in her second Phone SS (passed her Extra in September!) - she had 699/76 in about 12 hours - she missed VT, NL, KP4 & KP2. N5RZ Rig: Elecraft K3 + Tokyo Hy-Power HL1.5KFX about 800-900W except Sunday afternoon on 15M KF5HHD rig: K3 + Alpha 87 Thanks to all for the QSO's & CU in the next one! 73, Gator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UWY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 70,200 Didn't come close to last year's score (so no plaque this year!). Chased off the air three times by nearby thunderstorms. Missed PR and ... KY? Really? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AJS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 38,780 Yaesu FT-450 Wire Dipoles Sunday afternoon, my daughter poked her head in the shack and said 'can I give it a try?' An hour later, she had scoured the tech-band on 10m at a better rate than I was making. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 51,040 Interesting and good conditions. At on point Saturday I could hear KL7RA with several echos on 15. Big signal! I wondered if Tree was using an effects box. Thanks to WA6FGV, SB, and N6DA, EB, for pulling me out of the mud on 15 and 10 for a sweep. And thanks to the Canadians. Their nine sections were well represented. Congratulations to the Big Number Boys. David N6AN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 93,120 First time clean sweep. PR called me for last one! Had to babysit grandkids all day Saturday, and had commitment Sunday Morning, so not much time to devote to SS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 78,736 "Had to" go watch Stanford/Cal Big Game on Saturday, so only got in 45 minutes on Saturday. Great conditions. Had a number of stations tell me I made their sweep on Sunday with my EB section. East Bay is now rare? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 34,444 How the heck did I miss Arkansas?! Missed sweep by one in SSB and CW (MB that time). Operating time was limited, and mostly S&P. My never got a run going on Saturday. Then comes Saturday night and a light rain. Switching to 40, I suddenly discovered problems with RF in the shack, locking the computer and forcing a reboot a couple of times. Spent a while moving wires, adding filters and checking all grounds. I must've done something right because it let up enough to run a couple more hours on 40 and 80. Got up Sunday about 6. It was like pulling teeth on 20, 15 and 10m until about 10 when I had my best run . . . which is perfect because I had to leave at 10:30. I didn't get back until 4. I did enjoy the last two hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6EE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 172,640 Had some great rates on all bands - including 121 first hour on 10M. Met my goal of >2000 QSOs in SS both modes combined (951 Q's CW + 1079 Q's PH) then went QRT early Sunday. Had a blast. Thanks everyone for all the Q's. And THANK YOU Chet for the use of your wonderful station. 73, Ron N6EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 229,120 Although I must admit that there were moments during the contest that were enjoyable, phone contests seem to play havoc with my larynx and I find myself a bit hoarse on Sunday evening. The other reason that phone contests are not as much fun as CW or RTTY operations is that it is quite difficult to eat a snack and convey an exchange to another station simultaneously. Conditions seemed excellent on the upper bands. I didn't get my sweep until contact #800. Did anyone else notice that there were a lot of Delaware stations active in this contest? There were even several NT and NL stations active, too. From my perspective, the rarest multiplier this year was SC! There were some BIG QSO numbers posted by Bob (AA6PW) and Tim (N6WIN) so the ORG section was well represented this year. It was rare to hear a station say "thanks for ORG...I needed that one". Running in the UNLIMITED class was fun since I could see who was active and where they were. I really didn't use telnet to its full capability but instead used it as a diversion when activity slowed down. Thanks for the Qs and I hope to see you next year. 73 Arnie N6HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 104,480 Running Low Power Category for SS SSB and trying to bust pileups or get a good Run going, felt like a novice fighter showing up with a KNIFE at a GUNFIGHT ! Am used to the comfort of running High Power from from Antenna farms sporting towers as tall as some redwood trees here in CA ! Anyway, the goal of the San Diego Contest Club was to train new Ops in new methods and make a SWEEP ! That with did indeed with busting a massive pile up for Puerto Rico late in our contest hours! When the gentleman at KH2R/KP4 called for "Any YLs on Freq?" - Novice contester, Rusty, AF6WF (aka Rosemary in another life ), was up to the challenge and secured our last section needed in 2 calls! This exercise taught our Ops how to do Ping-Pong CQs with 2 transmitters and with the aid of some new hardware, allowed only 1 of transmitters on the air at a time. Initially the Ops had some trouble with this concept but after a while they performed like some of the PROs of the W6YI group! Now to go find some more elements for those 2 and 3 Element HF Yagis ! 73, Dennis N6KI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WIN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 216,000 This was my first full weekend effort at SS. I didn't put in the full 24 as I simply wanted to spend some time with the kids before work on Monday, but otherwise it was the best that I could give. I was distracted trying to get my SO2R controller to work properly, until I figured out that I broke a microphone output relay and I was simply going to have to do without the second transmitter. That did distract and frustrate me quite a bit on Saturday night when the initial rate dropped down a few hours in and I had time to try my hand at my new SO2R equipment. The positive is that I am good to go for SO2R next weekend in the CQ WW CW as the rest of the hardware is now setup and has been learned. The initial goals were a clean sweep and 1,000 Q's. Both of those were done with by Sunday morning. I was running some 80-100+ rate clock hours on 15m a few hours into Sunday morning when I made the decision to go looking for PR. I found Tony on 10m running a crowd of thinly organized contesters simplex. It was taking a while for him to get each QSO into the log, but he was working hard with the crowd and doing a decent job of it. It's times like this that I am glad for 7 elements and the full gallon. Once he was in the log I breathed a sigh of relief and took a forty minute break to play with the kids. Then it was back to running 15m and milking it the rest of the afternoon until dinner (quiting) time. I also had a lot of fun running a loose competition with Bob, AA6PW. He is a fellow SCCC member with a darned near identical setup of equipment as I and is also located in the same section. In the end Bob won out as he was willing to commit more time in the chair and used the pre-competition rules to it's fullest as one should. We were within two QSOs at the time I needed to call it... I do believe we will have lots of additional contests in the future in which we can motivate each other to keep working hard in the name of local competition. This was a fun contest and I believe at least one SS per year is in order for my contest commitments. Operating equipment: Elecraft K3 Acom 2000A LM354HD 54' Tower Force 12 C31XR Cushcraft XM240 (also my 160m antenna) 80m inverted-v N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6YEU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 104,160 First Sweep ever! WTX and PR were last 2 mults. Worked 3 NL which only mult missed in CW SS,go figure. LOTS of MDC,VA etc. PVRC were like a pack of rats,everywhere,hi! Great competition and lots of fun. Fred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,582 Just call me "fresh meat". In between doing other things, practiced using my microphone on Sunday. cheers dink, n7wa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7XU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 126,084 nice to play on 10m. New 40m beam working very well. Had my best rate on 40 late on Sunday. Lots of low numbers. It was very encouraging to see the large numbers of new hams. I didn't do the math, but there seemed as many 00-11 as there were 60-69 checks. Oh, yes, it was very nice to be a 7 in 7-land. thanks for the contacts. 73, Dick n7xu - K4xu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8HM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 280 Disappointed. Hoped to make at least 50 QSOs this weekend, but got discouraged in just a couple of hours of unsuccessful search and pounce. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 48,160 Hello all, I’ve had the honor of winning the GLD SSB QRP Sweeps from 2003 to 2008. My station is a modest one, a Kenwood TS-570 with a Butternut HF-9V, 130’ Inverted Vee, and a Mosley TA-33 Jr. on the garage roof. I’ve never been a threat to break any division records that belongs to the folks running QRP from a contest station with multiple towers and large Yagi arrays. But none the less I’ve had fun and enjoyed the streak. All that came to an end in 2009 when I started having seizures out of the blue, my first was 5 days after my birthday in January, since then I’ve had about half a dozen more. This took me completely out of Ham Radio for a year and I’m just now getting back to where I can begin to try contesting again. Now I’ve never been a “Big Gun” but I have made little splashes in the pool and had a blast doing it, I even picked up a few plaques and certificates along the way. This year I have decided to give it a go again, I have no delusions of winning anything but for me just sitting in front of the radio and making contest contacts again is a major accomplishment for me. To my surprise I actually did fairly well. I managed to get a Sweep! I was down to three sections Sunday afternoon, EB, NNJ, and RI. I found one EB station calling and after 30 minutes I snagged him! South Carolina was a gift, I heard him calling and working a pile up on 20M, timing was everything as I called him after the main din of voices and he heard me. That took me down to RI. I was extremely lucky to snag him also on 20M after a time of calling him. Finally a gap opened and he heard me. I yelled SWEEP! And my daughter thought screamed with me (she’s not into the whole Ham Radio thing but she knew how important it is to me so she was as happy for the old man). So there I was with all 80 in the log and about 30 or so short of 300 Q’s. I decided to hang in there and go for it, but getting those late Sunday was no easy task, I had to bounce between 20 and 40 meters a LOT. With number 301 in the log I was very happy and content. Congrats to all the other QRP runners, I heard some good numbers out there. 72, 73 and Happy Holidays de Dan, N8IE .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 284,640 That was different, quite a change in condx from even a year ago which definitely affected band choices and results. Single radio, only 800W max, not well rested, no 40M beam, not a bad result. My Saturday to do list on the antennas kept getting longer. Fixed 10M feedline splice at top of tower and SWR still wash higher than normal. Also puy finishing touches on stupidest antenna repair in over 40 years of hamming. 2 or 3 hour job turned into over 10 hours of misadventure to fix what turned out to be cut coax. The feedline and performance of the sloper did improve. SWR on both of my 40M wires is now perfect 1:1 in the phone band. Having the sloper was worth a few Q's and some saved time. I thought I was ready around 1:15 PM, so went out for lunch and walked K9DOG. I needed to make a slight adjustment on my ladder line feed tension on 80M only to find one side had scraped the roof to the point it was completely frayed apart from when it fell lower after the CQWW heavy heavy snow. Half the antenna worked pretty well in SS CW, Hi! Spliced, soldered and ready for action at 2015Z, ugh. It's always fun climbing the tower and roof in same day. 21Z finds me merrily running on a nice clear frequency on 20 as is my custom until 2130 when the run pretty well completely died. You could tell the serious contenders were elsewhere by the load of casual guys worked the first 32 minutes. I went up to 10M and was called by AK and Ab, sweet, only to be called by loud VE8GER at 2150Z, sweeter! The rate held up for about 50 minutes, then on to 15 for a decent run until 2317, then down to 20 which was my home for much longer than I imagined until 0128Z. Best rates of SS were the 02 and 03Z hour each working 132. I made exactly 800 Q's in the first 7 hours, then activity tailed off and was pretty low by 0545Z. 04Z rate was 71 with 12 minutes off to eat, etc. When I quit at 0640Z, I had about 975 Q's and 77 sections having to track down WB1GQR for first VT and section 76. If you don't keep BIC the first 8 hours you are dead meat, it goes without saying. Sunday was worse than I had hoped for, too many bands for the casual guys to choose from to keep them coming by me in a steady stream. Best hour was predictably 13Z on 40 with 93 Q's, 2nd best 19Z on 20 with 88 Q's. I found NP2B on first check of 15 for VI, then about the first signal heard was VO1TA on attempt to search out NL + PR. PR was by the hair of my chinny chin in 18Z hour when I heard NP4A calling someone poached him successfully up 3 for the sweep, whew! Thanks, Pedro. I never heard another PR until a WP4 called me around 24Z on 40 with his NR 5. Most common sections worked: VA-94 Q's, MDC-81 (Go PVRC!), IL-83, OH-75, MI-67, MN-64. Rarest NL-3, NT,VI,SK, and PR all 2 Q's. I made 10 Q's with WV; it does help to be in a semi-rare section. NE turned out in numbers on phone, CW needs help out there. There was the usual share of poor operating techniques from the contest unhardened with the newest twist of repeating back my exchange before sending exchange, please don't do that. Just ask for fills if unsure. Also getting worse if anything is leading 0's in the NR, this only leads to miss copied info. Please also don't say "A Alpha" which easily sounds like '8 Alpha" under poor Rx conditions, just Alpha is much better. Don't get me wrong, please keep calling even if you are a rookie, the number of guys with less than 100 Q's who called in were just incredible. There were lots of 10 and 11 checks received, a healthy sign! Thanks for all of the QSO's and your patience if you had to wait. 73, Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8XX Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 29,118 First attempt at a Phone contest, QRP. Exceeded my expectations. Have a wire antenna, inverted V, 130' long, with apex at ~ 28 feet, so I claim it is a bit better than a dummy load buried 6' underground. Was glad 28 MHz was open, but 75 metres was the "golden band" - even worked KH7X in the wee hours of Sunday morning. N1MM gave "interesting results" with two compilations for 75 and 40 metres - maybe because I erroneously forgot the change bands manually (I don't have an interface to my ancient sp*rk gap rig, so I have to manually change bands). Thanks to all the "B", "M" and "U" operators who dug down deep and copied my peanut whistle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9KY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 32,000 Finding another Kentucky station was more difficult than NT or PR. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9OK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 60,480 Yet another fun contest, and my first clean sweep. Overall pretty good conditions but didn't seem as good as during the CW sweeps 2 weeks ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 374,400 Wow, let's have 10 meters all the time! Bottomless pit of guys to work there. Bands were great and so was activity. Sunday doldrums just didn't happen here. All the equipment worked and even my voice survived. Congrats to the top scorers out there. If these conditions hold, the 10 meter contest is going to be one for the ages! -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 0 0 177 177 177 7.6 2200 0 0 0 0 0 176 176 353 15.1 2300 0 0 0 0 102 55 157 510 21.8 0000 0 0 0 83 70 0 153 663 28.3 0100 0 0 10 137 0 0 147 810 34.6 0200 0 0 175 0 0 0 175 985 42.1 0300 0 0 130 0 0 0 130 1115 47.6 0400 0 11 83 0 0 0 94 1209 51.7 0500 0 36 34 0 0 0 70 1279 54.7 0600 0 17 35 0 0 0 52 1331 56.9 0700 0 0 57 0 0 0 57 1388 59.3 0800 0 0 33 0 0 0 33 1421 60.7 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1421 60.7 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1421 60.7 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1421 60.7 1200 0 15 45 0 0 0 60 1481 63.3 1300 0 0 10 20 0 0 30 1511 64.6 1400 0 0 36 40 0 0 76 1587 67.8 1500 0 0 0 35 17 0 52 1639 70.0 1600 0 0 0 9 29 11 49 1688 72.1 1700 0 0 0 0 0 97 97 1785 76.3 1800 0 0 0 0 0 81 81 1866 79.7 1900 0 0 0 0 0 92 92 1958 83.7 2000 0 0 0 0 0 81 81 2039 87.1 2100 0 0 0 0 0 33 33 2072 88.5 2200 0 0 0 0 31 28 59 2131 91.1 2300 0 0 0 0 74 0 74 2205 94.2 0000 0 0 0 67 0 0 67 2272 97.1 0100 0 0 48 16 0 0 64 2336 99.8 0200 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 2340 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 79 700 407 323 831 2340 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9WEW Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 50,880 First Sweep! I didn't get a change to play last year, but beat my 2009 score by over 6000. It was really nice to have such good conditions on 10 & 15 again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2U Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,820 PHONE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 185,280 Last three sections - SB, PR and SF. I did well in the first half, but really struggled to find new contacts during the second half. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA6E Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 69,888 Was a fun time until the boom mic started having a mind of its own, but what is a contest without another challange? Thanks to everyone and look forward to the next. -Mark, NA6E (WT6P OP)- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NC1I Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 284,960 Thanks to Frank & Bob for getting the station ready. Doesn't seem to matter how many sunspots there are, there's no band like 40 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 82,318 I think there were some pretty good QRP scores from what I heard on the air. Conditions were pretty good, but kind of tough going as usual on 40 and 80 for QRP. The majority of my QSOs were S&P and it seemed like my rate was slow, but fortunately I was also able to get a few decent runs going. I never did hear a KP4, which was all I needed for the sweep. Bummer. I discovered an issue with my logging software: If I have a station call me that is a dupe according to my log, but I'm not in their log, the program will not allow me to log it again without deleting the original QSO. So I have to delete the original QSO before I log the "replacement" one. It's a lot of screwing around, and sure slows things down. Hmmmm.... Once again, thanks again for all the good ears and patience. On 40 and 80 it seemed like the most common response after I gave my exchange was "Give it all to me again!" The ND0C super-station: Yaesu FT897D running 5 watts out Wilson 3 element tribander at 48 feet Dipole for 40 and 80 at 45 feet 73, Randy, ND0C "You don't have to be crazy to contest with QRP... but it helps!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND8L Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 107,360 Had fun "moving" KP4JRS from 12 meter RTTY to 15 meter SSB for the KP4 mult. Gracias, Jose! It seems my security system has learned a new trick. 75 was so hot on Saturday night...it sent a silent alarm to the local Fire Department, I had three trucks and half the neighborhood in my driveway before I noticed the strobe flashes outside. So we had a party! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1RD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 55,616 Missed only one for a clean sweep (Oklahoma). It was mostly S&P, learning N1MM, and shaking out all the stuff in my new shack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE9U Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 2,160 Not enough weekends...planning FT next 3 weekends, so thought it best to hang with family this weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 67,236 Part-time......almost a sweep...missed VT and NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK6A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 53,600 Decided to run high power and use telnet. My very first sweep. Last section was NL. Had to work a few Calif. sections on ground wave since I missed them on 40 or 80. The station and computer worked great. Elecraft K3 Alpha 8410 Force 12C4 N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7J Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 125,280 Good time as usual. Had some last minute kinks to fix with the station on Friday and Saturday. Biggest one was indicator on Tailtwister was not working. This required a quick climb up the tower to verify what the problem was. Well rotator was fine, control box was fine. HUGE SIGH its in the wire somewhere in between, that should be fun to find. Well turns out a quick look at the base of the tower I find the wire has received a good whack with a weed-eater (maybe the plan of letting the 14 year old run the weed-eater is not as well thought out as I once thought). So fix the wire and we are ready just before the contest starts. Then I totally forgot that my 40 meter slopers are still cut too long and dont resonate well in the voice portion of 40. Great. Then decide to start out on 10 meters, nice and open. Well come to find out the ALS-600 I had bought used does NOT have the 10 meter kit installed like the seller said it did (another huge sigh). I know should have checked that last week but what can I say. I must say this year we really did not run into any nasty ops, well maybe one, but overall very pleasant. Was wondering if we would get a sweep or not, Saturday night I was not feeling to swift so went to bed early and missed about 6 Sections in CA, UT and OR. With about 4 hours left still had Oregon of all sections left. Finally on 40 Meters at 01:34 find N7XU for my Oregon contact for the sweep. In the end we beat our last years score by about 30 contacts, had a good time, the XYL enjoyed herself as usual. Goal for next year..... 1200 Qs.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,976 All I had time for this year. I was lucky my microphone still worked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM6E/5 Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 84,000 First Sweep ever... Got 77 in CW but this was much more gratifying! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3RP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 31,442 Almost a sweep except by that elusive SC that I could not find anywhere. Had fun with recorded messages and plenty of time to munch! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 305,920 Thanks for N4RV for hosting me at his QTH. Jack did a lot of work getting ready for the SS season and the station performed tremendously. Another SS in the books. I thought conditions were good. 20 sounded odd at the beginning and while I had debated starting on 15, I think 20 was clearly the right choice. Stayed there longer than usual which was fine and then went to 40 which was crowded but was in great shape. Stayed there longer than before, given that my experience with 80 in prior weeks is that it is not the same 80 meters that we have seen in 2006-2010. While 80 was good, there just was not the volume that I usually see there. Went to bed around 0800z with 77 sections logged (missing NL, AB, and PR). Got back on at 1200z and the first thing I heard was a VO1 working some guy on 40. I dialed up the EU wire yagi, called for the VO1 to go up 3, and he did. That was done. I found VE6 shortly thereafter on 20. Now, where is PR? Scoured 40, nope. Put the yagi on 20, nope. Tried 15, nope. Tried 10, nope. Uh oh. Around 1500z, I happened across some wayward WP4 station on 10 meters doing a special event/JOTA event. Had to coax the exchange out of him for the sweep. He was loud and as soon as I QRTed, the frequency erupted. Poor guy. Went back to try working the piles on 40 which failed. This was interesting as it appears that higher SFI completely drained 40 of activity meaning that the normal leisurely process of working WPA, OH, SC, GA, and NLI stations was not going to happen this year. Instead, it would be a high band battle with my focus being on 20. I tried short runs on 15 and 10 but they were not productive (even with monobanders). It is interesting to look at scores from the west coast v. east coast. They spent a lot of time on 15 and 10. I couldn't see any value in it and any runs were slightly better than useless. In fact, the entire day was pretty mediocre with rates in the 50s and 60s and one AWFUL hour (where I wound up taking 30) at 19! I wound up burning almost all my off time by 2100z. This turned out to be a good result as when I went to 40 at 2200z (which coincidentally yielded me my second KP4 who called me), my rate went through the roof and stayed high until I went QRT at 0228z. Had one run-in with the pig farmers on 80, and some guy who tried to jam me for two solid hours on 40. Fail. Oh well. CQWW CW will be a nice change for the ear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 38,656 Limited Time due to work and looking after a sick wife, just got on to have some fun and give out SC, seems not many on from SC... FT1000MP MkV - Alpha78 - MosleyTA63 - 160m Doublet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 108,800 Worked another QRP Sweep! I raised my score from last year, and this score last year would have been second place. Yes, SSB PHONE is noisy and tough - but that's what provides the challenge. If it was easy it would be boring. 10m was very, very good for QRPing. Lots of room and strong signals. I got over half my Mults just on 10m. Yes, I took two extra hours off, my ears were ringing and I was sleepy. If its QRP on 80m, or sleep, guess which wins. NN7SS Burt WA (K6UFO op) 10,15,20m: C-31XR at 71ft, C-3 53ft, 3el Steppir 40 ft 40m: Force 12 Delta 240 at 78ft, 40-2CD at 48 ft 80m: Delta loop from 70 ft, Half-sloper from 60ft Two Yaesu FT-1000MPs turned down to 5 watts Writelog software and microHAM micro2r QSO by hour and band. 80 40 20 15 10 Total Cumm Off 21Z - - - 9 67 76 76 22Z - - - 21 26 47 123 23Z - - - 13 33 46 169 00Z ---+- ---+- 1 11 7 19 188 30 01Z - - 30 5 - 35 223 02Z - 8 15 - - 23 246 03Z 5 1 2 - - 8 254 30 04Z 5 13 - - - 18 272 05Z 3 8 - - - 11 283 06Z 7 10 - - - 17 300 1 07Z - - - - - 0 300 60 08Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 0 300 60 09Z - - - - - 0 300 60 10Z - - - - - 0 300 60 11Z - - - - - 0 300 60 12Z - - - - - 0 300 60 13Z - - 1 - - 1 301 55 14Z - - 20 8 - 28 329 15Z - - 16 11 - 27 356 16Z ---+- ---+- 11 21 ---+- 32 388 17Z - - 2 8 23 33 421 18Z - - - 6 18 24 445 19Z - - - 9 39 48 493 20Z - - - 15 18 33 526 21Z - - 3 7 16 26 552 22Z - - 7 23 4 34 586 23Z - - 5 24 - 29 615 00Z ---+- ---+- 11 19 ---+- 30 645 01Z - 1 16 1 - 18 663 02Z - 9 8 - - 17 680 Total 20 50 148 211 251 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP2B Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 300,800 This is John's favorite contest so we decided to give it a try M/S. Thanks to NP2B / NP2C for wonderful hospitality! See everyone in WW CW fm KP2M. - NP2X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR5M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 326,400 The station performed flawlessly. The operator made a few mistakes however! Started on 15 after much deliberation and had a passible 139 hour. I always feel like I have too many marbles in my mouth for the first 10 minutes or so and I never seem to be able to reach my goal in this contest of 160. Did manage to average 124/hr over the first 6 hours. Moved to 10 @ 2200 but it was generally disappointing and I found myself on 20 at 2300. Stayed on 20 a little too long and had a 74 hour rate as I switched to 40 a little too late(Mistake #1 = -30 Q's). More 100+ hours on 40 and as the rate dropped to 84 in the 0600 hour (and incorrectly dreaming of 100+ hours on the high bands the next day I stopped a little after 0700 to take time off (Mistake #2 = -40/-60 Q's). Sunday was a trial. I know rates slow way down on the second day but I really expected 10 to play fast and furiously for at least several hours on Sunday (Mistake #3 - really part of mistake #2) and I didn't want to be sitting on the sidelines taking required time off when 10 was hopping. I watched and sampled the band over and over on Sunday but never saw or heard the opening on 10 that I had hoped for. So...bottom line...I had a strategy that was flawed. 10 did NOT play from South Texas up to my expectations! What a disappointment! I must say, however, that I had a blast in SS -- as usual. And now I have a whole year to devise a better strategy for next year! Thanks to all for the Q's. Especially those that give me contact #1 or #2 late in the contest. I never tire of being a sweepstakes tutor on Sunday afternoon! George NR5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS6T Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 10,302 I was on travel and sick the 5 days before SS SSB, so I started out tired and foggy. When I switched from 10m to 15m, I connected my amplifier, but I couldn't seem to tune up on 15m or 20m. I disconnected the amp and worked barefoot the rest of the day. Having been gone for 5 days, my kids and wife wanted some of my time, so I operated here and there. Last year, 80m was my most productive back, but when I switched to 80m, the noise level was S9+10DB. I could only hear the most powerful stations. I called it quits at 11pm (PST). On Sunday, I tried the amp again, and it tuned up without any troubles on 15m and 20m. I can't explain why it tuned up on Sunday but not Saturday. I worked for 1.5 hours before I had to leave for a family trip to see friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NW3H Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 55,520 My second consecutive clean sweep. The difference between 2010 and 2011 was it took me 13 hours in 2010 and just under 7 hours this year. SB and WV were the last ones needed. SB was hard to find but once I found them found 3 more within an hour after. Really enjoy Sweepstakes. Love the challenge of the long exchange and the only working one station one time. Had limited time this year so focused on finding sections on Saturday night. Had 67 in about 3 1/2 hours. Found the others on Sunday morning while running on 40 and then hunting for them. Running for about an hour plus on 15 meters in the afternoon yielded a mini west coast and Alaskan pileup for me. Something I am not used to with my vertical and wires. Good conditions and sounded like lots of folks on. Thanks for the Q's. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NW3R Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 197,920 Thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for giving me an opportunity to drive his Clarksburg station for the contest in support of the 2011 PVRC Sweepstakes effort. It was great to chat with old friends during the contest, like N0KK, W5WW, and KH6ND. Happy Holidays de Sid W3/NH7C! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 66,676 Just about had the sweep, but I guess I'll have to leave that for next year! On two occasions I returned from a small break and the first station I worked was a new mult - KH6 and KL7 - guess I need to take more time off.....Enjoyed Sunday afternoon on 40 as things were rockin' for a while and the qso count took off. Tons of Alaska stations and I even heard two from VE8 but working them was not in the cards - pity! As usual. it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3PC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 64,000 First time clean sweep. Last two sections were both grabbed on 40m. See you in the next one. Thanks to all for the q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3ZAK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,600 First timer, interfered by work schedule. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 259,360 My first SS Phone since 2002 �" with the return of 10 meters I thought it would be appropriate to operate from the home station and single tower set-up on our city lot in the suburbs of Vancouver, BC. We do very well in domestic contests from this location on 10 and 15 meters during the higher sunspot years, so I decided to take a shot at the Low Power category. Many thanks to XYL Niki, VE7NKI, who helped me fix a big problem just before the SS began. After raising the crank-up tower a couple of hours before the test started, I ran through each band to make sure everything was working properly (I had done the same thing the night before with no issues). When I got to 40, I discovered zero signals and no band noise �" it sounded like the coax wasn’t connected. So, after rummaging through the cabling to make sure it wasn’t something inside the shack, I went outside and cranked the tower back down, then climbed to take a look. That’s when I found that the coax wasn’t connected to the antenna �" the feedline must have hooked on the tower when I raised it, because the coax was pulled right out of the PL259 �" just wonderful (!). So, while I waited at the top of the tower, Niki gathered the appropriate tools, soldering gun and solder, electrical extension cord, and replacement fitting, and got them up to me by bucket and rope (it’s great to have a wife who’s a ham and who knows what to do to help in these situations!). We got it fixed with about a half hour to spare, which left no time for much of a lunch or a pre-contest nap �" I certainly did not feel “mentally prepared” when things started at 2100Z. That feeling faded immediately as soon as the contest got underway. It was lots of fun, and very interesting. Every time I operate SS from British Columbia I tend to think back and compare it to the many SS efforts I did from W6 from my days in California as WA6VEF. My recollection is that was normal to work about 2/3 of one’s QSO total on Saturday, and 1/3 on Sunday, and that we used to cringe about how much slower things would be in SS on Sunday, and especially on the CW weekend. Here in BC, SS is a lot different in that Sunday, for me at least, is a lot better �" it can be equal to or better than Saturday. I’m not sure why, perhaps because BC is somewhat rarer as a multiplier, or maybe because it takes awhile for me to get into an operating “groove” (not!). In any case, this SS my splits were 725 QSOs on Saturday, and just under 900 on Sunday. Many thanks to all for the QSOs. 73, Gary VA7RR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 106,720 Ran into a lot of friends this weekend -- the bands were mostly full of guys and gals having a great time. Conditions were good, but the bands were crammed to overflowing. The only disappointments were how poor 40M and 80M were here. In 2008, I had 171 and 204 Qs, respectively. This year, just 38 and 7 Qs on those bands. I had planned 20 or more hours on the air, but ended up with just 14 hours due to packing it in early on Saturday night thanks to terrible performance on the lower bands. During the test I was reminded of a few truisms: 1. Check "82" doesn't get out well at all. Spent an hour playing with the rig's EQ settings and that helped on Sunday. Still, 82 may actually represent the number of repeats needed per Q. 2. "The frequency is in use" and "They're all in use" (overheard in a contest last year) are both true. 3. The rarer the mult, the more QRM will show up at that moment. 4. Jeff AC0C's roofing filter for the FT-2000 works wonders. Despite having a target of 1,500 Qs (adjusted once 40M turned out to be a waste of bandwidth), my only real goal was to beat last year's high power effort with low power this year and to chase a clean sweep. Managed both -- first phone sweep for me. Got many of the tough ones in the log early with 10M playing like 20M once did (thanks to the lads in crucial SD, ND, ID, MB, SK, AB, NL, AK, PAC, RI, ME, VT, CT, NH), but went to bed Saturday night needing VI, PR, NWT, QC, and SF (go figure). The high bands came to life at about 1400z out here starting with 20M, but with 15M and 10M quickly opening as well. 10M was so strong, early in the day it was full of loud Europeans off the side while I was beaming the US Southeast. Took a while to start whittling away at the needed list. Found QC first just before 1900z, then tuned across a huge pileup on NP4A on 10M, and tried for 10 minutes without success. Came back 20 minutes later and managed to crack through. PR logged. Down to three. An hour later, ran across AA6YX and then W6PZ just up the band, back to back SFs -- why did I worry? Just NWT and VI left. Found a loud VE8EV working his own pileup not far up the band from the ongoing pileup on NP4A, and turned the beam north to work him. Just VI remaining. Hmmm. What to do? I really wanted the sweep, so I spent half an hour combing through 10M, then 15M, then 20M looking for a KP2. No luck. I heard a couple of fellows chatting about working a VI at around dusk Saturday evening on 20M, but that was no help on Sunday afternoon. The search wasn't working, so I found a slot on 15M to see if I could finally get a run going. I sent a couple of QRL?s in a quiet(ish) location, and someone came back with their callsign -- a sudden run was on. Five rapid Qs later, a very welcome NP2B called in. "That's a sweep for me!" I told him, so excited I was barely able to accurately hit the Enter key to log the QSO. Two things happened at the same time: I completed the sweep, and I pushed past last year's 80,000 points with the 80th multiplier. With the pressure off, I just enjoyed running and handing out BC to as many callers as possible. Had a great time, but the 40M and 80M washout felt terrible Saturday night. I mostly had fun on Sunday, and what fun! Thanks for the contacts. It was great to run into so many friends on the air this weekend. See many again in CQWW CW. Very excited by the prospects of The Big One in these conditions. -- Bud VA7ST http://www.va7st.ca/home.html The Orca DX and Contest Club... http://orcadxcc.org Year-over-year... 2011 SOLP 14hr 667 80 106,720 2010 SOHP 11hr 554 73 80,884 2009 SOLP 16hr 500 74 74,000 2008 SOHP 16hr 753 78 117,468 2007 SOHP 11hr 421 77 64,834 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 27,832 40 was amazing. 20 and up not so much with deep fades making QRP tough. Thanks to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 138,400 It was a double first - getting my first Sweep ever - and having the XYL operating!!!! A good luck charm perhaps?? Also my first ever Multi-Op. With the problems I had in the CQWW SSB with the 10 and 15 meter antennas causing the computer to lock up I was limited to 20,40 and 80 meters for this SS and never even dreamed of being competitive - let alone a sweep!! The plan was just to operate a few hours and have some fun running and practice some SO2R along the way. Started out goofing around Saturday night with the XYL and she made some QSO's and it was alot of fun for both of us. Then I started running for the fun of it and for whatever reason 80M just went wild!! Hit 200/hr on the rate meter and 150/hr many times, which is not bad the the Sweep Stakes and the long exchange!! But at around 0800Z my 80M tuner blew up so that was the end of the SO2R plans for Sunday. Stayed on 80M with the backup tuner and set a new PB for QSO's, score, and a first ever sweep - which happened at contest hour 17.5 ( 1550Z ) I Had every section call me except for PAC and AK during the contest. With the high rates I was never tired except for the graveyard hours from 0900Z - 1100Z Sunday morning. And Family responsibilities had me QRT at 1900Z but I was really thrilled how things worked out. And to think I planned really big goals in so many sweepstakes in the past that for whatever reason just fell short - then I plan nothing big for this one - and had 2 less bands to operate on to boot - and look what happens!! As for THE 2012 Sweeps I am already NOT planning anything HI HI. Thanks for all the QSO's and repeats when needed!! 73, Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 100,800 Had a heck of a time finding SB. Last in the log was PR on 10m. SWEEP. A lot of people on Sunday were saying that I was the first ON that they had worked. I find that hard to beleive. It was nice to be recognized by name by a lot of contestors. I lost out on 3 hours of 80m due to the blue ray player turning on/off when I transmitted. Family not amused. First time this has happened. Maybe my 80m dipole fell out of the trees onto the house. I will have to check on the weekend, as I am gone before the sun is up, and home after sunset. See you again next year. Kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 261,920 That was an interesting ride! Moments of absolutely great signals and run rates followed by what seem longer moments of totally bedlam. Started on 15m with great rates and great coverage all over the US. Worked 5 straight hours at 100 Q/hour between 15 and 20m. then someone closed those two bands with a thump. Surprisingly just before the close of 20, I found huge short skip signals into W9 land which was unexpected. With the closure of 20m, it was the start of my skid. 40m was well entrenched with well established stations running and there was not a spare kHz to be found. Above 7200, it was filled with shortwave broadcasters and packed with others CQ’ing in between. I feel like I had been invited to a party but was 2 hours late in arriving. The band was also very noisy and signals were getting long. 80m Saturday night was also very painful. High noise and very weak signals. After 0600z 40m turned a bit and I imagine a lot of casual folks headed for bed and finally I was able to make some progress on 40m. I had planned on taking a 3 hour break at 0900z but extended that to 0800z. Started again at 1200z on 40 as it was the place to be. Moved to 20m early as I wanted to find a nice spot before the rest of the party guests arrived this time. Found a great quiet spot and it wasn’t long before the guests started arriving. In hindsight the rate would have been better on 40m and I probably lost 50-Qs by jumping to soon. Even on a quite band it also wasn’t long before two extremely loud mouth types took up residence on either side of me. They kept elbowing their way closer from each side as if I wasn’t there. I just’ can’t believe that if someone is QRM’ing you, you must be impeding them in some way. Frustrating note. The action of finding someone's pileup and then parking your KW right next door and trying to feed off the pile is just plain rude. In fact it just kills the pileup as you smother the station trying to run or you kill his rate because he is constantly asking for repeats because of your QRM. Other stations waiting in the pileup move on because they don’t want to wait. So you effectively kill your own source of Q’s. The idea of drafting off a popular station is a good one, just leave a little room between yourself and the pileup! Just before noon, moved to 10m to see what was up and as expected, the skip zone missed a large chunk of the US from here. The extreme coasts were workable but the best band was 15m. On 10 the rate was just too slow. Took a 3 hour break to watch the Blue Bombers destroy the Tiger Cats in the CFL eastern final. Then back on and ran til the end using all the bands and making good use of the second radio. Lesson learned for next year. Do no not be late to the 40m party Saturday night and don’t leave it too early on Sunday morning. Secondly, go where the east coast goes and go with them. For me the sweep came early Sunday morning with a VO1 calling in for NL as the last section. The typical hard sections of ND, MB and NT were in the log early. PR was also threatening to be a problem but a fortunate band change to 40m landed me right on his pileup just as he was announcing he was going split. Even then I spent 10 minutes trying to get through. Hope MB made it into your log as I know there were several others on including YU, EA, and JWC. Thanks for all the Q’s. Equipment Rigs: IC7700 and IC746-Pro Antennas -Optibeam OB11-5 for 20/15/10 -Force 12 Delta 240 for 40m - Sloper for 80m - Inverted L for 80 - StppIr vertical for 40-10 Software N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 228,160 The Bands were hopping!! The trouble's that skiing season is in full swing again and taking it's toll on the radio contesting time....Thanks for the Q's. Nice to see and hear the familiar voices and thrilled to pass the "Sweep" to those that needed it. VE6EX was: "Me" plus two enthusiasts who showed for the action to make it multi: Th6dxx on the ski lodge roof stand/ mini tower, wires hanging off the tall pines for the other bands. (Some pretty shaky even out of #10 tuff stuff) My trusty Kenwood TS850sat and kinda shaky 4cx1000a amp hoping it would all stop... And of course TRLOG tough as ever, taking constant pounding and never a flaw..The best. Cheers and Ski'Ya later, Dan VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6SQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,768 Conditions were awesome.... Now if only I had worked AB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7IO Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 42,240 VE7FO"S Newbies Mangle the Preamble Well, that was fun. We had six newbie HF ops turn out for this one. All but one were there for 3-5 hours. This event was part of a formal operator training program being run by VE7IO and myself. We hope to do at least one contest a month for the next few months. There were two objectives for the trainees in this session. 1) Build on the work done previously to become quicker and more confident. 2) Spend a significant portion of the allocated time Running. Were the objectives achieved? 1) I wasn't there for the whole session but, from what I saw, I would say this one was. Once people mastered the rather difficult exchange they started to do quite well at finding people we hadn't called yet and working them. 2) Well, the exchange did us in here. Only one person got the confidence level up to the point where they tried Running as opposed to tuning around to find someone to call. Next time. Thanks very much to all the people we worked and for your patience. VE7FO's Newbies Try To Be Big Men On Ten Our next training event will be the ARRL 10m, both phone & CW. Hope to see you. 73, Jim VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE8DW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,332 I returned home Sunday afternoon after being away for 3 weeks but decided to turn on the rig and give it a try anyway. I had a great time, thanks very much to everyone that took the time to work me. 73 VE8DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE8EV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 277,440 I had a whole assortment of issues all weekend but, oh boy, did the conditions ever make up for the things that went wrong! I stayed in the chair for the whole 24 hours and for the first time ever I didn't run out of propagation. 15m was the money band all weekend. 40m was slow Saturday night but at least the rate meter never hit zero. When 15m got a bit too crowded for my liking on Sunday I went up to 10m and had a great run there for a couple of hours. I avoided 20m like the plague. It was wide open to everywhere at once and everyone was stacked two or three deep from one end of the band to the other although I did have a manage a nice run there during the last hour Sunday when it finally started to thin out a bit. I went hunting for PR (last thing before bed Saturday night on 40m) and VI (first thing in the morning on 20m) and lucky I did as they were the only ones heard. All the rest came to me and the sweep was in the bag early Sunday. Also bested the old NT section record by almost 50K. The computer crashed about a half a dozen times Sunday afternoon before I figured out the problem, apologies to those that I stranded in the middle of a contact. Despite the glitches, PowerSDR and the Flex worked like gangbusters dealing with the QRM and finding gaps to slide into. Thanks to all for the Q's, especially all the '1 Alpha's that called in and muddled their way through the exchange for me to make the contact. 73 John VE8EV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9AA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 90,880 It's hard to run stations with a multiband dipole @ 22' high, so it was 90% S&P this time. Doing home renos' here so this was strictly an hour here and an hour there, and a full nights sleep to boot, hi Highlights: VY1EI QSO...thanks for hearing me in there Eric. What a pileup ! NP4A calling me. 1000 Thank you's Pedro. CU on 6m ! VE4EAR QSO...man was Ed loud---gotta luv sunspots. I looked forever for EB then found 2 or 3 back to back on 10m hi ! Sweep station was W6FRU (SB)...chased him all around 10m, but finally I settled down and called CQ and he found me. Whew ! I was so overjoyed. I took a long break and cooked a big supper after that. Lowlights: High SWR on 15m...could only run about 200w...who knows how much ERP @ antenna...a couple watts maybe? Could barely be heard on 15m. Being asked for many repeats, only to find the station asking was A or Q(!!) (see antenna, above) ;-) Thanks for another one... Mike VE9AA MAR (It has to be MAR, I'm a VE9), IC-746, MLA-2500, All band dple @ 22', N1MM, VK-64 Voice keyer. Some sunspots ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 175,840 Great conditions , hope it continues for CQWWCW ...lots of activity,..Initially had planned to do all band , however persistently windy weather here has delayed the work. At a general meeting of the Contest team consisting of Project EngIneer - VO1MP and the Installation team - VO1MP and the Operating Team VO1MP it was unanimously decided that in as much as the inclement weather might only serve to jeopardize the well being of the operator and success of the operation , all work would cease ..... following an unsuccessful attempt to drag my 10 meter beam up a tower on saturday afternoon during 60 to 70 mph gales with temps and wind chill about minus 10 C !! .. so a modified approach to Sweeps would subsequently ensue.... meaning I would recover from the aborted attempt lick my wounds and actually get some sleep and do most of my operating on Sunday , in retrospect that might have been the best plan ....and as promised to myself and others .........sitting and CQ'in would be the rigueur du jour....for the most part the contest all went fairly smooth apart from the fact that once again the high winds had managed to spin my 20 meter antenna around on it's mast and it no longer indicated where it actually pointed even after the recent re-orientation.. The strong winds had once again realligned the positionning according to the wind direction... of course Murphy is always lurking and turning the 15 meter beam in the high winds had apparently taken it's toll on the old Tailtwister on that tower and the indicator control packed it in !! fortunately beam headings are fairly consistently west and WSW from here ...apart from beaming to KL7 , NP4 and KH6.. of course in the process of attempting the 10 meter installation I had to remove my 40 meter antenna..so that was another issue... soldier on ......of course we are quite out of sync with North American Time zones here ... so CQin on 15 and 20 only provided a couple of hours before the 15 Meter band would close ...of course after dark it was still possible to work quite a few close in Sections on 80 meters ...so 4 1/2 hours yielded about 400 Qs.. not too bad I guess..CQin for the most part went fairly well with only a few unruly pileups... the first 79 sections came fairly fast... however NP4 was no where to be had from here .......many tuning excursions up and down 15 and 20 meters failed to produce any cq'in .......so I had resigned my self to having no sweep even after a good start... so I then figured I would do mainly S & P and concentrate on locating stations who might need NL.. there were quite a few thankful ops who needed NL for THEIR sweep..so that is always a feel good for me .....so then decided that I would quit at 1100 QSOs..... sweep or no sweep hi ! In the process as I tuned down toward the bottom of 20 meters with 1097 QSOs in the log I stumbled across NP4Z CQin.. FORTUNATELY I had not met my newly established quota of 1100 before finding my final station for the sweep....nedless to say there was quite a pileup and after many attempts at being heard ... I was beginning to wonder if I would break the masses....needless to say the adrenalin was pumping and could not understand not being able to break the pileup... ok so now let's rewind the tape and go back to my rotator issue... I was beginnng think that either 1: it was a little too late here or 2: my antenna was not pointed in the right direction ....... because it is now dark here I cannot see the 20 meter antenna from the shack ...... so now it a becomes a bit of a comedy here ... I decide to improve my abilty to confirm or determine exactly where the beam is pointed by going outside to view the antenna positioning and tower .. kind of like , up close and personal hi ! In my haste to get there I was totally absorbed and focused on trying to see the antenna in the dark ...forgetting about any on ground obstacles there might be in the path ... not the least of which is my old shallow well between the house and the tower .... yep.. I tripped over the well fell head first into it ..... skinned out my right leg in the process .. fortunately the well is covered and the cover almost reaches the inside top so while loss of life might not have been a consequence loss of a sweep might have been ... a quick return to the shack to realign the antenna and render myself some quick first aid and by that time NP4Z is ready to go into my log for the sweep QSO number 1098 of my newly established 1100 Q quota .... who says contesting is not a dangerous activity ..... !! Thanks for all the QSOs C'Y'ALL NEXT ONE GLWCDR 73 Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 79,496 This probably would have been my best opportunity to make my first sweep;alas,it was not to be again.Unbelievably,never heard a VE5,VE6 nor NT.Incredibly,it was not looking good for my own section for awaile.I'm sure VY2ZM was shocked to hear me calling him on 20,desparate to snag a MAR.Thanks for bearing with me Jeff.VE9DX provided me with backup a short while later,but who would have thunk it!I was limping with the grippe, so operating time was limited to less than 10 hours.SS exchange is a long one when you have a sore throat to begin with.Time to set up the DVK.This is where the old excuse towel comes out! All and all,a lot of fun once I got rolling.15 was the bread and butter band for me,although half my mults cames from 77 contacts on 40 and 80.Late snags for me were WY,NLI and QC.Hope we got into your log.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 369,920 This was fun but a totally different operating strategy was required to beat last year's numbers. Congrats to N9RV on posting a great score as always. As before, this contest becomes one of trying to claw your way back after a start that ALWAYS lags the West coast superstations. (It is just not possible to match the high band rates from out here that are available at the start to the Western regions of the USA). ALthough I had a good start, at 0755z when Pat called me, I was at 1303 and he was at 1387 - a perfect example of how this goes. During the day on Sunday, we have a chance (with luck) to narrow the gap and I managed this as at 2321z I was at 2156 and Pat was at 2168. From there, it is a dash to the end and when the higher bands die out here, you just cannot keep up - which Pat used to stretch it out once again to finish ahead by some 28 QSO's. Personally, I am delighted to have bested last year's score - and to have kept it this close. Once again, it was fun to try to keep up with the TOP DAWG's in this one. CW SS was the same and SSB was about as expected - now it's time for WW CW. CU all in that one I hope SOAB. 73 JEFF K1ZM/VY2ZM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0EEE Class: School Club HP Total Score = 100,320 Much better than last year - more antennas, less noise, better propagation! Hope this is "the new tradition" and W0EEE is a regular in the contest writeups. 73, Ward N0AX (BSEEE from Missouri University of Science and Technology) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ERP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 47,400 Should of had the sweep missed PR had monster pileup on 10 meters and if my amp had 10 meter kit I think I would of had them. I got frustrated and quit early 5pm local then I saw PR went to 20 at 6:30 pm I would have worked them on 20 meters. Mostly S&P my Daughter was born on Tuesday so She worked her first sweepstakes in my arm a few days old. Good thing I can type one handed and have head set and foot switch. This is my favorite contest 73 de w0erp Patrick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0NO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 304,800 Good to see 10 and 15 meters open. Kind of a different contest since the rise of sunspots because we were not concentrated on just three bands. Glad to work you all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PAN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,172 Had a great time with LP SOSB 10 Meters. Got a little thin around 2130Z on Sunday. Not many new ones showed up. Once again, the MF 1795 Vertical sitting on the ground did a great job even with low power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 38,544 Band Condx seemed pretty good to Missouri. Wish we had more club activity. See everyone on the next one. 73, Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1BYH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 26,228 Very limited operating time with temporary antennas. All S&P looking for a sweep- missed NL on 40 or 80. IC 756 Pro 3 - 100 watts wire dipoles and ground mounted vertical Norm W1BYH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 66,880 Finally after 30 years a CLEAN SWEEP!!! Unlimited and S&P but it wasn't all that easy finding the last few as they were not spotted until I worked them and spotted them. PR wasn't as difficult as the other three but only heard them on 10m. My problem children were SB, NLI and IA...SB being the hardest for me. Folks are still transposing letters in the call, KQ vs QK, and telling me we've worked before...their loss, wasn't going to argue with most of them. W1QK and myself ended up simultaneously contacting one station and it made for fun...and confusion hehehe. At least we know he had both our calls correct. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1OHM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,984 Very tough hearing locals (under 200 miles) from my compact antennas on my condo balcony. Nothing at all on 80. But 15 was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1RH Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 171,588 Where was PR? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 12,960 Trying for 80 Q sweep, but duped one section pretty early. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 211,200 That was great fun. Last 2 sections SB and PR. Bother were found on 10m and after Working SB for the last one Sunday afternoon, i worked a bunch more after. Jay W1UJ Band QSOs Pts Sec 3.5 208 416 5 7 609 1218 42 14 262 524 0 21 188 376 15 28 53 106 18 Total 1320 2640 80 Score: 211,200 Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: W1UJ CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE OPERATORS: W1UJ -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 9 0 0 12 21 21 1.6 2200 0 0 17 0 38 6 61 82 6.2 2300 0 0 85 0 1 0 86 168 12.7 0000 0 0 102 0 1 0 103 271 20.5 0100 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 281 21.3 0200 0 0 65 0 0 0 65 346 26.2 0300 0 21 48 0 0 0 69 415 31.4 0400 0 24 26 0 0 0 50 465 35.2 0500 0 50 4 0 0 0 54 519 39.3 0600 0 50 8 0 0 0 58 577 43.7 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 577 43.7 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 577 43.7 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 577 43.7 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 577 43.7 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 577 43.7 1200 0 0 43 11 0 0 54 631 47.8 1300 0 0 62 10 0 0 72 703 53.3 1400 0 0 5 0 6 0 11 714 54.1 1500 0 0 41 0 14 0 55 769 58.3 1600 0 0 15 0 48 0 63 832 63.0 1700 0 0 21 0 56 0 77 909 68.9 1800 0 0 30 17 6 0 53 962 72.9 1900 0 0 6 25 12 0 43 1005 76.1 2000 0 0 0 0 5 20 25 1030 78.0 2100 0 0 2 1 1 15 19 1049 79.5 2200 0 0 7 48 0 0 55 1104 83.6 2300 0 0 0 75 0 0 75 1179 89.3 0000 0 30 0 14 0 0 44 1223 92.7 0100 0 5 0 59 0 0 64 1287 97.5 0200 0 28 3 2 0 0 33 1320 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 208 609 262 188 53 1320 Gross QSOs=1325 Dupes=5 Net QSOs=1320 Unique callsigns worked = 1320 The best 60 minute rate was 108/hour from 2329 to 0028 The best 30 minute rate was 124/hour from 2323 to 2352 The best 10 minute rate was 150/hour from 0020 to 0029 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSOs/minute 1 times. 3 QSOs/minute 67 times. 2 QSOs/minute 280 times. 1 QSOs/minute 555 times. There were 148 bandchanges and 61 (4.6%) probable 2nd radio QSOs. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 2 4 653 5 470 6 193 7 1 9 1 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- IL 0 10 32 16 9 0 67 5.1 MDC 0 22 43 1 0 0 66 5.0 VA 0 24 38 4 0 0 66 5.0 OH 0 11 43 3 0 0 57 4.3 MN 0 4 23 13 7 0 47 3.6 MI 0 7 32 5 0 0 44 3.3 CO 0 0 4 17 9 3 33 2.5 NC 0 6 22 3 0 0 31 2.3 WNY 0 10 18 1 0 0 29 2.2 WWA 0 0 8 14 4 2 28 2.1 SCV 0 0 6 10 8 3 27 2.0 OR 0 0 4 11 8 4 27 2.0 MO 0 1 14 5 6 1 27 2.0 GA 0 5 14 3 5 0 27 2.0 AZ 0 1 6 8 10 1 26 2.0 STX 0 2 7 4 8 4 25 1.9 ENY 0 8 16 0 0 0 24 1.8 TN 0 6 11 3 3 0 23 1.7 EPA 0 4 16 2 0 0 22 1.7 WI 0 1 10 6 5 0 22 1.7 CT 0 11 8 0 0 2 21 1.6 NH 0 11 6 2 1 0 20 1.5 SNJ 0 3 16 0 0 0 19 1.4 EMA 0 7 10 2 0 0 19 1.4 IN 0 3 9 5 1 0 18 1.4 SV 0 0 3 6 6 3 18 1.4 NFL 0 1 11 6 0 0 18 1.4 LAX 0 0 4 7 5 1 17 1.3 NTX 0 0 5 3 5 4 17 1.3 IA 0 1 7 3 6 0 17 1.3 ON 0 3 13 1 0 0 17 1.3 KS 0 1 4 4 6 1 16 1.2 WCF 0 0 5 9 2 0 16 1.2 WPA 0 5 10 0 0 0 15 1.1 ORG 0 0 4 1 8 1 14 1.1 LA 0 0 9 2 3 0 14 1.1 AL 0 2 7 3 1 0 13 1.0 WMA 0 4 7 2 0 0 13 1.0 SDG 0 0 1 5 3 4 13 1.0 NM 0 0 6 4 3 0 13 1.0 NLI 0 3 10 0 0 0 13 1.0 SF 0 0 1 3 5 3 12 0.9 SFL 0 0 5 5 1 1 12 0.9 SC 0 1 6 5 0 0 12 0.9 ID 0 0 1 3 6 1 11 0.8 SJV 0 0 3 5 2 1 11 0.8 NV 0 0 4 2 4 0 10 0.8 WY 0 0 4 1 5 0 10 0.8 NNJ 0 3 7 0 0 0 10 0.8 EB 0 0 0 3 6 0 9 0.7 EWA 0 0 0 7 1 1 9 0.7 AR 0 0 2 6 0 1 9 0.7 ME 0 3 6 0 0 0 9 0.7 AK 0 0 1 5 1 1 8 0.6 KY 0 0 7 1 0 0 8 0.6 SB 0 0 0 5 0 3 8 0.6 WV 0 4 3 0 0 0 7 0.5 NE 0 0 2 2 3 0 7 0.5 OK 0 0 2 1 3 1 7 0.5 SD 0 1 2 0 4 0 7 0.5 MS 0 1 3 0 3 0 7 0.5 QC 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 0.5 BC 0 1 0 3 1 1 6 0.5 WTX 0 0 1 1 3 1 6 0.5 UT 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 0.5 NNY 0 2 3 0 0 0 5 0.4 ND 0 1 0 2 2 0 5 0.4 MT 0 0 2 2 1 0 5 0.4 RI 0 1 4 0 0 0 5 0.4 DE 0 2 3 0 0 0 5 0.4 PAC 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 0.3 MB 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 0.3 AB 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.3 MAR 0 2 2 0 0 0 4 0.3 SK 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0.2 NL 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 VT 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 0.2 VI 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 NWT 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 PR 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 208 609 262 188 53 1320 Sweepstakes Checks Check QSOs Pct ---------------------- 00 15 1.1 01 8 0.6 02 8 0.6 03 14 1.1 04 7 0.5 05 16 1.2 06 18 1.4 07 23 1.7 08 22 1.7 09 20 1.5 10 15 1.1 11 9 0.7 12 1 0.1 13 0 0.0 14 0 0.0 15 0 0.0 16 2 0.2 17 0 0.0 18 0 0.0 19 0 0.0 20 0 0.0 21 0 0.0 22 1 0.1 23 0 0.0 24 1 0.1 25 0 0.0 26 0 0.0 27 0 0.0 28 0 0.0 29 1 0.1 30 1 0.1 31 1 0.1 32 1 0.1 33 0 0.0 34 0 0.0 35 0 0.0 36 0 0.0 37 1 0.1 38 0 0.0 39 1 0.1 40 1 0.1 41 0 0.0 42 0 0.0 43 0 0.0 44 0 0.0 45 0 0.0 46 1 0.1 47 2 0.2 48 1 0.1 49 5 0.4 50 3 0.2 51 6 0.5 52 10 0.8 53 10 0.8 54 24 1.8 55 29 2.2 56 19 1.4 57 26 2.0 58 37 2.8 59 32 2.4 60 35 2.7 61 33 2.5 62 32 2.4 63 37 2.8 64 26 2.0 65 30 2.3 66 24 1.8 67 32 2.4 68 22 1.7 69 30 2.3 70 19 1.4 71 29 2.2 72 21 1.6 73 24 1.8 74 19 1.4 75 32 2.4 76 52 3.9 77 49 3.7 78 39 3.0 79 21 1.6 80 15 1.1 81 12 0.9 82 10 0.8 83 11 0.8 84 10 0.8 85 8 0.6 86 20 1.5 87 14 1.1 88 8 0.6 89 18 1.4 90 19 1.4 91 23 1.7 92 22 1.7 93 28 2.1 94 25 1.9 95 18 1.4 96 14 1.1 97 13 1.0 98 17 1.3 99 17 1.3 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 153 11.6 1 106 8.0 2 134 10.2 3 117 8.9 4 164 12.4 5 93 7.0 6 140 10.6 7 127 9.6 8 120 9.1 9 116 8.8 -------------------- Total 1270 96.2 Sweepstakes Precedents Precedent QSOs Pct ---------------------- A 611 46.3 B 257 19.5 Q 56 4.2 M 106 8.0 U 279 21.1 S 11 0.8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1WBB Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 82,080 KY called in during a run I was having on 20m Sunday afternoon for section #80...making a Clean Sweep on both modes this season in SS! During that same good run on 20m I had no less than 5 ops tell me I was their final section for THEIR Sweep on SSB...very cool! A few more said the same thing by contest's end. Because of that I put in a number of additional hours for those needing RI. PR was #79 and was very difficult...could not break the earlier piles for the two of them heard on 10m. Found another a few hours later, also on 10m, before the pile-up had swelled, and got thru. All Q's to be uploaded to LoTW shortly. Thanks to all for the fun. Rig: Icom 737 @ 100w; Hexbeam up @ 35' on 10-20M; 88' doublet @ 45' on 40/80m plus backup 133' low all-band OCF dipole; N1MM Logger. 73, Bill W1WBB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2AJW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,288 Station: Ten Tec Omni C, various bits of wire hanging from trees This is normally the bit where everyone commiserates about the section that got away or says something like "well, if I didn't have to interact with my family for all those interminable hours this weekend" or "geez, I should have used the cluster and I would have had the sweep" etc, etc... What the heck ever. For the amount of time I spent in the chair, my station (such as it is), and my (getting less rusty every contest) abilities, I'm happier than a pig in doodoo with my score and 68 sections. Man, this radio stuff is (still) fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2GPS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 52,160 Equipment problems on 10 meters and a failed 80 meter dipole meant changing my plans from getting a good score to just getting a clean sweep. I used the 80 meter half sloper instead of the dipole and reduced power on 10 meters to keep going. I had all the hard sections worked early on. The sweep came after hours of looking for Nebraska, Quebec and finally Kentucky. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2ID Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 255,040 With huge thanks to my host K9RS, this was my smoothest, most trouble-free SS in 33 years. Therefore, probably the most fun one, too. Ray did a tremendous amount of prep work to have the radios, antennas, and all the SO2R hardware and software completely 100% operational, so all I had to do was show up and start calling CQ! I spent almost the entire contest CQing, and had VERY few QSYs. Before the contest, I decided my goal was to beat the old EPA section record (which was 1,495 QSOs) by at least 100 QSOs. Amazingly, I ran out of operating time exactly upon reaching that goal. I guess that shows the value in setting goals. This effort proves that you can still do reasonably well from the Northeast even if you avoid 20 meters. I made less than 100 Q's on 20m, and upon looking at the rates, realized that even that little bit of time on 20 was probably a bad idea, because I could have probably done better on either 40 or 15 at the same time. It was great to work all my old SS buddies, but what was really AWESOME (and many others have already said this), was to work all of the check 10's and 11's. Most of these new participants sounded like REALLY good operators, too! That is fantastic, and I look forward to seeing everyone again next year. Hopefully by then I'll have a station set up at home... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2JU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,672 Missed RI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2PV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 225,440 Well, that was interesting. At the start, 40M went very long early... could not figure out why nothing was working on the band. I went to 80 and things started smoking. Getting used to S02R and did many more band changes. I had great fun horse racing with K9PW operating at NC1I -- we traded top position many times, and for a good portion of the contest are scores were VERY close. I had to leave at 3pm so could only operate 19.25 hours. Very strange -- PR was last one for a sweep.. and of course there was a big pile. But, pointed Dave's big stack of 10m antennas at him, and it was not an issue. Where did all those KL7's come from ?? I must have worked at least 25 or 30! Even two NT stations! Good show to the crew up north. BIG thanks to Dave, K1TTT for the use of his awesome station! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3IDT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 200,480 The father (Bob, w3idt) / daughter (Miriam, k3mim) contest team at w3lpl: 1. We wish once again to express our appreciation to Phyllis for letting us occupy part of her home during a non-dx contest, and of course we thank Frank, w3lpl, for the use of his station for our sweepstakes effort. This year we also thank Mark, kd4d, for the use of a laptop and software wizardry to permit two separate spotting streams into the two separate logging networks. 2. At 08:00, the 11 hour mark, we were at 841/76 and 815/75, each with an average rate of 75/hour and, as usual, very close - reasonable given that we switch bands roughly each hour. k3mim was missing VT; w3idt was missing SD; both were missing three of NT, NL, PR, and VI. Neither had used the spots yet to look for missing sections. 3. We intended a 4 hours break: Eat some food, sleep 3 hours, then some wake up coffee and food. Bob, w3idt, however, didn't sleep at all: Successive periods of shivering and profuse sweating, tossing and turning. Two cups of coffee helped for the next few hours, but the maladies persisted and got worse. In the middle of the afternoon, k3mim decided - correctly - that it was time to take the old man home. 4. Final result: k3mim: qsos: 1258 sections: 80 score: 198,720 w3idt: qsos: 1269 sections: 80 score: 200,480 5. Oh, nearly 24 hours in bed, with copious amounts of the xyl's brew of "black and green tea with honey and various spices" and who-knows-what from the medicine cabinet seems to have revived w3idt, though some weakness persisted for a couple of days. 6. Quote of the contest from a K7, "Can't some of you many MD guys sign DE?" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3PP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 98,240 Single OP Unassisted, got the sweep at 1600, when I heard VE5ZX when I was S&P on 10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 105,760 Best year in a long time. Thought there would be more stations on 10, but was room on 20. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3UL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 120,000 Band QSOs Pts Sec 3.5 164 328 4 7 437 874 51 14 30 60 2 21 91 182 21 28 28 56 2 Total 750 1500 80 Score: 120,000 40M was again the money band (several good runs) for this antenna-challenged station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3YY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 32,000 Just wanted to gain some experience with my new Alpha 8410 in preparation for next weeks CQ WW CW contest. The 8410 worked great. Band changes were quick and easy by just returning tuning settings to those previously recorded. No fine tuning necessary. Kind of wanted a sweep for the new amp and I got it. Good participation from VE8, VY1, KL7, KP4, and VI helped. Tnx guys! My last 3 sections were EB, QC, and KY. EB??? That surprised me. The bands sounded horrible to me. Just a constant noisy din with only a few standout signals. By contrast, the CW weekend seemed much much better. Hope you all did well. 73, Bob - W3YY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AAA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 232,000 Contest conditions were tough in North Carolina this year. 80m, which is an essential band for me, was noisy and did not produce anywhere near the QSO total that it has in previous years. 40m was crowded and with the upper portion filled with broadcast stations it was hard for a low power station to maintain a clear frequency. 20m was full of very strong signals but somehow it never produced any high rates. 15m had some very nice openings to the west, but it produced no lasting runs. Unfortunately I do not have a 10m antenna up and I likely missed some QSOs because of this. With the slow rates I was able to hunt for multipliers early and I found all but Saskatchewan and Puerto Rico before taking my first beak. On the Sunday morning I worked Saskatchewan, however by late afternoon I still had not heard a Puerto Rican station. Finally I tuned across 10m looking for this elusive multiplier and I heard NP4A. He had a number of stations calling him and I monitored this while running on 15m and 20m hoping that he would QSY to 15m. He continued to stay on 10m for what seemed like hours. His pileup eventually diminished and out of desperation I tried calling him using my 15m beam with the transceiver power reduced to 25 watts. I was amazed when he came back to my first call. Working all 80 sections with only hours left was very exciting! Thanks for the QSOs. Please QSL via WD9DZV 73, John KK9A / P40A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 9,840 I just got on for a little while to pass out a few Q's. Bob Wilson - W4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 65,600 TS-440S G5RV First Sweep Tnx for the Qs 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4JAM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 52,800 Could not stay in chair. Had fun getting #2 from a PR station in spanish on a W7 run freq. Getting old, ssb makes lots of noise.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 85,760 Never thought it would happen with low-power-no-tower, but the "hard" sections came easy and the "easy" sections were hard. Good propagation sure made a difference. Found last section on second radio and abandoned a good run frequency......... ! ! SWEEEEEEEEEEP ! ! Never expected it to happen on SSB, always figured it would be more likely on CW. But SSCW came up short a few sections, even with skimmer and packet. Go figure. 10m/15m antenna is a dummy load, gonna start from scratch there. Worked 10m on the 160m InvL, which turned out to be the best 10m xmit antenna of the available choices. Used 40m dipoles on 15m. Gonna be some good scores out there if the serial numbers are any indicator. Happy with the score for the amount of time available. 73 es tnx fer the gud ears de w4kaz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4LT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 204,000 Rig : Primary: Icom IC7700 - Secondary: Icom IC756Pro2 set up as "S-O-1-&-7/8th-R" using a hand mic and a Behringer audio mixer on the headsets feeds. Manual delegation. Antennas : F12 C31XR at 108f, F12 EF240X at 118f, both fixed at 350 degrees, F12 C19X @ 68f, WC4E surplus 80m sloping dipole at 90f and a Carolina Windom 160 at 30f for the second rig's use. Switching and rig control powered by MicroHam Station Master/MicroKeyer2 (thanks to W4TV for loan of a used interface cable for the 7700'd) Soapbox : Last year it was SWR, this year it was rotors. The C31/EF240 stack rotor had issues. Could not be swung more clockwise than 220 degrees or more counter clockwise than 350 degrees... Er... That's the way I need to point! So the C31XR burned down the few trees on Baffin Island on 10m and was rather useless to the west coast... Although I worked quite a few KL7's on it (and also on the 40m beam). NWT, PAC and AK were worked in the first four hours, things were looking up for a sweep! Lucky the 2el 40m beam has a 60 degree beamwidth. I gotta say, this antenna ROCKED! 40 was a blast with deep piles! The C19X worked much better than it did last year and was a solid performer. The sloper actually made some Q's on 75m. Concentrated on 40, because it was fun to run. Broke my last year's score by a little, but didnt make my goal. No excuses, off my game this year. A fun (in retrospect) moment: At 10 minutes before end of my alloted 24 hours, was missing PR and SB for a sweep and had relegated myself to accepting that I would not see a sweep this year... Never heard a single SB until a WB6 called me on 15 while running. He tells me he is in Santa Barbara! I dropped my bag of rice cakes! Yikes! Now to find a Puerto Rican! And fast! How to do it? I remembered my neighbor who uses two frequencies, 14.250 and 14.280. All the area Hispanic ops hang around there. There *HAS* to be a Puerto Rican there! Down to 20m I go to '280 and call in Spanish "Anybody in the Ilse of Enchantment around?". I get a reply by some "New York Ricans" who tell me that there are some "real" Puerto Ricans on 14250. QSY there, point the little beam to PR (or as far as it would turn... 90 degrees; It has issues turning too) and call in again in Spanish... "Any Puerto Ricans on frequency that can help a fellow Hispanic Guy out?" WP4MZW answers my call. I work him... SWEEP! Third consecutive year! He was my next to last QSO! I dont think this is a score indicative of the station's capability The score is the operator's issue this time. Wait'll next year. My game was not 100% but no excuses (except that I *HATE* that you cannot clear RIT from a keyboard command in N1MM with Icom rigs. You have to press and hold the button on the front panel!!! I have to say the 7700 can be made to sound very good indeed. Lots of punch and crackle. You dont have to talk so loud as you do on the K3, so it saves your voice. The DSP seems to allow me to understand people down to 1.3khz bandwidth, I cant go lower than 1500 on the K3, so you can narrow the bandpass more on the 7700, but I dont know how "realistic" the bandwidth readout is... And there is AGC dance of death on the receiver and the crackly IMD artifacts in heavy QRM reminded me of my days with my old TS850. Never hear that stuff on the K3. The 756Pro2 really did a great job on the wire antenna working what I could pick up, but I am by far not an good SO2R op, need more practice. Have an interface box now, so I can stop with the kludges. Really missed the second receiver. Ah, man, but the controls on the 7700 are like buttah! Wish my Elecraft felt so smooth and tactile. Tremendous fun on runs the first day... Not so much fun slogging it out the second. Nobody blew me out on 40 this time. Spent too much time on 40 and not enough on 10/15 and they were hot. But Im getting much better at pileup handling. 73 -W4LT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ML Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 209,120 Thanks for the use of W1ZA!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 256,160 This was a lot like work. Now I remember why I like CW contests so much better. Ouch do my ears hurt! It was very noisy here with local line noise and generally noisy bands. Add in the guy playing a recording of my CQs back to me and the SSTV/net/pig farmer QRM and it seemed I had to work hard for every Q. 73, Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 227,200 Thanks to Erick, KI4UDF, who helped put up a 40M dipole Saturday morning which seemed to work well. Lots of EU callers. Erick also popped a few multipliers on one of the other positions so we were actually M/S. Great to be able to say hi to so many old friends. Thanks for the contacts. Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 228,800 For the SS CW I let W7IY operate my station as a Q entry and he did very well for the third year in a row. I had put up a Fullwave Horizontial Loop on 80 Meters which has worked very well during past SS contests for both SSB and CW. Stu said it worked well during SS CW this year. It just was not the antenna for 80 SS SSB though. The dipole at 85 feet did much better as the band was much longer. I tried to use the old startegy of going from 20 to 40 to 80, each a little earlier than the crowds to stake a good run freq. Instead I should have stayed with the run rates on 20 and 40 longer before switching bands. I need to be more adaptive in my strategy and take what the bands give me rather than trying to force a strategy that has worked in the past. I operated with only one radio this year as my second feedline had failed during the summer so I only had one feedline to the Sixpack at the tower. I will be running two new 700' runs of 7/8" HL in the next month or two so I can get back into the SO2R game. I only had one run in with the Pig Farmers on 80 meters this year and if they would address me in a fashion that did not include profanity and threats then I would be more likely to move to another frequency. I also had some EU station giving me crap on Saturday night on 40 meters that I was operating on a frequency that I guess he in fact owns exclusive rights to. It is some EU station with a 4 element 40 yagi which makes him the owner of the band. Still it was fun and I do love running rates at the beginning of the contest. Thanks for the Qs and I'll CU in the next one. Rigs: (2) FT 2000s (for SO2R) Amps: Alpha 99 and Alpha 8410 Tuner: Ameritron ATR-30 Contest Logging: N1MM SO2R: DXDoubler DVK: FT-2000 Internal (FH-2) RTTY: (2) mircoHAM USB II interface Mic/Headphone: Heil Proset with HC 4 Element Paddles: Bencher and March R3 Paddle Rotor Controllers: Two Ham 4 Controllers Antennas 160 Meter Inverted L (with 60 ground radials) 80 Meter Dipole @ 85 ft 80 Meter Fullwave Horizontal Loop at 45 ft 40 Meter Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 75 ft (rotatable) 20/15/10 Meters Force 12 C3E @ 87 ft (rotatable) Force 12 C3E @ 58 ft (rotatable) Force 12 C3E @ 25 ft (fixed Northeast or West for SS) (Effectively 2/2/2 on 20, 2/2/2 on 15 and 4/4/4 on 10) Receive Reversible 500 ft Beverages NE/SW and NW/SE Tower Rohn 25G 75 ft Guyed with 1/4 inch EHS at 3 places on the tower Top guy @ 90 ft from tower base Middle and Bottom guys @ 60 ft from tower base Main Rotor Ham IV Sidewinder Side mount with Ham II (1) 700 ft run of Hardline (3/4 inch 75 ohm) 24 ft Chrome Molly Steel Mast Antenna Switching and Stacking 6 x 2 Array Solutions SixPak Stack Match (all 3 tribanders are connected to the Stack Match) Dual Feed line Option (Splits stack â?" Upper antenna from bottom 2) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 76,800 Mostly S&P, didn't try running until late in the contest and only had one good run. Most of the time I just kept CQing with no response. SSB is not my favorite mode as it gives me migraines due to all the adjacent channel splatter. Plus my voice got very hoarse in spite of recording my messages before the contest. But it was worth it to be able to contribute at least a litle bit to PVRC. I had a clean sweep again and I am thankful for that! Overall it was fun and thanks to all who put up with me being slow at typing the information into my log. It seems that a lot of the time I had not even gotten the serial number entered when it was my turn to respond! 73, Sam W4PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 31,200 Very imited time this weekend for contesting. I tried to complete the sweep in the time I had but could'nt find SB and SFL. 73 Bill W4RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 79,156 I was hoping to break my old S.E. Division QRP record set back in 1994, using my dad's call W4PZV. But I guess he was looking down on me, and had other plans! Anyway just lost interest when I knew there was no way I was going to break this record. And yes back then I used paper logging with the big spread sheet used for dupes!! Mark W4SVO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 41,600 Made the 80 sections & then Sunday afternoon came & had to QRT. Great contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 2,838 Murphy lives here. Thanks for the Qs. 73, Vic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WWQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 51,040 K3 & Clipperton-L 3-element Tribander @50 ft, 80/40 trapped dipole @40 ft. My first SS. The new K3 worked like a charm. Sub-receiver made it nice checking other bands for multipliers when EB, RI, NLI, MB and PR seemed to have forgotten there was a contest. I had a learning curve to hear, process, and key exchange info into N1MM. I got better as time went on, but never tried "running". But it appears that "running" is the only way to really make big totals. Don't understand Canadian stations sitting on US band edge. One responded with my call and said I was off frequency. I told him I wasn't going to his frequency! I felt like I worked all the Dakota and Delaware stations. They sure were not hiding. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5RU Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 329,120 Many thanks to Steve KG5VK, Scott W5WZ and Mark K5ER for coming to the KN5O QTH to help the W5RU Contest Team for the SS Phone. Also thanks to W5RU regulars Dallas, K1DW and Rex, NX8G. We all had a great time this weekend. Even the weather cooperated - no thunderstorms. So in anticipation that one of our key issues was going to be the familiarization of the antenna switching and the two operating position's interlock, Steve, Scott and Mark drove into town Friday nite. Well all went out and had a great meal at a new restaurant in my area. Nothing better than fresh LA seafood for a wonderful evening meal and the guys gave the place two-thumbs up. They were able to get a lot of rest into Saturday morning. We began to practice TO2R (two-op, 2 radios) late Saturday morning. In about an hour, they quickly got the hang of it. But then, when you are actually into the real thing, it seems like an eternity when you get locked out and can't respond as quickly as you would like. Fears of losing the RUN freq or your contact tuning away begins to set in. The initial reaction was to reach for the emergency "break" button, but as time went on, that became less of an issue as they got used to the semaphores and the rythem. But still, table knocking and finger gestures were ever present! Regardless, I got some great feedback for station improvements and will try to work on those for next year. Overall it was a success and I think we achieved just about all our goals... Over 2000 Qs, a sweep during the initial period of operating (before taking our first 4-to-5 hour break) and bettering our Multi-HP 6th place finish of last year. This year I noted the run rate which was 100+ for 8 hours straight (one exception was a 97Q run rate that snuck in, but that's close enough for government work, ha!) But then, during the last two hours, the run rate fell quickly. It seemed too soon to me, but nonetheless, it was an indication for us to get ready to stop, which we did by roughly 1:00AM local time. And fortunately for us, just a few minutes before we took the break, we nabbed PR on 40 for our SWEEP. The timing couldn't have been better. Congratulations again goes to the W6YI group. Not really knowing how well we were doing after a couple of hours into the contest, when we worked them early on and they were apx 150 Qs ahead, we knew it was going to be a tough one. Given their location with 10 and 15 on the upswing, they made the most of those two bands as we had expected they would.. Unfortunately, the skip zone on those bands is too long for us to have any chance of really making a lot of domestic Qs. Essentially it is still a 3 and a half band contest for us - 40, 20 (and we all know how tough those bands can be QRM-wise), a mix of 80 and 15 and now this year, a dash of 10 that we did not have before. In the past, we have depended on 80M, but with the high bands now usable for both coasts of the USA, 80M activity appears to be lower. I can see that in many of the posted scores for the central US states. Not be forgotten, I am blessed to have a wonderful and understanding XYL who really helped me make sure our guests were comfortable and that they had a great time with lots of food. Lorraine spent Saturday with Scott's XYL Sharon and their 4 kids, ages 14, 12, 10 & 8 (and who are all hams) on an all day excursion into the New Orleans French Quarter. They had a grand time, especially at Cafe Du Monde for the beignets with that powdered sugar that goes everywhere! Again, thanks to all of you for being there to make this contest. We plan to be in the CQWW CW next weekend, but maybe not so much, as getting folks to staff a Multi-class operation has not been successful to date. Are there any takers out there? Call or email me. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. 73, Ted KN5O for W5RU Team W5RU - Scott W5WZ, Mark K5ER, Steve KG5VK, Dallas K1DW, Rex NX8G and Ted KN5O Station information @ http://www.qrz.com/dB/KN5O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5UH Class: School Club LP Total Score = 45,120 I gained ownership of this call four days before the contest and wanted to give it a good shakedown. Hopefully I can use this call for at least one SS every year. Took quite a lot of time off to do other things like watch UH knock SMU down on Saturday to go 11-0 on the season! Go Coogs! I got back on 15m Sunday evening and had a pretty good run of mostly W6/W7's. Congrats to the other school clubs. The only two I ended up working were the stalwarts at K0HC and W6YX, both with big numbers. See you in WW on 40m from NR5M. Colin KU5B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6AQ Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 50,050 I aimed for 300 Q's and 50K points and I made my goal (barely). If my old Force 12 antennas weren't holding up, this score wouldn't have been possible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6FB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 101,280 Wow! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 74,720 Due to good condx and great activity I was able to fairly easily complete my sweeps on both CW and SSB weekends again this year. One of the highlights was finally migrating from CT to N1MM for logging. During the SS CW weekend I began using the Call History file which pre-fills the Check & Section. Then during the SS SSB weekend I used the Bandmap which posts all the relevant spots and also highlights the sections still needed. I also used the N1MM interface to key the digital voice recorder in my K3. The combination of all this new (to me) technology continued to add to my amazement and fun. Thanks for all the QSOs! Jim, W6KC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 80,160 Thanks to my XYL, K7MKL, for giving up some of her operating time after she got home from work Sunday to allow me to get the S W E E P and 500 Qs. She's pretty incredible! 10 was unreal with 41% of my Qs there. With a very nice 10-meter run on Sunday, I now know the thrill of having the rate meter go above 100. And the disappointment when it drops below 100 :>) Had to find a frequency and run on 40 at the end to get my last mult, Idaho (worked 2). Next to last mult was a lone South Carolina Q ...thought I'd never work SC or ID! Plenty of NT and NL this time but VE2/3/4/5 were scarce. HP and a decent antenna on 20/15/10 made it an enjopyable SS season for me. Life *is* too short for LP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ONV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,270 Dreadful, disappointing and discouraging is the only way I can sum up my (lack of) performance. I went into the contest handicapped since I have seem to have lost 15M on my Yaesu FT-1000MP to a Local Unit problem. Although it worked during SS CW, it failed to work for Phone this past weekend. The second problem I noted about 90 minutes before the start of SS was a noise coming from the SteppIR BigIR when I turned it on. I decided to open the EHU and lo and behold, the Copper-Beryllium tape has come off the spindle. So before the contest even begins I am down to two bands; 10M and 20M. Of course most of the action seemed to be on 10M and 15M. The first 4 hours were the best of the contest for me, but without the low bands I didn't keep the BIC past sundown. No low bands meant time with the family and thoughts of getting up at sunrise on the east coast for some 20M activity. Of course I get "railroaded" into take my in-laws to the train station, only to find out their train was cancelled. I ended up losing most all of the morning and when I did get on the air, I was done. I logged maybe 2.5 hours and couldn't do it any longer. I was not having fun on 20M and running as an 'A' I could not be heard by many stations. I finally called it quits at 2053 and tried to fulfill the rest of the afternoon with other thoughts. I didn't come close to meeting any goals I set, how could I with no 15M, which probably hurt me more than 40/80M did. I did try to salvage 40M by quickly raising a wire to about 20', but it was really not worth the effort I tried calling from the local stations after sundown and could still not be heard. But there is always next year, which I will look forward to. Just need to make sure the ham gear is in WORKING condition during the summer so I don't run into complications during the contest. On a positive note, I did work DE on phone, which was my last outstanding state for my ARRL Triple Play Award. Now to wait for the LOTW uploads. 73, Steve W6ONV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 29,680 K3, ACOM 2000A, wire antenna at 46 feet with Matchboxes, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6WRT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 23,040 CLEAN SWEEP! Not going for score, just wanted the mug. :-) Got the first 79 easy, then took forever to find SC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 386,240 Thanks to everyone for the qsos, especially the new comers on 10 mtrs. We really appreciate working you. All the operators did an outstanding job as we had four hours of over 180 contacts an hour. The bands were great, although it seemed from here that overall participation was down a little. On Friday, we copied the k6na tradition of installing a yagi the day before a contest. Glenn and John, k6am provided the help to place a 15mtr owa on the 95' sky needle. The crew enjoyed our customary steak dinner and shared some tales of the contest, 73’s Jim, w6yi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 262,560 We put together the same crew that operated the CW SS. We all had more time conflicts so there were a few hours in which we only had one operator but we managed to be on the air for 24 hours. We were all pleased to hear many more stations active in the School category than on CW. Hopefully this is a trend that continues into the coming years. 73, -Mike, N7MH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,360 Last sections worked: PR, AR, SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7IJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 68,800 Finally a sweep. Surprised it was on SSB as that is not my favorite mode. Guess figuring out how the spot filters work made a difference! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7IY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 52,160 My goal was a clean sweep because I've never had one. After 12 hours in the chair, I was left with KP4 and SB when I went to bed early Sunday morning. After wrestling with some RF feeback in the shack, I finally found SB on 10M around 10:30. I sure hope this holds up, this is my first sweep and a really exciting thing to do! The packet cluster didn't help as much as I thought. So I stuck to my S&P patterns. (up and down the band, always thinking the next signal is a new mult) Rig was a Flex 5000, log periodic and a dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7KAM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,600 Unable to work Kentucky, Northwest Territories, Puerto Rico and South Carolina even though I heard one of each on the bands. MDC provided the most contacts with 23 QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 21,798 Used mobile whip antennas bolted to the porch railing. 73 w7qn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 287,360 K3 x 2 u2R - Writelog 5 x Emtron Amp 80M Phased Ground Planes 40M 2el @ 120' 20m 6el@140', 6el@85' 15M 6el@ 45', 6el@35' 10M 6el@ 35', 6el@30' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7TVC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 103,520 Well it's sure nice having 10 meters again, isn't it? Not only does it propagate but it's big enough that everyone who wants can find and hold a run frequency. I believe this is the first time I've seen my "last ten" rate go over 200 Q/hr. When it went down to 100 I felt like it was really getting slow. Normally for me that's fast. This was the first ever clean sweep on phone from this station. Station: K3 + SB-1000 amp. Cushcraft R7 vertical for high bands, Butternut HF2V for low. 73 and thanks for the calls, WS7L and the W7TVC crew. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 350,560 What an experience. During the first three hours of SS I had the following equipment fail: amplifier, transceiver, followed by computer keyboard. I have backups but it made me stop and think what's next? Nice to hear 10 and 15 meters busy in Sweepstakes again. 73 de Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 5,544 Just can't do SSB contests. Funny thing--in the CW SS, I had 79 sections, DE being number 79, only missing NT. In this one, by 39 Q's I had DE and 2 NT's in the log. Sure lots of crappy sounding signals out there. 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 213,600 This was fun, with 10 and 15 in good shape, and great activity levels from all sections. I had no idea there were so many stations in ND! Always nice to put a voice with the familiar calls, have a (very) brief chat with old friends, and meet lots of folks quite new to ham radio. Rig: K3 Ant: 3-el Steppir with 40 dipole at 70 feet, 80m inv vee at 65 feet 73, Bob W7YAQ CK 54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 140,320 Was not on later in the evening, so hardly made any Q's on 80. Three upper bands worked well, but 10 has been better. Glad to have the propagation though. Nice to say Hi to many that I have worked many times in the past. Thanks for all the Q's! 73, Rod W7ZRC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8OHT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 38,448 Celebrating Thanksgiving one-hundred miles away and getting two dead function keys (F2 & F3) to work delayed the first contact until 2354Z on Saturday. Had a few successful CQ runs on Sunday, but they were on the higher bands to avoid QRMing anyone. HB amplifier reportedly was pinning the S meters in CA at contest end, I was told. Got the one section missed (VT) two weeks ago, but had many more than one missed this year due mostly to the late start and refusal to use any spots. Thanks for each and every contact this last week end. Go PVRC! John, W8OHT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RJL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 56,880 Limited time. IC-756 Pro III, Al-82, 3 ele SteppIR @ 30 feet,80 dipole. Hiel Proset Plus, N3FJP logging software. Station was working good just needed more time in the chair. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8VI Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 87,680 Had some very nice runs on 75, 40, and 15. The highlight of the contest (and all SS tests operating from the east are the pipelines on 15 meters to 6, 7, and 0 land in the gray-line and post gray-line periods. Thanks for Q's and thanks to Gary, W8VI for the use of his fine station and his assistance. Ken, N5EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9QL Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 72,640 My first QSO was ND! NWT and NL followed in the first 20 minutes, so I thought I was off to a good start. It was good to see 10 open, and that was where I found WP4I in PR, who was in a massive pile-up. I took some time off for family matters and football, and still had two sections to go at 3:00 PM Sunday. One was MB, and I found VE4EAR on 20 later in the day (thanks, ED). The last section I needed was KY, and I finally found W5MX on 40 at 6:30 PM for the sweep! This was my first year operating as a single-op (usually I'm part of a multi team) and it was great to get the sweep on my own. I run low power with a G5RV, so it is sometimes a challenge to get through the plie-ups. Thanks to everyone who came back to my call. 73's, Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9ZRX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,544 K3 + Doublet, Laptop with Win-Test ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA0MHJ Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 40,000 Wow, that was HARD work. Condition were a great benefit, and QRP sure teaches patience. Thanks to all those who made an extra effort to pull me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 251,840 This was my first high power phone SS in almost 20 years. I had an unassisted sweep in just 5.5 hours (can anyone top that?) thanks to KP4RAY calling me with his number 3! My last two sections were WPA (my own) and QC! How strange is that? I provided section 80 for several stations and many commented late in the contest that they had been looking for WPA. It was great to hear many familiar OT callsigns and also so many newer checks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3AER Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 49,248 CLEAN SWEEP ELUDED ME. SOME NICE SURPRISES: DE, AK AND PAC (HI). 10M WAS NOT AS GOOD AS EXPECTED. MANAGED A FEW 80M CONTACTS. 40M TURNED OUT BEING THE HORN OF PLENTY, FOLLOWED BY 20M. ALL POUNCED OUT! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3MKC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,458 First time in a SSB contest of any sort..... Had a great time see you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6KEK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 34,880 SO/B (Unassisted). I really wanted the sweep and focused on that. The desire to achieve it made for a very exciting contest. EWA was the hold out, I finally got the rascal while running on 15M (The only time I ran was Sunday in panic to get my last 8 sections). I got the sweep with 4 hours to spare. Thanks to all the training from my Elmer, N6WIN, I made the sweep before my one year anniversary of becoming a ham. 73 WA6KEK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7NWL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,216 Had a great time. Changed-out dipoles to a multi-band version which helped a bit. Many thanks for the contacts. 73, John, WA7NWL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7PRC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 102,700 I more than doubled my previous all-time highest QSO count but still missed PR. I heard NP4Z but just ran out of pileup-busting steam. My 80m antenna came up lame (allowing me to get a full night's sleep). While 20 and 10 were good, 15m was my payoff band. I had a couple of runs that each lasted a L-O-N-G time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB0TEV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 165,600 And here, in EXCRUCIATING detail, is the report from WB0TEV in the North Texas section...... Man was this year a change from 2010! The sunspots and solar flux were back and the high bands were once again in play. 10m and 15m were really jumping done here in the Lone Star state taking a lot of pressure off of 20m during the daylight hours. After quite unexpectedly taking top honors in the North Texas section for the Unlimited category in last years phone Sweepstakes (having nosed out N1CC by 1 QSO) I decided to make a spirited defense thereof with an effort on the order of what I used to do from the WD5GSL club station in the early 80's when I was young, single and half the age I am now. Instead of 2010's effort of just 9 hours of BIC time yielding a little over 500 Q's with an inordinant fixation on making a sweep above all else, for 2011 I'd try and take it to a higher level. The goal was to get as close to 24 hours BIC time as LOOHR (Life Outside of Ham Radio) would permit, with a QSO count in 4 figures instead of 3. Moreover, after years of pencil and paper logging, this was to be the first year that I used a logging program (N1MM) with the many advantages it affords the Unlimited class operation (love that band map!) I wasn't able to put in a full 24 hours though. For one thing I would have to lose a big chunk of prime time Saturday night as the XYL and I had a previous commitment to host a dinner party at our QTH starting 3 hours after the opening bell. So that first night I was QRT from 0017 to 0305Z. When the gun went off at 2100 Z I decided to start out on 10m beaming Northwest as I figured that would be the best shot at getting VY1/VE8 into the log early. I started off in S&P mode and tracked down and worked VY1EI at 2106. SWEET! 10 minutes in, after picking off AK, PAC, BC, WWA and a few others I found a frequency from which to call CQ and started a run on 28315. After the first hour I had 64 Qs in the log and the mult count was up to 36. At 2200, overcome with "mult lust" I succumbed to the siren song of the spot cluster and began methodically hunting down and bagging new sections first on 15m then 20m. Although it surely hurts my score in the long run, I tend to be obsessed with not just making a sweep, but getting it done as early as possible. One day I'd like to be the first one to make it to 80, but for now I'm ecstatic if I can get the sweep done before going to bed Saturday night. In the 2008 Phone SS my "mult-centric" tendency led me to submit a log consisting of just 80 QSO's, one from each section. Another year I held myself back from making any QSO's that weren't new mults until I had the sweep completed. I'm told the cure for OCMD (Obsessive Compulsive Multiplier Disorder) is intensive "run" therapy, but at the time I wasn't willing to first admit I had a problem, which is step 1 in any successful attempt at behavior modification. After not quite a half hour and a dozen new sections later, I found a frequency on 20 and managed a short run with a reasonable rate, but after less than 10 minutes, the spot cluster beckoned (nay insisted!!) that I QSY to 15. After all how could I resist the beck and call of both VO1TA and VE4EAR??!! I picked them off in short order along with 3 more new sections (2 from 15m and one from 10m) before settting up shop on the low end of 15m for another CQ run. After 2 hours the QSO count was only at 102 but the mult count was at 55. Looking at the section list I saw that I had already worked all of the Canadian sections, save one. How could I have NWT, NL, MB, SK and still be missing VE3 Ontario ??!! Fortunately at 2304Z VA3DF (QRP no less) was the next to answer my CQ on 15m and all the Canadian sections were in the log barely 2 hours into the contest. Looking at my writeup from 2 years ago I see that Ontario was the last of the Canadians in the log back then too. Wierd. With less than an hour to go before our dinner guests were slated to arrive I felt like I needed to be everywhere at once to "get 'em before they get away". I hadn't been on 40m yet so I dove down there, and after a couple quick S&P QSOs to make sure the Mosley PRO-67B was playing ok on 40 (nice to have even a 2-element beam on 40) I found a semi-vacant spot near the bottom of the band and called CQ. The first 3 responses were each a new mult. I didn't stay long though. With dinner guests due to arrive in 30 minutes and not knowing how long my forthcoming enforced off time would last I spent that half hour bouncing across 20m, 40m, 15m and 10m chasing down and working 7 more outstanding sections including VT & NE thanks to WB1GQR and K0GND respectively. At 0017 the XYL (N5XVN) hollered up to the shack that our dinner guests had started to arrive and that I need to QSY to the dining room. After 3 hours and 17 minutes the QSO count was a fairly modest 137 but the mult count was up to 66 including many that historically had been amongst the rarer ones. After a sumptuous repast that included N5XVN's orange chicken with mushrooms and fellowship with friends, our guests departed at 0300Z and I was back on the air 5 minutes later. Spent the next 30 minutes chasing mults again across 20m, 80m and 40m collecting a few other S&P QSOs along the way and picked off 5 more sections. 71 down, 9 more to go. Shaking off the persistent case of "sectionitis" I found a spot on the low end of 40 from which to cause CQ's to be issued forth and got busy making up for lost QSO rate running for the next hour on 7134.6 with a quick QSY to 80m part way through to work W5JJ for the still outstanding AR section. During that 40m run 3 more mults came my way, which reminded me of the truth expressed by a sign that I believe Tim K3LR has posted at his station which reads: "Call CQ! Mults answer CQ!" Ah, bu by 0434Z there were just 5 sections outstanding, Arizona (??!!) Mississippi, Puerto Rico, South Carolina and San Diego. With the exception of PR and MS I felt there was a good chance of finding most of these before packing it in for the night. San Diego shouldn't be that hard I thought, especially if W6YI is out there somewhere. A spot for KK5K on 3650 flashed across the screen. From previous years I knew that was MS so I dove down to 80m. It took a few calls but soon the Magnolia state was in the log. W7WW in AZ was worked on 40m a few minutes later and the gang at W6YI provided SDG on 80m a couple minutes after that. As long as I was tuned up on 80 I did a short 5 minute 3 QSO run there, but my FT767 & Dentron MLA2500 amp combo seemed to be leaving something to be desired in the oomph department on 80m so I went back to 40m where I figured I had a better chance of catching what was then just the last 2 sections. So, by 0500Z the only sections outstanding were SC and PR. Which would be the last one to fall? Based on past experience I had a hunch it would be the KP4. For some reason, over the last few years none of the Puerto Ricans seem to show up and run until Sunday. I'd been watching the spot cluster and searching for KP4, WP4, NP4, KP3, WP3 and NP3 calls but didn't see any one on SSB. NP4Z had been spotted earlier that evening but Felippe was working CW, apparently in the LZ DX contest. In an attempt to find SC I grabbed the QST writeup for last years SSB Sweepstakes (which I had on hand for just such a contingency) and looked at the calls of those who submitted logs from SC last year with special attention to those with the higher scores. Hopefully one of them could be found on the cluster eventually. Meanwhile back on 40m the phone band had rather forcefully hung out the "NO VACANCY!!" sign with a cacophonous roar that was enough to make ones ears bleed. So I went to S&P mode, working the ones that managed to stand out above the raging tumult. And then I found it. A spot for K3AN, one of the calls I'd gleaned from last years SS writeup in QST from the SC section. It was back to 80m and yes he was signing from South Carollina. I think it took a number of calls but eventually I got through. On to go! Puerto Rico or bust!! It was 0518Z. The QSO count was only 202 but a sweep was in sight. If only someone in KP4 land would get on the air and get spotted, or better yet I find them before the hordes descended, as I figured almost everyone else needed PR as well. Since I was already on 80 after having worked SC and 40m was still a mess I went to S&P mode on 80 to pass the time and try and fortify the somewhat lackluster QSO count. At 0530 I went back to 40 where things seemed to have settled down to a slightly less chaotic dull roar. I'm guessing a portion of the east coast contingent had made their move to 80m for the night and I was thus able to find a spot to elbow my way in and try a run on 7193 for a while. Little did I know how important a role that slice of specturm would play later that night, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Unfortunately after about 20 minutes the run rate trailed off and I determined I could get a better QSO rate doing S&P at that point. Starting at 0550 I spent the next hour running up and down the 40m picking off new stations as they showed up on the N1MM bandmap. And then, .......it happened. Around 0653 another spot for NP4Z hit the spot cluster. I saw it a couple minutes later. Only this time Felippe wasn't on CW, he was on SSB on 7193!. One hand hit the Tail Twister rotor control to swing the PRO67B around to the ESE while the other hand punched 7193 into the FT-767. By the time I got there all hell had broken loose as I and several hundred others descended upon him in a desparate frenzy reminscent of the teeming mass of shoppers bursting into a Best Buy store at opening time on Black Friday trying to get one of those cheap 42" TV sets before they were all gone. The wall of non-stopper callers was soon such utter bedlam that he wisely announced that he'd go split transmitting somewhere around 7085 while still listening on 7193. I got set up for split operation and started tuning around for him. He surfaced at 7081 (as did a few others who get an F in Working Split 101) and began working the pile. After what seemed an eternity (although it was only about 12 minutes) I was lucky enough to have him pull my call out from amongst the pileup and at 0707 the sweep was complete!! From here on out I could just concentrate on rate, period. At that point I considered just S&Ping on the thus far unworked stations showing up on the N1MM logger bandmap and then maybe packing it in for the night. I worked a few that way and then figured that a lot of the guys that had been CQing on 40 might likely have abandoned their run freq to try and work NP4Z. I don't know if that supposition was true, but I did manage to find a spot on 40 from which I was able to muster a brief 10 minute 11 QSO run before the stream of callers trailed off and spent the next hour or so wandering around 80m and 40m in S&P punctuated with a brief 10 minute 7 QSO run on 80m. At 0830 (past the time at which historically I've gone QRT) I decided to make one more stab at getting a run going on 40m and if it failed ot produce I'd go QRT for the night. I found a spot at 7155 and went at it. This time it seemed to work and a reasonably steady stream of callers ensued at about a 75 QSO/hr rate. But as time wore on, I was starting to run out of gas myself and knew that I needed at least a few hours of sleep somewhere. At 0859 I was surprised to be called by a good friend of mine from across town, Mark KK5MR who was also my driver this year for our mobile entry in the Texas QSO party. After quizzing each other as to what in the world either one of us were doing up at 3 AM local time, I said 73 and decided it was time for WB0TEV to assume horizontal polarization and collapse into the arms of Morpheus for a few hours. ZZZZzzzzzzzzz After but 4-1/2 hours the alarm clock went off at 1330Z and WB0TEV was back on the air at 1349. The amp was still tuned up on 40m from the night before so I started there doing a handful of S&P QSOs before moving to 20m, finding a spot and getting a run going. Stayed at it for about the next 2 hours with an occasional 2nd VFO QSY to pick off someone I hadn't worked yet that showed up on the N1MM logger band map. Managed to average about 60 QSO's/hour. Since I planned to got QRT for a couple of hours mid morning and go to church, I terminated the 20m run QSY'ed to 15m and got tuned up there so as to be ready to go to town on 15m when I got back. I I made a few S&P 15m QSOs and then went QRT at 1601Z and went to church. Amen. Was back home and on the radio at 1808Z. I had debated whether to do 10m or 15m and concluded that 10m might tend to be too long, skipping over many of my potential customers. That and my aged Dentron MLA2500 amp seems to be the least decrepit on 15m. 21337 kHz seemed to be a good spot, so after getting no response to my "Is this bandwidth occupied?" the CQ's followed, and so did the QSOs! In that first hour on 15 I had my highest 1 hr rate of 100 QSOs/hour. With the exception of an occasional 2nd VFO QSY to work another CQ'ing station on 15m cued off of the N1MM logger bandmap I stayed on 21337 for the next 6 straight hours. 15m was really the money band for me this year providing more than twice as many QSOs than any other band. That Sunday afternoon run on 15 put 459 QSOs in the log. 44% of my total QSOs occured in that one 6 hour stretch. I was spotted several times throughout that run and my highest 10 minute rate of 132/hour occurred right after being spotted by W3OU at 1947Z. (Thanks Steve!) I stayed on 15m (probably for too long) and just bled it dry. In between CQs I I worked off spots from the band map until there was nothing left and around 0030Z I went to 20m briefly and then to 40m. Alas I waited too long to go to 40m which in the past had been my evening money band. There just wasn't any place where I could drop in and call CQ without being a QRMing jerk, so I wandered about in the 40m wilderness doing S&P. A little before 0130Z I wandered over to 20m and was surprised to find a fair number of signals there. DOH! My mind had slipped back into low sunspot cycle mode where I assumed that after dark 40m and 80m would be the only game in town. I knew better. We have sunspots now, 20m doesn't die at sundown. I kicked myself and went to work doing S&P on 20m with an occasional QSY to 40 and 80 to work some fresh meat that showed up there. With just over an hour left in the contest I had 961 QSOs. If I was going to make to 1000 sticking with S&P likely wasn't going to cut it. CQing was the only way to go and 20m was the only band where I could do it. I went looking for a "hole" on 20m. Dialing my way up the band I finally found some affordable spectral real estate at 14276 and started CQing. I didn't expect much at first but the Q's started rolling in a pretty good clip and I kicked myself for doing this sooner. The pace quickened and it felt like I was doing at least 1 Q/minute. At that rate I could get to 1000 QSOs that rate would just hold up for a while. I aimed the beam out west figuring 20m would open more in that direction than out east, but after hearing some midwest and east coast stations the beam got swung around a bit when needed to pull a weaker east coast station out of the mud. The QSO count continued to climb as did my spirits as the 1000 QSO mark was coming into sight. W8LGX in Ohio went into the log as QSO #1000 at 0232Z. With the beam now aimed more to the northeast, a steady stream of customers continued to come my way with lots of IN, IL, WI, and OH stations in the mix. Having been in the chair for over 8 hours straight, the voice was starting to sound a little like that of a smoker who needed to change brands. Fortunately I've been blessed with good strong voice, having once been a radio announcer and DJ years ago and I still do occaisonal voice over work. The vocal chords were showing a tad bit of wear but were still going. The old gluteous maximus was complaining a lot more however. (Note for next year, get a more padded chair). The minutes kept counting down and the QSOs kept on coming in the push to the finish line. At 0300Z the bands fell silent as did I except for a sigh of relief, and a muffled "Thank the Lord, its over" The QSO count said 1036. I'd exceeded the 1000 Q goal with enough padding to survive losing some in the log checking process. Somehow I managed to dupe someone even with a logging program (at least it says I did) so submitted QSO count is 1035 with 80 sections. Some observations and reflections: ** Texas seems to be a good place from which to get a sweep early. Extreme South Texas might be ideal as one could have a shot at working OK, AR and LA early on 20m without having to wait till dark to work those "close-in" ones on 80m/40m. ** While the NWT section used to be the rarest and most difficult to catch in the past, the great efforts of VY1EI and VE8EV have made the section a lot less rare. This time around I actually worked NWT 3 times having tracked down VY1EI as my QSO #3 and had VE8EV and VE8GER come to me. ** To maximize score, if you can hold a frequency, CALL CQ! MULTS ANSWER CQs! I'll probably never be able to bring myself to follow that paradigm to the extent consistent with maximizing score. ** Texas is a great place to be for single hop high band propogation to both coasts. ** Call me a cynic but some of the guys signing with Q precedence sounded way too loud to have been running low power even with lots of antenna gain and excellent propogation. ** I will probably always be an Unlimited category entry. Its just too much fun chasing down the multipliers as they come across the cluster. ** I wonder who made it 80 sections first this year? When did they do it? and more importantly how? ** Man there were a lot of Alaskans on this year! Its obvious from looking at their reports on 3830 that 10m was the money band for them. AK was #30 on the my list of most worked sections. MDC as usual was on top followed by VA. Might it have something to do with this little outfit I've heard of called the PVRC? Over 10% of my QSOs came from those two sections. ** There were 5 sections that I worked at least once on all 5 bands: MDC, ORG, MO, NH and my own section of NTX. ** More than 1/3 of the QSO's in my log came from the top 9 sections which were in order: MDC, VA, IL, OH, WWA, MI,MN, AZ and SCV. ** Just shy of 29% of all my QSOs came from the 6th and 7th call areas. Owing to its proximity and the minimal time I spent on 80m only 4.2% of QSOs came from the 5th call district. 4.3% of QSOs came from Canada. ** If I had realized it, if had worked one more VE4 and one more KP4 I would have made a double sweep. If I had worked two more VE4s, KP4s and one more from VI, VT and AR I could have landed a triple sweep. I wonder if in the history of SS anyone has ever done a quadruple (quintuple, sextuple??) sweep and if so, who and when? ** More than half of my QSOs came in the last 9 hours of the contest. (Influenced no doubt by the dinner party QRM Saturday night.) ** The median value for the checks I received was 76, which coincidentally also corresponds to the year I was first licensed. ** I had to ask for repeats on callsign prefixes more often than I would have liked as people would response to my request for a repeat on their prefix before my VOX let go completely, even though I had the VOX delay cranked back to practically zilch. I believe it was Mr. Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain) who said that there are 3 types of prevarications: Lies, damn lies and statistics. A sample of the later is herewith submitted your perusal. If you made it this far you are to commended in your capacity for the consumption of ponderous prose. I hope it was either informative or entertaining, preferrably both. Hope to work you in the ARRL 10m contest, Victor WB0TEV Cabrillo Statistics (Version 10g) by K5KA & N6TV http://bit.ly/cabstat CALLSIGN: WB0TEV CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE OPERATORS: WB0TEV -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 0 0 64 64 64 6.2 2200 0 0 0 23 14 1 38 102 9.9 2300 0 0 14 3 11 4 32 134 12.9 0000 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 137 13.2 0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 137 13.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 137 13.2 0300 0 2 25 2 0 0 29 166 16.0 0400 0 6 25 0 0 0 31 197 19.0 0500 0 6 23 0 0 0 29 226 21.8 0600 0 0 37 0 0 0 37 263 25.4 0700 0 3 23 0 0 0 26 289 27.9 0800 0 9 42 0 0 0 51 340 32.9 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 340 32.9 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 340 32.9 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 340 32.9 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 340 32.9 1300 0 0 3 2 0 0 5 345 33.3 1400 0 0 0 68 0 0 68 413 39.9 1500 0 0 0 48 4 0 52 465 44.9 1600 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 466 45.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 466 45.0 1800 0 0 0 0 87 0 87 553 53.4 1900 0 0 0 0 84 0 84 637 61.5 2000 0 0 0 0 71 0 71 708 68.4 2100 0 0 0 0 61 0 61 769 74.3 2200 0 0 0 0 81 0 81 850 82.1 2300 0 0 0 0 62 0 62 912 88.1 0000 0 0 10 2 16 0 28 940 90.8 0100 0 1 12 10 0 0 23 963 93.0 0200 0 0 0 72 0 0 72 1035 100.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 27 214 233 492 69 1035 Gross QSOs=1036 Dupes=1 Net QSOs=1035 Unique callsigns worked = 1035 The best 60 minute rate was 100/hour from 1810 to 1909 The best 30 minute rate was 112/hour from 1812 to 1841 The best 10 minute rate was 132/hour from 1947 to 1956 The best 1 minute rates were: 3 QSOs/minute 25 times. 2 QSOs/minute 230 times. 1 QSOs/minute 500 times. There were 33 bandchanges and 6 (0.6%) probable 2nd radio QSOs. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 1 4 470 5 380 6 181 7 3 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- MDC 0 1 13 10 34 1 59 5.7 VA 0 1 9 10 31 0 51 4.9 IL 0 1 12 22 13 0 48 4.6 OH 0 2 11 11 19 0 43 4.2 WWA 0 0 3 12 12 6 33 3.2 MI 0 0 7 4 22 0 33 3.2 MN 0 1 4 14 13 0 32 3.1 AZ 0 0 4 7 20 0 31 3.0 SCV 0 0 6 7 14 3 30 2.9 OR 0 0 5 4 11 3 23 2.2 LAX 0 0 4 4 14 1 23 2.2 NC 0 1 5 7 10 0 23 2.2 IN 0 0 6 10 5 0 21 2.0 WI 0 0 3 8 10 0 21 2.0 SDG 0 1 2 3 15 0 21 2.0 WNY 0 0 5 0 12 2 19 1.8 EPA 0 0 2 1 14 1 18 1.7 ENY 0 0 3 1 11 2 17 1.6 SV 0 0 2 1 10 4 17 1.6 ORG 0 1 3 1 11 1 17 1.6 TN 0 2 6 4 4 0 16 1.5 STX 0 0 10 1 2 1 14 1.4 CO 0 1 1 9 3 0 14 1.4 KS 0 0 5 7 2 0 14 1.4 NV 0 1 3 0 6 3 13 1.3 EMA 0 0 2 2 7 2 13 1.3 SJV 0 0 0 2 9 2 13 1.3 MO 0 1 2 7 2 1 13 1.3 EB 0 0 3 1 8 1 13 1.3 AK 0 0 1 1 7 3 12 1.2 NH 0 1 3 2 5 1 12 1.2 NFL 0 0 3 5 4 0 12 1.2 CT 0 0 0 2 5 4 11 1.1 SF 0 0 1 2 4 4 11 1.1 EWA 0 0 0 3 7 1 11 1.1 WCF 0 0 3 2 6 0 11 1.1 NTX 0 3 2 1 3 1 10 1.0 NNJ 0 0 1 1 6 2 10 1.0 SNJ 0 0 5 2 3 0 10 1.0 MT 0 0 1 1 5 2 9 0.9 UT 0 0 2 2 5 0 9 0.9 WY 0 0 2 3 4 0 9 0.9 ON 0 0 2 0 7 0 9 0.9 WPA 0 0 3 0 6 0 9 0.9 BC 0 0 3 0 4 1 8 0.8 ID 0 0 1 3 2 2 8 0.8 NLI 0 0 0 1 6 1 8 0.8 QC 0 0 2 0 5 1 8 0.8 NM 0 0 3 5 0 0 8 0.8 GA 0 2 2 3 1 0 8 0.8 IA 0 0 3 2 3 0 8 0.8 SB 0 0 0 1 3 3 7 0.7 AB 0 0 1 1 4 1 7 0.7 AL 0 0 3 3 1 0 7 0.7 SFL 0 0 2 1 4 0 7 0.7 WV 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.6 WMA 0 0 5 0 1 0 6 0.6 KY 0 1 2 2 1 0 6 0.6 ME 0 0 1 0 5 0 6 0.6 PAC 0 0 0 1 3 1 5 0.5 NNY 0 0 2 0 2 1 5 0.5 DE 0 0 1 0 3 1 5 0.5 NE 0 0 0 3 2 0 5 0.5 RI 0 0 1 0 2 1 4 0.4 SK 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0.4 SD 0 0 0 1 2 1 4 0.4 ND 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.4 WTX 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 0.4 SC 0 1 2 0 1 0 4 0.4 NWT 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0.3 MAR 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.3 LA 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 0.3 OK 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.3 MS 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 0.3 VI 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.2 NL 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.2 VT 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 AR 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2 MB 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 PR 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 27 214 233 492 69 1035 Sweepstakes Checks Check QSOs Pct ---------------------- 00 12 1.2 01 8 0.8 02 10 1.0 03 10 1.0 04 11 1.1 05 15 1.4 06 10 1.0 07 18 1.7 08 25 2.4 09 23 2.2 10 14 1.4 11 13 1.3 12 1 0.1 13 0 0.0 14 0 0.0 15 0 0.0 16 2 0.2 17 0 0.0 18 0 0.0 19 0 0.0 20 0 0.0 21 0 0.0 22 2 0.2 23 0 0.0 24 1 0.1 25 0 0.0 26 0 0.0 27 0 0.0 28 0 0.0 29 0 0.0 30 1 0.1 31 1 0.1 32 1 0.1 33 0 0.0 34 0 0.0 35 1 0.1 36 0 0.0 37 1 0.1 38 0 0.0 39 2 0.2 40 1 0.1 41 0 0.0 42 0 0.0 43 0 0.0 44 0 0.0 45 0 0.0 46 0 0.0 47 2 0.2 48 2 0.2 49 3 0.3 50 2 0.2 51 3 0.3 52 12 1.2 53 8 0.8 54 19 1.8 55 22 2.1 56 16 1.5 57 22 2.1 58 21 2.0 59 26 2.5 60 26 2.5 61 21 2.0 62 23 2.2 63 28 2.7 64 19 1.8 65 19 1.8 66 15 1.4 67 25 2.4 68 17 1.6 69 18 1.7 70 29 2.8 71 16 1.5 72 15 1.4 73 22 2.1 74 15 1.4 75 19 1.8 76 35 3.4 77 28 2.7 78 33 3.2 79 18 1.7 80 14 1.4 81 11 1.1 82 8 0.8 83 12 1.2 84 10 1.0 85 4 0.4 86 11 1.1 87 17 1.6 88 8 0.8 89 15 1.4 90 13 1.3 91 18 1.7 92 23 2.2 93 15 1.4 94 18 1.7 95 12 1.2 96 10 1.0 97 11 1.1 98 14 1.4 99 9 0.9 U.S. Call Areas Worked Area QSOs Pct -------------------- 0 99 9.6 1 71 6.9 2 99 9.6 3 83 8.0 4 115 11.1 5 43 4.2 6 158 15.3 7 140 13.5 8 92 8.9 9 90 8.7 -------------------- Total 990 95.7 Sweepstakes Precedents Precedent QSOs Pct ---------------------- A 477 46.1 B 224 21.6 Q 37 3.6 M 83 8.0 U 203 19.6 S 11 1.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB1GQR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 317,920 The bad news: I just missed 2 kiloQSO's in the SS. The good news: I just missed 2 kiloQSO's in the SS! I've never come that close before!! Wow! What a weekend! Conditions were great, no doubt about that. But I've operated in good conditions before and never did this well. A big part of this was having every one of my band changes work out. In the past, I've had my share of great hours, only to see it get flushed down after a couple of bad hours. In this contest, the start on 20-10 meters, the overnight on 80 meters and Sunday on 20 and then 10 meters were all great. And for my last hour, I got a notion to pass up on my familiar haunts on 80 or 20 meters and jump over to my nemesis band, 40 meters, where I was treated to a great run, unlike the "beg for QSO's" routine that we usually do at that hour. After the antennas and skills are in place, it often boils down to guts & luck! I'll have to admit that being the only active CQing station in Vermont certainly didn't hurt the rates. In fact, VT may have been rarer than NWT in this one! On that note, I'd like to thank KH2RU, a non-contester, who got on all afternoon to put PR on. If he didn't show up, there would have been a lot less sweeps! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4MSG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 68,572 Great contest and enjoyed working everyone. With my broken times I missed qc for a full sweep. I got the hard ones but the easy one got away. 73's Gene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC6H Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 296,800 Thanks for all the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE6Z Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 119,520 Conditions were OK, 15 meters turned out to be more productive for me. It was a zoo on all of the bands, I couldn't find a run frequency anywhere, and when I did I'd get run off by someone else 1kc away within a few minutes. Other than a slow Sunday it turned out to be a fun contest, though not as fun as CW. Doug WE6Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE9V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,644 Tough sledding with the indoor 10-20M dipole. Didn't make too many Qs in the 3 hours of operation. At least I got on for my 21st consecutive phone SS. Chad WE9V http://www.we9v.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4P Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 201,120 I had been waiting for the phone Sweeps since getting the Mosley TA34 installed in the backyard. I was hoping it would help my half-acre lot station move up a bit. I set a goal for myself of 1200 qs and a sweep, which I thought was doable but not easy for a station like mine. I'm thrilled to report that I met my goal. The bands seemed to be in good shape this weekend. The opening of 10 and 15 gave us all some operating room, even if you didn't go there. The nice thing about Sweepstakes is there are no MM stations with signals on every band. Finding a call frequency was fairly easy to do this year. I still haven't figured out why folks want to park and call 1 khz from me when I'm calling. Is my signal so narrow that it doesn't bother them? Is my signal that clean? I know that if they are putting the quiatus on my hearing anyone then I must be doing the same to them. I culd watch my rate fall when this happened. This year however I had a new tactic for dealing with them, and it seemed to work pretty well for the most part. I was surprised by all the QRP stations I heard out there. I don't remember that many in years past. I enjoy working the Qs as I consider it a challenge to pull out the weak stations. There are times though that it simply ain't going to happen, and I always feel bad when I just have to tell someone I can't pull them out. I also know I need a more comfortable chair. My back and butt are still hurting this afternoon :-( Peace and 73 Adam WK4P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WL7E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 227,680 Nice to see so much activity out of SC (5) and NT (3). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM3O Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 170,560 personal best, my butt is numb. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM3T Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 10,600 Head cold sucks during SS SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO7V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,600 Conditions were really pretty good. Better than last year. And what started out to be an exercise to pick up a few states for lotw's triple play award turned into a sprint for the sweep. This came about because I was able to pick up Q's from some of the sections which, in past sweepstakes, have been totally MIA. After you work the hard ones, you might as well go after the easy ones. No running here, just s&p selfishly just picking the sections I needed leaving the others along side the road. I did goof up and worked a couple of the sections multiple times. I have no idea how that could have happened! Dang, what a waste of breath! The last one, PR, was really tough as I think he had guys lined up clear to Guam trying to work him. I think I spent close to an hour trying to get that one. Now to order the mug if I can find the $12. Looking forward to the cq ww cw test next weekend. Yeah baby, the other big Kahuna! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 84,000 Part time, as usual just showed up to go for the sweep and to hand out some points and mults. SFL was my last section in the log -- and that QSO was thanks to a mobile op who answered my CQ. I walked him through the exchange, pulled up a map to verify that he was in fact in SFL section, and thanked him for the sweep. He probably wasn't expecting all that... 73, -- Ray WQ5L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WS7V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 82,720 FIRST SWEEP SINCE 2002. SAVED BY SUNSPOTS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WU6W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 10,919 4 Hrs - Had to work this weekend - Wish I had more time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WY7SS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 275,840 This is the first SS from the new QTH. Index of Calls Call: AA0AA Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4FU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA6DX Class: Single Op HP Call: AA6K Class: Single Op LP Call: AA6PW Class: Single Op HP Call: AA6YX Class: Single Op HP Call: AA7V Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AA8IA Class: Single Op LP Call: AB1OD Class: Single Op LP Call: AB2E Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AB3CX Class: Single Op HP Call: AB3IC Class: Single Op LP Call: AB4GG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AB4SF Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: AB7R Class: Single Op HP Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op HP Call: AD4L Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AD5XD Class: Single Op HP Call: AE1P Class: Single Op HP Call: AE4EC Class: Single Op HP Call: AE4TX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AE6Y Class: Single Op HP Call: AF6OP Class: Single Op LP Call: AG1T Class: Single Op LP Call: AI9T Class: Single Op HP Call: AJ4JD Class: Single Op LP Call: AK7AZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AL1G Class: Single Op HP Call: AL9A Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0AD Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K0ALT Class: Single Op HP Call: K0CN Class: Single Op LP Call: K0DU Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0HC Class: School Club HP Call: K0KE Class: Single Op QRP Call: K0KX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0LUZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0MD Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0OU Class: Single Op HP Call: K0PC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0RH Class: Single Op QRP Call: K0TG Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K0TI Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K0TO Class: Single Op HP Call: K0TQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0UH Class: Single Op LP Call: K1BX Class: Single Op LP Call: K1KD Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K1KP Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K1OU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1RM Class: Single Op HP Call: K1TN Class: Single Op HP Call: K1TO Class: Single Op HP Call: K1ZZI Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K2CYE Class: Single Op HP Call: K2DO Class: Single Op LP Call: K2DSL Class: Single Op LP Call: K2NNY Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K2OAK Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K2PS Class: Single Op LP Call: K2RP Class: Single Op HP Call: K2RS Class: Single Op LP Call: K2SI Class: Single Op LP Call: K2SX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3AJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K3AN Class: Single Op LP Call: K3AU Class: Single Op HP Call: K3DNE Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3FIV Class: Single Op LP Call: K3KU Class: Single Op LP Call: K3MIM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K3MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3STX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3TD Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K3TN Class: Single Op HP Call: K3WW Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3YDX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4AB Class: Single Op HP Call: K4B Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4EDI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4EU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4FTO Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K4GMH Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4HAL Class: Single Op HP Call: K4MM Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K4OV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4QPL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4SSU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4TCG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4TMC Class: Single Op LP Call: K4TOJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4VV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4WES Class: Single Op LP Call: K4WI Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K4WW Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K4XD Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4YCR Class: Single Op LP Call: K4ZGB Class: Single Op HP Call: K5CX Class: Single Op HP Call: K5IID Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K5KG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K5NA Class: Single Op HP Call: K5PI Class: Single Op LP Call: K5TR Class: Single Op HP Call: K5WA Class: Single Op HP Call: K5XA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Call: K6CTA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6GHA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6III Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6KO Class: Single Op HP Call: K6LA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op HP Call: K6MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6OK Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K6ST Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6TU Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6TUJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K6WV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6XX Class: Single Op HP Call: K6YL Class: Single Op HP Call: K6YT Class: Single Op HP Call: K6ZH Class: Single Op LP Call: K7EG Class: Single Op HP Call: K7GK Class: Single Op LP Call: K7HBN Class: Single Op LP Call: K7HP Class: Single Op HP Call: K7IA Class: Single Op HP Call: K7IDX Class: Single Op LP Call: K7IR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K7JQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7MKL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7ONP Class: Single Op LP Call: K7RL Class: Single Op HP Call: K7VU Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K7XC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K8AO Class: Single Op HP Call: K8GT Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K8GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Call: K8PO Class: Single Op HP Call: K8TE Class: Single Op HP Call: K9BGL Class: Single Op HP Call: K9CT Class: Single Op HP Call: K9DU Class: Single Op HP Call: K9GS Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K9MMS Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K9RJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K9YC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KA2D Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KA4OTB Class: Single Op HP Call: KB4KBS Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KB9OWD Class: Single Op LP Call: KB9UWU Class: Single Op HP Call: KC0W Class: Single Op HP Call: KC1ME Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op HP Call: KC5R Class: Single Op LP Call: KD0S Class: Single Op QRP Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Call: KD5J Class: Single Op HP Call: KE2VB Class: Single Op HP Call: KE3X Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KE6TIM Class: Single Op LP Call: KE7AUB Class: Single Op LP Call: KE7TM Class: Single Op LP Call: KF2U Class: Single Op QRP Call: KF5HHD Class: Single Op HP Call: KF6T Class: Single Op LP Call: KF7DYX Class: Single Op LP Call: KF7IUH Class: Single Op HP Call: KH6LC Class: Single Op LP Call: KH7X Class: Single Op HP Call: KH7Y Class: Single Op HP Call: KI0F Class: Single Op HP Call: KI6CG Class: Single Op HP Call: KI6QDH Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KI7Y Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KJ4LTA Class: Single Op LP Call: KJ5T Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KK1KW Class: Single Op HP Call: KK4CIS Class: Single Op LP Call: KK7AC Class: Single Op LP Call: KK7YL Class: Single Op LP Call: KL2HD Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KL7RA Class: Single Op HP Call: KM2O Class: Single Op HP Call: KM6I Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KM9M Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KN3A Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KN4KL Class: Multi-Op LP Call: KN4QD Class: Single Op LP Call: KO4OL Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KO7X Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KQ0C Class: Single Op HP Call: KQ8RP Class: Single Op QRP Call: KR2E Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KS2G Class: Single Op LP Call: KS4X Class: Single Op QRP Call: KT7E Class: Single Op LP Call: KU0G Class: Single Op LP Call: KU1T Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KU4BP Class: Single Op LP Call: KY4F Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KY7K Class: Single Op LP Call: N0AH Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N0BUI Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N0EOP Class: Single Op LP Call: N0HJZ Class: Single Op LP Call: N0IJ Class: Single Op HP Call: N0JK Class: Single Op LP Call: N0KK Class: Single Op LP Call: N0LD Class: Single Op HP Call: N0MA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N0SXX Class: Single Op LP Call: N0TA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N0XR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N1CC Class: Single Op LP Call: N1DD Class: Single Op LP Call: N1LN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N1WR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2BJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2IC Class: Single Op HP Call: N2MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2MUN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2NC Class: Single Op HP Call: N2NS Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2QT Class: Single Op HP Call: N2SQW Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Call: N2YBB Class: Single Op HP Call: N2YO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3AFT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N3AM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3BM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3CA Class: Single Op HP Call: N3ME Class: Single Op HP Call: N3OC Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N3RC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3RR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3UM Class: Single Op HP Call: N3WD Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3ZZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N4DJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N4EEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N4JF Class: Single Op QRP Call: N4KH Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N4LF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4MM Class: Single Op HP Call: N4NM Class: Single Op HP Call: N4PN Class: Single Op LP Call: N4PSE Class: Single Op HP Call: N4QQ Class: Single Op HP Call: N4RA Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N4RRL Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N4UA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N4UU Class: Single Op HP Call: N4WW Class: Single Op HP Call: N4YDU Class: Single Op LP Call: N4ZR Class: Single Op HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N5DO Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N5QQ Class: Single Op HP Call: N5RMS Class: Single Op LP Call: N5RZ Class: Single Op HP Call: N5UWY Class: Single Op LP Call: N6AJS Class: Single Op LP Call: N6AN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6AR Class: Single Op HP Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6DB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6DW Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6DZR Class: Single Op LP Call: N6EE Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6HC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N6RO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6WIN Class: Single Op HP Call: N6YEU Class: Single Op LP Call: N7LR Class: Single Op HP Call: N7MAL Class: Single Op LP Call: N7TT Class: Single Op HP Call: N7WA Class: Single Op LP Call: N7XU Class: Single Op LP Call: N8HM Class: Single Op QRP Call: N8HR Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N8IE Class: Single Op QRP Call: N8II Class: Single Op HP Call: N8SNM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N8TR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N8XX Class: Single Op QRP Call: N9KY Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N9OK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N9RV Class: Single Op HP Call: N9WEW Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: NA2U Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Call: NA6E Class: Single Op LP Call: NC1I Class: Single Op HP Call: ND0C Class: Single Op QRP Call: ND3D Class: Single Op LP Call: ND8L Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NE1RD Class: Single Op LP Call: NE9U Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NF4A Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NF8M Class: Single Op LP Call: NJ8J Class: Single Op LP Call: NK6A Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NK7J Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NM2L Class: Single Op LP Call: NM6E/5 Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NN3RP Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NN3W Class: Single Op HP Call: NN4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NN7SS Class: Single Op QRP Call: NP2B Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NR4C Class: Single Op LP Call: NR5M Class: Single Op HP Call: NS6T Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NW3H Class: Single Op HP Call: NW3R Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NX5O Class: Single Op HP Call: NX8G/5 Class: Single Op LP Call: NY3A Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3PC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VA3ZAK Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7AM Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7RR Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op QRP Call: VE3MGY Class: Multi-Op LP Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VE3TW Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XAT Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op HP Call: VE6EX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VE6SQ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7BC Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7CC Class: Single Op HP Call: VE7IO Class: Multi-Op LP Call: VE7TG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VE8DW Class: Single Op LP Call: VE8EV Class: Single Op HP Call: VE9AA Class: Single Op HP Call: VE9HF Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1TA Class: Single Op HP Call: VY2LI Class: Single Op LP Call: VY2ZM Class: Single Op HP Call: W0AO Class: Single Op HP Call: W0CEM Class: Single Op HP Call: W0EA Class: Single Op QRP Call: W0EEE Class: School Club HP Call: W0ERP Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W0NO Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W0PAN Class: Single Op LP Call: W0PC Class: Multi-Op LP Call: W1BYH Class: Single Op LP Call: W1KQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W1MAW Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W1OHM Class: Single Op LP Call: W1RH Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W1TO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W1UJ Class: Single Op HP Call: W1WBB Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W1XX Class: Single Op HP Call: W2AJW Class: Single Op LP Call: W2CDO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W2DZO Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W2FU Class: Single Op HP Call: W2GDJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W2GG Class: Single Op HP Call: W2GPS Class: Single Op HP Call: W2ID Class: Single Op HP Call: W2JU Class: Single Op LP Call: W2PV Class: Single Op HP Call: W3FA Class: Single Op LP Call: W3IDT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3KL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3LJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3LL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3PP Class: Single Op LP Call: W3TZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3UL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3UR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3WC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3YY Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4AAA Class: Single Op LP Call: W4AS Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4BCG Class: Single Op LP Call: W4BW Class: Single Op HP Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W4GDG Class: Single Op LP Call: W4JAM Class: Single Op HP Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4LT Class: Single Op LP Call: W4ML Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W4MR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4MYA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4NF Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4PK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4RM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4SVO Class: Single Op QRP Call: W4UT Class: Single Op HP Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op HP Call: W4WWQ Class: Single Op HP Call: W5ASP Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W5RU Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W5UH Class: School Club LP Call: W6AQ Class: Single Op QRP Call: W6FB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6NF Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6OAT Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6ONV Class: Single Op LP Call: W6PZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6SX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6WRT Class: Single Op HP Call: W6YI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6YX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op LP Call: W7IJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W7IY Class: Single Op LP Call: W7KAM Class: Single Op LP Call: W7PP Class: Single Op HP Call: W7QN Class: Single Op LP Call: W7RN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W7TVC Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W7WA Class: Single Op HP Call: W7WHY Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W7WW Class: Single Op HP Call: W7YAQ Class: Single Op LP Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Call: W8OHT Class: Single Op HP Call: W8RJL Class: Single Op HP Call: W8TM Class: Single Op LP Call: W8VI Class: Multi-Op LP Call: W9QL Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W9ZRX Class: Single Op LP Call: WA0MHJ Class: Single Op QRP Call: WA1DRQ Class: Single Op LP Call: WA2JQK Class: Single Op LP Call: WA3A Class: Single Op HP Call: WA3AER Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: WA3AFS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WA3MKC Class: Single Op LP Call: WA3OFC Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4EUL Class: Single Op LP Call: WA5ZUP Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WA6KEK Class: Single Op HP Call: WA7NWL Class: Single Op LP Call: WA7PRC Class: Single Op HP Call: WB0TEV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WB1GQR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WB4MSG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WB8YYY Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: WC4J Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: WC6H Class: Single Op HP Call: WD0BGZ Class: Single Op HP Call: WD8RYC Class: Single Op HP Call: WE6Z Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WE9V Class: Single Op LP Call: WK4P Class: Single Op HP Call: WL7E Class: Single Op HP Call: WM3O Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WM3T Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: WO7V Class: Single Op LP Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Call: WR3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WS7V Class: Single Op LP Call: WU6W Class: Single Op HP Call: WU9B Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WY0I Class: Single Op LP Call: WY7SS Class: Multi-Op HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0DU Call: K1KP Call: K2OAK Call: K3MIM Call: K4B Call: K4OV Call: K4TCG Call: K4VV Call: K7IR Call: KE3X Call: KO7X Call: N0MA Call: N3AFT Call: N3OC Call: NK7J Call: NP2B Call: VE6EX Call: W0NO Call: W3IDT Call: W3LJ Call: W4ML Call: W5RU Call: W6YI Call: W6YX Call: W7TVC Call: WA3AFS Call: WR3Z Call: WY7SS Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K2NNY Call: K7VU Call: KN4KL Call: N5DO Call: N6KI Call: N8HR Call: VE3MGY Call: VE7IO Call: W0PC Call: W8VI Class: School Club HP Call: K0HC Call: W0EEE Class: School Club LP Call: W5UH Class: Single Op HP Call: AA6DX Call: AA6PW Call: AA6YX Call: AB3CX Call: AB7R Call: AD4EB Call: AD5XD Call: AE1P Call: AE4EC Call: AE6Y Call: AI9T Call: AL1G Call: K0ALT Call: K0OU Call: K0TO Call: K1RM Call: K1TN Call: K1TO Call: K2CYE Call: K2RP Call: K3AU Call: K3TN Call: K4AB Call: K4BAI Call: K4EDI Call: K4EU Call: K4HAL Call: K4SSU Call: K4ZGB Call: K5CX Call: K5NA Call: K5TR Call: K5WA Call: K6CTA Call: K6KO Call: K6LRN Call: K6XX Call: K6YL Call: K6YT Call: K7EG Call: K7HP Call: K7IA Call: K7RL Call: K8AO Call: K8MR Call: K8PO Call: K8TE Call: K9BGL Call: K9CT Call: K9DU Call: KA4OTB Call: KB9UWU Call: KC0W Call: KC4HW Call: KD4D Call: KD5J Call: KE2VB Call: KF5HHD Call: KF7IUH Call: KH7X Call: KH7Y Call: KI0F Call: KI6CG Call: KK1KW Call: KL7RA Call: KM2O Call: KQ0C Call: N0IJ Call: N0LD Call: N2IC Call: N2NC Call: N2QT Call: N2YBB Call: N3CA Call: N3ME Call: N3UM Call: N4MM Call: N4NM Call: N4PSE Call: N4QQ Call: N4UU Call: N4WW Call: N4ZR Call: N5QQ Call: N5RZ Call: N6AR Call: N6WIN Call: N7LR Call: N7TT Call: N8II Call: N9RV Call: NC1I Call: NN3W Call: NR5M Call: NW3H Call: NX5O Call: VE4EAR Call: VE7CC Call: VE8EV Call: VE9AA Call: VO1MP Call: VO1TA Call: VY2ZM Call: W0AO Call: W0CEM Call: W1UJ Call: W1XX Call: W2FU Call: W2GG Call: W2GPS Call: W2ID Call: W2PV Call: W4BW Call: W4JAM Call: W4UT Call: W4VIC Call: W4WWQ Call: W6WRT Call: W7PP Call: W7WA Call: W7WW Call: W8OHT Call: W8RJL Call: WA3A Call: WA6KEK Call: WA7PRC Call: WC6H Call: WD0BGZ Call: WD8RYC Call: WK4P Call: WL7E Call: WU6W Class: Single Op LP Call: AA0AA Call: AA4FU Call: AA6K Call: AA8IA Call: AB1OD Call: AB3IC Call: AF6OP Call: AG1T Call: AJ4JD Call: K0CN Call: K0PC Call: K0UH Call: K1BX Call: K1OU Call: K2DO Call: K2DSL Call: K2PS Call: K2RS Call: K2SI Call: K3AJ Call: K3AN Call: K3FIV Call: K3KU Call: K4RO Call: K4TMC Call: K4TOJ Call: K4WES Call: K4YCR Call: K5PI Call: K6CSL Call: K6GHA Call: K6LA Call: K6TUJ Call: K6ZH Call: K7GK Call: K7HBN Call: K7IDX Call: K7ONP Call: K8GU Call: KB9OWD Call: KC5R Call: KE6TIM Call: KE7AUB Call: KE7TM Call: KF6T Call: KF7DYX Call: KH6LC Call: KJ4LTA Call: KK4CIS Call: KK7AC Call: KK7YL Call: KN4QD Call: KS2G Call: KT7E Call: KU0G Call: KU4BP Call: KY7K Call: N0EOP Call: N0HJZ Call: N0JK Call: N0KK Call: N0SXX Call: N1CC Call: N1DD Call: N2WN Call: N4LF Call: N4PN Call: N4YDU Call: N5RMS Call: N5UWY Call: N6AJS Call: N6DZR Call: N6YEU Call: N7MAL Call: N7WA Call: N7XU Call: NA4K Call: NA6E Call: ND3D Call: NE1RD Call: NF8M Call: NJ8J Call: NM2L Call: NR4C Call: NX8G/5 Call: VA3ZAK Call: VA7AM Call: VA7RR Call: VA7ST Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TW Call: VE6SQ Call: VE7BC Call: VE8DW Call: VY2LI Call: W0PAN Call: W1BYH Call: W1OHM Call: W2AJW Call: W2JU Call: W3FA Call: W3PP Call: W4AAA Call: W4BCG Call: W4GDG Call: W4KAZ Call: W4LT Call: W6ONV Call: W6ZL Call: W7IY Call: W7KAM Call: W7QN Call: W7YAQ Call: W7ZRC Call: W8TM Call: W9ZRX Call: WA1DRQ Call: WA2JQK Call: WA3MKC Call: WA3OFC Call: WA4EUL Call: WA7NWL Call: WE9V Call: WO7V Call: WQ5L Call: WS7V Call: WY0I Class: Single Op QRP Call: K0KE Call: K0RH Call: KD0S Call: KF2U Call: KQ8RP Call: KS4X Call: N4JF Call: N8HM Call: N8IE Call: N8XX Call: ND0C Call: NN7SS Call: VA3DF Call: VE3HG Call: W0EA Call: W4SVO Call: W6AQ Call: WA0MHJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AA7V Call: AB2E Call: AB4GG Call: AD4L Call: AE4TX Call: AK7AZ Call: AL9A Call: K0KX Call: K0LUZ Call: K0MD Call: K0TQ Call: K1KD Call: K1ZZI Call: K2SX Call: K3DNE Call: K3MM Call: K3STX Call: K3WW Call: K3YDX Call: K4GMH Call: K4QPL Call: K4XD Call: K5KG Call: K5XA Call: K6III Call: K6JEB Call: K6LL Call: K6MM Call: K6ST Call: K6TU Call: K6WV Call: K7JQ Call: K7MKL Call: K7NV Call: K7XC Call: K9GS Call: K9MMS Call: K9RJ Call: K9YC Call: KC1ME Call: KI6QDH Call: KI7Y Call: KJ5T Call: KM6I Call: KM9M Call: KR2E Call: KU1T Call: N0BUI Call: N0TA Call: N0XR Call: N1LN Call: N1WR Call: N2BJ Call: N2MM Call: N2MUN Call: N2NS Call: N2SQW Call: N2YO Call: N3AM Call: N3BM Call: N3RC Call: N3RR Call: N3WD Call: N3ZZ Call: N4DJ Call: N4EEB Call: N4UA Call: N4ZZ Call: N6AN Call: N6DA Call: N6DB Call: N6DW Call: N6EE Call: N6HC Call: N6RO Call: N8SNM Call: N8TR Call: N9OK Call: NA2U Call: ND8L Call: NE9U Call: NF4A Call: NK6A Call: NM6E/5 Call: NN3RP Call: NN4F Call: NS6T Call: NW3R Call: NY3A Call: VA3PC Call: VE3RZ Call: VE7TG Call: VE9HF Call: W0ERP Call: W1KQ Call: W1RH Call: W1TO Call: W2CDO Call: W2GDJ Call: W3KL Call: W3LL Call: W3TZ Call: W3UL Call: W3UR Call: W3WC Call: W3YY Call: W4AS Call: W4MR Call: W4MYA Call: W4NF Call: W4PK Call: W4RM Call: W5ASP Call: W6FB Call: W6KC Call: W6NF Call: W6OAT Call: W6PZ Call: W6SX Call: W7IJ Call: W7RN Call: W7WHY Call: WA5ZUP Call: WB0TEV Call: WB1GQR Call: WB4MSG Call: WE6Z Call: WM3O Call: WU9B Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: AB4SF Call: K0AD Call: K0TG Call: K0TI Call: K3TD Call: K4FTO Call: K4MM Call: K4WI Call: K4WW Call: K5IID Call: K6OK Call: K8GT Call: KA2D Call: KB4KBS Call: KL2HD Call: KN3A Call: KO4OL Call: KY4F Call: N0AH Call: N4KH Call: N4RA Call: N4RRL Call: N9KY Call: N9WEW Call: VE3XAT Call: W1MAW Call: W1WBB Call: W2DZO Call: W4EE Call: W9QL Call: WA3AER Call: WB8YYY Call: WC4J Call: WM3T