{"id":11,"date":"2006-11-05T19:41:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=11"},"modified":"2007-04-13T20:48:19","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T01:48:19","slug":"2006-arrl-sweepstakes-cw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w4kaz.com\/qth\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"2006 ARRL Sweepstakes-CW"},"content":{"rendered":"
Summary:\r\n Band  QSOs\r\n------------\r\n  160:    0\r\n   80:  131\r\n   40:   84\r\n   20:   52\r\n   15:   18\r\n   10:\r\n------------\r\nTotal:  285  Sections = 71  Total Score = 40,470<\/pre>\n
This was the first half of the Big Push-the effort by PVRC to re-gain the Sweepstakes gavel from NCCC and any other challengers.  There was a high level of excitement within the local chapter and the club at-large going into the contest season this year.  I’m happy with my effort, as it is a nice improvement over the prior year’s CW effort.<\/p>\n
Conditions were not too bad for a low power S&P outing.    I know its not as productive in QSO’s as running, but I’m not a good enough a CW op to jump into that fire yet.  Besides, S&P without packet spots is a box of chocolates.
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\nWhat Sunday doldrums?  Hey, when you operate as slow as I do on CW, there are always new ones out there.  80 meters is fun when its so free of QRN.  I spent a lot of time there.  I even worked a few stations on the dummy load.  I figured if QRP stations could push my meter to S9 on 80 meters, anything was possible.  Sure ’nuff…. Coolness.  Didn’t even need to send any fills.<\/p>\n
Gotta work on the CW skills.  Flubbed and fumbled a couple of fills, and had to piddle with the log too much.  Ended the contest after reaching my goal of 40K points when I found N4CW\/1.(I blew past my original goal of 25K pretty early…)  Bert capped off my contest, and I parked there to read the mail while I copied the log file and reports.<\/p>\n
Missed sections:
\nMS  WTX SB  EWA AK  NL  MB  SK  NT<\/p>\n
Okay…..West Texas??!  That’s not one I usually miss.   Heard very few AZ and NM too.  I think I got those on 40, but 40 was long.<\/p>\n
Thanks for the training folks.  It might be starting to set in…. :0 Some of you guys are really amazingly good operators.  I’m taking notes–but much room is left for improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summary: Band QSOs ———— 160: 0 80: 131 40: 84 20: 52 15: 18 10: ———— Total: 285 Sections = 71 Total Score = 40,470 <\/p>\n
This was the first half of the Big Push-the effort by PVRC to re-gain the Sweepstakes gavel from NCCC and any other challengers. There was a high level of excitement within the local chapter and the club at-large going into the contest season this year. I’m happy with my effort, as it is a nice improvement over the prior year’s CW effort.<\/p>\n
Conditions were not too bad for a low power S&P outing. I know its not as productive in QSO’s as running, but I’m not a good enough a CW op to jump into that fire yet. Besides, S&P without packet spots is a box of chocolates.<\/p>\n
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