[LCC] Fwd: SS CW W5RU(@KN5O) Multi-Op HP

Mon Nov 3 19:23:10 CST 2014

Well, who and when did you work in the NT?  I thought sure I would get a 
call on 40M from a VE8/NT at night, but no luck.  And I really struggled 
to pull VY1EI out of the mud for #83.

No, still running old Win XP on old CPUs (probably 4-5 years old).. I 
need to upgrade, but my radio budget
got squeezed pretty hard this year.. Maybe next year..

With all of you guys helping, I hope we do well.. I'm getting away from 
Phone contesting and only focusing on
CW and RTTY..    I HATE the phone QRM and my ears are getting worse.. 
Probably time for a hearing aid for me.

Yeah, Sunday was a BUST!  A real snoozer.. It's a tough contest since 
the exchange is so long, so the participation is minimal at best.. I 
think the way you did it is the way to go... Try to make 83 Q's for 83 
Mults in the fastest time possible!

Looking forward to having you guys here..

Ted

On 11/3/2014 7:12 PM, Steve Lott wrote:
> I thought before I worked KP2RUM that I was not going to get a sweep
> he was also my #82
>
> with GTA being my last one
>
> surprised your not yet running N1MM+
> maybe your using an older set of cpu's ?
>
> very much looking fwd to operating from you qth for phone
> any thoughts on using a low hanging dipole for ten meters
> or a loop antenna with higher take off angle ?
>
> of course my bet is we will place higher in the top ten box than we 
> did last year at my qth
> the icing for us was we made big news with the 1st sweep much thanks 
> to Mark chasing multips on the second radio
> during the Saturday runs
>
> scoring over 1k in q's this past week end had to be tough
> you three did awesome !
>
> I think a lot more cw ops quit to watch Sunday football, I did :)
>
> cheers!
> steve
>
>
>
> http://www.KG5VK.com
> My Ham Radio Friends
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Ted Saba <kn5o at bellsouth.net 
> <mailto:kn5o at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
>
>     Here's our results from this past weekend.. And a BIG shoutout to
>     Steve, KG5VK, who worked us and also
>     got a CLEAN SWEEP!!!
>
>                         ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
>
>     Call: W5RU
>     Operator(s): NO5W K1DW KN5O
>     Station: KN5O
>
>     Class: Multi-Op HP
>     QTH: Covington, LA
>     Operating Time (hrs): 23:50
>
>     Summary:
>      Band  QSOs
>     ------------
>       160:
>        80:  111
>        40:  447
>        20:  548
>        15:  154
>        10:   71
>     ------------
>     Total: 1331  Sections = 83  Total Score = 220,946
>
>     Club: Louisiana Contest Club
>
>     Comments:
>
>     Saturday was good, but Sunday was like watching paint dry. Things
>     started off
>     well enough, but then the rates just went south quickly. Trying to
>     run seemed
>     futile.  Mostly S&Ping on both radios.  Our run rates were cut in
>     half or
>     better during the last 10 hours.
>
>     Our break strategy/timing got messed up, so we lost about 10
>     minutes of
>     operating time - not that it was any great loss.  Because once the
>     log checkers
>     get finished with us, I'm sure that little bit of op time will be
>     irrelevant,
>     given the stiff, high-quality competition in this category.
>
>     Mult #82 for us was VI.. When KP2RUM showed up, we were surprised
>     - very few
>     callers.  We'll take it that way.. Better than a cat and dog fight
>     for those
>     last elusive mults.
>
>     By Sunday afternoon, I thought we were gonna miss the clean sweep.
>     And just
>     when I least expected it, Mult #83, VY1EI calls in on 15M. Geez
>     Eric was week,
>     but very, very patient.  Then as I got his exchange, saw he was
>     QRP.  I had him
>     repeat my number and check just to be sure we didn't mess up. 
>     Whew!  Another
>     sweep in the log!
>
>     Conditions seemed pretty good.  Of course, being in the South
>     Central US, 15M
>     and to a greater extent, 10M are only good to us for long haul
>     stuff.  Those
>     bands are difficult for us to run on.  Our workhorse bands are
>     generally 20M
>     and 40M as evident from our score.
>
>     Anyway, we will be active for SS Phone and CQWW CW.  Look forward
>     to those
>     every year.
>
>     73 and thanks to all for the Qs.
>
>     W5RU
>
>
>     W5RU - Dallas K1DW, Chcuk NO5W, Ted KN5O
>
>
>     Stns:  4 x FT1000MKV Field, Alpha 99, 8410, 2 TenTec Centurion
>     Ants:  10M 5-ele Mono @ 70ft, 15M 5-ele Mono @ 88ft, 20M 5-ele
>     Mono @ 100ft
>            40M 2-ele moxon @ 86ft, 80M 4-SQ, KT34XA @ 70ft.
>     S/W:   N1MM Classic 14.9.0
>
>
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>
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