[LCC] 3830 Write-Up W5RU

[Ted Saba]

All, here are our results as promised.. 3 Qs and less than 500 points 
behind W6YI.

Ted KN5O


Call:*W5RU <http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=W5RU>*
Operator(s):K1DW <http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K1DW>K5ER 
<http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K5ER>KG5VK 
<http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=KG5VK>KN5O 
<http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=KN5O>W5WZ 
<http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=W5WZ>
Station: KN5O

Class:*Multi-Op HP*
QTH: Covington, LA
Operating Time (hrs): 24

Summary: Compare Scores 
<http://www.3830scores.com/comparescores.php?arg=bpcfvBz3fqcv7&call=W5RU>
Band 	QSOs
160: 	
80: 	155
40: 	711
20: 	891
15: 	275
10: 	114
Total: 	*2146* 	Sections 	*83* 	Total Score 	*356,236*

Club: Louisiana Contest Club

Comments: [email] <mailto:kn5o%40bellsouth.net>    2014-11-17 19:45:22
I was privileged to operate 2014 ARRL Nov SS Phone with a small group of 
hams from the Louisiana Contest Club at the station of KN5O. First, let 
me say that Ted's wife and mother are excellent hostesses, and these 
ladies welcomed the "invasion" of their home warmly and genuinely. The 
food was hot and tasty. Nothing was left to chance - the covers on my 
bed were even turned down on Friday night for my late arrival! Second, 
Ted's station is well designed and easy to operate. The magic of the 
antenna switching and other connections between position 1 and position 
2 are complex, but the user interface is simple and straight forward. 
Third, the team of ops that Ted assembled are first-rate characters who 
mesh very well together. This same group has worked together before and 
understand both the strengths and weaknesses that each bring to the 
table. All are outstanding operators with very competitive spirits! 
Definitely a unique blend to spice up the contest! Lastly, Ted's 
understanding and planning of the dynamics of the SS Phone contest led 
to a distinct strategy being laid, with specific goals at various 
mileposts during the contest. During the contest, he monitored progress 
toward the goals and discussed progress with the team to fine-tune the 
performance throughout the contest. It was a great weekend and a great 
effort. Well, the key question now is what was our error rate? It looks 
like we're neck-in-neck with the W6YI team. Only time (and the log 
checkers)will tell. Other highlights: Last year, the LCC team operated 
at KG5VK and was the first station to make a Sweep in a little over 4 
hours. This time, we bettered that goal by nearly an hour, completing 
the sweep in 3 hours and 24 minutes from the start. NP2P in the VI was 
mult no. 83 for us. We surpassed the 1996 Delta Division, HP, Multi-op, 
record set by Pat Sonnier's W5WMU station by ~30,000 points, pre-log 
checking. Hopefully we have set a new Delta Division, HP, Multi-op 
record. Of course we had a lot of hand-gyrations/signaling/inter-digital 
communications when some folks got off message and hogged the interlock. 
To quote Mark, K5ER, "you could feel the love." Other extraneous and 
useless phrases like "Please copy..." earned some ops mandatory razzing. 
Before we took our 1st break at 1:00AM Sunday local time, we were ~150 
Qs better than our 2011 effort that got us 2nd place. And as time wore 
on, the run rate declined as expected to 50/60 per hr. We were hoping to 
get a boost in the last two hours, but that rate bump-up never happened 
this year as it did in 2011. According to SH5, our best 60 minute QSO 
rate was 174 (W5WZ run, K1DW Mult) which happened in the second hour of 
the contest. There were no equipment problems and only one momentary 
power outage, which occurred during our 2 hour afternoon break on 
Sunday. More importantly, we dodged a bad cold weather front with lots 
of lightning. It started to come though 30 minutes after the contest 
ended. Of course, 20M and 40M were our workhorse bands. So it was odd on 
Sunday evening to point one of the 20 meter antennas W-NW, and NOT hear 
large number of 6's and 7's. Oh well, another SS is now history. We want 
to thank all newcomers to SS and thanks to everyone for the Qs. You made 
the contest for us. --Scott, W5WZ for W5RU W5RU ops: Dallas K1DW, Steve 
KG5VK, Mark K5ER, Ted KN5O and Scott, W5WZ

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