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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.<br>
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No, still running old Win XP on old CPUs (probably 4-5 years old)..
I need to upgrade, but my radio budget<br>
got squeezed pretty hard this year.. Maybe next year.. <br>
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With all of you guys helping, I hope we do well.. I'm getting away
from Phone contesting and only focusing on <br>
CW and RTTY.. I HATE the phone QRM and my ears are getting
worse.. Probably time for a hearing aid for me.<br>
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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!<br>
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Looking forward to having you guys here.. <br>
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Ted<br>
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<div>I thought before I worked KP2RUM that I
was not going to get a sweep<br>
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he was also my #82<br>
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with GTA being my last one<br>
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surprised your not yet running N1MM+<br>
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maybe your using an older set of cpu's ?<br>
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very much looking fwd to operating from you qth for
phone<br>
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any thoughts on using a low hanging dipole for ten
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of course my bet is we will place higher in the top ten
box than we did last year at my qth<br>
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the icing for us was we made big news with the 1st sweep
much thanks to Mark chasing multips on the second radio <br>
during the Saturday runs<br>
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<div>scoring over 1k in q's this past week end had to be tough<br>
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<div>you three did awesome !<br>
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<div>I think a lot more cw ops quit to watch Sunday football,
I did :)<br>
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results from this past weekend.. And a BIG shoutout to
Steve, KG5VK, who worked us and also<br>
got a CLEAN SWEEP!!!<br>
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ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW<br>
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Call: W5RU<br>
Operator(s): NO5W K1DW KN5O<br>
Station: KN5O<br>
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Class: Multi-Op HP<br>
QTH: Covington, LA<br>
Operating Time (hrs): 23:50<br>
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Summary:<br>
Band QSOs<br>
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160:<br>
80: 111<br>
40: 447<br>
20: 548<br>
15: 154<br>
10: 71<br>
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Total: 1331 Sections = 83 Total Score = 220,946<br>
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Club: Louisiana Contest Club<br>
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Comments:<br>
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Saturday was good, but Sunday was like watching paint dry.
Things started off<br>
well enough, but then the rates just went south quickly.
Trying to run seemed<br>
futile. Mostly S&Ping on both radios. Our run rates
were cut in half or<br>
better during the last 10 hours.<br>
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Our break strategy/timing got messed up, so we lost about 10
minutes of<br>
operating time - not that it was any great loss. Because
once the log checkers<br>
get finished with us, I'm sure that little bit of op time
will be irrelevant,<br>
given the stiff, high-quality competition in this category.<br>
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Mult #82 for us was VI.. When KP2RUM showed up, we were
surprised - very few<br>
callers. We'll take it that way.. Better than a cat and dog
fight for those<br>
last elusive mults.<br>
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By Sunday afternoon, I thought we were gonna miss the clean
sweep. And just<br>
when I least expected it, Mult #83, VY1EI calls in on 15M.
Geez Eric was week,<br>
but very, very patient. Then as I got his exchange, saw he
was QRP. I had him<br>
repeat my number and check just to be sure we didn't mess
up. Whew! Another<br>
sweep in the log!<br>
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Conditions seemed pretty good. Of course, being in the
South Central US, 15M<br>
and to a greater extent, 10M are only good to us for long
haul stuff. Those<br>
bands are difficult for us to run on. Our workhorse bands
are generally 20M<br>
and 40M as evident from our score.<br>
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Anyway, we will be active for SS Phone and CQWW CW. Look
forward to those<br>
every year.<br>
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73 and thanks to all for the Qs.<br>
<br>
W5RU<br>
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W5RU - Dallas K1DW, Chcuk NO5W, Ted KN5O<br>
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Stns: 4 x FT1000MKV Field, Alpha 99, 8410, 2 TenTec
Centurion<br>
Ants: 10M 5-ele Mono @ 70ft, 15M 5-ele Mono @ 88ft, 20M
5-ele Mono @ 100ft<br>
40M 2-ele moxon @ 86ft, 80M 4-SQ, KT34XA @ 70ft.<br>
S/W: N1MM Classic 14.9.0<br>
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