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here are our results as promised.. 3 Qs and less than 500 points
behind W6YI.<br>
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KN5O<br>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><a
href="http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=W5RU"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">W5RU</a></strong><br>
Operator(s):<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K1DW"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">K1DW</a><span
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href="http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K5ER"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">K5ER</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=KG5VK"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">KG5VK</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=KN5O"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">KN5O</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
href="http://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=W5WZ"
style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">W5WZ</a><span
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Station: KN5O</p>
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class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Multi-Op HP</strong><br>
QTH: Covington, LA<br>
Operating Time (hrs): 24</p>
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<td colspan="4" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;">Summary:
<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
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style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Compare
Scores</a></td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">160:</td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">80:</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">155</td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">40:</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">711</td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">20:</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">891</td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">15:</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">275</td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">10:</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;">114</td>
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text-align: right;">Total:</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;"><strong>2146</strong></td>
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<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;"><strong>83</strong></td>
<td class="tctr" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: center;">Total Score</td>
<td class="trght" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align: top;
text-align: right;"><strong>356,236</strong></td>
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Louisiana Contest Club</p>
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style="font-size: 0.8em;"><a
href="mailto:kn5o%40bellsouth.net"
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<td class="pretext" style="font-size: 1em; vertical-align:
top; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'courier new',
monospace;">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
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