[PVRCNC] W4MR (AA4NC-op.) SS Phone

Mon Nov 21 13:01:21 EST 2011

Great job, Will.

> The highlight of the contest for me was on 80m working people through a 
> guy who was recording my CQs and playing >them back. After about 20 
> minutes when I never acknowledged even hearing him, he got frustrated and 
> started putting a >carrier on me. The K3 auto notch killed it immediately 
> and I just kept working through him. After a few minutes of this, I >guess 
> his radio got overheated and he stopped. Before leaving, he insulted my 
> mother and said "you should call yourself >Monkey Rump". Cool - Now I have 
> a new set of phonetics! :>)

Nah, he probably just moved his carrier over to me. I also ignored him, put 
on auto-notch as well and kept on truckin'. May not have been the same guy 
as I didn't get any recordings or editorial comment. Or maybe he just 
couldn't think up any appropriately derogatory phonetics for "QPL". 
Unfortunately, the carrier-kings were fairly prevalent with a duration 
clearly longer than the accidental tuner-uppers. Doesn't bode well for the 
future although it must be frustrating for them having to deal with 
auto-notch. Can we get Riley out of retirement??

73,

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberts, Will" <Will.Roberts at pgnmail.com>
To: <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>; <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 11:55 AM
Subject: [PVRCNC] W4MR (AA4NC-op.) SS Phone

> Hopefully we achieved the 4-peat over NCCC. I kept my BIC for 24 hours in 
> this one, even though I wanted to be somewhere(anywhere!)else at times.
>
> As a rate junkie, Phone SS always eludes me. I guess it's the long 
> exchange and extreme QRM that puts a damper on the fun. I do however seem 
> to have a great talent for always calling CQ on a net frequency! (" You 
> &%#$ contesters again! Please QSY because the Aches & Pains Net that has 
> been meeting here since two days after the Marconi trans-Atlantic tests 
> will be starting in 30 minutes").
>
> My goal was to try to beat my best score this year with the better band 
> conditions and repaired antennas, but it was not to be. I didn't even come 
> close...
> I have always said that the first hours in SS are critical, and this was 
> no exception. You just can't reclaim QSOs that are not made in the first 
> 4-5 hours. I got off to a bad start on 20/15m. It was S-L-O-W running. I 
> also made a losing bet that 80m would be good during the last 4 hours, so 
> I took all my off time to allow for that. The rate at the end was only 
> 35-40, even working the 2nd radio pretty hard.
> I probably needed a low dipole on 40, but didn't put one up because the 
> beam had worked so well for CW SS. My 20m 4L @ 120' is also probably too 
> high for SS. The NE fixed antenna at 50' did do pretty well into W1/2 with 
> the short conditions. I have a 3 element SteppIR that needs to go up 
> before the next domestic contest. I need to figure a good mounting height 
> for it to balance contesting and 6/12/17m DXing.
>
> It's weird - I can get through first call on S&P and get great signal 
> reports, but just couldn't get any run rates. I had to constantly press 
> the 2nd radio. Was it just me, or did it seem that there were an unusually 
> large amount of very weak signals this year? I'm always amazed that I can 
> have a QRP station call that is S9, then minutes later will have an A or B 
> station from the same section that is too weak to copy the exchange. I'd 
> love to know what type of antennas were being used and do some path 
> analyses on these. At times it doesn't seem physically possible for the 
> signal strengths to be that much different.
>
> The highlight of the contest for me was on 80m working people through a 
> guy who was recording my CQs and playing them back. After about 20 minutes 
> when I never acknowledged even hearing him, he got frustrated and started 
> putting a carrier on me. The K3 auto notch killed it immediately and I 
> just kept working through him. After a few minutes of this, I guess his 
> radio got overheated and he stopped. Before leaving, he insulted my mother 
> and said "you should call yourself Monkey Rump". Cool - Now I have a new 
> set of phonetics! :>)
>
>
>
> ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
>
> Call: W4MR
> Operator(s): AA4NC
> Station: AA4NC
>
> Class: SO Unlimited HP
> QTH: NC
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs
> ------------
>  160:    0
>   80:  433
>   40:  705
>   20:  372
>   15:   43
>   10:   48
> ------------
> Total: 1601  Sections = 80  Total Score = 256,160
>
> Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
>
> Comments:
>
> This was a lot like work. Now I remember why I like CW contests so much 
> better.
> Ouch do my ears hurt! It was very noisy here with local line noise and
> generally noisy bands. Add in the guy playing a recording of my CQs back 
> to me
> and the SSTV/net/pig farmer QRM and it seemed I had to work hard for every 
> Q.
>
> 73,
>
> Will
>
>
>
>
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