[PVRCNC] [PVRC] W4MR (AA4NC op.) SS CW

[Jim Jordan, K4QPL]

Man, I wish NNY and VY1 had come begging to me!! Never heard either one 
although I did do a couple more late S&P sweeps 10-20 looking for Yt and 
just hoped that I'd hear NNY or I'd work one on my highly successful 
(right!) runs on the low bands. But I look at it on the positive side. If 
this were last year I would have had a sweep plus one!

80M really was the pits last night. I was counting on the same thing and I 
doubt my QRP signal even made it up to the noise level! Actually Saturday 
wasn't very good either compared to 2011.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberts, Will" <Will.Roberts at pgnmail.com>
To: <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>; <pvrcnc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 2:39 PM
Subject: [PVRC] W4MR (AA4NC op.) SS CW


>                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW
>
> Call: W4MR
> Operator(s): AA4NC
> Station: AA4NC
>
> Class: SO Unlimited HP
> QTH: NC
> Operating Time (hrs): 23.99
> Radios: SO2R
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs
> ------------
>  160:    0
>   80:  154
>   40:  856
>   20:  175
>   15:   17
>   10:    0
> ------------
> Total: 1202  Sections = 83  Total Score = 199,532
>
> Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club
>
> Comments:
>
> It was a tale of two contests - Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was great 
> and
> Sunday was the pits! I had my best Saturday ever and despite the 
> additional
> mults, I had my best QSO total and a sweep in the bag by my 0700z sleep 
> time. I
> spent most of the day Saturday on 40 meters with good conditions and was 
> looking
> forward to finishing the contest on 80m which is usually good from here on
> Sunday night. This was not to be as rain brought noisy conditions and a
> noticeable drop in normal Sunday participation. Despite working hard on 
> the
> second radio, the rate just evaporated.
>
> This has to be the year of the clean sweep. I heard all of the rare mults
> everywhere, at times begging for Qs. The new VE3s were very easy to find, 
> with
> ONN being the rarest of the 4 mults.
>
> The checks show lots of guys are still doing this after 40-60+ years! 
> Always
> nice to work so many familiar calls year after year. Glad we are all able 
> to
> stay "radioactive" despite adding another year into the log.
>
> 73 - Will AA4NC / W4MR
>
>
> Equipment:
>
> K3 + AL1200
> FT1000MP + LK500ZB
> Top Ten DX Doubler, WX0B SixPak, N1MM Logger
>
> 80: Inverted V @ 120'
> 40: 2 el. @ 130'
> 20: 4/4 @ 120'/50'
> 15: 4 el. @ 90'
>
>
>
>
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