[PVRCNC] W4MR SS Phone

[Roberts, Will]

                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB



Call: W4MR

Operator(s): K4MA, AA4NC

Station: AA4NC



Class: Multi-Op HP

QTH: NC

Operating Time (hrs): 24

Radios: SO2R



Summary:

 Band  QSOs

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  160:    0

   80:  337

   40:  865

   20:  303

   15:  147

   10:   17

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Total: 1669  Sections = 83  Total Score = 277,054



Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club



Comments:



As usual the day after a phone contest, I always question my sanity just a

little :>)



I changed categories to multi op. with the late addition of K4MA as a second

operator. It was good to have Jim, my old multi/single partner back in front of

the radio. He has not been very active as of late due to work, travel and

raising teenagers. Hopefully he will be more active here in the future.



The contest started out slowly as I was blowing out some phone cobwebs.

Sweepstakes is very unforgiving of a slow start as QSOs lost in the first 4-6

hours can never be reclaimed. I have never exactly figured out this phenomena,

but have observed it to be true over the years. Even though the rate picked up

after the first 4 hours, we ended up about 100 QSOs shy of our all-time best

score from the station. I had higher hopes with the sunspot number at 141, but

the high bands just don't produce much rate from NC.



Congrats to our neighbor in-state and PVRC rivals, team K4OV. They got out to

an early lead and kept it going.



73,



Will AA4NC