[PVRCNC] W4MR (@ AA4NC) SS Phone

[Jim K4QPL]

Great job guys.

I was only on for a few hours (the coastal weather forecast for this week
kept me out of the shack for about 9 hours Sunday) but conditions seemed
amazingly good on all bands 10-80. I've never made so many Q's on 10M in SS.
People were on all the bands at the same time pretty much wall to wall
running. Activity wasn't concentrated so it made it very tough to get much
rate running low power despite good signal reports. I think the "U" guys had
so many point and click targets not many of them were turning the tuning
dial the old fashioned way. More of my run Q's were A-B-Q unless I got lucky
and worked a U and he spotted me. I think the scenario is something like
this, "You have to get spotted to get much rate--and you need a good rate to
get spotted!" I had a run of almost an hour on 40 with a +110 ten-minute
rate after working a couple "U"'s early but other than that as Will says, a
"moped on a NASCAR track". Ended up doing mostly 2R S&P which was slow and
boring--only thing slower and more boring was 1R S&P! I guess I should have
gone Unlimited instead of A.

The SSB problem is exacerbated in that compared to CW with skimmers running,
you are dependent on an S&P op to spot you. On CW, almost the instant you
start a run, you show up on band maps, even LP or QRP. Don't know what the
bandwidth coverages on the skimmer receivers are, but I was tempted to blast
out a high speed CW CQ before punching the CQ button on the DVK! I'm not an
engineer, but it seems like one should be able to program a mode
switch/message in N1MM to do that on demand or automatically every few
minutes sort of like the autoID on repeaters. After all, CW is legal over
the entire band as long as the transmissions aren't simultaneous. Maybe
power could also be reduced for that transmission. And of course your actual
QSO's would be SSB. Is this too way out or possible?

73,

Jim, K4QPL

-----Original Message-----
From: PVRCNC [mailto:pvrcnc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Roberts,
Will
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 11:12 AM
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Subject: [PVRCNC] W4MR (@ AA4NC) SS Phone


   ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB

Call: W4MR
Operator(s): AA4NC KK4DHF
Station: AA4NC

Class: Multi-Op LP
QTH: NC
Operating Time (hrs): 23

Summary:
Band  QSOs
------------
  160:
   80:
   40:
   20:
   15:
   10:
------------
Total: 1270  Sections = 83  Total Score = 210,820

Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club

Comments:

Low power phone is  challenge - a bit like driving a moped on a NASCAR
track!
Decided to do Low power since no one in NC had done a full time low power
multi since the category was initiated a few years ago. Now we know why! We
had had success in SS CW with low power, but Ess Ess Bee is another animal
altogether.

Congrats to K4OV and crew for a great MOHP score from NC! 3830 shows them
currently in 2nd place behind W6YI.

Looking forward to CQWW CW and the 24 hour Classic category next week - much
more civilized and relaxing!



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