[TVARC] ND8L 2025 CW-Sweepstakes
Ray Fallen
nd8l2828 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 00:04:34 EST 2025
SSCW Summary Sheet
CallSign Used : ND8L
Operator(s) : ND8L
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP, limited antennas overlay
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW
Station : FIXED
Assisted : ASSISTED
Transmitter : ONE
Sent Exchange : U 64 NFL
Name : Ray Fallen
Address : 589 Keller Court
City/State/Zip : The Villages FL 32163
Country : USA
ARRL Section : NFL
Cub/Team : Florida Contest Group
Band QSOs Pts Sec Pt/Q
3.5 7 14 6 2.0
7 77 154 51 2.0
14 24 48 4 2.0
21 49 98 4 2.0
28 21 42 12 2.0
Total 178 356 77 2.0
Score : 27,412
Rig : Elecraft K4D + KPA500 + KAT500
Antennas : Ultimax DXtreme 53' long @ 20-25 feet played
much better than I expected.
Soapbox : Checked out the station on Friday afternoon
and all worked correctly. Saturday at 5PM Local
planned to hit the ground running and
as it turned out just hit the ground. Murphy struck.
When I pressed F4 to send my call...and it sent it
just fine...over and over and over. RF in the
keyboard or whereever...and took 20 minutes to
install my entire ferrite collection and got going.
Just did what I normally did...S&P'd for mults and
wound up with 77. Overnight, the bands were pretty
dead...but Sunday morning things picked up some.
Finally attempted to run on 15...had some good rate,
but had to be at work by 6...so that didn't last long.
Got a mult for my last QSO, thank you AL4A.
Much to learn on the K4D...whew!
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*"Education is what you get when you read the fine print. *
* Experience is what you get...when you don't.*
* - Anonymous*
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