[TVARC] ND8L 2025 CW-Sweepstakes

[Ray Fallen]

 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!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*"Education is what you get when you read the fine print.  *
* Experience is what you get...when you don't.*
*                                   - Anonymous*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/tvarc/attachments/20251103/6f79dece/attachment.html>