Those of you who participated in the Phone Sweepstakes this weekend, please post your results here so I can include them in the CTRI Champions leaderboard.
Thanks…
73, Ken K3IU, Keeper of the Leaderboard
5 comments on “2014 ARRL SS Phone Results”
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Warmup was working 1700 Qs with W1AW/1 phone at W1XX. Bands were full end to end. It was tough finding a place to park so did S&P until I came across one. Good conditions all around. Nice to work all the QRP stations and the newly licensed of which there were many.
Last needed for the sweep were NL and GTA. Funny how that works sometimes. Topped my last year by about 10K which was my goal. Saw many spots for W1AW/1 SS operation. Hope that worked OK. They were certainly up there in the count when I worked them.
73, John W1AN
An even tougher slog on SSB as “Q” entrant. Tried to work the lowbands some knowing W1AW/1 @ W1XX was confined to 20m. Great multi-op effort guys! You couldn’t hear me … but I did hear W1AW/5 work you late Sunday with very close QSO count.
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: W1WBB
Operator(s): W1WBB
Station: W1WBB
Class: Single Op QRP
QTH: W1
Operating Time (hrs):
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: -0-
80: 11
40: 88
20: 62
15: -0-
10: 65
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Total: 226 Sections = 73 Total Score = 32,996
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
5 watts to modest antennas on SSB and a contest with the longest exchange can be brutal at times! Appreciate the patience of many, esp. those who were new mults for me (and the others calling) late in the contest.
Not a huge effort…just to much darn work on SSB.
Funniest moment: Coming upon W2JU and N2ASD in QSO on 40m (with under 5 hrs
left) saying they each needed RI and hadn’t heard one. “Hey guys you need RI…here I am!” Two Q’s/two happy customers!
W1AW/1 (RI operation from resident big-gun station W1XX) was solely a 20m operation so those not hearing RI well there may have had difficulty finding us elsewhere.
All S & P except a few QSOs. Good to again have 10m open as a “Q” entrant.
Among the many missing for me: MAR, ME, NL, NT, QC, UT, WV, KL7, KH6, KP2 Only missed two on CW as QRP this yr.
Icom IC-706mkIIG @ 5 watts to Hexbeam up @ 32′; OCF dipole @ 30′; N1MM+
73, Bill W1WBB
Call: w1AW/1
Operators: K1XA, NG1G, W1XX
Station: W1XX
Class: Multi-Op HP CHECK LOG
QTH: RI
Operating Time (hrs): 19.0
Summary: Band QSOs
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160:
80:
40:
20: 1633
15:
10:
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Total: 1633 Sections = 83 Total Score = 271,078
Club:
Comments:
As announced, we thought it only fitting that the Centennial station of the American Radio RELAY League be active in SS. After all, the exchange is a throwback to the message preamble of relayed message traffic.
W1AW/1 RI operated single band 20 meters only….so as not to clog up the other bands for non-SS exchanges…and avoid confusion where you only work a station once regardless of band.
We had intended to operate the full 30 hours (contest limit is 24 hours)…but we were a check log as are all W1AW/x contest logs. Pat NG1G got us off to a great start with just under 400 contacts in the first 4 hours. That’s 100 per hour! Then the propagation gods hit us in the 6th hour…20 died at 9:30 PM with nary a signal. We returned to “regular” non-contest W1AW/1 operating on the other bands ’til 8:30 the next morning when 20 first showed signs of life. 11 operating hours missed.
For the rest of Sunday until the end of the contest we parked on 14.268 and ran ’em gangbusters to 1633 QSOs and all 83 sections in 19 total operating hours … VI the last to fall. This must be a record for number of contacts on one band in SS.
Too bad we didn’t top 2000 Qs had the band stayed open…but overall we did accomplish our overall objective of a significant presence for W1AW/1 RI in the Sweepstakes. Sorry, no CTRI credit for this one. 73. — John, W1XX
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, SSB
Call: K1SD
Operator(s): K1SD
Station: K1SD
Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Rhode Island
Operating Time (hrs): 9
Summary:
Band QSOs
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160:
80: 218
40: 74
20: 11
15: 135
10: 41
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Total: 479 Sections = 83 Total Score = 79,514
Club: CT RI Contest Group
Comments:
K3, TenTec Titan
Skyhawk @ 70′, A4S @ 42′, Inverted Vs 40 and 80
73 James K1SD
John,
I was very proud to put W1AW/1 in my Sweepstakes log. Check 38 Rhode Island; now that’s cool!
James