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SS CW 96 - W5WMU (N6TR) SO High Pwr

from Collected & Edited by Randy Thompson, K5ZD on July 23, 2000
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ARRL Sweepstakes CW 1996

W5WMU (opr. N6TR), Single Op, High Power

Larry Tyree, N6TR
[email protected]

Summary Sheet

                ARRL SWEEPSTAKES -- 1996

  Call: W5WMU (opr. N6TR)         Section: Louisiana  
  Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator High Power

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS   SECTIONS

      80       130        260        
      40      1010       2020        
      20       272        544      
      15        30         60       0 
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  Totals      1442       2884      78   =  224,952 points
  

Comments

Yup - over 1000 on 40!

Off times taken (did I take enough this time?):

21:29 - 21:59 (Yes - that is in the first hour...)

08:58 - 13:58 (Five - count them FIVE hours!).

22:08 - 22:38 (Saving it in case of a failure).

That off time in the first hour was taken because of a problem with the 20 meter feedline. Signals were going away a second or two after xmiting. We swapped amplifiers thinking it might be the TR relay. We also cleaned a bunch of PL-259 connectors in case that was the problem. The actual problem didn't get fixed until Sunday morning when I noticed a tee connector was getting very warm. Replaced it and the problem was gone.

After my break, I decided to go to 40 meters (I had little confidence in my 20 meter signal at that point) and 40 just played and played. Between 2200 and 0500Z, I averaged over 90 an hour sitting on 7046 kHz. At one point, I felt like the band was going to go long on me, but it hung in there!

I was also very surprised at how productive 40 was in the morning. I think with 15 taking its time to open for the west coast, 20 just was over crowded and lots of people stayed down on 40. I waited until the 6's moved to 15 before trying to CQ on 20. After I fixed the bad tee connector, I finally felt "loud" on 20.

Worked NA7R on 80 (second radio) saturday night. Last two mults were KP2 and KP4. KP4 was very easy to find on 15 Sunday morning with the south-east quad (also KP2 if I had still needed it). I heard K8HVT S&Ping on 40 meters late Saturday, but couldn't get him to come back to me. Got him on 20 the next morning.

Best moment came while on 40. I finished a CQ, and heard a weak signal, then after a second, a loud guy calling me. I came back to the loud guy. While I was sending the exchange, I thought about the weak signal and it was a VE6. I told Pat (who was listening in at the time) that I think I am being called by VE6SH/VE8. Sure enough! It was tough to pull Tim through as he was pretty weak. Later, VY1JA would answer my FIRST CQ on 80 meters with a great signal.

I would also like to thank W5XX who hung around for my first QSO in the contest from sometimes hard to work (at least on the high bands) section of Mississippi. The reason this is noteworthy is that Mal was also my first QSO last year!!

I made one QSO while using two radios on the same band (20 meters). I was CQing up around 14065 kHz and could search and pounce up to 055 without any interference. This was done with a tribander at one end of the property and a 500 watt amplifier. One QSO may not seem like much, but if I hadn't have worked Wyoming the night before, N7NG would have been a life saver!!

It just didn't seem like there was much "new meat" out there to find on Sunday. Made the two radio stuff a lot of work. I think maybe two radio with Q power might be more fun as there will be a lot more QSOs made with it...

I didn't use the second radio in the first few hours like I have before. However, I still came up with 92 second radio QSOs.

Near the end, before setttling down on 80 meters, I spent some time up in the 40 meter novice band. Had a nice little pileup there and it was good for about 10 QSOs at a time I was struggling to get 30/hour.

N5RZ and I operated totally different contests and came within 11 QSOs of each other! Our band breakdowns are VERY different, as are the off-times. He was obviously ahead of me after the first hour, then I was ahead of him before I went to bed after the fun I had on 40. Then he got up early and got ahead of me again. He finished the contest with over an hour of off time to take while I kept plugging along.

I am totally amazed at the KR0Y score. Sure am glad he didn't turn on his amplifier! Anxious to hear more about the W0SD score. I guess we have to wait until April to find out who won this thing. I am just happy I was able to overcome the problems and still put together a competitive entry.

73, Tree N6TR

Rate Sheet

  HOUR   80CW    40CW    20CW    15CW    TOTAL   ACCUM
  ----  ------  ------  ------  ------   -----   -----
   21       0       1      27      14      42      42
   22       0      88       0       3      91     133
   23       0     104       0       1     105     238
    0       1      85       0       0      86     324
    1       3      84       0       0      87     411
    2       0      81       0       0      81     492
    3       0      90       0       0      90     582
    4       0      91       0       0      91     673
    5       8      68       0       0      76     749
    6       9      54       0       0      63     812
    7       7      53       0       0      60     872
    8      27      20       0       0      47     919
    9       0       0       0       0       0     919
   10       0       0       0       0       0     919
   11       0       0       0       0       0     919
   12       0       0       0       0       0     919
   13       0       1       0       0       1     920
   14       0      54       6       0      60     980
   15       0      37      14       0      51    1031
   16       0      39       9       0      48    1079
   17       0      26       9       0      35    1114
   18       0       1      35       1      37    1151
   19       0       0      40       7      47    1198
   20       0       0      48       2      50    1248
   21       0       6      34       0      40    1288
   22       0       2      22       2      26    1314
   23       0       2      27       0      29    1343
    0       5      23       1       0      29    1372
    1      37       0       0       0      37    1409
    2      33       0       0       0      33    1442

  TOTAL   130    1010     272      30  
 

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