SS CW 95 - N2NT (KZ2S op) SO High Power

ARRL Sweepstakes CW 1995

N2NT (op. KZ2S), Single Op, High Power

John Golomb, KZ2S
[email protected]

Summary Sheet

              ARRL SWEEPSTAKES -- 1995

  Call: N2NT (op. KZ2S)          Section: NNJ  
  Mode: CW                       Category: Single Operator High Power

      BAND     QSO    QSO PTS   SECTIONS

      160        0        0        -
       80      317      634        -
       40      778     1556        -
       20      242      484        -
       15       48       96        -
       10        0        0        -
     -----------------------------------

     Totals   1385     2770       76 (missed KP2)

               Score:  210,520  

Equipment

Here are station details:

10 - 6 ele @ 100'
15 - 6 ele @ 95'
20 - 204BA @ 108'
40 - 402CD @ 115'
80 - dipole @ 90'
beverages for receive

"left" station - IC765 + Ten Tec Titan
"right" station - IC765 + B&W 2 X 3-500Z amp

automatic bandswitching / antenna selection for both stations

Commentary

CW SS is one of my favorite contests. Like K1ZX, SS was the first contest I ever did. It's always nice to work the familiar calls each year. It's even better to see new calls in the log each year. Anyway, here's some info about my CW SS operation from N2NT this year.

For the last three years, I've done CW SS with my callsign, but operated from the QTH of Bill, NF2L in SNJ. For those of you who don't know, NF2L is where Andy, N2NT has been doing single op efforts in CQWW for the past few years. There have also been several multioperator efforts from NF2L using N2NT's callsign in the ARRL DX contests. Needless to say, it was a huge station. Earlier this year Bill decided to downsize his station. Because of this, NF2L wasn't available for a serious SS effort.

N2NT received permits to put up his towers over the summer. I guess it was sometime in September that Andy said: "I need incentive to put all this aluminum in the air, if I get some antennas up for CW SS you'll come over and operate .. right". He said he would even have everything all set up for a two radio SS effort. I said sure, but didn't think we would be ready. To make a long story short, everything was ready by the week before SS, including automatic bandswitching w/ computer iterfaces for both stations. With this setup the only thing I had to remember to do was tune the amps when I changed bands.

I started warming up on 40 meters about 15 minutes before the start of the contest. K1AR called me and he was pretty weak. We discussed about how bad this SS was going to be given the fact that 40 was "long" before the start of the contest. Also tried to QSY to 15 with KR0Y before the contest and we couldn't hear each other. I began to prepare myself for what was beginning to look like a washout weekend as far as conditions were concerned.

Well, conditions weren't so bad after all. 40 stayed short enough Saturday night and to quote several others who have already posted here, "There's no meters like 40 meters". 20 was also fairly good Sunday morning/afternoon. I had quite a bit of success running on 20 Sunday morning which I haven't been able to do in previous years.

I think we should all thank Billy and Warren at ARRL for bringing SS back to life with the PINS and Sweep Mugs programs started a few years ago. Sunday is no longer a drag in SS. The top scores being made now are amazing. I think some of the top CW scores would have made the top ten PHONE box 10 or 15 years ago.

CW SS is one of the best Contests!

John, KZ2S

Rate Sheet

BREAKDOWN QSO/mults  N2NT  ARRL SWEEPSTAKES  

HOUR     80       40       20       15     HR TOT  CUM TOT

  21   .....    61/21    19/12     9/5      89/38   89/38
  22     .      42/7      9/3     27/5      78/15  167/53
  23     .      67/3     13/2       .       80/5   247/58
   0     .      84/4      3/0       .       87/4   334/62
   1    1/0     85/2      2/0       .       88/2   422/64
   2   19/2     52/1       .        .       71/3   493/67
   3   63/1     13/1       .        .       76/2   569/69
   4   63/3      9/0       .        .       72/3   641/72
   5   55/0      8/0     .....    .....     63/0   704/72
   6   38/0     16/0       .        .       54/0   758/72
   7   20/0     31/0       .        .       51/0   809/72
   8    9/0     22/0       .        .       31/0   840/72
   9   17/0      3/1       .        .       20/1   860/73
  10     .        .        .        .         .    860/73
  11     .        .        .        .         .    860/73
  12    6/0     19/0       .        .       25/0   885/73
  13    8/0     48/0     .....    .....     56/0   941/73
  14    2/0     45/1      3/0       .       50/1   991/74
  15     .      38/0      3/0       .       41/0  1032/74
  16     .       8/0     15/0      3/0      26/0  1058/74
  17     .       6/0     50/2       .       56/2  1114/76
  18     .        .      49/0      1/0      50/0  1164/76
  19     .      11/0      8/0       .       19/0  1183/76
  20     .      22/0     21/0       .       43/0  1226/76
  21   .....    .....    12/0      8/0      20/0  1246/76
  22     .      12/0     23/0       .       35/0  1281/76
  23     .      14/0      8/0       .       22/0  1303/76
   0     .      15/0      4/0       .       19/0  1322/76
   1    5/0     15/0       .        .       20/0  1342/76
   2   11/0     32/0       .        .       43/0  1385/76
DAY1  301/6    690/41   195/19    40/10       .   1226/76
DAY2   16/0     88/0     47/0      8/0        .    159/0
TOT   317/6    778/41   242/19    48/10     ..... 1385/76

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