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Contesting Online Forums : Articles : The Holly Grail of CW SS! Forums Help

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The Holly Grail of CW SS! Reply
by k4oj on April 12, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Agreed - SS rules.

Yes the DX compnetitions have a lure to them because it is DXing and the calls are from far away places we may never ever go to, but SS is just plain fun. After 30 years as a ham I get to QSO the many friends I have made throughout my contesting career from my first Elmers to fellow club members.

What is it about the sweep? It is not crucial to your score as many have pointed out before - my own favorite finish was a #4 when I was the only one in the box without the sweep...but...the finality of a clean sweep is satisfying, probably because as contesters we set goals and this one you can say was met when the dust settles!

Good writeup!

Jim, K4OJ
 
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by kr1g on April 12, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
Hmmm, I've never operated SS - although I once spent about an hour in CW SS playing around. Always been interested in DX contesting, but after this article, I will try to do a full effort in CW SS next year.

W1 is a great QTH for DX Contests, I wonder if it's as good for SS :)
73
Ted KR1G
 
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by K5ZD on April 22, 2001 Mail this to a friend!
SS CW is my favorite contest as well. It takes skill and endurance. But the biggest challenge is having to conduct a multi-band scavenger hunt for every new station that shows up on the band. No easy multi-band QSOs in this contest. Not everyone likes this aspect, but it is one of the reasons this contest is so different and enjoyable (in a very different way) than DX contests.
 
The Holy Grail of CW SS! Reply
by ks4du on September 19, 2007 Mail this to a friend!
My favorite contest also. I have fond memories of west coast ops thanking me over and over again for giving them SC near the end of the contest. Come to think of it, the east coast stations were glad to get SC too. I guess there weren't many SS SC ops back in the 90's. MAR was a hard one for me to snag too. I never got the sweep. My 100 watts and dipole couldn't cut it. Congrats on a fine job.

73, Jim, KS4DU (now living in the Rocky Mountains of central Idaho...literally, in a soup bowl surrounded by 12,000 ft peaks!!)
 

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