Had a good time during the sweeps. Unfortunatly I missed three for a
complete sweep. Special thanks to N2EY for the Qso.

If I forgot others here, please excuse me.

Dan/W4NTI

"Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote

Had a good time during the sweeps.

Hi Dan,

I didn't hear your station all weekend.

For me, it was "A tale of two contests"!

Started out like gang busters. Scouting the bands before the bell I came
across VY1JA handing out "placeholder" reports on 10M, so lurked there
and put NT in the log as the 1st QSO. How much better can it be than
that?

Then followed several good hours on 20 & 40, retreating down to 80M
about midnight. At 0730Z break time I had a nice fat log, including
79-mults (missing VE4).

Hit the bands again at 1400Z, and found Derrick VE4VV on 20 to open the
morning with my sweep in the bag, and started the day with some nice
(for Sunday morning) runs on 20 & 15.

"HEY", sez I, "this may be my year!"

Alas it was not to be.

At around 1600Z things just collapsed (later found we'd had a massive
case of 'freckles del sol'), with only 15 showing much life. Conditions
fluctuated from bad to poor to fair to horrible the rest of the morning
and all afternoon for me. At BIC=18-hours I decided I'd had more fun
than I could stand, so I sent in my log.

CU in this weekend in the phone-phray?

73, de Hans, K0HB

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Line sco

ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Station: K0HB

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: Minnesota
Operating Time (hrs): 18

Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 0
80: 195
40: 207
20: 374
15: 94
10: 7
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Total: 877 Sections = 80 Total Score = 140,320