CQ WW SSB Contest Results

[N1API]

Here are my results for the weekend for the SSB Contest.

START-OF-LOG: 3.0
LOCATION: CT
CALLSIGN: N1API
CLUB: Meriden ARC
CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB
CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: ASSISTED
CATEGORY-BAND: ALL
CATEGORY-MODE: SSB
CATEGORY-POWER: LOW
CATEGORY-STATION: FIXED
CATEGORY-TRANSMITTER: ONE
CLAIMED-SCORE: 207000
OPERATORS: N1API
NAME: Al
ADDRESS:
ADDRESS-CITY: Meriden
ADDRESS-STATE-PROVINCE: CT
ADDRESS-POSTALCODE: 06451
ADDRESS-COUNTRY: UNITED STATES
EMAIL:
CERTIFICATE: NO
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7300.0

Band ------ QSOs ------ ZN ------Cty
7 ------------24 ------ 10 ------ 19
14 --------- 185 ------ 27 ------ 98
21 ---------- 81 ------ 18 ------ 58
10 ---------- 13 ------- 7 ------ 13
Total ------ 303 ------ 62 ----- 188
Score: 207,000
1 Mult = 1.3 Q's

Things started out slow. 40 Meters was poor, 20 was also poor. I only made 15 contact in the first hour and decided to give up for the evening. I came back to 40 at 04 UTC and made four more QSOs and turned in for the night. When I started the next morning 15 meters was open south. 20 meters was still poor and had not opened yet. I made a decision to just put multipliers in the log the first day to try and maximize my scores. So I worked 20, 15 and a couple of 10 meter contacts finding just the multis and putting them in log. Sunday I worked both multis and regular contacts to try and build my count and score. I managed to work a few good pileups including a station in Ethiopia on 20 which is one of the few left that I've never worked on 20. The manager is a good county hunting friend so I'm sure I'll get a QSL for that one. I think that was my only good band need though there were some good picks about, Ethiopia, Malawi, Palestine, Burkina Faso, (I still like the old name Upper Volta), Reunion Island, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Ducie Island, (yes they were giving out zone reports), and I managed to work them some on multiple bands. Total unique countries worked were 104. One other thing I did was take the spare MFJ voice keyer and and program the memories for this contest including an N1API Macro and a 59 Zero Five macro. Saved a lot of voice especially in the tough ET3 pileup.

Hope you all got some seat time. Please send your log in for Meriden ARC, we need 3 logs to show for a club mention.

-73-

Al - N1API