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2007 ARRL November Sweepstakes (Phone)

11/20/2007 | AE1P The Nov. Sweeps have always been my favorite contest, and I have tried every year to improve from the past year.
The way the 2007 SSB started, did not look very promising,band condx's in the Northeast were terrible,20m closed real early,40m was a mess,and also 75m.
Worked Joel,WA1ZYX,who lives a couple of towns up from me,on 75m early on,and he agreed, Bands were terrible,and he's been contesting for a good length of time.
Thought seriously about shutting down and going to bed, but stuck it out,managed a few Q's,then around 0700 Sunday morning,75m finally came alive,and managed the bulk of my qso's in the next couple of hours.
Figured I mind as well just stay up,kept running right until the sun was up,then headed up to try out 20m with the Homebrew Hex-beam,but the band was so crowded,this little 100w station just had to S & P,and that was a feat in itself, as splatter was tremendous! Glad fully 15 opened up a bit,and was able to work a bunch of west coast station's with little difficulty.Ended up switching between 75 & 160 the last couple of hours,trying to hit my goal,and trying to keep my Voice, which was rapidly going hoarse!
A big thank you to Jim,K5RX, who pulled out my puny 160m sig with a couple of minutes to go to give me 500 Q's!! Reached my goal !
No sweep though,last year missed just SC,worked them twice this year,but no WV and NT (I have to agree with others,did anyone in the NE work NT ? )Next year I will try harder for the sweep than Q's,and after this weekend, I think next year can only get better!
73 all from NH,
Neil -- AE1P


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