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2015 ARRL November Sweepstakes (Phone)

  • 11/25/2016 | VE9UNB

    The licensed participants in this contest were Allen Galloway, VE9AGG, Brandon Brown, VE9BWB, Brent Petersen, VE9EX, Chelsi Doyle, VE9DOY, Martin Hann, VE9PLS, and Tristan Losier, VE9TRL. It was a pleasure for the licensed participants to introduce Joe... Read More

  • 05/10/2016 | N1XIH/7

        Another year another SSB Sweepstakes. This year I gave myself extra time for travelling, acclimatising and setting up.  This worked well for acclimatising.  But I think I was too leisurely in setting up.  As I still ran out of time before the conte... Read More

  • 11/25/2015 | KO4PM

    I decided to put my new FT-817ND on the air during the November SSB Sweeps.  I really thought that running 5 watts was going to be more difficult than it turned out to be.  61 stations were contacted during my on and off 13 hour adventure using 80 thro... Read More

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    11/24/2015 | N2DM

    QRP Truly rewarding. A bit hard to do, but when you get great QSO's, this makes it a worthwhile effort. My FT-817 is a very good receiver, and I had good reports on my signal. I used a Heil HM-4 microphone and 1/4 wave ground mounted vertical on 20 met... Read More

  • 11/23/2015 | NK7J

    Well another SSB sweepstakes has come and gone and I am sitting here on the following Monday pondering was it worth it? I mean I spent countless hours and too much money improving the station. I finished the new desk just last week, that alone was tw... Read More

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