I have never operated both modes of Sweepstakes in the same year, until now. The station was still set up from the CW leg so there was nothing to do on Saturday except to start a new log and attach the microphone headset. In the CW contest 40m my best band and 20m was also effective. This weekend it was quite different. I started on 20m where I have very large Yagis but between the QRM and long skip it was a struggle to work one station a minute. After a couple of hours I switched to 40m expecting a nice run of closer stations but my rates were even worse. Shortly later I tried 80m and my rate meter finally went over 100. 80m was my best band this weekend, 40m was noisy at times and the skip was long and on 20m the skip was also long plus I kept losing my frequency to QRM. I missed two sections in the CW leg so I really pushed hard early to get a sweep and by my first break I had all sections except NL. I found VO1KVT on 20m Sunday but I was unable to work him and then he disappeared. This was frustrating however luckily an hour later I found him on 15m. This time I worked him, got the sweep and I was able to spend the remaining 10 hours or so just making contacts. Thanks for the QSOs. Please QSL via WD9DZV.

73,

John