I had not used my station since the January ARRL RTTY Roundup so I had to clean the spider webs off of the Elecraft K3S on Saturday morning. I then installed a couple of temporary Beverage antennas and I labeled my K-Pod’s program buttons which made it easy to change to a particular band instead of using the radio’s up/down button. There were no sunspots but the conditions were reasonably good for a domestic contest and I worked 70 5-watt Q stations, most were pretty easy to copy. I had a good start making approximately a contact a minute for the first nine hours but then rates slowed dramatically and stayed slow or slower for the remainder of the weekend. On Sunday I turned on the spotting network to search for the few remaining sections that I needed hoping to get a sweep. The last one that I worked was VI when NP3X suddenly appeared with less than 6 hours left. He was a great op and easy to put in the log using my stacked 15m monobanders. Unfortunately I missed one multiplier - NNY. It appears that I searched the spots too late, there was a NNY station pretty active on the low bands during the first night but he never called me and I did little searching and pouncing then. I did hear him on 15m on Sunday but I did not have favorable propagation. I am not sure why northern New York is semi-rare in SS CW. My station worked perfectly, I just need a little more CW skills to break the 1000 QSO barrier however it was fun trying. I worked 30 stations sending a check 49, what a nice tribute to W0AIH who became a silent key while getting his station ready for this event. Thank you for the QSOs! Please QSL via WD9DZV

73, John