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SS CW VE8EV SO Unlimited HP

✇VE8EV - Amateur Radio From the Top of the World
By: John Boudreau - VE8EV
6 November 2017 at 17:20
ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: VE8EV
Operator(s): VE8EV
Station: VE8EV

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Inuvik, NT
Operating Time (hrs): 6

Summary:
 Band  QSOs
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  160:    
   80:    1
   40:   41
   20:   98
   15:    
   10:    
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Total:  140  Sections = 58  Total Score = 16,240

Club:

Comments:

Was kind of looking forward to this one as conditions were supposed to be good and the station is in top form (although at the moment I have no antennas up for 10/15m).  Things went off the rails right at the bell as, despite my careful configuring and testing, N1MM started doing weird things.  After a dozen QSOs I had to QRT for a few minutes and find that proverbial "obscure checkbox" that was messing things up.  Things were ok after that but there just didn't seem to be as much demand for NT as I thought there would be.  I couldn't get anything going on 40 even with the "new" 40m yagi finally up after all these years.  S&Pd through the band a couple of times and called it quits shortly after 0400z.  Never found the motivation to get back on Sunday.  Full 24-hour BIC effort guaranteed for Phone in a couple of weeks!

73
John VE8EV

ARRL DX SSB VE8EV SO Unlimited HP

✇VE8EV - Amateur Radio From the Top of the World
By: John Boudreau - VE8EV
6 March 2017 at 02:21

Call: VE8EV
Operator(s): VE8EV
Station: VE8EV

Class: SO Unlimited HP
QTH: Inuvik, NT
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160:   1 1
80:    2 2
40:  56 28
20:  90 32
15:    2 2
10:
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Total: 151 65 Total Score = 29,445

Comments:

If you think conditions were bad where YOU were, you should try it from up here. It was awful! After raging for most of the week, the aurora died out a bit Friday evening for the start of the contest but returned a few hours later and shut all the bands up tight. 20m was wobbly all day Saturday with only the strongest stations making it through. Late Saturday night 40m opened up a bit and I worked a handful of Caribbean stations in the wee hours. I was hoping for 80m to come up too and even heard a few stateside stations but everything died out again around East coast sunrise. Sunday was just as pitiful as Saturday was. At one point I decided to do something more pleasant and turned the radio off for a few hours to file my taxes. By the time the contest ended Sunday evening the shack was also very clean and vacuumed...

73
John VE8EV

ARRLDX SSB VE8EV SOSB/20 HP

✇VE8EV - Amateur Radio From the Top of the World
By: John Boudreau - VE8EV
7 March 2016 at 01:29
                    ARRL DX Contest, SSB

Call: VE8EV
Operator(s): VE8EV
Station: VE8EV

Class: SOSB/20 HP
QTH: Inuvik, NT
Operating Time (hrs): 34

Summary:
Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:          
   80:          
   40:          
   20: 1393   105
   15:          
   10:          
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Total: 1393   105  Total Score = 433,440

Club:

Comments:

The forecast said that it was coming and, oh boy, did it ever hit me hard!  Sunday its usually difficult enough to find new guys to work when you're doing SOSB but from up here, with the K-index at 7, it's excruciating!  I CQ'd endlessly in every direction and regularly S&P'd the band but to no avail.  The last four hours had only two dozen Q's and a third of those were dupes and VE's.

The band was mostly ok on Friday and Saturday before the aurora hit and I'm glad I took the opportunity to make hay while the sun shined.  As always in this contest there were lots of zero-pointers and an astounding number of dupes but it was still lots of fun.  The station is really starting to come together now and next contest season is going to be even better!

73
John VE8EV
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