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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/03 09:07 Salut JP

Félicitation pour les 78 sections. Pour le 75e SS CW il est supposé y avoir une surprise pour ceux qui ont eu 75 sections et plus.

J'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir en effet. Je n'ai opéré qu'en S&P mais la confiance augmente. Au moins j'ai plus de 100 QSO et je vais avoir droit d'acheter l'épinglette. Un but personnel (HI).

Le terrain ici est minuscule et la petite antenne n'était pas du tout performante sur 80m. Chaque contact sur cette bande fut difficile. Par contre sur 40m et 20m c'était très facile. J'ai un indicateur sur le FT-950 qui me permet d'arriver "zero-beat" avec la station écoutée et ça m'a vraiment aidé.

J'ai quelques photos du setup que je vais publier sur le site bientôt.

C'est important de montrer que la radioamateur est très dynamique ici.

Je vais aller fouiller sur le soapbox du concours sur le site de l'ARRL voir les commentaires qui y sont postés.

Merci aussi aux fondateurs du groupe, c'est motivant. Votre travail est très apprécié.

73s de Louis, ve2ezd

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/03 11:34 Félicitation à tous!

I hope we gave QC to everyone during the contest))

Claude you are right the 80m band was unbelievable good during the first night. I have started the contest on 20m S/P but couldn't get a good rate. The propagation was not good. Then I have QSY to 40m. The same thing! Strange but on 40 it was also very hard to get every QSO. So the rate after 2 hours was really low - just 36 QSO/hour. But then I QSY to the 80m I got real joy. So the rate was never coming down 60 QSO/hour. Sometimes it was up to 110 QSO/hour! So I went to sleep at around 02:30 PM with 400 QSO in the log.

Next day was great for all other bands except 80m ))) The 20m was absolutely amazing before 8PM. I tried to repeat the Saturday's rate but it was impossible. 80m was noisy and it was a challenge to get every exchange. And there were not too many players.

That was my first SS. The EXCHANGE looks really awkward and it's not easy to RX/TX. I think that will be more errors in EXCHANGE than in other tests. After first hour I got bad rate on 20m - 36QSO/hour and I wanted to quit. But I have decided to continue but just in a relaxing mode (more time on CQ then S/P) as to get a good practice before CQ WW. I didn't work all 24 hours. I took one extra hour for sleep. And took one hour for a beautiful Sunday dinner with a bottle of wine prepared by my girlfriend.

J-P:

I'm using simple Inverted L 9 meters up in the highest point. I live in a "restricted" area (restricted by my girlfriend and neighbor ). So I can't erect something toller then 10 meters. Anyway last summer I have put my 2 el. yagi to 11m when anybody was out. But that's a big secret tssssss....!))))

The Inv L is optimized especially for 80m with MMANA software. I have a remote switching match for 160m and 40 m. So I use just only one Inv L (one wire over our backyard - that's for my girlfriend ) for 3 bands 160-80-40 with swr around 1:1.0 on cw portion of the bands. With tuner it works as a surrogate antenna on 30m and 20m as well.

PS: I was really in shock that almost half of the SS participants gave theres CK which are before my birthday (1964) ! Who going to be in the contest in 2018 ?!

73!

Victor

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/03 12:55 Hi Victor.
Was not supposed to be in this one because I was coming back from a full week in Québec city. Did mostly S&P and this is a problem in this contest because exchange are long and you are loosing TIME each QSO. And since we could not work same guy on other band... most of the time after waiting you find you have worked that guy. Only did RUN on 80m but the pileup was hard to work hi. Maybe cluster is a must too?

I came back with a nice Trylon T-500-64 that I will install next spring.
Will have better sys next year.

73, claude VE2FK

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/03 14:45 SSCW Score Summary Sheet
Operator : VE2XAA
Category : SOABLP
Club/Team : Contest Group du Quebec
Software : N1MM Logger V8.10.5

Band QSOs Pts Sec
3.5 240 480 59
7 11 22 5
Total 251 502 64

Score : 32,128
Congratulations to all! Good job! I hope every one on band could get QC section. 73! Alexey VE2XAA

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/03 20:40 This was a good team effort guys, very nice. Good result Victor, I think you are the magician of the low bands with that inverted L in restricted area.
JP great result also restricted area.
Bravo à tous pour un autre effort collectif. Funny video JP ha ha!!

73,
Fabi

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/03 21:57 HI Congratulations to all and specialy Victor...

by the numbers I saw posted activity was higher than other years but even there you did a great job with your 10M high set up guess you have a chance to get one all time record in the list VICTOR...

73' Phil Phil VE2FU

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/04 10:18 Salut!

Congratulations to all participant, seems QC has very good show in SS CW.

I wasn't in the contest myself but from VE2DWA, VE3KI was active as VE2OJ (Outaouais contest club call), mostly to try his K3, comparing that radio against a FT-1000MP and doing lots of testing operating 2 bands at same time (as SO2R), because we are planning to operate CQWW CW as MS or M2 but we need to solve several interference between station to do a real competitive M2.

I'm planning to enter SO2R HP in SS SSB.

73, Claudio VE2DWA

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/06 16:26 Un peu tard mais voilà.

SSCW Score Summary Sheet

CallSign Used : VE2FFE
Operator(s) : VE2FFE

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : A 77 QC
Gridsquare : FN35GK

Name : PIERRE GOYETTE
ARRL Section : QC
Club/Team : CONTEST GROUP DU QUEBEC
Software : N1MM Logger V8.7.1

Band QSOs Pts Sec
3,5 56 112 12
7 92 184 12
14 86 172 34
21 4 8 1
Total 238 476 59

Score : 28 084

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/18 14:25 Bonjour,

Pour ceux à qui ça pourrait intéresser, j'ai publié quelques commentaires et quelques images de mon installation sur le site du "Soapbox" du Sweepstakes CW 2008.

To all of you who could be interested, I published some comments and some pictures of my setup on the 2008 Sweepstakes CW Soapbox.

http://www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/index.html?con_id=161

73s de Louis, ve2ezd (Contest Group du Québec)

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/18 14:49 Excellent Louis. Tu es un Yaesu man (FT817 FT950) hi hi.

Si tu as rien à faire jeudi soir, il y a le NAQCC sprint. J'ai bien du fun avec ca.

Bravo pour ton initiative. Now cant wait for CQ DX CW! Jean-Pierre VA2SG - VE2SSS

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/18 15:49 Salut Jean-Pierre

Merci pour les commentaires.

J'ai écouté un Sprint cet automne et je suis presque tombé de ma chaise. La règle des QSY est vraiment un défi. J'ai vraiment été impressionné par le balais des stations qui font un QSO et puis font QSY à la queue-leu-leu. Je vais probablement écouter le Sprint jeudi mais j'ai encore des croutes à manger pour réussir à capter un échange à haute vitesse du premier coup et faire un QSO. (HI)

On ne voit pas mon TS-570DG sur la photo. J'adore mon petit Kenwood (filtre Inrad 400 Hz) et c'est lui que je traîne dans les concours que je fais avec mon club de la Beauce (VE2CR

. Ouf! l'honneur est sauf. (HI)

73s de Louis, ve2ezd

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Re:Sweepstakes 2008 - 2008/11/18 19:20 Ce ne sont pas les sprints NAQCC: voir http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel/index.html

C'est très très relax. Écoute jeudi soir sur 40 et 80, on s'amuse à le faire avec des clés droites. J'ai bien du fun en tout cas.

L'échange est simple.

Bye! Jean-Pierre VA2SG - VE2SSS

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