The ARRL sweepstakes SSB contest this year was from 2100 UTC November 16 to 0259 November 17th and I was only able to operate towards the end of the contest. The exchange on this contest is rather long but once I was familiar with the cadence of it, it was not bad. This contest is also on the club contest calendar, so a lot of Minnesota stations were participating, and I did hear several comments from other stations about the abundance of state contesters.
I stayed on the bands with the most activity, so 40m through 10m with 20 and 40 being the best for me. A few stations again commented on a nice signal and fine sounding station so that is always nice to hear. I again ran assisted because My radio computer interface is nice to have operating, logging frequency changes automatically and also following the clusters and showing various needed contacts.
My goal was modest because of My late start but I again achieved the typical 100 contacts, so I was happy with that. Condions were okay with minor openings on 15 and 10m and most of the QSO's were very cordial and not much interference from non-contesters although I did hear a few grumblings!!
73---Tim
