Potomac Valley Radio Club is attempting to keep its championship status.  I 
have to plan a chapel service for the NFB state convention, which is next 
weekend, but intend to put in severals in SS CW.  The exchange is 
cumbersome, but it's more like the preamble of a piece of traffic, and gives 
people greater opportunities to show whether they can really copy CW or 
phone through QRM.  Hope to see you in the pileups.

BTW, I ended up with 643 QSOs last weekend in the CQWW SSB.  Our biggest 
local multi-multi, W3LPL, had over 10,000 QSOs last weekend.  Of those, the 
10-meter component was 3,131 QSOS in 161 countries, in 39 of the 40 possible 
zones!  Ten meters was about as good as it's going to get during this cycle.
73,

Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom Behler
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 8:24 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: ARRL CW Sweepstakes Contest, Anyone?

Hi, again, everyone.

As I said in my last post, I'm planning on giving the ARRL Sweepstakes CW
contest a shot this week-end.

The contest runs for 30 hours, from 2100 Z Tomorrow afternoon, until 0300 Z
early Monday morning.  That translates to 5 p.m. tomorrow, until 10 p.m.
Sunday evening, if you take into account the switch to Eastern standard time
tomorrow night.

Personally, I feel the exchange in the Sweepstakes contest is a bit
cumbersome, but I'm going to give it a try anyway.

I'll be running in entry category A.--single op low power.

I certainly won't be able to operate nearly the full 30 hours, but hope to
get some good operating time in tomorrow and at least part of Sunday.

Hope to work at least some of you from here in west-central lower Michigan.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ