Phone  (November 16-17 2002)

Station  Op     Category   QSOs    Mults   Score
-------  --     --------   ----    -----   -----
W5KFT    WM5R   SO HP      1628     80     260,480
W5RQ     W5RQ   SO         1026     80     164,160
NA4M     NA4M   SO LP       486     80      38,880
K5YA     K5YA   SO HP         2      1           4
W5NN     K5NZ   MS HP       540     80      86,400

"I got on mostly to see if I could work a section sweep. Most of the usually difficult sections came early and were fairly easy - MAR, YT, NL, MS, VI, WTX, etc. The holdouts, strangely enough, were OK and NM, but I found them late Sunday afternoon." - NA4M

"This was my first single-operator effort in the Phone Sweepstakes after many years of operating in the Multi-Single category. Sweepstakes is a much harder contest as a single operator than I thought it would be." - WM5R

"10 meters was my most productive band. It was very encouraging to hear several `02' checks, particularly on 10 meters. If we can get 'em interested in the SSB end, maybe they'll venture in CW..." - W5RQ

"I had a chance to win the South Texas Moto-X series in a race on Saturday, so I had to cancel the Multi-Single plans we had. I got on for a few hours on Sunday to test the station for CQWW next weekend. We would have been lucky to make the top five this year..." - K5NZ