11/13/2005 | K3WWP I got in the SS this year mainly to complete my North American QRP CW Club (http://www.arm-tek.net/~yoel/) simple wire antenna WAS. I hadn't worked MT despite working all other 49 states several times since the starting date of 1/1/2004 for the award. I emailed Matt, K7BG asking if he was going to be in the contest, and he said yes, so I kept a sharp ear out for him, and managed to work him after about a hour of looking. Next I went to work on the NAQCC November Challenge searching for calls with letters to spell out a list of words relating to Thanksgiving. I conquered that challenge easily as well in a couple more hours, then set some other goals for the remainder of the contest. I set out to achieve a contest W....... Wait a minute, all of this is already on my web site in the Contesting section under Contest Stories so I'll save space here for other stations' soapbox comments and just point you there if you wish to read the full story of my SS effort including some interesting statistics. It's http://home.alltel.net/johnshan/contest_ss.html -- K3WWP