California QSO Party
Call: W6YX
Operator(s): N7MH N6CCH K6UFO W6RK AA6XV W6KNS
Station: W6YX
Class: M/MSchool HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 28
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 1 1
80: 301 184
40: 447 591
20: 436 947
15: 53 51
10: 6 5
6: 1 2
2:
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Total: 1245 1781 Mults = 57 Total Score = 415,929
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
We had two stations with amps, and used them continuously -
but there were times when there was not two open bands:
like midday (noon) both days when 20m was ok and 15m just wouldn't open,
and late (8:30PM?) at night when 40m disappeared leaving only 80m.
After solving a bunch of problems, we got a third radio going for spotting
and a few easy-picking QSOs.
We had 150 Qsos per hour for the first 12 hours, then the rate plummeted
overnight, and the second day was never quite as good. At times
the 20m SSB QRM was rough as all the weekend ragchews, nets, jammers and
special events competed for space. We had 57 multipliers by the first
sundown,
but never heard or worked NT. Our final score was only slightly below last
year,
which is pretty good for an absent 15m and 10m. AA6XV made 3 QSOs for us on 6M
to remind us that 10m was actually busier.
We experienced many stations who were loud to us, but wouldn't answer our
calls - but after checking all the knobs and making other QSOs, we had to
conclude they had noisy locations or QRM. It was frustrating though to leave
a CQ frequency to try to grab a contact - and fail, fail, fail... and then
lose the old CQ frequency. Making up for it were the nice ops who would
change bands or modes for us, in particular I remember K6MM.
Thank you to all the county expeditions, and to the many participants.
for the W6YX ops, K6UFO
Equipment:
Two Yaesu FT-1000MP & one MkV,
two Alpha 78 amplifiers.
Writelog software.
Antennas:
Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft
10m: 5-el at 31 ft
15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft
20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft.
40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft.
80m: inverted vee at 55 ft (4-square maybe not working)
160m: something got loaded for 2 Qsos...
CW+PH/Mul by hour and band
Hour 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m 6m Total Cumm Off
D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 51/8 112/35 --+-- --+-- --+-- 163/43 163/43
D1-1700Z - - 50/1 121/8 1/0 - - 172/9 335/52
D1-1800Z - - 19/0 109/2 6/0 2/0 - 136/2 471/54
D1-1900Z - - 27/0 103/1 20/0 - - 150/1 621/55
D1-2000Z - - 38/0 90/0 8/0 1/0 - 137/0 758/55
D1-2100Z - - 43/0 79/0 7/0 - - 129/0 887/55
D1-2200Z - - 65/0 70/0 - - - 135/0 1022/55
D1-2300Z - - 78/0 61/0 - 2/0 - 141/0 1163/55
D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 120/1 64/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 184/1 1347/56
D2-0100Z - 36/0 138/0 20/0 - - - 194/0 1541/56
D2-0200Z - 91/0 98/1 - - - - 189/1 1730/57
D2-0300Z - 76/0 79/0 - - - - 155/0 1885/57
D2-0400Z - 35/0 22/0 - - - - 57/0 1942/57
D2-0500Z - 80/0 2/0 - - - - 82/0 2024/57
D2-0600Z - 69/0 6/0 - - - - 75/0 2099/57
D2-0700Z - 39/0 - - - - - 39/0 2138/57
D2-0800Z 2/0 34/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/0 2174/57
D2-0900Z - 3/0 3/0 - - - - 6/0 2180/57 36
D2-1000Z - - - - - - - 0/0 2180/57 60
D2-1100Z - - - - - - - 0/0 2180/57 60
D2-1200Z - 15/0 47/0 - - - - 62/0 2242/57 5
D2-1300Z - 7/0 38/0 8/0 - - - 53/0 2295/57
D2-1400Z - - 35/0 36/0 - - - 71/0 2366/57
D2-1500Z - - 19/0 55/0 1/0 - - 75/0 2441/57
D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 30/0 49/0 1/0 --+-- --+-- 80/0 2521/57
D2-1700Z - - 5/0 81/0 7/0 - - 93/0 2614/57
D2-1800Z - - - 69/0 10/0 - - 79/0 2693/57
D2-1900Z - - - 112/0 16/0 5/0 1/0 134/0 2827/57
D2-2000Z - - - 74/0 23/0 - 2/0 99/0 2926/57
D2-2100Z - - 25/0 70/0 4/0 1/0 - 100/0 3026/57
Total: 2/0 485/0 1038/11 1383/46 104/0 11/0 3/0
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