California QSO Party
Call: K6NA
Operator(s): N6ED
Station: K6NA
Class: SOFixed HP
QTH: SDIE
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160: 42 12
80: 158 178
40: 246 234
20: 444 819
15: 160 177
10: 3 8
6: 0 0
2: 0 2
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Total: 1053 1430 Mults = 58 Total Score = 349,102
Club: Southern California Contest Club
Comments:
Another fun year in the books!
My biggest worry going into this contest was that I had not participated in a
contest for almost 11 months so the rust was going to be an issue. I know most
of the top competitors in this contest probably average around 6-8 major
contests a year so that had me worried but I just had bigger priorities this
year so my lack of practice was what it was, no excuses.
I got off to a bit of a sluggish start but found my rythm by about hour #3 and
then I was off to the races.
The real bright point was getting the sweep early this year (I remember that
last year nobody got it until Sunday morning) and I narrowly missed W6TK's
record by 6 minutes!!!! 4 hours 30 mins for me (20:30z)......I heard a rumor
that somebody might have the record beat this year so apparently there was good
coverage of activity by all 58 mults this year right from the start. No smoke
signals to VY1 needed ;-)
Another wierd annomaly was that I had many EUs calling in on Saturday during
the early 15m opening and some of them were louder than the average east
coaster. BRING ON THOSE SUNSPOTS!! Generally, there was good participation
from EU this year. Only 1 African logged and a small handful of Oceania and
SA.
160 also proved exciting working many on the East coast and KH6 all at the same
time, wish there were more guys on this band to make us another quick feeding
frenzy when we band change.
Lots of good competition from the usual suspects this year, kept me going and
going as we all flip flopped our QSO numbers for 2nd place. W6YI (N6MJ) still
made us all look bad. I have to wonder who called SD-Electric to have their
power shut off on Sunday, will be a conspiracy theory for some time to come.
Jim, Dan, has anybody called the Associated Press to claim responsibility
yet????? Maybe it was the pig farmers!!!! ;-)
Enjoyable as always which is what keeps me coming back to the K6NA ranch year
after year for good stories, good rates, and good hospitality.
See you all again next year and pray for 10m!!
73, Craig N6ED
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