California QSO Party
Call: N6RNO
Operator(s): N6RNO, K6MI, K6VLF, K9YC, N3ZZ, NO6X, WB6HYD
Station: N6RNO
Class: M/MCntyExp HP
QTH: Tehama
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 219 115
40: 297 160
20: 495 531
15: 195 103
10:
6:
2: 1
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Total: 1206 910 Mults = 58 Total Score = 315,404
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
Rhino arrived Wednesday and began establishing good vibes at the
site. Jim showed up Thursday afternoon in time to get antennas
(wires, of course) in trees for 80 and 40, and head into Red Bluff
for a fine Chinese dinner. They returned from dinner to find NO6X,
dragging his antenna and trailer. N3ZZ, K6MI and K6VLF were next,
dragging another trailer, monster tri-bander, and Yaesu 7000 amp.
ZZ brought a K3 and Honda 2000i. By dark on Friday, we had both
tribanders and a second 40M antenna in the air and were configuring
computers. The next morning, we chased RF noise, hooked up the
W3NQN filter sets, and stoked up with caffeine. By 9 am we were
ready to roar.
We began with three stations, all K3s, plus Jim's Herc II amp and
John's Yaesu. The two 500w stations worked 20 and 15, while the
barefoot K3 banged away at 40M. There were even times when we had
two stations on 20M (CW and SSB). There was some QRM, but we still
managed to work the stronger stations through it. All went well
until Saturday night, when we tried that on 40M and blew up the
front end in Tom's K3. That brought us back down to the two 500W
stations.
Our first secret weapon was Rhino's launching arm -- the 49ers
could use him -- which enabled us to get the 80M dipole up nearly
45 ft in the center, 20-25 ft on the ends, and the two 40M dipoles
at 30 ft. He could have pitched them higher, but those were the
tallest trees within reach of a reasonable run of coax!
The second secret weapon was John, K6MI, who reprised his annual
performance as ham chef of the year. No CQP DXpedition ate better
than we did! And hats off to Rhino, who scoured three counties
finding a spectacularly good location (great HFTA profiles and zero
RF noise before we showed up with our generators) that's only 20
minutes from a Starbucks and good Chinese food.
73,
Jim K9YC
Scribe -- The Tehama Troopers
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