California QSO Party
Call: K6W
Operator(s): K6WSC
Station: K6W
Class: SOCntyExp LP
QTH: San Diego County
Operating Time (hrs): 17:07
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 87
40: 190
20: 247
15: 52
10: 63
6:
2:
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Total: 639 0 Mults = 56 Total Score = 107,352
Club: Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Comments:
I considered a County Expedition to Ventura County, but could not find any
willing SSB ops to share the expenses of a great location. Maybe next year. So,
it was back to Borrego Springs. Things did not start well. The internal tuner of
the IC-7300 would not match 15m on the DX-CC dipole. Not wanting to repeat the
7QP expedition near hard disk crash, I got a new solid-state drive computer
which worked fine at home. During station checkout, the function keys switched
computer hardware instead of being responsive to N1MM. I eventually found the
control for that. A friend from San Diego met me there and we had an enjoyable
dinner Friday night. At the start of the contest, it took two contacts before
the serial number got incremented from 1 for some reason. There was a wind
warning Saturday night and some very strong local gusts. The dipole did not blow
down, so I guess it was not … (you know the rest). I struggled on 15m to get
runs going with only 20 watts out. When TV Bob starts calling CQ on your run
frequency, its time to move on (no offence, he could not hear me as I tried to
work him). On a whim, I looked at 10m and was astounded to find it open. Station
tear down occurred under threat of rain and some lightening. The menu was the
same as last year, five meals of carrots and energy bars. Like Ward N0AX said,
portable expeditions are a lot of work. Why do it? Fun. The satisfaction of
success (and some nice runs) in the face of zero redundancy in anything so far
from home, all with mediocre antennas. Also, there is no better BIC enforcer
than an expedition. I bettered my 2017 CQP expedition score by 33k. On the drive
home, I saw the sunrise over the Salton Sea. You haven’t lived until you have
seen that.
Thanks to all of the CQP staff for a great QSO Party.
73, Bill K6WSC
San Diego County, CA
PS CU all in the Arizona QSO Party next weekend.
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