I'm new to the CA QSO party, but TR-Log let me generate some numbers
that I thought you folks might find interesting. Note that the numbers
below are number of times I worked each county, not the number of
different callsigns I worked in the county. The last few lines are
county lines, which are exceptions.
Some random notes:
Trinity: Only found Trinity once, AA6DX, and then never heard him again.
0125Z on 40 CW.
Colusa: Again, only once. I was called by WY7M/6 at 2047 saturday, who
gave me number 2.
San Benito: Between 1400 and 1515 Sunday, I was called by two different
San Benito stations on 20 SSB. The only two I ever heard. They
gave me numbers 2 and 6.
Imperial: My last county, but I ended up working two. It appears that
AA6AN and K6LL both drove over to pass out some Imperials on
Sunday.
Sierra: Only heard this one once, N6JM on 40 CW saturday night.
Alpine: Only one station worked from here, AA6KX on the county line.
Yuba: Only one station worked from here.
Modoc: Only one station from here, too. Near the end of the contest,
N6OM had almost 250 contacts from Modoc.
My personal favorite was K6MO/MM handing out the county point of
Contra Costa, Marin, Solano, and Sonamo on 15 CW. I admit I had to
listen to that one twice. If you got on and just worked him, you
could have a 4:1 mults to QSO's ratio and end up with 12 points.
Second favorite: getting called by TZ6MOA. I also heard A22MN with
a strong signal calling a CA station (CW). The CA op got pretty
confused. He wouldn't give his county at first, until A22MN asked
for it. Then, A22MN gave him number 100 Botswana, so I guess he was
playing around in it. (Heard a couple HH stations, too. What do you
say to a person whose country you just about invaded?)
Here are the numbers. I'm sure there were lots of guys I missed, but
I think it should be representative of the activity from CA. It was
possible to work all of them, but it took luck and a lot of CQ's to do
it.
1. LOSANG 85
2. SCLARA 69
3. ORANGE 42
4. SANDGO 41
5. ALAMED 33
6. CCOSTA 24
7. SONOMA 24
8. RVRSDE 24
9. BUTTE 19
10. SOLANO 19
11. KERN 18
12. VENT 17
13. FRESNO 16
14. SCRUZ 15
15. SHASTA 15
16. PLACER 14
17. ELDORO 11
18. SACTO 11
19. SMATEO 11
20. NEVADA 11
21. SBRNDO 9
22. TEHAMA 9
23. MONO 9
24. MNTRAY 9
25. SISKYU 8
26. SBARBA 8
27. MNDCNO 8
28. CLAVRS 7
29. SLUISO 7
30. MERCED 7
31. NAPA 6
32. AMADOR 6
33. MARIN 6
34. HUMBLT 5
35. PLUMAS 5
36. LASSEN 5
37. SANJOQ 5
38. KINGS 5
39. DNORTE 4
40. SFRAN 4
41. TULARE 4
42. GLENN 4
43. SUTTER 4
44. MRAPSA 3
45. TUOLMN 3
46. INYO 3
47. STANIS 3
48. YOLO 3
49. LAKE 2
50. MADERA 2
51. YUBA 2
52. SBENTO 2
53. ALP/MONO 2
54. MODOC 2
55. IMPRIL 2
56. COLUSA 1
57. TRINTY 1
58. SIERRA 1
59. SANMAT 1 (note, SMATEO appears above, too)
60. NAPA/SOL 1
61. CC/MARIN/SOL 1
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Jeff Tucker N9HZQ
tucker@eedsp.gatech.edu
W4AQL Contest Team
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