The San Diego DX Club set up on top of Pt Loma about 1 mile north of the
historic lighthouse for a rather incredible FD operation. I say incredible
because of the combo of equipment, antennas, operating skill, and location.
Main HF radios: TS-950S, TS-850S
Novice stn: I don't remember, but some newer "rice box"
VHF/UHF: all mode radios, 6 meters to 1296
Antennas: 3 el on 10 at 30 feet
4 el on 15 at 30 feet
4 el on 20 at 40 feet
2 el on 40 at 40 feet
dipole on 80
a whole buncha high-gain beams on VHF/UHF
Main ops: K6NA, N6ND, K6JYO, KA5Q, KI6ZH, N6KI, KB5MY, N6AZE, WB9COY,
KB6DEX (our novice/tech), and quite a few others on the periphery
First cut results:
Band CW Qs SSB/fone Qs
80 65 80
40 520 220
20 737 457
15 210 153
10N 421
6 122
2 155
222 47
432 15
1296 6
PKT 59
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1591 1676 = 3267 Qs
Sprained ankles 2
Cold solder joints 2
on coax connectors
Estimated points (with bonuses) = 10416
Even tho we wanted to make mostly CW Qs, SSB was hard to resist during some
very intense "feeding frenzy" periods. Most of the SSB on 40, 20 and 15
was made in a very few hours.
Much better condx on 10 and 6 than last year, worse on 15. We were close
to our last year score of almost 11K.
Hopefully this will still be a good score this year! We had fun, but man,
it was hot (at least for Pt Loma) and the graybeards in the crowd (which is
almost everyone) got tired.
73rds--Jim, K6ZH, outgoing (gone) Prez of San Diego DX Club
>From Bill Frede <fredeb@norand.com> Mon Jun 27 17:00:17 1994
From: Bill Frede <fredeb@norand.com> (Bill Frede)
Subject: Field Day Results from W0GQ
de W0GQ 2A iowa
station CW phone
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phone 0 731
CW 467 0
novice 2 156
natural 0 6
packet 2 0
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totals 471 793
score with various bonuses 4374
Conditions were outstanding with plenty of short skip.
Thunderstorm downtime 90 minutes.
Wet field day director but no lightning damage.
73 and thanks for Q's.
Guy West N0MMA
Cedar Valley ARC
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