[3830] CaQP WN6K M/MCntyExp LP

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                    California QSO Party

Call: WN6K
Operator(s): WN6K,WB6BFG,N6UWW,KG6RCW,KI6AOL,K6AH
Station: WN6K

Class: M/MCntyExp LP
QTH: SBER
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
  160:    0      0
   80:   95    125
   40:  243    152
   20:  157    222
   15:   11      0
   10:    0      0
    6:    0      1
    2:    0      0
--------------------
Total:  506    500  Mults = 56  Total Score = 141,008

Club: 

Comments:

Greetings From Big Bear City:

Well for those of you that logged SDIE, you were wrong.  We decided to make an
expedition to Big Bear and do a quasi FD type setup.  I say quasi only in the
narrowest of terms however.  KG6RCW, Tom and his wife KI6AOL,Christie hosted us
at their inlaw's weekend house on the hill.  

WB6BFG, Wild Bill built a tower trailer on an old car hauler and a 40 ft.
crankup tower which held our TH3 loaned to us by Jim, K6ZH.  We hung a couple
of Dipoles for a single feed off the side for 40/80m and set up a small 35 ft.
pipe tower on the back of Andre's (K6AH)GMC Yukon.  They held the 6 element 2m
beam (hey where are all those missing 2m Q's???) and a 3 element 6m beam. (We
managed to talk a local in Big Bear City out of a single 6m Q.)

The first night before the contest as well as the first night of the contest
gave us some gusty (40 mph) winds to test things out but all held up so I guess
we needed to put bigger antennas up.

I ran all of the CW Q's so those that wanted to know who the heck was that LID
on CW ... it was me.  We had trouble with lots of RF in the shack pretty much
the whole contest which caused me a bunch of trouble with keying...

So we ended up looking across the room to see if there was a pause when we
REALLY NEEDED that mult so as to get the job done.

Wild Bill and Tom kept us fed all the time, the house has five bedrooms and
four baths fireplaces all over to keep us cozy (it got down to the 30's
Saturday night)and for the Five Star accommodations we are entirely grateful.

We learned some lessons and have more to learn, but with the mix of experienced
and not so experienced operators, there was plenty of time to operate and rest
when needed.

As to the conditions...YUCK! Thanks to the low bands there was steady activity
there but only a mini-opening for us on 15m on Sunday morning otherwise.

We wanted dearly to Sweep but never found QC or NT.

Thanks so much to our hosts and pals that helped WN6K try something new as well
as the 1006 Q's from everyone else.  YEEHAW as Wild Bill is known to shout and
see you in the next one.

WN6K, Paul


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