[3830] CaQP K6LA SOFixed HP

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                    California QSO Party

Call: K6LA
Operator(s): K6LA
Station: K6LA

Class: SOFixed HP
QTH: LANG
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:    20      4
   80:   183    174
   40:   316    231
   20:   489    690
   15:   125    114
   10:             
    6:             
    2:             
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Total:  1133   1213  Mults = 58  Total Score = 337,850

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

That was fun. And without 10 meters too. No frequency fights, no pig farmers, no
Murphy during the contest - he did visit before and after. There was always
enough activity to find a place to get a little run going, CW & phone. My best
run was on 40 CW from 0029Z - 0123Z with 116 QSOs followed by 176 on 40 phone,
0128Z - 0227Z. I guess it took me 6 minutes to find the right 40 phone
frequency. 40 opened early and long. I don't remember ever having runs like
that from home, especially on 40 meters.

There were a lot of ESP QSOs on 15 meters, followed by really loud QSOs. The
propagation was very in and out. Fortunately, it was more in for a while Sunday
morning, which kept the band/mode skipping paying off with decent rate.

I lost an amp before the contest, so the 2nd radio was barefoot. The remaining
amp shut down twice during the contest, letting me twice suffer the longest 3
minutes in ham radio,  but otherwise kept putting out the power.

I noticed during the contest that my email was frozen. When I took my sleep
break I decided not to check my email, so I didn't reboot the computer. When
the contest ended and I rebooted, Windows wouldn't come up. Fortunately, I had
done a full backup Friday night, and, fortunately, I was able to boot to Safe
Mode and get my CQP log file on a thumb drive, so after a few hours I was back
in business. If I had rebooted earlier, I wouldn't have gotten any sleep. 

73, Ken, K6LA


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