[3830] CaQP K6M M/M CntyExp HP

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                    California QSO Party - 2022

Call: K6M
Operator(s): K4XU W6RA W7YAQ AE7EU N7GND K7PTC
Station: K6M

Class: M/M HP
Class Overlay: CntyExp 
QTH: Modoc
Operating Time (hrs): 30

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:     0     0
   80:   121    74
   40:   358    90
   20:   423   162
   15:   401   180
   10:   247   194
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Total:  1550   700  Mults = 57  Total Score = 344,850

Club: Central OR DX Club

Comments:

This was our 24th consecutive expedition to Modoc County, a 200 mile trek from
Bend Oregon. Just a crew of six to set up two stations:
SSB in K7PTC's trailer and CW in N7GND's trailer. Both used K3S/KPA500/KAT500
rigs. Our trailer tower put a TH3 at 45' and a falling derrick put the CW TH3jr
at 35 ft. The CW station had a 40m GP and 80m inV. The SSB station used the TH3
and an OCF with one end at 80ft the other at 40'.

K4XU W6RA and W&YAQ did CW with 2 hr shifts but 3hr shifts over night. The
SSB gang did the same shifts but had no midnight to 6am shifts - not that it
mattered because the 75m noise on the OCF was S9+10db. Some new piece of USFS
equipment installed in the shed under the OCF. The 80 and 75m antennas were too
close to consider same band operation anyway but on 40m and above it was as if
the other station wasn't there.

Condition early were not the best but on Sunday 10 and 15m were hot. 21 DX
countries in 90 QSOs. When the SSB gang discovered 10m they had a ball logging
2x3 calls with serial numbers under 10. "What's a contest?". Even with
the explanatory overhead, 10m was their best band. Two of our SSB ops have been
licensed for less than 3 years. The third, AE7EU, was our cook and he had to
leave on Sunday after breakfast.

The weather was ideal, the location was all ours for the weekend except for the
occasional party of hunters scouting deer for the start of hunting season on
Monday.

We filled in our mults quickly, the last being ID when we went to 40m at 2013Z.
But there was no NT. Our two beams were 280 feet apart and kept pointed due east
for minimum coupling, but if a NT would appear we should have caught it. As one
might expect, of our 2250 QSOs, only 182 were S&P.

Another successful CQP. We were packed up and back home in Bend by 9:30PM.

73, Dick K4XU


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