[Mldxcc] [NCCC] Fw: CaQP K6C(@W1RH) M/SFixed HP

[SHIRLEY ROSE]

The following excerpt is from the ARRL rules which govern club competition.  
 
8.5.2. At least 50% of the operators at a multi-operator station must be eligible members of the club and the station must be located within the defined club territory. The owner of the station does not need to be a member of the club claiming the score. 

As Bob is 50% of the team we're covered.
 
73 de AA6K
Shirley Rose
President, MLDXCC

--- On Mon, 10/3/11, Alan M. Eshleman <doctore at well.com> wrote:


From: Alan M. Eshleman <doctore at well.com>
Subject: Re: [NCCC] Fw: CaQP K6C(@W1RH) M/SFixed HP
To: "Robert Hess" <w1rh at yahoo.com>
Cc: mldxcc at contesting.com, nccc at contesting.com
Date: Monday, October 3, 2011, 2:38 PM



#yiv884936193 p {margin:0;}

I'm pleased to see that AA1ON plans his travels around CQP, but I fail to see how all of those M/S points would accrue to MLDXC since he lives in Hong Kong and New England.  "Honorary Member" doesn't cut it for me in the club competition.


73, Alan/K6SRZ 



From: "Robert Hess" <w1rh at yahoo.com>
To: nccc at contesting.com, mldxcc at contesting.com
Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 12:09:40 PM
Subject: [NCCC] Fw: CaQP K6C(@W1RH) M/SFixed HP



                     California QSO Party


Call: K6C
Operator(s): W1RH, AA1ON
Station: W1RH

Class: M/SFixed HP
QTH: ELDO
Operating Time (hrs): 30
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
  160:    4      0
  80:  145    160
  40:  235    161
  20:  337    277
  15:  267    305
  10:  117    131
    6:            
    2:            
--------------------
Total:  1105  1034  Mults = 58  Total Score = 312,214

Club: Mother Lode DX & Contest Club

Comments:


For the third year in a row, I did this contest with my long time contesting partner, Martin, AA1ON, who lives part time in VR2 and W1 and plans his commute around CQP.  He did about 80% phone and I did about 80% CW.  We compliment each other well.
 
Prior to the test, we put up a vertical 40 meter square loop, had dinner with W6SR, and discussed where we want to dxpedition in the Pacific.  Martin also worked 3D2R on 10 CW, for a new band-mode for me, while I was BBQ'ing the steaks.   
 
Regarding CQP, we really thought we would improve on last year's score but missed it by a handful of Q's (10 I think).  With more antennas and SO2R, we were certain we would have a better score.  CQ runs were disappointing and, other than being called by the occasional European, we never really had any Eu runs.   We did get a sweep early on Saturday when we got called by Delaware in a run.


Nice to hear some of our YCCC buddies.  Worked Paul, K1XM, multiple times as well as our old pal, Dennis, W1UE (formerly NB1B), operating from 6Y.



Problems:
 
I did most of the overnight and was surprised to encounter some crazy contest  haters in the 3 AM hour (local) while running CW with a rate of about 30 in a wide open band.  Moved up 5 Khz and all was well.

 
I have a wireless ISP operating on the tower.  I get free internet and they get a tower location.  Both my station and the ISP have coexisted now without interference for a few years now.  I've never really done any significant high power operation on 10, however, since I began building this station.  We noticed, when running 10, that packet quit.  Then I checked the phone and internet and it was all dead.  Rebooted the ISP router and it all came back.  Continued running on 10 and it quit again.  
 
Did I say that this ISP serves about 400 in the valley 1000 feet below me?  When I lose Internet, they do too.  So....do we stop the 10M runs or just to hell with the internet?  We chose the latter but did shorten the 10 meter runs to around 15 minutes and just made sure we rebooted the router following the runs.  We probably sacrificed some points by doing this.  I had warned the ISP about potential RF issues and they chose to ignore.  I'll be working with them to fix this prior to ARRL 10 test.


Output power on the AL-1200 was varying all over the map on all bands but was otherwise operating normally (clean, no spurs).  Never dropped below 500 watts, so we kept using it rather than wasting time swapping amps.  Put the Henry 3K in service after the contest and will need to find out what's going on with the AL-1200.
 



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