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

Mon Oct 3 15:44:21 PDT 2011

I assume that your comments were in jest.

The CQP Rules state that Clubs are defined by the ARRL Rules.  The CQP rules
do not ban guest operators or require guest operators from out of state to
give their original state or province.  The CQP rules are silent regarding
guest operators and club competition, but does state:

 A Club is defined by the ARRL competition rules.

 The ARRL General Rules for All Contests states:

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. 

Now as I calculate it, 50% of 2 is 1 and one of the members is and MLDXCC
member which would mean that at least 50% of the members are MLDXCC members.
Moreover, the station is the home station of the MLDXCC member and located
well within the club borders.  That would mean that the MLDXCC can claim
100% of that station's score.

I assume no one is proposing a ban on guest operatos in CQP

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From: nccc-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:nccc-bounces at contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Alan M. Eshleman
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 2:38 PM
To: Robert Hess
Cc: mldxcc at contesting.com; nccc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [NCCC] Fw: CaQP K6C(@W1RH) M/SFixed HP

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 

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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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