[Mldxcc] [NCCC] WPX CW K6LRN SOAB HP

[Dick Wilson]

The multiplier was indeed 1.25.
I lived on 15th Ave, between Lincoln & Irving...south of GG Park.

On 5/29/2017 11:29 AM, Bill Haddon wrote:
> As KN6OPI I first worked Dick, KN6LRN, on Jan 14, 1956 on 15m at 
> 2303Z. Subsequent Q's on 2/12/56, 5/22/56 and 5/27/56.
>
> But I believe we were friends through SFRC prior to our first 
> on-the-air QSO;  SFRC met in the Forest Hills Clubhouse near the 
> Forest Hills Muni station above the Tunnel and we probably met in 
> person there. I remember doing stuff (who knows what) locally with 
> Dick, since we were both in SF . . me at the Beach at 48th and 
> Santiago; not sure where Dick lived.  I was doing 9th grade at AP 
> Giannini Jr HS in the Sunset.  I had many more on the air Q's with 
> Joe, KN6LVT, down the peninsula.
>
> Much later, I worked K6LRN  as N6ZFO, having stumbled into the CQP on 
> a Sat evening; that revived my interested in contesting.  I had won 
> the CW Sweepstakes for SF section in maybe 1958 with 126,000 points in 
> the old system where a 1.25 power* multiplier was applied to the 
> score.  W6BIP did not compete that year.
>
> 73 Bill N6ZFO (K(N)6OPI
>
> *One might think that 1.25 score mult was an approximate;  My short 
> writeup in the K6XX SS Handbook, shows that an independent calculation 
> in ~2002 gives a "correct" multiplier of ~1.27. I did that calculation 
> to show that multi-thousand $'s put into amps gives only a 25% or so 
> score increase; a much smaller amount put into antennas often gives an 
> equal or bigger dividend.
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Robert Hess via NCCC 
> <nccc at contesting.com <mailto:nccc at contesting.com>> wrote:
>
>     62 years!  That's impressive.  Were you KN6LRN?
>
>     Bob
>     W1RH
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Dick Wilson <k6lrn12 at gmail.com <mailto:k6lrn12 at gmail.com>>
>     *To:* nccc Reflector <nccc at contesting.com
>     <mailto:nccc at contesting.com>>; mother lode dx club
>     <mldxcc at contesting.com <mailto:mldxcc at contesting.com>>
>     *Sent:* Sunday, May 28, 2017 11:37 PM
>     *Subject:* [NCCC] WPX CW K6LRN SOAB HP
>
>     CQWW WPX Contest, CW
>
>     Call: K6LRN
>     Operator(s): K6LRN
>     Station: K6LRN
>
>     Class: SOAB HP
>     QTH: CQ
>     Operating Time (hrs): ~19
>
>     Summary:
>     Band  QSOs
>     ------------
>       160:    0
>       80:    3
>       40:  133
>         20:  338
>       15:  85
>       10:    1
>     ------------
>     Total: 560  Prefixes = 335  Total Score = 389,270
>
>     Club: Northern California Contest Club
>
>     Comments:
>
>     310 1 pointers
>     55  2 pointers
>     130 3 "
>     19  4 "
>     46  6 "
>     A few Eu, only one AF. Thanks for the Qs. Next month 62 years
>     licensed...all same call.
>
>
>     Posted using 3830 Score Submittal Forms at: http://www.3830scores.com/
>
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