[SCCC] CQWW CW W6EEN SOAB HP

[Doug Brandon]

                      CQ Worldwide DX Contest - CW

Call: W6EEN
Operator(s): N6RT
Station: W6EEN

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: CA
Operating Time (hrs): 46.5
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
  Band     QSOs  Zones  Countries
-------------------------------
   160:     21     10      9
    80:     96     21     32
    40:    731     27     79
    20:    462     33     95
    15:    771     36    104
    10:    975     36    120
-------------------------------
Total:   3056    163    439  =  5,086,298

Club/Team: SCCC

Comments:

New W6 record.

I had a somewhat gloomy outlook on this contest since the propagation 
forecast predicted major storm conditions for most of the weekend.  But as 
with the ARRL DX CW contest earlier this year, by some miracle the big 
disturbance didn't hit until the last few hours of the 
contest.  WHEW!  However, I was never able to get any sort of EU run going 
on 40 which was a big part of the biggest W6 scores in this contest the 
past few years.

This was my first time doing a CQWW contest in the single-op category and 
it was a BLAST!  Unfortunately, Murphy paid a visit on Sunday morning which 
ended up hurting my score.  Right at sunrise, the Alpha 87a on the second 
radio flashed and then died.  It took about a half hour to remove it from 
the operating console and put another one in it's place.  The replacement 
then started faulting off about 30 minutes later.  I decided against 
wasting more time to put in a third amp in since there was obviously 
something wrong.  I was able to use the second radio barefoot for about one 
hour, until an intermittent popped up and it had infinite SWR.  So for most 
of Sunday I only had one radio on which I mostly did S&P until the bands 
opened to JA.  I still managed 614 second radio QSOs.  I probably would 
have been able to add another hundred QSOs and 10-20 more mults if it 
wasn't for the failures.

Thanks to Don W6EEN for the continued use of his station and the excellent 
hospitality.

    73 de Doug, N6RT


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