[SCCC] CQWW CW W6PH Lone Pine SOABHP

[W6ph@aol.com]

                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW

Call: W6PH
Operator(s): W6PH
Station: W6PH/6
Class: SOAB HP
QTH: Lone Pine, CA
Operating Time (hrs): 32

Summary:
                      Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
                      ---------------------------------------
                      160:       27        11       16
                        80:      93         20       37
                        40:     308        30       96
                        20:     490        32      105
                        15:     165        27       70
                        10:       21         8       10
                        -------------------------------------
                    Total:    1104      128      334  

                       Total Score = 1,375,374

Comments:

Equipment:  TS-930S and LK-500ZB,  CT 9.57 + NEC laptop

Antennas: A3S @ 40ft (Rohn 25)
               ATB-34 @ 50ft (temporary AB-577)
               40-2CD @ 60ft (2nd temporary AB-577)
               Inverted L (46ft up, 20 ft out)for 80m (base loaded for 160m)

My time was split 75% hunting and 25% CQing.  The low bands were great.  I
had an intermittent feedline problem with my 40-2CD on Friday night that 
made it unusable after midnight.  I spent a couple hours during the middle 
of the day on Saturday cranking the mast down to replace the feedline.  It 
paid 
off as 40M was awesome.  I couldn't quite get to 100 countries before I went 
to 
20M which seemed to open much earlier on Sunday.  I was surprised to find 
15M open to southern Europe about an hour later with weak signals.  I 
checked 10M often but there were no signals (or beacons) audible much of 
the time.  Surprised to hear a KL7 working an LU and grabbed him (UP 1, 
UP 1).  The other surprise was ZD8R.  Never heard a Zone 11.  I heard a 
friend (K7VF) up the valley on 15M and got him to QSY to 10M for a double 
mult! During the last solar cycle low, the YCCC put out a band by band 
cookbook.
For 10M, K1KI penned one line:  "If your 10M numbers are higher 
than your 160M numbers, you don't have a 160M antenna" (paraphrased)

These contests are like fishing trips and car races.  A fishing trip gets 
you away from your job and your family for a stressfree weekend.  It is 
like a car race in that things may break during the contest and you have 
to fix them and get back into the race as quickly as possible.

I will be operating as VP9/W6PH for both ARRL CW and Phone.

                                         Kurt, W6PH