[SCCC] NAQP SSB K6LL

[David Hachadorian]

                    North American QSO Party, SSB

Call: K6LL
Operator(s): K6LL
Station: K6LL

Class: Single Op LP
QTH: AZ
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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  160:    8     4
   80:  112    31
   40:  300    54
   20:  395    54
   15:  166    32
   10:    4     3
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Total:  985   178  Total Score = 175,330

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Team: SCCC #1

Comments:

I think I made a mistake in taking all of my off time before 
40 opened. 20 got
real funky at about 2230 and I pretty much wrote it off, but 
I found it really
good later on. I think I missed some good action there.

I didn't use so2r much at all. I'm not good at it on SSB, 
and it feels like
hard work to me, listening to qrm in both ears and 
protecting the run
frequency. I retired in 1993, and I have become allergic to 
hard work.

A few local Yuma guys showed up to give me the Arizona mult 
on all bands. That
was nice.

As usual, the rigs were a pair of TS-850's. I never felt the 
need for a better
receiver at any time. If you ride the RF gain control, you 
don't have to worry
about dynamic range on skywave signals, so you don't need a 
$9000 receiver.

Antennas are a KT-34XA at 48', 40-2CD at 55', and one 
half-sloper that covers
80/160. There's also an A3 at 35'.  I'm on a city lot in a 
dense neighborhood,
and noise-generating consumer devices are proliferating. The 
noise floor seems
to up every year. For the past year, there has been an S7 
noise on 10 meters,
but I'm hoping it goes away before that band becomes an 
important player.

Thanks for the qso's and moves, and see you in SSCW.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
Yuma, AZ













































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