[SCCC] CQWW SSB VK4UC M/M HP

[Michael Tope]

Good work, guys. You were a solid S8 here in Los Angeles on
75 meters on Sunday morning (11:30 UTC) and thanks to N6VI's
keen ears I was able to snag a contact with my little 80 meter
pea shooter.

73, Mike W4EF.......................

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cashen" <vk4uc at bigpond.com>
To: <vkcc at yahoogroups.com>; <sccc at contesting.com>
Cc: <john at john-loftus.com.au>; <vk7gn at bigpond.com>; 
<richardjnorton at gmail.com>; <n6vi at earthlink.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 8:35 PM
Subject: [SCCC] CQWW SSB VK4UC M/M HP


>
>>First off, our congratulations to all those fine scores from VK/ZL;
>>despite the terrible propagation we had on the high bands.
>>
>>Our effort had  four stations and five operators. There were only
>>two towers, although there were two beams on each. Rotational
>>control was a important management issue.  It helped that we were
>>all old friends!
>>
>>My station is a good SO2R (and perhaps a M2) setup which we then
>>cobbled-up (with a lot of coax switches) into this temporary MM
>>station (sort of!). The main thing is we had fun and now there will
>>be a meaningful VK MM score to go into the record books!
>>
>>
>>
>>        CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB
>>
>>Call: VK4UC
>>Operator(s): VK4UC, N6AA, N6VI, VK7GN, VK4EMM
>>Station: VK4UC
>>
>>Class: M/M HP
>>QTH: Queensland
>>Operating Time (hrs): 48
>>
>>Summary:
>>  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
>>------------------------------
>>   160:    8     3        3
>>    80:  189    24       34
>>    40:  603    31       76
>>    20:  739    34      119
>>    15: 1303    32       80
>>    10:  611    19       27
>>------------------------------
>>Total: 3453   143      339  Total Score = 4,702,874
>>
>>Club: 60%= Southern California Contest Club
>>         40%= VK Contest Club
>>Equipment:
>>20M:          FTKMP + Quadra
>>40/15M:      FTKMP + Alpha78
>>15/160M:    1C706/TS570 + ALS- 600
>>10/180M:     TS930  + SB200
>>Antennas:
>>30m tower:  F12 C-3E + EF-240S +  CC A3S
>>20m tower:  F12 C-31xr + C-3E
>>160, 80 and 40 Inv-Vs
>>80m 2el vert Yagi
>>NE Beverage
>>
>>Comments:
>>NO PACKET SPOTTING USED. INTERNET TURNED OFF FOR THE WHOLE CONTEST.
>>PROPAGATION
>>WAS BAD ON THE FIRST DAY, WORSE ON THE SECOND DAY. THE BIG SURPRISES WERE
>>THE HIGH QSO COUNT ON 10M AND THE LOW QSO COUNT ON 20M.