[SCCC] CQWW CW SOAB(A) K6GEP LP

[Alan Zack]

Tim,

Are you using a tower or could put up a 30 ft or longer single metal 
pole?  I have a vertical and dipole for 40/30/80 and a sloper for 
40/80/160.  The sloper, an Alpha Delta DX-B, works much better than the 
dipole or vertical on all the low bands.  See: 
http://www.alphadeltacom.com/dxb_i.htm

Either conditions were worse or there weren't as many stations in the CW 
as there was in the SSB contest last month.  I was S&P and worked every 
EU station I heard calling CQ even if it took several calls for some.  
Problem was, I couldn't hear too many.  They were on the air, as I could 
hear the Big Guns on the East Coast running one EU station after another 
that I could not hear at all answering them.  No HL's heard here either, 
but for AS/OC did work a HS, a couple of BY's and VR's, a JD1, 9M6, DU, 
T88, E51, ZL, VK, 3D2.  Did hear XW1A in a big pile up.  Couldn't work 
him before the QSB took him out.
Did work several AF stations.  I had been chasing 5A7A since they got on 
the air.  Worked them right away on 40 and 80 CW&SSB but couldn't hear 
them on any other bands.  Then in the contest they came through on 15.

Alan, K7ACZ, ex K6ACZ of Anaheim.



Tim Goeppinger wrote:

> Subject: CQWW CW K6GEP SOAB(A) LP
>
>
>                    CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
>
> Call: K6GEP
> Operator(s): K6GEP
> Station: K6GEP
>
> Class: SOAB(A) LP
> QTH: Orange County, CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 20
>
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
> ------------------------------
>  160:
>   80:    9     6        5
>   40:   59    19       26
>   20:   75    22       26
>   15:   61    19       30
>   10:
> ------------------------------
> Total:  204    66       96  Total Score = 82,620
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> I had great hopes that my new mulitband dipole as in inverted vee with
> apex at 55 feet in my palm tree would be a huge improvement over dipoles
> at 20 feet.  To make a long story short, the multiband dipole did not 
> work
> well, especially on 80.
>
> Thankfully, I had a spare 40 meter dipole that I put in place of the
> multiband dipole.  I had good results with it.  Quite a thrill to work
> the OH0 via gray line at sunrise this morning on 40.  Thats a first 
> for me.
>
> Several new countries for me - Mali, Kenya and Tokelau.  Too many new
> band countries to list.  Missed the Libya group.
>
> Missed a lot of countries that I worked in SSB contest.  Missed FY and
> VK especially. And where are the HL's?
>
> I think I'll pass on the 160 contest next weekend, and concetrate on
> getting a pvc dipole up the palm tree for the 10m contest.
>
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Alan Zack
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