[SCCC] N6ZFO CQP County Exp LP 118,092

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N6ZFO CQP 2006 County Expedition (LP) Tehama 
Score: 118,092 

Time: 12.5 hours       Club: REDXA
 
Band       CW Q's      Ph Q's    Mults 
10              1 
15          150            163 
20          137              12 
40          195              87 
80           75               37 
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               557           300          52 

Comments: Again, congrats to NCCC for a fabulous contest. And 
tks to Rich, KJ6RA and his CDF colleagues who graciously permitted 
me to use the Eagle Peak Fire Lookout for the third year. They 
have refurbished the top floor of the lookout, so had the 
luxury of a real bed, along with a fabulous mountain and valley 
view. The downside was the seemingly endless climbing of two 
long flights of stairs to reach the operating position . . maybe 
50 trips up and down altogether. 

This year I did not have to take a taxi to the expedition site. 
Eagle Peak is pretty isolated, and my heart sank upon 
noticing the absence of the power plug for the FT-1000 -- 
the first item I've ever forgotten on a CQP expedition. 
Well, Yaseu is great -- they use standard stuff; the power 
cord is identical to that used on a computer/monitor, so was 
able to get on the air and test the antenna. I had brought 
an old, short extension cord and it was a straightford exercise 
to hard-wire it into the power supply Fri night. 

20m was rough for LP this year; the other bands shined. Ten 
meters was open to south america on Saturday-- one Q with 
a PY5, who was S-8. 

This was an abbreviated effort with essentially no prep time, 
so just used a single wire antenna. Two years ago we rigged 
a pulley at the top of the flag pole so raising the antenna is a 
simple task; one end goes out to a tree, the other to a small 
mast mounted on the top floor of the lookout. 

Shut down at 0900 Sunday morning so that I could spend a 
little time with XYL and get ready to leave for So Cal at 0600 
Monday. All-in-all a great weekend with perfect wx. 

73 Bill n6zfo