[SCCC] CQWW CW AD6ZJ M/S HP

[Glenn Rattmann]

Nice job, good to hear you in there, Loren!

Don't feel too badly, I was in there seriously for the weekend, and 
never heard Zone 22 or 34 ( I don't use packet).

At this time of the cycle, VU is very tough for us here, except they 
can often be heard on the 20m long path in Nov-Dec-Jan, over South 
America, during our sunset period.  If you don't mind working it on 
SSB, look around 14.180 to 14.200 at that time.  The VUs and maybe 
4S7 are there in roundtables with west coast folks when the band is 
open, for 45 minutes or so.  Maybe VU2PTT, who may be monitoring this 
reflector, will watch for you and give you the Zone.  He prefers CW I 
think.  Sometimes 40m LP is open the same time as 20, and you should 
be able to work a VU there on CW if you listen daily on the low end.

I can't help much on the Zone 34, but I did operate from Egypt in 1995. ;-)

I'm a CQ-Awards Checkpoint so I can check your WAZ cards for you when 
you're ready to do the application.

Cheers,

Glenn K6NA

At 06:34 PM 11/27/2007, you wrote:
>Call: AD6ZJ
>Operator(s): AD6ZJ
>Station: AD6ZJ
>
>Class: M/S HP
>QTH: CA
>Operating Time (hrs): 17
>
>Summary:
>  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
>------------------------------
>   160:    3     3        2
>    80:   34    13       19
>    40:   83    21       52
>    20:   72    22       43
>    15:   41    16       26
>    10:    2     2        2
>------------------------------
>Total:  235    77      144  Total Score = 129,506
>
>Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
>Comments:
>
>AD6ZJ Single opp high power with packet assistance,
>all S&P. I'm not much of a CW opp (yet) so my goals
>for his contest were to better last years score of
>13,013, get enough new DX to complete my CW DXCC award
>(only need
>7 more) and to pick up a few missing zones for the
>mixed WAZ. I beat last years score (and then some),
>picked up over 30 new CW DX entities but I was unable
>towork those two elusive zones (22 and 34). I ran
>about a KW on 80, 40 and 15, about 400W on 20 and
>barefoot on 160 and 10. I had to cut down my power on
>20M as I still haven't moved the tribander and it is
>about a wavelength away from the rig. A KW on 20M = RF
>in the audio and the USB keyboard to hang. Maybe I
>will get it moved this season. On both 160 and 10 I
>could work all I could copy with 100W  but I didn't
>copy much.