[SCCC] CQWW CW AD6ZJ M/S HP

[Prasad]

Loren

Congrats on the great effort - this reminds me of 1987 when I did 30 S&P
rare DX QSOs in my first CQWW CW contest :)

Conditions are not great these days for West coast from VU. I was
specifically looking on both days (SP & LP) of the  contest for your area
but did not hear anything - not even Glenn with his super station. I also
had problems on my beam which made me use the antenna tuner of the rig at
times and suspect my balun. Now I must get a balun from Force 12 somehow.

After the contest I have left the beam (Force 12 C3S @ 70' above ground -
actually 30' above my roof which is 40' above ground) on Long Path to W6.

Your current sunset time around which I think is 4:45 PM is 6:15 AM in
India. Like Glenn says, I have a preference for CW which may be best to try
when conditions are poor but also do the SSB contests these days :)

I had great difficulty with the Zone 34 too until SU8BHI called in on a
small pile-up I was running on 15m !

-- 
73 de Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT (ex-AF6DV)


On Nov 28, 2007 9:31 AM, Glenn Rattmann <k6na at cts.com> wrote:

> 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.
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