[SCCC] CQP W6PH Inyo County

[W6ph at aol.com]

California QSO Party

Call: W6PH
Operator: W6PH
Station: W6PH/6

Class: SOFixed HP
QTH: Lone Pine (Inyo County)
Operating Time (hrs): 19

Summary:
Band         CW Qs       Ph Qs   Mults
-----------------------------------------------------------
80:             94            36         1
40:            292          119        2
20:            320          554       54
15:              19             5   
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Total:            725          714      57  (No NTYT)
 
    SCORE:    205,371
 
Equipment:
   TS-930S plus many amps
Antennas:
   A3S at 45 feet,  40-2CD at 55 feet,  80m vertical
 
Crying towel part:
    I was working for the Lone Pine Film Festival during the three days 
before the CQP and didn't get a chance to set up until Saturday.  I intended to 
operate for about ten hours.  I have a permanent 40 foot Rohn 25 with an A3S on 
it.  For contests, I use a couple AB-577 masts for temporary antennas.  I 
couldn't raise my 40-2CD on Saturday morning because of the winds so I started with 
the A3S hoping the winds would die down.  By 3 pm the winds had died down 
enough and I took about 1 1/2 hours off to raise the 40-2CD and the 80m vertical 
(40 feet of aluminum tubing and 26 feet of wire to the top of the AB-577). For
tunately, all the SWRs were still good from a couple years ago.
    Right after I got back on the air, the fan in my LK-500ZB quit.  So I 
replaced it with an AL-1200 that was on the floor of the shack. It had a history 
of bandswitch arcing and sure enough it started doing it while I was on 75 
SSB.  So I shut it down and went back in the house about 8 pm.  I got up at 5 am 
and went back to the shack and replaced the AL-1200 with my old SB-200 that I 
have had for 40 years.  It has served my well as a backup amp and I operated 
it with about 400 to 500 watts output.  
     Although I was going to only operate about 10 hours, I got sucked in for 
a longer effort.  I decided to quit at 200K and go downtown.  The CQP is 
still my favorite contest and the activity is good.  This is the first year in 
quite awhile that I didn't get all 58 mults.  Never heard YTNT.
                                                          73, Kurt, W6PH
 





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