[SCCC] K6NA CQWW SSB

[Glenn Rattmann]

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB

Call: K6NA

Class: SOAB HP
QTH: SoCal
Operating Time (hrs): 42
Radios: SO2R

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries
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   160:   22     8       10
    80:  124    25       49
    40:  667    31       65
    20:  357    30       88
    15:  738    35      107
    10:   81    12       17
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Total: 1989   141      336  Total Score = 2,555,289

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Memorable moments...
-160... Working NH2T (N2NL) very close to sunrise here.  He peaked up 
for 2 minutes, through the plasma-TV junk, and we made the contact.
-75m... Working RL3A via long path.  Also, NOT working any others LP, 
although I heard 3 or 4 of them in NH2Ts pileup.
-40m...  Phone is ALMOST fun now... with the BC realignment, 
political changes, and our phone expansion down to 7128.  I worked 
several JT, even more HS, a bunch of DU, and a TON of BY and 
YB.  Thirty years ago, we were thrilled to have one HS call in, 
split, while we CQed toward JA ... maybe one or two each of DU and 
YB... and of course, ZERO BYs back then.  Even the Hainan Dragon 
stayed away this weekend (at least mostly).
-20m... Working Marko N5ZO at RC9O early the first evening... then 
never finding him again, on any band even though he made 4,000 contacts.
-15m... Wall-to-wall Europeans, from 21.2 to 21.447, both mornings, 
for hours.  Wow.  Real decent S&P rates. I CQed very little in those times.
-10m...  Thinking Ten was going to pop open big-time, any minute 
now... but ... it didn't.  It was fun vacuuming up all those South 
Americans who kept popping up on my second receiver (for you 
propagation wonks, most of them were workable on my 6 element Yagi at 
150ft, but were mostly inaudible on my 5 element Yagi at 45ft).
-and the biggest disappointment:
NOT working the SCCC gang at A73A on any band... never heard them 
anywhere, until I went looking for them on Forty, in the last 15 
minutes of the contest; I did find them on 7083 (yes weak), but the 
operator was not listening up for us.  End of story.