[SCCC] CQWW CW W6PH SOAB HP

[David Hodge]

Kurt,
 
Very fine score! I wish I'd spent more time on 80. I never even tried 160.
It is clear you got a lot of quality radio time in for your 39 hours!  :o)
 
73, David N6AN
 
ps. I agree there seemed to be more "non-signers" taking more time before signing their call.
That is especially frustrating on the low bands if one busts through a pileup but has their
"call?" request ignored or responded to with a single burst at 40wpm amid the QRM and QRN.
 
 
> From: W6ph at aol.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:47:47 -0500
> To: sccc at contesting.com
> Subject: [SCCC] CQWW CW W6PH SOAB HP
> 
> CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW
> 
> Call: W6PH
> Operator(s): W6PH
> Station: W6PH
> 
> Class: SOAB HP
> QTH: Lone Pine CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 39
> 
> Summary:
> Band QSOs Zones Countries
> ------------------------------------
> 160: 26 12 15
> 80: 134 24 65
> 40: 343 33 103
> 20: 544 35 111
> 15: 337 30 94
> 10: 76 16 31
> -------------------------------------
> Total: 1460 150 419 Total Score = 2,326,072
> 
> Comments:
> 
> IC-781 AL-1200 CT-DOS 9.57
> 
> Antennas: (Field Day style except A3S)
> 160m Inverted L 
> 80m Half slopers (NE and W from 60 ft AB-577 masts)
> 40m 40-2CD at 60 ft (AB-577 mast)
> 20m 3 el yagi at 60 ft (AB-577 mast)
> 15m 5 el yagi (WD8IXE/N8SM design) at 55 ft (AB-577 mast)
> 10m A3S on permanent 40 ft Rohn 25
> 
> This is about as much fun as you can have with your clothes on.
> 
> As has been noted, the low bands were in great shape. For me to
> work more than 30 countries on 80m is a challenge. It was a real
> rush to get answers from European stations. I changed 80m antennas
> to slopers this year and they helped a lot. There was definitely
> discrimination between the two of them.
> 
> I don't usually operate this many hours but there were no slow times.
> It started spitting snow on Saturday night about 7 pm and all of the 
> sudden I got some S9+ static from power line noise (moisture on the
> dirty insulators) and decided to catch some sleep. I went back out 
> to the radio shack which seventy feet behind the house about 2:30 
> am and it was completely quiet again as the precipation had stopped 
> around midnight.
> 
> Most of my operating is starting at one end of the band and working
> every new station I hear. The multipliers kept coming. 
> 
> I got on 20m in the morning as soon as the band opened and 
> checked 15 m to see when it opened to Europe to be sure to be 
> there as the band would only be open for an hour. Despite 
> that I was able to pick up a bunch of central and southern 
> European stations but no zone 16 or Scandinavia. As soon as the 
> band started closing I went back to 20 meters to work the end of 
> the European opening. Then it was up and down 20 and 15 all day 
> while checking 10 meters frequently.
> 
> Not much happening on 10 meters on Saturday but Sunday was good 
> with short openings to a lot of the Caribbean and west Africa and all 
> day to zone 11, 12, and 13. The only other openings were to zone 1 
> late Saturday and catching KH6ZN Sunday afternoon with the A3S 
> pointed west. 
> 
> I usually spend the last hour on 20 meters filling in needed multipliers 
> but I already had over 100 countries there and decided to call CQ on 15 
> meters which resulted in an endless string of JA callers as well as five 
> new multipliers. 
> 
> I should have called CQ more often but I thought S&P was more productive.
> I really need to rethink that in the future.
> 
> I was happily surprised at the great conditions even though the
> solar flux number was lower than it had been.
> 
> I echo the gripe about stations not signing their call signs. I 
> congratulate 8P5A and VP2E/K1XM who signed after every QSO. 
> My patience grows short after five contacts without signing. I'm 
> always reluctant to move on and I seem to end up sending "CALL?"
> 
> I spent the days before Thanksgiving putting up my temporary
> antennas for the contest and I was very happy with the way they
> worked other than 160m. (I don't have the space for the K2KQ
> double L.) They will all come down when the wind lets up and 
> stay down until next year. I'll see everyone from VP9 in both 
> ARRL's.
> 
> 73, Kurt, W6PH
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