[SCCC] SCCC wins VHF+ gavel #7

[Wayne Overbeck]

The results of ARRL VHF Sweepstakes, held  
in January, are now online.  SCCC won its 
seventh club gavel in a VHF contest, some-
thing that would have been considered 
impossible only a few years ago.

SCCC had about 2.4 megapoints, easily 
winning the medium category.  The closest 
competition was the Mt. Airy (PA) VHF 
Club, with about 2 megapoints in the 
unlimited category.  The Packrats turned 
in 66 logs to SCCC's 17, but our score 
per log was much higher.

Southern California stations dominated 
many individual categories.  The overall 
top rover score was posted by the team 
of K9JK (visiting from Illinois) and N6MU, 
using John's car and a station provided by 
N6NB.  Under the 50% rule, the score counts 
for SCCC.  The rest of the top five in the 
rover category were all SCCC members.  In 
the limited rover category (the four lowest 
bands), W6YLZ ran away from the eastern com-
petition.  And in unlimited KE6HPZ won by 
a huge margin.  Among single operator fixed 
stations, N6NB won the QRP portable category 
and set a new national record by a wide margin, 
outscoring not only all other QRP stations but 
also every SOLP station in the country.

It has been a good run for the SCCC's 
rover-based strategy.

73,
Wayne