[SCCC] NAQP SSB N6HC SO1R LP

[N6hc]

                    North American QSO Party, SSB - August 2012
 
Call: N6HC 
Operator(s): N6HC 
Station: N6HC 
Club: Southern California Contest Club 
Class: Single Op LP (SO1R)
QTH: ORG 
Operating Time (hrs): 8.75 
 
Summary: 
 Band  QSOs  Mults 
------------------- 
  160:    0     0 
   80:    0     0 
   40:   75    26 
   20:  466    56 
   15:   81    26 
   10:    0     0 
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Total:  622   108  Total Score = 67,176 
 
Club: Southern California Contest Club 
 
Team: SCCC #1 
 
Comments: 
 
Greetings & salutations to my fellow contesters.  I reluctantly agreed to 
participate part-time in this contest after being baited by Tim (N6WIN) to join 
in the fun.  Then he assigned me to SCCC#1 and gave me a target score to 
achieve!  Talk about pressure :>) 
As mentioned in other postings, ten meters was DOA.  Fifteen was pretty 
non-productive initially but picked up later in the competition when most 
everyone else was on to 20 or 40 meters.  So I made this almost a single band 
contest and knuckled down to business.  I ignored trying to maximize my score 
and tried to maximize my QSO rate on 20 meters.  I was able to move the needle 
to a rate of 240/hour at one point!  When twenty played out, I moved to forty 
for the last hour of operation and then hung up my microphone after exceeding 
the target score. Running 100 watts on twenty SSB is a chore as you try to 
compete with the guys running high power, DXers chasing the latest expedition, 
rag chewers who have an entitlement mentality for their net frequency, and your 
fellow competitors all squeezed into a finite spectrum.  Needless to say, I was 
blown off of a run frequency too many times to recount.  I marvel at the 
stations that I worked and said that they were QRP.  Life's too short for QRP!  
Thanks for all the Qs.  See you from NH8S (Swains Island) next month.  Good 
luck.  Arnie N6HC 
 
 
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