[SCCC] SCCC wins another gavel

[Steven Katz]

Congrats to all on a great job!



Marty: #3 MM nationally from CA?



Whodathunkit?  :)



73



Steve



-----Original Message-----
From: SCCC [mailto:sccc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Marty Woll
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:08 AM
To: 'Wayne Overbeck'; sccc at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [SCCC] SCCC wins another gavel



Congratulations to all the SCCC members who put in time, effort and gas money in support of the June effort!  Wayne said it, but I'll say it again:

a huge amount of credit goes to my outstanding Frazier Peak teammates (K6VCR, K6ZMW, N6MI, W6YLZ and WB2WIK), to our intrepid rovers and, I must add, to Wayne himself for enabling so many of our club members with loans of equipment and antennas and with the strategy he developed years ago to take optimal advantage of it all.





Yes, conditions were relatively poor, but with our rovers we practically make our own propagation.  We will never have the many advantages enjoyed by operators in the Midwest and East; the rovers are the equalizer, and they are more reliable than tropo ducts by far.  They also turn what could otherwise be an uninspiring event into a potential (and, in this case,

actual) winner with all the accompanying excitement.  That said, our ranks are thinning (collectively, not individually!), and we need more members to join the rover ranks.  One or two extra vehicles can make a huge difference in scores.  We have had dedicated HF contesters and dedicated Emcomm ops discover and enjoy VHF / UHF / microwave roving.  Won't some more of you give it a go?





I'm leaving this evening for Newington, CT for the quarterly Admin & Finance Committee meeting.  Once that's over, I expect to put W1AW on the air for a fair chunk of Phone Sweepstakes.  Good luck to all, and I'll be listening for you!





73,





Marty N6VI











-----Original Message-----

From: SCCC [mailto:sccc-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Overbeck

Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 2:08 AM

To: sccc at contesting.com<mailto:sccc at contesting.com>

Subject: [SCCC] SCCC wins another gavel





The results of the June 2013 VHF contest are now



online on ARRL.org.  The Southern California Contest



Club had the highest club aggregate score of any club



anywhere.  But it was a cliffhanger:  SCCC had 1.36



million points to Potomac Valley's 1.33 million.  No other



club had a score more than about half of the SCCC



and PVRC totals.





SCCC also had a bunch of top individual scores.  More



on that in a minute...





This is the second June contest in four years in which



SCCC slipped past PVRC by a tiny winning margin.  It



also happened in 2010 when SCCC had 2.81 megapoints



to PVRC's 2.72 million.  No other club had more than



about half of the top two scores that year as well.  So



this is SCCC's second-ever gavel in the June VHF



contest.  (It looks like we also won the gavel in the



August UHF contest, but that's not official yet.)





Why were all of the scores so much lower in 2013 than



in 2010?  In 2010, six meter sporadic E propagation was



very, very good.  This year it was truly awful.  Fortunately



for SCCC, propagation was equally bad almost



everywhere.





For SCCC to win any gavel, a lot of SCCC members have



to do really well in their categories  That happened again



this year.





In the very competitive multi-multi category, N6VI was #3



nationally.  That's pretty amazing for a station on the west



coast.  I know Marty would want to thank his very talented



team of operators and also the SCCC rovers, who



provided a HUGE boost to the N6VI score.





K6AH was #1 in the rover category, with SCCC members



taking four of the top five spots nationally.  KI6FGV (now



K6FGV) was #2, N6HD was #3 and KJ5MSY was #5



overall.





W6TE was #1 nationally in the unlimited rover category.





N6NB was #1 nationally in the single operator (QRP)



portable category by a wide margin.  Only one station in the



country had a higher score in the single operator low power



category (which allows 200 watts on six and two) than



N6NB had in the 10-watt portable category.  It really pays



to have a good group of rovers to work!





Many other SCCC members contributed to the club's win.



Thanks to everyone who took part in the June VHF contest.





73,



Wayne, N6NB





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