[SCCC] SCCC wins another gavel

[Michael S. Mitchell]

Would a SCCC member operating from Yuma County Arizona help the effort?

-----Original Message-----
>From: Marty Woll <n6vi at socal.rr.com>
>Sent: Nov 14, 2013 10:07 AM
>To: 'Wayne Overbeck' <overbeck6 at yahoo.com>, sccc at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [SCCC] SCCC wins another gavel
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>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.  
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>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?
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>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!
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>73,
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>Marty N6VI
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>-----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
>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 
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>anywhere.  But it was a cliffhanger:  SCCC had 1.36 
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>million points to Potomac Valley's 1.33 million.  No other 
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>club had a score more than about half of the SCCC 
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>and PVRC totals.
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>SCCC also had a bunch of top individual scores.  More 
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>on that in a minute...
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>This is the second June contest in four years in which 
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>SCCC slipped past PVRC by a tiny winning margin.  It 
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>also happened in 2010 when SCCC had 2.81 megapoints 
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>to PVRC's 2.72 million.  No other club had more than 
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>about half of the top two scores that year as well.  So 
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>this is SCCC's second-ever gavel in the June VHF 
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>contest.  (It looks like we also won the gavel in the 
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>August UHF contest, but that's not official yet.)
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>Why were all of the scores so much lower in 2013 than 
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>in 2010?  In 2010, six meter sporadic E propagation was 
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>very, very good.  This year it was truly awful.  Fortunately 
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>for SCCC, propagation was equally bad almost 
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>everywhere.
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>For SCCC to win any gavel, a lot of SCCC members have 
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>to do really well in their categories  That happened again 
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>this year.
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>In the very competitive multi-multi category, N6VI was #3 
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>nationally.  That's pretty amazing for a station on the west 
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>coast.  I know Marty would want to thank his very talented 
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>team of operators and also the SCCC rovers, who
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>provided a HUGE boost to the N6VI score.
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>K6AH was #1 in the rover category, with SCCC members 
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>taking four of the top five spots nationally.  KI6FGV (now 
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>K6FGV) was #2, N6HD was #3 and KJ5MSY was #5 
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>overall.
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>W6TE was #1 nationally in the unlimited rover category.
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>N6NB was #1 nationally in the single operator (QRP) 
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>portable category by a wide margin.  Only one station in the 
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>country had a higher score in the single operator low power 
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>category (which allows 200 watts on six and two) than 
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>N6NB had in the 10-watt portable category.  It really pays 
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>to have a good group of rovers to work!
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>Many other SCCC members contributed to the club's win.
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>Thanks to everyone who took part in the June VHF contest.
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>73,
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>Wayne, N6NB
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