[SCCC] FW: CaQP W6UE(N6AN) SOSchool HP

[David Hodge]

Caltech CITARC Entry

>                     California QSO Party
> 
> Call: W6UE
> Operator(s): N6AN
> Station: W6UE
> 
> Class: SOSchool HP
> QTH: LANG
> Operating Time (hrs): 23:50
> 
> Summary:
>  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
> --------------------
>   160:     7     1
>    80:   148   123
>    40:   161   140
>    20:   257   268
>    15:   349   293
>    10:   142   159
>     6:            
>     2:            
> --------------------
> Total:  1064   984  Mults = 58  Total Score = 299,106
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> That was a lot of fun!
> I set a few goals for myself. A sweep, a CA county sweep, a rate of 100/hour,
> 300k final score.
> The sweep took a while. By Saturday night I was still missing VT, KL7 and NT.
> KL7AIR called in on 75 for #56! Sunday morning I worked a couple VT stations.
> When I felt I should have been on 15 and 10 but was not getting any traction I
> fired up on 20. After a few Qs I heard what sounded like GER. As my pulse
> quickened I turned the beam due north and there was VE8GER for the sweep. I let
> out a loud whoop! Stateside, I missed 4 CA counties.
> The 100/hour rate seems low, but in every CQP I struggle to beat it. I was 60
> Qs off the mark when I shut down at 0720 for the full 6 hour off time. I do
> better with sleep, hi! Sunday was tougher going. I never seemed to be in the
> right place at the right time. On 15 I had a beautiful clear frequency and one
> Q with a WI station who said I was 30 dB over. But nobody else answered my CQs.
> So I QSYed. A little while later all the real estate seemed to be gone. 10 was
> hot and cold. I marveled to have 9A call in and an ME station that sounded next
> door. At times signals sounded like that magical 6 meter overload-your-receiver
> strength.
> I revised my QSO goal and was happy to cross the 2000 mark in the last hour.
> The 300k mark eluded me by 5 CW QSOs. There were many big holes in my log where
> those few contacts could have been made. C'est la vie.
> N6WIN was certainly a fitting call sign for Dan, N6MJ. Once again he shows us
> how it is done. Kudos, Dan!
> This is the first year I have worked so many EU stations. Welcome to the party!
> 
> On 15 fone I was called by a DO9 station with strong music in his audio. I felt
> I was working a short wave broadcast station!
> Thanks to all for the many contacts. It is fun to revisit band by band, mode by
> mode.
> 73,
> David, N6AN
> 
> K3 with Alpha 78 and N1MM
> 160-dipole @100'
> 80 -inverted vee @80'
> 75 -inverted vee @75'
> 40 -sloper 1/2wave, top at @70'
> 20 -5 el yagi ~@70'
> 15 -4 el yagi ~@75'
> 10 -5 el yagi ~@80'