[SCCC] ARRL 10M W6PH SOABHP CW

[Bill Haddon]

Kurt,

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14,000 foot mountains five miles west of me (Mt Whitney)resulting in one
VK, one  ZL,

You didn't miss much. . 3 VK's and 3 ZL's worked here (VK2IA, VK7CW and
VK4CW) plus a 3D2.  But maybe 5 KH6's on cw.

Looks as if your azimuth is about 6 degrees;  similar here at Kelseyville,
Lake County, with Mt. Konocti rising about 4-7 degrees between Rio de
Janiero to Santiago Chile.  So had a awful problem with South America.
Normally not an issue except it was problematic with this contest.

Thanks for the CW QSO:  you had a huge S-9+ signal here when we worked.

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Saturday morning until 8 am
At 7:15 local time here about the only signal I could hear was NN7ZZ in
Utah.  By 7:30 band began to open.   But sunrise here is 30 mins later.

73 Bill N6ZFO

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ARRL 10m:
N6ZFO SO Mixed LP
Operating Time (hrs): 16.5

Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
CW: 670 79
SSB: 489 45
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Total:  1159 124 Total Score  453,592

Club: REDXA

Comments:
Unusual conditions on Fri evening with SA signals bending around to arrive
as if they were ZL's; worked just one, a PY2.

Closest QSO to Eu was EA8CN on Sunday.  Great difficulty
working SA with my 4-7 deg horizon PY to CE; apparently low angle was
required.

Coverage of Canadian provinces very good. . NL NB, NS, PEI and NT all
worked easily.  Garth, VE8NSD very kindly switched to CW after our 10m SSB
QSO, providing a mult which few, if any, others obtained; our cw effort
revealed a problem with his keyer.  Missed VE4 and VE6.

No WAS this year .  missed NM, SD, RI, WY and NE.  Took 1100 Q's to work
DE, first on SSB then on CW.

Slightly less than half the points compared to last year - not an
unexpected result with reduced sunspots.  You think this year was bad. .
stay tuned. Pretty soon it will be the 10m die-hards like KA6BIM and
probably N6ZFO.  Even the Geminid meteors will be of no help, as their date
is mid-week for a few years (the peak this year was probably Sunday night)

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 6:40 AM, W6ph--- via SCCC <sccc at contesting.com>
wrote:

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>                     ARRL 10-Meter Contest
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> Call: W6PH
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> Operator(s): W6PH
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> Station: W6PH
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> Class: SO CW HP
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> QTH: Lone Pine CA
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> Operating Time (hrs): 14
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> Summary:
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>  Band  QSOs  Mults
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>    CW: 1128    98
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>   SSB:
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> Total: 1128    98  Total Score = 442,176
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> Club: Bishop ARC
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> Comments:
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> Equipment:  K3 Expert 1.3K-FA  Win-Test 4.11
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> Antenna:  5 el yagi at 60 feet (temporary on AB-577)
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> What a surprise this weekend.  After Friday night with one CW contact I
> thought
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> I was going to be listening to a lot of white noise all weekend.  I delayed
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> going out to the shack on
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> Saturday morning until 8 am and was totally
> surprised
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> at the activity.  I figure I lost 1 1/2 hours.  Endless answers to my CQ's
> until
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> 1:30 pm when the band shut down abruptly and only PY's and LU's coming
> through.
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> I didn't hear any JA's or other Asia nor any Europe other than two EA
> stations.
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> Pacific is real tough for me as most signals are low angle and I have
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> 14,000
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> foot mountains five miles west of me (Mt Whitney)resulting in one VK, one
> ZL,
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> and three KH6's.
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> It was absolutely amazing to see all the signals on the P3 disappear in a
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> matter of minutes around 1:30 pm leaving a few very strong PY and LU
> spikes.
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> I missed two states, WY and KS.  I have no idea why I missed KS.
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> The 98 mults break down to 28 DX and 70 W/VE/XE.
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> 73, Kurt W6PH
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