[SCCC] SCCC Digest, Vol 167, Issue 6

Mon Nov 7 21:23:11 EST 2016

Dennis:

Remember that year that we missed WPA?

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Today's Topics:

   1. K6PO ARRL SS CW 2016 SOULP (Paul Kube)
   2. WB6NBU - ARRL Sweepstakes CW LP (Bob Pace)
   3. Re: K6PO ARRL SS CW 2016 SOULP (Dennis Vernacchia)
   4. ARRL SS CW 2016 (Bob Grubic)
   5. W6PH SS CW SOHP (W6ph at aol.com)

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 18:40:34 +0000
From: Paul Kube <K6PO at outlook.com>
To: SCCC <SCCC at contesting.com>
Subject: [SCCC] K6PO ARRL SS CW 2016 SOULP
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Call: K6PO<http://3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K6PO>
Operator(s): K6PO<http://3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K6PO>
Station: K6PO

Class: SO Unlimited LP
QTH: SDG
Operating Time (hrs): 20:24

Summary:
Band    QSOs
160:
80:     62
40:     90
20:     309
15:     49
10:
Total:  510     Sections        82      Total Score     83,640

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Rig: IC-7200, AH-4 tuner, 100' wire, N1MM Logger+

Comments:
Tried for K6ZH's SDG section SOULP record and missed it. And missed a sweep. 
(Since when is NE rare?!) Oh well, next year.

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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:17:57 -0800
From: "Bob Pace" <rtpace at cox.net>
To: "SCCC Reflector" <sccc at contesting.com>
Subject: [SCCC] WB6NBU - ARRL Sweepstakes CW LP
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Contest :    ARRL Sweepstakes
Callsign:    WB6NBU
Mode:        CW
Category:   Single Operator (SO)
Class:        Low Power (LP)
Section:     SDG
Operating time: 3h40m

BAND   QSO  SECT  POINTS
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   40         26      13        52
   20         15        8        30
   15         65      26      130

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TOTAL   106    47     212
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     TOTAL SCORE : 9 964

Played around a little on Saturday afternoon between yard work duties and 
Sunday morning before Church. FT-990 100W to umbrella stand-mounted R-8 on 
patio. I need to do something about that.

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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 14:26:54 -0800
From: Dennis Vernacchia <n6ki73 at gmail.com>
To: Paul Kube <K6PO at outlook.com>
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Subject: Re: [SCCC] K6PO ARRL SS CW 2016 SOULP
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Paul,

A lot if us have been SWEEP skunked by missing NE in SS CW in the past and
the reason is the Nebraska may have a lot of of PIGS but but at least for
cw operators, very few HAMS !!

;-)

N6KI

On Nov 7, 2016 10:40 AM, "Paul Kube" <K6PO at outlook.com> wrote:

> Call: K6PO<http://3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K6PO>
> Operator(s): K6PO<http://3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=K6PO>
> Station: K6PO
>
> Class: SO Unlimited LP
> QTH: SDG
> Operating Time (hrs): 20:24
>
> Summary:
> Band    QSOs
> 160:
> 80:     62
> 40:     90
> 20:     309
> 15:     49
> 10:
> Total:  510     Sections        82      Total Score     83,640
>
>
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Rig: IC-7200, AH-4 tuner, 100' wire, N1MM Logger+
>
> Comments:
> Tried for K6ZH's SDG section SOULP record and missed it. And missed a
> sweep. (Since when is NE rare?!) Oh well, next year.
>
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 16:21:18 -0800
From: Bob Grubic <bobgrubic at gmail.com>
To: Southern California Contest Club <SCCC at contesting.com>
Subject: [SCCC] ARRL SS CW 2016
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Contest: ARRL SS CW 2016

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Call: NC6Q

Operator: NC6Q

Category: Single Op Low Assisted

Station: NC6Q

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Club: Southern California

         Contest Club

.

Summary:

.

Band    QSOs     Mults

   7         16           11

14         15             8

21           5             3

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Total       36           22

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Score: 1,584     All S&P

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Simple Station:

  Kenwood TS-50

  Winkeyer

  Attic dipoles

  N1MM+ logger

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Comments: Couple hours in the seat with family commitments all weekend. Log
will be submitted as a check log. But I studied N1MM+ a little more under
contest conditions. I liked "turning the knob" with the keyboard up/down
arrows and sequentially jumping to spots going down the Bandmap, but
nothings beats the actual feel of knob turning. I also studied how I could
make my shack more ergonomically comfortable. My rig is on a shelf about 13
inches off the desk top (put there before I got into contesting, and pain
to move), so during the contest I designed an "armrest" for my right arm to
rest on and be able to turn the knob easier without incurring back and
shoulder pain while S&Ping. What a great improvement! My next setup will
have my main rig ON the desk top right in front of my right hand, while I'm
comfortably seated.

Regarding the topic on the CQ-Contest mailing list about repeating one's
call sign in the exchange, I did not hear one exchange where the other ham
did *not* send his call sign between the SN/Prec and the Ck/Section. Of
course, my sampling is very small. :)

Sometimes the progress that is made is not in the score.

.

73,

Bob, NC6Q

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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:09:44 -0500
From: W6ph at aol.com
To: sccc at contesting.com
Subject: [SCCC] W6PH SS CW SOHP
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                    ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW

Call: W6PH

Operator(s): W6PH

Station: W6PH

Class: Single Op HP

QTH: Lone Pine CA

Operating Time (hrs): 22.0

Summary:

Band  QSOs

------------

  160:    4

   80:  149

   40:  233

   20:  699

   15:   20

   10:    0

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Total: 1105  Sections = 83  Total Score = 183,430

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Equipment:  K3 Expert 1.3-FA  Win-Test

Ant: 5L 15m yagi on 60 ft AB-577 #3

     3L 20m yagi on 60 ft AB-577 #2

     40-2CD on 60 ft AB-577 #1

     80m half sloper below 40-2CD

     160m inductively loaded sloper below 3L 20

I started on 20m after listening to 15m right before the contest started.
It

didn't sound populated enough   Twenty ended earlier than last year.  I
went to

40m and found that the propagation foot print was strange.  I worked what I

could and went to 80 where I found the band had gone long and the 6's were
real

weak.  I tried 160 and worked four stations.  I knocked off early on
Saturday

night because the foot print was not producing a good rate.  I didn't set an

alarm and woke up seven hours later and dragged myself out to the shack at
5:30

PST.  I worked what I could and just slugged away on Sunday.  The rate was

fairly stable all day until an hour before the end.  I couldn't find any new

stations and I bailed with an hour left.

I sense that a paddle is becoming an antique.  On many occasions I asked
for a

single fill of the exchange and got a whole exchange instead.  Many of the
QRP

stations were barely audible and had to have many repeats.  I suggest that
QRP

contacts should be worth 5 points instead of 2 points.

The only sections I had to call were NT and VI.  All the other sections

answered my CQs.

I didn't have a single Murphy considering there were no antennas in the air

three days before the SS and I didn't have the station wired up.  I was

recovering from pneumonia and didn't feel like doing anything until about a

week before SS.

I still get enjoyment from the SS.  It is one of the last contests where you

actually have to copy something unless you are lame and use a call history

database.

73, Kurt W6PH

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