[SCCC] SCCC Digest, Vol 194, Issue 22
Ed Felter
edfelter at cox.net
Sat Feb 23 01:16:28 EST 2019
Dennis,
Schedule change here. I will have to work a good part of Saturday, so I will need to withdraw from the team competition. Very sorry. Good luck. 73
Ed, AI6O
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> 1. ARRL DX CW Contest (JOHN SCHROEDER)
> 2. Re: SCCC Digest, Vol 194, Issue 21 (Drew Arnett)
> 3. W4EF ARRL DX CW SOAB-Assisted (Michael Tope)
> 4. W6UE ARRL DX CW (David Hodge)
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> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 02:19:48 +0000
> From: JOHN SCHROEDER <n6qq at msn.com>
> To: "sccc at contesting.com" <sccc at contesting.com>
> Subject: [SCCC] ARRL DX CW Contest
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> Call: N6QQ<https://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=N6QQ>
> Operator(s): N6QQ<https://www.3830scores.com/findcall.php?call=N6QQ>
> Station: N6QQ
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> Class: SO Unlimited HP
> QTH: CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 9.5
> Location: USA
> Summary: Compare Scores<https://www.3830scores.com/comparescores.php?arg=7PcqsUzkivfak&call=N6QQ>
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> Band
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> QSOs
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> Mults
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> 160:
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> 9
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> 8
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> 80:
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> 28
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> 22
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> 40:
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> 126
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> 82
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> 20:
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> 183
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> 81
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> 15:
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> 72
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> 39
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> 10:
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> 6
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> 4
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> Total:
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> 424
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> 235
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> Total Score
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> 289,300
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> Club: Southern California Contest Club
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> Broke one my old records - DXCC in 7.5 hours, this time did in it 7.1 hours. Notice 40 meters - worked 1 more country than on 20 meters. Found 4 countries on 10 meters.
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> 73, John -- N6QQ
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> https://www.qrz.com/db/n6qq
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> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 03:03:48 +0000
> From: Drew Arnett <kb9fko at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [SCCC] SCCC Digest, Vol 194, Issue 21
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> Put me down for filling in some team that hasn't filled it's quota of
> team members, as I won't turn in a large score. Hope to play a bit in
> the RTTY test. Good fun.
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> Best regards,
>
> Drew
> kb9fko
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>> 1. NAQP RTTY This Saturday - Call For Teams (Dennis Younker NE6I)
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>> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:43:14 -0800
>> From: "Dennis Younker NE6I" <NE6I at cox.net>
>> To: "'Southern California Contest Club'" <SCCC at contesting.com>
>> Subject: [SCCC] NAQP RTTY This Saturday - Call For Teams
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>> The NAQP RTTY contest is this Saturday. If you'd like to be on an SCCC team,
>> please let me know.
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>> Rules can be found here: http://ncjweb.com/NAQP-Rules.pdf
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>> I'll need:
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>> Your call:
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>> Call to be used in contest:
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>> Estimated amount of time on:
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>> Estimated number of QSOs:
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>> 73, Dennis NE6I
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>> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 21:14:40 -0800
>> From: Bill Haddon <haddon.bill at gmail.com>
>> To: Steve <k0xp at k0xp.com>
>> Cc: SCCC Reflector <sccc at contesting.com>
>> Subject: Re: [SCCC] W6TK - ARRL DX CW
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>> The V4 station I orignally flagged with the no-call-announcement syndrome
>> did not have large pileups on Sunday afternoon. The final reported score
>> of 1.5M (22.5 hrs) could be compared with YS1/AA4NC (39 hours) of 3.5M in
>> the same category. AA4NC announced his call sign very very frequently.
>> Same for W6PH and really most other stations.
>>
>> Next time I'll deal with the situation more forcefully.
>>
>> Another point. . most of you have very reliable, fast internet connections
>> . in some rural locations, such as ours, it's not always so pretty, and
>> spots may not be available during a contest all the time.
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>> Thus I like the CQWW policy, whether operating assisted or otherwise.
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>> 73 Bill n6zfo
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>>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:56 PM Steve <k0xp at k0xp.com> wrote:
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>>> At 09:44 PM 2/17/2019, Bill Haddon wrote:
>>>> Still a rule would be useful,. . so if I were to write to W3UL, I could
>>>> cite the rule and say please don't do this. But there is no rule for ARRL
>>>> contests.
>>>
>>> He would just claim "But the pileup was causing me to have to do this
>>> and that..." and nothing gets resolved.
>>>
>>> But honor in radiocontesting prevails. If enough folks ostrasize such
>>> misbehavior in some personal way, the perpetuator eventually gets the
>>> message. Merely talking about misbehavior, without mentioning
>>> names/callsigns, on public forums can be sufficient notice to the
>>> guilty. There are always those who can't believe folks might be
>>> speaking of THEM, however.
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>>> Steve, K0XP
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> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:24:00 -0800
> From: Michael Tope <W4EF at dellroy.com>
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> Subject: [SCCC] W4EF ARRL DX CW SOAB-Assisted
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> ???????????????? ARRLDXCW Summary Sheet
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> ?????? Start Date : 2019-02-16
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> ??? CallSign Used : W4EF
> ????? Operator(s) : W4EF
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> Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
> Assisted Category : ASSISTED
> ???????????? Band : ALL
> ??????????? Power : HIGH
> ???????????? Mode : CW
> ?Default Exchange : 5nn CA
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> ???????????? Name : Michael Tope
> ????????? Address : 11018 Cardamine Dr
> ?? City/State/Zip : Tujunga? CA? 91042
> ????????? Country : UNITED STATES
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> ??????? Club/Team : Southern California Contest Club
> ???????? Software : N1MM Logger+ 1.0.7532.0
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> ??????? Band???? QSOs???? Pts? Cty? Pt/Q
> ???????? 1.8????? 30????? 90?? 23?? 3.0
> ???????? 3.5?????? 6????? 18??? 6?? 3.0
> ????????? 14????? 49???? 147?? 29?? 3.0
> ?????? Total????? 85???? 255?? 58?? 3.0
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> ??????????? Score : 14,790
> ????????????? Rig : Elecraft K3 & KPA500 (Alpha 87A on Sunday afternoon)
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> ???????? Antennas : 20 meters -> inverted-v at 37ft
> ??????????????????? 160/80 meters -> 55ft top-loaded Vertical
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> I was mostly just fooling around trolling for new DXCC countries on 160
> meters. While operating remotely from my home in LA, I had an almost QSO
> with PJ6A early on Saturday, but a combination of QSB and my lack of Rx
> antennas killed it. I was also stalking MI0SLE who I heard briefly with
> Q5 signals early in the evening (I think it was around 0500 UTC), but he
> wasn't above the noise long enough to make a QSO possible.
>
> I've also been smarting for the last week or so over a missed
> opportunity to work XX9D in Macau on 160. They were very loud on the
> morning of Tuesday February 12, but they couldn't hear worth a darn (I
> understand they have horrendous QRM at the hotel where they are setup).
> As a result only a few loud west coast stations were able to punch
> through (K6NA was among them). That was the last straw for me. I fixed
> my Alpha 87A many months ago, but it has been sitting on my workbench
> ever since. I love my Elecraft KPA500, but it operates at a 4 to 5 dB
> deficit compared to the Alpha 87A, so I decided it was time to bring the
> Alpha out of retirement.
>
> After my failure to connect with PJ6A and MI0SLE Saturday night, I
> loaded the Alpha into the car a drove it up to my remote station, so I
> would have that extra S-unit just in case the XX9 showed up Sunday
> morning. Actually being at the station has the added advantage that I
> can actually tweak the settings on my MFJ-1026 noise canceller
> (something that I can't do remotely). I figured that might help me pull
> out QSOs with the PJ6 and the MI0.
>
> As it turned out, conditions to the Caribbean had improved significantly
> by the time I reached the remote site around 0730 UTC Saturday night, so
> hearing PJ6A was no longer a problem. I wasn't so lucky with MI0SLE. The
> sunrise peak I had been hoping for didn't materialize. I spent the next
> few hours handing out QSOs on 160 muxed in with watching "Shetland" on
> Netflix. Sunday morning I swapped out the KPA500 for the Alpha 87A and
> then took a long nap after an extended struggle with an uncooperative
> Windows driver for the USB-to-serial adapter that I use to talk to the
> serial port of the Alpha 87A. After the nap, I finished up my (non)
> effort with some S&P on 20 meters.
>
>
> 73, Mike W4EF.............
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> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:46:41 +0000
> From: David Hodge <davidchodge at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: [SCCC] W6UE ARRL DX CW
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> Our reduced antenna farm was out of commission for the weekend so I threw together
> an 80 meter inverted vee and got it strung up between rain storms last week.
> Unfortunately, our noise problems have not diminished and anything below 5 over S9 was
> inaudible. Friday night I could hear XE2B and XE2X. I was running only 100 Watts because the
> antenna was too long and the VSWR was around 4:1. XE2X heard me so the log consists of 1 QSO.
>
> 73,
> David N6AN
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> Contest: ARRL-DX-CW
> Call Sign: W6UE
> Operator(s): N6AN
> Category: Single Operator, 80 Meters
> Operator: SINGLE-OP - Created from: Number of operators question (Answer: Only one)
> Assisted: NON-ASSISTED - Created from: Spotting assistance question (Answer: No)
> Power: LOW - Created from: Highest power question (Answer: 150W or less)
> Band: 80M
> Transmitter: ONE
> Station: FIXED
> Location: LAX
> Station Grid: DM04wd
> Club: Southern California Contest Club - Created from club question
> E-mail: n6an at arrl.net
> QSOs in Log: 1
> Confirmation: 4410305.arrl-dx-cw
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