[SCCC] Fwd: ARRL 10 W6PNG SO SSB Unlimited HP

[Paul Gacek]

Paul Gacek

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> From: webform at b4h.net
> Date: December 14, 2020 at 6:49:37 AM PST
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, W6PNG at arrl.net
> Subject: ARRL 10 W6PNG SO SSB Unlimited HP
> Reply-To: W6png at arrl.net
> 
>                     ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2020
> 
> Call: W6PNG
> Operator(s): W6PNG
> Station: W6PNG
> 
> Class: SO SSB Unlimited HP
> QTH: ORG, California
> Operating Time (hrs): 12
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs  Mults
> -------------------
>   CW:           
>  SSB:  165    23
> -------------------
> Total:  165    23  Total Score = 7,590
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> Operated from a friends home in Irvine using my 10/15/20 HexBeam and K3s/KPA500
> combo. 
> 
> Most of my contacts were up and down the US West Coast with quite a few local to
> my SoCal site (ground wave presumably).
> 
> Activity was promising for first few hours Friday night and it was cool to hear
> 10m open while dark into Central and South America.
> 
> Sunday around 10am PST had an opening into the US east coast.
> 
> The 2 element beam at 30 ft clearly works but listening into very local stations
> had me hear them but not their DX suggesting a better antenna is step one in
> improving my score next year. I have a couple of YP3 portable mono banders (3
> elements) that I’m thinking of stacking using the RemoteQTH StackMatch once I
> have modeled them with EZNEC and convinced myself this is a worthwhile project.
> Another improvement will be a better than me Arm Strong rotator ideally
> electrical in nature.
> 
> I used some of the down time to collect EU DXCC entities on 20m using FT8 that
> relieved some of the boredom.
> 
> Paul
> www.nomadic.blog
> 
> 
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