[SCCC] ARRL VHF Contest January 2020 - NE6I

[Gary Morris]

The 6m opening was a real surprise on Saturday.  I had 25 contacts including Texas, Idaho, Seattle on 6m FT8, in about 2.5 hours.

I had equipment trouble with the 2m and 440 antennas and so operated only 6m FT8.  Antenna was a 6m moxon at 15', with a Yaesu ft857 @50w, and my Armstrong Mk I rotator.

We were camped on top of Egg Mt in Anza Borrego Desert (DM12vu).  I wish I had had more time as the FT8 waterfall was packed but we were in the middle of a desert camping trip and had plans to explore a couple of slot canyons.

If you search for Egg Mountain on maps.google.com you can see a 360 photo view that I posted showing our truck/camper and antennas.

Gary N6DM

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From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Steve <k0xp at k0xp.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2020 10:09 PM
To: 'Southern California Contest Club' <SCCC at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [SCCC] ARRL VHF Contest January 2020 - NE6I

At 09:54 PM 1/19/2020, Dennis Younker NE6I wrote:
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>Only one QSO outside of California. Six meters just never opened up from my
>QTH. All QSOs on FT8. Never heard anyone on CW or SSB. Missed one of the
>locals here who was often at +8 on FT8 but he apparently did not copy my
>replies.

I got on 6m 3 - 4 times. N6HC was working folks I could barely tell
were in there on SSB but nobody ever showed up on CW that I heard. I
could barely understand it was N6HC, and have no idea who he was
working. Thus, zero score.

SteveH, K0XP

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