[SCCC] 2M CW

[Drew Arnett]

A couple of folks from the SoCal SOTA group are looking for 2m CW as well.

BTW, there's a fair amount of fresh blood in the SoCal SOTA group.
(Mailing list on groups.io.)  Fair amount of interest in CW, because
it's easier.  Folks running pileups.  Folks dabbling in contesting.
FYI

Drew
n7da

> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 01:56:32 -0700
> From: Dave O <daveokw at gmail.com>
> To: SCCC at contesting.com
> Subject: [SCCC] ARRL FD - N2JNR
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> Call:  N2JNR
> OP:  N2JNR
> CLASS:  1D
> QTH:  LAX
>
> Band     CW     PH     DIG
> 80          11       0        3
> 40         102    10        31
> 20         152    38        27
> 15           5       1          4
> 10           0       0          2
> 6             0       1          0
> 2             1      48         1
>
> Totals:   271 CW / 98 PH  /  68 DIG
> 437 Total
>
> Club:  W6KA-FD
>
> Claimed Score:  1,802 (including bonus points)
>
> Summary:
> Was definitely experiencing some major noise issues at the home QTH though
> managed to pull 437 contacts, which I felt real good about based on my
> compromised scenario.  Got the W1AW bulletin on Friday.
>
> For antennas, I used my SmallIR Steppir Vertical as well as a buddipole for
> HF
> GP6 and M2 Satpack eggbeaters for VHF/UHF.
> Timewave ANC-4 to phase noise whenever possible.
>
> Was happy to have a 2M CW Q added to the log with N6VI as I've been trying
> to find some activity on 2M CW and it never exists.  Also added my first
> FT8 2M contact with a station in San Diego at the beginning of FD.  Close
> to a sweep but missed VT, CT, RI, and IA in addition to Virgin Islands and
> a few provinces.   I believe if I wouldn't have done the 'recommended ft8'
> update I would have easily cleaned up as the new version was very buggy and
> not operating very stable.  FT4 was a little better but also a bit buggy.
> Think next time (and for summer contests) I'll have my buddipole which acts
> as a secondary antenna tuned to 15M instead of 6M as I missed the 2
> openings that I heard happened on 15M.   Sidenote:  I had fun with the
> social end and went live on facebook a few times showing off my shack.  At
> one point there was an audience of about 30 people watching me operate
> (many who didn't know I was a ham and that enjoyed watching the
> experience).
>
> 73 -
> Dave, N2JNR
>
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