[SCCC] 10m Contest N6GP SO Mixed LP

[Tim Goeppinger]

                ARRL 10-Meter Contest - 2022

Call: N6GP
Operator(s): N6GP
Station: N6GP

Class: SO Mixed LP
QTH: ORG
Operating Time (hrs): 17

Summary:
 Band  QSOs  Mults
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   CW:  249    71
  SSB:  203    58
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Total:  452   129  Total Score = 180,858

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

This was the kind of conditions we have been waiting for since 2013!  Not
perfect, but close enough.  Only the western tip of Europe was open, but we can
hope for more next year.

I challenged myself to break my personal low power mixed record I set in the
1989 when the band was even more open.  Here is a comparison:

1989 - Callsign WB6OWD   QTH Orange CA   The Berlin Wall fell 1 month prior.
       Rig Kenwood TS-520S
       Ant:  Cushcraft 1/2 Wave Ringo Vertical on Roof.
       Many countries worked all over Europe.
       CW QSOs:  98   Phone: 378  Total 474 QSOs   139 mults  Score 158,378

2022 - Callsign N6GP   QTH Tustin CA
       Rig Kenwood TS-590SG
       Ant:  Wilson Tri-Bander 23 feet up, but rotor stuck NorthEast
             40m inv vee in palm tree with tuner (for JA and west)

       CW QSOs:  249   Phone: 293  Total 452 QSOs   129 mults  Score 180858

So, basically I had to overcome a deficit in total QSOs and multipliers by
making more CW QSOs this time.  I did it!  But - I had a handicap of going to
the OCARC Radio club dinner Friday night, and I think I missed some Sporadic E mults then.  The band
seemed to die early each afternoon.  The band really ran out of steam at 2200z
Sunday.  My best QSO was with ZD7BG.  Did not get the 3B8 and FR that others in
my area worked.   Had a big pioeline to Indiana, and a huge one to Maine on Sunday.  Maine stations were telling
me my sig was 20 over 9!

Lets hope for even more phenomenal condix next year!
73,
Tim N6GP