[SCCC] FW: CaQP NT6Q(N5ZO) SO HP

[Dick Stepanian]

Yes - great score Marko.  Heard you all over the bands - tnx for the 7
Q's!!  Congrats on the effort.

73,
Dick - W6TK

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 11:49 PM <marko.n5zo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats to N6AN for new QRP record from W6NL.  Did not know that was David
> there until after it.  I was wondering why W6NL was so weak, hi.
> 73 de Marko n5zo
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, October 2, 2022 11:12 PM
> To: 3830 at contesting.com; marko.n5zo at gmail.com
> Subject: CaQP NT6Q(N5ZO) SO HP
>
>                     California QSO Party - 2022
>
> Call: NT6Q
> Operator(s): N5ZO
> Station: N5ZO
>
> Class: SO HP
> QTH: SDIE
> Operating Time (hrs): 24
> OpMode: SO2R
>
> Summary:
>  Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
> --------------------
>   160:    26    16
>    80:   206    46
>    40:   383    59
>    20:   498   235
>    15:   469   143
>    10:   290   218
> --------------------
> Total:  1872   717  Mults = 58  Total Score = 408,726
>
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
>
> Comments:
>
> That went better than I expected, thanks to great 10 and 15 this year.  I
> was actually not motivated for CQP this year at all but once it started I
> got completely sucked into the activity.  I took my 1st break only after
> midnight for 5 hrs to have good sleep.  I did not expect to get to 400k at
> all from my modest station on just 1 acre when it began but about halfway
> through it became my goal.  Let's see if the score stays above 400k after
> log checking.  Again very high portion of CW this year in my log (72%),
> score just accumulates much faster when making those 3 point CW QSOs,
> especially as using 2 radios is much easier for me on that mode.  In fact
> it
> seems that I made now more CW QSOs in this CQP than any Single Op before
> (before log checking) as it just beats CW QSO record set by N6TV last year
> in his CW only effort.  And I still found time to make few SSB QSOs.  I did
> not quite expect it and it seems to me that CW activity is increasing in
> these CQPs.  ND was last multiplier I worked and actually worked 3
> different
> stations from there during whole contest.  And I made 2 VY QSOs too (VY1CO
> and VY1AAA who both answered me), thanks for those always rare multiplier
> QSOs !  I was doing fair amount of S&Ping with second radio (often when
> running SSB with other radio).  It seems to me that many CA stations are
> not
> S&Ping much at all and are instead just running most of the contest.  There
> are lots of Qs to be made with all CA stations on air so I was really
> trying
> hard to get them into log on as many bands and modes as possible.
> Being very South here in SDIE helps to hear them reasonably well most of
> the
> time and I also always keep one antenna pointed to North ready to work
> anything from that direction.  Next one will be CQ SSB from zone 26 (HS)
> and
> CW from zone
> 29 (VK6).  I will have to skip my usual SS CW participation this year.  73
> and tnx for Qs de Marko N5ZO
>
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