[SCCC] Sept VHF N6GP Limited Rover LP

[Tim Goeppinger]

Call: N6GP/R

Station: N6GP/R
Class: Limited Rover LP
QTH: LAX

Operating Time (hrs): 11

Summary:   Compare Scores
Band    QSOs    Mults
6:           48           5
2:           65           6
222:       42           5
432:       60           5

Total:    215         25

Total Score   7,925
 
Club: Southern California Contest Club

SCCC Comments:
I can not thank you enough.   So many of you were so kind to move thru the bands at each stop.   Your help is what makes me competitive nationally, because I could not rely on 6m for the distant multipliers this time.   Here is a list of my superstars that worked me so many times out of the possible 16 QSOs

NT6E      16
NA6MG  15
N6KN     12
N6UTC   12
N6VI      12
AA6QI    11
K6MAA   10
KN6RNJ    9
KG6EXO    7
KI6PMD    7
KI6X          6
KW6ACK   6
KX6A         5
WQ6D       5
AA2IL        5

Tnx agn!

Comments:     
Earlier in the week I thought my roving plans were ruined by the remnants of Hurricane Kay.  Thunderstorms were predicted from late Friday thru Sunday.
Thankfully, the rain came early on Friday, and everything was OK Saturday morning.
Mentally, I had to shift gears.

I got a 30 minute late start at the beginning of the contest on Signal Hill.
Had a good amount of local activity, but no 6 meter opening.  Surprised to see
activity on 2m FT8, and I was shocked to work Jay N1AV in Tucson!  This is the only VHF contest I remember where the longest distance QSO was on 2m.
Went to Montebello for DM04, and worked a lot of locals. Decided to leave DM13 and DM14 until Sunday.

I usually drive out of the area for my "Driving For Multipliers" strategy for Sept and Jan VHF.  Unfotunately, due to fires earlier in the month, "the Grapevine" I-5 was either closed or severely restricted to re-build the road.
The Wrightwood area had thunderheads above it on Sunday, so that was out.
I did DM13 at the Diamond Bar Center to work many locals Sunday morning, and then I went to Pantera Elementary for DM14 in the early afternoon.  Seeing that I needed DM12 on a couple of bands, I went to Coastal Peak Park in Newport Beach to work them, and I got them.  Storm clouds were brewing with a lot of lightning crashes on the radio, so I QRTed a couple of hours before the contest end.

Had lots of technical glitches.  I managed to wipe out the memory channels in my IC-7000 twice.  Got a new laptop to bring along for digital modes on my TS-590SG and could not get it to transmit.  Could be windows 11 related.

QSOs by Grid:
DM03   54
DM04   53
DM13   58
DM14   50

Rigs:  IC-7000 and TS-590SG
Ants:  6m moxon
       2m/440 Diamond X30
       4 ele Cushcraft 2m yagi
       222 Larsen 5/8 wave mobile whip

Tnx for all the QSOs!  73
Tim N6GP/R