[SCCC] K0XP 2023 CQWW VHF

[Steve Harrison]

                    CQ Worldwide VHF Contest - 2023

Call: K0XP
Operator(s): K0XP
Station: K0XP

Class: SOAB LP
QTH: ORG
Operating Time (hrs):

Summary:
  Band  QSOs  Mults
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     6:   1     1
     2:   0     0
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Total:   1     1  Total Score = 1

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

CW in Southern California, Arizona, and Nevada on V/UHF is dead. Long live CW;
RIP.

Heard lots of SSB out there in both the Southland and Arizona on and
around 144.2, but absolutely nobody else but K6NR seemed to know CW.
There were even a bunch of strong wobbly-wobb signals hanging around
144.175, both barely out of the noise, as well as several as strong
as S9. I CQed endlessly both toward my west (LA/northern OC) as well
as more southerly toward south OC/SD, and northerly toward SB and
the SF Bay area, but didn't hear anything from either direction. I
thought, at one time last night, that I heard someone from the north
but while I was trying to peak the antler on them, either they faded
away or they didn't call again. Nothing heard from the LV area.
Basically a disappointing repeat of January.

Other than K6NR and K5AM (whom I only heard on one short meteor
burst Saturday), absolutely nobody else seemed to know CW. I guess
that DM24 is so common that nobody needs it any longer; who wudda
guessed??