[SCCC] Fwd: WPX SSB W6PNG SOAB TB-Wires HP

[Paul Gacek]

Paul

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> From: webform at b4h.net
> Date: March 28, 2023 at 9:20:30 AM PDT
> To: 3830 at contesting.com, w6png at yahoo.com
> Subject: WPX SSB W6PNG SOAB TB-Wires HP
> Reply-To: w6png at yahoo.com
> 
>                     CQWW WPX Contest, SSB - 2023
> 
> Call: W6PNG
> Operator(s): W6PNG
> Station: W6PNG
> 
> Class: SOAB HP
> Class Overlay: TB-Wires 
> QTH: Irvine, CA
> Operating Time (hrs): 12
> 
> Summary:
> Band  QSOs
> ------------
>  160:     
>   80:     
>   40:     
>   20:  135
>   15:   18
>   10:  166
> ------------
> Total:  319  Prefixes = 237  Total Score = 149,547
> 
> Club: Southern California Contest Club
> 
> Comments:
> 
> DXPedition style with my HexBeam (10/15/20) and an Elecraft K4D/KPA500/KAT500 to
> friends house on the UCI campus in Irvine, CA
> 
> Goal was simply to build out progress to DXCC phone and phone WAS for 10/15/20.
> 
> Maybe its the nature of the contest (or the inexperience of me) but Qs garnered
> were from very different places than the ARRL DX SSB a few weeks earlier.
> Propagation must play into that especially after a sun event Thursday before the
> start. Virtually no EU stations nor JA. Lots of SA and of course USA stations.
> 
> I stupidly re-configured my K4D and didn't realize I had routed the main RX
> antenna input for 15m to nowhere and hence the band looked dead to me.
> 
> Between this and ARRL DX SSB I added 30+ new countries and have 97 confirmed and
> enough pending that I should get my phone DXCC after many many years!! That is
> the downside to being a mountaintop SOTA guy.
> 
> All good, all fun and impressed with the K4D and my new "toy", an ARCO
> rotator controller that is magic.
> 
> Paul
> W6PNG/M0SNA
> www.nomadic.blog
> 
> 
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