[SCCC] 50SprngSprnt KA6KEN(@W6RFU) Single Op HP

[Ken Alker]

50 MHz Spring Sprint - 2023

Call: KA6KEN
Operator(s): KA6KEN
Station: W6RFU

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: DM04
Operating Time (hrs): 2

Summary:
Total:  QSOs = 5  Mults = 2  Total Score = 10

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

First time ever on 6 meters.  N6GP's email alerted me to the contest (thanks, Tim).  I drove over to W6RFU at UCSB as quickly as I could.  There we have a 6m yagi on a tower on the roof of the five story engineering building.  I thought there was no propagation until I suddenly heard Tim's voice come blasting through the speaker way above the static.  K0XP (Steve) didn't seem to be having much luck on CW (per our SCCC email QSO's) so I worked on trying to figure out how to use the paddle with the Elecraft K3 at the station. I've not sent CW in several years and never on anything but my 40 year-old straight key from Radio Shack so it was like getting out of a VW and into a Ferrari with no training, but I managed to figure out how to work the paddle and set the K3 to 8WMP (lowest it can do, apparently) and CQ'd.  Unfortunately, K0XP said I was in the noise and no one else came back on CW.  It was a good learning experience.