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

[Steve Harrison]

Terry, I didn't hear you but then again, it's a little difficult for me 
to rotate either my 160M inv L or my 40m inv vee  8-D

I did tune up to the 50.3 region and heard a bunch of strong (S7) 
carriers, plus a weaker one or two up even higher around 50.315 on the 
opposite sequence. That told me that there were people about that might 
have even been able to hear my pipsqueak 100 watts, but they just didn't 
want to come down to the CW band. Oh well... everybody missed "rare" 
DM24, I spose... 8-/

I doubt seriously that my 6m antler situation will be any better by the 
June test, unless I just put up a wire dipole hanging from my one (so 
far) tower. I do have a 13B2 for 2m that heard lots and lots of schtuff 
in the January test, including lots of Arizonans; but nobody responded 
to my CW CQs, nor did I hear anyone else on CW except one weak KE6, I 
think it was.

SteveH, K0XP

On 5/15/2023 7:28 AM, Terry Baxter wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> I did call you several times on CW but you did not hear me. I am down
> in DM12 and no one points their antennas this way.
>
> I heard no one else but I dont tune above 50.100.
>
> Terry/N6CW
>
> 	-----------------------------------------From: "Ken Alker"
> To: "sccc"
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday May 14 2023 10:19:49PM
> Subject: [SCCC] 50SprngSprnt KA6KEN(@W6RFU) Single Op HP
>
>   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.
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