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

[Ken Alker]

Hi Terry,

You would have been about 130 degrees SE from me so I was pointing right at 
you most of the time I was trying CW (although I did spin the antenna all 
the way around a couple of times).  I wish I'd heard you!  I'm not 
experienced using the Elecraft K3 in CW mode, so maybe I could have played 
with filters and pulled you out if I knew a little more.  Thanks for trying!

Too bad you and Steve/K0XP didn't make a contact - sounds like you were 
both trying CW (and closer to each other than me and either of you; 
assuming that may have helped on 6m (?) ).

Ken/KA6KEN

--On Monday, May 15, 2023 2:28 PM +0000 Terry Baxter <w6cbureau at san.rr.com> 
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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