[SCCC] ARRL 10 GHz and Up - N7DA

[Drew Arnett]

Doesn't count for the gavel, so listed microwave club instead of SCCC.

17124 distance points
38 unique callsigns for 3800 bonus points
20,924 claimed score
best dx:  394 km
calls worked:  AB6UI AF5T AF6NA K1CT K6MG K6ML K6NKC K6QPV K6VHF KB6BA
KC6QHP KJ6HZ KN6PKN KO6EJV N5BF N6DRE N6IZW N6LL N6MI N6MX N6NU N6OQ
N6RMJ N6VHF N9JIM N9RIN W6IFE W6QIW W6YLZ W7RWN WA6CDR WA6CGR WA6JBD
WA6MEM WA6PPG WA6RLR WB6DJI WB6TFC

(I failed to work everyone.  And just the list above compared to the
contest writeup article is interesting.  The ARRL has the logs data
and *could* say "we got X number of logs, but analysis suggests Y
number of stations was on the air.")

We had at least 3 new ops in San Diego this year.  At least two of
them went out on their own at some point in the contest after
mentoring.  (Cactus liaison during the contest makes an HF phone
contest sound tame.  lol)

I'll have to work harder on my scheduling for HF contests next year,
though there are several good ones left this year.  I love a good HF
CW contest, but the 10 & Up is one of my favorites during the year.
One reason is all of the different kinds of propagation we end up
using, often several at the same time:  LOS, tropoducting,
troposcatter, terrain bounce, rainscatter, aircraft scatter.  (I
haven't been able to attribute a QSO to diffraction, yet, but I
suppose it happens.)  A surprisingly large number of contacts are made
by pointing not at the other station to work them by bounce.

Fun stuff.

Drew
n7da