[SCCC] CaQP NT6Q(N5ZO) M/S HP

[marko.n5zo at gmail.com]

California QSO Party - 2025

Call: NT6Q
Operator(s): N5ZO
Station: N5ZO

Class: M/S HP
QTH: SDIE
Operating Time (hrs): 30
OpMode: 2BSIQ

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
--------------------
  160:    24     4
   80:   211    35
   40:   382   109
   20:   485   146
   15:   477   238
   10:   348   106
--------------------
Total:  1927   638  Mults = 58  Total Score = 408,436

Club: Southern California Contest Club

Comments:

Plan was to upgrade M/S record which was made from here in 2018 during
sunspot minimum.  Originally there was a plan to have another SO2R capable
operator here but it did not work out so I went ahead solo with full 30 hrs
operation.  N1MM+ tracks 15+ min off-times and I had one such 23 mins break
in 08z hour which was also my slowest hour with just 9 QSOs.  We have done
MS from here 4 times in past and I always did full night shift in those
years.  It was still very slow but this year there seemed to be much more
nighttime activity than I remember from those past MS efforts.  6 slowest
hours netted whopping 181 QSOs which is probably around 2x what I have
experienced before. Lots of QSYs were made during the night.

Overall I was continuously running behind my last years SO-Assisted QSO
count and ended 57 QSOs short with 6 hours of more operating time.  Main
problem was my 10 m, somehow it was never performing as well as I think it
should.  Maybe there is some problem somewhere, but antennas seemed to be
tuned same as before.

I have now made it to around 1900 CW QSOs in this contest maybe 3 times when
still making several hundreds of SSB QSOs.  There really seems to be about
1900, perhaps up to 2000 CW QSOs available before it begins to be
counterproductive to try to push more for those 3 points CW QSOs.  I thought
several times during the contest that I should have gone SSB bit earlier as
there often was immediate rate available when going SSB (although many times
it was short lived).  I also
operated lots of CW with one radio and SSB with the other.   I did feel like
big
lid many many times trying to operate 2BSIQ on CW with long exchange,
especially after serial number added 4th digit.  To have good 2BSIQ capable
SSB operator available on-call would be good addition for future MS efforts.


It is great contest to operate from California and thanks to N6DE who is
doing great job each year managing it.  Tnx for Qs.  Next up CQ WW DX
contests from OA and CX.  73 de Marko N5ZO


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