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

[Dennis Vernacchia]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025, 12:55 AM <marko.n5zo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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