California QSO Party
Call: NI6T
Operator(s): NI6T,K6VVA
Station: NI6T
Class: M/SCntyExp HP
QTH: KING
Operating Time (hrs): 23
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 158 170
40: 193 24
20: 346 151
15:
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 697 345 Mults = 58 Total Score = 161,298
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Comments:
We (NI6T and K6VVA) activated Kings County, an agrarian backwater in the
southern San Joaquin Valley. Rick had found our QTH with Google Earth--a
desolate fuel stop off I5 with two roach motels, 7 fast-food restaurants
(Locust Heaven) and a downslope to the east.
The key to the KINGdom was a 40 ft. flagpole with a broken pulley in front
of one motel's office. Rick had talked the mgr.into letting him fix the
flagpole--which we would then use. This we did! On Friday, we used that pole to
erect inverted vees for 80, 40 & 20m, but not w/o an extended bout with Murphy
before all was ready. We wound up short on coax--we reached the radio with
several coax barrels and with one foot to spare.
Other than staying up too late Saturday night and blowing off 40m pre-SR on
40 in favor of sleep, we did OK, but with our modest antennas 40 SSB was a
bust, as were 160, 15 and 10m. So we did 2/3 CW, and Rick did a 115 hr on 20CW
with his own call on Sunday to keep from gg crazy squeezing out one Q at a
time. We suffered from TV garbage, line noise and RX overload. We used a TS480s
and an AL600.
Garry's reward for stoically flogging the last hours was our last two
mults--VY1MB (his #36) and VE5MX (his #102). Rick's reward was a post-contest
tour of the drive-in windows of three fast food restaurants.
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