California QSO Party
Call: W6ML
Operator(s): W6KC
Station: W6ML
Class: SOCntyExp HP
QTH: Mono County
Operating Time (hrs): 24
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band CW Qs Ph Qs
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160:
80: 154 165
40: 248 61
20: 377 204
15: 2 0
10:
6:
2:
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Total: 781 430 Mults = 58 Total Score = 185,774
Club: Eastside Contest Group
Comments:
This was my 17th consecutive year operating a CQP county expedition from Mammoth
Lakes in Mono County. On Wednesday I made the 300 mile drive from my home QTH
to Mammoth...Shortly after I arrived, I saw a bear and her cub climb into a van
that some other people had left a door open. I quickly closed up my truck and
sure enough the bear came over and looked in the truck window. I yelled at her
and she took off, but I kept looking over my shoulder while I was unloading and
setting up my 80m dipole just as it got dark.
On Thursday I got my 40m dipole and 20m wire beam up and shot the guy lines for
the 15m wire beam...I was debating whether to bother putting it up. Since I had
time, on Friday I went ahead and put up the 15m beam, but as it turned out I
only had two QSOs on 15m (KH6LC and W6SX in Mammoth).
A big storm arrived on Friday evening...all night the winds blew and it rained
quite hard. When I went to bed I had dreams of finding all my antennas blown
down by the storm. Fortunately on Saturday all my antennas were still up. The
only unusual thing I found was that a pine cone had been blown so hard that it
was stuck in the wire of my 80m dipole at about 60ft.
I had a second radio setup for SO2R, but I could never find two bands
productive enough to use it much. Mainly I kept tuning and CQing on 15 and 40m
while I kept the main radio on 20m. On Saturday I got a few on 40m, but on
Sunday it seemed 40m never got going at all. My main joy was that I heard
VY1MB CQing on 20m SSB on Sunday morning and he gave me his #13 for my sweep.
I finished with over 400 QSOs below my Mono County record set 2 years
ago...Can't wait for 15M propagation again.
As always, CQP was lots of fun and it was nice to have eye ball and CQP QSOs
with the other active Mono County hams, W6SX and W7AB, W7FD and KT0AD at W6M.
Thanks to all!
73,
Jim, W6KC @ W6ML, Mammoth Lakes, Mono County
See comments with bear and pine cone in the antenna pictures at
http://www.vistasierra.com/w6ml/cqp2008.htm
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