California QSO Party 1993
Call: AA6LB/M County: GLENN
Category: MOBILE TEAM
MODE QSO QSO PTS MULTS
CW 372 1116
SSB 613 1226
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Totals 985 2342 56 = 131,152
All reports sent were GLENN, unless otherwise noted.
Operator List: AA6LB, N6UXB, KJ6TC, NV6O
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Equipment Description:765 (12V), TEN-TEC HERCULES II AMP MDL 420,
TEXAS BUG CATCHER(14')
76 PONTIAC BONNEVILLE STEALTH-MOBILE GROUND SYSTEM
(BOAT SIZE), VARIOUS RICE PADDIES AND BUGS
Yes, we really were mobile, parked next to the Sacramento River in a
combination boat -launching facility and park. No rf noise, but lots
of mosquitoes and flies. Had some really strange looks from the fishermen
when they saw Carl's Texas Bug-Catcher mobile antenna with the 7" dia coil.
Had a great time, wished we would have cracked the 1K Q barrier.
Circulating currents on control leads on 80 CW made us back off to 100W.
Operating KW mobile in contest really makes one use all the rfi mitigation
skill one has available. Great Fun.
Eric, NV6O
>From Bruce Sawyer" <sawyer@twg.com Mon Oct 4 23:02:25 1993
From: Bruce Sawyer" <sawyer@twg.com (Bruce Sawyer)
Subject: CQP from Colusa/Lake Counties
Message-ID: <9310042206.AA03603@eco.twg.com>
Here's a quick summary AA6KX results in CQP...
Category was Low Power (though not by choice), single operator county
expedition. I got to the site by 1:00 p.m. Friday and spent the rest of the
day getting my beam up in the air. Then I put up wires by Coleman lantern, in
the dark. Just like field day, to say the least. At 8 Saturday morning the
rope I had holding up my dipole broke, so I was left with nothing for 80/160.
Then I fired up my 4500 watt generator and discovered that the Alpha would
fault down as soon as I tried transmitting, even on the lowest power setting
from my transceiver. So as of 9:00 a.m., I was left with 100 watts into an A3
at 30', a 40m vertical, and a hunk of wire lying on the ground. The final
results:
CW SSB
160 0 17
80 31 40
40 118 22
20 173 268
15 119 329
10 0 0
VHF 0 3
Total 441 679 = 1120; Multiplier 57 (missing Idaho)
Final Score: 152,817.
The low band contacts came from loading the wire lying on the ground--not much
of an antenna! I was surprised I got out at all. The location was a
ridgeline, about 9 miles down a dirt road, up almost 6000'. I was sitting
right on the county line between Lake and Colusa county, so the whole contest I
was passing out both counties. Never again! People complained that they
didn't know how to enter two counties with CT, questioned how it was possible
for me to be in two counties at once, etc. I had to do a lot of explaining,
and that slowed things down a lot. If I ever go on a county expedition again,
it will be for one county only. Other than that, it was a blast. I was
sitting on top of the world the whole contest, out in the open, in the sun,
staring down on the Central Valley of California and across to the Sierras.
The horseflies were murder, but I soaked down with repellant and survived the
attacks. The hard part was the drive back--almost 4 hours of driving after an
exhausting weekend. I hope everybody in the contest had as good a time as I
did.
de Bruce, AA6KX
>From Jim Hollenback <jholly@hposl42.cup.hp.com> Mon Oct 4 23:41:43 1993
From: Jim Hollenback <jholly@hposl42.cup.hp.com> (Jim Hollenback)
Subject: PA QSO Part .CTY file
Message-ID: <9310042241.AA02550@hposl42.cup.hp.com>
Any one fix up a .CTY file for the PA QSO party like KI3V did for the
Cal QSO Party?....CT won't score it right, but at least you can track
the mult's and dupes
73, Jim, WA6SDM
jholly@cup.hp.com
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