CaQP Soapbox built 1-14-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 53,405 Me + Packet. Missed BUTT, MADE and SIER. Hope to see everyone in the PA QSO party - Oct 14 & 15. 73 Bud AA3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6PW Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 235,200 Missed SK and NT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6T Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 264,886 Mike K6QD put in much of the operating time when I had to leave much sooner than planned. He did a great job. Thanks! Steve AC6T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 13,320 Did not have much time for this contest, which was unfortunate, since this is one of my favorites. 20 meters was in good shape, so decided to try QRP for the first time in a contest. Had a ball, and thanks CAs for pulling me out of the mud at times. 73 - Jim - AD4EB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 7,776 Wasnt able to get on in time to do any real damage, but had a great time. Thanks to N1MM for a great Application for Contesting. 73 fer nw, Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM) http://www.ad5vj.com/ Member: CTDXCC, NTCC FISTS: # 12637 10X# 37210, FP#-1141 SMIRK#-5177, RARS #-149 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6WL Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 176,610 For the bottom of the cycle 15 meters was open pretty good. This is my first contest where I made more CW then Phone contacts. I'm sure I'll loose some Qs because of my poor CW skills but it was fun. Thanks to all the ops who suffered thru my consistent call for repeats on CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOCntyExp LP Total Score = 41,080 This was my second year in the CQP and I decided to do the County Expedition to my sisters ranch in Kern. I planned well in advance and had made verticals for 15, 20, 40 and 80 and a long wire for 160. I didn't plan on the heavy wind Friday afternoon while attempting to setup. In the end I only had the 1/4 80M, 1/4 40M and the 5/8 20M to work with (long story). I had a great time and got all but 6 mults but 0 on 160M and only a few on 15M due to antenna and wind problems. I also didn't work as many hours as planned so I am pleased with my score and it will give me something to shoot for next year... de AD6ZJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6Y Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 312,040 Great contest this year with outstanding activity (particularly from the Ontario contingent). A couple of comments 1) Was delighted in the 7th hour when Bob, VY1MB, called in for Yukon Territory for my 57th mult. Usually VY1JA is on, but Bob said that J was sick this year and couldn't participate. I jokingly asked Bob if he would mind mobiling to MT for my last mult. As soon as we signed, I was called by NW7O, who was mobile in, guess where, Montana, and had been listening to our QSO. So he immediately became the 58th! (Which I was very pleased to get, as a few years ago, I worked some 2000 Qs and missed MT). 2) Lots of CW activity this year. Even though I worked essentially 10 hours on phone and 14 on CW, my points per hour was still 20% higher on CW, indicating that I should have spent even more time there. 3) Sunday was brutal. Last four hours average rate was 54! 73, andy, ae6y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 2,875 My first CA QSO Party, and my very first CW contact ever! It was with N6O on 40M. Thanks N6O!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 2,208 I enjoyed the QSO-Party! The California operators had good ears and pulled my 100W/wire-ant-signal out of the noise. Thanks to their activity I could work five new California counties! 73, Uwe DL4AAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HW Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 59,856 I always enjoy the CQP. This year I had to take some time off for other activities so I only got about 16 hours in. I think that I could have gotten a few more QSOs by operating on Saturday evening. Early Sunday morning as I tried 160 Meters I discovered my Double Bazooka had a high SWR so the winds over the weekend must have caused a problem. I barely made 4 CW QSOs on 160 and no Phone but I heard quite a few that could not hear me. This is my 4th CQP and I felt the best I have done. It is the first time I have had a contact with all 58 counties. Writelog, ICOM 756PROII, TH11DX, Dipoles on 40 & 80 and Double Bazooka on 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0IO Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 50,765 Fun! Built a K9AY Loop which has a 30-ft footprint around a 25-foot mast and it nulled out RX noise coming from the east by a couple of S-units on 80 and 40. Really works. (www.hard-core-dx.com click on antennas, then on loops.) I even got a "QRZ?" when I accidentally transmitted into it. With only 100 watts the tiny terminating resistor seemed to survive! Note to self: Install the terminating resistor on binding posts outside the box for easy checking! Almost all QSOs were H&P. Got the rate meter up to 60 once on 80 for a quarter hour. Next year I plan a sweep! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 77,024 After many years of CQP's I finally got a sweep! Worked K6ME in LASS at 00:32. Tnx to the CQP registry I was able to figure out who I was looking for. The CQP website rules - Great job by the organizers. I was on the air Saturday during the day and then in and out of the shack all night and back on Sunday during the day, but basically stopped when the Chiefs came on at 20:00. Result was fewer Q's but more mults. Smoked the relay in the 2nd station's amp, so ended up low power on 80 and 160. That hurt the Q count. Have to get that fixed before CQWW and SS. Lots of FB op's in CA - Tnx for the activity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 27,876 TO NCCC FOR SPONSORING CQP HAD FUN. THOUGHT THE CONTEST WENT WELL BUT DIDNT DO WELL AT ALL ON 10MTRS HEARD STATIONS BUT EVEN WITH KW GUESS I WAS TOO CLOSE. BIG SIGNALS FROM N6O, K6RB,N6TV,K6LA,K6NV, KF6T AND MANY OTHERS..GOT 46 COUNTIES BUT SOME I JUST DIDNT HEAR..THANKS PTL GOD BLESS, BILL K0UK NO PHONE FOR ME ON THIS ONE... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TA Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 48,006 Thanks to all for the Q's. Especially want to thank the mobiles for the mult's. The cost of gas must make it pretty hard to justify a trip to a rare county. Effort much appreicated! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 45,192 shaking down the SO2R setup. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 70,934 FT1000MP, SB220, TH6DXX, zepp, dipole. Conditions seemed good. I was very QRV with other activities this weekend. Missed the 10 meter opening on Saturday that K4EA told me about. Nice to work all counties. Many thanks for all the QSOs, particularly the mobiles. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 94,598 I is so great to chat (briefly) with so many of my California friends. Some of them only in the I'm still plagued with s5 line noise to the west, so my apologies to all those I could not hear. 15M was hot as my numbers show. My 20M antenna developed a very high SWR Sunday morning which really hurt numbers there. 10M was a nice surprise on Saturday with many 59+30 signals. It was open about an hour. I told as many as I could to try 10M on Sunday about the same time. Of course, since I did, 10M never opened! (except for W6YX and K6AM on scatter from the south). Low band were very noisy and my QSO count down there shows it. I worked quite a few on 10-80 both modes. N6O tried very hard to copy my SSB on 160, but just couldn't get my number, otherwise it would have been a sweep for us. Thanks to all for a great CQP and special thanks to Rusty, W6OAT/M and Dave (K0DI), K6AQL/M for the multiple county contacts. Neal, K4EA (ex AE6E) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 27,456 Thanks for the Q's -- 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4SAV Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 85,028 FT1000MP, AL-1200, 4 element SteppIR, XM240, and poor temporary low band antennas. Managed a clean sweep at 8 hours into the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4SSU Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 44,184 Had 56 mults 4:39 in to it, so thought the sweep might happen before I had to leave Dave's place but it was not to be. Missed Merc and Tuol. 73 Brian NA4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 15,252 Heard many STRONG signals out of CA into AL during this contest. I don't normally enjoy state QSO parties, but this was much more fun than I thought it would be. During my participation, I experienced plenty of good operators and lots of sportsmanship. My only negative observation was that a few operators used the old county designators instead of the new ones. Since this was my first CQP, it took me a second to do the mapping (no big deal)... My compliments to all the CA contestants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 224,280 Conditions could have been a lot worse. 15 opened early and stayed strong all day. I never found VE5SF or VY1MB but I bet we crossed paths many times. Congrats to the other San Diego players. N6MJ at W6YI was awsome as usual and N6ED at K6NA was not too far behind. The W6PT gang just over the border from San Diego in Imperial defended their record well. John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6EZ Class: SOCntyExp LP Total Score = 180,120 After a last year's disaster in Lassen county, the Glen county expedition was a fair success. It was raining hard on Thursday, so I had only Friday to setup: 160m Inv-V @ 60ft 80m CW Inv-V @ 60ft 80m SSBInv-V @ 50ft 40m 2el wire beam @ 40ft 10/15/20 Spiderbeam @ 30ft During the contest, generator was failing every 2-3 hours, and I had to take few breaks. Sorry to stations who called me in the middle of power loss. At one time, I had to clean carburetor, spark plug, etc. Another problem was the RF getting into my audio, so my QSO count on phone suffered. 15m was a nice surprise (someone said it will be a useless band). It is nice to work a couple of EU's on 15 and 20 with 100W. Missed VE5, and it took me a long time to work RI, VT, and MT. It is good to be active from Northern California national forest, at some 6000 ft elevation, overlooking the Central Valley. CU next year from some other mountain... 73, Denny KX7M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 59,058 This was my first CQP, and had a great time. If nothing else, this contest teaches how big a state Calif is, and how many counties there are that I've never heard of before. My operating time was limited. I had commitments on both mornings. The biggest surprise was the opening on 15 meters. I probably should have started out on 15 rather than 20. I really consider myself more a SSB contester, but the more operating I did, the more I gravitated to CW. As a little pistol, I got beat up on 20 Phone. That was the biggest disappointment. Just couldn't find a clear freq. There was the problem of other Calif stations I couldn't hear who were on my freq (whats that called - Hidden Transmitters?). 40 Phone was a big disappointment too. My multiband dipole performed OK on every band except 75. My ant tuner just couldn't do it. Missed KY, MT, RI, VE1, VE2, VE5, VE8 Got NE and NH in the last hour tnx to N0WY and W6PH/1 (Kurt). I figured out after the contest that AA3B was spotting his Qs on the DX Cluster. Tnx Joe! So thats why I got pileups all of the sudden! I was holding back my callsign to reduce the pileup by just calling QRZ , and they still all knew my call! Thats how I figured it out. I had asked on the SCCC reflector about what is a good string to send for CQ. I shortened it down to CQP DE K6GEP TEST A few stations just heard the TEST and fired a ..--.. at me, and I responded with my call to start the QSO. People seemed to get the ORAN OK. On phone I am good at over- annunciating the "OR-anj", as I have learned from field days here. Station: FT-990 100W Alpha Delta Multiband Dipole as inverted vee at 25 ft 20 meter dipole at 20 feet N3FJP CQP Log with CW keyer interface (worked great - no QLF!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6IDX Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 316,863 Thanks to Brad, K6IDX, for the use of his great station and his unending hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SOCntyExp LP Total Score = 65,615 Portable from a friend's place near Coulterville, CA (Mariposa County). Pneumatic antenna launcher (kit by Wb6ZQZ) performed beautifully: enjoy watching the tennis ball arc over tall trees towing a line behind it to hoist up your antenna farm. Thouights that came to mind at some obscene hour during the contest: - Got your BIC? (Butt In Chair) - Stay Put Setting up antennas by the light of the harvest moon. - YOGA IN THE CHAIR!!! Got a late start Saturday because of traffic. 20m Moxon oriented vertically made for solid runs both afternoons. Get your software and keying issues sorted out BEFORE CQP 2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6KO Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 249,980 LAST SECTIION WAS NEVADA AT 2015Z SUNDAY!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LA Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 353,162 If you had told me I would beat my LAX record score at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, I would not have believed you. Conditions far exceeded my expectations. Even 10m opened for a little on Saturday around 1900 - 2000Z but not to many were there for it. Except for heavy QSB on 15m and some line noise on 20m, it was a pleasure to operate this one. Murphy stayed away the entire time. The race was for 2nd place with K6NA (N6ED,) W6NL, and me very close. Looks like it will come down to log checking. Got RI for the sweep at 23:23Z. ND and KY were the other last couple I needed. I had to break down and change my canned CW message from LAX to LANG after getting corrected a few times. I changed to simply LOS ANGELES on phone and let the other guy deal with the abbreviation. It will always be LAX to me! Just a note to the guys in Ontario. GREAT TURNOUT. THANKS. All of us in CA should get on in the RAC contests to thank them appropriately. 73, Ken, K6LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 180,234 Missed NV. Next year when arranging for county coverage, pls make sure K5RC stays home. Where was K7NV?? K6TKD is probably the better op...she knows where the keys on the keyboard are! A BIG thanks to all the ops not 'actively' participating who tune around the bands and give a Q or 3...really appreciated!! And THANKS to all for the Qs!! CU in SS!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 182,380 Great conditions on all bands from Northern California. Kudos to all the Canadian hams for their active participation. Thanks for all the QSOs. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NA Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 354,148 This was another marathon CQP!!! Thanks to Glenn and his wife for wonderful hospitality!! Overall a pretty good year for CQP and a great tune-up for the fall season for all of us. I certainly dusted off a little rust!! I felt pretty good at the end and not as tired as I usually am. Sunday was definately a little more of a drag than usual, felt a little like SS Sunday! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi Glenn. It's Craig at the mic/key but the messages do get passed! 73 till next year/next contest! See you all in SS and beyond! Maybe even in RAC for my ON buddies! Craig, N6ED A few observations: Loud guys: N8BJQ takes the cake, N5DO, K7RL on 160 WOW what a signal! Glad to see I didn't miss the 10m opening!! 15m was wayyyy under populated for the propagation on Saturday. It was wide open!!! I am sure I lost ground to my contenders by starting there. With a perceived "low spot in cycle activity" more people tended to CW rather than SSB so the proportion was different than other years. Sweep was not easy this year. I had to wait till Sunday for VT and HI. Only logged 1 station in VT, YNWT, and SK. Thanks to VE5SF and VY1 guy for getting on! J we miss you!!! Contest Club Ontario ROCKS! CA activity definately seemed down this year so we may have to institute the "calling tree" for next year to make sure all our casual guys get on in force. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 39,550 Only had limited time in the contest. I was pleasently suprised at the activity on 20m Sat afternoon, it was great, especially to be wanted by all. I even had to manage pileups on me, new experience. Had a couple of problems with WL, the dupe function was intermittent, weird deal, 4 digit serial numbers would not allow me to enter the CA county w/o monkeying around, don't know what that is about. Had to use the 160m sloper fed through the tuner for 80m due to RF problems shutting the PC down with my vee, it worked better than the vee for the midwest and east coast. Close to a sweep for only 6.5 hrs, only missed 7. Station lineup: FT-1000mp AL-80b, 800w Writelog tribander at 60' Low inverted vee for 40 sloper for 160m and 80m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6OWL Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 45,325 All the (un-)planned antenna work didn't happen (again), and the evil and aging Isotrons have congealed over the years into fine dummy loads, leaving me with just relatively low dipoles surrounded by power lines in the City. Glad that N6RA was working hard handing out many SFRA mult's. Some people didn't seem to get the memo about the new county abbreviations but it all seemed to work out fine. Seemed like there was lots of activity both in and out of state. Only ~364 days until the next CQP... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VO Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 286,926 Six members of the South Orange Amateur Radio Association joined me in San Bernardino County for this year's CQP. We operated as K6VO at my desert station. The conditions were much better than expected and we all had fun. We were pleased to work 82 DX stations. Hats off to the great folks in our most active multiplier areas: ON (142), TX (110), PA (105), WA (86), OH (79), FL (75), and MI (71). W8MJ worked us the most times (9); N8BJQ, N8II, VA3NR, VE3EY, and W0ETT worked us 7 times each. THANKS FOR ALL THE QSOs. See everyone next year - Dana, K6NR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XX Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 336,072 Missed VE8/VY1 mult! Participation great, condx much better than last year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6YT Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 225,885 15 was surprisingly good, but 10 didn't share the fortune, although I did work OK and GA on 10 on Sunday. There is no CW (or SSB) entry class in CQP, but I chose to do CW-only in this one. I'm refurbishing the station and there were just too many unsolved issues, like the two rigs QRMing each other with RFI, so I opted for a bit of simplicity at the last minute. Hopefully, I can make some improvement before Sweepstakes. Thanks for all the calls! 73, Ed - W0YK 2006 CQP - K6YT (W0YK) HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 16 0 0 7 95 0 0 102 102 17 0 0 3 34 38 0 75 177 18 0 0 8 23 46 0 77 254 19 0 0 0 52 38 0 90 344 20 0 0 0 42 39 0 81 425 21 0 0 8 27 22 0 57 482 22 0 0 23 32 0 0 55 537 23 0 0 17 34 0 0 51 588 0 0 0 33 21 0 0 54 642 1 0 5 46 14 0 0 65 707 2 0 38 43 0 0 0 81 788 3 0 52 34 0 0 0 86 874 4 0 61 11 0 0 0 72 946 5 20 37 6 0 0 0 63 1009 6 14 33 0 0 0 0 47 1056 7 3 7 14 0 0 0 24 1080 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1080 14 0 1 18 25 0 0 44 1124 15 0 0 10 50 0 0 60 1184 16 0 0 8 21 0 0 29 1213 17 0 0 1 22 27 0 50 1263 18 0 0 0 22 21 4 47 1310 19 0 0 0 16 20 1 37 1347 20 0 0 0 15 22 3 40 1387 21 0 0 0 22 27 0 49 1436 TOTAL 37 234 290 567 300 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ZZ Class: M/MCntyExp LP Total Score = 166,228 This was our 6th trip to Fossil Falls for CQP. We set up three 100 Watt stations with verticals and ran on batteries much of the time. Mostly a casual operation by several of us that work together at Edwards AFB. As always, we had a great time. Band conditions were better than we expected but we missed the short opening on 10M Saturday morning. We surpassed our QSO goal and were very pleased to get the sweep. Our last Mult was YNWT on 20 SSB with about two hours left to go. Thanks to everyone for the QSO's and we hope everyone got Inyo that needed it! 73, Bob K6ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ACZ Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 8,938 Antennas : MA5B Mini-beam (20/15/10 mtrs), R-7000 vertical (40 mtrs) Lost my 160/80/40 sloper just before the contest. Las Vegas is too close to CA to make many contacts other than on 40 mtrs. Worked everyone I heard on 40 and called CQ off and on but not too many stations were on 40. Stations worked on 20 were all very light with QSB and some with flutter. Many stations indicated I was their first or only NV mult so when you hear a weak station with flutter on 20 or above it might just be that near by state mult that you need so listen close. Called N6A for 15 minutes to get the ALPI mult just 5 minutes before the end of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 10,416 Only had a couple of hours to play, which was almost enough to get 100 Qs - my pre-contest goal. Found the 80 meter conditions to be very good, unlike 40, where I struggled to get through to a few stations. Maybe those with directional antennas were all beaming East? Thanks for all the Qs. Denis - K7GK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 7,992 Squeezed in two hours on Sunday morning. Nice to see 15 working. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 56,886 I missed Lassen. Nice to have 15 meters open this year. I hope to hear lots of you, California and others, next weekend as W3USA/M in the Pennsylvania QSO Party. For the W6 crew, note that unlike many other state QSO parties, PaQP uses ARRL sections as multipliers, so your activity will be especially appreciated. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8ND Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 26,068 Just played a bit in between other tasks at home, almost all on Sunday. Nice to hear 15m so good to California, but nothing heard on 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8OSF Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 480 Had to work during contest times.. at least gave a few CA's some points. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA6MAL Class: M/SCntyExp LP Total Score = 47,684 My family staged a county expedition to rare San Benito county [SBEN], and operated from a tent at the Pinnacles National Monument campground. Op's were Kamal KA6MAL (the OM), Suzanne KG6CLP (the XYL), and Emeline N6KID (the first harmonic, age 9, who got her ham ticket last month). What a treat to have so many contacts tell us that we had just completed their California sweep! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 4,158 Only a part time effort. Logged some of the shorter county exchanges and some with the 4 letter exchanges. Most used a 4BTV, but on Sunday, got to use the tribander at 41' but it was pointed North--not rotating yet. Lots of big signals on 15, 20 and 40m. Missed the Bubba Bonus points!!! Thanks for all the QSOs and putting up with my slow CW... Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 3,696 Nice 15M opening on Saturday. A great contest but the weather here in NJ was just too nice to spend much time indoors so I went hiking. Maybe it'll rain next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5LNO Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 28,820 This was my first CQP from Ohio. Missed Sierra, Tuolumne and Yuba on phone. Was surprised at the poor conditions on 75 Saturday night and gave up on that band. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE6ZSN Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 166,054 Thank You for all the Q's!!! 73&KB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6GMP Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 37,620 Loads of fun - wish 15 had opened better. didnt operate 40 or 80 at all. Thanks for all the Qs 73 de Gary KH6GMP http://www.kh6gmp.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ6RA Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 127,512 Had a great time, had my best score to date. Saturday was nice with many stations calling including Europeans. Never did find a RI or MT station to work, but heard that RI was on. Guess hanging out at the top end of 20 he didn't find me. Although maybe he was in the static crashes that I had. Thanks to my CW contacts for their patience as I am not much of a CW operator and look forward to working you all next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 34,821 Nice QSO party, lot of CW activity for CW only guys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 78,648 Thanks to N6S, N6A, N6D, AD6E, N6DE, N6ZFO and the others who made a clean sweep possible again this year. Sierra County was #58 in my log. The 20 meter pipeline was wide open into California both days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS6U Class: M/MCntyExp HP Total Score = 377,386 WOW! - a contest weekend with good conditions! Our score is almost 60% higher than last year. We had a few equipment issues but the weather was good - it only got down to 25F at night and the wind was never over 30mph. Nobody got hurt, and we all returned safely back 200 miles north to civilization. We worked three other stations in our county so if you missed Modoc you were just plain unlucky. Now, can we see about opening 10m sometime soon...? 73, Dick k4xu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 32,940 Missed KING, LASS , SIER, and YUBA for a sweep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 41,800 Had fun trying to work all counties during my part-time effort. Glen,Yuba and Tuolome eluded me. Good activity level from the "left coast". Hope all have AL in log as Alabama Contest Group (ACG) has come alive again. Look for all in the AQP in 2007..... Tim,KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0AC Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 81,374 Thanks to Toni for the use of the station. I decided to try QRP, which I think was a good decision. Had a nice opening on 15m both days. CW QSOs are easier with QRP as the totals show. Bill, N0AC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 57,570 I did not have all weekend to play, but when I had time - there was always activity. With the exception of a short 20 meter run the entire weekend was S/P. It was nice to find 15 meters open, but - not for my High Power. I am still waiting for the bulldozer to level my future antenna field to begin the major tower project, so low dipoles are the antennas of the day. The stereo and TV speakers were not getting along with the high power 15 meter RF. The 30' high 40 meter dipole that I used on 15 mtrs is very close to the house and the RF was creating a major issue - so, 15 meters was all low power. Thanks to all for the Qs - but - - - where was Tuolumne County? I really wanted to get a sweep but will wait for next year !!! 73, Bruce - N1LN (aka: NC4KW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 31,772 The participation seemed to be at an all time high. QRN on 80 was really bad from GA. This contest makes for great mixed-mode and SO2R practice. Thanks to the NCCC for a well run event. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 66,552 IT WAS VERY ENJOYABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CQP. I MET MANY NEW FRIENDS AND RENEWED OLD ACQUAINTANCES. THE CONDITIONS WERE GOOD MOST OF THE TIME. UNABLE TO WK ANYBODY ON 160 OR 75 METERS. ITS PRETTY TOUGH TO WORK CA FROM ALABAMA RUNNING QRP. TX FOR ALL THE GUYS WHO PULLED ME FROM THE CROWD. SEEMED LIKE STATIONS IN THE MID WEST AND CANADA HAD THE BEST SHOT TO CA. GETTING TOO OLD TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE TWO DAY CONTEST. I DID LAST FOR 15 HRS. I CONSIDER MY SELF FORTUNATE TO WK 298 STATIONS ON CW QRP. CONGRATULATIONS CQP ON A SUPER TURN OUT. 73s JERRY N4JF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 118,668 Great Fun! Got sweep at 0208z with K6EZ in Glenn..lots of time between the next to last and finally the last one. Then worked K6EZ four or five more times. Rusty, W6OAT and Tom did a great job along with K6AQL (again) out on the road. CAQP is great because of all of the planning and getting the word out. Thanks to the many stations that operated portable in normally hard to contact counties. Biggest surprise was tuning down on 10m with the second radio on Saturday and finding the band wide open. W6NL on cw was 599+++ and all the stations that found their way to the band were very strong. 15m was much better than would have guessed this time in the cycle. 160m was almost worthless with only one contact and 80m was very noisy but thru it all was able to make a few contacts. Thanks again to all.... 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 114,724 My earliest sweep -- worked N6DE for Trinity at 2028Z on Saturday for the last county. I felt pretty good when I went to sleep after the first day -- I thought that if I had a good Sunday I would have a great score. Unfortunately Sunday was painfully slow. I had made some 15M contacts on Saturday, but on Sunday I only squeaked out two 15M QSOs. I could hear stations further east working W6s, but I had only marginal conditions into California. I usually operate low power, but thought I would go all out this time and operate high power. As always Murphy's Law prevailed. I locked up the computer three times, requiring a reboot. The first time I corrupted the TRLog file and had to reinstall the program. That happened right at the end of the first hour and took about 10 minutes to accomplish. The second station I worked after the reinstall came up with the old 3 digit county identifier -- so I had to find the new .DOM file with the new California county codes and reinstall it. Of course, all this was happening during a wonderful run. Then about 20 minutes after I went to 15M a neighbor called to tell me that I was interfering with their TV. I was shocked -- it has been 25 years since I had TVI (and my wife was watching TV in the next room with no problems). We quickly determined that the TVI was only on 15M and that it went away when I turned the linear off so it was an easy quick fix, but it will require some attention before the next time I try high power. (I was debating going HP in the CW Sweepstakes, but I think this has convinced me to stay LP!) As always thanks to California for a wonderful QSO party with great activity -- and all the contacts in the NAQPs, Sprints, SS, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6D Class: M/MCntyExp HP Total Score = 248,691 Our first effort. 2 stations M/M. Got all 58 California Counties (no mults here though) but missed the real mults by 1 -- somehow never found MT even though all the hard ones came quickly (NT,MAR,ND,RI,WV). Dipoles for 80m,40 up in the Redwood trees; sigma for 40; phased array for 20m; steppir 2 el at 28 feet on mast; 160m screwdriver. 400 watts most of the time -- had one amp die. Since the stations weren't networked, numbers started at 1 for each band-mode per log checker's request. Discovered some interesting writelog errors by doing this (it resets numbers randomly). Bands sure died in the middle of the night - rates down to 8 per hour for 2 stations. Surprised to work a real DELN HF ham in Fort Dick, and a mobile in downtown Manhattan(NY), and a YB on 15m (that 15m opening both days was outstanding; we tried 10m at the suggested 2000 utc on Sunday but it wasn't open to us). This county is a LONG way from our home in Portland/Salem/Eugene Oregon but all the ops want to do it again next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DE Class: SOCntyExp LP Total Score = 218,709 Kenwood TS-850 C3S tribander Inv-Vees for 40m and 80m Honda EU2000i generator Tower trailer Check out some pictures of the expedition at: http://public.fotki.com/N6DE/cqp/cqp2006/ Many thanks to the people who made this expedition possible: Bob N6TV for the generator Marc W6ZZZ and West Valley ARA for the tower trailer Also thanks to Greg WB6FZH for his input about operating from Trinity, and N6XI for confirmation about CW keying with Direct/IO and an IBM Thinkpad T42. And thank you Google Earth for a program that proved to be an enormous help. This was my first ever S/O effort in CQP. I was going to just casually operate in CQP this year from the W6YX Multi-op. That was until two weeks before CQP when Alan K6SRZ announced he was having emergency heart surgery and wouldn't be able to activate Trinity County this year in CQP. I did some research on the web and found N6NT's report on cq-contest from 1995 when he operated CQP from the Trinity/Shasta County line. Then I dug around in Google Earth to see if I could find this location or any other good radio locations in Trinity. I found what appeared to be a great county line, downsloping ridge location at 4800' elevation, except at 100 degrees where there was a nearby taller peak. I drove 275 miles (one way from my house) up to the site the Saturday before CQP. It was perfect for an expedition and the dirt road was good enough to support towing a tower trailer. I later called the BLM Redding office to ask who owned that exact spot of land. It turns out that it's right on the boundary of BLM land and National Park land (for a camping CQP expedition: BLM land = good; National Park land = bad). I bought a BLM map of that area in case anyone gave me a hard time at the site. At this point, I asked myself whether I really wanted to do this expedition. I would probably have to go myself, and although I had most everything I needed somewhere in my garage to go on the expedition, I needed a generator and a tower trailer. When those fell into place from N6TV and W6ZZZ/WVARA, I decided this was still totally nuts, but what the hell... I'll do it!! I met with W6ZZZ in advance to pick up the tower trailer, and am really fortunate that I did! After we checked out the trailer, got it ready for towing, and went over its operation, we checked the tire air pressure. It turned out that one tire was totally flat (though it didn't appear flat)! We were able to take the trailer it to Marc's house nearby to use his air compressor and hurried to inflate both tires because it happened to be raining at the time. As I was ready to leave, Marc noticed a round area of foam and bubbles that was accumulating on the top of the tire that was previously flat! There was obviously a hole in the tire, but there was no nail visible. What were the odds that it would be raining when I picked up the tower trailer, that I parked the trailer in such a position that the hole in the flat tire was directly on top so that rain could hit it, and that Marc happened to see it when I was inflating the tires? Whatever they were, I'm glad it happened! Marc told me the location of the nearest Wheel Works, where he just happened to have visited the previous week due to a flat with his own car! He also knew it had a large parking lot, big enough for me to navigate a tower trailer around and through. So I went straight there and had the tire patched. They found a finishing nail deep inside the tire. I got a late start out of the Bay Area on Wednesday, and I checked into a hotel in Redding at 2:30am Thursday. After breakfast, a trip to Home Depot to pick up some power cables I forgot at home, and a 30 mile drive to the site, I arrived after noon. This turned out to be perfect timing because it had just stopped raining. I was worried about the condition of the dirt road after the rain all day Wednesday and Thursday morning, but the road was fine, and I didn't even need to put my Explorer into 4x4 mode. This area in far northern California is strikingly gorgeous. From the site, I could see Mt. Shasta, the Trinity Alps, a few lakes, and the lights from Redding. Driving by the Whiskeytown Lake on 299 during the daytime is stunning. I built the tent, set up the tower trailer, and mostly finished assembling the C3S on Thursday before darkness. On Friday I mounted the C3S and wires to the tower trailer, cranked it up, set up the generator and the radio, and everything worked great except for one thing... there was S7 line noise on 20-80m, and S5 on 10 and 15m!! It HAD to be the generator, right? This was the middle of nowhere with no visible power lines anywhere. I thought the generator was the only logical conclusion... I called N6TV on the cell phone where he listened to the noise and we talked about things to try. I turned off the generator, hooked up the 850 to my car battery, and discovered the line noise was still there. Friggin unbelievable. Well, there's not much I could do about it at that point. I figured I'd at least make some Qs that weekend and activate Trinity for the guys chasing a sweep. Anyway, after all that, it was almost dark on Friday, and I just started to launch some line into the trees for a 75m resonant wire. I left the rest for Saturday morning, and did the CQP practice on Friday night. Saturday morning came around, and I decided to sleep in late and forget about the 75m wire! I checked the noise on the bands and it was still there. Ugh, it peaked S9 at 70 degrees on 20m. When I turned the beam to JA, it went down to S3. I found that the 850 noise blanker took out most of the noise on 20m and 40m, but not on 80m, as the noise sounded different. I turned the beam to 45 degrees, operated with the noise blanker enabled on Saturday, and called CQ high or low in the band so I wouldn't get hammered by strong signals due to the noise blanker. Then magically on Sunday, the noise disappeared! I praised the gods at that point, as I was able to work guys who were S0 and S1 on Sunday and take advantage of a quiet location. I started the contest on 15 SSB and still did not have a QSO after 4 minutes and having tried two different frequencies. This was a disappointing start, which I thought may be a sign of a long weekend. I went to 15 CW and then suddenly I was off to the races. I stopped for the night at 12:45am and had dinner at 1am after warming it up with my camping stove. It was quite cold on Thursday and Friday nights, less so on Saturday night, and beautiful on Sunday night. I was prepared for the cold weather, but never imagined I'd need a fan during the daytime on Saturday and Sunday! It was actually pleasant inside the tent, but my Astron switching power supply was burning up. There was not much breeze the entire weekend, so opening the tent doors didn't help much. Several times throughout the contest, I had to decrease my power to 50W, or take a break, to allow the Astron to cool down a little bit. I was concerned that it was going to shut down any minute, but luckily it kept running the whole weekend. I need to figure out why the supply is getting so hot. I resumed at 6am Sunday still needing HI, RI, MT, and NT. W1WIU called in on 15m SSB for RI, and then later again on 20m SSB. I couldn't believe that I was still missing Montana, so I went to 40m SSB, worked some guys, and found a net in progress. I asked if anyone on the net was from Montana, and there was! We moved up the band for a QSO and MT was in the log! But of course, two other MT stations called me on 20m SSB later in the day. KH6GMP called me on 20m SSB with 2 hours left. That left NT as the one mult I missed, which I never heard all weekend. I had 5 AK QSOs, and lots of VE7, but no VY1. I was surprised to hear so many DE and SC stations, which in past years have been rare. I actually felt happy to make it to 57 mults. I had 3 VT QSOs and was lucky to contact VE5 early in the contest. I was surprised that 30 Europeans answered my CQs, some after 2pm on Sunday! Several JAs called, and 9J2BO was an unexpected QSO, as well as CU2JT on two bands. It seems like there were a lot of stations outside of CA that got a CA county sweep this year. I would not be surprised if there were more outside-CA stations with a county sweep this year than inside-CA stations with a US/VE mult sweep! Signing a county line caused mass confusion. Here's a collection of actual responses: how do I log a county line QSO, my logging program doesn't let me log a duplicate QSO in the other county, my software only has room for 4 characters in the county, my logging software has room but gives a question mark when I type SHAS/TRIN, I'll log both counties, I'll just log Shasta since it's the first county and I don't need the mult, I need the Trinity mult so I'll just log that instead of Shasta, will the log checkers ding me for this, are you a mobile or a portable or a rover, what's your next county in the mobile, does this count for one contact or two, is Shasta-and-Trinity one county or two, we don't allow it that way in the xyz QSO Party, I'm gonna have to write this down on paper and fix it later so could you please give me the counties again, I just blew away the QSO trying to fix the counties so what was the serial number again, what's the new county abbreviation for both of those counties (the abbreviations were the same as last year for Shasta and Trinity!), where exactly are you on the county line, "that's cool, I'm going to do that next year," "well that woke me up," "your county again?," and the often sent phrase on CW: CTY? There must have been 100 people who asked me for clarification. No exaggeration. Despite all that, I had a real blast! Making over 1500 QSOs low power S/O on an expedition was FAR beyond my expectations. I thought I would have a hard time reaching 1000 QSOs low power in this contest. Craig N6ED said I could do it, but I wasn't so sure. So I made a deal with Craig N6ED that I would buy him a six-pack of beer if I made it to 1000 QSOs. He would buy if I didn't make it. When I contacted him on 80m Saturday night, I had over 900, to which he responded that I am going to owe him beers. I told him that if I made it to 1500, I'd have to buy him two six-packs of his choice. I made it to 1509, so it looks like I need to stop by BevMo and fly down to SoCal to deliver the goods! The VE3s and Contest Club Ontario were amazing! It was obvious they were well organized and highly motivated. Great job, CCO! Although I thought I was at a remote site, there were actually a lot of people who traveled on the dirt road past me while I was there! I was constantly waving at people passing by. There are lots of great stories about people stopping by to visit and wondered what was going on. There were only a couple of weeks until the end of deer hunting season, so there were quite a few hunters around. I had a good chat with a couple of great guys who were deer hunting. It turned out that one guy's dad is a ham, and he took a few pictures of my setup to show his dad later! Then a US National Park geologist stopped by and asked "What the hell is that?" He left saying "That's really cool." Then during a raging pileup on 20m, a couple that owns private land nearby stopped by, I put the headphones down, and we had a good chat for about 10 minutes. They even offered for me to stop by their place later for a beer! The tower trailer is an instant conversation starter. I even had a great conversation with the guy at Wheel Works about it before the trip. Even my neighbor asked whether it was going to be a prop for Halloween this year! Hmmm... park it in the driveway, crank that baby up, and hang a giant Grim Reaper from it! Now THAT would be cool! This turned out to be a memorable expedition, and I hope all of you had as much fun in CQP as I did! Thanks to everyone for all the QSOs! 73... -Dean - N6DE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6IMP Class: SOCntyExp LP Total Score = 136,785 This was Field Day type operation to further test the viability of using vertical antennas next to salt water. Lots of problems setting up tents, setting antenna tuners that worked at home to work, getting software that worked at to work there (I had hoped to work SO2R), getting the 80 m antenna to work at all, and killing lots of flies. Nonetheless, I was able to sustain QSO rates a lot higher than at home. Hoped to get 1000 Q's but fell short of that, but felt better about being able to get some nice sig reports whilst operating SSB, an unfamiliar mode. Great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6KI Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 136,125 SDIE Abbreviations sucks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6MU Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 91,936 Part time effort, mostly CW. Nice to hear 15 open for a change. 73... John, N6MU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6MW Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 19,516 Sorry for several lost qsos and failures to respond to calls due to software glitches. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6O Class: M/MFixed HP Total Score = 632,200 Better than last year. New station records on 40 and 20m, 15m way up from 2005. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6OO Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 46,608 This was my first California QSO Party. Last year, I made a couple of calls but quickly found that using my ex-K1USC call sign was oftentimes confusing on the other end. This time around, N6OO was QRV & calling CQ for much of my operating time. Lots of fun. I worked just about 11 hours here and there over the weekend, usually in the mornings as I took my lovely XYL out on Saturday evening (date night with the wife) & again on Sunday afternoon. What time I was on, it was pretty good fun. Calling CQ, I enjoyed some steady runs on 20M both SSB & CW. It was valuable experience for me, as I’ve never had that many other stations coming back to me before. My listening skills were enhanced as I struggled to catch many weak stations down in the noise. I figured that is usually how I sound in a contest so I was glad to try and work everyone nice enough to respond to my CQ’ing. This really is a good contest for “regular Ops” with “regular stations” to get some good operating experience as there is an abundance of stations who are trying to work “little ol’ me” here in Southern California. My basic “little pistol” station (100Watts & a wire) worked without a hitch the entire time. I did notice the 857D got warm & it’s internal fan turned on after a long period of calling CQ & working a good CW run. (that’s the first time I heard that fan noise! So, I separated the front panel of the radio to help the air flow & that keep things cool. I had a G5RV up inverted-V style: the center up about 26 ft & the ends at 16ft. The LDG AT100 Pro auto-tuner kept the radio & G5RV talking well to each other. I know I must have asked for repeats about a hundred zillion times & everyone was nice enough to repeat their exchange enough times till it finally sank into my thick head. Sending “SBER” went smooth as I had very few requests for repeats. One highlight of Sunday morning was working Charlie W6KK (also in SBER) on 15M CW. “What a hoot” I thought upon hearing his serial number in the low 80’s and being able to send my number back up in the lower 300’s. Though I had to pull the plug shortly afterwards and I figured with him still going, he must have passed me up with ease with only a couple more hours of work. All in all, a fun outing for the weekend. 73, de N6OO Tony ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 84,600 I couldn't put full time in this year due to a wedding I had to attend. That was too bad, because the line noise that plagued me for years is mostly gone! Many thanks to all the dedicated people who work so hard to put the rare counties on the air, year after year. Special mention to the one-man County Expeditioners N6DE (SHAS/TRIN) and AD6E (LAKE/COLU). 73, Bob, N6TV 2006 CQP County Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 48,224 This turned out to be a better outing than I had expected. I was worried whether I would even be able to reach my score from last year, due to the decline in propagation and possible participation. No problem--I blew right through last year's QSOs, multipliers and score, and those had been my best so far. Now I have a new bench- mark to reach for next year. I wound up with 425 QSOs, 44 multi- pliers and a new high score of 48224 points. Slowly closing in on that 50K mark. I also had far more ssb QSOs than ever before. An interesting note was that twice I gave and received the same serial number. Fun coincidences. The only band I had no QSOs on was 10m. Never heard a signal there any time I checked the band. On the other hand, to work 160m I had to load my 40m dipole AS A DIPOLE and still worked 8 cw and 1 ssb QSO with it. It is said that W6 stations should concentrate on CQing, as the other stations will be looking for us. When propagation got soft, I had to go to S&P, as no one was answering a weak CQ. So I got by with a mix of CQ and S&P. All in all, I had a fun time with my K2 at 5w and my (in)famous WimpyWire antenna farm. I really appreciate those stations who stuck with me to complete our Qs. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XI Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 156,222 Things worked very well in this 10+ hour jaunt, especially considering where we are in the sunspot cycle. Too bad I didn't have time for a full effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ZFO Class: SOCntyExp LP Total Score = 118,092 My thanks to the Calif Dept of Forestry for providing the Eagle Peak CDF fire lookout in Tehama County. This superb location, approximately 10 mi NW of the small town of Paskenta, CA (35 mi W of Corning CA) is a dream location in every respect. Rich, KJ6RA, expedites our arrangements for Eagle Peak. A small effort this year necessated by my weekly commute to So Cal. This was a no-aluminum year -- used just a single wire antenna, a CF Zepp. It performed beautifully on 15 meters during Saturday's great opening, although the 3-el beam that I've used before would have been welcome. 20m was difficult this year for a LP station. 73 Bill n6zfo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BF Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 31,680 Operated from Seaside, Oregon - Trap Dipole up 30 feet - 100 watts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 103,298 Sure miss 10M. A short opening on Saturday - nothing on Sunday. Good turnout as always. CW activity seemed a bit down. Tnx to all the mobiles and to K6DW for Yuba for #58 on Sunday AM. The first 57 came early on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 94,366 I had every intention of making a serious effort at the CQP, but despite my best score, it was a bit disappointing. There seemed to be more of a lack of casual ops than I remember from 2004 when I was last able to make a serious effort. I didn't have any long runs on 20M phone, could run so few on 20 CW that it was a waste of time, and was only able to run a few on 15M despite some rock crushing sigs from the big guns on Saturday. Perhaps the opening was a bit too early in the contest and most all the casual guys were busy on 40 and 20M. Amazingly 10M opened around 1945Z, but it was more of a distraction than a boost to the score with 7 phone and 9 CW Q's made mostly S&P. I had to resort to S&P at about half of the time thru the end of the 20M opening in order to keep a semi-decent rate. The one positive from Saturday was fairly rapidly being able to find all of the counties. When I reached about 15 left to go around 18Z, it looked like I had a pretty tough task left, all of the remaining ones being amongst the rarest counties. I had some good luck running on 20 phone, working 4 of the last five needed. N6S from Sierra Co called in at 2114Z, the next Q in the same minute was N6LAI in Butte, followed immediately by another also in Butte! Maybe they were trolling the band together, but I nearly dropped out my chair. I found N6DE for the last one, Trinity on CW at 2257Z for the sweep. His SN was above 400, so I probably should have been able to catch that one sooner. Sigs on 40 were decent starting around 0030Z, but I could not run any and I was getting so tired that it was a real effort to push onward, so I stopped at 0247Z, much earlier than I had hoped. I could find no one on 75/80M. At sunrise Sunday, there were only a few stragglers around, activity seemed to pick up around 1230Z, but it was still painfully slow and I only managed 1 Q on 75M and 6 on 80 CW. Even after 20 opened around 14Z, it was exceeding difficult to find anyone new, either running or S&P, so I took off about 35 minutes and cleaned the car. By 15Z, there was some new activity, but it was a very slow day, working mostly S&P. Every run was just a few stations before the activity dried up again. I did finally manage to run a few on 15 and 20 CW during around 19-21Z. The total QSO production for the whole day was about 200 Q's. The last hour was one of the slowest, nothing much new left to find or run on 20 phone. Running on 15 phone produced maybe 15 Q's all day. I probably should have spent more time looking for the mobiles. The last 3 hours W6OAT/M found me several times on phone; we made 8 total QSO's. I worked him in Butte, only have him call from Sutter the next time on phone where I joked about the move from Butt to Sutt. I found K6AQL/M nine times for the most with a mobile. I should have chased the mobiles a bit harder, but the only incentive to work them after 23Z Saturday was a new QSO; I suggest a mobile window of 3-5 kHz on CW and 10 kHz on phone be established to make finding them easier amongst all the huge fixed signals. Many thanks for the Q's! It will be more fun once 10M returns; N6BV was huge from his mobile on 10M two years ago. Some of the mobiles were S9 on 20 this year and some were pretty weak. As in other state QSO parties, most were impossible to find CQ'ing on phone, they answered my CQ's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NB1B Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 105,270 First, thanks to the stations on my CQP Hall of Fame (7 or more QSOs): 10 QSOs- W6OAT/m, N6O 9 QSOs- W6NL, K6AWL/m 8 QSOs- AC6T, AE6Y, K6NA, KF6T, N6IJ, NT6K, W6YX 7 QSOs- K6IDX, N6NF, W6ML, W6TK, W6YI Both 15 and 20M were much better Sat than Sun- signals were stronger, and running was more productive. Best hour Sat was 1900Z, with 58 stations worked, and best hour Sun was also 1900Z, with 30 stations worked. Sun was a grind, only making 150 Qs in the last 8 hours. Never heard a thing on 10M either day, even though it was checked frequently with the 2nd radio. CQing was never productive on CW- I could S&P all day long, but any CQing would not produce answers. CQing was productive on 40/20M SSB, but finding a frequency that I could hear on, particularly on 40M, was always tough. Last 4 counties worked were Merc, Lass, Yuba, and K6VMV gave me Tuol at 0502Z to complete the sweep. 54 counties were worked by 2000Z, so the participation in the different counties in this year's contest was excellent. A nice little contest for the first week of October every year. Hope this makes the Top 10- I haven't had a bottle of the CQP vintage wine in several years! Dennis NB1B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 48,840 Another fun CQP with a lot of activity, but I never did hear Sierra, Kings, or Tuolumne! Sure missed 10 meters - not a peep. And 80 was pretty useless here, so it boiled down to a three band contest. 73, Randy, ND0C (QRP, as always!) Equip: Yaesu FT 897 (5 watts) and Ten Tec Argonaut 509 (3 watts); tribander at 50 feet and dipoles at 45 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND6S Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 63,896 CU Next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 57,456 This was my anniversary weekend so couldn't operate full time. Only operated a little over 8 hours. PLENTY of activity. Only missed 2 for a clean sweep....Kings and TUOL. Nice to have a short opening on 10 meters Saturday afternoon.....also worked W6YX around 21Z on Sunday with a skew path on 10 SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 37,683 Antenna problems plagued Saturday afternoon. My Hexbeam heard fine but I was getting asked for repeats from most stations. Switched to the 80M delta loop. My new 160M inverted L worked great so was able to get a few contacts on top band. I could just barely hear the CA stations on 15M all weekend but they couldn't hear me. Too close in I suppose. Best I've done in this contest so far. Last year I had 151 Q's. 73 and see you next year. Icom 756 80M delta loop 160M inverted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: M/MFixed HP Total Score = 29,256 Spent a few hours Saturday night playing radio and drinking some wine after a long day of station projects at NK7U. Scott/K7ZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM5G Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 3,480 Casual operation practicing on portable rig in back yard. This station will be set up in two weeks for demo to Boy Scouts at the JOTA Merit Badge Fair. Rig: Kenwood TS-480HX Force 12 Sigma GT-5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NU6T Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 11,324 Lots of fun, though conditions wre tough for a little pistol station. Both days were burtal, but Saturday afternoon was fun on 40m. Got a DVK going for the first time, and that helped. Thanks to all who participated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK7M Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 20,586 Great fun, nice conditions. Thanks to all for the contacts. 73 ! Daniel / OK1DIG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RK0LWW Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 5,220 Vy good prop to CAL on 20M in start, local 3:00 AM. CU next year, POKA! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 47,628 Good to be back contesting after replacing all my old antennas during the Summer. Good chance to see how the new system plays. All in all, I was very happy with the result. New system is based on a 3 element SteppIR and an inverted L. Condx were good for this point in the cycle. Gotta love it when 15 m. is open. Always a fun contest! As usual,it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 78,242 Had 57 counties by 1100 gmt Sunday morning, finally heard N6S at 2112 gmt on Sunday, worked for SIERRA county , nr 58 !!!!! All other counties were worked multiple times. At 2215 gmt I was sitting down to our traditional turkey Thanksgiving dinner . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 90 No time! Pool closing and fence fixing did me in. Harry VA3EC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3NR Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 66,385 [Mark-V field, Al-811 500watts, HF6V vertical] Its Thanksgiving weekend here in VE so took off-times to suit family activities. Missed lots of prime time. I wonder if 10 ever opened - I swept 10 several times but heard nil. Never heard much on 160 either but followed someone moving W6NL there for my only 160 QSO. Never heard KING, SIER, or TUOL. Heard lots of VE3's, including some big scores from our regulars plus some callsigns I don't hear very often so very pleased with the CCO turnout. Hope all had fun! 73, Chris VA3NR. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 7,980 K2, FT817, 5W, vertical and dipole. Thanks for working a weak signal! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RN Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 52,808 What happened to Sunday. Saturday went great. Woke up Sunday and could only hear the 'Big Guns' that I had already worked on the Saturday. Was 2 short of the sweep just like last time. Just can't seem to work 'em all. This time it was Humboldt and Lassen. Ah well, next time. Went to the web server to enter my score and found I had to log in with a password and register. Entered my callsign as requested. I was not registered. No thank you. Will submit via e-mail. P.S. Wish everybody had stuck to the new county abreviations. Maybe I should have used 'YVR' :-). See you next year. VA7RN ex VA7LC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 23,472 Had a great time as usual in this very well attended contest -- amazing participation and support by the CA ops. Don't know how SSB bands were, but the CW bands were hopping with activity. This was a casual entry for 2006, in and out, working all I heard within a few minutes, leaving for an hour and working more. 10M and 15M were out of the mix for the most part (5 Qs on 15M, all in the final half hour Sunday). 80M was hot -- really enjoyed my couple of hours up there using the high 80M inverted V. 40M was all right but not super. Ground-mounted vertical played best for me there. Found 20M better than it was last year, when it seemed all those beams were pointed due East (me off the side). This year everyone was loud! Missed CALA, KERN, LASS, SBAR, SJOA, SIER, SUTT, TUOL, YOLO and YUBA. In the final 15 minutes (got on for the final rush) landed FRES and KING back-to-back, and SOLA. Like stumbling across diamonds. Probably would have found the missing mults in the first few hours, but I was boring myself silly up the band in the PSK Rumble with rates in the low 10s per hour till 23:59z Saturday. Force of habit -- can't resist a TARA challenge or handing out a VE7 mult -- but truth is PSK contesting is frustrating. What a relief it was to dive into CQP. Was impressed by so many CQP stations. Curiously, a couple of big signals were handing out retired county abbreviations -- SDGO and LAX. Still, very impressive that almost all stations had the new list in place first time out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1RGB Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 38,064 One of my favourite contests, although this year the mobiles were not as strong as usual and I only worked W6OAT once. K5AQL, on the other hand, gave me four multipliers and 11 Qs. Nonetheless, this was my best score in this contest -- double that of last year, and then some. Rig is an ICOM 756 PRO III and I used mostly a 160M dipole at 75 feet as a multi-band antenna, with my SteppIR (BiggIR) vertical particularly on 40M. Nice to see 15M open for a change, Thanks for the Qs, everyone. CU in the next one. 73, Gary, VE1RGB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 5,248 Contest # 1 from the new QTH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EY Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 120,118 A big thanks to Paul, VE3SY for letting me operate the contest from his UFB station. A great turnout by California stations. I think bands were very good including 15 m. SSB produced more QSOs while CW was mainly S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3HG Class: M/SFixed HP Total Score = 52,045 Thanks to VE3RZ and VA3GGF for the great score. Best ever and worked all counties. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KF Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 53,477 Icom 765 ant: R8 vertical and wires Condx was pretty good except 28 Mc. Just a part time job. 73, Alex, VE3KF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KZ Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 99,354 It took less than 6 hours for 57 counties but Sierra N6S had to wait until 11:52 Sunday for 58. This time I had more than one QSO in each county. W6OAT/m made it two SIER in the last 15 minutes! Thanks for all the QSO's and special congratulations to VE3EY who broke my Ontario record in this contest and to the multitude of fellow CCO members out to protect our streak in the Contest Competition. 73 Bob VE3KZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NBJ Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 37,128 Enjoyed the qso party and thanks to the ops and the sponsors for a gso party with lots of participation. See you next year!!! 73 Norm Rig:Yeasu FT1000mp Field Antennas: Ground mounted vertical Dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 2,438 Just a low 40m dipole up for now. I was afforded a bit of time to get on the air. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SS Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 2,418 I operated when possible, but with kids and the thanksgiving holiday it was not possible to put in a better effort this time. I had fun nevertheless, and thanks to all who worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 23,644 Dipoles for 80, 40, 20 at 10M height. Orion I & ACOM A2000 N1MM V6.10.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3VE Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 4,224 Fun time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 72,906 Another great QSO Party! Good balance of CW and phone operators. The new abbreviations worked well but some CA ops were still using the old ones. Something about LAX and SDGO that is much more interesting than LANG and SDIE.I understand the concept but the reality seems to miss the mystique of the former codes. Conditions were quite good which enable me to work all but one county (YUBA) within the first 5 hours. It wasn't until about 23 hours later that I found K6DW on 15. Thanks for that final county and to all the CA ops for a good weekend on the radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 76,212 This was my second go at the CQP and it was even more fun than last year. I improved my score by about 75% due to better antennas and more operating experience. And finally I was able to work all 58 counties! Hope to see y'all next year! Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6TN Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 79,750 Things were looking pretty good for doing better than last year. Unfortunately, 15m just didn't open between CA and Alberta. Ten metres was dead. I'm in the middle of selling my radio gear to purchase a new contest radio, so I had to use my IC7000 mobile. Nice radio but I sure do miss the big radio dial features in a contest. Everything seemed A-Ok to start the contest. The pre-season contest checkouts had everything work as expected. Then just as the contest started . . . my logging computer harddrive crashed. My microphone got a ridiculous BuZZ in the audio, and my new MFJ voicekeyer seems to start the IC7000 to scan-up just by plugging in the mic cable. How could this happen when the day before everything checked out perfect! Good grief . . . . . About an hour and a half into the contest I got the computer running, jury-rigged a bypass for the audio connections and figured out how to use the voice keyer that is built into the IC7000. I probably missed the only 15m opening. Anyway, this lost time due to equiment failure is really why I missed my goal of bettering last years score. Just got into a nice run when the XYL showed up and wanted conversation time about kid-issues. Not a problem as I have been out of town most of the last month on business and get home and immediately jump into contest mode. Being that I want to smooth things over for a serious CQWW DX effort this year and being that we needed to discuss some important issues, I hung up the key for an hour without a fuss. Issue resolved and away we go into contesting. All in all I had a lot of fun (as always). I only got spotted once and the rate jumped for about ten minutes then settled down to a steady trickle. Why is it that callers come in schools just like fish? Ten minutes of calling (nothing) then 4 people call at the same time, you work two and the other two have moved on . . . . . . Hope to work everyone again next year! Barry - VE6TN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7NH Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 42,840 12 HOURS OF SEARCH AND POUNCE ONLY. WORKED HALF A DOZEN NEW COUNTIES FOR MY U.S.C.A., NOW ALL I NEED IS THEIR QSL's...WISH I HAD READ THE RULES AND KNEW THERE WAS SSB PARTICIPATION ALSO, COULD HAVE DOUBLED THE SCORE...SOME OF THE USUAL POWER LINE NOISE, BUT NOT AS BAD AS NORMAL, AND OF COURSE CONDITIONS WERE VERY GOOD. TOO BAD THERE WAS SO MANY EU 2008 QUALIFIER FOOTBALL GAMES ON THE TV TO WATCH !!! OCH WELL, QRX TILL NEXT CAQP... 73/DOUG VE7NH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK2CZ Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 12 The few signals from CA were impressive on 40m... but few in these parts were looking up around 7240.. Great to enter this event after an abscence.. My CaQSOP OC record was never under threat this year.. Regards, David. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH/8 Class: SOMobile LP Total Score = 2,754 A quick weekend trip to Ohio made me miss CQP from the Kansas QTH, but enjoyed a few contacts from the mobile enroute and between weekend events. Shortly after crossing the IN-OH border I started making CQP contacts, so my first 6 were accidentally /9 OH until I realized I'd changed call zones! I'll make sure my log reflects the mistake. Both 20 during the day and 40 in the evening were nicely open and I had no trouble working the running stations, usually on the first call. Noticed a number of out-of-state sweeps this year .. congratulations and thanks to the CA ops who put all the counties on the air. Hope to be back in Kansas for next year's CQP. 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 50,600 Good condx and lots of activity from CA. CA sure does turn out a lot of ops for their QSO party. - Best band for me was 20m followed up by 40m. The CA stations seemed to hear my IC756 pro3 and yagis well enough. Heard other GMCCers K0UK and KO7X in there handing out Q's. KW7KW in CO (who is that?) was ahead of me by 50 Q's towards the last. 73 Ken, W0ETT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LHL Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 29,760 Great contest, as usual. 100W, 40/80 vertical, dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BW Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 12,696 Always great participation from W6-land, and 2006 was no exception. This was just a very casual, few hour effort but I would have hated to miss such an opportunity to have some fun. Good as always...kudos to the NCCC! Bob Wilson - W4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 28,964 Decent conditions and great activity. Managed a NEAR Clean Sweep. Missed only 6 counties. Mainly S$P, and only worked on 20 and 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 10,350 This was going to be an all out effort, but Murphy was at my house this week. The day before the contest, a severe storm brought down my tri-bander. Then I was called into work on Saturday about an hour into the contest because of the storm. I wound up being at work 5 hours before I could get away and by then conditions were not as good. I was able to recover somewhat and did almost double last year's score, which was my first CAQP. So, let's hope that next year will be even better! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6AMM Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 103,376 Operated Saturday only, in between arriving from a rock at midnight Friday and leaving for a hard place at 0600 Monday. Lost 1/2 the first hour to an unexpected visit from the Fire Dept thanks to RFI into the fire alarm system. Yikes! Great activity from all over, and especially VE3. 80m had less noise here than ever before and was more usable thanks to the summer antenna project. Hope that's a sign of things to come this winter. One of these years I'm going to be able give CQP the full 24h it richly deserves. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6FO Class: SOFixed QRP Total Score = 392 Had fun, wasn't focused on this contest as I had way too many other things going on. I pulled out the old Ten-Tec Argosy and had fun running 5W into my low sloped dipole. I just tuned around 20 over a 2 hour period just answering Cali. CQ's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ML Class: SOCntyExp HP Total Score = 237,684 This was my 15th consecutive year doing a CQP county expedition from Mammoth Lakes in Mono County. Again I used all wire antennas…dipoles for 40m & 80m and 3 element wire beams on 15m & 20m. Usually during CQP I have some kind of bear encounter…this year it was one bear and a lot of bees. When I was putting up the 20m wire beam, I didn’t notice that my sling shot guy line came down right above a beehive that was in a log on the ground. I was standing right on it for a few minutes until I noticed all the bees flying around my feet. I was wearing shorts and one of the bees bit me in the back of my leg…ouch! At least it didn’t swell up. I proceed with extra care while I finished pulling up the antenna from that area. Later in the day I had my bear sighting, but he was a little one and was too busy eating pine nuts to pay me much attention. All of the equipment & antennas preformed well and I kept a pretty good rate going most of the time. I even added a handful of QSO’s by using my second radio in S&P mode. I had over 50 DX calls logged, mainly in Europe plus almost 200 VE’s including about 100 VE3’s...thanks for great turnout…Eh. The last two sections I needed were SK and HI. VE5XD found me Sunday morning and literally with one minute left in the contest I found KH6GMP for the sweep! It was nice to beat my previous Mono County CQP record from 2004 by over 200 QSO’s and maybe I can even break into the top twenty for the first time this year. 73, Jim, W6KC at W6ML http://www.vistasierra.com/w6ml ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NOW Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 686 I was only able to sit down for an hour during this contest. However, the bands were not that great as far as I could tell (i looked around last night on 40m but nothing that I could work from SDIE). I guess the good news is that my rig is still working (i called for over 20minutes and just got 1 call right before I went S&P, which is how i got the rest of the qso's. Hope everyone had fun, and maybe next year I can put a more serious effort. 73 de w6now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6PT Class: M/SCntyExp HP Total Score = 291,102 Set up at Desert Tower in Imperial County as M/S, HP, County Expedition again this year. We used the K6QK tower trailer with 4 elements on 20-15-10, 2 elements on 40, and a dipole for 80. Next year a 160 antenna goes with us! K6ZH coined the 2el 40 the "BBH". It was put together with parts from Bud, Bruce, and Harv. Bud and Harv donated a D40 rotatable dipole each and Bruce donated the boom from an old TH-6 and all the hardware to connect it together; worked like a champ. Who said 15m was closed, we were running 'em on both days, and also had a few Q’s on 10m. Harv had a run on 40m phone Saturday night 10-12 deep for about an hour; we never knew he could type so fast. N7CW and K6ZH were rock steady, taking up the slack on CW for N7TY and NN6X. It was a long night for N7TY, NN6X, and N6EEG. Very little activity between 12am and 4am local, but they managed enough Q's to justify pulling the all-nighter. N7CW even drove all the way from his new QTH in Prescott, AZ to take part. Enrolled a new group member, N6EEG, in the "N7CW School of Contesting", well done Dave! It was a great weekend, after the dust settled, we managed to surpass our 2005 County Expedition winning and our 2nd Place M/S score. We'll see how it all falls out this year. Can't wait until 2007! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6XU Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 250,401 The biggest accomplishment for me was that an effort to improve my CW skills was paying off. I practiced 10-15+ mins several days/week for the past couple of months with RUFZXP. The result was running comfortably at 30-32 wpm (comfort zone used to be 25), and for the first time never had anyone "blow me away" such that I had to ask for multiple repeats or QRS as a result of their speed. Plus seeing sustained rates over 120 Q/hr was a first. I can confidently say that I've advanced from a mediocre CW op to solidly so-so!! I am eagerly anticipating a personal best in SS CW next month. Watching N6BV operate during Field Day was inspirational as always. I was very impressed by how he simply ticks off the Q's over and over and over, calmly with mechanical precision. Always relaxed, but never losing focus, racking up the big numbers. With that in mind, I kept my butt planted for all 24 hrs and felt pretty good about it. I had hoped to break 2,000 Q's, but fell short. I expected big numbers Sat. eve on 40m phone, but conditions never panned out. I also spent time on phone, even though rates were good on CW, based on the strategy that I should work phone while conditions support it... as things degrade I can move to CW. This was probably a bad choice and I should have spent more time on CW. Although I did work MT 6 times, all on phone! As always one of my favorite contests and a really good time. It was particularly enjoyable as I had been off the air for awhile. 73, Josh W6XU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 393,008 Thanks to W6YI for the great hospitality and for letting me operate from his great station again. Conditions were much better than expected. Before the contest started, I had a nice little pile up of EU on 15m SSB, so I decided that was the place to start. But once the contest started, there wasnt much rate on 15, so after 10 minutes I had to jump to 20. That seemed to be the right move.. The rate really picked up and I was off to the races. The sweep came relatively early this year. K7ACZ in NV was my last mult at 2201z Saturday. Thanks for all the QSO's. I am already looking forward to next year. 73, Dan N6MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: School HP Total Score = 308,655 Along with our regular Stanford gang, we were honored to have guest operators Andre DG3SDK and Ward N0AX. We missed the first hour of the contest, and were off another 1.5 hours in the third and fourth hours on Saturday - so we missed some prime hours. Despite that, we increased our QSOs and score from last year, with a slight shift from CW to SSB contacts from previous years. We actually made more contacts on 15m than last year, and 10m yielded Brazil, Florida and Georgia as well as the three local counties. Our missing mult was NT. Somewhere late Saturday night we started having two transmitters on the air, and shifted from Multi-Single to Multi-Multi, but on Sunday we had as many as five operators on-site, so having two transmitters gave everyone more operating time. Definitely a fun time, especially translating the county "words" into the county "abbreviations." Thanks for the contacts. for W6YX, Mork K6UFO ---- Yaesu FT-1000MP & MkV Alpha 78 amps Antennas: Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft 10m: 5-el at 31 ft 15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft 20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft. 40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft. 80m: 4-square with bad switching, inverted vee at 55 ft 160m: T antenna, 60ft at top. Writelog 10.47E with new mult file. CW+PH/Mul by hour and band Hour 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total Cumm D1-1700Z - - - 56/27 - - 56/27 56/27 D1-1800Z - - - 49/7 - - 49/7 105/34 D1-1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 105/34 D1-2000Z - - - 9/1 72/6 - 81/7 186/41 D1-2100Z - - - 144/7 - - 144/7 330/48 D1-2200Z - - - 104/6 6/0 - 110/6 440/54 D1-2300Z - - - 114/1 - - 114/1 554/55 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 117/1 --+-- --+-- 117/1 671/56 D2-0100Z - - 70/1 15/0 - - 85/1 756/57 D2-0200Z - - 114/0 - - - 114/0 870/57 D2-0300Z - 65/0 31/0 - - - 96/0 966/57 D2-0400Z - 59/0 49/0 - - - 108/0 1074/57 D2-0500Z 24/0 54/0 2/0 - - - 80/0 1154/57 D2-0600Z - 23/0 24/0 - - - 47/0 1201/57 D2-0700Z - 15/0 10/0 - - - 25/0 1226/57 D2-0800Z 1/0 22/0 3/0 2/0 2/0 2/0 32/0 1258/57 D2-0900Z - 5/0 16/0 - - - 21/0 1279/57 D2-1000Z - 5/0 37/0 - - - 42/0 1321/57 D2-1100Z - 30/0 27/0 - - - 57/0 1378/57 D2-1200Z - 15/0 41/0 - - - 56/0 1434/57 D2-1300Z - 13/0 49/0 28/0 - - 90/0 1524/57 D2-1400Z - - 13/0 43/0 39/0 - 95/0 1619/57 D2-1500Z - - - 106/0 7/0 - 113/0 1732/57 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 27/0 52/0 --+-- 79/0 1811/57 D2-1700Z - - - 11/0 49/0 - 60/0 1871/57 D2-1800Z - - - - 41/0 - 41/0 1912/57 D2-1900Z - - - 54/0 35/0 2/0 91/0 2003/57 D2-2000Z - - - 58/0 65/0 - 123/0 2126/57 D2-2100Z - - - 26/0 54/0 9/0 89/0 2215/57 Total: 25/0 306/0 486/1 963/50 422/6 13/0 0/0 0/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZZZ Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 11,610 Saturday only. Sunday was at N6O. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7KU Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 29,315 Thanks to all, especially the mobiles and county line stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 11,100 Had to work Saturday, so got a late start. Church and a birthday party took care of Sunday, so got about 5 hours in on this one. 160 was fun last night. I put up a new inverted 'L' and it seemed to play pretty well. Worked just about everyone I heard with just 100 watts. Heard some really big numbers out of California, so will be interesting to see the final results. Thanks to the NCCC for putting on a fun show. TS-450SAT + SB-200 ~500 watts FT-840 20 meter 2 el monobander 40/80 and 160 verticals. All band dipole for Radio 2 N1MM Logger 6.10.4. Worked perfect. 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8CAR Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 36,234 Lots of fun. Tnx to all CA stations for the activity. Only 10 months to OQP!!!!!! W8CAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 122,438 Going into this years CQP I was a little more focus compared to last year. Knowing where we are at with the sun spot cycle I figured the contest from my location would be mostly centered on 20, 40, and 80. Prior to the contest weekend I had just repaired my 2 element 40 meter Telerex beam. It is amazing how contesting can motivate you to get the important things done before the season starts, because I knew I would need the 40 meter beam to be effective with CQP. A half hour before the contest started I was checking out 15 meters and was pleasantly suprised with how well the band was open to CA. Signals were very good, and stations loud. So like every one else I am sure, I started out on 15. As usual the first few hours were pretty productive. A lot of S&P and then to settle into cqing on SSB while working CW inbetween on the 2nd radio. That was pretty much the mode of operation the entire weekend. But I did seem to work the 2nd radion extensively, due to the lack of responses on my CQ's. I also did a lot of S&P with the main radio as well. I also knew I had to focus more on 40, and 80 given the sun spot cycle, and feel that I did much better on those bands compared to previous years. Not much on 160, managed to work 3 stations, but then given the time of year and only a 100 watts into a shunt fed tower I really wasn't expecting a whole lot. The weekend played out pretty much as to what I expected.....long and grueling, however, the results were much better then last year. Out of all the years operating CQP I cannot remember working K6AQL/M so much. I have always worked him a few times in the past in each CQP, but this year was certainly and exceptional one where I worked him a lot. He always had a very good signal when I did. Did not get the sweep of the counties until Sunday. Last one needed was San Benito. KA6MAL heard my cq for San Benito on 20 meters and graciously gave me a call. Thanks for the sweep. It is always some what gratifying to gained that elusive sweep when you spend so much time in the chair operating. It seems to culminate a weekend of contesting. I thought the counties were pretty well represented in all, however, thought the activity was down somewhat compared to prior years. I am sure the sun spot cycle is a contributing factor for it. All in all another good CQP year. Great job by the NCCC. Unique Calls 374 Main Radio Q's 566 2nd Radio Q's 304 Until the next one..... 73's Ken W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 86,014 I was pleasantly surprised at conditions, and almost beat my Alabama record. A certain K4 was chading ny score all through contest.. I guess the log checkers will be carefull with this submission....Thanks all you w6's 73BoB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7SLD Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 18,960 Not a lot of time to operate, but again enjoyed the time I spent in the CQP. Lots of activity, it seemed, both in and out of state. Wish I had been a little farther away to take advantage of the 15M opening - CA stns only a whisper on my vertical there! Thanks to the organizers, mobiles/county expeditions, and the fixed CA stns for the QSOs! IC-746PRO (100W), R7000 Vertical, N3FJP CA State QSO Party Ver 1.9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 30,192 Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 102,892 FT1000mp 100w TH7DX @ 50' 40m Dipole 80m Inv V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE9N Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 39,160 just couldn't find the last 3 cty had fun away JOHN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SOFixed LP Total Score = 39,216 Took a few hours on Sunday to make an appearance...conditions seemed fair to good even had a number of EUs call me... Perhaps I will not be so busy with other 'stuff' next year and can put in a better effort...but if you were lacking SDGO - you must have been sleeping between K6NA and W6YI (N6MJ) big numbers guys... WN6K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT9U Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 50,103 Missed Sierra for the sweep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2K Class: SOFixed HP Total Score = 29,904 For me bad propagation, i was especting more stations and short skip was limited, this year also 2 counties where impossible for me but Fun see you the next year and look for me. Hector Index of Calls Call: AA3B Class: M/SFixed HP Call: AA6PW Class: SOFixed HP Call: AA9DY Class: SOFixed LP Call: AC6T Class: M/SFixed HP Call: AD4EB Class: SOFixed QRP Call: AD5VJ Class: SOFixed LP Call: AD6WL Class: SOFixed HP Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: AE6Y Class: SOFixed HP Call: AI4ME Class: SOFixed LP Call: DL4AAE Class: SOFixed LP Call: K0HW Class: SOFixed LP Call: K0IO Class: SOFixed LP Call: K0OU Class: SOFixed HP Call: K0UK Class: SOFixed HP Call: K1GU Class: SOFixed HP Call: K1PQS Class: SOFixed HP Call: K1TN Class: SOFixed LP Call: K1ZZI Class: SOFixed QRP Call: K2TA Class: SOFixed HP Call: K3WW Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4BAI Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4EA Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4EU Class: SOFixed LP Call: K4HAL Class: SOFixed LP Call: K4IU Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4JAF Class: SOFixed LP Call: K4PIC Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4SAV Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4SSU Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4TD Class: SOFixed HP Call: K4ZGB Class: SOFixed HP Call: K5AM Class: SOFixed HP Call: K5KA Class: SOFixed LP Call: K5UV Class: SOFixed LP Call: K5XR Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6AM Class: SOFixed LP Call: K6EZ Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: K6GEP Class: SOFixed LP Call: K6IDX Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6JEB Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: K6KO Class: M/SFixed HP Call: K6LA Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6LRN Class: M/SFixed HP Call: K6MM Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6NA Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6NV Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6OWL Class: SOFixed LP Call: K6RB Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6RIM Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6VO Class: M/SFixed HP Call: K6XV Class: SOFixed LP Call: K6XX Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6YT Class: SOFixed HP Call: K6ZZ Class: M/MCntyExp LP Call: K7ACZ Class: SOFixed LP Call: K7GK Class: SOFixed HP Call: K8AJS Class: SOFixed LP Call: K8GT Class: SOFixed LP Call: K8IR Class: SOFixed LP Call: K8MR Class: SOFixed HP Call: K8ND Class: SOFixed HP Call: K8OSF Class: SOFixed LP Call: KA6MAL Class: M/SCntyExp LP Call: KC4HW Class: SOFixed LP Call: KD2MX Class: SOFixed QRP Call: KD5LNO Class: SOFixed LP Call: KE6ZSN Class: SOFixed HP Call: KF6T Class: SOFixed HP Call: KH6GMP Class: SOFixed HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOFixed HP Call: KN4Y Class: SOFixed LP Call: KO7X Class: SOFixed HP Call: KS5A Class: SOFixed LP Call: KS6U Class: M/MCntyExp HP Call: KU8E Class: SOFixed LP Call: KY5R Class: SOFixed HP Call: N0AC Class: SOFixed QRP Call: N0KE Class: SOFixed QRP Call: N1LN Class: SOFixed HP Call: N2CU Class: SOFixed HP Call: N3UA Class: SOFixed LP Call: N4DXI Class: SOFixed LP Call: N4GG Class: SOFixed HP Call: N4JF Class: SOFixed QRP Call: N4NTO Class: SOFixed LP Call: N4PN Class: SOFixed HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOFixed HP Call: N5DO Class: SOFixed HP Call: N6D Class: M/MCntyExp HP Call: N6DE Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: N6IMP Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: N6KI Class: M/SFixed HP Call: N6MU Class: SOFixed LP Call: N6MW Class: SOFixed LP Call: N6NF Class: SOFixed HP Call: N6NZ Class: SOFixed HP Call: N6O Class: M/MFixed HP Call: N6OO Class: SOFixed LP Call: N6QQ Class: SOFixed HP Call: N6TV Class: SOFixed HP Call: N6WG Class: SOFixed QRP Call: N6XI Class: SOFixed HP Call: N6ZFO Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: N7BF Class: SOFixed LP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOFixed HP Call: N8II Class: SOFixed LP Call: NA4BW Class: SOFixed LP Call: NA7RF Class: SOFixed LP Call: NB1B Class: SOFixed HP Call: ND0C Class: SOFixed QRP Call: ND6S Class: SOFixed LP Call: NE6I Class: SOFixed LP Call: NF4A Class: SOFixed LP Call: NG7Z Class: SOFixed LP Call: NK7U Class: M/MFixed HP Call: NM5G Class: SOFixed LP Call: NM6E Class: M/SFixed HP Call: NT6K Class: SOFixed HP Call: NU6T Class: SOFixed LP Call: OK7M Class: SOFixed HP Call: PA3ARM Class: SOFixed LP Call: RK0LWW Class: M/SFixed HP Call: VA3DF Class: SOFixed QRP Call: VA3DX Class: SOFixed HP Call: VA3EC Class: SOFixed LP Call: VA3MAH Class: SOFixed LP Call: VA3NR Class: SOFixed HP Call: VA3PC Class: SOFixed LP Call: VA3RJ Class: SOFixed LP Call: VA3RKM Class: SOFixed QRP Call: VA7RN Class: SOFixed LP Call: VA7ST Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE1RGB Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3CX Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3EJ Class: SOFixed HP Call: VE3ESH Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3EY Class: SOFixed HP Call: VE3FU Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3HG Class: M/SFixed HP Call: VE3KF Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3KI Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3KZ Class: SOFixed HP Call: VE3NBJ Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3NE Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3SS Class: SOFixed HP Call: VE3TA Class: SOFixed HP Call: VE3TPZ Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3TTN Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3VE Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE3XD Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE6CNU Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE6TN Class: SOFixed LP Call: VE6WA Class: SOFixed HP Call: VE7NH Class: SOFixed LP Call: VK2CZ Class: SOFixed QRP Call: W0BH/8 Class: SOMobile LP Call: W0ETT Class: SOFixed LP Call: W0RAA Class: SOFixed LP Call: W1EQ Class: SOFixed LP Call: W1TO Class: SOFixed LP Call: W2LHL Class: SOFixed LP Call: W3MGL Class: SOFixed LP Call: W4BW Class: SOFixed LP Call: W4NTI Class: SOFixed HP Call: W4RK Class: SOFixed HP Call: W4TMN Class: SOFixed LP Call: W5TM Class: SOFixed LP Call: W6AMM Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6FO Class: SOFixed QRP Call: W6FRH Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6ML Class: SOCntyExp HP Call: W6MVW Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6NL Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6NOW Class: SOFixed LP Call: W6PT Class: M/SCntyExp HP Call: W6SZN Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6TK Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6XU Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6YI Class: SOFixed HP Call: W6YX Class: School HP Call: W6ZL Class: SOFixed LP Call: W6ZZZ Class: SOFixed LP Call: W7KU Class: SOFixed LP Call: W7TMT Class: SOFixed LP Call: W7WHY Class: SOFixed HP Call: W8CAR Class: SOFixed LP Call: W8MJ Class: SOFixed LP Call: WA1FCN Class: SOFixed LP Call: WA6BOB Class: SOFixed LP Call: WA7SLD Class: SOFixed LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOFixed LP Call: WC6H Class: SOFixed HP Call: WD5K Class: SOFixed LP Call: WE9N Class: SOFixed LP Call: WN6K Class: SOFixed LP Call: WT9U Class: SOFixed HP Call: WW9R Class: SOFixed LP Call: WX4TM Class: SOFixed LP Call: XE2K Class: SOFixed HP Call: YO5KIP Class: SOFixed QRP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/MCntyExp HP Call: KS6U Call: N6D Class: M/MCntyExp LP Call: K6ZZ Class: M/MFixed HP Call: N6O Call: NK7U Class: M/SCntyExp HP Call: W6PT Class: M/SCntyExp LP Call: KA6MAL Class: M/SFixed HP Call: AA3B Call: AC6T Call: K6KO Call: K6LRN Call: K6VO Call: N6KI Call: NM6E Call: RK0LWW Call: VE3HG Class: School HP Call: W6YX Class: SOCntyExp HP Call: W6ML Class: SOCntyExp LP Call: AD6ZJ Call: K6EZ Call: K6JEB Call: N6DE Call: N6IMP Call: N6ZFO Class: SOFixed HP Call: AA6PW Call: AD6WL Call: AE6Y Call: K0OU Call: K0UK Call: K1GU Call: K1PQS Call: K2TA Call: K3WW Call: K4BAI Call: K4EA Call: K4IU Call: K4PIC Call: K4SAV Call: K4SSU Call: K4TD Call: K4ZGB Call: K5AM Call: K5XR Call: K6IDX Call: K6LA Call: K6MM Call: K6NA Call: K6NV Call: K6RB Call: K6RIM Call: K6XX Call: K6YT Call: K7GK Call: K8MR Call: K8ND Call: KE6ZSN Call: KF6T Call: KH6GMP Call: KJ6RA Call: KO7X Call: KY5R Call: N1LN Call: N2CU Call: N4GG Call: N4PN Call: N4ZZ Call: N5DO Call: N6NF Call: N6NZ Call: N6QQ Call: N6TV Call: N6XI Call: N8BJQ Call: NB1B Call: NT6K Call: OK7M Call: VA3DX Call: VA3NR Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3EY Call: VE3KZ Call: VE3SS Call: VE3TA Call: VE6WA Call: W4NTI Call: W4RK Call: W6AMM Call: W6FRH Call: W6MVW Call: W6NL Call: W6SZN Call: W6TK Call: W6XU Call: W6YI Call: W7WHY Call: WC6H Call: WT9U Call: XE2K Class: SOFixed LP Call: AA9DY Call: AD5VJ Call: AI4ME Call: DL4AAE Call: K0HW Call: K0IO Call: K1TN Call: K4EU Call: K4HAL Call: K4JAF Call: K5KA Call: K5UV Call: K6AM Call: K6GEP Call: K6OWL Call: K6XV Call: K7ACZ Call: K8AJS Call: K8GT Call: K8IR Call: K8OSF Call: KC4HW Call: KD5LNO Call: KN4Y Call: KS5A Call: KU8E Call: N3UA Call: N4DXI Call: N4NTO Call: N6MU Call: N6MW Call: N6OO Call: N7BF Call: N8II Call: NA4BW Call: NA7RF Call: ND6S Call: NE6I Call: NF4A Call: NG7Z Call: NM5G Call: NU6T Call: PA3ARM Call: VA3EC Call: VA3MAH Call: VA3PC Call: VA3RJ Call: VA7RN Call: VA7ST Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3CX Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3ESH Call: VE3FU Call: VE3KF Call: VE3KI Call: VE3NBJ Call: VE3NE Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TPZ Call: VE3TTN Call: VE3VE Call: VE3XD Call: VE6CNU Call: VE6TN Call: VE7NH Call: W0ETT Call: W0RAA Call: W1EQ Call: W1TO Call: W2LHL Call: W3MGL Call: W4BW Call: W4TMN Call: W5TM Call: W6NOW Call: W6ZL Call: W6ZZZ Call: W7KU Call: W7TMT Call: W8CAR Call: W8MJ Call: WA1FCN Call: WA6BOB Call: WA7SLD Call: WB8JUI Call: WD5K Call: WE9N Call: WN6K Call: WW9R Call: WX4TM Class: SOFixed QRP Call: AD4EB Call: K1ZZI Call: KD2MX Call: N0AC Call: N0KE Call: N4JF Call: N6WG Call: ND0C Call: VA3DF Call: VA3RKM Call: VK2CZ Call: W6FO Call: YO5KIP Class: SOMobile LP Call: W0BH/8