CA QP result
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Wow, that was fun, with pretty much good signals the whole time through. Wish I could have stayed up for the whole night... Even heard a bunch on 160, although that must be asking a lot for the antenna system here, the big vertical is not here now. But the EDZ for 80 - 20 work pretty well, although I didn't realize that Ca was that much of the compass.
What is interesting to me, is that with the K2, I had a number of times that only one call was needed to get the Q. Ran 5 watts on Bird, and indicated, for power out, with only a couple times that calls were made that didn't result in Qs. I heard the mobile signal layer, below the "killer" stations... sometimes right next to the big boys... and still got the Q... The NM, AFIL, and cw filter combo, makes a very nice and very workable system, Thanks to the whole crew in Aptos. mmmmm... I wonder... would they ever rename the Ca Qp to the Ca Elecraft QP?... *G* Final claimed = 158 Q - 45 Counties, and 21,330 ... Fun stuff, when it all works... and it all works with the K2. --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. See Now _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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Dale Putnam wrote:
> although I didn't realize that Ca was that much of the compass. If you can believe the CALTRANS exit signs on I-5 [said to be mileage North from Mexico], the last one about a mile before the Oregon state line is 798. WY isn't that far east. I guess it would be a fair sector of your antenna's view . > What is interesting to me, is that with the K2, I had a number of > times that only one call was needed to get the Q. Ran 5 watts on Bird, > and indicated, for power out, with only a couple times that calls were > made that didn't result in Qs. I heard the mobile signal layer, below > the "killer" stations... sometimes right next to the big boys... and > still got the Q... I am part of the N6A crew in Alpine County. We camp at 8,500' at the summit of Monitor Pass, and our camp is exceedingly quiet RF-wise [unless someone fires up an inverter-based cell phone charger :-)], we're a long way from everything. We are generally the only ALPI entry in the CQP, so we get a number of pileups. You have to work off the big dogs or you can't hear anything. Then, there were two distinct layers ... the 100 watters, and the QRP's. I know I gave up some rate to dig the weak one out from am east coast state [or EU DX, our total seemed up this year], in which I had just worked a 20-over station. But everyone deserves the Q, and the first call I know I've gotten from the pileup is going to get the Q. This is as close to operating on Kingman Reef [or at BS7H, but their Sun Morning wasn't -5C]. I took my KX1, fired it up on our antennas before the contest on Fri, and worked a few right-coasters, and two DL's with 6-AA's for about 1.3W. Not too shabby. Actually, I was stunned by what I could do on a few batteries I could carry in the pocket of my cargo shorts. > I wonder... would they ever rename the Ca Qp to the Ca Elecraft QP?... > *G* Not in my lifetime :-) NCCC welcomes everyone to CQP, new, old, big dog, little dog, rookies, veterans of contests past, we don't care. We just want everyone to have a lot of fun operating their radios for a weekend with a lot of folks on a lot of stations. Can't end this without a note to the TN and ON crowd ... YOU WERE EVERYWHERE!! I didn't operate SSB, but on CW, if it was a 4 call or VE3, odds are it was TN or ON. Thanks for the Q's. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2008 - www.cqp.org _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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