Southern California Contest Club
California QSO Party: October 1-2 CQ WW DX RTTY: September 24-25 North American Sprint RTTY: September 18
California QSO Party: October 1-2 CQ WW DX RTTY: September 24-25 North American Sprint RTTY: September 18
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President: Dick Norton, N6AA n6aa[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Jim Forsyth, AF6O webmaster@socalcontestclub.org
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Jim Forsyth, AF6O webmaster@socalcontestclub.org
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Membership Stats
Total Membership: 240
Members within the club area 217
Members outside the club area 23
Stations added to the Roster since October 2013 52
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The CW5W Story - Jorge Diez CX6VM
June 2014
How did I become a ham radio operator? Between the 50's and 60's, my mother started with this hobby, without knowing what it was. My parents had a farm, where
they lived and the only way to communicate was with an old homebrew radio for 160m. The farm was 30 km. away from the city of Melo, and the
road in those years was a dirt track. In the middle it had a wood ridge; when it rained it got covered by the water, so you can understand how useful the
radio was.My mother knew some ham's in Uruguay and later they introduced her to "real" ham radio with good equipment that covered all HF bands.
I was born in June 1968. In 1985 I got a license to operate as a second operator of my mother Sonnia, CX4VA. I spent most of my time on 40 talking with CX, LU and PY and occasionally with other South American hams. I got some friends, but I needed more. I didn't like very much long chats; I liked to contact DX stations and receive their QSL cards along with stamps, photos etc. more
I spent many hours of the night on 40m DXing but I had to get up early to go to school so my mother came to my room where the radio was, switched it off, and
sent me to sleep.Sometimes I heard rare ones on 40, but I couldn't work them with my dipole and 100 watts. What could I do to improve my DX activity and also make sure my mother didn't hear me yelling to DX stations? I had to learn morse code!
In April 1987 I got my own license, CX6BM and I wanted to get the DXCC as soon as possible.
In 1993 I got my new and actual callsign CX6VM and also a new antenna, a 3 elements tribander. The 1993 CQWWCW contest was close, and I was very enthusiastic with my new antenna, so I tried to develop a serious activity on it.
I've been studying in Montevideo for six years. Montevideo is the Capital city of Uruguay but all my family lives in Melo City, that is 400 km. from Montevideo,
and 60 km. from the Brazilian border. So I'm not very active, only for contests. I get on a 5 hour bus trip to arrive one hour before the contest starts and three
hours after it finishes (Monday 0300 UTC) I return to Montevideo, to get ready for college and work.In October 1997 I was invited to operate CQWW SSB in Paraguay at ZP0R, were I met Tom ZP5AZL and Dale N3BNA, we became great friends. After that we traveled together to do contests in different places, like TI5N, 9Y4W, PJ4K.
In 2007 I moved to my family city, Melo, in the NE part of Uruguay. I raised a tower in my mothers farm and since then the station continues to grow. Actually I have 3 towers and monobanders, and we enter in the most important contests.
In 2008 I started using the special contest callsign CW5W. I think it has become well known and has given the multiplier CX to many contesters, with high demand
especially on the low bands.We usually meet with other CX friends as well as LU and PY to do Multi Operator entries in the most important contests from CW5W, where we spend a great time doing what we like! This is the best of our hobby!
Actually CW5W is ready for SOSB, SOAB, SO2R, MS and M2, with two operating positions using Elecraft K3 radios, amplifiers and Yagi monobanders for 10 to 40m and wire antennas for 80 and 160m.
I got married to a wonderful girl, Carolina. We have one 4 year old son called Francisco and another one, Gonzalo that is 1 year old. Carolina's support is wonderful, she understands very well our passion of ham radio, and she likes very much to receive people at the station. More pictures: 1
Best wishes for all and hope to see you in future contests. 73, Jorge CX6VM/CW5W close
CQ Worldwide RTTY Claimed Scores
September 2016
WN6K SOABHP 554,964 KM6Z SOABLP 94,050
W6TK SOAABHP 283,696 AI6DO SOABHP 57,702
N6RV SOAABHP 235,830 W6JBR SOABLP 50,516
W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 144,256 AI6O SOABHP 16,157
KI6QDH SOAABHP 105,408
North American Sprint CW Claimed Scores
September 2016
N6MJ@W6TMD SOHP 15,745 K6NA SOHP 11,396
N6AA SOHP 14,147 K6NR SOHP 9,804
N5ZO SOHP 13,455 NE6I SOHP 7,788
N6AN@W6UE SOHP 12,672 WN6K SOLP 3,885
K6LA SOHP 12,642 W4EF SOLP 18
AC6T@W6RFU SOHP 10,701
SCCC #1 (N6MJ AC6T N6AA K6LA K6NR N5ZO K6NA NE6I WN6K) 78,363
North American QSO Party SSB Claimed Scores
August 2016
VY2TT(K6LA) SOLP 70,702 WB6NBU SOLP 5,824
AA6PW SOLP 62,381 KK6NON SOLP 5,762
WN6K SOLP 61,659 W6JBR SOLP 3,397
KI6VC SOLP 41,756 WA6URY SOLP 3,182
KI6QDH SOLP 20,020 WQ6X@W7AYC SOLP 2,775
K6DDJ SOLP 12,480 N6PM SOLP 2,688
AI6O SOLP 8,479 NE6I SOLP 2,268
W6TK SOLP 7,240 KK6ABZ SOLP 897
NX6T (KK6NON N6ERD W6QE N6KI N9ADG NN6X N6EEG K6GO NA6MB K6AM N6NC) 234,180
SCCC #1 (WQ6X KI6VC K6DDJ KI6QDH VY2TT(K6LA)) 147,733
SCCC #2 (N6PM KK6NON AI6O W6TK AA6PW) 83,862
SCCC #3 (WB6NBU KK6ABZ NE6I WN6K) 70,648
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North American QSO Party CW Claimed Scores
August 2016
N5ZO SOLP 186,930 K6DDJ SOLP 25,026
K6LA SOLP 141,764 N6MU SOLP 22,413
W6TK SOLP 93,522 W6KY SOLP 14,381
AC6T@W6RFU SOLP 88,330 NC6B SOLP 13,300
NC6K SOLP 78,876 WQ6X@W7AYT SOLP 13,056
N6AA SOLP 59,118 NE6I SOLP 9,145
AA6PW SOLP 55,968 WA6URY SOLP 6,771
N6KI@K6AM SOLP 40,284 W6JBR SOLP 5,100
WN6K SOLP 39,165 N6HE SOLP 588
WB6NBU SOLP 25,098
SCCC #1 (AC6T K6DDJ K6LA WQ6X W6TK) 336,672
SCCC #2 (KI6VC NC6Q N6KI WB6NBU N6PM) 65,382
SCCC #3 (N6AA NC6B AA6PW W6KY N5ZO) 329,697
