Southern California Contest Club
NAQP RTTY: July 21-22 CQWW VHF: July 21-22 NAQP CW: August 4-5
NAQP RTTY: July 21-22 CQWW VHF: July 21-22 NAQP CW: August 4-5
Officers
President: Dick Norton, N6AA n6aa[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Dennis Younker NE6I ne6i[@]cox[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Dennis Younker NE6I ne6i[@]cox[dot]net
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To post a message to the reflector, send an e-mail to: sccc@contesting.com
An archive of reflector messages is available at: Reflector Archive
Reflector Administrator: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
Membership Badges
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State QSO Parties
2018
Monthly News (SCCCORE)
July 2018
Our condolensces to family and friends of Joe Hypnarowski, W6VNR/ZF2AH. Joe passed away June 6 at 3:00 am at UCSD Jacobs ICU in La Jolla. While not currently a member of SCCC, he provided many contest QSOs over the years as ZF2AH, V3CQ, C5ABZ, T32AH and many other call signs. Joe was a member of the Southern California DX Club. A celebration of his life will be held July 21. Details sent on the club reflector.
Welcome aboard to new SCCC member W6ZL! David joins us from Newport Beach, CA, and happens to be QSL manager for 3D2KM, A35KL and KF6RY.
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The ARRL June VHF Contest was held June 9-11. June is typically has the best Sporadic-E propagation of the year. The new FT8 mode played prominently last year, and was used heavily again this year. MSK144 (meteor scatter) was a good place to be during times of no SpE and having worked all of the locals on ground wave. Known operations were N6GP/r roving through six to eight grids and running SSB and CW with some FT8 sprinkled in; and N6VHF running all modes on 50, 144, 432 and 1200 MHz (possibly 10 GHz for good measure!) as well as FM only on 902 MHz. And HOPEFULLY, everyone remembered to also tune the CW and SSB spectrum to pick up even more contacts!
A reminder, WRTC 2018 is July 14-15. Defending champions N6MJ and KL9A will be back. N6TR will pair up with N9RV on NA Team 6. David N6AN will be one of the referees. WRTC takes place during the IARU Championship (as a contest within a contest) and pits the world's currently most accomplished contesters against each other using similar stations and antennas, all within the same geographic region.
The ARRL DX CW contest results were released on June 13. Congratulations to W8QZA who operated W6QU in the Single Op QRP category and finished 8th nationwide. Congrats also to W6YA who placed 6th in the USA in the Single Op 20 meter category.
Field Day took place the final full weekend of June. Propagation wasn't the greatest (high A index) but it sounded like the groups were having a lot of fun. The Ventura County Amateur Radio Society (VCARS), The Simi Settlers Radio Club (SSRC) and members of the SCCC joined forces at The Ronald Regan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley, operating as N6R. Other SCCCers headed out for stints with local radio clubs.
40 years ago, the SCCC did some serious Field Day contesting, hauling numerous tower trailers and big yagis up on mountaintops. That crew took home two #1 overalls and one second place finish. In 1980, they set an all time scoring record that stood for 14 years! More details and some pictures can be found on the N6NB web site.
The CQ WW DX Committee has made some rule changes that will be effective with the 2018 contests. You can read about them at cqww.com/blog/.
73 for now,
--Dennis NE6I
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A reminder, WRTC 2018 is July 14-15. Defending champions N6MJ and KL9A will be back. N6TR will pair up with N9RV on NA Team 6. David N6AN will be one of the referees. WRTC takes place during the IARU Championship (as a contest within a contest) and pits the world's currently most accomplished contesters against each other using similar stations and antennas, all within the same geographic region.
The ARRL DX CW contest results were released on June 13. Congratulations to W8QZA who operated W6QU in the Single Op QRP category and finished 8th nationwide. Congrats also to W6YA who placed 6th in the USA in the Single Op 20 meter category.
Field Day took place the final full weekend of June. Propagation wasn't the greatest (high A index) but it sounded like the groups were having a lot of fun. The Ventura County Amateur Radio Society (VCARS), The Simi Settlers Radio Club (SSRC) and members of the SCCC joined forces at The Ronald Regan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley, operating as N6R. Other SCCCers headed out for stints with local radio clubs.
40 years ago, the SCCC did some serious Field Day contesting, hauling numerous tower trailers and big yagis up on mountaintops. That crew took home two #1 overalls and one second place finish. In 1980, they set an all time scoring record that stood for 14 years! More details and some pictures can be found on the N6NB web site.
The CQ WW DX Committee has made some rule changes that will be effective with the 2018 contests. You can read about them at cqww.com/blog/.
73 for now,
--Dennis NE6I
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I Wanna Take You Higher by N6VI
May 2018
I Wanna Take You Higher (Boom Shaka Laka Laka)
So, ten meters isn't open to anywhere. What to do? HF'ers will say, "Go lower", but I did the opposite. I went higher - much higher - to 10 gigahertz, a.k.a. the 3 cm band.
The first weekend in May is the 2 GHz & Up contest, sponsored by the San Bernardino Microwave Society, so I took a 24" dish with a 2-Watt transverter up to Frazier Peak and spent the day. Like its HF counterpart, conditions on 10 GHz were not very good this weekend, but I managed over two dozen contacts with distances up to nearly 600 km. Just as on HF, when conditions are not good enough for SSB, I went to CW for several of the more distant contacts, and that did the trick.
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Over the past several years, I have made X-band contacts into Nevada and Arizona as well as up to Mt. Shasta in Northern California with this same basic set-up. One recently announced operating award has raised the interest of HF'ers in (Maidenhead System) grid squares, but VHF / UHF / microwave have been chasing them for decades. This past weekend brought my 3 cm grid square total up to 19.
Any of you who have had the opportunity to work with one of N6NB's loaner rover stations have had a taste of what the microwave bands can do. So, while you're waiting for sunspots to return . . .
Marty N6VI
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PJ1B 1994 CQWW SSB MM
June 2018
IARU HF World Championship Claimed Scores
July 2018
N5ZO SOABHPA CW 1,408,579 NI6W (W4EF) SOABHP CW 30,800
KI6RRN(@WA6TQT) SOABLP Mxd 1,014,714 AI6O SOABHPA CW 26,256
K6NA SOABHP CW 771,831 W6KC SOABHPA Mixed 19,580
W6TK SOABHP Mixed 668,457 W6YA SOABHP CW 15,776
N6AA SOABHP CW 491,290 W6JBR SOABHP Mixed 12,369
WN6K SOABLP Mixed 146,510 K6DDJ SOABHPA CW 7,347
KU6CW (N6CW) SOABHP(A) CW 132,192 N6IC SO20MHP CW 5,405
WA6URY SOABHP Mixed 88,288 K6MUG SOABLP 5,040
NK6A SOABHP Mixed 67,710 N6HE SOABLP 2,256
W6ZL SOABLP CW 44,370
NX6T (N6KI, NN6X, N6EEG, KB7V, N6ERD, W2PWS, N6NC, WQ6X) M/S HP 638,352
AF6O (AF6O, K6VCR, N6MI) M/S HP 477,904
RAC Canada Day Claimed Scores
July 2018
KI6RRN SOABLP 173,618 WN6K SOABLP-CW 34,992
W6TK SOABHP 35,464 KK6NON SOABLP-PH 24,256
N5ZO (N5ZO, N6NC) M/2 HP 149,500
Field Day Claimed Scores
June 2018
W6KC 1E(LP) 1,598 AI6O 1D(HP) 668
AI6DO 2B(QRP) 1,090 WA6URY 1D(HP) 347
N6NC (N5ZO) 1D(HP) 956 W6ZL 1E(LP) 244
All Asian Claimed Scores
June 2018
N5ZO SOABHP 106,855 KU6CW (N6CW) SOABHP 2,160
K6NA SOABHP 75,050 W6ZL SOABLP 1,950
WN6K SOABHP 70,757 AI6O SOABHP 1,160
WA6URY SOABHP 16,100
NX6T (N6KI, N6CY, WQ6X) M/SHP 287,280
ARRL June VHF Claimed Scores
June 2018
N6VI SOHP 17,545 WA6URY SOHP 504
N6AA SOLP 1,560 N6IC SOLP 256
K6MUG SOLP 1,482 N6VHF SOHP 172
KF6I SOHP 750 NE6I SOLP 55
K6NA SOLP 561
NI6E (NI6E, AF6RT, KK6KPW, W6FNO) MOHP 24,050
WPX CW Claimed Scores
May 2018
VY2TT (K6LA) SOABHP 13,193,773 WA6URY SOABHP 220,331
N6CW (@K6NA)* SOSB20HP 2,481,132 AI6O SO(A)ABHP 172,960
KI6RRN SOABLP 2,468,598 NK6A SO(A)ABHP 141,897
AA6PW SO(A)ABHP 2,226,306 WN6K SOABLP 54,813
W6TK SOABHP 1,321,610 N6AN UNKNOWN 44,600
WA6KHK SO(A)ABHP 1,171,794 W6KC SO(A)ABHP 43,596
N5ZO SO(A)ABHP 1,095,680 NI6W (W4EF) SOABHP 36,855
KM6Z SOABLP 821,632 N6IC SOSB20HP 23,744
N6AA SOABHP 445,740 WA7BNM SOSB20LP 14,141
NO6T (N6NC)** SOABHP 394,573 N6HC SOSB20LP 13,260
W6QU (W8QZA) SOABQRP 340,844 KF6I SO(A)ABLP 4,662
NY6N (@W6YI K6AM, N6MJ, N6WIN, W6YI) M/2 HP 11,540,628
NX6T (N6KI, WQ6X, AI6O, K4RB, KB7V, N6CY) M/2 HP 5,470,240
* SCCC Member application received from N6CW 28 May 2018 (welcome back Terry!).
**Remotely operated the N5ZO station on antennas not in use by Marko at the time.
