A Collection of Past SCCC News Stories (Newest to Oldest)
Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
June 2025
ARRL Field Day 2025 It's Field Day month! While it has often been said that it's "not a contest," SCCC members have often gone all out, AND produced some very fine results! As I often point out this time of year, the SCCC had the top score of any station in any class twice in the 1978-1980 time frame. The club was 2nd the one year we weren't first. Read about those incredilbe years on the N6NB website. Are you doing Field Day this year? Go knock it out of the park! However, if you are going with a non-contest club, be sure to spend time sharing your contesting skills with others and tell them about SCCC. If the public stops by, talk up amateur radio! Heck, let them make a few contacts!

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
May 2025
N6NB We learned in mid-April of the passing of SCCC member Wayne Overbeck, N6NB. Wayne was perhaps best known for his many VHF, UHF and microwave endeavors, especially as a rover in those contests. Some of his organized roving efforts with others caused some rule changes to the ARRL contests. It's not that he was bending the rules. Rather, he was following the rules to the letter, and taking advantage of them. The group's results set many records at the time. Beginning in 2015, he began building "senior friendly" roving stations so that one did not have to climb onto car roofs, etc. He also had a formidable fixed contest station in Tehachapi, one that earned many awards and plaques between 1992 and 2011. He was aslo involved in the SCCC XE2SI efforts in CQWW DX in the early 1980s. Wayne was a force in contesting. We will miss him. His wife, Carrie says a service is planned in June or possibly a bit later. Many, many stories and articles are on his web page at N6NB.com

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
April 2025
N6BF Welcome aboard to new member Jeff, N6BF in Long Beach. Jeff has operated a few contests and loves participating in Field Day and Winter Field Day with the Downey ARC. He is also an ARRL and W5YI Volunteer Examiner. Something new we are doing as a club is to mentor newcomers that are relatively green. Phil, K6MUG has graciously offered to mentor Jeff. Jeff, we hope to see your scores joining our club scores going forward!

The 76th annual International DX Convention in Visalia is April 11-13. Will you be there? The program, as always, looks amazing. And the prizes! Lots of good ones and hourly drawings as well. The grand prize is and Elecraft K4D transceiver! At least eleven vendors will be exhibiting including Elecraft, Flex, Island Amplifier and Henry Radio. If you go, please snap some pictures and send them to me for possible publication in SCCCORE!
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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
March 2025
CQ WPX SSB Contest
The ARRL DX SSB contest started today (March 1 at 0000 UTC - 4 pm local Friday night). As we continue at the peak of Sunspot Cycle 25, conditions should be well above average. Levi, K6JO is out on Cayman Island as ZF1A. Not sure if Jim, N6TJ is in Hawaii. The KH7M contest call is going to be used by N7IR so who knows, but we all recognize Jim's voice. Have fun and keep in mind, the CQ WPX SSB contest is the last weekend of this month as well!

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
February 2025
ARRL DX Contest

The ARRL International DX CW contest is this month! Let's get ready to work some DX, shall we?! With high sunspot numbers lately, we should have a good time working into Europe and Africa. 40-160 might be a bit noisy but sometimes we get lucky during sunspot peaks and get good propagation there too. Get your station ready for some fun! Note, Jim, N6TJ will be at KH6LC as usual.

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
January 2025
W6QX QTH

Welcome aboard to new SCCC member Steven, W6QX. He enjoys participating in contests and does the CWTs as much as he can. In 2020, stuck at home due to the COVID pandemic, he got really active in the hobby again and upgraded to Extra. He got a new rig, new antenna and learned CW. And he replaced his former call, KB6VME, with this one. He has enjoyed doing Field Day from his Catalina 30 sailboat in recent years as well.

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