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
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