We probably should add the 4^th operator to the list: MU4PHY, Mr. Murphy. But since he didn’t contribute any QSOs and only took them away, we won’t.

Several problems shadowed this years participation. Some of the antennas are under maintenance (20m 6-el, 80m 4-square) but that wasn’t supposed to slow us down. The major obstacle happened Saturday night 6.30pm when FT-1000 MkV went deaf. And really deaf, not like those stations that are spotted as deaf. Most likely the receiver front-end died. So, we had to change to Yaesu FT-847 for the rest of the contest.

It took long time to troubleshoot and replace the rig, and brought additional problems with amplifier keying and user unfamiliarity with the rig reduced our QSO count. We were only 100W for the rest of the Saturday night until we had the amplifier keying figured out and Sunday we were full power again.

Anyways, it was fun and we made the sweep. Our objective was to contribute as much points as possible for the NCCC club contest and do our best in Collegiate Championship.

Equipment:

Yaesu FT-1000 MkV & Yeasu FT-847
Alpha 78 amp (barefoot Saturday night)

Antennas:
Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft
15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft
20m: 5-el at 36 ft.
40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft.
80m: inverted vee at 55 ft

Software:
Writelog 10.47E.

Picture of our rate:

See the rates as numbers.

QSO summary:
80m: 85
40m: 192
20m: 230
15m: 293

Sections: 80 (sweep), claimed score 128,000
Operating time: 21:08
Club: Northern California Contest Club
Operators: K6OWL, W6KNS, W6RK
Section: SCV
Class: Multi-Op HP
Check: 24, “OLD”