Tuesday, January 19, 2021

WQ6X joins up with NO6T for another NAQP-Ssb Contest 1st-Place

Last weekend for various reasons I joined NX6T remotely from Alameda for the NAQP Cw contest. 
([CLICK HERE] to read about that.)  While we could've done better (we can ALWAYS do better),
we DiD take 2nd-place for California and 1st-place for San Diego and the Southwest Division. 
For this immediate-last weekend we had a larger more robust bunch of team players, running remotely as NO6T from our ANZA Super Station.  

While I was on-shift for only 2 hours (22:00z to 24:00z), my contribution included our contacts on
10 meters before firing things up on an already wide open 40 meters.  Online Zoom meetings kept
me out of the WQ6X operating chair until nearly 21:30z, altho I DiD manage to put Zoom in the background and snag a handful of multipliers during the Zoom session.

Another Goal for this weekend was to relocate the Elecraft K3/0 unit, putting it more at eye level. 
Accomplishing this required moving the MFJ-784 and MFJ-752b boxes into the former K3/0 location, along with the audio switch and Rockville mixer unit.  For the next operation in Concord, I may bring back another MFJ-752C filter languishing in Alameda.

While I was taking-care-of-bizniss in Concord, KI6RRN (Axel) & WM6Y (Phil) were filling the 15 & 20 meter logs, somewhere around 650 contacts in 2.5 hours.  wOw!  While my 66 contacts were not a lot, they DiD give us a 10-meter presence (bringing more multipliers) and an early presence on 40-meters to work the easy-loud E-coast stations.

Being a 12-hour contest, in the NAQP there are no "do overs"; there is no "tomorrow" to start over and try again.  When the high bands are done, they are done.  The alternate band is of course 40. 
In recent months, 40 has been open domestically by 22:00z.  Of course having a great ASL location and above-average 40-meter antennas in ANZA helps out quite a LoT.

Having an exceptional crew of operators behind NO6T was the secret to running the show;
no operators were over-worked and everyone got the time in the chair they wanted.  I got to
put time in as WQ6X, altho the signal-vortex in Concord didn't make things easy.

When it was all over, it would seem that NO6T took 1st-place, but by only a slim margin. 
When the Log Checking Robot (LCR) scrutinizes our logs, the scores will be adjusted
accordingly, always downward.

What about YOU?

DiD YOU play around in the NAQP Ssb Contest?

Is WQ6X or NO6T in YOUR LoG?


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