Southern California Contest Club
North American QSO Party CW: August 2-3 North American QSO Party RTTY: July 19-20 IARU HF Championship: July 12-13
North American QSO Party CW: August 2-3 North American QSO Party RTTY: July 19-20 IARU HF Championship: July 12-13
Officers
President: Dick Norton, N6AA n6aa[at]arrl[dot]net
Manager for SCCC Sprint and NAQP Teams: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Jim Forsyth, AF6O webmaster@socalcontestclub.org
Manager for SCCC Sprint and NAQP Teams: Doug Brandon, N6RT n6rt[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Jim Forsyth, AF6O webmaster@socalcontestclub.org
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Membership Stats
Total Membership: 218
Members within the club area 196
Members outside the club area 22
Stations added to the Roster since September 2013 29
To Southern California Contest Club:Dear Fellow DX-ers and Contesters,
You are cordially invited to the Asia Pacific DX Convention 2014, which will take place November 14-16, 2014.
In addition to our usual presentations on recent DX-peditions, technical sessions, DX dinners and so forth, this convention offers something special. Japan is where most of the amateur radio equipment is developed, and you will have the opportunity to join a tour to the Icom factory, participate in a technical session led by the Icom HF radio design team, and more.
All of the programs at APDXC are conducted in English! For more details, please visit the APDXC website. For convention updates, check our website often, or send an email to subscribe to the APDXC newsletter: mail@apdxc.org.
We look forward to welcoming you at the APDXC in Osaka, Japan. - APDXC Committee / JA3USA
Videos from the Dayton 2014 Contest Forum Session: Introducing N1MM Logger Plus
State QSO Parties
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August 23-24 | Ohio | September 27-28 | Texas | |
October 04-05 | California | October 04-05 | New Jersey | |
October 11-12 | Arizona | October 12-13 | Pennsylvania | |
October 19-20 | New York | October 19-20 | Illinois |
A Little Hut in a Little Hamlet - Flavio Bergamasco IK1YDB
July 2014
I couldn't title this article differently because IR1Y is not a Contest station contrary to what you might think.In 1999 , with my family, I was looking for a house with land in a relaxing location outside the chaos of the town, and I finally reached this little village.
I can't forget the curious and suspicious faces of the realtors when I used to pull out of my pocket a compass before visiting the house, and it happened that I refused to visit some houses not well faced at 360°.
Their incredulous reaction was followed by attempts to convince me with sentences like "...but this house is well exposed to the south." My answer was that "it wasn't towards the USA!" I really started to look to them like I was crazy! more
The hut, as in the title, is a little mountain chalet in between the two towns of Alessandria and Genova, on the Appennino Ligure mountains at 800 meters above
sea level. Surrounded by 3000 mq of fields, in a tiny little country village with just two inhabitants but with a lot of deer, wild boar, and wolves, this
is where we used to pass some spare time and summer and winter holidays with the family.
The location is well opened at 360 degrees and has a special slope in the valley right towards Stateside.As a radio amateur I got out my first satisfactions immediately, installing just a vertical antenna (Butternut) on the grass, being able to reach all the dxpeditions that with a 5 element Yagi, and some other vertical on low bands, I couldn't even dream to hear and absolutely couldn't catch from Genova (where I live).
AS ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER ...
Animated by a group of friends in 2005 we approached our first contest: WPX CW, participating as M/S with the callsign IR1R. We had a very simple setup but a great
desire to do well !A wooden chair, a radio, one amplifier, PC and a vertical Butternut HF9, three operators: IK1HJS, IK1YDB IK1YPX = 1822 qso’s, 2.265,935 points, no cluster or skimmer, was our first satisfaction, a lot of motivation to go ahead.
It’s time to move: I ask permissions to erect a 22m. tower that will support the new Optibeam OB17-4. On the same tower an inverted V 160m dipole and 80m delta loop.
The landscape from the top of the tower is very impressive: towards North America there is a downhill slope of 400m in a 300m distance with incredible signals from that direction.
Permission was obtained to use the IR1Y callsign. I liked to use the symbolic icon for this little Team honoring wolves, now populating the district, and I used to
announce our participation as “the return of wolves” hi !IR1Y became a Headquarters station for the IARU HF Championship in 2005 representing ARI. Since then, Carlo IK1HJS and I, alternate in participation to major contests, either as single or Multi Operator. In the meantime a second 15m tower can be erected , field day style, from time to time.
Results were not slow to arrive: First place in the ARI International Dx Contest, world first place in CQ WPX CW SOSB40 HP, Europe first place (third world) WPX CW SOAB LP, EU record SOAB LP ARRL DX SSB, second world and EU record SOSB 40m in the ARRL CW.
Some Italian records are still not beaten on 15, 40, 80, 160m in CQWW CW alternating IK1HJS and IK1YDB.
Carlo IK1HJS (WRTC2010 team mate, and WRTC 2014 team leader) became an active member, bringing to the team other great operators such as Tony IK1QBT, and Emilio IZ1GAR (IH9X, IG9X, IH9R, IG9W).
The last contest as IR1Y was the ARRL 2014 CW. This was our first time as M2 with 5324 qso’s (including 284 Californian stations), 229 multipliers for a claimed score of 4,772,937. On this occasion Filippo IZ1LBG (WRTC Team Leader of Youth Team) and Flavio IK1SPR (WRTC2010 referee) joined the group, so the total was 6 operators.
More pictures: 1 2 3
Well dear friends, this is the little story of IR1Y, where, in a little hut, a little group of friends like to share the same passions: DX and Contests… See you soon. Flavio IK1YDB close
ARRL June VHF Contest Claimed Scores
June 2014
N6MU@N6NB SOHP 85,410 N6HC SO3BQRP 4,832
N6VI SOHP 36,520 WA6URY SOHP 2,304
W6PH SOHP 17,072 NE6I SOLP 646
WN6K SO3BLP 8,568
NI6E (NI6E, K6EPP, AF6RT, KI6VVN, KK6KPW) MOHPLIM 17,366
Members Well Placed in 7QP Results
June 2014
WN6K Second Place SOHPMIXED
AF6O First Place SOHPCW
W6AFA First Place SOHPPH
N6MU First Place SOLPCW
NX6T Second Place MSHP
W6TK Third Place MSLP
CQ World Wide WPX CW Claimed Scores
May 2014
VY2TT(K6LA) SOABHP 12,378,037 WA6URY SOABHP 183,201 AF6O SOABHP 2,025,058 W6QU(W8QZA) SOABQRP 134,196 W6TK SOABHP 2,019,020 ZM3T(W3SE) SOASBLP 125,160 WN6K SOABLP 924,8464 NO6T(N6NC) SOASBHP 101,982 N6MU SOABLP 304,300 WQ6X@NX6T M2HP (K4RB KB7V NØDY N6CY N6EEG N6KI NN6X WA2OOB WB6NBU WQ6X) 9,619,592 N6MI MSHP (N6MI NB6E) 2,227,722
N6MI CONTEST VAN IN MONTEREY
