Southern California Contest Club

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

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Membership Stats

          Total Membership:                                        222
          Members within the club area                             200
          Members outside the club area                             22
          Stations added to the Roster since October 2013           33

Cities with the Most Visits to this Site in Recent Weeks


       Sandy Springs         North Hills        San Diego         Oceanside        Los Angeles
       Sao Paulo             Houston            Fresno            Beijing          Fullerton

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March 14-15	Idaho	March 15-16	Wisconsin
April 11-12	Georgia	April 18-19	Michigan
April 25-26	Florida	May 2-3	7th Call Area
May 2-3	New England	May 7-8	Indiana
Aug 8-9	MDC	Aug 22-23	Ohio
Aug 22-24	Hawaii	Sept 26-27	Texas
Oct 3-4	California	Oct 10-11	Pennsylvania
Oct 10-11	Arizona	Oct 17-18	New York
Oct 18-19	Illinois

Radio Amateur Association of West Greece SZ1A - Kostas Stamatis SV1DPI

January 2014

The Radio Amateur Association of West Greece (RAAWG) was founded in 1985. Our official call is SZ1A (ex. SV1AFA). The main population center, where the most of our members are, is Agrinio, a town with a population of about 100,000.

Our original goal was not contesting but to join all amateurs in West Greece, to put some repeaters in nearby mountains, to organize courses for candidate hams, to educate them and to offer as volunteers to our community.

As a result, today we have to maintain three voice repeaters, four APRS digipeaters and one hf station (in our office in Agrinio) plus the Contest Station SZ1A in Red Forest. Our club numbers about 100 members at the present time. more

From the first days some of our members were very active in contests. In 1993 we participated in our first CQ WW SSB as a club in the M/S category using the call SV1AFA. We were first SV and this gave us a lot of pleasure!! This first participation created a tradition. So our club became the most active club in Greece in several HF contests.

Our dream was to create a contest station. In Greece, most of us live in small condos and small properties in general. Just a very few Greek radio amateurs have the space for big antennas and towers. There are many clubs that have a small HF station, a big station (by Greek standards) was an unfulfilled dream.

This dream started to be a reality for us, in 2009. Then we found the place to host us, an old abandoned school in a place called Red Forest about 20 km out of Agrinio. We started to repair the building and in 2010 we raised our first tower 17m (55 ft) high. Our first contest from Red Forest was some months later, the ARRL CW in 2011.

We can host for free 5 operators at this moment in the station. There are beds, complete kitchen, bathroom.

With a lot of offers from our members we have right now two stations working together:
First station: Icom 756 pro II – Icom PW1 a mplifier
Second station: Kenwood 850 sat – ZZ1600 amplifier
Dunestar band pass filters.

Antennas: Cushcraft X7, HyGain Exp14, dipoles for 80 and 160m, 3el wire beam for 40m to JA, Cushcraft 40-2cd (not installed yet)

Two towers, one 17m (55ft) and one 15m (45ft). One more tower about 12m, on the ground at the moment and waits to grow up (hi hi).

Unfortunately the SV bureau doesn't serve clubs anymore so we cannot receive your QSL card via the bureau. We upload to LotW after every contest and of course reply to direct requests the same day. We also accept OQRS for Bureau cards. When we gather some requests, we mail direct to foreign bureaus. For OQRS, please visit http://sz1a.org/index.php/links-2

Everyone, Greek or foreign amateur is welcome to come to Agrinio, visit us and operate the SZ1A station. If you need any help about SZ1A, please send an email to sz1a@qsl.net

Many photos from our activities can be found at picasaweb

ARRL DX CW Claimed Scores

February 2015

            VY2TT(K6LA)    SOABHP      6,291,000             N6PE           SOABHP       300,330
            AA6PW          SOUHP       1,468,800             W6KY           SOABLP       166,140
            N6RV           SOABLP      1,107,792             NE6I           SOUHP        127,800
            WA6KHK         SOUHP         954,924             W6TK           SOSBHP        93,600
            WN6K           SOABLP        663,552             W6JBR          SOABLP        85,428
            W6YA           SOSBHP        516,231             NK6A           SOSBHP        54,900
            W6QU(W8QZA)    SOABQRP       338,148             AI6O           SOABHP        24,336
            N6MU           SOABLP        336,192

            NX6T (N6CY KB7V K4RB)                                           MSHP       1,679,328

CQ WPX RTTY Claimed Scores

February 2015

            WN6K            SOABLP       995,720             W6TK           SOSBLP       136,818
            W6QU(W8QZA)     SOABQRP      323,615             NK6A           SOABHP       122,612
            NE6I            SOABHP       196,940

NA Sprint CW Claimed Scores

February 2015

            N6RT@N6WIN      SOHP          14,306             W4EF           SOHP          10,584
            K6LA            SOHP          13,680             N5ZO           SOHP           9,867
            N6AA            SOHP          13,545             WA6URY         SOHP           6,216
            K6ZH            SOHP          11,025             K6NA           SOHP           1,950

            SCCC #1 (N6RT@N6WIN, N6AA, K6LA, W4EF, K6ZH, K6NA, NE6I)                      65,090

CQ WW 160m CW Contest Claimed Scores

January 2015

            K6NR            SOHP          66,816            AI6O            SOHP           6,060
            WN6K            SOLP          28,350

            NX6T (K6AM, N6EEG, N6KI, NN6X)                                  MOHP          90,948

NAQP SSB Claimed Scores

January 2015

            K6LA             SO          131,472            W6UX             SO           50,172
            WN6K             SO          130,720            K6DDJ            SO           23,532
            W6TK             SO          111,540            KI6QDH           SO            7,590
            K6ZED            SO           89,376            WA6URY           SO            4,264
            W6AQ             SO           52,096

            NX6T (W2PWS, K6AM, N6ERD, AE6HF, N6CY, N6EEG)                    M2          181,016

            SCCC #1 (K6LA, W6AFA, W6TK, K6ZED, K6DDJ)                                    406,092

NAQP CW Claimed Scores

January 2015

            K6LA            SO           307,515            W6KY            SO            25,100
            N5ZO            SO           240,009            WN6K            SO            10,810
            K6NR            SO           190,575            WA6URY          SO             5,301
            W6TK            SO           184,896            AI6O            SO             1,891
            K6DDJ           SO            46,904

            SCCC #1 (K6LA, K6NR, XE2MX, N5ZO, W6TK)                                    1,085,962
            SCCC #2 (W6KY, K6DDJ, N6WIN, WA7BNM)                                          72,004

ARRL RTTY Roundup Claimed Scores

January 2015

            W6UX            SOULP         59,711            NE6I            SOHP          10,759
            N6HE            SOUHP         38,982            W6TK            SOULP          8,791
            W6KY            SOLP          37,380            N6VHF           SOLP           7,776
            NK6A            SOUHP         36,556

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