Southern California Contest Club
CQ WW DX RTTY: September 29-30 California QSO Party: October 6-7 CQ WW DX SSB: October 27-28
CQ WW DX RTTY: September 29-30 California QSO Party: October 6-7 CQ WW DX SSB: October 27-28
Officers
President: Dick Norton, N6AA n6aa[at]arrl[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Dennis Younker, NE6I ne6i[at]cox[dot]net
Secretary, Treasurer, Membership: Bruce Horn, WA7BNM bhorn[at]hornucopia[dot]com
Webmaster: Dennis Younker, NE6I ne6i[at]cox[dot]net
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State QSO Parties
2018
SCCC Monthly Poll
September, 2018
Click here for the SCCC monthly poll. Results will be published here.
Monthly News (SCCCORE)
September 2018
The Southern California DX Club (SCDXC) held it's annual Summer Bash on August 12 in La Habra, and was attended by many who are also SCCCers. This photo was sent to me by Terry N6CW. Click on it for a full size rendition, and see how many SCCCers you can spot. See if you can spot the SCCCer wearing his So Cal Contest Club badge!
The preliminary July NAQP RTTY results have been published on the NCJ web site. KI6RRN placed 5th overall, and the SCCC #1 team took 5th in the team category with 174,935 points.
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The following was published in the Ohio/Penn DX Bulleting (No. 1378) on 27 Aug 2018.
YASME PRESS RELEASE (dated August 21st). THE YASME FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES
ELECTION OF A NEW DIRECTOR -- The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation
is pleased to announce that it has elected Marty Woll, N6VI, as the newest
Yasme Foundation Director. Marty brings a wealth of experience in ham
radio including nine years of service as Vice-Director for the ARRL South-
western Division and Life Member of ARRL, past president of the Southern
California DX Club, past president of the Los Angeles Area Council of Radio
Clubs, past chair of the ARRL’s Contest Advisory Committee, and founding
member of the Southern California Contest Club.
Marty is also active in public service as Training Officer for the Los
Angeles Fire Department's Auxiliary Communications Service. He authored
a chapter of the ARRL's Introduction to Emergency Communications course
and is a popular speaker at clubs and conventions.
While on the subject of announcements, John Dorr K1AR announced on August 28 that Ken K4ZW decided to step down as czar of the popular Contest Webinars sponsored by WWROF (World Wide Radio Operators Foundation). Former SCCCer Mark Beckwitch N5OT (ex WA6OTU) will be taking over for Ken. Mark was first licensed in 1971 as WN6OTU. He has been both a successful single-operator at HC8U, K6RR, W6AQ, W8JI, W6UE and his own contest station, and a multi-operator team member at such stations as HC8N, PJ2T, TI5N and PJ4R. In addition to his ham radio pursuits, Mark is also a free-lance choir director, orchestra conductor and stage director. Needless to say, the Webinar program will be in capable hands.
NEW this month is the SCCC Monthly Poll. Be sure to visit it on our home page (just above the link to the monthly news) each month. Should be fun to see the results! It is totally anonymous.
Other preliminary contest results...The August 2018 NAQP CW. Our SCCC #1 team placed #4 in the team results! N5ZO is atop in the sixth district and KI6RRN is fourth. N6WIN, K6NR and W6TK also appear in the top ten in California. Awesome showing!
Tim Duffy, K3LR has posted some papers from the Antenna Forum at the 2018 Daytom Hamvention. A five element parasitic rotatable vertical yagi for 160 meters?! I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it! Plus three other articles. He also has others dating back to 2004 on the web site. A PDF reader is required.
The authors of WSJT-X software are busy working on Version 2.0, and it has some nice enhancements to FT8 and MSK144 for contesters. It's amazing how quickly this software is evolving and improving. Read up on what is in store at the WSJT-X web site.
"Back in the day," 4U1UN, the United Nations Amateur Radio Club headquartered in New York City was often heard in DX contests. They were an easy snag for USA contesters and DXers alike. However, the station has been mostly silent for many, many years. Their QRZ web page mentions a weekend operation in October of 2015 as 4U70UN. W6ISQ wrote an article that appeared in the July 1989 issue of QST that is pretty interesting. 4U1UN is now #34 on the DXCC Most Wanted List. Let's hope 4U1UN returns to the air soon and provides many contest QSOs and helps fill in some DXCC slots. (Rumor has it the station was on very briefly last month doing some on air testing.)
Yaesu was set to announce a 200 watt version of its upcoming 101 transceiver at the Tokyo Hamvention in late August, billed as the FT-101MP. The two SDRs will be otherwise similar, rumor has it, with features such as:
9MHz IF Roofing Filter Producing Excellent Shape Factor
400MHz HRDDS (High Resolution Direct Digital Synthesizer)
Hybrid SDR: Direct Sampling & NBW (Narrow Bandwidth) SDR
Completely Independent Dual Receivers
High-Q VC Tuning Front-End
YAESU Renowned Interference Reduction System
Large Touch-Panel Precision Color Display
3DSS (Three Dimension Spectrum Stream) Waterfall Display
Active Band Indicator with LED illumination of the operating band, enables rapid band changes
MPVD (Multi-Purpose VFO Outer Dial) provides Sub VFO dial, Clarifier operation. VC-TUNE adjustment, VFO fine tuning or a CS (custoin selection) funiction
A blast from the past...
This is the JY7Z QSL (above) from the 1986 CQWW DX Phone contest. Among the group of operators were Dick N6AA, Phil N6ZZ (SK), Jim N6TJ, Terry W6MKB (now K6JL) and Marty N6VI. Others were JY3ZH, JY4MB, JY4YJ and W6NV.
Special thanks to Arlen K6VNX for providing the QSL for publication.
Have you ever sampled any of the many amateur radio Podcasts? It seems that the number of Podcasters is growing by the month. These Podcasts cover any number of interesting subjects, including contesting of course! For example, Eric, 4Z1UG has had many distinguished contesters on his Podcast "QSO Today"). There are many other podcasts as well. 100 Watts And A Wire, Ham Talk Live!, and ARRL's The Doctor Is In are just a few of the many Podcasts out there. Some have more contesting subject matter / guests than others but they all offer some interesting subject matter. You can access these through your smart phone, tablet, or computer free of charge. They are typically available via iTunes, the Google Playstore and/or other sources. And by the way, since I mentioned K3LR above, I should mention that that he was on QSO Today episode 038. It was a good one! If you haven't checked out Podcasts yet, you're missing some interesting stuff! I find it to be a great alternative to morning talk shows on FM radio during my drive to and from the office every day.
Are you subscribed to the SCCC Reflector? If not, why not?! It's a good source of information; a good place to ask questions; a good place to talk about contesting; a good place to be! Reflector posts come to the email address that you sign up with, and can be configured to come one at a time or in a daily digest. Frankly, we don't get so much traffic that the daily digest is necessary in my opinion but you may feel otherwise. To get yourself subscribed, click on this link.
Need to get your contest fix during a non-major contest weekend?! Don't we all?! As I write this on the last weekend of August, there are ten contests going on. Four are stateside QSO Parties, always good for some rate as well as good S&P practice. Hit our QSO Party button on this page or check out Bruce's WA7BNM Contest Calendar to get your contest fix.
73 for now,
--Dennis NE6I
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WB6NOA Interviews Kenwood Chief Design Engineer JA6QXW On The New TS-890S
August 2018
The New Yaesu FT-101D Transceiver
August 2018
PJ1B 1994 CQWW SSB MM
June 2018
North American Sprint SSB Claimed Scores
September 2018
N5ZO 10,127 NE6I 555
NX6T (KK6NON) 9,020 N6OO 540
WA7BNM 560
SCCC #1 (N5ZO, NX6T, NE6I, N6OO, WQ6X) 20,242
North American Sprint CW Claimed Scores
September 2018
N5ZO 13,502 N6WIN 5,655
N6MJ 13,020 K0XP 2,660
W4EF 10,879 N6CW 2,494
N6AA 10,480 AI6O 1,450
AC6T 8,853 KG7NV (K6ZH) 486
K6NA 7,332
SCCC #1 (N6AA, N5ZO, N6MJ, AC6T, K6NA) 53,187
SCCC #2 (KG7NV, AI6O, K6AW, W4EF) 12,815
SCCC #1 currently holding 5th place according to the 3830scores site.
NAQP SSB Claimed Scores
August 2018
WN6K SOLP 52,722 AI6O SOLP 1,664
K5KT SOLP 51,600 N6AN SOLP 1,344
AA6PW SOLP 24,090 W6JBR SOLP 1,200
N6WIN SOLP 3,268 K6RO SOLP 819
WA7BMN SOLP 3,034 WA6URY SOLP 651
K6MUG SOLP 2,600
N5ZO (KI6RRN, KK6NON, N5ZO) M/2 200,489
W6KC M/2 198
SCCC #1 (WQ6X, N6WIN, K6MUG, WN6K, AA6PW) 82,680
SCCC #2 (W6AFA, K5KT, N6AN, K6RO, NE6I) 53,763
NAQP CW Claimed Scores
August 2018
N5ZO SOLP 227,452 AI6O SOLP 20,250
KI6RRN SOLP 181,477 WA6URY SOLP 14,534
N6WIN SOLP 128,763 W6ZL SOLP 14,300
K6NR SOLP 100,303 N6HE SOLP 10,640
W6TK SOLP 98,532 N6AN SOQRP 5,454
N6AA SOLP 92,718 N6GP SOLP 5,035
WN6K SOLP 66,875 W6KC SOLP 4,080
KM6Z SOLP 49,502 KU6CW (N6CW) SOLP 3,960
AA6PW SOLP 23,779 KA6WKE SOLP 1,296
NC6K SOLP 21,004 K0XP SOLP 1,032
NX6T (N6KI, WQ6X, N6NC, N6CY, NN6X, N6EEG, WM6Y) M/2 186,354
SCCC #1 (N5ZO, KI6RRN, N5WIN, W6TK, K6NR) 736,527
SCCC #2 (AI6O, KA6WKE, WQ6X, W6ZL, N6HE) 46,486
SCCC #3 (N6AA, AA6PW, NC6K, N6AN, N6GP) 147,990
NAQP RTTY Claimed Scores
July 2018
KI6RRN SOLP 110,396 KF6RY (W6ZL) SOLP 8,364
WN6K SOLP 41,412 N6WT SOLP 5,050
W6JBR SOLP 11,760 K6MUG SOLP 4,316
AI6O SOLP 9,310
ZF1A (K6GO, NA6MB) M2 48,150
SCCC #1 (KI6RRN, NC6K, WN6K, K6MUG, KA6WKE) 156,124
IARU HF World Championship Claimed Scores
July 2018
N5ZO SOABHPA CW 1,408,579 NI6W (W4EF) SOABHP CW 30,800
KI6RRN(@WA6TQT) SOABLP Mxd 1,014,714 AI6O SOABHPA CW 26,256
K6NA SOABHP CW 771,831 W6KC SOABHPA Mixed 19,580
W6TK SOABHP Mixed 668,457 W6YA SOABHP CW 15,776
N6AA SOABHP CW 491,290 W6JBR SOABHP Mixed 12,369
WN6K SOABLP Mixed 146,510 K6DDJ SOABHPA CW 7,347
KU6CW (N6CW) SOABHP(A) CW 132,192 N6IC SO20MHP CW 5,405
WA6URY SOABHP Mixed 88,288 K6MUG SOABLP 5,040
NK6A SOABHP Mixed 67,710 N6HE SOABLP 2,256
W6ZL SOABLP CW 44,370
NX6T (N6KI, NN6X, N6EEG, KB7V, N6ERD, W2PWS, N6NC, WQ6X) M/S HP 638,352
AF6O (AF6O, K6VCR, N6MI) M/S HP 477,904
RAC Canada Day Claimed Scores
July 2018
KI6RRN SOABLP 173,618 WN6K SOABLP-CW 34,992
W6TK SOABHP 35,464 KK6NON SOABLP-PH 24,256
N5ZO (N5ZO, N6NC) M/2 HP 149,500
Field Day Claimed Scores
June 2018
W6KC 1E(LP) 1,598 AI6O 1D(HP) 668
AI6DO 2B(QRP) 1,090 WA6URY 1D(HP) 347
N6NC (N5ZO) 1D(HP) 956 W6ZL 1E(LP) 244
All Asian Claimed Scores
June 2018
N5ZO SOABHP 106,855 KU6CW (N6CW) SOABHP 2,160
K6NA SOABHP 75,050 W6ZL SOABLP 1,950
WN6K SOABHP 70,757 AI6O SOABHP 1,160
WA6URY SOABHP 16,100
NX6T (N6KI, N6CY, WQ6X) M/SHP 287,280
ARRL June VHF Claimed Scores
June 2018
W6IT SOLP 31,856 KF6I SOHP 750
N6VI SOHP 17,545 K6NA SOLP 561
N6VHF SOHP 13,975 WA6URY SOHP 504
N6MI SOHP 7,344 N6IC SOLP 256
N6QQ SOLP 4,251 W6JK SOLP 248
N6GP/R LIMITED ROVER 4,251 N6VHF SOHP 172
NC6K SOHP 2,322 N6VH SO3B 104
N6AA SOLP 1,560 NE6I SOLP 55
K6MUG SOLP 1,482 N6IC SOLP 32
NI6E (NI6E, AF6RT, KK6KPW, W6FNO) UMOHP 24,050
