A Collection of Past SCCC News Stories (Newest to Oldest)
Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
May 2023
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The CQ WPX SSB raw scores have been published. Overall participation slightly exceeds that of the 2020 pandemic year where the world was essentially on lock down. SCCC participation seemed a bit lighter than usual, however.

Speaking of WPX, here comes the WPX CW contest. The last weekend of May brings out a ton of contesters, serious and casual alike. When (if?) conditions don't support working DX, there are a plethora of USA stations to work. This makes for a never-a-dull-moment contest! Get your station ready for a fun one! Let's hope for some really good conditions!

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
April 2023
ARRL logo In early March, the ARRL DX SSB contest provided lots of fun and fireworks. The SFI was up above 160 and the A and K indexes were down low, providing excellent propagation during the contest. Some comments from SCCCers follow. Paul, W8GJK found wall to wall Europeans both Saturday and Sunday. Bill, N6RV thought conditions were better in the CW contest (that SFI of 340+ undoubtedly helped!). He said 20 was a little down until late night when it got crazy. 10 meters was a star, he said. He suggests, tongue in cheek, that for East Coasters, all of Europe counts as only one multiplier so as to level the playing field for the West Coast. Frank, WA6KHK ran RHR (Remote Ham Radio) for the first time and ran Single Band 10 meters. Unfortunately, he was very sick on Sunday and that limited his operating time. Jim, W6KC reported "wonderful conditions" on 10 meters Saturday morning. Ken, K6LA (VY2TT) also said the high bands were great on Saturday morning. He said the low bands were terrible for him though. Paul, W6PNG had fun doing DXpedition style at a friend's home using his new Elecraft K4D along with his KPA500 and a HexBeam. He found 10m was very good Saturday morning and he worked many Europeans with ease.

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
March 2023
WPX Contest We have two big contests coming up this month. First is the ARRL DX Phone contest which takes place the first weekend of the month. The world woks the USA and Canada in this one. The second is the CQ WPX SSB contest, taking place the the last weekend of the month. With sunspot numbers higher than they have been in many years, these two promise to be incredible contests! DX and stateside stations will be out in force. Big guns, little pistols, medium stations...all should have a great time with these this month! You won't want to miss them!

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
February 2023
Cycle 25 DX-World published a plot from NOAA last month showing the progresson of Solar Cyle 25. Thus far, it has outperformed NOAA's official forecast for 35 consecutive months. DX-World says that if this trend continues, Solar Maximum will either happen sooner or be stronger than originally expected. Let's hope for both!

If you are a user of WSJT-X, please note that the webpage home has moved to https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/. Also, the general release of v2.6.0 was announced on January 6. And v2.6.1 has since been released. This replaces the release candidates (RC versions). Release notes can be found here. The list of enhancements and bug fixes is quite long, so you'll want to read through them. As you probably know, different versions of WSJT-X can be installed in different folders if you like, preserving the older versions in case of trouble. Or, you can let it install over the top of your existing installation. I recommend the former but it's up to you.

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Monthly News (SCCCORE - SoCal Contest Club Operations, Results and Enlightenments)
January 2023
SCCC logo The CQ Contest Committee published the raw CQWW DX CW contest scores in early December, just over a week after the contest itself. Raw scores are of course before log checking. Ken, K6LA (VY2TT) has a narrow lead over EF6T for 6th place SOABHP. Jim, N6TJ (KH7Q) has a commanding lead in SOHP 15 meters! As an aside, AA3B (V26K) recorded a stunning 9,000 QSO, 13.3M point effort (averaging 187.5 QSOs per hour over the 48 hour contest) as a SOABLP station (that's LOW POWER, folks) station using 2BSIQ! That's more than double the runner up score in that category and fourth highest Single Op score overall. Just amazing! Check out the rest of the Top Ten scores here.

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