I enjoy ham radio contesting. My favorite contest is ARRL Field Day.

I participated field day 2006-2009.

 


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Total points accumulated so far: 5,730,000


   
 

ARRLRTTY Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2011-01-08

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : MULTI-ONE
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V10.12.3

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec   Cty
3.5       3      3    0    0
7      32      32    1    1
14     186     186   27    6
21      97      97   22   11
Total     318     318   50   18

 

            Score : 21,624

 

Unexpected family obligations came up.


           NAQPCW Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2011-01-08

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : LOW
             Mode : CW
 Default Exchange : AJ CA
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.12.10

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec   NA
          14      16      16   10    0
       Total      16      16   10    0


            Score : 160

Unexpected family obligations came up.


          ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-12-11

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : MULTI-ONE
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : MIXED
 Default Exchange : CA
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.11.0

        Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Cty
          28  CW     231     924   50
          28  USB    203     406   47
       Total  Both   434    1330   97

            Score : 129,010

Wow this turned out to be a fun contest.  This contest has to be one of my favorite contests of the year.  My goal was to beat last years score and QSO count.  I beat last years score by almost 100,000!  My best contact was South Africa. 

I handed out 400 spots during the contest, so I hope you KBer's got some use out of them.



           ARRL160 Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-12-03

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : QRP
             Mode : CW
 Default Exchange : SV
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.9.5

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
         1.8      26      52   13
       Total      26      52   13


            Score : 676

This was a fairly fun contest.  Since I can't get my 120ft 80meter wire to match on 160, I had to use my other shack and antenna.  I fired up the FT-857d with a G5RV at 33ft.  I ran 5 watts QRP and doubled my score from last year. 

           CQWWCW Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-11-27

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : CW
 Default Exchange : 3
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

   ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.9.5

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN
         3.5       5      8    2    3
           7      18      39    9   10
          14     320     890   87   29
          21     159     451   47   27
          28      40      92   17   14
       Total     542    1480  162   83


            Score : 368,769

Wow, what a blast.  These were the best conditions I have heard so far.  I felt like a big gun with my 400 watts into a Force 12 at 33ft.  I worked quite a few new ones.  The pileups for the Main African stations were a bit much, but I had worked those guys last year, so no biggie.  I got more contacts on 10 meters than 40/80.  This was so much more fun than a SSB contest :)


             SSSSB Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-11-20

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : SSB
 Default Exchange : U 94 SV
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.10.2

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
         3.5      78     156   12
           7      75     150    9
          14      81     162   18
          21     248     496   36
          28       6      12    0
       Total     488     976   75


            Score : 73,200

What a slugfest :(  At least the rally was good.



             SSCW Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-11-06

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : CW
 Default Exchange : U 94 SV
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.10.2

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
         3.5     188     376   18
           7     118     236   10
          14     299     598   25
          21     168     336   25
          28       2      4    2
       Total     775    1550   80


            Score : 124,000

Great conditions for this contest.  I beat my Q count from last year by over 100.  I got a sweep early Sunday morning.  Computer and N1MM crashed only once.  Only had to reset my usb/serial converter twice.  I had a bad wind storm on Sunday with 40mph winds, but the tower trailer held up.  A torrential downpour made my auto tuner go a little buggy on my 40m vee, so I switched to 80.  Overall this contest was a blast!  I was surprised by the number of QRP operators out there.

           CQWWSSB Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-10-30

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : SSB
 Default Exchange : 3
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.9.5

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN
         3.5       6      6    2    2
           7      13      23    5    5
          14      73     194   29   19
          21      65     187   28   19
          28       7      21    2    2
       Total     164     431   66   47


            Score : 48,703

Wow this was a tough one.  The bands were crowded and noisy.  I don't know what it was about the conditions, but I wasn't able to get through to hardly anybody.  I only got responses from the big guns who where s9+20.  My average rate was 16/hr.  I was running about 450 watts...


           QSOPARTY Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-10-01

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : LOW
             Mode : MIXED
 Default Exchange : 001 PLAC
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.9.3

        Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Sec
         3.5  CW      42     126    0
         3.5  LSB     85     170    0
           7  CW     131     393    1
           7  LSB     21      42    3
          14  CW     337    1011   18
          14  USB    116     232   17
          21  CW      91     270    8
          21  USB     52     104    8
       Total  Both   875    2348   55


            Score : 129,305

I decided to go as SOAB LP.  It was very difficult to run on SSB.  Though CW was more effective and less crowded.  I beat my goal of 500 Q's and doubled my score from last year.  Conditions weren't bad, and I got a little EU action on Sunday.



           CQWWRTTY Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-09-24

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : RTTY
Overlay Category : TB-WIRES
 Default Exchange : 03 CA
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.9.3

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   ZN    Sec
         3.5      72      82    4    5   24
           7     177     271   17   12   43
          14     479     870   71   28   54
          21     249     486   41   23   34
          28      27      73    5    5    2
       Total    1004    1782  138   73  157


            Score : 655,776

Wow, this was a fun contest.  Temperatures hovered around 100 degrees in my hamshack in the afternoon of both days.  This was almost a personal best with 1004 contacts.  Propagation was up and down, but there were very good openings to JA on both afternoons.  I picked up a few new DXCC entities, now hopefully they will get confirmed in LOTW.  It was nice to hear 10 meters open, but I only worked two states :(  I was really surprised that I was only spotted twice in this contest, and I did more than 20 hours of running!  Ooh well. 
Station: Kenwood TS-850, ALS-600 running 300watts, Force 12 C3 at 33 feet, wires for 40 and 80 at 33 ft.

          NAQPSSB Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-08-21

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : LOW
             Mode : SSB
Overlay Category : TB-WIRES
 Default Exchange : AJ CA
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.8.2

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec   NA
         3.5      33      33    6    0
           7      46      46   19    0
          14     145     145   41    1
          21       6      6    4    0
       Total     230     230   70    1


            Score : 16,330

Never heard a peep on 10, 15m was almost non existent, 20m was good but crowded, and 40/80m were decent.  The bands were quite noisy at times, I had s9+5 noise for a little while.  I fell just a little short of my personal goal of 300, but I'll blame that on 15m not being open.  I was happy to work VP9/NM6E.


          DMCRTTY Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-07-17

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : LOW
             Mode : RTTY
Overlay Category : TB-WIRES
 Default Exchange : 001
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.7.0

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   Sec   Cnt
          14      54      54   13   14    3
       Total      54      54   13   14    3


            Score : 4,374

Worked a few contacts before NAQP started.  Just a little bit of European activity.



          NAQPRTTY Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-07-17

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : LOW
             Mode : RTTY
Overlay Category : TB-WIRES
 Default Exchange : AJ CA
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.7.0

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec   NA
         3.5      25      25    9    0
           7      82      82   33    0
          14     176     176   48    1
          21      18      18   12    0
       Total     301     301  102    1


            Score : 31,003

Conditions were not too good.  20 meters had a high noise level, and 15 meters was only open for a short time.  My goal was 400 so I got pretty close.  N1MM crashed about 7 times during the contest...  I'll have to figure out what is wrong.

           IARU Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-07-10

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : MIXED
Overlay Category : TB-WIRES
 Default Exchange : 6
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.6.5

        Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Zon   HQ
           7  LSB      2      4    2    0
          14  CW     111     345   10   14
          14  USB     68     166    8   15
          21  CW       1      1    0    1
          21  USB      6      18    3    2
       Total  Both   188     534   23   32


            Score : 29,370

The best conditions for Europe that I have had in a long time.  20 meters was still open after midnight local time.  I'm a little disappointed that I wasn't able to work any of the WRTC stations.  I worked plenty of Ukraine and Russia but no R## stations.  I had some 15 meter RFI issues, so I didn't work much on that band.


Call Used: WE6Z     GOTA Station Call: (none)    

ARRL/RAC Section: SV     Class: 1B

List of operators for Class B: WE6Z

Participants: 1     Club/Group Name: Northern California Contest Club

Power Source(s): Generator

Power Multiplier: 1X

Bonus Points:
100% Emergency power                            100
W1AW Field Day Message                          100
Submitted via the Web                            50
Total Bonus Points                                250

Score Summary:
CW  Digital  Phone  Total
Total QSOs    135     52     329
Total Points    270    104     329    703   Claimed Score = 703

Submitted by:
Doug Phillips, WE6Z

Comments:
This was a fun event.  Conditions were good, and I'm glad to see 10 meters open!


Band/Mode QSO Breakdown:
CW          Digital      Phone
QSOs Pwr(W)  QSOs Pwr(W)  QSOs Pwr(W)
160m                                      
80m   21    500                 90    500
40m   44    500     2    300    30    500
20m   52    500    50    300    58    500
15m    9    500                 78    500
10m    9    500                 73    500
6m                                      
2m                                      
1.25                                      
Other                                       
Satellite                                      
GOTA                                      
TOTAL  135           52          329

 


 

        ARRLVHFJUN Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-06-12

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : LOW
             Mode : SSB
 Default Exchange : CM98
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.6.2

        Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Grd
          50  USB      8      8    3
         144  USB     21      21    4
         420  USB     12      24    3
       Total  Both    41      53   10


            Score : 530

Not bad, but not very good either.  I wasn't able to get my 2m and 440 beams up before the contest, so I had to work with just a dual band (Comet G3) ground plane antenna up at 30 ft.  My 6m antenna consists of a homebrew beam just sitting on top of the roof fixed to the east.  I did hear WD0T, and a W4 station, but I had trouble just working LRG on 6m.  I ran 50 watts on 2m, 20 watts on 440, and 100 watts on 6m.


           CQWPXCW Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-05-28

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : MULTI-MULTI
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : CW
 Default Exchange : 001
       Gridsquare : CM98JS


     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.5.3

        Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX
         3.5      66     112   10
           7     277     546   82
          14     500     680  238
          21     132     194   33
          28      72      91    6
       Total    1047    1623  369


            Score : 598,887

 

              Rig : TS850

         Antennas : Force12C3 @33', two dipoles 40/80 @33'

          Soapbox : Conditions were dismal for this contest.  Almost no openings for me to Europe.  The highlight of the contest was conditions on 10 meters.  I beat my goal of 1000 QSO's but fell short on the prefixes, only making around 600K points. 


 

         

CWJFMM Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-05-15

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : CW
 Default Exchange : NA
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.5.1

        Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX
          14      91     229   29
          21      37     145   23
          28       4      16    3
       Total     132     390   55


            Score : 21,450

Just put in a few hours on Saturday and about 6 hours on Sunday.  Conditions were not very good, but I was still able to hear South America most times of the day between 8am and 4pm.  Mostly S&P with a little bit of CQ'ing at the end.  Everything is looking good so far for WPX. 


 

CQ WPX SSB WE6Z  Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:34 PM
Due to family coming in from out of state, I only got in two hours on Friday, and two hours on Sunday. 
I got 80 QSO's and ~13,000 points.
SOAB Assisted HP

 

          BARTGSRTTY Score Summary Sheet

       Start Date : 2010-03-20

    CallSign Used : WE6Z
      Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
             Band : ALL
            Power : HIGH
             Mode : RTTY
 Default Exchange : 001
       Gridsquare : CM98JS

     ARRL Section : SV
        Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
         Software : N1MM Logger V10.3.4

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   Sec   Cnt
         3.5      25      25    2   12    0
           7      74      74    6   17    0
          14     313     313   40   27    4
          21     100     100   15   19    2
       Total     512     512   63   75    6


            Score : 423,936

Conditions weren't too bad.  I did about 50/50 run and S&P.  20 meters was open until about 8:30pm on Friday.  I got in several JA runs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  Sunday was really slow, so I just hit the auto CQ and started reading a book.  I would get one response about every 5 minutes.  It's nice to be able to work everyone, it gives me something to do between the DX.

 
  ARRLDXSSB Score Summary Sheet


Start Date : 2010-03-05

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V10.2.6

Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty
3.5       8      24    7
7       9      27    7
14     253     753   81
21     195     585   48
28      15      45    5
Total     480    1434  148

Score : 212,232

Conditions were really tough for me on 40/80 meters Friday evening. Slow rates of 14/hr on Saturday Morning despite 20 ove 9 signals. Very rough conditions on 20 and 15 meters due to a lot of flutter on the European end. Sunday was SplatterFest on 20 meters! I heard Kuwait with a 20 over signal but the pileup was about 500 deep. I was able to get Sudan, Cape Verde, Nigeria and a few others in Africa.
The tuner uppers were everywhere.   

 


 

NAQPRTTY Score Summary Sheet


Start Date : 2010-02-27

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : AJ CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V10.2.5

Band    QSOs     Pts  Sec   NA
3.5              82      82     31      0
7                 72      72     34      0
14             211    211     49      1
21               68      68     24      0
28                 1        1       1      0
Total         434    434   139      1

Score : 60,760

 

Computer crashed and I had to reboot and redo some settings, so
I got an 11 minute late start.  This was a very relaxing contest. 
I only got 1 contact on 10 meters. 15 meters wasn't too good. 
This time I used two rtty RX windows with N1MM. 
One was set to Multipath and the other was set to FIR.
THis really helped out because sometimes one window would have
great print and the other would be gibberish. Pretty darn good
conditions.  I ran the TS-850 at 97 watts for the whole contest
and it preformed great!

 


  ARRLDXCW Score Summary Sheet


Start Date : 2010-02-19

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V10.2.5

Band    QSOs     Pts   Cty
3.5                7       21      7
7                 53     159    33
14             280     840    68
21             241     723    72
28               16       48    12
Total         597   1791  192

Score : 343,872

Best DX I have ever had.  Some really fun calls to work out there.  Worked a lot of Europe and a few in Africa.

 


 

CQWPXRTTY Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2010-02-13

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : 001
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V10.2.5

Band    QSOs    Pts  WPX
3.5          146     336     43
7             124     342     63
14           530   1052   276
21           243     451     92
Total     1043   2181   474


Score :

1,033,794



What a blast.  This is my best score ever!  I beat my wild goal of 1000 QSOs and 1 million points.  Conditions were excellent!

 


 

SPRINTCW Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2010-02-06

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : 001 DOUG CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V10.2.2

Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
3.5       1                 1    1
7          6                 6    6
14        2                 2    2
Total    9                 9    9


Score : 81

My computer decided to crash during the first 20 minutes of the contest.  I wasn't able to finish it.  Also sprints are my least favorite contests.

 


 

NAQPSSB Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2010-01-16

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : AJ CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.12.9

Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec   NA
3.5              92      92   24     0
7                 53      53   23     0
14             156     156   41    0
21               69      69   20     0
Total         370     370  108   0


Score : 39,960

This was a fun contest.  I like the level playing field of 100w.  I beat my goal of 350 QSO's.  Conditions were not bad, but could have been a lot better.  I missed a few states like DE, RI, NH, but got most all the east coast.  There was a lot of noise on 40 (S8) and 80 meters (S9).  I got some people on 4 bands.  I still don't have a 160m antenna so I couldn't work anyone on top band, but I heard several people with my 80 meter dipole. I went with a shorter name for this contest "AJ" and that worked well.

 


 

ARRLRTTY Score Summary Sheet


Start Date : 2010-01-02

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : MULTI-ONE
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.12.6

Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec   Cty
3.5            141     141    5    0
7               106     106    2    2
14             511     511   47   29
21             117     117    0    2
Total         875     875   54   33


Score : 76,125

This contest was a lot of fun!  I beat my goal of 350 QSO's and more than doubled my QSO's from last year.  There were a few funny things like " please copy my 599 state state" but other than that, signals were really good.  The prefill had about 75% of the states.  And only about 5 of my contacts had the wrong state in the prefill.  Over all excellent conditions, though I wanted a little more Europe.


 

RAC Score Summary Sheet


Start Date : 2009-12-20

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : 20M
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : 001
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.10.2

Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
14                6      62    3
Total            6      62    3


Score : 186

Just worked a few contacts on SSB during a lull in the OK RTTY contest.

 


 

OKDXRTTY Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-12-19


CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange :  03
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.10.2

Band    QSOs    Pts  Cty   Sec
       7         3         9     1      0
     14     203     277   24      1
     21      12        13     3      0
Total     218      299    28     1


Score : 8,671

This was my first big contest using the TS-850.  It sure was fun.  The 850 is a great run radio, easy to change filters and RIT and the like.  Thinking it started on Saturday, I missed the start of the contest, and ended up starting around 8pm on Friday.  Got started again about 1500z and worked a little bit into Europe.  Then they faded away.  Worked most of the US in the afternoon, and then had an excellent JA run at the end of the contest. 

I want to thank N6DE, N6ML, K6MM, and K6DGW for the great RTTY webinar.  Without that webinar I would have never figured out how to hook up and operate FSK through N1MM with the 850.  It still took me about two hours to get it all set up and on the air.  It took a while to find the setting in MMTTY that said use FSK output instead of the sound card that I had been using for AFSK on my other radio.  The EXTFSK worked great.

 


 

ARRL160 Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-12-05

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : QRP
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : SV
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.11.0

Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
1.8          9           18    6
Total       9           18    6


Score : 108

I didn't have much time in this one, but I gave it a try for about 30 minutes on Saturday.  Other obligations kept me off the air for the rest of the contest.  My tuner wouldn't match my 120ft dipole at any reasonable power, so I turned it down to 5 watts and gave it a try.  I was surprised that I got any contacts.  I don't really know how much actual power was getting out of the antenna but I made a few contacts.


 

ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-12-14

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : MIXED
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Name : Doug Phillips

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.10.2

Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Cty
28  CW     115     460   23
28  USB    140     280   19
Total  Both   255     740   42

Score : 31,080

Turned out to be a lot of fun.  Though there were some periods of nothing on the band.  Worked a bunch of South America, Canada, and a few in Mexico.  Most notable contacts were E51CG Cook Islands, ZM4G New Zeland, and HC8GR Galapagos Islands.  Worked a lot of KB'ers.  Thanks for the spots!

 

Click here for the KML Arrl 10 meter Contest Google KML



 

CQWWCW Score Summary Sheet

 

Start Date : 2009-11-27

 

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

 

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW

 

Default Exchange : 03
Gridsquare : CM98JS

 

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.11.0

 

Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN
3.5             2     0    1   2
7                3     5    3   3
14          208 549  60 24
21            65 168  38 19
28              3     9    2   2
Total       281 731 104 50

 

Score : 112,574

 

Well this one was fun, and I worked quite a few new ones. The winds were horrible on Saturday and pretty much kept me off the air. I'm glad my dad cranked down the tower trailer at 3am on Saturday morning, or it would have blown over in the 40+ mph winds we had. I worked a couple hours on Friday, and most all of Sunday.

 

I was excited to hear so many new countries on like Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Suriname, Antarctica, a bunch of Africa, and a lot of islands.

 

I think its a personal best working ~70 seperate DXCC entities. Some of the pileups were crazy, there was no way I could even hear the DX come back after they called CQ. I worked most of the contest at 28wpm, but had to go up to 34wpm for a few stations.

 

Here are some sound files I recorded during the contest in MP3 format:

ve3utt (103 kb) Cool sounding CQ

cqww cw 10 minutes (5 mb) 10 minutes long

cqww cw south korea (1.27 mb)

cqww cw1 (382 kb)

cqww cw2 (1.60 mb)

cqww cw3 (683 kb)

cqww cw4 (4.74 mb)

cqww cw5 (776 kb)

 

Here is the google earth KML file for this contest:

cqww cw09 (329 kb)

 


 

SSSSB Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-11-21

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : U 94 SV
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.10.3

Band    QSOs       Pts  Sec
3.5         160      320     20
  7           44        88     10
14         104      208     19
21         252      504     31
Total        560    1120     80


Score : 89,600


Rig : FT-857d, ALS-600 ~500w

Antennas : Force 12 C3 @36ft, 80m wire @33ft, 40m Vee @33ft

Soapbox :

Saturday was not too fun for me.  Murphy did show up.  N1MM worked great during the practices, but crashed 10 times on Saturday.  After losing the first QSO, I wrote down all the information each time it crashed.  I finally figured out that the Spot all S&P was crashing N1MM on me.  I suspect it is because I am using wireless internet at the very edge of reception, and it hung up because it couldn't contact the server to upload the spot, but I'm not completely sure.  After I turned spotting off I didn't have a single problem with N1MM.  Saturday started off good, but then the bands filled up, and I couldn't find a single run frequency.  When I finally found one, I was crowded off it within about 10 minutes.  By Saturday evening my rates were very low and I was doing everything I could to keep the rate above 14Q's/hr. 

All that being said Sunday was a lot better and for the first time I got a full sweep!  I stopped running early when I saw the spot for NL.  The pileup was real big and after 10 minutes of calling I thought I would never get through.  I decided to turn the beam to about 30 degrees to try and cut down on some of the adjacent QRM.  And finally about 5 minutes later I got through. 

My goal was 400 QSO's and 79 sections and I beat that.  I 1185 QSO's combined between CW and SSB.  I can't believe that I was able to get that many contacts with just a simple tri-bander and 2 wires at 33 ft.

Thanks go out to all the KB'ers I worked and especially K6III (the spotting king) for spotting me on 80 meters Sunday making the last hour of the contest a blast!

 


 

November Sweepstakes CW Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-11-07

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : CW
Default Exchange : U 94 SV
Gridsquare : CM98JS

 

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.10.3

 

Band QSOs   Pts   Sec
3.5        102   204        8
7           136   272      31
14         271   542      21
21         115   230      19
28             1       2        0
Total     625 1250      79

 

Score : 98,750

 

This contest was a lot of fun.  I beat my goal of 200 QSOs.  I was so close to a sweep, but the pileups on NL were too much for my 500 watts :(
The generator ran out of gas about 1pm on Sunday, so I had to finish off the contest with 100W.  I guess I should have got a little more gas after operating all of the practices.  I crashed N1MM once, and I had to reset my wireless internet 3 times to keep online.  I operated 23hrs 57min.  This is an all time QSO record for one contest. After some log analysis I was surprised to find out that I was able to hold my run frequency on 20 meters on Sunday for an astonishing 5 hours! That's something that I never have been able to do.

 


 

CQWWSSB Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-10-25

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

 

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : 3
Gridsquare : CM98JS

 

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.10.2

 

Band QSOs     Pts     Cty    ZN
3.5           15      17         4      4
7              16      25         6      7
14          152    402       55    27
21          164    400       45    22
28              9      24         6      6
Total      356    868     116    66

Score : 158,340
Rig : FT-857d

Antennas : Force12 C3, 40m Vee, 120ft longwire

Soapbox : Wow this was a fun contest. There was so much activity. 20 meters was a zoo. It was wall to wall from 14.150 to 14.350. There was no way I could hold a frequency on 20 meters even running 600 watts. I was surprised at the amount of stations that were 20/S9 and still couldn't hear me with my 600 watts and beam at 36ft. 15 meters was open all over, to Japan, China, and even Africa.

 

Check out this google earth KML file for all of my contacts for this contest!



 

California QSO Party

Start Date : 2009-10-04

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : 001 PLAC
Gridsquare : CM98JS
Country : USA
ARRL Section : SV
       
Software : N1MM Logger V9.8.4

        Band    QSOs    Pts  Sec
         1.8       1            2         0
         3.5      93       186         1
           7      43          86         6
          14       1            3         0
          14     339      678       49
          21      97       194         0
       Total     574   1149        56

Score : 64,344

 

Rig : FT-857

Antennas : Force12 C3, 40m Vee, 120ft longwire

Soapbox : I started a couple hours late, but did very well.  I only missed NT and WY.  I was surprised to get several calls from Europe including Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina.  This was a fun contest, I really enjoyed being the target of a contest.

 

My next new record. 574 contacts in a 30 hour contest, and I only operated 17.5 hours of it!

 


 

START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: CQ-WW-RTTY
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH
CLAIMED-SCORE: 311,866
OPERATORS: WE6Z
NAME: Douglas Phillips


Rig : FT-857 with both 500 and 300Hz filters
Antennas : Force 12 C3 @36ft, 40m Vee @33ft, 120ft longwire for 80m @33ft all on my Tower trailer.

Soapbox : Wow this was a fun contest. I beat my personal goal of 350 contacts! I went to town and bought $25 of gas for the generator so that I could run the ALS-600 amplifier. I operated 32.5 of the 48 hrs, and the generator ran out of gas about 2 hours before the end of the contest. I finished the contest with 40 watts. My most notable contacts were 5C5W in Morocco, BA4T in China, and R1ANC in Antarctica. I couldn't have done as well without the filters amplifier. It got really hot in the afternoon, it was 104 degrees inside the portable hamshack. I had a 3ft box fan circulating air and a 2ft box fan blowing air across the radio and amp. N1MM logger worked very well.

 

My new record, with 574 contacts on RTTY in a 48 hour contest. I worked 59 countries!

 

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  SCC RTTY CHAMPIONSHIP

ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: SCC-RTTY
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
CLAIMED-SCORE: 33,573
OPERATORS: WE6Z
NAME: Douglas Phillips

  START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: NAQP-SSB
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW SSB
CLAIMED-SCORE: 13,134
OPERATORS: WE6Z
ADDRESS: USA
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V9.5.1

  START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: SARTG-RTTY
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
CLAIMED-SCORE: 4,845
OPERATORS: WE6Z
ADDRESS: USA
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V9.5.1

  START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: TARA_GRID_DIP
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW MIXED
CLAIMED-SCORE: 110
OPERATORS: WE6Z
ADDRESS: USA

  START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: NAQP-CW
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CW
CLAIMED-SCORE: 15,957
OPERATORS: WE6Z
ADDRESS: USA
CREATED-BY: N1MM Logger V9.5.1

 

ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: WE6Z
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: NAQP-RTTY
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW
CLAIMED-SCORE: 6,519
OPERATORS: WE6Z 


 

FD Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-06-27

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : HIGH
Mode : MIXED
Default Exchange : 1B SV
Gridsquare : CM98JS

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.5.1

Band     Mode    QSOs    Pts
3.5        CW      20           40
3.5        LSB      12           12
7           CW      25           50
7           LSB      7           7
14           CW      64           128
14           USB      74           74
21           CW      28           56
21           LSB      1           1
21           USB      36           36
28           CW      1           2
28           USB   100           100


Total Both 368                506


Score : 506

 

First real contest using the new tower trailer and Force 12 beam. Had a great run on 10 meters.

 

Field day picture

 

 

 

ARRLVHFJUN Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-06-12

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : MIXED
Default Exchange : CM98
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Country : USA

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V9.5.1

Band   Mode    QSOs    Pts    Grd
50       USB     15           15      7
144     USB     18           18      6
420     FM          2            4      1
420     USB       9           18      2

 

Total Both       44           55     16

 

Score : 880


Rig : Ft-857d

Antennas : Comet C3, homebrew 5 element 6 meter beam.

 

 

 

CQ WPX CW

 

I talked to 96 people in 11 different countries including: Russia, Estonia, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Nicaragua, and the Azores.


 

 

SSSSB Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-01-13

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : A 94 SV
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Name : Douglas Phillips
Country : USA

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V8.12.2

Band    QSOs    Pts    Sec
3.5        75          150    0
7           44            88    1
14         52          104    3
21         19            38    1
Total   190          380    5

Score : 1,900

 

 

ARRLRTTY Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2009-01-03

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Name : Douglas Phillips
Country : USA

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V8.12.6

Band    QSOs    Pts    Sec    Cty
3.5       62           62      3        0
7          96           96      8        0
14      154         154     32       5
21        30           30      8        1
28          2             2      0        0
Total  344         344     51       6

Score : 19,608

 

 

RAC Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2008-12-27

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : 001
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Name : Douglas Phillips
Country : USA

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V8.12.2

Band    QSOs    Pts    Sec
14        25          240     9
Total    25          240     9

Score : 2,160

 

 

OKDXRTTY Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2008-12-20

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : ALL
Power : LOW
Mode : RTTY
Default Exchange : 3
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Name : Douglas Phillips
Country : USA

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V8.12.2

Band    QSOs    Pts    Cty    Sec
3.5       12          36      2        0
7          16          63      5        0
14        37          43      5        1
Total    65        142     12       1

Score : 1,846

Soapbox :
This was my first RTTY contest. It was a blast.

 

 

ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet

Start Date : 2008-12-13

CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator(s) : WE6Z

Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
Band : 10M
Power : LOW
Mode : SSB
Default Exchange : CA
Gridsquare : CM98JS

Name : Douglas Phillips
Country : USA

ARRL Section : SV
Club/Team : Northern California Contest Club
Software : N1MM Logger V8.12.2

Band    QSOs      Pts      Cty
28         47            94       17
Total     47            94       17

Score : 1,598

Soapbox :
This was a fun contest.

 

CQWW 2008

Here are some google earth pictures of the places that I talked to relative to my QTH.

View the Google Earth KML file. Click on the thumbnails for a bigger picture.

 

CQWW alaska CQWW all US CQWW Europe CQWW Islands

 

CQWW Portugal CQWW South America CQWW 15 meters CQWW 20 meters

 

CQWW 40 meters CQWW 80 meters CQWW CQWW Hawaii

 

CQWW Honolulu

 

 

10 meters > zones 3,13
15 meters > zones 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,25,31
20 meters > zones 1,3,4,5,6,7,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,25,31,33
40 meters > zones 4,8,31
80 meters > zones 3,4,5,6

x38

10 1
15 12
20 12
40 0
80 2

x27
----
*65

USA
36*2 points = 72

other countries
53 *3 points = 159

231 qso points * 65 multiplier

= 15,015 points

 

 


ARRL November Sweepstakes 2008

Here are some google earth pictures of the places that I talked to relative to my QTH.

View the Google Earth KML file.

 

November Sweepstakes US November Sweepstakes Alaska November Sweepstakes Hawaii November Sweepstakes Hawaii2

 

November Sweepstakes 2 November Sweepstakes 3 November Sweepstakes 4

 

 

START-OF-LOG: 2.0
ARRL-SECTION: SV
CALLSIGN: KF6MWA
CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW SSB
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED
CATEGORY-OVERLAY: BAND-LIMITED
CLAIMED-SCORE: 12,474
CLUB: Northern California Contest Club
CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB
CREATED-BY: Ham Radio Deluxe Version 4.0 SP4 build 1901
NAME: Doug Phillips
OPERATORS: KF6MWA