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 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : MULTI-ONE ARRL Section : SV Band QSOs Pts Sec Cty
Score : 21,624
Unexpected family obligations came up. NAQPCW Score Summary Sheet ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet 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 SSSSB Score Summary Sheet 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 QSOPARTY Score Summary Sheet 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 DMCRTTY Score Summary Sheet 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 Call Used: WE6Z GOTA Station Call: (none)
ARRLVHFJUN Score Summary Sheet CQWPXCW Score Summary Sheet
Rig : TS850
CWJFMM Score Summary Sheet
CQ WPX SSB WE6Z Sunday, March 28, 2010 8:34 PM
BARTGSRTTY Score Summary Sheet |
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ARRLDXSSB Score Summary Sheet
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NAQPRTTY Score Summary Sheet
Computer crashed and I had to reboot and redo some settings, so
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ARRLDXCW Score Summary Sheet
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CQWPXRTTY Score Summary Sheet 1,033,794What a blast. This is my best score ever! I beat my wild goal of 1000 QSOs and 1 million points. Conditions were excellent!
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SPRINTCW Score Summary Sheet
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NAQPSSB Score Summary Sheet
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ARRLRTTY Score Summary Sheet
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RAC Score Summary Sheet
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OKDXRTTY Score Summary Sheet
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ARRL160 Score Summary Sheet Operator Category : SINGLE-OP |
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ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet
Click here for the KML Arrl 10 meter Contest Google KML
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CQWWCW Score Summary Sheet
Start Date : 2009-11-27
CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
Default Exchange : 03
ARRL Section : SV
Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN
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)
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SSSSB Score Summary Sheet
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.
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November Sweepstakes CW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-11-07 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED
ARRL Section : SV
Band QSOs Pts Sec
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 :(
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CQWWSSB Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-10-25 CallSign Used : WE6Z
Operator Category : SINGLE-OP
ARRL Section : SV
Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN Score : 158,340 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!
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California QSO Party
Rig : FT-857
My next new record. 574 contacts in a 30 hour contest, and I only operated 17.5 hours of it!
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START-OF-LOG: 2.0
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 |
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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 |
FD Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-06-27 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP ARRL Section : SV Band Mode QSOs Pts
First real contest using the new tower trailer and Force 12 beam. Had a great run on 10 meters.
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ARRLVHFJUN Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-06-12 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Country : USA ARRL Section : SV Band Mode QSOs Pts Grd
Total Both 44 55 16
Score : 880
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.
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SSSSB Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-01-13 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Name : Douglas Phillips ARRL Section : SV Band QSOs Pts Sec Score : 1,900 |
ARRLRTTY Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2009-01-03 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Name : Douglas Phillips ARRL Section : SV Band QSOs Pts Sec Cty Score : 19,608 |
RAC Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-12-27 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Name : Douglas Phillips ARRL Section : SV Band QSOs Pts Sec Score : 2,160 |
OKDXRTTY Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-12-20 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Name : Douglas Phillips ARRL Section : SV Band QSOs Pts Cty Sec Score : 1,846 Soapbox : |
ARRL10M Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-12-13 CallSign Used : WE6Z Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Name : Douglas Phillips ARRL Section : SV Band QSOs Pts Cty Score : 1,598 Soapbox : |
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.
10 meters > zones 3,13 x38 10 1 x27 USA other countries 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.
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