[Elecraft] CA QP result

[Fred Jensen]

Dale Putnam wrote:

> although I didn't realize that Ca was that much of the compass.

If you can believe the CALTRANS exit signs on I-5 [said to be mileage 
North from Mexico], the last one about a mile before the Oregon state 
line is 798.  WY isn't that far east.  I guess it would be a fair sector 
of your antenna's view
.

> What is interesting to me, is that with the K2, I had a number of 
> times that only one call was needed to get the Q. Ran 5 watts on Bird, 
> and indicated, for power out, with only a couple times that calls were 
> made that didn't result in Qs. I heard the mobile signal layer, below 
> the "killer" stations... sometimes right next to the big boys... and 
> still got the Q...

I am part of the N6A crew in Alpine County.  We camp at 8,500' at the 
summit of Monitor Pass, and our camp is exceedingly quiet RF-wise 
[unless someone fires up an inverter-based cell phone charger :-)], 
we're a long way from everything. We are generally the only ALPI entry 
in the CQP, so we get a number of pileups.  You have to work off the big 
dogs or you can't hear anything.  Then, there were two distinct layers 
... the 100 watters, and the QRP's.

I know I gave up some rate to dig the weak one out from am east coast 
state [or EU DX, our total seemed up this year], in which I had just 
worked a 20-over station.  But everyone deserves the Q, and the first 
call I know I've gotten from the pileup is going to get the Q.  This is 
as close to operating on Kingman Reef [or at BS7H, but their Sun Morning 
wasn't -5C].  I took my KX1, fired it up on our antennas before the 
contest on Fri, and worked a few right-coasters, and two DL's with 
6-AA's for about 1.3W.  Not too shabby.  Actually, I was stunned by what 
I could do on a few batteries I could carry in the pocket of my cargo 
shorts.

 > I wonder... would they ever rename the Ca Qp to the Ca Elecraft QP?...
 > *G*

Not in my lifetime :-)  NCCC welcomes everyone to CQP, new, old, big 
dog, little dog, rookies, veterans of contests past, we don't care.  We 
just want everyone to have a lot of fun operating their radios for a 
weekend with a lot of folks on a lot of stations.

Can't end this without a note to the TN and ON crowd ... YOU WERE 
EVERYWHERE!!  I didn't operate SSB, but on CW, if it was a 4 call or 
VE3, odds are it was TN or ON.  Thanks for the Q's.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party  3-4 Oct 2008
- www.cqp.org