Amateur Radio Station K6JEB

CQWW WPX Contest, SSB

Call: K6JEB
Operator(s): K6JEB
Station: K6JEB

Class: SO(A)AB HP (Single Operator (Assisted) All-Band High Power)
QTH: California
Operating Time (hrs): 16:27

Summary:
Band QSOs
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160: 2
80: 35
40: 73
20: 43
15: 101
10: 22
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Total: 276 Prefixes = 196 Total Score = 130,732

Club: Northern California Contest Club

Here’s a short video clip of the contest.  Pardon the poor resolution but the audio is fairly clear:

Comments:

Finally a contest where 160-10 were quite usable at some part of the day!  Although I didn’t take part in this contest full-time, I still had fun doing Search and Pounce.  My only goal was to get at least 100 QSOs.

My equipment for this contest:

rig: Yaesu FT-857D
amplifier: Dentron GLA-1000
antennas: Cushcraft A3S, Butternut HF9V, Inverted L for 160m

Conditions were better on Saturday than Sunday, at least for me.  I did try calling CQ on one frequency for a while and that simply didn’t produce any QSOs.

This contest is fun since there are so many multipliers.  It occurred to me that new hams can benefit from their call sign prefixes as well.  Now I’m looking forward to the CW weekend.  Hopefully I can clear the schedule to dedicate the weekend to it.

73

Jack, K6JEB

I recently bought this amp from a ham on EBay.  He didn’t have any more info on it than ‘it works’.  I would at least like to know what the typical RF output is (it has a pair of 6LQ6′s).  I’ve not received it yet else I would have more hints.  Let me know if you have a manual or a schematic:

UPDATE (March 26, 2011) – This amp is a 100watt Amplifier.  The one I received is in fine shape and will be used with care and enthusiasm.

OK, that was cool, and easy.  Using UISS by ON6MU, I was able to receive packets from the International Space Station for a few days on 145.825MHz.  This evening I was able to connect to the RS0ISS-11 packet BBS (and was quickly reminded it was for the CREW only [oops, sorry, QLF]).  Nonetheless, it was a valid round-trip QSO to and from the International Space Station.

Gear used:

I was using my Yaesu FT-857D at 50watts into a diagonally-oriented J-pole.  LOL.  This particular pass’s max elevation was 18 degrees.  This is so much easier than even trying to work the LEOs with voice!

Here’s a screen shot of the happenings: