Spent some of the weekend working the TARA PSK Rumble contest and then the California QSO Party (CQP) got going and I made a bunch of contacts there in between all the other goings on over the weekend. The CQP is nice because it has a tremendous amount of activity and a lot of stations on the air for both CW & SSB contacts.

I switched to CW and noticed a spot for KA3DDR/6 and immediately recognized the call being that of Scot Morrison, a blogger I’ve followed for quite a while now. Unfortunately, Scot was no longer on the frequency but I was able to subsequently work Scot on 40m CW and then 20m CW on Sunday. Probably the highlight of my ham activities for the weekend!

I had a difficult time this weekend on 15m. I couldn’t hear but a few stations that were spotted in the cluster. It could have been just that 15m wasn’t good between NJ and CA or it could be that throwing up a 15m dipole vs tuning the G5RV will provide me a better chance.

I stopped early on Sunday to get ready to head out to watch the Giants beat the Bears on Sunday night. A good ending to a good weekend.

Here’s the score summary for the contest. Looking back at last year I had a few more Q’s and a couple more counties. I didn’t hear any counties for the ones I missed. Must have just not been on the air when I was.

  Band  Mode  QSOs    Pts  Sec
     7  CW      27     81    4
     7  LSB      5     10    0
    14  CW      58    174   11
    14  USB     70    140   35
    21  CW       2      6    0
    21  USB      4      8    1
 Total  Both   166    419   51

 Score : 21,369

73,
K2DSL