K6VVA CQP 2006

A very limited CQP activity this year due to my Tendonitis problem.
I combined some mobile and fixed portable operating along with the
need to get away from all my paperwork tasks and just chill out a bit.
Non-QRV time was spent with a glass of Jack Daniels in my left hand
(NOT in the SUV, but on a couch inside the house while "visiting" !!!)
K6VVA/M - ALAM - 11 QSOs
K6VVA/M - SJOA - 20 QSOs
K6VVA/M - STAN - 24 QSOs
K6VVA/M - TUOL - 34 QSOs
K6VVA/6 - TUOL - 134 QSOs

Tnx for the Q's, and glad I was able to give some a needed County.
I'm hoping CQP 2007 can be an all-out full bore effort like in 2005.

The plastic splint on my (bad) hand/wrist would sometimes cause
QLF on the keyboard, but the biggest problems was buggy RFI ;-(
Key paddles were out of the question, and part of the time CW
from the computer sounded like Alien garble from outer space.
The SmartGlove(R) on my left hand helped tuning the TS-480S.

At the final destination up in TUOL, I removed all the gear from my
SUV and setup on several folding chairs at the front of a garage to get
further away from the antenna on the SUV in hopes of reducing the RFI,
but I still had intermittent problems. Thank God just before I left home I
packed some extra coax and 12v control line extensions for the HS-1800.
This was not the most comforable operating position on the planet, and
around Midnight, it got pretty darn cold with the garage door rolled up.

Needless to say, I didn't work any Europeans due to the big hill
in that direction, and CW produced much better results than SSB.

PRE-CQP PREPARATION

My buddy Dan, K6DN (HRO Sunnyvale Manager), drilling a ground
connection hole in my Tahoe with his cat Tigger the Project Supervisor.

The High-Sierra HS-1800 (borrowed from my IOTA NA-178 "Farallon
Special" antenna system) mounted on the Tahoe. The used C-31XR,
C-4SXL, 204BA and A3's in the driveway are for a someday, somewhere,
somehow install in a QTH which is NOT an "RF Hole" between the hills.

A second mount was installed on the top of the bracket support pipe
for the backup High-Sierra "SideKick" or Hustler antennas if needed.