W6ML - California QSO Party in Mammoth Lakes
Mono County

During the first weekend in October, since 1992, a group of several ham friends have operated in the California QSO Party (CQP) ham radio contest from Mammoth Lakes in Mono County.   Since 2004, after many years of very successful multi operator county expeditions, Jim (W6KC) has done single operator expeditions to Mono County.   A CQP county expedition is a combination planning, packing, traveling and setting up portable ham radios along with a computer network to see how many contacts can be made during the contest period.  Stations outside of California try to contact all 58 California Counties.  California stations try to contact all 50 US states and 8 Canadian sections (also for a total of 58).  Part of the fun is trying different combinations of antennas, equipment and operating techniques to see if prior years results can be improved.  The other part of the fun is doing all this activity from Mammoth Lakes in Mono County.   Mammoth is small town built around the Mammoth Mountain ski area, at about 8,000 Feet elevation on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.  To find out more of the interesting facts regarding the California QSO Party, organized by the Northern California Contest Club (NCCC), check out their Website at: www.cqp.org

A summary of CQP results, comments, pictures and on-line access to our log of contacts are shown below:

 ○ 2023 - My Three Element 20 Meter Wire Beam Returns
○ 2022 - Another Successful County Expedition in Mono
○ 2021 - A New Personal Best Score for Mono County Expedition
○ 2020 - Smoky Airwaves
○ 2019 - Power-Less in Mono
○ 2018 - Back in Mono
○ 2013 - A Beautiful Sunset
○ 2012 - Bunks & Bears
○ 2011 - A Squirrely Year
○ 2010 - A Good Launch
○ 2009 - A Dry/Snowy Year
○ 2008 - Nosey Bears and Blowing Pine Cones
○ 2007 - Mono County - Wild by Nature
○ 2006 - CQP with a Bear and some Bees
○ 2005 - SO2R-ing in Mono
○ 2004 - Solo in Mono
○ 2003 - High Wires in the High Sierra
○ 2002 - Fall in Mono
○ 2001 - A Beary Good Time
○ 2000 - Team W6ML
○ 1999 - Grin and Bear It
○ 1998 - Records don't Fall, But Antenna and Score Does
 ○ 1997 - Our best Score to Date Earns 1st Place Multi-Multi County Expedition
○ W6ML (+WA6GDS & W6KC) Special CQP QSL Cards

○ Link to W6KC's Home Page

○ Send E-Mail to W6ML  w6ml[at]vistasierra[dot]com
 

Summary of Operating Results for County Expeditions in Mono County (Raw Scores)

Year

 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023  
Call Used: WA6GDS WA6GDS WA6GDS WA6GDS WA6GDS W6KC W6KC W6KC W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML W6ML  
County
Expedition
Placement		       2nd
 Place MM		 3rd
Place MM		 1st Place MM 1st Place MM 3rd
Place MM		 1st Place MM 1st Place MM 1st Place MM 1st Place MM 4th Place SO 1st Place SO 1st Place SO* 2nd
Place SO		 2nd
Place SO		 2nd
Place SO		 1st Place SO 1st Place SO* 1st Place SO 1st Place SO 1st Place SO 2nd
Place SO***		 1st
Place SO		 1st
Place SO		 1st
Place SO		 1st
Place SO		  
Catagory:
Band/Mode		 Multi-
Single		 Multi-
Multi		 Multi-
Multi		 Multi-
Multi		 Multi-
Multi		 Multi-Multi Multi-Multi Multi-Multi Multi-Multi Multi-Multi Multi-Multi Multi-Multi Single-
Operator		 Single-
Operator		 Single-
Operator		 Single-
Operator		 Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator Single-Operator  
80 CW 0 79 83 117 114 123 63 111 77 59 72 96 122 121 145 157 154 89 135 105 154 110 150 120 210 165 106 73  
80 SSB 121 178 117 84 116 116 74 124 118 159 174 228 117 95 160 51 165 196 159 132 115 138 34 14 19 64 62 30  

40 CW

 37 76 109 124 147 210 59 174 95 156 252 284 144 279 217 272 248 200 270 165 180 149 232 129 327 384 332 239  
40 SSB 29 42 104 143 92 113 4 40 176 151 249 188 74 167 151 84 61 190 30 80 123 76 32 36 3 92 71 100  
20 CW 98 68 241 245 238 363 313 201 283 354 270 278 258 243 320 335 377 249 402 203 286 247 352 308 418 439 358 404  
20 SSB 132 97 254 287 280 534 472 329 539 581 482 390 202 179 334 252 204 215 268 332 190 290 160 52 123 202 88 67  
15 CW 85 111 91 89 14 134 209 196 379 338 350 344 230 5 134 18 2 39 135 264 299 353 164 60 82 211 315 375  
15 SSB 95 301 155 90 4 158 255 182 465 452 458 460 166 10 180 2 0 74 58 237 185 202 61 3 9 38 55 55  
10 CW 30 0 0 0 0 0 61 103 123 141 127 136 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 97 87 54 11 0 0 0 133 191  
10 SSB 389 2 0 0 0 1 53 220 902 836 617 342 63 0 0 0 0 0 0 119 32 7 0 0 0 0 11 4  
Total CW 250 334 524 575 492 830 705 785 957 1048 1071 1138 815 648 816 782 781 612 942 834 988 913 909 617 1,037 1,199 1,244 1,282  
Total SSB 766 620 630 604 513 922 858 895 2201 2179 1980 1608 622 451 825 389 430 640 515 900 645 713 287 105 154 396 287 256  
Total QSO's 1,016 954 1,154 1,179 1,005 1,752 1,563 1,680 3,158 3,227 3,051 2,746 1,437 1,099 1,641 1,171 1,211 1,252 1,457 1,734 1,633 1,626 1,196 722 1,191 1,595 1,531 1,538  
Total Sections(**) (VT) 
57		   (ME)
57		 58 (AK,YU)
56		 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 58 (ID)57 58 (SK,ND)56 58 58 58 58 58 (NT)
57		 58 (ND)
57		 (NT,ND)
56
58
58
58		  
Total Points 130,074 127,794 164,256 164,248 146,334 251,372 222,198 240,410 421,834 435,116 416,034 384,540 213,962 162,222 237,684 174,944 185,774 180,728 223,648 249,516 246,732 237,405 191,458 117,477 191,296 254,562 249,748 252,764  

* New Mono County Record    ** (Sections Missed)  *** Part-time due to SCE Power Outage

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