A Field Day-style DX contest

A Field Day-style DX contest...

During the early 1980s members and friends of the Southern California Contest Club put together several Field Day-style operations on mountaintops in Mexico for the CQ Worldwide DX contest. The key ingredient: towing a bunch of tower trailers across the border and setting up in a high, clear location. The photos here are from the CQ WW SSB test in 1983.

20 meters--on a 70' tower trailer...

Five elements each on 15 and 10 on two more tower trailers...

Two elements on 40 on still another tower trailer...

Some of the operators in the SCCC/XE2SI effort...

N6AA	N6AR
K6NA	N6ND

N6TJ

N6TR (left) and WA6OTU

N6ZZ (left) and AA6RX

How did this one turn out? It was the highest multi-multi score on the west coast of North America, but it confirmed what most of us already knew: it's difficult to produce a world-class score in a DX contest from this side on the continent.

-Wayne Overbeck, N6NB