ARRLDX CW Soapbox built 7-20-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,936,728 excellent first contest from Georgio.. Cu all in SSB Leg MM0LID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 247,269 This was my first ARRL CW contest in more than 15 years. While I had a great time, I was surprised at the lack of participants to work. So, you want to break a world record, huh? First, you have to build a world class contest station. A fantastic radio with an awesome receiver, an excellent antenna, a very good operator and a fantastic location...those seem to be the key ingredients. I thought I had all the key ingredients, well at least the radio, antenna and location. The operator part was to be determined. Using an IC-7800, an Acom 2000A and a four square at 850 feet ASL on Jamaica's northwest coast seemed ideal. If I could just push myself I would set a new world record. It hardly seemed difficult! The world record for NA DX on 80 meters was set in 1997 by N4BA as C6AKQ. His record of ten years is 255,765. By my calculation, working all 63 mults, that's only 1364 Q's. No sweat! Even if I only work 60 mults I would need only 1420 Q's. Heck I worked 2741 Q's on 40 meters in the CQWW CW and I really didn't put much effort into that contest. I was very optimistic! The first night was great. I worked just under 1000 Q's and had 57 mults even though I ended the morning early going to sleep at 6am. I was well on my way to a world record. The second night started well. I managed to work a single North Dakota station and one Manitoba station. Having worked only one each, my mults were fragile, but I was confident in mkaing enough Q's to overcome the loss of one of those mults. I now had 59 mults and even if I didn't work LAB, NU, NWT and YK (which I never did), I only needed 1471 Q's to break the record. EASY RIGHT? Not at all. I called CQ until my finger hurt from pressing F1. The headphones were starting to irratate my ears and the constant ringing of TEST 6Y1V was annoying. Over 11,750 CQ's were made from 6Y1V. I was receiving reports that I was 20, 30 and sometimes 40 DB over S9 into the states...all of them, yet no one was answering my CQ's. What went wrong? My well concevied plan was suddenly becoming unreachable. The hours ticked away, one by one, and my rates fell to levels that would leave any man bored to tears. I ended the night with over 1300 Q's. A huge dissapointment. But wait, I still had Sunday evening. I could still make another 140 or so Q's right? I started early on Sunday. Calling CQ at 3PM in the afternoon. Quickly I worked a Florida station and was filled wsith hope. Then...nothing...and more nothing. I called CQ for 4 hours straight. In the first 3.5 hours I managed 16 Q's, 9 were dupes. Ugh! The last 15 minutes I managed to work another 20 or so stations, even then, I was constantly sending QSO B4 as the dupes continued to call me to be sure they were in my log! I ended with only 1397 Q's and 59 mults...8,496 points shy of the world record. I was in dispair. What went wrong? Is it lack of participation from US stations? Was it my frequnecy of choice? I owned 3532MHz and had a quiet channel to myself the entire weekend, only occasionly running off a few EU intruders! Did I end my morning too early the first night? I don't know why I couldn't find more stations to answer my repeated pleas (CQ's) for contacts, but it was very discouraging. I even question whether or not I chose the right band. Surely I could have done better on 40 meters with the stacked 3/3 MonstIR's, but then I would have operated round the clock as 40 never closes to the US from 6Y, at least not with full sized yagis. Oh well, perhaps next year. My hat is off to N4BA. Your record will stand at least another year. Congratulations. I also extend congratulations to FM5BH whom posted an excellent score as well as PJ4/KU8E who appears to have set a new NA record for 160 meters. Well done Gentlemen! In closing, thank you to everyone whom took the time to give me a brief contact. I had a great time and I hope to see you all in the ARRL SSB in March. 73, David ~ 6Y1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S2E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 428,259 Very poor condx up at 60 degrees north on Saturday, a lot of aurora made it rather hard for us in our multi single effort. Sunday was much better with openings on 160 m as well as all other bands but 10m. The very good opening came on 40 meters with only two hours left of the contest. At the start of this last period, we had only about 10 QSOs more on 40m than on 80m. All of a sudden the band was wide open with vy good signals indeed. The last hours of the contest was spent on 40! Thanks to all for calling us and we look forward to meet u in the next major contest! 73's de Rainer SM2DMU as well as 7S2E (Not ZS2E as some of u got) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9V1YC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 71,820 This contest is not easy when your (weak) opening to NA lasts only 3 hours a day. Tried to be there to hand out a few mults though. 40 was a packet-pileup mess. Shame on all you who wrecked my short opening by calling without listening. Happy Lunar New Year! 73 James 9V1YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,414,798 Got two busted amps working again on Friday and everything held together through the weekend. The op slept a bit too much. Thanks to all for the points. Station details: www.aa1k.us 73/Jon AA1K QSO AND RATE BREAKDOWNS UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 1 83 0 0 0 0 84 84 01Z 13 21 22 4 0 0 60 144 02Z 8 10 34 0 0 0 52 196 03Z 12 2 51 0 0 0 65 261 04Z 5 23 17 3 0 0 48 309 05Z 1 60 0 0 0 0 61 370 06Z 14 8 35 0 0 0 57 427 07Z 2 0 78 0 0 0 80 507 08Z 0 8 54 0 0 0 62 569 09Z 10 5 23 3 0 0 41 610 10Z 2 10 0 22 0 0 34 644 11Z 0 0 7 116 0 0 123 767 12Z 0 0 0 175 0 0 175 942 13Z 0 0 0 84 25 0 109 1051 14Z 0 0 0 158 1 0 159 1210 15Z 0 0 0 106 33 0 139 1349 16Z 0 0 0 0 66 4 70 1419 17Z 0 0 0 93 0 0 93 1512 18Z 0 0 0 38 10 0 48 1560 19Z 0 0 5 40 3 0 48 1608 20Z 0 0 74 0 0 0 74 1682 21Z 0 0 98 0 0 0 98 1780 22Z 1 0 101 0 0 0 102 1882 23Z 0 0 51 23 0 0 74 1956 00Z 3 16 0 34 0 0 53 2009 01Z 0 38 0 0 0 0 38 2047 02Z 7 0 2 0 0 0 9 2056 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2056 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2056 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2056 06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2056 07Z 5 18 1 0 0 0 24 2080 08Z 1 4 18 0 0 0 23 2103 09Z 1 5 4 0 0 0 10 2113 10Z 0 5 2 1 0 0 8 2121 11Z 0 0 3 67 0 0 70 2191 12Z 0 0 0 108 0 0 108 2299 13Z 0 0 0 80 13 0 93 2392 14Z 0 0 0 19 53 0 72 2464 15Z 0 0 0 0 84 0 84 2548 16Z 0 0 0 33 19 0 52 2600 17Z 0 0 0 46 13 0 59 2659 18Z 0 0 0 23 3 5 31 2690 19Z 0 0 3 22 5 2 32 2722 20Z 0 0 0 11 5 13 29 2751 21Z 0 0 12 10 3 3 28 2779 22Z 1 3 63 0 0 0 67 2846 23Z 0 0 38 1 3 0 42 2888 ---------------------------------------------- tot 87 319 796 1320 339 27 ---- 2888 MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: ARRL DX Contest UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 1 30 0 0 0 0 31 31 01Z 11 6 16 3 0 0 36 67 02Z 6 3 10 0 0 0 19 86 03Z 7 0 7 0 0 0 14 100 04Z 2 2 3 1 0 0 8 108 05Z 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 111 06Z 6 0 6 0 0 0 12 123 07Z 2 0 8 0 0 0 10 133 08Z 0 7 6 0 0 0 13 146 09Z 5 3 12 3 0 0 23 169 10Z 1 5 0 11 0 0 17 186 11Z 0 0 2 19 0 0 21 207 12Z 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 217 13Z 0 0 0 6 20 0 26 243 14Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 244 15Z 0 0 0 3 10 0 13 257 16Z 0 0 0 0 13 3 16 273 17Z 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 276 18Z 0 0 0 11 4 0 15 291 19Z 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 295 20Z 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 300 21Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 300 22Z 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 302 23Z 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 305 00Z 3 1 0 5 0 0 9 314 01Z 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 317 02Z 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 320 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320 06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 320 07Z 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 323 08Z 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 326 09Z 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 327 10Z 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 330 11Z 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 331 12Z 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 334 13Z 0 0 0 1 4 0 5 339 14Z 0 0 0 0 9 0 9 348 15Z 0 0 0 0 5 0 5 353 16Z 0 0 0 1 5 0 6 359 17Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 360 18Z 0 0 0 3 2 3 8 368 19Z 0 0 1 2 3 0 6 374 20Z 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 380 21Z 0 0 0 5 1 1 7 387 22Z 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 389 23Z 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 394 ---------------------------------------------- tot 50 70 85 96 80 13 ---- 394 QSO BREAKDOWN BY CONTINENT 160 80 40 20 15 10 total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N America: 22 23 21 21 28 5 120 (4%) (18%) (19%) (17%) (17%) (23%) (4%) S America: 7 12 22 25 30 18 114 (3%) (6%) (10%) (19%) (21%) (26%) (15%) Europe: 51 262 705 1185 252 0 2455 (85%) (2%) (10%) (28%) (48%) (10%) Africa: 5 7 14 24 17 1 68 (2%) (7%) (10%) (20%) (35%) (25%) (1%) Asia: 0 7 17 54 6 0 84 (2%) (8%) (20%) (64%) (7%) Oceania: 2 8 17 11 6 3 47 (1%) (4%) (17%) (36%) (23%) (12%) (6%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- QSOS PER MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN Mult QSOs 1A -- 1S -- 3A -- 3B6 -- 3B8 -- 3B9 -- 3C -- 3C0 -- 3D2 -- 3D2/c -- 3D2/r -- 3DA -- 3V -- 3W -- 3X -- 3Y/b -- 3Y/p -- 4J 1 4L -- 4S -- 4U1I -- 4U1U 5 4W -- 4X 7 5A -- 5B 2 5H -- 5N -- 5R -- 5T 1 5U -- 5V -- 5W -- 5X -- 5Z 2 6W 2 6Y 2 7O -- 7P -- 7Q -- 7X -- 8P 1 8Q -- 8R -- 9A 45 9G -- 9H -- 9J 1 9K -- 9L -- 9M2 -- 9M6 -- 9N -- 9Q -- 9U -- 9V 2 9X -- 9Y 1 A2 -- A3 -- A4 -- A5 -- A6 -- A7 -- A9 -- AP -- BS7 -- BV -- BV9P -- BY -- C2 -- C3 -- C5 -- C6 7 C9 -- CE 1 CE0X -- CE0Y -- CE0Z -- CE9 -- CM 4 CN 5 CP -- CT 11 CT3 7 CU -- CX 3 CY0 -- CY9 -- D2 -- D4 -- D6 -- DL 377 DU -- E3 -- E4 -- EA 105 EA6 3 EA8 31 EA9 2 EI 19 EK -- EL 1 EP -- ER 5 ES 10 ET -- EU 21 EX 1 EY -- EZ -- F 139 FG -- FH -- FJ 6 FK 1 FK/c -- FM 3 FO 1 FO/a -- FO/c -- FO/m -- FP -- FR -- FR/g -- FR/j -- FR/t -- FT5W -- FT5X -- FT5Z -- FW -- FY -- G 197 GD 1 GI 4 GJ 1 GM 26 GU 2 GW 16 H4 -- H40 -- HA 96 HB 59 HB0 -- HC 1 HC8 -- HH 2 HI 4 HK 5 HK0/a -- HK0/m -- HL -- HM -- HP 9 HR -- HS -- HV -- HZ -- I 222 IS 12 J2 1 J3 -- J5 -- J6 -- J7 6 J8 1 JA 53 JD/m -- JD/o -- JT -- JW -- JX -- JY -- KG4 -- KH0 -- KH1 -- KH2 -- KH3 -- KH4 -- KH5 -- KH5K -- KH6 21 KH7K -- KH8 -- KH8/s -- KH9 -- KL 3 KP1 -- KP2 13 KP4 7 KP5 -- LA 27 LU 34 LX 4 LY 25 LZ 36 OA -- OD -- OE 31 OH 34 OH0 -- OJ0 -- OK 172 OM 56 ON 40 OX -- OY 1 OZ 14 P2 -- P4 17 PA 90 PJ2 17 PJ7 2 PY 27 PY0F -- PY0S -- PY0T -- PZ -- R1FJ 1 R1MV -- S0 -- S2 -- S5 64 S7 -- S9 -- SM 50 SP 91 ST 3 SU -- SV 17 SV/a -- SV5 -- SV9 -- T2 -- T30 -- T31 -- T32 -- T33 -- T5 -- T7 -- T8 -- T9 7 TA 2 TF 3 TG -- TI 6 TI9 -- TJ -- TK 2 TL -- TN -- TR -- TT -- TU 1 TY -- TZ -- UA 126 UA2 9 UA9 14 UK -- UN 3 UR 97 V2 -- V3 13 V4 7 V5 -- V6 -- V7 -- V8 -- VK 10 VK0H -- VK0M -- VK9C -- VK9L -- VK9M -- VK9N 3 VK9W -- VK9X -- VP2E 5 VP2M -- VP2V -- VP5 2 VP6 -- VP6/d -- VP8 5 VP8/g -- VP8/h -- VP8/o -- VP8/s -- VP9 7 VQ9 1 VR -- VU -- VU4 -- VU7 -- XE 4 XF4 -- XT -- XU -- XW -- XX9 -- XZ -- YA -- YB -- YI 2 YJ -- YK -- YL 24 YN 2 YO 42 YS -- YU 62 YV 6 YV0 -- Z2 -- Z3 3 Z7 2 ZA 2 ZB -- ZC4 1 ZD7 -- ZD8 -- ZD9 -- ZF 3 ZK1/n -- ZK1/s -- ZK2 -- ZK3 -- ZL 12 ZL7 -- ZL8 -- ZL9 -- ZP 1 ZS 12 ZS8 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,119,379 Also worked 55 dupes, 11 US and 2 Canadian Stations. 73 Bud AA3B YEAR QSO MULT SCORE RESULT 2007 2593 401 3119379 2006 2874 437 3767814 USA #4 SOA 2005 2738 417 3425238 USA #5 SOA 2004 2872 506 4359696 USA #4 SOA 2003 2833 461 3918039 USA #4 SOA 2002 3206 463 4453134 USA #4 SOA 2001 2910 477 4164210 USA #6 SOA 2000 2691 420 3390660 USA #10 SOA 1999 2334 395 2765790 USA #6 SOA 1998 2030 359 2186310 USA #8 SOA 1997 1769 322 1708854 USA #7 SOA 1996 1533 302 1388898 USA #7 SOA 1995 1833 342 1880658 USA #7 SOA 1994 1205 334 1207410 USA #10 SOA 1993 1384 405 1681560 1992 1634 381 1867662 1991 179 78 41886 1990 879 280 738360 1989 1316 252 994896 1988 757 193 438303 1987 362 120 130320 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 346,788 Had high noise levels on 40 & 20, so couldn't hear most of the < 400W stations. I may have missed the 10m opening. I decided to take a break Sunday afternoon and when I came back I could hear a few stations from LU & PY, but they were fading fast. Never heard any of the Caribbean stations on 10m. Rig: Kenwood TS-570D (100w) Antennas: R-8 Vertical (40-10m), MA80/40 (80m), random wire (160m) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 696,696 S&P effort. Waiting for spots. 73, Ned AA7A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 170,265 Operated for the first time from the new QTH, the only antenna is a G5RV for 10-80 @ 25 ft, hastily put up between the available trees. A little lower and would have made a great beverage - hi. Running low power so basically a S&P endeavor. Highlight was working Dale HH7/N3BNA who heard my puny signal. Also ZL3WW on 40M, and a bunch of KH6's on 40M. Thanks to all. 73 Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 285,192 My amplifier wasn't putting out full power and I don't have my tower up yet, so I was running about 300 watts to dipoles cut for 80m, 40m, and 20m. Not enough ummph to run very often, so mostly did S&P. I live on a steep hillside facing northeast, and relatively speaking I actually did better on the low bands. 40m was pretty good to southern Europe, but oddly enough 80m was quite a bit better to northern Europe. The mountain range to the west of me blocks everything except for the stronger JA's, so I'll never be able to rack up high QSO counts from this QTH. It's always fun, though, and hopefully I will have a better setup by the end of 2007. Most enjoyable contact was having R1FJT call me on 40m at 3:30 AM local time to pop me out of a half slumber. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC4JI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 69,084 Good Euro path. They were all over this one. Solid ops all around. AC4JI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 166,500 Radio: IC-756 Pro III (100W) Antennas: G5RV at 35' (10M), Hy-Gain AV-640 vertical Software: DX4WIN 7.02 (imported ADIF into Writelog) I operated 40M at KC1XX from Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning. Just put in an hour here/there from home to work new DXCC entities for 2007 and get a feel for the bands. I usually just worked a band from one end to the other and picked off packet spots for multipliers. I spotted DX that wasn't in DX4WIN's "band-map" (packet spots, sorted by frequency, tracked to radio VFO). Friday night, I hung around until the pileups developed :-) The highlight (?) for me was working ZM1A on 80 meters - my first ZL on that band since October, 1977 (not that I was trying very hard). It was nice to work some Europe on 15M Sunday a.m. after getting home from Matt's (and before falling asleep). My two 10 meter QSOs were both with Argentina (big surprise). Worked a total of 78 different DXCC entities (includes 1 QSO with USA, but none with VE), so DXCC in a weekend is still possible, even with low power, small antennas and no sunspots. 73 - Jim AD1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 13,200 Decided to just play around on 15m a while. Band was in surprisingly good shape. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 40,338 I was not available for much of prime time but still had a good time and picked up some new DX. Very happy with a few new ones on 160M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,835 Five hours of S&P to help out the DX with a few more contacts on 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 144,918 Normally I only operate RTTY contest but there wasn't anything else to do this weekend so why not make a few CW QSO's. Band conditions were in pretty good shape as well. Steve AI9T www.ai9t.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ3M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 19,296 Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Masa, AJ3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL1G Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 68,016 Thanks to all who called me! Wish I could have been on longer but the symphony, dance practice and my percussion student kept taking me away from the radio! My favorite part was when I looked up at the window and saw my student's feet. I looked at the time and realized it was lesson time so I had to rip off the headphones and run upstairs to get her before she left. I got her started on warming up and had to come back downstairs to turn off the amp! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6APG Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 215,064 S5 to S7 noise limited my ability to work the weak ones. Four power failures were offset by the new standby generator which fired up within ten seconds of a failure. The last failure lasted over and hour and 40 minutes. I may have made a mistake quitting at 4 a.m. on Sunday morning, although from the other posts it may not have made much of a difference. No stations to work, many dupes, and yes, low power and a dipole, even at 100 feet, was not enough. In any case, I would do it again. It was fun and N4BP (who holds the 80 meter record...did not check my transmission coax for a pin) and N8PR did set new records on their bands. Next year! Congrats to the others who toughed it out on 80 meters. Thanks to all of the stations who did work me. I am grateful to them for keeping me awake. I bought a new rig for the contest this year, an IC 746Pro. thanks to Pete, N8PR for the lessons on it use! 73 de Kevin K4PG / C6APG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AWL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,097,614 First ARRL from the Caribbean. Lots of work to haul all the equipment, antennas, aluminium telescopic mast, coax, etc from Moscow. BA staff at the check-in in Moscow was not impressed with 140 kgs of baggage. But lots of fun in the end. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning spent installing an RR33 (www.quad.ru) - a wire beam with 3 el for 20-15-10 on a 10m telescopic mast, a 16m tall vertical for 80m and a selection of low wires for 160 and 40. The wire beam would not resonate in the bands prescribed, the SWR was at around 2 - 2.5 on all bands. Did not have time to take it down and fix it. Was very tired going into the contest with the jet-lag and all the antenna work. Lots of fun in the first 24 hours with an average rate over 100/hour which I thought was not bad for an LP with semi-cooked antennas. Best hour was 187, the first run on 40 meters. A lot of CQing in the second 24 hours and less than 1,000 QSOs in the second day. Propagation was funny on the high bands. 10m would open both days to the West Coast and to W9 although activity was marginal. Several W4s made it in a very short skip in the first day. It was very frustrating to hear Eu and South America run on 15 when all I got was a pipeline to MN (almost 30 QSOs on 15m!), W9 and West Coast. Second day opened briefly to the very North-Eastern tip with a string on W1s from MA, Me and (possibly North) NY worked in avery short time frame. Heard several big gun stations from the East Coast that were S6 on the meter but couldn't get through with LP. Overall I am pleased with the result all things considered. Not sure if it will be possible to use the location going forward but reception was extremely quiet, especially on the low bands, even heard a number of JAs on 160 on my IV 9 meters above the ground! Thanks to all who called in and congratulations to P49Y for an amazing score. Special thanks to my wife for all the help and patience. Equipment: Icom 775 @100 watts Antennas: IV 160m, 1/4 wave Vertical 80m, IV 40m, RR33 20-15-10m Dimtiri C6AWL, RA3CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1/K7CA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 27,195 Only operated a short time on 2nd nite, as QRN was S9+20 on Friday night. Power was about 600W output to a 40' top loaded vertical next to the ocean. Next year I hope to be a bit more serious with a better TX and RX antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2WW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,345,495 Operators: Nico SV3SJ (alias F5VIH / CN2NS), Philippe F6IFY (alias CN2PN), Patrick F6IRF (alias CN2WW) Station: IC7000 + amp / 500W 160: dipole 80/40: 2elts wire-yagis (matched with a pair of CWS/W2FMU multi-UNUN transformers) 20/15: 2elts steppIR 10m vertical dipole (on a spare steppIR fiber element) - used for permanent band monitoring (designed and built-up by Nico in less than 30mn !) All antennas located about 100' AGL (120' ASL) on the "Beach-House" terrasse, 200m from the Ocean. IBM thinkpad, N1MM-logger, microkeyer, ICE band-filters, etc.. No cluster and no internet connection. Another nice experience from Morocco and potentialy a new M/S African record... The station, "dx-ped style", was built-up from scratch in one and a half day and dismantled in half a day after the contest. We arrived Wednesday evening in Casa airport with our 70kgs of luggages, and friday at 13:00 everything was operational. Even if we could have done slightly better (we initialy crossed the remote-cables of the steppIR and spent some time to redo a coaxial connector on the 40m beam, while the problem was in the MFJ analyzer), it did not take long to adjust the 2 wire-beams, and we managed to get very low SWR on both antennas by measuring the impedance, and selecting the adequate ports on the 2 multi-UNUN's. Both Bandwith and Impedance were found very close from the NEC2 simulated values, which conforted us in the idea that the 2 antennas would work as expected. However, we were really surprised by the rates we could get on 80/40 with those simple pieces of wires, and moderate high power. The 80m beam,designed for high F/R (dipole/director with 8m spacing) thus protecting us from the high EU-QRM quickly appeared to be a real "killer" in this contest. The 40m antenna, using dipole/reflector arrangement and the same 8m spacing was optimized for max gain (thus poor F/R), but restropectively I think that a 3 elts using the same "boomlength"(!), would have provided both higher gain and protection against EU-signals. Unfortunately,it would have required a second "spiderbeam" fiber-mast and we already had some 10kgs of accompanied luggage excedent - everything is always a matter of compromise ! Anyway, I think that, in spite of our confidence in the antenna simulation, none of us had ever expected to work so many West-Coast stations on those 2 bands, and a few of them with incredible signals... In general propagation conditions have been excellent on low bands with low QRN levels. 160m was like EME, with low signals, but just the band white noise. The 15m was a real good surprise on both days with such a low SSN and unfortunately no miracle happened on 10m ! As usual, the transition periods (between day/night propagation modes) were the most difficult for our nerves, with the rates droping to low values for a couple of hours. 20m closed very early on Saturday evening, but remained open one hour and a half later on Sunday, which allowed us to see the AF-record at our hand. Equipment-wise, This was the first time that we ever used the IC7000 in real pile-ups... Despite its "miniature" size it really revealed to be a fantastic and powerful small toy - everybody loved it ! N1MM-logger worked without a single glitch - as usual - Just a few problems of adaptation to the N1MM-ESM for Philippe (who managed to ask VY2TT for his "state agn" while we had him already on the 4 other bands ;-) In fact, everything worked perfectly without equipment failure or any kind of problem, despite high thermal winds (the spiderbeam "heavy duty" 12m fiber mast was strongly bent in the direction of the sea in the morning and the other way during afternoons, but it resisted). Being at the the end of the cycle 23 (or right at the beginning of the cycle24 - who knows ?), we did not think that it would be possible to beat the current M/S AF-record (EA4KR/EA8) established in 1993, 3 years before the end of cycle 22, but I think we did it ! - Thanks to Mohamed CN8PA for his precious logistic support, for helping us with the installation and for driving us in the incredible Casa labyrinthe and road trafic - Once again, without him, the operation would have been much more dificult! - Thanks to Andre HB9HLM for renting us his appartment and to the "Beach house" direction for giving us the authorization to access the various terrasses and to install the temporary antennas. - Thanks to my Rabat friends: Said CN8LI, Kacem CN8LR and Said CN8WW for their assistance, loan of spare equipment, relations with the administration, etc, etc... - Thanks to Iberia for not charging us for the luggages excedent and for delivering the luggage in Casablanca airport in a timely manner - taking into account the tight expedition time-frame, a single luggage lost in Madrid would have dramatic for the success of the operation ! - Thanks to Elena and Stefano IK2QEI (the CN3A team) for visiting us in Dar-Bouazza. It has been really a nice evening; Stefano has so many contest stories, and such a talking-talent, that we forgot that we were all a bit tired ! We left Mohamed CN8PA at Casa airport wednesday at 11:00, with the head full of new exciting projects. See you soon again from Morocco ! (logs will be uploaded soon to LOTW - Conventional card only via EA7FTR) For the team Patrick - F6IRF/CN2WW Life is too short for contesting from home ! Pictures, video (Nico has abt 30mn of video rushes and is working on a 5-10mn clip), contest sound-clips, contest stats, antenna designs secrets and more... S O O N O N http://cn2ww.blogspot.com/ Sect Total 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m PA 265 19 41 85 64 56 NY 231 16 38 64 58 55 CA 223 5 38 62 39 79 FL 223 12 35 57 56 63 OH 199 8 28 60 55 48 NJ 191 9 30 48 56 48 TX 183 8 30 63 33 49 MA 181 12 32 48 53 36 VA 173 14 24 49 37 49 IL 169 5 29 53 36 46 NC 156 8 23 46 32 47 MI 134 5 20 42 32 35 MD 121 5 18 32 36 30 MN 121 2 20 26 32 41 TN 112 3 19 31 23 36 ON 110 11 17 27 25 30 CT 99 8 14 27 25 25 WI 95 6 16 24 23 26 NH 92 8 13 26 22 23 AZ 89 2 14 27 17 29 GA 77 8 10 28 12 19 AL 71 2 8 28 14 19 CO 70 2 9 23 20 16 IN 58 1 8 15 17 17 NM 44 1 11 16 9 7 LA 37 2 7 9 7 12 NS 37 3 4 11 10 9 MO 35 5 13 5 12 WA 35 2 7 14 12 WV 33 3 5 9 8 8 QC 28 1 7 6 8 6 AR 27 2 5 7 7 6 OK 27 6 2 7 3 9 SC 27 3 6 6 5 7 MS 26 2 5 8 3 8 VT 26 3 5 7 5 6 IA 25 1 5 5 4 10 DE 24 6 8 4 6 ME 24 2 4 7 7 4 NE 19 1 2 3 6 7 RI 19 1 2 6 7 3 UT 19 1 1 6 3 8 KS 18 5 6 2 5 NF 14 1 2 4 3 4 OR 14 4 5 2 3 KY 13 3 4 6 NV 13 2 4 2 5 NB 11 1 1 3 5 1 PEI 11 2 2 2 2 3 MT 9 1 5 3 AB 8 1 2 5 DC 8 1 3 2 2 ID 8 1 3 2 2 ND 7 1 1 1 2 2 SD 7 2 2 1 2 BC 6 2 3 1 SK 5 4 1 WY 5 2 2 1 KW 1 1 NL 1 1 NU 1 1 Total 4115 216 648 1177 974 1100 Sect Total 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,979,315 Another nice contest from Morocco! Very nice experience, first time in an all band effort from CN3A, 20m close very early, good conditions on low band a lot of W6 in the log on 80m. The new vertical works pretty well. This time setup was very light TH7, 2 el on 40, vertical on 80m and dipole on 160. Unfortunately during the opening of sunday afternoon on 15m, I had a black out for 1 hour. Monday evening I had a nice dinner with CN2WW team at his qth near Casablanca, was a really nice evening, Thanks. Thank you to all the guys that called me during the contest. And if you have any report or registration about our qso will be appreciate via email. Thank you to my friends IK2SGC and SV8CS and CN8WK. Thanks also to my special friend from Marocco CN8WW Said. And big thanks to my YL Elena for support me for all the event! Cu next one from Morocco, CN3A Stefano, IK2QEI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,474,890 My first plan was to make this contest very serious with SO2R and everything and after checking cndx the hole week I eneded up in SO1R and operating just 18 hours. Conditions during the week were not that good but during the contest they were just great! I didnt operate the first night, so I started the contest at 1050 on saturday morning, huge pile-ups which made my best run 176 qsos/hr. The 15m score was just made 1st day, no operation on sunday afternoon... I checked 10m couple of times but zero, no USA at all!! Very very difficult to work 160m and my new antena for 80m really rocks (tnx K0XG)!! Now I wish I had played full time and SO2R!!!! Never hear VE4 VE8 VY0 VY1. CU NEXT one as CT6A... 73'S Filipe Lopes CT1ILT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 97,788 RIG TS 440-S ANT: Sloper dipole Best 73´s Daniel Neves Dan QSL via KA5TUF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DD1IM Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 9,000 Hi, cw-fans! Had been out for some carnival events & processions, so only the Sunday's late afternoon was free for operating - 'til 20m condx went down. Some big sigs, but mostly qsb & many requests. Tnx, W/VE-friends, who did hear my 100w beeps - not all could. Some tried to rename me to "dk1im"... so pse take a look at the IARU HF Worldchampionship 2006 top ten list - cw cat: a "dd1im" will be everywhere, hmmh, okay, mostly ;-) So while operating cw - esp. hispeed - & there will be a "1im" you can't go wrong with "dd1im" - I promise ;-) Hpe cuagn, frnds, vy 73, gl es cwfe de Sascha DD1IM (member of DARC,DOK K27). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DG7RO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,670 too much sleep ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 74,802 TS850, Tribander @ 25m, Dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ6TK Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 4,425 Hi, it was only a short Test for me 73 and good luck to the other, Wilf - dj6tk - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ9VA Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 1,248 ARRL DX Contest CW (DX-Side) 2007 Result overview of DJ9VA Good Invalid Dupe Deleted Band QSOs QSOs QSOs QSOs Mul Pts 160m 26 0 0 0 16 78 80m 0 0 0 0 0 0 40m 0 0 0 0 0 0 20m 0 0 0 0 0 0 15m 0 0 0 0 0 0 10m 0 0 0 0 0 0 all 26 0 0 0 16 78 Final result = 78 * 16 = 1.248 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK0ALC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 613,305 TRX: FT1000MkV + VL1000 Ant: 4 ele on 15m, 3 ele on 20m, Dipole for 40/80m (all @ 35 m hight) Hard job with 2 Ops only, but great moralic support from our "Service Operator" - DO9NM. Finally it was fun to have the first multi-op entry from the company club station since years. 73, Arno (DL1CW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0MB Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 101,088 40 mtr band conditions from EU were marginal at best. It was difficult to establish and maintain good run frequencies. Special thanks to DK9IP (Win) and DF2UU (Hans), my hosts at DL0MB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1EFD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 227,169 Condx on 15 much better on Sunday (only 23 QSOs Saturday). 40m wasn't too good either - have to think of a better antena there. IC 761+TS 850 (100W) Optibeam OB11-3@12m Bencher HF9V 2x20m Zepp @8m 18m Wire vertical Writelog 10.62 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1IAO Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 206,190 TS870 + Alpha87, WT v3.8.4 on HP Omnibook XE3 4L M2 @27m QRZ VE4? Didn´t feel like going through a 40+ hours dx contest after a busy week, so headed for some daylight 20m fun. On Saturday condx were mediocre at best but stretched out somewhat to the west on Sunday. At some point westcoast signals were quite reasonable but the volume wasn´t there. Some guys really showed off poor manners and CQ´ed on top over and over again. On Sunday things settled down a bit and I was a happy contester for hours with J7OJ and W2ZQ effectively blocking my frequency to the left and right respectively - nice! The best moment in ARRL DX always happens when showing up really late with a fresh call. A 180-hour on 40/80m sure seemed a bit unreal from Germany! 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2SAX Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 1,260 This was an unplanned event. Only a real low dipol. Feedingpoint 6m over the ground, the ends of the dipol about 3m. Noticed after the first QSO that my TRX was limited to 10W and decided to test the ears of the big guns. Nearly everybody copied me, but I believe that the their 599s was more a 419. Thanks for the patience with my weak signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 23,520 Who needs sunspots? - I think we all do! Had fun anyway. 73, Uwe DL4AAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4YAO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 30,351 K2, 8877 10-20m: 2 ele 40m: Sloper 80m: Inv-L Again no west coast on 80m :) 40m on SAT morning was bad. All signals were weak. Worked some W6/W7 over the LP in the afternoon. Guys from W4/W5 sometimes stronger than W1/W2. K5GO was one of the loudest on 15m. 73, Chris DL4YAO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 57,246 Hi folks, had time only on sunday, cdx better than expected. see u in phone part. vy 73 jo dq4q@df9zp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 136,197 FT-1000MP MV. PA-HF3 Out: 300 watts. Micro USB keyer by MicroHAM N1MM Logger HF-6V I almost expent all the time in "search and pounce" mode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA6BF Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 79,086 Good contest. I did it mostly in "CQ mode", with very few S&P activity. I went from 28 US states in my log up to 44, and that´s good for my WAS..! Missed ID, MT, ND, NV, SD and WA for US mults. Canadian provinces were like always, worked the most common ones..! IC-756PROII + 500W 1/4wvl Dipole at 14m high. TRlogging program Josep EA6BF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 334,707 No Propagation before 10z! Had Time to sleep and drink some Bears. 1 broken Linear, 1 broken Yagi, still working with reserve Acom without Stack. CU nest Year! Maukka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE5E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,432,943 TX 2x FT1000MP, Alpha 76 & Acom2000 Ants Single tower 160m Inv L 80m Inv vee @ 20m 40m 3 ele yagi @ 24m 20/15/10m X7 @ 27m & A3 @ 21m This all started last summer in Brazil during WRTC. I invited Doug K1DG to join our group for ARRL DX CW and he suggested using the weird call EE5E; credit (and/or blame) goes to him Had a GREAT time, - being helped by Juan FID and Tony BY with antenna repairs - stringing the 160m inv L over the neighbours house - laying the radials across the street - learning what a big difference extra radials make on the inv L (wkd to SD,CA) - learning how its input impedance decreases !!! - designing a coax matching stub on the fly (worked great!!!) - repairing the ACOM during the contest - reducing interstation interference - comparing signal strength (in the US) vs competitors thru the Internet with a Web receiver (on the low hours, hi!) - contesting together with Doug almost 20 years after meeting him - learning how a great op like him manages a contest operation - monitoring progress compared to 2006 and competitors ... ... some odds - clicky signals - Amplitude Modulation (100,200,300,400 Hz) of CW carrier on several EUs (subcarriers as actual "anti-QRM protective barriers"!!!) - extremely poor condx on the high bands (even 20m) in summary spending a great weekend with friends enjoying our hobby Looking forward to ARRL CW 2008 73, Juan EA5RS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 527,391 After only 81 Qs in the first four hours, it looked pretty bleek. The BigIR that played so well in CQWW failed (the copper strip fell off the spool and jammed internally), so I resurrected the old Comet Vertical (that I had set on fire on 80 meters) for 40-10 and the half-wave inverted L's for 80 and 160, but 40 was covered with EU Cq'ers and S&P was rough with the vertical, and it was too early for 80 and 160 with only the IC756PROIII and 99 watts, so I went to bed sadly at 4am. (I LOVE the sound of EI/W5GN 5nn nn, but a dozen or so folks needed the full 5nn 99 before that final nn dawned on them.) But on Saturday, I began to compare the 80 Inverted L thru the MFJ tuner, and it played far better on all bands than the dinky CP-6, and I began to have more fun. Twenty played very well and remained open for a very good run (okay, a fast walk) Saturday evening, and prospects Sunday morning were for perhaps 750 QSOs. Then 15 opened very well; it looked that 900 Qs might be possible, and then a fair run on 20 after 15 went away made 1000 Qs look do-able, but then, I went to 40 and had 138 Qs in hour 22 on 7038 that just made my day! (The pileup clearly said I had been spotted; I also knew earlier I had been spotted on 15 when I had back-to-back calls from W3LPL, K3LR, and KC1XX!) So I'm tickled pink with 1149 Qs with only an 80 inverted L (which played better on 160 than the 252 foot inverted L). But let's hear it for location, with an extra hour of prop to the USA from EI! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES1GF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 123,000 FT-1000MP MARK-V Ant 15-20 6 elem yagi 40 4 elem yagi Power abt 1000W Thank you very much for Contest, 73s! de Vlady(ES1GF) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 61,698 ft817 - 5 watts - th5mk2s/Inv V Very hard to "fight" with Kw....! See you next year. 73 Andre ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5BH Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 213,108 A good contest week-end but not many people on the band I press the F1 all the time and falling asleep on keyboard the second night 73 Laurent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5JC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,118,646 Crazy one ! no 160m & 80m here and 10m just open for few minutes FT847 > 95 watts into a single R7000 (3m up) and fantastic Win-Test log ( look at http://www.win-test.com/ ) - imagine with a single 3el what can I do !!! tks to all and if you need QSL via F5CWU (direct or buro) and LoTW is OK 73 Eric FM5JC (F5JKK) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WPH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 162,513 Not a serious entry - just playing with a 28 metre vertical held up with a balloon for 40/80/160 QSOs. 20M QSOs used 40 metre end fed inverted L. Power was 200 watts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 153,354 Been 10 years since my last ARRL DX CW contest as ZD8DEZ. Sunspot numbers (or lack of them) were about the same, but the scores are certainly way down on the 1997 entry, despite that being SB 20m. Guess it shows a favourable QTH is key to a big score from the DX side in this one, and those Caribbean guys sounded like they were having a ball. Low power and a single wire is always a challenge but I worked almost everything I could hear but most of all enjoyed the weekend. Thanks to all you VE and W guys who struggled to copy my 599 100. FT-1000MP 250' Doublet up at 40' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,074,518 Fascinating to compare scores with TM6X after the contest. At the end of 48 hours we were just 16 QSOs apart. Thanks for all the QSOs - lots of 5 banders. Dave G4BUO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4EHT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 9,150 First ARRL DX contest in 30 years of operating; thank you especially to W7LR (MT) and KK0HF (KS) both all-time new States for me. TS-570 Doublet 70w Paper logging and hand keying HI HI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW0ETF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 163,215 FT990 and a 102ft doublet at about 30 feet height. Doesn't work on top band. No 10m openings. With these bands, there are plenty of breaks in propagation to NA to allow for civilised breaks/sleep.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA6NN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,012 Equipment as usual: FT757GX barefoot (100 W output), LW antenna for 7 and 21 MHz and dipole for 14 MHz. I have been sleeping Saturday night instead of making Qs. What a pity! On Sunday 14 MHz was just like in good old days. Heard and worked a number of distant states and provinces. Thanks for W3LPL for spotting me on 14 MHz -although I did not call CQ. K1ZZ was also a clever hunter who caught me on 15 m while finishing with another station. Thanks are due to all those prick eared fellows who were able to pick up my weak signals. What disturbes me again is that not all LP station was really low powered!!! gl de ha6nn Andras ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA7RY Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 155,265 I enjoyed the reactions to my sending 999 Watts as power :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9CZF Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 100,926 K2/100 & TL-922 at 500W 3el SteppIR Win-Test: v3.8.4 After this weekend I understand why W0/VE4 is called "Black Hole". Although I never use Packet Radio in my shack I could clearly tell when I was spotted. Most popular from the West Coast: CA (24x), WA (24x), AZ (10x), AB (6x), BC (5x), ... WA was more active than FL (22x), NC (22x), CT (21x), NH (21x), ON (21x), ... which was surprising to me. 73 de Dominik, HB9CZF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,727,622 A contest we will never forget... Normally ARRL CW has the highest fun factor for us: usually knee-deep snow on the hill, no rotator problems, lots of good (but very unhealthy) food, litres of redwine etc and easy pileups. This time it was completely different: the termination of the beverages were chewed up by wild boars in the forest, a big part of the wire was stolen, 6 hours before the start we only had a 160m and 15m antenna functioning. However as usually at 2355 everything seemed to be ready for the contest but it was only a elusive mirage... Within half an hour the Run amp broke down (tube got fried) and it was just the beginning... 48 hours later we were beyond 5 amp repair breaks, a replaced IP router and a few other O&M issues... Anyway we kept working the pileups and had some fun with the fb 80m condx and the hot 15m sprints. Next year it can only be better :)) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HH7/N3BNA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 633,138 I thought I had prepared for everything, because I have often gone on dxpeditions to remote spots on the globe. But first of all, I was traveling with a work group and we did not get back until after dark every night and there was no way to erect antennas. Finally I had a few daylight hours, and nothing went right…Trees were in wrong places, Ropes tore, insulators caught in other trees, antenna too long, and very frustrating, finally after dark I threw an old 40m dipole over a low palm tree and finally I was on….or so I thought. After working a few, I found that my radio kept sticking in transmit…Just would not work…Next day I took it apart and resoldered the T/R relay to see if I could free it up. No change! I had all the gear for a decent operation in a rare location and my radio didn’t work ! After sharing with my local host. He suggested a missionary friend who might have a radio…Later (when the workteam was in transit) we went to visit him, but found only his wife...We went back the next day, the last day before the contest, and John, HH2VA had an old TS50. I was thankful for anything but it was not a contest rig and I had only Icom accessories….BUT I HAD TO TRY. All this time, I had been wanting to operate from the village, but our project leader was suggesting I stay in the mission compound and operate from the Radio station, which houses a FM station…I had ordered a small generator to come from Port-au-Prince, but our leader suggested it would be inconvenient and I should call the guy and tell him not do bring it…I didn’t like that idea, as it was my backup plan, and fortunately, we didn’t contact him…I began the contest in the radio station, with a half-square wave antenna for 40 that worked acceptable well on 15m… But when evening arrived I found 10 over 9 local noise. I discovered that there was local line noise that made it very difficult to hear anyone, and my hearing is not very good. Finally, late Saturday morning, I got good news. The generator had arrived and there was a way to the village. I jumped at the chance, and took my multiband RadioWorks antenna (previously used by N2EA) and in the hour before dusk, I made a perfect cast over a huge mango tree, and a local climber climbed an enormous breadfruit tree, and I had a perfectly erected antenna by nightfall. But my operating position was very difficult…I was seated outside a building on a low cement step, leaning low over a chair which held my radio, with my only hearing ear cocked toward the speaker… My Heil headphones had a ¼ inch plug and would not fit the TS50, which was dirty and rusty. In addition, my glasses had broken, so I tried to keep them on like monocles, or switch to my shades, which didnt work at night.…All night, I held a flashlight in order to see to enter the callsigns…I was using a very small generator that was a bit testy to run my PS and the old laptop….Unfortunately there were power problems, and a local guy tried to wire the PS and battery in parallel and there was a bang, and that was the end of my PS…. For the rest of the contest, I was dependent on the battery, which I had purchased for the work project, knowing that I might need it myself. And there were the mosquitos. There were some amateurs who made comments about my signal and my CW sending...I readily agree that both were poor. My power situation was very poor, and my operating position was awful, and I could not use the computer-generated code because of rig failure...There are folks who are better on the paddles than I, but none of them were in Haiti. And you might want to try to send my callsign 3000 times or so. But I was ashamed of both my sending and my signal quality, especially when working some of the more distinguished DXers and contesters. I got to the village with 200 odd contacts and finished the contest with 1176 QSOs… At times I could run, but most of the time it was a slow process grinding out the QSOs. Since so few contesters actually listen for DX because it is easier to chase the callouts, a low power station is dependent on those callouts. I suffered for hours with few callers. It is too bad that people do not listen any more. I made a big effort to work Europe after the contest. Monday it was back to work, and I made an effort to be on in the evenings…Again when I tried from town the noise level was high.. So I decided to overnight in the village…The first night was good, but wanted to try 160…Got some good advice from AA1K and WT3Q on the rare lunchbreaks when the shared computer was open. I had asked the local guys to buy me some stuff including 50m of wire, but it was Mardi Gras all week and everything was closed in the town. So I didnt have enough wire to make a 160m dipole. So I patched a few pieces of wire together and put up an 80m dipole on the north face of the 240 foot tower…Fortunately I had taken a whole roll of military green rope and about 250 feet of RG8X..I needed it all. That night was my biggest success of the trip…I had to carry all the equipment and the generator about ¼ mile out in the middle of a field of manioc and sweet potatoes, and lots of goats…I was under the huge tower, UNDER THE STARS, surrounded by fields of vegetables, with my sloping dipole starting at 220 feet…well away from the tower. With less than 100 watts, I was LOUD !!! I ran to my hearts delight and made a special effort for EU and West Coast stations. Was great fun while it lasted…About 2 AM we got a rain squall…did I mention that we were ¼ mile in the middle of a field? Everything got drenched including the laptop and radio…We ran back to the village and I overnighted in someone else's bed, in a very simple house with no electricity or plumbing. But I could not sleep….and the roosters crowed all night. Next morning was our last day. Was up early and ready for work…During lunch I returned the TS50 and a broken FT847 that the kind missionary had lent it to me, because I would be leaving at 4:30 AM….Against everyones advice I wanted to go one more night to the village and be LOUD on 160…Had to take down antenna at the station and do all packing and return loaned radios at lunchtime. I decided (sadly) to scavenge my 40m half square to make the 160m dipole…After work, I quickly worked to cut the wire and make several solder joints…Had help from some young boys who enjoyed helping…Got the antenna up on the 240- foot tower at nightfall and ready for a great night…Turned on the radio, and at 1811 I heard a SSB signal…then I heard SSB all over the band…I tried calling on CW, but noone could hear me over the ruckus. What a terrible coincidence, my only day on 160 was the first night of the SSB contest. Horrors. Finally I gave up and tried SSB. I worked W4PV, N4PN when he announced he was listening south, and NJ2F who called me along with HI3C on the same island. I could get no run going and could not break the USA din…W3BGN and W4MYA were running stateside…BGN was running fast, and MYA was saying hello to friends…But couldn’t break the pileups…worked a few other Carribeans and that was that…Then my radio stuck in transmit again…I tried and tried and could not find a way to make it work…I decided to wait a while, but that did not help…The radio started to go blank screen on transmit…Finally I had to give up, with only a handful of QSOs…But I tried and tried and tried some more…Did I mention that there were mosquitos? Yes there were mosquitos…And then there was the 35 minute riding shotgun on a decrepit motorcycle with bad transmission and almost no brakes (not to mention suspension) over incredible rutted and bumpy dirt roads at 4:00 AM hanging on to my ham radio gear…I lost all feeling in my one arm from the bag I was carrying on my shoulder, but just gritted my teeth and finally we got there….There was no time for a shower, but I had taken a “bucket bath” in the village…A real experience for those of you who have never done it…I am not as limber as I used to be when I did that in Africa years ago. Finally we made a mad dash for the airport and waited 30 minutes for the guard to open the gate…I felt very sad leaving Haiti. It had been difficult but I met some wonderful people and I saw that Haiti is a beautiful place, despite the problems that it is having. I left behind lots of equipment and tools for the radio station and local technician…and I left a 160m dipole sloping down from 240 feet on the big tower…If only I could have stayed longer… The one thing I learned is that it is incredibly difficult when everything is uncertain…You cannot depend on what will happen next and everything seems to fail…But I know I did my best, and I know I was a new one for some guys. And made a couple points for the my club. And most of all, I thank God for that our work project was a success. We repaired the base of a 240 foot tower, by jacking up the tower. It was a lot of work with only hand tools, and rather dangerous project, But it was wonderful to experience success in such an ‘impossible” project. I will remember Haiti always, and already I am anxious to go back. 73 dale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3TEJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,970,908 Originally, I had planned to return to the "Top of the Caribbean" to operate the fantastic Loma del Toro Contest Club of HI3CCP at 4,000+ feet. They made me an official member this year at the Orlando Hamcation so now I a proud member of the team. However, a job and QTH change from the East Coast to the West Coast wore me down pretty bad the last few months. So, instead I spent a few days with my friend Teddy HI3TEJ in Puerto Plata and operated his home station down near the beach. I started the contest with one goal - operate as long as it was fun without Go for the Gold mental strength...and stress hihi Teddy's station back about 300' from the ocean at sea level and the huge'CCP up on top of the mountain play the bands entirely different I noticed. Both play wonderful, of course, but the band openings and peak strength of the openings occur at somewhat different times. No 48 hours for me this time. I was still so tired from the long hours at the new job I could not even make the first 12 hours without stopping to sleep...I think the new full head of gray hair affects the body and makes it tough for a guy to do 48 hours. It felt good to just get up and go take a snooze instead of dancing with the dragons that appear on top of the radios when I need sleep! Another nice snooze on Sunday morning was such a welcome relief; maybe I need to forget this 48 hour craziness. Teddy had just completed his project to load the 60' tower on 160 meters. It worked terrific. I never would have thought so many people could hear my 100 watts. He also put up a 80 meter vertical hanging off the tower just in time for the contest; it worked good too. Half of an older 2el Hygain short 40m did the work on that band and a new 4el SteppIR was very easy to use on the high bands. I began to dream of maybe getting some sort of top LP score in the contest with the numbers already on the log Sunday morning. But, of course, that was only a dream because wishing for a 10m opening is too much to ask of the Sun at this point in the solar cycle. Alas, that was the case. I only managed to find 3 of the big M/M sigs to work regardless of where I pointed the yagi. I live for hot paced pile-up with super operators. I have proud to be a Pile-up Piggy! Thank you all for all of the fun and smiles as I encountered one old friend after another. 73, Dennis HI3/K7BV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK1/K8DD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,993,705 160M dipole 80M dipole 40M 2 el yavi 20-15-10 TH7DXX All antennas about 70M high. Elecraft K2/100 Alpha 76A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HP1XX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,810,986 Fun in the sun on beautiful Contadora Island. TNX Gunter and Suzzanne for your wonderful hospitality and for Gunter's outstanding operating skills. Bands sounded good except for the struggle on 10 meters and the challenges of getting set up. Had most of the station running about 24 hours into it - the inverse of fixing yagis in snowstorms - its 95F++ here in the daytime! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2/K5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 18,126 Apartment station with dipole hung from balcony and very few feet from the concrete/steel building. Wish I had the roof top!!! Condx on Sunday sounded good so I pulled away from other activities to spend a few hours trying to get a few answers. Increased the number of QSOs in the station log for 2007 by a factor of almost 20. Some of you people need to wean yourselves off of Super Check Partial. Several times a station would have parts of my call, then select a callsign from SCP that rejected half of what he had already heard. This wastes your time and mine, lids. Use your ears not your eyes. Speaking of ears, the best ears relative to signal goes to AA1K. Best signals were from K3LR, most of the time, but W3BGN was louder sometimes, and W4RM was one of the few to move the s-meter on 15m. Some very good signals out of the Northeast. Best DX was K5GO, though I heard an Oklahoma and Texas station who were moving up the band with me. Also heard E21EIC, 4K9W, 4Z5LA, and TA3D coming in nicely from the other side of the building. Too bad I couldn't work them. CUL Dave K5GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 246,960 Wow! K1KI, K1TO, K5ZD, KC1XX, VY2PA on 5 Bands! Still hard to believe. and also KT1V, VY2TT, WJ9B, VE2TZT on 160! Never heard the other big M/M on 160. I'll definitely need to improve my 160 receiving condx. (but not much room on the building roof, so I need some good piece of advice to start up). Congrats to CT1ILT. Surely Portugal is a great country for doing the ARRL DX from Europe. Anyway I'm very satisfied and happy with my result from Italy. 73 and cu next one. Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: II3M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 318,054 I had working only 17.18 hours because I was much tired "guilt" the job. Infact I had problems to decode, for this I ask excuse me all those who have had patience! . Anyway really beautiful Contest, always appreciate partecipation. Thanks for all and see you the next year ! Vy 73 de Stefano - II3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1QBT Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 80,700 It's a great fun to operate ARRL contest this year on 15mt, running but also S&P , I missed CA, ID, MT , ND, and some Canadian provinces, many tks to everyone for the QSO. Equipment IC-756PRO-III + Ten-Tec 500w + Delta Loop 2 el homemade at 7m high - N1MM Contest Loggin 73' Tony IK1QBT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1YDB Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 93,345 TNX TO ALL US-VE STATIONS IN LOG! 73 FLAVIO http://digilander.libero.it/ik1ydb/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,240,524 Bad conditions on low band, we missed target on 160/80m. We expected some more qso on 40m also but we probaly loosed time on lowers bands. 20m closed very soon just few minutes later than 15! -259qso -8 mults from 2006 is not bad for us... RIG FT-1000 MP + IC 761 PA AL-1200 + TL 922 ANT 15m 5L 12m over the roof 20m 5L 10m over the roof 40m sloper + flat top full size dipole 80m sloper + vertical "biscia" 20m hight 160 vertical "biscia" 20m hight RX K9AY 250m away from shack TNX to all for qso and tnx who visited our live webcam-chat Andrea IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR2W Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 99,216 One night operation with excellent condition on the band ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,018,368 Thanks to all that worked and spotted us during the contest! Although no 10m open from the northern Japan, we had a good run on 20m even very early in the morning last day (4:00AM local time, best rate). I don't remember such open and it was unusual for this low sunspot cycle. Worked NC(W4ZV)on 160m was a nice surprise and I think my third east coast station on the band. (only worked W3LPL and W8JI so far) Warm winter, not much snow, a nice WX, even so no BBQ outside this time and no snow static, so we concentrated on contesting and enjoyed it! 73's Akira, JA8RWU [BREAKDOWN QSO/mults] HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT DAY1 3/2 84/27 349/40 202/35 270/46 ..... ..... 908/150 DAY2 24/10 91/4 140/6 497/20 108/2 . . 860/42 TOT 27/12 175/31 489/46 699/55 378/48 . . 1768/192 [BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr] HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT DAY1 0.1/32 2.9/29 8.1/43 2.8/71 3.3/83 ..... ..... 17.2/53 DAY2 1.2/20 2.8/32 5.6/25 6.8/73 2.1/51 . . 18.6/46 TOT 1.3/21 5.7/31 13.7/36 9.7/72 5.4/70 . . 35.8/49 The best 60 minute rate was 135/hour from 1927 to 2026 The best 30 minute rate was 150/hour from 1946 to 2015 The best 10 minute rate was 162/hour from 2132 to 2141 [The best 1 minute rates were:] 4 QSO's/minute 9 times. 3 QSO's/minute 125 times. 2 QSO's/minute 292 times. 1 QSO's/minute 773 times. [Number of letters in callsigns] Letters # worked ----------------- 4 1053 5 569 6 139 7 1 8 6 [Callareas Worked] Area QSOs Pct ------------------ 0 165 9.3 1 75 4.2 2 113 6.4 3 89 5.0 4 137 7.7 5 207 11.7 6 404 22.9 7 442 25.0 8 54 3.1 9 82 4.6 [Multi-band QSO's] ---------------- 1 bands 820 2 bands 212 3 bands 83 4 bands 60 5 bands 7 6 bands 0 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- CA 8 53 138 113 80 0 392 21.7 WA 6 20 38 47 40 0 151 8.4 TX 1 15 41 42 41 0 140 7.8 AZ 2 12 32 34 22 0 102 5.7 OR 1 14 29 24 17 0 85 4.7 CO 0 9 24 19 22 0 74 4.1 BC 2 9 11 12 8 0 42 2.3 FL 0 2 17 11 10 0 40 2.2 UT 0 6 15 10 8 0 39 2.2 IL 0 1 6 23 6 0 36 2.0 NY 0 1 5 28 2 0 36 2.0 PA 0 1 5 26 2 0 34 1.9 VA 0 2 7 18 7 0 34 1.9 MN 0 3 3 21 6 0 33 1.8 AL 0 0 9 7 12 0 28 1.6 OH 0 1 4 22 1 0 28 1.6 NM 0 4 8 8 7 0 27 1.5 MA 0 0 1 24 2 0 27 1.5 MD 0 1 6 17 2 0 26 1.4 WI 1 1 4 14 5 0 25 1.4 NJ 0 0 3 21 1 0 25 1.4 TN 0 1 7 10 6 0 24 1.3 MT 2 4 7 5 4 0 22 1.2 AB 0 2 4 12 4 0 22 1.2 NC 1 2 4 12 3 0 22 1.2 ID 0 1 5 9 5 0 20 1.1 NV 1 1 5 8 3 0 18 1.0 NH 0 1 3 12 2 0 18 1.0 MI 1 0 0 15 1 0 17 0.9 AR 0 2 4 5 5 0 16 0.9 GA 0 1 5 5 5 0 16 0.9 OK 0 1 5 4 4 0 14 0.8 KS 0 0 7 4 3 0 14 0.8 IA 1 2 2 3 6 0 14 0.8 CT 0 0 2 9 1 0 12 0.7 LA 0 0 5 3 3 0 11 0.6 MO 0 1 2 4 4 0 11 0.6 NE 0 0 4 5 1 0 10 0.6 WV 0 0 1 6 1 0 8 0.4 ON 0 0 0 6 2 0 8 0.4 MS 0 0 3 1 2 0 6 0.3 SK 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 0.3 SC 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0.3 WY 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 0.3 IN 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 0.3 KY 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 0.3 DE 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 RI 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 SD 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 PEI 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 DC 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 VT 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 ME 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 NS 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 YT 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 PQ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 27 175 489 699 378 0 1768 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 536,766 I decided to use the IC-2KL amplifier (300 ~ 500 Watts) and connect to the spotting network. Contesting is sure a lot more fun when you're not the last person to get an answer in pile-ups! But even 500 Watts doesn't help much during the last 20 minutes of the contest on 40 meters. The rotor sure got a work out this weekend. And 10 meters opened up a little bit on Sunday. Got a few KH6's and South American stations in the log. 160 and 80 meters seemed better on Friday night but I still worked some new ones on Saturday night. Some nifty calls this time around: EE5E had a nice sound, and what's the deal with all the bad spots of J7OJ? I haven't used packet in a long time and I see the quality of the spotting has plummeted into the abyss! No radios, antennas, or feedlines were destroyed in this operation. 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,250,928 Pretty tough weekend. Took a fair amount of time off and I'm still exhausted. 73 Steve K0SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 23,100 Just got on a little here and there while doing other things around the house. Then went out to W0AIH the 2nd half of the contest for more punishment. :) 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 267,930 Very interesting conditions. Average rates were higher but total Q's and mults were lower than last year -- total operating time this year was 80% of last year. Either age or frustration with the incredible line noise, presented me as an unexpected gift from the local power company, reduced my hours of participation. Essentially all S&P this year. Openings to EU on 40m and 80m must have happened when I was not around. EU Signals on 40 were quite marginal for the most part although Pac and JA were about usual. My line noise source was on the JA path so 20m and 15m JA QSO numbers were much reduced. The power company and I have accepted the objective of eliminating the noise before the ARRL DX SSB weekend. I know I will keep my part of the bargain; I can only hope they are good for their part. Tod, K0TO [Idaho] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,938,568 2007 ARRL DX CW Soapbox Murphy strikes again! The night before the contest, one of my amplifiers failed while I was testing the 40 meter system. It was 1 AM so I decided not to try to fix it right away. I also found that the four square had a high SWR on two of four directions. I sent some email out to K1BG for the loan of an amp and went to sleep. The next day after all my work obligations were satisfied, I went to pick up the amp from Bruce and headed home to deal with the four square. Luckily the problem with the four square was quickly solved and I proceeded to get the station ready for the crew to arrive. Thanks to Richie, KB1NEF for showing up to provide moral support. Richie just got out of the hospital and his support was greatly appreciated. Sunday afternoon we tried working a bunch of the spotted stations in the Caribbean on 10 but the only thing we could hear was backscatter from the other US stations working them. We got a few of them but it was tough going. Thanks to everybody who called in and all the stations who participated to make this such a fun weekend all around. MVP award is split between K1HI for his Herculean effort on 20, W1END for such a bang up job on 40, and K1BG for just being there when needed for almost the entire contest. 73, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 68,376 NOT A SERIOUS EFFORT AT ALL...DIDNT WORK ANYTHING SATURDAY NIGHT. HAD FAMILY NIGHT AND JUST DIDNT FEEL LIKE A ALL NIGHTER BUT I KNOW I MISSED A BUNCH..JUST GLAD TO GET ON AND PARTICIPATE. THANKS TO ALL THE GREAT OPS THAT HEARD MY SMALL SIGNAL..DL0MB TERRY WAS THERE FRIDAY NIGHT I MISSED HIM BUT GOT HIM LATER ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON HERE AT SUNSET..PTL GOOD LUCK TO GMCC'ER BILL K0UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 589,680 Had no plans to operate as I had not been able to turn the beam towards EU for weeks. Suddenly, at 2330 Friday night, the beam rotated to 45 degrees. It was not ice or a snagged cable, hmmm. So as not to tempt fate, I never rotated the beam east of North - and probably missed nothing. I have seen my scores listed on the CQ-Contest reflector in comparison to SOAB LP scores. There is no point in this. I have only a tribander and wires and no time to operate > 45 hours (4 kids, etc). So my score is not an optimum SOAB(A)LP score. I don't care if SOAB(A)LP is a "real" category or not. I operate DX Tests for club points and fun, and club points. I went years without packet (S DAK & no telnet) and have only had it for the past couple of years. I won't use an amplifier due to my XYL's pacemaker (just like the 70s & 80s when my Dad had one, K1LL). I am competitive in US tests. And if I ever get the XM240 up, I may compete as SOAB LP. 73, art ;-) 160 broken 80 INV Vee 40 AV-640 20-10 X7@60' 20-10 A3@30' South N1MM Logger WinKey USB Keyer SN 001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 152,100 This was just a partial effort from home. Spent Saturday afternoon at K1RX trying to heat up the ionosphere. Here at home, I just have my stealth inverted L for 160 which I have been using for all bands. Heard a lot of good DX on 160. Worked ZL on 80 which was good for me. I had several 5 banders, but only one 6 bander...considering I made only 2 Qs on 10, that was good! Lots of stations had pileups on Saturday that were almost begging on Sunday. Seemed like someone was offering discount flights to V3 this weekend, I worked a bunch. Thanks to all who pulled me out of the noise, I know I am not that loud. Maybe one day I will be able to put up some aluminum and run some power, but for now, I am still in my condo with a stealth wire. Best call over the weekend had to be EE5E. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 68,799 Will upload to LOTW. Mostly quiet until 0300z Sunday when static crashes went to S-9 plus. Many 100w stations worked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 249,690 With work schedule, could not work 40m cw this time. Got a good night's rest and came back at 06:00 on 20m cw. Took off 12 hours Saturday evening, with an early start Sunday morning. CU all in Dayton, Tom, K1IM CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,134,260 I couldn't break away from work to put together a serious effort, so it was totally casual at K1IR this time. M/M so we didn't have to worry about band changes. Thanks to my ops for putting in the hours. 73! Jim K1IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 218,022 I was happy to get as much operating time in as I did. With my wife working all weekend and me being in charge of wrangling our 15 month old daughter, I didn't think there would be much time for contesting. Fortunately, she (the daughter!) took a few nice long naps in the morning both Sat and Sun. Special thanks to KL1V who patiently pulled me through the noise on 80m and in doing so helped me complete 5BWAS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,881,130 I forgot how much more work it was to set up for M/M instead of M/S or M/2! Had some problems the first few hours with inter-station QRM, solved some of it. Looks like we were competitive on all bands except 80m. Will have to import some saltwater or something! 73 -- Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 17,010 Three days before the contest, an ice store broke the transmitting antenna and the North/South (two wire) Beverage. One of the "tee" wires broke under the ice load, and the resulting inverted L was resonant at 2.1 MHz. Friday afternoon I lowered the remaining "tee" wire at the supporting tree and added another 20 feet of wire to bring resonance back into the band. There was too much snow and ice to lower the vertical to reattach the broken "tee" wire. One the first night, the inverted L seemed to lack a bit of the punch that the "tee" had. The second night transmitting seemed normal. Even though the North/South Beverage broke nearly in half, the broken Beverage was better than any other for stations due south. The baby normally squawks several times between 5am and 7:30am when she gets up, so I assumed I could count on a squawk to roust me from bed for sunrise. However, the first night she squawked at 4am, which was too early, and then again at 7:30. By the time I got to the radio, I had missed everything. The second morning, she squawked only at 7:30, and I got to the radio quicker, but KH7X was the only station available to work. I'm sure she will resume her normal squawking schedule, now that the contest is over. Maybe I should get an alarm clock. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1NQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 691,809 so1r Sb-220 w/160m mod Icom 765 160m shunt tower 80m 2 phased vertical 40m 2 element short 40 at 77' 20-10m th6/th6 70/40feet Trip to LA on monday morning and family limited time to 13 hours Mostly running with a little s&p to work a few mults but not much Had fun. slept well ect ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PQS Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 70,350 Longest DX was VQ9LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1QO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 86,868 ARRLDXCW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2007-02-16 CallSign Used : K1QO Operator(s) : K1QO Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : NH Gridsquare : FN42LU Name : Ann Byers Address : 8 Bartlett St. City/State/Zip : Newton NH 03858 Country : USA ARRL Section : NH Club/Team : Yankee Clipper Contest Club Software: N1MM Logger V7.1.5 Band QSOs Pts Cty 1.8 9 21 7 3.5 25 72 15 7 62 180 32 14 76 228 41 21 57 171 30 28 4 12 2 Total 233 684 127 Score : 86,868 Rig : FT-1000D Antennas : OCF Dipole @ 50' Double Zepp for 20M @ 40' 160M Dipole @ 50' Soapbox : I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2007-02-18 Signature : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,120,000 Small number of ops this go round. Thanks to my part time crew, we made a good showing. Special Thanks to our many contesting friends around the world for making this weekend so much fun. See you in the ARRL SSB test in two weeks. 73, Mark, K1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,545,108 Missed both mornings and the big rates, but still fit in some fun on 5 bands. Lots of stations worked on multiple bands. 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1XM Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,811,772 Preliminary score. Tough conditions. Great operating team persisted: 160m: Dennis NB1B 80m: Paul K1XM 40m: Eric K3NA and Al W1FJ 20m: Andy K2TJ and Witt K1EO 15m: Greg W1KM 10m: everyone took a turn at milking the ionosphere here. Thanks for the Qs and mults. And thanks, Greg, for letting us use the station (again). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 288,579 We had a storm and QRN from the North which made copy difficult on Saturday night but it was an amazing contest. Thanks for ALL the calls and all the calls I couldn't pull out. Biggest surprise were calls from DS2MS, VK9DNX, A61M, ZA/UT7DW, TF3DC, OY1CT and KG6DX. 73, Ralph - K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,068,960 About 300 Q's down from last year, along with 20 mults. Most of the difference resulted from the decline of 15 and to a lesser degree, 10 meters. One hIghlight was working VK7SM on 40M with my low wires just before 4PM local. Only HP1XX made the 6-band list here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QPN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 229,770 Band QSOs Pts Cty 3.5 31 93 24 7 188 564 67 14 130 390 57 21 65 195 37 Total 414 1242 185 Score: 229,770 My ICOM is in the shop. Used an FT-857 and an SB-220. A Mutt & Jeff combo. Good conditions on 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 15,840 Got back early from operating 80 at NQ4I so put in a coupla hours before my son's in-laws arrived for the evening. Surprised at how many DX stns didn't recognize SC as a state but the South shall rise again. Then people will remember there is an SC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TA Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 36,984 This was the most fun with QRP I've had in a contest! The 3 element wire yagi toward EU worked great but could not hear many Carribeans. Put up a last minute 1/4 wave ground plane 20ft off the ground and picked up a few mults down south. Thanks always to ZL3WW and KH6LC for my only Pacific QSO's. Those guys have great ears! Surprised to work OX3XR and TA3D in pileups with the big boys. UU2CW had nice 579 5W signal all weekend but never heard him CQ...would like to have worked him. Glad 4U1UN jumped to 40M at 3:30PM ET for some local QSO's...thanks guys for the mult! Rig: Elecraft K2 running 5W Ant: 3 element wire yagi at 35ft and 1/4 wave GP at 20ft RX Ant: 2 element crossed K9AY loops Software: N1MM Contest Logger (My first contest with it..worked great!) 73 de Tom K2TA Greenwood Lake, NY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,484,866 There is something going on between me and 40. I don't love her anymore and she hates my guts. The numbers are way down from what they should be, until Sunday evening even my 80 numbers were better. The main antenna developed an intermittent high VSWR problem in the second hour and was replaced by the 3L WA3FET Special which usually stays pointed at the Caribbean pirates. On receive it sounded even better. Wish everyone such a spare ! Otherwise - 500 Q's and one million points less than the last year; 300 or so on 40 and the rest on 15. 28 5-banders and only 6 on all bands: HP1XX, KH6LC, KH7X, PJ2T, TI5N and VP8/LZ1UQ. Ten's a bitch ! ZK3RE is the new non-IDing champion - 22 Q's in a raw. Maybe he went even longer, I just ran away as soon as I became the 23rd. My shoes are probably still floating somewhere around 3502 ... The coolest call now is EE5E but on low bands it has to come with a couple of KW's flowing down the pipe. EI4IS came in second. 557/N3BNA wasn't bad either. DA0UNBOOT made me sweat on 80. 73 and CU in two weeks ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3FH Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 40,200 Love this contest the best, wish I had more time to participate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,715,300 What a super contest! Congrats to the W3LPL and KC1XX teams. Amazing scores from both groups! Good job! Thanks to a tremendous operating team here at K3LR! We gave it our best with challenging conditions. There is no better way to spend 48 hours that with your best friends in the K3LR radio room and "on the radio" via wireless around the world! We were very fortunate to have both the gold and silver medal WRTC teams from 2006 with the K3LR crew this time. How special is that? VE3EJ and VE7ZO operated 15 meters and N6MJ and N2NL did 20. It was amazing to see these guys operate! Always calling CQ and always tuning. We always enjoy the intensity of K1EA and K1AR. Thanks for joining the rest of the K3LR contest men! Along with K3LR super stalwart operators K3UA, N2NC, N3GJ and N3SD - we pushed for every QSO! Butts in the chair and making the meters move! Thanks to Dave, W9ZRX who had all the K3LR systems running at 100% for the contest! He does the entire behind the scenes work and that is what makes this station run smooth. Dave made sure our new logging package, WinTest, ran perfect! Station details are on the K3LR web site below – HARDWARE button. We’ll see everyone in the ARRL DX Phone contest in two weeks! From all the K3LR Contest Men >> Very 73! Tim K3LR http://www.k3lr.com and email k3lr@k3lr.com ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST -- 2007 BAND QSO COUNTRIES OPERATORs 160 156 72 K3LR 80 1031 100 K3UA + K1EA 40 1390 121 N2NC + K1AR 20 1917 129 N2NL + N6MJ 15 741 102 VE3EJ + VE7ZO 10 47 26 N3GJ + N3SD -------------------------------------- Totals 5282 550 = 8,715,300 points Continent Statistics K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 33 34 45 49 44 17 222 4.1 South America 13 26 36 57 57 27 216 4.0 Europe 102 926 1169 1562 546 0 4305 79.1 Asia 0 50 89 243 52 0 434 8.0 Africa 7 18 28 30 31 1 115 2.1 Oceania 6 27 52 38 26 3 152 2.8 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 21/15 127/42 177/47 82/32 10/6 1/1 418/143 418/143 1 11/4 70/10 106/17 22/3 . . 209/34 627/177 2 14/10 57/6 59/11 7/3 . . 137/30 764/207 3 13/5 59/8 43/4 12/1 . . 127/18 891/225 4 10/6 43/3 44/2 3/1 . . 100/12 991/237 5 14/5 63/6 43/7 . . . 120/18 1111/255 6 13/6 68/2 67/1 . . . 148/9 1259/264 7 9/2 49/1 74/3 3/1 . . 135/7 1394/271 8 5/2 20/2 47/1 5/1 ..... ..... 77/6 1471/277 9 1/0 18/1 37/2 14/9 . . 70/12 1541/289 10 2/1 8/3 15/1 40/14 . . 65/19 1606/308 11 1/1 5/1 9/2 81/9 2/2 . 98/15 1704/323 12 . 4/0 13/4 177/17 26/19 . 220/40 1924/363 13 . . 3/0 193/4 52/21 . 248/25 2172/388 14 . . . 146/4 83/17 1/1 230/22 2402/410 15 . . . 105/1 112/6 6/6 223/13 2625/423 16 ..... ..... ..... 128/1 60/1 14/7 202/9 2827/432 17 . . . 76/5 19/4 1/1 96/10 2923/442 18 . . 1/1 57/3 13/3 1/1 72/8 2995/450 19 . . 6/1 28/3 10/2 2/1 46/7 3041/457 20 . . 28/1 12/2 6/1 . 46/4 3087/461 21 . 5/0 98/2 30/1 8/1 . 141/4 3228/465 22 3/1 46/2 97/0 41/0 35/1 . 222/4 3450/469 23 3/1 64/0 55/3 34/3 7/1 . 163/8 3613/477 0 5/3 41/5 38/2 49/2 1/0 ..... 134/12 3747/489 1 4/3 14/0 30/1 3/0 . . 51/4 3798/493 2 1/1 17/5 14/3 . . . 32/9 3830/502 3 4/1 20/0 16/1 3/0 . . 43/2 3873/504 4 3/1 36/0 17/0 3/0 . . 59/1 3932/505 5 6/1 43/0 11/0 . . . 60/1 3992/506 6 7/0 48/0 20/0 . . . 75/0 4067/506 7 1/0 40/0 13/1 . . . 54/1 4121/507 8 1/1 7/1 3/0 ..... ..... ..... 11/2 4132/509 9 1/1 3/1 10/0 1/0 . . 15/2 4147/511 10 . 3/0 7/0 1/0 . . 11/0 4158/511 11 . 3/0 12/1 44/0 . . 59/1 4217/512 12 . . 5/1 107/2 5/0 . 117/3 4334/515 13 . . . 96/2 14/2 . 110/4 4444/519 14 . . . 81/0 67/4 . 148/4 4592/523 15 . . . 63/1 59/6 1/0 123/7 4715/530 16 ..... ..... ..... 63/0 74/2 3/3 140/5 4855/535 17 . . . 33/0 41/2 . 74/2 4929/537 18 . . . 25/0 14/0 5/1 44/1 4973/538 19 . . 3/0 17/1 4/0 4/0 28/1 5001/539 20 . . 20/0 11/0 3/0 3/2 37/2 5038/541 21 . . 53/1 7/0 3/1 5/2 68/4 5106/545 22 2/0 29/0 60/0 7/0 8/0 . 106/0 5212/545 23 1/1 21/1 36/0 7/3 5/0 . 70/5 5282/550 DAY1 120/59 706/87 1022/110 1296/118 443/85 26/18 ..... 3613/477 DAY2 36/13 325/13 368/11 621/11 298/17 21/8 . 1669/73 TOT 156/72 1031/100 1390/121 1917/129 741/102 47/26 . 5282/550 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3B8 1 3W 1 4J 1 1 4U1U 1 1 1 1 1 1 4X 4 3 6 1 5B 1 2 1 1 5T 2 1 1 5Z 1 1 1 6W 1 1 1 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 8P 1 1 1 2 2 1 9A 1 11 22 25 9 9M2 1 2 9Q 1 1 9V 1 1 9Y 1 1 BY 2 C6 2 2 2 1 1 1 CE 1 1 3 1 1 CM 1 2 4 2 CN 2 2 2 2 2 CP 1 1 CT 1 3 5 7 5 CT3 2 1 2 3 2 CU 1 CX 1 1 1 3 DL 9 143 166 245 84 DU 1 2 EA 4 37 57 53 40 EA6 1 1 2 1 EA8 2 8 10 12 10 EA9 1 1 1 1 EI 3 8 7 11 7 EL 1 1 1 1 ER 3 2 2 ES 1 4 1 4 1 EU 9 5 10 3 EX 1 F 8 49 70 82 51 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FM 1 2 1 1 1 FO 1 2 2 G 11 87 106 132 32 GD 1 1 GI 2 1 1 3 GJ 1 1 GM 1 18 14 22 2 GU 1 1 1 2 1 GW 1 10 9 6 6 HA 5 36 55 51 20 HB 2 18 27 38 16 HC 1 1 HH 1 1 1 1 HI 1 1 1 1 1 HK 1 1 2 2 2 1 HL 2 2 HP 2 2 1 1 1 1 HR 1 HS 1 3 I 6 60 116 133 72 IS 1 4 7 6 3 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 J7 1 1 1 1 1 1 J8 1 JA 36 53 187 47 JT 1 KH2 1 1 1 1 KH6 5 10 13 8 12 3 KL 1 3 1 8 6 KP2 2 2 3 3 3 1 KP4 3 2 5 2 3 LA 3 12 6 16 4 LU 1 5 8 16 18 11 LX 1 2 2 2 1 LY 1 9 8 15 2 LZ 11 24 22 11 OE 3 7 10 15 6 OH 2 17 8 23 5 OK 4 74 72 108 37 OM 4 28 21 22 10 ON 1 16 22 28 8 OX 2 2 2 OY 1 1 1 OZ 1 10 3 8 3 P4 2 5 4 4 6 4 PA 5 30 43 67 21 PJ2 3 4 4 4 4 3 PJ7 1 1 1 1 1 PY 1 7 10 18 16 4 R1FJ 1 1 S5 2 19 32 34 21 SM 2 22 15 34 2 SP 4 26 34 67 10 ST 1 1 1 SV 1 6 14 7 5 T9 2 7 8 1 TA 1 1 1 TF 1 3 TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 TK 2 2 2 2 TU 1 1 1 UA 3 44 57 98 3 UA2 2 3 2 2 3 UA9 5 17 25 1 UK 1 UN 2 3 2 UR 1 41 53 55 3 V2 1 1 V3 4 3 3 3 3 2 V4 2 2 2 3 3 1 V7 1 1 1 1 VK 6 20 9 4 VK9N 1 1 1 1 1 VP2E 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 VP8/h 1 1 1 1 1 VP9 2 2 3 2 2 2 VQ9 1 1 1 VR 1 2 VU 2 XE 2 1 3 4 4 YB 2 YI 1 2 2 1 YL 2 8 3 13 6 YN 1 1 1 1 YO 1 10 19 27 10 YU 2 20 30 40 18 YV 3 2 4 5 5 1 Z3 1 2 5 Z7 1 ZA 2 2 2 1 ZC4 2 ZF 1 1 1 1 1 ZK3 1 1 1 ZL 6 11 13 6 ZS 2 5 5 8 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,237,240 Fun weekend at the bottom of the cycle. 20m was fantastic to Europe on Saturday morning.Best 60 minutes was a 170 hour 1241-1341z. If conditions are like this during the ssb weekend 20m is going to be a real snake-pit. Just starting to put up a web page www.k3oo.com lots more to come there. Everytime my friend Dale HH7/N3BNA came back to me he came back to K3OOOOO. Sure hope it looks different in his log..hi.. 73,Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PH Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 512,631 So THIS is what it's like to work QRP in ARRL DX CW with no sunspots! Thanks to everyone who managed to pull my peanut whistle out from all the QRM! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 280,566 Had a great time and score is not too bad considering only 2 of my 11 hour operating were in daylight. Family time kept me off during the day, as my 20 and 15 meter QSO totals tell the story. 160 was fantastic the first night, was good but not great the second. In general the low bands were nice and quiet with lots of loud signals. Maybe next year I'll break the 500 QSO mark. Thanks for all the contacts and see you in WPX. paul Kenwood TS-850S with AL-811 amp 80 M vertical with 12 radials; 40/20 M fan dipole up only 20 feet (came down in ice storm during the week, put up day of contest); ladderline-fed 80 M dipole up 60 feet for all bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,355,307 My string of all ARRL DX contests as SOA since the class started, has ended. K3IPK was looking for a place to operate, and asked if I knew anyone that needed help, I was waiting to get the date of my dad's funeral at the time, and a guest op turned out to be the only way to keep the station on for a serious amount of time. We added a keyer and set up to transmit on both stations simultaneously when I was around, and Richard was awake. We had a house full of family and friends Saturday, and you would not have known IPK was in the basement. I joined him late in the afternoon and operated most of the rest of the weekend. 73 Chas K3WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,997,940 The only rotator working was the one that rotates the 40 meter beam, so the mults on the other bands are down from what they could have been. Lots of fun anyway though! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4AQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 133,293 http://www.arrl.org/contests/rules/2007/intldx.html Station: * 15m/20m/40m: Hustler Mobile antennas on 15-psgr club wagon parked in driveway via 50-ft RG-6 Cable TV coax * 80m/160m: 50-foot sloping wire bottom-fed with SGC SG-237 Smartuner at rig * Yaesu FT-897D xcvr, 100 watts; microHAM microKeyer * WriteLog 10.60g Highlights: * Firsts: Israel (4X/40m), Kenya (5Z4/20m), Falkland Islands (VP8/40m & 20m) WAC: 6/6 DXCC: 71 unique Soapbox: Missed most of Saturday morning because of work. Was intending to operate QRP but after checking propagation predictions, I went with 100 watts. Decided to use the Hustler mobile antennsas mounted on vehicle (not-in-motion) on the 10/15/20/40 bands to test their effectiveness under DX contest conditions. I was very pleased with the results. I also wanted to do more testing with a simple 50-ft sloping wire antenna (tx & rx) on the 80 and 160 bands. It yielded Q's up to 2000 miles Saturday morning. Fantastic! -- Matt Lee, K4AQ Atlanta, Georgia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CIA Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 293,712 Thanks for all the good ears out there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 209,520 I'm still plagued with serious line noise in the primary directions (Europe and East Asia). It fluctuates from an S3 just before sunrise to S7 when the sun heats up all the connections. Thanks to all who put up with my many requests for repeats and my apologies to all whom I just could not copy. The new feed line on my 15M antenna has made at least a 3db difference; of course, the line noise is louder too. Some highlights were being called by YI9GT and FR1HZ. I also had good JA runs. Missed 6Y5 who QRTed just as I found him otherwise worked every multiplier I could hear. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 441,069 After the CQ WW CW 160m last month I disconnected my 160m feedline, and it's currently buried under 4" of ice in the yard. So, unfortunately, wasn't able to get on that band. Lots of big signals from around the world on 80-15 to S&P. Thanks for all the Q's. 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 137,088 I should have pushed harder on Saturday. Wish more guys would check their RIT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4KO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 77,787 73 Greg K4KO Attend the Tennessee QSO Party www.tnqp.org . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 40,788 hmmmm.....automation, beam, stay in chair, what else? (silly grin) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4PI Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 23,790 What awful conditions. After 16 hours I had enough. A average rate of 8 Q per hours is sad... One of the poorer 160 seasons I can remember.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4PIC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 20,520 FT-2000, Alpha 89, GAP Voyager DX-IV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,246,476 I managed to stay interested enough to put 31 hours in the chair. Conditions were not the best, but at least it was quiet, and I was able to hear fairly well. I didn't spend my usual late night time on the low bands. I guess I was exhausted from a new project at work that has been keeping me up late the last few weeks. I need to add lights to my Beverage direction switch box so that I don't try running EU on the SE antenna. In fact, my whole RX antenna situation hasn't changed much in several years. I think it might be time for a makeover. Shortest call - EE5E - would have made CT1BOH proud. :-) And I5IHE - now dat's a lotta dits! Hope I didn't bust it. Some pretty nice DX on the bands including EL, 6V, 5H, VK9N, R1F, and RK2 on many bands. Best QRP signal was 4M2L. Too many people sending worked B4, and NOT allowing another QSO. Good ops like W2GD might tell you B4, but only AFTER they work you again. (Sorry John, I caught your keyer sending P40J one time, and I pounced before thinking about it.) I hope the TCG's intrepid travelers K0EJ and W4PA had fun as V49A and VY2PA. I'd like to try this one off-shore some day, now that I've done the CQWW and WPX contests as DX. Also I see that N4ZZ has finally ended his decade-long single op streak, and operated 40 meters at NQ4I. I hope you had fun OM. Thanks to all of the DX stations that get on the air and make this event so much fun to operate. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5BG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 541,554 Biggest thrill in the contest? Working some DX on 10 meters! Worked ZM1A @ 146Z on Friday evening a full hour past our sunset. Was also pleasantly surprised to have ZS6C and ZS1EL call in on a "dead band" around 1600Z on Saturday. Had a good time playing for 24 of the 48. Tnx for all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5FP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 374,226 Big noise on 20 meters starting about 2100Z. Thats about the time the aisa/pacific signals start to com in here. The noise last for 2 to 3 hours then goes away. Does anyone else hear that or is local? Fred K5FP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 218,832 Finally got the opportunity to use my equipment at K5NZ. Long path was open both mornings but few stations there for it. E21EIC and 4K4K did call in with S9+ signals. Country-wise, very few from Africa/Asia and no Middle East. Only multiplier heard and not worked was VQ9LA who was S9+ but left just as I found him. Looks like my multiplier is OK, but I couldn't generate the Qs. A thought concerning us getting too old for 48 hours...I think a part-time category would be very popular. Maybe 24 or 36 hours. If there was such a thing, I would return to All Band operating. Equipment: FT-1000MP Field Ten-Tec Titan 425 2el @ 120 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,373,640 The station worked was well prepared with a lot of greatly appreciated help from N5RR, K5QQ, N5XR, KM5G, N5ECT, WD5R, K5ALU, K5LG, and KC2G with friends, Rita, and of course N5DX. Everything worked pretty well without only a few technical issues to deal with during the contest. The result was that I had time and desire to actually operate several hours, especially enjoying some good rates with the new 40M antenna. All of the crew are great guys and we had a good time this weekend. We were pleased to have K5KA from Oklahoma join us for the first time and also thank K0OU, K9BGL and N5XR for making the drive to spend their weekend on the mountain. Some of the better rates were on 40 and 80 during the last hour of the contest during daylight, and we wished we could have had another couple hours of those conditions. Following was the station setup for the contest: 160M Omni 6+, AL-1500, 160 foot shunt fed tower 80M IC-7800, IC-765, BTI-LK2000, 4 Square 40M IC-765, IC-765, AL-1500, 6L Yagi at 135 feet, 3L Quad fixed on JA, Sloping Dipole Southeast 20M IC-765, IC-765, AL-1500, 5/5 at 120/60 feet 15M IC-765, IC-765, AL-1500, 7/7 at 90/45 feet, 9L Yagi fixed on JA, 4L Yagi SE 10M IC-765, AL-1200, 6L Yagi at 80 feet. Plus Northeast, Southeast and Northwest Beverages. Thanks for all of the contacts. 73...Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5MQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 648,354 Had a great time in the contest. 80-15 meters was in pretty good shape. Hoped for more on 10 meters, I might have missed any 10 meter opening. Thanks to all who worked me. 73, Dave WWW.K5MQ.COM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 5,376 I wasn't sure what band I would operate on until just before the start of the contest. I had thought about doing a low-band entry but the WWV numbers didn't seem very good. So I choose to do 10M single-band instead. 10M was empty and lonely most of the time, but it had its moments. Worked only one DX QSO on Friday night (LU1HF) and not another DX QSO until after 1500Z on Saturday. The band opened then to the Caribbean for a little while. Then it closed from 1800Z until about 2200Z when it opened again for a couple of hours before our sunset (0020Z). That was when I had a mini-run of VKs and ZLs capped by JA3YBK calling in right at sunset. All these Pacific area pre-sunset QSOs were made beaming to the SW, including the JA3. On Sunday the band stayed closed until 1727Z when CT9L surprised me by calling in. An hour later the band opened nicely to the Caribbean again and was open from 1830Z until 2200Z. But most of what I heard, I had already worked the day before. Then the band closed to the Caribbean and I had one more DX QSO with ZL1BYZ at 2234Z. After that I CQed to an empty band until the end. I did get more reading in and finished one library book by Saturday night and got half-way through another before the contest was over. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5YAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 55,590 Low bands were in great shape for my brief time in the test this year. 40 sounded like 20 just a few years back with all continents present at the same time. K5YAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,348,892 Just playing around. The rest of life was getting in the way of contesting this weekend. Plans to visit my inlaws on Sunday cancelled out enabling me to get more time in than had originally planned. Best call worked: DA0UBOOT Most fun: Getting 50 countries on 160 the first night. Best rate: 177 QSOs between 1203-1302Z on Sunday (20 meters). This was done with the keyer set to 34WPM and I sent my call after every QSO. If only more guys would send their calls while running... Best DX: A tie between VK9DNX on 80m Sun morning or getting called by UN4L on 80m with 10 mins to go. Worst band: 10m. Worked all 4 guys that I heard! Worked 1511 different stations. Only one 6 bander: V31TP Lots of 5 banders(28): 4O1A 9A7A CN2WW CT9L DJ9MH DL7UMK EA3KU EF8M F5OGL FS5KA HP1XX I2WIJ IR4X J7OJ LN3Z LU4DX OL3Z OM0M OM7M P40W P49Y PJ4A UU7J V49A VP5/WJ2O WP3C YR7M ZF2AM (Not sure how I missed HP1XX on 40m!) I think it is time to really retire from single op dx contesting. Had several times with big rates and walked away because I just couldn't stay with it. Hard to stay motivated in the part time operating category as there is nothing to compete for. Need more guys putting their score in the online scoreboard (www.getscores.org). Some numbers just for fun. 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % AF 4 7 13 23 11 0 58 2.7 EU 87 298 366 846 224 0 1821 84.7 AS 2 2 11 36 3 0 54 2.5 NA 15 17 24 30 20 2 108 5.0 SA 5 7 14 23 28 6 83 3.9 OC 1 3 7 7 9 0 27 1.3 QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 0000Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 0100Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 0200Z 19/16 - 59/28 - - - 78/44 78/44 0300Z 14/8 57/25 5/5 3/3 - - 79/41 157/85 0400Z 14/7 57/13 12/3 - - - 83/23 240/108 0500Z 58/15 10/1 3/3 - - - 71/19 311/127 0600Z - 104/6 5/2 - - - 109/8 420/135 0700Z 5/3 16/3 64/14 - - - 85/20 505/155 0800Z 2/2 11/7 89/5 --+-- --+-- --+-- 102/14 607/169 11 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 607/169 60 1200Z - - 4/2 9/9 8/8 - 21/19 628/188 47 1300Z - - - 147/31 11/9 - 158/40 786/228 1400Z - - - 19/1 14/9 - 33/10 819/238 36 1500Z - - - 4/2 76/15 - 80/17 899/255 38 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/4 8/0 1/1 67/5 966/260 1700Z - - - 34/2 1/0 - 35/2 1001/262 47 1800Z - - - 42/2 6/3 - 48/5 1049/267 40 1900Z - - - 71/15 15/5 - 86/20 1135/287 2000Z - - 7/1 - 2/0 - 9/1 1144/288 49 2100Z - - 4/2 29/12 6/3 1/1 40/18 1184/306 22 2200Z - - 7/1 3/0 - - 10/1 1194/307 53 2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1194/307 60 0000Z --+-- 2/0 69/5 6/1 --+-- --+-- 77/6 1271/313 13 0100Z - - 28/1 - - - 28/1 1299/314 46 0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1299/314 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 1299/314 60 1100Z 1/0 5/5 17/5 - - - 23/10 1322/324 24 1200Z - - - 166/4 2/0 - 168/4 1490/328 1300Z - - - 166/4 1/0 - 167/4 1657/332 1400Z - - - 38/1 101/4 - 139/5 1796/337 1500Z - - - 64/2 3/2 - 67/4 1863/341 30 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1863/341 60 1700Z - - - 22/0 21/0 - 43/0 1906/341 30 1800Z - - - 57/1 11/4 - 68/5 1974/346 1900Z - - 18/0 8/0 5/1 6/2 37/3 2011/349 32 2000Z - - 4/0 7/3 - - 11/3 2022/352 44 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2022/352 60 2200Z - 1/0 30/4 12/2 4/2 - 47/8 2069/360 23 2300Z 1/0 71/3 10/1 - - - 82/4 2151/364 Tot: 114/51 334/63 435/82 965/99 295/65 8/4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 70,914 This is the first time I've actually entered an ARRL DX Contest. For maybe 25 years, I'd work maybe a log page with some cherry-picked DX, and not submit it. I really am enjoying my full size 80m dipole. Just about every mult I worked on 80 is a new country for me. Other than working JA's, 40 seemed really tough. Worked a handful of Europe Long Path (I think) last night. 20 seemed to underperform, especially the first day. Finally worked some Europe Sunday morning, but not much. 15 was spectacular for the nadir of the solar cycle. And the opening on 10 was great fun. I wish more DX would have QSYed to 10. Best DX for me: VP8 on 40 My award for worst cut number: AK (I heard it before the DX call, and I thought some lid in Alaska was sending their state) Best Callsign (Heard only): EE5E Thanks to everyone who went on DXpeditions to make this weekend a lot of fun! Station: FT-990 100W 80m dipole sloping from 50 ft 40m inv vee at 50 feet 20m dipole as sloper and vertical multiband Alpha Delta DX-CC dipole Software: N3FJP, which worked well ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 185,820 Nice opening on 10M today. Always an enjoyable contest. CU in SSB. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 79,334 No serious effort, just picking off the easy ones between projects. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6OWL Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 16,641 Got on for a few hours in bits here and there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 50,538 On & off here & there. IMHO, the bands didn't sound very crowded. Saw an interesting pix on the PJ2T Webcam :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 26,442 Had limited time but fun as always. VK9DNX was a new 160 country. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 199,950 fun contest as always, enjoyed working dx on 80 cw with a very mistuned vee antenna and 200 watts, was very suprised anyone could hear it...nice to see old friends still at it...this makes 50 yrs for me wow...getting old?? naw!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 133,560 Good openings to all continents. I even caught some good action on 10. Good to hear old friends (past and present) in the contest. As usual had several diversions this weekend which limited participation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LAZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 276,051 Needed 3 countries more for 80 meters DXCC and claimed them in this contest. Now to get the cards. Also worked all time new one 5T5DY on 40 meters. If the 80 meter Steppir coil had been ready it would have been an all band effort on SteppIr antennas except for 160 which I did not attempt this contest. My best effort to date since starting in 2003. Sure a lot of loud JA's running 5-20 watts. Not sure how the guys go the full time, I was tired with only 26 hours at the rig. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7MM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 14,700 Biggest thrill: Franz Josef Land answers my QRP CQ in the 20M "mosh pit"! Thanks Chepur at R1FJT. Also very fine to work VK9DNX on 80M QRP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RAT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 14,964 Just fooling around with remote control software (Ham Radio Deluxe). N6RT was sitting comfortably at home in California and controlled the station over the internet for the 40 and 20 meter QSOs. The other contacts were made in person by N6TR in front of the radio. This is pretty revolutionary software. I wonder when one or two of the stations in a serious multi-multi will be manned by operators who are not physically present at the location? Many thanks for Dave, W9ZRX for his technical support and patience answering a million questions before getting this all to work. Also to Tim, K3LR, who had this stuff setup on his station and provided inspiration. And of course to Doug, N6RT for figuring out all the stuff on his end. Also, to K1BX and all at WinKey who promptly send me the kit I needed to send CW. And finally, many thanks to the HB9DRV and all the gang that produced the Ham Radio Deluxe Software. If you would like to try this out on my beta setup with a K2 - drop me a line. You will need a good internet connection so you can do radio control and hear sound via Skype at the same time. I might work on a small program that allows integrated CW and logging to be bundled - which would greatly simplify the whole experience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 339,228 This year I decided to try a 20m SB effort thinking it was the best chance for the most action. The best action was limited to the short EU and JA openings; everything in between was low rate S&P. The last few hours of the contest were brutally slow, as was negotiating some of the massive pile-ups. Some DX stations would rarely sign, and when they finally did, many loud stations called right over the top making it difficult to get the call - that seemed to go on endlessly. Some pile-ups were so big and unruly that I had to come back later. But that didn’t always work as the DX station was gone when I came back. Many mults were missed that way. In hindsight, I should have stuck it out in the pile-up. Other interesting notes: Dupes, dupes, dupes (one station worked me four times!); flutter on the EU signals Sunday morning; rain static; computer crashes/glitches (sorry WH0S!); and key clicks. Compliments to all the FB ops! Thank you for the Q! 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7UP Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 15,753 K2 @ 5W 80M INV @35', 40M INV @35', 3el tribander @32', fixed pointed 115deg. Biggest thrill working VP8/LZ1UQ 40M QRP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7UT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 56,772 Thanks to Mike for letting me operate from his fine station at NI7T. Could only get on for a few hours on Saturday afternoon and evening but, as always, it was great fun. See you for SSB in two weeks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 11,934 Personal best from city QTH with Force12 40XK temporary vertical set up on the deck. Special thanks to Jazz the cat for waking me up both nights to chase DX, and thanks to all those DX Ops with good ears!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 31,494 FT1000MP, Al811, HF2V. Virtually all S&P with slight JA runs. Thanks for the Q's and 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 75,411 While at home from duty at the multi-op Contest Station, I figured it would be nice to seek out those DX-Pedition Contest operations and give them the Q's they went to the expense to get - and, to be there for US to score. Tried to find them on several Bands, if I could. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,240,320 Call of the contest: EE5E Had a great time. New job got in the way of a full time effort. Operators are getting sharper and quicker and better.... Was pleased that ST2A called me on 40! K8GL K8GL at sbcglobal.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 161,616 Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B (2), M-Squared 40M3L 3 el 40m yagi at 71 ft, K9AY Rx Loops (a few times) Special kudos: 1.MFJ-1026 Noise Canceler, without which the last part of night one to JA and all of the second night to JA would have been nearly a bust. With a properly chosen sense antenna acting on only a "point source" noise, that box really works! RTFM. 2.N1MM and crew for their excellent contest logging program.Those of you not using N1MM Logger are really missing something. Plus, its Free, a word all us cheap hams like! It's been the primary contest logging program here for the past 2 yrs. 3. Good friends KC7V and K7WP, who, finding out that I may be "ampless" for this weekend, didnt hesitate to offer me one of their amps. You guys not only can operate the hell out of a contest station, you're good guys too! Your VooDoo Contest Group upbringing, no doubt. ;-) 4. Special mention too, to the countless JA's and others who stuck with my repeat requests while I dealt with "the mother of all noises" that first night. I normally dont need to ask for fills, so TNX! -------- Three to four lost hours the first night and certainly not the score I was planning on. In fact, I was about 150 q's below where I thought I would be. Then again, it's a respectable score (would have been 4th USA the past 2 yrs, wont be that high this yr) and I, mostly, had a lot of fun and got our local club, www.cadxa.org, some needed points! No detailed whining on this end, so no need for you to say "give that dude some cheese with his whine", hi. Briefly though, problems here with exceptionally high noise level in JA direction (S6 with 200hz filter!), Alpha 91B keying vacuum relay that seized and some unusual rf interaction with cw keying serial port. The MFJ-1026 pretty much took care of the noise (a singular, still unidentified "point" source noise, fortunately).I redid my station computer grounding/bonding scheme mid-contest to solve the serial port keying problem and good friend KC7V came thru with the loan of his Alpha 91B to relace my failed one. I found 40 to be decent both nights, but exceptionally good the second night as QSB was much less. The QSB the first night was similar to what we experience on 160, very rapid. I did seem to notice a lack activity from several regions as, although cndx were better on night 2, it was still hard to find new stations to work in Eu especially. JA's were heard here beginning 3 hrs before their sunset, and were still being heard here nearly 4 hrs past my sunrise! That's a BIG time window. Even with noise problems, I still worked 326 JA's, more than half my total q's, and the only thing that keeps us even remotely competitive here in the west. Could have worked 100 more, I am sure, if I wasnt noise limited.The BY Jammer, aka The Dragon, did mess things up somewhat the second night here. All and all, a fun time once I got thru the "wrinkles". CU in ARRL DX SSB in a few weeks and incognito for CQWW 160 SSB next week. ;-) 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA http://members.aol.com/bobk8ia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 236,400 Missed the Saturday morning EU openings due to teaching ham classes, and a new S9 wide-band noise source to my northeast (a new plasma TV in the neighborhood?) limited my numbers on 20. No problems when the beam was SE or NW, though. There were a couple of good hours on 80 and 40. 15 was much better than expected, and 10 grudgingly gave up a handfull of contacts to the southern Caribbean and LU. Never worked so many KH6's in a single contest. Thanks to all who dug me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 13,806 A brief appearance in the last 2 hours after doing my serious operating at K8AZ. My contribution to all the serious guys staggering to the finish line after 46 hours. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9AY Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 44,730 Decided to do a little propagation research on 80M from the Black Hole. Condx got better through the weekend, but it's a little frustrating to have the best condx during the final 1/2-hour -- loud 100W Europeans and South Americans; 5 new mults! TX: 1.5 kW to inv-L (55 ft. vert.) RX: K9AY Loops and Beverages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 111,606 Only three good runs. EU 0700 on first day, JA 0800 on first day and then EU the last couple of hours. The rest was S&P. Thanks for the QSO's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 974,788 What started out to be a single band 80m effort became a part time all band effort when the low temperatures caused massive line noise on 80 and 160 meters. It was fun to do something different, especially using packet to chase the multipliers. John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 119,616 Operating from the outside pool deck, in the screened in room, exposed to temperatures but covered from rain. Temperatures on Friday-Saturday reached 31 degrees, and at 3:30 AM, I was shivering so badly, I couldn't send CW anymore. So I went into bed for 2 hours to warm up a bit. Got back on at 6 AM and worked till 8 AM. Saturday night was slightly warmer, with temp at 55 degrees at 4 PM, dropping to 40 degrees in middle of night. Worked all on the band by 1:30 AM, so went to bed until 5:45 AM, when got back on the air, and went QRT at 8 AM after working last JA heard 1 hour after sunrise. Got back on at 4 PM, hearing European stations at 4:15PM. Worked last country (EA9), and about 25 more stations. Radio and Antenna: IC756 Pro-2 with Ameritron AL572 Linear, 1KW output to hmbr 4-Square antenna (see http://k9es.painloss.com/index.htm for info). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,500 Didn't have much planned for this contest since Friday night was spent watching the Chicago Blackhawks lose to Vancouver at the United Center...So pretty much missed most of the beginning of the contest. Then errands etc took up Saturday. At least I got to the gym on both days, hah! Tough to really sit in the chair for a contest since my weekday job is sitting in a chair for 40+ hrs plus another 10+ hrs of driving... Was fun to play QRP with the Yaesu FT-817. I really have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of the radio. Just amazing what QRP can do even at this time of the solar cycle with a vertical from the midwest USA. Until the next one... Best of health to all, Eric DAYTON! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 196,860 Just a part-time effort. Ninety-nine percent of QSOs via S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 15,930 Just looking around. I had to try to take a little advantage of the low noise on 80 and 160. Low noise here is ephemeral! Thanks to all who qso'd and good dx! Darrell K9MUG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 858,840 First QSO was at 2357z Saturday night. I'd planned to be around for most of the weekend but after spending way too much time digging, scraping and picking at snow and ice to get my car out of the DAY parking lot Friday afternoon, I was cold, wet and irritated so I went home for the night instead. Woke up to snow Saturday morning. Real possibility of bagging the whole thing. About noon the radar started to look like if I could get about an hour north the weather would be much better so I jumped in the car about 2000z and set off on the 3 hour drive.....which took closer to 4 hours.... Condx seemed pretty decent all things considered. Spent most of the time just tuning up and down the bands and chasing spots. Occasionally a clear frequency would present itself so I felt compelled to CQ a bit. Put about 18 hours in the chair. A lot of road time for a partial effort but I'd really hate to completely miss one of the big ones! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 158,400 I CONSTRUCTED A 40-M BEVERAGE THE DAY BEFORE THE CONTEST AND IT GAVE ME MANY EXTRA Q'S. BUT STILL WERE SOME WEAK STNS I JUST CAN'T PULL THROUGH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 9,576 73s to those contesters who worked my 25-watt signal! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA6LAF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 62,496 Thanks to everyone who pulled my little weak signal out of the noise! Conditions were better than I expected, and OH8X - what a signal on 20M! Elecraft K2/100 + ground mounted vertical dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,314,825 I should have known this was to be a difficult weekend! After our ice storm Wednesday the winds came and the 3 element 40M beam became a 2 1/2 element antenna. We lost half of the director. Early on Friday I slipped on the icy surface and smacked my head as I fell backwards. Seeing stars I then went to a customer site for a service call but felt awful with a slight vision problem. NO! Not on the contest weekend! K1EBY came early and let me know that most of the rotors were frozen. By afternoon we got the 10M and 15M rotors turning but not 20M That thawed out Saturday. The barn was about 20 degrees. Three of our 4 stations were not set up yet. As we got them in order we found more problems with equipment. The Comtek box for the 40M 4-square was not working. Found and fixed a blown full wave bridge in the DC supply section. The 80M 4-square did not seem to be changing direction. Found squirrel damage to the control cable. By 5 PM we were ready to go. Equipment actually performed well all weekend. Small problems but no major failures. The new (purchased used) Titan amp worked flawlessly. Lack of operators is a different story. I knew we were going to be short and then we also had a cancellation by one of the three major operators. During Saturday there were times when we had only one chair filled out of four. Then again at this point in band conditions you can almost get by with two operators. Sunday was more of the same. Lack of fresh or mostly alive operators. K1EBY and NB1U did yeoman's work this weekend during the busy daylight runs. K1GX and K1IN did Saturday overnight with the Friday night crew (KB1H, AA1CE, N1GKI) Recently we had a donation of a 19" flat screen monitor for the main operating station. This was given to us by Howie, K1OTW, a close friend of Jay, N1GKI. During a brief trip home Saturday Jay learned that Howie had passed away. Obviously upset, Jay spent the remaining weekend with family . Our sympathies to his family and Jay. We will always need operators and it seems harder to find them each year. One comment was why don't I run a Multi-Two or Multi-Single entry. A number of reasons. First, the M/M setup makes the most points for the YCCC effort. Next, there is usually always a chair available if someone wants to operate. Not always the most productive chair but one where someone can tune the band, call CQ, or send out spots. Finally, keeping a Multi station with in the rules of M/S or M/2 requires everyone to be aware of the band change rules. Sure the software helps and notifies you of violations but by that time it is too late. The calls become highlighted in red and you are now in the M/M class. It's Monday and I have a doctor's appointment to get his opinion on my poor head. If he ask if my ears are ringing I can honestly say "yes, but it sounds like morse code!" Thanks for all the QSOs and see you in a few weeks. Dick - KB1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,257,704 This time out we welcomed Randy (N1KWF), who spent a few hours with us, to the station for the first time. We were also honored to have "the Jersey Boys" N2AA and W2RQ man 20 Meters for the weekend. Congratulations to everyone for FB efforts this weekend! It may be the bottom of the cycle, but we hope everyone enjoyed the opportunity to "play radio" as much as we did this weekend! As always, many thanks to Christine and the girls for the great hospitality this weekend and to all the DX operators who took time this weekend to give us W's and VE's the Qs! We'll see you in two weeks! 73, XX Team BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES 160 284 801 2.8 69 KA1R 80 1053 3159 3.0 101 W1FV 40 1401 4179 3.0 115 KC1XX,K1TR,AD1C 20 1853 5556 3.0 124 W2RQ,N2AA 15 565 1695 3.0 98 WA1Z,N1KWF 10 50 132 2.6 25 K1GQ -------------------------------------- Totals 5206 15522 3.0 532 = 8,257,704 Continent Statistics -------------------- 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 49 33 46 46 34 22 230 4.3 South America 10 25 35 57 59 25 211 4.0 Europe 215 950 1225 1543 420 0 4353 82.0 Asia 2 22 72 185 11 0 292 5.5 Africa 9 20 27 32 31 2 121 2.3 Oceania 4 21 33 26 17 3 104 2.0 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 21/15 112/37 137/47 36/22 ..... ..... 306/121 306/121 1 19/10 76/4 95/14 19/3 . . 209/31 515/152 2 15/5 59/10 49/5 7/3 . . 130/23 645/175 3 12/4 42/8 41/6 6/0 . . 101/18 746/193 4 29/9 53/3 48/1 1/0 . . 131/13 877/206 5 27/6 58/5 57/3 . . . 142/14 1019/220 6 33/3 65/4 45/3 1/0 . . 144/10 1163/230 7 10/4 47/5 60/1 . . . 117/10 1280/240 8 7/4 13/1 38/2 1/0 ..... ..... 59/7 1339/247 9 3/0 6/0 27/4 20/13 . . 56/17 1395/264 10 2/0 4/2 10/1 67/12 . . 83/15 1478/279 11 1/0 4/0 7/3 166/18 5/5 . 183/26 1661/305 12 . 2/0 . 162/10 36/22 . 200/32 1861/337 13 . . . 154/7 27/14 1/0 182/21 2043/358 14 . . . 148/2 66/17 4/1 218/20 2261/378 15 . . . 98/3 56/6 7/4 161/13 2422/391 16 ..... ..... ..... 121/3 43/3 10/6 174/12 2596/403 17 . . . 73/2 20/4 1/0 94/6 2690/409 18 . . . 57/2 11/1 3/1 71/4 2761/413 19 . . 1/0 26/2 12/3 3/3 42/8 2803/421 20 . 1/1 61/3 9/3 6/1 . 77/8 2880/429 21 . 16/0 103/1 29/1 5/1 . 153/3 3033/432 22 9/2 69/3 84/0 27/1 6/1 . 195/7 3228/439 23 2/0 62/0 57/3 48/3 1/0 . 170/6 3398/445 0 9/2 40/5 47/4 31/3 ..... ..... 127/14 3525/459 1 3/1 26/1 18/2 1/0 . . 48/4 3573/463 2 9/0 30/4 24/4 1/0 . . 64/8 3637/471 3 12/1 25/1 18/1 2/0 . . 57/3 3694/474 4 12/0 42/1 23/0 2/0 . . 79/1 3773/475 5 14/0 46/0 15/2 . . . 75/2 3848/477 6 12/2 41/0 31/1 . . . 84/3 3932/480 7 5/0 37/1 15/0 . . . 57/1 3989/481 8 ..... 10/1 10/0 ..... ..... ..... 20/1 4009/482 9 . 3/1 20/0 1/0 . . 24/1 4033/483 10 . 1/0 10/0 14/0 . . 25/0 4058/483 11 5/1 2/0 10/1 92/1 10/1 . 119/4 4177/487 12 . . 3/1 91/2 15/3 1/0 110/6 4287/493 13 . . 1/0 78/2 39/3 . 118/5 4405/498 14 . . . 50/0 42/4 . 92/4 4497/502 15 . . . 52/1 40/5 1/1 93/7 4590/509 16 ..... ..... ..... 40/0 67/0 5/3 112/3 4702/512 17 . . . 43/1 38/2 . 81/3 4783/515 18 . . . 28/1 6/0 1/0 35/1 4818/516 19 . . 9/0 13/1 5/1 8/4 35/6 4853/522 20 . . 72/0 5/1 2/0 5/2 84/3 4937/525 21 1/0 16/0 72/0 8/0 4/1 . 101/1 5038/526 22 10/0 25/1 57/1 12/0 1/0 . 105/2 5143/528 23 2/0 20/2 26/1 13/1 2/0 . 63/4 5206/532 DAY1 190/62 689/83 920/97 1276/110 294/78 29/15 ..... 3398/445 DAY2 94/7 364/18 481/18 577/14 271/20 21/10 . 1808/87 TOT 284/69 1053/101 1401/115 1853/124 565/98 50/25 . 5206/532 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 18 Feb 2007 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3A 1 4J 1 2 4U1U 1 1 1 1 1 1 4X 2 5 4 1 5B 1 2 1 1 5T 1 1 1 5Z 1 1 1 6W 2 1 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 7X 1 8P 1 1 1 1 1 9A 3 9 20 24 11 9J 1 1 9K 1 9M2 1 9Q 1 1 9V 1 1 9Y 1 A6 1 1 C6 2 2 2 1 1 CE 1 3 3 CM 2 4 1 CN 2 2 2 2 2 CP 1 CT 1 3 7 8 5 CT3 2 1 2 3 2 CU 1 CX 1 1 2 3 DL 21 146 198 233 64 EA 9 30 47 46 35 EA6 2 1 2 1 EA8 3 7 10 12 9 EA9 1 1 1 1 EI 4 7 9 11 4 EL 1 1 1 1 ER 2 3 1 1 ES 1 5 6 3 EU 8 4 16 2 EX 1 F 15 48 72 69 35 FJ 1 1 1 2 1 1 FM 1 2 1 1 1 FO 2 1 1 FR 1 G 32 89 103 125 18 GD 1 GI 2 1 4 2 GJ 1 1 GM 3 18 16 22 3 GU 1 1 2 GW 2 11 8 10 7 HA 5 33 53 47 20 HB 2 17 27 27 14 HC 1 1 HH 1 1 1 1 HI 1 1 1 1 1 HK 1 1 2 2 2 1 HL 2 HP 2 2 1 1 1 1 HR 1 HS 1 3 I 13 52 126 129 48 IS 1 3 5 5 3 J2 1 J3 1 1 J7 1 1 1 1 1 1 J8 1 JA 12 42 141 6 KH2 1 1 1 KH6 3 7 8 7 10 3 KL 1 1 1 6 3 KP2 2 2 2 3 3 1 KP4 3 2 3 2 2 LA 5 11 6 22 4 LU 1 4 8 16 19 10 LX 1 3 2 1 LY 2 9 5 15 2 LZ 2 12 24 21 13 OE 4 9 10 16 3 OH 4 17 8 28 2 OK 19 81 77 97 25 OM 4 28 24 22 8 ON 4 16 21 28 6 OX 1 1 1 3 OY 1 1 1 OZ 9 5 11 1 P4 2 4 4 4 5 4 PA 13 31 45 61 10 PJ2 3 3 4 4 4 2 PJ7 1 1 1 1 1 PY 7 10 18 18 4 R1FJ 1 1 S5 5 19 33 37 14 SM 11 26 10 45 4 SP 5 25 42 61 8 ST 1 1 1 SV 1 2 16 8 1 T9 1 8 6 1 TA 2 1 1 TF 1 2 4 1 TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 TK 2 2 2 1 TU 1 1 1 1 UA 8 68 53 126 5 UA2 1 2 2 3 1 UA9 4 11 20 UN 3 3 4 UR 4 49 53 57 7 V2 1 V3 4 3 3 3 3 2 V4 2 2 2 2 3 1 V7 1 1 1 1 VK 4 14 6 1 VK9N 1 1 1 1 1 VP2E 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP8/h 2 1 1 1 1 VP9 2 2 3 2 2 1 VQ9 1 1 1 VR 1 VU 2 XE 2 1 1 3 1 YI 1 2 2 YL 3 10 3 12 2 YN 1 1 1 1 YO 2 10 24 27 11 YU 4 22 30 39 17 YV 2 3 3 6 4 2 Z3 1 2 4 Z7 1 ZA 2 2 2 1 ZC4 1 ZF 1 1 1 1 1 1 ZK3 1 1 ZL 5 7 8 3 ZS 3 6 6 9 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 52,416 Well just played around when I had time... My first time to use N1MM and it seemed to work ok. Took me a while to get all setup but finally got it running. The highlight of the contest was working KH7X on Saturday morning on 160M. Pretty long haul from Southeast Alabama. Thanks for the Qs! Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 52,887 Tough sledding on 15m. Can't wait for the next cycle to begin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 240,669 My first three qsos were working JA qrp. That was a thrill (I'm easily excited) as those were my first qrp JAs. I started out qrp for the first hour but figured I'd be giving up a lot of fun, especially on 40 &80, so I opted for LP. This is my first contest as a YCCC member and I wanted to be able to submit a decent score plus work some new countries. While I did ok last year as a qrp entry, I have to say I had a blast this year, despite 10m being mostly dead here. Fortunately, 15m was in pretty good shape both days. Was able to work ZL & KH6 easily as well as EU Sunday. Finally found KL7 on cw. I think kl7wv had one of the bigger pileups that I heard. He made a brief appearance here Saturday afternoon but I wasn't able to work him (maybe cause I first tried qrp as I still need AK for qrp WAS) but I had better luck on Sunday. KH6 was almost a dime a dozen. 10m was dead on Saturday but I managed to squeeze out a few multipliers on Sunday. It was very spotty although the 6s & 7s were blasting here. Personally I was thrilled with the weekend. Worked many new countries, just about everything I heard, and blew past my score of last year, which had been, my first dx test in many, many years. Ran almost entirely S&P. Will have to try as an assisted entry next year, I spent a lot of time listening for calls this weekend, time that might've been better spent calling cq. Looking forward to the phone contest.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 428,544 Worked almost everybody I coul hear, but could not generate a run ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 72,240 Had a great time. I love CW contests. Low 40/20M dipole and a short vertical on 80. TS-940, AL-80 amp. Looking forward to the next CW test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 43,758 Antenna only at 8 ft for 20,15 & 10 so not a big effort. Interesting stuff on though! VK9N, 5T5, R1F to name a few. I got distracted when 12 mtrs opened on a good north south path. The conditions on the bands were better than I expected. Maybe the cycle has hit bottom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE5C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 79,500 I didn't intend to operate but I wanted to see how my friends at V31TP were doing. I finally ended up working them on 15 through 80, but a strange thing happened along the way. While looking for them, I thought I might as well search and pounce the strong Caribbean stations with my 100 watts and small antennas. That went unusually well, so well that when I heard a few Europeans on 40 and 80, just for fun, I answered some CQ's only to be surprised by responses to my answers. This is probably old hat to the contest gray beards, but I think I finally understand what it means for 40 and 80 to work during the solar cycle troughs. My overall rate was only 25 per hour, but that was all S&P. Of course I couldn't hear most the stations N5AW was working from his low power mountain top 100 miles from here, or N3BB with power and towers 80 miles away, but still, it was the most fun I've had in this contest from my small station. I added an automatic antenna tuner for the doublet, so it was very easy to change from 40 to 80 and back, and I actually used the doublet some on the high bands too. This was a great operating convenience - not having to twist tuner dials. STATION: Hygain Explorer-14 triband yagi at 45 feet Inverted doublet 120 feet end to end, 40 feet at apex, twin-lead fed and tuned in shack Ten-Tec Orion I TR Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 124,344 15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4HTT Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 26,892 Used a 13ft. X 13 ft. attic antenna in my townhouse ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5U Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 30,375 Only got a chances to get on for a few hours of fun. Good conditions. Always amazed at working ZL/Oceana off the back of the beam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6/AA4V Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 735,345 Hmmm... It was tough running from the west side of the big island of Hawaii. The location is ideal except for the two 13000 foot high mountains to the east. I used a Butternut HF6V w/160 adaptor over a 50 radial field laid on the ground. QTH is 500 feet up overlooking the sea to the west. It has a clear shotfrom 180 degrees to 360 degrees to the west. This antenna worked very well on 80 and 40 but I felt really puny on 20 and 15 looking east to NA. 10M was a non-starter for me with no signals heard from NA except N6RO who was my only 10M contact. Thanks guys. I heard other KH6's working station after station on 10 but I never heard the other side of the QSO. In '04, I worked this test from the seaside down in the town of Kailua-Kona using only an Outbacker 12 feet tall. Conditions were much better then and I did very nicely on the higher bands. back to the drawing board for a better location next time. Thanks to all who pulled me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,502,486 Our first contest with the new station from the new QTH. A big "Mahalo" to all those who've helped with the project. It's taken a lot of work just to get to this point. We learned a lot and now have a baseline. 73 & Aloha de KH6LC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6NF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,644,426 Struggled on 80m and 10m. Next project is 160m ant construction so I can at least struggle on that band too. Mahalo to all for each + every Q. John KH6SH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,764,825 A big mahalo! to the following 46 stations worked on all 6 bands: K0TO W0UCE N0NI NQ4I N0IJ K1TTT W0AIH K3LR K3CR N3AD W3LPL W0ETT K6LRN K5KLA K5GO N6AA WI7N N5AW VE7XF W2FU VE5UF NR4M K0KX N6EM N7IR K6XX W3PP W6EMC N3BB K9NR K2NG W2UP N4TB WB8JUI VC6T WA0MHJ KR4F W3DQ AA7A K8AZ N7CW N7ZG K1ZZ W6BO N4DW K9NW More highlights: 218 contacts in one clock hour on 80m the first night. This is a personal and station record from here in ARRL DX CW. Best 60 minutes 257/hour (15m). Best 30 minutes 280/hour (15m). A rare sunspot cycle bottom - 10m opening from this far west to most of North America on Sunday morning for 2+ hours... yeah! Every multiplier move successful except one. My thanks to all that made the moves. Special kudos to VO1HP, who went from 80m to 40m with me, and then to 160m where I heard him calling for a full 6 minutes, but he just couldn't seem to pull me through. A very generous effort, Bob, you've got the spirit... Lowlights: Having to climb 90'up the 40m tower to fix a problem during the 26th hour in 40mph gusts. Lost over 100 QSO's and some valuable energy here... Horrific long duration local static crashes for 7 hours on the second night, rendering 160m useless for this period. 80m almost as bad. This made for a very long. slow evening. But, overall, this was ONE FUN weekend for this op, boys and girls. Many thanks, to all that participated. CW is alive, and more than well. And to Alex, KH6YY, gracias amigo, for continuing the tradition. Aloha - KH6ND Okay Johnnie-boy, we're ready to hear from you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7XS/M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 102,600 Operation was done 100% mobile with an Icom 706 and a Tarheel...no computer and the keying courtesy of a Bencher sitting on the front seat of my truck. 98% of all QSOs were done in run mode. Amazed at the pileups generated by my minimal set up especially on 40. It was a lot of fun to do this contest from the DX side after 40 plus years on the USA side. Score will not be submitted, since it was impossible to drive, send CW and log in the dark. I figured the first two were more important than the third. Thanks for all the spots and all the guys who stopped by and said "Hi" to the old timer with a new call. I will be on for the SSB part with the same set up. By this time next year the new station will be up and running with antennas possibly up to 150 feet high. Lots of work to do on that yet....still waiting for the permit to go through. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ0G Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 99,696 I quit at 1000,000 points, but they took away one dupe! Bands open! 6 JA's in 5 min. on 160! WHEE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 12,648 Left Indiana in a snow storm to get to sunny Kenai, Alaska for the ARRL DX code single band 160 entry. Topband didn't show much activity pre contest so I was thinking of switching to 80 the first night but decided to stick with the plan. Probably a mistake as I had only one decent hour out of the ten with US prop and that hour accounted for half the Q's. This would have been good conditions for the CQ-160 as JA and the Caribbean stations would have been easy to work along with some Europe the first night. When the band did finally open to the US, stations were loud, but it just didn't last very long. Meanwhile the JA stations were loud all night. I quit after the Sunday East coast sunrise and not working the Green Hornet which is always a good sign to give up. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 81,000 Good contest. Had to work Saturday night so lost a few hours there, then today was the Daytona 500 AND a Penguins game so more lost time for the contest. I worked 51 different countries in the contest this year. About 2:30 a.m. (local eastern time) on 40 meters I was working New Zealand like they were local....and I never hear NZ. I even heard Japan but couldn't quite pull them outm which is the first time I've even heard JA's since getting back in Ham radio in 2003. I also worked more Hawaii this weekend than I have over the past 4 years combined on 15, 20 and 40 meters. And this is the bottom of the cycle? Also, was great hearing all the CW activity as we head into a code-free amateur radio system in the U.S. Rig: Kenwood TS 450SAT G5RV @ 20 feet N1MM Logger v. 7.1.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 104,682 Enjoyed what time I was able to operate. Kept busy with S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 882,360 I had 2 goals, break 1000 Q's and score 1M. I would have had both IF there had been even the slightest EU opening on 15M, or if I had the energy to build a DX antenna for 80 or 160. There is always the next antenna project and the next contest! Still, it's always fun winning the occasional pile up, and finding 5T5, VK9N, VP8 and 5Z4 on 3 bands while S&Ping.... Rig: TenTec Omni VI, Alpha power Ant: 3 el 40 / 5 el 20 at 90' 4 el 15 at 38' Butternut vertical with 60 X 70' radials 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 309,096 As usual, a part time effort. Quite a few ops took the time to say "TNX WY" or request a QSY and I did not hear many "neighbors" this year. Conditions seemed to be spotty from this part of the country. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2/K3MD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,429,947 /P IC-7000/ G5RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 408,150 The last 4 years have been tough to make major contest efforts from my station due to a variety of serious family and health issues. In fact, on three prior occasions I have had to postpone a very much appreciated offer from Alex, W2OX, to operate from his fine V47KP station. Fortunately N2NT was able, on short notice, to go in my place for CQWWCW and do an AMAZING job! This time I was healthy and VERY psyched up, and mother nature intervened in the form of a vicious ice storm Tues/Wed with snow plus 2" of sleet and freezing rain at my QTH. American Airlines canceled my Wed AM flight and a few hundred others and the ensuing JFK chaos (you heard about the Jet Blue/American nightmares) doomed any reasonable chance to get out of the airport. I should say that while there was a chance to get to V4 at about 10:30 PM Thursday night (with a missed connection or two), reason overcame emotion and I decided that an 80+ mile drive through freezing rain in the middle of the night in 10 degrees and a howling wind, was simply too dangerous in order to be DX. K0EJ (V49A) and I exchanged a few emails and Mark promised to drive a local brew for me. :-) I was very UNmotivated to put my station back together, having torn most of it apart for the trip, but by Sunday I couldn't help not operating, and all my q's were made after 1245z - basically one trip through the bands. It seems that Friday and Saturday nights were where the low band action was, but being "Fresh Meat" on Sunday was a great help. Even with my puny signal, I had a 168 hour at 21z on 40 meters! At one point I was almost overwhelmed by the pileup which went from 1 or two callers to about 10 loud EU multis calling me simultaneously on the same freq! It was VERY COOL to feel like a Caribbean station for about 10 minutes - I could even imagine myself in the chair at V4. That put a smile on my face and made the weekend for me! VP2E/N5AU made a very interesting comment in his writeup about instant packet pileups and everyone pushing the button and calling on the SAME freq. For about 5 minutes I had great difficulty pulling out a callsign as almost all the callers were ZEROBEAT EACH OTHER! It was clear that it was a packet pileup and the multis who showed up at the same time, were all using the same computer key which put them on the same freq. I had to work the "edges" of the pileup until the din subsided. The other problem was that with everyone calling on MY freq., the EU multis had trouble hearing me through the endless callers, which caused more chaos and lowered the rate further. NOTE TO CALLERS: ALWAYS call a tiny bit off freq., ESPECIALLY when there is a big pileup. By doing so you will reduce the level of qrm on the freq. (you will hear each other better) and enable the station to pull out calls more efficiently (and work you faster!). NOTE TO STATIONS WITH PILEUPS: ALWAYS listen to the "edges" of the pileup, ESPECIALLY when there is a big pileup. By doing so you will encourage others to call OFF freq. and you will be heard better on YOUR freq. Also, you will be more likely to hear and work unusual mults who know they won't be heard in the din and will call you if they know you are listening elsewhere. In addition, when ops hear you working stations slightly above and below your freq., they will MOVE to those places where you worked other stations. You can "migrate" a pileup this way while keeping up the rate and still controlling the freq. In both this ARRLCW and CQWWCW, I operated with one radio and one amp. Several antennas are still not working and/or rotating for the same reasons - major lightning damage last August. I mention this because it has been about 20 years since I operated with only one radio in a major contest. The most noticeable differences between one and two radios are that there is less fatigue with one radio, since it is MUCH easier to concentrate on the rate without expending energy tuning and listening in another place at the same time; it is MUCH more boring to operate when the rate dies, and you miss a LOT of mults, especially with brief and unpredictable band openings (like the Caribbean on 10). In CQWWCW I missed probably 20 mults on 10 meters because they were there and gone in 10 minutes while I was on 15 running EU. You also can not effectively pass mults to another band with only one radio! With only a few working/rotating antennas at my station, and with the switching devices out of commission (now fixed but not yet re-installed), I do not have the ability to use stacks and am often missing the "right" antenna combo at the "right" time. This is not a complaint, simply an observaton as to how the performance, score and rate "dip" when you no longer have the "right tool for the job" at the moment that you need it. While most ops are using one radio and probably one or two antennas to make their scores, I have had a wonderful reminder of how important it is to be able to use two radios and multiple antennas with stacking possibilities. While there are many times that the difference at that moment is minor, the score differences at other times when you NEED the second radio and the stacking, is AMAZING! Of course, it is not about HAVING the equipment, it is about HAVING the equipment and USING IT EFFECTIVELY at the EXACT TIME that it makes the difference! Many thanks to all the DX ops for the q's and for those that were successful in taking trips to put mults on the air for this contest! 73 Bob KQ2M kq2m@earthlink.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 10,395 The contacts were almost equally split between stations to the west and to the east. The percentage of JA's worked and the percentage of Q's made on the first day (too high) were almost exactly the same as in the CQ WW CW. FT-1000MP 3-element tribander at 20ft 100 watts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 519,720 This was a lot of fun! LEAD IN I had planned to not operate this contest (I leave a “my contest calendar” on the fridge for the family), but seeing that I had the following Monday off, I changed my mind about 5 hours prior to the contest. This past work week had been thoroughly exhausting (another 60 hours in the office) and the commute home particularly draining (several 2-hours commutes [one way] due to multiple car accidents along the NNJ to NYC highways and the FDR (if you know NYC). But I’d operate anyway and hopefully have some fun, which I really needed. PREPARATION As stated, there was no pre-contest preparation. I left work early to beat the traffic (I just couldn’t bear another 2-hour commute home). I got home, stripped, and got into my PJ bottoms and slippers so as to relax (what I wear helps me define my intended state of mind). Around 30 minutes before the start, I turned on the rig and computer and did a quick tune. For some reason, I turned one of my antennas and it got stuck. I turned it towards the opposite direction and it moved nicely. Coming back, it stuck at the same spot. So I pulled up my PJ bottoms so they wouldn’t drag in the snow and went out to see what was wrong. It was about 14 F here. Somehow, with the ice and snow, the spatial relationship between the bottom of the quad spreaders and the top of the inverted V for 160 and changed and the quad was hanging up on the V, which is supported on the same tower. Easy enough – I let out about 5 feet of rope holding the V and now there was clearance. Coming back in, I told my wife, “I’m going to win this one because I was out in the snow and ice in my PJ bottoms doing antenna work.” Well, not really “work,” but that sort of thing carries many decades of meaning for me; a real harbinger of “good stuff.” LACK OF PREPARATION As mentioned, I had not prepared in any way for this – no extra sleep (quite the opposite) and no mental planning. This cost me operating time. As the contest started, I was okay, but I got really tired (sleepy) sooner than I have ever before. I hit the sheets at 0615 after realizing that I was fading in and out of consciousness and that I had made only two (2) Q’s in the last 17 minutes – probably due to me and not the bands. For the rest of the contest, I have never had such a hard time staying in the chair. It seemed that every hour (or less) I found an excuse to get up: thirsty, hungry, commode break, stretching, need something sweet, need a hug from the wife, need to get some fresh air, my hands feel “sticky” so have to wash them…anything! I have so many 15 and 20 minute breaks in the log, it isn’t worth trying to count them. On day two, I must have fallen asleep at the rig. In reviewing the log, I see one (1) Q from 0337 to 0409, after which I’m sure I went to bed. The next QSO is at 1019 – now that’s a lot of sleep! CLASSIC MOMENTS IN CONTESTING All of us serious types will relate to this. I can already see the heads bobbing in agreement. Working on 80 meters – I am trying to work KH6 for a new multiplier (remember – I am QRP in NJ). He gets part of my call, but it takes another three (3) full minutes (without any other callers) for him to get my call correctly in his log. But working KH6 from NJ/qrp is worth it! Immediately after that Q is completed (as in the same minute, next QSO) I find KH7X on 80 who has me in the log after my FIRST CALL. Ugh. And it happened on 160 too: It took forever for a C6A to get my call (minutes) only to work another C6A on a single call. Hey, it always happens, right? LOL GREAT MOMENTS IN CONTESTING Finding a Sudan station with only one other caller (he won, but I was next). Hearing a GIANT pileup on 6Y5GC, deciding “no way” then tuning up the band only to work 3 new multipliers in next two minutes (near the end of day 2). Working Norfolk Island from NJ using QRP on my 3rd call. After the contest, getting an email that says, “I heard you all over the place. Were you QRP?” My best hour was from 1200 to 1300 on the first day; I had 73 QSO’s (hmmm), all S+P (not “GREAT” but I’ll take it). BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT Not working JE1CKA despite hearing him both days. Tack was a house guest here many years ago and I really wanted to say HI. GRIPES Maybe it’s my ageing neurons, but seems like there is a lot more rudeness these days (at least in this one). Or maybe guys just can’t copy CW anymore. This is a fictitious example: When the DX responds with KR2? why does VO1 dump it in? Even worse, when the DX says KR? again (DX is doing the right thing by ignoring the VO1), why does the VO1 dump it in yet again? I heard one instance where the DX kept saying K3, but a W2 kept calling and calling and calling. Does K3 sound like W2? This probably happened five (5) times on the same QSO. What is wrong with these guys? It’s one thing to call during an “over,” but when a directed (partial) response comes back from the DX, it’s time to be patient and do what is right (IE, not dump in your call when it is nothing like what is being asked for). This is prime material for the CQ-Contest reflector [get it?]. Calling off frequency – doesn’t anyone know how zero-beat any more? While calling “up a bit” may be appropriate for big pileups, it is seems some guys are unaware of their transmit frequency (or that their XIT is “on”?); they call off frequency all the time for every QSO. Not only does this cause unnecessary use of the band (and QRM to others), this causes the DX to listen across a wider stretch. This means that the DX ends up making this part of his protocol and thereby “working” guys who are, in reality, not calling them at all. There should be lots of NIL identifiers this time around. By the way, as I recall, there were only two instances during the entire contest where someone “dumped” on me. I am THRILLED with all those guys (vast majority) who heard the DX come back to a caller that wasn’t “them” and stood by for the “real” QSO. RIG Elecraft K2 (QRP only). No computer interface, no DSP, no "nothing." CONCLUSION Overall, had a fun time, which was my intent. Sure wish I used more operating time, but that’s life. And I better get that South antenna back up, especially on 40! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 611,952 80/40 antenna down for first 24 hrs. Local noise no good for 160m. 99.9% S&P. Many thanks to K4TD for loan of Henry 3KD Premier to replace ailing SB-220. Lot's of fun collecting mults! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 479,409 Well, too many things going on to make it a full effort. And not enough operators to go multi. The high bands were tough. Almost seemed like working 160 meters. A lot of KW were so weak I could hardly pull them out. Made it difficult to run. Mostly all S&P. The low bands were in fair shape. I could even work some Europe and a few Ja's on 80. That was fun. I should have spent more time on 40 too. Oh well what can you do. Thanks for all the q's. 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 66,456 Last year I started almost 5 hours late due to a power failure and did 57K. This year conditions didn't seem nearly as good but had plenty of fun anyways. Nice haven't back to back UA9s call and VK9NDX Sunday morning was a new one too. Missed my somewhat absurd goal of working 400 EUs, but managed 200+. Worked most everything I heard, even though I'm a single wire for transmit. Now on receive I've got a few wires to help out. Drank a great wine the last hour (Conterno Barolo Bussia 2000) and managed to work two entire new Qs! 73 Ted KT1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,663,660 73 Phil KT3Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 118,854 Force12 Flagpole vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT5E Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 42,921 After a long week of work related travel (arrhh) I was able to swing some time on Saturday and just two hours on Sunday. I wish I had more time on Sunday because it cracked open a bit better here than it did on Saturday. Jay - KT5E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7G Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 29,184 For the folks that did not read the rules and refused to work me on the second and following bands, Thanks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 139,500 I don't understand why ARRL don't allow more than one SB entries with different calls-would have more activity and more things to do when one band is closed. Time for a change here. Was okay propogation on 80, but hard to hear Europe- on top of being in W0 I think I have noise source somewhere toward NE-need to work on finding it. Anyways, old W0 record was about 55K, so this new one will be hard to change... Thanks, and CU in 160SSB and ARRL SSB. 73 de Alex KU1CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 97,497 Mostly just Sunday afternoon. Had fun! 73, Eric KV1J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 100,926 Had to play with just 20 meters due to rig issues. My goal was to have 100 mults but came up 11 short. It was nice to get VP8 and CX in the log in the last 30 minutes. They were both just sitting in the clear calling CQ. Seemed like more QRN on Sunday; but, signals from EU were better Sunday also. Still heard EU at the end of the test. Spent 98% of the time S&P and appreciate everyone pulling me out. See you all next year on all six bands again. Rig - Kenwood TS930-Su Antenna - 102' G5RV @ 45' Software - N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 163,314 Part time effort from "the Heart of Dixie". Working feverishly on station for M2 in the comming year. 40mtr ant not functioning and no opportunity to fix due to WX the past couple of weeks. Hope WX changes soon. Played at both HP/LP with about the same results on the high bands but 80/160 needed HP to get anywhere gue to activity. Looking forward to SSB weekend of this contest. Had fun eveluating station performance and have a list of "action items". TNX to all non-usa stations for participating. Looking forward to SSB weekend. CU Then Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 660,168 Condx here on low band really made it hard to find motivation carry on the hole periode. Lost our run 2 station, and after that we just played around on the bands, like we use to do in the M/S class in CQWW. Maybe the rig failure was due to RF problems, so thats also one of the reasons why we skipped running the whole time. With this antenna configuration we have no chance running with two stations under these low band condx. 160m was a disaster !! We supposed we could work 3-400 qsos only on this band if we had some nice condx, now we ended up in 45. Actually we started spotting stations on the packet from both radios, and hope we did somebody happy..:) Yes, we even spotted LN8W when he was all by himself on 15m....real sportmanship. Will continue with this if we do S/P. A nice opening on 20m, and a very short and great opening on 15m also.....what an hour we had on 15m.....some 300 last 10 for a while. Did not even bother listening on 10m. We made some 908 different callsigns, 705 on 1 band, 103 on 2 band, 53 on 3 bands, 31 on 4 bands and 16 on 5 bands. (These 16 = K1KI, K1TTT, K1XM, K2NG, K3LR, K5ZD, KB1H, KC1XX, N0NI, NY4A, VE3DZ, VY2PA, VY2TT, W3BGN, W3LPL) Not yet decided what to do in the ssb contest, but maybe I will do single band 20m single op. Cya then. Thanks to all. LA6YEA Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 497,475 70 QSO's the first 6 hours! I just wanted to go home, but I kept going thanks to Olaf LB8IB's pep talk. It all proved worth while when Sunday brought condx to all NA at once. East-coast to West-coast just pouring in for a short while. No new records, but experience gained. Contest is King! Bjorn LB1GB http://www.la8w.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR2F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,594,600 I don't lack the rain, high noise in low bands the first night Thanks to all those that communicated with us. Until the next competition.. Team LR2F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU4DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,750,796 Deep Heart Thanks to Juan Pablo, LU4DX and Jorge LW4EU, for their friendship and never ending support!! Also Big thanks to my father LU6EBY and Juan Pablo´s family. Thanks everybody for the Qs! HPE CU next year! Martin, LU5DX at LU4DX.... La aplanadora del lejano Oeste! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,687,599 TRX: IC 756 Pro3 PA (1KW) Ants: 160m Dipol 80m 4-Square 40m 2-Element Monoband Yagi 20m 4-Element Monoband Yagi 15m 5-Element Monoband Yagi 10m 3-Element Triband (20m/15m/10m) Yagi Beverage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 34,713 Just few hours of operation due to family activities. 73! Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M5X Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 159,084 Thanks to Bob G4BAH for the use of the station. Still lots of work to do to get ready for a Multi-Multi in October. The 80m 4 square played well despite being tuned for SSB! Thanks to Jan G0IVZ for spurring me on to have a go and thanks to everyone who called and kept me awake:-) 73 Justin, G4TSH, ZD8Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 46,368 Couldn't spend a lot of time on this one. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,193,850 A limited m/2 made more limited by the failure of the 80/160 antenna feedline Saturday afternoon which caused the contest to end for those bands. Pleased with the 1st night results for these bands, however, from far NW Wisconsin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 562,176 Good news is the SW to NE aprox 750 ft beverage works well and just got it finished in time for the contest. The bad news is that I now can hear a lot of stations on 80 that can't hear me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0VD Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 2,880 After nearly 25 years on the air, I finally managed to get something up for 160 this past Summer. It's very tough to be competitive on 160 from Colorado, so this was more of an effort to do some DX band fills than anything. Not a single peep from any EU station so watching and hearing the E. Coast guys work EU was frustrating - but that was expected. It was fun to really try out the shunt fed tower when the band was full of DX and put it through it's paces. Now if the snow would melt and give me a chance to get some RX antennas up... ;-) 73 Kelly - N0VD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,225,539 Wow, what an interesting weekend. I couldn't put in much time due to my hip surgery a week ago (bicycling accident), but I enjoyed every minute that I operated. Only down side was losing the 160M antenna Friday evening when condx to Europe seemed quite good indeed. Its postmortem will have to wait till the snow melts and I'm off crutches. As far as superlatives, the conditions to Europe on 20M Sunday morning and on 40M Sunday evening were among the best that I've EVER heard. Condx on 80M were also very, very good. On Sunday morning, I had my highest sustained run ever on 20M. On Sunday eve, I found a clear, quiet run freq reasonably low in the band on 40M and it seemed like I could hear way, way down into the very low noise level and every single caller was Q5 - I never had the experience before that there wasn't at least one layer of weak signals in the noise that I couldn't pull out. Here, I seemed to be hearing them all, down to the weakest QRP callers - no more layers. For me, it doesn't get any better than this. The only breaks to my samadhi were a vicious but successful frequency fight when W2** tried to steal my frequency and later when someone spotted me and I had to deal with the ensuing mess for 10 minutes - I'll take quality over quantity every time, thank you very much. Equipment: Ten-Tec Orion, Acom 2000A 160M inv L 80M 1/4L wire vert 40M delta loop (apex down) Force 12 C3S tribander @ 15M 580ft Beverages NE, SE, SW, NW Thanks for the Q's and regrets to those I missed. 73, Barry N1EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,306,973 2xFT-2000 + Aplha 87A & PW1 3 over 3 SteppIRs for 20-15-10 at 35' and 90' 2 ele M2 on 40M at 60' fixed on Eu 264' OCFD for 160M/80M at 80' 40M dipole at 70', N-S broadside 500' NE/SW beverage Maximize the fun factor... That's what it's all about for me, and the needle was again pegged most of the weekend! Except for a quirky power mains problem on Saturday morning during prime 20M run time (more on that another time...), the station ran flawlessly. First time playing with SO2R (2xFT-2000) and haven't worked out all of the bugs yet, but it was interesting being able to work mults/stations on a different band from where I was running. Not quite ready for dueling CQs yet, HI. But by the end of the contest I was feeling fairly comfortable with keeping the left and right ear information seperate. Run radio was always in the left ear cuz radio is physically in front of me and to the left of the second radio so it was easy to keep things straight. I am naturally right handed, although I send CW with my left hand. So I wonder if this matters. Hey SO2R guys, does this make a difference? Highlights: Running JAs on 20M on Saturday evening (man they were LOUD) and having some nice Pacific mults drop by. Working a VK on 40M in the middle of running Europe. Performance of the FT-2000s under contest conditions. Thanks again for a great ride and see you all in SSB! Best 73, de Mike, N1IW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,146,066 VP9/W6PH put me over 1 million points, thanks Kurt!! KB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,739,769 What can I say...seems to be a typical ARRL DX CW story for me. Some kind of antenna issue. This year, it was my 2x6 box going on the fritz on Friday evening and continuing through the weekend. It seemed to selectively pick on certain bands and then go away. I have not debugged it yet, but I suspect the 30 inches of snow may have pulled away the control wire enough to make it flaky. Anyway, there was no way I was trying to fix it. Why? I had gone up to the ridge top where my antennas are on Thursday to tighten up a couple of wires after the Nor'Easter that had blown through. This task, that normally would have taken 15 mins, took me almost 2 hours due to the 30 inches of Powder on the ground. The Powder was so light that even snow shoes didn't work. On top of that I was fighting a head cold during the weekend. All this being said, the amazing thing is that the most stable position on the 2x6 was 20M, which is where I stayed for A LOT of time. As I look at my 20M Qs total vs HP stations and even the M/M crowd, I realize that I had a "career weekend" on 20M in this one. The 4/4 here at N1UR really "rocked" in this one. I had a blast, despite the frustration of the switch problem. Mults were really affected, especially on 40, 80, and 160. I just couldn't always go to the "right" band for mults so I was forced to "make due" with what I had access to the time. I was surprised how bad 40, 80, and 160 were. 40 closed quick to EU soon after 01Z both nights for me. Also, unlike last year, 40 never opened to EU at there sunrise and beyond. That made a slow few hours between 07 - 10Z, especially unable to go to 160 and 80 when I wanted to. 15M was a challenge. It was rarely runnable from here, but you could pick off S & P Qs quite easily. This had me frequently going back to running on 20 and S & Ping 15 on radio 2. Ultimately, this seemed to be the right thing to do, but the 15M score suffered badly. Hard to believe that the best thing to do with an 8el yagi is S & P, but so it goes in a low cycle. I was down on Qs and Mults on 40. This was not a result of the switch issue but rather conditions here so far north. Missing the sunrise openings to EU on both mornings was huge on dropping the Qs. The 80 and 160 totals being down were definately affected by my access to those antennas and of course conditions. I will for sure be working on the switch over the next weekend to be ready for the SSB contest. Thanks to everyone for the Qs and the fun! 73 Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 464,634 This was a 24 hour packet pouncing effort. I don't run in CW. Luckily there were loads of packet spots and stations to find. I was repeatedly amazing at how well the station played with only 100 watts and wires plus a 3 el quad at 40 feet. Lots of DX ops with great ears. Thanks guys and gals. I stated out hoping to get to 500 QSO's and when I made it Sunday morning I decided to go for 600 and made that before the contest ended. In fact I sent my log off to LoTW fifteeen minutes before the contest ended. I immediately had a QSL from an HA station. Forty was great as there was little noise here all day Saturday for some reason. Thanks to those that worked me and the other Boiled Owls who put in much better scores. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,892,478 It was fun operating from the QTH of Andy K2LE in Readsboro, Vermont. A big thank you to Andy for his hospitality, especially considering he was in Aruba and QRV as P40LE. Highlight was being called by ST2A and 7X0 while running. Lots of nice, rare DX to work. Thanks for all the QSO's. Working Kurt VP9/W6PH on 10 meters was also a great surprise. I plan on uploading my entire log to LoTW shortly. Low points includes being interrupted by many who still don't listen to see if the frequency is in use before calling CQ. A QRL? would be nice but at least listen first! Most DX did a great job of sending their callsigns - only a few would go for a dozen or more Q's without signing. For those of us operating unassisted this is really a waste of time. Having run this contest in the past as DX, I actually enjoy operating stateside in ARRL DX contests. Lots of fun... now time for some sleep! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 74,784 The plan was for a 2-op multi-single, but unfortunately the other op had a family emergency on Friday morning. After that, my motivation was very low, so why no try something crazy from New Mexico ? Fairly good conditions both nights to Europe, but, except for a few minutes after EU sunrise Saturday night, was never good enough to try running. I was very pleased that almost no one CQ'd in my face. Either the 2-element wire beam is working, or the big gun Europeans are hearing better than they used to. With my lack of motivation, I slept from 06Z-1230Z Friday night. Not smart. I stayed up most of Saturday night, but conditions to JA weren't as good as Friday night. Good competition with my friend and neighbor N5IA (50 miles west of here). Thanks to everyone for the QSO's and struggling to pull out my weak signal. 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,125,474 A few minor problems, but another year gone by. I love doing this contest from home, almost as much fun as going to the Carribean (not really):). My main radio (IC 781) just shut down for no reason on Sat night. No power, nothing. I was able to figure out where I was on 40M, and resumed running on the second radio. I told myself I would not continue with only 1 radio. I was too tired from working all day Friday to push myself unless everything was working. So I pulled the 781 out, while still running with the speaker on :). Turned out it was only a fuse, and was back to SO2R in 20 mins! Congrats to VY2PA who I heard has a big score. Conditions were too fuzzy down here to compete with a great op at a great station. Thanks to all the DX for the participation. 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2RM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,013,000 No contacts on 15 or 10 the first day. Fortunately those bands were open at least a little the second day. I figured as long as I was running 20 good the first day I should keep doing that. 20 should be a real zoo on ssb. HI. 73, and thanks for the Contacts!! N2RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 49,473 Thought it was a bit quiet. Interesting low band conditions,nice openings well after EU sunrise, including a QRP QSO with F5UKL (nice going!) on 80. It pays to CQ... Worked three QRP EU stations on 80. The VK9DNX crew did well, didn't catch 'em on 160. The JA stations were loud and did well listening on 80, tough path for me. No joy landing one on 160... Missed Sunday night's close.. C'est la guerre. Thanks for all the contacts. Cheers, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,080,071 An amazing experience, an odyssey of the mind and spirit. I hope to write something that captures the essence of this unusual form of human adventure. It's not like rafting a white water river or trekking on a world famous life threatening experience, but people who throw themselves into this hard go through something that is remarkable. For contesters a WRTC gathering or some aspects of Dayton are the equivalent of the New York Historical Society for the Teddy Roosevelt types. Most "normal people" will never understand the experience. It's not pretty, it's not for most, but wow! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3CW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 130,071 Single wire antenna at 35 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3GNW Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 81,252 Murphy decided to pay me a visit. I had some wierd interaction between my 80m and 160m antennas and the computer's keying circuitry. It would stop and stayed keyed on the first dit or dah sent until I pulled the PTT line from the radio. Then the CW would continue normally. This is going to be interesting to find. I would have been easily been able to break 100k if I could have added the 80m QSO. Otherwise the bands were tough though I could work pretty much everything I could hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 604,404 Had fun chasing mults between baseball, yard work, and visitors. Great activity and nice to see the good oeprations! 73 Jose - N4BAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CBK Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 40,677 TS-480SAT. 20-meter Moxon at 35 feet. 80-meter delta loop at 65 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CY Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,440 First time using N1MM for sending cw -- worked great with Winkey keyer. Turned my Orion's power setting down to "2" to get 5 watts out and played around for a few hours Friday night and mid-day Saturday. 73, Ted N4CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4FD Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 13,200 Limited operating time and antenna was stuck due north. Still had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4HXI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 102,816 Even though it didn't seem like I would nearly triple my score from last year, better operating on the other bands made up for a slight decline in the number of contacts on 20. I was a bit surprised that 10 meters was not open from my QTH except for a couple of LU and PY stations but it was better than nothing heard at all last year. Even though my radio is not supported by N1MM Logger and I don't take advantage of all of its features, I think it definitely helped me do better in the contest. Maybe one of these years I will have the funds to improve my station - but if it doesn't happen, at least I'll make the effort to get on and have a good time operating. Hope to see everyone down the log very soon and 73's from North Carolina. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4IJ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 76,059 Stopped and listened on other bands at times and wish I was all band entry because I always seem to have to hunt for new qsos when a single band little gun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 158,400 HAD A LIMITED SCHEDULE, BUT THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THE TIME I SPENT. NICE WKG OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES. THE LOW BANDS WERE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. I SET A GOAL TO WK 200 STATIONS,BUT ENDED UP WITH 300. A CW CONTEST IS ALWAYS A GREAT WAY TO RELAX. TX ALL FOR THE Qs 73s JERRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 757,800 Due to upcoming surgery, I planned to limit my activity to the Low Bands. Since almost everyone I called with 100W came back relatively quickly (except for Europeans on 160M that I could only hear on my Beverage), I continued without the amp (and without Packet). I awoke around 1500Z, 3 hours past my Sunrise. How 'refreshing' it was to get 7 hours of sleep! I decided to 'check 15M' and of course I was back in the contest. I don't recommend waiting until 1630Z to make your first contact on 20M! Everything was going well until Sunday afternoon when my stomach began to feel 'uncomfortable'. At 2000Z I had to change operating positions to the commode, holding a wastebasket to catch my stomach contents. After that I managed only a few S&P QSO's before deciding to go to 40M at 2300Z to push my contact total over 200. Mission accomplished with 31 Q's in 25 minutes of running on 7009. Sunday 'runs' (on the radio) sure beat looking for Fresh Meat S&P style! With only 30 minutes remaining, I switched to 80M in hopes of picking up another multiplier to reach 300 total. Second QSO was in PT7 completing that goal. Then I had to switch operating positions again. I finished the contest from the bathroom. Next Time maybe I should hibernate for a week before the contest(s) to avoid picking up something nasty. BTW, the reason I didn't use packet was because my surgeon told me he would call 'on the weekend' to confirm the date and time so I needed to keep the phone line open (no DSL yet in my area). That call came at 9 pm Sunday, 3 hours after the contest. So it goes. de Tom N4KG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4NW Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 5,106 Better that no operation at all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,726,875 Condx good and hard to stop...but getting to the point in this ole life where I can't stay in the seat for whole time anymore...slept about 5 hours total for the weekend... Only 6 banders are P40W and FCG group, J7OJ...Lots of 5 banders but ten meters was the real pits here with only openings to LU/PY and KH6. Every other contact was a struggle. Lots of fun..tho. CU in the next one...whatever that one is... 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 13,677 CPA & Tax season = lousy score Used same old Icom 746 / OCF Inv Vee @ 40 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 276,135 IC706MKIIG @ 100 watts. A3S @ 75 ft. + 40 / 80 inverted v + 130' sloper. 73, Larry - N4VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4XR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 157,530 Don't know why the 4 QSOs on 160 won't register above! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 380,358 I took Friday off to get my antennas in the air. I had a fun time with that and everything worked fine in the contest...The biggest problem was me, so I called it quits at 7 pm local (0000z) as day one ended. I did have fun with my girlfriend though! Saturday afternoon was such a grind, but the low bands were fun on Friday night. I worked two KH6 stations on 10 Sunday afternoon and shut the rig off. Thanks for the fun! Nate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,313,160 Score is down almost 30% from last year - 240 fewer Q's and 14 less mults. Why? In 2006 I worked 417 Europeans on 20 meters, this year only 175. That is a difference of 242 and pretty much tells the story. Same antenna and same radio so I guess I have to blame conditions. Never could get a decent run going - less than 30 Europeans from CQing. Last year had 85 in one hour. Actually 40 meters would have been the same story but managed to almost make up for the lack of European Q's there with some great JA runs (211 JAs on 40 vs. 76 last year). Antenna may have been part of the story there - lost the 2 element yagi I used last year and the replacement does not work as well. Using the same "Lazy H" for JA though. It is a good S unit better than the yagi. Looked like 10 was going to be almost a total loss with only 9 Q's and 6 mults on Saturday and no signals at all Sunday morning. Then just after 1800 of all things KH6's start coming in. They were in for several hours and also ended up with a decent opening to South America and the Caribbean. Can sure tell we are near the sunspot minimum - best 160 totals ever. However, switching from a shunt loaded tower to elevated radials has also helped significantly on that band. Had my most QSOs ever on 80 but fell 3 mults short of 2004 record of 65. Operated 44 hours - most in many a year but there were some very slow hours in the afternoons. Would probably have been better to sleep then than the 2 hours I took off from 0940 to 1140 Sunday. I have enjoyed the good low band conditions the last few years but I'm ready for some sunspots and those great European ten meter runs again! Marv, N5AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 659,286 I had to attend a meeting in Austin, 400 miles to the east. It ended about 11:00 am, so I was able to hit the road at 11:30. Fortunately, around 240 miles of I10 that I have to travel has an 80 mph speed limit, so I pulled into the house with 30 minutes to spare. Since I was tired at the start of the contest, I planned on stopping fairly early to get some needed sleep. But 40M would not let me -- conditions to asia were wonderful. I was able to run JAs on an absolutely quiet band. I could hear everyone well -- regardless of how much power they were running. Stations with 5 watts were as strong as those with 100 watts. It was magical, and I kept saying to myself just another hour, then I'll sleep. At 4:30 am I finally stopped to sleep. The other fun time was on Sunday afternoon when I discovered that 10M was open to the Carribean. I was able to quickly pick up 10 new multipliers. In my sleep deprived state it seemed to me like I was finding little treasures (or Easter eggs or something)with every few khz move in frequency. Thanks to all the DX for participating in this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5IA Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 72,816 First time ever in an ARRL DX. Is there not a standard for cut numbers?????? 80 Meters is like Topband on steroids. Just like 160, 80 M would be a real no-contest from out here in the west if it weren't for the many good ops in JA land. A full 50% of my contacts were from there. The first ever real antenna for the NA5NM station on 80 performed quite well. It is a double extended Zepp in a slight inverted V configuration with the apex at 33 M AGL. The Beverage RX antenna field still outperforms the TX side, just like on 160. I left some eastern EU mults on the table as I couldn't get even a ? from them. Best DX heard but not worked was VQ9LA. He was good copy Saturday evening at my greyline. Geoclock showed him an hour into his daylight and he was running east coast US. No chance. All in all, it was a good experience. I may have to try it again with some real TX antennas. I'll be operating CQ 160 SSB from K1TTT with a special call sign commemorating the 1st day of no morse code requirement for USA licenses. I am looking forward to experiencing for the first time what Topband is like from the east coast and how people deal with lots of snow and ice in the winter time. Hi, hi!! Thanks for all the Q's and my apologies to the few I couldn't pull out when the band got noisy Sunday morning. 73 de Milt, N5IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5KDA Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 9,918 This was my first time to run this contest and my CW was a little rusty. I do wish some operators didn't think they need to run 35 WPM+. It was frustrating to have to listen to a call many times to decode it. Also, it would help is stations would send their call more than once every two minutes or so. This operating tactic may have cost some stations a multiplier because I passed over some. Over all it was fun even though I had to miss the second EU opening and didn't make many QSO's. http://bellsouthpwp.net/n/5/n5kda/ham.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5XZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 328,136 Limited bands, limited time, new QTH. Getting back into it and it feels GOOD! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 621,426 806 QSOs 204 answered my CQs 602 called by me. I call CQ whenever I think it will get me more results than S&Ping. Had bad power line noise most of the contest. It went away 2 hours before the end. Today, Monday, it is sprinkling, and there is no noise. 5 Europeans on 15, 4 EAs and a 9A. Have to leave now. The nice men who provide the jacket with the arms in the back are here to take me in to see the nice doctors for evaluation, since somebody reported that I thought the contest was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 385,425 RFI in the neighborhood and killer QRN on 40m. Could not copy sigs from Asia. Still enjoyed casual S&P operation this weekend. Thanks to all who copied my 100 watt signal! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 15,300 Got on in between multiple family functions. 100 watts to a 20 GP and 40 dipole @ 12 feet(also used on 15.) 20 meter GP crapped out and started putting rf into the shack and screwing up computer keying. Jeeze, how tough is it to keep a GP working correctly?? Anyway, had fun S&Ping the big guns. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,685,078 We had a good time, no major malfunctions, and got all we could from the bands that propagation allowed. LP EU on 40 and 80 were productive. Thanks to the JA's for the bulk of our QSOs. 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America CW 24 34 65 75 50 13 261 10.5 South America CW 8 13 24 44 43 23 155 6.2 Europe CW 1 23 197 228 10 0 459 18.4 Asia CW 74 212 527 312 262 1 1388 55.7 Africa CW 3 7 18 18 16 0 62 2.5 Oceania CW 10 26 54 33 34 8 165 6.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 29,106 I was really worried, going into this contest, with five days of zero sunspots leading up to it. Wow, no problemo. I really enjoyed the time I was able to operate. I was committed to taking my xyl out of town to a wedding over the weekend, but I managed to squeeze in 8 hours Friday night, and two more hours Saturday morning before we left. We got back by 10:30AM Sunday morning, so had the remaining hours to play as well. I managed to squeeze in 16 hours overall, for an average of 1819 points per hour, just over 9 Qs per hour average. My most enjoyable bit was drilling down into some pileups and walking off with a Q from a station I could copy only with the help of the internal DSP in my K2, plus my external DSP box. But I did it, several times. Early Saturday morning I decided to check 80m, just to see if anyone was still around. There was one lone JA CQing in an otherwise empty band. So I called him, just to see what would happen. I worked him, my first JA on 80m, QRP or otherwise. I guess my 80m top loaded half wave vertical really works. I picked up one new country on 20m, ZK3. With my reduced operating time, I only had 147 Qs and 66 mults this time around. This turned out to be a much better party than I had anticipated. Thanks to all for the Qs. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 134,352 Part time S+P only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 234,360 Good news: Worked a new country on 160; VK9N. Bad news: Worked 3 countries total on 10; LU, KH6, HP. Good news: Got a JA run started on 40 meters the second morning. Bad news: Chinese OTR wiped out the band 15 minutes later. Was this contest fun or what? 98% SO2R search and pounce. Thanks for the contacts and see you next year. 2 Elecraft K2 transceivers N1MM Logger software Top Ten Devices SO2R controller Antennas Radio 1 20/15/10 meters Force 12 5BA at 73' 40 meters Force 12 EF230/240 at 84' Radio 2 20/15/10 meters Force 12 C3S at 40' 80 meters Delta loop, apex at 72' 160 meters Shunt-fed 72' top-loaded tower K9AY Receiving Loop Array 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 78,318 Rig : Kenwood TS870S @ 100 watts Antennas : Mosley TA53M w/rotatable 40 m dipole @ 48 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 229,311 Good fun. The bad news first: I had the opportunity to take a short notice vacation to Hawai'i with my XYL and wee ones. This put some constraints on my contest prep time as I returned on the Wednesday before the contest. My antennas cannot be permanently installed (per CC&R's), so I have alot of prep todo's for contests. I staged the K1WA on the nested tower to help save time. I got the antenna at full height on Friday a few hours before contest start to find that my rotator wouldn't work. I frantically tried to find and fix the problem, including borowing a rotator control box from Dink, N7WA (thanks dude), but alas the problem is at the top of the tower. :-( The SteppIR was fixed pretty much east-west. The 180 swap feature could be employed to cover JA/OC or the Caribbean/SA/AF at the push of a button, but EU was out of the question. I figured that since there is no EU on 15 for the most part, I would work as many of the big gun mults as possible and try to make up the Q's somewhere else. The good news: I ended up pretty much matching last years effort in Q's and mults with the corressponding contest score. Actually I had a few more than last year. The activity on the low bands made up for the overall deficit of 20M Q's. I would have rather had the main antenna working with another 100 or so additional Q's in the log. I use the goal setting feature in N1MM to push me from hour to hour (Note to self: pad these goals a little year over year, especially as the spots come back). Most times I was easily ahead of goal, especially during the evening hours with 40 open nicely. It was hard (as expected) when scratching them out on 20 to EU in the morning. This was the time I really needed the yagi on target. Lesson learned and note to self #2. Check the antennas fully a few weeks ahead of the contest. The really good news: I'm amazed at how propagation works. Especially during these so called lean years of low sunspots. I enjoy being busier during the evening hours while the low bands are hot. I suppose as age takes its toll I will get more sleep when the spots return. The low bands were good both days with Sunday being better (Ostensibly the K was lower on Sunday, so not surprising). I worked a few EU on 40 (that is a big deal here in the Pacific NW). I did manage to work V31 and C6 on 160. Sunday morning yielded 5 JA's. Not bad for a half sloper. I managed some decent slow runs on 40 to JA late on the second late night stint. It seemed that just as my rate was getting going, some stateside lid would encroach on my QRG. Mistakes happen when you move in behind a null in my pattern (or inside the skip zone), but guys (and this is the key),,, move off when you are called on it. Don't be a frickin twerp . 15 had a few surprises. I worked a SM on skew path I believe on Sunday early afternoon. Also, on Sunday at about 10:30 local time, 10 meters had a broad but brief opening that lasted about 45 minutes or so. I worked a bunch of KH6 staions who were in turn working stations all over the mainland. I could here many of them really well from my location. Also surprising was V31 and XE central americans mixed in with the usual trans EQ LU's and PY's. Another interesting thing was having LA2O call me on 20 LP while I was running JA's on Friday night (my antenna was pointing more W than NW, so some SW RF snuck in). Many thanks to all the JA's who called in during my runs. It it wasn't for JA, we west coast types would not be able to run at all. Wanna learn how to S&P at 60+ an hour? Move out here :-0. I love the polite manner and friendliness of JA ops. It helps offset the attitude of entitlement that seems to exist in abundance on this side of the Pacific. Onward to the WPX contests and the IARU! 73 - Guy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,209,780 Pretty decent conditions. A bit less than last year but did not operate as much. Good EU run on 20 Sunday AM. Took off most of Sunday afternoon to chip ice in the driveway and watch the race. A couple of brief 10M openings both days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8EA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 9,934 Disappointing conditions this year. Local noise level was low but those ions up there just had their own agendas! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 254,400 What a hoot! Friday night 160 was great, no EU but lots of sigs from the south. 40 and 80 were also hopping. I missed most of Saturday due to family obligations. Saturday night was fair, and picked up a few more on 160. Sunday was so-so, 15 did not get going at all while 20 was so-so. Did get two 10M openings on Saturday and Sunday, this gave me several 6-bands Q's. Been a long time since I had that! 72, 73 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 521,664 If you heard me struggling to get through a pile-up this weekend, there was a reason, 5W does make a difference. QRP requires dogged persistence for sure. I started off on 20 and had reasonable luck getting thru the Caribbean pile-ups considering the DX was new for everyone at that point; I also broke KH7X which can be tough early. We were lucky to have propagation to about KP4 south. Around 01Z it was down to 40M, and I was able to work most of the EU/Carib stations I heard, but generally had to wait in line a bit. I heard EA9EU on 40/20/15 during the contest, but never managed a QSO. I was doing well enough to stick with it. After a short break, I hit 80M at 03Z and to my surprise, I could work the loud Europeans of which there were many. However, KR2Q was moving up the band along with me and doing at least as well. 160 netted KV4FZ and C6. Saturday morning was frustrating somewhat, I couldn't run much of anything on 20 even high in the band on a very clear freq. 20 was only open to northern Eu and Russia well for about 45 minutes centered around 13Z. My best rate was 44 Q's/hour mostly on 15M which was only open well to the Balkans, I, EA, and F and at times even the Italians were weak. Rates were in the 40's 12Z thru 15Z. By 17Z, 20M was already well on its way to closing with quite a few open frequencies. Western EU hung in there until about 2030Z, but time was better spent on 15 getting stations to the south. I kept checking 10M, and heard only 1 weak LU mid-afternoon, no QSO. By early afternoon, I had logged CN, ZS, 5Z, and 5T5DY on both 15 and 20. 40 was wide open enough by 22Z to work a few; my best run, about a dozen stations, was around 2240Z on 7008 kHz, a morale boost. Day 1 ended with 460 Q's. The 2nd day was basically scraping the bottom for the scraps all the way thru. Signals from Eu were just about the same as the night before, quite a few S9 or better, but I really struggled to work anyone. There are a lot of poor listeners out there; to maximize your score when CQ'ing, you need to listen CAREFULLY, a little tweak of the RIT while listening for answers will increase your chances as well. When I dump my call in once and the CQ'er has started again before I finish, there is a listening problem. I must have called 30-40 stations with good signals from Eu/SA on 80 with no response. 160 was a pleasant surprise; I heard a few Eu + CN3A but nobody was close to loud enough to get through. The Caribbean/SA stations I heard were mostly worked; I hope I helped you with a mult for your trouble. On 160 at 0030Z I worked V31YN (really loud), PJ4/KU8E, J7OJ and at 0300 WP3C, HP1XX, ZF2AM, and P40W. Also at 1130Z worked KH7X and NP4A. I thought I was pretty lucky breaking the pile-up on VK9DNX on 15 Saturday afternoon (about S4), then I made it thru on 80 around around 1145Z, great Rx set-up and ops, thanks! The 12Z hour netted only 17 Q's on 20, S&P, I kept finding all the stations I had worked already which was true all day. 15 never opened quite well enough to run stations, but slowly yielded Q's and new mults in southern Eu. It was better than Saturday and around 15Z, there was a brief opening to northern Eu allowing me to catch SP, RK2FWA, SF0F, and YL7X. Around 1730Z, a few G's were finally heard with loud signals along with EI7M and EI/W5GN about 300 Hz apart, and GW3NJW. Finally at 1850Z, 10M opened, but to the west, not the south as expected. Bagged NH6P working split and KH6LC was loud but too busy. W6's and 7's were heard in abundance. Just after 19Z, the LU's started coming thru; I worked 5 in about 10 minutes. It wasn't until 1940Z, that HP1XX was logged. Condx were best around 1930Z when there was a somewhat weak opening to P40W, 2 PY's (loud), and PJ2T; HK couldn't hear me. In the early afternoon polar condx were quite good. I logged SM2CEW on 15 and heard KL7WV. JA8RWU was LOUD around 19Z and for some time after, but a disturbance seemed to ruin things 21Z and later when the JA's got out of bed, worked no more. There were loud OH's on 20 and I found TF3YH for a mult. 21Z onward was painfully slow. At one point while scanning 40, I must have heard 15 or more stations in a row that were already logged. I had no luck running. Many thanks for the Q's and struggling to work me. 20M condx were a bit disappointing, but 80 was in good shape both nights and 40 stayed open to central and southern Eu all through the Eu night. I had to repeat my exchange countless times (WV is still ringing in my head!); some of the repeats were stations already logged on another band; trust your computer, or least use it as an aide please. Operating in the S&P mode allowed me to observe several bad habits which only slow things down for everyone. First and foremost, don't keep calling if the DX has replied to partial call. J37T was doing his best to work people when he heard my N8 prefix calling; after 3 attempts to pull me thru the out of turn callers, he QRT'ed. A local KI4 who couldn't send his call well at all kept calling and calling on numerous stations. Don't send BK; that went out in the 70's. Don't repeat more than twice unless the DX has failed to copy at least twice. A string of R's is also pretty wasteful of time. You can really separate out the good ops from the poor operating QRP. High marks go to VK9DNX, P40W, and DD2D who heard me well every time! 73, Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,773 Didn't have a lot of time to spend working this one, and based on what a struggle it was to work anyone, this was probably a good thing :-) Operated QRP from Eastern TN using an IC-735 and trapped dipole at 30'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 86,592 FT-1000MP SB-220 (1.5 kW... just barely) CC XM-240 2el yagi @ 95' TR-Log v6.79 First time for 40 single band. After a couple of years of 20 single band, decided to try something different. First obvious difference is how easy 20 single band is on the body time clock at this time in the solar cycle. It's open during the day, and closed at night. I'm not used to 40m hours, and had no time to prepare. I really suffered the first night, and could not stay focused. I'm sure that I missed on some good openings. The second night was much easier, mainly due to strategic amounts of coffee consumed during the day and early evening. I had to break away from Saturday's EU prime-time opening to take my 11 year old daughter to the annual Girl Scout "Daddy-Daughter Dance". Got back to the rig around 0330z. Stayed planted in the chair until after 0900z. I forgot how cold the unfinished basement shack is when the rate is around 4 qso's/hour. Took a short break, and was back around 1130z. Sunday nights' EU opening was great. First qso of the run was around 2100z, and the contest finished fast and furious. Some good mults called in during this run. All in all, it was still a good time. ARRL DX CW is one of my favorites. I'm sure with better planning and better preparedness that I can find another 150 qso's and a few more mults on this band from my station. One thing for sure that will make an immediate difference is adding the roofing filter to the MP. Next year. 73 for now, and thanks for the q's and the fun! Charlie N9CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9LJX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 40,200 Rig - Ft-900 Antennaes - Trap 40/80 In-Vee apex at abt 30 ft, tri-bander at 10 ft. Armstrong rotator. Went to the shack (that is what I call the garage on contest weekends) around 02:00Z and it was a frigid 38 degrees. Stoked up the space heater and fired up the computer. Well, I tried to fire up the computer. I usually keep it running but in my infinite wisdom I powered it down a couple of days ago. Of course now it wouldn't boot. Worked a couple of loud ones while futzing with the pc. after an hour with no luck I took the work laptop out and used it. Had N1MM installed and running in 20 minutes complete. Very much a part time effort - around 8 hours BIC time. I did get the garage up to a balmy 62 degrees. That nice oil/gas smell from the snow-blower really added to the ambience.... Big GREAT JOB to the folks that heard and worked my puny signal. Especially the folks from EU on 80M.. GREAT EARS FOLKS!! vy 73, --scott N9LJX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA3D Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 337,806 Many thanks to John and Carol for inviting me into their home, and for the use of John's fine Clarksburg station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 464,520 Band conditions were better than I expected. Line noise wiped out 160. Still a fun contest. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA7RF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,058 Fun playing here and there. Heard many EU stations but worked few. Kudos to DL1IAO for being persistent and allowing me to get the DL mult! I plan to have my son on the air on 10 meters for the 'phone DX contest under the new rules. Hopefully other operators will be aware of the possible activity from 28.3 to 28.5MHz and take advantage of the opportunity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 97,554 Had a blast, despite the inherent frustratins of using only 3 watts from "the black hole" of the Upper Midwest. (The rewards are proportional to the challenge!) I had only planned to get on for a couple hours to see if I could scare up any "good stuff", but ended up getting hooked for a lot longer for a more serious entry. I doubt if I can beat the guys in the East, but I thought I'd turn it in anyway! Conditions seemed reasonably good and things went well (from a QRP perspective). - Decent conditions on 80 and 40 and 10 even opened up (sort of). Thanks for the great ears out there! There are some really great operators with good receivers and antennas - I appreciate your patience and persistence in pulling me out. Its amazing what you can work if you find them before the packet hordes descend! Even if packet was acceptable for SO, I am convinced that it would be totally counterproductive for use by a QRP station in a contest. It's just too difficult to compete with the masses. The old-fashioned way of actually finding the DX first is best: "stealth DXing"! When you're weak, you have to be "sneaky"! An additional handicap here this year: my rotator is broken so rotation requires the old "arm-strong" method with a rope from one end of my monster (3 el tribander) Yagi. - Not the most efficient way to contest, but I got some good exercise running outside and tromping through the snow to turn the beam! Equip: Ten Tec Argonaut 509 (3 watts out); N3FJP software Antennas: Wilson System 3 (3 element triband Yagi) at 15 meters; wires for 80 and 40. 73, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND3D Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 4,455 QRP 2 watts HW-8 attic dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE9U Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 84,102 Ended up having to put a full day in at work on saturday so didnt get over to the the W0AIH M/M. Just played S&P with the band map when I had time to get on the air. Fun anyway. Scott NE9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 234,972 Murphy is alive and well !!! Noticed early Sunday afternoon that my computer had gradually lost time to the tune of over 2 hours since I set it on Friday before the contest....decided to stop operating... Will not be submitting the log as it will be full of errors when compared to other logs. I have no way of know when it happened since I was operating part time...Needless to say, I will be retiring my old DOS CT/NA computer and installing a new Windows XP Pro box before the ARRL Phone ;) Could only hear PY and LU on 10 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF8R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 325,890 I had a good time. Sure wish we would get some sunspots again. I miss the 10 meter qso's ! Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 81,408 Did pretty well I think considering limited time available for the contest. With no beam anymore, I can sure see the difference in the number of repeats asked. Spent a good deal of time on 15M as it was open to SA and the Carribean for several hours each day. All contacts were S&P except for a short JA run Saturday afternoon. Thanks to the wonderful ops who stayed with me during the numerous repeats. There's some good ears out there. 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 139,500 Brief bursts of operation across the contest period. Nice to finally use my stacked JA antennas....polar flutter here made signals difficult on 20M .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,583,600 Three radios plus countless antennas. We did a lot of S&P this year except for the incredible Euro runs on 20 each morning. We moved several big JA stations to 10, but could not hear them. Thanks for trying. Joe and Sharon make us all feel very much at home. It's always great fun to operate a really super station. George, W2VJN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN1N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 658,668 Are some stations adjusting their rigs to add key clicks? Multi-op stations frequently had click problems...or maybe those were enhancements for frequency clearing applications. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 692,640 After recovering from computer problems the previous weekend, everything worked fine this weekend. The rebuilt 160m inverted L gave a fine showing piloted by Ward N0AX to 5 countries including the VK9DNX. 80m and 40m were fine considering we didn't spend any time there the second night. We're thrilled to have made a DXCC 100 countries on 20m! 15m provided surprisingly well, and even 10m made a brief showing. I thank Ward N0AX and Doug KO7P for helping, so I could sleep and run some errands. DXCC in a weekend - not bad for the sunspot minimum from W7! Mark K6UFO Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 3-el SteppIR at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' Two 80-meter half-slopers 160m inverted L Writelog software QSO by hour and band. 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 8 22 ---+- 30 30 D1-0100Z - - - 46 2 - 48 78 D1-0200Z - - 6 18 - - 24 102 D1-0300Z - - 19 - - - 19 121 D1-0400Z - - 5 - - - 5 126 D1-0500Z - 6 11 - - - 17 143 D1-0600Z - 8 12 - - - 20 163 D1-0700Z - 2 9 - - - 11 174 D1-0800Z 1 11 9 ---+- ---+- ---+- 21 195 D1-0900Z - 7 21 - - - 28 223 D1-1000Z - 14 - - - - 14 237 D1-1100Z 3 1 - - - - 4 241 D1-1200Z - 5 - - - - 5 246 D1-1300Z 6 29 - - - - 35 281 D1-1400Z - 14 3 5 1 - 23 304 D1-1500Z - - - - 31 - 31 335 D1-1600Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 36 11 ---+- 47 382 D1-1700Z - - - 35 7 - 42 424 D1-1800Z - - - 18 9 - 27 451 D1-1900Z - - - 3 4 1 8 459 D1-2000Z - - - 4 - - 4 463 D1-2100Z - - - 11 1 2 14 477 D1-2200Z - - - 63 - - 63 540 D1-2300Z - - 4 17 - - 21 561 D2-0000Z ---+- ---+- 9 ---+- 7 ---+- 16 577 D2-0100Z - - - 24 7 - 31 608 D2-0200Z - - 10 2 - - 12 620 D2-0300Z - - 5 - - - 5 625 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-0800Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 0 625 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-1200Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-1300Z - - - - - - 0 625 D2-1400Z 3 10 - - - - 13 638 D2-1500Z - 1 1 23 - - 25 663 D2-1600Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 40 ---+- ---+- 40 703 D2-1700Z - - - 44 5 - 49 752 D2-1800Z - - - 40 3 - 43 795 D2-1900Z - - - 14 5 9 28 823 D2-2000Z - - - 5 - - 5 828 D2-2100Z - - - 6 6 - 12 840 D2-2200Z - - - 13 14 - 27 867 D2-2300Z - - - 8 17 - 25 892 Total: 13 108 124 483 152 12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,976,558 Call: NQ4I Category: Multi Multi Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: CW Section: GA BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES 160 126 360 2.9 59 K4UJ 80 559 1656 3.0 92 K2SX K2UFT 40 1033 3093 3.0 108 N4ZZ AA4LR 20 1495 4476 3.0 118 W1MD N4OX 15 847 2538 3.0 98 K4TD KY4F 10 33 99 3.0 14 NQ4I -------------------------------------- Totals 4093 12222 3.0 489 = 5,976,558 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults NQ4I ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 22/17 65/35 83/43 48/29 8/5 ..... 226/129 226/129 1 13/4 33/7 80/13 16/4 3/1 . 145/29 371/158 2 8/4 32/8 44/9 3/0 . . 87/21 458/179 3 9/4 55/9 31/6 1/0 . . 96/19 554/198 4 9/5 29/1 46/0 4/1 . . 88/7 642/205 5 13/3 26/5 44/4 . . . 83/12 725/217 6 6/5 28/6 57/5 . . . 91/16 816/233 7 8/3 36/2 69/1 . . . 113/6 929/239 8 4/2 10/2 67/2 ..... ..... ..... 81/6 1010/245 9 2/0 8/0 19/2 2/2 . . 31/4 1041/249 10 1/0 9/1 10/2 5/5 . . 25/8 1066/257 11 . 2/1 25/2 41/16 . . 68/19 1134/276 12 . 7/0 7/1 168/17 51/29 . 233/47 1367/323 13 . . . 169/5 112/14 . 281/19 1648/342 14 . . . 96/3 101/7 . 197/10 1845/352 15 . . . 73/3 94/10 . 167/13 2012/365 16 ..... ..... ..... 64/1 50/6 3/2 117/9 2129/374 17 . . . 71/3 27/6 . 98/9 2227/383 18 . . . 46/2 15/2 . 61/4 2288/387 19 . . . 21/2 16/3 2/2 39/7 2327/394 20 . . 1/0 16/4 4/1 2/0 23/5 2350/399 21 . . 17/0 23/3 10/3 2/2 52/8 2402/407 22 . 3/0 49/0 51/2 38/0 4/0 145/2 2547/409 23 3/1 30/2 36/2 16/2 13/0 . 98/7 2645/416 0 6/5 26/3 27/3 9/3 ..... ..... 68/14 2713/430 1 6/2 20/1 36/4 3/0 . . 65/7 2778/437 2 5/1 17/4 9/1 . . . 31/6 2809/443 3 2/0 13/0 22/1 . . . 37/1 2846/444 4 1/1 11/0 19/0 . . . 31/1 2877/445 5 5/1 26/0 19/0 . . . 50/1 2927/446 6 1/0 25/0 20/3 . . . 46/3 2973/449 7 1/0 14/0 19/1 . . . 34/1 3007/450 8 ..... 8/1 37/0 ..... ..... ..... 45/1 3052/451 9 . 1/1 16/1 1/0 . . 18/2 3070/453 10 1/1 2/1 4/0 3/0 . . 10/2 3080/455 11 . 3/0 12/0 10/0 . . 25/0 3105/455 12 . 6/0 . 107/1 21/2 . 134/3 3239/458 13 . . . 89/0 53/2 . 142/2 3381/460 14 . . . 94/3 72/1 . 166/4 3547/464 15 . . . 67/1 57/4 . 124/5 3671/469 16 ..... ..... ..... 56/0 41/1 ..... 97/1 3768/470 17 . . . 44/1 16/0 . 60/1 3828/471 18 . . . 26/1 15/0 4/1 45/2 3873/473 19 . . . 22/2 4/0 7/1 33/3 3906/476 20 . . 1/0 9/1 3/1 6/5 19/7 3925/483 21 . . 23/0 8/1 3/0 3/1 37/2 3962/485 22 . 3/0 45/2 6/0 19/0 . 73/2 4035/487 23 . 11/2 39/0 7/0 1/0 . 58/2 4093/489 DAY1 98/48 373/79 685/92 934/104 542/87 13/6 ..... 2645/416 DAY2 28/11 186/13 348/16 561/14 305/11 20/8 . 1448/73 TOT 126/59 559/92 1033/108 1495/118 847/98 33/14 . 4093/489 BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr NQ4I ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi Comments: 15 meter new 8/8 stack is really working well...worst conditions on 10 meters that I can ever remember...2 operators dropped out at the last minute...K4UJ was kind enough to fill in on 160 meters, and we did the IRONMAN thing on 20 meters with just 2 operators...K4TD did an excellent job on 15 meters in place of regular K4BAI who was PJ4A...and N4ZZ filled the shoes of VE7ZO very nicely, who was 15m operator at K3LR. We will miss WPX SSB unfortunately...Maybe up for WPX CW in May? 73 and thanks for the qso's de Rick NQ4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,509,960 Doing a M/M from NR4M brought back lots of old memories and generated a number of new ones. The new station is still under construction. We had four stations set up, with 10/80 and 15/160 sharing rigs. We used Win-Test for the first time. Beyond a few data entry glithes, it performed great throughout the weekend. We were fortunate to have a carfull of folks from the Lynchburg area stop by after the Richmond Hamfest on Sunday to spend a little time operating. We did pass some emergency traffic when K4ZW's wife couldn't get in touch with Ken who was at W3LPL. Found Ken on 40 and asked him to call his wife regarding a broken water pipe! 160 = OMNI VI/QRO Amp/sloping 1/4 wave vertical with 4 on ground radials 80 = OMNI VI/Titan/dipole at 100ft 40 = Orion II/HB8877/2 el KLM 40 @ 80ft 20 = Orion II/ACOM 2000A/5/5/5/5@160ft 15 = OMNI VI/QRO Amp/5 el NR4M @80ft 10 = Omni VI/Titan/KT36XA @ 70ft The antennas on 10 and 40 were put in place for the multiplier station and pressed into use to get max RF flowing as construction continues. Let's hope things dry up so we can get some more tower/aluminum in the air! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 350,034 Good thing I wasn't planning an all-out effort, because work kept me late on Friday night and then I had a day of work on Saturday, so any thoughts of a high finish were out the window when the green flag dropped at 0000Z. My call is very similar to some other active contest calls like N3ST and NS4T, so it was somewhat surprising to see how aggressive the EU contesters were this weekend about "QSO B4." Over a dozen of you think that I'm in your log, but I am not. Working the dupes is a good idea. I knew the propagation gods weren't with me when I called PJ4/KU8E. At first, I thought he was QRP, because he was so weak, but it was 500, not 5 watts. I could hear US West Coast stations big time on 160, but Europe was a whisper. That's okay - it was still a lot of fun as always. I even worked one new band and CW country - EK on 20. Thanks to everyone for all the Q's and see you next week on tape in the CQ 160 SSB. ** One more note - and an apology to NQ4I. For some reason, I worked you guys because I copied your call as SQ4I. It really took me about a minute to figure out why they sent me 5NN GA. Sorry about that Rick. And no, I don't want to start a thread about working zero pointers.... This contest also ends my streak of three consecutive years where I made 874 contacts in the ARRL CW. I will try to re-start that streak next year... 73 Jamie NS3T pair of TS-2000s inverted L's on 80 and 160 W4OP end fedz dipoles on 10-40 -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0.8 0100 0 7 0 0 0 0 7 11 1.4 0200 4 5 1 0 0 0 10 21 1.9 0300 2 15 2 0 0 0 19 40 3.7 0400 1 7 6 0 0 0 14 54 2.7 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 0.0 1300 0 0 0 11 2 0 13 67 2.5 1400 0 0 0 10 17 0 27 94 5.2 1500 0 0 0 4 8 0 12 106 2.3 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106 0.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106 0.0 1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106 0.0 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106 0.0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 106 0.0 2100 0 0 15 12 8 0 35 141 6.8 2200 0 1 24 8 6 0 39 180 7.5 2300 0 6 20 3 0 0 29 209 5.6 0000 2 8 14 2 0 0 26 235 5.0 0100 1 3 9 1 0 0 14 249 2.7 0200 1 0 6 0 0 0 7 256 1.4 0300 2 10 6 0 0 0 18 274 3.5 0400 2 6 13 0 0 0 21 295 4.1 0500 1 21 0 0 0 0 22 317 4.3 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 317 0.0 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 317 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 317 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 317 0.0 1000 1 3 4 0 0 0 8 325 1.5 1100 1 2 6 20 0 0 29 354 5.6 1200 0 0 2 15 2 0 19 373 3.7 1300 0 0 0 27 5 0 32 405 6.2 1400 0 0 0 6 9 0 15 420 2.9 1500 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 425 1.0 1600 0 0 0 10 13 0 23 448 4.4 1700 0 0 0 12 11 0 23 471 4.4 1800 0 0 0 2 7 0 9 480 1.7 1900 0 0 0 4 5 2 11 491 2.1 2000 0 0 0 5 3 2 10 501 1.9 2100 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 505 0.8 2200 0 0 9 1 0 0 10 515 1.9 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 515 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 22 94 137 158 100 4 515 Gross QSO's=517 Dupes=2 Net QSO's=515 Unique callsigns worked = 324 The best 60 minute rate was 48/hour from 2224 to 2323 The best 30 minute rate was 58/hour from 2122 to 2151 The best 10 minute rate was 108/hour from 1414 to 1423 The best 1 minute rates were: 3 QSO's/minute 5 times. 2 QSO's/minute 60 times. 1 QSO's/minute 380 times. There were 192 bandchanges and 73 (14.2%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT6AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 181,770 Another portable operation. Planned antennas did not come about, used an Inverted L with active tuner at base for all bands. Murphy was in fine form, one failed interface cable, backup at home.. wrong paddle and tore the nail off my index finger while trying to rig antennas.. I apologize for my sending! Upside: The inverted L really played pretty well on all bands, 135 feet of wire, about 60 vertical with 10 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 157,560 Spent what time I had available S/Ping and looking for countries to fill in some needs for DXCC. Focused mostly on 80 and 160 (which means for me, very slow rate). Had a great time. Hope to see you all in the CQWW 160. Also, this Thursday night is the NC Road Kill Roundup! Google "NC roadkill Roundup" for more information...and look for me, "Skunk," as one of the road kill kritters! 73, jeff nx9t www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY3A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 143,640 I was originally going to operate all-band but a stuck rotor on 20/40m antenna persuaded me to go single-band 80m. It was great fun working everyone. The Pacific propagation in the early morning hours was interesting and improved my dxcc total. I did work some qrp EU stations but still had trouble hearing many stations even with a beverage to EU. 73; Steve rig: Orion II and ALpha 91B antenna 1: 425ft long sloping zepp antenna 2: dipole at 75ft antenna 3: 1/4w vertical beverage: 250ft NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,281,856 Rigs : MP's, Orion II Amps : Alpha 89, 76CA, Ameritron AL1200 Antennas : 160 - Vert, NE Zslope, NE beverage : 80 - NE 4el wire yagi, 4Sq, Inv Vee : 40 - NE 5el quad, NW 2el yagi, low loop : 20 - NE 8el wire yagi, 4el yagi : 15 - 4el yagi : 10 - 4el yagi Soapbox : Fairly well trashed first hour and a half with network problems that kept glitching MM logger. Turned out to be TWO of the three computers with intermittent network interface. Many thanks to Lynn and Howie for the great hospitality (as always, again, never fails). Thanks to dawg#2 (Scamp) for finally accepting NY4A first timer Bruce (N1LN) as a member of the pack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE4A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,537,497 Not very serios effort...but big fun! Missed 160m openning first night and second night on TB was very disappointed. Even i was resting satraday morning for more as 3 hours i was in the evening very sleepy. Around 20:00 UTC took another brake and slept much longer i was want to and lost some good hours on 40m! Last contest QSO was logged on sonday at 19:24 on 20m when i decided to go QRT and go back to Vienna! Heard later that condx on 160/80/40 improved for a lot...grrrrrr! Thanks for QSOs and hope to work you in SSB part! OE4A will be M/2! 73 es best dx de OE1EMS/OE4A Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE6IMD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 132,750 Hi there, it was great fun...I will be back...73/GL de Mike, OE6IMD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2N Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 12,600 TRX TS-850, ANT 7EL.YAGI MONO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2PVF Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 17,226 Rig:ts690s,delta loop 23m agl,177m beverage,700w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,119,866 After many years of only SSB again on CW in ARRL. I was quite nervous having much less than my buddy-OK1RF had from our station last year. I was not exactly sure why. Well after the contest seeing what others had 2006/2007 I am quite happy. Comparing my SO score with MM big guns like 4O1A or OM7M I think I was doing not too bad. I feel I should have more multipliers on 40(+160)m but it is hard - one MUST spend the best time on other bands i.e. 160 + 80 m. The window for west coast is really short - if at all present - we are here too far to the east. My expectations were to catch on saturday/sunday night but as others have written the propagation this night was wery POOR. There were periods when KC1XX,W3LPL,K3LR... etc were not audible on 160+80 at ALL !! What chance had the "normall" people than ?!? Similar I felt I should have more QSOs on 20m but I preferred 15m when possible and the opening on 20m was simply too short this year. Thanks for the QSO and hope to see you all again in the SSB leg. 73 ! Jiri OK5R/OK1RI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 127,836 This contest was crazy for me. I returned 3 hours before contest from family vacation (9 hours of driving from Italy). So it was hard time to prepare everything including antennas. No time for coffee before contest, hi. Tiredness did not allowed me to contest for 100%. See you in ARRL SSB! Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL0W Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 6,912 Only a short equipment performance test on saturday morning between 00-02 and 0400-0630Z. Most of the time on CQ with some good "runs", only 3 QSOs were S&P. Thanks to everybody who called. Rig FT1000MP+PA+InvL, K9AY RX loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 68,540 Not full participation. Only Yaesu FT990AC test after some front-end modifications at OL7R contest station (lot of thanks to Jan,OM2XW for detail info about 990 mod). 250Hz Xtal Inrad filter seems well. Used 4el. KLM beam and legal limit power thanks to Alpha 91b. Great contest and thanks to my new-old second radio much usable 40m band. See you in next contest ... 73 de Milan OK1VWK/OL3R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 66,120 I could spent only few hours on Saturday morning, late afternoon and again Sunday morning. 73 Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL9Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 85,176 Rig:ts690s,5el yagi es 700w. Vy 73gl at ssb part. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7RU Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 7,980 New Beverage ANT works really fine, it's time to improving TCVR and output power :) TCVR: IC-706 MkII PWR: 100 W ANT: Vertical 18 m + 32 radials Inv Vee Beverage ANT cca 250 m OTHER: MFJ-969 ANT Tuner microHAM microKEYER interface ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4AEK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 107,865 SOAPBOX: I decided to take part with my normal call on 40 m SOSB HP instead of my using vanity call (OT4A).On sunday afternoon went for just an hour on 2O m to play a bit around with OT4A and made 150 qso's. Propagation certainly not as good as last year during this contest on 40 m.First night was hard work, saturday just a bit better conditions.So the total score resulted in about 250 qso's less then last year. All together i allways enjoy cw ! So the weekend was just fun and that is what is should be ! Tnx all for the points, and hope to see you all soon. ON4AEK (OT4A) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4UN Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 37,558 Conditions like at the peak of thge sunspot cycle... it seemed. 1st night was so and so (331 QSOso's), second night was a disater (67 QSO's). Last year we made 464 qso's with 51 mults (71 Kpoints), now we are down tojust over half that score... Best distance: N7DD, N7JW, K0RF. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP4A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,829 Just testet my new FT857 on a GP for 80m and a AKI(INV L) for 40m from start of the contest 00:00UTC till 05:15UTC saturday morning, that was all the time i had, (QRL whole the weekend) Power 100watts, Logging SD worked SUPER.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 524,610 I had a lot of work to do around the house that got delayed by the bad WX as of lately, so I ended up in the chair when not working / sleeping. Not 48hr effort this time. I had good fun though and some fast runs cleared my head of all the chores still on the to do list. I blew a '1000W rated' commercial balun on my 40m sloper - but you already guessed that by looking at the 40m numbers. So I called it a day Sunday night at 1900utc when QSO 1005 was logged (target was 1k QSO). I don't have any problems with 1kW on all my homebrewed choke baluns... For the price of this off the shelf unit, I can make two myself. Another lesson learned. BTW: those Dakotas are hard to get! Only got one of both. 73 de Franki ON5ZO / OQ5M QSL = LotW + eQSL.cc or "via buro" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT5A Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 164,604 Not enough CW Ops available to enter M/S class. So decided to go alone as SO 20m LP. Not a full effort due to some tooth problems causing a serious headache. Fun anyway but no VE4 or VO2(LB) VE8(NWT) VY0(NU) or VY1(Yukon Terr). Had to wait untill last hour for SD and ND and UT in CONUS. Look for OT5A in CQWPX SSB M/M . Maybe also in ARRL SSB .... Some pictures on www.on7lr.org Tnx fer call and qso's , 73 and good contesting JIM - ON5UM/OP5T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ6PI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,016 Hi all! Thanks for the test! Was just listening around, giving points to a few stations! See you again! On March 1st, new prefixes will be released in OZ. OU,OV,5P and 5Q, have applied for 5P6PI and 5Q0PI, so if I get these calls, see you after march first on the air, qsls for these calls, via the buraeu to OZ6PI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7TTT Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 12,375 Rig: IC735, 100W output. Antennas: 2 ele. vertical, pointing statesite. One element was a Butternut ant. and the other was a quaterwave length of alu. tube. Condx was fair, band was quiet. Was mostly running S&P. cu next year 73 Pete OZ5WQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40LE Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,800,016 Condition were surpringly good, but operating with low power and a single vertical antenna (10 thru 80 )from a noisy hotel location does not produce great scores. It was a lot of fun, though. Be back next year with a better setup.. Andy P40LE / K2LE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,282,112 Equipment: IC756ProII, Titan Amp. (1KW) Win-Test Logging Software Antennas: 160M Vertical Dipole, 160/80 Inverted V, 2 ele 40M wire beam, Force 12 4 ele 20M, Cushcraft 4 el 15M, Force 12 5 ele 10M, Force 12 C4 tribander + 40M Beverages NW, N, NE Sometimes it just comes down to being lucky. A few examples: >Despite waking up an hour late on the morning of departure, I still managed to make my 6:35 a.m. flight to San Juan without attracting the attention of local law enforcement during a 'high rate' trip to Newark Airport, some 60 miles away. >Departed just hours before arrival of a snow/sleet/freezing rain storm that paralyzed ground and air travel in the region for the following 36 hours. Just lucky I'd booked a Tuesday and not a Wednesday departure two months earlier. >On Sunday morning I overslept despite a pair of very loud alarm clocks blaring two feet away from my head. Just lucky I woke up only an hour later. Whew....disaster avoided. >Late Sunday afternoon, I'd departed 10M to resume running on 15M, thinking the rather mediocre 10M opening wasn't worth more time. It was only at the insistence of AA1K that I returned to 10M and ended up catching the best part of the conditions and another 12 multipliers. Again....just lucky. Went into the contest in what I considered an under-rested state. An attempt to sleep Friday afternoon was largely unsuccssful. Maybe I managed an hour of fitful sleep at best. Got up an hour before the start. Immediated found that one ear of my Heil headset was not working. Frantically diagnosed the problem and made repairs to the cord/connector. Thank god for clip leads and Scotch 33 electrical tape. Then just minutes before the start I also discovered the computer and rig weren't talking to each other. Didn't have time to diagnose this problem, so ended up manually changing bands on Win-Test for the first 24+ hours. BTW, I really enjoy using the Win-Test logging software. It offers an easy transition from CT. Give it a test drive! Prior to the contest I'd decided to start on 40 meters, after experiencing rather poor results on 20M during the first hour the past two years. Never even listened to 20M this time - only to find out from P49Y the next morning that he had a 200 hour on 20! Damn..... Fortunately the first hour on 40 yielded a healthy 194 QSOs, and the second hour another 193 more contacts made it into the log. This was one of my best starts in an ARRL DX CW - ever. P49Y and I 'timeshare' 160M every other hour since we are only 1 mile apart. My first trip to 160 was at 0200. The band was dead quiet, an S-2 noise floor...perfect conditions. When the smoke cleared at the end of the hour, 177 contacts in 48 sectons had been put in the log. WHAT A RUSH! It felt like 20M. Never had to turn down the keyer speed (36 wpm) even once. Followed up the 160 assult with a huge 205 hour on 80M (and another 48 mults there too). Low band conditions don't get much better than this from the southern Caribbean! The next several hours were 143, 158, 95 and 100 respectively, as I moved every 30 minutes or so between 160, 80, and 40. The mults kept coming. By the end of the first night I had pretty much maxed out mults on 160 and 80 with 58 each (never heard VE4, not sure if the far north VE8s or VO1 were active) and 57 mults on 40M. Felt getting ahead of the multipler curve the first night lifted some pressure from my shoulders. Found some of the more difficult mults like DC and ND easier to work this year, especially on the low bands. Thanks guys. On the downside, it was during this timeframe I discovered a serious amplifier problem, When operating the low bands, I use beverages for rx nearly 100% of the time. By chance I switched to the TX antenna on 40M and heard DEAD SILENCE. The exact cause is yet to be determined, but I strongly suspect the vacuum relay in the Titan wasn't releasing normally. Experienced this same problem last year, it is intermittent and only happens after several hours of continual operation of the amp. Unfortunately it would continue to come and go without warning and for random periods of 5 seconds to 15 minutes the remainder of the weekend. At 0900 I found P49Y on 160 and made arrangements to drive over to his station after sunrise and borrow an amplifier for backup. As it turned out I managed to get through the remainder of the contest without putting the borrowed amp on line, by using the beverages for RX on all bands, but it was very reassuring having the amp available if needed. TNX again Andy! Made my first appearance on 20M at 1300. Was pleasantly surprised to find rate awaiting me, since the 1200 to 1600 period is normally the Caribbean "duldrums" when US stations are working EU. Put 164 qsos in the log that first hour on 20M, felt like I was in dream, this never happens! Stuck with 20 for about 90 minutes, before sliding up to 15M where the rate was even better. The 1400 hour was the best rate hour of the contest with 209 contacts. Spent most of the next 6 hours on 15M, where the rate hovered in the 190 range endlessly. Starting at 1545 checked 10M every 10 minutes or so for posible signs of life. Found a lonely W0AIH there at 1546 but no one else. Then at 1611 I was rewarded with 24 ten meter contacts in 12 sections in 12 minutes. As it turned out this would be the end of the 10M action for the day. During the 2000 hour it was time to return to 20M where I would be 'fresh meat' having only about 200 contacts in the log on 20 at that point. It was like being a P5, the pileup was instantaneous, huge (a Khz plus wide),and initially undisciplined. The rate slowed until I could work through the first layer of 40 over 9 guys, a who's who from FRC, YCCC, PVRC, NCC, MRRC, NCCC, etc. Got through it by picking off stations calling on the edges of the pileup. I second N5AU's comments and suggestion, position youself above or below, not exactly zerobeat, your chances of success are increased significantly. The next three clock hours on 20 were 206, 207 and 187 respectively. It doesn't get much better in any CW contest! After 24 hours, roughly 3,600 QSOs and 302 multiplers were in the log. I knew the 150/hour rate was unsustainable, so set my goal at 5500 by the end of 48 hours. Almost made it too. The period 00 - 06 was totally uneventful. Conditions on the low bands were somewhat noisier the second night with static crashes. Rate for all but one hour was sub-100. At 0627 decided it wasn't much fun anymore and resolved to take a 1.5 hour nap. Set three alarms, one at 1.5 hours and two at 3 hours, then laid my head down on the desk. Slept through all three alarms located just 2 feet away. Fortunately I woke up at 0955. I wasn't coherent for several minutes, but the break period left me rested and paid dividends the rest of the way. Over the next five hours, followed the propagation from 80 to 40 to 20 and eventually 15. The rates were mediocre, but typical of this time frame from P4, in the 50 to 100 Q range and only one additional mult was worked (Tnx Andy, VE9DX). Started my 10M band watch again at 1600. At 1621 found seven New England and northeastern VEs to work, but it didn't last long and it was soon back to 15M. Rates remained around 100/hour. At 1900 found 10M runable. Put 46 contacts in 46 minutes in the log, adding another 9 mults. Lousy rate but you have to be there. The opening was coast to coast, and signals were weak, many near the noise floor with few exceptions. The KH6s were loud however and heard them ripping off the Qs. Left again thinking this was it, the 10M propagation gods were not going to shine down upon us in SA this year. But at 2041 AA1K called in on 15M and strongly urged me to give 10M another try. Boy am I glad I did. Over the next 40 minutes added 89 additional 10M QSOs and more importantly 12 multipliers for a final mult total of 35. TNX Jon! The final 2 hours of the contest were a push for QSOs, it seemed 5400 might be reachable at this point. Moved to 20M and was rewarded with a 155 hour, the best rate of the second day. The final hour was split between 20 and 40 and yielded 118 qsos and two final mults on 40M in the last ten minutes on skeds (TNX to N7NG for WY and VE4MG for MB). At the close, my claimed score was up 8% compared to 2006. After the contest P49Y picked me up and it was off to the traditional post-contest dinner with P49V, AI6YL, and P43E attending. Its always so great to share our contest experiences when they are still vivid. Congrats to K6AM, K4BAI, KH6ND and others for their outstanding scores, and for making this a very competitive event from the DX side of the pileups. Mike, with some more sunspots you would have been very dangerous! Special thanks to NO2R, W2RQ and W2NO for technical support prior to the contest, and of course to my girl friend and host family who are so tolerent of my contesting activities. 73, John W2GD/P40W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,314,705 This was my second year as a Low Power entrant, as John, P40W, and I continue to try to co-exist in major contests with stations only a mile apart. My score actually ended up 100k higher than last year, so I can't complain, in spite of 17 fewer mults on 10 meters (and with the prospect, until late Sunday afternoon local time, of having under 300 mults in total). As usual, this operation was from the P40L-P49Y station (ex-P49V QTH) owned by John, W6LD, and myself. To give an idea of some of the maintenance required by such a place, since last year's ARRL, we had to rebuild the 20/40 yagi, put up a new antenna for 160 (I had put up a new inverted vee last fall, but P40W seemed offended by it when he stayed in our place at Christmas and on his own initiative replaced it with a vertical dipole in an H-configuration -- at the same time, he swapped out a frozen rotor on the C31), and just last week, Ed, W0YK, very kindly replaced the C31 reflector, which had fallen off the boom after 7 years of yeoman service. It was a greatly appreciated heroic one-man effort by Ed (of course he was incentivized by his desire to set a new world record in RTTY WPX which he did). (We also had to take the Alpha 87A home for servicing, and bring back a serviced FT1000D for P43A, so there has been a fair amount of heavy baggage hauling). Some comments and comparisons to last year: 1) Low band conditions were great for us Arubans, with virtually no atmospheric noise. 40 seemed particularly pleasant, and I was surprised and pleased to have two hours of over 100 Qs on 40 Saturday night and one on 80; last year I had no hours on Saturday night even approaching 100. 2) Mults seemed a little harder to come by. Some usually rare ones were fairly evident, including DC (thanks for going multi, W3DQ, and KE3VV was there as always), DE, VE5. Others seemed rarer, including ND, WY, and VE4. I had no NDs, until 3 called on 20 late Saturday afternoon, at a time when no moves to other bands could work. VE4MG called on 20 in the last hour, but by then 15 was closed, and I already had worked VE4VV on 40 and thought a move to 80 would not work. I was delighted when W7ZQ in WY called in on 40 with literally 6 minutes left in the contest, and was willing to make a successful move to 80 for a new one! 3) My outboard keyer went berserk early in the contest, and all efforts to reset it failed, so I had to plug the paddles into the 756 Pro2 to use its internal keyer. I didn't like it nearly as well, and apologize to all who may have been subjected to my very sloppy hand sending at times. Fortunately, unlike our former FT1000D, you can (for what it's worth) at least use the internal keyer when also using computer keying. 4) Of course 10 was completely weird. There was a very brief opening on Saturday that yielded 9 Qs and 8 mults, then a brief opening at the same time on Sunday, good for only 2 more mults. But surprisingly, 10 came back in our late afternoon on Sunday for a strange opening. Signal weren't strong and there were no pileups, but people were there. Last year it opened in a very orderly fashion, first to the north then spreading to the west, and I had a huge initial pileup -- my rate last year averaged 130 per hour for 3 hours and 51 mults. This year, the rate averaged only 57 per hour for 2:38 hours and 34 mults. But I'm not complaining -- at least we were far enough south get some opening. During the whole opening, I could hear KH6s clearly -- go figure. As always, one of the highlights of contesting from Aruba is the opportunity to spend time with local hams and visiting contesters. For example, this one-week trip interrupted by a 48-hour contest included meals or visits with: P43A (Jean-Pierre) and his wife P43C (Chris), P43E (Emily), P43L (Lisandro) and wife Lissette, P49MR (Martin), P40LE (Andy - K2LE), P49V (Carl - AI6V), AI6YL (Sue), and the ubiquitous P40W (John - W2GD). It's the exact opposite of some contest expeditions, where the ops are essentially isolated in a strange country. Equipment: Radios: Two IC-756 PRO 2s Antennas: Force 12 4 el 10/15/20, 2 el 40, C31XR; inv vee for 80, vertical dipole for 160 Software: CQPWIN by AE6Y, ver. 10.6 Congratulations to P40W (HP), P49V (15 HP), and P40LE (LP with a vertical!) on great efforts, and thanks to everyone for the contacts and the moves and even the failed moves. 73, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 101,802 Nice opening on 15m around 16.00Z second day; U cannot work 2 bands at the same time so may have cost me some Midwest/Westcoast mults (CO/CA/AZ/NV which I heard shortly on 20m around the same time. Condx : 100W wid dipole fer 20m es inv vee other bands. Cu in 2008 73 Harry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PF5X Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 177,606 I had a lot of fun S&P-ing around during the available hours in between family life this weekend. Condition were quite different on Sunday compared to Saturday. Had a nice run on 20m on Saturday, whereas 15m opened up quite late on Sunday but yielded a great run until after local sunset. 40m was difficult so activity was confined to S&P only. Hope to see you guys around next year. -- Enno, PF5X (ex-9V1CW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,961,610 Contrary to the best traditions of contesting, absolutely NOTHING broke this weekend. Nothing. Not a single computer hangup, zero dropped network QSOs in Writelog, no radio, linear, antenna, rotor, or computer problems. Even the weather was perfect, with low temps and humidity (for 12 degrees north), bright sun, and even unmatched underwater visibilty. That seemed all the more amazing as we sat here sipping cold ones, operating, and watching the horrific live weather reports from the U.S. on The Weather Channel. We had a tremendous crew and the fun on the air was exceeded only by the fun and good fellowship at the QTH. The contest played out about as expected. We missed VE4 on 160 and VE9, amazingly, on 15. 40 was the money band, owing largely to the advantage of a yagi at 107 feet firing out across the salt water. As always at this stage of the cycle, the big drama is on 10 meters. By the end of the day Saturday we had managed one QSO -- I worked K3LR at 1609Z Saturday by bouncing signals off a jetliner cruising above Georgia. The opening lasted only seconds. Thankfully, we experienced the same shaky but very welcome Sunday opening that was shared by other stations this far south, and W8TK spun off most of our 300 Qs and 41 mults until the ionosphere gave up. We had an incredible, inexplicable pipeline to VE3 during almost the entire opening. Maybe K9LA can explain that one to us down the road. Unfortunately, the opening gave up abruptly, and we listened helplessly as HP1XX continued to make 10 meter QSOs long after we had lost it. This was a replay of last year when almost the same crew (then at TI5N) had an extended 10 meter opening and we were transmitting into dummy loads, seemingly. Many thanks to all our CCC club members who do so much to keep PJ2T on the air. Special mention needs to me made of W8TK, who has provided the majority of PJ2T's equipment, most recently a Titan III amp and our sixth FT-1000, and of NP2L who funded almost all of the major antenna and tower renovation program we're in the middle of this year. Thanks also to non-members WA4PGM and K8NZ for operating with us this weekend. Superb operators and outstanding courteous gentlemen. Finally, we thank once again the famous W1BIH (PJ9JT), whose QTH we're privileged to keep on the air from Curacao. This is our favorite contest. We're CW addicts through and through, and while working US/VE may not have the pizazz of the other contests, we love this one and thank all of the patient US/VE ops who take the time to get into our log. What a wonderful hobby, and we value all of the friendships we've made and appreciate the kind comments from so many about the PJ2T operations. 73, - Geoff, W0CG, PJ2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4/KU8E Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 118,320 I know.. I must have been crazy to do 160 single band from the Carribean. My main purpose on this trip was to help my friend K4BAI (PJ4A) prepare for the contest. I decided at the last minute to do 160 single band since the South America record seemed to be within easy reach. It took just about 6 hours to break that record. Thanks to Noah, K2NG, for suggesting the beverage down the road behind the towers. This road ran down into a valley with cliffs blocking all directions except for the USA. We ran a 500 foot beverage down it. All I can say is it was amazing how well this antenna worked. It was by far the best RCV antenna I have used since I have been coming to this QTH. I also made about about 1000 more QSO's on the other bands on Sunday. The rates were high since I was a new station for everyone to work. I am sorry about my sudden QSY's in the middle of a pileup. PJ4A had priority on which band to operate and I had to QSY so I would not effect John's effort. Thanks for the QSO's and to K2NG for the use of his fine station. Hopefully we will be back next year. Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,896,990 IC756Pro, AL1200, 1 KW, Inv L for 160, dipole for 80, C31XR, C3, 2 el 40 yagi, NW beverage rx ant. Thanks to Noah, K2NG/PJ4G for renting us a FB station, antennas, house, etc. Thanks to Jeff, KU8E, for technical assistance. Congratulations to John, W2GD/P40W for a great win despite, or maybe because of, getting 3 hours sleep. Thanks to all for QSOs. QSLs for PJ4A, PJ4/K4BAI and PJ4/KU8E go via K4BAI, bureau or direct. No eQSLs, but stations outside the US may request a bureau card via e-mail. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 273,570 The ARRL CW is over. what we can expect for the ARRL SSB ? the condx were FB, mainly on the 15, 20 and 40 meter bands. I hope to meet all of you again in few days. 73 de Eger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7AA Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 83,655 Rig: IC-756ProIII Ant: Yagi 6el @ 24m Pwr: 50 Watts It was a typical no committed contest weekend. I got on the air Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Total 9 hours, almost 100% CQing. Thanks Barreto for let me use the great antennas on PT7CB (ZY7C). Thank you also all the W/VE stations that gave me a QSO. Tino, PT7AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7AG Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 243,021 It was my first contest with brandnew callsign: PT7AG. Good rate on first night, but very slow on the second with storm and noise. Big surprise: many DC, ND, SD, UT and DE on the log. Thank you W/VE from polite pileup. Hope CU all on the SSB leg. Best 73, Luc PT7AG (PY8AZT) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7CG Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 103,182 ARRLDXCW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2007-02-20 CallSign Used : PT7CG Operator(s) : PT7CG Band : 80M Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : KW ARRL Section : DX Software: N1MM Logger V7.1.5 Band QSOs Pts Sec 3,5 593 1779 58 Total 593 1779 58 Score : 103.182 Rig : IC-756ProIII + Alpha 99 (1KW) Ant : 3 Elem Wirebeam @ 35m Comments: Thanks for: - Barreto, PT7CB for opening his station for us - Tino, PT7AA for patience teaching me Morse Code - Luc, PY8AZT for great support during contest - W/VE stations for listen my signals and reply my calls CUAGN on Contest. Neto, PT7CG Log Statistics -------------- PT7CG Max Rates: 2007-02-17 0430Z - 4,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 240 per hour by PT7CG 2007-02-17 0258Z - 2,2 per minute (10 minute(s)), 132 per hour by PT7CG 2007-02-17 0344Z - 1,6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 95 per hour by PT7CG PT7CG - Off Times >= 30 Minutes 02/17/07 00:00Z - 02/17/07 00:36Z 36 mins 02/17/07 08:55Z - 02/18/07 00:28Z 933 mins 02/18/07 07:40Z - 02/18/07 23:01Z 921 mins 02/18/07 23:02Z - 02/18/07 23:36Z 34 mins Total Time Off 32,07 hours Total Time On 15,93 hours PT7CG Runs >10 QSOs: 2007-02-17 0133 - 0148Z, 3545 kHz, 14 Qs, 56,2/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0234 - 0351Z, 3546 kHz, 114 Qs, 87,9/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0353 - 0517Z, 3546 kHz, 110 Qs, 79,2/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0521 - 0541Z, 3546 kHz, 32 Qs, 92,5/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0545 - 0620Z, 3547 kHz, 41 Qs, 69,7/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0639 - 0705Z, 3546 kHz, 16 Qs, 37,3/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0730 - 0752Z, 3544 kHz, 35 Qs, 97,7/hr PT7CG 2007-02-17 0759 - 0819Z, 3544 kHz, 13 Qs, 38,7/hr PT7CG 2007-02-18 0035 - 0343Z, 3546 kHz, 137 Qs, 43,7/hr PT7CG 2007-02-18 0402 - 0430Z, 3537 kHz, 12 Qs, 25,7/hr PT7CG 2007-02-18 0435 - 0532Z, 3520 kHz, 13 Qs, 13,6/hr PT7CG 2007-02-18 0534 - 0739Z, 3513 kHz, 38 Qs, 18,2/hr PT7CG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 27,135 A good contest! It´s carnival on Brazil... Holiday!!! Perfect for contest! Rig: FT920 Ant:Dipole 1/2 wave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1NB Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 47,610 Nice pile ups ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1NX Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 146,682 Rig: FT920 @ 100watts Ant: 2 el Yagi @ 10m High ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2EYE Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 8,964 Rig: IC-706MKII + 2x 4CX250B (500w) Ant.: 3 el. tribander yagi @ 13m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NDX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,396,728 Rig: TS-130S MLA-2500B = 500w Ant: 10/15/20 TH7DX @17M 40m 2el. yagi home made 80m Inverted V 73 ! Rafael PY2NDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 189,138 What happens to the other guys computers? More than 10% dupes!! A lot of people call twice... Anyway, was fine... And dont worry - I lost Amplifier for one hour and use 100 at msg-exchange... Work with 800w other 14 hours... Hope to listen you at ARRL SSB contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2YU Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 251,163 Rig: Icom IC-706MKII Amp: TMC (Canadian amplifier) with 2x 4CX250B (400w on 15m) Ant: 3 el. Tribander Yagi (3DX3) @ 13m I made this contest like old time, without computer, because it failed one hour before the contest :-( All the QSOs had been logged in the paper, just finished to type the contacts in my home PC. Thanks all guys who called me on 15m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 494,760 QSL via W3HNK http://rk3awl.ru/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW4PL Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 41,616 73! CU next contest. RW4PL,Andy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RZ1AWT Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 12,927 QTH KO48VR, TRX : FT 1000 MP ANT : 3 el wire yagi up 200 ft( 65 mtrs ) , www.ru1a.ru BV - USA - 300 mtrs programme: WIN-TEST First day was poor condx ,only 38 qso. Second day was much better 102 qso. Vy good signal was KV0Q,K9DX (long time). Last night no operated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 154,275 Ant: 2x vertical Rig: ic-737 Pwr: kw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53O Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 161,616 ant 4xvert,ts850+kw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 214,578 Started with 50 W on 40 m, switched on SB-220 after 3 QSO, enjoyed few DX Cluster generated pile-ups, blew QRO due to tune cap arcing on Sunday afternoon, worked few West Coast stations with 100 W. I had fun remembering 1991 contest with my DSP robot. 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 3,672 CU in SSB part. 73,Ivo, S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 114,000 I am thankfull to Karl (S52AW) who invite me to work ctest from his location with great antena (3L QUAD at 60m AGL). The conditions were not so good as expected, specially Saturday night was bad. The best opening was at the end of ctest. Anyway it was nice, even a lot empty CQ-s. Mni tnx also to Zvonka (S52AW/xyl) who made a great support during the contest and gave me a great hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59KW Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 78,000 rig: ft1000mp ant: x7 worked all the test with the keyer (sri & tnx for patience to all). worked first time from home and had no idea how it will go. i tought was going bad but now, after reading the other coments, i see that the conditions were bad. thanks to all for the qso's. marko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM0W Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 10,710 Wasnt planning at all on attending the contest, too much other stuff to du around the station for the ARRL PH. Tho, stupid as I am, I turned on the rig on saturday afternoon and could not resist to do a short run of 100 Qs in 45mins. Always nice to work the snappy callers "over there". CU in ARRL Phone on 75 meters ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6WET Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 16,851 No antenna for 40m and 10/15 was dead in NW direction. Had a full weekend with my birthday, people coming and going plus that YL had me start refurbing a room in the basement. Managed to sneak in a few QSOs here and there and get a few new counties. Please QSL guys. 73 de Magnus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6A Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 3,500 Just few hours activity. Trying rig and antennas before CQ160 SSB next weekend contest. Strongest station on the other side was W4ZV, nothing from 6,7and 0 - sri. Using IC756pro plus PA - GU43b , inv.L- transmitting antenna and 177m Beveridge as receiving. Tks all for qso,s. 73 de Zbig sp6a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP9H Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 115,596 First time SO HP class. It was very interesting experience for me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ6MS Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 110,544 Tnx for all qso.Also big thanks for your patience in saturday and sunday afternoons.Terrible QRM from time to time make a difficult to copy weak signals. Anyway it is always a big plesaure to praticipate ARRL DX Contest.See you in the SSB leg. Vy73 de Maciek ... --.- -.... -- ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T99W Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 38,874 eqp. TS 850 + 400W Ant. 2 vertical, only 6 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,619,729 Tnx everybody for this great time of fun. Weather was excellent all the week-end. Conditions on 15m have been quite good for the solar cycle season, and we even heard fews dits deep in noise from W3LPL time to time on 10m (F6KHM is in IN78RJ, west France). About the same score than last year but with less propagation (20m was completly closed at 20:00utc here). rigs are: 160m: dipole @15m 80m: full size sloped dipole 40m: 2 elements DXBEAM @30m (see at www.dxbeam.com) 20m: 6 elements DXBEAM @26m 15m: 6 elements DXBEAM @12m 10m: 5 elements @12m + a sort of 210m beverage antenna at 5m above the ground to US TS850 or FT1000MK5field + Homemade Amp from 160m to 20m FT990 + Alpha91b for 15 and 10m in a second shack 50m away See you during the phone event! For TM6M@F6KHM team, F5TTU Xavier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9CDC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 168,483 Equipment used - ORION 1, IC775, PA, 160m - Vertical + 4 bevereges 320m long, 80m - 3el @ 40m + same bevereges, 40m - 4 over 4 the top is at 50m, 20m - 5 over 7 the top is at 50m, 15m - 8 el @ 40m, 10m - 8 el @ 40m BAND pass filters, DXdoubler Software - TRlog It turned out to be DXing rather then contesting. There were several relatively strong NA stations that could not hear me with the above setup. K1LZ was one of the loudest on 80m. WA5VGI was the loudest Long Pass on 80m. VE1ZZ was the only QSO on 160m. I have some MP3 files. As soon as I find some FTP to put them I will post the URL on CQ contest reflector. 73, Igor UA9CDC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31KO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,076,521 First Dx'pedition, had a blast and will be back somewhere next year QSL to K4NO Greg K4NO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31TP Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,881,550 Thanks very much to John, WC0W/V31TP for inviting us rowdy Texans to join him. We couldn't have had a better time. We had a TA-33 and a C-3, a 40/80 inverted vee, a 40 dipole, a commercial vertical modified for 160, and a 400 foot beverage. The antennas were set up on a steep hillside overlooking San Ignacio, in western Belize. We has an IC-756 with an FL-2100, and an IC-756 Pro III with an AL-811. We were really hoping to may more hay on 10M. But by the end of Saturday, we’d eked out a couple dozen Qs and 9 mults. Then on Sunday, things opened up for a little over an hour on Sunday about noon. We had solid sigs from California, and very up and down signals from everywhere else. We kept trying that afternoon, but couldn't make anything happen. Thanks again to John and to all the folks at Cahal Pech hotel for the great time. Thanks also to N2LA and KI5DR for equipment. Robert K5PI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V49A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,380,488 set-up FD-style on the porch of a rental villa on the north end of Nevis. FT100D (75W) to wires about 15' high. Amazed at how well it worked. Lots of good ears on 160M as I know I couldn't have been very loud. Sorry that Bob/KQ2M wasn't able to get to V47KP. Gave it my best shot at making the V4 mult available - and yes Bob, I hoisted several "victory beers" when it was over. Tnx to Karl/V44NK for use of callsign and help in getting license renewed. May try it again next year. some great scores out there! 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2SG Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 5,940 A first attempt QRP.Was not so bad after all. Tnx for all for the points. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 254,334 Always enjoy this contest! Pleased to see that last Summer's antenna changes have resulted in better performance on 40 m. -I'm very happy about that since 15 m. seems be taking a beating, thanks to the sunspot cycle. As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run QRP! Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 187,935 Some points for CCO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 8,460 K2, 5w, vertical and dipole. Thanks for the contacts! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 286,839 * FT920 + SB221 * N1MM Logger * 3 ele. tribander @ 45' * 40M rotatable dipole @ 55' * 2 el. 40M delta loop beam (good for US/VE only right now) * 80M inverted-V @ 65' * 18AVT/WB trapped all-band vertical ================================================= Highlights: * 40M crappie rotatable dipole worked at last * South Africa a new one on 40M * 5Z4 Kenya on 20M (toughie from here) * Final Q was JA7ODY -- his 1 watt was loud(ish) * 10M opened briefly to LU and XE * Lousy 160M weekend ================================================= Ran HP for first time in ARRL DX CW. Made 40 more Qs but mults were still down by 19 from 2006 with 100W. Was the extra power worth it? I don't know what LP would have done this year at the very bottom months of the solar cycle, but I suspect it would have been a much tougher slog. 19 hours this year, 23 hours last year, so the power bought some extra sleep and a bit more rate, but didn't raise multipliers. Mults were down slightly on 80M (-6) and 40M (-4), up by 9 on 20M, and down 19 on 15M (from 41 to 22). Antennas and noise were the difference on 80 and 40, higher power helped on 20, and sunspot minimum caused the bottom to fall out of 15. Year QSOs Mults Score ---- ---- ----- ------- 2003 235 122 86,010 2004 307 132 121,572 2005 444 167 222,444 2006 571 176 301,488 2007 609 157 286,839 Didn't bother with 160M -- I know the saggy inverted-L isn't worth playing around with till I can get it raised properly. Used the vertical and 80M inverted-V on Friday night for most of my 28 Qs on 80N. Saturday afternoon walkaround in the back yard revealed one side of the inverted-V had come loose and was hanging straight down from the 65'-high support rope. Fixed the antenna but still only made a few Qs on Saturday night. Picked up a mail parcel Saturday -- new MFJ 1026 noise reduction box. Tried it out quickly and found that it's going to reduce the power line noise on 20M very well. Will replace the wee bulb "fuse" on the sense antenna input with a relay so I can run HP without that input burning out. Also received a couple long runs of new coax, so was able to replace the feed to the 40M rotatable dipole I built last year to help with EU. http://www3.telus.net/va7st/rotary.htm The very shortened (39') linear-loaded crappie dipole had stopped working soon after installing it atop the tower last fall. Replaced the coax feed line Saturday and the thing works quite nicely. Worked lots of EU, but not all I heard (the dipole's up just 55'). Managed to pull out ZS6AAA for an all-new one on 40M Sunday morning when the vertical couldn't hear him through the noise. It's a keeper till next time the tower's tilted over, when I plan to beef it up with bigger wire elements for broader bandwidth and better power handling. 20M EU openings were modest here. Saturday morning it didn't really get going till 1530z and then Boom!, we were off to the races for two hours. Alas, openings are quite short these days but when they arrive, they open very suddenly. Hoping my Q with 4X4DX is good. Same for VK9DNX (who was very loud here when I worked him, but had a million callers on top). 15M never opened to EU from here, but did get Canary Is. Lots of SA and Caribbean stations worked, but not much out of Asia or Oceania. Sunday afternoon saw 10M open briefly to LU and XE -- good for just 2 mults on 5 Qs (better than the 1-for-1 last year). Sunday morning EU started coming in around 1600z and stayed open for most of the day, with a few weaker hours in the mix. Could have worked OH8L all day long -- big signal, even when I was beaming Asia. Thanks for all the contacts. Be back next year with better low-band antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,087,443 Not as much time on air that I wanted, but so it goes... Usually go HP Assisted in this one, but decided at the last minute to see what could be done with 100 watts and no telnet, as I've proven to myself over and over again that packet can hurt one's score...Too much time wasted in Packet Pileups chasing mults that will usually come while running anyway...I did scan the bands top to bottom often to see what I was missing...Mult count is down by 26 this year, but QSO's are up with less time on air...End result, better score and more sleep..!!...Running is key to scoring points when in a semi-rare mult-location, with S&P at the right times in the right places... Most often worked DXCC's...DL(152), OK(76), I(70), G(63), UA(61)...Overall, 101 DXCC and 26 zones worked... Best clock hour - 1600-1700 Sat with 126... Pleasantly surprised at 80 and 40, had fun on both bands with good propagation... Kept checking 10, but only heard ONE signal - HP1XX... Lots of fun...Thanks for the calls... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 118,863 Thanks for every one taking time to pickup my weak signal ! RIG IC-756PROIII 100W ANTENNA BUXCOMM 1606-G5RV at 56FT in INV_VEE all folded on a 5400 sqft lot ! CU next year with more ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FWW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 776,376 I was not supposed to be in the contest. Could not resist... Work only 16h. No antenna for 160 yet.. no 15 meter the first day,...but the second day was not very good.. Thanks to all NOEL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2TZT Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 32,661 With its only-dx rule, this contest is obviously an antenna contest and with its 48h without off-time, it is on of the hardest. Having no better antennas on 40 and 80m than for the CQWW DX , I have thought that it was not worth the full no-sleep effort. So, I think that it was the good occasion to try the mono-band category and especially the 160m one. After all, I have been practicing this band for only one year, and 2 nights of only-dx operation, with few strong/close local signals, had been full of lessons. The conditions at this location were better than for the ARRL 160 but worse and with less rare dx participants than for the CQWW 160. The two nights were about the same, except some QRN on second one. The run was working only between 4h30 and 6h30 Z with Europe, the rest was mostly S&P. I think that I have reached the limits of my 160m TX and RX antennas at this location and doing better will need more than 1 vertical element and a 160m beverage to EU (even in end-fire configuration). Having most of neighbors and a big city at a few miles in the direction of Europe provides the higher level of noise in the most important direction for contest. As usual, It was a real challenge to pull the 100W European stations out of this noise (especially the 1TT code !), but it is the reason why I found this band funny… Many W/VE stations (about 50 !) was not aware of the DX ONLY rule and tried to answer to my CQ. I changed my CQ message from CQ TEST to CQ TEST DX, but was not enough and each time, I was obliged to try to explain with a SRI NO W/VE ONLY DX TEST message. Perhaps the ARRL should communicate more on that point. In any case, thank to them for having tried to bring me some points, it will be for the next contest… In an other hand, some dx / Caribbean pile-up were a real mess, the dx station transmitting its call-sign every 5 to 10 minutes (spotting effect) and some (sadly more and more with the years) callers continuing to transmit their call-sign far after the beginning of the dx answer, or worse, beginning to transmit their call-sign during the dx answer. Have you ever experienced what happens when someone throw a stone in a crowded hen house ? Same sound effect! What can we do for this kind of operator to understand that it is useless to call, as long as, one is unable to clearly listen the dx and understand his/her timing ? Conclusion, interesting experience, but not to be reiterated at this location, too noisy to be in the race. Hope to meet you next year as a SOAB. As usual on this band, thanks to every stations who called me and I apologies to those I was not able to pull out of the noise. TX : FT1000 mkV Field with click mod / VL-1000 (kW) Tx ant: 22m wire vertical T between trees. Rx ant : 160m Reversible Beverage 60/240deg , 200 m reversible Beverage (90/270 deg), 85m reversible Beverage (0/180deg) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 290,376 Sure was nice to see 10 meters open up for a few QSO's/multipliers. Many thanks to everyone for the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,739,300 Thanks to Paul and Marg for letting me using the SY's station again and for their hospitality. Unfortunately was very tired after difficult week and just couldn't stay up the whole contest. Low bands were great, managed to work many interesting countries, including VK9, V73, FO and UA9 on 80, just to name a few. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GSI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 319,275 Great band conditions. I hope to see everyones logs in LoTW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3HG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 833,832 Battling Beavers from Oakville, ON, did a great job as usual. All the equipment worked flawlessly and really pleased with 80 meter results from a quarter-wave inverted-L. 160 not bad for a single sloper. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB/160 QRP Total Score = 945 No Balloon Vertical this weekend. In fact I wasn't able to be fulltime due to other commitments and the fact that I am still getting over a nasty head cold. Still 8.5 hours with 21 QSO's is a little hard on the head [ and ego ]. Its exactly the same contest as the ARRL 160 or the CQ160 CW, except that I can't work the added 500-600 US and 30-40 Canadian stations that I usually do, which sort of slows down the rate at bit [ please note sarcasim ]. It was still a personal best and I have never worked 15 DXCC countries in one contest on 160 QRP before [ old record for me was 14 QSO's in 14 DXCC in the 2005 ARRL DX CW ]. I guess when you don't have to log those 600 other stations you have more time to chase the DX [ please note more sarcasim ]. I heard another 40 stations that couldn't hear me - however they were not "new ones" so no problem. I just missed Asia for 160M QRP WAC. Maybe if I had of had the Balloon Vertical up after all.... 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 7,920 Condx were up and down. Some of the best signals were from V31YN,IS0/K7QB, EF8M, RA6AX and KH7X, among others. Managed to beat my last year's score by a modest margin. On a couple of occasions, when I was struggling to copy a power from a weak signal some "helpful" operator would fill in the missing number for me ! That was not appreciated and I always continued with my struggle until I got the power confirmed. I suppose that "helpful" operator was getting impatient. But it's not cricket ! Station: Drake TR-7 100 watts Home brew autotuner Inverted L One Beverage One pennant TR Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 793,800 Fun contest even with so-so conditions. Worked FO and F5 back-to-back on 80m 1200UTC Sunday, pretty unusual. I think there should be a 10% penalty for contesters using key-click specials without modifying them:-) Rig: ICOM 756PRO2/ACOM 1000 Ant. 2el Quad @ 31 ft. / 80-40 Dipole @ 65 Ft. / 160m dipole in "C" formation @ 55 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 73,125 Last year I did a single band low power 15m effort as my first ARRL DX CW contest, so this year I decided to try 20m single band low power. It was sure a lot more fun and I about tripled last year's score. I even worked two "new ones" and managed to get through most of the pileups I heard (the 8P9 was the toughest). There was one pileup though (Saturday afternoon), I never could figure out the guy's call, even after listening for over half an hour. Guess that will teach me to operate unassisted! The condx from Calgary were surprisingly good both days - especially considering that DX has been pitiful here for many weeks. Fortunately, there was a good path to JA (domo arigato!), as they accounted for about 40% of my total QSO count. As my FT-1000MP is waiting on a replacement board (so far about one month), I relied on my TS-440S which came through like a champ. The antenna is a TH6 DXX at 13m. Thanks to all who gave me a point, and even to all those Americans who thought they were helping. See y'all in the next one. Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 148,608 Hi All: Well that sure was more fun that the last years cw ADXCW event. The first evenings prop was simply outstanding on the low bands; hearing and working dx stns with QRP on 160 from 51 deg. N latitude. Nearly a sweep with 5 stns(missed 10m Q's hi!). Tnx for the Q's/ great times. All were worked S&P, no replys to any CQ"s. VE6EX was:: Elderly Kenwood rig at QRP, 2el delta loop on 15 and 20, 5 el on 10, quarter slopers for 40 and 80. Shunt fed the tower (60') for 160; Flawless TRLOG of course, all from the heart of suburb Calgary. Contesting with no tvi HI!!! Cheers and Good DX, Dan, VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7BZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 32,004 Great conditions on Friday night through Saturday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 294,930 Worked 80 stns on 160 the first night and 13 the second. Just nothing there that was new. Called RK2FWA and UU7J on and off for a long time with no results. Even though they were both over S9, they just never heard me. Really could not spend much time on the air as we had company so missed most of the prime time for 20,15 and 10. Hopefully I did provide a mult for a few though. Next year, I will do better...! Logs already uploaded to LOTW. 73 Andy (VE9DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9NC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 10,626 First CW contest... bit interesting... might just do it again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 285,039 Well, another S&P CW contest is in the books and it was good to get back into the fray after missing several of the contests so far this year. Equipment issues were minor. I lost my 160 antenna in a wind storm a few weeks back so that band was out. I think ice has formed in the tubes of my beam and is prohibiting the elements from extending fully as the SWR on 20M was way out of character but the other bands seem fine. My amp has had input tuning trouble on 15Min the past and finally gave up totally. The bandswitch seems wonky so I gotta fix that now. 10M never opened for me at all. Overall I lost about 40K from missing 160 and 10 if you look at the number of contacts and mults that I got last year. 15 was marginal at best. 20 and 40 were very good from here. 80 was OK. On Sunday afternoon, for a good while all I could hear on 20M was US stations. I managed to get a few new ones. Worked ZL and KH6 on 40. Was it me or did there seem to be less stations active this year? I got 16 on 4 bands, 26 on 3 bands and 47 on 2 bands. From my perspective, a trip from low to high on each band on Sunday yielded very few additional contacts but lots of stations I had already worked. I guess I need to start CQing. Never had many stations get my call wrong this time. I guess the SCP database is working. Thanks, Randy. Most fixed it before moving on but some didn't. Oh well. A few interesting calls showed up. There seemed to be a bit of confusion with 4O1A thinking it was VO1A. VO1A is not issued but I bet I'll be getting a lot of QSLs for it HI. Working EE5E was a chuckle. That's a lotta dits HI. ...Rant Alert... I tuned across a loud pileup on 40M early Sunday morning and found it was 9V1YC trying to call CQ. Never having worked Singapore on 40M before, I figured I'd have a listen. To say the the stations in the pileup were obnoxious is a gross understatement. There were several ops that never stopped calling at all; in fact, they still may be there. I threw my call in the few times I actually heard the 9V but realized that, even if I was replied to, I'd never be allowed to hear my report so I started moving up the band. Apparently James had the same idea as I found him a few kcs up the band. I could still hear the pileup still going on the original frequency, which made hearing him quite difficult. Within seconds he was found and the debacle started all over again. I guess he decided to pack it in and go somewhere else because I never heard him again after the first few CQs. Still, there were stations calling incessantly for several minutes with no one giving or getting a report. I still don't have 9V on 40 CW. Going to have to start getting up earlier in the mornings. On a related topic... for the love of God, if you're in a pileup and the station comes back to a VE3 and you're not a VE3... SHUT UP AND WAIT! Stop calling and calling and calling and calling and calling and calling and calling and calling and calling and calling, ad nauseum. All that does is slows the pileup down and makes EVERYONE wait. This applies to DXing as well as contesting. Give your call a couple times and, if you're not the lucky one, wait until the QSO is finished and call again. Yes, I've been guilty of this a few times but I've come to realize that you don't always have to do as the Romans when in Rome. And another thing.... all you big time stations out there... give yer call more than once per hour! Not everyone uses (or trusts) the cluster so you're wasting everyone's time by assuming that everyone knows your call. Sorry for the rant but I feel that the level of rudeness is increasing exponentially and unless we, as the contesting and DXing community, nip it in the bud, the bands won't be fit to listen to. Other than that, it was a pretty good weekend. I'm hoping to get on in the 160 contest this coming weekend. Last year my voice gave out. This year, I'm not going near anyone for a few days. Thanks for the Qs and CU in the next one. I'll try to calm down by then :) 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 554,610 Log uploaded LoTW and eQSL. ARRL DX CW VO1HP Max Rates: 2007-02-18 0557 - 0631Z, 3552 kHz, 51 Qs, 91.3/hr VO1HP 2007-02-18 1423 - 1430Z, 14104 kHz, 17 Qs, 130.2/hr VO1HP 2007-02-18 1602 - 1639Z, 14097 kHz, 64 Qs, 104.3/hr VO1HP 2007-02-18 2243 - 2300Z, 7049 kHz, 12 Qs, 44.1/hr VO1HP CountryPrefix Total VO1HP 4U1U 3 3 4X 2 2 5B 2 2 5T 1 1 5Z 2 2 6Y 1 1 9A 11 11 C6 8 8 CM 5 5 CN 9 9 CT 4 4 CT3 5 5 CU 1 1 CX 1 1 DL 39 39 EA 22 22 EA6 2 2 EA8 12 12 EA9 2 2 EI 9 9 ES 7 7 EU 4 4 F 26 26 FJ 5 5 FM 2 2 G 23 23 GM 4 4 GU 1 1 GW 3 3 HA 23 23 HB 6 6 HH 1 1 HI 5 5 HK 3 3 HP 5 5 I 37 37 IS 1 1 J3 1 1 J7 6 6 J8 1 1 JA 4 4 KH6 9 9 KL 1 1 KP2 9 9 KP4 4 4 LA 8 8 LU 5 5 LX 4 4 LY 10 10 LZ 6 6 OE 6 6 OH 7 7 OK 34 34 OM 16 16 ON 10 10 P4 9 9 PA 15 15 PJ2 8 8 PJ7 2 2 PY 8 8 S5 16 16 SM 11 11 SP 24 24 ST 1 1 SV 3 3 T9 2 2 TF 1 1 TI 3 3 TK 1 1 UA 20 20 UA2 5 5 UA9 1 1 UR 12 12 V3 10 10 V4 5 5 VK 1 1 VP2E 2 2 VP5 3 3 VP9 6 6 XE 2 2 YL 9 9 YN 1 1 YO 13 13 YU 18 18 YV 1 1 Z3 2 2 ZF 4 4 ZL 5 5 ZS 3 3 Total 665 665 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,085,184 Another ARRL DXCW in the books .... unfortunately too many other distractions and to give a full effort...The To Do list for antennas and equipment gets longer and longer each week ... spent Friday climbing up and down three of my four towers in Minus 6 or 7 degree temperatures ..... Alos I am currently renovating Kitchen area of house so ... these travails took me into my Garage area and my Electric Saw Table bench where I narrowly missed severing one of my left hand finger tips .... Not a big deal cause I can use keyboard to send cw anyway . right ? Wrong !!! No computer generated keyboard cw so now I had to decide if I type better with my left hand or right ..... left hand finger tips still bandaged so that meant cw paddle with left hand and keyboard logging with Right hand .... so all of these issues combined might account for my sloppy sending and so many repeats by me .... Anyway that's my story and I'm sticking with it hi ! As always ARRL CW Contest fun game ... absolutely my favourite contest ... Hopefully winter does not remove or undo some of my recent antenna work and can be QRV for ssb portion .. so C'Y'ALL NEXT ONE GLWCDR Thanks for qsos and qsys 73 Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP2E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,220,160 I had a great time running the guys (and YL's). This contest was a good shake-out for the "bugs" and other failures at the VP2E station. Keeping the computers networked is problem #1. For various reasons, they simply won't stay networked for 48 hours. It seems to be related to certain computers that may have other "background" programs running that interfere with the continued contact between computers. We use the latest version of WriteLog and TCP/IP networking, but feel certain WriteLog is not the basic problem. Some computers are on Windows 2000 with no AV programs, (we only use them on a LAN with no outside internet connection) and they seem to be the ones that stay up. The ones with the latest Windows XP plus Norton SystemWorks, (also used on another LAN with internet connection) seem to be the ones causing the troubles. Fortunately WriteLog is excellent at restoring a log to any computer disconnected from the network. It's completely auto"magic". How did we ever operate contests without computers? I remember those early days with manual dupe and multiplier sheets. Conditions weren't too bad for the bottom of the solar cycle. 10 meters was not the best, of course. I only managed 9 QSO's on Saturday morning, but Sunday afternoon was much better. There was a good Es opening for an hour or two. Signals were good to very good from the central and western USA but the East Coast wasn't there. I only worked a very few of the "big gun" East Coast multi's, but certainly not all of the usual candidates. I was straining on all of them. That's very unusual. One continual CW contest problem: Once spotted on packet, there is an instant pile-up. This isn't a problem....what IS the problem: everyone either tunes me in zero-beat on their transceivers or calls via "click and call", and everyone ends up on the exact same frequency. This produces one long approximately-solid CW tone in my RX, and I can't do much with it except wait until someone calls in the "relative" clear, or is much, much stronger than everyone else, or calls on some other frequency except dead zero-beat. I have "packet-pile-up" 3rd IF 125 hz CW filters (plus DSP 50 hz) installed in all the rigs, but it's usually not good enough to separate this. The stations who understand this get through much quicker than those who don't. Word to the contest "wise". Please spread out a little and make life easier on the old man. I operated about 37 hours total. I'm getting too old to stay up the full 48 hours, so I missed out on about 11 slow hours, but even at 20 or 30 per hour it adds up if you really are trying to win. Early mornings in the Caribbean aren't the best (during ARRL) as the USA is busy running Europe and it's hard to overcome all the large front-to-side ratios of those big beams and stacks. I hope I worked everyone who called. I'm sure I missed some, but I ran the pile-ups down to the band hiss frequently, so I think everyone who wanted a QSO had a fair chance. We must have a lot of "fair weather" contesters out there, as activity levels seemed way down from past years. Sunday on 10 meters there was a good solid opening to 2/3 of the USA and I should have been "going to town", but there was virtually "nobody home". It's great fun anyway. Contests are a world-wide party, and you are definitely invited ! See you next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP8/LZ1UQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,232,616 I am posting this on behalf of Mitko LZ1UQ who operated this event from Bulgarian Antarctic Base at VP8 land. He said it was a great plasure to operate this contest from such a great DX location. He also requested me to notify K3LR and W3LPL gangs not to forget they promissed him a beer for 80m and a whiskey for 160 m QSOs next year in Dayton - Hi. 73, Wally LZ2CJ (on behalf of LZ1UQ ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9/K9CC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 20,006,568 Missed any short skip on 15. I never even worked a single MD or VA! Most states worked in order PA,TX,CA,FL,NY,NJ,IL,VA,OH. VE7CC got through on 80 meters 1 hour 37 min before his sunset. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,378,732 Equipment: IC-7000 CT9 Antennas: 160-Inverted L (50 ft vertical) 80-Inverted L (30 ft vertical wire attached to 40m vertical) 40-Aluminum vertical 20-10 A4S at 30 feet My thanks again to my gracious host, Ed, VP9GE. This is my seventh year of operating from his QTH. I thought conditions on the low bands were as good as it gets. I only missed a couple available multipliers on 160m. But where were the VE4s. I only worked one on all the bands. Ten meters provided some interesting contacts, very weak mid-Atlantic and New England plus a loud NK7U and a couple southwest stations. I tried moving a couple W6s to no avail. I don't have the same propagation on the high bands that the Caribbean stations enjoy and miss out on the east coast on 15m and 10m which my numbers reflect. No Murphy's whatsoever except I seem to have one less hour of operating each year. I'll be back for the ARRL SSB. Kurt, W6PH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2PA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,001,984 The below is also reproduced on my contest journal at w4pa.journalspace.com. VY2PA (@ VY2ZM) ARRL DX CW 2007 SOABHP Don’t really remember when K1ZM started talking about me going up there to try a CW contest, might have been Dayton but more likely it was after WRTC…my notes say I bought the plane ticket to go up there on Air Canada on November 15. Pre-contest: Tuesday night drove down to Rebecca’s in Atlanta to stay over, got up at 4:45 a.m. to drive over to Hartsfield Weds 2/14. I flew up light only taking a backpack with two changes of clothes and a pair of hiking boots plus some misc electronics, two cell phones, my Mini-Disc recorder, headphone switch box, batteries, and some cables. Despite the airport chaos of February 14th with many JetBlue flights cancelled on the east coast, a big snowstorm and the boards lit up in Toronto with cancelled and delayed flights, I sailed through on all three legs ATL>Toronto>Halifax>Charlottetown without a delay. Very lucky indeed. Even more lucky was the lack of snow on PEI, I was prepared to hike in to the house but we were able to drive in and out each day without any problem. Lots of activity on the air on Wed night, Th, Fri. My handwritten log looks like around 300 contacts. Worked a lot of Europeans and Russians on 160, VU2 on 80, ST2 on 80 and 160. Had an hour long QSO with W4NL on 20m SSB on Friday that was interrupted by WD0BGS (fellow Ten-Tec employee) who heard me on and recognized my voice. K1ZM was on quite a bit as well at the same time, we spent some of Weds and Thurs nights both sitting at the table with Jeff operating 160 and me tuning around on the other bands. Went out and drove around the island quite a bit; -25F wind chill kind of keeps you in the car though I did get out in it and take some pictures. Windmill power, lighthouses, the fishing villages. Friday: 8 ½ hours of sleep Thursday night plus 8 to 9 hours every single night for 10 days previous except the night of the CW Sprint. Also took a not real successful 2 hour nap from 4:30 to 6:30 with contest starting at 8:00 Atlantic time. The QTH at VY2ZM on Prince Edward Island is near the northeast tip of the island. Antennas and house are set back a couple hundred feet from a saltwater shot in every direction, Europe through N to Japan to the west. The south and southwest are a little hard from Jeff’s; the entire island is that direction and the land slopes downhill across the island SW to NE. I would get beat for Caribbean multipliers particularly on the higher bands regularly through the weekend. It’s a big island, too; K6LA’s VY2TT QTH is on the west side, a 2 ½ hour drive away from VY2ZM. Antennas are 10 meters 5/5/5/5, 15 meters 5/5/5/5, 20 meters 5/5/5, 40 meters 2/2, 80m 4 square, 160m transmit array that is 4 quarter wave verticals in two pairs spaced 5/8 wave apart with a sophisticated pointing system that allows them to be end-fired, broad-side fired and even a mix of a couple of directions. 160m RX arrays are several Beverages plus a system of 6 phased vertical elements fixed on Europe. Contest: I got the band edge to kick it off at 7000.3 with K3LR just above me. I made 3 contacts in the first couple of minutes because – three USA stations that don’t understand that VY2 is Canada decided to call me when the contest started. This would plague me through the whole contest – I would estimate every 10 to 15 minutes a USA station called through the whole weekend and I either had to tell them NO USA, ignore them, or just work them. 200 extra contacts over the course of 48 hours. Stupid. Really, really stupid. First hour would end at 135 in the log, 126 on 40 plus picking off 9 QSO’s on 80 on the other rig. Moved to 80, then 160 to CQ through the first 5 hours including making 53 QSO’s on 160 in 40 minutes between 0400-0440Z before dropping back to 80 for a short period. At 0512Z I moved back to 160 to CQ on 1820 and got off a run of 73 QSO’s on 160 in the next 48 minutes while pulling down 34 second radio contacts on both 80 and 40. Segue to 80 at 0600Z for 105 there + 11 on radio #2, then to 40 and 80. I was keeping an eye on 20 through this as I kept hearing loud Europeans popping up – by 0930Z 40 was slowing and I could sense the moment to go to 20 had arrived, and was able to kick off the run there at 0931Z at a 182/hr pace with 91 QSO’s in the first 29 minutes on the band, then right into ditching the use of the second radio for the next hour at 178 QSO’s from 1000-1100Z. 140/hr is about the point where it becomes too much trouble to make QSO’s on the other radio – at 11 to 1200Z the pace would continue with 165 more on 20 meters but I did manage to pick off 9A7A on 15 on the other rig at 1151Z as the run continued….as it slowed a little to 125/130 an hour in the next three hours I was able to again resume working stuff on the second rig. 15 meters would not open well on Saturday – there were a number of loud southern Europeans but other than that the band sounded weak. I figured stick with the rate on 20 and had 8 hours in a row of 100+ there before moving up to 40 to go into the night. I never did move up to 15 to try and run Europeans. Kept checking 10 but only made 7 QSO’s the whole first day. The 2000Z hour first day on 40 meters would be the last above 100/hr, all others to the end of the contest in the double digits with a lot of band changing along the way among 40, 80 and 160 just trying to keep the rate going any way possible. Each time a few minutes went by with no answer I would go off to the next band where I thought some contacts could be made, or even just CQ for a few minutes and then move off to yet the third band…. I had planned on operating all 48 hours but by 0500Z Sunday I was starting to tire – the rate didn’t drop any – and in fact during 0600-0700 would be the highest hour (88) I had out of any of the previous 7. Through all of this K1ZM has been in and out of the radio room; a second pair of headphones was T’d off the audio box so he could listen in on whatever it was I was doing at the time. He was actually awake and in the radio room at 4 a.m. when I decided that – hate myself or not for doing it – I was taking a break. I really, really dislike not operating the whole 48 hours but I figured I’d be paying for it later if I didn’t stop. So at 0752Z, off to sleep for 90 minutes, followed by waking up around 0930Z and drinking coffee – I need not have worried, I guess, because the good 20m opening of the day before at that hour did not materialize; there wasn’t much of anything going on. My first QSO back on was EA8BQM on 40 at 0958Z – there is a gap from there until when 20 got going again for a run at 1016Z. Trying to work 40m stuff on the second radio – 9V1YC was plenty loud here on 40 meters and I called and called but he wasn’t working anyone. He’d call, the pileup would call and call, and then he’d send 9V1YC again. I finally gave up on him, I have no idea why he didn’t go split… Into the Sunday runs, 20 was kind of slowly moving along at 70 an hour or so but I had tons of QSO’s there so even though 15 was weak I went and CQed up there from 1215-1539Z on 21020 and then 21055 just poking along for rate… 51…58…41…before going back to 20. Most of these guys were pee weak, the band just never really opened. A few more contacts on 10m, P40W, HP1XX, P49Y – a total of 11 QSO’s for 6 mults over the 2 days. Made a sked to work VP9 on 160 that came off without problem, was able to move VK7GK from 40 through 20 and 15 only to find he was loudest of all on 15…SV9AUZ in Crete was calling G4ILO on a schedule and I gave him a quick call on 160 for another multiplier…last at the end of the contest would be fitting, RO4M calls me on 160 at 23:59:45 with a good signal, I send 599 PEI and he sends RO4M…I send 599 PEI - 00:00:00 – contest over. No QSO. Summary: Line score 4009/416 for 5,001,984. Operated 46 hours, made QSOs on the second radio in 44 of the 46, taped 3 or 4 hours of contest audio from both rigs on the Mini-Disc, 160m on Friday night, some of the 20m runs Saturday morning, Sunday a.m. on 15. I didn’t keep a list of what I recorded so I’ll have to figure it out later. Fun quotient: 10 of 10. Post-contest: Up at 5:00 Eastern (6:00 Atlantic time) on Monday, ate breakfast in town and then Jeff dropped me at the CTown airport at 8:00. K6LA was on the same flight and we (he, not me actually) had an hour layover to get some coffee and talk about the contest. With my arrival so began the usual airline hell that -- of course -- involved Delta Airlines. I never, ever fly on Delta any more – far too many problems in the past. I got to Halifax only to find my Air Canada flight to Toronto cancelled and was rebooked on Delta to Atlanta via Boston. I knew right then it was going to be a long day and true to form, both Delta flights were delayed. Another great weekend at VY2ZM’s place. Jeff has built a fantastic station up there, I can only hope I’ve done all the work involved to put it together justice and that Jeff will have me return in a future year for yet another run at a serious contest effort. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,192,852 Murphy traveled with me on this trip. I had to overnight in Halifax, not because of WX, but because after the first load of bags arrived at Toronto on my flight from LA, it took 30 minutes for the load containing my bags to arrive. By the time I cleared customs the door to my flight to Halifax had closed. When I arrived at the PEI DX Lodge, I found no hot water. I knew that the furnace had run out of heating oil, that some pipes had frozen and burst and been fixed. It took 4 tries by the plumber the next day, but I did get hot water back for a pre-contest shower. Art, N3DXX, was in PEI for the 160m CW contest and had discovered the main SO2R computer was generating S9+20 noise only on 160m. To replace it I bought a 2.8 Mhz, 40 Gb HD, used HP for $200 that had 2 COM ports on the motherboard. $15 added a 2 monitor card and the memory I had in the computer junk box got the machine to 1 gb RAM. Amazing how little computing power costs these days. But Murphy was with me on this trip. I confirmed Art's observations. Before I could install the replacement computer, the noisy one turned off and wouldn't turn back on. Ah haa, a bad power supply, must be the source of the noise. I plugged in the replacement. It wouldn't boot to 2 monitors. I fiddled with it and got it to reboot perfectly. I made some adjustments, rebooted and it stopped booting. Fortunately, there is a great computer store 3 minutes away. Believe it or not, in the middle of potato fields there is a great computer store. The original computer had its power supply replaced within an hour. I hooked it up, but the noise was still there. An hour later the replacement computer was ready. The bill? $20. As I told the tech, a bargain at twice the price. Anyway, the replacement computer wouldn't read the radios no matter what I tried, so the original went back in line. (I only realized after the contest that Writelog on the original computer was set to ICOM PRO and on the replacement computer I had it set to ICOM PROII.) I wound up moving the AC cable to an extension cord to another room and that helped the QRN considerably. Finally, I got around to checking out the station. Everything inside worked, except the 40m rotator wouldn't indicate it was turning. Turned out, that didn't matter because the 40m yagi must have a feedline problem because it acted like it wasn't there. It was too cold and windy to even consider asking my climber to look at it. The 40m SA antenna must have the same problem. So I had to use a 40m inverted V and it just didn't cut the mustard. The middle 20m yagi didn't rotate and was stuck North. The middle 15m yagi went the way of the 2 40m antennas. Oh, and the NE (Europe) and SE elements of the 80m 4 Square were much more horizontal than vertical. The tips were raised on bamboo poles to keep them off the ground. So I went out and operated the first 28 hours straight and felt I was doing well and was a little ahead of last year. 160m was terrific, 20m early AM was amazing, 15m sounded like it was going to open but never really did. Unfortunately, it seemed I had worked everyone who could hear me and the rate went away. I took 3 hours off during which I slept about half. I came back on and made about 8 QSOs in 2 hours. Even CQing on one band and frantically S& Ping on another led to abject QSOlessness. Finally 20m opened, later than on Saturday. 15m owed me and it sounded like it was going to open and I moved there as soon as I could, but it wasn't much better than 24 hours earlier. I was able to pick up some mults, but the total was still way below last year. The last 3 hours I took time off because the rate was down to single digits. There were some highlights. A single JA on the dipole of 40m. Finding Liberia calling CQ with no takers. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,736,864 Conditions were tough, we seemed to have better openings to EU on 80 than on 40. 40 should have had a stronger showing than it had, but the QSO's were not there. 10 meters had 18 QSO's on it at the start of Sunday. It opened up a bit on Sunday and we had some success working a few more mults. Take a look at the new W0AIH webiste: http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 208,512 Had limited time I could put into the contest for this one. Wkd several stations on all 6 bands, ie PJ2T, FS5KA, ZF2AM, WP2Z, and HP1XX - may have been others but I remember those callsigns. - 20 and 40m were the bands to be on for this one, followed by 15m. Nice to have 10m open a little supplying some nice mults. Heard GMCCers: N0KE, K0UK, KO7X, W0MU, K0RF, K6XT, K0FX, WT9Q, KV0Q, KJ0G. Also, heard friends of GMCC: N2IC, W7UT, N0VD, NI7T, and K0BJ. 73, Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 44,415 Part-time S&P effort from the MWA black hole. Nothing heard on 10 meters here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 152,280 Part time effort. 40m beam fixed at around 90 degrees. This was also my 15m antenna. 20m antenna was a dipole at 60ft. Worked better than expected. Inverted L on 160 seemed to be getting out better now that it looks like an L. No 10m dx heard at all. Worked a bunch of guys on 15-160 though. Mike W0MU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 25,308 Another fun contest. Didn't get much chair time in this year. Thanks for all the Qs. I saw another posting about the guys going 40+ WPM, I too wonder if they are truly gaining anything by it. If it's simply to impress me, it didn't work. They kept calling CQ over and over... Of course I was trying to decipher their call during their repeated CQs. There wasn't a pile-up trying to call them. I think you can get it done in the 24 to 30 wpm range and still score well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 35,346 An intermittent effort on my part. Mostly S&P with some CQ's that had mixed results. I was kind of amazed that I was able to break some huge pileups with just one or two calls. It was fun and I managed to pick up a few new entity's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0YK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,930 Got on for a few minutes now and then to give the P4 boys some Q's. Were there enough P4 stations on this weekend?! Worked P49Y and P40W on six bands, but 10 meters was ESP. P40LE and P43JB on a few bands plus P40V on 15. 73, Ed - W0YK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 40,677 I stopped by the Harvard Wireless Club and made a few QSOs during 3 separate study breaks. Most of my weekend was occupied by preparations for Ph.D. general exams. Highlights: -Had a nice fresh meat run of Europeans on 15 meters at noon local time Sunday. -Working quite a few stations on the first call with low power on 40 and 80 meters Friday night. Wasn't expecting that. Prospective Harvard freshman Zane Wruble, W2YL and her mom and dad stopped by for a campus visit and had a chance to see the station during the contest. 73, Clayton NF1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 671,508 Whew... Q-How do you know when it's a cycle minimum? A-When a nap is more fun than a 48-hour contest. It wasn't all torture, but there were a lot of really slow periods. Wait--this is what we do, so it WAS fun! George W1EBI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 365,976 Used a single, stealthy, wire antenna for all bands: max. height 10 m; stretched between two trees 20 m apart. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 393,183 Never worked CW like this before. It was much easier using W1KQ for a CW call tnan it was using W6ZF in the past. Because this call is not in the master.DTA yet I can only guess that is the reason so many came back with "K"1KQ vs. "W"1KQ. I believe there are a few who busted my call and I didn't get the opportunity to correct them...we'll see. Sure was enjoyable though...except when I'm being called and another KQ something or other steps in and takes my shot in the pile-up. Hehehehe. Minor delay. Not a half bad effort if I don't say so myself considering the only useable antenna is a linear-loaded dipole 80' up at the center...and 550 watts. Original goal was for 100 Q's. Had to work on Saturday...otherwise probably could have had a few more contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1LRY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 24,168 TS 570S G5RV Gap Titan N1MM Logger The usual antenna challenged effort. 10 was non-existent here except for KC1XX and K1TTT calling. My swr on 15 was outrageous, but still made a few mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 57,750 Used new 40/80 meter vertical.. worked great! Was not home much on Saturday, but still happy with score. 73, Matthew W1MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 503,970 This year's "busted callsign of the year" award goes to I5IHE, though runner-up I1EIS was close in and EI4II gets an honorable mention. If he hadn't won last year with ED6B, K1DG (and team) would have been in the running with EE5E. I dread this year's UBN/NIL report. This year was fun. Learned a lot and accomplished my three goals of 1500+ Q's, half a million points, and less than 24 hours "in the chair." Maybe it was me, but I thought there were a LOT of dupes this year. Very happy that I finally figured out how to work central and southeast Asians in this contest and was able to work multiple HS, VU, UN, etc. There is definitely a way to do it and now I know how. Also regret not working a single VK but I know why and will work on it for next time. A tip of the hat to the many Europeans who stayed on the air long after their sunsets to provide Q's. Lots of fun working those QRP Europeans. Also many thanks to the JA's, who come banging through in the late afternoon here on the east coast and do an excellent job. Without packet it's tough to have the mults and my score shows that. Will have to come up with a solution there for next time as well. Radio was an ICOM 7800 and ACOM 1000. Antenna was a 2-stack of M2 20M5's. Used N1MM Logger, an excellent piece of software. See you all next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NK Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 309,690 *Whew* Tough going this year...there was no doubt we're at the bottom of the cycle. Try as I might I just couldn't best last year's score. But, the bright side is that the 80M mults helped put me within 5 countries for 80M DXCC and 5BDXCC! Hopefully 2008 will see me putting the Sigma-5 out to pasture and operating with a new tribander.... Until next year.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NN Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,994 First 12 hours of the contest spent providing modest help to the K8AZ crew, followed by a Saturday spent mainly on the couch. After finally removing the remaining snow from my 600 foot driveway on Sunday, I managed to get on and make a few contacts with my home peanut whistle during the last two hours. Lots of activity and even the big DX stations seemed to have plenty of W/VE stations to work. Love this event. 73, Hal W1NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 16,218 Stretched a 20m dipole across my south-facing top floor condo balcony, and was able to work most of the stations I could hear. Building is 4 story steel frame construction, with poured concrete floors and steel studs in the walls. Antenna tuner was needed, and I had to play with the length of the feed line (close to 1/4 wave). Able to push out 80 to 100 watts. Picked up an Isotron for future experiments. If it works, I'd like to add some of these "bird feeders" to my patio furniture for a permanent installation and multi band operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,580,085 Three 6 banders: VP9/W6PH, HP1XX, and J7OJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1WEF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,289,928 Wish I was up to enduring a serious effort instead of enduring a back problem. Had one of the best runs on 20 ever...love to run. JACK W1WEF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 558,090 10 meters was a total bust until 1953Z on Sunday when LR2F popped up. Worked 3 LUs in 6 minutes then the band completely collapsed again. Went out and raked 30" of snow off my roof. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 708,492 Lots of S&P activity gave my new 3 element SteppIR a great workout. And enough CW activity spread across all bands to believe that we will be doing this for a long time to come... bring on the next sun spot cycle!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2FV Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 19,890 Good to be back on the air after a nearly 2 year hiatus. No antenna for 80m yet, but quickly erected a 40m GP a couple of days before the test. However, the trimmer caps in the PLL of my IC-765 decided to head south on Friday night, with 40m signals displaying raspy notes along with some severve IMD. It was almost as painful as watching Oprah with my wife. So decided to just play around on 15m without the amplifier. Was surprised at the level of activity and propagation, although I look forward to the upswing in the solar cycle over the next several years. 73, John W2FV Colorado Springs, CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2GB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 163,737 I was home this weekend and was glad to help the club with a few extra points. I drove W2AU to K1TTT on Friday for the start of the contest. After a Birthday celebration I was able to get on for a bit later that night from home. Had a bunch of things to do here Saturday and by the time I finally got on 15 I was called away again. Sunday AM I drove back to K1TTT and helped out there for the rest of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 395,523 Very limited time for me this weekend due to shopping for my trip to C6 next weekend, rebuilding my logging laptop and other such fun. Once stuff settled down a little I had a few hours on Saturday night and most of the day on Sunday to contest. 20 was pretty decent on Sunday, but I was surprised how weak Europe was on 15, and of course 10 wasn't in great shape to say the least. Also surprising was a lack of South Americans of 15 in the late afternoon - usually I can hear a zillion PYs and LUs starting around 3 or 4 but this year it seemed like there were only a handful. On the other hand, 80 on Saturday night was great. Signals were just blasting in from Europe, all 599+, and I managed to bang out three new ones on topband despite not having a decent receive antenna up yet. RIG: Mark V AMP: AL-1200 ANT: C31XR, 40m rotatable dipole, 80m Inv. Vee (apex at 65') and 160 Inv. L. 73, Peter, W2IRT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2JU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 359,667 706MkIIG, AH-4 tuner, 200 foot dipole up 30 feet, N1MM Logger Proud member of the Low Wires Contest Club (except my score goes to YCCC!). Almost all S&P. Made one six bander (thanks, HP1XX!), though for a long time I thought I'd end up without any Qs on 10m. Had a productive last fifteen minutes, with 5 new mults on 40. I couldn't figure out why EE5E kept calling me by name, and then realized it was K1DG at the key. Thanks, Doug! 73 and thanks for all the Qs, Alec W2JU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LHL Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,535 ICOM IC-718 @ 100W, 40 ft. vertical Missed first night completely. Able to get to VK7 & VK9 made up for it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,088,058 Radios: 1 - FT1000D/Acom2000A - new INRAD roofing filter purchased at Dayton - big help on the low bands! 2 - FT990/Acom2000A Antennas: 160 - inv vee @ 75 ft. 600 ft NE Bev and rotatable receive loop (details at http://w2up.home.mindspring.com/160-loop/loopt.htm ) 80 - 3 el sloper array (K8UR-style) 40 - 402CD @ 85 ft 20-10 - TH7/TH7 phased @ 76/45 ft, TH7 at 25 ft (everything one tower) Stubs and NQN filters auto-switched with Top Ten boxes. Just a few random comments: Got a thrill being called by YI9KT and EL2DX on 3 bands each, yet I missed Mexico on 40m. Also, was called by a few VKs and JAs on 40m LP on Sat. afternoon. However, gotta think in contester mode, not DXer mode. A mult is a mult, no matter how common or esoteric. Great EU runs on Sat. morning on 20m. That's what I really enjoy about the contest. One of these days, I have to do a rent-a-QTH, so I get more than a few hours of it. It was slower than usual on Sunday. Despite 15m being barely open (most signals at noise level to S5), I'm amazed I made almost 500 Qs there. Packet gets more pathetic every year. The number of bad spots keeps climbing. It never ceases to amaze me how many little and medium guns torture themselves by jumping right into the packet pileup mess. They spend seemingly endless time calling, when they could be much more productive either tuning on their own or waiting till the fray of big guns dies down. Also pathetic is the endless calling. 9V1YC is right on with his comment about it. Nice to work some of the HST guys (and gal, HA5BA) Unfotunately, I won't be able to make it to YU this year - I was hoping it would be over the summer again. A couple of guys called me at 60+ WPM. Gross QSO's=3153 Dupes=65 Net QSO's=3088 Unique callsigns worked = 1980 The best 60 minute rate was 188/hour from 1138 to 1237 The best 30 minute rate was 194/hour from 1139 to 1208 The best 10 minute rate was 216/hour from 1310 to 1319 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSO's/minute 12 times. 4 QSO's/minute 89 times. 3 QSO's/minute 255 times. 2 QSO's/minute 577 times. 1 QSO's/minute 753 times. There were 770 bandchanges and 387 probable 2nd radio QSO's. The following stations were worked on 6 bands: PJ2T HP1XX KH7X TI5N VP9/W6PH J7OJ QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0000Z --+-- 17/15 84/26 --+-- --+-- --+-- 101/41 101/41 D1-0100Z - 65/21 40/6 - - - 105/27 206/68 D1-0200Z - 45/5 49/20 - - - 94/25 300/93 D1-0300Z 16/16 27/6 47/5 - - - 90/27 390/120 D1-0400Z 11/11 31/12 26/8 1/1 - - 69/32 459/152 D1-0500Z 15/7 30/4 8/3 - - - 53/14 512/166 D1-0600Z 14/6 45/5 7/0 - - - 66/11 578/177 D1-0700Z 2/2 6/1 102/7 - - - 110/10 688/187 D1-0800Z --+-- 1/0 14/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/2 703/189 49 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 703/189 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 703/189 60 D1-1100Z 1/1 4/3 2/1 101/28 - - 108/33 811/222 18 D1-1200Z - - - 174/12 8/8 - 182/20 993/242 D1-1300Z - - - 158/9 9/9 - 167/18 1160/260 D1-1400Z - - - 139/4 27/27 - 166/31 1326/291 D1-1500Z - - - 84/12 63/10 - 147/22 1473/313 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 53/3 42/8 4/3 99/14 1572/327 D1-1700Z - - - 91/1 21/2 - 112/3 1684/330 D1-1800Z - - - 57/14 17/3 - 74/17 1758/347 D1-1900Z - - 2/0 6/4 7/1 3/2 18/7 1776/354 D1-2000Z - - 51/3 10/4 1/1 - 62/8 1838/362 D1-2100Z - - 91/0 11/2 2/2 - 104/4 1942/366 D1-2200Z - - 91/3 3/0 3/1 - 97/4 2039/370 D1-2300Z - 5/0 24/2 29/2 - - 58/4 2097/374 D2-0000Z 1/1 14/2 19/3 6/5 --+-- --+-- 40/11 2137/385 D2-0100Z - 9/0 32/3 1/1 - - 42/4 2179/389 22 D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2179/389 60 D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 2179/389 60 D2-0400Z - 6/2 - - - - 6/2 2185/391 47 D2-0500Z 5/3 29/0 15/0 - - - 49/3 2234/394 D2-0600Z - 1/0 14/1 - - - 15/1 2249/395 38 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2249/395 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2249/395 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2249/395 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2249/395 60 D2-1100Z 1/1 2/2 1/0 29/0 - - 33/3 2282/398 21 D2-1200Z - - 5/1 78/1 - - 83/2 2365/400 D2-1300Z - - - 48/0 40/1 - 88/1 2453/401 D2-1400Z - - - 22/0 65/5 - 87/5 2540/406 D2-1500Z - - - 17/0 58/7 1/1 76/8 2616/414 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/1 56/4 1/1 71/6 2687/420 D2-1700Z - - - 24/0 44/1 - 68/1 2755/421 D2-1800Z - - - 39/1 2/0 1/1 42/2 2797/423 D2-1900Z - - 2/0 17/1 2/2 7/2 28/5 2825/428 D2-2000Z - - 36/0 18/1 - 4/3 58/4 2883/432 D2-2100Z - - 75/2 8/0 1/0 1/1 85/3 2968/435 D2-2200Z - - 61/2 7/1 5/0 - 73/3 3041/438 D2-2300Z 1/1 25/2 11/1 5/0 - - 42/4 3083/442 Total: 67/49 362/80 909/99 1250/108 473/92 22/14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2XL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,671,726 Pretty good conditions for this time in the solar cycle, lots of fairly rare dx too. NA2N and I had a lot of fun ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2ZQ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,153,424 You know you that sunspots are low when your score on 160m is better than double your score on 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3CF Class: M/M HP Total Score = 159,831 Part time effort...YL says I forgot she told me we were having 17 family members come Saturday for trip to see King Tut Exhibit at Franklin Institute. first time in HP class from home....AL-1200 rocked! Pro II and Pro 67. This thing is starting to wear on me...Was almost enjoying myself.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3DQ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 761,376 A tough slog this year. Noise environment has gotten much worse, so hearing is still hard. Couldn't get a run going at any time, and was rarely spotted -- a surprise. The 80m inv-L worked out well, but the 40m dipole isn't enough. The Orion had some unexpected but curable hiccups. I'm sure we missed folks coming back to us when the radio crashed. Worked lots of new ones, including 4U1UN on 4 bands. Many more worked us on 5 bands than last year, but only KH7X got us on all 6. Being passed to 10 meters was a cruel joke! Partnering with W2CDO in this effort was great. Peter's excellent CW skills and overall knowledge made up for my lack of knowhow! Eric W3DQ Washington, DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3EF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,243,704 If you're going to fail, make it glorious. The 40m beam (a KLM 40M4 at 125') wasn't working, and I didn't know why, and and the weather didn't cooperate for climbing -- so there I was on the day of the contest, freezing my butt off in a RENTED CRANE up there fooling around with the beam. Get this -- after two hours up there, with darkness about to fall and the crane crew going on overtime, I FAILED to fix the thing. Got that? It STILL DOES NOT WORK. I did the contest with a 40m GP in a tree. This was perhaps the greatest folly I can remember instigating -- and certainly the most expensive. Add to this the challenging conditions, and I'm lucky even to have broken a million points this year. Highlights of the contest had to be 1) working VK9DNX on 80m on the greyline (a first for me) and 2) moving Vidi, ZS1EL, from 15 to 20, and then picking him up on 10m later in the day -- the only signal on the band! At least the station played flawlessly -- it had been completely re-assembled this past year, with the addition of an IC7800 and new Top Ten band decoders. I guess I still have a few things to learn about the 7800, though, because my second radio, an IC765, is quieter. Congrats to all, especially for sticking it out in the noise. 73 and headed back to HB9, Maury W3EF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,845,440 Congratulations to everyone for all of the fine scores. Special congratulations to our fine competitors at K3LR, KC1XX and all of the other Multi-Multi teams. These guys just keep raising the bar! 73 from the W3LPL PVRC Multi-Multi Contesters BAND QSO COUNTRIES OPERATORS 160 243 74 K1HTV AI3M W3LPL K4ZA 80 1093 102 NI1N N3OC 40 1439 117 KD4D K4ZW 20 1765 124 K3KU K3MM K3RA N3UA K4ZA 15 863 106 K3RV WR3Z 10 41 19 W3LPL K3KU K4ZA -------------------------------------- Totals 5444 542 = 8,845,440 Club Affiliation: Potomac Valley Radio Club Continent Statistics 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 36 34 47 50 40 10 217 3.9 South America 14 30 41 57 54 30 226 4.0 Europe 184 985 1232 1472 684 0 4557 81.6 Asia 1 27 87 164 44 0 323 5.8 Africa 8 16 22 33 32 1 112 2.0 Oceania 7 23 52 38 25 3 148 2.7 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 31/22 107/34 138/41 54/26 11/8 1/1 342/132 342/132 1 13/5 78/18 105/21 16/3 . . 212/47 554/179 2 16/10 70/6 72/6 8/4 . . 166/26 720/205 3 20/8 73/9 56/8 12/1 . . 161/26 881/231 4 25/7 44/3 38/2 1/0 . . 108/12 989/243 5 27/3 53/4 50/8 . . . 130/15 1119/258 6 27/5 69/1 58/3 1/0 . . 155/9 1274/267 7 10/1 53/5 70/2 4/0 . . 137/8 1411/275 8 5/3 15/1 79/0 5/1 ..... ..... 104/5 1515/280 9 2/0 8/2 64/1 20/12 . . 94/15 1609/295 10 1/0 7/1 15/2 26/7 . . 49/10 1658/305 11 2/1 5/1 11/1 98/15 8/8 . 124/26 1782/331 12 1/1 2/0 4/0 152/10 39/21 . 198/32 1980/363 13 . . 1/0 152/6 51/13 . 204/19 2184/382 14 . . . 137/1 88/12 . 225/13 2409/395 15 . . . 96/3 115/6 2/2 213/11 2622/406 16 ..... ..... ..... 98/4 82/5 9/3 189/12 2811/418 17 . . . 80/5 27/2 1/0 108/7 2919/425 18 . . 1/0 49/3 6/2 1/0 57/5 2976/430 19 . . . 29/2 7/1 1/1 37/4 3013/434 20 . . 35/0 14/3 7/2 . 56/5 3069/439 21 . 1/0 63/1 28/2 8/1 . 100/4 3169/443 22 6/0 55/0 65/1 34/1 26/0 . 186/2 3355/445 23 7/1 80/0 70/5 26/4 7/1 . 190/11 3545/456 0 3/1 44/4 53/1 22/1 ..... ..... 122/7 3667/463 1 2/2 28/1 23/3 2/0 . . 55/6 3722/469 2 4/1 28/3 19/3 . . . 51/7 3773/476 3 5/0 32/2 21/0 3/0 . . 61/2 3834/478 4 6/2 46/1 28/0 2/0 . . 82/3 3916/481 5 7/0 40/0 28/0 . . . 75/0 3991/481 6 6/0 47/0 39/1 . . . 92/1 4083/482 7 3/1 25/0 30/1 . . . 58/2 4141/484 8 ..... 9/1 9/0 ..... ..... ..... 18/1 4159/485 9 . 9/2 7/0 1/0 . . 17/2 4176/487 10 1/0 . 13/0 1/0 . . 15/0 4191/487 11 . 2/0 18/2 67/0 . . 87/2 4278/489 12 . . 4/0 113/2 4/0 . 121/2 4399/491 13 . . . 80/1 66/6 . 146/7 4545/498 14 . . . 76/0 62/7 . 138/7 4683/505 15 . . . 69/3 79/2 1/1 149/6 4832/511 16 ..... ..... ..... 70/0 78/2 2/2 150/4 4982/515 17 . . . 47/0 53/2 . 100/2 5082/517 18 . . . 23/1 19/2 2/1 44/4 5126/521 19 . . 4/0 13/0 5/1 7/3 29/4 5155/525 20 . . 23/0 13/2 3/1 11/4 50/7 5205/532 21 . 1/0 45/2 8/1 3/1 3/1 60/5 5265/537 22 6/0 33/0 39/1 9/0 8/0 . 95/1 5360/538 23 7/0 29/3 41/1 6/0 1/0 . 84/4 5444/542 DAY1 193/67 720/85 995/102 1140/113 482/82 15/7 ..... 3545/456 DAY2 50/7 373/17 444/15 625/11 381/24 26/12 . 1899/86 TOT 243/74 1093/102 1439/117 1765/124 863/106 41/19 . 5444/542 QSO Counts By Band-Country PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 4J 1 2 4U1U 1 1 1 1 1 1 4X 2 5 5 1 5B 1 1 2 1 1 5T 1 1 1 5Z 1 1 1 6W 1 1 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 8P 1 1 1 1 1 1 9A 4 13 20 23 16 9J 1 1 9V 1 1 9Y 1 1 1 BY 1 C6 2 2 2 1 1 CE 1 1 3 2 1 CM 1 2 4 2 CN 2 2 2 2 2 CT 1 2 5 9 7 CT3 2 1 1 3 2 CU 1 CX 1 1 1 2 D6 1 1 DL 19 150 168 252 126 DU 2 EA 5 36 48 50 39 EA6 1 1 2 1 EA8 3 7 9 13 10 EA9 1 1 1 1 EI 4 8 8 12 6 EL 1 2 ER 2 2 1 ES 1 5 1 4 2 EU 8 7 11 4 EX 1 F 13 49 79 71 60 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 FM 1 2 2 1 FO 1 2 2 FR 1 G 27 100 111 125 38 GD 1 2 GI 1 1 3 3 GJ 1 GM 3 20 13 21 6 GU 1 1 2 1 GW 2 9 11 8 9 HA 5 38 51 44 30 HB 2 20 30 26 23 HC 1 HH 1 1 1 1 HI 1 1 1 1 1 HK 1 1 2 3 2 1 HL 1 HP 2 2 1 1 1 1 HR 1 HS 1 2 I 13 58 129 124 86 IS 1 4 6 3 3 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 J7 1 1 1 1 1 2 J8 1 JA 17 53 121 37 KH2 1 2 1 1 KH6 5 7 15 8 12 3 KL 1 1 1 6 5 KP2 2 2 3 4 3 KP4 3 2 4 3 3 LA 5 11 9 16 4 LU 1 4 10 15 17 11 LX 1 2 3 2 1 LY 1 9 7 19 2 LZ 1 12 27 20 12 OE 4 9 13 15 9 OH 3 18 7 25 3 OK 17 83 77 83 51 OM 4 26 22 21 11 ON 2 17 23 21 6 OX 1 2 1 1 OY 2 1 1 OZ 1 9 5 13 1 P4 3 4 4 4 5 3 PA 8 31 47 59 25 PJ2 3 4 4 4 4 3 PJ7 1 1 1 1 1 PY 1 11 11 18 14 6 R1FJ 1 1 S5 4 20 32 38 24 SM 6 19 14 37 10 SP 6 29 42 62 21 ST 1 1 SV 1 6 14 7 2 T9 3 8 7 1 TA 1 2 2 TF 1 2 3 1 TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 TK 1 2 2 1 TU 1 1 1 UA 6 54 57 91 2 UA2 1 2 3 2 2 UA9 3 16 21 1 UN 3 2 3 UR 2 49 58 57 6 V2 1 1 V3 5 3 3 3 3 2 V4 2 2 2 2 3 V7 1 1 1 1 VK 4 17 10 4 VK9N 2 1 2 1 1 VP2E 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP8H 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP9 2 2 3 2 1 1 VQ9 1 1 1 VR 1 2 VU 1 XE 2 1 2 3 4 YA 1 YB 1 YI 1 1 2 YL 3 9 5 10 3 YN 1 1 1 YO 2 10 23 26 12 YU 4 23 28 36 15 YV 3 3 6 5 5 3 Z3 1 2 3 Z7 1 1 2 1 ZA 2 3 1 1 ZC4 2 ZF 1 1 1 1 1 ZK2 1 ZK3 1 1 ZL 7 12 12 5 ZP 1 1 1 1 ZS 2 4 6 8 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TUA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 69,120 The bands were so-so and this was a pure S&P effort. I worked all I could hear and took some time to goof off. Many thanks to the FB CW guys who make this contest fun. 73, W3TUA-Korey Towanda, PA Icom IC-756ProIII AL-80B @700w Dipoles The always flawless N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3UA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 311,049 Upon return home from overseas I discovered that my receiving 4-SQ does not work, and back yard is covered with a foot of snow. That was the last straw, so I decided to give myself some rest, and just work 40 meters... Tried SO2R for the first time (with new shiny microKEYER 2R+ -- but it's another story -- not for now). It helped me to work a few mults, however somebody always tried to steal my run frequency. I need to get used to it. Overall -- condx were quite marginal. Sometimes I thought that the propagation ends on MA/NH border (I could not hear the guys K1XM worked easily!) with the special exception for Mason, hi-hi -- but Matt has his own propagation generator. I lost just a few easy mults (like KL), but overall, supply of EU calls, especially the first two nights was extremely limited. I could barely hear big guns like OH2MM on the third night -- just above noise level). I guess N2MF is laughing at me... Anyway, it was fun, and being a "DX" for people like R1FJT, A61M, ST2A (thanks for your efforts and sorry for multiple QRZ -- but you were really well under the noise level) helps to beef-up my rotten self-esteem. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 675,441 This was a tough one for an old guy with no amp or aluminum. All but 4 Q's were S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BQF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 233,085 Tried assisted this year and had fun chasing multi's. Some very strange calls, such as EE5E. However also some excellent Eu and SA operators also. Omni 6 +/Titan III amp 80m dipole/2 el 20 quad N1MM Logger v.7.1.5 (It just gets better and better!) Tom - W4BQF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 260,172 TS-440S, G5RV es R7000 Tnx for the contacts 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4IX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 324,762 Arrived home from N.J. at midnite on Saturday, had the wife put my radio gear on the kitchen table, set everything up and loaded up the old TS-830. Had to go out and removed the snow from the uncovered inv. L solder joints, the started to S&P. Hunted and pecked all nite until 20 was open, then tried to run but with 100w and a samll CL33 at 45 feet it was pretty slow, so just stayed S&Ping the rest of the way. Amazed how a few of the KW's down in the SA and Carribean areas that were almost esp mode here heard my weak signal, thanks for the nice mults on 10 meters guys...40 meters was incredible at the end, worked 48 countries from 2230 to the end of the show, not too bad for low power and a pretty rough tune for the 160m inv. L on 40 meters ( I was wondering why my TS-830 would key itself every 10 min or so...but I didnt stop me!! 73's and hope to see gud condx for the SSB weekend..John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 33,210 Several 30 minute forays into low sunspot DX contesting, for only about four or five hours total time. Boy, that sure stunk--:o I'm sure not looking forward to trying this with the MyCrowFone for SSB. So here's to hoping that by the next sunspot minimum, I'll have a better station. Still, I managed to work Hawaii, Alaska, New Zealand and South Africa, all pretty good for the peanut whistle. KH6LC was really loud in here a couple of times. ZM1A was solid copy in here too. They were not as strong as the KH6--but ZM didn't have a pile up, and he must have good ears because he was able to get me on the first try. I just luv 15 meters. Always have, always will. Too bad 10 meters didn't show any life too. 80 meters turned up more DX entities for me than normal, and the locals were just BOOMING on 80 meters, compared to November SS. My 20 meter dipole proved that it is at a better height for DX than domestic--mostly because it really stinks in the domestic contests, not because it excels at DX! Persistance is futile--er, um...well, something like that. ;) 73 W4KAZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,208,300 Thanks for the contacts! Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 125,928 I spent more time in this one than I expected I could. My shack is in a out building and it was cold in Dixie. The electric heaters had a bit of trouble this weekend. So I augmented with a Kerosene. Glad I don't need to do that too often.. hi. Conditions pretty much as expected. Low bands did a super job, but couldn't hang out here with the cold at late night. So score suffered a bit. Worked Europe on 80 and 30 with no problem. But they were hard to find on the higher bands. Maybe I should have got out here earlier. In any case I'm looking forward to warmer wx and better HF propagation. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 47,700 Decided to do a little low-band dxing in the short time I had available. My 80M dipole that I turned into a vertical "L" worked surprisingly well. 73, Ted W4NZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 396,927 I only had 19 hours to operate. I had to judge a QLF contest at the Frost Fest on Sunday. There were too many stations sending their calls too few times. If they thought they were thinning out the pile up by so doing they were kidding theirselves. Many stations just pick up the calls from spots on a DX cluster. We poor saps who did not use the clusters had to actually copy the calls by listening. It got rather frustrating at times! My one antenna, a 176' CF Zepp at 60', plus local power line noise prevented me from hearing the weaker signals and conditions were such that I could not sustain a run so I had to use S&P and work all those big "KW" stations. Ten meters was a "no show" for me. Other than ground wave and/or backscatter from W3LPL and W4MYA I only heard and worked 5 SA stations on 10. Rig used was a Ten Tec Paragon plus an ALS-600 amp at 400 watts output. My thanks to the 34 BIG EAR stations on 160 who copied my signal. See you in the next contest or maybe even in a "real" non-contest QSO. Unlike some others I rag chew too! 73, Puck, W4PM Puck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZV Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 56,376 Condx were very poor the first day and even worse the second! Deepest EU worked was RA4LW. No UA3s were even heard and only a few UA6s were worked. I worked 4 JAs the first day after sunrise and just one the second day. Most exciting propagation was a strong high-angle opening at my sunset just before the contest ended. RA6AX briefly hit S9+10 but unfortunately it ended very quickly. This is when I worked RA4LW using only an inverted-V up 95' for both TX/RX. Hopefully 160 condx will improve on the upslope of the new solar cycle! 73, Bill W4ZV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 308,430 Soapbox : Found a weekend without too many family commitments, so decided to try a little DXing. Discovered the 80M OCF was down so out into this cold, windy day to fix it. Conditions were pretty good considering this period in the sun spot cycle. Could hear wisps of the Pacific on 10M but not enough to work one. The trans-equatorial path was the only game on 10. As usual, we're too close to the Caribbean guys to work them very easily on the high bands. Worked several stations who were only ESP, but managed to get the exchanges. Especially on 10M! Wish I could run more than 100w on 80; it sounded great. As usual, the old 40M yagi and about 300w was my best band. The more I use N1MM, the more features I discover! Still not TR-LOG, but getting close! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 392,580 Limited time this year ... worked the first 14 hours and then had to pull the big switch. Sure wish I could have played longer. Thanks Bryan! 73, Larry K5OT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5WMU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,041,264 quite a bit of down time due to amp. troubles...better luck in this one next year,hopefully in Lubec,ME. 73,PAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6EMC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,364,046 First of all, MANY THANKS to Al for the use of his station. We've been working on getting it up to speed and are just about there. Radios were FT2000 and IC7800, both driving Alpha 87A's. Antennas were a MonstIR for 40, 15, and 10; 6 ele on 20, a 160M double bazooka, an 80M dipole and an 80M inverted vee. Normally we would have had 8 elements on 15, but a recent windstorm took down the 15M tower. Tower's back up, but there was not enough time to rebuild the beam. Used N1MM for the first time and it worked pretty much flawlessly for the entire time, with three networked computers. Kind of surprised at the poor performance on 20. But 40 made up for it! Looking to improve receive antennas with some beverages for the future. Thanks to all the stations who gave us Q's. 73 de Bill, W1HIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 125,367 N1MM...Used the W1VE live contest scores. It was fun to watch the scores mount up (except mine)... 80 and 40 EU's from the West Coast.. 10 open to SA but few signals.. Only had a few hours but bands were lively for 'no spots'.. It's time for a Sunspot Dance! 73, Art W6KY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6OAT Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,254,477 Thanks to Brad, K6IDX for allowing us to use his FB station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6QU Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 131,868 Rig: Yaesu FT-817 (5 Watts out) Antennas: 1. SteppIR 3 el yagi up 32 feet (for 10, 15 and 20) 2. Butternut HF-2V Vertical (for 40 and 80) 3. DX-LB up 30 ft (for 160) ======================================================== Conditions were pretty much what we can expect for what is probably the bottom of the sunspot cycle. 10 meters only supplied me with 19 Qs, and I had to keep a very careful watch on that band to even get that out of it! I was surprised to find that in the last several hours of the contest, I would make a sweep of 15 or 20 Meters to find that I had already worked every station that had a half way decent signal. And CQing at QRP levels with the W6QU call just doesn't work well! So despite my best efforts, my rate dropped to 4 or 5 an hour during that time. The SteppIR worked nicely as a contest antenna for someone who doesn't have room to put up a second antenna. It works very well at those times where there is propagation to Asia as well as to South and Central America. Instead of multiple rotations of 180 degrees or more, simply use the reverse pattern feature and you save a lot of time and also a lot of wear on the rotator. But it was still a great thrill to work so much DX with 5 watts at the bottom of the sunspot cycle! I had Worked All Continents on each 40, 20 and 15 meters, and five continents on 80. I was amazed at how well the Butternut HF-2V worked on my small city lot. I bought it primarily to use on 80 meters at the suggestion of my long time friend Phil, N0KE. It seems to be a full 1 to 2 S units better than the low DX-LB trap dipole I had been using for about 10 years. I was amazed to finally have the Carribean come back to my calls on 80 meters, and even worked into Africa bagging EF8M and CN3A on their gray line. It also works well on 40, as you can see from the numbers. But where I used to have 3 or 4 Qs on 80 meters after two nights work, I had an amazing 32 Qs with more countries than I had worked on 80 over the last 15 years! I slept 1 1/2 hours the first night, and 1 1/2 hours the second night. I took two hours during a relatively dead period to eat a decent dinner and clean up on Saturday night. I added in another hour off for miscellaneous stuff for a total 6 hours off. ...if only I didn't need to sleep or eat! 73, Bill Parker W8QZA qrp P.S. Anyone know of a good 160 antenna for a small city lot?! The stats above show how well my present one is working! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7AT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 900 Not a lot of time available to play in this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7LR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 958,800 Bob, W7LR was gracious enough to let KE7X, WA7U, and KB7Q work a multi-one effort from his place. It was quite a thrash getting rigs to talk to computers, computers to talk to each other, and a telnet connection to work. We resorted to a dial-up Internet connection after attempts to break into the neighboring ham's Wi-Fi connection proved futile. We completed the "ham shack make-over" 15 minutes before the start. The highlight was seeing Bob, W7LR push the rate meter up past 175, giving up his S&P DX skills briefly for running JA's on 15 meters. It was also fun to hear all of Bob's world-wide friends say hello as we worked them. 73, Gene, KB7Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7VJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 923,760 Unreal for the bottom of the cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 69,597 N1MM says I was on for 7.95 hours. Set a goal for this weekend of 200 Q's and managed to get that Sunday morning during the Eu opening. I figured with my little pistol station, I'd have to get on when the bands were open. All Q's were S&P. With a 2 el beam at 20 feet on 20, I was glad to get what I did. Some big signals on 40. UA9CDC was pounding in Saturday night and got my call first try. Also EF8M was loud on every band (except 10). Even managed to work some Eu stations on 40 Saturday night. Sure will be glad when the spots come back!!!! After 20 closes on the left coast, it's pretty slim pickin's. Sunday morning I copied CW all the qay up to 14.120. First time I've seen guys up that high. Saw an awful lot of bad spots this time. The bandmap was full of wrong calls. I was listening to KH7X while I was dinking around the shack and someone spotted him as KH6X. He was being called by dupes one right after the other. Bad thing was, KH7X was spotted right next to KH6X. You would thing guys would figure--. 73 and thanks to the ARRL for a fun contest. Tom W7WHY Radio 1 TS-450SA t + SB-200 ~400 watts Radio 2 FT-840 80 meter verticall, 80 meter dipole, 2 x 40 meter verticals, 20 meter monobander, 15 meter dipole, 2 element 10, and G5RV. N1MM Logger 7.1.5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9SZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,408,590 Great fun! I think we all enjoyed operating from the station of NO9Z. This has always been one of my favorite contests. Thanks for all the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 76,368 Gee this one almost felt like New England propagation (almost).....Sure was happy to hear st2a ,un9ln and el2dx answered my cq test......Amazing what a rotary dipole on 40 with low power can pull in....73 and GL ACG guys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4DOU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 418,320 Rigs: FT-990/FT-897 @ 100 watts Ants: F12 C3SS (20-10) Vertical for 40 Inv. L on 80/160 Have watched my score decline as the sunspots decline until this time. This score is up marginally over last year. 10 meters is just about defunct and 15 was down over last year again. 20 and 40 were the day and night workhorse bands. Even 80 and 160 were on the job and seemed very good. The high point was working EL2DX, a country I haven't heard since the '60's. I may get credit for EL on cw yet! Thanks to all the dx for qso's and here's looking forward to next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB1EDI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 202,608 Started as unassisted but decided i needed packet. low bands seemed productive. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 479,952 Pretty decent band conditions considering where we are in the solar cycle. You had to be quick to catch the 10 meter openings Saturday and Sunday afternoon. I had some damage to my beam during the blizzard we had earlier this week. It didn't seem to affect its operation too much. Looks like some Spring time antenna work ahead. 6 Bands - FS5KA, HP1XX, J7OJ, KH6LC, KH7X, P40W, P49Y, PJ2T, & WP2Z Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI IC746Pro N1MM Logger 160 Meters - Inverted L @ 50 feet 80 & 40 Meters - 1/4 Wave Fan Vertical 10, 15, & 20 Meters - Sommer XP506 @ 50 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,417,830 Had fun playing with a Orion II this weekend.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,854,692 So this is contesting at the bottom of the cycle? Not as bad as I feared, but sure do miss 10 and 15! The usual long story will follow shortly... 73, Dick WC1M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 108,420 Not being able to get any runs going got me bored pretty quickly. Spent rest of the weekend fighting a cold instead of the pileups. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5EAE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 183,696 This was an unusual contest for me in that I never called CQ TEST once. I just tuned the bands working what I could hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 685,503 FT1000mp + Amp 600w TH7DX @ 50' 80m Inv V 40m dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5R Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 11,703 May have to see a Doctor tomorrow. That spotting screen wore some skin off my nose. Probably no more than ten contacts made via the CQ route. We've had a phased beverage system toward NW this season. Only spaced 134 feet apart. A few days before this contest Marlene got behind me with a big stick and made me spread it out to 3/4 wl. Barely got it finished by Friday afternoon. Early Saturday morning I realized I had made a serious mistake. It was quiet as a dummy load. Sunday evening I found that in my haste to keep one of the matching devices from flopping in the breeze I had taped it to the ground rod and a screw on the rear was shorted to the rod. Well anyway it was a very quiet receive antenna Not recommended for a serious contest. Doug, n5ect cw op on the Chicken Farm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WH2D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 18,573 Another limited contest operation from my little station in the western Pacific. Added a DSP this contest, courtesy of KG6DX, and that helped tremendously in digging signals out of the ether. Did well in all parts of the US and Canada except for New England and eastern Canada. Regardless, it was fun (as always) and I look forward to next year with some new antennas and a wee bit more power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,001,052 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,793 The hollerin' hillbilly, WK4P, let his fingers do the talking across the globe in the ARRL CW DX contest. Unfortunately I didn't have a lot of time to play in this contest, as work, social, and a VE obligations got in the way. The bottom line is I reached my goal of 100 contacts and got in some great CW practice before the NCQP next Sunday. I wasn't able to use some of my normal "cheats" for this contest. Usually I listen for the K,N,W, or A and know all I have to get is the number and suffix. This time I had to get it all from the start. I had to keep telling myself I didn't have to send as fast as the other op. Sometimes if the other op is fast I tend to rush myself and get "all shook up". I send ok at 18-20wpm, but poorly if I get any faster. Thanks to all who endured my fist. I came across some ops sending what had to be 40+wpm. My question is why? Many of us simply couldn't, or wouldn't take the time to try to copy you at that speed. It probably cost you as many contacts as you gained by the increased speed. If you were trying to impress with your code speed it didn't work, I didn't even copy your call. I hope everyone had a good time in the contest. If you hear WK4P on the bands, phone CW, or PSK, please say howdy, sit a spell, and take your shoes off. Next contest y'all come back now, ya hear. Peace and 73 Adam WK4P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,132,770 My third experience with HP. I'm starting to like it, even with only one amp for the Run radio. Need to get an amp for the S&P radio but for now S&P w/ LP. TU fer Qs! 73 RiC Tn http://www.home-sweet-loans.com/wo4o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO7T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 122,892 What a barren land was 10 meters. I finally worked some more DX on 80M, to the point of committing myself to pursuit of DXCC for that band. FT920 held up well, in driving the Command Technologies amp to around 500W into my Tennadyne 5 ele. LP beam, and Windom for 40/80. Everything logged and scored easily via miLOG program picked up at Dayton last year. 73, Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP2Z Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,371,700 Thanks to all that worked and spotted us during the contest. We were very lucky to beat the ice and snow storm that clogged the northeast. Sorry to hear that some contesters never made it to their island locations. We are looking forward to better conditions on 10m. John, K3TEJ John, K3CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,362,688 Hi everybody 2 qso in 10M and were N0NI & K5NA, I heard the southamericans working USA stations and here nothing. Thanks to all for the qso's and hope to hear from you in the next contest!!!!! 73' Att Alfredo Velez WP3C http://www.wp3c.qth.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ5L Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 216,216 All S&P. High point was finding ZS, 5Z, EL in a 5 minute span all w/o pileups on the upper end of 20. On 80, had good condx to eastern Europe the second night, but poor in the other direction where I struggled to work a few JAs and no Pacific at all besides KH6. 73, -- Ray WQ5L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WS4Y Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 10,191 Not much op time but still fun to work some dx on 80. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,629,858 40 was OK, with 2 hours of EU run each night. Rates not spectacular. A great EU run begins with LOTS of Russians and a higher nightpath MUF. I didn't try running 40 during the last 2 hours of our daylight. That might have worked, but ran JA's on 15 & 20 instead. 10 & 160 were awful and I didn't run much on 80. I should have done better during the day on Saturday. Began with a run on 20 with hoards of EU callers on same freq which slowed my rate to about 120. I like spikes well over 200, but that happens best when only 2 or 3 call at a time. It is a mistake to stay too long on 20 when the openings on 15 are short (learned in CQWW 2005). Arrived on 15 late, and got booted off several freqs before going high in band. Rate wasn't good there. Afternoon JA openings got late start both days with noisy 20 & 15 bands. With full 15 stack on JA, dug several scandinavians out of noise before first JA finally called. Finished first day with mult totals on 20 & 15 really sad. On Sunday did everything right. SO2R with N1MM is getting really smooth here, where I used to fear it. Can now sweep 2nd band when rates are well above 100 on run freq. This is great fun. Started contest fully rested, but didn't have the stamina to take the breaks when I planned them. Intended to stay in chair for first 20+ hours for the end of the good rate on 20. Had to take first break at 1849z while rate was still good. Slept 90 minutes and returned to very slow afternoon condx. Took 2nd break (30 minutes) in middle of 40M JA run at 1219z Sunday and final break (20 minutes) at 1704z during good 20M condx. I hope this is a fluke, but I did just turn age 59. The IARU test is 24 hours with no breaks (I hope). No, I do NOT want to change the rules. My thanx to Jay and Sharon... Quack (aka Roy) -- AD5Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 49,941 Just a short, sweet walk in the park. Best part of the contest was the 1 hour I spent on 20 meters Saturday morning. I immediately got spotted by a big station and had all the big multi-ops descend on me at the same time. It was as much fun as being at V26B for that hour! 73 & see everyone in the ARRL DX SSB and CQ WPX SSB contests. 73, Jim Nitzberg WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 259,605 Hard contest, poor propagation here, only 80m and 20m was OK for few hours. Short opening on 15m sunday evening. Thanks for QSOs, 73 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL8M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 100,392 Hope next year will do again outside fro EU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YR7M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 873,792 73's! ANDY-YO3JR/YR1A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YR9P Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 723,489 Again a nice contest despite the poor propagation on 15 m and the “zero condx” on 10 m band. See you in ARRL-SSB contest. 73, Alex YO9HP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT1AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 34,953 Yaesu FT 847 80 w ant LW for all bands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2T Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 32,412 Call : YT2T OP : 4N1JA-Marko TX/RX : Kenwood Ts-930s AMP : abt 1KW Antenna : Vertical l/4 (72 radials) for 80m. I was work without beverage antennas , sorry for many "AGN","?","NR?" . 73 and see you in SSB part . Marko 4N1JA,YT2T. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 33,552 Regular propagation. Strong qrm here. Equipment Old Kenwood Ts530S, PWR 100w, Antenna: Sloper 80/30M via USA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YZ1U Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,205,400 73 de Milan YU1ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: Z35T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 102,384 I expected better conditions to US and Canada, even that SFI was very low. After all, 632 Q's were down the log.Saturday morning, the only one station heard was VE6WA, with BIG signal and no others. Same situation in Sunday morning Gerald-loud again, and no other. I guess that will not repeated in ARRL SSB. My best regards, Many thanks to everyone who give me a call during this contest 73....de Z35T/Ozren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: Z36W Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 72,864 Very noisy band both night. Worst score than last year but I guess condx was not like than. Due to family duties I was not active sunday night. Any way great contest as useual and nice fun. Thanks to all for qso's and sorry about agn ..agn .. HI. See you in the ssb part ! Radio: FT 1000mp + SB-220 Antenna: Vertical + 32 radials and RX antenna: K9AY 73 Venco Z36W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 48,081 SO1R Antenna:- C/Craft A3S @ 50Ft Amp:- ACOM1000 Rig:- IC-756 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's Band opened to the US/VE around 1100z and closed at 1600z ish Condx were pretty good, but it is hard getting into the states from this location. I used packet this time so maybe that makes me MS ?? 73 and cu in the next one, Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZF2AM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,081,118 Bands here were in decent shape and the station played very well. Nice long opening on 15 at the bottom of the cycle. Kept watching 10 all day and finally heard WN6K calling CQ. Immediately started calling and in just over one hour had 22 mults (mainly from the West) in the log before everything went dead again. Hope I didn't miss any other openings to other parts of the country. This was my first attempt at the ARRL DX CW as a single op. Thought I better do it before I got so too old. As it was I still had to sleep a couple hours each night to avoid meltdown. Looks like a better score that we did as a M/S from here back in '02 so I'm happy. Thanks to all of you for the moves and skeds. Sorry I never heard you guys trying to call me on 15 from SC. With your help, I think I got most every mult that was S&P'ing. The other 5 musta been watchin' the game or something. We'll see you all again as ZF1A in the WPX CW in May. Look for my pal ZF2AH from here in the ARRL SSB in a few weeks. QSL to: K6AM 4286 Farley Ct. San Diego, CA 92122 or via K6AM at the W6 bureau or LOTW 73, John, ZF2AM/K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 305,802 Equipment: FT1000mp Field 100w, 3 ele SteppIR & 80/40 dipole. 10m was disapointing, I looked quite a few times to hear no signals and only worked 2 stations that I did hear both good signals. Lots of CQng, no replies. Not sure what happened to 20m. 15m just kept going & going like the energiser battery. I need to upgrade my 80/40 antenna. I was pleased to make some QSO's on 40m, 80m is about what I have come to expect. I can hear lots of signals easy on 80 & 40 but dont get heard. I think my 80/40 antenna is a cloud warmer. 73 John ZL1BYZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL3WW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 229,020 This was my first ARRL from this side of the world. I’ve started the contest half-hour late – I was not aware that the US guys can be worked already from 16:00 local time. First pause from 09:00 – 09:30 was due to the problem in the second IF filter (solder joint) and the first night finished with 940 contacts. I’ve started the second day right on time and I’ve been doing just fine until 00:00 when I got thirsty and reached for the bottle (not actually looking) and swallowed two sips of nitro-resin instead of the coca-cola, that was sitting next to it. For the following two and a half hours (and you can’t even imagine how I felt during that time) I’ve kept on going half-drunk - half-conscious; I am not sure how to define mine state of mind during that time… The end of the contest saw 1388 valid qsos and 55 multipliers with over 100 dupes (some stations called me 4 times, so for me it was easier just to work them again, then to explain that we had qso before etc.). The equipment is more or less standard: TS930s + KNTD400, first time with the new antennae: 3el full size for 40m at 20m high tower (soon to be 25m for the phone part), which was working so much better than the GP, that these two can’t even be compared. Also, I am grateful to my principal club YU1EXY (a.k.a. 4O1A, YT0A) where I’ve gained substantial experience and the knowledge necessary for this achievement. Finally, I wish to thank everyone who called and (eventually) made contact with me and I certainly hope to see you in the phone part of the contest. Cheers, Dule ZL3WW & YZ1WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS6AAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 701,244 ex ZS1AN Index of Calls Call: 4L0N Class: SOAB HP Call: 4N1N Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: 4O1A Class: M/M HP Call: 4O5A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 4Z8DT Class: SOAB HP Call: 6Y1V Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 7S2E Class: M/S HP Call: 9A3B Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: 9A5AQA Class: SOAB LP Call: 9A5E Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 9A7R Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: 9V1YC Class: SOAB HP Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA5CH Class: SOAB LP Call: AA7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AB4GG Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: AB7E Class: SOAB HP Call: AC0W Class: SOAB LP Call: AC4JI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: AD4Z Class: SOAB QRP Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOAB LP Call: AD8J Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: AI2N Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: AI9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AJ1M Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AJ3M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AL1G Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: AY7X Class: SOAB HP Call: C6APG Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: C6AWL Class: SOAB LP Call: CE1/K7CA Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: CN2WW Class: M/S HP Call: CN3A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: CT3BD Class: SOAB HP Call: CT3EE Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Call: CT9L Class: M/2 HP Call: CX9AU Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DD1IM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DD2D Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DG7RO Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ6TK Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DJ9VA Class: SOSB/160 LP Call: DK0ALC Class: M/S HP Call: DL0MB Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: DL1AUZ Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: DL1EFD Class: SOAB LP Call: DL1IAO Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: DL2SAX Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DL4RCK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DL4YAO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL7BY Class: SOAB LP Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA6BF Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: EE5E Class: M/S HP Call: EF8M Class: M/2 HP Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Call: ES1GF Class: SOAB HP Call: F4DNW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB HP Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SOAB QRP Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: F8KHF Class: SOAB(A) QRP Call: FM5BH Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: FM5JC Class: SOAB LP Call: G3WPH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: G3WW Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB HP Call: G4EHT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: GW0ETF Class: SOAB LP Call: HA6IAM Class: SOAB QRP Call: HA6NN Class: SOAB LP Call: HA7RY Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: HB9CZF Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: HG5XA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Call: HH7/N3BNA Class: SOAB LP Call: HI3TEJ Class: SOAB LP Call: HK1/K8DD Class: M/S HP Call: HP1XX Class: M/2 HP Call: I2/K5GN Class: SOAB LP Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Call: II1M Class: SOAB LP Call: II3M Class: SOAB HP Call: IK1QBT Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: IK1YDB Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: IK4ZGO Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Call: IR2C Class: M/S HP Call: IR2W Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IV3MGN Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: IZ8GCB Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: J7OJ Class: M/M HP Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Call: K0CF Class: SOAB LP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0HW Class: SOAB LP Call: K0JJR Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KT Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K0KX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0LUZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0SN Class: SOAB HP Call: K0SR Class: SOAB HP Call: K0TG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Call: K0UK Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K1EP Class: SOAB LP Call: K1GU Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K1IB Class: SOAB LP Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K1IR Class: M/M HP Call: K1JC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1KD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1KI Class: M/M HP Call: K1LT Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K1NQ Class: SOAB HP Call: K1NU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1PQS Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K1QO Class: SOAB LP Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Call: K1VW Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K1XM Class: M/M HP Call: K1ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K1ZZI Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K2BA Class: M/2 HP Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP Call: K2QPN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2SX Class: SOAB LP Call: K2TA Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: K2UOP Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Call: K3FH Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K3IU Class: SOAB LP Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Call: K3MQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3ND Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3PH Class: SOAB QRP Call: K3STX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3SV Class: SOAB QRP Call: K3SWZ Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: K3VX Class: SOAB LP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB HP Call: K3WW Class: M/M HP Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4AQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K4BK Class: SOAB LP Call: K4BP Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K4CIA Class: SOAB QRP Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K4EJ Class: SOAB LP Call: K4EU Class: SOAB HP Call: K4FJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB HP Call: K4IU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4KO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4KW Class: SOAB HP Call: K4OAQ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Call: K4PI Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K4PIC Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4SAV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K4ZGB Class: SOAB HP Call: K5BG Class: SOAB HP Call: K5FP Class: SOAB LP Call: K5GA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K5GO Class: M/M HP Call: K5MQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K5NA Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: K5NZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K5YA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K5YAA Class: SOAB LP Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB LP Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6NA Class: SOAB HP Call: K6NV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6OWL Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K6RB Class: SOAB HP Call: K6RIM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6SRZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6TA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6XT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6XX Class: SOAB HP Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP Call: K7KR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K7LAZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K7MM Class: SOAB QRP Call: K7RAT Class: M/S HP Call: K7RL Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K7UP Class: SOAB QRP Call: K7UT Class: SOAB HP Call: K7WA Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: K7WP Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Call: K8BL Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K8FC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Call: K8GT Class: SOAB LP Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K8IR Class: SOAB LP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Call: K8NVR Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: K9AY Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K9CT Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K9DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K9GY Class: SOAB QRP Call: K9MMS Class: SOAB LP Call: K9MUG Class: SOAB HP Call: K9NR Class: M/S HP Call: K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K9OM Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K9XE Class: SOAB LP Call: KA1DWX Class: SOAB HP Call: KA1VMG Class: SOAB LP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA3DRR Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KA5EYH Class: SOAB LP Call: KA6LAF Class: SOAB LP Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Call: KC4HW Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Call: KE1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB HP Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Call: KE5C Class: SOAB LP Call: KF3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Call: KG4HTT Class: SOAB QRP Call: KG5U Class: SOAB QRP Call: KH6/AA4V Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Call: KH6NF Class: SOAB LP Call: KH7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KH7XS/M Class: SOAB LP Call: KJ0G Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KK0HF Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: KL7WV Class: SOAB HP Call: KM0O Class: SOAB HP Call: KM4M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KM9M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KN0V Class: SOAB LP Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Call: KN4Y Class: SOAB LP Call: KN5H Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KO1H Class: SOAB QRP Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KP2/K3MD Class: SOAB LP Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Call: KQ3F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KQ6ES Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KS1J Class: SOAB LP Call: KS2G Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KT0R Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Call: KT5E Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: KT7G Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KU1CW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KV8Q Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: KY5R Class: M/S HP Call: KZ1A Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: KZ1M Class: SOAB LP Call: LN3Z Class: M/2 HP Call: LN8W Class: SOAB HP Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: LR2F Class: M/S HP Call: LU4DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB/10 QRP Call: LX7I Class: SOAB HP Call: LY4L Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: LZ8A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: M3CVN Class: SOAB LP Call: M5X Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Call: N0NI Class: M/2 HP Call: N0VD Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: N0XB Class: SOAB HP Call: N1EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1GKI Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N1IW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1IX Class: SOAB HP Call: N1MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Call: N2BZP Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: N2EK Class: SOAB LP Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2GA Class: SOAB HP Call: N2GC Class: SOAB HP Call: N2IC Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N2IXD Class: SOAB LP Call: N2LT Class: SOAB HP Call: N2MRI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2MUN Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2NS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2NT Class: SOAB HP Call: N2RM Class: SOAB HP Call: N2SQW Class: SOAB HP Call: N2VW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2WN Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: N3AD Class: M/2 HP Call: N3BB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N3CW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N3CZ Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: N3GNW Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N3MX Class: M/S HP Call: N3YW Class: SOAB LP Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N3ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N4BAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4CBK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N4CY Class: SOAB QRP Call: N4DW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4EK Class: SOAB LP Call: N4FD Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: N4HXI Class: SOAB LP Call: N4IJ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Call: N4KG Class: SOAB LP Call: N4NM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4NTO Class: SOAB LP Call: N4NW Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: N4PN Class: SOAB HP Call: N4PSE Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: N4TL Class: SOAB HP Call: N4VA Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N4XR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB LP Call: N4ZR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Call: N5DD Class: SOAB HP Call: N5DO Class: SOAB LP Call: N5IA Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N5KDA Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: N5XZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Call: N6CY Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N6DA Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N6NF Class: SOAB HP Call: N6QQ Class: SOAB HP Call: N6RO Class: M/M HP Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Call: N6XG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N7BF Class: SOAB HP Call: N7FE Class: SOAB LP Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7MAL Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: N7RQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N8EA Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: N8IE Class: SOAB QRP Call: N8II Class: SOAB QRP Call: N8NM Class: SOAB QRP Call: N8RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N8TR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N9CO Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: N9LJX Class: SOAB LP Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NA2U Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA3D Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: NA4K Class: SOAB HP Call: NA4M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA7RF Class: SOAB LP Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Call: ND3D Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: NE9U Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NF4A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NF8R Class: SOAB HP Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Call: NH6P Class: SOAB HP Call: NI7T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NK7U Class: M/2 HP Call: NN1N Class: SOAB HP Call: NN3Q Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NN3W Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Call: NS9I Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NT6AA Class: SOAB LP Call: NX9T Class: SOAB HP Call: NY3A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Call: OE4A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OE6IMD Class: SOAB LP Call: OK1CW Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: OK2N Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: OK2PVF Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: OK5R Class: SOAB HP Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Call: OL0W Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: OL3R Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OL8R Class: SOAB HP Call: OL9Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OM5M Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: OM7M Class: M/M HP Call: OM7RU Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: OM8A Class: M/M HP Call: ON4AEK Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: ON4UN Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: ON5ARY Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OP4A Class: SOAB LP Call: OQ5M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OR7Y Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OT5A Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OZ6PI Class: SOAB LP Call: OZ7TTT Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: P40LE Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Call: P49Y Class: SOAB LP Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Call: PF5X Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP Call: PJ2T Class: M/2 HP Call: PJ4/KU8E Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: PJ4A Class: SOAB HP Call: PR7AB Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PR7AF Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: PR7HR Class: SOAB LP Call: PS2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PT7AA Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PT7AG Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: PT7CG Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PY1NB Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: PY1NX Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PY2EYE Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: PY2IQ Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PY2NDX Class: SOAB HP Call: PY2NY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: PY2WC Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: PY2YU Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: PY4CEL Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: PY4FQ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: RA9KM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: RK2FWA Class: M/M HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: RN3BD Class: SOAB HP Call: RS3A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: RW4PL Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: RZ1AWT Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: S52W Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S53O Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S54O Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: S56A Class: SOAB HP Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: S57Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: S58L Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: S59DTN Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: S59KW Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: SM0W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SM6WET Class: SOAB HP Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB LP Call: SN3A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: SN5G Class: M/S HP Call: SN5J Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: SN7Q Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: SO9Q Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SP5COF Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: SP6A Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: SP9H Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SQ4MP Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SQ6MS Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SQ6Z Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: SV1CIB Class: SOAB HP Call: T99W Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Call: TM6X Class: SOAB HP Call: UA6LV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: UA9CDC Class: SOAB HP Call: UY5ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: V31KO Class: SOAB HP Call: V31TP Class: M/2 HP Call: V49A Class: SOAB LP Call: VA2SG Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB HP Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB LP Call: VE1RGB Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2FWW Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2TZT Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: VE3CX Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3ESH Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3FH Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3FU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3GSI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3HG Class: M/S HP Call: VE3KI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB/160 QRP Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/160 LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3TW Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3XB Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3YAA Class: M/2 HP Call: VE5UA Class: SOAB HP Call: VE5UF Class: SOAB LP Call: VE6CNU Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VE6EX Class: SOAB QRP Call: VE6WA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE7BZ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Call: VE9NC Class: SOAB LP Call: VK9DNX Class: M/M LP Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1HP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1TA Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: VP2E Class: SOAB HP Call: VP8/LZ1UQ Class: SOAB LP Call: VP9/K9CC Class: SOAB LP Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2PA Class: SOAB HP Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB HP Call: W0LM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W0MU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB HP Call: W0UCE Class: M/S HP Call: W0VX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W0YK Class: SOAB HP Call: W0ZA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W1AF Class: SOAB LP Call: W1AO Class: SOAB HP Call: W1CEK Class: SOAB QRP Call: W1CSM Class: SOAB HP Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Call: W1GD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Call: W1JQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1LRY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W1MU Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W1NK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W1NN Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: W1NR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: W1TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1WEF Class: SOAB HP Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Call: W1ZT Class: SOAB HP Call: W2CG Class: M/2 HP Call: W2FU Class: M/M HP Call: W2FV Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: W2GB Class: SOAB LP Call: W2GDJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2JU Class: SOAB LP Call: W2LE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2LHL Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: W2NO Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W2NRA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2OO Class: SOAB HP Call: W2RTY Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: W2TB Class: SOAB HP Call: W2UP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2XL Class: M/S HP Call: W2ZQ Class: M/S HP Call: W3BG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3BGN Class: M/S HP Call: W3CF Class: M/M HP Call: W3CP Class: SOAB LP Call: W3DQ Class: M/S HP Call: W3EF Class: SOAB LP Call: W3FV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3GH Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W3IQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Call: W3NX Class: M/S HP Call: W3TUA Class: SOAB HP Call: W3UA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W3WN Class: SOAB LP Call: W4AA Class: SOAB LP Call: W4BCG Class: SOAB LP Call: W4BQF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W4IX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Call: W4MYA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Call: W4PM Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4RM Class: M/2 HP Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: W4ZV Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W4ZW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5GA Class: SOAB HP Call: W5GZ Class: SOAB(A) QRP Call: W5KFT Class: SOAB HP Call: W5KI Class: SOAB HP Call: W5WMU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5YAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6EMC Class: M/2 HP Call: W6KY Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W6MVW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W6OAT Class: M/2 HP Call: W6QU Class: SOAB QRP Call: W6RKC Class: SOAB HP Call: W6TK Class: SOAB HP Call: W7AT Class: SOAB LP Call: W7JI Class: SOAB QRP Call: W7LR Class: M/S HP Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Call: W7RN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7TMT Class: SOAB LP Call: W7TTE Class: SOAB HP Call: W7UT Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: W7VJ Class: SOAB HP Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7ZR Class: SOAB HP Call: W8AV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8FJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W9SE Class: SOAB HP Call: W9SZ Class: M/S HP Call: W9WI Class: SOAB QRP Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: WA2JQK Class: SOAB HP Call: WA3AAN Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: WA3NKO Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: WA4DOU Class: SOAB LP Call: WA4OSD Class: SOAB LP Call: WA6BOB Class: SOAB LP Call: WB1DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WB1EDI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WB2AA Class: SOAB LP Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: WB5TUF Class: SOAB LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Call: WB9Z Class: SOAB HP Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Call: WC4J Class: M/S HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB LP Call: WD4OHD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WD5EAE Class: SOAB HP Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP Call: WD5R Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: WE9N Class: SOAB HP Call: WH2D Class: SOAB LP Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB HP Call: WK4P Class: SOAB LP Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Call: WO7T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WP2Z Class: M/2 HP Call: WP3C Class: SOAB LP Call: WQ5L Class: SOAB HP Call: WS4Y Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: WT9Q Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: WV0T Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Call: WX3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WX4TM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YL3DQ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YL7X Class: SOAB HP Call: YL8M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YO5PBF/QRP Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: YR7M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YR9P Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YT1AA Class: SOAB LP Call: YT2T Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: YT7TY Class: SOAB LP Call: YU1LA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: YZ1U Class: M/S HP Call: Z35T Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: Z36W Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: ZF2AM Class: SOAB HP Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: ZL3WW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: ZM1A Class: M/S HP Call: ZS6AAA Class: SOAB LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: CT9L Call: EF8M Call: HG6N Call: HP1XX Call: K0TV Call: K2BA Call: KH6LC Call: LN3Z Call: N0IJ Call: N0NI Call: N3AD Call: NK7U Call: NY4A Call: PJ2T Call: V31TP Call: VE3YAA Call: W2CG Call: W4RM Call: W6EMC Call: W6OAT Call: WP2Z Class: M/M HP Call: 4O1A Call: J7OJ Call: K1IR Call: K1KI Call: K1RX Call: K1TTT Call: K1XM Call: K3LR Call: K3WW Call: K5GO Call: KB1H Call: KC1XX Call: N6RO Call: NQ4I Call: NR4M Call: OM7M Call: OM8A Call: RK2FWA Call: W0AIH Call: W2FU Call: W3CF Call: W3LPL Class: M/M LP Call: VK9DNX Class: M/S HP Call: 7S2E Call: CN2WW Call: DK0ALC Call: EE5E Call: HK1/K8DD Call: IO4T Call: IR2C Call: JA8RWU Call: K2QMF Call: K7RAT Call: K8AZ Call: K9NR Call: KT3Y Call: KY5R Call: LR2F Call: N3MX Call: NN7SS Call: PI4TUE Call: RL3A Call: SN5G Call: TM6M Call: VE3HG Call: W0UCE Call: W2XL Call: W2ZQ Call: W3BGN Call: W3DQ Call: W3LJ Call: W3NX Call: W7LR Call: W7RN Call: W9SZ Call: WC4J Call: YZ1U Call: ZM1A Class: SOAB HP Call: 4L0N Call: 4Z8DT Call: 9V1YC Call: AA1K Call: AB7E Call: AY7X Call: CT3BD Call: ES1GF Call: F5CQ Call: G4BUO Call: II3M Call: K0FX Call: K0JJR Call: K0SN Call: K0SR Call: K1NQ Call: K1TO Call: K1ZZ Call: K3CR Call: K3WI Call: K3ZO Call: K4EU Call: K4HAL Call: K4KW Call: K4RO Call: K4ZGB Call: K5BG Call: K5ZD Call: K6LRN Call: K6NA Call: K6RB Call: K6XX Call: K7ABV Call: K7EG Call: K7LAZ Call: K7UT Call: K8GL Call: K8MR Call: K9MUG Call: KA1DWX Call: KE1FO Call: KE3D Call: KG4CUY Call: KH7X Call: KL7WV Call: KM0O Call: KO7AA Call: KO7X Call: KQ2M Call: LN8W Call: LX7I Call: N0KE Call: N0XB Call: N1IX Call: N2GA Call: N2GC Call: N2LT Call: N2NT Call: N2RM Call: N2SQW Call: N3ZZ Call: N4PN Call: N4TL Call: N5DD Call: N6AA Call: N6NF Call: N6QQ Call: N7BF Call: NA4K Call: NF8R Call: NH6P Call: NN1N Call: NN7ZZ Call: NX9T Call: OK5R Call: OL8R Call: P40W Call: PJ4A Call: PY2NDX Call: RN3BD Call: S56A Call: SM6WET Call: SV1CIB Call: TM6X Call: UA9CDC Call: UY5ZZ Call: V31KO Call: VA7RN Call: VA7ST Call: VE3CX Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3XB Call: VE5UA Call: VE7BZ Call: VO1HE Call: VO1MP Call: VP2E Call: VY2PA Call: VY2TT Call: W0ETT Call: W0RAA Call: W0YK Call: W1AO Call: W1CSM Call: W1EBI Call: W1HIS Call: W1WEF Call: W1ZK Call: W1ZT Call: W2OO Call: W2TB Call: W3TUA Call: W4NTI Call: W4NZ Call: W4PM Call: W5GA Call: W5KFT Call: W5KI Call: W6RKC Call: W6TK Call: W7TTE Call: W7VJ Call: W7ZR Call: W9SE Call: WA2JQK Call: WB9Z Call: WC1M Call: WD5EAE Call: WD5K Call: WE9N Call: WJ9B Call: WO4O Call: WQ5L Call: WX0B Call: YL7X Call: ZF2AM Class: SOAB LP Call: 9A5AQA Call: AA4FU Call: AA5CH Call: AC0W Call: AD6ZJ Call: C6AWL Call: CT6A Call: DG7RO Call: DJ1YFK Call: DL1EFD Call: DL7BY Call: EI/W5GN Call: FM5JC Call: GW0ETF Call: HA6NN Call: HH7/N3BNA Call: HI3TEJ Call: I2/K5GN Call: I2WIJ Call: II1M Call: K0CF Call: K0HW Call: K1EP Call: K1IB Call: K1QO Call: K2PS Call: K2SX Call: K3IU Call: K3VX Call: K4BK Call: K4EJ Call: K4OD Call: K5FP Call: K5YAA Call: K6GEP Call: K8GT Call: K8IR Call: K9MMS Call: K9XE Call: KA1VMG Call: KA5EYH Call: KA6LAF Call: KD2MX Call: KE5C Call: KH6NF Call: KH7XS/M Call: KN0V Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y Call: KP2/K3MD Call: KS1J Call: KT4PD Call: KZ1M Call: M3CVN Call: N0BUI Call: N1UR Call: N2EK Call: N2IXD Call: N3YW Call: N4EK Call: N4HXI Call: N4JF Call: N4KG Call: N4NTO Call: N4YDU Call: N5AW Call: N5DO Call: N7FE Call: N7ZG Call: N9LJX Call: NA7RF Call: NG7Z Call: NS3T Call: NT6AA Call: OE6IMD Call: OK6Y Call: OP4A Call: OZ6PI Call: P49Y Call: PA3ARM Call: PR7HR Call: SM7BJW Call: V49A Call: VE1OP Call: VE1RGB Call: VE2FU Call: VE2FWW Call: VE3EY Call: VE3FH Call: VE3FU Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3KI Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TW Call: VE5UF Call: VE9DX Call: VE9NC Call: VP8/LZ1UQ Call: VP9/K9CC Call: VP9/W6PH Call: VY2SS Call: W0PC Call: W1AF Call: W1JQ Call: W2GB Call: W2JU Call: W3CP Call: W3EF Call: W3WN Call: W4AA Call: W4BCG Call: W4KAZ Call: W7AT Call: W7TMT Call: WA4DOU Call: WA4OSD Call: WA6BOB Call: WB2AA Call: WB5TUF Call: WB8JUI Call: WD4AHZ Call: WH2D Call: WK4P Call: WN6K Call: WP3C Call: YT1AA Call: YT7TY Call: ZS6AAA Class: SOAB QRP Call: AD4Z Call: F5UKL/QRP Call: HA6IAM Call: K3PH Call: K3SV Call: K4CIA Call: K7HBN Call: K7MM Call: K7UP Call: K9GY Call: KG4HTT Call: KG5U Call: KO1H Call: KR2Q Call: N1TM Call: N4CY Call: N6WG Call: N7IR Call: N8IE Call: N8II Call: N8NM Call: ND0C Call: VA3DF Call: VA3RKM Call: VE6EX Call: W1CEK Call: W6QU Call: W7JI Call: W9WI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA3B Call: AA7A Call: AI9T Call: AJ3M Call: CN3A Call: DD2D Call: DL4YAO Call: EA1WX Call: F4DNW Call: F8CMF Call: G3WPH Call: K0KX Call: K0LUZ Call: K0RC Call: K0TG Call: K0TO Call: K1JC Call: K1KD Call: K1NU Call: K2QPN Call: K3MQ Call: K3ND Call: K3OO Call: K3STX Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K4IU Call: K4KO Call: K4SAV Call: K5MQ Call: K5NZ Call: K5YA Call: K6MM Call: K6NV Call: K6RIM Call: K6SRZ Call: K6TA Call: K6VVA Call: K6XT Call: K7KR Call: K8FC Call: K9DX Call: K9NW Call: KA2D Call: KE1F Call: KF3B Call: KJ0G Call: KJ6RA Call: KM4M Call: KM9M Call: KN5H Call: KQ3F Call: KR4F Call: KT0R Call: LU4DX Call: LZ8A Call: N1EU Call: N1IW Call: N1MM Call: N2NS Call: N2VW Call: N3BB Call: N3CW Call: N3ZA Call: N4BAA Call: N4DW Call: N4NM Call: N4XR Call: N5XZ Call: N6XG Call: N8BJQ Call: N8RA Call: N8TR Call: NA2U Call: NA4M Call: NE9U Call: NF4A Call: NI7T Call: NN3Q Call: NS9I Call: OE4A Call: OQ5M Call: PF5X Call: PS2E Call: RW4PL Call: S54O Call: UA6LV Call: VA3DX Call: VE3UTT Call: VE3XAT Call: VO1HP Call: W0MU Call: W1GD Call: W1KQ Call: W1LRY Call: W1NR Call: W1TO Call: W2GDJ Call: W2IRT Call: W2LE Call: W2NRA Call: W2UP Call: W3BG Call: W3FV Call: W3IQ Call: W4BQF Call: W4MYA Call: W4RK Call: W4ZW Call: W5WMU Call: W5YAA Call: W7RN Call: W7WHY Call: W8AV Call: W8FJ Call: WB1DX Call: WO7T Call: WX3B Call: WX4TM Call: YL8M Call: YR7M Call: YR9P Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AB2E Call: AC4JI Call: AD1C Call: AJ1M Call: DL4RCK Call: G3WW Call: G4EHT Call: K1BX Call: K3FH Call: K4AQ Call: K6OWL Call: K8BL Call: KA3DRR Call: KC4HW Call: KH6/AA4V Call: KS2G Call: KT7G Call: KV1J Call: N2FF Call: N2MRI Call: N2MUN Call: N3GNW Call: N4CBK Call: N4VA Call: N6CY Call: N6DA Call: N7RQ Call: NA2M Call: P40LE Call: PR7AB Call: PY2BRZ Call: S52W Call: VE3ESH Call: W0LM Call: W0VX Call: W1MAT Call: W1NK Call: W2NO Call: W4EE Call: W4IX Call: W6KY Call: WB1EDI Call: WD4OHD Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOAB(A) QRP Call: F8KHF Call: W5GZ Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: K5NA Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 QRP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: 9A7R Call: DQ4Q Call: IK1QBT Call: K4EA Call: K4FJ Call: K4OAQ Call: KC7V Call: KT5E Call: PY2YU Call: W7UT Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: AD4EB Call: K3SWZ Call: KQ6ES Call: N5KDA Call: OK2N Call: PT7AA Call: PY1DX Call: PY2IQ Call: W2FV Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: CE1/K7CA Call: K1LT Call: K1VW Call: K4PI Call: KL7RA Call: KT1V Call: N0VD Call: N4NW Call: N8EA Call: OK1CW Call: OL0W Call: ON4UN Call: PJ4/KU8E Call: RZ1AWT Call: SN7Q Call: SP6A Call: VE2TZT Call: W3GH Call: W4ZV Call: WD5R Class: SOSB/160 LP Call: DJ9VA Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/160 QRP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 9A5W Call: AL1G Call: DL1IAO Call: EA8/OH4NL Call: HB9CZF Call: HG5XA Call: K1IM Call: K4BP Call: K7RL Call: LY4L Call: N1GKI Call: N4ZR Call: NA3D Call: OL9Z Call: PY2EYE Call: PY2NY Call: RS3A Call: SM0W Call: SP9H Call: SQ4MP Call: SQ6MS Call: VE6WA Call: W0ZA Call: W1MU Call: W6MVW Call: W7WA Call: WV0T Call: Z35T Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: 4N1N Call: 9A3B Call: AB4GG Call: CT3EE Call: CX9AU Call: DD1IM Call: DJ6TK Call: DL4AAE Call: IV3MGN Call: KV8Q Call: N4IJ Call: ON5ARY Call: OR7Y Call: OT5A Call: OZ7TTT Call: PR7AF Call: PY1NB Call: PY4CEL Call: PY4FQ Call: RA9KM Call: S58L Call: S59DTN Call: S59KW Call: SP5COF Call: SV1BJW Call: VE6CNU Call: W1OHM Call: YL3DQ Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: ND3D Call: S57AL Call: VO1TA Call: WA3NKO Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: DL0MB Call: HA7RY Call: IK4ZGO Call: IR2W Call: K0UK Call: K1ZZI Call: K2UOP Call: K4PIC Call: K5GA Call: K7WP Call: K8IA Call: K9CT Call: K9OM Call: KK0HF Call: N2BZP Call: N9CO Call: NN3W Call: OL3R Call: ON4AEK Call: PT7AG Call: S53F Call: S53O Call: SO9Q Call: SQ6Z Call: W3UA Call: WA3AAN Call: WT9Q Call: YU1LA Call: ZL3WW Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: AD8J Call: IZ8GCB Call: K7WA Call: KZ1A Call: N3CZ Call: N4FD Call: N7MAL Call: PY1NX Call: W1NN Call: W2LHL Call: W2RTY Call: WA1FCN Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: DL2SAX Call: K2TA Call: VA2SG Call: YO5PBF/QRP Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 4O5A Call: 6Y1V Call: 9A5E Call: DL1AUZ Call: EA6BF Call: FM5BH Call: IK1YDB Call: K0KT Call: K1GU Call: K1PQS Call: K9AY Call: K9ES Call: KU1CW Call: LN9Z Call: M5X Call: N2IC Call: N5IA Call: NY3A Call: OK2PVF Call: OM5M Call: PT7CG Call: PY2WC Call: S57Z Call: SN3A Call: T99W Call: W4SVO Call: WS4Y Call: YT2T Call: Z36W Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: AI2N Call: C6APG Call: K8NVR Call: N2WN Call: N4PSE Call: OM7RU Call: PR7AR Call: SN5J Call: YV7QP