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