ARRLDX SSB Soapbox built 7-20-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,032 Only a part time efford due to other contest activity during the weekend on VHF. Nice to air the new call in it's first contest!! C u in BERU, RDXC, WPX 73's Simon 2E0CVN - ex: M3CVN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,967,941 First I would like to thank my dear friend amd partner Krassy (K1LZ) for helping make this dream station come true. I couldn't have done it with out you! I would also like to thank Steve (W2GB), Ray (K9RS), Don (K4CN) and Bud (K4ISV). I am truly grateful for you all having spent your hard earned money and time to come to Jamaica and operate with us at 6Y1V. You guys did a fantastic job. A special thank you goes to Bud (K4ISV) for his tower work prior to the contest, particularly the repairs to the top ring rotor. Too bad I didn't get it calibrated and synchronized with the bottom rotor before the contest. I finished the work on Monday and the 40 meter stack is working awesome now! I think we could have done better on 40 if the rotors were working properly as a master/slave system. As it stood, we never moved either antenna. Ray was a pillar on 20 meters. I asked him if he had super glue on his butt! You can't drag this man out of the chair! Steve put up some fabulous rates on 15 meters while Krassy, Bud and Don did the hard job...the graveyard shift. I shared 15 meters with Steve, but was there mostly for station support and waiting for 10 meters to open. I hurt our Q count on 15 spending too much time Saturday trying to force Q's on 10 meters, managing only 3 Q’s and 2 mults. The band final opened on Sunday and we picked up 29 more mults. I was truly worried 10 meters would be where PJ2T would hurt us the most as they typically have better propagation to the states (due to location) during low sun spot conditions. I think our stack of 7/7 really helped keep up! It should be interesting to compare stations when 10 really opens up. The station is still in its infancy and there are many kinks to work out, but overall I am happy with our score. We had a network issue sometime in the middle of the first night and lost synchronization between the logs. I was able to recover 38 lost Q's after importing the transaction logs. I am not certain if we lost any additional Q's. If so, there probably wasn't enough to make a difference. The PJ2T team simply spanked us on Q's. Congratulations to the guys operating at PJ2T for their fabulous score. Geoff has a great station, but more importantly, a great deal of experience operating from the Caribbean. This is something that will be difficult to overcome, even with all the hardware we have at 6Y1V. We look forward to competing more in the future as we learn how to maximize our stations potential. The station performed very well. The IC-7800's are with out a doubt the best contest radios available today. Setup was a snap. I setup one radio and transferred all the settings to the second radio via the CF Card. The whole process took less then ten minutes including setting up the voice recorder.. Interference was never an issue. I created 3 default filters (2.4, 2.1 and 1.9) using the new 3Khz roofing filters and hardly needed adjustments throughout the contest. The built in voice keyers worked flawlessly. The bandpass filters worked well as we had little to no interference between stations, except on 10 meters from the 20 meter station operating on a few frequencies in the general class subband. Our 160 meter antennas worked perfectly and the noise was so low we never had to use the beverage or pennant for listening. The four square worked well, even though the US is in the center null. I hope to put up an 80 meter yagi soon. The stacks on 20/15/10 were awesome. Stations often told us we were the loudest signal from the Caribbean. Signals were typical 2 to 3 S units stronger than on the SteppIR stacks. Thank you to every one that called us during this contest. We truly appreciate the points. The QSL info is on the website. Please check it out at www.6y1v.com. 73, David ~ KY1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,781,040 This turned out to be an interesting contest with good competition. Station worked great, but line noise was a serious problem. It was over S9 on 40. It would subside if it rained, but it was a mostly dry weekend. I apologize to those I could not pull through. Barbados was getting ready for the World Cricket Championship next month. Even the AIDS prevention commercials had a cricket theme. "It's your wicket, protect it." Late opening on 10 was fun. Great to see hundreds of new callsigns in the log Thanks for all the QSO's and moves. Thanks to my wife Kathleen for all of her help Longer story and breakdown on my website http://tgeorgens.home.mindspring.com QSL via NN1N 73, Tom W2SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5E Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 138,150 Day1/Day2 362/559 73's Robert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,369,718 The new, expanded phone bands on 80 and 40 did little to help QSO totals on those bands. The first time I went to 80, I tried a few CQs down low with sparse results, though conditions were good. As I tuned up the band, I came across ON4UN, who was listening above 3800 kHz, and when I worked John I asked why he wasn't transceive down lower. His reply: "Too much QRM in Europe." So following his lead, most of my QSOs were made working split with TX above 3800. With 20 meters being the money band with low sunspots -- and heavy QRM all across the band, I decided to try split operation there too. I was able to find clear frequencies down below the US phone band, and found this to be quite productive rather than fighting the QRM on my own frequency. I often had callers on both frequencies, with one in each ear of the headphones, and this helped to separate the pileup too. This technique even helped on 15 meters during the one hot hour on this band Sunday morning. 40m amp died before dawn on the first night -- something arced over while I was transmitting on the 20m amp. Fortunately I had a spare this time so we didn't have to take time to make a repair. Always fun to find a few Q's and mults on 10 during the sunspot low. Once again, not even a whisper from Europe or Africa. And some intermittent S9 line noise made the chase challenging on Sunday afternoon. This plagued 20 meters the last two hours as well. FT1000MP main radio, TS940S SO2R secondary, and the monoband amps. Details www.aa1k.us. 73/Jon AA1K QSO AND RATE BREAKDOWNS UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 0 0 47 4 0 0 51 51 01Z 7 37 0 3 0 0 47 98 02Z 0 3 20 1 0 0 24 122 03Z 4 15 2 0 0 0 21 143 04Z 3 8 25 0 0 0 36 179 05Z 9 38 1 0 0 0 48 227 06Z 5 31 10 0 0 0 46 273 07Z 2 5 47 0 0 0 54 327 08Z 2 8 17 0 0 0 27 354 09Z 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 355 10Z 0 0 2 5 0 0 7 362 11Z 0 0 0 123 0 0 123 485 12Z 0 0 0 97 0 0 97 582 13Z 0 0 0 91 5 0 96 678 14Z 0 0 0 95 8 0 103 781 15Z 0 0 0 71 5 0 76 857 16Z 0 0 0 90 2 0 92 949 17Z 0 0 0 86 0 0 86 1035 18Z 0 0 0 76 6 0 82 1117 19Z 0 0 0 93 0 0 93 1210 20Z 0 0 0 94 0 0 94 1304 21Z 0 0 0 48 9 0 57 1361 22Z 0 0 0 55 1 0 56 1417 23Z 0 0 0 41 0 0 41 1458 00Z 0 5 3 22 0 0 30 1488 01Z 0 23 1 0 0 0 24 1512 02Z 1 26 1 1 0 0 29 1541 03Z 1 10 0 0 0 0 11 1552 04Z 0 0 12 0 0 0 12 1564 05Z 4 0 12 0 0 0 16 1580 06Z 0 14 1 0 0 0 15 1595 07Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1595 08Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1595 09Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1595 10Z 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1597 11Z 0 1 0 40 0 0 41 1638 12Z 0 0 0 66 10 0 76 1714 13Z 0 0 0 59 11 0 70 1784 14Z 0 0 0 38 69 0 107 1891 15Z 0 0 0 0 82 0 82 1973 16Z 0 0 0 0 76 0 76 2049 17Z 0 0 0 71 5 0 76 2125 18Z 0 0 0 43 0 14 57 2182 19Z 0 0 0 40 4 2 46 2228 20Z 0 0 1 16 0 3 20 2248 21Z 0 0 0 30 14 0 44 2292 22Z 1 0 10 4 5 0 20 2312 23Z 3 0 0 19 3 0 25 2337 ---------------------------------------------- tot 42 225 214 1522 315 19 ---- 2337 SO2R MAIN AND ALTERNATE RADIO BREAKDOWNS station: AA1K contest: ARRL DX Contest UTC Main Alt rate total -------------------------- 00Z 51 0 51 51 01Z 47 0 47 98 02Z 21 3 24 122 03Z 20 1 21 143 04Z 36 0 36 179 05Z 48 0 48 227 06Z 45 1 46 273 07Z 49 5 54 327 08Z 26 1 27 354 09Z 1 0 1 355 10Z 7 0 7 362 11Z 123 0 123 485 12Z 97 0 97 582 13Z 91 5 96 678 14Z 95 8 103 781 15Z 71 5 76 857 16Z 90 2 92 949 17Z 86 0 86 1035 18Z 76 6 82 1117 19Z 93 0 93 1210 20Z 94 0 94 1304 21Z 48 9 57 1361 22Z 55 1 56 1417 23Z 41 0 41 1458 00Z 30 0 30 1488 01Z 24 0 24 1512 02Z 29 0 29 1541 03Z 11 0 11 1552 04Z 12 0 12 1564 05Z 16 0 16 1580 06Z 15 0 15 1595 07Z 0 0 0 1595 08Z 0 0 0 1595 09Z 0 0 0 1595 10Z 2 0 2 1597 11Z 41 0 41 1638 12Z 66 10 76 1714 13Z 59 11 70 1784 14Z 100 7 107 1891 15Z 82 0 82 1973 16Z 76 0 76 2049 17Z 72 4 76 2125 18Z 57 0 57 2182 19Z 42 4 46 2228 20Z 20 0 20 2248 21Z 44 0 44 2292 22Z 20 0 20 2312 23Z 25 0 25 2337 -------------------------- tot 2254 83 ---- 2337 MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 0 0 19 3 0 0 22 22 01Z 7 24 0 2 0 0 33 55 02Z 0 2 10 0 0 0 12 67 03Z 3 3 1 0 0 0 7 74 04Z 3 4 4 0 0 0 11 85 05Z 7 5 0 0 0 0 12 97 06Z 3 5 1 0 0 0 9 106 07Z 2 4 7 0 0 0 13 119 08Z 1 3 7 0 0 0 11 130 09Z 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 131 10Z 0 0 1 5 0 0 6 137 11Z 0 0 0 33 0 0 33 170 12Z 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 177 13Z 0 0 0 8 4 0 12 189 14Z 0 0 0 3 6 0 9 198 15Z 0 0 0 1 5 0 6 204 16Z 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 208 17Z 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 209 18Z 0 0 0 6 1 0 7 216 19Z 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 217 20Z 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 221 21Z 0 0 0 7 5 0 12 233 22Z 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 238 23Z 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 244 00Z 0 1 1 4 0 0 6 250 01Z 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 251 02Z 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 254 03Z 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 255 04Z 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 256 05Z 4 0 1 0 0 0 5 261 06Z 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 262 07Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 262 08Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 262 09Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 262 10Z 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 263 11Z 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 265 12Z 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 270 13Z 0 0 0 1 8 0 9 279 14Z 0 0 0 2 13 0 15 294 15Z 0 0 0 0 6 0 6 300 16Z 0 0 0 0 7 0 7 307 17Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 308 18Z 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 316 19Z 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 321 20Z 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 323 21Z 0 0 0 4 4 0 8 331 22Z 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 334 23Z 2 0 0 1 1 0 4 338 ---------------------------------------------- tot 34 55 57 111 69 12 ---- 338 QSO BREAKDOWN BY CONTINENT 160 80 40 20 15 10 total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N America: 14 24 17 34 22 6 117 (5%) (11%) (20%) (14%) (29%) (18%) (5%) S America: 9 11 20 54 41 13 148 (6%) (6%) (7%) (13%) (36%) (27%) (8%) Europe: 16 187 161 1286 244 0 1894 (81%) (9%) (8%) (67%) (12%) Africa: 1 0 6 22 4 0 33 (1%) (3%) (18%) (66%) (12%) Asia: 0 1 2 113 2 0 118 (5%) (1%) (95%) (1%) Oceania: 2 1 8 12 1 0 24 (1%) (8%) (4%) (33%) (50%) (4%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- QSOS PER MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN Mult QSOs 1A -- 1S -- 3A -- 3B6 -- 3B8 -- 3B9 -- 3C -- 3C0 -- 3D2 -- 3D2/c -- 3D2/r -- 3DA -- 3V -- 3W -- 3X 1 3Y/b -- 3Y/p -- 4J -- 4L -- 4S -- 4U1I -- 4U1U -- 4W -- 4X 2 5A -- 5B 3 5H -- 5N -- 5R -- 5T -- 5U -- 5V -- 5W -- 5X -- 5Z -- 6W -- 6Y 8 7O -- 7P -- 7Q -- 7X 2 8P 8 8Q -- 8R -- 9A 24 9G 2 9H 3 9J -- 9K 3 9L -- 9M2 -- 9M6 -- 9N -- 9Q -- 9U -- 9V 1 9X -- 9Y 3 A2 -- A3 -- A4 1 A5 -- A6 -- A7 -- A9 -- AP -- BS7 -- BV -- BV9P -- BY -- C2 -- C3 -- C5 -- C6 3 C9 -- CE 9 CE0X -- CE0Y -- CE0Z -- CE9 -- CM 7 CN 6 CP -- CT 9 CT3 -- CU 8 CX 3 CY0 -- CY9 -- D2 -- D4 2 D6 -- DL 299 DU 1 E3 -- E4 -- EA 112 EA6 1 EA8 14 EA9 -- EI 22 EK -- EL 1 EP -- ER 2 ES 3 ET -- EU 4 EX 1 EY 1 EZ -- F 147 FG -- FH -- FJ -- FK -- FK/c -- FM 8 FO -- FO/a -- FO/c -- FO/m -- FP -- FR -- FR/g -- FR/j -- FR/t -- FT5W -- FT5X -- FT5Z -- FW -- FY 5 G 194 GD 2 GI 15 GJ 1 GM 38 GU 3 GW 28 H4 -- H40 -- HA 29 HB 36 HB0 -- HC 3 HC8 -- HH -- HI 9 HK 6 HK0/a -- HK0/m -- HL 3 HM -- HP 5 HR 6 HS 2 HV -- HZ -- I 278 IS 2 J2 1 J3 -- J5 -- J6 -- J7 -- J8 -- JA 72 JD/m -- JD/o -- JT -- JW -- JX -- JY -- KG4 -- KH0 -- KH1 -- KH2 -- KH3 -- KH4 -- KH5 -- KH5K -- KH6 14 KH7K -- KH8 -- KH8/s -- KH9 -- KL 5 KP1 -- KP2 7 KP4 10 KP5 -- LA 16 LU 36 LX 2 LY 6 LZ 10 OA -- OD -- OE 33 OH 25 OH0 -- OJ0 -- OK 62 OM 13 ON 64 OX -- OY -- OZ 20 P2 -- P4 9 PA 124 PJ2 14 PJ7 4 PY 33 PY0F -- PY0S -- PY0T -- PZ -- R1FJ -- R1MV -- S0 -- S2 -- S5 35 S7 -- S9 -- SM 27 SP 66 ST -- SU -- SV 8 SV/a -- SV5 -- SV9 -- T2 -- T30 -- T31 -- T32 -- T33 -- T5 -- T7 -- T8 -- T9 3 TA 2 TF 2 TG 2 TI 7 TI9 -- TJ -- TK -- TL -- TN -- TR -- TT -- TU 1 TY -- TZ -- UA 54 UA2 6 UA9 22 UK -- UN 4 UR 37 V2 3 V3 -- V4 3 V5 -- V6 -- V7 -- V8 -- VK 2 VK0H -- VK0M -- VK9C -- VK9L -- VK9M -- VK9N -- VK9W -- VK9X -- VP2E 7 VP2M -- VP2V -- VP5 3 VP6 -- VP6/d -- VP8 5 VP8/g -- VP8/h -- VP8/o -- VP8/s -- VP9 2 VQ9 -- VR 1 VU -- VU4 -- VU7 -- XE 10 XF4 -- XT -- XU -- XW -- XX9 -- XZ -- YA -- YB 2 YI 1 YJ -- YK -- YL 6 YN 2 YO 19 YS -- YU 20 YV 22 YV0 -- Z2 -- Z3 5 Z7 -- ZA 1 ZB -- ZC4 -- ZD7 -- ZD8 1 ZD9 -- ZF 1 ZK1/n -- ZK1/s -- ZK2 -- ZK3 -- ZL 6 ZL7 -- ZL8 -- ZL9 -- ZP 2 ZS 4 ZS8 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5CH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 213,192 Rig: Icom 7800 / Ameritron 811H Amp @ 600 watts Ant: Hex Beam, Center Fed Zepp, Gap Voyager, 160 Meter Dipole Thanks and 73, Brad AA5CH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 429 A part time effort to give a few reports ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 55,770 G5RV @ 25 ft, ICOM 706MKIIG barefoot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD0K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,026 Only operated in three one-hour periods and only on 20 & 15. Managed to snag some new ones for me, especially EI8GS and VP8KF. Very glad to know that with some persistence, my 100w and low dipole is able to work some good DX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 2,277 I had zero daytime to opperate this weekend and not many to work on 80M. I worked 6 in the car on 15M and only 80M from the shack so I submitted for 80M only with the 15M as a check log. Family reunion is just about over... With just a few QSO's on 80M I was very happy to pick up 4 new band countries including Mali and Morocco. Maybe next time I will have more time to have my fun. AD6ZJ, Loren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,800 S&P only, G5RV Jr. with 600W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AH7ZA Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 67,680 Rig at KH6SQ: Yaesu FT-1000 MP with output set to 5 watts TH7 tribander at 60 feet Cushcraft tribander at 32 feet 2 el 40 M yagi at 63 feet 1/4 wave sloper on 80 M ________________________________________________________ Yes, it was tough doing QRP from KH6 at the bottom of the cycle but it was still a lot of fun. It was common to have stations with good signals continue to call CQ in my face. There were several hours that I made no contacts at all and several other hours where I made only 2 or 3 Qs. But there were several exciting moments. On Saturday I went to 10 meters from time to time and called CQ wondering if anyone would hear me on what seemed to be an empty band. After many attempts, suddenly there was K9YC on the coast of California calling me back with a great signal! He spotted me and I wound up with two more California Qs. But nothing worked on Sunday, and that was 10 meters for the entire contest! Early Sunday morning, I followed the sunrise gray line across the USA and was amazed to work several stations on the east coast and mid-west on 80 meters with my 5 watts and quarter wave sloper. And it was fun reading my DX-Summit spots afterward and seeing the comments about my QRP signal. To summarize, I have never worked so hard for so few Qs! And yet, I'd do it all over again. Thanks to Terry and Donna Clayton for their fine hospitality and the use of his station at KH6SQ! Bill Parker W8QZA - AH7ZA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL2F Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 130,536 Wow, lots of stations on for this one. I could not get my logging software to work with the split on my radio, so I didn't focus to much on 40m, 40 is pretty tough for me anyway. Heard lots of DX that I could not work, being DX myself in this one. Lots of European Stations every morning on 20 and a little on 15, and lots of JA's and Asia in the afternoon. 73 and see you in the WPX AL2F Kris in AK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ANM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,888,992 Equipment: IC-7000 Antennas: G5RV on 40m and 15m., 20m. dipole@80', 80m. Inv-L, 160m. Inv-L Salt Water for Ground. Just another hot day at the beach. Thanks to all who called! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,047,230 OPERARATORS : CE/LU1FAM and CE4CT Nice Contest, but very bad condition in 10 meters, only the Sunday open for 3 hours. Regards to all Contesters CE4CT and CE/LU1FAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,006,396 Finally, after a long period without a real exercise, I'm back in the Single Op. all band in one of my favorite contest. My first test as SOAB from the new CN3A contest station looks pretty good, hard as usual but very interesting to learn, as much as I can, to understand how the station works. I started on low bands with some difficulties on 40 Mt. ...too many noise the first nigh, 80 Mt. OK , 160 Mt. to improve from the antenna point of view. Great run rate on 40 Mt. the second night at 180 qso's per hour and incredible pile up on 15 Mt. at 205 qso's per hour ...great fun !!!! We builted up the station only 7 months ago and we really appreciate the results we made in CQWW SSB M/S, ARRL CW SOAB (IK2QEI), ARRL SSB SOAB (IK2SGC) and the last WPX SSB M/S(IK2SGC-IK2QEI), the improvement we'll make step by step will be very interesting and the challenge we have for the next future is the engine to continue in this direction to be more and more competitive. I would like to thanks Stefano IK2QEI and Spiros SV8CS ....my contests folks, and the ARRAM Society for the support they gave me and all the US and Canadian station worked in these great week end. Stay tuned..... 73's de Matt CN3A/5D5A/5F3COM.....IK2SGC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CO6LP Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 131,328 The propagation in 80 meter was exelent and the good contact to west coast, more than 20 with CA and the QRN was very low. The cuban station was very good result. 73 dx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,677,694 Another contest in multinational configuration. We had an edge to continental Europe on 160M and 15M. I guess that's why we are here. North, East and West have so different propagtion characteristics and it is obviously salt of the game. We are definitely back on our old European soil - it is 45 years from the first CQWW here. It is time to return home. To good old Europe! We did operate this contest in a memory of Phil, N6ZZ - what a shocking news it was during the week. To Phil Goetz, N6ZZ Loosen your hands, let go and say good-by. Let the stars and the songs go. Let the faces and years go. Loosen your hands and say good-by. —Carl Sandburg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ7IK Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 109,890 Bad condx at Saturday, havy QRM from BigGuns! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 10,605 ICOM IC-7400, Heath SB-200, 5-ele Tribander Toshiba Tecra M4, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4K Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 355,239 Hi to all contest friends ! Puhhhhhhh ! My poor ears ! Was that a horrible QRM. I now know again, why CW is the one and only Mode for me ;-) I would not have entered this one, but after finishing 4th place WW last year on SB20 I was motivated enough to give it a try again this year.... On saturday I had good luck to get a pretty good frequency and I stayed there all the time, but on sunday that was not to be. It was like pulling teeth most of the time to get a full callsign. Most of the time I had to ask for the call 3 or 4 times. Many thanks to all for the patience and sorry to thouse I could not pull out. Congratulations to OH8X,SO2R and 9A1A for nice scores. 100 Qs less than last year but DUPEs more than last year (have 135 !! Dupes in the LOg). 2007 QSOs without Dupes. MANY THANKS to all who called me and for spotting. Hope all of you had fun. Hope to meet all of you again in RDXC (most probably as DP4K M/S) ! 73 de Heiko, DK3DM @ DP4K Station used: TS 850 SAT + Acom 2000 Optibeam 16-3 (4 active ele for 20) up 23m JP 2000 (3 active ele for 20) up 17m Have a look at our HP at http://www.taubeneiche.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 52,626 Assisted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,849,000 73 de Julio, EA4KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,172,916 I want to give those thanks to my friends Jorge EA7HZ and Jesus EA7UU to start to point the antennas before the competition, very damaged for a strong storm of wind, without them it had been impossible my participation. Condition of work: TX/RX: Icom 756. Lineal amplifier: Kenwood TL-922. Power: 500w, although my report was kw. Antenna yagi 3 elm + kit (10-15-20-40). Slooper for 80m of 18 meters of alive fed for under. Height antenna 3 elem. 5 meters on the roof. Very bad conditions in 10m as they demonstrate it the results. Don't listen to any norteamerica station. The 15 meters cheered up on bad Sunday on Saturday. The 20 fabulous meters, although with tremendous splaters noises. The enough 40 meters well. The 80 meters wrong for my for the poor antenna conditions that I possess. But the important thing is to have a good time and I got it. Greetings and until the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8AUW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 328,062 I made a fun participation in this contest, 9 hours only, but the conditions it's very good in this time, with many participation from US Station.- see you in the next, Vy 73 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC2DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,663,860 We had a 3 hour power failure from 18.00z to 21.00z the first day so we lost a lot of QSOs... anyway we had a great time and we tested the new improvements on the station. Antennas used: 10m,15m, 20m: Explorer 14 & TH3 Tribanders 40m: Vertical Fullsize 80m: Vertical Fullsize 160m: V inverted Dipole @20m Thank you for calling us, see you all on the next one! EC2DX Contest team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EH7A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 76,002 Well, i started the contest saturday very late, and i had some problems with computer. The propagation here in my side i think that not was very good. On sunday was horrible, around 100 qso´s only using 1 Kw and 3 elements monobander antenna. I used a special call EH7A this time, but i do not know if is better to use my personal call EA7HBP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,875,630 Good contest but conditions from here very poor. Better low band propagation on first night. 20m very busy at some stages making QSOs difficult. Thanks to all who worked us. Neil EI3JE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5HRY/P Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 62,463 Bad propagation. Only very few moments of real run. Amazing to see the 15m scores from southern east Europe, compared to what we had in Britanny (western France). Rig : 5el monobander at 13m (www.dxbeam.com great antennas) and AL1500 73 Herve F5HRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5NOD Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 37,467 Thanks to all who heard me , with my 5 watts . Some of you has big big ears ;-) .. Congratulations. Gil F5NOD 73. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 345,000 It is always a real pleasure to take part to this contest. Not much time spent but some nice rates : Best hour : 160QSOs Best rate on 100 QSOs : 240 QSO/H Best rate on 10 QSOs : 540 QSO/H Thanks to all callers. 73 Sebastien, F8CMF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5AN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 1,512,299 only 3 hours activity Sorry, Congratulation for US Stations Ham spirit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5KE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,789,688 Unfortunately, it was not possible for the usual team member to be gathered all together to take part to the ARRL SSB in multiop this year. This is the reason I decided to try a SOAB effort. A fantastic week end, in spite of the propagation which was not as good as last year. Only 6 QSO on 10m on Saturday with Florida. Sunday was really better, with a first short opening which was sometimes giving the impression to operate meteor scatter on VHF followed by a good second one. For some reasons, it was not possible to build the station before Friday in the morning with the result that I started the contest with a lack of rest. Add that it is 35°C with 95% of humidity in the shack (no airconditioning), the last part of the nights were quite hard and I didn't resist to stop and sleep a bit. Also some trafic breaks to fix various problems like a damaged mosquito screen to be replaced or a power supply delivering a low voltage which resulted in a TS850 failure... SOAB non assisted, really! FY5KE station description is at http://www.fy5ke.org/. Click on "Photo Gallery". Thanks everybody for the QSOs and see you in the CQWW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW4BLE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 577,722 This weekend was supposed to be Single Band 40 meters!, but things didn't quite go to plan..... Late Friday evening (local time, just an hour or two before the contest) my wife had a RTA (road traffic accident), fortunaetly she wasn't too badly hurt but did suffer whiplash and pain to her lower back area and was attended to at the local hospital. A couple of hours after we arrived back home she insisted I get on the air and make at least some Qs, and at various times over the weekend I did get in the shack and make a few runs here and there - - this was more so on Sunday, than Saturday, with a couple of hours running 20 meters late afternoon/early evening. Anyway, today Mandy is feeling a little better although with whiplash will take some time before she is 100%. Could have been a lot worse, and anyway there's always another contest next year! Steve GW4BLE - Part Time Single-Op All Band! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9CT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 21,708 In a weekend packed with other obligations I just managed to put in those 3 hours of operating. Obviously I was a little early for 20m but conditions improved over the period. As usual it's a lot of fun to work those NA stations in SSB. 73, Stephan, HB9DDO / WS9O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,038,164 Congrats for TM6M team for their nice score! This time the station worked well without any significant technical problem. Thanks all who called us! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,417,785 THANKS TO ALL TO CONTACT TO LOMA DEL TORO PLACE….I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY SOON WE FIND THE 10 METERS OPEN ..... I HOPE THAT THE YEAR THAT COMES NOT BROKEN LINEAR 922… NOT WORK IN 15 METERS ...NOT IN 80 METERS ...ONLY 100 W IN 2 BANDS....ANOTHER BANDS WORKS BETTER....THANKS TO THE FRIENDS DE FLORIDA CONTEST GROUP WHO HELLO TO ME WITH AS MUCH HAPPY I HOPE TO FIND THEM IN THE BAND AGAIN... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,008,282 Thanks God FB conditions, need to work on rx antenna for my noisy enviroment My goals 4,500 qso ( INCLUDING DUPES QSO TOTAL 4,898) and 300 Multipliers but as everyones knows at the botton of the solar cycle there is something to pay and 10 metres band still the weak link. 11 hours at more than 160 qso per hour, 4 hours over 200 qso, and the top hour at 250 rate; best time ever 7 qso in a minute, and at 22:30 utc 4.2 qso per minute during 1 hour " BAD PART lot of deliberated QRM " Thanks to all makes this dream happens specially the huges pile ups on 20 and 15 bands even I been dancing around kilowatts, I learned a new lesson in the ARRL TEST not always the taller antenna is the best... Also is better to have 1 antenna than a bunch of dummy load around Amigos cu at WPX 2007 with the new FT2000 73's Ted HI3T (HI3TEJ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI8/NM6E Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 3,750 Rig: K2 SN#4409 Power: 5 Watts battery powered. Antenna: MP-1 modified antenna Location: Hilton Santo Domingo pool area Well, this was my first time ever for a "contest" outside of the home station. Fortunately, I didn't have to pay for this contest/dxpedition as I am here on a work assignment so my operating was totally casual the last few hours of the contest. I only heard N6BV on 15m but no chance at getting him as my 5 watts would be tough. I was fortunate enough to work a few east coast stations who spotted me and I had a decent run rate of east coast stations for my 5 watts and wet noodle portable vertical antenna. The caribbean stations and South Americans were pounding my rig and it made me wish I had my home rig (IC 7800) to notch them out and antennas. Overall, I had a fun 2 hours or so. I had to work Friday night and then on Saturday went diving (bad experience) and killed my entire day. Sunday had to work some more and then in the late afternoon, finally had time to get on the air. I will be here another 2 weeks, then again in late April and May for more network expansions the customer is planning so maybe I hook up with the locals at the big contest station HI3C/HI3T.... I have made contact with the big dxers (thanks to those NCCC members for the information). I am thinking of upgrading to 100 watts for the next few trips but any tips on the proven dxpeditions and operating at Hotels would be helpful from those of you with some experience. Javier HI8/NM6E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 59,250 Limited time effort and very tough with low power! Among other family commitments I had to make a tower repair on saturday afternoon. I found poor conditions on lower bands, while on the higher ones it was terrible to find room. The 15 were very poor respect to the CW leg. I missed the PEI mult on that band when it was the righ time, then asked to VY2ZM and VY2LI to qsy, but it was too late! (Anyway thanks for trying, friends!) Best 73. Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4M Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 140,616 Well, i knew that 15m would have been tough at the bottom of the cycle. Moreover the Qsb has been sometimes impressive making good signals completely disappear in seconds and vice-versa. That's the bad. The good is that everyone was on 20m and the band was relatively quiet so that even the (actually many) tiny signals were audible with almost no qrm. All in all, had great fun! I'd like to thank the friends of IR4M (Romagna Contest Team) for their hospitality and the use of their great contest station. Thank you guys! 73' Paolo IK3QAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3TMV Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 94,950 HELLO GUYS TO CALL ME CONDITION FT1000MP 4 ELM. KLM @ 43 MT AND LOOP WIRE @ 15 MT UP OF THE GROUND NOT GOOD CONDITION IN THE BAND 40 MT THIS YEAR CU NEXT YEAR IN NEW BAND 73 DE FLAVIO IV3TMV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 461,379 RWU managed to QRV as a M/S thanks to JFG & PNE who flew all the way from an urban QTH(Tokyo) to a rural country side in the further north or in the closer QTH to the USA. 40m was not so good and lowest multi total for the last several years or more, but we had a good run on 20m early Sunday morning. In comparison with the 2006 results a total QSO is almost the same, but the total multi is down from 134 in 2006 to 113 in 2007. So this is the low sunspot cycle, but I hoped a better low band condx and more activity. Guess we JA/USA are in a similar situation for Ham Radio activity!? In my situation I think(desire) my son will be an operator someday in near future in addition to JA1-guys! Until then papa do preach!? Thanks to all that worked and spotted us during the contest! 73's Akira, JA8RWU [2006claimed] [2007claimed] Band QSOs Mults QSOs Mults --------------------------------------- 80: 62 14 95 16 40: 186 28 219 21 20: 871 60 895 55 15: 266 32 152 21 10: 0 0 0 0 --------------------------------------- Total: 1385 134 1361 113 Score: 556,770 461,379 cf. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2006-03/msg01097.html [BREAKDOWN QSO/mults] HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT DAY1 ..... 82/15 117/17 625/53 79/14 ..... ..... 905/99 DAY2 . 13/1 102/4 270/2 73/7 . . 458/14 TOT . 95/16 219/21 895/55 152/21 . . 1363/113 [BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr] HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT DAY1 ..... 3.0/28 3.1/37 8.4/75 1.5/52 ..... ..... 16.0/57 DAY2 . 0.5/29 4.3/24 4.7/57 0.9/83 . . 10.4/44 TOT . 3.4/28 7.5/29 13.1/69 2.4/64 . . 26.3/52 The best 60 minute rate was 188/hour from 2043 to 2142 The best 30 minute rate was 224/hour from 2045 to 2114 The best 10 minute rate was 240/hour from 2103 to 2112 [The best 1 minute rates were] 5 QSO's/minute 8 times. 4 QSO's/minute 29 times. 3 QSO's/minute 104 times. 2 QSO's/minute 201 times. 1 QSO's/minute 494 times. [Number of letters in callsigns] Letters # worked ----------------- 4 627 5 523 6 197 7 8 8 5 9 2 [Callareas Worked] Area QSOs Pct ------------------ 0 86 6.3 1 65 4.8 2 78 5.7 3 91 6.7 4 43 3.2 5 99 7.3 6 404 29.7 7 417 30.6 8 33 2.4 9 46 3.4 [Multi-band QSO's] ---------------- 1 bands 933 2 bands 119 3 bands 41 4 bands 17 5 bands 0 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 0 32 107 201 47 0 388 27.4 WA 0 7 13 81 13 0 114 8.1 AZ 0 15 19 56 21 0 111 7.8 OR 0 13 23 57 10 0 103 7.3 CO 0 3 5 26 11 0 45 3.2 TX 0 5 12 19 8 0 44 3.1 NV 0 3 8 23 5 0 39 2.8 BC 0 4 1 26 5 0 36 2.5 UT 0 2 6 22 3 0 33 2.3 PA 0 0 3 30 0 0 33 2.3 ID 0 1 3 28 0 0 32 2.3 NY 0 0 0 32 0 0 32 2.3 AB 0 2 2 19 7 0 30 2.1 NM 0 4 6 11 5 0 26 1.8 MD 0 0 1 23 0 0 24 1.7 NJ 0 0 0 20 0 0 20 1.4 MA 0 0 0 18 0 0 18 1.3 NH 0 0 1 15 0 0 16 1.1 MT 0 0 0 14 1 0 15 1.1 OH 0 0 0 15 0 0 15 1.1 MN 0 1 0 11 0 0 12 0.8 ON 0 0 0 12 0 0 12 0.8 VA 0 0 0 12 0 0 12 0.8 IL 0 0 1 10 0 0 11 0.8 CT 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0.7 WY 0 0 0 6 2 0 9 0.6 MI 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 0.6 GA 0 0 2 6 0 0 8 0.6 WI 0 0 0 7 1 0 8 0.6 OK 0 0 1 2 4 0 7 0.5 FL 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.4 LA 0 0 2 2 2 0 6 0.4 SK 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.4 DE 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.4 IN 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.4 AL 0 1 2 2 0 0 5 0.4 MO 0 1 0 4 0 0 5 0.4 NC 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0.4 KS 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0.3 TN 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0.3 RI 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.3 VT 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.3 PQ 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 0.3 ME 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2 WV 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2 NS 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2 MS 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.2 SC 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 IA 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1 SD 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 MB 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 NB 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 NE 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 AR 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 ND 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 95 219 895 152 0 1364 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 37,440 Every year I have committments I can't get away from, so very limited time on contest. Still enjoy it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 84,000 Great Contest, good conditions from this location through all the times I operated. At the start of the week I had planned a good 32 hour operation in this contest. Then the blizzard hit us on Wednesday night and didn't let up until Saturday morning. This disrupted my planned operation for both Saturday and Sunday morning with snow moving and travel considerations to work around. I was able to spend half of the time I had planned on the air anyway. I tried to catch ON4UN on 75/80 Saturday night but he was not hearing me. I then looked at when sunrise was in Belgium and decided I would try with the improved propagation at sunrise. It worked! I thank all of those fine operators that pulled my low power signal out of the air on 40, 75/80 and 160 Meters. It is a lot harder to do it on phone than it is to do it on CW. Writelog, ICOM 756PROII, Th11DX and dipoles on 40, 75/80 and 160 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0JJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 180,642 Had a great time. Heard only two signals on 10 a LU and PY but couldn't make contact with them. Other bands very active. Most of signal coming form either Europe or South America and very difficult to get past the East coast RF wall. Out side of JA's and KH6's not much heard from the Pacific and Asia ?? Stations set up her is a Kenwood TS-870 AL-80B amp 600 watts to a Force12 C-3 at 55 feet and dipole on 80/40. Used Writelog 10.62H for loging. CUL in the next one Jerry K0JJ Scappoose, Oregon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 33,930 multi-operator for two hours only, packet assisted entire time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 304,722 100% S & P Called CQ once and was answered by a K1. I tried to avoid the packet pile-ups. Had some fun and now have something to load into LoTW. C U all in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 52,788 The bottom of the cycle made this a tough slog. The good news? It can't get any worse! Can it? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 462,774 NEED MORE Q's ON 40 & 80 METERS...GOOD CONTEST OVERALL FROM THE REAL DARK HOLE(KANSAS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 382,410 Four hours before the start of the Contest the local power company cut the wires to the three bad lightning arrestors that had been generating S9+20 dB noise on all bands since Dec 12 last year. The result was like moving to a new QTH out in the country with underground power. When I began to log the JA's sending 010 and 005 I could hardly believe it. JA is on a direct line from my station to the noise source. Working more countries on 160 than on 10 tells the tale of what it is like to be at the 'bottom of the cycle' [I hope this is the bottom]. I "repaired" a bunch of spots during the contest but have begun to wonder if that was such a good idea. If someone had screwed up the call and others were calling blind I was denying them the opportunity to find how "Trauma Teaches" when the bad calls were dumped by the log checkers. QSLing suffers too. Tod, K0TO guess ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,180,925 I can’t wait for 10 to come back. Sunspots, where are you? A couple of new operators were added to Team K0TV for this year. Eldon, W1END who is a standout CW op decided to try his hand at phone. He said that with the first five contacts, he’s doubled the number of contacts he’s made since he got licensed back in the 1950s. On the second day, Eldon decided to try 40 meters. Talk about trial by fire! The second new op this year is KB1NEF who has only been licensed for about a year. Rich came by the first night and really helped out at the start with moral support and then took a shift on 75 meters. Saturday morning, he came to operate straight from having some medical tests done. Sunday he came and was moral support all day right up to the end of the contest. He even helped clean up both during and after the contest. The third new op this year is K1TWF, another CW standout wading into the SSB end of the pool. After a couple of frustrating hours, Mike decided that there must be a problem. He was right. We were trying to run 20 on the 160/80 off center fed dipole which has a good SWR on 20 but is certainly not as good into Europe as the stack. Late Saturday and of course Sunday the stack did a great job in it’s final use prior to being replaced next year. We almost managed to recover for all those hours on the wrong antenna. Thanks to everyone who called in and made this another fun SSB contest. This year’s MVP goes to Ken, WO1N for doing both overnights and doing shack cleaning in his spare time (?). Ken also had some good afternoon runs on 20. 73, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 24,381 Decided to do a single banders since my weekend was full of family, church and business. Had a run of JA on Saturday afternoon that was good. My thanks to all the wonderful operators for JA that worked my small station. Some High lights..VP8, OH, and SK on saturday and sunday. Tried to work all I could hear. Thanks to all God Bless, PTL K0UK Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 103,635 Never heard 20 SSB so crowded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 481,815 Missed Sat nite & Sun morning. 80 Inv Vee 40 AV-640 20-10 X7@ 60' & A3 South @ 30' IC-775 N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,578 put in a little time at home after time at K1RX and between other obligations. SSB is tough with low power and one stealth wire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 800,565 Life left little time for station prep and serious contesting this winter, so it was an "Open House" style operation for this one. We were happy to welcome new contester Erik, KB1MIC, and prospective ham Mark R! Also, thanks again to K1HT and AK1Q for putting in some solid hours on the radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1JC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 172,200 All S&P mostly on Saturday. Was getting big signal comments on 20 in the afternoon. I guess I should have tried running. Next time. Joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 155,556 First contest with the new TS-850 and running SO2R using WriteLog and W5XD switch box. The new rig arrived on the Monday before the contest weekend which gave me enough time to get things set up in the shack and configure the logging program for two radios. Since the logging computer only had one COM port, it was necessary to install a PCI expansion RS232 card to interface to the second rig. Installation went smoothly and worked much better than a USB-to-serial adapter that was previously used. Conditions were tough Friday night as always, but by Saturday afternoon I was working everybody that came up in the bandmap. It was really fun being able to S&P on two bands at once. Time was limited with my wife working all day Saturday. Likely, my daughter (16 months) took a long nap in the morning which allowed me to get a great run going to EU in the late morning. Due to family obligations I did not operate at all on Sunday except to work Kurt for five bands. Total operating time was 9.5 hrs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 874,665 KM1P did all of the operating the first day - 14 hours and 800 QSOs. K1KI put in a token effort on Sunday. Glad to put a couple of QSOs in the log on 10m. Looks like it will take some time before things settle out on 75m. Finally tracked down and fixed intermittent connection in MFJ voice keyer. Found one new source of powerline noise (towards VK/ZL) to track down and the 20m rotator indicator stopped indicating... The spring/summer antenna project list is growing. -- Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,864,695 Frozen rotor on 10/15 and intermittent vox relay kept things exciting. I hope more people start to use the W1VE/livescores application, as it provides interesting info and motivation during those long, sleepless hours. It would be especially valuable if the fields could support things like antennas, radios, amps, etc. to allow mental comparisons (and rationalizations) during the competition. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,977,505 New ops joining our MM operation included: Lee, KY7M and Regis, N7FE (now in Maine)for a fun and sometimes slow contest (computer clock says 40 hours but I know we worked someone at least every hour). Worst than the CW weekend for sure but still lots of good fun and time well spent in the off-times too. Aside from his many trips to Africa with the Voo Doo group, I think KY7M enjoyed working EU station's probably 40 dB louder than from Arizona! (You should be here when we have sunspots! Thanks to our many friends around the world for making this weekend so enjoyable. Again rather challenging working the QRP folks under such tough conditions! 73, Mark, K1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,373,000 Lots of fun for the most part! Was very unhappy that one prominent SO showed up 40 minutes after I did just below me on Sat AM, then promptly asked *me* to move. This same op decided in CQ 160 CW that it's fine just to jump on top of me and call a DX station that is calling me. Whatever. Had originally planned on 18-24 hours or so, but enjoyed it enough to stick around a bit more. 15 seemed to favor the south a bit, similar to the CW weekend. Really neat to work a lot of the CW gang and had some great laughs! Also very much enjoyed working a number of stations on multiple bands. There seems to be a bottomless well of western EU stations to work. DO, DG, DC, DD, PD, PE, F1, M3, 2E, G7, IW, etc. are all common prefixes now and are quite competent operators - FB! Disturbing to have lots of newly upgraded US hams call on my listening freq outside the US band. Blew it on 75 by staying low in the band. I think that most of the world is unaware of the new USA phone allocations and old habits worked best. Finally CQed above 3800 late the second night with some success. Secrets of success: ;<) - Leave all fixed beams pointed at the US, incl 40M - Don't fix the one broken leg of the 75M array - Work late, don't begin to set up until after the contest starts and make your first QSO over one hour late - Get up late both mornings after 20 is wide open - Don't bother setting up SO2R - Mark the amplifier as you change bands during the contest One question that baffled me all weekend: Why would "Florida" not be understood, but then they would come back with "OK roger Florida Lima"? Seems like there is more demand for the FL multiplier, now that K4XS is KH7XS, K4VUD is HS0ZCW, N4PN is back in GA, and WC4E is off the air for a while. No real high sustained rates. That's typical on SSB for me - probably a combo of antennas that are cut towards CW and a general operator incompetence on my part. Kept getting pushed around. At one point, VE7BQ almost immediately generated a huge pile-up on 20 underneath me, but I know their openings are limited, so I just moved. Often on 15 and even on 20 at times, sigs were very weak from other stateside stations, and frequency management was a challenge. Will probably op WPX SSB as NE4AA part-time. 73, Dan, K1TO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DBK Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 51,975 As usual, I'm just in this for fun, with my little pistol station. This time, just about my entire household wasn't feeling well (various colds, a touch of the flu here and here, and my back decided that it would be fun to see how much pain it could inflict on me), so even though my log says I was operating for 9 hours, the real time was probably about half of that. Still, as always, I had a good time. It was kind of tough working a lot of the big guns while the bands were open (no suprise there), but I'm always grateful for those guys who take an extra moment or two to pull me out of the pack. Stuff like that really keeps it a lot of fun, and keeps me coming back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,354,644 At the invitation of Carol, N2MM, I operated from her station for this one. And it turns out to have been a good idea. Along with the gracious hospitality, being able to use HP, high antennas, and packet came in very handy, given the relatively poor condx. The contest almost didn't start for me when, after I got most of the station ready to go, the power went out. A call to the utility company got a response of "we don't know what caused it, and it probably won't be back up until 0100Z" (of course, the recorded message didn't say "0100Z", but you get the idea). Luckily, though, the lights came back on at 2345Z, just enough time to finish setup and start on time. Murphy was banished then and there. 20 was the money band this time around, although I tried really hard to spend as much time as I could on 15. The QRM on 20 made it very tough to find a frequency and tougher to hear. Ten meters finally opened in a fashion on Sunday, after 0 QSOs Saturday. Various areas of the Caribbean and South America would open and close and you had to be there at the right time. Packet wasn't much help there - I had a list of stations that I couldn't hear - but I kept going back often to the list until a mult became audible. FY5KE was the first to pop through, and the QSO made it 6 bands for them and 8P1A. Had fun and will look forward to next year and more sunspots! Pete, K2PS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QPN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 47,250 This contest was right up there with a root canal. I had to use a backup rig, so no DVK. I was fighting intermittant S9+ power line noise. On Sunday my big amp died on 15 and 10 meters. Changing bands means swapping amps. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 633,555 Rig : FT-1000MP + AL-1200 Antennas : Enough of them Soapbox : I did my usual split operation with the K0TV crew & at home, putting in about 18 hours. Operating at the bottom of the cycle is the pits, especially when the low bands are not as good. I think the MUF spiked on 20 meters the way it was packed. I didn't have trouble getting through but the QRM made it tough for me to hear. I wonder what the comments were on the European cluster? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,115,444 Had forgotten what it was to do a phone contest when low bands stink. The station performed flawlessly, only messed up the voice keyer setup before the contest and ended up "unplugged" most of the time. The lubricating liquid I'm taking right now seems to help though. The new band allocation on 80 seem makes it much easier there but it also creates a lot of confusion too. At least I couldn't get any run going below 3750. Heard a lot of people CQing down there but just CQing. Tried the opposite thing on 20 but didn't get many responces below 14150 either. And it was tough up there. Apologies to all of you who wondered what exactly have I stucked in my ears. Hopefully it's not going to be the same in two weeks. Thanks to WA3FET for letting me operate his station again. 73, Alex LZ4AX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,874,118 Fantastic work and a great showing by the W3LPL contest team. These guys are tough to beat and we are proud to compete with them in Multi Multi during every major DX contest! We were sorry to see the KC1XX team drop down to Multi 2 for this one, but we know that they will be back to Multi Multi this fall. Thanks to ALL of the K3LR operators who supported this team during all four weekends this season. You are the reason I keep building this station and you are the reason this station is successful. Thanks for all of your support, your sacrifices and your dedication during these Contesting events. You guys are the BEST! Also thanks to my good friend Dave, W9ZRX who is with us every step of the way, working countless hours on LR projects and keeping the computer network working perfect. There hasn’t been a problem yet that Dave can’t solve! I don't know what I would do without you! This was our 4th contest with WinTest Windows based logging software. We ran it on all 13 networked computers and it continues to be rock solid. All of the operators here this season have been very impressed with the way it works. Thanks go to 80 meter operator, Sal, WM2H and John, N2NC for doing all of the cooking this time. The menu was out of this world outstanding! John, N2NC also took good care of 160 meters with a fine score. W2RQ and newcomer, John, N8AA had a great time on 40. Lots of DX kept these guys in the chairs for hours. Watching the team of Andy, N2NT and Pat, N9RV work 20 meters was amazing. These two super stars know how to make it all happen in the heat of the battle on the hardest band of them all. They came very close to our K3LR station record of 2750 QSOs with 2720 this year. Way to go! Doug, K1DG and Phil, K3UA took on the sunspot challenge and proceeded to make over 900 DX QSOs on 15 meters! Good Job! It was a long weekend for George, N3GJ and Greg, N3SD on 10 meters, but these Contestmen know that there will be more sunspots soon! K3LR station description is at http://www.k3lr.com - click on HARDWARE K3LR QSLs are available on ARRL LoTW, eQSL, Via the QSL Bureau and via standard mail direct. We QSL 100%. We’ll see everyone in the fall for the CQWW DX contests! Hope to see you in Dayton this May! For the K3LR team, Very 73! Tim K3LR K3lr@k3lr.com http://www.k3lr.com K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST 2007 BAND QSOS COUNTRIES OPERATORs 160 93 55 N2NC 80 607 86 WM2H + K3LR 40 659 97 W2RQ + N8AA 20 2720 146 N9RV + N2NT 15 939 112 K1DG + K3UA 10 49 22 N3GJ + N3SD -------------------------------------- Totals 5067 518 = 7,874,118 Continent Statistics K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 24 41 49 79 65 16 274 5.2 South America 14 23 36 95 112 34 314 6.0 Europe 51 531 500 2310 728 0 4120 78.8 Asia 0 12 22 222 9 0 265 5.1 Africa 4 9 15 53 36 0 117 2.2 Oceania 2 22 70 22 24 1 141 2.7 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 8/6 90/35 102/36 77/39 4/3 ..... 281/119 281/119 1 5/4 34/7 39/11 12/1 . . 90/23 371/142 2 6/6 35/8 34/14 11/1 . . 86/29 457/171 3 9/5 35/9 26/4 5/1 . . 75/19 532/190 4 9/7 30/2 24/4 . . . 63/13 595/203 5 2/2 41/1 10/2 . . . 53/5 648/208 6 4/1 34/4 40/1 . . . 78/6 726/214 7 2/2 11/1 19/1 . . . 32/4 758/218 8 1/0 9/1 13/2 ..... ..... ..... 23/3 781/221 9 . 5/2 10/0 . . . 15/2 796/223 10 . 8/0 7/0 19/15 . . 34/15 830/238 11 1/1 4/0 2/0 185/23 3/2 . 195/26 1025/264 12 . 2/0 2/0 176/10 26/19 . 206/29 1231/293 13 . . . 151/6 61/22 1/1 213/29 1444/322 14 . . . 147/2 65/14 . 212/16 1656/338 15 . . . 158/7 110/9 . 268/16 1924/354 16 ..... ..... ..... 138/3 64/8 3/1 205/12 2129/366 17 . . . 144/3 33/4 1/1 178/8 2307/374 18 . . . 100/4 16/4 . 116/8 2423/382 19 . . . 88/3 12/1 3/1 103/5 2526/387 20 . . 1/0 94/5 10/2 5/1 110/8 2636/395 21 . . 12/5 56/2 8/1 2/1 78/9 2714/404 22 . 13/0 40/3 52/3 12/1 . 117/7 2831/411 23 6/5 50/2 66/2 40/3 4/0 . 166/12 2997/423 0 6/3 23/4 24/1 28/1 ..... ..... 81/9 3078/432 1 1/0 22/0 10/0 1/0 . . 34/0 3112/432 2 1/1 21/1 17/0 4/0 . . 43/2 3155/434 3 7/5 20/2 23/1 . . . 50/8 3205/442 4 12/5 17/2 14/2 . . . 43/9 3248/451 5 8/2 26/1 3/0 . . . 37/3 3285/454 6 1/0 20/0 8/0 . . . 29/0 3314/454 7 1/0 14/1 6/0 . . . 21/1 3335/455 8 ..... 4/1 8/1 ..... ..... ..... 12/2 3347/457 9 1/0 3/0 15/0 . . . 19/0 3366/457 10 . 1/0 13/1 2/0 . . 16/1 3382/458 11 . 1/0 1/0 72/2 . . 74/2 3456/460 12 . . 5/0 149/0 13/1 . 167/1 3623/461 13 . . 2/2 116/3 96/6 . 214/11 3837/472 14 . . . 112/2 170/3 . 282/5 4119/477 15 . . . 82/0 76/2 2/1 160/3 4279/480 16 ..... ..... ..... 71/1 62/3 ..... 133/4 4412/484 17 . . . 86/1 47/3 8/3 141/7 4553/491 18 . . . 84/2 17/3 9/6 110/11 4663/502 19 . . . 83/0 7/0 1/1 91/1 4754/503 20 . . . 82/0 12/1 11/4 105/5 4859/508 21 . 1/0 1/0 36/1 9/0 2/0 49/1 4908/509 22 . 9/0 34/1 28/1 2/0 1/1 74/3 4982/512 23 2/0 24/2 28/3 31/1 . . 85/6 5067/518 DAY1 53/39 401/72 447/85 1653/131 428/90 15/6 ..... 2997/423 DAY2 40/16 206/14 212/12 1067/15 511/22 34/16 . 2070/95 TOT 93/55 607/86 659/97 2720/146 939/112 49/22 . 5067/518 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 4L 1 4X 1 4 3 5B 2 2 5H 1 5N 1 5R 1 1 5X 1 1 5Z 1 1 2 6Y 1 1 1 2 3 1 7X 2 1 8P 1 3 3 3 5 2 9A 2 5 9 23 13 9G 2 1 9H 2 2 9J 1 1 9K 1 2 1 9M6 1 9V 1 9Y 1 2 BV 1 BY 1 C5 1 1 1 1 C6 1 1 2 3 1 CE 1 1 6 8 2 CE9 1 CM 5 4 2 1 CN 1 1 1 7 1 CP 2 1 CT 3 2 9 7 CT3 2 3 1 3 1 CU 3 2 3 3 1 CX 4 4 2 D4 1 1 1 DL 6 87 64 358 158 DU 1 EA 3 23 47 98 50 EA6 2 2 3 EA8 2 4 12 8 EA9 2 EI 1 9 8 20 5 EK 1 EL 1 1 1 ER 4 ES 1 1 6 EU 3 1 3 5 EX 1 EY 1 F 1 26 41 190 55 FG 1 1 1 1 FJ 1 FM 1 2 4 3 6 1 FP 1 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 G 3 75 59 370 20 GD 2 GI 1 4 6 22 2 GJ 2 GM 1 8 7 43 5 GU 1 2 4 1 GW 3 10 5 35 4 HA 3 8 7 31 18 HB 2 13 17 36 8 HB0 1 HC 1 1 1 1 1 HI 2 2 2 2 3 HK 2 1 3 3 3 1 HL 6 HP 1 2 2 3 2 HR 2 2 7 3 3 HS 3 HV 1 I 2 43 64 285 141 IS 2 1 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 J7 1 1 2 J8 1 JA 10 18 144 3 JT 2 KH0 1 KH6 2 8 13 12 12 1 KL 1 2 1 14 1 KP2 2 2 2 1 3 1 KP4 3 5 4 7 7 1 LA 1 5 1 14 3 LU 1 5 9 25 39 16 LX 1 2 3 1 LY 1 7 1 LZ 10 5 11 5 OA 2 1 1 OE 2 8 6 36 17 OH 1 6 30 11 OH0 1 OK 2 18 14 43 23 OM 7 3 9 5 ON 16 15 79 14 OX 1 2 1 OZ 1 8 5 13 8 P4 2 2 2 4 3 1 PA 2 17 21 189 25 PJ2 2 2 2 4 3 3 PJ7 1 1 2 1 5 PY 4 4 8 29 36 5 S5 1 18 11 38 24 SM 1 8 2 34 11 SP 3 25 27 52 23 SV 3 7 5 10 4 SV5 2 1 T7 1 1 1 T9 1 1 2 2 TA 1 1 2 TF 2 3 2 TG 1 1 2 TI 2 2 3 3 3 3 TK 1 1 TR 1 TU 1 1 TY 1 UA 21 4 96 7 UA2 1 1 1 1 1 UA9 2 39 UN 5 UR 13 7 31 10 V2 1 1 1 2 1 V4 1 1 1 1 3 V5 1 1 1 4 1 V7 1 1 VK 7 47 3 5 VP2E 1 1 2 2 2 1 VP2V 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 1 1 1 VP8/h 1 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 3 VQ9 1 VR 2 VU 2 XE 2 4 4 9 5 YB 2 YI 2 YL 2 3 4 YN 1 1 1 1 YO 5 6 20 9 YS 1 1 1 1 1 YU 1 10 14 22 12 YV 2 3 5 10 9 1 Z3 1 6 2 ZA 2 2 ZB 1 1 ZD8 2 1 ZF 1 1 ZL 6 9 2 7 ZP 2 ZS 1 4 7 9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 652,620 Thanks to Trevor W7TDC taking all of 20m. I did my best to stay away from that band all weekend. Part time one transmitter operation with Trevor doing all of Saturday. I tried cqing below 3700 several times and had only one success when i was spotted there. I would like to see the new ssb dx window on 75 change from 3790-3800 to 3600-3700. Lots of open space there for dxing. Lets use it for dxing before the "nets" find their way down there. 73,Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,844,832 Started the contest with almost no voice, after a week long cold. S&P all by computer. I regained a little voice for running Saturday and some on Sunday, but mostly very crude A, B, C audio files, which I have used for short voice interruptions in emergency situations. Next project ..more elaborate audio files for sending calls...All in all a tad better than last year, when I had my voice. Maybe the robot voice was more intimidating. no / in my WAV files so some calls required squeeking out one letter here an there. I tried to ask a few guys for Power..and ended up having to push the AGAIN button. Slept more, just in case the cold was moving into my lungs. Couldn't have had better conditions to be voiceless in a phone contest. 73 Chas K3WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ADR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 206,340 ARRL Number #4003347arrl-dx-ssb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 157,520 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW output, TH6DXX, zepp. Limited time. Poor conditions on 15 and 10. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 255,204 All S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 424,320 I spent much of Thursday and Friday installing a new 550' Beverage at 45 degrees. It was lots of fun to install; I must have fallen down about a dozen times in the heavily sloped woods trying to string the wire through the trees. It seems to hear better than my 310' at 35 degrees, especially on 160 meters where the difference is most pronounced. I hope it proves useful in future contests. I wound up spending much less time operating than I'd hoped. I've been working very late at night/early morning, when there are no distractions. I'm afraid all of these late nights are starting to catch up with me, or maybe I was just beat up from falling down in the woods for two days. The contest was uneventful. I haven't operated this contest in many years, and have never even tried it single op before. N0AX had twisted my arm into doing the Delta Division writeups for this contest the last several years. I always felt silly writing about a contest that I didn't even operate. I figured I should at least get on and participate this year, to have some perspective on the contest. Not much to write about, really. I had an RFI complaint for the first time in 15 years -- another reason I prefer CW. He's a great neighbor, and let me string the Beverage into his back yard. I shut down for a few hours each day so he could print some mixes in his recording studio. I noticed a few changes from several years ago. Most obvious of course was the sunspot cycle. I was glad to put a few in the log on 10m just to avoid the goose eggs. I'm located in the eastern part of CQ zone 4. The word about ID'ing may be spreading. While there are still several uninformed ops who don't understand how to sign their call effectively, some of the worst offenders from the past seem to have improved a bit. The biggest problem still seems to be South America. Likewise with audio. I wish some of these ops could hear the difference between (for example) 8P1A and some of the other "all knobs at MAX" south-of-the-border stations. Tom would be S9+20 with super crisp and clean audio. Easily identified in 5 seconds. Two Khz away would be another station S9+20, but with audio so distorted that it took 2 minutes just to determine the call sign. Often I would just shake my head and move on. Folks, you are NOT helping your score with "all knobs at MAX." Get with a competent friend and learn to make your audio sounds good. Finally, a note about 3830 after the contest. Was it really necessary to give us all a bad name by just jumping on top of those poor guys? There were wide open spaces 5kHz above and below their QSO, where scores could have been exchanged without conflict. You all sounded like the lids afterwards, not the poor "pig farmers." You are not helping contesting by behaving like self-important lids after the contest is over. No wonder we have a bad reputation with some hams. We deserve that bad reputation when our hall-of-famed leaders feel that they can treat folks with little or no respect, even after the contest is over. Being contesters does not make us superior, no matter what we may believe. Come on guys, you can do better than that. A tiny amount of courtesy would have gone a long way right then. The contest was over. Looking forward to the next CW contest. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4SQR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 22,833 Limited time so used selective SP style of operating with the ORION II and new AL-1200 amp to a 4-Square. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 480,963 What an interesting experience this contest was at my QTH. On Wednesday (prior to the contest) I detected that I might be coming down with a "bug." On Thursday (prior to the contest) one of my Alpha 87a amps failed. On Friday evening during the contest one of my Ten-Tec Orions failed. On Saturday this area experienced 45+ MPH winds out of a clear blue sky forcing me to park the tower and wait them out. I secured due to WX around 2000Z on Saturday and took a nap until 2355Z. I woke up to find at that time, due to the "bug," that my voice had completely failed, and I couldn't even talk. I decided to pull the plug and sleep. About 2000Z on Sunday, I felt well enough to get back into the frey a little bit. I'm glad I did because there was a very good Sunday afternoon opening to JA on 15M that I enjoyed very much. In fact, two or three of the JA 15M signals registered S9+30dB here. It has been quite some time since I have heard signals that loud from that part of the world here in Alabama. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5FP Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 39,990 CW contest are better. My ears hurt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5MQ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 25,200 Was not planning to enter the contest this year. Got on 40m Friday night to make a few contacts. Well, 40 was in fair shape so I went 40m single band for the contest. Had fun as always, thanks to all who worked me. 73, Dave htt://www.k5mq.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA/M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,654 For the first time in years there was no multi-op at the K5NA station. Instead we attended a family wedding and did most of our operating between Beaumont and Austin, TX. Working mobile is always fun, no matter what the score results. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 271,953 Was in Japan the week before the contest and was off to Europe before the contest was over. So only a few hours of operation on Saturday between other activities around the house. Conditions did not sound the best. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 158,625 Just foolin' around from the home station, but if I post this quickly I can lead this category for 5 or 10 minutes... John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 16,074 Stink-o band conditions. The worst I've ever seen. The noise from the Santa Ana winds added more noise to make matters worse. I was dead in the water on Saturday morning on 20 meters. All I could hear was K7RL and W7WA in the Northwest. 80 and 40 were just OK. All 6 of my 15 meter contacts were very weak with ESP on both ends. Can we arbitrarily declare this weekend to be the bottom of the sunspot cycle. PLLEAZE? Station: FT-990 80 meter sloping dipole at 50 feet at top Alpha Delta DX-CC Multiband inverted vee with apex at 20 feet 40 meter inverted vee up 50 feet for first night Software: N3FJP Best DX: CU2 on 80m Welcome to all the upgraders out there (interim AG or AE). I bet that was a pain for the DX stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 841,434 The operation was dedicated to the memory of Phil, N6ZZ, my friend for 44 years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6OQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 41,895 ALL S & P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,400 Had fun. Hot Europe opening on 20m Sunday! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,800 Obviously, not an all out effort here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 160,218 Fun as usual, boy, big lack of Eu on 10/15 meters...10 was dead all weekend and only SA/NA on 15 mts..20 was the main band, and 40/80 did ok also...bottom of cycle so about what I expect..Sunday was very slow for sure.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7DAE Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 24 My first phone contest under the new rules. Much time spent listening and calling CQ but only a few stations heard. It was still fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 178,080 I prefer CW and RTTY contests. Hope this helps WWDXC. Fun working the JT1, VP8F, and HV0. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7JCA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 24 One KH6 and three LUs. Heard a PP5 but no go. KH7X peaked at 30 over 9 Sat around 2230Z, and then rode the roller coaster back down into the noise. Got lots of sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7KR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 234,576 Yes sir. More fun than a root canal. Even though this was just a casual S&P effort, it was clear that activity was down and propagation was spotty at best. 40m was a disappointment with no evident long path openings either day. I thought 15m might be interesting as I'd noticed a couple of days before the test that I could only hear ZS6DN among all the beacons. For a long long time, that beacon was quite loud even at the 100mW level! Sure enough, on Saturday morning during the EU opening, the 15m band suddenly got very quiet. No EU AF or US stations could be heard. For a minute I thought we'd experienced a flare or something. Anyway, tuning around I could hear some SA stations. Loud. Every one of them. Even worked a couple of 5W stations that were well in excess of 20dB over S9... Amazing. The condition lasted for maybe 45 minutes or so, then returned to 'normal' with a sudden rush of background noise and splatter from all the US stations... It was nice to hear 10m open for a change. The band sparkled for a bit with a tantalizing taste of things to come. Next year should be better! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 15,138 No effort on this one at 100w and building antennas at same time. See you in the CW events. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LMM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,703 Modest station and my score shows. Did manage to work some new ones however. Got beat to the Utah mult three times by fellow club members NN5ZZ, W7LEB and KF7P). Hi Hi. Had a great time. Should do much better next year with a SteppIR and an amp. Managed to work a string of JAs on 20M including Elvin, an honorary UDXA member. I need to work on deciphering foreign accents. As gardners and football fans say: "There's always next year." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RI Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 294,516 This was an assisted category entry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,490,016 I read an article recently that predicted March 2007 as the bottom of the solar cycle. I sure hope so because conditions proved to be a pain in my bottom. The raw score is down a whopping 30 percent from last year, with 40m suffering the most. 40m was down 36 percent in Qs, and 30 percent in mults. 15m came in a close second, down 37 percent in Qs, and 22 percent in mults. 160m fared the best with an 18 percent jump in Qs, and a 21 percent jump in mults (that really sounds more impressive than it really is!). 80m was next with an 8 percent increase in Qs, but a 5 percent decrease in mults. During the contest I was concerned about my lackluster 40m numbers. After all, I worked a number of LP and QRP stations with very respectable signals. So, where was the volume; where were the mults? After seeing some of the other scores around the country, it appears 40m was just less productive this year. Hopefully next year the bands will improve, otherwise I may give Danny, K7SS, some competition in a SB 10m effort! :-) Thank you to all of the fantastic operators that made it into the log, including my only six band sweep with KH7X and PJ4G! 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZSD Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,233,903 Well, another fun fest at Smoke Ranch, operators sitting by, waiting for your call. I figured the food for about 2500 people, but only about 1500 stopped by, so lots of leftovers. Weather is always a factor when having a party, and it was no different last weekend, the sun was at an all time low. We tried our best to talk to as many of the folks as possible, but many acted like we were not even there. Much of the time we felt as though we were talking to ourselves, it was like calling for the lost dog SeaQue who would not come home. Anyway, we had a great time. Most of the ops were part time this contest, and it was great to meet NC7M and KO5D for the first time. We look forward to having them up again. Thank you to our ops for their generosity, providing amplifiers, radios, voice keyers, and food for the party. We operated with only the one tower as the second tower antennas are past their prime, soon to be replaced. It was multi multi on a stick. Bandpass filters and stubs on the amp outputs worked quite well. Win-Test was used for the first time with no problems, rock solid on the network. Thank you for all the Qs, and we will see you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 183,024 Didn't have a lot of time this weekend, so I thought I'd try to just work as many mults as possible. Had two extra Q's when guys called me after I worked a mult - didn't want to snub them. Glad to have 10M open up, even if for just a short time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 414,111 Did a M/S with neighbor W8CAM, who (until recently) had been inactive for 15 years. Cart did a great job sorting thru the pileups! Sure wish 15 had been better. On the flip side, 75 meters was a treat, with the expanded band and the good prop. RIP N6ZZ. Phil always dropped a "Hello Greg" into his rat-tat-tat QSO's. Greg K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 55,044 Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B, 3 el SteppIR at 78 ft. In nearly 50 yrs of doing this stuff, I dont recall working so hard for so little. Plus I got my annual flogging from KC7V, which happens when I go up against all that heavy metal! Nice job Mike. I guess I buy Wednesday. I must be a sick puppy, as I am starting to enjoy the flogging. ;-) See you all in CQ WPX SSB contest in a few weeks, multi-op incognito again with N7RQ and a new club callsign. 73, Bob K8IA Near the Superstition Mountains Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 145,080 Still waiting for sunspots to bring back 10 meters... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 86,400 Radio - IC756 Pro-2, Ameritron AL572 1KW Antenna - 4 Square (see http://k9es.painloss.com/index.htm), high folded dipole. (K9AY loop was not working) This afternoon was almost a total waste for QSO's but did work VP2V and 5N2 for additional countries. VP2VW showed up (first VP2V in the contest), and was into rag chewing (a 100 watt station IC746 with a G5RV at 45 feet, and the temperature was 82). It was funny listening to the mess. All he wanted to do was QSO, and everyone tried to gather the necessary input for the contest politely. What a feeding frenzy. But I had that advantage. Worked Paul PA0GMV at 5:15 PM (1 hr before sunset), so I had a good signal to Europe. The problem was the new blood on the band couldn't start working Florida til about 10 minutes before the end of the contest. The New England guys really have that advantage being 1000 miles closer. From my perspective, the rest of the stations from Europe, Africa, and Caribbean were already worked. Had several good runs Saturday night and Sunday morning. ZL's were worked starting at 0515Z, and JA's were workable at 0730Z. The 4-Square really plays. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 22,320 Single band 80m or 160m is a nice relaxing way to do a contest(if you can ignore the uncouth and incompetents). Some really great signals were out there. The dominating signals and beautiful accents are music to ones ear! At the risk of alienating some, I offer two outstanding examples; George Mike Three Poppa Poppa Golf and the lyrical Florida Six Charlie Tango Tango. Congratulations gentlemen! On the other side of the coin, there were some low class US ops who, in the quest of answering a cq, tried to set a new record for the number of times they could scream their calls without taking a breath. One particular N3 comes to mind, but no need to mention his full call, he knows who and what he is. Thanks to all the DX stations for their participation and especially to all those whom I was fortunate to contact. 73 Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9RX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 319,968 Conditions were pretty poor overall. Due to weekend work (self-employed) I could only dabble but had a few good runs into JA/AS. Surprised at how many 5 and 10 W JA's I worked on 15 and 20. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,210,249 This is the story, not an excuse. Still having vision and vertigo problems from a concussion limited my operating time greatly. Not that it matters but it meant our overnight crew was very very short in operators. The daytime guys ran as much as they could but we still could have done better with fresher bodies. Weather did not allow us to fix the 3 element KLM 40M beam so we had a slight disadvantage there. We relied heavily on the 4-Square system. Daytime was basically W1TJL, NB1U, and N2TTA. Nighttime Friday was KB1H, AA1CE, and KB1DFB. Saturday night was only AA1CE from 0600Z until 1100Z. KE1LI showed up Sunday for two QSOs and N1GKI was here for an hour Sunday. We felt pretty good about our score and the Realtime Scoreboard is REALLY GREAT! It is a incentive beyond expression. Thank you to W1VE and the software writers for this added feature. Wish more would use it! I am sure that at this point in the sunspot cycle our 20M system is just not working well. Too low! Top antenna is only at 90' plus it is an older Telrex 5 element made before computer optimizing. Do we change or do we wait for the sunspots? The longer we wait the closer we are to sunspots and the older I get making the waiting game more attractive. Thanks to all for the QSOs and the local help for preparations. Some calls never make it in the log as an operator but they come to help. Look for us as NZ1U in the WPX contests. 73 Dick - KB1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB3MJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 126,819 Wanted to play longer, but personal conditions dictated otherwise. I only use wires (40m & 20m dipoles)and a vertical, so I really need to do something about my antenna situation ... SOON! I know I can do much better! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,753,238 First off, we'd like to extend our condolences to the Sig and his family on the passing of their mother. Congratulations to everyone in the M/2 category for a great job this weekend. M/2 is a fun and challenging category, but we are looking forward to doing Multi-Multi again this fall. For the most part, KA1R, W1FV, and K1EA took charge of the low bands as WC1M, N1KWF, K1GQ (who sat on 10 each day and raised his hand 13 times to work someone), and WA1Z manned the day shift. We welcomed Randy, N1KWF, for his first full weekend with us. We were also happy to hear so many new DX calls, especially the 2-United Kingdom and PD calls, throughout the weekend. Special thanks to the Strelow family for the use of the station this weekend. Congratulations to everyone in every category for getting on and wrestling through the chaos on 20, broadcasters on 40, and the silence on 10. Thanks to all the DX stations for taking the time to work us this weekend. We're looking forward to working all of you again in the fall, which (thankfully) should be the start of Cycle 24! Until then, 73, --XX Team BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES 160 60 168 2.8 45 80 564 1692 3.0 83 40 677 2001 3.0 99 20 2025 6057 3.0 121 15 823 2469 3.0 102 10 13 39 3.0 13 -------------------------------------- Totals 4162 12426 3.0 463 = 5,753,238 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 22 36 53 67 48 4 230 5.4 South America 8 17 27 66 78 9 205 4.8 Europe 27 500 557 1764 667 0 3515 82.9 Asia 0 6 12 125 14 0 157 3.7 Africa 1 10 12 26 21 0 70 1.7 Oceania 2 10 35 9 5 0 61 1.4 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Two HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... 65/26 60/24 ..... ..... ..... 125/50 125/50 1 6/6 43/11 42/20 1/1 . . 92/38 217/88 2 4/4 29/1 39/18 1/1 . . 73/24 290/112 3 3/2 23/12 20/3 . . . 46/17 336/129 4 7/5 42/6 11/3 2/2 . . 62/16 398/145 5 9/6 49/1 2/0 . . . 60/7 458/152 6 3/3 32/4 7/2 . . . 42/9 500/161 7 2/2 8/1 5/1 . . . 15/4 515/165 8 ..... 7/1 36/4 ..... ..... ..... 43/5 558/170 9 . 2/2 7/1 10/9 . . 19/12 577/182 10 . 2/2 3/1 102/22 . . 107/25 684/207 11 2/0 . 3/1 155/14 1/1 . 161/16 845/223 12 . . . 116/4 21/16 . 137/20 982/243 13 . . . 111/5 53/25 . 164/30 1146/273 14 . . . 78/12 93/13 1/1 172/26 1318/299 15 . . . 54/7 95/11 . 149/18 1467/317 16 ..... ..... ..... 92/5 67/12 1/1 160/18 1627/335 17 . . . 110/4 34/1 1/1 145/6 1772/341 18 . . . 77/2 9/2 . 86/4 1858/345 19 . . . 41/2 12/0 1/1 54/3 1912/348 20 . . 5/0 56/5 3/1 . 64/6 1976/354 21 . . 27/4 59/9 . . 86/13 2062/367 22 2/2 1/0 64/3 35/5 . . 102/10 2164/377 23 2/2 65/6 52/1 11/0 . . 130/9 2294/386 0 1/1 42/2 40/4 ..... ..... ..... 83/7 2377/393 1 . 25/0 35/0 . . . 60/0 2437/393 2 . 12/1 5/1 . . . 17/2 2454/395 3 8/4 17/2 6/0 . . . 31/6 2485/401 4 5/4 5/1 21/2 . . . 31/7 2516/408 5 3/2 32/3 23/1 . . . 58/6 2574/414 6 3/2 14/0 23/0 . . . 40/2 2614/416 7 . 23/0 25/0 . . . 48/0 2662/416 8 ..... 3/0 6/0 ..... ..... ..... 9/0 2671/416 9 . 2/0 . . . . 2/0 2673/416 10 . 1/0 11/0 65/0 . . 77/0 2750/416 11 . . 2/0 109/1 . . 111/1 2861/417 12 . . . 106/0 70/2 . 176/2 3037/419 13 . . . 87/1 110/5 . 197/6 3234/425 14 . . . 81/4 124/6 . 205/10 3439/435 15 . . . 60/0 40/1 1/1 101/2 3540/437 16 ..... ..... ..... 47/0 38/2 ..... 85/2 3625/439 17 . . . 57/1 22/2 3/3 82/6 3707/445 18 . . . 74/0 7/0 4/4 85/4 3792/449 19 . . . 81/2 8/0 . 89/2 3881/451 20 . . . 72/2 7/1 1/1 80/4 3961/455 21 . . 29/2 33/1 7/0 . 69/3 4030/458 22 . 2/0 38/1 38/0 1/1 . 79/2 4109/460 23 . 18/1 30/2 4/1 1/0 . 53/4 4162/464 DAY1 40/32 368/73 383/86 1111/109 388/82 4/4 ..... 2294/386 DAY2 20/13 196/10 294/13 914/13 435/20 9/9 . 1868/78 TOT 60/45 564/83 677/99 2025/122 823/102 13/13 . 4162/464 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Two 4 Mar 2007 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 4L 1 4X 2 2 4 5B 1 2 3 5N 1 5Z 1 2 1 6Y 1 2 2 1 2 8P 1 2 2 3 4 1 9A 1 5 7 21 11 9H 1 2 9J 1 2 9K 2 1 1 9Y 4 A6 1 1 A9 1 C3 1 C5 1 1 1 1 C6 1 1 1 1 CE 1 1 5 5 1 CM 3 2 1 1 CN 1 1 1 3 1 CP 1 1 CT 2 4 6 5 CT3 2 1 1 CU 3 2 3 3 1 CX 2 2 1 D4 1 1 DL 2 73 79 278 81 DU 1 EA 1 26 39 73 33 EA6 2 1 1 EA8 2 4 7 6 EA9 1 EI 1 9 8 17 9 EK 1 EL 1 1 1 1 ER 2 ES 1 4 1 EU 2 1 7 5 EX 1 EY 1 F 1 27 43 116 33 FG 1 1 1 1 FJ 1 FM 1 1 3 3 5 1 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 G 1 62 69 234 34 GD 1 GI 4 7 18 4 GM 1 9 11 36 7 GU 2 2 2 GW 1 7 13 21 5 HA 1 8 8 23 19 HB 12 14 25 6 HB0 1 1 1 HC 1 1 2 1 1 HI 2 2 2 3 3 HK 2 2 3 3 1 HP 1 2 2 2 HR 2 1 4 3 1 HS 3 HZ 1 I 1 39 76 217 133 IS 1 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 J7 1 J8 1 JA 3 8 75 KH2 1 KH6 2 4 9 6 4 KL 1 1 8 KP2 2 2 1 2 2 KP4 1 4 2 4 5 LA 1 7 1 10 4 LU 3 6 16 21 1 LX 1 1 3 LY 8 1 LZ 7 3 11 9 OE 2 5 10 29 25 OH 8 3 25 16 OH0 1 OK 1 24 14 39 24 OM 8 3 9 8 ON 1 16 18 57 8 OX 1 2 1 OZ 1 7 7 16 5 P4 2 2 2 2 3 PA 1 21 21 139 10 PJ2 2 2 2 4 3 1 PJ7 1 1 3 2 2 PY 2 2 6 16 26 1 S5 17 11 31 25 SM 1 10 3 33 11 SP 2 20 25 56 27 SV 4 6 9 7 SV5 1 SV9 1 T7 1 1 1 T9 2 1 2 4 TA 1 3 TF 1 3 3 TG 1 1 1 TI 1 2 3 2 3 1 TK 1 1 TU 1 1 UA 23 14 85 28 UA2 1 1 1 1 1 UA9 1 27 UN 5 UR 11 7 38 23 V2 1 1 1 2 1 V4 1 1 1 2 1 VK 1 19 1 1 VP2E 1 1 1 2 2 VP2V 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 1 1 VP8/h 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 2 VQ9 1 VU 2 XE 1 4 4 7 5 YB 1 YI 2 1 YL 1 2 1 3 4 YN 1 1 1 YO 4 4 18 10 YS 1 2 1 1 YU 1 12 10 22 14 YV 1 3 4 9 8 1 Z3 1 5 2 ZA 1 3 2 ZD8 1 1 ZF 1 1 ZL 5 6 ZP 2 ZS 2 2 4 6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 78,492 Just playing around. My tower had a cabling defect that still has not been fixed by the manufacturer (Heights Tower), so I have to rely on the old wire antennas for the past few months. Nothing like getting back to basics (shouting). 80 meters was the quietest I've seen in a long time. Worked some nice stuff with my 160 mtr windom. 15 was also in good shape here. Caught VQ9LA for a new one. Managed to work PJ2T and 8P1A on all 5 bands. Only worked 1 Asian station, JA on 20, and only worked KH6 on 80-15 in Oceana. With any luck, I'll get my beams back up in the air in March for the next rounds. -Al ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 58,368 Some juicy DX showed up but overall lots of QSB on the band and very short openings to EU for me. Really looking forward to better conditions in the years to come. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 22,770 Didn't spend a lot of time on this one...20m qrm was fierce. Heard nothing on 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,100 Phone is a very difficult mode to contest. Hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 174,348 Saturday on 10 mtr was disappointing. At least there was propagation on Sunday. My power line noise covered all 160m signals except XE7S and KV4FZ. These two were louder than most US stations. 80m was bad with power line noise. If it rained, we'd get a big drop in the power noise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,304,854 We were a bit short-handed, with only one operator able to be there for the entire contest, but we made the best of it by keeping the SO2R position intact from the CW contest in order to maximize the effort when only 2 of us remained for the final 22 hours. This strategy really helped the final score. We enjoyed having Jeff, W2FU join us again for the first time since 1998, when he helped us set the still current M/2 ARRL DX CW Oceania record. Check out his Green Heron rotator controllers. 4 are already in service at KH6YY, with more planned for the future.... awesome! And now, Jeff will also be co-owner of the new M/2 Oceania DX PH Oceania record. Thanks to all that made it into our log, including the following stations, which were worked on all 6 bands: K5RR N7YX N6AJR K4TD K7SS N6AA N5AW NI7T W3LPL N6MW WB9Z K6NA K7ZSD WA6FGV N7IR W6WB W4MYA N6BV KZ5AT K7MI W6PU K7KR W6CCP And congrats to Mike, Chad, Scotty, and Geoff at PJ2T... it's about time the cheese got blended again! 73, KH6ND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 57,855 Very part time effort. Nice EU openings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 70,050 Topband didn't sound very good so decided to try 80 single band using the new 4 sqr. Being fresh meat brought a 220 hour which was fun for a change. Did get another FB opening to the East Sunday morning which filled in a lot of states. Tried calling in the new band below 3.7 but no luck. Might take a few years for everyone to drift down and start working Europe there. Did some sweeps of 160 to hand out the mult but did get requests for 40 so maybe that band wasn't very active from Alaska for some reason. Operating 80 from the new QTH here in Kenai is like day and night from operating 80 from the Arctic. I haven't really had the 80 meter band for contesting in over 30 years so this is a special treat to actually hear and work people on the band. Then to be told I'm really loud by a lot of stations from all over the US was an extra kick. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 60,632 Come on sunspots.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 191,862 Zero QSOs on 10 meters Saturday - I could hear LU1HF very weak and no other stations each time I checked the band. Sunday was just a bit different - at least the band opened a little bit and 3 SA countries went into the log. 15 was excellent into SA on Sunday - big strong signals from many PY, LU and others. 20 was a struggle with all the QRM. The low bands were difficult as usual. I thought that 80 meters would have been busier with all the space available to us, but it seemed that most of the activity was in the 3750-3800 KHz segment. Many stations were operating split even on 20 meters. An interesting contest at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Next year should certainly be better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4KE Class: SOSB/80 QRP Total Score = 213,639 TNX TO ALL MY FRIENDS IN THE HORMIGA NET AND THE KP4FP CNTEST CLUB FOR THEY REPORTS AND SUPPORT, REMEMBER SEND THE LOGS TO THE ARRL ON TIME. THE 3 ELEMENT ANTENNA WORK FANTASTIC TNX TO DK8ZB (BARNEY) FOR IT. JA'S, VK'S CALL ME WITH 4 WATTS IN 80 METERS IS NO BAD!!! 73 & DX DE KP4KE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,601 Rig: IC-756ProIII Ant: 160m Coax Inverted L 80m Inverted V 40m 40 Doublet Pwr: 100 Watts Since I'd have only a few hours to play in this contest I decided to only work 40, 80, 160 meters. I'm usually a QRP operator, but because of the limited time available to me and the choice to operate only the lower bands, I thought I wouldn't punish myself (and the receiving operators) any further by operating QRP. The biggest thrill for me was to work several European and South American stations on 160 meters. The limited effort actually made it a quite pleasurable and relaxing experience. I was rather surprised though that some stations gave up so easily when they would only get my suffix in two calls. Especially since there was no one else to work so late at night and QSB can be slow on the lower bands, one would think they would put a greater effort into making a contact. What I also don't understand is why folks don't use different techniques to complete a QSO, like you'd find in VHF weak signal work. In any case, it was a fun contest to work this way. We'll do it again next time. 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 273,306 Family obligations curtailed operating time (and yes N4KG, I'm perhaps too fond of my pillow). Strange cndx on low bands here -- especially 40m/80m. Europeans were loud early but couldn't hear me. Weak later, but I was working them first call. A lot of QRM/QRN in Europe? Or I've got problems with the station? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 587,640 Well, kinda glad that one is over. Not good conditions. I hope this is the bottom of the cycle and it will start going up this fall. Low bands seemed tough. 20 was a grind. Was able to run on Sunday afternoon. Surprised had 54 countries on 15 meters. Mult totals were way down and so was score. Still good time and nice to hear all old friends and meet a few new ones. Thanks to the guys for coming over and operating some. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 121,725 CQing down low, basically below 3800, wasn't very effective! Conditions were adequate, although not great. EU sunrise wasn't very good either morning, although our sunsets were quite good for EU. Missed about 90 minutes of prime time, 2300-0030 or so due to excessive breeding and lots of children and an XYL needed stuff. Ohhh, did I mention I had a blast??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 28,782 Icom 756 ProII to Force12 Flagpole Vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4Q Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 589,500 SOAPBOX: Only if I could stay up for 48 hours straight. SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: Rig: Yaesu FT1000MP MV SOAPBOX: Ant: Cushcraft X7 Tri SOAPBOX: Carolina Windom 160M SOAPBOX: Amp: AL-572 SOAPBOX: Pwr: KW SOAPBOX: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 47,925 A bit lower score than last year, but pretty close. Less Q's less M's-I think it was worse band conditions, but probably 'you do the same-you'll get the same'. Not a whole lot of change in the setup from last year... Still the best result ever for the W0,claimed. 73. Alex KU1CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 149,076 Almost 100% S&P except for a short run of G's on Sunday afternoon on 20 meters. Gave the family a break from contesting activities after my wife let me go to PJ4 with K4BAI for the CW contest a couple weeks ago. Spent most of weekend doing chores around house and taking care of the kids. CU in the next one. Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 306,450 73, Eric KV1J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 57,510 Got 40mtr ant repaired first of the week so figured I would give 40mtrs a spin. 1st nite cndx not so gud, 2nd nite better and 3.5hrs before end of test even better from my QTH. First time to play only on 40mtrs from this QTH so I will be using the results as a baseline for the future.Had a good time all inall just allways a little frustrating with my setup and geo location on the RUN side of this kind of effort. Guess I need more antenna to get better results. Great to hear all the DX activity and some of the newly upgraded op's on the band giving out Q's. CU all in WPX SSB, Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: L44DX Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 283,860 Tnx all qso. I wish complete all time weekend propagation activities, lost almost 7 hours, but must share with other familly parties. Qsl via EA5KB. TS-850 SB-200 400W 6 Elem tribander. Esteban, LW1DTZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 218,880 Strange condx first day. Band closed very early, even though the A and K index stayed on low levels. SFI at 73 is baaad !! Managed to work all us states THE FIRST DAY. This is great. Only missed 3 provinces, but I don`t think they entered the contest. Second day started slowly. Was attempted pull out of the contest when passing 1000 qsos. Then at around 1800z the band really opened up. This is typical for the start of unsettled geomagnetic field, and two hours later - not a sound on the band. Two great hours though Never managed to have a decent run into call area 5-6 or 7. I guess thats why the LA best score 20 sosb did survive this one. Looking forward to have some sunpots back...... I did note a couple off EU callsigns in my memory. They are from south east EU. What the heck is the point of beeing 10 khz wide, 20db over, laying 1 khz below me and trying to make me move, when I been there for some hours ????? I know there is no such thing as a "free frequency" in theese contests. One other thing - at least 20 hams from the same country called for a qso !! In the middle of a good run. My god, what is the requrements for beeing licensed in theese countries ? I`m very attempted to mention callsigns..... I never worked a contest with so much splatter and qrm. 20m was of course the only band option for some hours, and there was just not space enough. When 15m opened a lot of guys qsyed there, and I noticed quite an improvement on 20m. It was so bad that I at one point just hoped nobody answerd my cq calls, and spotted me with "no ears" or "deaf" hi :)) A lot of fun though. Thanks for all the qsos, and looking forward to the next one. Have a look at our webpage: http://www.la3z.no/ 73 Paul LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 718,614 Was hoping for at least 2k Qso,s but the propagation was just not good enough from our location in South East Norway. Lets hope some of the sunspots are back next year! 73de Olaf LB8IB la8w.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 38,406 The result is far below expectations. K was low, Au index was low, everything looked promising, so I fear it is hard to blame the result on conditions. Receiving antennas definitely can be improved, - but how about operating skills and strategies? Thanks to all who called. Appologies to those I did not copy. Please call again next time, the Beverages must be improved by then. 73 de Roy / LA5KO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LT1F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,106,110 Rig: IC 775 DSP Amp: Drake L4B @ 1000 Watts. Antennas: 10 M 6/6 Not working in stack @ 90 /45 ft 15 M 6/6 @ 100 / 50 Ft 20 M 5 el Yagi @ 110 ft 40 M 3 el KLM type 80 M 2 el wire array. RX ant: 1 bevereage straight north. Comments: Really bad propagation. We just had a few hours of good runs. Tns everybody for the Qs! LU1AEE, LU1FKR, LU5DX. REAKDOWN QSO/mults LT1F ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Single HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... ..... ..... 296/47 ..... ..... 296/47 296/47 1 . . . 114/1 . . 114/1 410/48 2 . . 61/28 5/0 . . 66/28 476/76 3 . . 93/13 . . . 93/13 569/89 4 . . 135/11 . . . 135/11 704/100 5 . 1/1 42/1 . . . 43/2 747/102 6 . 1/1 54/1 . . . 55/2 802/104 7 . 5/4 31/0 . . . 36/4 838/108 8 ..... 37/16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 37/16 875/124 9 . 13/4 . . . . 13/4 888/128 10 . 2/0 . . . . 2/0 890/128 11 . . . 8/0 . . 8/0 898/128 12 . . . 2/0 51/18 . 53/18 951/146 13 . . . . 116/13 . 116/13 1067/159 14 . . . . 132/13 . 132/13 1199/172 15 . . . . 128/10 . 128/10 1327/182 16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 47/1 36/9 83/10 1410/192 17 . . . . . 69/5 69/5 1479/197 18 . . . . 151/1 14/0 165/1 1644/198 19 . . . . 163/3 . 163/3 1807/201 20 . . . . 78/0 17/2 95/2 1902/203 21 . . . 5/1 125/0 . 130/1 2032/204 22 . . . 43/2 125/0 . 168/2 2200/206 23 . . . 239/4 . . 239/4 2439/210 0 ..... ..... ..... 158/0 ..... ..... 158/0 2597/210 1 . . 9/0 2/0 . . 11/0 2608/210 2 . . 36/0 . . . 36/0 2644/210 3 . . 36/0 . . . 36/0 2680/210 4 . . 58/0 . . . 58/0 2738/210 5 . . 32/0 . . . 32/0 2770/210 6 . . 46/1 . . . 46/1 2816/211 7 . 14/5 2/0 . . . 16/5 2832/216 8 ..... 3/0 1/0 ..... ..... ..... 4/0 2836/216 9 . 2/0 . . . . 2/0 2838/216 10 . 6/1 6/0 . . . 12/1 2850/217 11 . . . 3/0 . . 3/0 2853/217 12 . . . . 21/0 . 21/0 2874/217 13 . . . . 53/0 . 53/0 2927/217 14 . . . . 69/0 . 69/0 2996/217 15 . . . . 76/0 . 76/0 3072/217 16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 16/0 66/5 82/5 3154/222 17 . . . . . 83/9 83/9 3237/231 18 . . . . . 108/5 108/5 3345/236 19 . . . . . 164/5 164/5 3509/241 20 . . . . . 116/3 116/3 3625/244 21 . . . . 113/0 26/0 139/0 3764/244 22 . . . . 228/0 . 228/0 3992/244 23 . . . 158/1 76/0 . 234/1 4226/245 DAY1 ..... 59/26 416/54 712/55 1116/59 136/16 ..... 2439/210 DAY2 . 25/6 226/1 321/1 652/0 563/27 . 1787/35 TOT . 84/32 642/55 1033/56 1768/59 699/43 . 4226/245 BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr LT1F ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU4DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,322,837 ARRL DX SSB - 2007-03-03 0000Z to 2007-03-05 0000Z - 3285 QSOs LU4DX Max Rates: 2007-03-03 2254Z - 7,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 420 per hour by LU4DX 2007-03-03 2303Z - 5,0 per minute (10 minute(s)), 300 per hour by LU4DX 2007-03-03 2342Z - 3,9 per minute (60 minute(s)), 231 per hour by LU4DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU5FF Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 16,359 Kenwood TS 850 Sat Pwr: 500 W Ant: Delta Tnx All for QSO´s. 73`s Javi - LU5FF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 288,333 Thanks for all who called me! Worked the WAS in 4 hours ! I was not able to make a full effort in the Contest, also I need to improve my antenna on 20M. Congratulations to DP4K SO2R OH8X and MI0LLL for their good score on 20M. Some more operations from LX7I will follow this year 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MI0LLL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 412,920 TX: FT-1000MP ANTENNA: M2 KT36XA AMP: Alpha 99 SOFTWARE: N1MM Well what can I say, great contest, QRM for me was mad and felt more like 40m and unfortunately had to let go of my frequency a few times, What I had to put up with and (everyone else) was 40db QRM, stations jumping on your frequency calling cq (I might had did this once or twice myself sorry!), whistle blowers, stations who decided to appear and rag chew, CW CQ’s taking place, tuners, neighbors calling CQ 1.5 kHz away, high static when it rained sometimes, being incorrectly spotted on the cluster and jumped on with dupes and having to answer 50 non US and Canadian stations that came back to my calls, obviously at times I felt like ripping someone’s head off and that’s what made it fun. What did I learn this year ?, well I learnt that I was lucky to have a low band beverage plugged into the rear of the rig as when the static rain started at least I could work three quarters of the stations calling as opposed to just calling to keep the frequency clear. Sunday was slow for the morning and mid day but made up ground with some high rates in the evening. Judging by some of the other European SOSB20HP already posted by SO2R and OH8X these three scores are unbelievable close and I would not be confident with the accuracy of all my contact and state references I logged. Thanks again to all that called. Chris MI0LLL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 17,934 Not much time for this one. Grandson was over and I had to shovel more snow off the roof. 73 and thanks for the Qso's N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 689,640 A very limited M/2, one good antenna, operation from the NW corner of Wisconsin. Even with severly challenged conditions, we still had a ball. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 278,208 Some of the worst conditions I've ever seen for a contest. I had no yagis last year from this same QTH, just with verticals and wires. Now I have a TA33 tribander and 2 el 40 and was barely able to squeak by last year's score with similar effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0VD Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 41,580 Hrrmph! 73 Kelly - N0VD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 46,644 This was a 100% S&P effort with limited hours for me. Tough going at times with some strange propagation. I had trouble working Caribbean stations on 20 for the first time in over 35 years of contesting. Thanks for all the QSO's. Rig: TenTec Paragon 80W, Heil ProSet Plus, 4 Element Tribander @ 35ft, dipoles on 80/40 73 Rick N1DC Braintree, MA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1FD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,110,756 Both of us prepared for this contest by sleeping for two hours on Thursday night. We then focused ourselves on Friday by finishing tower and antenna upgrades until 23:30Z. Special thanks to Rex, K1HI and Ed, K2TE, without whom we'd still be on the tower. Added two more yagis and a K1NQ stack match to the tower, a 160 inverted-L, a 3-el 80 m vertical array, plus a temporary beverage. All in a freezing deluge of rain. Note to self - leave time for debugging before the contest next time. That will save Lee, WB1ADR, from getting RF burns mid-contest. We did get everything operational by 23:00Z on Saturday. Major upgrade for next contest at Rob, KA1ARB's insistence - buy a keyboard larger than 8 inches wide. Who turned the noise generator off on the low bands? Boy, were they QUIET! But they must have accidently knocked the plug out for 10 meters as well. We heard next to nothing. Couldn't run 40 meters like last year, and 20 was a slog all weekend. Finally got runs going on Sunday morning on 15 and then on 20. Thanks for all the Q's- 73, Rob, KA1ARB and Lee, WB1ADR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1GLT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 147,744 HAD A BALL LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR TO TRY TO IMPROVE MY SCORE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1HTS Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 51,339 Spent about 12 hours contesting given I still had to play "Mr. Mom" with the XYL still on crutches that weekend. Still fun with 100 watts and a multiband dipole. jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 325,206 FT-2000 + Aplha 87A 3 over 3 SteppIRs for 20-15-10 at 35' and 90' 2 ele M2 on 40M at 60' fixed on Eu 264' OCFD for 160M/80M at 80' 40M dipole at 70', N-S broadside 500' NE/SW beverage Came off a very busy week on the work front so energy levels were pretty low. Set a goal of 500 Qs and then proceeded to baptize the FT-2000 in its first SSB contest. Still haven't worked all of the kinks out of the audio routing using the Microham MK2R+, so did not delve into the land of SO2R this time. I did eventually figure out how to use the MK2R+ voice codec for DVK too. The FT-2000 performance and configurability (is that a word?) never fails to amaze me. Make no mistake though, it is definitely not a plug-and-play rig. Several times during my Eu runs on 20M (where I clearly had a clean 1.8 kHz swath to work the Sunday afternoon crowded room full of mumbling Europeans at a 60-70 rate), I had adjacent stations drop in and tell me the frequency was in use. And then, when I initially would ignore them, they would krank up their audio or processor gain and wipe out my receiver passband. Isn't that called "intentional interference"? Anyway, I knew my TX signal was clean as I had checked it out before the contest on a spectrum analyzer and noted all of the level settings. I also asked some of the guys in EU I was working to see if I was splattering: nope, just loud. Come on you knuckleheads... Either acquire a descent receiver or switch to S&P! One of the challenges of an SSB contest I guess... dealing with stations calling CQ with 10 kW transmitters and listening on a crystal receiver. Anyway, made my goal plus a few and had some fun in the process. Thanks for the Qs and see you all again in the fall! -- Mike, N1IW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 32,571 Just a little exercise to pass the time until the next RTTY contest! Did not know if the microphone even worked until I tried it in the contest! Best call worked - HV0A - An all time new one for me, any mode! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,724,472 Rig : Orion, AL-1500 Antennas : X9, MAG 240N, 80m vee, 160 double-L. 80' tower. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,030,686 While I prefer CW contests, I have come to realize that I actually do like SSB contests. Why? Well, its all about expectations. If you show up to play a Rugby game and are expecting it to be like a basketball game, you won't enjoy yourself. I was expecting a Rugby game, and I wasn't disappointed. SSB contests for most of us are a different animal. They are a lot less about running and a lot more about grinding out S & P Qs. What helps, is knowing that most everyone else is doing the same thing. Unfortunately, I knew going into this one that I had a big issue. My 40M beam let go of something in the last storm we had and is completely dead. I do have up an inverted vee at 65 feet and that became my one and only 40M antenna for the weekend. This was almost a relief because it completely took away the option of attempting a run on 40M so I just S & P'd the band. I ended up about as expected. Started off S & Ping on 40 and then 80. I was LOUD on 80. The 2 el wire beam is really working well. I CQ'd between 3710 and 3650 a number of times and didn't get one answer there. Finally attempted to CQ on 3840 and started a small run of about 15 Qs over a 30 min period Saturday morning. 20M was actually in decent shape to the South until almost 02Z here which was surprising. Interestingly, there wasn't much to miss on 40M during the middle of the night. I worked ZL3WW quite easily as well as a couple of KH6's and all of the SA/Carib that I could hear. 80M was very solid to the south and west with the 2 new half-wave slopers that I installed. The few stations that I missed on 80M had big piles and were not strong on the west beverage or the slopers. I took a 90 min nap between 0830 and 10000Z. 20M opened here around 1045Z to EU and was "rockin" by 1130Z. I had a nice 100 hour run from 1130 - 1230 and continued to "run" for the next 4 hours on 20M. "Run" was defined many times as 20 - 40 Qs before abandoning a frequency, S & Ping, and finding a new depression (holes didn't exist) to run again. I SO2R'd 15M all day on Saturday. Worked a lot of S & P but never tried running because it didn't seem as productive as 20. Ended up the day with about 100 Qs on 15 with about 50% being Carib and South. Never heard a peep on 10 all weekend. I tuned it dozens of times while CQing on 20. 160 was a big disappointment this weekend. Never worked EU. I don't know of a contest that I have not worked even a GI or GM station. Tuned it many times. Worked a PY on 160, first call. No issue working most any Carib station heard. The band was quite poor from here despite the nice A/K index and the Aurora shield looking very mild from the sat pictures. I slept more than usual because conditions were so bad. Slept for 4.5 hours on Sat night/Sunday morning, 3 hour and 90 min chunks. Day two saw decent runs on 20M of 60 - 70 hours for a couple of hours. I ran with a little success on 15 on day 2. Might have had 60 - 70 Qs on 15M as a run over a couple of hours while methodically S & Ping 20 and periodically listening to white noise on 10. Had much more success running 80 at the end on 3843 listening down. Never had 1 running Q all weekend simplex. Its a shame to see all that open space and no-one is listening yet down there. I think a year of WPX and CQ WW will change that for this contest next year. Also, I found the extra 25kcs on 40M to be just about worthless with the broadcast QRM. The station worked well other than the 40M beam. I still need to re-build my antenna switches because I have lost a few positions and the flakyness remains although it didn't affect me this weekend because I was using less positions on them. I am looking forward to WPX. I enjoy that contest after this "battle". Again I will be using my company's club call, NV1N. Looking forward to those rumor'd sunspots on the near horizon. 73 Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1VI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 20,160 Rig: ICOM 756PROII Antenna: Cushcraft A7000 @ 15FT S&P Only. Worked 20M then 15M on Saturday, Worked 15M then 20M on Sunday. Learned that the Auto Tuner worked real well anywhere I went on both bands. Next project is to get an antenna up for 40 and 80 Meters which will an offcenter fed dipole. Need to learn how to work split on 40 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 159,840 S&P on bands I have better antennas for. FT1000MP, Drake L7, TH6DXX 50', 160m Inverted L 46', N1MM Logger. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,315,034 IC781, IC765, Titan, 87A, many antennas, Win-Test Logging Software. Conditions at the bottom of the cycle still gave us a few surprises, and fortunately the heavy storms on the east coast had cleared out early Friday morning leaving the bands virtually QRN free all weekend. Poor conditions combined with noise would have really been a double wammy. Friday night conditions were punk, the path to EU on 160 was subdued, and stations on 80 were not particularly loud either. Whether to CQ in the new US band segment below 3750 remains a question mark. I tried both methods, and going split produced the best EU rate by far. Maybe this will change over time and we'll see migration to fill the void below 3750. Its been a few years since I've operated from the states in this contest, and even longer since I've had to deal with the 20M mess when the higher bands are not functioning. Unfortunately I arrived on 20M a tad late on Saturday morning and paid the price, having to settle for a CQ spot up near 14325. What a mess you get with just too many stations squeezed into too small a space. 15M had one hour of runable time to EU for me on Saturday morning, not exactly encouraging. And 10M was totally dead, never heard a DX signal at all on Saturday. A late afternoon run on 40M was fun....and another challenge to find just the right spot to call CQ when running split. Saturday night/Sunday morning we seemed to have improved condx on 160 and 80. Signals were notably louder and in more abundance. 160M was never runable, but plenty of EU mults made it into the log. After another 3 hour nap, made it to 20M at the open around 1030 UTC. This time I managed to stake out a spot just above 12170 and it produced a 165 hour, my best rate of the weekend. After looking over the results from prior years, set a goal of 2000 qsos and 400 mults at that point. In the end managed the QSOs but fell short on the mults....10M just did not cooperate. Speaking of 10M, there were a few signals Sunday afternoon. FY5KE was the first to peak, then 8P1A, and finally TI5N. Otherwise, everything else was at or near the noise level. You had to ride the QSB 'waves' to work anything....it was a real high antenna weekend on ten. Finished up the contest with a nice run on 40M Sunday afternoon, with 3 mults calling during the last 10 minutes. My thanks to Andy, N2NT, for the use of his fine station while he operated out at K3LR on 20M. 73, John W2GD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2RM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,150,500 Well let's hope we're at the bottom of the cycle and at least 15 will be better next year. It seemed that things went relatively smoothly on 40 and 75 with the new band allocations. Nice to work europe without having to split frequency all the time. 73, N2RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2ZN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,028 Just hacking around a bit during the weekend. SSB contest=way to kill time between CW weekends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,126,799 After missing the CW portion of this year's ARRL DX Contest due to my mother's death, we did manage to put together more than half of the team from 1977, when we won the M/M CW contest. The op's then were N3RS, N3RD, WA3LRO, WA3FFR (now K1PT) and W3IFG (now W3XU). The conditions were much different this time around, but we still have the fire that we had back then. This was our 30th anniversary and we were delighted to get the old team back together. Addition of Art, N3DXX; John, W8FJ (now a regular) Ed, N3ED (also a long time member) and Nick, N3NA rounded out a team that kept the seats and amps warm. Conditions on Friday evening and most of Saturday were terribly poor, but we had no noise to cope with. The second day brought warmer weather and line noise that sporadically messed up some nice runs on 15M and 40M. All in all, the conditions on Sunday were much better than Saturday and we managed to double our QSO count on the second day. Congrats to KC1XX for the FB M/2 effort, although we were not happy to see them slide "down" to our class. Our thanks to all who called in to give us a point. Also thanks to those who spotted us on the DX cluster. We could tell when that happened. Some very nice runs on each band. All the equipment worked well and we had very few glitches with N1MM. See you in the CQWW SSB test. 73 de Sig, N3RS P.S. Dave, N3RD, and I have been doing this for a L O N G time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 187,380 Just spending a few odd hours. Spent a lot of time on 10M studying propagation. Best signals were from TI5N and the HI and HP stations as expected. Never heard PJ2T or PJ4R on 10M despite a lot of listening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 144,000 PART TIME EFFORT..SPENT MOST OF SATURDAY HELPING N4JDU GET HIS STEPPIR OFF HIS TOWER FOR REPAIR...BANDS WERE TERRIBLE FOR THE MOST PART..TEN METERS WAS REALLY STRANGE. CW IS MY PREFERRED MODE... TX FOR THE Qs 73s JERRY N4JF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 518,901 ARRL SSB DX Contest 2007 - N4KG SOAB LP (Icom 746 PRO 100 W.) This contest reminded me of the old Clint Eastwood Movie, “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” THE GOOD: The Low Bands were GREAT from well before sunset to after sunrise. Even with Low Power I was able to work most of what I heard except for the (weak) Europeans on 160M. The “Have Radio, Will Travel” guys were EVERYWHERE providing me with many Multi-Band contacts. 6 Bands: 6Y1V 8P1A FY5KE VP5H (E-layer opening to VP5 and 6Y on 10M) 5 Bands: HD2A(-160) HI3C(10) HI3T(10) LU4DX(160) P40A(10) PJ2T(10) PJ4G(10) TI5N(80) TO5A(10) V26H(10) V47KP(10) VP2E(10) WP2Z(10) 4 Bands: 9A7A C6ANM CE4CT CN3A CU2A DL0WW EA7RU EC2DX EI7M HG1S HG6N HR2DMR IR4X KH7X LP1H OE4A OK5R P40LE PT7CB PX2A TM6M TO6T VP9/W6PH XE7S THE BAD: From many parts of the World (and USA), 10 Meters was a BUST and 15 Meters was characterized by short openings to limited areas of the world. The guys from Wisconsin must have taken their “Black Hole”with them to PJ2T as I NEVER could hear them on 10M, even when coordinating with the 15M station. This was in spite of working 5 YV’s, FY, HK, HP, TI, and 8P1. PJ2T reported only 236 stations (all but 2 on Sunday) on 10M, mostly in W5 or west. Even when 15 (and 10) Meters were open, activity was clearly lacking, with few stations heard above 21350. SC3A (SM) was the only station worked on 15M from Scandanavia with NO stations worked from CQ Zones 16 and 20. I was able to establish short Runs on 21207 with ease. This left 20 Meters as the MONEY BAND for most of the World and it was Wall to Wall. That’s just NOT FUN, especially when you live 1 skip zone away from the upper East Coast! Bottom Line: QSO’s and Multipliers were way down from previous years. THE UGLY: PACKET PILEUPS get my vote for first place in the UGLY category. As a Low Power entrant, BIG pileups were a slug-fest that was best dealt with by carefully TIMING my calls just right or loading a Memory Position and coming back later. Besides the size of the pileup, another Key Indicator of Packet Pileups was a steady flow of New Callers who obviously knew the DX station’s Callsign in spite of the fact that he had not identified in the last X minutes. I decided that if there was NO ID after 3 Q’s that I would just start calling. When answered, I would ASK for the DX Callsign BEFORE giving my report. If it was a DUPE, I informed the DX station that he could save BOTH of us some time by Identifying More Frequently! Sadly, Contesting is becoming more of a Computer Game than a Radio Sport! Yet another UGLY aspect of BIG (Packet) Pileups is people who STEAL other peoples contacts, either by simply overriding them or ignoring the partial calls given by the DX even when their call is nothing like what the DX station was calling. I heard this way too many times this weekend. ALL of the above is why I find myself questioning why I work Phone Contests. Some aspects of this contest were definitely NOT FUN. I ended up taking more breaks than usual just to get away from the MADNESS, reducing my activity to 28 hours vs. my usual 32 to 36 hours. I find myself questioning how serious I will be about entering future Phone Contests. Tom N4KG in North Alabama (70 miles East of W5 – Mississippi) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 76,494 The new call worked out nice. Every thing was S&P. With the expantion of the phone band on 75/80, why the split operation by both US and EU operators. Considering my antenna system, I still had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 333,519 Had intended to operate only 15m but condx didn't seem too good on Friday so decided to go it on 20SB...tribander and all. Got shoved around a bit but still able to catch a few. Surprises were ZD8I, J28JA, Noz,C5DXC, 9H4K and TU2/F5LDY calling in during European run while way up at top of band. Thanks also to 4X6OM, OX3JZ, D44BS, TF3AO, 9K2HN for new mults. Lots of UN/Uzbekistan stations on Sunday morning... Thanks to all. 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 207,570 Because I broke a bone in my wrist 5 weeks ago helping N9RV start his moving process, I missed the ARRL CW weekend entirely and decided to use the ARRL Phone weekend to evaluate the progress I had made in fixing some of the many problems I had encountered in the CQWW CW weekend. I had constructed a third 10/15 yagi and installed it on a TIC ring at 45' a week before the accident at N9RV's. In addition, I had spent most of December on the outside wiring issues with the six-pack and stack switches. However, the inside wiring had been entiredly removed during troubleshooting, and I found it extremely difficult to do the rewiring with only one functional hand. Furthermore, the coaxes from the six-pack had been "temporarily" dedicated to the 80m and 160m antennas for to enable measurement of dump power from the shack. The blizzard before the ARRL CW weekend left 3 feet deep drifts of snow and ice on top of the neatly coiled prop-pitch rotor cables outside the shack and the chief op and technician (me) physically unable to dig them out and pull them into the shack. Thus, the start of the contest Friday night found N4TZ with only the 80 and 160 meter antennas connected through to the shack. Also, it took me several hours, including the first hour of the contest, to figure out how to rewire the microphone through the W9XT card in the new Windows 95 computer to the Anti-Murphy box from my NCJ article to the TopTen SO2R box to the TenTec RF processor for the OMNI VI+. Thankfully, I have remote tuning knobs for both TenTec radios so I could tune with a simple horizontal rotation fingertip motion. I could not have tuned a regular radio knob with the injured wrist. Typing is still a challange, however. Because of the casual nature of this weekend's operation, I was able to more fully evaluate the station's antennas than in the heat of the competition last fall. The 80m 4-square which I erect each fall showed great directivity. However, the 160m 4-square I erected for the first time in November again was disappointing. It is erected concentric with the 80m array, but uses loaded elements. The loading was designed so that the 160m elements would have minimal impact on the 80m array. The 160m elements are 42' of 2" aluminum topped with a 10' PVC conduit holding a loading coil and supporting 4- 15' sloping top hat wires. Each of the elements were tuned within 5 kHz of each other and had MFJ measured impedances of 17 or 18 ohms (including ground losses) at resonance. However, the dump power loss was at least 25% and as high as 50% across the band! It was very difficult to see any directivity at all. Next year, I'll go back to the full-sized wire vertical for 160m. Still, I felt that my 100 watts into 600' of coax did pretty well, with 10 countries in one hour on 160 and 30 countries on 75 in two hours of S&P. The signals seemed unusually clear, with relatively little QRM and QRN early both evenings on 160 and 80. I was in bed by 11pm Friday night and spent most of Saturday with normal household duties. However, I did find time to reconnect one side of the six-pack's coaxes Saturday afternoon so I had high band antennas for the rest of the contest. After a good night's sleep, church, and watching "Throw Momma from the Train" while cooking and eating Sunday lunch, I spent about six sporadic hours on Sunday afternoon picking the low- hanging fruit who called CQ. It was interesting how strong TI5N and TI8II were on 10 and how they stayed in for several hours while most of the other stations I heard on ten only lasted a few minutes. I'm not sure whether the problem was spotlight propagation, or the DX not going to 10 because the rate was too low. It's unreliable to extrapolate 10 hours of casual operating to what might have been, especially when no operating was done between 0350z and 1900z on Saturday nor between 0230z and 1545z Sunday, the normal high activity times. I'm looking forward to a return to health and good weather in time for the WPX tests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 128,331 100 watts, A3S @ 75', 40/80 inverted v, 130' sloper on 160. Real glad to make a few contacts on ten meters. Thought for sure it would NEVER open. 73, Larry N4VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 645,327 This was a frustrating contest. The problems I had on CW working Europe on 40 meters were far worse on phone. In past years I have done almost as well on 40 with a vertical as I did this time with a 2 element yagi at 137 feet! I actually had more countries on 80 than 40. Europeans 20 db over S9 on 40 couldn’t hear me. I also should have done better on 20 but I just get tired of digging through the east coast QRM there – it is a lot more fun on 15, especially when the skip is so long that we don’t hear many US stations (much of this weekend). Rather strange conditions. There were some short periods on almost every band where they were very good but most of the time it was tough going. This is the last of this contest season’s 48 hour marathons and I am glad – not sure how many more of these I can take. I’m not a big fan of WPX but with a 36 hour time limit perhaps I’ll start operating it instead. QSOs by Continent 2007 ARRL DX PHONE - N5AW 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- N.A. calls = 12 28 22 38 35 15 150 S.A. calls = 4 11 17 38 63 51 184 Euro calls = 1 25 25 110 114 0 275 Afrc calls = 0 1 3 1 10 0 15 Asia calls = 0 0 0 2 4 0 6 JA calls = 0 7 23 26 48 0 104 Ocen calls = 2 4 5 10 15 1 37 Total calls = 19 76 95 225 289 67 771 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 175,446 I was home sick on Thursday and Friday with a nasty flu bug, so I decided to try the Assisted category. My throat did not feel like I would be able to talk long, so I stuck four essential S&P messages in the voice keyer and operated whenever I felt OK and slept a lot in between. It made being sick a little more bearable! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5IA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,751 A low level effort from a low level station operated around family schedules. Lots of EU stations heard VERY well and I had little or no response when I called them. I missed perhaps 20 Mults due to their inability to hear well. Perhaps they didn't need NM on 40 Meters. By contrast I did not miss a single station I heard from the south and west. I worked QRP stations in VK and JA with no problems, and another quantity reporting 10 Watts and 50 Watts of power level. Lots of fun. 73 de Milt, N5IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 276,696 S-7 power-line noise in most directions. 504 QSOs 65 answered my CQs 439 called by me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6BV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,050,282 Wow, 166 in the first hour on 15, mainly JAs, of course. This is going to be fun, I thought. Who needs sunspots? I worked the last JA Friday night 5 minutes into the second hour. Even 20 meters folded about 03 UTC. Wow, this is not going to be fun. And there's only 45 hours left? Although I really did put a full-bore effort into this contest, I think this is the lowest score I've had in about 30 years. OK, Mr. Sun. You win: No sunspots, no fun for almost everyone -- but really, really no fun for W6s. Whine, whine, whine. There I got that out of my system. I want to thank my dear friend and gracious host, Ken Keeler, N6RO, who let me use his magnificent station. Ken also gave me encouragement throughout the contest, helping keep me in the chair, even if I was wondering why I was torturing this old body! There were some fun moments, of course. The N6RO station really does get out very well and it was great sport to blast through some pretty nasty pileups. I perfected my S&P and my SO2R skills some, since even from N6RO it was pretty rare that I could get a real run going, especially on that delightful zoo we call 20 meters. There are way too few clear spots on 20 when 15 and 10 are not producing because of lack of sunspots. And what was that loud broadband noise around 14.233 to 14.235 MHz? Some slow-scan guy putting white noise into his microphone input to shoo off pesky contesters? I attach, for your fun and amusement, my continental breakdown. For example, I worked only 19 Europeans on 15 meters, all S&P. I heard the East Coast working Europeans on 20 and 15 that were not even ESP here. Now I'm sure the guys on the East Coast had the same problem working JAs during this contest. But there are about 10 times more active Europeans than JAs. Yes, from my ten years back in New England in the 1990s I dearly miss all those lovely Europeans. Don't get me wrong, JAs are delightful to work, but there's just not enough of them anymore.) BREAKDOWN QSO/mults N6BV ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... ..... ..... 3/3 166/11 ..... 169/14 169/14 1 . . 3/3 80/16 12/0 . 95/19 264/33 2 . . 18/13 37/1 . . 55/14 319/47 3 . . 15/9 2/0 . . 17/9 336/56 4 . 17/13 . . . . 17/13 353/69 5 3/3 6/3 9/4 . . . 18/10 371/79 6 4/2 7/5 11/1 . . . 22/8 393/87 7 1/1 2/1 60/2 . . . 63/4 456/91 8 ..... ..... 67/3 ..... ..... ..... 67/3 523/94 9 . 5/4 56/3 . . . 61/7 584/101 10 . 8/0 32/1 . . . 40/1 624/102 11 . 10/1 5/0 . . . 15/1 639/103 12 . . . . . . . 639/103 13 . . . . . . . 639/103 14 . . . 19/12 . . 19/12 658/115 15 . . . 48/11 7/7 . 55/18 713/133 16 ..... ..... ..... 14/3 11/6 ..... 25/9 738/142 17 . . . 6/3 22/11 2/1 30/15 768/157 18 . . . 11/4 14/4 1/0 26/8 794/165 19 . . . 24/6 . . 24/6 818/171 20 . . . 14/4 7/4 . 21/8 839/179 21 . . . 33/3 4/1 . 37/4 876/183 22 . . . 26/1 4/0 . 30/1 906/184 23 . . . 12/2 35/1 . 47/3 953/187 0 ..... ..... ..... ..... 108/6 ..... 108/6 1061/193 1 . . 5/3 30/3 19/0 . 54/6 1115/199 2 . . 5/2 12/1 . . 17/3 1132/202 3 1/1 . 3/1 . . . 4/2 1136/204 4 . . 7/4 . . . 7/4 1143/208 5 1/1 2/2 14/5 . . . 17/8 1160/216 6 2/2 . . . . . 2/2 1162/218 7 . . . . . . . 1162/218 8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1162/218 9 . . 26/0 . . . 26/0 1188/218 10 . 33/2 3/0 . . . 36/2 1224/220 11 . 8/1 5/1 . . . 13/2 1237/222 12 . . . . . . . 1237/222 13 . . . . . . . 1237/222 14 . . . 19/5 . . 19/5 1256/227 15 . . . 19/2 4/3 . 23/5 1279/232 16 ..... ..... ..... 8/1 9/4 ..... 17/5 1296/237 17 . . . 12/1 3/0 . 15/1 1311/238 18 . . . 10/0 4/0 . 14/0 1325/238 19 . . . 3/0 1/0 . 4/0 1329/238 20 . . . 9/0 8/2 5/3 22/5 1351/243 21 . . . 4/0 13/2 2/0 19/2 1370/245 22 . . . 9/3 7/0 2/1 18/4 1388/249 23 . . . 7/0 16/0 . 23/0 1411/249 DAY1 8/6 55/27 276/39 329/69 282/45 3/1 ..... 953/187 DAY2 4/4 43/5 68/16 142/16 192/17 9/4 . 458/62 TOT 12/10 98/32 344/55 471/85 474/62 12/5 . 1411/249 Continent Statistics N6BV ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Single Operator 4 Mar 2007 2358z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent SSB North America SSB 8 25 18 46 48 0 145 10.1 South America SSB 3 8 12 41 51 11 126 8.8 Europe SSB 0 2 38 180 19 0 239 16.6 Asia SSB 0 52 218 187 331 0 788 54.7 Africa SSB 0 0 6 4 3 0 13 0.9 Oceania SSB 1 12 55 28 31 2 129 9.0 N6RO antennas: 160 meters: wire Four Square 80 meters: Two 2-ele. wire quads at 130'; wire Four Square 40 meters: Stacked 4L40 M2 at 130'/70'; wire Four Square 20 meters: Stacked 5L20s at 130'/90'/45' 15 meters: Stacked 6L15s at 130'/85' plus stacked 5L15 at 50' 10 meters: Stacked 5L10s at 105'/54' plus stacked 6L10 at 27' Beverages: Various Thankfully, the human organism forgets pain pretty quickly. So I'll probably do this madness again next year. Hope springs eternal in the contest ham's heart! 73, Dean, N6BV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,140 Mostly S&P. Good opening to JA/UA0. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 14,319 This was a lot more fun than the CQ WW DX SSB contest last month, with a 42% improvement in my score that made me feel pretty good. Part of the improved score came from a special dipole I put up aimed at JA that just happened to aim at PY and LU in the other direction. It really helpled when my main E-W antennas were just not doing the job. It's really nice to be able to switch directions instantly at the press of a button. I blew the last half hour of the contest, trying to work a station in Paraguay for a new multiplier. I might have been better off chasing some more JA Qs, even if they wouldn't give me a new mult. I got up real early Saturday morning, expecting to work some DX in the early hours, between 5 and 7AM. Wrong. In the first two hours, I worked one station, and I could have worked him easily later in the day. Missed out on several hours of sleep with nothing to show for it. Got up a bit later on Sunday morning after a good night's sleep. On 20m, I heard a number of European stations, but only managed to work OH6QU in Finland. But at least I got my toe into Europe :-) My money bands were 20m and 15m, and I suppose that was true for most everyone else too. I checked on 160m occasionaly, but nothing heard there. 10m only produced one KH6 QSO and three LU QSOs. Again, nothing else heard. Oh, how I miss 10m. Our JA friends saved me from a much lower score. I wound up with 19 Qs on 15m and 19 on 20m. I found one lone VK on 15m, and never heard a single ZL. Usually it's the other way around for me. Several ZL and no VK. My main 40-20-15-10m antennas point right at them, so I know my signal blows in that direction. Maybe the path just wasn't open during the hours I worked. Forty meters was a complete mess with the SWBC stations. I only worked one station there, YW4D in Venezuela. Eighty meters did a bit better for me, with two Hawaii, two Alaska and two Mexico QSOs. I took it a bit easier in this contest. SSB is such a pain anyway, so I took time off in the evening during the hours when the bands were very unsettled. Went back on the air around 9 or 10 PM and picked up Qs as I found them. Then got a good night's sleep :-) As always, there were some alligator stations. Huge signals, but they must have had receiving problems. I heard many stations call them and never connect, me included. Oh well, it's just part of the game. One highlight for me was working AH7ZA in HI for a two-way QRP QSO. Good solid copy both ways. Another was working VP8KF in the Falkland Islands. This was my farthest DX, at a bit over 7000 miles. Let's see, that's about 1433 miles/watt :-) Gee, nothing special after all. People do that all the time. I also had my first UA9 SSB QSOs with two stations on 20m. My thanks to all the operators who worked with me to get my correct callsign through. Like I said before, SSB is a pain, especially at QRP levels. I hope the WPX will be easier, with better conditions. Hope to work as many of you as possible. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 95,160 Part time effort to gather points for the club score. My ears still hurt from the bedlam on 20 meters. Conditions not too bad for this part of the sun spot cycle. Ten meters was a big surprise after the dismal conditions of two weeks ago. Thanks for the Q's and see you in the next one. 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RQ Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 16,851 Hardest work ever for the fewest Qs. Nearly fell asleep at my rig hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7VR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 72,900 I had fun. The 10 meter band was closed all weekend, Propagation was normal for the bottom of the sun spot cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,000 A couple in the log to help the club score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BC Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 29,070 After working as many Mults as I could find, switched to Club Call and worked as many Q's as I could on 20M in a couple hours. All were S&P since an open spot on 20 for a LP guy was obviously impossible. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 102,750 I only had a couple hours to play radio this weekend so I decided to spend my time getting to know WriteLog a little better. I'm glad I did not try a QRP run, the bands just stunk! But I had fun and added some points to MRRC! 73 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,045,654 Welcome to hopefully the absolute bottom of the cycle; condx were actually better than on many recent days, e.g. 15 was nearly dead in the REF contest a week earlier. As usual Friday was the busiest day of the week at work, so I knew I couldn't make a go at a serious effort. My time on the low bands was limited as the totals reflect, but there was enough action to keep me busy from 01 thru 0330Z after starting at 0030Z on 20 and finding decent Caribbean/SA condx. The whole contest, no new band countries were worked and Q's on 75 were limited more or less to EU and south. On 160, only OK5R and CU2A were worked from Eu, but I was in bed at Eu sunrise which is crucial to success at this point in the cycle. ZS9X did have a nice signal with 100W on 75 at his sunrise the first day. Both days, I didn't arrive on 20 until well after the band had opened to Eu and by that time the band was packed. I ended up running most of my Q's between 14310 and 14336 both days. Saturday this worked out well with plenty of callers; Sunday was slower, the QRM level was higher, and the callers were weaker as most of the serious competitors were in the log. Not having a chance at any serious competitive score, I took off about an hour to take the dog a walk on the C&O Canal towpath. The snow and ice was gone, but the water/mud was not. The dog's underside was soaked! The Potomac River was a torrent of muddy water above its normal shore line, but no serious flooding thankfully. Past 19Z, 15 seemed only open to the south, 10 was good for about 4 Q's into SA, and 20 didn't sound much better. Since I missed my father-in-laws birthday dinner due to ARCW, I felt obligated to have dinner with the family Sat PM, so over 2 hours of prime low band time was missed starting 2240Z. I tried running on 40, with very little luck. When I returned, condx sounded about normal on the low bands, but activity was fairly poor from Eu being the middle of the Eu night 2nd day. I ran a few on 75, but the run lasted maybe 15 minutes. Condx to the south were great on 40 around 03Z, LP1F was louder than any Eu, but they were fading out by then. Sunday was becoming a horrible struggle thru the QRM and I was about to bag it, when 15 popped open to large areas of Eu. SA3C was logged with a good signal at 1348, and immediately I looked for a good run frequency; I dug in around 21239 which stayed clear for the next hour. Northern Eu was louder than the rest of Eu until at least 1430! Two Russians and couple of Ukrainians made it into the log along with many from OH and SM. Between 1348 and 1447Z, 131 Q's were logged with many new mults. My best rates on 20 were Saturday with 126 Q's in the 12Z hour, 106 - 13Z, and 111 - 16Z. On Sunday, 10 was open only to very limited areas at one time. By going back fairly often I managed to eek out 10 mults. The biggest surprise was 6Y1V around 21Z probably on a sporadic E opening. I ran a few on 40 between 23 and 2330Z when I called it quits. As on CW, there were many who called out of turn in the pile-ups which only slows things down for everyone. While running, I perfectly copied an IZ6 and gave him a report. The only problem was another Italian with an IK4 or IW4 call gave me the report back while the IZ6 stayed silent. Guess what, you're not in my log. I never copied your full call. W2SC at 8P1A gets the best runner award again; I never have to wait for him and he's running just as smoothly after 40+ hours as at the beginning. I never worked so hard to make 1 meg; there was a lot of running DL's and I's in that mix. Finding the mults was more difficult than ever and some potent line noise certainly didn't help, but it was fairly quiet at times. At the peak of the cycle, the same effort would yield at least twice the score. Let's hope by at least 2009 or 10, we will be merrily running Eu on no meters like ten meters again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 192,648 I could not hear many stations on 40, 15, and 10 due to very high noise level. Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP - Ten-Tec Titan 900W Antennas: 80/160 Inverted "L" 40M Delta Loop (40-20-15) 20M Bobtail (20 N/S path) Logger: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2U Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 669,600 Single-op, single radio. Would two radios doubled the pain? Murphy has my 10m yagi. 73.........Fred/NA2U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA3D Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 394,713 Thanks again to John and Carol for inviting me into their home, and for use of the fine station in Clarksburg. I am becoming spoiled! Now if the sun would cooperate... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA7RF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 27,540 All S&P this time. 40 was impossible with a rig that could not work split. 80 was tough Sunday with what I think was the Chinese over-the-horizon radar taking out the lower half of the band. Still had a good time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE3F Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,919,604 First time m/2 , did not pay this time out with only one runable band . It also did not help to loose several ops at the last second . At times I had two rigs and one op.Well there is next year Steve & team NE3F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF8J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 60,750 Need antennas for 40 and 80 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NH6P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,814,294 Very nice 10 meter opening at near the end of the contest. K3LR owes us Dinner as they did not come through with the Rhode Island mutl for us.... Station played just fine except for some RF getting into the computer when on 80. Thanks to all for the contest QSO's Aloha, Fred and George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 647,976 To say the least interesting contest..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,620,504 Well -- I hope this last weekend officially marks the bottom of the solar cycle. The story of the weekend can be summed up in one number -- 1,732. Our QSO total is the second lowest ever for any M/2 operation in any major 48 hour DX contest at NK7U. The only worse showing was during the last solar cycle bottom in 1996 when we squeeked out just 1,616 QSO’s at a partially completed station with about 1/3 the antennas that usually make up a NK7U complement. Heck we almost always do better than this in a 12 hour NAQP. And, the NK7U gang had 400 more QSO’s in ARRL DX CW edition two weeks ago with fewer operators. We also only had two hours over 100 QSO’s during the whole contest. We did have 15 hours under 20 QSO’s to add to the misery. The last ARRL DX SSB from NK7U was in 2005 as the station was dark last year. How have things changed since then? Following are NK7U's band breakdown for the past six years. It shows a pattern matching the changes in propagation as the sunspot cycle winds down. Call 160m Q/C 80m Q/C 40m Q/C 20m Q/C 15m Q/C 10m Q/C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2007 24/19 170/60 250/61 979/116 274/58 7/3 2006 No operation~ 2005 23/18 129/42 401/75 872/118 580/95 117/39 2004 20/15 169/63 452/89 1117/118 997/113 108/44 2003 13/11 107/41 382/74 663/112 1206/111 271/74 2002 8/7 43/25 348/60 667/106 1402/124 1308/112 As compared to 2005, our 2007 results in three band groupings are illustrative: 160-40M: We had 20% fewer QSO's and 4% greater mults 20-15M: We had 14% fewer QSO's and 18% fewer mults 10M: We had 94% fewer QSO's and 92% fewer mults. Looking at the bands we seem to be in a rut on 160M. Basically we just work the bigger Dx-peditions in the Carib, central America, and northern South America. Joe will have up his 4 sloper 160M system by the time the fall contest season rolls around. We will see if we get to the next layer of stations. 80M shows we had a pretty good year. Close to our high in mults and at a qso high. We had a pretty good opening to Europe the first night and put 20 Europeans in the log. Not bad from the west coast. We had a total of 2 in the 2005 edition. ON4UN was nice enough to send Joe a .WAV file of our QSO with him. The second night was a total wash out to Europe. We had a total of 77 QSO’s with JA. Though putting these in the log felt like a real struggle it was our highest 80M JA total in the last 4 ARRL SSB contests. We did have 125 in the 2006 CQ WW SSB for an unexpected peak. The challenge we have is the developing practice by JA’s to call CQ in their small SSB sub-band and listen split. This effectively takes over the sub-band by the their big-multi ops. In the past when they operated simplex it made it easier to share the bandwidth with others -- it was still bedlam yes, but you had the usual movement of stations in and out. 40M was in hindsight now that we look at it, really disappointing. Our QSO and mult total was well down compared to 2005. It could be we had the MUF drop below 7 MHz for substantial period. We had 43 QSO’s with Europe, a little down from the 49 in 2005. The highlights there were a couple of 5-7 QSO mini-runs that KL2A managed. It is always an accomplishment when we can run Europe on 40M. What really killed us was that we only managed 134 QSO’s with Japan. This is 120 QSO’s less than we had in 2005. In the memorable 1998 ARRL SSB we had an epic year and logged 325 JA’s on 40M. Those were the good ole’ days. Since then we seem to be on a continual reduction in JA’s worked on 40M. 20M was the money band for us like everyone else. Wow is all we can say about K3LR’s totals. We had hoped to break 1,000 Q’s but couldn’t quite pull it off ending up at 979. This was higher than 2005 and is reflective more of the lack of 15M band openings than an overall improvement in 20M. We did have 116 mults which was not bad. Our last mult, H7A, went into the log as the clock stuck midnight right at the end of the contest. We learned a valuable lesson regarding our 20M operation this year. Right before the contest started KL9A and I were comparing signals on two of Joe’s FT1000MP Mark V’s. One of the radio’s, our main 20M rig, “just didn’t sound right”. We did a quick A/B comparison and it did seem like the S meter was reading 2-3 S-units lower than the other. We ran out of time to really diagnose it and we plunged into the contest. During the contest we really struggled on our 20M runs. Signals were really weak and we constantly had to pull calls out of the noise. When the contest was over we looked at it again and confirmed the problem. Since then we diagnosed the problem as a bad roofing filter that was knocking signals down 15-20 db. No wonder we had a hard time hearing everyone. Lesson learned -- check the rigs out better before the contest and trust your intuition when something just does not seem right. 15M was about what we expected. We did get reasonable openings to JA and managed 87 JA QSO’s on 15M which was actually higher than what we had in last fall’s CQWW SSB. The path to EU was marginal with only 35 QSO’s in the log. Notable were our favorite OH6’s. We usually have a high band afternoon opening in OH that is better than the usual morning Europe opening. This year OH6QU started things off at 2114 the first day when he came through loud and clear. Earlier, at 1925, we had a qso with regular OH6NIO on 20M. We mentioned “see you later on 15M”. He didn’t give us much hope as 15M had been dead all day for him. Yet, there he was and got into the log at 2146. On Sunday afternoon OH6QU was booming in for 30 minutes or so -- with signal strengths of 59+10 at times. 10M was, well 10M. We had a couple of short weak openings to PY and LU and we managed to squeeze 7 QSO’s into the log. It can only go up from here. See everyone next time. Scott/K7ZO for all the ops at NK7U. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN2W Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,900,254 Want to thank Rich AA2MF for building a great station. All played well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,487,787 Thanks, as always, to N3HBX for allowing the use of the Poolesville station. We had a packet communications glitch which required close to 40 minutes to fix. If you don't have packet in the "Assisted" mode, you're kind of hosed! I wish I could have done much more time in this, but I got a call right after 0000z Sunday from my wife stating that our younger son was running a 103+ degree fever. So, I had to set my priorities, and had to go home. Otherwise, this probably would have been a 3.5 million point effort. Conditions were not so great, with 15 being OK for a period and 10 downright sucking. I've NEVER heard 10 this bad in a contest, and can only assume that it will get better from here. The dive into the assisted category was an experiment to see how a big station could run in the assisted mode. You certainly could run packet spots all day long, but you certainly were distracted. Single-op Distracted indeed! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 216,228 Jim and I just wanted to play around some...also wanted to see how the 15m stacks were doing into JA and EU...I had told Jim that 15m would open to JA at 2130...and sure enough at exactly 2130 he worked his first JA on 15....had many nice signal reports from EU on the 15m stack also...were test driving the station for a possible WPX SSB single band effort by VE7ZO later in the month...we normally don't do this test as we do the WPX SSB instead...but no M-M crew for WPX SSB, just a single band effort...by the sound of scores I heard on 3830 we missed a really good one...73 to all and look for NQ4I in WPX SSB and maybe WPX CW in May!! de Rick nq4i ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 95,016 Squeezed in as much as I could around family stuff, etc. I had hoped to go all night one of the two nights, but sick kids kept me and the XYL up much of the week, so I was falling asleep at the keyboard at 1:30 am local each night. (The drool on the keyboard was a signal that I should go to bed.) Did the best I could with low power through all the QRM. Best DX was VP8KF on 15 meters along with ZS on 15 as well. Had to quit at 1900z or would have grinded for a few more hours. See you in WPX SSB with my "rare" prefix and the CQ Machine. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000s Inverted L's on 80 & 160 End fedz dipoles by W4OP for 10-40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT4D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 826,260 Wow, looks like we were the kings of 10 meters with a whopping 27 Q's! Lots of fun playing with spot S&P(W4KAZ does not operate assisted at home QTH). This wound up helping the mult count in the long run. Apologies to the stations who tried to call into my 20 meter run(W4KAZ) on Sunday, but signals were very weak into NT4D on 20 amid the high QRM. Fishing was much better in the 15 meter hole. We could easily have done better if we had run more on Saturday, but we are all hoping to see better band conditions before committing to an all out effort. Hoping to see the sunspots ramping up soon. 73, W4KAZ (for the crew) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 230,256 Spent about 8 or 9 hours S/Ping around (more DXing than contesting this time). Had a great time and still was able to follow through with a promised hike with my son. I decided to "cash in" my credit w/ the XYL during the WPX. Hope it works out! 73, jeff nx9t www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE9R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 864,012 We tested and compared a 4 Square for 40m and a 4 Square for 80m to our standard antennas during the first night (many thanks to OE9AMJ). Very little improvement compared to the work on the Antennas setting them up for every contest - fixed installation is not possible on our property :-( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8X Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 405,720 No technical difficulties ! Thank You all NA friends again, so nice to work You all ! Juha oh8nc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1DVM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,680 10W and LW 80 meters long ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,663,406 There was some "magic" in 160m propagaqtion, I checked many times and ALWAYS heard W3LPL,K3LR and W1FJ very loud - all the time, only rarely others? There was not significant variation in strength, but mostly no response to my CQ, sometimes a semi-decent pileup. Once even one of those called in once more and asked how is his signal ?! He told me I am loud there but almost the only one on the band, so I do not know. In CW the variation in strength was significant - even there were moments when no one at all was audible ?!? Propagation was significantly better than in the CW part. 20m "lasted" almost 2 hours longer. I was nicely surprised by 15m - it was sort of slow in saturday and everything was comming from SA, so I moved back to 20m having only some 15 states, beeing almost content it is all, but later it opened once more and after first day I had 38 states, Sunday was even better, most of the stations came direct and even a couple of W6&7 made it through. 829 QSO there was nice and unexpected surprice. It also explains not so nice number of QSOs on 20m. Overall I am happy with the score - much less than last year but much more than 2 years ago.... Thanks everyone for the QSO and hope to meet you once more in the next contest ! 73 ! Jiri OK5R - OK1RI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK7M Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 247,500 Thanks to all for contacts, the receiving conditions on crowded 20 were very difficult so sorry for many requests for repeating. 73 ! Daniel OK7M (OK1DIG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3R Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 85,860 Some contest effort on 20m started Sunday evening at 16:08Z, after previous completation main job on the OL7R contest QTH. Main job was prepare 15m and some mods on K9AY loop. I have wanted to leave our QTH but signal levels on 20m from state side were good. Too late for serious participation. I desided to stay there. First time used new Heil headset with active noise canceling system. It seems that QP technology really improves listening, together with NR DSP function its fantastic. Lot of stations were copied thanks this. Congrats also for Vendy,OL9R to his nice score on 40m from second workplace in the same QTH. Equipment: Kenwood TS870(modified)+Heil QP4 headset PA 2xSRS457 5el.OWA@20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL9R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 115,056 SOSB from our M/S station (OL7R). 4 el KLM beam 23m 1KW FT-1000MP (thanks to Zdeno OK3RM) N1MM TNX for contacts, see you in the WPX with OL7R contest group. 73 Vendy OK1WMV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4UN Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 177,240 Permarks: Pretty good conditions, but not like last year (2006). The main difference that the propagation did not stretch that far West as last year: last year I worked 25 stations in CA, now only 4! Last year I worked 48 W6-7 stations, now only 20. Even into the Midwest there was a difference. Example: in 2006 I worked 48 stations from Tex, now only 34. I nevertheless caught exactly the same number of multipliers, and in the US missed only UT, NV and MT (W7LR, where were you?). On Sunday morning there was a noticeable increase in noise level created by statics, so summer is on its way… I made 1056 good QSO’s (100 less than last year), the score was also about 10 % down from last year (which was a new Eu record). The new band plan in the US was somewhat of a question mark. Should we refrain from working split, and move below 3750 and work on our own frequency? Fact is that not working split usually results in a higher QRM (splatter) level than when we listen around 3850. I tried both. The first night I worked almost exclusively split, and the second night and last few hours almost exclusively single frequency. One of the problems is that all of a sudden some (mostly East European) station plants itself smash on your transmit frequency and starts calling CQ “listening 38..”… The end fire phased Beverages to the USA performed very well, and did cut down noise coming from the E-SE down considerably. I tried to work even the weakest station, but I know I failed a number of times, where I caught half of a call but never was able to get the rest of the call. I’ll try harder next year. Thank you all for working me. I hope to see you all again next year. 73, John, ON4UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON5KQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 15,444 just to give some points very simple set-up here at home (not my usual contest place...) only antenna was my 21m vertical for 80m... Ulli, ON5KQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON6LY Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 28,728 Used SD by EI5DI super logging program, TX ic746, 100watts into a 4el mono band Yagi for 20meter. 73 to all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7X Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 228,636 Bad propagation; specially on sunday. Big problems with qrm from some stations from east/ southeast just outside EU!!! Some stations using very bad PA, with HIGH power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,762,988 I arrived at my home in Aruba several days before the contest. The 10m through 40m antennas are permanently installed at my station, however there are no transceivers or low band antennas set up. So, I spent two days laying down ground radial wires for the vertical, putting up small RX antennas and setting up two transceivers with automatic bandpass filters and automatic antenna switching. It is amazing how many wires are needed for wireless communication. Fortunately everything worked perfectly and I had some free time to do to do a few minor household projects as well as relax on the beach before the contest. I planned on starting on 20m, however the band appeared to be in poor shape so I started on 40m. After 1 1/2 minutes of calling CQ and not working anyone I realized this was a mistake and I switched back to 20m. I immediately had a huge pileup, which lasted for over an hour. Signals were not particularly strong, however I did work 321 QSOs per hour so I am glad that I changed bands. When I switched to 40m at 0120z I had much better success at running than earlier in the contest. At 0200z, I switched 160m to try and work a few multipliers. Usually top band is noisy in Aruba and stations have trouble hearing me and I have trouble hearing them from my small property. This time I felt like I was back on 20m and I easily worked many stations and I had to recheck my VFO to make sure that I was indeed on 1.8MHz. After working 111 stations in 1/2 hour on top band I went to 80m which was also in great shape and produced similar rates. This was by far the best low band conditions I have ever experienced from Aruba. I stayed up all night jumping between 40m, 80m and 160m. Finding a clear spot on 80m was now very easy thanks to the new U.S. phone band allocations, however many U.S. stations seemed to be avoiding the new segments. I guess old habits are hard to break. In the morning I went to 20m and then 15m. It appeared that most of the US could not work Europe on 15m, but they could work the Caribbean so rates were fantastic all day long. I kept one transceiver on 10m waiting for some opening, but I heard very little from the U.S. and I only made two contacts on that band during the first day and both stations were in Florida. The second night was a repeat of the first, except with slower rates and a dinner and nap break. The rates slowed down considerably the second morning and with only one multiplier on 10m I knew I had to really work hard on that band. I could hear South American stations running on 10m, however I could not hear the stations that they were working. While running stations on 15m, around 1740z, KB5TX urged me to try to work him on 10m. I had my second radio on 10m all day and never hear a U.S. station, but I tried anyway. Surprisingly he was quite loud and we easily made contact. This was exciting as he was a new multiplier and also the first station that I worked on all six bands. I then switched to 10m and started to work stations at a slow pace. Unfortunately conditions only appeared to be good toward Texas. Apparently I was spotted on packet and I eventually worked some of the very big stations around the country. W6LD / P40L, who had commitments preventing him for operating this contest from Aruba, made a great effort to give me my only 10m California contact. Working every new multiplier on this almost dead band was definitely exciting. I alternated between 10m and 15m many times hoping that the signal would peak to other areas of the country on 10m, however this did not occur. I tried to finish the contest on 20m however rates got really slow and I switched to 40m for the final ten minutes. This was a fun contest with fantastic low band conditions and if 10m were just a little bit better I may have been able to challenge K9PG s (WP3R) LP record. I would like to thank everyone who worked me, especially the 12 stations that really toughed it out to log me on all six bands. It was also great to work the many newly upgraded hams. They did a great job of properly making a contest contact and I hope that they will enjoy HF contesting for many years. I spent most of the following day dismantling the station before heading back home. There is a picture of the house with a description of the antennas on http://www.qrz.com/p40a . Please QSL via WD9DZV. 73, John KK9A / P40A john@p40a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40LE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,777,860 A part time effort before preparing to return to the USA on Sunday... Biggest pain: having no voice keyer - you get hoarse real quickly.. Op. time: abt 17 hrs. Had 12 hrs of over 120 with 5 over 160/ hr. Ten QSO rate peaked at 288/hr. Interesting note: I just realized this was 1st phone contest for me from OUTSIDE the US in 50 YEARS. Last one was CQWW Phone ( All AM, of course ) from HA5KBA Oct. 1956. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,968,270 Wisconsin invaded Curacao, as we were fortunate to have a visit from Scott (KA9FOX), Mike (K9NW), and Chad (WE9V). Our usual CCC team couldn't make it this year. WB9Z is buried in work, AE9B's daughter has started studies at Harvard (That's the good news AND the bad news.), and NW0L is in the midst of a job change. Thus Chad, who was with us for ARRL SSB last year, was able to return and drag his world class friends along. Lucky for PJ2T. It was a privilege to make new friends. The bottom of the cycle is a good time for Caribbean stations. When conditions to Europe are poor, beams turn south and we benefit. Low band conditions were a particularly nice surprise, with low noise and lots of guys to work both nights. We had been curious to see how the new subband allocations on 75 might change the architecture of who is where in the band, but at least from our QTH things seemed about the same as always. The 10 meter story was nearly a carbon copy of ARRL CW. An almost complete wash on Saturday (2 Qs) and a thin and squirrelly but very welcome opening on Sunday. We never were able to make it into the north or northwest (no WA, OR, ID, not a single VE, etc.), but made up for it with good rates and QSO volume into Texas, working a lot of stations who had no idea what contest this (or any) was or what to say. We trained them on the fly and harvested welcome points. The biggest surprise of the weekend was a call on 20 from a VY0, but understandably he wouldn't move and never reappeared for us on any other bands. As with the CW contest, we were fortunate to have absolutely no equipment or software glitches. Writelog and the Ethernet were perfect, and the Titan III at Station #1 and AL-1200 at Station #2 played flawlessly. Special congrats to KY1V on the first big outing of their Jamaica superstation 6Y1V. Dave's been working hard and doing a lot of research for a long time to get to this point of finally doing a major operation. Nobody knows better than the PJ2T gang what an incredible logistical and technical challenge it is do do these things in this part of the world. So we welcome 6Y1V to the "neighborhood" and look forward to lots of friendly competition in the future. We were as shocked as the rest of the contesting community at the outrageously untimely passing of N6ZZ. Phil was at PJ2T for CQWW SSB last fall and then spent a couple of days with us in November on the way down to and back from PZ for the CW contest. We quickly became good friends. He was bright, warm, caring, funny, fabulously quick on the radio, and a delight to spend time with. He was also in absolutely incredible physical condition, so it seems all the more cruel that he's gone. We thought of him often dorung this contest and operated much of it with his picture up on one of the monitors. PJ2T also participated in the moment of silence on the air at 0000Z on Saturday night. We'll never forget Phil Goetz. Thanks again to all of our CCC members who put us on and keep us on the air. 73 from Paradise, - Geoff, W0CG, PJ2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7AG Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 14,892 Rig: IC-756ProIII Antenna: Dipole @ 35m - no RX specific ears :( ARRL DX SSB - 2007-03-03 0000Z to 2007-03-05 0000Z - 151 QSOs PT7AG Max Rates: 2007-03-04 2335Z - 3,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 180 per hour by PT7AG 2007-03-03 0226Z - 1,4 per minute (10 minute(s)), 84 per hour by PT7AG 2007-03-04 2351Z - 0,6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 38 per hour by PT7AG I was very excited for my first SOSB 160m Contest. No clue how it would be. Wow, hardest part were keep me awake hole night and make, like first night, only 60Qs! Other hand is dig the noise to listen someone. Great rush (for 160m) on the last hour: 34Qs! Thank you for listen my signal in the noise and call me back! Good luck and see you again on WPX Contest. 73, Luc PY8AZT (PT7AG) ZY7C Team member ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7CB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,126,906 ARRL DX SSB - 2007-03-03 0000Z to 2007-03-05 0000Z - 4247 QSOs PT7CB - Off Times >= 30 Minutes 03/03/07 00:00Z - 03/03/07 00:41Z 41 mins 03/03/07 08:03Z - 03/03/07 12:37Z 274 mins 03/03/07 19:06Z - 03/03/07 20:06Z 60 mins 03/03/07 21:26Z - 03/03/07 23:35Z 129 mins 03/04/07 07:07Z - 03/04/07 13:10Z 363 mins 03/04/07 13:25Z - 03/04/07 14:50Z 85 mins 03/04/07 17:27Z - 03/04/07 18:00Z 33 mins Total Time Off 16,42 hours Total Time On 31,58 hours ARRL DX SSB - 2007-03-03 0000Z to 2007-03-05 0000Z - 4247 QSOs PT7CB Max Rates: 2007-03-03 1245Z - 7,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 420 per hour by PT7CB 2007-03-04 2354Z - 4,8 per minute (10 minute(s)), 288 per hour by PT7CB 2007-03-03 1718Z - 3,8 per minute (60 minute(s)), 229 per hour by PT7CB ARRL DX SSB - 2007-03-03 0000Z to 2007-03-05 0000Z - 4247 QSOs PT7CB Runs >10 QSOs: 2007-03-03 0041 - 0059Z, 14227 kHz, 57 Qs, 191,8/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 0059 - 0154Z, 14228 kHz, 154 Qs, 170,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 0202 - 0423Z, 7175 kHz, 266 Qs, 113,1/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 0426 - 0537Z, 3793 kHz, 171 Qs, 143,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 0542 - 0749Z, 3777 kHz, 209 Qs, 98,9/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 1242 - 1258Z, 21245 kHz, 52 Qs, 195,2/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 1319 - 1325Z, 21219 kHz, 21 Qs, 227,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 1327 - 1400Z, 21277 kHz, 68 Qs, 125,1/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 1413 - 1417Z, 21257 kHz, 11 Qs, 175,2/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 1425 - 1450Z, 21239 kHz, 82 Qs, 198,9/hr PT7AG 2007-03-03 1451 - 1905Z, 21239 kHz, 862 Qs, 203,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 2006 - 2034Z, 21238 kHz, 90 Qs, 195,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 2048 - 2125Z, 14204 kHz, 131 Qs, 210,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-03 2340 - 0126Z, 14203 kHz, 294 Qs, 167,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0141 - 0148Z, 14158 kHz, 14 Qs, 121,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0155 - 0258Z, 7158 kHz, 143 Qs, 135,0/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0305 - 0325Z, 1855 kHz, 37 Qs, 113,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0328 - 0344Z, 3761 kHz, 41 Qs, 153,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0352 - 0413Z, 3810 kHz, 39 Qs, 112,9/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0428 - 0517Z, 3658 kHz, 101 Qs, 122,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0529 - 0605Z, 7175 kHz, 66 Qs, 109,7/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 0611 - 0653Z, 7196 kHz, 93 Qs, 134,0/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1310 - 1316Z, 14220 kHz, 14 Qs, 132,3/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1319 - 1324Z, 14219 kHz, 13 Qs, 181,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1455 - 1510Z, 21269 kHz, 24 Qs, 95,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1512 - 1523Z, 21239 kHz, 12 Qs, 66,5/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1601 - 1726Z, 21249 kHz, 203 Qs, 143,4/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1800 - 1933Z, 21268 kHz, 277 Qs, 177,5/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 1951 - 2001Z, 14203 kHz, 15 Qs, 94,1/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 2008 - 2227Z, 14215 kHz, 418 Qs, 179,9/hr PT7CB 2007-03-04 2240 - 2355Z, 14253 kHz, 215 Qs, 171,6/hr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 247,320 PP5NW at ZX5J superstation miles and miles ahead! But was unbelievable nice to do this contest having very good nights of sleep. Main activity allow me to go to the bed around 23h00 / 00h00 local time !! And most important: a lot of friends on frequency - AC8G, W6OAT, K1AR, K1TO, W6NV, N6AA, NK6A, W4MYA, K2PS, K5ZD - amazing !! Like contests before, my score were all the time and minute by minute at livescores.com. Well, hope to listen you next time. Vitor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY5JO Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 30,618 RIG: TS50s with 100 Watts, antenna 5 elem mono yagi to 15 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 795,072 It was nice to test new RX antennas and be convinced how is difficult to transmit into a simple ones. 160m: first surpise was VY2... sure!!! ZM! answered on INV-V@25m. K3LR was really loud sunday morning, but w/o any reaction for our call. W3LPL was much better with RX, but about 10 minutes to say RADIO-LIMA-THREE-ALPHA is too long for the 1 QSO. He sayd R ??? 3A. So, I know about 100-150 USA call-sings who's active in international contests. But operator began to guess: RZ3A! Does W3LPL's do not use master.dta? Second surprise was W1FJ. 2 multipliers is much better than nothing. 80m: good start on 80m and very good USA can work bellow 3780kc. First night we was around 3717 and have 238 QSOs/38 MULT. Worked short path OR (W7AT, NK7U), BC (VE7CC), CA (K6OY) from west coast. It was fine because LP both evenings nothing heard. Only 80 QSO second night but 2 multipliers was: NB (VE9HC, VE9DX) and SD (KB7UP) He sayd QRM, but his signal was strong and clear. 40m: don't think we have not antennas or something else! We have it! 4 ele QUAD, 3 ele QUAD, 2 ele QUAD and wires. It was simpy such propagation. All the nights we don't copy any NA big guns, only 2 mornings 70-80 QSOs, mainly with CA, AZ, WA. LP was not too like on 80m. 20m: Anything interesting. Everything as it is usual. 15m: First day only K2XA, W1FJ, KC1XX, KB1H and W3LPL, but sunday was nice opened! Canadians was really loud: VY2TT, VO1HE, VO1MP, VY2ZM. Everybody was 10 to 20 over S9 and between them weak signals of KC1XX, K3LR, W3LPL with S2-4. It was at 12z, but later USA was good too. Thanks everybody for QSOs. Hope to meet in RDXC www.rdxc.org QSL via W3HNK Max RV3BA www.rk3awl.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59KW Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 51,756 x7 @ 10m ft1000mp I choose the 15m band because had just some hours to spend on the band. surprised to had some nice pile-up's but unfortunatly were wery short. where were all west coaster and canadian? surprised also on praise's about my lp signal. thank you all for the qso's nad see you in the wpx. 73 marko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 117,306 The low bands were in terrible shape this weekend for NA. Hard to make QSOs on 40, some of the few USA stations heard, did not listen below 7100, where we in Sweden has to be until 2009. Sunday was a bit better than saturday, 15m especially. Nice strong opening to west coast at 21z on 15m. Quite hard to hear in all the QRM during the day on 20m. Really looking forward to the next solar maximum with plenty of space on 10m! TNX QSOs and CU all in RDXC. 73 Per / Kurt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6U Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 209,884 Wow, this was a contest with weird conditions. Working two Single-Operator categories, SOSB/20 going for the SM-Record, and SOSB/40 for fun. First hours of the contest did not start very well. Almost three hours of CQ rendered in *2* qso's on 40m, while southern europe was working loads of NA wich I hardly heard at all. SM0W/Teemu did better on 80m with more than 100 QSO's during the first night. Later during saturday, I once again heard southern EU work NA way before I heard them. A few hours later, the conditions came to us also, but several valuable hours into W1-4 was lost already. I could see the SM record float away already :) 20m closed early, and I took a break, and went down to 40 quite late concidering yesterdays bad conditions. This was a mistake, 40 was basically cooking compared to yesterday, and I worked almost 100 qso's in an hour before going to sleep. This was quite funny as 80m was almost stone dead for Teemu this night. Sunday had great conditions on 20m, opening at the same time as for the rest of EU, but around 19z I noticed I was 500 qso's short to catch the old SM-Record, and QRM levels on 20m was totally horrible, so we went QRT and gave up for the weekend. Perhaps I'll make a new try next year. Ants: 20m: 6el Quad (SM6U) 40m: 2el Quad (SM6YOU) Big thanks to SM0W/Teemu for hosting me at SK0UX during the weekend! I'd also like to thank SM6DOI, SM6MIS & SM6YOF for lending me equipment for the contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6YOU Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 7,056 Wow, this was a contest with weird conditions. Working two Single-Operator categories, SOSB/20 going for the SM-Record, and SOSB/40 for fun. First hours of the contest did not start very well. Almost three hours of CQ rendered in *2* qso's on 40m, while southern europe was working loads of NA wich I hardly heard at all. SM0W/Teemu did better on 80m with more than 100 QSO's during the first night. Later during saturday, I once again heard southern EU work NA way before I heard them. A few hours later, the conditions came to us also, but several valuable hours into W1-4 was lost already. I could see the SM record float away already :) 20m closed early, and I took a break, and went down to 40 quite late concidering yesterdays bad conditions. This was a mistake, 40 was basically cooking compared to yesterday, and I worked almost 100 qso's in an hour before going to sleep. This was quite funny as 80m was almost stone dead for Teemu this night. Sunday had great conditions on 20m, opening at the same time as for the rest of EU, but around 19z I noticed I was 500 qso's short to catch the old SM-Record, and QRM levels on 20m was totally horrible, so we went QRT and gave up for the weekend. Perhaps I'll make a new try next year. Ants: 20m: 6el Quad (SM6U) 40m: 2el Quad (SM6YOU) If you did record my signal, please send me the audio files on e-mail! I'd really like to listen to them. Big thanks to SM0W/Teemu for hosting me at SK0UX during the weekend! I'd also like to thank SM6DOI, SM6MIS & SM6YOF for lending me equipment for the contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,136 Not so bad condx after all except 10 m. 15 was open almost as long as 20 on sunday. Closed around 20.30 z. Some hams worked split on 20. Good idea. No problem to get contact. As usual no signals from Dakota (are there any active?) and few from west coast. I´ll never get my WAS. But why complain. It´s always nice to hear voices from stations I usally only see on the sceen. Will hear rest of the world in wpx next. Set up this time: IC-756PRO 100 w Cushcraft A4S, locked on 305 degs. cu/Kurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN3R Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 5,244 It was my next contest when I was operating from the club station of SP3KEY on the 160 meters band (contest call SN3R) I was using 4-square K9AY array - antenna idea by SP3RBR. Four K9AY placed on the square 40x40 meters - this system works really great. K9AY system of four antennas is especially advantageous in areas where you have not enough place for full size beverages. It is also very effective on 80 meters. Please visit the web site of SP3KEY at http://sp3key.com/. There are two articles aboyt the K9AY available in English: http://www.sp3key.com/klub/k9ay_160_en/index.html http://www.sp3key.com/klub/k9ay_pro/index_en.html See you in the next contest SP7VC Mek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM1W Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 374,178 Very hard job in the QRM. Rig : 4el monobander at 19m (www.dxbeam.com great antennas) and Home made Amp 73 Marc F1HAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,258,585 Hello! 3 week-ends...3 contests... Thanks to our wifes to be so compliant hi! For the first time, we tried a M/2 setup, because we were afraid that a M/S would have been too boring with 6 ops in the shack. Very fun category in spite of low propagation, we will try again. High wind (100km/h) on Sunday morning, coming south-west, and at 23:47 on Sunday, the main tower have been hit by a lightning! Fortunetly, ( I should say incredibly) nothing damaged! Oli F1AKK was standing at 10m from this tower when it's happenned, and was an inch of s... in his pant hi!!! Rig: Dipole 160m, dipole 80m slopped to US, 2 elements 40m DXBEAM, 6 elements 20m DXBEAM, 6 elements 15m DXBEAM and a decorative 5 elements 10m (absolutely nothing heard) For TM6M@F6KHM team, F5TTU Xavier ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TO5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,799,824 Too many dupes this year! Ten was wide open Sunday at 1800 UTC, but nobody was there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V26H Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,103,171 This was our first effort working outside of the US- a dream come true. WX was great, the bands were VERY active (except for 10, which we were an absolute goose egg- we swung the 10 meter stack in every direction and could not hear the U.S., though I did hear many of the stations south and west of us working them.Seemed to be a NW/SE path.) Our local host was great, as were the people in Antigua (and the food...) The V26B station was in great shape and we were in awe of the pileups. I did notice a lot of /ag calls which was great to hear- and more KI4 calls than ever before! Thanks for all the qso's- and special thanks to WT3Q, N2ED, N3OC and WX3B for their guidance in the V26H operation. We look forward to working everyone in WPX. 73, Henry W2DZO/V26H Robert KG4NEP/V26RW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V47KP Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,074,731 Power line noise was a problem again, Hopefully we can get it fixed. We spent two weeks doing station maintance and repairs also installed a 5 element 10 meter hygain ca and a 5 elementn 15 meter hygain ca The 15 meter beam work very good next one to go up will be 5 element 20 meter hygain ca these antennas should be a big help in the future. All work was completed about 7 hours before the contest. Thanks for all the Q'S w2ox Alex and k3nm Joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 66,420 Managed to catch an exteremly short opening on 10. Don't know of other openings but I did check the band on a regular basis. Things started out so slow that I took loads of time off, figured I'd never get close to last year's score but ended up beating it - go figure! As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run QRP. Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 405,300 Contest Club Ontario ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7AM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,385 Babysitting grandaughter!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 97,980 A casual effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 66,120 Mainly a spectator in this one... 3 hours of S&P Packet pileup busting for countries, plus 7 moves for those who asked...Basically clicked on spots, and pushed buttons on the DVS-2...May have actually spoken into the Heil 5 times... More or less looking to see what propagation might be like for next weekend's BERU, and the RUDX in 2 weeks...Two of my favourites of the year... Man, there were some WIDE signals on...Clicked on a spot on 14.266, heard the splatter from a EU signal on 14.249...That's bad... 15 was interesting when I was there, not much heard on 10, 40 was great... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2HIT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 109,692 Very tough propagation conditions made this a very challenging contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3AD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 528,384 No 10M openings from my QTH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3BK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 58,806 Started late just to give out a few contacts. Only operated the first day mostly, had so much fun working dx on the different bands as a search and pounce station that I did more than I originally planned. Sunday had other commitments. I had fun and thanks to all that worked me. See you in the next one as VE3BK or as part of the VE3DC Contest Group. 73 Rick VE3BK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 114,750 Antenna got stuck on 330 degrees on Friday night... Many local noises. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 11,760 Could only spend a couple of hours at most. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 20,868 Late Thursday evening and early Friday morning we had freezing rain and high wind. The combination of the two is never good. Did not check my antennas Friday morning before went to work but I had a bad feeling. Came home early and I saw from a distance that my 5 band Vertical (using it for 80 /40) was missing and the yagi's driven elemen as well. I did not know at that time but the 160 antenna was down too. I left with no antennas at all..that sucks..:-) I just hate when my antennas are not working. Fixed up the vertical as much I could in the -10 C wind. Checked ten meters a few times but it was empty. 40 and 80 meter sounded way better then in the last few months. Hope to put back my antennas for the WPX. 73 Lali VE3NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,470 1st time working S. Africa and Kaliningrad. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,178,330 Operation planned as mixed between competition and mentoring for newcomers to the contesting world. We have some new contesters visiting the station to taste the contesting world and they enjoy it. For sure we will have more VE3/VA3 active in the contest very soon, that is the most important. Thanks to VE3RM for being a great host & teacher. 73, Claudio VE3AP/VE2DWA/LU7DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 542,646 Voice modes are most difficult for my station with my marginal antennas. There were some great QRP stations worked and they deserve medals. Worked KH7X on 160m to 15m but never heard much on 10m at all. Hope all had fun. Rig – ICOM 756 Pro2 / ACOM 1000 Ant – 2 el quad @ 31 feet & 80/40 dipole @ 65 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3ZIN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,544 1/2 day operating time only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 90,390 My first attempt at this contest. Very frustrating to say the least. Knowing that I wasn't going to be competitive, my goals were to work as many new countries as possible, give out a VE4 multiplier, and have fun. It was frustrating to hear the east coast stations working the European stations during the morning and the west coast working into asia and Japan at night on 20m. Other than a couple JA's, I couldn't be heard over the KW crowd and QRM.From VE4 land almost all the DX is 2 hops so windows of opportunity are slim. My highlight came on Saturday evening when everybody seemed to vacate 20m just as we went into greyline. I then was able to work JT1C who was calling and calling and was getting few replies. I then was able to grab a few Asiatic Russian stations as well. When dealing with low power and wire antennas, it pays to watch the propagation trends and try and take advantage of these as much as possible. The most frustrating times are when the DX station was calling and calling with no one answering, and he doesn't hear you!!! Must find some more gain somewhere! All in all, had a great time, added a couple new countries, gave out the VE4 multi, and hopefully demonstarted to the XYL that we need to install a tower and beam this summer. 73 Ed / VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5UA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 561,024 Total washout on 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6FI Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 513,216 Operators were Denis Ve6aq, Evan Ve6fi, Derrick ve6bi, Dave ve6kd Yes, it was a good time. It was the first time we really used N1MM logging software. We actually took the old DOS computers out so there was no turning back to CT. We were suitably impressed with the new software. Denis Ve6aq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6JY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 324,168 This was meant to be a SINGLE OP 20m assisted effort but there ain't no such category so.... Only went down to 80 to give ON4UN and a few other strong Eu signals a mult. Listened on 15m a few times and good Eu signal there too. So overall I think it was a pretty good weekend from Western Canada. 20 was open both nights all night but hard to get much started. When I did get a run there so many weak signals that I just couldn't copy, sorry about that. A lot of them turned out to be 100 watters, as the majority of the 5 watt QRP guys had better antennas and therefore better signals.... 73 Don VE6JY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK2CZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 714 extensive listening, but nothing heard/worked on 10m... great signals on 40m.. especually the new US band limits down to 7.128 which helped big time from this end.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,185,822 Well, that was fun. The best effort on my part from my own station ever. I made more contacts this weekend than I have ever made in any single month since I got my licence. The station worked great, except for an intermittant problem with the amp on 15M. The bandswitch cuts out. I think it has a cold solder joint so I'll have to see if I can repair it without too much fuss. Not a lot of room to maneouver a soldering iron in the front of an SB-220. The PTT jack on the back of the rig crapped out with about 45 minutes to go before the contest started so I had to take the rig apart and resolder it onto the board. Got it back in place with about 3 minutes to spare. I wish they used less screws in these rig cases. Anyway, I was hoping to do well but the Qs just kept coming. 80 and 40 were OK the first night but most of the Europeans were listening around 7250 and above and my antenna is not cut for that. Last time I tried up there, I ended up getting the alarm company to call and seee if we were in trouble. I have to work on a solution for 80 but I think a SteppIR upgrade is in order for 40. With s9 or better noise, I think 160 is not going to be an issue for me here at this station. 20M opened to Europe at around 6AM local time and, being in the middle of the North Atlantic, I had my way with it as there was very little, if any propagation with the US at that time. Got some good runs going on 20 and 15, which was open later on. At one point someone told me I was on the same frequency as KC1XX but I never heard them at all and it never affected my rate very much. 15 was like that. IN fact, it was late in the day before I could hear any the US stations working into Europe although I could hear Europeans working US stations. QSB on the second day and shifting propagation. No 10 or 160 was a bother but that's the way it is. I noticed quite a few PA0 25W stations on. That was good to see. There were a lot of QRP stations as well, most of which had bigger signals than some of the kW stations. Anyway, it was my first million-point result so hopefully I won't have to scroll down the results page to find my call this time HI. It didn't feel like I spent 23 hours in the chair but I guess I did. Not a lot of time S&P in this one except when 15M started fading in the evenings all I heard was Caribbean and South America so worked then for mults. Rig: FT-920 Amp: SB-220 Antennae: 3El SteppIR and wire dipoles Software: N1MM 7.1.7 1506 individual stations worked 95 individual countries worked 16 stations on 4 bands England was most worked country at 253 Qs Thanks to all who called and sorry to all I couldn't work. At times on 40, 20 and 15 when I was running, I'd let up the PTT and was greeted by a steady buzz of equally-strong (weak, that is) stations with no calls standing out for a few seconds. I hope to get most of those G stations next weekend during the BERU. Keep an ear out for VO1RAC hopping around the bands. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1JNS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 249,804 This was my first ARRL DX contest, lots of fun, looking forward to many more. 73 Jason VO1JNS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 177,225 My first ARRL DX SSB contest, enjoyed it very much. 73 Ken, VO1KVT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP2E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,060,781 It was great to work all the USA guys and gals once again. Sorry 10 meters was such a bust for us. We could hear the deeper Caribbean/SA and Central America running and running, but it was all we could do to work a few. We're too close for F2 propagation at this time of the cycle and have to rely on sporadic E. We did have quite a bit of good (to great) Es during the week prior to the test, so we might have been lucky, but no joy this time. Again we managed to work a few of the East Coast multi's (by the hardest), but not all. If we can't work the big stations, not many others in those areas have much chance. We still could not get WriteLog 10.62H to stay networked during the contest, but not all of our computers are on the same operating system yet and have various degrees of AV, firewalls, and some are still vintage Jurassic period (Computa-saurus), so we are still testing and working on these problems. Single-op and multi-single are not much problem when the network goes down, but any higher class would be disasterous, so we need to get this one under control rapidly before Cycle 24 gets going. We noticed a new prediction from NOAA that cycle 23 is bottoming in (or around) March, 2007. Since cycles go up much faster than down, 2008 looks like the first year of good returning propagation. Special note to the VP2E team members: get ready!! Activity levels seemed down once again as during the CW weekend. It's obvious a lot of stations have "packed it in" for the duration of the solar minimum. We trust they will start returning shortly. It was good to hear all the stations signing /AG and /AE this weekend. We made a special effort to congratulate each one during the QSO. Some of these stations may never work us on CW, but they will be a great asset on SSB. Maybe some of them will eventually be interested enough to learn the code once they find out what they are missing. Our apologies to any DX stations who heard us and could not work us. All our antennas were beamed to the USA/Canada only, and they are large with narrow patterns. ON the low bands we were listening only to the North American beverage, so almost nothing but USA/Canada makes it through. We will be very active in the CQ WW contests (and others) and will work as many DX stations as possible at that time plus before and after. VP2E is a permanent station (not a DX-pedition) and we should be active during the next entire solar cycle. There are also many new VP2Exx stations appearing on the bands. Anguilla is becoming the DX "place to be". VP2E should be an easy multiplier in the future. Thanks again for all the QSO's and see you in the next one. 73 from the VP2E station and crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,558,973 Equipmemt: IC-7000, CT 9.57 Antennas: 160m Inverted L (60 feet vertical) 80m Inverted L (30 feet vertical on 40m vertical) 40m Vertical 20-15m A4S at 25 feet Bermuda is NOT the Caribbean. Conditions were the worst that I have experienced in Bermuda. 15m was a disappointment but I expected it as there were very few signals on 15m the days before the contest. On Monday morning before I broke down the station, the 15m band was full of European signals and the band was quiet. Over the weekend, all the bands were noisy masking very weak signals. I also thought that activity levels were down substantially. I can usually work a bunch of stations on 40 SSB on Sunday morning when the east coast wakes up. They weren't there this year. The only signals on 15m came from Texas north to VE5, nothing east of Colorado or west of Nevada (no W6). So I concentrated on 20m while checking 15m every 45 minutes or so. I was spotted on 15m on Saturday and K3LR called in the blind. When I responded, there was no answer even though I could hear him weakly. I worked less than a handful of east coast stations on back scatter. Even though the SSB segments on 80 and 40 have changed, I found very little change in operating habits there. I tried CQs just above 7100 with very poor results. Likewise on 80m, I got substantially more answers to my CQs above 3750 than down around 3705, 3700 being the bottom limit of my operating permit in Bermuda. During the last hour, I was really scratching for contacts. I called CQ on 7100 for a half hour before getting a bunch of answers at 2345. I checked DX Summit and I was spotted right at that time. The IC-7000 operated flawlessly in both the CW and SSB contests. I love its features and portability and it is easy to put it in my carry-on luggage. I learned of N6ZZ's passing on Friday and that was on my mind the whole weekend, especially when I worked a NM station. Phil was one of the great guys in contesting and I am glad that I had the opportunity to know him. The lesson is to live everyday to the fullest because you never know. I have VP9GE reserved again for next year. Ed is a great host and I have really enjoyed the visits each year. If you visit, you won't be disappointed. 73, Kurt, W6PH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 688,446 Started as casual operation but ramped up somewhere along the line.Many interruptions;sack time by 10:30 local(up at 6:30am local),Hockey Night in Canada,church,meals,etc; but managed over 15 hours in chair.This was a lot of fun and some new ones for me,thanks 7S2T.Many contests I am the lone VY2, but as one Caribbean op quipped, "Are you guys having a convention up there?".With SS,TT and ZM operating(and maybe others??),VY2 should have been well covered.Highlight--working KH7X on 80 around 8 am local,90 min. after sunrise--he was loud on my vertical.Thanks for all the Qs and hope we got in your log.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 827,415 This was a major disaster. The biggest disaster occurred in the 1800Z hour during the Saturday AM 20 meter run. Things were going great and I'd just finished a 180 hour, when the computer crashed. I brought Writelog back up and, as it should, it told me it had a temporary file with QSOs in it. I started running again and after a little while got the same error. I brought Writelog back up and imported the temp file, but this time I noticed no increase in my score. I went back and checked and the early crashes' QSOs had not been brought in. Whoops, about 300 QSOs gone, and so was my spirit and competitive desire. What had caused the crash was running out of disk space as I was recording the contest, wasn't using a particularly high compression codec and hadn't removed previous recording. It had started well. The broken 40m yagi had been fixed, and although it wouldn't rotate, it was pointed at Europe. It lasted about 45 minutes before the snow, cold or wind knocked it out again. Speaking of snow, it has snowed often when I'm contesting in PEI, but I've never heard snow static like this. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,545,480 Sunday AM 10 meters had 4 QSO's on it. 10 meters started coming alive around 1700-1800Z with decent results. We were not hearing the Carribean on 10. Most of the propagation was directly north-south as Dan (WR0DK) reported. A QSO with WP2Z was pretty much ESP for the only Carib QSO on 10. AC0W gets the credit for sticking with 20 meters. Sunday he had a lot of time to generate QSO's with the help of some Callbooks Paul had. That will help the score! :) He would not share those books with the other bands and the QSO count reflects that. :) Another one for the books! Check out the new improved website for a station guide and description: http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 128,316 I was getting the van ready to go rover in the Oklahoma Centennial QSO Party next weekend, so I only operated from time to time. The bands were reasonably quiet and 10m even opened up on Sunday for awhile. The few times I tried to run I had minimal luck. I did work a number of stations on five bands and PJ2T on all six. The "thank you thank you thank you" I heard made it all worthwhile! Look for me with special event call W0K rover in the OKQP March 10-11, and check out my schedule by looking up W0K on QRZ. I'm trying something different. Hope to put lots of you in the log! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,482 Just got on briefly at the end of the contest after getting home from the multi-op at W0AIH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 56,160 Not much time for this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 702,228 To paraphrase comic book guy (from the Simpsons): "Worst conditions ever". It has to start getting better, right? Tough sledding all weekend. 73 gang at W0ZT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CTN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 334,569 I had planned to put in more time, but a tower had to come down at the house of a friend on Saturday. His house was sold due a divorce and the tower had to go. It could not be postponed and he is a friend, so what else can be said, except you can never let down a friend. Now lets talk about playing radioman... It's time to start asking the Sun God for some spots. Let's just hope we don't have to sacrifice a virgin to get them. If so, it might be a long wait these days !!! Hihi My station is now operational but only 60% complete. I lost an important rope for my 40 meter wire beam and only had a dipole to do battle with on 40 meters. It worked but I didn't feel loud at all. It has always been a 1 call antenna for me. I did work a ZL with it. I still do not have my South American antennas back up, so the log periodic did quite alot of dancing from European headings to ones south of the Equator. Had quite a number of 5 band QSO's with the Caribbean crowd, but only one 6 bander. It was with FY5KE, which was also my only 10 meter contact. I was constantly asking the Caribbean ops what their 10 meter frequencies were, but they all said they didn't have propagation to the states. Most exotic worked was VP8 on 20 and 15. I heard VQ9LA on 15, but the pileup was very large and he said he was having high line noise. He probably wouldn't have heard me anyway. I did get a few short runs going on 15 meters, but it was primarily a S/P weekend. 15 meters was a nice band to play radioman on Sunday. It was crowded enough to keep it interesting but not like the mob scene of 20 meters. I don't know how many layers of signals were on 20 meters, but if Hell has audio it can't be much different. 40 was okay with the usual bedlam. I didn't hear as many Europeans above 7125 as I thought I would. GW4BLE was above 7125 with very good signals. Lots of W's and K's (including myself a few times) transmitting on their listening frequencies. Also, someone has to tell the Europeans that a listening frequency of 7299.5 is a little too close to the edge. 80 was good and alot of fun. How about KP4KE's qrp signal and 3 element wire beam! He held a run frequency with that combo for along time. I wonder how high it is. I tried only to work 160 on the top and bottom of the hour and it worked out very well for me. In the past I committed way too much time there. I worked KH7X at sunrise Saturday morning and I could barely hear him, and they're running legal limit. They must have exceptional receiving antennas as I must have been between a whisper and ESP. Well that's it for this contest season. For me it's time to get everything back up and raise the tower another 25 feet. 73 and thanks for the Q's Dave W1CTN Radio Ansonia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 154,224 Ugh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1FJ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,820,928 Congratulations to W3LPL and K3LR and a great shot-handed job by the KC1XX crew. Thanks to all for the contacts, and to the team for a great effort and a lot of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 293,436 My first SSB contest. A learning experience. One wire antenna, stretched between two trees 70 ft apart, and with max. height 33 ft, used for all bands 160 through 15 m. (I never heard 10 m open.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 218,886 S&P Only. Worked all day Saturday and then a stint at K0TV working stations on 40m that hadn't been worked before my shift....maybe seven and then the Hawaii mult. Rig: FT-1000D Amp: AL-811H Antennas: 1. TA-33 at 30' for most of the Q's on 20 2. 420 feet of AWG #12 solid copper wire (3 conductor flat ROMEX) in a 140' span 80' up. Fed with roughly 90' of 450 ohm ladder line to a 4:1 W9INN balun. Cobra design...I call this the King Cobra and like it so much I thought I'd pass it along. Needs a good roller inductor tuner and works great from 160m to 10m. 70' 70' ------------------------ ----------------------- ] [ ------------------------ ----------------------- [ ] ------------------------ ----------------------- | | | | In this contest I was really surprised on 75m... most of the pile-ups I got into were worked on my first call. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 16,704 Limited time due to lots of homework for school this weekend. 73, Matthew W1MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 59,400 I don't care much for phone but I wanted to help my club so I did what I could with a low wire and rigs that didn't seem to be working right on phone. It's fun when you can break a pileup by calling out of synch with the hordes but this only goes so far. It helps a lot when the op on the other end is savy like those at 6Y1V, 8P1A, PJ2T, etc., but in other cases it's really hard to get through. Phone seems to rely on brute signal strength much more than CW and I suppose that's one big reason why I prefer CW. Had I put in the same hours in a CW contest, I probably would have had three or four times the number of contacts. 73 Hal W1NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 7,938 Much tougher going than the CW portion two weeks ago. Gave up on trying low power and fired up the amp. Then I could work most of the louder calls. Hopefully my condo neighbors were not affected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,658 Between School projects coming due on Monday and my part time weekend job I just did not have the time to put in any real effort in this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2CG Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 932,790 Band condx brutal. Thanks for the Qs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LHL Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 12,789 100 w., 40 ft. vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3DQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 14,580 Unresolved equipment, antenna and software issues from previous weeks turned this one into a "steal some time here, steal some time there" contest. Regardless, it was both fun (at times) an a challenge (all the time). City lot antennas for the low bands make the going rough at this point in the sunspot cycle, although I did make KV4FZ happy on 160. A record 6 stations were on from DC: AH0AH, K3VOA, KE3VV, W3DOS, KA4IZN and me. Yes, there is interest and activity from the District! On the other hand, I was stopped mid-QSO by a station who insisted I was sending him an incorrect QTH, as DC didn't come up in his software. His loss... CU in the next one. Hope to have some *real* low band antennas by then! Eric W3DQ Washington, DC Orion + Hercules II amp (500w) Force 12 C3-SS 160 inv-l 80m inv-l 40m OCF dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,131,564 Call: W3LPL Category: Multi Multi Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: SSB Section: MDC BAND QSO COUNTRIES OPERATORS 160 115 56 K1HTV AI3M W3LPL 80 640 92 NI1N ND3F 40 751 97 K3MIM KD4D WR3Z 20 2382 135 K3EST K3RA K4ZA 15 750 102 K1RZ K3MIM W3ZZ 10 63 24 NK3R W3IDT W3LPL -------------------------------------- Totals 4700 506 = 7,131,564 Club Affiliation: Potomac Valley Radio Club Continent Statistics 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent SSB North America 24 42 47 70 56 21 260 5.4 South America 14 18 36 89 125 44 326 6.8 Europe 72 556 559 2080 532 0 3799 78.9 Asia 0 10 23 152 11 0 196 4.1 Africa 4 10 15 36 23 0 88 1.8 Oceania 2 18 94 14 17 1 146 3.0 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 14/11 69/28 92/33 59/32 1/1 ..... 235/105 235/105 1 5/3 35/12 55/19 10/1 . . 105/35 340/140 2 13/9 34/9 29/11 4/0 . . 80/29 420/169 3 15/8 17/11 18/4 1/0 . . 51/23 471/192 4 9/4 15/0 31/3 . . . 55/7 526/199 5 . 16/1 23/1 . . . 39/2 565/201 6 7/4 36/5 26/2 . . . 69/11 634/212 7 3/3 10/1 41/3 2/1 . . 56/8 690/220 8 2/1 11/2 12/1 ..... ..... ..... 25/4 715/224 9 1/1 3/1 22/1 1/0 . . 27/3 742/227 10 . 6/1 18/3 28/17 . . 52/21 794/248 11 . 1/0 1/0 175/26 8/6 . 185/32 979/280 12 . . 1/0 169/5 31/20 . 201/25 1180/305 13 . . . 133/5 46/20 3/2 182/27 1362/332 14 . . . 143/2 52/12 1/0 196/14 1558/346 15 . . . 120/6 61/7 5/1 186/14 1744/360 16 ..... ..... ..... 152/4 68/2 2/1 222/7 1966/367 17 . . . 138/2 24/3 3/0 165/5 2131/372 18 . . . 70/4 15/2 . 85/6 2216/378 19 . . . 88/1 10/1 2/1 100/3 2316/381 20 . . 1/0 76/1 9/2 . 86/3 2402/384 21 . 1/0 10/3 43/3 10/2 1/1 65/9 2467/393 22 1/0 41/3 50/3 40/0 8/1 . 140/7 2607/400 23 5/2 86/3 52/1 44/6 1/0 . 188/12 2795/412 0 10/2 46/2 34/1 11/0 1/0 ..... 102/5 2897/417 1 5/0 25/0 18/0 1/0 . . 49/0 2946/417 2 4/1 26/0 15/1 1/0 . . 46/2 2992/419 3 1/1 26/3 16/1 . . . 43/5 3035/424 4 7/2 27/4 23/0 . . . 57/6 3092/430 5 7/2 30/1 19/1 1/0 . . 57/4 3149/434 6 3/1 26/0 26/0 . . . 55/1 3204/435 7 2/1 11/1 26/0 . . . 39/2 3243/437 8 ..... 3/1 9/1 1/0 ..... ..... 13/2 3256/439 9 1/0 5/0 15/0 . . . 21/0 3277/439 10 . 2/0 5/0 4/0 . . 11/0 3288/439 11 . . 1/0 94/1 1/0 . 96/1 3384/440 12 . . 3/0 90/0 18/0 . 111/0 3495/440 13 . . . 111/0 78/6 . 189/6 3684/446 14 . . . 93/6 86/2 . 179/8 3863/454 15 . . . 81/1 83/5 1/1 165/7 4028/461 16 ..... ..... ..... 58/0 54/4 3/0 115/4 4143/465 17 . . . 87/2 27/4 13/7 127/13 4270/478 18 . . . 70/2 21/1 13/3 104/6 4374/484 19 . . . 55/1 9/0 4/4 68/5 4442/489 20 . . . 57/2 10/1 7/1 74/4 4516/493 21 . 1/0 17/0 28/0 9/0 3/1 58/1 4574/494 22 . 15/0 13/1 25/2 5/0 1/1 59/4 4633/498 23 . 16/3 29/3 18/2 4/0 . 67/8 4700/506 DAY1 75/46 381/77 482/88 1496/116 344/79 17/6 ..... 2795/412 DAY2 40/10 259/15 269/9 886/19 406/23 45/18 . 1905/94 TOT 115/56 640/92 751/97 2382/135 750/102 62/24 . 4700/506 QSO Counts By Band-Country PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 4L 1 4X 2 2 4 2 5B 1 2 2 1 5N 1 5R 1 1 5Z 1 2 3 6Y 1 2 2 2 3 2 7X 1 8P 1 2 3 3 4 2 9A 2 7 5 19 12 9G 1 9H 3 1 9J 1 1 9K 1 2 1 9V 1 9Y 2 1 A6 1 A9 1 BV 1 BY 1 C5 1 1 1 C6 1 1 2 2 CE 1 2 8 7 5 CM 4 3 2 1 CN 1 1 1 4 1 CP 1 1 CT 3 1 9 6 CT3 2 2 1 3 CU 3 2 3 3 1 CX 2 5 2 D2 1 D4 1 DL 12 84 83 351 94 DU 1 EA 3 31 46 83 38 EA6 2 3 2 EA8 1 2 4 10 7 EA9 1 EI 2 11 10 24 3 EK 1 EL 1 1 ER 4 ES 1 1 4 EU 5 7 3 EX 1 EY 2 F 1 36 43 171 44 FG 1 1 1 2 1 FJ 1 FM 1 2 3 2 5 1 FP 1 1 1 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 G 4 71 75 293 6 GI 2 4 5 22 1 GJ 1 1 GM 2 10 11 36 3 GU 1 2 4 GW 3 10 8 26 2 HA 5 7 9 20 13 HB 2 13 18 30 10 HB0 1 1 HC 1 1 3 2 1 HI 2 3 2 2 3 HK 2 1 4 3 3 1 HL 1 HP 1 2 3 3 4 3 HR 2 2 6 3 4 HS 3 HV 1 HZ 1 I 5 54 79 253 102 IS 3 IT9 3 1 J3 1 1 J7 1 1 J8 1 JA 5 15 96 4 KH0 1 KH2 1 KH6 2 5 13 7 11 1 KL 1 2 2 10 1 KP2 2 2 1 2 4 1 KP4 3 4 2 7 4 1 LA 1 6 1 11 6 LU 1 3 7 26 37 19 LX 1 2 2 LY 1 6 2 LZ 6 3 13 4 OE 2 6 9 33 17 OH 6 1 34 16 OH0 1 OK 4 25 15 44 27 OM 3 4 11 5 ON 1 16 17 81 6 OX 1 1 OZ 2 8 7 15 8 P4 2 3 2 4 3 1 PA 6 22 22 153 11 PJ2 2 2 2 3 3 3 PJ7 1 1 2 2 2 PY 4 3 9 26 40 7 PZ 1 S0 1 S5 16 11 31 13 SM 1 12 1 37 16 SP 4 24 24 53 20 SV 1 4 9 10 3 SV5 1 T7 1 1 1 T9 2 1 4 2 TA 1 1 1 TF 3 1 TG 1 1 1 1 TI 1 2 3 3 4 3 TK 1 TR 1 TU 1 1 1 2 UA 16 8 72 6 UA2 1 1 1 5 1 UA9 2 26 1 UN 5 UR 8 4 37 8 V2 1 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 1 1 V5 1 1 V7 1 1 VK 5 66 1 3 VP2E 1 1 1 1 3 1 VP2V 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 1 1 1 VP8/h 1 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 2 VQ9 1 VR 1 XE 2 4 4 8 5 YB 1 YI 2 1 YL 1 3 3 2 YN 1 1 1 1 YO 5 6 17 4 YS 1 1 1 1 1 YU 1 12 10 22 9 YV 2 2 6 8 16 3 Z3 1 5 ZA 2 2 ZD8 1 1 1 ZF 1 1 ZL 7 13 4 2 ZP 3 ZS 1 3 5 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3MGL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 29,280 At 80 yrs old, still enjoy the excitement of contesting. Just have to take it in shorter doses.(need that frequent break (nap?)! Expected more action in new portion 80mtrs. But lo band antenna was part of it. Multi band dipole 100 ft long.(10mtrs was a no show here). Quad for 10-15-20. Ten-Tec Jupiter radio into a Ameritron AL=811H running 700 watts. Good fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,153,035 Bring back the sun spots! Speaking of spots, it is really sad to see all the bad packet spots, and some from some pretty prominant folks. We all make a mistake now and then, but there seemed to be some really flagrant repetitive bad spots. Hope the logs don't show the calls that badly or some scores will really suffer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3RAR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,700 I really enjoyed the little time I had to operate in this contest. I just upgraded to General last month. I also sold an FT-897 in order to purchase a used Kenwood TS-940. I put up a Windom 80 wirre antenna just the day before the contest. I spent more time getting used to the radio, but I had a blast. The recieve on these old rigs is terrific. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TUA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 18,117 Conditions were rough. Thanks to those who pulled out my weak signal. My dipole only covers E/W. Most consistently strong stations on all bands HP--9A1A and LP--C6ANM. Excellent audio from both. Icom Pro3, 40m dipole, Hustler 6BTV, cranky Ameritron AL-80A, N1MM Logger. 73, Korey W3TUA Towanda, PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3YY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 17,442 Birth of my first Grandson caused my wife and I to be out of town for most of the weekend, but got in some time Friday night and Sunday evening on 40-meters. Was going to enter the SOSB(40)-Assisted category, but apparently no such category exists in this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 131,976 TS-440S, G5RV es R7000 Tnx for the Q's 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 66,978 Enjoyed what little time I had to be on the bands.. Lots of line noise here. Bands seemed flaky at times.. THANKs to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4IX Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 3,402 Had alot of things going on for the weekend so just did single band 10 meters and made a few contacts on 15 and 20 to keep from falling off the chair from boredom...10 was the usual bottom of the cycle animal it always is..saturday was really crap, sunday had some really good backscatter condx, worked alot of carribean mults with ant at 220 degres...thanks for the good ears guys..73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 488,160 Short openings on 10. Good JA openings on 15 & 20. 20 crowded as usual. Hopefully next year will be better. Thanks for all the contacts. 73's Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,399,410 Thanks for the contacts! Casual effort after K2WK went home sick. Enjoy the low bands so spent time on 160 and 80 at night and 10 in the daytime trying to make something happen, did manage 20 countries tho. To commemorate the 400 Year Anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, VA, the Central Virginia Contest Club will use the "special event" callsign W4V from March 10-25 and May 12-27 2007. It will be used in the Virginia QSO Party, CQ WPX SSB and CQ WPX CW contests from W4MYA. Other members of the Central Virginia Contest Club will use W4V at different times during our period of authorization. NW4V is the QSL Manager for W4V during the following time periods: March 10-25 2007 May 12-27 2007 Please SASE for USA QSO's. All DX Contacts will be automatically sent a QSL via the Bureau. Any DX station requiring a direct QSL card please SAE with $1 or 1 Current IRC. W4V QSL Cards should be available for distribution by the end of June 2007. Thank you for your cooperation. K4V will be used by WA4PGM in the Virginia QSO Party and during the period March 16 through March 21. For K4V QSL send direct to WA4PGM. These operations count towards a short term award called "The Virginia Quadricentennial Commemorative Amateur Radio Award", sponsored by QCWA Vic Clark Chapter 91, Washington, DC Area. Take a look here for information on that award: http://www.dxawards.com/inet2007.htm#Virginia For more information on the Commonwealth of Virginia please visit http://www.virginia.org. For more information on the Central Virginia Contest Club please visit http://www.c-v-c-c.us ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 96,462 We are for sure at the bottom or so close it don't count. Low bands did great. Higher bands not much going at all. Like pulling teeth working this contest. It's got to get better. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 72,000 Low bands were really good. LOTS of empty space between 3600 and 3700. Looks like people are not taking advantage of the new spectrum. Heard many US stations calling CQ above 3700 and listening below. Don't understand this method of operating. Isn't it kinda like CQing above 14200 and listening 14150-14200?? A similar band occupancy situation existed on 40m, 7125-7150, but I can understand that. The foreign broadcast was very bad in that segment. 73, Ted W4NZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 125,532 Previous obligations prevented any operation on Sunday .A far cry from the good condx of years gone by.Next year has got to be better!I sure miss 10 meters! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 54,108 Very part time effort due to church and family obligations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 8,832 I was going to work 80 but at last minute decided to play 160. Condx were not exactly great, but did have some fun working europe, only one KH6 and one African, CN3A. Inv. "L" at 75 feet, 700 watts, and 500 beverage. Thanks for all the qso's. Hope to cu you next time with bigger antennas! Mark,W4SVO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 215,460 This was not the way that I had planned. I was supposed to be at W4MYA's shack, but I had to stay home to take care of my wife who was recovering from surgery and not doing as well as we had hoped. Between my wife, 3 kids and then having problems with the rig, it was very frustrating. My part time effort was better than last year, but not as good as I had hoped. Of course, some sunspots would have helped nicely......Maybe next year!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WTB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 511,056 Had very limited time to operate this weekend.... Managed to get in the shack ..when I could.. for a total of 16 hrs Run Time My goal was 500 Qso's ... to help with the Carolina DX Assn overall club score All Qso's were S&P ... never attempted or established a run frequency Also no 160 antenna for the contest Tnx for all the Q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 13,860 Soapbox: Was supposed to be in NC with the family visiting my daughter's college choice, but a little sore throat on Tuesday wound up being a major deal that required surgery Friday morning, so I was stuck here without a voice. Puttered around and worked a few guys here and there using the voice keyer. Good to hear several FCGers on. I don't need a voice for my favorite mode. Jon Hamlet, W4ZW Casey Key Island, Florida "A little piece of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 94,095 Bands not as gud this year (at my QTH) as last........... gz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5PR Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 9,408 What can I say? It is the bottom of the cycle. I lost one of the 3CX800s in the amp. I was able to take the amp apart and find that it was a bad filament. Put the amp back together and proceded with one tube... Don't think I missed much! No Asia, no EU, no AF... only 3 in the Pacific. No VK or ZL even... Nowhere to go but up from here! 10M Total % SA 86 86 76.8 NA 21 21 18.8 OC 3 3 2.7 10M Total 6Y 1 1 8P 1 1 CE 10 10 CX 4 4 FM 1 1 FY 1 1 HC 2 2 HK 1 1 HP 3 3 HR 4 4 KH6 2 2 KP2 1 1 KP4 1 1 LU 29 29 OA 1 1 P4 1 1 PJ2 3 3 PY 28 28 TG 1 1 TI 3 3 VP2E 1 1 VP8 1 1 XE 1 1 YN 2 2 YS 1 1 YV 5 5 ZK1/s 1 1 QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z 2/2 2/2 2/2 38 D1-0100Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0200Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0300Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0400Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0500Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0600Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0700Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0800Z --+-- 0/0 2/2 60 D1-0900Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1000Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1100Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1200Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1300Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1400Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1500Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1600Z --+-- 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1700Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1800Z - 0/0 2/2 60 D1-1900Z 4/1 4/1 6/3 55 D1-2000Z 17/5 17/5 23/8 D1-2100Z 13/4 13/4 36/12 D1-2200Z 2/0 2/0 38/12 47 D1-2300Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0000Z --+-- 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0100Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0200Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0300Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0400Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0500Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0600Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0700Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0800Z --+-- 0/0 38/12 60 D2-0900Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-1000Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-1100Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-1200Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-1300Z - 0/0 38/12 60 D2-1400Z 1/0 1/0 39/12 55 D2-1500Z 5/3 5/3 44/15 D2-1600Z 7/1 7/1 51/16 D2-1700Z 7/3 7/3 58/19 D2-1800Z 15/3 15/3 73/22 D2-1900Z 7/0 7/0 80/22 D2-2000Z 3/2 13/2 93/24 D2-2100Z 8/0 8/0 101/24 D2-2200Z 9/2 9/2 110/26 D2-2300Z 2/1 2/1 112/27 Total: 112/27 Chuck W5PR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6AAN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 302,328 Thanks to all. 73, Vasily, W6AAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6RKC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,222 Surprised to hear so many 5 watt JA stations at this point in the sunspot cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 907,200 Thanks to everyone for the QSO'S. The conditions indicated we are at the cycle bottom and the good news is once you're in the pits, you can only go up!! Mother Nature provided strong winds to Northern San Diego creating S Meter readings of at least a nine-noise level on all bands to insure weak signals could not be heard. The over all result was a score 33% lower than last year. Anyway enough whining, see everyone in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7AT Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 12,900 Thought we were going to have super 80M propagation working EU early and often shortpath on the first night. Ran out of stations to work- although did work a bunch of JA guys on 80M running 10, 50 and 100 watts. I think the Dragon has discouraged the faithful from getting on the lower bands and seeing what they can work. Until the Dragon is slain the US 80M records will stand. Guess we all need some sunspots to jazz this up a bit. Thanks to the guys who kept at it in order to finish the Q. 9V1RH did studly work with his 200 watts among others! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 484,449 The same local noise that plagued reception during the last 5 hours of the CW weekend returned Sunday morning for a SSB encore. The S5 noise is enough to make recepetion of the dipole/100w crowd impossible. I spent 18 to 20Z driving area pole lines trying unsuccessfully to pinpoint the source. Then at 2030Z the noise mercifully disappeared. Otherwise good propagation Saturday, better Sunday. 73 de Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,835 Boy, conditions were pretty sad at my place. N1MM says I was on for about 2 hours. Tried working 40 Friday night, but it was hard to get anyone to hear me. Saturday morning I either got up too late, or 20 sucked. Didn't hear any Eu stations. It was 65 degrees and not a cloud in the sky, so the family decided to take a day off and go to the beach and have a picnic. I got on Sunday morning before church and worked 3 or 4 staions, but for some reason, all I would get is QRZ???. I guess so it goes in a SSB contest. Amazing how some of the DX stations have such good ears and how many are alligators. 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 390,624 A G O N Y. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 202,635 This was a very part time effort. Highlight was working VP8KF on 15,20,40 meters. On ward and upward to the next one WPS SSB. Ken W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9JJC/AG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,700 I passed my General Test at 1715Z Saturday and was on the contest two hours later. It was a good time talking to all the dx stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,662,348 Murphy hit on Friday with the wind storms breaking wires on my 160 rx antenna and on my SE 80 meter antenna. Conditions started out bad and really didn't get much better. I had JA's CQ in my face on both 40 and 15, finally worked 1 JA on 40 but 0 on 15. Congrats to all who stuck with this one including WB9Z who I'm sure had worse conditions then I did. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 56,724 I rarely, if ever, work a DX station (if you want to truely call KH7 DX) on all 6 bands during a contest. But, I almost did this weekend with KH7X. The only band I missed him on was 10M which is really a flip-flopped situation (working him on 160M and not on 10M) but considering where we are in the cycle it is understandable. I saw him spotted on 10M but never heard him. Working Falkland Is on 15M was fun too. 160 Meters 6Y C6 KH6 KP2 KP4 PJ2 VP9 XE 80 Meters 6Y 8P C6 CM F FG FM FY GM HI KH6 KL KP4 LU P4 PJ2 PY TI V2 VP5 XE 40 Meters 6Y 8P CE EA EA8 F FG FM FY HI HP I KH6 KP2 LU P4 PJ2 PY TI V2 V4 VP2E VP9 XE YV ZL 20 Meters 6Y 8P 9Y C6 CM CN CU CX DL EA EI F FG FM FY G GI GW HI HK HR I KH6 KL KP2 LU LX OH ON P4 PJ2 PY TI V2 V4 VP2E VP5 VP9 XE YV ZF 15 Meters 6Y 8P CE CP FG FY HI HR KH6 KP2 LU PJ2 PY TI VP2E VP5 VP8 XE YV ZP 73 - Bob WA2MNO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4DOU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,364 My principal interest is cw so its hard to muster up much interest in phone operation. On a lazy Sunday afternoon I pursued this very casually, just to help increase the collective club score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4PGM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 124,560 on-call this weekend not enough time to play. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7AR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 79,461 DOWN FROM SEVERAL YEARS AGO 235K POINTS SCORE. My 30th year in a row for wpx ssb as w7fp,vp2mba,ad7j,wa7ar . Tall ant only pointed to C.A.,S.A.,Carribean area very limited rotation. Used smaller Mosley pro57 at half the height. Worked only 1 african stn. CN2A, no vk,zl only few kh6 stns. Maybe next year God willing,tnx qsos those i did manage to work, Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7RR Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 28,755 Kenwood TS-570D, 100W, CobraLite Jr. Inverted Vee at 35ft (11M). I was discouraged by the numbers of big gun USA stations calling CQ on top of the DX starting about Sunday morning. I wish we could agree on a calling segment for US and leave the rest of the band(s) open for the predictably weak DX stations to be heard. Maybe there is such an agreement, but I couldn't tell from here. I was encouraged by how good many of the 100W DX stations sounded. I hope I sounded as good to some.--WA7RR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB1DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 531,990 Shutout on 10m!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 150,192 Conditions were poor Friday night and Saturday morning. At least for those of us running 100 watts... I packed it in for the night with only 9 QSOs in the log, and got 9 hours sleep. 160, 80, and 10 were all a disappointment, netting a total of only 14 QSOs and 13 multipliers combined. I resisted the temptation to fire up the old Dentron amplifier. Best comment of the contest came from KH6SH. After asking for a repeat of my call, he stated, "Oh sorry, I didn’t recognize you without your vibroplex..." Give me a CW contest any day! Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 – Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 110,880 Limited time operation. Strictly S&P with low power which was a real challenge. 40 meters was useless with 20/9 noise most of the contest. __________________________________________________________ Station complement: FT-1000MP Cushcraft A3S @ 50' Shunt fed tower + Wires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,507,374 I had not operated this contest for the last 5 years from home. The last 4 from PJ2T and before that 9M0M on Spratly. Operating from Illinois really SUCKS with no 10 meters. I can remember making over 3000 Qs from home in this contest back in 99 and 2000. Friday night started out with huge noise levels on 160, 80 and 40 with 40 mph winds and snow, even the beverages had high noise levels. I dared not trying to turn the 3 ele. 80 or 3 ele. full sized 40m yagi, to save the rotors for later days. Saturday was better with nice runs on 20 into EU until some east coast big gun would muscule in within 300 cycles and kill my rate. Saturday night was much better on the low bands and I played catch up most of the evening. I had fun playing with the Orion 2... my first SSB Contest with it. A BIG CONGRATS to the PJ2T crew of W0CG, WE9V, KA9FOX, and K9NW for their excellent score! I wish I could have been there. WB9Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 279,954 FT1000mp + FL2100B 500W TH7DX @ 50' 40M Dipole 80M Inv V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE3C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,452,840 Our condolences to Sig on the loss of his mother. Congratulations to the KC1XX and N3RS teams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF2B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 35,520 Rig : ICOM 765 Antenna : R 7000 Soapbox : Not a great score for 14 hours, but not too bad considering that I had an SWR problem on 40 and 15 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 3,510 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6 Station WM5R: http://www.wm5r.org/mobile/ * Icom IC-706 MkIIG * Icom AH-4 antenna tuner * Kenwood SP-50B speaker * 39" (100 cm) long vertical on trunk lip mount I operated from my car, parked in a campground area of the Sam Houston National Forest, near the northern end of Lake Conroe, about 100 kilometers NNW of Houston. I was in the forest for an orienteering meet, and had limited time to play radio. I am always surprised at how well my really small mobile antenna can hear DX stations. With just one meter of stiff wire, I could easily copy high power stations all over the Americas and western and northern Europe on 20 meters. Even with 100 watts, though, it was really tough for anyone to hear me. I had to leave just as 10 meters was starting to show life, or I might have had a few more QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 119,412 Santa Ana winds during the contest dried out things and noise abounded...lot's of times I felt I was p.....g in the wind. WN6K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP2Z Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,311,700 10M was sure tough with a meager opening on Sunday. The folks further south sure had an advantage on 10M. Nothing broke. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 358,779 Hi everyone I worked this contest in 15M only, i know that i would not be first place because if you work Single band, low power and High power are in the same category and i am low power. I think that this rule is not fare. See you in the WPX 73' http://www.wp3c.qth.com Att Alfredo Vélez WP3C/WP4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,311,156 Great fun - was joined by N3YIM on Sunday morning as cherry picked 20 meters for countries. This is a great warm-up for a semi-serious effort in the CQ WPX SSB contest at the end of this month, where I plan to be on full time. It was enjoyable, as always to rag chew on packet with friends during the contest...W4MYA...N3KS....K3OO....N3RS.....W3LPL....and others. 20 Meters was pretty busy and was a bottomless pit of EU until LATE in the afternoon. That was very refreshing hearing loud EUs past 4:00pm. I also was still hearing EU on 15m after noon - however CQing produced only limited results. There were some LOUD JA's calling, even with 100 watts - but not a high density of them like I would have expected. 10 meters was a (bad) joke, and you truly need some HEIGHT to deal with those conditions. 73 to all & see you in the WPX Contests! Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 209,664 Interesting Contest - I was ALL EXCITED about it and set alarm for 7:00am. In front of radio at 7:30am ready to run 20 for all it was worth. Knew I was in BIG trouble when I heard 9A1UN at S3 with S9 peaks. Dead Quiet band. I parked it at 14.150.7 and CQed into thin air for about 7 minutes before giving up on that idea. Pounced around and finally got a slow run going on 20CW. The good news: Maybe this WON'T happen during WPX! Called my son and went to ski Liberty to enjoy the 8 inches of FRESH POWDER. Skiing conditions better than 20m conditions...better exercize and gorgous day outside! It was his BEST DAY at Liberty... Arrived home at 7:00-ish to enjoy a robust 40 meter CW run to EU. 80m in pretty good shape - went cherry-picking the SSB spots and listened to the CW band. Couldn't get a good going (pre-EU-Sunrise). Fun bumping into the VA QSO Party folks. My hat is off to the hosts that have guests at their house for these types of events - heard some new operators having a great time at NI1N and W4MYA. Sunday morning - slept late, went downstairs at about 8:00am to discover I missed a BOOMING 20 meter opening to EU at the end of the Russian DX contest. Looking forward to WPX SSB! 73, Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2K Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 212,754 Great propagation , not like i want it , the noise was a great issue but was possible deal with it, a simple dipole and rx antena made a good job, the new phone band works better not all the stations in just a few Khz. tnx guys who try to give me your call and stay until i get it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE7S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,524,000 Had a wonderful time operating with my friends XE2S and XE2Q. Great operators. Conditions were good except for 15 meters with a dark hole in the center of the US. 10 meters was open at times but couldn't raise anyone on CQ. Broke in to existing QSO's to work the few mults. Guess that the big guns decided the band was dead and limited their operation. Very windy conditions on Sunday caused a high noise level. Sorry for all of the guys that we couldn't hear. Thanks for trying. Station is: FT1000MP Kenwood TL922 amp TH7 (10-15-20 meters)at 70 feet Delta Loop for 40 meters Dipole at 70 feet for 80 and 160 meters Thanks for all of the Q's. 73, Larry, N7DD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB2ECG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 690 It is nice to join the ARRL contest! It's hard to compete the QRM working for NA with tribander and 100W! Anyway stil having fun making S/P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL7X Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 67,230 Only 2 hours nice pileup between 14:00 and 16:00 UT at first day. Thanks for QSOs and spots ! :))) 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5OAG Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 2,322 Hi, Nice experience on a QUAD SYSTEM, 5 el.Beam work more Countries ` 73 & DX Sanyi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT5T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 119,646 Congrats to Dule ZL3WW for good scores in both parts of ARRL DXC. Thanks to my radio club YU1EXY / 4O1A / YT0A for letting me operate from our contest location. TS940S + 4 el OWA YAGI @ 20M + KW. 73s de Vaso YT1XX / YT6XX / YT5T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 15,288 Only 4 hours of operation, hope next year may operate full time, this contest is realy cool, i really enjoyed it. Thanks to all who called me. See you in the WPX contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV6BTF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 480,105 TNX TO ALL FOR NICE CONTEST. 73'S AND DX DE JOSE YV6BTF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV7QP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 96,390 RIG: IC735 PWR: 100 WATTS ANT: 160m L INVERTED - 80m SLOPER - 40m DIPOLE - 20-15-10M YAGI 3ELE TRIBAND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YW4D Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 326,034 Thanks to all who called for the fun and the QSO's, to the Venezuela DX Club for the contest site and YV5AMH / YV5KG. Regards Paul YV1DIG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL3WW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 160,398 This time I've started the contest on time. Everything was working just as it was supposed to work, but the conditions on the band were definitely less than optimal. I was hoping to reach at least 1000 QSOs, but I've failed just a tad short of the set goal. Lot of stations have had an EME-like signal (or even weaker than that), but the experience from the vast number of VHF/UHF contests has helped me to dig out those signals from the noise and complete the QSOs - all of that again thanks to the YU1EXY contest "school" that seams to be one of the best ;-) I wish to thank everyone who called and hope to see you again first in Russian DX, followed by WPX contest. Regards, Dule ZL3WW/YZ1WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZP0R Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 362,142 To much noise the first day..saturday morning and afternoon i was able to copy only the station that was capable to hear over a S7 continuos and torturating noise. My apologies to all the fellow that i can not hear because that. I have a stack of 3 monobaders (5el) for 15. and saturday only i can work with the lowest one that is 40 feet high..the top is a 110 feet high and the middle is at 75 feet high..) the first day was almost imposible to use it because the noise almost kill my ears..(after contest i saw the spoting and some guy put ...poor ears) run a pileup with constant S7 noise in the band believe me is not healthy..anyway that is life and contest. the first day i only can manage to made 818 qsos because this problem. And was a day ( the first day) with a very early and great opening to USA (12:00 utc). Second day the noise was off ( after the contest i saw in the news that a big pipe of water was broke and was lot of electrical engines working in the street to fix it..Uff !! ) but the propagation on 15 the second day come very late comparing with the first day..i can hear the first station almost to 17:00 utc time..14:00 local time..in the mean time the Brazilian guys have a early open. With not noise and a lot of station still to work..i could manage a nice rate for 5 continuos hours loggin anothers 1010 qsos..then i suffer another Mister Murphy attack and the MFJ voice keyer stuck transmiting and i have to turn of the amplifier..and the radio to figuer out what happen..move to the other radio (IC-756) and the other amp..and strangely the amps doesnt work ONLY ON 15 METER !! so i take of the voice keyer..put direct to the 765, went back to the first amp and continue to run..but i loose almost one hour of a very nice propagation..then the remaining hour i can log anothers 218 qsos to complete a total of 2046 qsos on 15 meters. Congratulations to Sergio ( ZX5J ) he has a really big station in a top of a hill in Boa Vista near Florianopolis and he is a really good operator also..and to Alfredo WP3C to a very nice score for Low power station. If the noise on first day did not happen the think had to be really diferent..but you know Mr. Murphy some time apear without invitation..hihi Was really nice to see many friends in this contest who answer my cq call, spoting me and support me during this Marvelous contest that is one of my favorite. See you in next contest. God Bless you all 73 de Tom ZP5AZL // ZP0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS6AAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 26,730 Unfortunately family commitments prevented a serious go, so I just enjoyed giving away a few points. I'm mainly a CW op, but I really enjoyed the friendly atmosphere of this contest - so maybe I'll have to get a voice keyer, proset and foot switch... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 665,640 Good opening to usa on the first day. Very nice rates. Only 26 hours with propagation to north america but with a very nice opening!!! I'd like to thanks zp5azl my dear friend Tom for your nice, but not real, words about me hihi. Thank you very much to all that gave me a point. See you soon in Visalia. Best 73 Sergio PP5JR/ZX5J Index of Calls Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Call: 4M5IR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 6Y1V Class: M/2 HP Call: 8P1A Class: SOAB HP Call: 9A5AQA Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: 9A5E Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA5CH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB LP Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Call: AC5ZS Class: SOAB LP Call: AD0K Class: SOAB LP Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: AE6RR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AH0AH Class: SOAB LP Call: AH7ZA Class: SOAB QRP Call: AI2N Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: AJ1M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AL2F Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AY7X Class: M/S HP Call: C6ANM Class: M/S LP Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Call: CM6RCR Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: CN3A Class: SOAB HP Call: CO6LP Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: CU2A Class: M/S HP Call: CX4DX Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: DG1ATN Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: DG7RO Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ6TK Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DJ7IK Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: DK8EY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: DL1AUZ Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: DL3TD Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: DL8SCG Class: SOAB HP Call: DP4K Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: DU1BP Class: SOAB LP Call: EA1WX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Call: EA7RU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA8AUW Class: SOAB HP Call: EC2DX Class: M/S HP Call: EH7A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Call: ES5RW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB LP Call: F5HRY/P Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: F5NOD Class: SOAB QRP Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: FM5AN Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: FM5FJ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: FY5KE Class: SOAB HP Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB HP Call: GW4BLE Class: SOAB HP Call: HB9CT Class: M/S HP Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Call: HI3C Class: M/S HP Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Call: HI8/NM6E Class: SOAB QRP Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Call: IR4M Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: IT9STX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IV3TMV Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Call: K0HW Class: SOAB LP Call: K0JJ Class: SOAB HP Call: K0JJR Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KT Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0MD Class: M/S LP Call: K0OU Class: SOAB HP Call: K0PC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0RH Class: SOAB HP Call: K0TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Call: K0UK Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K1BV Class: SOAB HP Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K1EP Class: SOAB LP Call: K1GU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1IR Class: M/M HP Call: K1JB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1JC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1KD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1KI Class: M/S HP Call: K1RU Class: SOAB HP Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Call: K1TR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1VU Class: SOAB LP Call: K1ZW Class: SOAB HP Call: K2DB Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K2DBK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K2ONP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2PS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2QMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2QPN Class: SOAB HP Call: K2TE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2TTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2XA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Call: K3MD Class: M/S HP Call: K3OO Class: M/S HP Call: K3SWZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4ADR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4BAI Class: SOAB HP Call: K4BP Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4EU Class: SOAB LP Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4MIL Class: SOAB LP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4SQR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K4TD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K5FP Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: K5MQ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K5NA/M Class: SOAB LP Call: K5NZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K5RR Class: SOAB HP Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Call: K6AM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K6IDX Class: M/2 HP Call: K6LRN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K6NA Class: SOAB HP Call: K6OQ Class: SOAB HP Call: K6QK Class: SOAB HP Call: K6RIM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6SRZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K6ST Class: SOAB HP Call: K6TA Class: SOAB HP Call: K6TD Class: SOAB HP Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Call: K7BG Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K7DAE Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Call: K7JCA Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K7KR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K7LAZ Class: SOAB LP Call: K7LMM Class: SOAB LP Call: K7RI Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K7RL Class: SOAB HP Call: K7ZSD Class: M/M HP Call: K8BL Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K8GL Class: M/S HP Call: K8GT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K8LN Class: SOAB HP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Call: K9BGL Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K9MUG Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K9RX Class: SOAB HP Call: KA2ASU Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA4OTB Class: SOAB LP Call: KA5EYH Class: SOAB LP Call: KA8Q Class: SOAB LP Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Call: KB3MJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KB4ET Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KC1XX Class: M/2 HP Call: KC2NB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KC5R Class: SOAB LP Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Call: KD2RD Class: M/S HP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Call: KD7VBJ Class: M/S HP Call: KE1F Class: SOAB LP Call: KE2DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Call: KH6GMP Class: SOAB HP Call: KH7X Class: M/2 HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KK1L Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KL7DX Class: M/S HP Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: KM2O Class: SOAB LP Call: KM9M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KP4KE Class: SOSB/80 QRP Call: KQ3F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB LP Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KS2G Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KT0R Class: M/2 HP Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Call: KT4Q Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KU1CW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: KU8E Class: SOAB HP Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KY5R Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: L44DX Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: LN3Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: LN8W Class: SOAB HP Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: LP1H Class: M/S HP Call: LQ5H Class: M/S HP Call: LR4E Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: LT1F Class: M/S HP Call: LU1BJW Class: M/S HP Call: LU4DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: LU5FF Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: LX7I Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: MI0LLL Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Call: N0KIS Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N0VD Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Call: N1DD Class: SOAB HP Call: N1FD Class: M/S HP Call: N1GKI Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: N1GLT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1HTS Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N1IW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1LW Class: SOAB LP Call: N1MGO Class: SOAB HP Call: N1MM Class: M/S HP Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Call: N1VI Class: SOAB LP Call: N2CU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2EK Class: SOAB LP Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2GC Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N2MUN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2NS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2NT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2RM Class: SOAB HP Call: N2SQW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2VW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2YO Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2ZN Class: SOAB LP Call: N3AD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N3KHK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N3KS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N3MX Class: M/2 HP Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Call: N3UA Class: SOAB LP Call: N3YW Class: SOAB HP Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4EK Class: SOAB LP Call: N4GG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Call: N4KG Class: SOAB LP Call: N4LR Class: SOAB HP Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N4NM Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N4NTO Class: SOAB LP Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Call: N4VA Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Call: N5DO Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N5IA Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: N5ZK Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Call: N6BV Class: SOAB HP Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Call: N6CY Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N6NF Class: SOAB HP Call: N6QQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7IR Class: SOAB LP Call: N7RQ Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: N7VR Class: SOAB LP Call: N7XG Class: SOAB HP Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Call: N8BC Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N8IE Class: SOAB LP Call: N8II Class: SOAB HP Call: N8TR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N9ADG Class: M/S HP Call: N9CO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA2U Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA3D Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: NA4K Class: SOAB LP Call: NA4M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NA7RF Class: SOAB LP Call: NB7V Class: SOAB HP Call: NE3F Class: M/2 HP Call: NF4A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NF8J Class: SOAB HP Call: NH6P Class: M/S HP Call: NI7T Class: M/2 HP Call: NJ2F Class: SOAB HP Call: NK7U Class: M/2 HP Call: NN2W Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NN3W Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: NQ4I Class: M/2 HP Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Call: NS9I Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NT4D Class: M/S HP Call: NX9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NZ5N Class: SOAB HP Call: OE9R Class: M/S HP Call: OH8X Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OK1DVM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: OK5R Class: SOAB HP Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Call: OK7M Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OL3R Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OL9R Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OM2IB Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: ON4UN Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: ON5KQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: ON6LY Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OZ7X Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: P40A Class: SOAB LP Call: P40LE Class: SOAB LP Call: PI4TUE Class: M/S HP Call: PJ2T Class: M/2 HP Call: PP5AMP Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: PP5NW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: PS2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PT7AG Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: PT7CB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PX2A Class: M/S HP Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: PY2CX Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: PY2NY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: PY2ZK Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PY5JO Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PY5YA Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: RK2FWA Class: M/M HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: S54O Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: S57UN Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: S59KW Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: SK2T Class: M/S HP Call: SM6U Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SM6YOU Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB LP Call: SN3A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: SN3R Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: SN7Q Class: SOAB HP Call: SO2R Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SO6X Class: SOAB HP Call: SO8A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SO9Q Class: M/S HP Call: SP1RFC Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: T99W Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: TM1W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: TM6M Class: M/2 HP Call: TO5A Class: SOAB HP Call: V26H Class: M/S HP Call: V47KP Class: M/2 HP Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VA3EC Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VA3GGF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VA3YP Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VA7AM Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE2HIT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3AD Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3BK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3EJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE3HG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB/160 QRP Call: VE3NE Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3RM Class: M/S HP Call: VE3TTN Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE3TW Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3ZIN Class: SOAB LP Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE5UA Class: SOAB HP Call: VE5UF Class: SOAB HP Call: VE6FI Class: M/2 HP Call: VE6JY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE6TN Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE7NS Class: SOAB HP Call: VK2CZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1JNS Class: SOAB LP Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB LP Call: VO1TA Class: SOAB HP Call: VP2E Class: M/S HP Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2LI Class: SOAB HP Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Call: W0LM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W0LSD Class: SOAB HP Call: W0MU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W0ZT Class: M/S HP Call: W1BYH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1CEK Class: SOAB QRP Call: W1CSM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1CTN Class: SOAB LP Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Call: W1FJ Class: M/M HP Call: W1GD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1NN Class: SOAB LP Call: W1NR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W1QA Class: M/S HP Call: W1XX Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W2AU Class: SOAB LP Call: W2CG Class: M/2 HP Call: W2GDJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2JU Class: SOAB LP Call: W2LE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2LHL Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: W2OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2TZ Class: M/S LP Call: W3BGN Class: M/S HP Call: W3CF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3CP Class: SOAB LP Call: W3DQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W3GH Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W3GM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Call: W3MF Class: M/S HP Call: W3MGL Class: SOAB HP Call: W3PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3RAR Class: SOAB LP Call: W3TUA Class: SOAB HP Call: W3YY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W4GHD Class: SOAB HP Call: W4HJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4HRC Class: SOAB LP Call: W4IW Class: M/2 HP Call: W4IX Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: W4KW Class: SOAB HP Call: W4MYA Class: M/2 HP Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RJ Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4RM Class: M/2 HP Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W4TMN Class: SOAB LP Call: W4WTB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4ZW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5GN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5GZ Class: SOAB LP Call: W5PR Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: W5WMU Class: M/2 HP Call: W5WP Class: M/S HP Call: W5YAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6AAN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W6OAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6RKC Class: SOAB HP Call: W6TK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6WB Class: M/2 HP Call: W6YI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7AT Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: W7GTO Class: SOAB LP Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7ZR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8CAR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8HC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8MJ Class: SOAB HP Call: W9JJC/AG Class: SOAB LP Call: W9RE Class: SOAB HP Call: WA2JQK Class: SOAB HP Call: WA2MNO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WA4DOU Class: SOAB LP Call: WA4OSD Class: SOAB LP Call: WA4PGM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WA7AR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: WA7RR Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WB1DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Call: WB8K Class: SOAB LP Call: WB9Z Class: SOAB HP Call: WC4J Class: M/2 HP Call: WD4OHD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: WD5K Class: SOAB HP Call: WE3C Class: M/2 HP Call: WE9N Class: SOAB HP Call: WF2B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WJ9B Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: WM5R Class: SOAB LP Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Call: WP2Z Class: M/2 HP Call: WP3C Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: WT8C Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WV0T Class: M/S HP Call: WX3B Class: M/2 HP Call: WX3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: XE2K Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: XE7S Class: M/S HP Call: YB2ECG Class: SOAB LP Call: YL7X Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: YO5OAG Class: SOSB/15 QRP Call: YR9P Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YT5T Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YV1CTE Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: YV5RED Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: YV6BTF Class: SOAB LP Call: YV7QP Class: SOAB LP Call: YW4D Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YW5T Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: YY1JGT Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: ZL3WW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: ZP0R Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: ZS6AAA Class: SOAB LP Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB/15 HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: 6Y1V Call: HG6N Call: K0TV Call: K6IDX Call: KC1XX Call: KH7X Call: KT0R Call: N0IJ Call: N3MX Call: N3RS Call: NE3F Call: NI7T Call: NK7U Call: NQ4I Call: PJ2T Call: TM6M Call: V47KP Call: VE6FI Call: W2CG Call: W4IW Call: W4MYA Call: W4RM Call: W5WMU Call: W6WB Call: WC4J Call: WE3C Call: WP2Z Call: WX3B Class: M/M HP Call: K1IR Call: K1RX Call: K3LR Call: K7ZSD Call: KB1H Call: RK2FWA Call: W0AIH Call: W1FJ Call: W3LPL Class: M/S HP Call: AY7X Call: CU2A Call: EC2DX Call: EI7M Call: HB9CT Call: HI3C Call: JA8RWU Call: K1KI Call: K3MD Call: K3OO Call: K8GL Call: KD2RD Call: KD7VBJ Call: KL7DX Call: LP1H Call: LQ5H Call: LT1F Call: LU1BJW Call: N1FD Call: N1MM Call: N9ADG Call: NH6P Call: NT4D Call: OE9R Call: PI4TUE Call: PX2A Call: RL3A Call: SK2T Call: SO9Q Call: V26H Call: VE3RM Call: VP2E Call: W0ZT Call: W1QA Call: W3BGN Call: W3LJ Call: W3MF Call: W5WP Call: WV0T Call: XE7S Class: M/S LP Call: C6ANM Call: K0MD Call: W2TZ Class: SOAB HP Call: 8P1A Call: AA1K Call: CE4CT Call: CN3A Call: DL8SCG Call: EA4KR Call: EA8AUW Call: FY5KE Call: G4BUO Call: GW4BLE Call: K0GAS Call: K0JJ Call: K0JJR Call: K0KT Call: K0OU Call: K0RH Call: K1BV Call: K1RU Call: K1TO Call: K1ZW Call: K2QPN Call: K3CR Call: K4BAI Call: K4RO Call: K5RR Call: K5ZD Call: K6NA Call: K6OQ Call: K6QK Call: K6SRZ Call: K6ST Call: K6TA Call: K6TD Call: K7ABV Call: K7EG Call: K7RL Call: K8LN Call: K8MR Call: K9RX Call: KE2DX Call: KE3D Call: KG4CUY Call: KH6GMP Call: KO7X Call: KU8E Call: LN8W Call: N0KE Call: N1DD Call: N1MGO Call: N2RM Call: N3YW Call: N4LR Call: N4LZ Call: N6AA Call: N6BV Call: N6CK Call: N6NF Call: N7XG Call: N8II Call: NB7V Call: NF8J Call: NJ2F Call: NN7ZZ Call: NZ5N Call: OK5R Call: SN7Q Call: SO6X Call: TO5A Call: VE3XAT Call: VE5UA Call: VE5UF Call: VE7NS Call: VO1HE Call: VO1TA Call: VY2LI Call: W0BH Call: W0LSD Call: W1EBI Call: W1HIS Call: W3DQ Call: W3MGL Call: W3TUA Call: W4GHD Call: W4KW Call: W4NZ Call: W4RJ Call: W6RKC Call: W8MJ Call: W9RE Call: WA2JQK Call: WB9Z Call: WD5K Call: WE9N Class: SOAB LP Call: 2E0CVN Call: AA5VU Call: AB4GG Call: AC5ZS Call: AD0K Call: AH0AH Call: DG7RO Call: DU1BP Call: F5CQ Call: HI3T Call: I2WIJ Call: K0HW Call: K1EP Call: K1VU Call: K4EU Call: K4MIL Call: K5NA/M Call: K7LAZ Call: K7LMM Call: KA4OTB Call: KA5EYH Call: KA8Q Call: KC5R Call: KD2MX Call: KD5J Call: KE1F Call: KM2O Call: KR1ST Call: KT4PD Call: N0BUI Call: N1DC Call: N1LW Call: N1UR Call: N1VI Call: N2EK Call: N2ZN Call: N3UA Call: N4EK Call: N4JF Call: N4KG Call: N4NTO Call: N4TZ/9 Call: N5AW Call: N7IR Call: N7VR Call: N7ZG Call: N8IE Call: NA4K Call: NA7RF Call: NS3T Call: OK6Y Call: P40A Call: P40LE Call: SM7BJW Call: VA7AM Call: VE2HIT Call: VE3AD Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3NE Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TW Call: VE3ZIN Call: VO1JNS Call: VO1KVT Call: VP9/W6PH Call: VY2SS Call: W0ETT Call: W1CTN Call: W1NN Call: W2AU Call: W2JU Call: W3CP Call: W3LL Call: W3RAR Call: W4HRC Call: W4TMN Call: W5GZ Call: W7GTO Call: W9JJC/AG Call: WA4DOU Call: WA4OSD Call: WB8JUI Call: WB8K Call: WM5R Call: WN6K Call: YB2ECG Call: YV6BTF Call: YV7QP Call: ZS6AAA Class: SOAB QRP Call: AH7ZA Call: F5NOD Call: HI8/NM6E Call: N1TM Call: N6WG Call: VA3DF Call: W1CEK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA3B Call: AA5CH Call: AE6RR Call: AJ1M Call: EA7RU Call: F8CMF Call: K0KX Call: K0PC Call: K0RC Call: K0TO Call: K1GU Call: K1JB Call: K1JC Call: K1KD Call: K1TR Call: K2ONP Call: K2PS Call: K2QMF Call: K2TE Call: K2TTT Call: K2XA Call: K3WI Call: K3WW Call: K4ADR Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K4TD Call: K5NZ Call: K6RIM Call: K6VVA Call: K7KR Call: KA2D Call: KA2KON Call: KB3MJ Call: KC2NB Call: KJ6RA Call: KK1L Call: KM9M Call: KQ3F Call: KR4F Call: KT4Q Call: KV1J Call: LU4DX Call: N1GLT Call: N1IW Call: N2CU Call: N2MUN Call: N2NS Call: N2NT Call: N2SQW Call: N2VW Call: N3AD Call: N3KS Call: N3ZA Call: N4GG Call: N4ZZ Call: N8TR Call: N9CO Call: NA2M Call: NA2U Call: NA4M Call: NF4A Call: NN2W Call: NN3W Call: NS9I Call: NX9T Call: PS2E Call: PT7CB Call: S54O Call: VA3DX Call: VA3GGF Call: VA7RN Call: VE3BK Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3HG Call: VE3UTT Call: VE6JY Call: VY2TT Call: W0MU Call: W1BYH Call: W1CSM Call: W1GD Call: W1KQ Call: W1MAT Call: W1NR Call: W2GDJ Call: W2LE Call: W2OO Call: W3CF Call: W3GM Call: W3PP Call: W3YY Call: W4HJ Call: W4NTI Call: W4RK Call: W4WTB Call: W4ZW Call: W5GN Call: W5YAA Call: W6OAT Call: W6TK Call: W6YI Call: W7WHY Call: W7ZR Call: W8CAR Call: W8HC Call: WA2MNO Call: WB1DX Call: WF2B Call: WT8C Call: WX3B Call: YR9P Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AB2E Call: AL2F Call: K1BX Call: K2DBK Call: K6AM Call: K6GEP Call: K8BL Call: K8GT Call: KB4ET Call: KS2G Call: N1HTS Call: N2FF Call: N2YO Call: N3KHK Call: N4VA Call: N5DO Call: N6CY Call: N6QQ Call: OK1DVM Call: ON5KQ Call: PY2BRZ Call: VE1OP Call: VE3EY Call: VE3TTN Call: VE4EAR Call: VE6TN Call: W0LM Call: W4EE Call: WA4PGM Call: WA7RR Call: WD4OHD Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: PP5AMP Call: PY5YA Call: W4IX Call: W5PR Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: CX4DX Call: K4WI Call: K7DAE Call: K7JCA Call: LU8EOT Call: PY2CX Call: YY1JGT Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: 9A5E Call: DL3TD Call: DQ4Q Call: F5HRY/P Call: FM5AN Call: IR4M Call: K0UK Call: K8IA Call: K9BGL Call: KC7V Call: L44DX Call: N0VD Call: N5ZK Call: ZP0R Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: AI2N Call: K5FP Call: KA2ASU Call: LR4E Call: N7RQ Call: PY1DX Call: PY2ZK Call: PY5JO Call: S59KW Call: WP3C Call: YV1CTE Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/15 QRP Call: YO5OAG Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K7BG Call: PT7AG Call: SN3R Call: W3GH Call: W4SVO Call: WJ9B Call: YW5T Class: SOSB/160 QRP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 4M5IR Call: DJ7IK Call: DK8EY Call: DP4K Call: EA1WX Call: EH7A Call: ES5RW Call: IT9STX Call: K2DB Call: K4BP Call: K4SQR Call: K6LRN Call: K7RI Call: LN3Z Call: LX7I Call: MI0LLL Call: N0KIS Call: N4PN Call: NA3D Call: OH8X Call: OK7M Call: OL3R Call: OZ7X Call: PP5NW Call: PY2NY Call: SM6U Call: SO2R Call: TM1W Call: W1OHM Call: W6AAN Call: W7WA Call: WA7AR Call: YL7X Call: YV1RDX Call: YV5RED Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: 9A5AQA Call: DJ6TK Call: K3SWZ Call: N8BC Call: ON6LY Call: VA3EC Call: VA3YP Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: SP1RFC Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: DG1ATN Call: FM5FJ Call: IV3TMV Call: K5MQ Call: KY5R Call: LU5FF Call: N1GKI Call: OL9R Call: SM6YOU Call: SO8A Call: VK2CZ Call: W1XX Call: YT5T Call: YW4D Call: ZL3WW Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: N5IA Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: W2LHL Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: AD6ZJ Call: DL1AUZ Call: K9ES Call: K9MUG Call: KL7RA Call: KT1V Call: KU1CW Call: LN9Z Call: N2GC Call: N4NM Call: OM2IB Call: ON4UN Call: S57UN Call: SN3A Call: T99W Call: W7AT Call: XE2K Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: CM6RCR Call: CO6LP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/80 QRP Call: KP4KE