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