RTTY Roundup Soapbox built 2-11-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1WB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 14,210 Just a part time effort from the World Bank club station in DC. After my son's ice hockey game on Sunday afternoon, I went to the 4U1WB station to spend a few hours. I could not get on the air at all on Sunday because I had to go to another hockey game. I really like the Roundup and want to do a serious effort sometime in the future. Thank you for the QSOs. It was nice to print familiar calls. 73, Masa, AJ3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P2K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 90,900 This was the very first ARRL RTTY RU contest in which I could operate for most of the time. I had planned to be high-power and beat last years 48K effort, but a practice round on Friday and I think I got a busted relay in the amp -- and therefore was forced to go low power. It really wasn't too bad, but propagation could have been better and 80 was really noisy at my end. Rigs stood up well. No one got into the log on all bands. I think P49X missed 10m for a clean sweep, but he had a phenomenal score. Congrats and thanks as always for the Q's. Dean - 8P6SH 8P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5CW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 132,775 Tnx to all for qso's and special thanks goes to 9a2cw, 9a1un and 9a3asf. Simple setup: so2r: ic735 (fsk 1275hz) + ts440s (2000hz afsk) antenna farm: www.9a1p.com software: 2 x mmtty interfaces: 2 x homemade ptt/fsk boxes (AA5AU pages helped a lot) 73 de Patrik 9A5CW p.s. 9A5W - was not active ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 37,222 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m high (40-10m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 Ameritron AL-80A Ancient Toshiba laptop N1MM software with MMTTY Comments: Just a part time effort here. Ran about 300-500 watts with the amp, and about 200 watts on 80m -- the shunt matching network can't really take much more than this. I don't normally do high power, but on RTTY the K2/100 can only manage about 35 watts out without overheading. Certainly makes contacts easier. This was mostly a run-fest for me. I probably could have found more mults with S & P. Still, this is a personal best for the RTTY Round-up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5AU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 227,740 What a great contest! I did not expect it to be so good but it was. It was pretty much non-stop action but to me, Sunday was slow. I had a hard time keeping the rate going all day Sunday. With the nice propagation numbers we had, I would have expected more DX on 15 meters. 15 meters was better Sunday than Saturday but it still seemed flat overall. 20 was good but the low bands were fantastic! I kept checking ten meters on Sunday but only worked two stations. I found LV5V early and then later worked KU1CW on some weird path beaming west. I CQ'd a few times but there was nothing there. The rate was phenomenal for the first 12 hours. I normally take rest at 0600Z but this year the low bands were so good I was going to go to 0700Z. Then we had a momentary power outage at about 0620Z which really freaked me out. By the time I was able to bring everything back on line, I had lost ten minutes. Once I saw everything was OK and the logs were saved, I just went to bed. Highlight was having VK6HD call me on 80 meters Sunday morning. Lowlights were the power outage and missing North Dakota. Lots of dupes this year compared to other years, but I never once received or saw the "WKD BEFORE" message! Considering I'd just put the station back together a week before the contest, I'm very pleased it worked well. I had my doubts about using TCP/IP networking with WriteLog, but it never failed the whole weekend. Thanks to everyone for the contacts. It was a lot of fun again this year. 73, Don AA5AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA9DY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,500 Rig: FT-920 pumping 100 watts of modulated energy (minus losses, of course) into a compact vertical dipole 8 feet off of the ground Comments: Couldn't find the one North Dakota QSO I needed to complete my WAS-RTTY and WAS-RTTY-40M. Bummer... Still had a great time! Managed to get 1 QSO on 10m (Argentina). Had a couple of good runs when I got tired of S&P. Gave me back my energy to continue hunting for ND. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB0RX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 141,398 K0BX and AB0RX operated at a team again in the RTTY Roundup. This year we operated as AB0RX instead of W0MA as we have in the past. We started out on 20 meters beaming EU. Many EU stations were workable but the big surprise was hearing and working ZL2AMI 30 minutes into the contest off the back of the antenna (or possibly long path - only he knows). We then moved to 15 meters which was OK until a small “pop” was heard and then there was no RF output from the amplifier anymore. Fortunately, a second amplifier was available and was immediately put to use. Unfortunately the second amplifier had not been tested in a RTTY contest before and exhibited an internal arcing condition when driven to full output. This forced us to operate QRP for the remainder of the contest with only 500W PEP. We lost about 45 precious minutes of operating time tinkering with the equipment. After the dust settled we had 1159 QSOs and 121 multipliers. This was about 15% less QSOs than last year, but four more multipliers. We missed North Dakota and LB, NU, NWT, and YT RAC sections. We worked about the same number of NA stations as last year but the number of EU and Asia stations worked was down significantly. Band conditions were worse than last year so that had more to do with it than DX enthusiasm for RTTY. Almost 60% of our QSOs came on 40 and 80 meters. We tried 10 meters a couple times but only netted 7 QSOs. The top rate was 98 QSOs/Hr on 80 meters from 4-5:00 UTC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC4JI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,157 40 & 20 appeared more active than usual for a RTTY event. Jim, AC4JI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD0K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,556 First time on the air since July, but had a good time. 100W and a dipole, mostly on 20M and still managed to pull some good ones in the ten hours I had available. Uniformly good operating. Sorry to those few that I hit the wrong macro key...I will get better. Was hoping for a WAS and managed 39. See you next RTTY contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 21,165 Radio: IC-756 Pro (100W) Antennas: G5RV at 35' (10M), Hy-Gain AV-640 vertical Interface: microHam microKEYER Software: Writelog 10.62 Just a part-time effort. Now that the NE Patriots are in the NFL playoffs every year, it kills Sunday for this contest. This contest usually serves to kick-start my annual DXCC quest. Now that CQ sponsors a DX Marathon award, at least I can *do* something with all those worked entities! Missed ME, VT, OK(!), ID, NV and ND. Missed the northern (VO1, VO2, VY0, VY2) and Western (VE8, VY1) provinces. Never heard KH6 or KL7. Best runs were on 80m. 40m had signals almost continuously from 7030 to 7100. 15m was spotty into Europe Sunday morning, but managed to work a few. Never heard a peep on 10 meters. Worked two new RTTY countries on 80m: EF8A and GI0KOW. I hope to put in a more serious effort in the WPX contest in mid-February. Thanks for all the activity and all the QSOs. 73 - Jim AD1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 149,060 Was only going to operate very part time, but got sucked in. RTTY does that to me for some reason. Did not do quite as well as last year, but it was close. Managed to work all states, got WV near the very end. Best hour was 121 QSOs. Best DX surprise was Indonesia YC8EL, worked Nur on 40m using my GAP vertical. Wish I had spent more time S&Ping for DX on Sunday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 31,086 Pitting myself against myself I had 141 Q's more than last year but only 2 additional mults for an increase of 10K. I need to do better finding the mults. 20M was solid as usual with the best run of 52 Q's at 64.5/hr. The big surprise was 80M where I had a 72Q run at 47.7/hr. Over all just over 30Q's/hr, a personal best for any mode. I had the most fun on 80M as the vertical up the pine tree continues to be my only antenna for 40M/80M work. Best DX was China on 40M. de AD6ZJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 162 Handing out some points between Kid's Day contacts. Serious effort was made elsewhere. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,623 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's ARRL RTTY Contest Log 1.3 ARRL-SECTION: VA CONTEST: ARRL-RTTY CALLSIGN: AI4ME CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club OPERATORS: AI4ME CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 11623 NAME: Don Michalek ADDRESS: 2437 Broomsedge Trail ADDRESS: Virginia Beach, VA 23456 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ai4me@cox.net SOAPBOX: QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1900 AI4ME 599 VA W5AJ 599 TX QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1901 AI4ME 599 VA NA4M 599 TX QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1902 AI4ME 599 VA K0FX 599 CO QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1904 AI4ME 599 VA N2IC 599 NM QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1909 AI4ME 599 VA KO7AA 599 AZ QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1911 AI4ME 599 VA W0LSD 599 CO QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1926 AI4ME 599 VA CX7BF 599 082 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1928 AI4ME 599 VA NN7SS 599 WA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1934 AI4ME 599 VA ZX2B 599 120 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1936 AI4ME 599 VA KE5OG 599 TX QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1939 AI4ME 599 VA K0UK 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2047 AI4ME 599 VA WR0DK 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2049 AI4ME 599 VA N2BJ 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2050 AI4ME 599 VA K0MPH 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2053 AI4ME 599 VA NN7SS 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2056 AI4ME 599 VA KE0L 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2101 AI4ME 599 VA KU1CW 599 MO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2103 AI4ME 599 VA K0SR 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2104 AI4ME 599 VA KE9S 599 WI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2108 AI4ME 599 VA K0FJ 599 KS QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2110 AI4ME 599 VA K9KDR 599 WI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2116 AI4ME 599 VA P49X 599 609 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2141 AI4ME 599 VA AA5AU 599 LA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2143 AI4ME 599 VA K7RL 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2147 AI4ME 599 VA AB0LR 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2148 AI4ME 599 VA K0AD 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2149 AI4ME 599 VA N0NI 599 IA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2152 AI4ME 599 VA W0SD 599 SD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2154 AI4ME 599 VA W6YX 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2155 AI4ME 599 VA VA1CHP 599 NS QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2156 AI4ME 599 VA NA5U 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2159 AI4ME 599 VA W7WW 599 AZ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2203 AI4ME 599 VA WG7X 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2204 AI4ME 599 VA KE6RAD 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2206 AI4ME 599 VA K7MM 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2208 AI4ME 599 VA W7RY 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2211 AI4ME 599 VA W7CT 599 UT QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2211 AI4ME 599 VA W0RAA 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2212 AI4ME 599 VA VE3XAT 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2214 AI4ME 599 VA K6LL 599 AZ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2247 AI4ME 599 VA W5APS 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2250 AI4ME 599 VA N7BF 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2254 AI4ME 599 VA W7SYJ 599 WA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-06 2307 AI4ME 599 VA KC4HW 599 AL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-06 2309 AI4ME 599 VA KA4RRU 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-06 2316 AI4ME 599 VA KT0R 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0004 AI4ME 599 VA KC4WQ 599 KY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0005 AI4ME 599 VA HI3TEJ 599 449 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0007 AI4ME 599 VA AB0LR 599 CO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0009 AI4ME 599 VA WA2MNO 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0011 AI4ME 599 VA W0SD 599 SD QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0018 AI4ME 599 VA K7RL 599 WA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0027 AI4ME 599 VA P49X 599 1075 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0237 AI4ME 599 VA WX4TM 599 AL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0240 AI4ME 599 VA EF8A 599 345 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0242 AI4ME 599 VA W6OAT 599 CA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0244 AI4ME 599 VA N4BP 599 FL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0251 AI4ME 599 VA KU1CW 599 MO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0254 AI4ME 599 VA W4GKM 599 TN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0257 AI4ME 599 VA W4QG 599 FL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0303 AI4ME 599 VA K4QD 599 FL QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0351 AI4ME 599 VA KP4VP 599 055 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0352 AI4ME 599 VA K9WX 599 IN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0354 AI4ME 599 VA WA1FCN 599 AL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0356 AI4ME 599 VA KB9Q 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0357 AI4ME 599 VA K8NZ 599 FL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0359 AI4ME 599 VA NP2KW 599 060 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0400 AI4ME 599 VA K4EA 599 GA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0404 AI4ME 599 VA KK5OQ 599 MS QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0406 AI4ME 599 VA K9MUG 599 AL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0413 AI4ME 599 VA AA5AU 599 LA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0413 AI4ME 599 VA K0IDT 599 NE QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0414 AI4ME 599 VA AI9T 599 IL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0418 AI4ME 599 VA AI4FR 599 FL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0421 AI4ME 599 VA WW2R 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0423 AI4ME 599 VA AG4W 599 AL QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0425 AI4ME 599 VA KO7AA 599 AZ QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0430 AI4ME 599 VA AD4EB 599 TN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0438 AI4ME 599 VA K1FWE 599 NH QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0442 AI4ME 599 VA W2ZQ 599 NJ QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1409 AI4ME 599 VA K1KO 599 VA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1411 AI4ME 599 VA YZ1SM 599 442 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1422 AI4ME 599 VA P49X 599 1991 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1428 AI4ME 599 VA LB8IB 599 856 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1430 AI4ME 599 VA IV3SKB 599 391 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1438 AI4ME 599 VA YL2CI 599 678 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1442 AI4ME 599 VA UT2II 599 850 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1444 AI4ME 599 VA 6J3RBA 599 540 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1449 AI4ME 599 VA KT0R 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1800 AI4ME 599 VA N9CK 599 WI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1802 AI4ME 599 VA AB9DU 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1804 AI4ME 599 VA N6JV 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1807 AI4ME 599 VA K7BTW 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1811 AI4ME 599 VA W8JWN 599 MI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1812 AI4ME 599 VA VE1OP 599 NS QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1814 AI4ME 599 VA W7KB 599 UT QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1815 AI4ME 599 VA K0IR 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1816 AI4ME 599 VA KE7AJ 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1818 AI4ME 599 VA N0XB 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1823 AI4ME 599 VA VE6YR 599 AB QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1824 AI4ME 599 VA W4GAC 599 FL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1830 AI4ME 599 VA N0KK 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1832 AI4ME 599 VA VY2LI 599 PEI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1833 AI4ME 599 VA K0PC 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1841 AI4ME 599 VA KB5U 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1846 AI4ME 599 VA KD0S 599 SD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1905 AI4ME 599 VA W0EK 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1907 AI4ME 599 VA K0XB 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1908 AI4ME 599 VA W0AW 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1924 AI4ME 599 VA VA3GGF 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1928 AI4ME 599 VA W3WKR 599 PA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1932 AI4ME 599 VA W7WW 599 AZ QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1939 AI4ME 599 VA KA1VMG 599 CT QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1941 AI4ME 599 VA K4GMH 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1942 AI4ME 599 VA WD4DDU 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1942 AI4ME 599 VA VE2FK 599 QC QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1944 AI4ME 599 VA W9XT 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1953 AI4ME 599 VA W4ZE 599 PA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1955 AI4ME 599 VA KD5LNO 599 OH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1956 AI4ME 599 VA N8LRG 599 OH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2044 AI4ME 599 VA AB0RX 599 MO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2045 AI4ME 599 VA K4WW 599 KY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2045 AI4ME 599 VA N3XLS 599 PA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2047 AI4ME 599 VA KN8J 599 WV QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2048 AI4ME 599 VA N9CK 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2050 AI4ME 599 VA K9DJ 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2053 AI4ME 599 VA K8QM 599 NC QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2055 AI4ME 599 VA VE3NZ 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2056 AI4ME 599 VA K9MQ 599 IN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2112 AI4ME 599 VA K4RO 599 TN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2113 AI4ME 599 VA VE3DDG 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2115 AI4ME 599 VA VE3KI 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2116 AI4ME 599 VA K5ZD 599 MA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2117 AI4ME 599 VA NI8Z 599 OH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2118 AI4ME 599 VA AC1O 599 ME QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2121 AI4ME 599 VA K4GM 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2123 AI4ME 599 VA W4UK 599 SC QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2124 AI4ME 599 VA W4PK 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2125 AI4ME 599 VA WA2ETU 599 NY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2127 AI4ME 599 VA KF4HOU 599 TN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2128 AI4ME 599 VA K0SR 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2129 AI4ME 599 VA K3IXD 599 SC QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2130 AI4ME 599 VA N2BJ 599 IL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2132 AI4ME 599 VA VA3DX 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2133 AI4ME 599 VA NG1I 599 MA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2135 AI4ME 599 VA KP2D 599 1421 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2137 AI4ME 599 VA W5AP 595 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2138 AI4ME 599 VA KE9S 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2139 AI4ME 599 VA K8IR 599 MI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2141 AI4ME 599 VA K8SIA 599 MI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2147 AI4ME 599 VA W3MF 599 PA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2148 AI4ME 599 VA W1AJT/VE3 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2149 AI4ME 599 VA VE3HG 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2151 AI4ME 599 VA W0LSD 599 CO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2151 AI4ME 599 VA N0AT 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2153 AI4ME 599 VA WA1ZYX 599 NH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2155 AI4ME 599 VA KO0Z 599 MO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2158 AI4ME 599 VA N0NI 599 IA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2159 AI4ME 599 VA KG5VK 599 LA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2202 AI4ME 599 VA 8P2K 599 906 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2218 AI4ME 599 VA VA1CHP 599 NS QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2219 AI4ME 599 VA KI5XP 599 LA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2220 AI4ME 599 VA N8IE 599 OH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2222 AI4ME 599 VA AA4LR 599 GA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2225 AI4ME 599 VA WA9IVH 599 IL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2226 AI4ME 599 VA K8ZZ 599 MI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2229 AI4ME 599 VA W2RTY 599 NY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2231 AI4ME 599 VA W8JWN 599 MI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2252 AI4ME 599 VA VE7FO 599 BC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2254 AI4ME 599 VA KR6E 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2257 AI4ME 599 VA N5KO 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2300 AI4ME 599 VA W0SM 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2302 AI4ME 599 VA N6RC 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2302 AI4ME 599 VA WB6JJJ 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2305 AI4ME 599 VA K7MI 599 OR QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2308 AI4ME 599 VA ND2T 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2310 AI4ME 599 VA K6IDX 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2312 AI4ME 599 VA N7MQ 599 OR QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2314 AI4ME 599 VA NX4W 599 FL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2316 AI4ME 599 VA N4PSE 599 FL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2317 AI4ME 599 VA N4ZZ 599 TN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2320 AI4ME 599 VA VE6SV 599 AB QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2325 AI4ME 599 VA K0IR 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2327 AI4ME 599 VA AB0S 599 KS QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2332 AI4ME 599 VA KE0L 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2332 AI4ME 599 VA W9AZ 599 IL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2333 AI4ME 599 VA N5ZM 599 AR QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2339 AI4ME 599 VA KO7AA 599 AZ QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2341 AI4ME 599 VA KP4KE 599 247 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2346 AI4ME 599 VA ND2T 599 CA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2347 AI4ME 599 VA AA9DY 599 IL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2348 AI4ME 599 VA K0AD 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2351 AI4ME 599 VA AB0TA 599 MO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2352 AI4ME 599 VA K7MI 599 OR QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2353 AI4ME 599 VA K6IDX 599 CA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2356 AI4ME 599 VA N1HRA 599 RI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2357 AI4ME 599 VA WR0DK 599 MN END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI9T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 174,845 Band conditions on 20 and 15 were not the greatest in Central IL but 40 and 80 were great. Managed to beat out my score from last year which was my goal. Thanks to all that we worked over the weekend. 73 Steve AI9T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL2F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,620 I didn't get any real good openings to the states, even the West coast was harder than usual. I was also expecting more JA's but heard very few on Sunday. It was fun even with marginal band conditions. Thanks for pulling me out of the noise. 73-AL2F Kris in Anchor Point, AK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ6TK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,650 Hi, I was glad to work the old RTTY friends in 2007 again.I give also some friends the special Call from 100 Years of German Submarine: DA0UBOOT Vy 73 es good luck for 2007, Wilf - dj6tk - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4WC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,334 Rig: Yaesu FT-920 Atennna: Caribe HF9V vertical Multiband ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0AZS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,134 Thanks to all who made QSO's with me. Why do contests always happen on weekends when I have other family commitments? One day I'll be able to operate longer :-) Anyway I grabbed some operating time and was happy to find conditons OK for my modest station when I did manage to drop in. I even got a couple of new countries on RTTY with this call. Using an Icom 706 MkIIG running 20 watts to a G5RV... and now using an auto ATU... I never realised band changes could actually be quick and painless :-) BTW I actully listened now and then on 10M hoping to make QSO's on all 5 bands but I didn't hear a thing. Did anyone else in the UK/Europe have any luck on 10M? 73 Marc G0AZS (K1UG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,166 Just a few hours here and there throughout the weekend. Best conditions across the Atlantic were on 21MHz, with most states/provinces worked here. Listened on 28 a few times and even put out a few calls but no takers and nothing heard. IC756ProIII, 100w, 10m wire vertical for all Qs except 3.5 for which the folded doublet was used. Thanks for the QSOs. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU0SUP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 26,970 Thanks to ARRL for the fun contest, and to everyone for the points. Log is now on LoTW. Lost the last hours due to a major power cut around the island. 73 de Phil GU0SUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG4I Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 72,720 Thanks for all QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3TEJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 177,927 A great contest only 1 Steppir again maked it happens on 40 metres a rotary dipole at 60 feet and a inverted v for 80 a lot of passion and for sure the best rtty rig ever maked pro2. Cu if God will in the nexts rttys test Ted Next time the best time to take a break is when Europe sleep ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3JCC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 38,294 Hi This was the first Roundup for me, 21 hours working, but a lot of time lost going in and out from my radio room called by wife, son, phone and....cat hi. However a lot amusing contest. What to say about the propagation? Not so good. During the night low sigs from USA in 40... a contest for great antennas, my dipole has done miracles. Very funny in 80, a lot of stations in a frequency not usual for me (poor antenna conditions). 15 meters very quite QRM and good sigs from USA but not a lot of stations. My 756 pro 3 has worked magnificently...a reliable rtx and it is waiting summer time for more efficient antennas. Many thanks to all the friends that have called me, and good bye to the next RTTY test. iv3jcc Gianni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3SKB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 58,500 Nice activity , run only 20mt see on ARRL CW 73 Andrea IV3SKB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IW1QN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,255 A Very Funny Contest.It' s the first time I partecipate at this Contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA6GCE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 71,820 RTTYCJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0BX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,025 M/S - Single Operator with Packet. I operated MS from our club station, W0MA, using AB0RX Callsign. After operating my shift at the club I came home and couldn't resist getting on with my homecall. I have been in ever RTTY Roundup except the first one and wanted to keep my string going. RR is sure turning into a major rtty contest. Joe K0BX IC-756PRO3, 4 elements on 20 meters, 3 elements on 15. Writelog with MMTTY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 70,599 Rig : Icom IC-756 Pro III, Dell Laptop XP Pro, N1MM Logger + MMTTY Antennas : HyGain TH11DXX @ 70 ft, Telrex 1e 40m @ 65 ft, sloped wire dipoles 40/80 Soapbox : GO MWA! The only station I worked on all 5 bands was Ron, NØAT. The propagation for the bottom of the solar cycle was "acceptable", but it severely limited the DX and length of openings for working it. There was virtually no noise at my QTH on any of the bands. I have never heard so many digital signals during a RTTY contest! It was really difficult to find a frequency to claim for running. I ended up either really high or really low in the band... outside the traditional RTTY sub-bands! It will be interesting to see how the 2007 QSO totals tally. With so many stations crowded onto the bands, I don't know whether the QSO rate will increase or decrease. I know my 250 Hz filters took a severe beating! I used the special twin peaked RTTY filter in the Icom for the first time. Although it isn't the most pleasant to listen to during normal conditions, it made a BIG difference when the signals were piled on top of each other. Marginals signals I normally would have to abandon were copied with confidence for a contact. Here's the "Top Eleven" statistics from my 702 contacts: removing the 3 dupes brings the valid Q's to 699. 549 = USA 51 = Canada 6 = Italy 5 = Brazil 5 = Ukraine 5 = Mexico 4 = Germany 4 = Spain 4 = Virgin Islands 4 = Puerto Rico 4 = Argentina Total DXCC Entities worked = 50 Once again, somebody let the dogs out... I caught Ruff, K9SEX on 3 bands this year. I think he must spend the rest of the year locked up in a kennel somewhere. ARRL Roundup seems to be the only time I hear his bark! Sit, Stay, Good Dog! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RFD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,630 This was my first RTTY Roundup. For some reason, I have always had something else to do this weekend. Checked everything on Friday night, but Murphy paid a visit Saturday and I ended up having to run AFSK, not my first choice. Still, I had a great time. Thanks to all who worked me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 143,820 Great activity, very poor DX propagation from up here. Not much heard from Europe on any band and never heard anything out of Asia. This contest will be a lot more fun with 1) Sunspots, and 2) SO2R capability. Had a great time. 73 Steve K0SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 49,000 I warmed up the peanut whistle again and had a great time. It was a good weekend for condx. There seem to be some weekends where the old vertical just cannot be heard. I have had to many SS's like that. This was good. Except there was not to be heard of EU here. Most of the ones I heard were o n 15. Not 20. I was able to beat my old high Qso count, but I fell short in Mults. I missed my old high score by 296 points. I got to 700 Q's exactly at the end of the contest. Talk about cutting it close! Lots of fun though! 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 34,090 I want to thanks the following local GMCC hams for help. Carson WA0RSX, Ralph K0RFD, Bob K0BX, Denis AA0YX for all there help and support. It was a struggle but did get the RigBlaster Plus working with the FT1000D plus used N1MM and MMTTY. This was my first experience with RTTY. It was fun and the xyl said it sure is quiet like cw Hi..Didnt get to work the entire contest at all but did work some and this coming just before our trip to Ca.. Again thanks to all who worked me and sorry if I was fumble fingers.Plus not sure how to find state/prov and country total in N1MM oh well lots to learn....PTL God Bless, bill K0UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 21,780 First time on RU. Great Contest. Lots of activity. Will be back next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1FWE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 115,345 First serious RTTY effort, but was only able to put in 18 hours. Good EU run on 20 here in NH on Sunday morning. Had hoped to see more DX. SO2R next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PAL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 21,816 Hello! Had a great time during RU contest,thank's to all for the QSO's. Alex K2PAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2WK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 55,872 Ignore the W4MYA posting for the ARRL RTTY RU contest on the reflector, I screwed up, should have been the K2WK log. Take care Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2YG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 22,960 Elecraft K2 @ 5 watts Cushcraft A3S Dipole Software: RTTY/RITTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3FH Class: M/S LP Total Score = 7,250 Part time effort. First RU from new TN Qth, using Butternut HF6V. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MJW Class: M/S LP Total Score = 16,965 We had a great time at the club, good RTTY, good Food, a couple of 807s, and bunch of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 73,233 Part time effort for the Club! 40M antenna still broke... :( 73, Ty K3MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 111,672 My first Roundup and first major rtty contest. Lots of fun other than I had a software glitch which had my computer and rig fighting one another. May have a few band log errors to deal with. I had set a goal of 1000 q's, 100,000 points, and 100 mults which I hit with abt 60 minutes to go. I spent the last hour s&p, looking for mults, and trying to make sure all the PVRC guys had Delaware in the log. Got all states except for Delaware - was I the only Delaware op in the test? Rig: Icom 756 ProII, AL-811H amp, 2-el 5-bd quad, and jungle of wire antennas. Hoping to go SO2R as soon as I get the software glitches ironed out. Go PVRC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 159,390 Lots of rain over the last 10 days and over this weekend kept the line noise away. I had just about forgotten what the bands sound like without the noise. With the flux near 90 and the K near or at 0, I expected better things from 15 and 10. But It wasn't to be. The only 10M QSO was ground wave into TN. Missed VO2 and all the VE8's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 94,392 A part time effort. Mostly 15/20M due to commitments on Saturday night and Sunday. Maybe I will have my 40M beam up in the 2008 run. It is a fun contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4GMH Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 249,480 Thanks to all who were kind enough to work me. All QSOs are appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4LW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,370 A lot of fun. Had a couple of good runs. Mostly S&P. RTTY could replace SSB as my second favorite contest mode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,152 BAND TOTAL DX STATES/ TOTAL QSO WRKD PROVINCES Multipliers 80 72 1 6 7 40 109 1 22 23 20 47 3 16 19 15 16 2 7 9 10 0 0 0 0 Total 244 7 51 58 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4QD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 176,085 We operated from the Platinum Coast ARS (PCARS) club station in Melbourne, FL. Rig was a Kenwood TS-850S/AT with AF4Z multi-modem and 1KW amp. Antennas were a Pro-67B (40M-10M) and 80M inverted V both at 60 feet. Great contest. Missed DE and ND for state sweep. Thanks for the contacts. 73, Jan, K4QD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 183,799 Wow, that was the most fun I've had in front of the radio in a long time. Last year, I had a broken rotator, a broken computer and no functional SO2R setup for RTTY. This year, everything in the station was repaired and working at full capacity. N1MM worked great running SO2R on a single soundcard in stereo mode. The RTTY RoundUp has all the ingredients for a great time. We get to work anyone on all bands for rate rate rate. We get to chase DX for multipliers, without having to have a superstation to be DX competitive on all bands. It's also the ultimate SO2R contest, for those so inclined. The time format introduces some strategy, and is achievable by many operators. This was my first full-time effort in an RTTY contest with SO2R, and it's really fun! Congrats to all the fine operators who make RTTY contests so enjoyable. See you in the next one. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: M/S LP Total Score = 63,050 More contacts (+50), less multipliers (-6), better score (+1250)than last yesr. Band conditions, on 20, responsible for less contacts/multipliers, than last year. Unexpected family situation caused me to lose about 8 hours, during the first day. Although I respect the fact that "they were there first", before the contest started, I question the operation tactics of 1A4A DXPedetion? Chosing to transmit on/about 14.079, using a 5-20 kHz split, did not show much consideration for one of the most heavily participated in, RTTY contests! Bottom line: Better score, than last year, had fun...not a bad way to spend a rainy weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5YAC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 45,866 First RTTY contest... had a ball! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,792 No better contest for practicing SO2R than this one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,340 This was my first RTTY Roundup, and my 2nd major RTTY contest. 20M was packed on Saturday afternoon. Many signals on top of one another. Like everyone else said, no Europe, and I only worked 1 JA. ZX2B had a booming signal, but I didn't hear any LUs. I had hoped for better openings on 15 (or 10), but just didn't happen. My best DX was YL8M on 40M at midnight local time. 80M was the biggest surprise. My multiband dipole works better on 80 closer to the ground. I'm definately hooked on RTTY contesting. The N3FJP software worked well with the K7RE RTTY software, but there is room for improvement on doing a dupe check on a callsign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6IDX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 150,696 SO1R, no packet Thanks to Brad K6IDX for hosting me, and to Rusty W6OAT and Ira K2RD for making this effort possible. This was another fun contest from K6IDX. 80m was really good on Saturday evening, where I worked a loud SN7Q and heard a loud S5. The 20m European opening on Sunday was disappointing from the west coast, but thanks to Brad's outstanding station, I was able to do reasonably well on mults from W6. Thanks for all the contacts! W6OAT was my only 5-band QSO station. There was outstanding participation from MN. I called CQ several times on 10m, but had no luck. Brad brought me a steak dinner on Saturday evening from the local restaurant. That had to be one of the best porterhouse steaks I have ever tasted! Below are some stats from my log. See you guys in WPX RTTY! 73... -Dean - N6DE 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 175 314 430 306 1 1226 84.6 AF 1 0 3 1 0 5 0.3 OC 1 1 6 4 0 12 0.8 SA 0 4 4 10 0 18 1.2 EU 1 0 50 0 0 51 3.5 AS 0 50 36 51 0 137 9.5 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 8P 1 1 BY 3 3 CN 1 1 CX 1 1 DL 17 17 DU 1 1 2 EA 2 2 EA8 1 1 2 FG 1 1 FM 1 1 GM 1 1 HA 3 3 HB 1 1 HI 1 1 2 HK 1 1 HL 4 2 1 7 HS 1 1 I 6 6 JA 38 30 48 116 K 163 292 389 270 1 1115 KH6 3 3 KL 1 2 3 KP2 1 1 2 KP4 1 2 3 LU 2 2 4 LZ 3 3 OE 1 1 OK 4 4 OM 1 1 P4 2 2 4 PA 1 1 PJ2 1 1 PY 3 3 S5 2 2 SM 2 2 SP 1 4 5 TF 1 1 TG 1 1 UA9 3 2 1 6 V2 1 1 VE 12 17 36 25 90 VK 1 1 2 VP8 1 1 VR 2 1 1 4 XE 2 2 2 6 YB 1 1 2 YV 1 1 1 3 Z3 1 1 ZL 1 2 3 ZS 1 1 2 QSO/Sta+Prov+Dx by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-1800Z - - - 72/25 - 72/25 72/25 D1-1900Z - - 53/15 15/0 - 68/15 140/40 D1-2000Z - - - 53/3 - 53/3 193/43 D1-2100Z - - 52/7 13/1 - 65/8 258/51 D1-2200Z - - 82/5 - - 82/5 340/56 D1-2300Z - - 37/1 32/4 - 69/5 409/61 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 30/1 24/2 --+-- 54/3 463/64 D2-0100Z - 43/2 24/2 - - 67/4 530/68 D2-0200Z - 88/1 - - - 88/1 618/69 D2-0300Z - 53/6 - - - 53/6 671/75 D2-0400Z 48/0 5/1 - - - 53/1 724/76 D2-0500Z 57/2 - - - - 57/2 781/78 D2-0600Z 3/0 - - - - 3/0 784/78 57 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 784/78 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 784/78 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 784/78 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 784/78 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 784/78 60 D2-1200Z 64/0 - - - - 64/0 848/78 3 D2-1300Z 5/0 66/1 - - - 71/1 919/79 D2-1400Z - 48/0 - - - 48/0 967/79 D2-1500Z - 10/0 39/7 - - 49/7 1016/86 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 38/6 --+-- --+-- 38/6 1054/92 D2-1700Z - - 45/2 - - 45/2 1099/94 D2-1800Z - - 37/2 13/1 - 50/3 1149/97 D2-1900Z - - - 73/1 - 73/1 1222/98 D2-2000Z 1/0 1/0 - 39/4 1/0 42/4 1264/102 D2-2100Z - - 22/0 38/1 - 60/1 1324/103 D2-2200Z - 9/0 50/1 - - 59/1 1383/104 D2-2300Z - 46/0 20/0 - - 66/0 1449/104 Total: 178/2 369/11 529/49 372/42 1/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 8,460 Operated in this contest on a whim. I have to say I really enjoyed this contest a lot as I'm starting to get the hang of Writelog a lot more. The bands are definitely picking-up this season. Happy New Year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 124,992 Murphy struck late on Saturday night. In short order I lost the left bandpass filter, the left radio, and the two amplifiers available to the right radio. I did a fast recabling job to get the right-hand radio connected to the left amplifier, so I could continue with one radio. I was pretty discouraged by all this, and decided to quit the contest after the EU opening on 20 Sunday morning, so I went QRT at about 1649z. I had nothing else to do on Sunday, so I started working on the failed equipment. by 2200z I had the left-hand radio and one of the right-hand amplifiers repaired. I also had a 20 meter single-band bandpass filter available, so I was back in business for so2r! I got back on at 2221z until the end, and made another 151q's and 2 more mults. There's nothing like RTTY to bring out equipment problems. Now I just need to repair the second Dunestar 600, and get another 3-500Z for amplifier #3. One of its three tubes failed with an open filament. The contest itself was really interesting. 80 was great on Saturday night. With all of the new participants in rtty contesting, this will be a really super event when propagation improves. One thing that continues to amaze me is how so2r rtty is great fun, but so1r rtty is totally boring! See you in NAQP CW next weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BTW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 96,278 We operated from N9ADG's qth High above Preston, Wa in the Jet Stream. At least it seemed like it with the wind blowing as hard as it did. We used a 4 element steppir and bobber dipoles on 80 and 40. In case you don't know what a bobber is, it is a dipole attached to trees on both ends which causes the feed point to bob up and down in high wind. You try to transmit while the feed point is bouncing up. That helps launch your rf with extra force. The result is an extra 3 db of gain. Of course, the opposite is true when the feed point is dropping, so you try to be receiving at that point. We also found that 3500 volts will burn through 3/16" pvc. The resulting arc caused us to have to change amps. Conditions sucked, but it was a fun contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 26,650 I juggled my discretionary time between four post-season football games and this contest. I enjoy RTTY contesting but I also like the playoffs. Band conditions were lousy for DX multipliers with openings being sparse and shallow. Almost did WAS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,970 First full effort with new Icom IC-756PROIII; what a radio! Biggest thrill: working VP8/LZ1UQ on 40 Meters at 0609 UTC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 24,300 Rig: FT1000MP 100 watts Antennas: 3-ele quad, 204-foot G5RV Software: WriteLog 10.58e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8FC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,876 Due to commitments could only operate 14 hours. Great fun, look forward to RU every year. Thanks to all who gave me a contact. My Colorado friends were out in force this weekend, worked many stations from the Pikes Peak DX Group and the Grand Mesa Contesters of Colorado. Good going folks. Mostly S&P with a few good runs. Thanks to all the good RTTY ops out there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 46,956 Second year I've done this one with my grandson, W9JJC. We missed the beginning since he was busy playing in his grade school basketball tournament, and grandpa was cheering him on. His team won the championship. Anyway, we didn't get too serious on Saturday, as conditions seemed a bit tough. Things were much better on Sunday, perhaps since we turned on the amp. Had a good run on 20 Sunday afternoon, and a great run on 40 in the 2200 hour. Despite messing around most of the contest, the last three hours brought us close to last year's effort. The main thing was we had fun. Thanks for all the contacts. Jim K8IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9KDR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 70,664 Had a great time! Lots of action! Had a bit of a SNAFU with my software (self induced) that caused it to not count some of the contacts at the low end of 80 meters. (Sorry for those DUPs late Saturday night...) I lost about half an hour during the contest working on it - and another hour afterwards - but finally fingured it out. There was so much low band activity Sunday morning that I think I may have waited a bit too long to jump up to 15 and 20. As a result I'm sure I lost some EU multipliers. Oh well - live and learn... Thanks for all the QSO's everyone! 73, Paul / K9KDR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 144,871 I started running so2r, but a radio failure brought that to an end in 1 hour. Finally, we got some propagation down here!! 40m and 80m were excellent(except fot the rain and thunder) 20m was also in pretty good shape. So a good time was had by all. THE eAST-wEST FIXED 40M BEAM WAS Messed up by the storm, and i had to go out in the rain at 5:30 in the AM to fix it so I could work Jm1xcw and get another mult.------ Greater Love hath no man-----. Thanks to all who qso'd and kept me going.Maybe i'll see you in Bartg sprint. Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9SEX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 81,972 Great participation, guess this is where we will have to go for good rate in future with all the new HF no codes...but it sure will be good for the RTTY logs! best I have done for sure SO1R, great rate when I was on (had a 114/hr on 40m), just wish I could have stayed in the chair.. Was working EU at 3:35pm local on 40m Sat.. and lots of them..unreal. 15 never fired Sunday morn, just a handful of EU guns, checked 10 often and even cq'ed some..not a peep. Missed ND Thanks for the fun.... 73 Ruff FT1000 Field FSK, 800w, WL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA4RRU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 149,643 See you in the WPX in Feb. 73 de Mike - KA4RRU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8 Station still very much under construction! Thanks for all the Qs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,176 2 EL SteppIR makes a big difference over a multi band vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4KWE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 82,026 Bad connections on coax can cause some problems. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE5OG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 107,066 It was a tough weekend in West Texas. Saturday was pretty good but Sunday started slow, picked up then slowed down when 15 died. I must have seen a half dozen mults go by when they and I were S&Ping. Europe was ok Sunday a.m. but I left a lot of mults out there. My score was below last year and well below my goal. I think it would be interesting to see a map of the propagation. It seemed like those of us in the west were operating under totally different conditions than those folks east of us. (I know...move) Conditions just weren't as good as last year. Thanks for all the Q's though. The Roundup is "the" contest. + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE6RAD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,608 Fun! Only 1 EU here (TF3AM) missed ND, VT, ID, WV and many provinces. -kevin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF4OPX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,027 GREAT CONTEST; THANKS FOR THE CONTACTS. ALL MADE WITH WIRE ANTENNAS. MIKE KF4OPX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI1G Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 257,816 Still a fun contest despite the lack of sunspots. 15 Meters was a disappointment and not a whisper on 10 Meters. Thanks for all of the QSO's, see you again next year with more sunspots I hope. 73 es HNY Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI5XP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 234,375 What a fun contest, conditions were excellent. Shouldnt have taken my break when I did, rate was going well at the time, but I figured it would be better Sunday. That was wrong, things were down when I came back and never quite recovered. DX on 40 was excellent eary Saturday evening, picked up lots of mults there. Picked up a few more on Sunday cq'n on 20m. 15 was pretty decent, worked fine, and 10 never seemed to open and stay open. One minute i could hear P49X and PJ2T, then they were gone. I managed 3 q's though, although no mults. 20M cq'n netting Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Falklands, Reunion, ZL's, ZC's and VK's. Never heard 1a4a, but dont know if they were in the test or not. This was a tiring week, between football bowl games, traveling to New Orleans and contesting. It apparently caught up to me about 5:00pm on Saturday, when I started sneezing and came down with a cold right in the middle of the contest. I hoped my off time would carry me through, but there were several times when I contemplated quitting and going to bed. Thankfully Don's words reverberated in my head, I had to try to defend my title. Looks like Mike's going to take it this year, congrats to him! Finally worked the entire contest with both of my 756's, and what a difference. The filtering in the rig is excellent compared to the older Yaesu's. It definitely allows for sneaking in between frequencies to do a little cq'n here and there. The TPF/RFGain works well on 15, I ran the Preamp2 to help boost signals and hopefully chopped down the noise with the RFGain. On 40 and 80, I employed VA7OJ's DBM's from Heaven maneuver, where I used the TPF, put 12db of antenuation in and then rode the rfgain. Worked like a charm, amazing to see the signals go from nothing to perfect print. Thanks for the q's and again, congrats to Mike, I knew his SO2R was going to be champ sooner or later! 73 Charlie KI5XP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK5OQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 117,661 New total record. New record on 80 and 40m. ts850 all band vertical at 700watts Hope to have a beam up in the next few months so I can make a few points:) Enjoyed it as always and thanks for the points. charles/kk5oq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 20,300 WOW..Not a single EU station worked. This has to be the lowest score we have ever had in this contest. The Ja's were in low numbers as well. The bands were very bad up here and nothing on 80m. I did see some Kl7's working CW in the mid day to EU but nothing on rtty. We had very poor condx to the east coast. Thanks to all for you patience for the signals from the east were very weak at times. I tried to work you Andy "VE9DX" but you didn't hear me. We lost 40m early in the evening and it never opened up all night! The Aurora was nice though....NOT! I hate the Northern Lights! Well nothing like the 2002 RTTYRU (we won DX M/S)....maybe in 5 more years we can beat our best score! Thanks again to all and I hope you have a very good 2007! CYA in NAQP CW! Alex, KU1CW nice job! CYA`at Dayton? 73 Frank KL7FH and Corliss AL1G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO1H Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 23,725 YAY my Harmonic is getting to the point where I can put in some hours again YAY. Nice to be back in the chair again after all that time. Cu all in the wpx rtty 8) ko1h ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 76,867 This was a great time! I loaded N1MM and bought a Signalink 2 weeks ago, and am amazed. I wish I would have done this years ago.... Not much DX heard here, which is typical AZ. I mainly sat and ran stations. The Butternut on 80M was heating up and my 20 khz bandwidth was moving all over, so I gave up early Saturday night.... Thanks for the Q's.... 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2D Class: M/S LP Total Score = 187,425 Our goal was to beat our 2003 record score of 148,274. Did that by a large margin. Saturday was the best day for us with good conditions on 15 to start with. 40 was active from 2000Z on and was our best band. Caught KL7DX as 20 was folding. Missed WY, ND, NT and NU for worked all. All equipment held together for the most part. Had to reboot computer Sunday morning when returning from off time. Had power outage a couple of hours later but continued operating on the backup battery buss. Was a short outage due to high winds blowing power lines into trees. Was a fun contest and the whole crew is ready again for next year. Ron KP2N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4KE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 13,886 ARRL-SECTION: DX CONTEST: ARRL-RTTY CALLSIGN: KP4KE CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 13886 OPERATORS:KP4KE CLUB: BCC NAME: TONY RAMOS ADDRESS: PO BOX 3094 AGUADILLA, PR 00605 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1801 KP4KE 599 001 W7WW 599 AZ QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1802 KP4KE 599 002 AC1O 599 ME QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1804 KP4KE 599 003 NP4BM 599 002 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1806 KP4KE 599 004 LV5V 599 006 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1808 KP4KE 599 005 WB8MKH 599 MI QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1810 KP4KE 599 006 NB1B 599 MA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1814 KP4KE 599 007 KO7AA 599 AZ QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1820 KP4KE 599 008 W1ECT 599 NH QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1821 KP4KE 599 009 VE5CPU 599 SK QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1823 KP4KE 599 010 KP2D 599 13 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1826 KP4KE 599 011 W7OM 599 WA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1830 KP4KE 599 012 K7ZUM 599 OR QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1831 KP4KE 599 013 K1FWE 599 NH QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1832 KP4KE 599 014 KT0DX 599 CO QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1835 KP4KE 599 015 K7AR 599 WA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1839 KP4KE 599 016 AD6WL 599 CA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1842 KP4KE 599 017 KE0L 599 NE QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1854 KP4KE 599 018 KA1C 599 ME QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 1855 KP4KE 599 019 W0ZQ 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1906 KP4KE 599 020 KE4YVDV 599 KY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1907 KP4KE 599 021 WD4LBR 599 VA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1908 KP4KE 599 022 KE4YVD 599 KY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1912 KP4KE 599 023 W3KB 599 PA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1913 KP4KE 599 024 WA2ETU 599 NY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1914 KP4KE 599 025 W5AP 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 1917 KP4KE 599 026 AB0RX 599 MO QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 2045 KP4KE 599 027 P49X 599 189 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 2046 KP4KE 599 028 YV6BTF 599 129 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-06 2047 KP4KE 599 029 VE7CF 599 BC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2053 KP4KE 599 030 N1HRA 599 RI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2102 KP4KE 599 031 K4GMH 599 VA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2104 KP4KE 599 032 K4EA 599 GA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2107 KP4KE 599 033 K7RL 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2109 KP4KE 599 034 N6RC 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2110 KP4KE 599 035 K7EG 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2114 KP4KE 599 036 K9DJ 599 WI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2116 KP4KE 599 037 NN7SS 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2120 KP4KE 599 038 W9AZ 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2121 KP4KE 599 039 KB7N 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2122 KP4KE 599 040 K0RC 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2126 KP4KE 599 041 K9SEX 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2127 KP4KE 599 042 N6CK 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2128 KP4KE 599 043 WA2LXE 599 NJ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2134 KP4KE 599 044 NO2T 599 NJ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2146 KP4KE 599 045 K7MM 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2147 KP4KE 599 046 6J3RBA 599 207 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2149 KP4KE 599 047 KE6RAD 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2150 KP4KE 599 048 K7MI 599 OR QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2152 KP4KE 599 049 KD0S 599 SD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2153 KP4KE 599 050 N5XUS 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2155 KP4KE 599 051 K5PAX 599 NM QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2156 KP4KE 599 052 KE5OG 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2159 KP4KE 599 053 NA5U 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2230 KP4KE 599 054 KO7AA 599 AZ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2231 KP4KE 599 055 W8JWN 599 MI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2234 KP4KE 599 056 K7ZUM 599 OR QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2236 KP4KE 599 057 W7CT 599 UT QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2240 KP4KE 599 058 W5APS 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2242 KP4KE 599 059 KE7AJ 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2244 KP4KE 599 060 NA4M 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-06 2251 KP4KE 599 061 P49X 599 863 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0459 KP4KE 599 062 6H1L 599 415 QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0501 KP4KE 599 063 N5KWN 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 0504 KP4KE 599 064 HI3TEJ 599 128 QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0508 KP4KE 599 065 K8QM 599 NC QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0510 KP4KE 599 066 KC4WQ 599 KY QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0511 KP4KE 599 067 K4RO 599 TN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0512 KP4KE 599 068 AD4EB 599 TN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0513 KP4KE 599 069 K9SG 599 IN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0516 KP4KE 599 070 N2JSO 599 NJ QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0519 KP4KE 599 071 W7CT 599 UT QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0522 KP4KE 599 072 W2ZQ 599 NJ QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0532 KP4KE 599 073 W0ZQ 599 MN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0535 KP4KE 599 074 N2WK 599 NY QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0539 KP4KE 599 075 WA1FCN 599 AL QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0539 KP4KE 599 076 W3LL 599 MD QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0541 KP4KE 599 077 W4RM 599 VA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0545 KP4KE 599 078 KE7AJ 599 WA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0545 KP4KE 599 079 W3MF 599 PA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0546 KP4KE 599 080 W0RAA 599 CO QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0621 KP4KE 599 081 KE3WM 599 PA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0623 KP4KE 599 082 K2WK 599 VA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0625 KP4KE 599 083 K6LL 599 AZ QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0626 KP4KE 599 084 WD4LBR 599 VA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0628 KP4KE 599 085 VE3FH 599 ON QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0632 KP4KE 599 086 K3FH 599 TN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0635 KP4KE 599 087 W8JWN 599 MI QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0640 KP4KE 599 088 W0SD 599 SD QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0641 KP4KE 599 089 VE3NZ 599 ON QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0645 KP4KE 599 090 KJ7QM 599 WY QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0645 KP4KE 599 091 W0AW 599 MN QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0646 KP4KE 599 092 KE9S 599 WI QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0648 KP4KE 599 093 K4OD 599 GA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0650 KP4KE 599 094 AJ3G 599 VA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0652 KP4KE 599 095 NF6A 599 CA QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0654 KP4KE 599 096 N9LYE 599 IL QSO: 3500 RY 2007-01-07 0657 KP4KE 599 097 W7KB 599 UT QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1415 KP4KE 599 098 8P2K 599 481 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1419 KP4KE 599 099 HI3TEJ 599 978 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1417 KP4KE 599 100 NP2KW 599 078 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1427 KP4KE 599 101 VA2UP 599 QC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1435 KP4KE 599 102 AB0TA 599 MO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1435 KP4KE 599 103 AA5BE 599 AR QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1436 KP4KE 599 104 UT0U 599 766 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1440 KP4KE 599 105 AD1C 599 MA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1441 KP4KE 599 106 AA8LL 599 OH QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1445 KP4KE 599 107 KE2SX 599 NY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1448 KP4KE 599 108 N7GVV 599 IN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1448 KP4KE 599 109 KA3EAJ 599 PA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1449 KP4KE 599 110 W7ZR 599 AZ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1450 KP4KE 599 111 K3IU 599 RI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1451 KP4KE 599 112 K4WW 599 KY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1451 KP4KE 599 113 AB4IQ 599 KY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1452 KP4KE 599 114 K9WX 599 IN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1455 KP4KE 599 115 VE3SSV 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1456 KP4KE 599 116 K7AGE 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1500 KP4KE 599 117 NA4C 599 TN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1501 KP4KE 599 118 W8HSK 599 MI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1504 KP4KE 599 119 W6OTC 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1505 KP4KE 599 120 N3BUO 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1505 KP4KE 599 121 VE3XD 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1506 KP4KE 599 122 AA8TC 599 MI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1508 KP4KE 599 123 KB5U 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1509 KP4KE 599 124 K5HX 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1510 KP4KE 599 125 NG1G 599 RI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1515 KP4KE 599 126 W4UK 599 SC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1543 KP4KE 599 127 VA3PC 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1543 KP4KE 599 128 W5YAA 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1544 KP4KE 599 129 N7BF 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1545 KP4KE 599 130 N6XT 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1546 KP4KE 599 131 K0UK 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1547 KP4KE 599 132 VE3LFN 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1548 KP4KE 599 133 NP3D/W2 599 NY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1549 KP4KE 599 134 K7BTW 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1550 KP4KE 599 135 W2LE 599 NJ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1551 KP4KE 599 136 W4UEF 599 NC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1552 KP4KE 599 137 VE3GSI 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1555 KP4KE 599 138 KB9DVC 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1559 KP4KE 599 139 KM6Z 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1601 KP4KE 599 140 KW3W 599 MD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1605 KP4KE 599 141 W5HTG 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1608 KP4KE 599 142 SP4MPG 599 921 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1610 KP4KE 599 143 VE1OP 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1614 KP4KE 599 144 N1UZ 599 MA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1623 KP4KE 599 145 VA3PL 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1628 KP4KE 599 146 HR2/LT0E 599 197 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1628 KP4KE 599 147 AB8K 599 OH QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1630 KP4KE 599 148 W9CF 599 AZ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1631 KP4KE 599 149 W5ROS 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1641 KP4KE 599 150 K3WI 599 MD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1642 KP4KE 599 151 W7WW 599 AZ QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1643 KP4KE 599 152 VA3DX 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1648 KP4KE 599 153 KE3WM 599 PA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1652 KP4KE 599 154 W3LL 599 MD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1653 KP4KE 599 155 VE3HG 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1654 KP4KE 599 156 K3MM 599 MD QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1656 KP4KE 599 157 K8ZZ 599 MI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1658 KP4KE 599 158 K3MQ 599 DE QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1700 KP4KE 599 159 VE7UF 599 BC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1701 KP4KE 599 160 KG9X 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1705 KP4KE 599 161 N0AT 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1707 KP4KE 599 162 W3MF 599 PA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1708 KP4KE 599 163 W1EQ 599 CT QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1710 KP4KE 599 164 KB9Q 599 WI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1712 KP4KE 599 165 VE1DHD 599 NS QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1718 KP4KE 599 166 VE3RCN 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1719 KP4KE 599 167 WA8RPK 599 OH QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1720 KP4KE 599 168 KT0DX 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1720 KP4KE 599 169 AA5AU 599 LA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1721 KP4KE 599 170 N0LP 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1721 KP4KE 599 171 K4BX 599 TN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1723 KP4KE 599 172 N5MOC 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1724 KP4KE 599 173 N5TJD 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1725 KP4KE 599 174 N2ZN 599 NY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1727 KP4KE 599 175 N2CK 599 NY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1727 KP4KE 599 176 AA5VU 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1729 KP4KE 599 177 W7DPW 599 WA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1738 KP4KE 599 178 AB9DU 599 IL QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1739 KP4KE 599 179 N9CIQ 599 WI QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1740 KP4KE 599 180 VE3CGR 599 ON QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1740 KP4KE 599 181 KE5OG 599 TX QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1741 KP4KE 599 182 N2YI 599 NY QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1743 KP4KE 599 183 K0FW 599 KS QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1914 KP4KE 599 184 W5CJF 599 AR QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1915 KP4KE 599 185 K8RMC 599 OH QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1915 KP4KE 599 186 KE8RV 599 OH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1925 KP4KE 599 187 WD4DDU 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1929 KP4KE 599 188 K8QM 599 NC QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1930 KP4KE 599 189 VA3GGF 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1931 KP4KE 599 190 K4GMH 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1933 KP4KE 599 191 K9WX 599 IN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1934 KP4KE 599 192 AD4EB 599 TN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 1934 KP4KE 599 193 W4UEF 599 NC QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1938 KP4KE 599 194 WW2R 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1941 KP4KE 599 195 AI9T 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1943 KP4KE 599 196 KJ6RA 599 CA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1945 KP4KE 599 197 W0LSD 599 CO QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1950 KP4KE 599 198 AA7FY 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1951 KP4KE 599 199 AD5XD 599 TX QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 1953 KP4KE 599 200 VE3IAE 599 ON QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1958 KP4KE 599 201 CX7BF 599 353 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 1959 KP4KE 599 202 N5KO 599 CA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 2000 KP4KE 599 203 K6IDX 599 CA QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 2011 KP4KE 599 204 ZL2AMI 599 292 QSO: 21000 RY 2007-01-07 2012 KP4KE 599 205 LT1A 599 577 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2022 KP4KE 599 206 TG9ANF 599 348 QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2023 KP4KE 599 207 K0IR 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2026 KP4KE 599 208 WA3AAN 599 PA QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2028 KP4KE 599 209 N8XLS 599 OH QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2030 KP4KE 599 210 VA3SB 599 ON QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2032 KP4KE 599 211 N0XB 599 MN QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2033 KP4KE 599 212 W9ILY 599 IL QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2034 KP4KE 599 213 W2LB 599 NY QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2035 KP4KE 599 214 W1GSH 599 RI QSO: 14000 RY 2007-01-07 2302 KP4KE 599 215 K8FC 599 CO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2308 KP4KE 599 216 KB9YGD 599 IN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2313 KP4KE 599 217 W3DAD 599 MD QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2313 KP4KE 599 218 KI5XP 599 LA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2314 KP4KE 599 219 W0AW 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2315 KP4KE 599 220 N3CHX 599 PA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2317 KP4KE 599 221 K8DID 599 MI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2318 KP4KE 599 222 WB8MH 599 MI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2318 KP4KE 599 223 N9CK 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2319 KP4KE 599 224 N4TIZ 599 NC QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2320 KP4KE 599 225 WE0Q 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2322 KP4KE 599 226 KE5OG 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2322 KP4KE 599 227 N9XL 599 MD QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2323 KP4KE 599 228 VE3FH 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2324 KP4KE 599 229 W6OAT 599 CA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2325 KP4KE 599 230 NA5U 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2326 KP4KE 599 231 AD5CA 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2326 KP4KE 599 232 WC2C 599 NY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2328 KP4KE 599 233 KD5JHE 599 MS QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2329 KP4KE 599 234 K0PC 599 MN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2329 KP4KE 599 235 K2WK 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2330 KP4KE 599 236 AA8LL 599 OH QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2330 KP4KE 599 237 K3DI 599 MD QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2333 KP4KE 599 238 NP3D/W2 599 NY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2334 KP4KE 599 239 W9OA 599 WI QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2334 KP4KE 599 240 KB5U 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2335 KP4KE 599 241 KI4SQZ 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2336 KP4KE 599 242 N2WK 599 NY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2337 KP4KE 599 243 W5APS 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2338 KP4KE 599 244 WD9FTZ 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2339 KP4KE 599 245 KT0DX 599 CO QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2340 KP4KE 599 246 KE4YVD 599 KY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2340 KP4KE 599 247 AI4ME 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2341 KP4KE 599 248 N8YSZ 599 VA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2342 KP4KE 599 249 KE6RAD 599 CA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2342 KP4KE 599 250 AD6KA 599 CA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2345 KP4KE 599 251 NT0F 599 IA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2347 KP4KE 599 252 N4AL 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2347 KP4KE 599 253 KD0S 599 SD QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2350 KP4KE 599 254 W5MEJ 599 TX QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2352 KP4KE 599 255 N2SQW 599 NY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2354 KP4KE 599 256 WO4O 599 TN QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2354 KP4KE 599 257 NU4N 599 KY QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2354 KP4KE 599 258 VE3GLA 599 ON QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2355 KP4KE 599 259 K9MY 599 IL QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2356 KP4KE 599 260 W6ZF 599 MA QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2357 KP4KE 599 261 K5YAC 599 OK QSO: 7000 RY 2007-01-07 2357 KP4KE 599 262 KA3EEO 599 PA END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,701 Rig: IC-756PROIII Pwr: 100 Watts Ant: 80m inverted V @ 55ft 40m doublet @ 27ft 20m doublet @ 24 ft I only operated a bit on Saturday evening and on Sunday afternoon at the end of the contest. I mostly worked 40 and 80 meters and didn't even really check the conditions on the higher bands. I just got this new rig and it was a good opportunity to play with it. The rig stays. :-) While starting running on 20 meters this "well known" RTTY contester calls me and then he procedes calling CQ on my frequency right after making the contact. Of course I'm no match with my 100 Watts and a wire against his 1500, and probably more, Watts. Thankfully, the CN8 trying to call me was very persistent and we made the contact and I moved on to the gentler 40 meters. To this well known US contester: learn some sportmanship. We really don't need that kind of ridiculous behaviour. On the other hand its nice to learn what's really behind the diddle. I'm very well aware he's not reading my comments. :-) Still it was fun doing this one. Thanks to all who answered my call and those who awarded my S&P calls with an exchange in all the diddlydaddlydo going on on the bands. See ya next time! 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 49,970 First time on RTTY. All S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR6E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 102,960 ONLY WRKED 22 HRS BUT FUN. NOTHING HEARD ON 10M. ANTENNAS DOWN DUE TO HIGH WINDS. OH WELL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,400 Minor effort, but I had fun for the time I could operate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 104,275 Great activity and was suprised at the amount of stations on 80 meters. Now if we could only get those stations who were sending a lot of CR/LF to modify their habit to sending only one. It is not a lot of fun trying to put the mouse pointer on their call only to have it go up the page before you have time to click on it. It was also great to work KG5EG (Harry) who got me intersted in RTTY contesting when he lived out here in Colorado. I wish the one ham operator who lives in North Dakota would please make it back home in time to operate in the RTTY Round UP next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 113,000 This was my 2nd RTTY Roundup. I much improved and had SO2R going. I just wished the bands would have been better. 15 meters was vry poor here in Minnesota. Missed Nebraska and KL7. Very little Europe and no Asia. Seemed dx on the low bands were scarce. Still great time and much to learn. Great to see old friends and meet many new ones. See you all next time. Please look for me in the NAQP Contests coming up the next few weeks. Vry 73 and Happy New Year Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1I Class: M/S LP Total Score = 42,480 As usual a great contest. My son was here and operated also. First Roundup at new QTH and considering that the only antenna up a G5RV at 50 ft. things were good. Even worked one JA on 20 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 222,125 Looks like a lucky QSO Nr...777. Have lost a half an hour, Q-number should of be in 1800's. The only Q on 10m was AA5AU answering my CQ, not too much fun there. Will try to make few Q's from BY next week and from BV the following week. Thanks everyone. Alex, KU1CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,108 Just a few minutes here and there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: M/S HP Total Score = 19,520 Father/Son team. Still novices at RTTY but had fun! 73, Eric and Matthew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 97,740 I came back at home from a business trip 2 hrs after beginning of the contest. At midnight local time I decided to take 2-3 hrs rest, but I didn't heard the alarm clock and I woke up at 7.30 lzt! Thanks to all who worked with me and CUAGN next time! 73! Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: M/S LP Total Score = 70,343 TS850SAT 100W Spiderbeam fixed North,2el.Quad,Vertical PA3HBB,VHF cluster monitor installed at saturday and dismantled today in the morning. Nick LZ1ZM come by to make some fotos of spiderbeam installation. He operated in contest untill 2100z when he return home.Then it was my turn to complete 24hr.operation.As I read carefully AA5AU's post contest notes the week before Round-up,I decide to try 0000z-0600z rest, then operate to the end.Normally I operate first 24hrs. This trick works,as in last two hours I found a super 40m opening to caribbean and add some 4 dxcc and 1 state in bag. Band was quite in good shape and DX were workable as they were not so busy compared to saturday night. Overall more QSO but less Mult's compared to 2006 edition. Many easy DXCC missed - but next year I'll be back! Suffered from permanent jamming specially on 40/20 meters. In the middle of 20m EU morning RUN ,some Idiot spent a 40 mins to send carrier over me.It was a 10min constant carrier,then a 15 sec. break to find that I,am slightly off freq continuing my RUN,then tune again on my signal and another 10min carrier.I Love this game.If you jammer read this,drop me a call , I'll buy for you new final tubes for next game.:))).If you were smart enough,a shorter sending and more listen where I'am will be better for your win,but... Same happens on 40 meter but using CW dits with flying speed( from 5 to 55wpm.) If It was a CW contest this probably will kill me,but on RTTY it is uselless. It seems that both jammers are making trouble to me but not to other site,as in both cases they can't break my run. Many thanks for nice Contest and nice start of the 2007. Best wishes to all RTTY gang and CU agn. Happy New Year !!! Nasko,LZ9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 21,172 Part time one armed effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,804 1st real go at this RTTY stuff. Have some bugs to work out and need to get comfortable with the mode. But hey, Ive got 8 new countries now on RTTY! KK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0XB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 101,462 My first sincere Roundup effort. I enjoyed it a lot. Great signals and lots of 'em. Still wish guys would take just an extra second to make sure they're zerobeat with the station they're calling...have to ride the RIT like a mad man at times...some were 100hz off! I'll be back for this one again. Wish there was a bit more dx, though. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 67,130 Great fun! One of my favorite contests! Turned on my computer Friday night to do setup, the hard drive decided not to work!! Got a new hard drive and spent Saturday morning installing the software and WinXp OS, got it all working at 17:45Z, just before the start of the contest! Hope I don't have to do that again soon. Thanks to all the stations that worked me, and the sponsors for doing the contest! Propagation to Europe was good Sunday morning, on 20 meters, never did get an opening on 15 meters to Europe. Equipment used, IC-756P2, Ameritron AL-80 amp, WriteLog with MMTTY for decoding. Was going to try SO2R, but did not have time to get the IC-706 out of the car and do setup with the computer failure, so ran SO1R, again! Everything ran flawless, after the computer repair. Thanks again for all the fun! Gordon - N1MGO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 35,868 lot,s of fun ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,922 As always, a great contest! Unfortunately I could not spend full time at it. Ham Rardio University (HRU 2007) took place on Sunday here on LI. Another great event. I had some nice runs on 80 and 40 with the rate clock going into the high 90's a few times. That's pretty good for a low power station. Thanks to all the guys that worked me and made it fun. Forty meters was full of RTTY stations Saturday night from 7023 to 7094. We probably scared a few CW operators. I know the NJ NTS operators were complaining about too many RTTY stations on the new net frequencies on 80. I guess they picked the wrong frequencies to go to after the new FCC restrictions. Blame it on the FCC. They made a number of very poor decisions for 80 meters. Thanks to our non friends at FCC we now have plenty of room for SSB and AM but not enough for digital and CW operators. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,944 First contest from new QTH. I did not have time during the week to finish putting up all of the antennas, so it was my 80/40 antennas through a tuner on the high bands. Hopefully I will finish the antenna work in time for NAQP next weekend. 73, Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RDV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,210 ARRL Round-Up Contest Callsign : N3RDV Operator : N3RDV Loc./DXCC/Cont. : PA / K / NA Category : Single Op. / All Band Mode : RTTY Club Competition : Wireless Assoc. of South Hills Power : LOW 75 Watt Contest Date : 06.JAN 2007 Default Exchange : 599 Operating Time : 16:43 h Software : RCKRtty V3.15 BAND QSOs Valid QSOs Points DXCC QTHs 10 0 0 0 0 0 15 14 14 14 3 8 20 72 72 72 10 23 40 82 82 82 8 37 80 66 66 66 0 24 ------------------------------------------- 234 234 234 15* 50* * = Counted only once (not once per band) Final Score: 234 * (15 + 50) = 15210 Equipment: RCKRtty 3.15 with Icom and Kam+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3XLS Class: M/S LP Total Score = 77,010 What a fantastic weekend and one full of "firsts"! First time we had three elements on the TA-33, (last year the reflector blew off just before RU and we ran in "180 mode"). First time we used the DX Cluster. First time we were serious about competing in the MS LP category. First time we had a third op and a first time for Scott, KA3QLF in a RTTY contest. Day one of course, started with extreme optimism but seemed to just go slow. We had plenty of NA and SA, but couldn't buy EU. This was our swan song right up until our planned 0600z long break. Low and behold 40m opened wide for us and we were able to land 7 Mults. We heard at least that many more, but they just couldn't hear us. We bagged it at 0615z. Day two, unfortunately, started with extreme pessimism. We only had 365 logged with 70 Mults and just couldn't figure what we were doing wrong. We hopped 20m would open for us and it did at 1200z. After only an hour running 80m and 40m we S&P'd 20m and found a boatload of EU. 15m opened to EU a few hours later for more Q's but no new Mults. All in all a wonderful time! Having Scott over to play radio was great and I hope he had a great time. Most fun moment was a nice run on 20m that netted >100 Q's on 20M in 90 minutes. Ordinary for some, but outrageous @N3KAE. Most memorable moment was N3XLS just before our closing @ 2300z. Drying up CQing 20m, he looks at the cluster and sees KL7DX just 25kHz below. He says "Ah let me try 'em", and gets 'em on the second call! Thanks for being there KL7DX! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BAA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 150,840 N4BAA + PACKET Due to family committments and such, I had a goal of 600 Q's..... Sure wish I had the full 24 hours! Conditions were far above average than I had expected and the EU stations on 15 were just LOUD! Thanks for listening. Can not imagine RTTY without RTTY twin peaking filters! What a difference! Here was the exact breakdown... Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 3.5 265 265 2 2 7 536 536 7 35 14 373 373 38 19 21 83 83 10 7 Total 1257 1257 57 63 Score: 150,840 40 Meters was awesome ...EU started blowing in here the first day at 1800z.... and really never went away..VERY nice to see the activity! See you in the next one! ----------------------------------------------------- ICOM 756 PRO-2 + AL-1200 AMP. 80 Flat dipole at 75 feet. 40M 2L at 88 feet 20M 5L on 42 ft boom at 72 feet 15M 6L on 36 ft boom at 52 feet 10M 6L on 36 ft boom at 62 feet ------------------------------------------------------ 73 Jose - N4BAA GO PVRC!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CBK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,891 Great contest. Alabama Contest Group. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 63,226 Was it me (my station) or conditions? I had an awful time copying lots of stations, particularly Sunday after 1600Z. Lots of fun, though, running into old friends in this mode and exchanging greetings. 73, and Thanks, Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,105 Very poor conditions with terrible line noise but finally got a run going on 40 and held a spot for almost two hours. Having both horizontal and vertical wire antennas was a big help. Someday ---------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5KO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 132,960 Thanks to: N6RO for the big antennas, N5KO for the big callsign, W6OTC for technical and moral support and especially to all the contestants. 73, Steve K6AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5ZM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 140,364 Our goal was 1100 Q's and 110 mult's so we made that plus a little. 15 was OK Saturday but was dead here Sunday. 20 was great, made some runs up high in the band but S&P was very difficult even with both of the 250 IF filters in. Lots of mult's on Sunday morning. 40 was great into EU Saturday producing lots of mult's, it was surprising to print them almost as well as stateside stations. 80 was also in good shape and full of stations both running and S&P. So I guess we passed the test to be able to cope with losing the Frequencies above 3600. Had computer problems with 2 Blue Screens, 1 Saturday and 1 Sunday. Plus a few lockups. Not sure how many entries we lost hopefully not more than 4 or 5. Thanks to all who called us and see you in the next one. Earl (N5ZM) and Glenn (N5RN) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 62,560 Fun contest! Thanks to everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 67,322 Enjoyable. 40m was good Sunday afternoon. Didn't hear as many JA's to west coast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,868 This is with 10-80M folded Dipole at 35ft. I hope to have a better Antenna system next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 43,946 Europe almost non-existent this year to me here in the Seattle area. Also Japan...just a few contacts compared to last year. Of course, it doesn't help when Sunday morning we were experiencing a heavy rain, and my tri-bander got water-logged and wouldn't work on 20-mtrs. It seemed to work on 15-mtrs ok, so operated there and with my vertical until the rain stopped and the yagi dried out. It worked ok on 20 after that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ON Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,750 Thanks for the QSO's. I wish I could have passed out Nevada to more stations -- I heard NV once but never worked it. Was only able to operate part-time; I tried to pass out the mult as much as possible. Rig: K2/100 plus hidden antennas on 80/40/15m. 20m antenna was a raised monoband vertical. Software: miLog ver. 9.4 73, John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7UVH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,820 with the bands in such poor shape, good to see good turnout. high winds messed up delta loops see yea next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 92,163 Great way to kick off the RTTY contest season. An interesting contest, i.e. all-time high Q-count but lower score than last year. Mults, mults, mults, they just weren't there for me. Thanks to Don, AA5AU for all helpful information he provides and some one-on-one Dutch uncle time regarding USB serial adapters. Concerning the 1A4 fiasco on Saturday 20M, some have said that the DXpedition should have had priority use of the bands. I guess I was absent from class the day that rule was taught; this is coming from a DXer and an avowed RTTY DXer at that. This contest occupied a 30 hour window of the weekend and the solution was simple: 1) the 1A4 operation could have joined the contest as many other DXpeditions have done over the years or 2) simply operated on the WARC bands for that time period. Oh well, it was a great contest and by all accounts, it should just get better from here on. Thanks for all the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NB1B Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 220,028 A fun weekend! Missed DE, NU, NWT, YT, and LB. Never did hear a signal on 10M, although on Sunday I was there at the top of every hour. Several times I called 5 or 6 CQs on 10M, but never made a QSO. Was able to run Europe on 15M for an hour or so Sunday morning, but not enough stations there to sustain a longer run. Should have been on 40M earlier both Sat/Sun, but was too busy working on 15/20M. With the big Patriot game on Sunday, took 3 1/2 hours off time to watch it. Don't know yet whether that hurt- or helped- the score, but will have to take a look at it. Work kept me away from home all week, so I wasn't able to brush up on my fledging SO2R skills; it took me several hours to settle into the groove. For RTTY, SO2R ability adds a great deal to both the score and my enjoyment of the contest. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs, and to Greg W1KM for the use of his KB station. Dennis NB1B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NC6P Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,644 Operated just a few hours. Was experimenting with a couple of radios. Pardon this meager score, had limited time to operate. See you in some future contests, 73, Dave, NC6P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 109,648 The W6YX station hosted two multi-single operations for RTTY RU: ND2T and W6YX. We arranged ahead of time that ND2T would get priority in band and antenna selection and make a serious 1-radio run. The W6YX side (which reported separately) would be used for contester training. At this stage in the sunspot cycle, the best band from here typically supported 3x to 10x the rate available on the second-best band, which was sometimes embarrassing for us. We’d like to thank the W6YX operators for their courtesy and grace. Like them, we are looking forward to more elbow room during the next cycle. We have roughly the same number of Qs in the log as last year, but 15 fewer mults. What’s missing? Europe. We heard Southern California stations working EUs, but we couldn’t hear the EUs. We have a paltry 6 EU Qs in the log. Is our path enough more polar to make so much difference? We compensated for the missing Qs with Ks VEs and JAs, but we couldn’t compensate for the missing multipliers. 20m was our money band, but we had pretty well exhausted it by Sunday afternoon. Best hourly rates were on 20m during the first two hours and on 40m during the 01Z hour. Participation seemed up, and we had a lot of fun. Nothing broke during the contest. We’d like to thank everyone who designs, builds and maintains the amazing W6YX club station. We send a special shout out to K6OWL who configured our hardware and software for this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7Z Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 26,796 Very fun contest... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 70,240 My first RTTY RU from the Pacific Northwest. Lots of US stations (thanks!) and enough South America to keep things interesting, but sure couldn't connect with Europe? I went to sleep and didn't get up for the 10Z (2 AM) time for JAs. Ward, N0AX, came over both days and had some great runs. All the antennas survived the big winter storm of last month, though a couple yagis were pointing slightly new directions. Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 3-el SteppIR at 55' Force 12 C-3 yagi at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' Two 80-meter half-slopers Writelog and MMTTY 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 46 90 403 302 4 845 96.2 SA 2 2 4 11 2 21 2.4 AF 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.3 AS 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.3 EU 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.3 OC 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.3 QSO/Mults by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-1800Z - - - 89/30 - 89/30 89/30 D1-1900Z - - - 88/12 - 88/12 177/42 D1-2000Z - - 31/2 15/5 - 46/7 223/49 D1-2100Z - - 94/8 - - 94/8 317/57 D1-2200Z - - 75/2 - - 75/2 392/59 D1-2300Z - - 51/1 - - 51/1 443/60 D2-0000Z --+-- 11/4 7/1 --+-- --+-- 18/5 461/65 D2-0100Z - 30/1 7/1 - - 37/2 498/67 D2-0200Z - 39/1 - - - 39/1 537/68 D2-0300Z 4/1 15/2 - - - 19/3 556/71 D2-0400Z 43/1 - - - - 43/1 599/72 D2-0500Z 1/0 - - - - 1/0 600/72 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 600/72 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1400Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1500Z - - - - - 0/0 600/72 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 600/72 D2-1700Z - - 43/2 - - 43/2 643/74 D2-1800Z - - 3/0 47/0 5/0 55/0 698/74 D2-1900Z - - - 52/1 1/0 53/1 751/75 D2-2000Z - - 7/0 17/1 - 24/1 775/76 D2-2100Z - - 18/0 6/0 - 24/0 799/76 D2-2200Z - - 55/3 1/0 - 56/3 855/79 D2-2300Z - - 23/1 - - 23/1 878/80 Total: 48/2 95/8 414/21 315/49 6/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO2T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 84,040 Used the SDR 100 for the most part. With the panadapter display did not miss the cluster. Only used the second radio (MK-V) for less than 1% of the contacts. Getting spoiled with the performance of the SDR. Unfortunately had a bad back and could not sit in the chair for long periods of time, so missed some of the prime time operations. All in all was a fun contest, except for the many stations who still do not know how to use the "AFC" controls in their software. Many times when going from xmit to recv would see a signal 50 to 100 Hz off freq. Thought for a while it might be me so stopped and checked that the SDR was transmitting on the same freq as it was receiving. It was. Also some of the stations were lower in freq and some were higher. This indicates that some were tuning up the band and some down the band. None the less this did not interfere with the enjoyment of this (for me) the first contest of 2007. HNY everybody. de Jerry NO2T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP2KW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,330 First RTTY test for me. Lots of fun...and qrm hi hi. 50W FT-847 w/ TA33/R8/6BTV. CU2JT and Z31MM a pleasant surprise, 8P6SH-srry..maybe next time Dean, the qrm won't let me copy your NR. W/VE was outstanding! -tnx folks, you really made it worthwhile. KP4KE and KP2D among a few W/VE found me in three or more bands - good job! CONS - QRM WIPEOUTS!! I'm sure half my log has wrong info due to the steady stream of letters and numbers on the screen! There was qrm that completly blanked the screen and waterfall for what seemed like miles to the left or right hi hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 75,378 First time for this mode + first time for new program(N1MM) = learning curve (was more like a 'learning circle'.) Ugh! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,490 ONLY 12 HOURS....80.40 GOOD RUN 73 LUDEK OK2ZC.NAGANO.CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON5KQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,568 Very basic set-up here in my new home location... 21m vertical for 80m, which seem to work not very well, due to low earth conductivity, I guess. A wire in a tree for some test qso's on the other bands... I better stick to low-band operation...or at my contest place in Brugge (jo11of) Thanks for calling. Ulli, ON5KQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49X Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 384,982 These results, and the great time I had, are a tribute to the ever-increasing number of RU participants, especially the casual operators. This is a team effort because of the endless pileups created by the multitudes. Going into this year's event, I worried about living up to last year's results. But after putting 733 duped contacts in the log in the first four hours, I had very different thoughts. How could I hold on to this tiger's tail for another 20 hours?! And, with this level of activity, could the 3000-QSO mark be broken? At 5Z, when the rate has normally dropped off, it was still averaging 120/hour. But, with 1665 QSOs in the log, I needed a break and had to take six hours off sometime anyway. I find high-rate RTTY contesting much more tiring than CW. Normally, I take a full six hours off as in Sweepstakes, but this year I experimented with two shorter breaks divided by a stint on 40 and 80 to see what could be scared up in Oceania and the Far East around 6am local. And, just like last year, I couldn't sleep anyway with my adrenalin overload. During this time, I did pick up three mults that didn't appear elsewhere in the contest for me and I maintained a 65/hour rate for 80 minutes. The three mults were worth 63 QSOs to me, so my equivalent hourly rate was over 100. I guess it was a wash, and it gave me something to do since I wasn't sleeping. I only planned on about 30 minutes, but couldn't bring myself to walk away. Unlike last year, when my Sunday afternoon rate stayed up closer to my average, this year was more typical and fell off. The last four hours were really down and I wish I could have traded one of those hours for staying on during the 06Z and maybe even the 07Z hour. But, second guessing is always easier after the contest and overall I'm pleased with my choices. Another choice was 10 meters on Sunday. I didn't spend time checking 10 meters on Saturday because I was confident there would not be enough activity to warrant leaving 15 or 20. But, on Sunday, I checked all day and found little. LV9V was on a lot and I heard a few US CQs occasionally (W5AP is one I recall) but it didn't seem like there would be enough to work. Yet, I also knew that a seemingly "dead" band can come alive if people show up and start transmitting. I CQ'd for 20 minutes and worked 16 stations. Along with my periodic checks, that was enough to tell me 10 meters probably wasn't going to help this year. I recall at least one station (AA8LL - thanks!) who worked me on five bands. (I'm eager to run a log analysis and see how many worked me on four bands ... it seemed like a lot. There were 164 last year.) I'm pleased, and somewhat surprised, that the mults were higher this year. I missed ND, LB, YT, NU and NWT. I also missed PJ2 which I think was on. 80 meter Europe was incredible. Signals were as loud or louder than on 40. Noise level was low and the vertical (thanks to W2GD the week before) was hearing as good as the Beverages. The limiting factor on 80 was the lack of active stations to work. I even picked up some nice EU mults via 80. Thanks again to all who called in, multiple bands, to entertain me this weekend! 73, Ed - P49X *************************************************************************** Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-1800Z - - 88/24 105/23 - 193/47 193/47 D1-1900Z - - 100/6 90/8 - 190/14 383/61 D1-2000Z - - 92/4 80/2 - 172/6 555/67 D1-2100Z - - 95/4 83/2 - 178/6 733/73 D1-2200Z - 28/12 76/3 32/0 - 136/15 869/88 D1-2300Z 13/0 85/7 26/2 - - 124/9 993/97 D2-0000Z 55/1 87/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 142/7 1135/104 D2-0100Z 40/3 67/2 - - - 107/5 1242/109 D2-0200Z 44/0 95/0 - - - 139/0 1381/109 D2-0300Z 58/0 89/0 - - - 147/0 1528/109 D2-0400Z 44/1 72/1 - - - 116/2 1644/111 D2-0500Z 7/0 14/0 - - - 21/0 1665/111 49 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0/0 1665/111 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0/0 1665/111 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1665/111 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 1665/111 60 D2-1000Z 17/0 30/2 - - - 47/2 1712/113 10 D2-1100Z 15/0 29/1 - - - 44/1 1756/114 D2-1200Z - - 8/0 7/0 - 15/0 1771/114 60 D2-1300Z - - 62/3 63/1 - 125/4 1896/118 D2-1400Z - - 71/2 71/6 - 142/8 2038/126 D2-1500Z - - 73/0 41/2 - 114/2 2152/128 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 55/1 60/0 --+-- 115/1 2267/129 D2-1700Z - - 51/1 48/0 - 99/1 2366/130 D2-1800Z - - 52/2 34/0 16/0 102/2 2468/132 D2-1900Z - - 44/0 55/0 - 99/0 2567/132 D2-2000Z - - 40/0 33/0 - 73/0 2640/132 D2-2100Z - 4/0 55/1 24/0 - 83/1 2723/133 D2-2200Z - 66/0 26/0 - - 92/0 2815/133 D2-2300Z 13/0 31/1 6/0 - - 5781 2873/134 Total: 306/5 705/32 1020/53 826/44 16/0 ****************************************************************** 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 256 473 816 685 15 2245 78.1 EU 47 199 178 128 0 552 19.2 SA 2 7 8 6 1 24 0.8 OC 0 8 0 2 0 10 0.3 AF 0 3 3 3 0 9 0.3 AS 1 15 15 2 0 33 1.1 ****************************************************************** 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 4J 1 1 4X 1 1 8P 1 1 1 2 5 9A 2 2 2 6 CM 1 1 CN 1 1 2 CT 1 3 2 1 7 CU 1 1 2 DL 7 25 27 21 80 EA 2 10 5 5 22 EA6 1 1 EA8 2 2 2 6 EI 2 1 3 ER 1 2 3 ES 3 3 EU 2 2 2 6 F 1 9 9 5 24 FG 1 1 FM 1 1 G 1 12 13 4 30 GI 1 1 1 1 4 GM 1 1 1 3 GU 1 1 GW 2 2 HA 1 6 5 4 16 HB 1 5 1 2 9 HC 1 1 HI 2 2 HK 1 1 HR 1 1 1 3 HZ 1 1 I 3 14 11 20 48 IS 1 1 2 JA 9 12 1 22 K 234 433 740 625 15 2047 KH6 1 2 3 KL 1 1 2 KP2 1 1 KP4 1 1 1 3 LA 1 3 1 5 LU 2 3 1 1 7 LX 1 1 LY 1 2 2 5 LZ 1 2 2 2 7 OE 2 1 3 OH 1 3 6 5 15 OK 3 8 8 4 23 OM 4 3 1 8 ON 3 2 1 6 OZ 2 2 P4 1 1 1 1 4 PA 2 5 7 PY 1 2 2 5 S5 3 9 5 3 20 SM 5 5 8 5 23 SP 3 15 14 10 42 SU 1 1 SV 2 1 3 6 T9 1 1 TA 1 1 TF 2 2 UA 5 13 11 4 33 UA9 1 2 3 UK 1 1 UN 1 1 UR 5 23 10 8 46 V2 1 1 VE 19 30 63 55 167 VK 3 3 XE 6 4 1 11 YB 2 2 YL 1 3 5 9 YO 1 1 1 3 YU 1 6 2 2 11 YV 1 2 1 2 6 Z3 2 2 ZC4 1 1 2 ZL 2 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 83,700 Good start on 20 m, some USA on 15 m, no signals on 10 m. FT-1000MP + SB220 + TH6DXX + 402BA + dipole 73 de Mario, S56A and Ivan, YZ7EM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,972 IC 756ProII Ant1 40/80 m Morgain Ant2 rotary Dipol(ECO) 10/15/20 m PWR 80 Wat CU de Janez S57AJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT1IA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 66,424 Thanks for the nice contest. 73 Vladimir UT1IA http://www.qsl.net/ut1ia/ ---------------------------- "Contesting is fun !" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA1CHP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 106,050 Murphy strikes!. What a way to start the new year. I finally get my new Stepp IR up and running and my trusty Vertical dies mid-contest ruining my chances of a better score than last year. But wow what a difference with the beam, it was nice to actually have some long runs. I didn't go looking for mults and this also shows in the score, missed a lot of easy ones. Anyway it was fun hope to see you all in the next one. Rich VA1CHP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2UP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 87,912 Variable cndx but cannot complain. First contest using the new callsign...I like it!! Find that operating skills are globally getting better and that's nice. Just one thing: do work the DUPES, everybody wins...5 seconds to work'em and get the points or 20 seconds to explain and get none... Tnx for the Q's and everybody that worked me. Hope to see u all agn next time. HNY!!!, Fabi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 160,782 Missed or just never saw anyone from Montanna or North Dakota .... Highlight was SU9FL calling me on 15 RTTY. Lack of 40 mtr jammers this year ..... 80 mtr antenna still needs work... Only 1 JA JM1XCW on 40 rtty... VK6HD called in on the long path on 40 mtrs... Last section worked was WV and VO1TTY from Canada.... A fun time... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3KA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 4,000 Only a few hours available. Was really trying to see how N1MM works in an RTTY contest and was very pleased! Stayed on 40M only. Was inteersting to work CN8KD on 40M at 1430 local time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3PC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 44,737 New Ones: Falkland Islands on 15 and Australia on 40. Power failure on Sunday afternoon, generator cut in and out a few times, so shut down for an hour till things stabilized. Great fun - cu next year. 73 Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 56,376 Gear: * FT920 + SB221 @ 500W * N1MM + MMTTY * 80M inverted-V apex 65' (signals E-W) * Pair of 40M delta loops pointing east * 3 ele. tribander at 50' * 18AVT/WB trap vertical on ground, 36 radials A good time was had by all, though there was little joy in Mudville. Domestic propagation was all right, but DX was dismal. No Asia, a few Pacific, only 1 EU all weekend. Ran HP for the first time and felt a lot busier than I remember in LP operations, though I had fewer Qs over more hours this year than last. Really felt like there was less down-time between calls. Could be that Qs arrived in intermittent clusters last year (spots?), but were more consistently spread out this year. DX multipliers were awfully scarce. Only EI7M worked on 20M and he was all alone over the pole. Didn't hear a single other EU mult Saturday or Sunday on 20M, and I was listening closely for them. Worked ZL4BR late on Saturday night on 40M -- hard going, but we made it. (The delta loops aim E, and I haven't yet arranged a switching system to reverse them). Sunday morning, S-8 power line noise disappeared in a brief rain squall, but was back less than an hour later. Was like heaven for an hour hearing pins dropping out East. Returning noise got so bad on 20M and 15M Sunday afternoon I pulled the plug with 50 minutes to go in the contest. Couldn't cope any longer with BC Hydro's bacon frying. BC Hydro needs to do more to fix their equipment. Praying for rain is no way to live. (BTW, Canada's only desert is just 50 miles from here, so the "wet fix" is unreliable at best). Running higher power seemed to attract more of the weaker stations than I usually get, and the line noise turned me into quite an earless alligator -- I know it, and I apologize for not being able to pull so many stations out of the noise. Guestimating I lost out on more than 100 Qs (stations I knew were in there but couldn't grab). Low-band antannas continue to receive scrutiny. Need to raise the sagging catenary rope that runs through pulleys between two pines -- East end should be at 80-90' but it's at 65' or so. Will replace polyrope with wire rope up the tree to the pulley, so I can put some tension on the catenary without worry of breaking the "I'll never get another line in that exact spot" pulley support. Wanted to replace the 80M inverted-V (peak at 65') with a delta loop, but ran out of time before the contest. Will get to it soon, though -- a delta with apex at 80' will fit across the back yard. I felt very weak on 80M, even with the amp. I realize how effective the delta loop arrangement has been for me in the past, and the inverted-V just doesn't match that. Had a few jammers. Complete lids. Took till mid-Sunday to find QC. Apologies to VE2AXO -- when he called, we made the exchange but I doubled him at the end and instead of hitting "Esc" to wait for him to finish, I inadvertently hit the "Hibernate" button on this stupid keyboard. Naturally, the system went to sleep. He was still in there asking for the CFM/QSL when I got the computer awake again. What a trooper! Worked KN8J in WV near the end. Didn't find: ND, VT, DC, DE, LB, NF, NS, NU or YT. Long list. Watched http://www.getscores.org and AD4EB's journey to a very nice score. We have roughly comparable antennas (towers are the same, and tribanders with wires) but Jim definitely manages to dredge every last Q and mult o