CQ160 CW Soapbox built 2-20-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W3W Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 113,985 Rig : Yaesu FT-1000MPMKV Field + Acom 2000A N1MM Logger with microHAM Keyer Antennas : Dipole, L-antenna + RX Active Antenna made by XV1X More details and photos - please visit our Website http://3w3w.ok1jr.com 73s Stan and Eddy 3W3W Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4N1A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 217,728 Eq: Kenwood TS-870, 80Wtts Inv"V" beverage to NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O1A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,118,719 160 Total % EU 1341 1341 82.8 NA 142 142 8.8 AS 123 123 7.6 AF 7 7 0.4 SA 4 4 0.2 OC 2 2 0.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1WB Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 2,682 Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Masa, AJ3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S2E Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 76,440 IC 7800 with inv. vee with the top at 40 m. Fun to run low power this year as well but hard to get a decent pile, HI. Lots of stations heard but not able to work all. Tnx to all who answered my call and I will be back next year again and I hope to improve the antennas coming summer. Rainer 7S2E also SM2DMU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1AA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 73,623 Just for the fun. Operating S&P all the time whit 100watts. Propagation's are very solid. See you next contest........... 73, Ivo 9A1AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A8WW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 989,312 Used EQ: TX-ant Inverted L 20m vertical then 25.5m horizontal wire RX-ant 2x bev's 250m long toward NA and 180m long NE 2xFT1K+Alpha ETO PA Software: Win-Test (The best French made thing after Peugeot :) It was nice contest with not so good propagation to NA during first night. First NA in log is W6IZT at 01:58z . Only in the morning,almost on our sunrise, there was a little opening, so the score on sathurday mornig was disapointment for us (also because we knew, that our friends and cocncorents had a bit more than us, thanks to beuty of real time GSM score checking). Only 470 Q and 250K pts was really below expected. We blamed cndx and bad antenna (never bad operators HI). During daytime QSO rate never dropped below 20 qso/hr. Thanks to EU's (mostly DL's and OK's) who digged for us during impossible hours. First JA in log was JA3YBK on sathurday at 17:47z. Others came troug only at 20:30z .First NA during second night was of course VY2ZM with exellent sig at 21:19z. After him VE2TZT and K1ZZ at 00:03z on sunday. Then, from 02:30 z to 06:39 z, when last 10 pointer N2ED was worked, we had some decent runs of NA stations. Sunday morning our log had abt 155 NA stations in the log, and the score was also promissing. During the day EU runs were not so good as saturday ones, but we managed to have no holes in the hour rates with zero contacts :). Sunday evening we had some very good openings to east, but the only multipliers we reached were 3W3W,YE1ZAT and VR2BG. No new states but at 21:53z the W1CSM was first new NA to call us. A the end, 1456Q's was much more than we expected after first night. With such modest equipment, we are really happy. HI's: The heavy MTP's who called us on our CQ:3A2MD,9M2AX,XU7ACY! Response on first call: 3W3W and VR2BG (Good ears Brett) Low's: BA4RF calling in "our face" for abt 2 minutes without hearing me and W3DQ, which we called for 10 min but all we got was another Erics CQ, so DC is not in our log. The final statistic shows: EU 84% NA 11% AS 4% All others:1% Thanks to all who made the qso with us and our apologize to not-heard ones. Citation of our team-mate Dave-9A1UN "We love this game" 73's S55M-Adi (9A8WW is my Croatian call) P.S. QSL info: Whatever You like! Chose the metod of Your choice: Via S5 BURO to my home call S55M (slowest) Via my address published on www.qrz.com Via address of my QSL manager S54G Via web: The log is already uploaded on www.eqsl.cc Don't even ask for LoTW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9H6A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 416,400 Very lucky to be able to submit a log this time as it has survived a computer crash, where I had to continue on a lap. Constructing the log into one whole is totally due to the expertise of my dear friend Mans 9h1gb who recovered the hard disk and N1MM logger, a rally resilent software which not only survived the punishment I inflicked, but pieced together a wholesome sane log from the pieces I had. I think my operating is improving, of course still a long way to go..but this time I did not have any major crises. Very sorry I mised NA early morning openings....this would have gived the log a more respectable shape......but I had to rig up another computer Ad Hoc at that time... Hope to be here again next year. John 9h1XT for 9H6A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 514,972 Good conditions, and quiet the first two nights but some precipitation static the last two hours of contest on Sunday. Lots of activity spread out, worked some as high as 1895 kHz. Worked all 50 states. Missed VE4, VO2, VY1 and VE8 in Canada. 949 2-point QSOs 87 5-point 182 10-point The Breakdown: 5 South America 160 Europe 4 Africa 4 Asia (two JAs the first morning) 9 Oceania Station: FT1000MP with Inrad roofing filter and 400hz and 250 hz CW filters, Orion I for second RX. Multiple phased Beverage antennas for RX, 3 and 4 element vertical parasitic arrays for TX. Details at www.aa1k.us. Single 4-1000 amp in GG, about 1100 watts out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,902 I wasn't planning on a serious effort for this one and didn't even turn on the radio until after 03:30 Saturday, but I had been reading up on some ideas for 160m antennas and decided to try one. I shorted the center conductor and shield on the coax feeding my old 80m dipole and it worked great. I fed it through the random wire binding post on my antenna tuner and was able to keep a low SWR for the entire band. Now I just need to get it higher in the trees. I managed to work 45 states, missing AK, HI, ID, ND, & WY. I heard one station from ND with a strong signal, but the pileup was huge. I also heard one from WY but he wasn't hearing me. I couldn't hear any stations from Europe, except for CU2A. Getting the antenna higher should help. Most of my time was spent in S&P mode, but I did have a few brief runs. My biggest surprise was having a NM station answer one of my CQs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,380 Antennas: 15m shunt-fed tower Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 100 watts Comments: Just a bit of operating here and there. I was trying to fill out some of the missing states I need for 160m WAS. I managed to get WA confirmed, but no joy on the six remaining states. Mostly and S & P effort. I was really amazed at the level of activity, with CW stations going as high as 1880 kHz. Only DX was PJ2T, and KP4KE. Would have loved to have spent more time on the air. See you on the SSB part! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 157,728 Pretty good conditions for the test this week-end. I had only limited time to operate but made the best of it. Lots of very strong domestic stations covering up the DX with 9+40 signals and key clix. 250hz filters on the FT1000D and pennants made S&P an adventure. Some of the European stations operated above 1850 which seemed to be somewhat clearer air. Of course, the SSB guys up there made it interesting, as always. I was under the impression that Europe was basically limited to 1810 to 1850. Has anyone heard any of them above 1900? We have 100 kHz to 2 MHz that could be put to good use at contest time. Where was LA? See you all from KH6 for the ARRL CW and Phone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 119,412 Had a great time. Limited time on due to having to drive XYL to work both nights. Highlights were having Dale ZP6/N3BNA call in towards 0900GMT on Sat night (he was using 60W), and having about a dozen EU mults answer my CQs. Nice condx for the modest setup I was using. Operated from the GCARC club site on the 4H Fairgrounds in Mullica Hill. Antenna: G5RV-style half-wave dipole cut for 160, fed with 100ft of ladder line. No beverage or special listening antenna. Rig: TS850S to Dentron DTR2000L amp (1- 8877), Dentron MT3000A tuner for the dipole. Thanks and 73, Darrell AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6DD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 107,352 Excellent DX conditions, this was easily going to be my best score ever in this contest. I was ready, everything was tested and working, no antenna experiments, just sit down and keep making contacts. The bad part is that I now have a new horrific noise in the N-E direction. Last week I located it it to be at a Water treatment plant located a couple of miles away. Hint: S9 + 20 noise spaced 6 KHz or so. VFD's! Even so I was able to work in between the noise most of the time. We had a storm and it rained most of the night, but the QRM was manageable, less so the rain noise. I worked 19 DX multipliers on the first night - good sign. CN2A had an excellent signal on the West Coast for more than 30 minutes, he was calling CQ for long times with no takers (around 07:30 Z). Excellent signals from JA and the Pacific. Just like many others I was unable to work BA4RF and BD1Z. On the second night conditions appeared to be even better. CU2A and EA8EA could be copied very early. I even heard an IK4 coming back to someone. Many stations on the band, a lot of them yet unworked. I just wish the VFD noise would go away. And all of a sudden BAM! - it is gone, the band is packed with stations and no noise. This is great! I can copy many new stations now. But wait! My amp is not working, and the UPS is beeping. (Due to previous experiences I now have a small UPS set up). What happened? I step outside, and everything is dark - the whole town is dark. I just hope the power comes back soon. I try to call a few stations with 100W, but only manage a contact with K2NV in NY. I figure I better save batteries, and only listen until the power comes back. I scan the band writing down stations to call later - two small pages. Than a storm hits and it is total wipeout - S9 +20 dB noise across the band. Pretty soon the UPS goes dead. I am now in the dark in a trailer on a pier in a storm. Perfect time for a beer and a sandwich, the power should be back any minute. An hour later still no power. I am freezing, so I decide to get in the truck and turn on the the heater. Things are getting better by the minute - the truck keys are locked inside the truck - no spare. By now I am walking around in the rain to keep warm. No power yet. No telephone, I am stuck here. After a while I see a car coming. By a lucky coincidence I am able to get out. It is 23:30 - still no power. On the way home I see a lineman crew working in the rain. It looks like someone hit a power pole with their car - took out the whole town and with it my contest weekend. Note: need to buy a generator. DX multipliers worked: PJ2, CE, VP5, V3, KH6, KP2, XE, EA, CU, CN, EA8, JA, ZL, T32, HP, KL7, VK, UA9, 3W, KP4 Heard, but not worked: BY, PY, FM Niko - AC6DD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 75,584 Set a goal of 500 Q's. Fun contest, rates stayed high enought to keep it interesting. More noise than last year made it hard to hear the DX stations. Worked 28 coutries last year. Missed ID, WY, AK and HI, got half of the provinces. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 23,472 I had 2 goal for this contest. Work at least 200 Q's and work Japan. I put up an inverted L since the last all 160 contest so my 100W wouldn't be waisted in the loading coil. Friday night was going ok but only 2 DX and I wanted to add a few more to my small DX total on the band. Sometime very early Saturday morning I decided to look at the cluster in hopes of finding DX. Problem was that the few DX in the spot had massive pileups going and I tried with no Joy. Did pick up a couple states due to packet so I had to change to multi. After I worked all I could copy on Saturday night I went to bed, about 1AM local. Set the alarm for 4AM and awoke to my best run of 26 Q's in an hour. My son woke up at 5:45AM so I tended to his needs sitting at 198 Q's in the log and 6DX but no JA's. By 7:01 local I had him settled down but I now had daylight. Sat down to find a few CA stations to round out 200. The first call I copied was JA3YBK. What a treat when he came back to me the first time! What good ears. Ended up with 201 Q's and 2 JA's. I had met my goals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 61,614 Only managed to work one CA station. Guess I didn't manage to stay up late enough. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE8M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 72,912 50 foot vertical with top loading, Orion plus 800W amp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ3G Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 123,606 First 160 Meter Contest Rig: FT-2000 Antenna 41' Top Loaded Vertical Amp: Ten Tec Titan Comments: I spent a great deal of my time trying to work EU. It has become obvious to me that I need a better RX antenna than the one I am using at the moment. I hope that by the SSB contest I will have the K9AY Loop up and running. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,856,220 It was great to work all continental U.S. states and even Hawaii (KH6ZM) and be called by ZL3IX and ZL4AA and elusive VK6HD. Damn, missed NL7Z for one-weekend WAS from Europe!! Totally 700 U.S. stations worked. Still noise to be worked out but improving European record by 32 percent should make one not to complain. We love new Yaesu FT-2000 and our watery dipole! Thanks Jose,CU2CE and Paula,CU2YL - your hospitality and care make us try harder! 160M Is! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 107,203 Contest starts pretty good and I could beat my own score from last year in the first 12 hours, but my transceiver died after 12.5 hours so not much more than last year. RIG: FT-847 (100W) L-antenna 24m high rest down to the roof K9DX was my ODX into the states ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ9A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 247,280 Station: ICOM IC-775DSP ANT: 33m. Vertical Many tnx to all. VY 73! Victor DJ9VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1AUZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 866,828 Thanks to all stations who called me Station DF0HQ 2 * TS950SDX TX Ant ~30m Vertical RX Ant 5 Beverage Eu 77,5% NA 17,5% AS 4,2% AF 0,4% SA 0,2% OZ 0,2% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3EBX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,922 It is not easy on 160m with 70W and only 20m of wire. Congrats to all stations who copied my weak signal. 73 Frank ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,500 Had to cancel big plans for a serious attempt on the last minute due to family commitments. Tough going with low power and an inverted L for 80 meters. Very little DX worked - tnx to those good ears out there for pulling my sigs out of the mud. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL8SCG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 355,590 Equipment: FT 1000 MP + PA Inverted L (15m vert. + 27m hor.) Due to a case of illness in Bernd`s family, we were not able to drive to Luxembourg and activate LX7I this year. We decided to participate at Bernds QTH, so he could look after his fresh operated wife and also do contesting in the nights. At friday we have built in an hour a "poor man's antenna" for 160m, a Inverted-L with 15m vertical and 27m horizontal and some short radials. We were very surprised, how good this antenna has worked. Of course this was no "wonderpiece" but we were able to reach nearly everything we've heard. CU soon in the next contest... 73 de Jürgen, DL4SDW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 567,100 Team was in good spirits, but propagation not as good as last year when we did 1339 QSO more from this QTH. Enjoyed the good activity on top band though. VQ9LA, was best DX - but missed JA for the first time in many years. CUAGN in four weeks on SSB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 812,364 2x Yaesu FT-1000MP + PA in TX-lockout-configuration TX-Ant: T-Vertical + Dipole @ 30m; RX-Ant: 6 Beverages 73 Ben DL6FBL http://www.dr1a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR5C Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 465,697 As usual nice contest! We had a lot of fun and stormy weather again on sunday! The V160HD looks really nice on top of the 27mh tower! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR5X Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 412,444 Station: IC756 PRO II ACOM 2000A V160HD 27m Vertical RX ant: 2 x EWE (NW / NE) AMA7 3,40m Magnetic Loop 2x26m Zepp 7m high Next year I will erect 2 or more beverages, but the EWE's worked well. www.dl8las.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2BI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 440,634 This was our first attempt at a 160 meters contest. We were just active for two nights. Our location was about 20 meters from the sea, which helped. Low noise level and very nice signals, specially on Saturday with lots of North America station coming in with nice signals. We had fun at this contest and we will also be trying the SSB test in one month. Photos and further info at www.dx4ever.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5BM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 362,010 Field day operation, really funny with Murphy assistance. Setup: Icom 775dsp plus Ameritron AL1500 Antenna: Inverted L, with only 12 m high vertical section, plus 20 radials. RXing 2 beverages 200 m long non terminated towards 280º and 70º Must of the time making s&p looking for multipliers to increase DXCC band points. The main problem was the electrical voltage, the station was situated in a field house at the end of electrical line ( i supose), only 183 volts instead of 220 expected. Best moments since 3,00 utc the voltage increase up to 208 v. maximum..........what a luxury !!!!! Many many problems consecuence of that voltages !:-((((((((((( The antenna rarelly works extremly bad in east direction having problems to work EU stations and Asiatics, towards west was better working USA east and west coast and some Caribean and SA perfectly. Thanks for answering to my few CQs Juan, EA5BM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA6BF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 525,200 Rig: IC756PRO2 + TL922 Ant: 25m top-loaded-vertical Got 2 beverages, towards USA and JA, but none of them has worked, so RX was thru the vertical. Propagation seemed to be quiet well specially to AS on sunday night. Was called by BA4DW and 3W3W for new-ones (#181). 9M2AX called also for mult. Missed any JA station on the band, no copy here. Not many from the Caribbean, PJ2T, NP4A and KV4FZ. Missed PV8DX for mult., heard him 559 and called for a while, but no response. 33 US/VE states, not bad but missed some "easy" ones. Best time here for US around my local SR, anyway signals not very strong. Thanks all for Qs and sorry to the ones I could not hear. 73, Josep EA6BF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7NW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 170,016 Thanks for a new amazing weekend. Again my modest dipole G5RV/M did an excellent job, with permanent qrm s9, but using all the filters and AIP of my TS-870s. In my greyline I listen ZL3WW 579, the first time that I copy New Zealand in Top Band. I called him with my 100 w and he copy me whithout problem and I think, "I can't believe it", but it's true (thanks greyline).Record of countries and states (30!!), and score, of course.Top Band is always a mystery. Greetings. Frank, EA7NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 122,256 73s, Nino EA7RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5Q Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 870,048 Conditions to US really dissapointing, especially first night. Still managed to improve a lot from last year due to new 4 Square antenna (fullsize 1/4wl verticals with 60 1/4 wl radials each phased with Comtek hybrid coupler). It was nice to get through to B1Z and some other eastern DX who heard very badly. TX/RX: ORION II + ACOM 2000A. QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! ! ----------------- ! 00 ! 123 ! ! 01 ! 133 ! ! 02 ! 105 ! ! 03 ! 66 ! ! 04 ! 48 ! ! 05 ! 64 ! ! 06 ! 42 ! ! 07 ! 36 ! ! 08 ! ! ! 09 ! ! ! 10 ! ! ! 11 ! 11 ! ! 12 ! 13 ! ! 13 ! 32 ! ! 14 ! 45 ! ! 15 ! 44 ! ! 16 ! 44 ! ! 17 ! 44 ! ! 18 ! 48 ! ! 19 ! 36 ! ! 20 ! 25 ! ! 21 ! 47 ! ! 22 ! 36 ! ! 23 ! 47 ! ! 00 ! 29 ! ! 01 ! 24 ! ! 02 ! 15 ! ! 03 ! 32 ! ! 04 ! 23 ! ! 05 ! 18 ! ! 06 ! 8 ! ! 07 ! 22 ! ! 08 ! ! ! 09 ! ! ! 10 ! ! ! 11 ! ! ! 12 ! 1 ! ! 13 ! 10 ! ! 14 ! 17 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 16 ! 34 ! ! 17 ! 32 ! ! 18 ! 31 ! ! 19 ! 30 ! ! 20 ! 33 ! ! 21 ! 13 ! ! 22 ! 28 ! ! 23 ! 11 ! ----------------- ! ! 1500 ! Worked DXCC 3W 1 4L 1 7X 1 9H 1 9K 1 BY 1 CE 1 CN 1 CT 1 CT3 1 CU 1 EA8 1 EX 1 FM 1 GD 1 GI 1 GJ 1 GU 1 HZ 1 IS 1 KP2 1 KP4 1 OH0 1 PJ2 1 ST 1 TF 1 XU 1 YB 1 Z3 1 ZA 1 ZC4 1 ZL 1 4J 2 DU 2 EA6 2 GW 2 IT9 2 LX 2 TA 2 ER 3 EY 3 PY 3 Z7 3 4X 4 5B 4 T9 5 UA2 5 UN 5 EI 7 ES 8 ON 8 SV 8 GM 9 OZ 9 LZ 10 EU 11 HB 11 YL 14 EA 15 LA 15 OE 15 JA 16 YU 19 YO 20 9A 21 F 23 LY 23 PA 29 HA 34 OH 34 OM 34 SM 37 I 41 S5 50 SP 56 G 58 UA9 66 K 68 UR 94 OK 117 UA 160 DL 279 Powered by Win-Test 3.8.0 http://www.win-test.com 73 Tonno ES5TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 467,784 Excellent experience as usual. Finaly managed to operate in this contest after few years QRT. Used IC775DSP + ACOM 2000 Vert. Polarized 2 elements (VP2E) Vertical Quad North-South Vertical Quad East-West 3 Beverages (320 m to EU/NA, 200 m to VK and NA LP, 150 m to JA) Due to radar jamming in BY - low activity from Japan. I was operating part time. Alex EY8CQ operated about 30% of the time chasing new ones. I decided to pay attention to NA qso and New Ones this year so got Cluster as a second Op. Poor condition to USA. Highlights: 1. Super signal from NP4A but no qso. 2. Excellent signals from KV4FZ, VY2ZM, PJ2T, ST2A and good RX. 3. Award for best RX goes to UA2F team operated as CN2A. 4. Thanks for comming back to my CQ: 9N7JO, 3W3A, XU7ACY, 9K2HN, EA8EA, ZA/Z35M, YA/LY1Y and many others. 5. Great number of super operators. Can't list them all. Missed about 10 mults which I heard: IS0, GW, GU, NP4, YB, BY, VR2, DU, ZL, VK and KC1XX. Worked 12 NA right after the contest. 73 and CU on Top! Nodir Tursun-Zadeh EY8MM http://ey8mm.codan.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 774,359 Powered by Win-Test 3.8.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6IRF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 158,136 Rig: IC7000 / IC756pro2 100W max TX Antenna: HB 18m vertical with 16x ground mounted (under 20cm snow) 1/8 radials and Icom AT130 auto-tuner. RX Antenna: HB Indoor multi-turns Hi-Q magnetic loop "vintage BCL style" No cluster: anyway the ADSL stops as soon as I TX on 160, requiring to reboot the modem... My first part-time effort in this contest(*) (I shared my time with REF-CW). My first motivation was to test the "just received" IC7000 in real contest situation (see my TRX review on http://www.eham.net/reviews/review/55517 ). However after the first night I switched back to the pro2, and re-installed my RX loop, the only RX antenna I have ever tried (must say that I have tried quite a few!) which really helps to reduce the local line-noise (turned once for all for the minimum noise which is NNE-SSW on all bands and with any kind of directional antenna). Did not expect to be able to work that many stations... especialy to be able to hear them ! The band was crowded from edge to edge, and even far outside (for us in France the band is limited to 1810-1850) and having a very narrow DSP filter on both rigs not a luxury. Did only S&P during the first night. Listening on the vertical, I could work almost everybody I could hear... After I put back the RX-loop many stations that I could clearly hear could not hear me anymore: good indication that I had clearly improved my reception... enough to afford a few CQ's... Quite a few new-ones; Well, I'll never be competitive from home on the top-band, but it has been fun to take part... CU next month from CN2WW (no noise over there)and congrats to the CN2A team for their score! Pat http://f6irf.blogspot.com/ http://cn2ww.blogspot.com/ (*) Because same weekend as REF-CW and BARTG RTTY. Furthermore I use to consider that 160m was impossible from home, due to the high level electrical noise generated by the 380kV line passing 250m away from my garden and the unsufficient space available to install beverages (RX antennas having a cardioid pattern like EWE, K9AY and others do not help, because, seen from home, the high-power line noise appears to come from 2 opposite directions) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 614,016 Operated only from dusk (1530z) Saturday to dawn (0800z) Sunday. Dipole at 95ft for TX and two short (300ft) Beverages for receive. Sorry to have missed both 'ends' of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WPH Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 427,245 Rig: FT-1000MP MK5 Field FL-2100Z Linear (400W) 50 Metre inverted L - 12 Metre vertical and 38 Metre sloping up to a Helikite at approx 35 Metre ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GJ2A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 522,704 Finally a contest with no amplifier problems and quiet band condx on 160! Started to run out a Beverage but condx on ground too rough to do safely. Heard well though... QSO's with 55 W's & VE's on the 50' high dipole. Also several Carib. and a PY. Briefly heard the 3W Sunday night but would never have gotten through the pile of EU. About 22.5 hours operating. If I fall asleep at work in New York Wednesday night I won't be able to tell if it's jet lag or the 160 contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA5JI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 122,150 I was operating only on the first night. Condx was lousy.Best signal was from N8T and W4AN. In most european country t is illegal to transmit bellow 1810. From good multipliers were calling CQ bellow 1810. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA6FQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 123,772 My rig: TS-940s My ant: Slooper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA6IAM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 89,262 FT107M 50 W, Slooper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9CT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 366,183 In the first activity with our new Contest-Club-Call HB9CT (Helvetia-Kontest-Gruppe) Phil, HB9FMU and myself, Stephan, HB9DDO had a lot of fun. We espicially enjoyed those 60 contacts with north american stations, most of them with good, some of them with astonishing signals. We're looking forward to meet you in more contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 85,736 Each time I wonder at what I can do with just a windom for 80M!! I have even been so impertinent to call CQ! and they answered! Ah Ah Ah Ah! I'll do it again. 73, Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1YDB Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 606,670 A PARTICULAR THANKS To MY FRIENDS CARLO IK1HJS, TONY IK1QBT And EMILIO IZ1GAR THAT HAVE PARTICIPATED WITH ME IN THIS BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE. BEST 73's FLAVIO IK1YDB. http://digilander.libero.it/ik1ydb/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK3SSO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 105,676 Time a lot little for contest, but is satisfied the same one..... 73 Ciao ..... Mauro IK3SSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ2CJ Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 793,500 Great contest! Worked very exotic countries like DU9 or 3W! Quite good activity generally speaking. Tested a K9AY that needs some modifications to have directional features on 160m. In any case a very good alternative to beverage. Heard NL7Z without QSO but it is already a success to get his signal into Milan city. Worked only 40 states+provinces. Missed some states because stations had no good RX system while I was able to lsn them s5 into beverage (no preamplifier so real signal!). Tnx to the TOP BAND community for this fantastic week-end. QSL ok via buro & eqsl. 73's Luca IK2NCJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 137,522 just a Friday-nite entry. Condx to EU didn't seem great from SE TN but had a big surprise when ST2A called me at his sunrise! Missed ID, WY and KL7 for a one nite WAS. I heard an ID S&Ping but never connected and I see that WY(KO7X) was on - oh well. Used an Orion II->Henry 3K->sloping vertical. We added some radials recently which seemed to help. Thanks to Jeff/JNY and Scott/W4PA for letting me play with their toys. 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0KT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 201,840 Super conditions. Finally made WAS in a topband contest. Where was VE4? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 79,663 49/50 states - missed WY 08/14 provinces - missed LB, MB, NS, NU, NWT, YT I retired early on Friday night but stayed up longer on Saturday night (3:00 AM). Although my 160m inverted vee is known to be a cloud warmer, I even worked some DX this time! CE1/K7CA, CN2A, CU2A, EA7AJR, EA8EA, NH6XO, V31YN, KL7WV, and our Carribean friends PJ2T, KV4FZ, and NP4A. Thanks fellows! More fellows need to start using the W1VE scoreboard. Rick (WB8JUI) and I had another good race going on Friday. He pulled away with the lead that night while I was sawing logs in the bedroom! I never did catch up from the missing QSO's but we pretty much matched multiplier counts. I hope to see everyone in the Minnesota QSO Party next Saturday - Feb 3rd, 2007 - from 1400 ~ 2400 UTC. Join the fun! Visit www.w0aa.org for the full details, including a free logger. 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 356,865 Great contest again this year. Conditions on Topband were great again this year. Good luck to everyone who participated. Thanks for everyone who called in. At the start of the contest, we had a high SWR on the off center fed dipole. I finally traced it down to a bad connector. That’s going in the hall of shame here at K0TV. I’m not sure who put it on, but when I finally isolated it, there was a mass of carbon between the shield and center pin. We ran on the phased array while I fixed the connector. The first hour was just fantastic. I made 55 contacts in the first 30 minutes and N1IW got 66 in the second 30. All told 300 contacts in the first three hours. That’s a station best. The first evening, conditions weren’t too good to Europe and there were lots of EU spotted that we couldn’t hear or work until very late. The second night I was spotted by two Europeans who apparently couldn’t get through. I switched to the NE beverage many times but didn’t hear a peep out of EU until much later. Sunday evening we were hearing EU much better. Finally in the last few minutes, I heard 7X0RY on the spotting receiver and managed to hear him QRT just after the end without working us. Biggest pet peeve: Finding a clear frequency (for a few minutes), calling QRL a couple of times with no answer, starting a run, working a few people and then……. HAVING SOMEBODY OPEN UP WITHOUT CALLING QRL JUST 130 HZ UP THE BAND. Then they have the chutzpah to refuse to move when we ask them to QSY. Grrrrrr. MVP for this contest goes to WO1N for performance above and beyond the call of duty. Congratulations Ken. 73, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 74,200 Well per the thread on PPDXG I mostlikly made about half the Q's etall compared to N0KE and W0GG. Did what I could..Here the band was about noise free for my QTH. Just using and sloper from the 100ft tower toward JA. Worked one JA. I had a shot to the BS but one 7 station was dead set to work him and keep calling. He finally went QRT mabye his beverage wire was stolen Hi...It was fun to point and shoot for mults but lots of them I just didnt hear at all..So worked what I could..See you in the Sprints etc. PTL bill UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 127,050 This contest started off great. I was S&P for the first few minutes until I found a place to run. I had the rate meter in triple digits for most of the first hour. The first hour I had around 95, which for me is probably a personal best. I run low power to a stealth wire in a condo here. The band was quiet and there was a lot of activity. I did notice that although my Q rate was running maybe 10% or more higher than previous years, my mults were down. I eventually caught up, but I was lacking a lot of DX. I heard many EU stations that just could not hear us. Now, being LP with a stealth antenna doesn't say much, but I recall trying to work a station when KC1XX was. The DX didn't even hear KC1XX and when they did, had to ask for several fills. All along, they were at least an S6 or 7 here. I heard a lot more than I could work. But I did get a new country on 160, CE, thanks! Back here in the states, I missed three states - NE, KL7, and KH6, as well as a few VE provinces that are usually easy, such as SK. Not sure where they were, but never heard them. I always have a problem with NE. I also had other distractions which kept me out of the seat too long. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 273,224 Had fun so played longer than expected. EU opening was nice surprise but I don't get it. I could hear some EU an hour before my local sunset still, I couldn't work them later when it seemed that the northeast guys were having no trouble at all. When I did work EU, it was like I was the only one on the planet who could hear the DX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 170,150 Amp relay sticking in last several hours required many repeats for many of you at that time! 160m "L" worked very well being away from any towers that work as "suck-out's!" In spite of some rude operating noted on my run frequency, the contest was fun with the last state being worked in the last 2 hours. 73, Tom K1IM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 221,540 Nice conditions Saturday night - worked about 130 Eu. West coast USA signals good both nights. Wish I had spent more time in the contest! 73 Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 422,100 Conditions seemed poor Friday night, and much more normal Saturday night. I'm still looking for these conditions that are alleged to occur at the solar minimum. I enjoyed a short run of Europeans from about 0700 to 0745. I worked JA0QNJ Saturday morning for my first ever JA QSO on 160. One would think after 35 years of 160 contesting that I would have worked a JA before. Technically, K1LT has worked JA before, but K8ND was always the operator. I worked T32MO on ESP, so I'll be surprised if I'm actually in his log. HC1HC was the surprise caller. Missed easy multipliers 8P9NX and PJ5NA. Stumbled across 7X0RY during the last hour. Hope he was able to copy "OH". From the breakdown file: WAS, WAC, and 2/3 DXCC 2 point QSOs: 866 5 point QSOs: 72 10 point QSOs: 125 N America: 936 936 (88%) S America: 8 8 (0%) Europe: 106 106 (9%) Africa: 5 5 (0%) Asia: 2 2 (0%) Oceania: 6 6 (0%) CT 18 AR 7 WI 25 MA 24 LA 6 CO 14 ME 4 MS 4 IA 12 NH 14 NM 5 KS 11 RI 8 OK 4 MN 25 VT 6 TX 33 MO 17 NJ 30 CA 34 NE 3 NY 45 AZ 12 ND 2 DC 2 ID 2 SD 2 DE 4 MT 3 NS 1 MD 26 NV 4 QC 10 PA 51 OR 10 ON 35 AL 16 UT 6 SK 2 FL 35 WA 18 AB 3 GA 29 WY 1 BC 5 KY 5 MI 35 NB 1 NC 25 OH 68 YT 1 SC 8 WV 12 PEI 2 TN 40 IL 35 NF 3 VA 40 IN 21 Missed LB, MB and NWT 5B 1 GJ 1 OH0 2 VP5 1 6Y 1 GM 4 OK 7 VP9 1 7X 1 GW 1 OM 5 XE 1 9A 3 HA 2 ON 2 YO 1 9H 1 HB 1 OZ 1 YU 2 CE 1 HC 1 PA 1 YV 1 CN 1 HK 1 PJ2 1 Z7 1 CT 1 HP 1 PY 3 ZL 2 CT3 1 I 5 S5 6 CU 1 IT9 1 SM 5 DL 15 JA 1 SP 3 EA 4 KH6 3 ST 1 EA6 2 KL 1 SV 1 EA8 1 KP2 1 T32 1 EI 1 KP4 2 T9 1 ER 1 LA 1 UA 2 ES 1 LY 1 UA2 1 F 4 LZ 1 UR 1 G 10 OE 1 V3 1 GD 1 OH 1 VK 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1QO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,360 CQ160CW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2007-01-26 CallSign Used : K1QO Operator(s) : K1QO Band : 160M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : NH Gridsquare : FN42LU Name : Ann Byers Address : 8 Bartlett St. City/State/Zip : Newton NH 03858 Country : USA ARRL Section : NH Club/Team : Yankee Clipper Contest Club Software: N1MM Logger V5.7.2 Band QSOs Pts Cty 1.8 301 690 44 Total 301 690 44 Score : 30,360 Rig : FT-1000D Antennas : 160M dipole @ 50' 160M Vetical Soapbox : I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2007-01-28 Signature : Ann Byers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 200,226 Wow! What did I stumble into?! This band sounded like 80M. Spent 4.5 hours Saturday night and had a blast. With the line noise now gone that had plagued me in past years, the Beverages actually did their job. This was the most fun I've had on the radio in a while! 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 415,035 185 Europeans worked, mostly Saturday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 113,325 Fun contest! Thanks for all the Q's. Sorry to all that called me and I couldn't pull you out. I need to get a good RX antenna. Limited space. 73, Ralph K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DB Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 49,277 Just wanted to let you guys know that I finally ran a remote operation contest from the home computer and used the equipment at Hickory Lake. 160 CQWW CW Test It was a blast, I used Writelog, via logmein.com to control the station. It was a lot of fun. I got disconnected a few times, Conditions were great, ended up running 100 watts to a 160 meter inverted vee at 51 feet. 327 QSO’s, 54 sections and 7 DX contacts. Really proud of getting KH7X in HI and picked up T32 in E. Kirabati, 73 de Paul K2DB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TA Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 36,400 First of all..thanks again to all ops who took the time for multiple exchanges to complete a QRP QSO on 160M! Especially K3JT who refused to give up...thank you sir! I actually made 2 QSO by CQ'ing..but only during the mid afternoon on Sunday when I could find a clear freq to park. Note for next year....don't waste time CQing with 5W on 160 during a contest. No EU's worked, no Carribean. Just VP9 and CN2. Was stunned to work CN2A. Best stateside DX was WA. Also surpised to grab WY and MT. I really enjoyed VE3MGY' soapbox comments. Brian - You look like you had more problems with weather balloons than Patrick McGoohan back in 1967! This is my first entry with the Hudson Valley Contesters and DXers club. Hopefully my QRP score doesn't hurt their group entry. Rig: K2@5W to full sized half wave dipole at 35 ft. N3FJP logging software. See you all next year! 73 de Tom K2TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2YR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 232,032 About 15% better score and country total than last year. Installed Comtek switch to my 2 el inverted L array this fall, so now I can go north and south too. That really helped. Sorry to EU's calling, I still didn't get my Beverage(s)up. Condx were great though. And just a little reminder... the DX Window is 1830 to 1835!! And yes, there is, or at least there use to be a Window. Geeshh! Anyway, great fun. See you all next year. 73 -Carl, K2YR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3AU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,770 Limited time. Good Prop. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3NA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 697,344 Thanks to Greg W1KM for use of the station. Breakdowns: Date Hour Total 2 5 10 Running Total 2007-01-27 0 55 43 8 4 55 2007-01-27 1 104 87 7 10 159 2007-01-27 2 81 59 13 9 240 2007-01-27 3 75 59 4 12 315 2007-01-27 4 59 51 2 6 374 2007-01-27 5 62 53 3 6 436 2007-01-27 6 70 25 4 41 506 2007-01-27 7 43 22 2 19 549 2007-01-27 8 38 29 7 2 587 2007-01-27 9 38 36 2 625 2007-01-27 10 34 30 3 1 659 2007-01-27 11 34 34 693 2007-01-27 12 27 25 2 720 2007-01-27 13 12 12 732 2007-01-27 14 7 6 1 739 2007-01-27 15 4 4 743 2007-01-27 16 4 4 747 2007-01-27 17 2 2 749 2007-01-27 18 6 6 755 2007-01-27 19 8 8 763 2007-01-27 20 3 3 766 2007-01-27 21 16 16 782 2007-01-27 22 16 13 2 1 798 2007-01-27 23 24 10 3 11 822 2007-01-28 0 34 14 20 856 2007-01-28 1 42 11 5 26 898 2007-01-28 2 63 14 2 47 961 2007-01-28 3 29 10 1 18 990 2007-01-28 4 28 8 1 19 1018 2007-01-28 5 57 19 38 1075 2007-01-28 6 47 26 21 1122 2007-01-28 7 19 17 2 1141 2007-01-28 8 13 10 2 1 1154 2007-01-28 9 5 4 1 1159 2007-01-28 10 26 24 2 1185 2007-01-28 11 22 21 1 1207 2007-01-28 12 12 11 1 1219 2007-01-28 13 8 7 1 1227 2007-01-28 14 5 5 1232 2007-01-28 15 5 5 1237 2007-01-28 16 1 1 1238 2007-01-28 17 2 2 1240 2007-01-28 18 3 3 1243 2007-01-28 19 6 5 1 1249 2007-01-28 20 8 8 1257 2007-01-28 21 11 11 1268 2007-01-28 22 13 9 2 2 1281 2007-01-28 23 20 12 2 6 1301 Total All Hours 1301 894 82 325 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 110,625 I thought conditions were OK the first night, but the second night was much much better. No receive antenna here, but was surprised how much DX I worked with my inverted L/16 radials each only 33 feet long/400 watts. Thanks for all the QSO's, it was a real blast. Becoming one of my favorite contests. paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 563,030 Think my best ever CQ 160, conditions seemed to improve throughout the weekend. I still miss the earlier start and finish. Good EU run just when I was ready to fall asleep at the rig late Saturday night. Slept each night for about 3 hours then checked sunrise. Missed KL7 VK/ZL etc. Tried K3NAs in ear monitors with real low audio and quieter than normal shack (for me), and ear protection covers. Ran the audio as low as possible, considering Im probably 20 db of hearing down from years back. Seemed to work. Had rcv antenna of choice in left ear and xmit antenna in right ear whenever running. Next phase is to go off the property with a beverage or 2 and bring in a guest op to keep going all night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 55,836 Prior to the contest, I had only made 1 QSO on 160 in the 2+ years since getting my license. On Friday, I decided to participate in the contest so I used my open wire fed doublet (45' high) as a Marconi T. I put down one ground radial Friday evening but added 7 more Saturday morning. Had some problems with impedence matching and RF in the shack which I need to resolve (had to keep my power output below 350w) but overall it worked great as both a rx and tx antenna. Had lots of fun...looking forward to getting on top band much more often. Thanks for the Qs. 73, Barry K4CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 100,375 Great start running with 155 Q's first hour and 211 Q's in first 83 minutes of the contest.... Big thrill having GJ2A, OM8A, K9FD/KH6 and V31YN call me. Did manage to put CE1/K7CA in the log on Saturday night after spending lots of time calling Alan on Friday night with no luck. Managed to work all states except for the three I never heard: ID, NV and KL7. Lots of activity and lots of fun in this one. Just once, I need for force myself to stay up from 0600Z to sunrise and see what can be worked. Next time (maybe)!!! Thanks for all the Q's. 73....//Steve K4EU FT-1000MP/Field QRO amp Inverted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 41,048 Attend the Tennessee QSO Party www.tnqp.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4PI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 484,158 Equip-FT1000MP->Alpha 76PA->1400 W out-> 4 Square with 90 ft verticals top load So crowded I normally only answered stations that called within +/- 50 hz as any further out you would be hearing the stations calling the stations on either side of you. Often the timing was just right making you think they were calling you. I'm sure I missed many that were off freq. The 250 hz filter with roofing filter and everything else on narrow made it livable. Missed working any new ones but seemed a lot worked the ST2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 90,374 Missed first 5 hours due to other obligations, then played through to the wee hours Sat AM. Couldn't believe T32MO answered my CQ! Wow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 295,290 This contest made me realize just how much work I still have to get done on my RX antennas. Thanks for all the contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4VV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 47,575 Fun contest. I put up the Inverted Vee at 85 feet in Snow on Friday, just in time. Works rather well. Limited time due to other commitments. Had a couple of slow but sustained runs, peaking about 90/minute. Mostly stateside and a few provinces. Good fun. FT-1000 MP and an ACOM 2000A amplifier. Next year for improovement. Jack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 113,245 I have never worked this many DX mults on 160m. Same inverted L, same amp, same ground radial system, just all are older - like me. Unbelievably loud signals from CE1/K7CA, VK6VZ/6 and CN2A. I had a great time. Thanks to all. 73, Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5BG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 165,396 Limited operating time due to flu bug. Conditions seemed good from NTX with NO QRN for a change. Tnx to all for a nice contest. 73, BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 425,004 I had a great time operating and spending the weekend at the N5ECT/WD5R QTH. Doug and Marlene are fine folks and it would be fun being there even if the station wasn't equipped with a dozen beverages in a quiet location. Score was approximately the same as last year. Most of the receiving the first night was on a modified R-4C. I guess I never got used to a transceiver after using C lines for so many years, not muting the receiver, and knowing exactly where I was transmitting relative to stations calling. The downside to listening to your own signal is having the volume turned up listening for those weak ones and your own signal pounding the ear drums all night. I wanted to preserve what hearing I still have and moved forward in technology the second night to just using the IC-765. The activity level from JA is not what I would expect. On occasion a JA would call with a very good signal - but never even a small pileup. The highlight was a little run of Europeans Saturday night that lasted about an hour. 101 Europeans in the total log and about half of them in that time period. 73...Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 177,444 I only operated part-time to chase DX and have some fun. Conditions from Texas to Europe were poor on Friday night but much better on Saturday night. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 33,426 Condx sounded great! Wish I had more time to play. Got on at 0303 and was no doubt needed fresh meat! Had an unbelievable 163 first hour! I think that is the best cw hour I have ever had! 73 nz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 151,740 Was on a plane back from Europe when the contest started so missed Friday night. Most of my operating was a 3 hour stint Sat night. Worked total of 90 Eu so bands must have been good! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,222 I really didn't plan to operate this contest because I don't have an antenna for 160. Conditions seemed superb Saturday night. I was amazed at how quickly I could work stations with 100W into my 80-10 meter inverted vee up 20 feet. Being a night-owl, I think I might like 160. Since this Top-band season is almost over, I don't think I will put up an antenna for 160. Remind me next November to put one up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 29,315 Part time operation with remains of inverted 'L'. Tree holding one end fell last Feb and haven't gotten around to fixing/improving situation. Thanks to all for Qs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 34,100 Never heard West Virginia, but it was nice to work the 3W in Zone 26. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 26,949 By far, my best effort ever. I need to keep reminding myself on these 160m contests that Friday night needs the biggest effort, I got tired and bailed at a little after mid-night. Saturday night was a struggle for each q. Could not get a decent run going, seems I had already worked everyone. Like the "Stew" I had very few q's east of the rockies. Am also fighting a power line noise problem here which I am sure makes me an alligator to some. Going to start thinking about a receive antenna. I do like these 160m contests and always have a good time. Lineup: FT-1000MP, AL-80b amp @ 1000w out (most of the time) 125' sloper Ancient Dell PC, W/L software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 3,519 An hour of fun. Good signals Friday Night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 123,966 Sun's up, I'm tired, I quit. Lots of fun. Antenna mod worked well, tnx N6ND for the suggestion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 58,608 Part time effort. Got back from business trip to San Diego Friday eve so got a late start. Then had out of town basketball games Saturday night. Still had fun with limited time on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LAY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 74,256 Missed only VT for a mult(WAS). JA and BY were tough this year as well the VK, ZL Path for them due to QRN. T32MO was hard to find under the stateside QRM and seems he was search and pounce when we did catch him. Better conditions Friday night compared to Saturday. Fun Contest. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7OX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 199,584 Great conditions both nights. Knew it was going to be a good year when 9 hours into the contest I had WAS with K1DFT calling in from RI. Also completed WAC for a first in any 160 contest. Thanks for all the Q's and see you in the SSB test next month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RAT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 292,655 The Dragon ate our Asian QSOs. Down about 50 or 60 QSOs with Japan. However, we improved on the overall QSO total from last year by about 50 QSOs - but they weren't 10 point QSOs, so our total score is down about 10 percent. No sign of VE4. Only a couple of European QSOs in the log. Maybe NEXT year we will get a decent opening to Europe during the contest. Yeah - right. Many thanks to Steve, K6AW and Ward, N0AX for making the trip to Boring again this year. We sort of knew what to expect this time. Rigs - FT1000MP Mark V with 2 x 3-500Z (Viewstar amplifier) - TS850 (spotting) Antennas - 80 foot tower with gamma match - and about 45 quarter wave radials Multiple beverages pointing five directions (30, 70, 120, 250 and 300 degrees). Coffee: Peru Organic (provided by Boring Bark) Food: Wan Lun Chinese Takeout and Nuts on Sports Pizza (delivered) Cats: 3 Dogs: 1 Daughters: 3 Wife: 0 (on vacation in Mexico - had to wait at airport for 30 minutes so I could finish the contest before leaving to pick her up. Made five more QSOs). Distance from spotting inverted vee and transmit antenna: 90 feet Power dissipated in 50 Ohm dummy load in the front of the attenuator to protect the spotting receiver when transmitting with 1500 watts: 50 watts (estimated based on how warm the Cantenna got). Number of N2N* stations worked: 3 (N2NL, N2NT and N2NC). Number of stations worked using topband chat page only: zero. Number of stations worked using a Vibroplex bug: 2 No small animals were harmed during the course of this contest, except perhaps a few earth warms who were toasted near the radials. A Boring Amateur Radio Production - with support from the Northern California Winery association and the Vashon Island Stationless Ham Repository. Directed by Bert and Bo (the cat). Sountrack available on Rat Records. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 98,280 Decided not too kill myself this time out, so quit each night when the rates got very low. Some southern DX worked, andwas able to give out lot's of SD mults., Total time around 14 hours. Tough to score high compared to others on the east coast of the US who can work many more mults. from EU. Exasperating that I never heard WY, the eastern border of that state is only 7 miles away from this QTH! Amazing results the first night, In first 2 hours I had 44 states and provinces, and 143 QSO's in the log with VP5 and VP9. Who says that one can't work all states in one weekend? (Except for WY of course!). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 105,190 So many great contests, so little time. I was only able to get on the first night and found conditions quite good. The band was unusually quiet which made operating a pleasure, especially considering I lost the use of my RX antennas due to storm damage. I apologize to those I could not pull out of the muck, including DX stations G4AMT, SM3CEW, and any others. A special thanks to R1FJT, T32MO, RW1ZA, and NH6P that fought the QSB waves to make it into the log. I can't help but think many more QSOs would have been possible with good RX antennas. Something to work on. One other observation: In the early hours before sunrise, working in the lower JA window, several loud JA stations sent their call on my frequency. I'd immediately respond, but it was clear they were working someone else I could not hear. After changing frequencies, it kept happening again and again. Perhaps these stations were operating split? Or maybe another layer of stations underneath me not readable here? Any seasoned CQ WW 160m contesters that happen to read this, I'd love to know the answer. It was a bit frustrating not to get those loud 10 pointers in the log. Thanks to all the great ops for the Q and the fun! 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7TJR Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 179,512 Got off to a great start with S/P. It took a while before K7ZUM could drive the 150 miles from his work to get here to take over the OP chair. We have never used a spotting Rx and will be looking to do that next year. All the Rx antennas seemed to be working well. I guess I needed more potassium or something this year as I had a hard time dealing with the normal things like frequency fights and people that just will not stop transmitting right over the top of DX stations. I was really pleased with all the stations from KH6, V73, ZL,and 50 Ja's this year. All the Rx antenna work payed off. Ken could not be here for the second night so at 4:00 a.m. local I folded up and gave up and was not there for the Sunday sunrise. Our States and Countries were up but overall Q's were down for a lower score this year. Just a thought but if some of you guys would just back off a little and stop transmitting the DX stations could work many times over more stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 23,766 FT1000MP, AL811, HF2V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 57,969 Always fun to hear Top Band so busy! Inverted L played well, and surprised that it heard as well as it did. I am sure I could have done better with a receiving antenna, of course. I wonder how many contacts BA4RF could have made if he heard 1/10th of the west coast stations that were calling! Was very loud in Oregon! Thanks to all those that hung in there to make the log of my hearing impaired station! 73 Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 86,943 The band was nice and quiet Friday night, noisier on Saturday night, and very noisy on Sunday. Didn't hear any EU on Friday, had some good periods Saturday night; not a lot, but got a few multipliers outside this continent. Sunday evening I didn't care, spent the last 2 and a quarter hours calling CQ and working whatever heard me. Thanks to all those who worked me, especially the DX stations who spent a lot of time in some instances to pull me through. They were pretty loud here; apparently I wasn't always as loud on the other end. Rig: FT100MP + ALS-600 amp, 500 watts Antennas: 20-foot ground-mounted helically-wound vertical with 32 radials, 204-foot G5RV Software: WriteLog 10.58e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 93,002 Bazooka-fed Inverted-L from NJ3T web site works out like a bomb! 25M is vertical and 15M is horizontal SE>NW. Four random-laid radials and alligator clips to my neighbor's chainlink fence with a long ground rod on a 100'x150' lot act as the ground system. Need a better rcv system for the weak DX. Found I could hear much better with 6 or 12 DB attenuation in rcvr versus a preamp due to noise. Actually heard a couple JA's on Sunday AM, but couldn't figure out where they were listening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 397,532 Plenty of activity this year, but the DX openings seemed to be shorter and somewhat attenuated. Copied some Europeans 559 or better but could not get their attention. Some openings peaked at just after sunset or well before sunrise. Where were VE4 and Idaho? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,575 I think I spent more time getting the Inverted-L built and tuned-up than I actually did operating. I finally bought an antenna analyzer...best $150 I ever spent! Thanks for the QSOs and 73, --Ethan, K8GU/9. http://www.k8gu.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 166,686 T-T Orion II, Alpha 91B, Vertical (78' shunt fed tower), K9AY Rx Loops, Short (and bent) "Beverage", Temporary JA BOG down canal bank (lasted 10 hrs, destroyed by nasty AZ coyotes....oh well). Except for a quick start and an unusually active JA/VK/ZL run around 0900Z Sunday, this one will be easy to forget. Major computer malfunction, in the form of a hard drive fatality, occurred near Saturday sunrise. It occupied most of the time I should have been sleeping on Saturday. I finally kluged together a laptop to get me thru Saturday night and Sunday morning. Fortunately that worked flawlessly tnx to N1MM software and K8IA haywire, etc. Unfortunately, I fell asleep for three hours that I had planned to be my best. This was my first HP cw effort in a major 160 contest and, frankly, I may never go back to LP on 160. The vertical was playing well and with the extra amp db's I felt pretty good about where I stood in the mix. A personal best score for me. Looking forward to more next year. Right now, I am beat. I'm looking forward to a really quiet rest of the weekend! ;-) 73, Bob K8IA near the Superstition Mountains Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 99,594 Here we had the best 160 meter conditions of any contest weekend this season. Only missed ID for WAS. Worked my first KL7 on Topband. At times there was considerable QSB. Thanks to those who were patient while I waited for their signal to peak above the noise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 44,876 A Friday night/Saturday morning operation. Not much S&P, and missed ME, ID, WY, NE, ND, VE1-4-6-9 plus the northern stuff. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9AY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 347,110 A great contest with lots of activity and very good conditions! Murphy showed up 13 minutes into the 'test -- amp blew a fixed cap in the tank circuit. While opening the case to investigate, I was formulating a plan to re-start as low power, but was lucky to have an appropriate replacement part on hand. Lost one hour, my run frequency and early momentum. Station description: (2) IC765 Alpha 99 @ 1500W Inv-L with 26 x 100' radials K9AY Loops Beverages: 550' NW, 550' NE, 330' SE, 330' SW, 330' W 73, Gary K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 631,375 Activity seemed a bit higher this year, with great rates for several hours. European openings were good, but they did not seem to last as long as last year. How can you not have fun when ST2A answers a CQ. My apology to the many JA stations that I was unable to copy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,072 The XYL comes into the shack and says "What kind of weirdo antenna you got up now?" HAH! Used a long wire antenna approx 120-130 feet long. Most of it was about 25 feet above ground except for the last 10 feet which was less than 6 feet from the ground. W5TM in Okla wins the ears award. He got the call/exch with no problem. 2nd place was W5UN. Even got some "SMC" sent so that was cool. Worked: NY, NJ, MD, AL, GA, TN, VA, AR, LA, OK, TX, MI, OH, WV IL, IN, WI, CO, IA, KS, MN, MO, ON, SK Lots of good ears/antennas out there to be able to receive my signal! FT-817 WriteLog 73, Eric K9GY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 116,497 The new tree-borne antenna was only on paper Until Thursday, but with the help of three good friends,we raised(mostly they) the antenna to its final height of about 66 feet. It is basically a dipole loaded at top and bottom. The results were better than I imagined and the best I've ever done in this contest.I was having so much fun chasing mults and dx, that I paid little attention to the score. Thanks to all who suffered through the repeats and noise to make a qso with me. I also owe VE3BWL an apology. He kept correcting me on his call and I kept sending it VE3BWL(I thought) this went on through several cycles and I'm sure he was very frustrated, as was I. The next qso said that I was dropping the first dit of the V. In the headphones, I couln't tell. Apparently the relay in the amp is getting sloppy, and opening and closing late. Sometimes I had to ask for repeats because calls were coming in before the changeover relay was open, and i missed the first letter. If it seemed wierd to you, I apologize. What I heard in the headphones and what you heard over the air were apparently different sometimes and I definitely will fix that. 73 to all, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NR Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 319,033 Great conditions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 306,188 About 10 hours each night. Nice condx but lots of snow QRN made things a bit more difficult the second night. 95 10-point QSOs....a personal best there! Missed VE4, VO2, VE8, VY1 for domestic mults. WAS WAC DXCC/2 FUN! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA7U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,388 Operating portable with a Kenwood TS-850S and a dipole up in a palm tree. 73 Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 168,840 Any weekend 160 meter contest that you can work WAS/WAC, bag Moracco on the first call from Montana, and work JA's listening QRX up at 1945 Khz with 100 watts is a classic event. This weekend was a fantastic display of propagation. The contest started out slowly for me - I spent the whole first hour running up and down the band doing S&P for just 30 contacts. Grrr. It got better as things went along: VK6VZ/4 and ZL6QH were peaking 579 here several times, and were worked as soon as the crowds thinned a bit. Some challenges: A small front moved thru and the wind turned the balloon vertical more over then up, the tuner went into spasms trying to keep up until things stabilized. Next, a kind soul clued me in the not only was my K2 ripe with key-clicks; it had a nasty chirp too. A quick 25 minute pit-stop ensued to pull the rig apart and tighten the final transistors' heatsink screws. Thought I did that well enough before! Just glad I had read about that malady on the Elecraft reflector at some point and knew what the cure was. It is a long four-wheel drive down from the cabin and back to Bozeman to bum a replacement rig from a ham friend! ;-) Conditions seemed very stable with little ot no QSB/QRN. Life is GOOD! Best, Gene, KB7Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 671,875 We arrived Friday morning to survey the damage from the recent ice storm that hit New England a couple of weeks ago. In all, we managed to escape the storm with just minor damage here and there. On major close call: a very large pine tree fell within 10 feet of the NE tower of the 160 Meter 3 element array. Somehow, it managed to avoid the guys and the tower itself, except for perhaps a glancing blow. With one fallen raised radial and two Beverage issues resolved, we were ready to do some contesting! We recently began building a W8JI Broadside-Endfire RX vertical array (http://www.w8ji.com/small_vertical_arrays.htm at the bottom of the page). It is currently working in the endfire configuration towards the NE as well as SW. With one weekend of observation, we found that it out-performed the Beverages consistently. Conditions were good, but not all that great, on the first night. We never quite got a good European run going. The second night was much better working nearly 200 10-pointers. Happy to hear Nodir, EY8MM, heard us, but we're unhappy that we couldn't pull him out. Hope you still had a good time, Nodir! In all, this is always a fun contest! Congratulations to everyone for their efforts!!! As always, thanks to the Strelows for the use of the station this weekend. Thanks for all the contacts! Stations 1 & 2: TT Orions interlocked with Ameritron AL-1200 Station 3: TT Orion RX-only spotting station Antennas: TX Array: 3 element inline array RX: 4 two-wire Beverages, W8JI broadside-endfire vertical array North America 1237 81.7 South America 6 0.4 Europe 254 16.8 Asia 5 0.3 Africa 6 0.4 Oceania 7 0.5 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX CQ 160 METER CONTEST Multi Single HOUR 160 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 139/34 139/34 139/34 1 128/11 128/11 267/45 2 87/12 87/12 354/57 3 69/6 69/6 423/63 4 91/4 91/4 514/67 5 78/10 78/10 592/77 6 57/16 57/16 649/93 7 55/4 55/4 704/97 8 42/5 42/5 746/102 9 38/1 38/1 784/103 10 25/0 25/0 809/103 11 39/0 39/0 848/103 12 15/0 15/0 863/103 13 15/0 15/0 878/103 14 8/0 8/0 886/103 15 7/0 7/0 893/103 16 1/0 1/0 894/103 17 . . 894/103 18 7/0 7/0 901/103 19 7/0 7/0 908/103 20 11/0 11/0 919/103 21 26/1 26/1 945/104 22 23/1 23/1 968/105 23 24/1 24/1 992/106 0 38/3 38/3 1030/109 1 49/3 49/3 1079/112 2 29/1 29/1 1108/113 3 43/2 43/2 1151/115 4 53/0 53/0 1204/115 5 62/4 62/4 1266/119 6 39/2 39/2 1305/121 7 24/0 24/0 1329/121 8 14/0 14/0 1343/121 9 19/2 19/2 1362/123 10 10/1 10/1 1372/124 11 14/0 14/0 1386/124 12 3/0 3/0 1389/124 13 7/0 7/0 1396/124 14 10/0 10/0 1406/124 15 2/0 2/0 1408/124 16 3/0 3/0 1411/124 17 1/0 1/0 1412/124 18 6/0 6/0 1418/124 19 6/0 6/0 1424/124 20 8/0 8/0 1432/124 21 7/1 7/1 1439/125 22 14/0 14/0 1453/125 23 21/0 21/0 1474/125 DAY1 992/106 ..... 992/106 DAY2 482/19 . 482/19 TOT 1474/125 . 1474/125 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX CQ 160 METER CONTEST Multi Single 28 Jan 2007 2359z PRFX 160 4X 1 5B 4 6Y 1 7X 1 9A 7 9H 1 CE 1 CN 1 CT 1 CT3 1 CU 1 DL 55 EA 7 EA6 2 EA8 2 EI 4 ES 2 F 5 FM 1 G 21 GD 1 GJ 1 GM 3 GW 1 HA 7 HB 5 HC 1 HK 1 HP 2 I 7 IT9 1 KH6 4 KP2 1 KP4 3 LA 3 LY 4 LZ 2 OE 1 OH 8 OH0 1 OK 22 OM 7 ON 2 OZ 1 PA 5 PJ2 1 PY 2 S5 16 SM 7 SP 12 ST 1 SV 2 T32 1 T9 1 UA 11 UA2 2 UR 1 V3 1 VP5 1 VP9 1 XE 1 YL 1 YO 1 YU 9 Z3 1 Z7 2 ZL 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 7,272 Well guess I really screwed up on this one... I did not read the rule before the contest and thought that there would be a single-op assisted mode, but there is not. Anyway, I played with then when I had time. Just using a dipole worked US without any problem. Not much DX... heard some DX but could not get through with my measely 200 Watts. Thanks for the Qs and catch you in the next one.. Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,450 I suffered an identity crisis about halfway through the contest. I started out as a qrp entry. Last year was my first on top band and I could only run qrp without lighting up our microwave oven. Back then every state was a new one for me and I did ok. This year I have a better antenna and can run my full 100 watts like a little, big gun:), but I still wanted to see how I'd do with qrp. Friday evening was very busy. Went to bed for a few hours. Checked out the action early am but I didn't hear anything too exciting and went back to bed. Stuck with qrp all Saturday and lost a few multipliers. Conditions seemed better on Sunday morning. The band was open to the west coast and I soon learned that I still can't work that far on 5 watts. I was sytmied on multipliers, having already missed a couple "close" ones. I still hadn't worked OR, WA or CA, and OR was booming in. I was just getting a few dits into OR, but not enough to make it. So I took a deep breath and turned the dial to 100w and became a low power entry. Still it was not so easy but I added 10 multipliers (and 4 new states) without too much problem. No CA though, worked a few OR and NV but didn't even hear CA, which was strange. I know I missed a couple of states early on. MS really hurt. Heard one MS and he had quite a pileon and my qrp didn't cut it. I got some of the multipliers back but I was down at least four. Oh well, I beat my score from last year by a considerable amount and bettered my qso total, just by my qrp contacts which satisified my starting goal. Quite a few EU stations early Sunday evening, even managed to work one! I hope everyone else enjoyed the weekend as much as I did. 73...Paul/kd2mx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 495,516 Good conditions and great fun! Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use his station. The K3LR array seemed to work much better this year. I worked several new countries on 160. 9J2BO, T32MO, P33W, OH0Z, UR4LRG, and ST2A called me! :-) 7X0RY and 9H6A were also new ones on top band. I concentrated on DX multipliers. My total was much better, but I did not have nearly enough 10 point QSO's! More mults and QSO's than last year but almost the same score. Never heard KL7 or VE4. Some numbers and other info: Multipliers: 4X Bc EA Ga KP4 Ms Ny PJ2 Sd Va 5B CE EA6 HA Ks Mt OH PY Sk Vt 6Y CN EA8 HB Ky Nb OH0 Pa T32 Wa 7X CT EI HK LA Nc OK Pe T9 Wi 8P CT3 ES HP LY Nd OM Qc Tn Wv 9A CU F I La Ne ON Ri Tx Wy 9H Ca Fl Ia Ma Nf OZ S5 UA XE 9J Co G Id Md Nh Oh SM UA2 YL Ab Ct GD Il Me Nj Ok SP UR YO Al DL GJ In Mi Nm On ST Ut YU Ar Dc GM KH6 Mn Ns Or SV VP5 ZL Az De GW KP2 Mo Nv PA Sc VP9 Continent List 2007 CQ160 CW Contest - KD4D @ N3HBX 160 --- USA calls = 1022 VE calls = 74 N.A. calls = 8 S.A. calls = 6 Euro calls = 152 Afrc calls = 6 Asia calls = 2 JA calls = 0 Ocen calls = 5 Unknowns = 0 Total calls = 1275 2007 CQ160 CW - KD4D @ N3HBX HOUR 160CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ----- ----- 0 113 113 113 1 110 110 223 2 83 83 306 3 69 69 375 4 55 55 430 5 34 34 464 6 21 21 485 7 33 33 518 8 65 65 583 9 43 43 626 10 27 27 653 11 36 36 689 12 28 28 717 13 0 0 717 14 0 0 717 15 0 0 717 16 0 0 717 17 0 0 717 18 0 0 717 19 0 0 717 20 0 0 717 21 4 4 721 22 34 34 755 23 21 21 776 0 46 46 822 1 51 51 873 2 46 46 919 3 37 37 956 4 30 30 986 5 44 44 1030 6 45 45 1075 7 41 41 1116 8 25 25 1141 9 13 13 1154 10 18 18 1172 11 20 20 1192 12 28 28 1220 13 0 0 1220 14 0 0 1220 15 0 0 1220 16 0 0 1220 17 0 0 1220 18 0 0 1220 19 0 0 1220 20 0 0 1220 21 0 0 1220 22 19 19 1239 23 36 36 1275 TOTAL 1275 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE9I Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 416,752 Thanks for all the Qs ! Band was good at EU SR on Sunday ! Station: Yaesu FT-1000MP Field Amp: Acom 2000A Ant TX: 22mh vertical Ant RX: 220m reversable beverages NE(SW), NW(SE), E(W). 260m single wire at .5 mh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,455 Two extra radials on my inverted L helped. Got a couple of new states. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5VK Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 46,585 Only got to play for 8 and a half hours enjoyed it ! kg5vk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ0G Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 86,899 NOISE, NOISEN NOISE BUT IT WAS FUN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 25,488 Multi-op : Packet. Wrong contest for improvised antenna and 100w.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 36,342 Had a good time in this contest. I never expected to have this many QSO's and 49 states/provinces considering my antenna. To hear PJ2T, VP9I, CU2A, NP4A and KV4FZ answer my call was a thrill for me for 160 meters. I didn't hear ND, OK, ID, NV from my QTH. 73--Scott KN3A Kenwood TS-450SAT (85 watts) G5RV @ 20 ft. N1MM Logger U/L Log to LOTW and eQSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,160 Part time effort. Conditions great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN6RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 4,650 Thanks for all the SECC contacts. Special thanks to EA8EA for pulling me out of the noise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,300 Missed RI and ND. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2CW/W6 Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 4,053 A tad of Fresh Meat QRV, and the closest I'll get to KP2 for a while since I had to cancel my intended February ARRL DX CW Contest trip. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4KE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 224,096 QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0007 KP4KE 599 K4VX 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0010 KP4KE 599 K4PI 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0011 KP4KE 599 K5GO 599 AR QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0016 KP4KE 599 N4PN 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0023 KP4KE 599 W5UN 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0029 KP4KE 599 VP5/W4OV 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0030 KP4KE 599 FM5BH 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0033 KP4KE 599 N4DD 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0034 KP4KE 599 W4ZV 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0037 KP4KE 599 WE3C 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0039 KP4KE 599 VE2OJ 599 QC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0040 KP4KE 599 KM4M 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0042 KP4KE 599 WJ9B 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0044 KP4KE 599 W2GD 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0059 KP4KE 599 KV4FZ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0102 KP4KE 599 W5MX 599 KY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0108 KP4KE 599 WK4Y 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0108 KP4KE 599 VE3EJ 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0111 KP4KE 599 N5TW 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0112 KP4KE 599 N4TB 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0117 KP4KE 599 N6AR 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0121 KP4KE 599 W9RE 599 IN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0125 KP4KE 599 AA1K 599 DE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0132 KP4KE 599 N0NI 599 IA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0139 KP4KE 599 KC1XX 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0142 KP4KE 599 N2BA 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0146 KP4KE 599 PJ2T 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0153 KP4KE 599 K5RX 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0159 KP4KE 599 W3TDF 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0203 KP4KE 599 WB9Z 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0208 KP4KE 599 K1JB 599 ME QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0210 KP4KE 599 K8XXX 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0217 KP4KE 599 NP4A 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0222 KP4KE 599 W4SVO 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0224 KP4KE 599 K0RC 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0226 KP4KE 599 N0TT 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0230 KP4KE 599 K0EJ 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0231 KP4KE 599 K0TV 599 MS QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0236 KP4KE 599 N3KS 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0241 KP4KE 599 N4NN 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0243 KP4KE 599 W5TM 599 OK QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0244 KP4KE 599 W1QA 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0248 KP4KE 599 VO1A 599 NF QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0249 KP4KE 599 N2VW 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0250 KP4KE 599 W3EKT 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0251 KP4KE 599 N2MRI 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0251 KP4KE 599 NJ2J 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0252 KP4KE 599 K8EUR 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0254 KP4KE 599 LY2IJ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0256 KP4KE 599 N2WN 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0257 KP4KE 599 N4WW 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0258 KP4KE 599 K9MMS 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0259 KP4KE 599 K9OW 599 WI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0300 KP4KE 599 N4MM 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0300 KP4KE 599 W5XX 599 MS QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0300 KP4KE 599 K5NA 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0302 KP4KE 599 W6BH 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0306 KP4KE 599 AD4Z 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0307 KP4KE 599 VE9DX 599 NB QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0308 KP4KE 599 W0JLC 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0311 KP4KE 599 N9UM 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0312 KP4KE 599 KV0Q 599 CO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0314 KP4KE 599 W3BW 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0315 KP4KE 599 K3ND 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0315 KP4KE 599 VE3EXY 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0316 KP4KE 599 W3PP 599 DE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0317 KP4KE 599 WA2JQK 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0318 KP4KE 599 K1ZZ 599 CT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0318 KP4KE 599 AA4VV 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0319 KP4KE 599 KD2I 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0320 KP4KE 599 N2TTA 599 CT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0321 KP4KE 599 N3EN 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0324 KP4KE 599 W7MY 599 WA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0326 KP4KE 599 K3SWZ 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0328 KP4KE 599 AA0RS 599 CO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0328 KP4KE 599 N2ZX 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0329 KP4KE 599 W1ZT 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0331 KP4KE 599 9A9W 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0332 KP4KE 599 K5GH 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0333 KP4KE 599 N4NX 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0333 KP4KE 599 N7DF 599 NM QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0334 KP4KE 599 W4DIM 599 AL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0335 KP4KE 599 K8JQ 599 WV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0335 KP4KE 599 N4NO 599 AL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0336 KP4KE 599 K9HMB 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0338 KP4KE 599 K3ZO 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0339 KP4KE 599 W0JPL 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0340 KP4KE 599 N7DC 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0342 KP4KE 599 K2AX 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0342 KP4KE 599 NT2A 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0345 KP4KE 599 N4UA 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0350 KP4KE 599 N2QT 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0350 KP4KE 599 W8TE 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0351 KP4KE 599 W2YC 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0352 KP4KE 599 W3SO 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0353 KP4KE 599 K1LPS 599 VT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0353 KP4KE 599 W9ZJ 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0354 KP4KE 599 K4SA 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0356 KP4KE 599 WA2VYA 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0356 KP4KE 599 AD2DE 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0357 KP4KE 599 W5IZ 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0358 KP4KE 599 OK1MWD 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0401 KP4KE 599 K3DI 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0402 KP4KE 599 N4OT 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0403 KP4KE 599 VE3OSZ 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0404 KP4KE 599 N3NT 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0405 KP4KE 599 N8TR 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0405 KP4KE 599 NJ1F 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0406 KP4KE 599 NN2W 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0406 KP4KE 599 KD9AW 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0407 KP4KE 599 KU1CW 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0408 KP4KE 599 K6XT 599 CO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0409 KP4KE 599 W3OA 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0410 KP4KE 599 N8IE 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0411 KP4KE 599 W4YE 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0412 KP4KE 599 NN3Q 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0414 KP4KE 599 4O3M 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0416 KP4KE 599 VE2BWL 599 QC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0417 KP4KE 599 S50A 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0418 KP4KE 599 K8DO 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0419 KP4KE 599 WA3AFS 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0420 KP4KE 599 WK6DX 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0420 KP4KE 599 N5TY 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0422 KP4KE 599 I5IHE 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0423 KP4KE 599 AD1FY 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0423 KP4KE 599 W8FJ 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0424 KP4KE 599 W4TMO 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0424 KP4KE 599 VA3DX 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0425 KP4KE 599 AB2E 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0426 KP4KE 599 N4XU 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0427 KP4KE 599 W9GE 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0428 KP4KE 599 N4CJ 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0429 KP4KE 599 N3UM 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0430 KP4KE 599 N3ND 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0431 KP4KE 599 WA2VQW 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0434 KP4KE 599 N2CU 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0441 KP4KE 599 K2TTT 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0443 KP4KE 599 N4ZZ 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0445 KP4KE 599 K9DX 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0459 KP4KE 599 OM8A 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0502 KP4KE 599 N4BAA 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0515 KP4KE 599 VY2ZM 599 PE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0517 KP4KE 599 N5RR 599 AR QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0519 KP4KE 599 KG9N 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0520 KP4KE 599 K4BAI 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0521 KP4KE 599 W0TT 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0527 KP4KE 599 K8MR 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0529 KP4KE 599 K3UA 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0530 KP4KE 599 OK1FFU 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0536 KP4KE 599 KT3Y 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0539 KP4KE 599 N4OGW 599 MS QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0543 KP4KE 599 RZ1AWT 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0546 KP4KE 599 UA2FZ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0547 KP4KE 599 K4WMS 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0548 KP4KE 599 K8BL 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0550 KP4KE 599 ES5QX 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0551 KP4KE 599 KD0S 599 SC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0551 KP4KE 599 K0RF 599 CO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0552 KP4KE 599 K4JLD 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0552 KP4KE 599 N4VA 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0553 KP4KE 599 K7NJ 599 UT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0554 KP4KE 599 RV3ID 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0554 KP4KE 599 9A1A 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0557 KP4KE 599 LY2OU 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0559 KP4KE 599 DJ2YA 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0600 KP4KE 599 YU1LA 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0602 KP4KE 599 W2WB 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0603 KP4KE 599 EU1AZ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0605 KP4KE 599 DL1AMQ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0608 KP4KE 599 OM7G 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0609 KP4KE 599 W4RM 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0610 KP4KE 599 DL8CMM 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0611 KP4KE 599 KT5E 599 CO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0611 KP4KE 599 AA6VB 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0613 KP4KE 599 LY2LE 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0613 KP4KE 599 N1KWF 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0614 KP4KE 599 K9CT 599 IL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0615 KP4KE 599 W3BGN 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0616 KP4KE 599 K1TTT 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0617 KP4KE 599 K2RET 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0618 KP4KE 599 LY9Y 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0618 KP4KE 599 K4BEH 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0619 KP4KE 599 K4CNW 599 SC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0620 KP4KE 599 OH5KW 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0623 KP4KE 599 HG8L 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0623 KP4KE 599 OH3BU 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0625 KP4KE 599 K8MFO 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0625 KP4KE 599 W8/T98T 599 WV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0626 KP4KE 599 W9IU 599 IN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0627 KP4KE 599 IK1YDB 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0627 KP4KE 599 N0YY 599 IA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0628 KP4KE 599 DL2RMC 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0630 KP4KE 599 DL9EE 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0631 KP4KE 599 EU5Q 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0632 KP4KE 599 OH6DX 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0634 KP4KE 599 OH5Z 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0637 KP4KE 599 DF0SAX 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0638 KP4KE 599 KK4SI 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0644 KP4KE 599 KZ5D 599 LA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0654 KP4KE 599 K6SE 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0657 KP4KE 599 K1DAM 599 RI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0659 KP4KE 599 RK2WA 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0700 KP4KE 599 K0TVD 599 IA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0701 KP4KE 599 W6XX 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0705 KP4KE 599 VE3EY 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0708 KP4KE 599 VE3TA 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0709 KP4KE 599 N8BJQ 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0724 KP4KE 599 W8CAR 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0740 KP4KE 599 W3TS 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0753 KP4KE 599 NQ4I 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0755 KP4KE 599 W4AN 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0756 KP4KE 599 N4KG 599 AL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0758 KP4KE 599 VE3ZI 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 0814 KP4KE 599 K1LT 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2315 KP4KE 599 K3WW 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2321 KP4KE 599 K2YR 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2324 KP4KE 599 K4TD 599 AL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2326 KP4KE 599 PJ5NA 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2327 KP4KE 599 N8T 599 WV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2333 KP4KE 599 N4VV 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2334 KP4KE 599 N4IS 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2334 KP4KE 599 W4MY 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2335 KP4KE 599 WT4Q 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2339 KP4KE 599 FG5FR 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2340 KP4KE 599 KA1DWX 599 DE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2341 KP4KE 599 EA5BM 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2342 KP4KE 599 K4GKD 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2342 KP4KE 599 W6NWS 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2346 KP4KE 599 W4JVN 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2348 KP4KE 599 YV7QP 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2351 KP4KE 599 W4MBD 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2352 KP4KE 599 K3KO 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-27 2356 KP4KE 599 WR3L 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0001 KP4KE 599 N4IJ 599 OK QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0002 KP4KE 599 W2LE 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0004 KP4KE 599 K7CMZ 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0006 KP4KE 599 KZ1O 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0007 KP4KE 599 WB8JUI 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0010 KP4KE 599 WD8KNC 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0011 KP4KE 599 K9MVG 599 AL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0013 KP4KE 599 HP1WW 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0019 KP4KE 599 WA4TT 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0020 KP4KE 599 N5IA 599 NM QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0027 KP4KE 599 K1JT 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0052 KP4KE 599 GM3POI 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0054 KP4KE 599 DD2D 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0109 KP4KE 599 T92D 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0119 KP4KE 599 GJ2A 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0122 KP4KE 599 MD4K 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0124 KP4KE 599 8P9NX 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0125 KP4KE 599 W5GN 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0126 KP4KE 599 K2QMF 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0127 KP4KE 599 K1ZZI 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0128 KP4KE 599 AE9B 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0129 KP4KE 599 VE3DZ 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0130 KP4KE 599 N2NT 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0130 KP4KE 599 K3NA 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0131 KP4KE 599 WP4DQ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0132 KP4KE 599 W0AIS 599 WI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0133 KP4KE 599 K0KX 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0138 KP4KE 599 N2WK 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0143 KP4KE 599 NI1N 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0144 KP4KE 599 K1GUN 599 ME QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0146 KP4KE 599 N5ZR 599 WV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0149 KP4KE 599 NE1B 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0158 KP4KE 599 W3DQ 599 DC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0203 KP4KE 599 N4TX 599 WV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0226 KP4KE 599 K4BP 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0229 KP4KE 599 NA4K 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0232 KP4KE 599 K4JUZ 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0235 KP4KE 599 HB9CT 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0237 KP4KE 599 K4UJ 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0238 KP4KE 599 K6TA 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0240 KP4KE 599 K5FMC 599 LA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0241 KP4KE 599 K5MC 599 LA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0242 KP4KE 599 W1CTN 599 CT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0248 KP4KE 599 W3UL 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0253 KP4KE 599 WX3B 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0254 KP4KE 599 N1GKI 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0306 KP4KE 599 W4FEG 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0307 KP4KE 599 W3FV 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0308 KP4KE 599 K9NW 599 IN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0309 KP4KE 599 VO1HP 599 NF QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0310 KP4KE 599 KN1S 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0318 KP4KE 599 W7RN 599 NV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0318 KP4KE 599 Z37N 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0321 KP4KE 599 N2ZN 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0321 KP4KE 599 K5CM 599 OK QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0323 KP4KE 599 W3WH 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0324 KP4KE 599 W3SM 599 CT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0332 KP4KE 599 K8LN 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0341 KP4KE 599 K2TE 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0344 KP4KE 599 EA7AJR 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0344 KP4KE 599 NA4D 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0346 KP4KE 599 9A8WW 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0346 KP4KE 599 HK3BVD 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0347 KP4KE 599 W3UR 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0348 KP4KE 599 TA3D 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0354 KP4KE 599 VY2/N3DDX 599 PE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0355 KP4KE 599 K4RDU 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0357 KP4KE 599 K8MJZ 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0357 KP4KE 599 N8NA 599 DE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0358 KP4KE 599 W7DR 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0359 KP4KE 599 WA8RCN 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0401 KP4KE 599 LN3Z 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0404 KP4KE 599 K3HX 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0409 KP4KE 599 OH0Z 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0424 KP4KE 599 K1RO 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0425 KP4KE 599 W3ZZ 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0425 KP4KE 599 K2FU 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0426 KP4KE 599 N5AU 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0427 KP4KE 599 N2LQ 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0430 KP4KE 599 CT1FJK 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0432 KP4KE 599 DJ1MDR 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0434 KP4KE 599 K0XI 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0443 KP4KE 599 W8REW 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0443 KP4KE 599 EI6IZ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0446 KP4KE 599 W0ETT 599 CO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0447 KP4KE 599 KT4Q 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0447 KP4KE 599 K1DG 599 NH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0448 KP4KE 599 KJ7WY 599 AZ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0448 KP4KE 599 YO5PF 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0449 KP4KE 599 OH1OX 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0454 KP4KE 599 K3NCO 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0455 KP4KE 599 KA1R 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0456 KP4KE 599 K0HA 599 NE QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0456 KP4KE 599 WB2ABD 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0459 KP4KE 599 N0STL 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0459 KP4KE 599 K3OO 599 PA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0500 KP4KE 599 DL5MEV 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0501 KP4KE 599 WA3C 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0501 KP4KE 599 WB3BEL 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0501 KP4KE 599 VE3DO 599 ON QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0502 KP4KE 599 K0GEO 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0502 KP4KE 599 S57M 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0503 KP4KE 599 K5LP 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0503 KP4KE 599 W4SZ 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0504 KP4KE 599 K4SV 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0505 KP4KE 599 OE2VEL 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0506 KP4KE 599 VE5UF 599 SK QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0508 KP4KE 599 VA5DX 599 SK QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0511 KP4KE 599 KI0Z 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0515 KP4KE 599 YT1VP 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0519 KP4KE 599 WA2MNO 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0526 KP4KE 599 K6NR 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0528 KP4KE 599 OK8ANM 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0530 KP4KE 599 OL5K 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0531 KP4KE 599 AA4V 599 SC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0532 KP4KE 599 KT0R 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0532 KP4KE 599 WA5POK 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0533 KP4KE 599 OH2BO 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0534 KP4KE 599 AJ1M 599 WV QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0535 KP4KE 599 K4LW 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0536 KP4KE 599 KV8Q 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0537 KP4KE 599 W4PJW 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0538 KP4KE 599 W1FM 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0539 KP4KE 599 N4WD 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0540 KP4KE 599 K8VF 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0541 KP4KE 599 N3AM 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0541 KP4KE 599 K5TA 599 NM QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0542 KP4KE 599 LZ2JE 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0548 KP4KE 599 9A2AJ 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0550 KP4KE 599 K7RAT 599 OR QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0554 KP4KE 599 K9YC 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0556 KP4KE 599 W4JKC 599 SC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0601 KP4KE 599 W4CZ 599 TN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0602 KP4KE 599 N3II 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0602 KP4KE 599 KT1B 599 MA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0602 KP4KE 599 N1ZZ 599 CT QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0603 KP4KE 599 AA7A 599 AZ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0604 KP4KE 599 KU2M 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0608 KP4KE 599 N4OX 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0610 KP4KE 599 SP7HOV 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0611 KP4KE 599 N6PE 599 CA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0612 KP4KE 599 K8YSE 599 OH QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0613 KP4KE 599 NW7E 599 OR QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0616 KP4KE 599 WQ5L 599 MS QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0617 KP4KE 599 K0RU 599 KS QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0618 KP4KE 599 KR4F 599 AL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0619 KP4KE 599 DJ5MW 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0622 KP4KE 599 W0ZTL 599 ND QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0630 KP4KE 599 K8OZ 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0631 KP4KE 599 W5PR 599 TX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0635 KP4KE 599 K0EA 599 MN QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0639 KP4KE 599 NT4D 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 0644 KP4KE 599 S50K 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2153 KP4KE 599 AF4OX 599 SC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2158 KP4KE 599 K1KO 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2222 KP4KE 599 CN2A 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2230 KP4KE 599 KK9K 599 WI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2241 KP4KE 599 K8GG 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2256 KP4KE 599 K3WI 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2257 KP4KE 599 W2OB 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2310 KP4KE 599 W4MYA 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2312 KP4KE 599 N2NC 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2314 KP4KE 599 K4MF 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2314 KP4KE 599 N2MM 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2316 KP4KE 599 W6AAN 599 MD QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2317 KP4KE 599 KZ1X 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2320 KP4KE 599 AA4LR 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2324 KP4KE 599 N1EU 599 NY QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2338 KP4KE 599 AA7JV 599 FL QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2342 KP4KE 599 KT4U 599 VA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2345 KP4KE 599 K0JPL 599 MO QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2345 KP4KE 599 7X0RY 599 DX QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2346 KP4KE 599 W0UCE 599 NC QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2347 KP4KE 599 W2OKM 599 NJ QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2348 KP4KE 599 KB8U 599 MI QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2348 KP4KE 599 W2WG 599 GA QSO: 1800 CW 2007-01-28 2349 KP4KE 599 K4EA 599 GA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,900 Only had about an hour of air time...good fun. Thrilled that CN2A heard me qrp! I should have had more air time, but between the Bush and Govnr Spitzer (NY) new Healthcare policies, I had tons of analytical reading to do for work (www.nyp.org). Too bad. Elecraft K2 @ 5 watts. 1/2 wave dipole with center at 45 feet. This rig's recvr never ceases to amaze me. de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 100,607 What good conditions both nights. Nice and quiet. Just a part time effort here. Did not get on until late both nights. Nice to hear some Europe, but not many got in the log. No Rx antenna and so so X-mit antennas make hard for DX. I tried my 80 meter sloper thtough the tuner and it worked. That was a big surprise it was nice to have a verticial so what. It would never take power before. If I went over a KW then the amp would trip out, but still helped on a few qso's. And my 80 meter cage dipole also loaded with tuner with a good bandwidth. And of course my zepp with the cheese slicer worked well too. Some great signals out there and always fun to hear everyone on. Hope to hear some of you in the MN QSO Party this weekend. Saturday February 3, 2007 Minnesota QSO Party. Ten active mobile stations will again activate all 87 MN counties this year. Full details at: http://www.w0aa.org/mnqp.htm Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 429,885 73 Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT5E Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 88,226 Fun contest with lots of activity...With all the fun I even managed some sleep that was well needed for Saturday and Sunday days. 73, Jay - KT5E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 445,740 Fixed ice storm broken TX/RX antennas 10 minutes into the contest, had serious damage. Was behind in mults (-7) and ahead in Q's (+60) after first day, compared to last year. Was nice JA opening first morning, but EU was better last year. Have ritched my goal of going over 400K and improving my last year W0 record. Have heard few big W0 this year-quite competitive. Thanks everyone, 73 de KU1CW, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 137,748 500 watts and an Inverted L just didn't cut the mustard with the "Big Boys" on the topband. I heard at least 30 more countries that I didn't even work. On a positive note I did work my first JA on the topband - JA0QNJ early Saturday morning. Next major contest will be PJ4/KU8E in ARRL DX CW. Plan on spending lots of time on 160 when I am down there starting Febuary 13th. 73, Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 123,924 Started the contest using my Ten-Tec Jupiter and was amazed that I was able to run some 220 QSO's in the first 2 hours of the test with my 100 watt signal to my 102' G5RV @ 45 feet. Life was going great until I got a report that my signal sounded terrible! I confirmed this report and shutdown at 1230Z with 600 QSO's in the log. I was not sure what was wrong with the Jupiter and headed off to get some sleep. I then hooked up my spare rig, a TS930Su, that afternoon and got going again at 2215Z. Heard lots of EU stations Saturday night but they couldn't pull out my 100W signal. Things were going very well until I got another report that my signal sounded terrible! Once again, I was able to confirm this locally and shtudown again with 775 QSO's in the log. Apparently, my 80 meter G5RV was playing havoc with the radios on 160 meters even though all indications showed that the tuner was showing a 1:1 to the rig. Still not exactly sure what the issue was but I am now doing some digging. Once I find and correct the problem, I plan on being back next year and keep Murphy busy with something else. Maybe I can even improve things so the folks in EU can hear me a bit better! By the way, does this constitute a new version of SO2R operation? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY7M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 27,840 FT-1000 MP, Alpha 76A, Inverted L. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA7MFA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 745,100 This was the first time I have worked in this contest. Real fun! The second night was very tough, since most of EU station have allready been worked. It was hard not to fall asleep! Never worked so many QSOs on 160m in my life! Best 73 de Lech, LA7MFA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 851,292 Great contest. Jon (LA8HGA) was a rookie on lowband contest, but has after this been bitten by the "low band virus" :) We had FUN - but still focus on doing our best. Second day rates falling dramaticly, but that was no suprise. I never thought we could work som many EU stations, and particular DL. Think we made some 220 DL stations !! Only ONE Japan stn worked, and condx no good that way. USA: Well the condx was on and off, on and off, all the time. No really big signals. Our TX antenna had a swr ratio from 2:1 in 1810-1845. It would have been an idea running high in band, abt 1870-80, but swr and power regulations makes it difficult. Guess another TX antenna for the "high end" would be possible next year...that will help out the US coping us. W5-6-7 was not heard - sad but true. Under good condx I can easily work that area on 160m. First night we discovered that signals sounded to low on the USA beverage. Signals were ok on tx, so we thought maybe signals were skewed path. However, checking the dualwire beverage in daylight discovered that the USA beverage was hooked up with the south east wire......what a sight!!! A moose or something must have caused that, but it was easy to fix, and we had it ok again. Probably lost a few contacts due to this. (Murphy is a reliable fellow) The rx ants worked out just perfect. If anybody ever beleive the dont need rx antennas on 160m - come and visit during a contest. I beleive we worked 3-400 qsos more than we would have without them. In the end of the contest, when the rate is at the lowest, 9N7JO and 7Z1SJ called us !! Thanks a million !! Hope we did not step on anys toes. Hard to find free frequencies - and we were stepped on a couple of times. I guess its just a matter of whats paying off, hold on to your QRG, s/p or finding another QRG. Heres the gear list: RIG: IC-756PRO3 AMP: Command HF-2500 Tx ant: Titanex V160S 27,5 meter vertical RX ant: Dual wire beverage antennas 1100 feet long - 4 pcs NW/NE/SE/SW Software: Wintest 3.8 Think maybe we made a norweigian record multi op for this contest ?? 73 Paul - LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 742,424 Poor condx or this contest becoms domestic. Strong Caribeans, but little activity; strong NA's on 2nd morning, but no run; strong JAs, but jammed = only 1 in log; few nice mults at the end. Amazing 240 DL's! TU all, 73 Arunas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY9Y Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 524,784 Sorry no space for good receiving antennas, poor state/DX mult. 73 Jurgis LY2CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 158,661 TS850SAT,100w Two Inv.vees crossed to NW/SE , NE/SW Thanks for super contest and for all the QSO and new ones. This was the best that I can do with current setup.Inv.vees performed well instead of their low height - 10m. at top and few centimeters at ends over the ground.VERY high winds do not allow for more height. Some easy mults missed as they do S&P - IS0,GU,GW,EX etc. Could not catch any JA due to high QRM.3W3W was VERY loud here but 100w are not enough to get thru EU big pile-up. Only NA that heard me was VY2ZM (first call!) and KC1XX. Heard but not worked :W4AN,N8T,K1LZ,K9DX (clear 599 at saturday morning) and many others but these were 599+. Have 9 new DXCC in the bag - ST2A,EA8EA,CN2A,7X0RY,EY8MM&EY8CQ,7Z1SJ,CU2A,YT3B during and 4K9W before contest.Now total 78 DXCC worked on Top band. My spiderbeam was totally destroyed from Hurricane Cyrill.Now it is dismantled and will be replaced soon with hardened spider cross.Push-up mast survived without problem 150km/h high winds ,as ole trusty quad and other antennas did with little damages. Hope to be in WPX RTTY with full 30Hours effort,with focus on low bands. Fingers crossed as I am on call that weekend. All received QSL's will be answered same way via Buro or direct in next three weeks. Thanks for all QSL's.I'am too old fashioned so forget about EQSL's. 73 de Nasko,LZ9R(LZ3YY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M3CVN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,760 Verry happy with end result. FT-1000MP - 10watts Full Size G5RV + abt 280ft of Radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0AC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,600 I wasn't able to operate with N0NI so got on from home for a few hours. I was surprised how well the antenna worked. Butternut vertical and Orion N1MM log Bill, N0AC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,996 Didn't have much time for this one. Band seemed to be in good shape. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 118,696 Poor condx to EU first night, CU2A only EU worked but nice signal and barely hrd a EA4. 2nd night better but far from great. JAs were QSX around 1940 Khz which is a new twist but they seemed to be able to hear up there and escape the Chineese dragon (OtHR). Some atmospheric noise the first night. Rig Icom PROII and Cliperton L 800w, 1/4 wave sloper from 55 ft tower on a small hill and low dipole. More antenna for next year including some RX antennas that really work. Phil N0KE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0NI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 407,456 Late in the test Sunday morning I was told that my radio was clicking. I will check into that and get it fixed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0XB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 67,588 Lots of fun on a crowded band. I love it. Had some fabulous runs, with mini pileup conditions at times. What a Hoot! Unfortunately, I was time-restricted this weekend, so only the brief foray into contest heaven. Thanks for all the fun, boys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0YY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,628 Rig FT-1000MP Inv-L @ 70' WriteLog 10.55D Always a fun contest. Had a unique problem with broadcast band birdies all over so it made copying weak signals a challenge. Still an opportunity to add a couple more to the DXCC total. It's always nice to be called by DX even when you are low power - so it just goes to show that the antenna works at least a little bit! Apologies to those who had to repeat multiple times to get through the hash. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1HRA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 68,693 Only H & P except for maybe 5 Q's. Never could get the computer to run correctly to run. I had fun. Bill N1HRA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 206,100 I didn't have time for a full effort this year so I did what I could. The additional 90 radials added to the Inverted L seemed to work well, although conditions Friday were pretty bad. Didn't stay up late and didn't get up for the morning Pacific run. Saturday night was much better but working Europe was still not up to normal. Picked up 4 new band countries including T32MO who answered my Sunday morning CQ. 160m is a great band! FT1000MP, Drake L7, Inverted L 46' with 97 radials, K9AY loops, N1MM Logger. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MRI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,235 I am with The "Hudson Valley Contesters and DXers" in NY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 265,032 This is a different contest running a KW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 563,876 Best score yet from home station. Poor DX condx on the first night, but great the second night. Tradition says I break something every year in this one, so I blew the vacuum relay in the Titan for good measure. 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2VW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 46,800 Not bad for a suburban lot 90 x 100 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 204,204 Well the antennas stayed up this time, although the wind was brutal Saturday night (actually pretty stiff right now). I'm greatful that I didn't have Brian VE3MGY's problems (good job, nice signal!). Learned something as well, the simple wire antenna worked as well as the aluminum monstrousity (and a heck of a lot easier to put up and keep up!) Tried using the 80M short beverage for Rx, but I really prefer the 80M marconi (good S/N ratio IMHO) Heard lotsa Elecrafters on, looks like some great scores (gg Tom k2ta!) Had a great 30 minute run around 0600Z Sunday that coverd Europe, Alaska and the Hawaii (a virtual plethora of HI ops!), and they all were excellent signals! Added 8 new countries and one new zone, missed WAS this time (heard ND in S&P never did hear ID!) There were a few signals that were too weak to copy (not too many) all in all conditions were quiet and propagation was great. Although I didn't work any, heard a few JA's, some were quite strong. With the density of big signals at the low end of the band, it's a challnge to pick out the DX (MUCH more good DX out of the window than in it). Have yet to hear a VK on the Top Band, and I know you're out there ;o) Some new operators on CW (slowed down quite a bit for several) which is great (welcome folks!) Sounded like there were signals clear to 1890 most evenings, considering how crowded the band was it seemed to go smooth for all. Thanks to all the DX for digging out my lil' signal and thanks to all the fine ops for the QSOs! Now on to ARRL DX CW heheh... 73, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 21,996 Quiet conditions. Good activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3GJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,840 Equipment: Icom 761 at 100w, Inv L with 12 ground radials Only operated during the second night but still had a lot of fun. Vy good signals from Eu. See everyone on phone next month. 73, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3KS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 431,868 Threw up a balloon 1/4 wave vertical with about 30 ground radials - used it the first two nights. Lots of fun! 73 - Kam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3OX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,448 Pretty fun; I worked more DX than I expected with 100W. Some of the DX were really loud; CN2A outrageously so. I got the impression that OZ7YY was too loud for his own good while working NA. It was almost all search and pounce here except for a short run this morning to try and push over 30k. My 6x12.5 foot rotatable flag came in handy for knocking down NA when I was trying to work EU. Even came in handy to work a weak VA3 this morning. The moral: even if you've got a 40ft x 40ft backyard and a barefoot FT-857D, you still should still get on Topband. 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3YW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,036 Had a great time with a bare bones setup. The dipole and 100W worked about 90% of what I could hear. Thanks to all. Did strictly S&P, and as always enjoyed the contesting atmosphere. 73, see y'all soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 25,800 IC-746PRO MLA-2500 Alpha-Delta DX-A @ 55 ft. N1MM Logger 7.0.0 Thank goodness for 2 stage preamp in this rig! All point & click. Fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BAA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 394,128 N4BAA + PACKET GREAT CONTEST! Tons of stations on both nights...Saturday evening much better than Friday for DX!.... Even though I live in the city..I am very fortunate to have 3 beverages! 301 ft to EU, 450 Feet S/SW (VK/ZL), and ond 400 footer to the W/NW. They really seem to work well for being so short..but anything is better than listening on the transmit Shunt fed tower! HI HI.. Rig: ICOM 756 PRO 2 and AL-1200. (With HeIL Noise cancelling headphones!!!) TX ANT: 88 Foot Shunt fed tower with 100 radials. (Over 9000 feet of wire at this time...) RX ANT: Beverages. Thanks to all who called and the DX stations for being so patient when the QSB set in! I'll be back! Jose - N4BAA US Navy - Still Serving Proudly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 125,712 Started out doing S&P with 100W but turned on AMP for DX and Saturday Night 1 hour RUN. Worked All 50 States + DC for the first time in a long time, picking up SC, ID, and ND in Saturday night's run. Apparently I should have tried more running to Europe as several called in Saturday night including LA,SM,OH, and several DL,G stations. Best openings to Europe were from 0600 to 0800Z Both Nights but even then signals were typically 339 to 559 in Alabama. Best DX was ST2A for an All Time New One after missing ST0RY (Long Story but found my GP favored NW due to parasitic effect of another tower. Put up an Inverted L to favor the East the following week!) Pileup behavior was the WORST I've ever experienced in a contest. The ALLIGATORS have taken over 160 Meters. Continuous Calling and deliberately breaking up other peoples QSO's is uncalled for. Tom N4KG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 368,424 First night was too good and knew the second night would be a bummer...But, both nights were as good as they get. Can't remember when both nights of this contest were equally good. Low noise and great prop. 32 Countries the first night ending up with JA0QNJ 13 minutes after my sun- rise. Surprised to work another 30 countries the second night. ST2A had a great signal every time I ran across him. The usual big signals seemed even louder - like, PJ2T, SO2R, RA6AX, S59AA, GM3POI, CN2A, CU2A, M2D. The second night 9A1A, ON4UN, RK2FWA, CT1FJK, EI6IZ, SV3RF, LZ9W, 4O3M, OH0Z, OH2BO, GI3OQR, YV7QP and 7X0RY. Sunday Morning a station kept calling but just couldn't get any part of the call and asked that he return later as my sunrise was coming up shortly. He kept calling and it turned out to be T32MO! Thanks for hanging in there. Worked two ZL's this time around - ZL4AA and ole reliable, ZL6QH. Only one VK - VK4JAM. Got P33W on Sunday evening long before sunset for the last country. Thanks for all of the Q's - again it was a great time! When I move, I'll have to figure out some way to move this 90' pine tree that supports my inverted vee... Station still the same... FT1000MP/Titan 425 Amp - KW Inverted Vee with apex at 90' with ends tied off wherever. Logging w/CT 73, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,000 Enjoyed my limited time in the contest very much. Happy to work CE1/K7CA and CN2A for two new entities on top band. 100 watts + sloper w/ top at 68 ft and bottom at 8 ft, slopes to south. Tower and beams as counterpoise. Want to try an inverted L next year to see if it gets out better. Thanks to all for the contacts. 73, Larry Vogt, N4VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VV Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 184,314 Props were very good the second night. It was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5IA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 396,656 Location is everything! LOCATION IS EVERYTHING!!!!!!! It has been interesting to read the 3830 postings the past 24 hours regarding first night vs 2nd night; this year vs last year; northern latitudes vs farther south, etc., etc. Well, this team and this location will never win any scoring contest other than instate bragging rights; not even a Zone plaque. BUT, our LOCATION is good for the continental Q's. One of our little contests within the contest is to see how quickly we can do WAS. This year we set a new record for our team; accomplishing contact with all 50 US States in 4 hours, 37 minutes and 17 seconds from the start of the contest. Although it has not been a thing to look at in the past, we decided to look at how quickly WAC was done. PJ2T was worked at 0142 for South America. ST2A was worked at 0505 for Africa. T32MO was worked at 0508 for Oceania. DR1A was worked at 0602 for Europe. JA3YBK was worked at 0804 for Asia. Not too bad, but I'm sure others do it more quickly. Our little EU run started with DR1A and ended at 0744 with MD4K. But 18 of the 23 1st night EU contacts were made during a 37 minute window from 0623 to 0700. During that time we stopped the run position and had it and both S&P positions hunting the EU stations. So, three very experienced operators made 18 contacts in 37 minutes. And we felt GREAT to have that little opening. The JA "run" began with JA3BYK at 0804. 8 of the 39 JA's worked the 1st night were made in the 1 hour right at JA sunset before the dragon had propagation. A mini-run of 17 more were logged from 1246 to 1314. A group of 9 were logged from 1352 to 1416. The other 5 were singles during the intervening times. The highlight Q of the 1st night was with ST2A, a first ever for this station. The 2nd night was real un-spectacular. A total of 9 more EU stations were logged, but two of them were among the 6 mults added during the night. Ten additional JA stations called in or were worked via the split operation to 1.940+. The real operating highlight was having WA6CDR, Robin, on the 3rd operating position working the east and west greylines. In 56 seconds he made back to back Q's with ZL4AA and G3TXF. Now that is operating Topband. I want to include the following E-mail message which I received Sunday morning after the Saturday night of operating. I was the operator for the QSO mentioned in this message. I am thankful that I was the ONE who was able to make Joe's day (night). "Hello Milt, Thank you for the 160 meter contact tonight. Thanks for working so hard to pull me out... I do not have a good antenna for 160...I was on a dipole with 44' legs and fed by ladder line. My rig was an Elecraft K2 and at about 7 watts...so you had your work cut out for you! I just happened on 160 M and the band was alive with good strong signals...so I had to try some...tried several...but you were the only success. I now have the bug to get on 160...I love CW and have been trying to get back on the air by making a contact a night if I can. You are my first 160M contact though I have been a ham for many years..I have not tried 160. I will send a QSL and hope for one from you. Thanks es 73 Joe KK5NA" Among the new things tried this year was graduating to a windows based logging program. Steve, N2IC, had gotten his feet wet using N1MM Logger at his home station this year so we decided to try that one. All in all, it went well. As with anything, there are advantages and disadvantages. Only this operator was able to lock the program up. Resetting the radios cured the problem two times. The networking of the three PCs at the three operating positions was easy. Only two Winkeys were available at the start and a third one was constructed the first evening and interfaced to station 3 for the 2nd night. Phased Beverages were added to the arsenal of RX antennas for the prime directions to EU and JA. When compared side by side with the regular Beverages, 90% of the time there was a discernable increase in signal level and/or readability with the phased configurations. The 3rd new thing was for the first time we decided to see if it was worth it to fire up for an hour of broad daylight operation at the very end of the contest. I guess it was; as 11 Q,s from local areas (AZ, CA, CO, NM & TX) along with 3 dupes were logged in the one hour from 2300 to 2400. This group of operators still cannot understand why the operating times of this contest were changed to allow the Central, Eastern and Atlantic time zones a THIRD shot at working EU and additional locals. ??????????????? The Mountain and Pacific time zones are already at a disadvantage; why exacerbate the situation? Or why not make the contest run until EU sunup so we all have the same opportunity??? The only thing I learned is that CN2A is a super station. He was good copy here in SW New Mexico from 2330, a full hour before sundown, until he QRTed at 2400. Thanks for all the Q's. It was great, and we are already planning the improvements to be implemented for next year's event. And an apology to those we could not pull out of the noise floor. There were few of these this time around as both nights were QRN clear. We certainly were outhearing our TX capability. The 7X, 3W and BA stations were good copy but all we got was a CQ in the face. And for all of you that have read the dribble to this point, the California stations provided 154 contacts for us; 11.4% of our total. The Texans once again came in 2nd place, providing 73 Q's for 5.5% of our total Q count. Thanks guys, for being there. Milt, N5IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5OE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 87,318 Great time on 160 again! It seemed like an endless amount of q's and mults the first night while calling CQ 90% of the time, finished out the first evening only lacking RI, DC and ND here in the US. Within the first 2 hours of the second night I had narrowed the list down to only needing DC,,, at the end of the contest I found W3DQ in DC at 23:30z with a S5 signal on the NE Beverage and never could get him worked! Darn the luck:) I copied and called 2 JAs on Sunday morning but never heard a thing back from them. Thanks to all the folks in the log and sorry if I missed you calling me. Still getting used to multiple RX antennas here. Ten Tec OmniVI+ paked in Inrad TX 57' shunt fed tower RX1 750' NE/sw Beverage RX2 250' SE/nw Beverage QSOS PER MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN Mult QSOs CT 9 MA 8 ME 4 NH 8 RI 3 VT 2 NJ 16 NY 17 DC -- DE 3 MD 17 PA 16 AL 10 FL 16 GA 19 KY 2 NC 17 SC 3 TN 29 VA 27 AR 10 LA 8 MS 5 NM 9 OK 6 TX 41 CA 32 AZ 16 ID 2 MT 3 NV 4 OR 9 UT 6 WA 13 WY 1 MI 14 OH 28 WV 7 IL 23 IN 15 WI 12 CO 19 IA 7 KS 6 MN 23 MO 11 NE 2 ND 1 SD 4 QC 3 ON 14 SK 2 AB 3 BC 3 NB 1 PEI 1 CN 1 CT 1 CT3 1 KH6 2 KP2 1 KP4 1 PJ2 1 PY 1 V3 1 VP5 1 XE 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5RR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 227,950 Thanks to K5GO for the use of his station, it was great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 105,493 Thanks to all. I had a vy nice time! 73, Chas Hobbs, NM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 12,300 Friday evening ops this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6GK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,640 Enjoyed it more than I thought I would with just 100 watts and a dipole up at 35 ft at center and 4 feet on ends! Very pleased to have a 3700 mile DX contact! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 137,840 Limited time due to music jobs and other conflicts. Made less than half of my 2005 score. Quiet band condx but no continental EU QSOs. Operated in spurts Saturday night hoping to catch an EU opening to the far west coast: If there was one, I missed it! Got 37 JAs on Saturday AM, missed the action Sunday AM. Mults (missed the usual Maritimes, NWT and VE4): 3W CN EA8 In La Mt Nv Pa Tn Va Ab CT3 Fl JA Ma Nc Ny Pe Tx Vt Al CU Ga KH6 Md Nd Oh Qc UA9 Wa Ar Ca HL KL Me Ne Ok Ri Ut Wi Az Co HP KP2 Mi Nh On Sc V3 Wv BY Ct Ia KP4 Mn Nj Or Sd VP5 Wy Bc Dc Id Ks Mo Nm PJ2 Sk VP9 XE CE De Il Ky Ms Ns PY T32 VR ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 16,555 This has been my favorite 160 cw contest, as it seems to have the largest participation. As always, I had to work for what I gained, but it was fun trying. I'm always chasing a better score than I have made before. I wonder if it was the weather that caused some states to be hard to find. I had large chunks of my mults list still standing when the contest was over. Sure would like to have worked a few of those states. Some stations seemed harder to work than in past contests. I suspect that our ambient background noise is gradually rising, sort of like global warming. Certainly my own seems to be creeping up. Eventually, only those stations with Beverage antennas will be able to work anyone else :-) I had two goals this outing, to break 200 Qs which I did with 204, and to beat my 2002 score of 13,790. That won me first place among California QRP stations. Hope these 16555 points are good enough to do it again. Thanks to all for sticking with me to complete some pretty thin QSOs. It was fun making it work. 73 and See You in the Contest. Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 79,804 Due to a new, very strong intermittant local noise source and some social obligations on Friday evening I decided to not put in an all-out effort. So I treated myself to some sleep Saturday morning, but still pulled an all-nighter Saturday evening - Sunday morning. My strategy (loosely put) was to S&P like crazy looking for new entities when the noise wasn't 20 over S9 and give out some points to the very loud stations when it was. As it turned out the noise disappeared Saturday at about 0700Z and didn't return until around sundown (natch!). I was too sleep deprived to change strategies at that point. I got bored with S&P Sunday morning, and the noise had disappeared again, so I switched to run for a couple of hours. That was much more fun AND T32MO called in for a new band country! The only new one from the hours and hours of S&P was EA3KU. On the other hand I managed to work WAC in one weekend and only missed ND for WAS. Working the JA's on wide split (they were listening above 1930) was interesting. Sort of a reverse of the old days when they only had 5kHz of the band above 1907.5! See you in the ARRL DX CW, hammer and tongs QRP! 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 65,340 This operation was done from the FB QTH of N7WA. Dink managed to build three beverages. The first is oriented east is is terminted. This was the antenna used for most of the QSO's. The other two beverages are unterminated and are oriented SE/NW and NE/SW. They were all about 300 feet long and worked very well considering the reduced length. We missed VT, ME and DC as well as numerous Canadian provinces. DX worked was a couple of JA's, PJ, V31, HP, KP4 and KP2. We hoped to put EU in the log, but alas, it seems like an impossible dream. 73 and thanks to everyone for the Q's. Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 202,566 Heard lots more stations than heard me. Same Q's as last year but down a few mults and lots of 10 pointers. Don't think I worked anyone as BX0ZR but found myself sending it a couple of times when I got drowsy. Certainly is much quieter on 160 from this part of the world. Just got my sleep in order from that trip and the contest messed it up again. Can sleep on the plane in the AM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 43,680 I did not plan to put much time into this contest. My only antenna is an inverted-L with a few radials. Conditions Friday night were great. I did 100% S&P and before I knew it I was at 180 Q's. Just blew me away. Saturday was not as good, and I had no hope for any EU or JA, but did manage to work a bit into the Caribbean. I think I might do a little antenna work over the summer..... :-) 72, 73 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 153,680 I don't think I'll ever make it to serious 160 contester status, I just don't enjoy staying up late. I've had some back problems lately which make really long stays in the chair difficult. I didn't make it home until 0020Z Friday night and was just a bit too tired to set-up the venerable TS-830 which I don't normally use and operate. So, I didn't get on until about 1330Z, over an hour past sunrise. Despite being fresh meat, I only managed about 30 Q's before activity dwindled to near zero. Sat PM best hourly rate was 109 in the 24Z hour; I had one spurt when the rate meter hit near 200. The rate was good enough that I didn't S&P much until 0130Z and didn't spend nearly enough time find all of the DX. My best condx to EU were from 24Z until about 0330Z, then it was worse, but by 05Z or 0530Z there was a good sunrise peak that I missed into EU, went QRT at 0430Z. I was called by a steady stream of USA stations and started working the West Coast near or before their sunset around 01Z. Quite a few unfamiliar CO and CA stations called in. I was called by a few EU including UA2FZ, ZY7C, ZV8DX, PY5, VP5, and HK3. The stations from Brazil were pretty loud and CE1/K7CA was booming in from Chile. Condx around sunrise Sunday were poor for DX; the window was quiet except for stateside lids. Sunday evening was also poor for DX, but CT1 and EA8 were added and NT0V in ND called in. For the very limited time I put in and the handicap of zero Q's the first night, I recovered pretty well. The half sloper isn't maybe quite as good as a real vertical, but it packs a whallop into the states, especially to the west. I had pretty good luck with state mults, only missing SD, ID, AK, and HI. Local QRM from one of the big guns was a discouraging factor, but really wasn't too much a problem. Thanks for the calls and hope to attack this test harder next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9ADG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 98,630 The more I do this, the more I learn; I spent alot of passes crawling up and down the band looking for stations under other stations. Found T32 and VP9 this way, worked at least one JA that way. On night one heard HK3 (he was SPing), PJ2, ZY, KP4, KP2, HP1 (very loud! listened to him working some JAs), the CU station, CE, XE (two different prefixes) -- couldn't work any except PJ2, though the band sounded great. Later JA, BY, whispers of the 3W, UA0 booming (heard working RW0 and HL), was able to work T32 and JA, and a few KH6s. Ended the first night with about 350 in the log. The next night, things seemed more difficult to the East coast, but then things really looked up when I found VP9 low in the band, and somehow managed to complete a contact. I think we were both surprised. Then found CU2 in the dx window (remembered to check often during the night), calling CQ alone and LOUD. Had to listen a couple of times to figure out what I was hearing - what, no pileup? Called and got his attention. After a couple of go 'rounds, he was in the log. Bunches of others found him at that point, but that was a definite highlight for me, and encouraged me to go after the ones I didn't work the night before -- was able to get ZY, KP2, KP4, CE, XE, V3 in the log. Heard VP5 and HP1, but it was not to be. Heard the first JA on night 2 at about 08z, anticipated a good morning, however by then 'OTH radar noise source' was in full force. Sort of sound as if you were standing next to a freight train rolling by with a bunch of really big a/c compressors running on them -- swirling curtains of sound, punctuated with smaller clunking. Glad I'm not paying the electric bill to run that. Heard a few JA stations listening for callers on 194x -- was able to add one new one that way. I thought a DU might have called me after a CQ , but it was right at the fade, and didn't hear any more. Antennas: 2 unterminated beverages, one E-W, the other N-S. TX inverted L 75' high over elevated radials. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,008 Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP Antenna: 80/160 Inverted "L" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1B Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 82,698 Limited to 1 beverage and 1 vertical wire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE9U Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 68,882 Wasnt planning on operating much...ended up having too much fun and put in more time than originally planned. Scott NE9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF1A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 31,122 Broke 200 Q's !!! (still my usual 4 hour effort) AFTER fixing RCS-4 relays !!! 73, Art NF1A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,005 I could only operate on Saturday night and Sunday morning for a few hours. Gave me enough time to work all the loud stations and CQ awhile and pick up those who could hear me. One thing is clear, I need to improve my antennas. It was readily apparent that if I'm going to improve my performance on this band, I need to improve my antennas. But that's a topic for another time. Many thanks to those on the east coast who pulled me out of the noise. 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI1N Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 351,247 I didn't do much at all Friday night except some very casual s&p. That's about all I had planned to do, but Saturday night it started feeling like fun. Around 0500Z on the 2nd night I started being a bit more serious and actually did some running. A bit late, but still fun. Much of the time I was operating I was also chatting over the telnet cluster with Jim, WX3B, who sure knows what to say to keep me in my chair! Everytime I'd reach a goal and tell him I was going to stop for a bit, he'd come back with a comment like "ok, that'll give me some time to catch up". That's all I need to hear to stay in my chair :) I wish I had been serious enough from the start to give W4MYA and N4BAA some competition for VA. Maybe next year! This was my first 160m contest with several new RX antennas: 600' beverages in 8 directions and an RX 4 square. They sure made a difference in the ability to both pick up the weak ones and null the QRM. 73, Tom, NI1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ1F Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 15,570 Got on from home for a few hours before going to K1TTT's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3Q Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 92,960 Only operated Friday evening through EU sunrise. Quiet band condx with no real good EU runs and then had to miss the remainder of the weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,744 Was going to get serious with a balloon vertical or inverted L, but decided against it at the last moment. Used my 80 meter quad - with the tuner - instead. Didn't work so well. On saturday, I reworked my 40 meter delta loops. Got on for the contest and found that moving the 40 meter delta seemed to decouple the 80 meter quad, and I could no longer tune the 80 meter quad on 160... Oh well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 80,570 After working a 21 hour day on Tuesday and 70+ for the week, I just couldn't stay up all night either night to chase DX. I made it to 3 am local time both nights and fell asleep in my chair before finally going to bed. Not even a caffeine jolt could keep me going unfortunately. I almost wasn't even on the air. We had a big wind storm the night before the contest and that morning, I saw my inverted L on the ground. I was able to fix it, running around in the mud and cold with my suit and tie on just after sunrise on Friday morning... I didn't miss much in W/VE - ND, SD and LB were the only ones outside of the YT, NU, NWT. I never did hear KH6 and KL7....but 46 states isn't bad for low power in the suburbs. W7MEM gave me Idaho for #49 on my 160 WAS...Alaska is now the only one I need. In terms of DX, I worked GM, CU, CN, CT3, EA, KP2, KP4, PJ2, V3, VP9, G, OM, ON and OZ. GM, CN and OZ were new ones for my DXCC. My best all-daylight QSO's were all around 9am local time...KU1CW in MO, N0NI in IA and VE1ZZ in NS. At one point Sunday, I was spotted - but with the wrong call. So, suddenly there was a blitz of heavyweights calling. I calmly signed my call each time, but no one seemed to notice. I will check to see if those guys are single op or not, because their use of packet was more than obvious. See you in the ARRL DX CW and then the CQ 160 SSB, where I hope to do a lot more work at night. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000 100w inverted L for 160 QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 160 Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z 41/22 41/22 41/22 D1-0100Z 17/5 17/5 58/27 17 D1-0200Z 11/0 11/0 69/27 60 D1-0300Z 20/0 20/0 89/27 36 D1-0400Z - 0/0 89/27 60 D1-0500Z 41/14 41/14 130/41 15 D1-0600Z 38/3 38/3 168/44 D1-0700Z 13/4 13/4 181/48 30 D1-0800Z --+-- 0/0 181/48 60 D1-0900Z - 0/0 181/48 60 D1-1000Z - 0/0 181/48 60 D1-1100Z 27/2 27/2 208/50 37 D1-1200Z 37/2 37/2 245/52 D1-1300Z 8/0 8/0 253/52 33 D1-1400Z 4/0 4/0 257/52 1 D1-1500Z 1/0 1/0 258/52 60 D1-1600Z 2/0 2/0 260/52 59 D1-1700Z - 0/0 260/52 60 D1-1800Z - 0/0 260/52 60 D1-1900Z 1/0 1/0 261/52 59 D1-2000Z - 0/0 261/52 60 D1-2100Z - 0/0 261/52 60 D1-2200Z - 0/0 261/52 60 D1-2300Z - 0/0 261/52 60 D2-0000Z --+-- 0/0 261/52 60 D2-0100Z - 0/0 261/52 60 D2-0200Z 7/3 7/3 268/55 21 D2-0300Z 37/5 37/5 305/60 D2-0400Z 39/0 39/0 344/60 D2-0500Z 25/5 25/5 369/65 D2-0600Z 21/4 21/4 390/69 D2-0700Z 21/1 21/1 411/70 D2-0800Z 1/0 1/0 412/70 59 D2-0900Z - 0/0 412/70 60 D2-1000Z - 0/0 412/70 60 D2-1100Z - 0/0 412/70 60 D2-1200Z 4/0 4/0 416/70 2 D2-1300Z 4/0 4/0 420/70 3 D2-1400Z - 0/0 420/70 60 D2-1500Z - 0/0 420/70 60 D2-1600Z --+-- 0/0 420/70 60 D2-1700Z 1/0 1/0 421/70 23 D2-1800Z - 0/0 421/70 60 D2-1900Z 4/0 4/0 425/70 22 D2-2000Z 9/0 9/0 434/70 D2-2100Z 4/0 4/0 438/70 D2-2200Z 11/0 11/0 449/70 D2-2300Z 15/0 15/0 464/70 Total: 464/70 The best 60 minute rate was 52/hour from 1136 to 1235 The best 30 minute rate was 72/hour from 1143 to 1212 The best 10 minute rate was 120/hour from 0011 to 0020 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSO's/minute 1 times. 3 QSO's/minute 9 times. 2 QSO's/minute 75 times. 1 QSO's/minute 283 times. ------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- CN 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 CT3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 CU 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 DL 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 EA 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 G 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0.4 GM 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 K 407 0 0 0 0 0 407 87.7 KP2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 KP4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 OM 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 ON 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 OZ 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 PJ2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 V3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 VE 41 0 0 0 0 0 41 8.8 VP9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- VA 35 0 0 0 0 0 35 7.4 MD 29 0 0 0 0 0 29 6.1 PA 26 0 0 0 0 0 26 5.5 OH 26 0 0 0 0 0 26 5.5 ON 26 0 0 0 0 0 26 5.5 NJ 21 0 0 0 0 0 21 4.4 NY 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 4.2 TN 19 0 0 0 0 0 19 4.0 IL 18 0 0 0 0 0 18 3.8 NC 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 3.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS9I Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 111,360 Fun, Fun, Fun, even with cloud burners! Too many dupes from paper-loggers! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 19,050 I always enjoy the 160 contests. This was no exception. Two obstacles to putting in more than 3.5 hours...inlaws in town from Michigan and the beginning of a head-cold. Anyway...had a great time. 73, jeff nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4MFA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 213,040 TNX for QSOs! Good conditions. Mostly did search&pouncing. Rig Elecraft K2/100 + LK800 amp Antenna 3 el vertical yagi RX: Beverages 73 Jukka OH4MFA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FFU Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 632,604 http://ol5q.nagano.cz/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2PWJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 49,995 Very bad conditions for DX from my QTH. I didn't continue the next night. 73 Petr OK2PWJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK8ANM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 539,490 Was a poor condx here in first night.Second night was better with W5ZR (LA), N5UL (NM) etc... Surprise coming with ST2A,TF3KX,T77C who was find my CQ... thanks guys. No luck with asia,BA4RF,JA3YBK hrd but not wrkd... Congratulations to Jim UR4LRG (nice MULT score) and big thanks for competition to SO2R,OL0W,7X0RY,VE3DZ,OL8R and many other friends around the world... Have a fun.. See u next year. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL0W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 603,720 Nice contest again with crowded bands. New antenna really paid off. Rig FT1000MP + PA Ant Inv L - 12m aluminium mast extended with 8m fiberglass pole with about 30m of sloping wire down to a 7m wooden pole. Very lightweight construction, was very suprised it was able to withstand recent hurricanes without any damage. Some 35 radials not longer than 20m - originally intended only for use with vertical for 80m. K9AY loop for RX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 208,971 Only small inv. V 12m up. No RX ant. No good condx to US in my arrea. I was too much late and can't operated 30 hours. Thanks all for Qs. Special thanks VY2ZM to aswer my CQ. 73,Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 370,080 Setup: Inv Vee @21m 2 x beverage 90/270 (RBS-1 by DX engeneering) FT1000MP + PA OM Power / Tentec Centurion (2x 3-500Z) Many problems with first PA on 160m (mistuning), had to use alternative Tentec. As usual too sleepy on Sunday morning and felt asleep at 05:30. Beverage is mounted on high voltage poles for cows fencing approx 20-50cm above wire. 73 Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL9Z Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 320,022 Rig:TS690,ant inv V 29m agl,PA 400w Tnx for all QSOs and see you at next contest arrl cw.73 gl! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM3KHE Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 230,670 We are usually interested in VHF (and up) contests, so this was funny change. Only two nights on air with full size GP antenna, but we could work too little DX stations because of problems with beverages (all antennas were built on Friday). 73 and thanks to all for QSOs more info and some pictures on our site http://www.om3khe.cq.sk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,123,977 Equipments FT1000MP + PPA Antennas: 2xHALF SLOPER, 2 phased beverages to USA, 2 phased beverages to JA Single beverage to OC,AF,SA Missed a lot of MULTs what we heard(N7DD(AZ),N7JW(UT),K0KX(MN),W0BH(KS)) and 8P9NX,VQ9LA,B1Z,BA4RF,T77C. Highlight: We never heard ZL via LONG PATH but it was too late for calling. Congrats goes to ZL4AA. Anyway had a good time and thanks for calling us. Congratulation goes to TOP station. CU in ARRL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4UN Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,300,356 This was going to be a fun contest weekend, amongst friends, not a big competive effort... Operators were: ON4UN, ON4WW, ON5OO and ON7TK We were active less than 33 hours, no scraping for the last possible QSO during daylight... Almost to our surprise we made 1673 QSOs including almost 400 Stateside QSOs. States + provinces: 47. Furtherst West: NM, UT, Az and MT. We were even called by a station from ND ! DXCC: 77. I've seen a station claiming over 90 countries. Congratulations! I wonder which were the 13 or more countries we missed. I know we did not hear/work ZL, VK or JA. Our best DX to the East was BY, XU and 3W. Despite all the multipliers we missed to the East the score was 1.300.356 points. Not bad a for a fun contesting weekend... We worked with one radio, and one operator at a time, so no second station looking around for multipliers... guess that must be why we missed so many multipliers ??? Equipment: Ten Tec ORION II (of course) + Amp 2 KW (legal limit here). TX ant: full size 1/4 wave vert with 200 radials RX antennas: 12 Beverages, one every 30 degrees, some of them end fire phased (staggered). It was fun, no stress as we wanted to have fun rather than to win... Good experience in the contest: the quality of the signals seems to improve, less clicks and fewer noisy signals, although some are still excelling in both fields. Bad exeprience in the contest: just one. DD2D flatly refused to work ON4UN. He just pretended not to hear us. After at least 10 or 15 calls (he was 40-50 over), I just started to call CQ on his frequency, knowing pertinently I would not cause any interference as he was not hearing me. I worked about 10 stations and he just worked one or two in the same time ...and then, miracle.. mircale... he suddenly heard me, not for making a QSO though... Who was the operator? DK8ZB. According to QRZ.com he is also K8ZB... Although K8ZB, according to QRZ.com is someone else... Strange... Hope to be there again next year. Maybe we'll do a serious effort next time... 73 and thanks to all for the QSO (except DD2D / DK8ZB). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP5T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 221,926 RIG: YAESU FT 897D @ 100 Watt ANT: Inverted L with the feedpoint @ 10 m using the copper roof on penthouse as counterpoise . RX Loop was unusable due to a very high qrm level from inhouse neighbour Plasma TV (PANASONIC) Will try to "lay" out some long beverages to east and west on the riverbank behind the house (stealth...)next time . QRM in this residencial area is a constant 57 to 59 , soo very hard to receive the weaker sigs here. Missed first morning grayline after going to bed at 0327Z . Started again around 1800 Z till 2200Z and went to sleep till 0345Z.Stopped around 0715Z sunday due to 59+ qrm. Got back at 1700Z till 2300Z sunday evening just to beat my 2006 score by some 30 qso's.Could not hear very many north americans with the noise. Thanks for all the QSO's on a very busy 160 m band. Many US stations below EU band ( in ON we start @ 1815 up to 1875 now ) See You all next time.Maybe in ARRL @ OT5A or WPX CW as OP5T again from home. 73 es HNY Jim - ON5UM/OP5T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7YY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 530,808 The hurricane in the middle of january took down most of my 4 square, and because of flooding and later ice, we were not able to have it modified and put up again until late saturday afternoon. After the antennawork, I was too tired to run more than 14 hours in the contest. Cu full time next year! 73 Finn/OZ7YY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P33W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,662,117 Great contest as usual. A bit disappointed that 2 days before contest started propagation was much better. Sorry for not hearing everyone due to the line noice of S6-7 at all times and no space for RX antennas. Waiting to see how big is the difference between me and EA8EA-CT3FN-CU2A. 73s, Harry RA3AUU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA1AW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 82,161 A very well spent evening at the PI4COM station. I shure had fun and was impressed by the way my IC7400 could cope with the HUGE signals on the band. Next year we will be back when not half the low band team is travelling to VU7..... 73 Alex PA1AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PC5M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 566,072 With the help of the support crew: pa3clh, pa3dsb, pa3bpl and our sys-op pe1itr we managed to start on time. This is already a major achievement as we have to build up the complete station from scratch (including the 100 feet vertical-L...). Besides a prooven beverage we did build up two k9ay loops, unfortunately of not much use as we discovered an (obvious) electric malfunction AFTER the contest was finished... Also this year we did run an interactive website with live audio/video/log/etc (160.pc5m.com). Thanks all listeners and WA4PXP, VE9DX, AA4V, RZ4FA, PE2JMR, ZY7C, PA7LV, ND2T,W0UCE, I2WIJ,S57UN,DK3DM,K1PR, K2KW, PT7CG, WV1K, PU1ARE, PP5BI, PY5CC, PR7AR, PY1NB, VE2PEP, N0SMX, CT1BOH, F5LTT, DJ1AA, SM0NZY, VK6ABL, S52ZW, PA0CLN, KE9I, PA5MW, W7EW, W1CTN, K8IA, VO1HP, GM4FAM, IK4GME, K2KW/8, K8SM, W0UCE, OK1RP for their help and encouragment ! Biggest thrill was ve9dx, after a very solid qso we found out that he only used 30W and a short vertical (we still think it was 30KW...) Station: TRX: FT1000MP + PA with GU43 tube = good power... TX ant: Dipole and 100feet L-vertical RX ant: Beverage and 2*k9ay loop See you next year ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PF5X Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 66,978 Had fun with a quickly deployed inverted L and some radial wire I had lying around. Real DX was out of the question with this antenna, but kudos go to EY8MM, EY8CQ, VY2ZM and VO1TA who were able to hear me. I constantly could hear 4L2M, tried hard to get through to him, but he kept on CQing right in my face ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 457,336 TX ANT: 2 el dipol, InV@ 25m rx ant: beverages Propogation was poor in our site. Very hard qsos with asia station. To NA was very short propogation. Hope cu you all in next year. 73's Yury RL3FT Club RL3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU3VD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 142,448 Rig: IC7000. Ant: 18m vertical with 16 1/8 radials (under snow). NO RX ant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW4PL Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 459,234 SOHP(A)= MO , so second operator was "cluster". One radio - ic-765, home made PA 1kW, antenna's: tx - wire 4sq, rx-bev's Cu next contest.73! Andy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW4WM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 115,290 full size (157,5 m) delta loop @ 35 meters up full size (84 m) Inverted "L" @ 40 meters up FT-1000MP Mark V no external PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RZ1AWT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 814,000 All greetings! It was very interesting competition, we prepared for it and tried to show good result. However propagation this year was so-so, we have only some stations from Japan, and propagation to northern America has been opened only on Sunday at our sunrise, with 4:30-6:00 UTC. The traditional aurora has then begun, and up to the end of competition we could work only loud stations from the Europe. Our antennas: 3El Wire yagi up to 64m switched USA/Asia 2El Wire yagi switched EU/JA Beverages to South Europe and Africa, USA, JA. Special greetings to CN2A russian team RV2FW, UA2FB, UA2FF, it's magnificent scores! 73! RA1AIP, Alex RU1A Team www.ru1a.ru www.ra1aip.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50U Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 85,050 Contest : CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest Callsign : S50U Mode : CW Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 160 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : SI Locator : JN66XD Operating time : 5h25 BAND QSO DUP DXC MLTS POINTS AVG --------------------------------------- 160 222 0 55 15 1215 5.47 --------------------------------------- ======================================= TOTAL SCORE : 85 050 I was looking for few new ones on TopBand found only one. Caribbeans were loud States way down on Sunday morning. Powered by Win-Test 3.7.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 153,595 IC737 100W inv V - 9m to 3m AGL Big suprise was YE1ZAT on my CQ. 73 de Damjan S52W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 967,750 Thanks to Drago (S52AW) for letting me use his location one more time. The agreement before the contest was MULTI OP, and since Drago had no time, he allowed me to use SINGLE OP provided I achieve some good results. In have succeeded to do just that as I exceeded the Slovene record of 250k points. To achieve such a result I had to work hard even before the contest itself. I had to climb a 65 m high tower so that I could attach inv “V” antenna. The beginning of the contest were nice. A few hours over 100 QSO/h. In the morning nice opening to NA and some stations from SA. The highest point of the competition was happening on Sunday evening with some nice opening to east. .(ZL6QH, YE1ZAT, 9N7JO, DU9/N0NM, VK6VZ/6, XU7ACY, YC0LOW, VR2BG, BA4DW, 9M2AX) were coming one after another with clear signals. To sum it up, it was one of the best competitions I have done so far. Another thanks goes to Slavka (Drago’s wife) for looking after me and for making me coffee. ANT: Inv V @65m + 2 x beverages 270m RIG: FT 1000 mp markV 73 de Vinko S53F Country 3W 1 4J 2 4L 1 4X 4 5B 4 7X 1 9A 17 9H 1 9M2 1 9N 1 BY 2 CN 1 CT 3 CT3 1 CU 1 DL 212 DU 1 EA 19 EA6 2 EA8 2 EI 4 ER 2 ES 6 EU 10 EX 1 EY 3 F 20 FM 1 G 35 GD 1 GJ 2 GM 6 GU 1 GW 2 HA 29 HB 11 HK 1 HP 1 I 40 IS 2 IT9 4 JA 3 K 151 KP2 1 KP4 1 LA 9 LX 2 LY 19 LZ 14 OE 12 OH 19 OH0 1 OK 90 OM 30 ON 5 OZ 7 PA 31 PJ2 1 PY 1 S5 56 SM 21 SP 42 ST 1 SV 8 T9 5 TA 2 TF 1 UA 131 UA2 3 UA9 43 UN 5 UR 61 V3 1 VE 17 VK 1 VR 1 XU 1 YB 2 YL 11 YO 23 YU 20 Z3 1 Z7 3 ZA 1 ZC4 1 ZL 1 Total 1319 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 175,692 BCI 1836 +/- 12 kHz makes it tough! SB-220 HV diode failure on Sat morning blowing main fuse for the whole flat. Dull it wasn't. Missed SV9, CT3, GU. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 278,596 Rig: IC 756 PRO III Ant: INV V @ 25m Pa: 1Kw 73,Ivo, S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 457,355 Broken antenna first morning. Second day only 1 JA - lucky man! The conditions seems not so good to me. Anyway 4 new DXCC for me: 3W, YE, ST and 9N. Many..many CQs into the black hole HI! Where other OMs found so many STNs? Thanks for all callers! See you in SSB ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 558,000 Bad CONDX I guess. Well shunt fed tower is no good antena even for transmit on 160,specially if there are only 4 short radials( 20mtrs only) as in my case. I am glad that I managed to put up 2 beverages downhill through the neighbours wood about 300Ft each ( one for USA and one for Asia.Went to sleep second night 11PM localy and awake first 05.30 next morning,hi.So put only 27 hours of operation together.Band was crowded with strong EU signals and it was hard to find a clear spot to CQ. My apologizes to all whom I made QRM trying CQ.Real good signals from DX only 1 hour before contest end ! I made my goal: 1000 QSOs or 500.000 points. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59AA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 500,550 Rig: IC775, Ampl. TX ant: GP 32m, 30 radials RX ant: 2x200m unterminated wires 73! Franc S59AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK3W Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 723,660 TT Orion + 4 Square Temperatures during contest: http://fernebo.shacknet.nu:8080/temperatur/temp.html 73 de Fernebo Contest Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6CNN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 462,576 Conditions were great and the band was very very crowded. 3W3W made my day. Using a Ten-Tec Orion with an ACOM2000A and a Lannabo vertical antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN3R Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 877,784 Heavy wind , snow storm at start. Slow rate this year. 110 qso in the first hour - 163 in 2006. Next , 87 - 105 in 2006. Far East was very far this year.Only one JA in the log. Power OFF on sunday and we are back on the air after 15 UTC. 2 X TS850 + GU43B New vertical - all weekends in January we have new vert. after storms. 4 SQ K9AY TKS for all QSOs 73, Bogdan SP3RBR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN5J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 176,064 Hi, Tnx all fer QSO's. Antenna - Invverted L -> 52,75m and 8 radials -> 41 m. TRX - FT101ZD 73 de Jan - SN5J (SP5JXK) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SO2R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,043,817 It seemed that it will be super. After first night over 600 qso are in Eu really well. By day we had several visiting our house and I retired on one hour. But son Tomek wake up me two hours after sunset and I had a problem from FLEECES QRG (sri all a handicap qrm). Very large noise from the east both days - I think that it is QRM from comertial stn. Propagation in north Eu enough goods but on NA only to sunrise for us. Great thanks for call me through rare multipliers. I lost a lot multipliers but on S/P I was only 3, 5 the hour. The strand is too small in Europe on so large activity. Absolutely fantastic activity with S5 in these contest Kaz SP2FAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2ASJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 287,363 Rig. Ic765. Ant 2xinv. delta loop( vertical)size 166m,rx ant 2x 166m wires ,and 240m rombic.Tnx all fer contact,s Jurek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 310,000 Very difficult conditions , 20cm of snow and heavy wind aprx. 90km/h. Some antennas , has to rebuild several times during the contest. No power supply - night sat/sun, so running barefoot. Any way cu agn in ARRL cw if winter allows,hi. Best 73 to all of YOU !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93J Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,050,000 This was a fieldday stile of operation. Thanks to my friend Dado (not any more activ HAM, but i hope this gonna change) we get on this QTH near my home town which i was dreaming about. QTH is large water arail for fish breeding about 10-12km long and 2-4 wide. We have been located on southeast part, between creecks and small fishpools on the edge of this lets call it big lake. With help of Vlado YT4AY, Ranko YU4JR and Dado i installed on friday afternoon very simple setup for TOP BAND; Radio FT-1000MP, AMP 1,5 KW and 21m short Vertical with 2 x 9m top hat and about 10 radials 20m long (2 of them was 40m long).No DX Cluster! Unfortunatly voltage was very low so we stayed during the evning many times without amp, which was stoped operating when voltage was to low! His: beeing called by XU7ACY,3W3W,VR2BG,TI4CF,8P9NX,ZY7C,HP1WW,NP4A,YE1ZAT,...and others! Lows: Its impossible to keep the freq clear not even for 1 min! so we operated most of the time with much QRM Sorry if we did´t heard you! Worked about 150 NA and 70 AS stations! Best rate 150 QSOs/h ! Once again it was big fun to get into competition with guns like OM8A,9A8WW@9A1P,4O1A@YT0A,OM7M and others even with such a small and simple setup! I think we discovred a realy nice QTH for Top Band and i hope to get back there. Tnx for QSOs! QSL via OE1EMS! 73 es best dx de T93J-OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 334,936 Hello all! Short biography: Licenced at 2001 and joined to contesters at 2003 as YM0T.And I am current LP World record holder for CQ WW DX 160 SSB and CQ WPX 160 SSB.Only 2 months ago,joined to CW contesters from home QTH and hope second or third place World at CQ WW CW 160 low power.CQ 160 CW is my second CW contest experience. Contest comment: A very nice activity.Mostly different operators than SSB contests.Propagation was wery good to EU,but no good for NA.First morning 235 Qs with some FL stations.It was fine for an Asian LP station.Saturday night was a nightmare because of heavy rain and very high static noise.But many EU station were on and made 223 Qs with a very noisy night.And,Sunday evening,less noise and quite higher portions of band permitted another 153 Qs.I am happy for this score,because It was my second CW contest experience. Equipment: VERY SIMPLE:) TX:TS 870 and 75 watts TX antenna:Inverted L,vertical portion 18 meters,with four 1/4 wave radials,located sea side. RX:None(with inverted L):) Software:None(used TS 870 memory and an iambic paddle only) Final comment: Will have a K9AY and a receiver soon.And will try to hold both low power SSB and CW world records for CQ WW and CQ WPX! Good luck to all and 73! Ozer,TA2RC/YM0T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3KX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 34,404 Ant: 12m/39ft vertical with two 8m sloping wires for top loading Rig: IC746 Condx OK, except the aurora belt expanding and finally covering Iceland as the contest progressed. The 160m amateur band in Iceland excludes 1850-1900 KHz, due to commercial marine communications in that segment. I managed to obtain a trial permit from our authorities for responding to stations that would be CQing there during this contest. This went well, with no interference, and I reported back to them with the results, hoping to make a case for repeated permits and possibly general amateur access in this segment in the future. During the contest I made 29 out of the 129 QSOs with stations in this segment of the band, so this was worthwhile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UN9LW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 622,242 ant tx-Vertical 32m ant rx-BV 200 to Eu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 55,800 Didn't plan on participating in this contest - no real antenna and no power to speak of, but I ended up on the radio Saturday night for a few hours and was pleasantly surprised! Worked my first real DX on 160 m. thanks to CN2A, very exciting! One call, I just about fell out of my chair. Now I guess I'll have to see what happens when I operate both Friday and Saturday evenings? As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run QRP! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 202,275 Mostly S & P , Friday night was NG , went to bed early.. Saturday definately much better... Still too much in the city noise... Missed WY ID SD but worked 2 ND stations .. Also needed MB VY1 VY0 VE8 Lab Points for Contest Club Ontario ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 97,308 Good fun. Best I have done on this contest and the best conditions I have had on my sloper. Thanks for the Q's. Special Thanks to Peter VE3HG for getting rid of the power line noise! Harry VA3EC Alpha Delta Sloper off the tower, 100 Watts, ICOM 756 Pro. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 21,624 K2, 5w, 1/4-wave wire at 14 feet. Great conditions for QRP and great receving ops. Thanks for pulling out a weak signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,027 Ouch. The inverted-L needs an overhaul. Supporting top rope has sagged lower so it's more like an end-fed lazy inverted-V with crazy SWR that befuddled the FT920's tuner on most QSYs. Anything east of SK seemed a struggle Friday night. Missed lots of sections that should have been easy. After a great day in BARTG RTTY, only had energy left to get on for a couple of new mults late Saturday night, but activity sounded pretty strong. Year QSOs W/VE DX Score ================================ 2007 145 37 2 27,027 2006 220 45 3 50,400 2005 342 52 2 88,182 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 79,856 Just put up a G5RV from buxcomm all squeezed up in a small city lot with the 20foot long ends almost on ground ! It sure worked well Running 90W was just not enough to work all I could hear... This is a good sign RX ANT has never been that good for a noisy area. Working the south was as hard as on lower bands because of the hill... Why I dont understand. 73 »CU Next Year Phil VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2TZT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 728,793 Very pleasant conditions without comparison with those of the December ARRL 160. First Night, I went to first sleep at 13z with 673qso and 87 mults witch seemed do be a good rate. As everybody, had experimented some Eu mults but no many Europeans answers during the runs for this night. 45mn wasted because of a S7 neighbor noise (drill ?) at sunset for the beginning of the 2sd night and usual lower rates because most of local stations was already in the log. During the first half of this second night, seeing the hours passing without European opening and still missing some obvious European multipliers, I have invested 3 periods of 1 hour in S&P for only 11 multipliers. It was not a good choice, at 4h30z, the feast had at least began and I have enjoyed a 2h30 pileup with European stations, working again into the few fist minutes all the multipliers that I had spent hours to previously contact in S&P. Anyway, this pileup of very low level signals was an real enjoyment and those moments are one of the raisons why I like contest. My apology to all the stations that I have heard but was unable to pull the call sign out of the noise. The period following this opening was great too, T32MO had made me the pleasure to answer to my cq, giving me by the way a 160m DXCC new one. Just a mention for TF3KX too, who called me and was very patient repeating many times his call sign. I had a very strange experience with this qso, the signal was too weak on the Beverages and I was only able to hear him on TX antenna.Understanding his call through the tx antenna noise was a challenge. At least, at the extreme end of the night, just before going to sleep, in a last search, for conscience, of the not to be found WY multiplier, I found it just at the beginning of my scan on 1801 ! I stopped there the scan and when to sleep without asking anything more to the luck for that day. It will be the last but one multiplier of the contest. No many station setup improvement from last year, except that Beverages are now reversible, and that I have doubled in an end-fire configuration the 160m long Beverage to Europe (60deg). The end-fire 160m long was a last minute installation with too short ground rods and had no time to test the efficiency. Was not worse than an unique element, but didn’t feel a great plus, perhaps a deep null to some W8/W9 stations but very narrow in direction. To be verified. Thanks to every stations who called me and it will be a pleasure to contact you again during the next contest. TX : FT1000 mkV Field / VL-1000 (kW) Tx ant: 22m wire vertical T between trees. Rx ant : 160m Reversible Beverage 60/240deg , 200 m reversible Beverage (90/270 deg), 85m reversible Beverage (0/180deg) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 824,375 Thanks to Paul VE3SY and Marg VE3RE for their hospitaity! This is my personal best in this Contest. Worked few more countries than last year, but 2 less sections (missed VE4 and usual Northern VE provinces). Biggest thrill was QSO with KL7WV who had a decent signal on early Sunday morning (never worked KL7 on top band before). Also managed to work KH7X the first night which gives me 160 m WAS in one weekend - also for the first time in my life. Lots of CCO activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 678,240 The local icing conditions detuned the antenna shifting the resonance point below band. With the exception of first three hours, I was confined for the whole weekend to operate within first 15 Khz of the band where the SWR was 3. Whenever I had to call someone higher up the band, the needles from Daiwa cross needle wattmeter would shoot straight up while keying the radio. From my point of view, first night seemed better for Pacific and second night was better for Europe. Congrats to Paul, VE3TA for turning out a good score. I would also like to thank VE3FF, VE3EA, VA3VEF and VE3NWA for their big help with antenna work over the past few weekends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 41,076 Split my operating time between the BARTG and the CQ160. By local midnight of the first night freezing rain coated my tx antenna with a sheath of ice that remained for the rest of the weekend (I think it's still there), even with the tuner I could barely get the VSWR under 3:1, I am surprised anyone copied me at all. 73, Julio VE3FH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,235 Loaded the 80m dipole, up about 20ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 43,731 160 was as quiet as 20 meters and more crowded. Found a broken hydro insulator which was fixed last month ending 20db noise level and allowing for great fun using the sloper. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 140,418 Decided to try a Balloon Vertical just three days before the contest. [ Mistake #1 ] Aquired some 4' weather balloons on Thursday and picked up a tank of He on Friday. Friday Got home around 1900z and by 2100z was outside getting ready to launch. Launched at 2150z and immediately hit winds greater than 30K once the ballon went through 80'. Spent the next 3-4 hours trying to get the ballonn and rigging out of the trees [ we live in the woods ]. Took a break to eat supper and get warm as it was snowing and blowing out and the wind chill was reported as around -20C. 0000z I am back outside with the growing problems. By 0200z I have been able to recover the balloons out of the trees without having them explode and I add another 4' weather balloon to counter the winds. [ Mistake # 2 ] 0230z finally balloons are up with two 4' Wx balloons and 5 1' normal balloons to counter winds. 0300z 40 lb monofilament guy line snags and is accidently cut trying to fix - winds now increasing and balloons sounds like a flag flapping in the wind. from 0300z till 0500z antenna is sometimes vertical somtimes balloon inverted L. I can no longer maintain 1:1 manually in the shack - switch to auto tuner to maintain 1:1 while working stations. At 0500z there is a big SWR spike - go outside and cannot hear balloons. Presume the worst has happened.... Can't see anything due to driving snow and 40+ kph winds. Manage to get SWR under control. No idea what configuration the antenna is in [ or even where it is ] 0530 freezing rain shuts evertything down for the night. Only managed a few hours at best. Try to fix antenna but it is hopeless when you can't even see it due to driving snow and freezing rain. Saturday 1300z venture outside and find everything covered on coating of ice. Balloons gone and wire tangled up in trees. Haul everything down and start over with new wire and new plan. Will use lighter wire to decrease lift needed. If winds don't die down will not launch. 2130z winds down to 5 kph and launch final 4' Wx balloon and 5 1' balloons with new wire antenna. Antenna now almost vertical due to lack of wind. Get on radio from about 2230z till 0730z. While it may sound like an excercise in frustration I actually leant alot about balloon verticals and what not to do. And Saturday night with the right condx, as I found out, this can be a very effective and efficient antenna. 90 % of my problems were because of the winds and the fact that the Inverted L is not only in a tree but surronded by trees so you have to literally run the gauntlet to launch a balloon straight up which can be very difficult in even a modest breeze. The other thing is that balloon verticals do not like winds greater than 10 kph! Would I try it again? Absolutely! 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 345,730 Really bad Condx during first night. To top that ice built up on the antenna and tuned it to 3740 and became useless. At around 2:00 in the morning I had to clime up to the roof on a very ice ladder and deice half of the antenna that I could reach. The SWR went up to 3800 so at least I could operate. On Saturday took down the whole antenna and cleaned from the ice. Couple of highlights: I was called by ZY7C, VP5, HP1, SP4 and broke the pile up on NH6P and CE1/K7CA, not bad for 100W at all...:-) I was chased away few times saying DUPE QSO. I do not understand why people are so sure that the contact was not busted on my side or may be not even enterd. When they refuse the contact that means they will be penliezed for the qso that is only in their log. I worked some dupes and it takes only seconds to make the "second" contact. Takes lot less time than arguing about a dupe qso. CU in the SSB part Lali, VE3NE / HA9RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 105,246 100W, Inverted L, Experimental 600ft Beverage up 10ft @ 75 DEG. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OSZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 262,602 Score is just a little bit better than last year's. Conditions were OK, but not very good. Missed ID, ND and MB (as well as LB, NT and YT). I think it's time for someone to arrange an expedition to MB for the next 160 contest ! They have been missing for some time now. Drake TR-7, 100 watts Home brew autotuner Inverted L One Beverage One pennant TR Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 733,370 - Orion I & A2000 - 1/4 wave insulated base verttical with 24 inch sides and 80 1/4 wave buried radials - Three Beverages 1/4 mile each to EU, VK/W6, JA - WinTest 3.8 & Winkey Other than last minute repair of EU Beverage that snapped in -24C Thursday night wx, all antennas and equipment performed flawlesly in spite of ice storm Friday night and snow most of the weekend. Greatest challenges were staying warm and awake. Worked 250 stations by 0200z Friday night then rates went downhill. Conditions to EU poor Friday night but managed 41 countries and 56 US/VE mults in 741 Q's by sunrise Saturday in spite of a 1.5 hours in the chair napping. In spite of strong signals Saturday night from big EU stations most of which I had already worked Friday, coudn't find many new ones. Only USSR was a UA2. Missed OH, HB9 and others which should have been easy. Also missed WY and VE4 and the usual northern VE mults. Need to learn more about when to run and when to S &P. Couldn't sleep well Saturday during the day. Only had two hours sleep - should have forced more. Then I couldn't stay awake Saturday night. Several one or hour in-the-chair sleeps Saturday night. Knocked off before 1300z Sunday morning and missed VE4VV. Managed 4 hours sleep on Sunday and went back for the last 3 hours which produced about 80 Q's but no additional mults. Thanks to all for the Q's and especially thanks to Phil, VE3FAS for the use of his great QTH and antennas. Thanks to Phil also for the help putting up the Beverages and for his great hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 142,544 First time to enter this contest. Conditions seemed to improve on the second day(night). As usual here lots of noise on 160. Don VE3XD 60' sloper Yaesu Mark V at 100w Microham Micro Keyer Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6GJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,395 Not a lot of time in the chair, but had fun with very low noise level for once! Thanks for the Q's 73 Jeff, VE6GJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 77,440 This is the 2nd really serious contest I have operated in 35 years and at 65 I am enjoying it emmensely. I think I am getting a serious addiction to this contesting. The 160 meter band was in good shape with many stations on and who said CW was dead. I was having trouble finding a clear spot to send CQ, the band was very congested most of the time. I thought some of the hams would go to bed and give me an clear freq, but that didn't happen, so it was very busy all through the night. The early mornings went very long with signals coming in from China, Japan and Russia. Didn't hear any Europeans though but heard stations working them. I need to put up some large arrays for the next time and hope for better propagation. It would be nice to work Europe on 160m. One thing I must do is get a better sleep pattern for these contests, I had an qso entry lapse of 2 hours when I fell asleep in the chair, I wonder how many Q's I could have had if I was awake, hi. Had lots of fun and looking forward to the next contest. 73 to all and to those that participated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 254,527 Worked all the lower 48 + DC - VE 1 2 3 5 6 7 9 VO1 VY2 + 33 countries which included Hawaii. Heard 2 KL7's but I just don't have enough smoke to make the grade. Spent most of my time above 1.850 where there was more space available for my little station. Most interesting contact was PC5M who I worked and less than a minute later I heard the qso repeated on the internet. Actually my 30 watts didn't sound all that bad...! Spent quite a bit of time listening to PC5M on air and over the net. KO7X (WY)was the last state in the lower 48 and was qso number 500. Was missing my own mult until the last few minutes when VE9WH got on. Think up til then I was the only NB on. I guess spotting on the cluster has its good and bad points. At one point I had a huge pileup. In checking today the spot history, I was spotted as VE8DX. Now I know why so many tried to work me a second time. When one runs low power like me, it keeps me going. Most of the time my contesting operating is not serious - do a lot of S & P. Just out for a good time (and to provide the mult) I am not out to win. Hope I did indeed help some with the mult. Logs uploaded to LOTW already with 113 matches already. Thanks to all that called. Guess next for me will be ARRL DX CW. 73 Andy (VE9DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK6VZ/6 Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 31,304 Lots of summer QRN, thunderstorms and one-way prop, but heaps of fun as usual. Operated from the Nullaki Wilderness on the south coast of Western Australia. My inverted vee dipole antenna was only 10m high at the apex, but was 65m above sea level and half a km from the sea. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 246,582 Weather this weekend was challenging....high winds gusting to 100 kmph. Tower cranked partially down meant that the bottom of the Inv L was lying on the snow .!! Condx Sat nite much better then Friday. Best DX : ST2A for new one #128 for DXCC. Otherwise pretty routine. The limit for my 160M contest result is usually around 300 - 350 Q's ...as a function of the antenna and location. No room for beverages but maybe could hear more on EWE versus the old coax loop that I've had outside for about 5 years. Maybe will try an EWE to north east next season see if there is any difference. Have a persistent S7 carrier zero beat on 1820.5 khz. Its been there for severals years. 1820.5 just happens to be almost exactly 4 x 455khz .... wonder if its coming from somewhere in the house...still checking?! Log on LoTW and eQSL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9I Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 185,389 Thursday 25th – Arriving Bermuda 1PM local time the weather was rain and winds gusting 30+ knots. Short taxi ride to Ed’s (VP9GE) and the FT-920 were awaiting my arrival. The weather didn’t permit installing the K9AY RX antenna so I started hooking up the station and making sure everything worked. With a short trip to the Market Place I was well stocked with groceries and ready for the contest hoping the antenna would stay up. Friday 26th – Weather hasn’t improved gales now gusting to 35 knots and forecast to increase to hurricane force by evening. Luckily the strongest winds recorded at Ed’s were around 47 knots which by no means is ideal or safe for antenna projects. Ed called and asked if I wanted to go into Hamilton so I took him up. After making several stops, one of which was for a birthday celebration of Ed’s youngest son Ken at day care. Upon arrival back at the apartment I quickly noticed that the Inverted L had fallen to the ground and no commercial power. Oh no! It’s only a few hours before the contest and with bad weather forecast there wasn’t a chance of getting it back up. Luckily there was a Monster G5RV up about 25 feet I could use. Not the best antenna but I could at least get on the air; however the 920’s tuner took a long time to tune. At contest time I would soon find out that the G5RV had its own problems on topband. After making a few contacts the SWR would jump to infinity so I’d had to retune taking valuable time away from the contest. Again after several contact SWR problems, this went on for about an hour and I knew I had better stop before damaging the rig. With 88 contacts the first hour and I had to call it a night and good to bed with dreams the weather would improve so we could fix the inverted L or G5RV. Saturday 27th – Awake to find that weather isn’t good but was able to repair the broke wire and feed line on the G5RV. It had gotten tangled in a tree that was pulling on the balun as the winds gusts. Second night I made around 400 contacts before taking a short nap before the sunrise in Europe. Nice signals from CN2R, UR4LRG +++, RK6........K6FD/KH6 :) After the sunrise I called CQ for 20 minutes with no takers so I went to bed. Sunday 28th – Wow what a difference a day makes weather is sunny with winds calming down. Ed and I install a make shift Inverted L made out of telephone wire. The wire from the original L had several bad spots and broke while trying to retrieve it from the trees and bushes. The smaller wire wasn’t the best but signal were 2-3 S units better than the G5RV. But by now the contest was over with many stations already posting their scores on 3830. I put another 60 or so contacts in the log before the end with a final score of 539 QSOs 51 Sections 16 Countries. Not the winning score I had last year but I provided a multiplier for many stations so all in all I’d do it again and the trip wasn’t a total lost. With about 11 hours of operating I felt I had done my best due to the problems. Thanks to K7BG for my 50th state of Montana on Topband as VP9I. Monday 29th – Typing this at 38,000 feet headed back to the USA at about 600mph. The battery is getting low so I’ll make this one short and say THANKS to everyone that participated in the 2007 CQ160 you make it one of the best!. Finally thanks to my host and friend VP9GE I always look forward to the visit, until next time best wishes everyone! 73, Kyle PS: See from PJ2T for ARRL DX CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,892,502 We all had a great time in this contest. Despite snow static on Friday night, we managed our BEST EVER multi-single score in this event. Highlights included working EY8MM/4L2M/UN4LF/Numerous UA9's/ZL6QH/VK3IO/VK3ZL/ZL3IX/VK6ABL and NL7Z. Congrats to the CN2A team for a fine effort - nice to see so many old friends and CU in the next one. 73 JEFF K1ZM/VY2ZM Peter WW2Y/VY2MW Peter K3ZM K1ZM@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 326,760 Great conditions from our perspective in the Upper Midwest. I have read many comments that conditions to EU were not so great on the first night. That was our best night. The signas on the second night were ok but not quite as good as the first night. Had a blast again! It is great to sit there and use all the great hardware Paul has. Missed: LAB, NWT, YT DX: KH6, T32, ZL, HP, KL, KP2, KP4, V3, VP5, VP9, XE, CE, HK, PJ2, PY, 9A, CT, CU, DL, EA, EI, F, G, GD, GM, HA, I, LA, OH, OH0, OK, OM, ON, OZ, PA, S5, SM, SP, T9, UA2, YU, JA, CN, CT3, EA8. Check out the updated website: http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 138,020 Nice quiet bands in Kansas both nights got me lots of North American Qs and let me enjoy listening to you all work the good DX I couldn't hear! Someday I'll have to visit east. At least Hawaii was predictable and came in both nights at around 0800 for a few minutes. Worked All States both days except for Alaska. Missed and didn't hear NU, YT, NWT, MB, NB and LB. Heard but didn't work NS. It also seemed like an unusually high number of stations calling in twice this year for some reason which helped to keep me awake when the rates were low. Enjoyed working you all! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 67,896 Thought condx on topband were good. Wkd all states except for NV, lower provinces from PEI to BC, and at least one dx station in EU, AF, SA, NA, AS, and Oceania (VK/ZL). Also, nice to work GMCCers KO7X, N0KE, K6XT, and KV0Q. Heard KJ0G and K0UK calling someone else so didn't get a chance to work them. Lots of UT, KS, and NM on in this one. 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: IC756 Pro3 to shunt-fed tower and inverted L. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0GG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 158,670 Overall Propagation to our Colorado QTH seemed was not as good as last year. Out west here we seemed to be caught in the quiet middle between postings to the north and south of us. Add to that a few mysterious shunt-fed tower issues dealt with in the deep snow and cold weather to help our circulation. Maybe we will try the quarter-wave balloon next year. Worked 25 DX stations. Missed 6 Canadian provinces. Nevertheless, this contest is always a great time and 160 meters is the best! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 29,856 Another great contest. Thanks to all the fine OPs who made it possible. Friday night was great fun. Saturday night was a letdown... not as many folks operating as I expected. Sunday morning, the pace and fresh OPs showed up. My new Radiowavz 160 meter Double Bazooka really worked. It's a keeper. Qs were way up from December's ARRL 160 CW Contest and chair time was down. 73 de WØPC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,800 Very fun. Too tired from business travel to put in many hours. Shack and antenna are still in a very temporary state (haven't even unpacked my best rig) and have not had time to put 220 in the shack so couldn't use the amp. (Not sure it still works since I haven't used it since 1999.) Still, it's fun to see what you can do with a TS-930 with a wide filter and a low wire. Didn't spend much time chasing DX mults with this setup but was happy to work KP4, KP2 and CN2 in the last five minutes. West Coast was surprisingly loud and some could even hear me. (It's a lot easier from OH than from CT.) Having grown up in the days when LORAN made this band mostly useless, I still really appreciate the huge chunk of quiet spectrum we have and being able to work so many stations in such a short time. 73, Hal W1NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 107,456 Spent 6 hours operating at K1TTT so I missed some prime DX time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2CG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,510 S&P Final 2 hours of contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2GD Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 822,120 This was our team’s third and final 160 CW event of the 2006/2007 contest season from our FD style station located 20 miles north of Atlantic City, NJ, on the shores of Barnegat Bay. Operating from this spectacular seaside location is always a pure joy, with nothing but salt water for miles in the direction of Europe But being located on "Murphy Drive" has its pluses and minuses and this past weekend was no exception. Dealing with the ‘surprises’ is all part of the game (and the fun). STATION DESCRIPTION: Run Position - IC756ProIII, Alpha 99 + Alpha 76, IC746 slave receiver Multiplier Position - IC756ProII, AL 1200 TX ANTENNAS: 3 element Vertical Wire Array firing NE/WSW/Omni, apex at 185' surrounded by a tidal salt marsh for a minimum of 500 feet. Inverted "L" Vertical with 4 elevated radials (Day 1 only) Vertical Dipole (Day 2 only – see below) RX ANTENNAS: Phased pair of 935' beverages NE 560' unterminated beverages SW, South, and East 560' staggered 2 element beverages West (terminated) and NW/SW (unterminated) WEEKEND SNIPPETS The weather cooperated for a change this year. It was cold and windy but no rain/snow until the last hour of the contest. With no big storms in the lower 48 states, the band was exceptionally QRN free all weekend. Station setup and testing were accomplished in record time (about 4 hours). We make a note to document the wiring and build dedicated cabling and station interfaces for the site before next season. For the first time in memory we were surprised to find ALL of our antennas intact upon arrival, even after numerous big windstorms since the Stew Perry contest. Not having to make antenna repairs saved time and reduced the fatigue factor. The most critical antennas (both TX antennas and the NE beverage) were tested first. It’s always a kick to hear WBZ on 1030 in Boston over 250 miles away on the NE beverage at high noon local time coming in S9+20, and then switch to the west beverage and observe their signal nearly disappear. Did someone say something about ‘cone of silence’ ? Pre-contest testing revealed the multiplier position IC-756ProII had an intermittent (sticky) T/R relay (why doesn’t ICOM beef up this component). Forced to change out the unreliable xcvr, but fortunately we had a backup ProII to put on the table in its place. Our run amplifier, an Alpha 99, was acting strangely too, the ‘tune’ indicator bar was not working, and it was requiring more drive than normal to reach full output. We left it in line, but later discovered the symptoms were the prelude to its eventual failure during the first night. Listening at sunset, we were happy there was virtually no noise, but we also noted we weren’t hearing many EU stations. This was not a good sign, and over the course of the first night conditions to EU never improved very much. Departing from our tradition of sharing a pre-contest pizza for dinner, the whole team went out to a local restaurant for a sit down meal. It was so nice and relaxing to have everything ready to roll hours before the start. Started the contest on 1811. First hour was our best start ever, 158 QSOs with 10 ten pointers and 15 five pointers in the mix. Second hour was pretty good too, a 130 hour with another 6 ten pointers logged. Conditions to EU were marginal. EU stations kept calling CQ on or near our run frequency, apparently not hearing us. Discovered we had RF problems in the shack when trying to key the mult station using the computer. Determined the source of the RF was the inverted L. Performance of the Inverted L was also down from prior years. Most likely cause was some ‘change’ in the ground system. We decided to look into the problem the next morning. About 0400 the output of the Alpha 99 suddenly dropped over 50 percent. Swapped the amp out, replacing it with a 30 year old Alpha 76. We didn’t miss a beat, continuing to run on the mult position station. The band sounded flat Friday night. We were concerned about the lack of EU propagation. Ended the first night with just 114 ten pointers, down 30 compared to 2006. We seemed to be able to work whatever we heard, but the volume just wasn’t there. Conclusion: conditions stunk. Added VK and JA at our first sunrise. Yahoo!!! Heard but didn’t work ZL6QH and not a hint of a KL7. At breakfast we discuss the stray RF and amplifier problems. Consider antenna options and decide to replace the Inverted L with a vertical dipole at N2EA’s suggestion. Build and erect vertical dipole (63 feet vertical). It tunes easily. RF problems in the shack completely disappear. We’re anxious to observe its performance in the evening. W2NO and K2TW dismantle the Alpha 99 to do component level diagnostics. Determine the problem is most likely a 10 cent diode. After a trip to the local Radio Shack, a replacement diode was installed and the amp works perfectly again. South Jersey DXA operators keep the station on the air all day Saturday. Its slow going but 64 daylight contacts make it into the log. We start to hear EU nearly 2 hours before our sunset. This is viewed as an encouraging sign of better things to come at we got to sundown. Work our first EU right at sunset but the real opening doesn’t begin until after 00 Z. Over the next 6 hours nearly half of all contacts logged are ten pointers! At 2300 W2RQ arrives (Bill was unavailable the first night). We put Bill in the run chair and watch him go to town for the next 3 hours. Having a fresh OP paid off big. We are happy to learn the new vertical dipole used primarily on the mult station is significantly outperforming the inverted L. Most calls to W’s are answered immediately and we even work many DX stations with the antenna. It’s a keeper, and we have plans to add and phase a second vertical dipole next season. The 0600 to 0700 hour is the mother load with 80 QSOs, 71 of them EU ten pointers! Moving up to 1864 Khz paid off big (we should have moved up the band earlier). This opens a huge lead over the K3NA/W1KM team. By sunrise 241 ten pointers were added to the log. By far, conditions on the second night were the best. After EU sunrise things slow down considerably until daybreak. But we nail NL7Z, ZL6QH, a T32, and several KH6s. At sunrise we’re called by a JA….now that was a first for us! At breakfast we review the weekend’s events and document the station improvements we should consider for next season. After breakfast, return to the station to reconfigure the operating positions so those who must leave can take home their equipment. The slave RX (IC746) and Alpha 99 are removed, the AL1200 becomes the run amp, and a refurbished Drake L7 is connected on the mult station. Throughout Sunday, members of the SJDXA continue to keep things rolling, adding another 45 daylight QSOs, including 5 five pointers. Conditions to EU the last two hours are marginal, but we add another 8 ten pointers. It starts to snow. At 2330 we work XU7ACY at his sunrise for our last multiplier during the contest. At the final bell, we have 1553 QSOs (compared to 1547 last year) 367 ten pointers (one more than 2006), and 94 five pointers. Essentially it’s a dead heat score wise compared to ‘06, but we’re extremely happy with the results given the ‘punk’ conditions to EU the first night. The log has been loaded on the ARRL LOTW system. Special thanks go to the owners of WYRS-FM for allowing us to use and enjoy this wonder station facility, and also to members of the SJDXA for their continuing support with station construction and maintenance. Be be sure to look for the SJDXA entry in the CQ160 PH next month. Their call will be N2CW. 73, John, W2GD - for the entire 160 TEAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3CP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 41,910 This years score was a little less than that of 2006 and the rates were lower. However, this year I did have my first ZL contact and at least heard some JAs. My noise levels are such that I can't copy many who hear me. 73, Jim w3cp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3DQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 98,973 I waited far too long to check out the station and antennas, and was still hooking up things an hour after the contest started on Friday. Once I got going, I couldn't believe how rusty I was, especially my CW skills (oiy vey!). While activity was high, I was surprised to have missed so many 'easy' states by the time I crashed Sunday AM. Things picked up on Sunday, but by then it was clear my RX antennas and receiving in general continue to be a problem. Understand that I operate from a small city lot, bordered on all sides by *old* power lines (feeders and drops), telephone, cable and other infrastructure. And don't forget the broadcaster 5 miles north of me pumping out 50 kw on 1500 kHz! So to all on the west coast and elsewhere who heard me but I clearly didn't hear, my sincere apologies. While the inv-L and 26 radials is a great TX antenna, it isn't a good receive antenna! Believe me, I'm working to make things better! Never did hear SD, WY, ID, KH6, KL7 (have never heard KL7 on 160). I did have a first-hand lesson on the power of spotting. 30 minutes before the end of the contest, I was spotted as W4DQ. Worked 11 dupes in the next half-hour, even though though I sent my call after every Q! Hope to see you all in the SSB contest. Eric W3DQ Washington, DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 311,855 Rig: Orion Amp: pair of 3-500Zs at 1300 watts Antennas: TX: 1/8 wave wire Tee (my 60 feet high 80/40M inverted vees and RG-8X feeder used as a 160M Tee) with 70 75foot long radials. RX: 2 reversable 300' long Beverages ne/sw and se/nw. Used N1MM Logger. I have been fighting a high local intermitant power mains QRN level all season and it didn't go away for the contest either. It still was great fun and I did my best effort ever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3USA/8 Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 119,420 I really just used W3USA, but I screwed up the first posting to 3830, so I am trying to redo it by posting with the /8 callsign. This was my Saturday evening/Sunday morning appearance in the contest. At 2310z I sat down on 1847 and stayed there for 4+ hours and 500 qso. This was probably the longest single frequency run I've ever had from inside the USA. I was having so much fun running that I didn't do much looking for DX, though with a rather high suburban noise level there are usually a few layers of signals - i.e. DX - that I can't hear. Thanks to CQ for not sharing the ARRL's phobia of the use of more than one callsign per location or transmitter. I hope nobody minded the extra qsos with me. 73 - Jim K8MR Opr of K8MR, W3USA, and W8FD in the CQ 160 CW contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 840,486 What a total and complete rush! What a station! Thanks to a lot of really caring people for working so hard to bring the W4AN record back to W4AN. We've got our fingers crossed (does that make us multi-op?). Extra-special thanks to Tom, W8JI and his family - fabulous hosts. Sorry I don't have any analysis available except: Number of dogs: 3 Number of cats: 0 By comparison to K7RAT's analysis, dogs make you do better on 160 than cats. Mark, N5OT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 20,025 Thanks to all for the contacts.. LINE NOISE was a major factor in not copying some.. Major Transmission line about 300 feet away must have developed a problem. NE beverage terminates about 150 feet from it looking right at it. 160 is always fun..especially CW.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,050 Very quiet low QRN conditions here. Got my three hours in during the early evening hours, so all QSO's are W or VE, no DX worked. Hear several DX, but they could not hear my tin whistle. It will be interesting to see the logs turned in for this one. 73, Keith, W4KAZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 564,158 Thanks for the contacts Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 21,735 Couldn't hang in long for this one. But the first night was really good. At least for Stateside and Caribean. Second night didn't seem quite so good, but I heard several Europeans early in the evening. But the QRM was more than my puny antenna could compete with. Notice the Lidism's are becoming more apparant on the so called Gentlemans Band. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 130,903 With 400W to a make shift antenna, my CF Zepp loaded as an inverted L against a rudimentary ground system, I couldn't play with the big boys but I had a lot of fun trying. Conditions seemed pretty good and a few EU stations and my first ever KL7 and ZL on top band made it into the log. Someone needs to go on a DXpedition to ND next year. I haven't worked that state in a 160 contest in years! 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5UN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 444,934 My first try at this particular contest. Good fun, and a good test for the antenna system. Unfortunately, the Chinese dragon jammer reduced activity from that area of the world. Highlights: working ST2A and OH0Z for new ones on topband, and logging DC in the last ten minutes of the contest. Challenges: finding space to fit into for CQing. Hope I did not offend too many of you. Frustrations: CQing stations moving within 50 hz of my CQing frequency after I had been there for quite a while. Had to cut operating time short in order to be in shape to conduct Bible class on Sunday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6RKC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 17,100 Been so long since I have been on the air, I got on to see if things were still working. They were. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,547 Station: FT-990 100W Inverted L 50' Vert x 70' Horiz Writelog Lots of slow QSB, thanks to all for being patient. Best DX KH7X, PJ2T. Dave / W6ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7IZL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 132,894 FT-1000 MK V, 140 Watts 3 Element vertical phased array Great time and lots of fun! Getting back into the swing of things with the CW thing after so many years of working strictly SSB. Friday night was excellent with great conditions and stable band conditions. Nice unexpected opening to JA's early in the morning on Saturday. Managed to work a handful and looked for VK's/ZL's to show as well. Did have at least one VK station call but never did manage to hear well enough to work. Conditions changed dramatically for Saturday night/Sunday morning as the band was like a well oiled door, with the band moving rapidly from wide open to completely closed in a matter of seconds. Often sounded like listening to a seashell stuck to you ear. East Coast conditions were really down early Sunday morning, which is very unusual from this QTH, making it a challange to work some of the folks back East. I know from past experience that many oftentimes wonder why I have what some of them have called, "a booming signal", yet struggle to be able to hear them. Lots of DX to be had, and was fortunate enought to work some ZL's and a few more JA's in the early morning hours on Sunday. Many stations calling but unfortunately between fluxuating conditions and some over-jealous fellow operators, it was virtually impossible to work many of them. It was great to run across old friends, give some stations back East Montana and meet some new folks! 'Til next time, Good DX & 73, Cal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,524 Greetings All, From Northern Arizona conditions were resonably good both Friday and Saturday nights. Sations heard and worked were generally within the 45 degrees latitude North and South. They were miserable Sunday morning. With all great intentions of putting in a full effort I found myself lifeless and unrested because of a work schedule change mid-week. Compound that with the four hour drive from Las Vegas to the remote Arizona location arriving 1 hour before the test only to loose my CQing frequency to High power stations within 30 minutes of contest start did not make me happy. With that I decided I was going to casually operate and see how many countries I could muster. Perhaps next year I will be more rested and have a super reciver capable of separating 10 or more stations inside a 500 Hz filter window! I was extremely happy with the overall antenna performance............ 73 Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 42,714 Nince JA run on Sunday at sunrise ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,737 Only a couple of hours off and on, but it was fun. Conditions seemed really good here and the band was exceptionally quiet. Heard lot's of east coast stations, but couldn't get them to hear me. Such is running low power! Really need an amp to be able to work farther east than Ohio. Amazing how some weak stations can hear me first call and stations that are S9+ don't even give me a ??. Thanks for the Q's and 73 TS-450SAT + inverted "L" N1MM Logger 7.0.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8/T98T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 373,465 GP VERTICAL FULL SIZE ,2 BAVERIGES CAANON VALLY, WV ABT 1250M/ASL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 239,232 My best first 4 hours ever with 159,138,109 and 96. I had already reached my best total score and QSO total ever on Saturday night. (DX seemed slim on Friday) Saturday started out better until about 0630Z when 9A4WW,could not hr me. That's when I noticed the SWR was wacky and the antenna had died. After two trips out in the cold air and snow I gave up. On Monday found a bad soldered splice in the inverted L at about 30 feet-a piece of wire and split bolts fixed it albeit after the fun was over! NOTE TO SELF:-replace 160 L wire with contiguous piece in spring. Had lots fo fun while it lasted! Dan W8CAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8FD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 21,744 Some fun fresh meat time on Sunday evening. Thanks to K8PP (a.k.a. Mr. Solder-it) for use of the club call. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 26,901 Was only able to get on for a bit on Saturday night. Conditions seemed pretty good. There were many Europeans in the slivers of bandwidth between the stateside big guns. Lots of fun. Thanks for the QSOs and 73, Ron (W8RU). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 342,472 Operated until 0800z both nights and did not get up for sunrise either morning so missed some easy mults, I 'm sure. Was going to quit much earlier on the second night but at 0600z I had a very nice European run so I couldn't stop, I told myself I probably won't get this good of a run again ever. I was sure glad I fixed my short vertical rxing system on Friday even thought it was cold and we had about 3 inches of snow on the ground but it was worth it (cold solder joint in matching box). Obviously the best I've ever done in this one with all the 10 pointers. I had 81 Europeans, 5 SA, 4 Africans and 3 Oceania's. Thanks for all the q's and mults. Missed WY and VE4. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,550 Just playing around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 77,090 The amplifier and 250hz CW filter sure helped out with this contest. When I ran on a frequency I used the 250hz filter with RIT on which I don't think had that much of an impact on losing stations who were close to the edge of the filter, unless they were real weak. I stayed up until 6am Saturday morning and was real tempted to stay on longer as activity started to pick up again but I just couldn't do it and hit the sack. DX activity was much better Saturday night/Sunday morning for my little antenna. My highlight was when DD2D called me when I was running Sunday morning. My only suggestion would be to include a M/S catagory, low and high power catagories, for people like me who used the packet cluster and are in today's rules competing against Multi-Op stations with high power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4DOU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 84,315 Rig: FT-897D @ 100 watts Ant. Inv. L, 45' vertical & the rest horizontal. 10 radials Conditions were better Saturday night/Sunday morning. Missed: SD,ID,KL7,KH6 DX worked: Friday night/Sat. morning - C31,CE,CN,CU,GM,HP,KP3,KV4,PJ2,VP5 Sat. night/Sunday morning - 5B4,EA7,EA8,HG8,LN3,ON4,OZ7,SK3,VP9 Thanks to all for the qso's; looking forward to next year! 73 de Roy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 102,172 Saturday night : good condx and the local streetlights behaved. Took a lot of breaks <<30 min. to relax my surgery scars. TenTec O2 TL922 700w 160M inv vee at 60 ft. 3 beverages + K9AY N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 94,578 I was able to pull an all-nighter Friday night / Saturday morning and had a pretty good QSO and multiplier count. Guess I burned myself out, as I went to bed at 0300Z Sunday and was unable to get up in time for the early morning grayline opportunities. Bob (K0RC) and I had another competitive run on the W1VE live scorecard. It continues to be a great motivational tool for me. When I feel like packing it in, I check to see if K0RC is still racking up the QSOs. It gives me the motivation I need to continue. Why not give it a try? My score is about the same as last year, even though I had roughly 100 more contacts this year. I was multiplier challenged, missing KH6, KL7, ND, ID, MB, LB, NU, NWT, YT, as well as a lot of DX. My total multiplier count was down 9 from last year. Highlight(s) Having CN2A answer my CQ. Working MT 4 times (the only state I missed last year). Lowlight(s) Needing KH6 - KH6AT was S6, but working S&P. High precipitation static Sunday. Having a friend call after the contest to tell me UT3UA had spotted me on packet. Unfortunately, I did not hear or work him. Sorry to those I couldn't pull through. I have work to do on my receiving situation. Also, an apology to the four stations I duped. My mind did some strange things with CW translation as I was dozing off. Thanks to all for the QSOs! 73 - Rick WB8JUI IC746Pro Inverted L @ 50 feet N1MM logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 450,912 Good conditions both nights, but not quite as many countries worked this year as compared to last. Nice to put 126 Europeans in the log along with 10 JA's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5EAE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 45,902 Equipment/Software: Icom IC-756 RadioWorks Carolina Windom Win-Test I only ran the first 10 hours plus 1 hour the next evening. I didn't have time to put up a real 160m receiving antenna so I ran with what I had. My best friend was the audio filtering on the IC-756 which made all the difference. A few ops seemed to have trouble with my callsign even though the code was computer generated. Perhaps the busted call lookup was misleading them or perhaps they forgot to stock the shack with munchies? They wanted to turn WD5EAE into WD5EAT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 50,504 Still one of my Favorite contests. Limited to Bazooka on city lot but always enjoy this one. Thanks to everyone who worked me. 100 Watts and FT-2000 with Bazooka at around 60 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 70,740 I was only able to operate Saturday night. Drove up to the cabin, got the fire going and was on the air in a couple of hours. KV4FZ was booming in a good hour before sunset, seemed like a good omen. Very quiet conditions in northern WI. I have to get a better recieving antenna for Europe. I could hear Europeans calling me but could only pull out partial calls. My short beverage (only about 280 ft) in that direction works well on 80 and 40, but hears better to the west on 160. Unfortunately real estate constraints preclude me from putting up anything much longer in that direction. I'm thinking of trying phased short verticals. I operated about 8 hrs, slept a few, then got up and operated about 2 more hrs before sunrise. I worked a very strong ZL6QH just as the sun was coming up. I considered that a good omen to quit. States missed ND (heard), WY, ID, KL7, KH6 DX worked: 9A, CU, EA8, CN, PJ2, VP5, KP2, ZL. Thanks for the Qs. Next contest ARRL DX CW from J7OJ 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 390,528 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4P Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,440 The "hollering hillbilly", WK4P, decided to let my fingers do the talking this weekend and play a little in the CQ 160 meter CW contest. And I actually had a blast. Friday night about 8 pm EST, after calling the Tarheel Emergency Net, I flipped the rig to 160 to see if anyone was sending slow enough for me to give a point to. What a cluster of signals on the band. Wait, the filters, finally I found the 250hz filter. Ok, now only one signal at a time. But 40 wpm? I was too afraid to even take my 20 wpm test 12 years ago. Oh well, just try to get the call. Ok, not that bad, but now I have to call at a decent speed and still get his state. Ok, the call went ok and after recognizing the 5NN I got the stete. On to the next q. And so the contest went. No pressure for a change, I knew I wasn't going to win anything I just wanted to hand out some points and have fun. That is until the paddles decided to be quirky on the dahs. Now what? The straight key was still hooked to the Yaesu 736 from last weeks VHF contest. Just move it to the 746pro. But at these speeds? What the hell, I might be a little slow but I'll give it a try. Oops, my NC sounded a little like NY, need to work on that. But the contact was made and the right info exchanged (tnx for questioning the state). I was still having fun. By the time I looked at the clock it was 1:30 and I had to work Saturday. When I got back into the frey on Saturday night my paddles were fixed, I adjusted them better than ever, and I was ready to play again. Working SK on 160 was cool as was working PJ2T, both with only 100 watts (my footswitch keys the amp, so it only works on SSB). The loop must be doing ok. I hit my goal of 100 qsos. I continue on. Finally at 120 I went to bed, having exceeded my goal by 20 percent. Sunday afternoon I had to work on a home repair project but I snuck in an extra 6 qs while the wife wasn't looking. Like I said I really had fun. I was amazed at how fast the action was. And while my 126 qs may seem paltry, to me it's a big accomplishment. I think my CW speed increased abt 5 wpm just during this contest. And while all contacts were S&P, you will find me brave enough to call CQ next month during the NCQP, albeit at about 15wpm. Hope to hear everyone then. Peace and 73 Adam WK4P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM3O Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,000 wish i had a proper 160m antenna and an amp. worked VY2ZM first call using ~30w into an 80m inverted vee at 35 feet. Go PVRC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,933 150W + inverted L (45' vertical, 6 radials) Should have spent more time in this. Condx seemed very good especially on the second night. The band was packed -- finding a clear freq below 1870 or so was nigh impossible. I heard a lot more DX than I worked. Some couldn't hear me, others (like CE1/K7CA) were loud but I could never catch them without a big and/or unruly pileup. Stateside, missed ID and ND (and AK & HI). Electrical noise is a limiting factor here, running about S6 with the 500hz filter. For a nice change, atmospheric QRN was not a factor at all. 73, -- Ray WQ5L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR3O Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 104,195 Decided to take K8MR up on the fun factor, and operated the second day with a different call sign. Not much of a competitive score from either operation, but a whole pile of FUN was had for sure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WS4Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,632 Had planned to operate HP but the amp smoked about 10 minutes prior to the start. I had a faulty cable from the 12v out jack on amp to protection relay for seperate rx input. My fault not the amps. Fried the meter board so bad will need to replace entire pc board. After I got over my bad luck and poor first hour ended up having a good time. Heard and called many that could not hear me but also managed to work some DX. Thanks to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XU7ACY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 29,865 I extended my stay in XU this year so I could get my feet wet in contesting from this side of the globe.I discovered very early on this was not going to be any fun as the BY OTH Jammer signal quickly ruined any opportunity for a decent score.Except for the lack of jammer signal during the period of my SS and SR I decided it would be more productive to give out q's on 80 meters than suffer thru the 59 plus jammer signal.After 23:00Z I was able to operate for about 1/2 hour jammer free and had great fun during those short spurts.Very sorry to all but impossible to hear you thru that crud.Biggest thrill was hearing/working team W2GD right as I was about to pull the plug at my last SR.CU next year,Peter XU7ACY/NO2R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL0A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 781,740 IC-746 2el. IV - vertical phased (40/160 meters hight ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL2PP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 77,380 Trcvr - ICOM-751A Ant. - Delta 159m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5PBF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 344,931 CU NEXT YEAR IN BETER CONDITION TO W/VE FROM ME. TRCV:IC 756PRO PA HOMME MADE 1.3KW MADE BY YO5OEF(MY FATHER) TX ANT INV V UP TO 30METER HIGH AND TO RECEIV A LITTEL COAX LOOP FIXED TU E-W FROM MY QTH. TNX TOO ALL. DE YO5PBF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1LA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 896,000 Rig: IC756pro3, TL922, Vertical ant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: Z37M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 592,916 Our goal was to made better score than last year, but during the saturday night we lost amplifier and worked LP till sunday morning when band was allmost clossedso we didn't made it HI. We lost good openinig to USA and many mults from there. For the first time we used for RX K9AY and it worked quite good. Thanks to all for q's and see you in the next one ! Rig: FT 1000 MP + PA 600w. Ant: Inv.Vee + 2 X K9AY (east - Usa) 73' Z37M team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 405,170 SO1R NO SPOTS Antenna:- Titanex 160HD Amp:- Acom 1000 at 700 Watts Rig:- Icom-756 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's. Condx on the band were good and there were plenty of participants, so many that it was extremely hard to find a clear spot to CQ. Best hour was 108. Pity that this contest clashes with the BARTG as I would have liked to have put in a few more hours. 73 Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL6QH Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 225,792 We tried hard, but ended up only achieving 78% of our record score in 2005. Perhaps the 2007 ops lacked some of the perseverance and cunning of the 2005 line-up - which included ZL1CT/GM3WOJ. YEAR QSO QSO PTS STATES COUNTRIES TOTAL 2007 329 3136 72 = 225792 2006 281 2666 56 = 149296 2005 390 3827 75 = 287025 Whatever the reason: we conveniently blame the loud summertime QRN. Noise was a solid S-9 on the first night to the US, and up to 20 over 9 towards VK and JA. There was a whole layer of (presumably barefoot) stations that simply could not be worked. Apologies to anyone in that category. Almost all of the QSOs on the first night were with North America - K7JTR was first in the log at 0740. Signals from Asia and the short-path to EU were very poor. We only managed to work one JA station (JH2FXK) and then a handful of East EU stations (RX4HZ, RU4HP/4, OM7M and ES5Q) at our sunrise. During the second night, Brian ZL1AZE found the European long path open at ZL sunset (EI,GI,GD), followed by good signals from North America. He was also pleased to catch CN2A for our 6th continent. However, the band was then wiped out for over an hour from S9+20dB rain static QRN , due to a front of torrential rain passing over the ZL6QH area. After the QRN abated, the OTHR swiftly moved in. Any remaining Asian ops were unable to hear us. Other than the OTHR ('599-BY CUAGN') very few Asian QSOs were logged and night watchman ZL2BSJ flogged North America for lack of much else to work. At ZL sunrise, the EU short-path was usable through the OTHR, but very few EU ops appeared to be hearing us, the EU QRM must have been substantial. 'Best ears' awards go to LY2IJ, UA6LV and UR4LRG. Overall it was a lot of fun and there were enough signals to keep us busy for most of the contest. Thanks to everyone who worked us, and for your patience while we pulled you out of the QRN. QSL via ZL2AOH or LoTW. ZL6QH is likely to be QRX next year as a wind farm goes up on site. http://zl6qh.com is the Quartz Hill home-page. Station Description: FT1000 MKV-Field + amp Antenna(s): Half-wave slopers to JA/EU SP and to NA, top-loaded GP Operators: ZL1AZE ZL2BSJ Club Affiliation: Wellington Amateur Radio Club Multiplier List: NAM: CT MA ME NH RI NY NJ DE PA MD AL GA KY NC FL TN VA AR LA MS NM TX OK CA AZ ID MT NV OR UT WA WY MI OH WV IL IN WI CO IA KS MN MO NE NB PE QC ON SK AB BC DX: A3 CN EI ES GD GI JA KH6 KL KP2 LY OM PJ2 S5 T32 UA UA9 UR VK XE ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY7C Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 334,672 Great contest, but no so bad propagation on the first night, and very poor condition on second night. Thank you all for pulled our signals out from the noise. QSL card OK via PT7WA (qrz.com) Index of Calls Call: 3W3W Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 4N1A Class: Single Op LP Call: 4O1A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 4U1WB Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 4Z5MU Class: Single Op LP Call: 7S2E Class: Single Op LP Call: 7X0RY Class: Single Op HP Call: 9A1AA Class: Single Op LP Call: 9A5AQA Class: Single Op LP Call: 9A8WW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 9H6A Class: Single Op HP Call: AA1K Class: Single Op HP Call: AA3B Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AA4FU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4V Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AB2E Class: Single Op HP Call: AB4GG Class: Single Op LP Call: AC0W Class: Single Op LP Call: AC4JI Class: Single Op LP Call: AC6DD Class: Single Op HP Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op HP Call: AD4Z Class: Single Op LP Call: AD6ZJ Class: Multi-Op LP Call: AD8J Class: Single Op LP Call: AE8M Class: Single Op HP Call: AJ1M Class: Multi-Op LP Call: AJ3G Class: Single Op HP Call: C4M Class: Single Op HP Call: CN2A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: CU2A Class: Single Op HP Call: DD2D Class: Single Op HP Call: DJ2YA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DJ8OG Class: Single Op LP Call: DJ9A Class: Single Op LP Call: DK3QJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DL1AUZ Class: Single Op HP Call: DL3EBX Class: Single Op LP Call: DL3YM Class: Single Op LP Call: DL4R Class: Single Op HP Call: DL4YAO Class: Single Op HP Call: DL8SCG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DQ4W Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DR1A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DR5C Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DR5X Class: Multi-Op HP Call: EA1WX Class: Single Op HP Call: EA2BI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: EA2CLU Class: Single Op HP Call: EA3KU Class: Single Op HP Call: EA5BM Class: Single Op HP Call: EA6BF Class: Single Op HP Call: EA7NW Class: Single Op LP Call: EA7RM Class: Single Op LP Call: EI6IZ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: ES5Q Class: Multi-Op HP Call: EY8MM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Call: F6IRF Class: Single Op LP Call: G3TXF Class: Single Op HP Call: G3UHU Class: Multi-Op HP Call: G3WPH Class: Single Op HP Call: GJ2A Class: Single Op HP Call: HA5JI Class: Single Op HP Call: HA6FQ Class: Single Op LP Call: HA6IAM Class: Single Op LP Call: HA6NL Class: Single Op HP Call: HB9CT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: HG1A Class: Single Op LP Call: HG8L Class: Multi-Op HP Call: I2WIJ Class: Single Op LP Call: IK1YDB Class: Multi-Op HP Call: IK3SSO Class: Single Op LP Call: IQ2CJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: IZ8GCB Class: Single Op HP Call: J46J Class: Single Op HP Call: K0EJ Class: Single Op HP Call: K0FX Class: Single Op HP Call: K0KT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0KX Class: Single Op HP Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0RF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0TV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0UK Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0XI Class: Single Op LP Call: K1BV Class: Single Op LP Call: K1EP Class: Single Op LP Call: K1GU Class: Single Op HP Call: K1IM Class: Single Op HP Call: K1JB Class: Single Op HP Call: K1JT Class: Single Op LP Call: K1KI Class: Single Op HP Call: K1LT Class: Single Op HP Call: K1PQS Class: Single Op HP Call: K1QO Class: Single Op LP Call: K1RO Class: Single Op LP Call: K1TO Class: Single Op HP Call: K1TTT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K1ZZI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K2DB Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K2GN Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K2ONP Class: Single Op HP Call: K2PS Class: Single Op HP Call: K2QMF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K2TA Class: Single Op QRP Call: K2TTT Class: Single Op HP Call: K2UOP Class: Single Op HP Call: K2XA Class: Single Op HP Call: K2YR Class: Single Op HP Call: K3AU Class: Single Op LP Call: K3MQ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K3NA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K3NL Class: Single Op LP Call: K3STX Class: Single Op HP Call: K3SWZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WI Class: Single Op HP Call: K3WW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4BP Class: Single Op LP Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K4EU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4HAL Class: Single Op LP Call: K4IU Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4LW Class: Single Op LP Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Call: K4PI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4TD Class: Single Op HP Call: K4VV Class: Single Op HP Call: K4WI Class: Single Op LP Call: K4WW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4XU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4ZGB Class: Single Op HP Call: K5BG Class: Single Op HP Call: K5GO Class: Single Op HP Call: K5KA Class: Single Op HP Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op HP Call: K6MM Class: Single Op HP Call: K6NA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6NV Class: Single Op HP Call: K6RB Class: Single Op HP Call: K6TA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6XT Class: Single Op HP Call: K7BG Class: Single Op HP Call: K7LAY Class: Single Op HP Call: K7MO Class: Single Op HP Call: K7OX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K7RAT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Call: K7RL Class: Single Op HP Call: K7TJR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K7WP Class: Single Op HP Call: K7ZS Class: Single Op HP Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op HP Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Call: K8FH Class: Single Op LP Call: K8GG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K8GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K8IA Class: Single Op HP Call: K8IR Class: Single Op HP Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Call: K8NVR Class: Single Op LP Call: K9AY Class: Single Op HP Call: K9DU Class: Single Op HP Call: K9DX Class: Single Op HP Call: K9GY Class: Single Op QRP Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op HP Call: K9NR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K9NW Class: Single Op HP Call: K9WJU Class: Single Op LP Call: KA1DWX Class: Single Op HP Call: KA7U Class: Single Op LP Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KC1XX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KC4HW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KC7V Class: Single Op HP Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op LP Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Call: KE9I Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op LP Call: KG5VK Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KJ0G Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KL7WV Class: Single Op HP Call: KM4M Class: Single Op HP Call: KM9M Class: Multi-Op LP Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Call: KN5H Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KN6RO Class: Single Op HP Call: KO7X Class: Single Op LP Call: KP2CW/W6 Class: Single Op HP Call: KP4KE Class: Single Op QRP Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Call: KR4F Class: Single Op HP Call: KS0T Class: Single Op LP Call: KS1J Class: Single Op LP Call: KT0R Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KT3Y Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KT5E Class: Single Op LP Call: KU1CW Class: Single Op HP Call: KU8E Class: Single Op HP Call: KV8Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KY7M Class: Single Op HP Call: KZ3M Class: Single Op HP Call: LA7MFA Class: Single Op HP Call: LN3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: LY2IC Class: Single Op LP Call: LY2IJ Class: Single Op HP Call: LY9Y Class: Single Op HP Call: LZ9R Class: Single Op LP Call: M3CVN Class: Single Op LP Call: N0AC Class: Single Op LP Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Call: N0KQ Class: Single Op LP Call: N0NI Class: Single Op HP Call: N0XB Class: Single Op HP Call: N0YY Class: Single Op LP Call: N1GKI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N1HRA Class: Single Op HP Call: N1IX Class: Single Op HP Call: N1KWF Class: Single Op HP Call: N2CU Class: Single Op HP Call: N2ED Class: Single Op HP Call: N2EK Class: Single Op HP Call: N2MRI Class: Single Op LP Call: N2NC Class: Single Op HP Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Call: N2SQW Class: Single Op LP Call: N2TTA Class: Single Op HP Call: N2VW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Call: N3BB Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N3GJ Class: Single Op LP Call: N3KS Class: Single Op HP Call: N3MX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N3OX Class: Single Op LP Call: N3ST Class: Single Op HP Call: N3YW Class: Single Op LP Call: N3ZA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4BAA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4DD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4EK Class: Single Op LP Call: N4KG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4NM Class: Single Op LP Call: N4NTO Class: Single Op LP Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Call: N4TB Class: Single Op HP Call: N4VA Class: Single Op LP Call: N4VV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: N5IA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N5LZ Class: Single Op HP Call: N5OE Class: Single Op LP Call: N5RR Class: Single Op HP Call: N5UL Class: Single Op HP Call: N6CK Class: Single Op HP Call: N6GK Class: Single Op LP Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N6NF Class: Single Op LP Call: N6PC Class: Single Op LP Call: N6RO Class: Single Op HP Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Call: N7BF Class: Single Op HP Call: N7DD Class: Single Op HP Call: N7IR Class: Single Op LP Call: N7MAL Class: Multi-Op QRP Call: N7ZG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N8BJQ Class: Single Op HP Call: N8IE Class: Single Op QRP Call: N8II Class: Single Op HP Call: N8NM Class: Single Op LP Call: N8TR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N8VW Class: Single Op LP Call: N9ADG Class: Single Op LP Call: NA2M Class: Single Op LP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Call: NE1B Class: Single Op HP Call: NE9U Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NF1A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NG7Z Class: Single Op LP Call: NH6P Class: Single Op HP Call: NI1N Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NJ1F Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NN3Q Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NN3W Class: Single Op LP Call: NN7ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: NQ4I Class: Single Op HP Call: NS3T Class: Single Op LP Call: NS9I Class: Single Op HP Call: NX9T Class: Single Op HP Call: OH4MFA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OH5Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OK1FFU Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OK2PWJ Class: Single Op LP Call: OK8ANM Class: Single Op HP Call: OL0W Class: Single Op HP Call: OL1A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OL3X Class: Single Op LP Call: OL4W Class: Single Op LP Call: OL6P Class: Single Op LP Call: OL8R Class: Single Op HP Call: OL9Z Class: Single Op HP Call: OM0WR Class: Single Op HP Call: OM3KHE Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OM7M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: ON4UN Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OP5T Class: Single Op LP Call: OZ7YY Class: Single Op HP Call: P33W Class: Single Op HP Call: PA1AW Class: Single Op HP Call: PC5M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: PF5X Class: Single Op HP Call: RD3A Class: Single Op HP Call: RL3A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: RN3BD Class: Single Op HP Call: RN9MA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: RU3VD Class: Single Op LP Call: RV3FF Class: Single Op LP Call: RW3VZ Class: Single Op LP Call: RW4PL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: RW4WM Class: Single Op HP Call: RZ1AWT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: S50U Class: Single Op HP Call: S51F Class: Single Op LP Call: S52B Class: Single Op HP Call: S52OP Class: Single Op HP Call: S52QM Class: Single Op HP Call: S52W Class: Single Op LP Call: S53F Class: Single Op HP Call: S53O Class: Single Op HP Call: S54O Class: Single Op LP Call: S54W Class: Single Op HP Call: S54X Class: Single Op HP Call: S56A Class: Single Op HP Call: S57AL Class: Single Op HP Call: S57L Class: Single Op HP Call: S57M Class: Single Op HP Call: S57U Class: Single Op LP Call: S57UN Class: Multi-Op HP Call: S58P Class: Single Op LP Call: S59A Class: Single Op HP Call: S59AA Class: Single Op HP Call: SK3W Class: Multi-Op HP Call: SM6CNN Class: Single Op HP Call: SM7BJW Class: Single Op LP Call: SN3R Class: Multi-Op HP Call: SN5J Class: Single Op LP Call: SO2R Class: Single Op HP Call: SP2ASJ Class: Single Op LP Call: SP2LNW Class: Single Op HP Call: SP3LPG Class: Single Op LP Call: SP6A Class: Single Op HP Call: SP6IHE Class: Single Op LP Call: SP8NR Class: Single Op HP Call: SP9H Class: Single Op LP Call: T93J Class: Multi-Op HP Call: TA2RC Class: Single Op LP Call: TF3KX Class: Single Op LP Call: UA3TT Class: Single Op HP Call: UA6LV Class: Single Op HP Call: UA9CLB Class: Single Op HP Call: UN9LW Class: Single Op HP Call: UR4LRG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VA2SG Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Call: VA3EC Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3GGF Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3YP Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3YT Class: Single Op LP Call: VA5DX Class: Single Op HP Call: VA7RN Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Call: VE2FU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE2TZT Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3EJ Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3ESH Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3EY Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3FH Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3FU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3OSZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3TA Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3TW Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XD Class: Single Op LP Call: VE5UF Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6GJ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7BZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7SQ Class: Single Op HP Call: VE9DX Class: Single Op LP Call: VK6VZ/6 Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1HP Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1TA Class: Single Op HP Call: VP9I Class: Single Op LP Call: VY2ZM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W0AIH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W0BH Class: Single Op HP Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Call: W0GG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W0PC Class: Single Op LP Call: W0UCE Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W1BYH Class: Single Op HP Call: W1CEK Class: Single Op QRP Call: W1CSM Class: Single Op HP Call: W1EBI Class: Single Op HP Call: W1NN Class: Single Op LP Call: W1TO Class: Single Op HP Call: W2CG Class: Single Op LP Call: W2FB Class: Single Op LP Call: W2GD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W2JU Class: Single Op LP Call: W2NRA Class: Single Op HP Call: W2OO Class: Single Op HP Call: W2TB Class: Single Op HP Call: W2XL Class: Single Op HP Call: W3CP Class: Single Op LP Call: W3DQ Class: Single Op HP Call: W3FV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3GH Class: Single Op HP Call: W3PP Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3SO Class: Single Op HP Call: W3TS Class: Single Op HP Call: W3UL Class: Single Op HP Call: W3UR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3USA/8 Class: Single Op HP Call: W4AA Class: Single Op LP Call: W4AN Class: Single Op HP Call: W4AU Class: Single Op HP Call: W4HJ Class: Single Op HP Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4MYA Class: Single Op HP Call: W4NTI Class: Single Op HP Call: W4NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: W4PM Class: Single Op HP Call: W4PV Class: Single Op HP Call: W4RM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W5FO Class: Single Op LP Call: W5GZ Class: Single Op QRP Call: W5TM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W5UN Class: Single Op HP Call: W5WMU Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6EU Class: Single Op HP Call: W6FRH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6ISO Class: Single Op LP Call: W6RKC Class: Single Op HP Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op LP Call: W7IZL Class: Single Op LP Call: W7RH Class: Single Op LP Call: W7RN Class: Single Op HP Call: W7WHY Class: Single Op LP Call: W8/T98T Class: Single Op LP Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op HP Call: W8FD Class: Single Op HP Call: W8FJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W8RU Class: Single Op HP Call: W9RE Class: Single Op HP Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Call: WA2JQK Class: Single Op HP Call: WA2MNO Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WA3AFS Class: Single Op HP Call: WA4DOU Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4OSD Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4TT Class: Single Op HP Call: WA6BOB Class: Single Op HP Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op HP Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Call: WD5EAE Class: Single Op HP Call: WE9N Class: Single Op HP Call: WF4W Class: Multi-Op LP Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op HP Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op HP Call: WK4P Class: Single Op LP Call: WK4Y Class: Single Op HP Call: WM3O Class: Single Op LP Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Call: WR3O Class: Single Op HP Call: WS4Y Class: Single Op LP Call: WT8C Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WT9U Class: Single Op LP Call: XU7ACY Class: Single Op HP Call: YL0A Class: Single Op HP Call: YL2GQT Class: Single Op HP Call: YL2PP Class: Single Op LP Call: YL7X Class: Single Op HP Call: YL8M Class: Single Op HP Call: YO3CTK Class: Multi-Op HP Call: YO5PBF Class: Single Op HP Call: YU1LA Class: Single Op HP Call: YU8NU Class: Single Op LP Call: YV7QP Class: Single Op LP Call: Z37M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op HP Call: ZL6QH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: ZY7C Class: Multi-Op HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 3W3W Call: 4O1A Call: 4U1WB Call: 9A8WW Call: AA3B Call: AA4V Call: CN2A Call: DJ2YA Call: DK3QJ Call: DL8SCG Call: DQ4W Call: DR1A Call: DR5C Call: DR5X Call: EA2BI Call: EI6IZ Call: ES5Q Call: EY8MM Call: G3UHU Call: HB9CT Call: HG8L Call: IK1YDB Call: IQ2CJ Call: K0KT Call: K0RF Call: K0TV Call: K0UK Call: K1TTT Call: K1ZZI Call: K2GN Call: K2QMF Call: K3MQ Call: K3NA Call: K3WW Call: K4IU Call: K4WW Call: K5NA Call: K7OX Call: K7RAT Call: K7TJR Call: K8GG Call: K9NR Call: KC1XX Call: KC4HW Call: KE9I Call: KG5VK Call: KJ0G Call: KN5H Call: KT0R Call: KT3Y Call: LN3Z Call: N1GKI Call: N2VW Call: N3BB Call: N3MX Call: N3ZA Call: N4BAA Call: N4DD Call: N4KG Call: N4VV Call: N5IA Call: N6KI Call: N7ZG Call: N8TR Call: NE9U Call: NF1A Call: NI1N Call: NJ1F Call: NN3Q Call: OH4MFA Call: OH5Z Call: OK1FFU Call: OL1A Call: OM3KHE Call: OM7M Call: ON4UN Call: PC5M Call: RL3A Call: RN9MA Call: RW4PL Call: RZ1AWT Call: S57UN Call: SK3W Call: SN3R Call: T93J Call: UR4LRG Call: VY2ZM Call: W0AIH Call: W0GG Call: W0UCE Call: W2GD Call: W3FV Call: W3PP Call: W3UR Call: W4RM Call: W5TM Call: W5WMU Call: W6FRH Call: W8FJ Call: WA2MNO Call: WT8C Call: YO3CTK Call: Z37M Call: ZL6QH Call: ZY7C Class: Multi-Op LP Call: AD6ZJ Call: AJ1M Call: K2DB Call: KM9M Call: WF4W Class: Multi-Op QRP Call: N7MAL Class: Single Op HP Call: 7X0RY Call: 9H6A Call: AA1K Call: AB2E Call: AC6DD Call: AD4EB Call: AE8M Call: AJ3G Call: C4M Call: CU2A Call: DD2D Call: DL1AUZ Call: DL4R Call: DL4YAO Call: EA1WX Call: EA2CLU Call: EA3KU Call: EA5BM Call: EA6BF Call: F5IN Call: G3TXF Call: G3WPH Call: GJ2A Call: HA5JI Call: HA6NL Call: IZ8GCB Call: J46J Call: K0EJ Call: K0FX Call: K0KX Call: K1GU Call: K1IM Call: K1JB Call: K1KI Call: K1LT Call: K1PQS Call: K1TO Call: K1ZZ Call: K2ONP Call: K2PS Call: K2TTT Call: K2UOP Call: K2XA Call: K2YR Call: K3STX Call: K3WI Call: K4BAI Call: K4CZ Call: K4EU Call: K4KO Call: K4PI Call: K4RO Call: K4TD Call: K4VV Call: K4XU Call: K4ZGB Call: K5BG Call: K5GO Call: K5KA Call: K5NZ Call: K5ZD Call: K6LRN Call: K6MM Call: K6NA Call: K6NV Call: K6RB Call: K6TA Call: K6VVA Call: K6XT Call: K7BG Call: K7LAY Call: K7MO Call: K7RL Call: K7WP Call: K7ZS Call: K8AJS Call: K8IA Call: K8IR Call: K8MR Call: K9AY Call: K9DU Call: K9DX Call: K9MUG Call: K9NW Call: KA1DWX Call: KC7V Call: KD4D Call: KL7WV Call: KM4M Call: KN6RO Call: KP2CW/W6 Call: KR4F Call: KU1CW Call: KU8E Call: KY7M Call: KZ3M Call: LA7MFA Call: LY2IJ Call: LY9Y Call: N0KE Call: N0NI Call: N0XB Call: N1HRA Call: N1IX Call: N1KWF Call: N2CU Call: N2ED Call: N2EK Call: N2NC Call: N2NT Call: N2TTA Call: N3KS Call: N3ST Call: N4PN Call: N4TB Call: N4ZZ Call: N5LZ Call: N5RR Call: N5UL Call: N6CK Call: N6RO Call: N7BF Call: N7DD Call: N8BJQ Call: N8II Call: NE1B Call: NH6P Call: NN7ZZ Call: NQ4I Call: NS9I Call: NX9T Call: OK8ANM Call: OL0W Call: OL8R Call: OL9Z Call: OM0WR Call: OZ7YY Call: P33W Call: PA1AW Call: PF5X Call: RD3A Call: RN3BD Call: RW4WM Call: S50U Call: S52B Call: S52OP Call: S52QM Call: S53F Call: S53O Call: S54W Call: S54X Call: S56A Call: S57AL Call: S57L Call: S57M Call: S59A Call: S59AA Call: SM6CNN Call: SO2R Call: SP2LNW Call: SP6A Call: SP8NR Call: UA3TT Call: UA6LV Call: UA9CLB Call: UN9LW Call: VA3DX Call: VA5DX Call: VE2TZT Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3EY Call: VE3TA Call: VE7SQ Call: VK6VZ/6 Call: VO1HP Call: VO1MP Call: VO1TA Call: W0BH Call: W1BYH Call: W1CSM Call: W1EBI Call: W1TO Call: W2NRA Call: W2OO Call: W2TB Call: W2XL Call: W3DQ Call: W3GH Call: W3SO Call: W3TS Call: W3UL Call: W3USA/8 Call: W4AN Call: W4AU Call: W4HJ Call: W4MYA Call: W4NTI Call: W4NZ Call: W4PM Call: W4PV Call: W5UN Call: W6EU Call: W6RKC Call: W7RN Call: W8CAR Call: W8FD Call: W8RU Call: W9RE Call: WA2JQK Call: WA3AFS Call: WA4TT Call: WA6BOB Call: WB2ABD Call: WB9Z Call: WD5EAE Call: WE9N Call: WI9WI Call: WJ9B Call: WK4Y Call: WR3O Call: XU7ACY Call: YL0A Call: YL2GQT Call: YL7X Call: YL8M Call: YO5PBF Call: YU1LA Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op LP Call: 4N1A Call: 4Z5MU Call: 7S2E Call: 9A1AA Call: 9A5AQA Call: AA4FU Call: AA4LR Call: AB4GG Call: AC0W Call: AC4JI Call: AD4Z Call: AD8J Call: DJ8OG Call: DJ9A Call: DL3EBX Call: DL3YM Call: EA7NW Call: EA7RM Call: F6IRF Call: HA6FQ Call: HA6IAM Call: HG1A Call: I2WIJ Call: IK3SSO Call: K0RC Call: K0XI Call: K1BV Call: K1EP Call: K1JT Call: K1QO Call: K1RO Call: K3AU Call: K3NL Call: K3SWZ Call: K4BP Call: K4HAL Call: K4LW Call: K4OD Call: K4WI Call: K6GEP Call: K7RE Call: K8BL Call: K8FH Call: K8GU Call: K8NVR Call: K9MMS Call: K9WJU Call: KA7U Call: KB7Q Call: KD2MX Call: KG4CUY Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y Call: KO7X Call: KS0T Call: KS1J Call: KT5E Call: KV8Q Call: LY2IC Call: LZ9R Call: M3CVN Call: N0AC Call: N0BUI Call: N0KQ Call: N0YY Call: N2MRI Call: N2SQW Call: N2WN Call: N2ZN Call: N3GJ Call: N3OX Call: N3YW Call: N4EK Call: N4NM Call: N4NTO Call: N4VA Call: N5OE Call: N6GK Call: N6NF Call: N6PC Call: N7IR Call: N8NM Call: N8VW Call: N9ADG Call: NA2M Call: NA4K Call: NG7Z Call: NN3W Call: NS3T Call: OK2PWJ Call: OL3X Call: OL4W Call: OL6P Call: OP5T Call: RU3VD Call: RV3FF Call: RW3VZ Call: S51F Call: S52W Call: S54O Call: S57U Call: S58P Call: SM7BJW Call: SN5J Call: SP2ASJ Call: SP3LPG Call: SP6IHE Call: SP9H Call: TA2RC Call: TF3KX Call: VA2SG Call: VA3EC Call: VA3GGF Call: VA3YP Call: VA3YT Call: VA7RN Call: VA7ST Call: VE2FU Call: VE3ESH Call: VE3FH Call: VE3FU Call: VE3HG Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3NE Call: VE3NZ Call: VE3OSZ Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TW Call: VE3XD Call: VE5UF Call: VE6GJ Call: VE7BZ Call: VE9DX Call: VP9I Call: W0ETT Call: W0PC Call: W1NN Call: W2CG Call: W2FB Call: W2JU Call: W3CP Call: W4AA Call: W4KAZ Call: W5FO Call: W6ISO Call: W6ZL Call: W7IZL Call: W7RH Call: W7WHY Call: W8/T98T Call: WA1FCN Call: WA4DOU Call: WA4OSD Call: WB8JUI Call: WK4P Call: WM3O Call: WQ5L Call: WS4Y Call: WT9U Call: YL2PP Call: YU8NU Call: YV7QP Class: Single Op QRP Call: K2TA Call: K9GY Call: KP4KE Call: KR2Q Call: N6WG Call: N8IE Call: VA3DF Call: VA3RKM Call: W1CEK Call: W5GZ