CQWW CW Soapbox built 1-29-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3G1X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,594,574 Great Contest again. It was a pleasure to work at the first call IH9P and 4O3B on 80 mts. I hope next year be able to have Beverages antenas ( EU & USA ) in my new location, they miss me on 80 really. My congratulations to Dan XQ4CW ( CE4CT - during contest) for his outstanding CE Score ( New CE record ) FT1000 MP MK V + TL922 160 m = Inv. V 80 m = Inv. V @30 mts 40 m = 4 El Yagui @ 30 mts. 20,15 & 10 m = KT34XA 6 El Triband Logger = CT 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L2M Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 984,480 To start with I couldn’t really manage to be prepared for the contest as I was planned, until few days before the contest still was not sure that can participate due to some serious ongoing program at my work. Grateful to my friend Gia-4L0ABC who offered to work from his contest station which is located in the village Obcha, west Georgia. His 3 element full size yagi of M2 @22m which is located on the hill can be viewed at qrz.com. Great location where some really good results can be achieved. Initially everything went very well though had annoying interference coming from power stabilizer/UPS, which something you must have in this qth due to unreliable power supply and low voltage. I did manage to decrease it to some degree but that was it, something needs to be fixed for future. This was one of the main reason not keeping good rates in the number of pileups I had throughout the contest. Have missed few zones (like 1,2, 36, 37, 38) but in general good propagation. And…… last 2 hours had no power, came back just few minutes before the end. Anyway good contest, enjoyed it and could do better if not some good excuses I’ve listed above, and thanks again to Gia, if not this setting I was offered I couldn’t reach even this result. P.S. All participated contesters were great operators. Thank you to everibody. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3B Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 846,039 Ranko's (YT6A) new 80m beam play well. Standing on top of 600 meter mountain at the base of 50m high tower put you straight into clouds. The prior week produced lot of rain, lightning and static but on Friday it all cleared up - lucky we were! Working 700 U.S and 400 Asian made all difference on the bottom line. Great experience from newest DXCC counter. I am deeply thankful for Ranko for hosting my 60th birthday and the CQWW contest. See more http://www.oh2bh.fi/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1ITU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1 Just for Checklog... 3 hours on saturday, 2 on sunday. Mainly in S&P !! UU7J on 6 bands, TM2Y on 5 ! And a lot of good all friends as well. 88/73 PM HB9DTM/F6FNL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4Z8DT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,857,451 RIG: FT1000MP MKV, PA, Micro Keyer from Microham, PC vith N1MM SW ANT: TITAN DX, INV V for 40m, vertical 160/80m - wire with trap pulled from roof of bulding, without ground system - only connection with the paling :))), RX ANT Pennant for 160/80m fix to NW, Log Periodic fix to NW This setup is not really likely for big gun's :))). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5A7A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 45,802,020 It was a great experience for all of us to take part in M/M category with good competitors like HC8N, IH9P, TZ5A and others. Congratulations to HC8N for her good result! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,409,240 RIG: FT890AT Antennas: 80m - dipole @ 14m 40m - loop @ 13m 20-10m - logperiodic @ 10m Well, its been great fun. Operating from the 5I3A clubstation first time here in Dar es Salaam without any problems, even the normal power cuts did not occur. The high bands did quit well, no surprise: 15m was best...just 400 QSOs less then my last years singleband entry. Temporary some amazing pile ups, but never for a longer run. 40m was better then I did expect after the SSB-CQWW. The loop was doing fine - not a QSO machine, but allmost all I heard, I did get. On 80m I must have been real weak, not a lot of you could dig me out. But I dont want to complain, there are many nights, when no QSO is possible at all, cause of the big power line noise. Forget about 160m, did hear several EU with big signals - no chance with my 100W. The 5H3EE callsign is really not a super cw call. Many of you got ..3EE easily, but then... I will apply for being obliged using the master.dta file...HI. Congrats to K1XM operating 6V7D, big score! Crazy, I did never hear him during the contest. Interesting, I did loose almost all multies only on 160/80m...there should be something done until next year. Thanks everybody for calling or listening carefully to my weak signal. 73 Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5Z1A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 2,113,810 Check your logs! HZ1A does not exist. A missing "dit" makes a big difference, it could mean missing a double mult! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6V7D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,163,374 Station: Elecraft K2 Antennas: 160-40 Titanex vertical 20-10 3 element monoband yagis RX K9AY loop A fun contest overall. I'd set goals of 4000 QSOs and at least 5 Meg. The contest started well enough with rates of 140, 169, 153, then slowed a bit which I expected. It picked up when the sun came up. I could run Europe before the US. I was watching the online scoreboard on my spare computer and I think I was the first station to break one Meg. Then I got hit with a stomach bug and the word run took on a whole new meaning. Saturday night when the hallucinations overrode the stomach cramps I got some sleep - about six hours. I don't usually take that much but I really needed it. My apologies to anyone who was in my pile-up before I went to bed, I was hearing some really crazy calls and knew it was time. When I woke up I wasn't feeling too good and I figured my 4000 QSO goal was unreachable but I got back on the air at around 0630 to do what I could. At 1200Z I stared getting some decent rates, 112, 146, and 159, and I thought maybe if I pushed I could get close to 4000. This would mean skipping meals for the rest of the contest but since the thought of food was making me queasy that wasn't going to be a problem. I ran 40 meters in the evening (local time is GMT) and by 2330Z I had 4000 QSOs. I went to 160 because I told several people I would and after working a few I tuned 160 and then 80 for mults. The 6V7D callsign threw some people and I can hardly wait to see the creative writing in the UBNs. Expect some BV7D and 647D calls My other choice would have been to operate as 6W7/K1XM which is very long. To top it off my keyer went berserk on me and would switch to a different keying mode or speed or weight just for fun. I'm not good at finding a clear frequency but I learned a new way from NN#*. I had been running for a while and he showed up and called CQ. I continued calling CQ. He disappeared. A moment later he sent "6V7D QSO B4" and went back to calling CQ, ignoring my CQ's and my QRL. Next time I'm running high power I gotta try that one! I learned another new technique for getting through a pile-up. When the DX comes back to a station which does not answer you send a call halfway between the one he's calling and yours. When the DX comes back to the "corrected" call you send your callsign. If he's in a hurry he won't realize what has happened and anyhow there's not much he can do without breaking is run and reducing his rate. Cute, huh? The last few years I've been the only station on from my country. This year I was the weaker of the two stations. This was different and fun - I didn't have to worry about making sure people worked me on six bands because they could get the country from the other guy. On the other hand I'm sure I didn't get a few multipliers because they did not need to call me. It looks like I've pretty well trashed the low power records for the country and the zone. I'll probably be back here next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1RW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,343,664 Again a great contest. Low bnads were quiet here. I worked most of the stations I called, except on 160m where the antenna must be improved. Almost no power outage this time, though the mains voltage was below 190 Volts at sunset. Again huge pile-ups, slowing the rate. I need much more practice. Nice to be called by 9N7JO on 40m in the last 30 mn of the contest. Being used to operate from W. Eu, I am always amazed to work KH6 on 80m so easily from here; 3 in the log this year. I didn't work enough of 40 and 20 m. Thanks a lot to my great hosts 6W7RP and 6W7RX for their outstanding support. Congrats to all 10 M points scorers. Station : FT-1000MP / Alpha 99 Mk5 / HL-1.5 KFX Ants : 160m Inv-Vee, apex at 18m 80m 2 el wirebeam (north) at 18m 40m 2 el shorty at 21m 20/15/10 KT36XA at 19m No Rx antenna (I tried a pennant that didn't work) Excellent and very stable Win-Test Software. You are right José ! QSL to HC F6BEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,055,092 Although the 6Y1V contest station is not complete, I thought this would be an exce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S2E Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 69,552 Thank´s all guys for hearing my rather weak signal. I choose 40 LP for a change and dispite aurora both on saturday and sunday I manage to work 100 countries. I heard quite a lot of stations that did not hear me. However all worked fine and I will be back with low power later on. Thank´s once again and see u in future contests. 73`s Rainer SM2DMU also 7S2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,346 Made some qso from SK7BV. FT-1000MP 3L HY-GAIN tribander 40m Windom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,814,915 Lots of events conspired to make this a difficult weekend. Distractions from work, family commitments, travel headaches, station issues, and poor weather all took their toll and I was not a prepared for the contest as I like to be. The upside was that it was great to have my college-attending daughters with us for the holiday and the weekend. Excuses notwithstanding, congratulations to Jose, John, Dick and Phil on their fine scores. Special recognition to V47NT/N2NT on an absolutely tremendous score and new NA record. They would have all beat me, even had I been ready. One side story from my website A couple of interesting things occurred during the day. First, I had noticed the day before that there was a goat seemingly perpetually standing outside of our fence staring at us. There is a goat pen to the northeast with breeches in the fence and they routinely get loose. What was unusual was why this goat was always in the same place and seemed to be unduly interested in us. When I actually got a chance to go out into the yard, it turns out the goat was tied to our fence for some unknown reason. The plantation always had a walking tour with a number of educational signs along the way. The signs have been totally overcome by nature and I have never seen anybody doing the tour. While I was connecting radials for the Inverted L, I saw some people walking up the dirt road from the lower fields. Nobody ever comes from down there and it appeared to be some tourists and a guide. They came up the hill and stopped at the goat, where some extended conversation and picture taking ensued. Kathleen and I just looked at each other wondering what could possibly be so interesting. Perhaps they came in on the tour ship and were oversold a nature walk, or perhaps there were true environmental aficionados studying the local flora and fauna. However, their interest in the goat was trumped but their observation of the three towers around them, and they were soon taking pictures of the antennas. Evidently, these intrepid explorers had never seen a contest station before. To compound the thrill, the nature adventurers had the rare opportunity to observe contesters (Kathleen and I) in their native habitat as we connected radials and adjusted ropes. It was a bit of comic relief on a hot day. ------------- Thanks to the CQWW committee for running this great event. Thanks to all the stations for the Q's and the moves. Most of all, thanks to my wife Kathleen. Without her help, the contest would be impossible. Also congratulations on 40 years of independence for the beautiful nation of Barbados QSL via NN1N More information at my website at http://tgeorgens.home.mindspring.com 73, Tom W2SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,017,735 Great contest, lot of fun. Condx were very good on the low bands, never heard 80m in a so good shape. Unfortunatly we dont have a good 160m TX ant so we heard lot of stuff on the beverages but no chance to be hrd on the other end. Big surprise was 10m that opened sunday afternoon to the states and produced some good runs even the sun was spotless. We used wintest for the 2nd time and again it worked great without a failure the entire weekend. Congrats to OM8A for the amazing score and to OM7M,OE4A for the nice competition. We are really happy with the score its our best CW score ever and new 9a claimed record but just 300k pts over old 9a7a record. 160m inv v apex @22m 80m 1/4 vert 40m 4el fullsize yagi @20m 20m 5el OWA 15m 6el OWA 10m 6el OWA RX beverages to 300 and 50 deg 2x ft1000mp Alpha 86 LV6 with single GU43 73 cu in next one 9A1P team http://www.9a1p.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A4WW Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 37,037 Great weekend for testing the new 3el.3band Moxon antenna. See you next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A6A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 322,308 Antena; 2x inv V, NE, NW, N beverages RIG: TS690S + 500W Before contest I lost vacuum capacitor in PI filter in linear amplifier... I used a small amplifier.. 73 de Petar, 9A6A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,608,880 I was very tired and only 35 hours on the air, mostly s&p. Very good conditions on 80 and 40 meters, so many nice mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9H6A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 762,663 First effort at this contest. On the insistence of my dear friend, Vlad 9h1za who is now away from the island and whose skills and advise is sorely missed. The score itself is testimony to my inexperience without mentioning the operating itself. I am grateful for the experience gained and very sorry for those who I irritated...There are many. I went into the fray without a proper strategy, hastily mustered station and makedo preparation. However I am glad I did and am more determined to do it again. John 9h1xt [9h6a] What was totally unexpected were the huge pileups on peak hours: could not handle it....especially when strong stations I had already worked kept calling over and over again. I have no idea what went wrong. Any comments from other stations who were listening and those who posted the descriptive spots on the clusters will be of help, I am sure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,321,659 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : 9K2HN Mode : CW Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 40 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : 21 Locator : LL39XI Operating time : 29h49 BAND QSO DUP DXC CQ POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 2772 1 134 37 7729 2.79 20 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 15 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 2772 1 134 37 7729 2.79 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 1 321 659 Operators : 9K2RR Soapbox : I wish to thank 9k2hn (Hamad) to make this entry possible P.S.: All the participants are great operator Powered by Win-Test 3.6.2 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,835,942 Station: IC-756 Pro I, IC-PW1, 400W output Force 12 C3-S at 12m 40m Inv V at 12m 80m Inv V at 12m A great weekend of radio. Despite the WWV numbers there were some great band openings and I spent more time than usual hunting mults/DXing. As ever CQWW exposes openings that are not seen during the rest of the year due to lower activity e.g 599+ Carribean stations at 02:00 local time on an otherwise dead 20m band. 80m: my cloud warmer antenna wasn't really up to the job. Next year I will switch to a vertical for LF and try and get a RX loop going. The contest QTH is on public land with many people around so beverages etc are out as is a 160m antenna. 40m: wow! The band was really quiet here as the tropical thunderstorms were not around during the weekend (but back now!). The mostly QRN-free band allowed a lot more QSOs to be made. Saldy the OTHR radar was about and took out sections of the band at a time forcing me higher up in the band than I really wanted to go. 20m: noisy here and I just couldn't get a good run going. With such marginal condx a 2-ele beam at 12m is too low. The east cost North America over the pole openings were shorter than usual and a number of the regular contest QSOs were missed. As usual the last hour of the contest was fun on 20m with a good opening to the US (W5/6/7/9/0) and the packet pileup certainly woke me up. 15m: despite the low SFI some good runs were had. It was good to work so many JA stations. 10m: more like a VHF contest waiting for signals to rise in the QSB. It was so frustrating hearing locals - 9M8YY and VK9AA - working Eu stations that I just could not hear. Maybe a 2-ele at 12m doesn't cut the mustard on this band either. I particapted in Livescores and found it very helpful to keep myself in the operating seat. I hope that more DX stations will join next year. Livescores and the K5ZD audio streams are the future of contesting. I missed K5ZD this year and I will miss comparing my signal with other S.E Asian stations from his MP3s. Thank you for all the QSOs. 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M6NA Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 994,168 I had to cancel SOSB20 last year. Then I made it this year. The band condx seemed much worse than my past experience in '94/'95. Anyhow I was happy to enjoy The Contest again. Many thanks for your calls. BTW, I have been looking for Zone 2 from 9M6 since '89 with no success. I easily worked the other 39 zones on the first day this year again. mmm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9N7JO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,714,625 QTH in Kathmandu City with extreme high man made noise level(electrical noise). Using separate receive antennas and noise filters to be able to copy anything at all. But even so, signals below S4-5 are generally not readable here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9Y4AA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 22,867,582 Great teaming up with Andy 9Y4ZC, George W2VJN, Oliver W6NV and Ville OH2MM. And thanks for the continuing sponsorship and encouragement from Al 4L5A / D4B. We had fun. 73 Jim Neiger N6TJ / 9Y4AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,168,692 Murphy started Friday afternoon with a new, loud line noise at the end of my driveway affecting all bands (yes it was THAT loud). Power company sent someone out but couldn't (wouldn't) fix till Monday. 20m amp quietly quit working after a couple hundred q's Saturday morning. Orion was the SO2R radio (but it quit keying sometime Saturday so had to shift to old TS940. FT1000MP was the main radio. NA for logging. Station details at www.aa1k.us 73/Jon AA1K QSO AND RATE BREAKDOWNS station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 3 41 2 0 0 0 46 46 01Z 0 62 4 0 0 0 66 112 02Z 34 4 0 0 0 0 38 150 03Z 13 0 22 0 0 0 35 185 04Z 0 76 5 0 0 0 81 266 05Z 17 41 0 0 0 0 58 324 06Z 40 37 0 0 0 0 77 401 07Z 11 16 10 2 0 0 39 440 08Z 2 30 5 1 0 0 38 478 09Z 8 9 7 3 0 0 27 505 10Z 3 2 14 3 0 0 22 527 11Z 1 3 1 46 0 0 51 578 12Z 0 0 0 98 0 0 98 676 13Z 0 0 0 49 113 0 162 838 14Z 0 0 0 0 146 0 146 984 15Z 0 0 0 0 102 1 103 1087 16Z 0 0 0 0 92 4 96 1183 17Z 0 0 0 9 33 3 45 1228 18Z 0 0 0 53 0 9 62 1290 19Z 0 0 15 0 26 4 45 1335 20Z 0 0 27 0 0 0 27 1362 21Z 0 0 0 20 15 2 37 1399 22Z 1 0 30 0 4 0 35 1434 23Z 2 14 1 7 0 0 24 1458 00Z 4 2 4 0 0 0 10 1468 01Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1468 02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1468 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1468 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1468 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1468 06Z 6 20 0 4 0 0 30 1498 07Z 0 58 0 0 0 0 58 1556 08Z 3 1 58 2 0 0 64 1620 09Z 3 2 28 0 0 0 33 1653 10Z 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 1663 11Z 2 3 2 0 0 0 7 1670 12Z 0 0 11 26 37 0 74 1744 13Z 0 0 0 0 46 33 79 1823 14Z 0 0 0 0 30 18 48 1871 15Z 0 0 0 0 106 0 106 1977 16Z 0 0 0 0 42 13 55 2032 17Z 0 0 0 10 20 1 31 2063 18Z 0 0 0 21 3 4 28 2091 19Z 0 0 0 18 3 0 21 2112 20Z 0 0 61 0 9 0 70 2182 21Z 0 0 78 0 0 0 78 2260 22Z 0 0 27 2 3 0 32 2292 23Z 0 33 4 13 0 0 50 2342 ---------------------------------------------- tot 153 454 426 387 830 92 ---- 2342 SO2R MAIN AND ALTERNATE RADIO BREAKDOWNS station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC Main Alt rate total -------------------------- 00Z 46 0 46 46 01Z 62 4 66 112 02Z 29 9 38 150 03Z 35 0 35 185 04Z 77 4 81 266 05Z 58 0 58 324 06Z 77 0 77 401 07Z 39 0 39 440 08Z 38 0 38 478 09Z 27 0 27 505 10Z 22 0 22 527 11Z 51 0 51 578 12Z 98 0 98 676 13Z 162 0 162 838 14Z 146 0 146 984 15Z 101 2 103 1087 16Z 96 0 96 1183 17Z 45 0 45 1228 18Z 62 0 62 1290 19Z 45 0 45 1335 20Z 27 0 27 1362 21Z 37 0 37 1399 22Z 35 0 35 1434 23Z 24 0 24 1458 00Z 10 0 10 1468 01Z 0 0 0 1468 02Z 0 0 0 1468 03Z 0 0 0 1468 04Z 0 0 0 1468 05Z 0 0 0 1468 06Z 30 0 30 1498 07Z 58 0 58 1556 08Z 64 0 64 1620 09Z 33 0 33 1653 10Z 10 0 10 1663 11Z 7 0 7 1670 12Z 74 0 74 1744 13Z 79 0 79 1823 14Z 48 0 48 1871 15Z 106 0 106 1977 16Z 42 13 55 2032 17Z 26 5 31 2063 18Z 21 7 28 2091 19Z 18 3 21 2112 20Z 61 9 70 2182 21Z 78 0 78 2260 22Z 27 5 32 2292 23Z 33 17 50 2342 -------------------------- tot 2264 78 ---- 2342 QSO POINTS BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ------------------------------------------------------ 00Z 5 114 5 0 0 0 124 124 01Z 0 166 12 0 0 0 178 302 02Z 95 7 0 0 0 0 102 404 03Z 36 0 57 0 0 0 93 497 04Z 0 202 14 0 0 0 216 713 05Z 47 111 0 0 0 0 158 871 06Z 111 106 0 0 0 0 217 1088 07Z 26 46 25 6 0 0 103 1191 08Z 6 77 14 3 0 0 100 1291 09Z 11 24 17 9 0 0 61 1352 10Z 7 5 35 9 0 0 56 1408 11Z 3 7 2 135 0 0 147 1555 12Z 0 0 0 294 0 0 294 1849 13Z 0 0 0 147 339 0 486 2335 14Z 0 0 0 0 438 0 438 2773 15Z 0 0 0 0 296 3 299 3072 16Z 0 0 0 0 259 12 271 3343 17Z 0 0 0 27 89 0 116 3459 18Z 0 0 0 139 0 26 165 3624 19Z 0 0 40 0 66 5 111 3735 20Z 0 0 81 0 0 0 81 3816 21Z 0 0 0 51 37 6 94 3910 22Z 3 0 86 0 11 0 100 4010 23Z 6 41 2 20 0 0 69 4079 00Z 11 6 12 0 0 0 29 4108 01Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4108 02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4108 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4108 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4108 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4108 06Z 12 59 0 12 0 0 83 4191 07Z 0 158 0 0 0 0 158 4349 08Z 6 0 174 6 0 0 186 4535 09Z 8 4 82 0 0 0 94 4629 10Z 0 0 25 0 0 0 25 4654 11Z 5 8 5 0 0 0 18 4672 12Z 0 0 33 78 111 0 222 4894 13Z 0 0 0 0 137 87 224 5118 14Z 0 0 0 0 88 50 138 5256 15Z 0 0 0 0 314 0 314 5570 16Z 0 0 0 0 117 35 152 5722 17Z 0 0 0 30 53 3 86 5808 18Z 0 0 0 58 7 9 74 5882 19Z 0 0 0 42 8 0 50 5932 20Z 0 0 168 0 24 0 192 6124 21Z 0 0 212 0 0 0 212 6336 22Z 0 0 48 5 7 0 60 6396 23Z 0 89 11 38 0 0 138 6534 ------------------------------------------------------ tot 398 1230 1160 1109 2401 236 ----- 6534 0 point QSOs: 76 2 point QSOs: 264 3 point QSOs: 2002 MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 5 39 4 0 0 0 48 48 01Z 0 12 6 0 0 0 18 66 02Z 31 2 0 0 0 0 33 99 03Z 9 0 29 0 0 0 38 137 04Z 0 10 2 0 0 0 12 149 05Z 7 2 0 0 0 0 9 158 06Z 11 3 0 0 0 0 14 172 07Z 7 1 8 3 0 0 19 191 08Z 1 12 3 2 0 0 18 209 09Z 2 7 5 6 0 0 20 229 10Z 2 0 10 6 0 0 18 247 11Z 0 2 0 28 0 0 30 277 12Z 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 286 13Z 0 0 0 3 31 0 34 320 14Z 0 0 0 0 9 0 9 329 15Z 0 0 0 0 16 2 18 347 16Z 0 0 0 0 13 7 20 367 17Z 0 0 0 2 17 3 22 389 18Z 0 0 0 21 0 11 32 421 19Z 0 0 10 0 15 5 30 451 20Z 0 0 13 0 0 0 13 464 21Z 0 0 0 13 5 0 18 482 22Z 1 0 12 0 6 0 19 501 23Z 2 4 1 2 0 0 9 510 00Z 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 513 01Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 513 02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 513 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 513 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 513 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 513 06Z 5 1 0 3 0 0 9 522 07Z 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 523 08Z 1 0 8 2 0 0 11 534 09Z 2 1 2 0 0 0 5 539 10Z 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 543 11Z 4 2 0 0 0 0 6 549 12Z 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 551 13Z 0 0 0 0 2 20 22 573 14Z 0 0 0 0 1 16 17 590 15Z 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 593 16Z 0 0 0 0 2 8 10 603 17Z 0 0 0 1 8 0 9 612 18Z 0 0 0 5 0 3 8 620 19Z 0 0 0 4 1 0 5 625 20Z 0 0 3 0 2 0 5 630 21Z 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 636 22Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 636 23Z 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 638 ---------------------------------------------- tot 91 100 129 112 131 75 ---- 638 QSO BREAKDOWN BY CONTINENT station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest 160 80 40 20 15 10 total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N America: 47 80 82 44 65 22 340 (14%) (13%) (23%) (24%) (12%) (19%) (6%) S America: 9 15 29 22 50 21 146 (6%) (6%) (10%) (19%) (15%) (34%) (14%) Europe: 86 336 270 281 680 37 1690 (72%) (5%) (19%) (15%) (16%) (40%) (2%) Africa: 7 8 14 17 22 11 79 (3%) (8%) (10%) (17%) (21%) (27%) (13%) Asia: 0 4 18 17 5 0 44 (1%) (9%) (40%) (38%) (11%) Oceania: 4 11 13 6 8 1 43 (1%) (9%) (25%) (30%) (13%) (18%) (2%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- QSOS PER MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest Mult QSOs 01 2 02 131 03 133 04 75 05 1 06 22 07 2 08 7 09 10 10 7 11 39 12 7 13 29 14 29 15 36 16 49 17 1 18 5 19 2 20 24 21 1 22 3 23 1 24 -- 25 24 26 -- 27 1 28 2 29 7 30 8 31 17 32 12 33 2 34 2 35 5 36 -- 37 1 38 14 39 1 40 1 1A -- 1S -- 3A -- 3B6 -- 3B8 1 3B9 -- 3C -- 3C0 -- 3D2 -- 3D2/c -- 3D2/r -- 3DA -- 3V -- 3W -- 3X 1 3Y/b -- 3Y/p -- 4J 1 4L 1 4S -- 4U1I -- 4U1U -- 4U1V -- 4W -- 4X 1 5A 6 5B 4 5H 3 5N -- 5R -- 5T -- 5U -- 5V -- 5W -- 5X -- 5Z 1 6W 7 6Y 2 7O -- 7P -- 7Q -- 7X 2 8P 8 8Q 3 8R -- 9A 36 9G -- 9H -- 9J -- 9K 1 9L -- 9M2 -- 9M6 2 9N -- 9Q -- 9U -- 9V 1 9X -- 9Y 6 A2 -- A3 -- A4 1 A5 -- A6 -- A7 -- A9 -- AP -- BS7 -- BV -- BV9P -- BY -- C2 -- C3 1 C5 -- C6 5 C9 -- CE 7 CE0X -- CE0Y -- CE0Z -- CE9 -- CM 8 CN 2 CP -- CT 6 CT3 9 CU 4 CX 6 CY0 -- CY9 -- D2 -- D4 -- D6 -- DL 349 DU -- E3 -- E4 -- EA 75 EA6 5 EA8 20 EA9 1 EI 7 EK -- EL -- EP -- ER 2 ES 2 ET -- EU 12 EX -- EY -- EZ -- F 103 FG -- FH -- FJ 1 FK -- FK/c -- FM 2 FO -- FO/a -- FO/c -- FO/m -- FP -- FR -- FR/g -- FR/j -- FR/t -- FT5W -- FT5X -- FT5Z -- FW -- FY 1 G 141 GD 10 GI 4 GJ 4 GM 19 GM/s 1 GU 2 GW 12 H4 -- H40 -- HA 50 HB 37 HB0 1 HC 2 HC8 7 HH -- HI 5 HK 5 HK0/a 4 HK0/m -- HL -- HM -- HP 3 HR 2 HS -- HV -- HZ -- I 73 IG9 5 IS 3 IT9 9 J2 -- J3 2 J5 -- J6 -- J7 4 J8 -- JA 24 JD/m -- JD/o -- JT 1 JW -- JW/b -- JX -- JY -- K 76 KG4 -- KH0 -- KH1 -- KH2 1 KH3 -- KH4 -- KH5 -- KH5K -- KH6 17 KH7K -- KH8 -- KH8/s -- KH9 -- KL 2 KP1 -- KP2 2 KP4 11 KP5 -- LA 5 LU 29 LX 5 LY 18 LZ 28 OA 1 OD -- OE 14 OH 19 OH0 3 OJ0 -- OK 145 OM 36 ON 29 OX 1 OY 1 OZ 16 P2 -- P4 19 PA 52 PJ2 10 PJ7 -- PY 39 PY0F -- PY0S -- PY0T -- PZ 4 R1FJ -- R1MV -- S0 -- S2 -- S5 55 S7 -- S9 -- SM 26 SP 78 ST 2 SU -- SV 8 SV/a -- SV5 1 SV9 -- T2 -- T30 -- T31 -- T32 -- T33 -- T5 -- T7 -- T8 1 T9 11 TA -- TA1 -- TF 1 TG -- TI 7 TI9 -- TJ -- TK 2 TL -- TN -- TR -- TT -- TU 1 TY -- TZ 5 UA 63 UA2 5 UA9 5 UK -- UN 1 UR 49 V2 4 V3 4 V4 2 V5 2 V6 -- V7 -- V8 -- VE 144 VK 8 VK0H -- VK0M -- VK9C -- VK9L -- VK9M -- VK9N -- VK9W -- VK9X -- VP2E -- VP2M 5 VP2V 1 VP5 6 VP6 -- VP6/d -- VP8 -- VP8/g -- VP8/h 2 VP8/o -- VP8/s -- VP9 1 VQ9 -- VR -- VU -- VU4 -- VU7 -- XE 22 XF4 -- XT -- XU -- XW -- XX9 -- XZ -- YA -- YB -- YI -- YJ -- YK -- YL 3 YN 2 YO 24 YS -- YU 47 YV 9 YV0 -- Z2 -- Z3 5 Z7 4 ZA -- ZB -- ZC4 -- ZD7 -- ZD8 -- ZD9 -- ZF 7 ZK1/n -- ZK1/s 2 ZK2 -- ZK3 -- ZL 12 ZL7 -- ZL8 -- ZL9 -- ZP 3 ZS 14 ZS8 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 712,520 Things started out rough on 40m Friday night, but picked up when I switched to 80m. I missed a few easy ones like Hungary on 20m and zones 3,4, & 5 on 10m, but I can't complain. I improved on last years score by a considerable margin, and picked up a few new countries on 80m. While I didn't work ZL, VK, or JA on 80, but I could hear a few of them for the first time, so maybe one of these days they will hear me. Thanks to K2VV, K4ZW, W9XT, K1IR, W1AO, & K3BU for the zero pointers. I tried to pick times when you were calling CQ with no takers and when you were at least 10dB over. Equipment: Kenwood TS-570D, Microham USB Keyer, N1MM Software. Antennas: Cushcraft R-8 & MA80/40 verticals, a short, low wire in the trees for 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,049,148 13 hours of purely S&P...conditions on the low bands were superb. Who says CW operators are a dying breed? The bands were wall-to-wall. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 30,358 Operating low power on 80m with only a low dipole is pretty much like running uphill in loose sand. The noise level is really quiet at this new QTH in southern Arizona and I spent LOTS of time calling stations that couldn't hear me. I was trying to beat the 7th area SOSB(80) low power record of 30,128 points, but I have a mountain range that rises 2200 feet in elevation less than a mile west of me that kills me to Asia. I did OK on mults, all things considered, but not being able to rack up more than a handful of JA's really hurt. No way my score will hold up after log checking, I'm afraid. Still, it was fun as always, and I plan to finally have a tower and decent antennas installed by next year. My vote for best ears goes to E51YAQ, hands down. He was just above the noise level on my end, yet he picked out my callsign and repeated it twice for me. My vote for "signal WAY stronger than they can hear" goes to the two IRxx stations ... even east coast stations were giving up trying to work them. Big amps alone don't cut it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC5AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 39,420 Usually I'm gone for Thanksgiving weekend, but this time I stayed home. One would think I'd make time for the DX CW, but had too many commitments to make anything close to a serious effort (with my low wire and vertical). So, had a couple of hours to operate, and really enjoyed it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 334,850 Radio: IC756 Pro III with AL-1200 amp (used sparingly) Antennas: G5RV at 35' (10m) high, HyGain AV-640 vertical Software: DX4WIN (imported into Writelog), no computer CW The clock says 12 hours, but I was not continuously in the chair all that time. I had company to entertain, work (work) to do all morning Saturday until 2 p.m., and things to do around the house. I sat down for a few minutes here and there picking multipliers off of packet. Like most DX contests from home, this was just an opportunity to pick up needed band countries and new prefixes. This time, I finished DXCC on 80m and 15m for 2006 (20 and 40 were already done) and worked about a dozen new CW entities for the year. I thought the 15M EU opening Sunday morning sounded good, but I had nothing to compare it to. I had no problem hearing/working Africa on 10M except 3B8/OM0C whose pileup got too big (unfortunately missed 5A7A there too). I was excited to find and work VK9AA on 20 meters early Sunday afternoon. I got up both mornings around sunrise, but did not find much to work on 80/40 meters. I worked some 40M before the New England-Chicago football game started at 2115z Sunday, by the time half-time rolled around (2300z?) signals on 40M were WAY DOWN. Love that MUF! I'm astounded at how close the W3LPL/K3LR/KC1XX M/M scores are! 73 - Jim AD1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,430,520 Last year had 599 QSOs in 24 hours. Goal was 1000 QSOS, which only took 23 hours. Great conditions on all bands, except for 160m which was very noisy. Reached goal with 8 hours to spare, WX was too nice to stay indoors. Hard to believe we are at the bottom of the solar cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 345,056 Well, I hve never scored so well in a contest. Had to work JA's mainly on my straight key due to poor propagation. But not bad for an old IC-775 (barefoot), GAPTitan Vertical, Double Bazooka for 80, and a "T" for 180. Highest antenna is 40 feet at the apex. This was awesome - a contest I wont forget for a long while. N1MM made it extremely easy to keep track and to keep things going. Thanks to everyone for the mults and the contacts. 73 fer nw es gud DX, QSL VIA BUR,LotW Bob AD5VJ(AAR6VM) Old calls: WY5L/KH3-KE5CTY-N5IET http://www.ad5vj.com/ Member: CTDXCC, NTCC, STXDXCC FISTS: # 12637, SKCC# 2369 10X# 37210, FP#-1141 SMIRK#-5177, RARS #-149 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6WL Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 167,628 Part time effort in between "Honey Doos." Running Low Power was too much like work. I had to wait in line for the pile ups and often times without a contact. Even at the end the pileups were still big. After working this contest there is no doubt that CW is not dead. I only wish I could have worked full effort for this test. 73, Jim AD6WL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,511 I had VERY little contest time this weekend with family in town for the holidays. It was fun while it lasted... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8P Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 11,571 Just a few hours available on a very busy weekend. Conditions seemed better on Friday night. On Sunday night well before sunset, GU4YOX and S50U were pounding in here. It was a full hour before either one was worked. I wish I could dedicate the time to this one as it is always a great deal of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4MT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 87,884 Had some fun, with the little station here, FT1000 MkV into a Inverted V at 35ft, 100W. 15 hours between family errands Don't know why I torture myself entering these contests, score is always around the same..still next year... Lots of great stations heard, HC8N on all my bands was nice, and TZ5A 5A7A... Hopefully will be moving mid december and new qth has space for tower so looking forward to next year, with a beam and amp... Thanks for all that heard my signal and came back to me.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 26,208 It was all I could manage in between performances of the Nutcracker Ballet orchestra all weekend...two shows a day, matinee and evening. Boy was it tough to have to walk away from the pileup to go to play in the show...I hated it! Sorry to those of you I had to desert. I keep hoping one of these years they will move the Nutcracker to a non-contest weekend. Wishful thinking, I know :-D Thanks to all who worked me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL4T Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 145,860 I had great plans to operate the entire contest, but then life happened. I did enjoy a nice 15M opening to AF & SA. Sure wish I could have turned the beam to milk the high bands more. I missed some easy stuff on 20M, I'm sure. I'm very pleased with the performance of my new "fan sloper" for 80M; and with some DX'ers ears! Since I cooked my amp in SSCW, life just hasn't been the same. Thanks for the Q's - see you in ARRL DX! 73, Brad AL4T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: BD1DRJ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 707,200 10/15/20 SPIDER @ 10M 40/80/160 GP(18M) /p 48hr in my car. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AQQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,734,237 From same place as last 2 years; score was down 20% from last year! Could not run on 20 or 15 consistently; had some luck on 80 and 160-- was especially pleased with some very nice double mults on 160 in the last hour of the 'test. Lost 3 prime time hours with low band antenna failure due to gusty winds and rains on Saturday night--was tough to repair in the dark. With LP (FT100 original model), and a wire dipole for 160/80/40 and a non-rotatable driven element from an MA5B for 20/15/10, was again "antenna challenged"--could not break the pileups on some double multiplier Africans. Was nice to have 5A7A call ME on several bands! Folks, I'm behind on QSLing, but just got a nice batch of cards from the printer on my return today, so will try to catch up soon! QSL to ND3F, direct/SASE highly appreciated! IOTA:NA001, New Providence Island, Bahamas. Site is Nassau Palms Resort, located on the North side of the Island at Junkanoo Beach, just west of Nassau town center. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ATA Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 1,220,382 Probable new World Record for 40m LP... This was another Team Vertical trip to a lovely beach on Eleuthera Island. You can check out the villa we used at http://www.kokomo1.com. Great shot to EU/US/JA, though the JA's just weren't there as compared to the 6Y QTH. We were planning to go to our normal villa in 6Y, though it was sold about 6 weeks before the contest, and I couldn't get in contact with the new owners. I couldnt find another good verticals-on-the-beach location in 6Y, so we went to C6 instead this year. The first few hours were amazing rates. Though soon as the bulk of the US guys were worked out, the rates dropped as the EU's weren't there in great numbers. You have to realize that I am comparing the rates to the 6Y2A 1998 World Record HP rates on 40m by NN1N, who "averaged" over 200/hr for 8 hours and had a total of 3950 QSOs (I have lofty goals). The contest went pretty well, though there was a power outage the first night for 20 mins or so, and on the 2nd night I had Winkey/keying problems that kept me off for a while too. I felt loud most of the time, and could work the East Coast all day long into W1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, though I went to sleep when the rates dropped below 20/hr. The mult count was a bit short of my hopes. I only S&P'd at my sunrise (for Pacific/Asia), and around 2000-2100 GMT just as the band opened. The only mults I heard but didn't work (who were running) were 9V1YC, 9N7JO and B7P. I was hoping for more mults to call in, but it didn't happen. It was great to have Fred, KE7X/C6AKX join me. Even better, my YL came down during the week too (I hope she will be licensed by our next trip!) Tom, N6BT was supposed to come down and do 160m LP, but got very sick the day before the contest so he had to cancel. I hope you are feeling better Tom! We missed you! Verticals-on-the-beach (provided by Force 12): - 2 ele 1/4 parasitic element array pointed at 25 degs - Dipole @ 40' (for Carib and SA stations, though I only worked a few stations on this antenna) Rig: TS-850S Software: N1MM Logger ver 6.10.16 73, Kenny K2KW Rate sheet follows... Date Hour Total Rate/Hr Total 11/25/2006 0 221 221 11/25/2006 1 220 441 11/25/2006 2 207 648 11/25/2006 3 197 845 11/25/2006 4 180 1025 11/25/2006 5 127 1152 11/25/2006 6 80 1232 11/25/2006 7 113 1345 11/25/2006 8 98 1443 11/25/2006 9 78 1521 11/25/2006 10 17 1538 11/25/2006 11 58 1596 11/25/2006 12 26 1622 11/25/2006 13 37 1659 11/25/2006 14 20 1679 11/25/2006 19 1 1680 11/25/2006 20 23 1703 11/25/2006 21 72 1775 11/25/2006 22 117 1892 11/25/2006 23 107 1999 11/26/2006 0 106 2105 11/26/2006 1 108 2213 11/26/2006 2 89 2302 11/26/2006 3 97 2399 11/26/2006 4 78 2477 11/26/2006 5 98 2575 11/26/2006 6 53 2628 11/26/2006 7 24 2652 11/26/2006 8 108 2760 11/26/2006 9 66 2826 11/26/2006 10 44 2870 11/26/2006 11 26 2896 11/26/2006 12 46 2942 11/26/2006 13 22 2964 11/26/2006 14 15 2979 11/26/2006 19 1 2980 11/26/2006 20 25 3005 11/26/2006 21 89 3094 11/26/2006 22 92 3186 11/26/2006 23 89 3275 Total All Hours 3275 The above does not include dupes. I had about 200 dupes(for about 3475 total QSOs) and roughly 6% dupes, which is about normal from the DXpedition side. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ATA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 1,220,380 I busted the Class on my original posting... I was just plain ole SOSB 40 LP, NOT assisted. 73, Kenny K2KW/C6ATA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,094,900 Nice contest, I operated with the following equipment: TS-850S L4B TA33M + Wires 73's and DX to all contesters... Dan XQ4CW @ CE4CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 2,094,526 Condx were great!. I should have operated the full 48 hours. Not enough sleep before the test due to dog eats coax problems. The JA's were loud on short and long path. The band never closed. Tnx for the QSOs 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 0 0 2334 0 0 0 2334 59.2 NA 0 0 1194 0 0 0 1194 30.3 AS 0 0 296 0 0 0 296 7.5 SA 0 0 46 0 0 0 46 1.2 AF 0 0 26 0 0 0 26 0.7 OC 0 0 44 0 0 0 44 1.1 Day/hour Rate EU AS NA SA AF OC 25 00 168 73 5 86 3 1 0 25 01 158 80 10 65 3 0 0 25 02 169 90 6 68 4 1 0 25 03 156 92 6 54 4 0 0 25 04 156 96 14 46 0 0 0 25 05 155 98 10 43 1 2 1 25 06 135 101 6 25 1 0 2 25 07 109 59 13 29 0 1 7 25 08 97 64 8 19 1 2 3 25 09 101 76 4 13 3 4 1 25 10 19 12 0 5 0 1 1 25 11 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 25 15 48 41 7 0 0 0 0 25 16 48 34 8 0 0 0 6 25 17 129 112 16 0 0 0 1 25 18 125 112 13 0 0 0 0 25 19 58 48 8 0 0 2 0 25 20 100 67 26 3 0 3 1 25 21 111 77 21 9 2 0 2 25 22 82 58 8 13 0 2 1 25 23 87 27 2 56 2 0 0 26 00 126 55 2 67 2 0 0 26 01 135 33 3 97 2 0 0 26 02 114 49 8 53 3 1 0 26 03 137 28 6 98 2 2 1 26 04 126 40 3 79 3 1 0 26 05 99 16 0 80 0 0 3 26 06 93 60 2 29 0 0 2 26 07 72 36 20 14 0 0 2 26 08 52 39 3 5 1 1 3 26 09 49 40 0 8 0 0 1 26 15 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 26 16 92 75 17 0 0 0 0 26 17 104 95 9 0 0 0 0 26 18 109 101 6 0 0 1 1 26 19 95 89 4 1 0 0 1 26 20 79 61 13 3 0 0 2 26 21 72 46 2 22 0 1 1 26 22 107 45 12 44 4 1 1 26 23 123 38 7 73 5 0 0 Total 4001 2367 309 1208 46 27 44 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2WW Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,786,980 Rig: IC735+PA (750W) Ant: 3el SteppIR @30m + 3el Spiderbeam @24m Msc: N1MM-logger, Microkeyer, Stackmatch, F6IRF-phasing box True non-assisted entry ! Conditions not very good on saturday; band closed to states before 20:00Z. Improved on Sunday with the band remaining open after 22:00Z, but all counted I am missing quite a few hours of traffic compaired to AF stations located further south. Condx to JA were hard with very short window and weak signals, but Long-Path worked quite OK on sunday morning. Except the condx, everything worked close to the perfection (except a thunderstorm during the first night - but the band was nearly dead!). As expected the 2 antennas setup together with the bi-directionnal feature of the SteppIR gave me a real boost when the band was open... Thanks to Mohamed CN8PA and cSaid CN8WW for their assistance in the installation/desinstallation of the antennas and to my old friend Denis for the fun we had along those 2 weeks and this long trip by sea... See you soon again from Morroco ! Patrick Pictures, sound-clips and more details on the expedition, soon on http://cn2ww.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CS2R Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 688,785 Another "60th birthday on the air" activity :-) Congrats: to Martii, 4O3B & Chris, SN7Q and all the other friends Antennas: 24m vertical for TX & inverted V at 8m for RX (all QSO) Rig: IC756 - NO PRO II or III PA: OM-POWER (super reliable performer) www.om-power.com QTH: 3rd house to the right from little taverna in Fonte do Mouro near Porto Covo near Sines, 100km south of Lisbon QRM: Local noise provided by power HV-lines and farmer´s electric fences CONDX: Great - thanks goes to the friendly closest neighbour - Atlantic Ocean WX: All kind of storms and temperatures during the week before CQWW QSOs: 1000+ QSO with N. and S.America incl. 87 west coast QSOs, 5 JA QSO Apologizes: for QRMing Jiri, OK1RF - operating next door CS7A on 20m Thanks: to Jiri, OK1RF for another common trip from OK to CT1, antenna HW and hospitality, to David, CT1DRB and GPDX friends for cooperation incl. Jose, CT1BOH for kind help - getting regular CT1 calls for OK1RF (CT1JLZ) and OK2RZ (CT1...)- still waiting for the last 3 letters. Member of: GPDX and CCCCC (Czech Cimrman´s Crazy Contest Club) Many thanks for ALL QSO and CU soon again from HHRR (HAM Heaven Radio Ranch) in Czech Republic! Jiri, OK2RZ - CS2R www.ok2rz.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1AOZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 96,096 Conditions not bad at all. Heard all the time TZ5A and HC8N with fantastic signals... Congratulations to them. Unfortunatly lost a lot of multies like 5R8 and XE1 they didn't copy me during more than one hour calling. Hope the caribien next year turn antennas to Eu time to time because lost a lot of time calling to break USA pilups. Anyway still the best contest and cong. to all the org. crew. I bought an IC-7400 on friday. It is amazing... Rx is fantastic and was learn during operation. Thanks to all ho gives me all the points... 73 guys and be prepared to next year ... with all the artillary that Im preparing to win all arond world hi 73 Jose CT1AOZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3EE Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 116,312 Congratulations on all participants. Best regards to all Luis - CT3EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 13,289,920 Thanks to my lovely wife Lara that understands and support my contesting activities. Thanks to Madeira Team – CT3BD, CT3DL, CT3DZ, CT3EE, CT3EN, CT3IA, CT3KU and CT3KY - without them this operation would not be possible. Thanks to Win-test team http://www.win-test.com (F5MZN and F6FVY) for implementing such a wonderful program. From advanced SO2R, to automation and contest statistics information, Win-Test Win-test is absolutely the #1 contesting software, and you are loosing if you are not using it. This was my CQWW #34 in a row http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh/operations.htm Contrary to last year, the weather was very good up the mountain. No wind, no rain, and a nice temperature helped set-up the station with relative comfort in three days. But Friday I experienced the worst ever wind conditions of my life. For many moments in the afternoon, I thought the antennas and the towers would collapse. Luckily there was just minor damage: The 2el 80 meters wire inverted V fixed to Europe lost one leg in the reflector element, one of the two 80 meter phased verticals lost one of the two elevated radials and all the rotary beams moved from their original positions in the rotor/mast. Thanks to Madeira Team guys, the vertical was fixed the hour before the contest, and the wire inverted V beam and the correct antennas/rotors positions were fixed Saturday afternoon. With the brute wind force and noise, plus the presence of forest guard rangers that sought protection in the house I did not sleep at all during Friday. So it was no surprise that half way the contest around 00Z Sunday I was very tired and sleepy, at around 09z Sunday I had to stop doing SO2R to save energy and at around 16z Sunday I mentally blocked and was not able to log QSOs. I called my wife on the cell phone, and told her I could not log the calls I was hearing. Thanks to her advice (she is a clinical Psychologist) I somehow managed to compose myself and finish the contest at a lower but steady rate. In the end contesting is about will – if you have the will to do it you will do it! And just like any nice story has a nice ending, by 23:55 with 159 zones and 519 countries, while on 80 meters, I remember thinking how do I get a double mult at this time of the contest, to finish up nicely – guess what?! by 23:58z VQ9JC calls in for a double mult, asks for my call, and I heard someone transmitting dit dit dit dit, dit dit in the background – I had tears in my eyes! This is what the magic of contesting is all about! 73 José Nunes CONTEST - CT1BOH, CT3NT http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,212,052 I don’t have enough words to describe how happy I felt when I finished the contest… The preparation for the contest started very badly, I had been almost the entire week in Porto preparing WIN-TEST in Laptop, and while that I ordered this USB-PARALEL interface for WX0B box. When I get home from University on Thursday Night and I try the adaptor and it doesn’t work, I just felt the contest was over for me, even if it didn’t started yet. I really need to thank my sister Cindia for borrowing me her PC, she was my saviour!! I still had to put the 80m wire for Europe and tune it (which was not easy, due to the limit of space and the proximity of the 160mt Dipole and), I finished the antenna work at ~1800UTC. When I got inside the house I was completely wet, my mother looked at me and she said to me smiling, YOU ARE COMPLETELY CRAZY!!! She said this because the entire Friday was raining like hell and I was outside installing the antennas!! This was my first time will full SO2R (still missing 6-pack, hand change band for the 2 rigs (tnx Mike SM3WMV)). This time I had the second tower up with a 2 element Quad at 15mH performing better than my 10 element tribander at 23mH, Thanks Julio CT1ZW, for giving me this old HY-GAIN QUAD and daddy ,CT1CJJ for all the support setting up the tower and having the quad ready for the contest, was a tough Job!! While putting the antennas up I had in mind that I had sleep at least 3 hours to be able to do the 48 hours so I slept from 1900 to 2330 and I can tell you, with that and some POWER RADE I was able to be awake almost the 48 hours…. You should have seen me after the contest =) During the contest I experienced something fabulous, SO2R, now I know what Jose CT1BOH meant when he told me once on the phone “you will see the difference on your score with 2 radios”, I really want to thank him for lending me his SO2R box, it performed very well. The contest started beautifully with very nice high rates and lots of activity especially from NA! 160- Well, I noticed I still had noise from my sister PC power supply. The first night had lots of static due to the BIG storm and the TORNADO that passed 500 meters from our House, we here very lucky, (TNX GOD) no damaged caused to any antenna, the second night was OK but 100w couldn’t do the job. I S&P most of the time. 80- The scores shows the performance of the new antenna! Caribbean was so easy to work, them seemed like local stations. The same with USA! 40- Very nice runs and lots of mults worked. 6Y1V was HUGE! As well as other Caribbean and NA guys! Very nice propagation to Asia the second night. 20- My goal was having 1000 qsos on 10 15 and 20, unfortunately I don’t know why I could not make 1000q on 20m. I think I spent too much time on 15m and 10m trying to get mults. 15- Fantastic propagation to everywhere, Asia was very loud the 2 mornings! NA all the time rocking! 10- I was lucky to be SO2R this time and work some easy mults. Most of my qsos were with NA, Russia and Ukraine. I stayed until late on Saturday evening working all these Caribbean guys. There were some peaks on their signs, sometimes 539 sometimes 589. So I lost sometime working trying to work them. Missed VP5W and a couple more. 9Y4AA, TZ5A and HC8N were HUGE!! 42% of the qsos were with North America I had a lot of fun on this contest, and I am willing to do it many more times who knows from where! I used WIN-TEST and I make Jose’s CT1BOH words my words too “you are loosing if you are not using it.” 73’s Cu next one Filipe Lopes aka 6Y3T CT6A in CQW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT8T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 985,320 TS-870 + Alpha 91b 4/4/4el yagis, top rotating, middle fixed to EU, bottom fixed to NA KT34XA fixed to EU Theme for weekend: storm and rain - I have experienced such a bad weather during CQWW only twice: at OH1F CQWW SSB 2006 and at CT3M CQWW CW 1989. It was raining and storming all weekend, even had some thunderstorm. Terrible winds had broken many of rotators at CT8T plus 80m antenna. So SOAB was impossible this year. We lost electricity for 4 hours on Friday but it returned one hour before the start. Plan was to operate 40m single band, but 3el yagi showed somehow high SWR, so only remaining option was 20 meters. Operating on 20 meters was fun as long as it last. I could run pileups only 0800-2000z, totally 24 hours - running only 50 % of the best contest at the fine location is quite waste of resources :( After 20z both days heard only some Africa, SA and ZL6QH who was like a beacon (95% of qsos were made in 24 hours). I missed some easy multipliers but as I had only "single VFO" radio, I didn't want stop pileup much. I heard zones 29 and 31 (no luck), never heard 1 and 19. Heard but not worked KH6, A45, 3V, J3, HR plus few others. Nice suprise was to be called by Mike K9NW from T88MR. Asia and Oceania were hard as usual. JA long path was good both days, but signals had very strong echo - hard to copy. The best hour was 16z on Sat: 160 qsos. North America CW 0 0 0 1228 0 0 1228 39.3 South America CW 0 0 0 63 0 0 63 2.0 Europe CW 0 0 0 1592 0 0 1592 51.0 Asia CW 0 0 0 183 0 0 183 5.9 Africa CW 0 0 0 33 0 0 33 1.1 Oceania CW 0 0 0 22 0 0 22 0.7 This was my 7th contest and 6th CQWWCW from CT8T. Thanks again to Santos family (Santos CT1DVV, Rui CT1ESV, Teresa CT1YQM, Andre, Carla + others). 73, Timo OH1NOA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9L Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 27,469,827 Our plan to operate from Madeira for CQWW-CW this year started about two month before the contest. The RRDXA crew who operated for the SSB contest this year decided not to go for the CW contest so DK3QZ took the initiative to pull a CW team together. Just some e-Mails later the crew was set for another M/2 operation: Detlef/DK5QZ, Niko/DK5DQ, Hape/DL1EMH, Markus/DL1EKC, Kai/DL3HAH and Stefan/DL5XX. All of us had some exerience in CW contesting and most of us have been in Madeira before. Good conditions to go for a new M/2 record from Africa, although beeing in the sunspot minimum. However, murphy sent a heavy storm on Friday which took some antennas, including our most important one, the 40m Beam... For the full story with fotos visit http://www.dl5xx.net/ct9l Thanks to all who called for a QSO. We'll print a QSL card and sent to everybody. The process will start not before 2007. vy 73 Stefan, DL5XX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,805,810 After operating the CQWW SSB from CU2A, I left everything in place and practically the station was ready for contest upon my arrival week before the CW part. There were no any surprises with station or antennas so most of the time I had to think what to do and how to spend my spare time... It was so amazing! Well, just a couple of days before the contest weather forecast indicated that very bad storm was approaching the island. The storm would hit the Azores Thursday. So only thing one could do was to hope that it would not be as bad as expected and that antennas will survive on the tower. Storm began on Thursday night as expected and was lasting until Saturday morning. The wind speed was up to 100 km/hour and some household items were actually flying around the house. And you can only guess how much I was afraid because of the antennas - my treasury! Fortunately everything stayed up and we did not even experience any electricity problems during the entire weekend. You can see some video clip about the storm in our web page, www.cu2a.com under CQWW 2006 CW pages. Prior operating from CU2, my highest experienced QSO-rates were around 160 Q/h. Now I felt that I had soooo slooow start with first three hours with only 165, 208 and 164 QSOs. You´re never satisfied, yeah? As a new strategy point, I'd decided to focus on working more DX than year ago. So after 10 hours of contest, I was 120 QSO´s behind my 2005 QSO number but equal in QSO points. So there was no reason for panic even tough I just could not get my pileup running the way I had hoped for. I was running my last year EU-record score simultaneously all the time and I did notice that I was falling behind in QSOs hour after hour. On the other hand, my multipliers and points per QSO were somewhat better than 2005 thus the score was quite equal for first 18 hours of the contest. At 1800UTC I made the decision not to go on low bands for EU and possible Asian multipliers, but instead stay on 15 and 20 mtrs and focus for 3 point NA QSO´s. It was a risk because from Azores there´s only a very limited time window for low band Asian QSO´s. But I knew that my EU pileup would be so huge that tracking Asian QSO´s would be difficult! I could work those Europeans later when higher bands get closed. And it was paying off. In next three hours my score was gaining about 120 000 pts compared to 2005. The same scenario continued during the entire weekend. I was focusing on 3 pointers and multipliers and falling behind in QSO´s. But at the end I was happy to see that my claimed score is about 350 000 pts higher than my claimed score last year even with 200 QSO´s less. My great thanks once again to whole the Azores/Finland Friendship Consortium for their help and especially to José, CU2DX & Paula, CU2YL for their great hospitality! For more information, please look at www.cu2a.com 73 de Toni, OH2UA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,010,018 Only raw score... 73 Lothar, DL3TD/DF0HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9OX Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 279,890 Hi @all, my 2nd try in CQWW CW, this year again with a lot faults. As usual by nearly everyone, I finished friday eve my rig. Main fault was with the beverages; I run by my feet some km that friday for finishing them, without time for testing. But today (Wednesday 29th of Nov) I found a nice mistake: 300/330/0/30 deg were not working ok. A coax fault. I listened during both night shifts mainly on that 300deg one, and worked a lot. So mni tnx for those coming through. Especially VE7CC, AB7E and N7CW from Zone 3. If there were others called me not even from Z3 which I did not rxed, vy sri. Pse give me a short mail for my personal interest. On local Sunday Morning a contest hating guy disturbed my CQs; ignoring him was not working. He started to pirate me; he called CQ with my call. Me QSYed. For those worked me that time: until 7:05Z I was on 3541.6, later 3534.4. 26th of Nov. Many Thanks to all who answered my CQ, special tnx to Louis HP3XUG, VE7CC, YW4D, LT1F (loud!), all TFs, VP2VVV, TG5A, AH2R (vy loud!), 5A1A (not 5A7A, hope he is no pirate) Hrd 37 Zones (missed 12, 26, 37) and 116 DXCCs. I hate that "always calling without listening" some EU guys practice. For sure they cannot here the dx, but they keep on calling. Some (maybe same) people had to think abt the situation in tropic and QRNic areas like S9SS and BA4RF. They do their best! Getting angry and do not stop calling them will not help anybody, only QRMing everybody. Tnx to both, and others, for going on with trying to grab calls! Sometimes I do not want to sit on the other side.... vy 73 de André/Andy DF9OX http://www.df9ox.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH0GHU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,058,251 Rig: TenTec ORION, ACOM1000 amplifier endfed wire, 34m, 5-8m above ground for 160m Inverted-L for 80m Inverted-V (2x10m) max. 11m above Ground for 40m-10m temporarely wire-GPs for 15m, 10m or 20m, feedpoint 12m above ground Conditions haven't been so bad, keeping in mind that we are near to this solar cycle's minimum. Good conditions towards North America helped pushing the score up to a new personal best. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 924 Just a few QSOs from the parking lot in downtown Cologne while shopping. ;-)) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 143,750 Hello contester, this year I worked with 100W only, because before the contest I got RF burn problems with my necessary KW tuner. In this case it was not possible to match the antennas under high power conditions. The roller inductor is faulty and I have to repair or exchange it. The tuner got problems during the "fights" on the WARC bands for working the 5A7A DXPedition in the week before. The voltage was to high and the tuner got fire inside, that is the story behind the contest preparation phase. So I decided to work only barfoot with 100W and my ICOM IC756PRO3. Keyer was a old ETM-8C and CT-WIN for contest IN/OUT logging. Antennea were FBDX660 (6 element multiband yagi, 19m up) and 160m / 80m Kelemen dipol, 66m long, inverted Vee, 18m up. All possible antennas worked fine with 100W and the inside ICOM tuner. Only low power, but very fast automatical tuning. I like my PRO-III ! An automatical tuner for high power would be fine for the future, but my 1KW PA do not support automatical tuning and it is necessary to tune it by myself. Perhaps in the "very late future" I will look for an ACOM 2000A, but the price is very high, to much for me in this time. On the second hand, I made some hundreds Q`s during the CQWW contest with our clubstation DK0AE and so I loose a lot of time to reach a better place in my class under my call DJ1AA. Anyway, I had a lot of fun and be sure, hear you in the next year. For the final here are my work continent statistics. Continent Statistics DJ1AA CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 2 5 4 33 32 0 76 18.5 South America CW 0 0 0 0 6 0 6 1.5 Europe CW 73 98 79 29 4 7 290 70.7 Asia CW 0 5 9 2 0 0 16 3.9 Africa CW 2 4 8 2 1 5 22 5.4 Oceania CW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 VY 73 de Mirko DJ1AA / AB0DL / 5Z4HU Germany / USA / KENYA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,406,250 Rigs: FT1000MP MKV Field, TT Orion PAs: ACOM 2000A, Drake L4B Antennas: 160m Dipole, 80m 2el wirebeam @ 30m, 40m 3el @ 35m, OB9-5 and 4el SteppIR Software: Wintest 3.5 on 2 networked computers Condx on the lowbands were very nice, my highlighht of the contest was when HC8N came back to my CQ on 80m. Lowlight was a frequency fight for over 30 minutes with an european M/? on 40m, in the middle of a nice run. It paid off not to give up... Low multiplier numbers on the higher bands, some very easy multipliers missed. SO2R is great fun, 453 QSOs were made on the 2nd radio. Planned to work 46 hours, but I apparently didn't hear my alarm clock on sunday morning... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ2YA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,023,120 What a choice of multis on LF!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ6QT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,177,036 Without Cluster I missed to many multipliers. Next time I hope I will have one. Only S&P, have to call more CQ. Thanks for the great activity. "CQ" has to think about the Class "unassisted" on my opinion there is no possible check of "none use".... Walter, DJ6QT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ6TK Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 15,309 Hi, I only made few QSOs on 40m outside of my Contest - Group Operation. We worked from the KCAG among DL0KF in the Contest(Multi 2) Vy 73, Wilf - dj6tk - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 373,184 Had not much time during daylight so not much multis on 10m and 15m. Mostly active during night and I testet my new L-antenna for 160m. Also m main Rig is defekt and I had to take my holiday rig, FT-847, without CW filters. DJ6QT gave me some audio filter and it worked perfect (thanks). Unbelievable whats sometimes possible with 100W and how long you have to wait at the other site. KG6DX was no problem on 20m but 5A7A impossible on 10m but vy easy on all other bands. Will puplish more on my website during the next few days (www.qslnet.de/dj8og) Thanks for all the Qs, Matt, DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK0ED Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,437,624 Small M/2 from the local radio club. Station 1: IC736, Commander HF1250 abt 500W Ant: R7 GP (10-40) Station 2: Orion, Heath SB-1000 abt 500W Ant: 2x45m Dipole open wire feed Had severe noise on 80/160, but a small RX vert helped a bit. So our QSO numbers on the low bands are not too good. Got 5A7A on six bands. Limited openings to JA and the US west. Only a few W7's in the log. Sunday afternoon on 15 to the US and zones 8/9 was good, but the band closed early. 20m closed at abt 19h UTC, even K3LR/W3LPL/KC1XX/9Y4AA lost signal strength a lot. 40m worked quite well, we could work almost everybody we did hear. 73 de Chris DL4YAO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK2GZ Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 353,128 TRX/PA: K2/100 AL80A Antenna: Full-size wire vertical built friday afternoon Doublet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK2PH Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 24,288 Never expected to work all continents and 23 zones on 10m in sunspot minimum. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK3DM Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 509,600 Hi @ all ! I think 20m was not the band to be this year here from germany. band closed very early both days and openings to USA were not very HOT :-( splatters from east europe getting worse and worse every year I think. I would like to know how many 10 kw amp´s were on from there ?! some times the band was full from beginning to the end and I couldn´t hold a frequency against the east european wall.... but anyway ... I had some minutes of fun in the contest even it was mostly frustrating and boring on sunday. Hope to be better next year ! MANY thanks to every one for the QSOs and see you in the next one ! 73 de Heiko, DK3DM STN used : Optibeam 16-3 (4ele for 20) at 24m AGL JP 2000 (3ele for 20) at 17m AGL on other tower FT 1000 D and ACOM 2000 see our station at http://www.taubeneiche.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0OV Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 156,247 Very nice CONDX on 80m. Thanks to all for QSO's. Also, thanks to my Club DL0OV because they allow me to work single Op. also, I hope this is a new DL 80m LP record. 73, Zik VE3ZIK,/T9,/9A,/YU, DO1SKY, 4N1DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1EFD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,500,807 IC761 + TS850 Optibeam OB11-3 @12m Bencher HF9V 80m-Dipole @8m 18m Vertical w/ Smartuner at base ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,104,320 This year`s CQWW marks my first ever SO2R operation, and I had a blast! In an outstanding all homebrew engineering effort Wolf, DF2PY, upgraded the setup and implemented the filtering, antenna switching matrix, new wiring plus tons of other stuff which all performed flawlessly. This took months as unfortunately both of us have a job besides contesting, hi. We had a lot of fun, though, discussing details of the implementation in the mornings this summer via VHF on our way to work! First night went pretty well and I found I could easily run on 80 while picking up juicy mults on 40 with the second radio. Being called by KH7X on 80 was cool, unfortunately I didn’t work into zone 31 on any other band. Had a nice run into the US on 160 without making it into zone 03. Saturday a.m. was mainly spent on 20 with good signals from Oceania and East Asia. Upon arriving on 15 a problem with the linear of the main radio developed. Fortunately this could be fixed on the run, but I was pretty much limited to one radio and had to stay away from 15 for over an hour. This might at least partly explain my overall poor performance on that band. Used the time to improve my mult total on 10 by working mainly EU and a little loud DX like from Asia, Africa and South America. HC8N was the loudest of them all! Ran 20 and 15 Saturday p.m. and tried to pick up mults with the second radio. 20 closed early, however, and I didn`t feel the band was real hot the whole weekend. The first evening brought mostly EU on 40 and a couple of double mults on 80 like JA, HS, ZS and 9M2. Happy to finally work VK6HD on 80 in a contest. The second night went by smoothly with the usual combination of runs on the lowbands. I found that picking up mults on the second radio actually kept me more alert rather than adding to the fatigue. The Sunday sunrise on 160 was excellent and brought in a row KP4US (mult), TI5N (double mult), KV4FZ (mult) and CU2A (mult). Wow! Went to 20 immediately after sunrise and found the band wide open to Japan. This was the only time I could run Japan the entire contest. The opening started long path with lots of echo on signals that were not very loud. This combined with my tiredness made up for a real challenge. I was happy when I could turn the beam short path later in the morning. Arrived on 15 very early and was quickly rewarded with a number of double mults from South East Asia. I began to realize, however, that while the mult total was ok the QSO total was not. This didn’t change during the afternoon and by Sunday evening I was convinced I would fall short of my 2005 results. 40 didn’t open to the US early and I decided that actively looking for additional mults was the only option that was left. Started S&P jumping between 80 and 40 with the main radio and combing 160 with the second radio. This triple S&P actually paid off and by 2300 I started running 40 with a finally excellent opening to the US. Passed the 2005 mark with 15 minutes to go. I am happy I was able to spend 48 hours straight in the chair thanks to Wolf and his family who kept me well fed the whole weekend. Thanks also to Win, DK9IP, for letting me evaluate his EZMaster SO2R box which performed without a glitch. And, of course, thanks to my XYL and my 2 boys for letting me play radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 162,405 ...sunday afternoon: things are a bit slow as I have worked almost everyone using 100 W into a sloper in the backyard and there are no new multis around. Tuning slowly above 14100 I suddenly hear "9AA"! This must be Bernd, VK9AA, who immediately comes back to my first call. - Thanks Bernd for the double multi and bringing back the adrenalin into my veins! 73, Uwe DL4AAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL6UAA Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 18,502 FT847 + endf. inv. U wire ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 82,124 RIG: FT920 ANT: WINDOM@12 mtrs Very hard to work dx, but got HC8, VK, JA, PZ & 8Q with spending a lot of time for calling. Never heard ZL. Heard, but no luck: BA7RF, 3B, VR, ZF :-((((. The condx on Saturday were much better, than on Sunday, where the dx-signals was weaker. Next full entry will be the ARRL DX CW. GL es 73s Ben ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,860,656 Great lowband condx produced excellent signals on 160 to NA during the first night. Thanks for all the QSOs! 73 de DQ4W. PS: Congrats to Fab DJ1YFK for an ufb SOAB score! PPS: 73ss to Ben DL6RAI @ VR2BG! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 16,359,192 We were able to unveil some weak parts of the setup. They could be clearly defined, and will be transformed to some jobs to do next year. In particular we need a better transmitting antenna on 80m, and we need to hear better on 160m. Also 40m and 15m need some fine tuning. We are quite happy with the 20m and 10m performance under the given propagation... Nothing broken. Our safety concept seems to work. K1TTT talked about opening bands. Here is how 20m opened the first day to North America at DR1A. Probably we had the single 5-ele @ 32m pointing to USA at this time, while the 5-over-5-Stack was still pointing JA/East... QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 0854 NQ4I 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 0938 VE6JY 599 04 QSO: 14001 CW 2006-11-25 1043 V47NT 599 08 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1059 VE1OP 599 05 QSO: 14066 CW 2006-11-25 1106 VP2MDG 599 08 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1107 K1TTT 599 05 QSO: 14069 CW 2006-11-25 1110 8P5A 599 08 QSO: 14025 CW 2006-11-25 1110 C6AKX 599 08 QSO: 14062 CW 2006-11-25 1116 V26K 599 08 QSO: 14055 CW 2006-11-25 1117 KP3Z 599 08 QSO: 14040 CW 2006-11-25 1126 HI3A 599 08 QSO: 14076 CW 2006-11-25 1129 VP2VVV 599 08 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1134 W1WEF 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1136 K9RS 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1138 VO1HE 599 05 QSO: 14005 CW 2006-11-25 1148 HP1/DJ7AA 599 07 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1148 W2LE 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1150 K1WA 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1151 K3PH 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1151 N1UR 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1152 N4ARR 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1152 CO2JW 599 08 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1155 N6CY 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1155 KR2AA 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1155 KT3Y 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1156 VE3KZ 599 04 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1158 K1LOG 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1159 K3WU 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1200 KC4D 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1200 W1NT 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1200 VE1KC 599 05 QSO: 14016 CW 2006-11-25 1200 K9AW 599 05 The flood gates were open after 1200z. There was a little bit of life in the second night, and the band really started living after 1130z again: QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0113 HP1AC 599 07 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0208 KE2WY 599 05 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0237 K2UOP 599 05 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0246 WR2G 599 05 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0302 KB1H 599 05 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0305 K1VR 599 05 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0307 W9XT 599 04 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0310 N4GI 599 05 QSO: 14028 CW 2006-11-26 0334 N3ST 599 05 QSO: 14083 CW 2006-11-26 1047 KP4US 599 08 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1135 W4YA 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1137 K2AX 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1140 W3UA 599 05 QSO: 14026 CW 2006-11-26 1141 CO8LY 599 08 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1143 N2ED 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1147 K1LD 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1148 K0TV 599 05 QSO: 14018 CW 2006-11-26 1148 W1KM 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1152 K1SND 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1153 K8CC 599 04 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1154 W1ZK 599 05 QSO: 14042 CW 2006-11-26 1154 K4ZW 599 05 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1159 K8IFK 599 04 QSO: 14035 CW 2006-11-26 1200 N4PJ 599 05 See you all again next time ! 73 Ben DL6FBL http://www.dr1a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,546,308 After two years with massive hits from McMurphy this year the whole equipment made it to the end of the contest. McMurphy did only visit us twice in the preparation time. Juergen, I hope that your broken leg will heal very fast; get well soon. The conditions have been quite well on 20 and 80m, 10m was only "open" enough for chasing some mults. Congrts to OM8A for a great result which is unbeatable for our "more or less" portable setup. But we are quite satisfied with our result, more than ever because we have been able to evaluate the overall performance of our setup. 73 es cuagn in 2007 Wolfgang DK9VZ - DR4A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E51YAQ Class: M/S LP Total Score = 3,090,472 This was a lightweight operation from Rarotonga. R5, HF6V, and 40M verticals on the beach at the KiiKii Motel with water exposure NW to SE. For us this was mainly a US/Japan contest as very little in the way of EU openings that would benefit us. Continent breakdown shows this with only 4% EU. And of course our multiplier count suffered. 90 DXCC countries worked (missed easy ones like LA, SM) and 34 zones (missed 2, 22, 36, 37, 39, 40). Asia 27.4% Oceania 3.1% North America 62.8% South America 2.2% Europe 4.0% Africa 0.5% 10 meters was a pleasant surprise, including a call by TZ5A 8 minutes into the contest! 40 and 15 carried the load for us, but for some reason 20 meters here is like a black hole, with only very brief runs possible. The E51 prefix really sucks when trying to do S&P! I don't think we had anyone come right back with our correct call on the first call. Most thought we were ES1 and pointed their beams toward Europe, never to return. Some S&P contacts actually took more than 5 minutes to complete! We longed for the old ZK1 prefix during these periods of frustration! Anyway, all in all it was great fun from a great QTH. 73 and thanks for the QSOs! Bob W7YAQ Bill N7OU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2AZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,144,232 Station Description: YAESU FT-920; YESU FT-757GXII; Bandpass Filters: ICE MODEL 409 (Monoband). Antenna(s): CCUSHCRAFT X7 (10, 15, 2M.)KIT X740 for 40m. A DIPOL V Inverted 80m. (monoband); A DIPOL V Inverted for 10,15,20 40m. My primer Contest in SO2R, 73,s of Agustín ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2BI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,524,985 Condx were really good and we had great fun. Thank you all for the q's. Visit www.dx4ever.com for more info and some pictures taken during the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2LU Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 190,650 Great fun! Conditions time to time were excellent, I want to say thanks for all to called me and particulary for those rare mults that made me a call. Here my battle was with the static noise from the pine trees due the high winds and dry wheater and QRM from big stations very close to my QRG that the 500Hz filters of my FT 1000 were unable to clear it. Sorry for the ??? and QRZ on my side, but, I´am not "Alligator" or "not RX" as somebody write on the cluster I worked 5 PY stations and 380 USA too (for his knowledge only). If family and job permit, I will try to be QRV for Stew Perry and CQ 160m DX contests too. Regards. Jorge EA2LU ea2lu@telefonica.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3AJW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 229,245 One year more in this Contest I work mono-operator-mono-band 40 hp in Badalona ( Barcelona ) `My new Home. I usend tx-rx yaesu ft1000mp Mark-V the power 500 Watts in my antena dipole one element abt 12 m. The propagation good condition. Good luck the Team EA6IB See you in the next Contest Boys ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3AKY Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 424,965 Was again portable in Ebro's Delta after good results in ww160 last January. Worked all thursday and friday to put up the antennas, nice to work with a t-shirt only at 24C in late November. Has been my first test in SO80, after last two years in 20 and 40 (from my qth in Barcelona). The goal was to get a new EA record and being in the top 10 in EU. Results have been very good, getting the first one easily, and seeing last year EU results may get the second one, too. Conditions were superb, low noise and very good propagation, the 4L beverage to USA worked very fine, with +700 qsos to USA/VE and the others (2L, sorry had no more time to work with them) did a good work, but still need to get something to switch off the qrm from EU when trying to listen Asia and Pacific stations in pileups or calling me. I had several JAs at noise/qrm level calling me Sunday evening that were impossible to get through the QRM levels. Sure i missed 15-20 countries there and several zones. Any idea ? In the transmitting side, the L/4 vertical was 21 meters high, built with AL tubes, with 3x12 radials going around to the rice field water, qth about 3Km from sea in most directions (look a map to understand). Thanks to all who called me and congrats to big EU gunner like SN3A, SN7Q, etc for their super results in 80. Will try to be again there in the ww160 with a 2x1 call. 73s Josep EA3AKY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,695,000 This is our first serious M/S attempt from EA mainland. It is not a good idea to have 15, 20 and 40m on the same tower. We missed many multipliers. We made all the 160m contacts following the spanish regulations ( 1830-1850 Khz ). Thanks for the QSO. 73 fm all the group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA6IB Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 16,151,444 This was our second attempt on M/2 category.We think that our strategy was better than last year, and the score confirms we are right. Conditions were also better than last edition in all bands, except an closure on 80 & 160 last night. We have as guest operator Thomas Andersen OZ1AA, one of the WWYC member.We have three members of this club in our crew: EA3ALZ, EA5GX and OZ1AA, next generation of contesters are GUARANTEED, really very fine operators. Station setup: 160 meters: Inverted L, Rxing with 2x beverages Icom 756 pro II plus TL922 80 meters: Full size vertical GP, Rxing with 2 beverages Icom 765 plus AL-1500 40 meters: 2 el yagi (31m high) Icom 765 plus TL922 20 meters: 5 el yagi (20m high) Icom 756 plus TL922 15 meters: 5 el yagi (24m high) + 4 el yagi (25m high) Yaesu FT920 plus TL922 10 meters: 5 el yagi (23m high) Yaesu FT920 plus TL922 Soft: CTwin (10.03.002) Many thanks for all Qs, and specially our competitors on M/2 Here we enclose our sumary and rate tables: Call: EA6IB Category: Multi Two Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: CW Country: Balearic Is. Zone: 14 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 823 1196 1.45 19 82 80 1839 3152 1.71 32 112 40 2748 5142 1.87 37 147 20 2259 4484 1.98 37 139 15 1545 2966 1.92 35 131 10 822 1167 1.42 27 94 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 10036 18107 1.80 187 705 => 16,151,444 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults EA6IB CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Two HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 9/14 151/41 186/54 ..... ..... ..... 346/109 346/109 1 7/7 163/13 203/12 . . . 373/32 719/141 2 103/28 145/6 7/6 . . . 255/40 974/181 3 3/3 140/6 166/12 5/10 . . 314/31 1288/212 4 7/8 111/6 121/15 2/3 . . 241/32 1529/244 5 96/8 8/9 78/4 1/2 . . 183/23 1712/267 6 79/5 32/8 107/8 1/2 . . 219/23 1931/290 7 . 15/1 8/6 100/30 60/21 . 183/58 2114/348 8 ..... ..... 4/3 95/17 111/18 1/2 211/40 2325/388 9 . . . 127/15 98/17 6/10 231/42 2556/430 10 . . . 68/14 144/16 67/14 279/44 2835/474 11 . . . 9/14 167/13 183/19 359/46 3194/520 12 . . . 12/4 115/4 126/5 253/13 3447/533 13 . . . 17/4 52/9 4/5 73/18 3520/551 14 . 2/3 3/5 165/3 105/9 3/5 278/25 3798/576 15 . . 6/5 158/2 92/6 3/5 259/18 4057/594 16 ..... 1/1 5/6 188/5 113/3 4/6 311/21 4368/615 17 . 2/3 9/11 67/3 23/6 . 101/23 4469/638 18 2/3 6/3 125/1 36/6 . . 169/13 4638/651 19 3/1 105/1 107/5 1/1 . . 216/8 4854/659 20 105/2 4/7 144/1 4/2 . . 257/12 5111/671 21 115/5 4/5 121/3 1/1 . . 241/14 5352/685 22 71/1 41/3 138/2 2/2 . . 252/8 5604/693 23 36/4 61/0 83/5 . . . 180/9 5784/702 0 63/3 24/3 87/0 2/2 ..... ..... 176/8 5960/710 1 5/1 104/2 89/2 5/2 . . 203/7 6163/717 2 31/0 109/4 46/3 . . . 186/7 6349/724 3 33/1 53/2 50/0 . . . 136/3 6485/727 4 1/1 102/0 105/0 1/1 . . 209/2 6694/729 5 17/0 85/4 68/2 2/2 . . 172/8 6866/737 6 17/4 61/2 31/2 3/3 1/1 . 113/12 6979/749 7 . 6/2 14/1 92/1 35/10 3/5 150/19 7129/768 8 ..... ..... 2/0 116/2 56/10 4/4 178/16 7307/784 9 . . . 116/1 36/2 5/7 157/10 7464/794 10 . . . 111/3 20/2 62/5 193/10 7657/804 11 . . . 111/3 5/3 124/6 240/12 7897/816 12 . . . 132/1 47/4 11/5 190/10 8087/826 13 . . . 109/3 6/6 96/10 211/19 8298/845 14 . . . 6/4 105/2 99/3 210/9 8508/854 15 . . 3/5 106/3 57/1 19/3 185/12 8693/866 16 ..... ..... ..... 119/0 83/1 2/2 204/3 8897/869 17 1/0 1/1 76/0 54/1 8/1 . 140/3 9037/872 18 3/0 . 101/2 84/2 5/1 . 193/5 9230/877 19 . 48/2 95/1 22/0 1/0 . 166/3 9396/880 20 . 91/0 73/0 4/1 . . 168/1 9564/881 21 4/1 80/0 67/1 1/1 . . 152/3 9716/884 22 . 63/1 113/0 1/0 . . 177/1 9893/885 23 12/1 21/5 107/1 3/0 . . 143/7 10036/892 DAY1 636/89 991/116 1621/164 1059/140 1080/122 397/71 ..... 5784/702 DAY2 187/12 848/28 1127/20 1200/36 465/44 425/50 . 4252/190 TOT 823/101 1839/144 2748/184 2259/176 1545/166 822/121 . 10036/892 BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr EA6IB CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Two HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 1/484 25/360 33/334 ..... ..... ..... 60/348 60/348 1 1/840 26/384 34/359 . . . 60/374 120/361 2 25/244 33/261 2/265 . . . 60/254 180/325 3 0/600 27/313 32/307 0/818 . . 60/315 240/322 4 1/615 28/236 31/235 0/313 . . 60/240 300/306 5 29/196 3/168 27/171 0/514 . . 60/184 360/286 6 21/224 9/207 30/217 0/720 . . 60/219 420/276 7 . 8/115 3/149 32/186 16/231 . 59/186 479/265 8 ..... ..... 1/248 25/225 33/200 0/3600 60/212 538/259 9 . . . 32/237 27/220 1/460 60/232 598/256 10 . . . 14/300 35/250 12/339 60/279 658/258 11 . . . 1/523 26/385 33/334 60/359 718/267 12 . . . 2/351 31/224 29/265 61/247 779/265 13 . . . 3/303 24/133 1/335 28/159 807/262 14 . 0/600 0/568 40/249 19/338 0/400 59/281 866/263 15 . . 1/273 41/231 17/321 0/450 60/260 926/263 16 ..... ..... 1/474 41/278 19/362 1/335 61/308 987/266 17 . 2/67 5/111 39/102 15/95 . 61/100 1047/256 18 1/176 3/131 47/158 8/263 . . 59/172 1106/252 19 0/675 34/187 26/247 0/3600 . . 60/216 1166/250 20 25/255 1/379 34/254 1/379 . . 60/257 1226/250 21 29/241 2/158 29/246 0/240 . . 60/241 1286/250 22 16/263 9/268 34/241 0/480 . . 60/252 1346/250 23 14/153 16/226 30/166 . . . 60/179 1407/247 0 21/180 9/154 28/184 1/157 ..... ..... 60/177 1466/244 1 1/225 30/207 27/195 1/228 . . 60/202 1526/242 2 12/160 34/193 15/189 . . . 60/186 1586/240 3 14/137 21/152 24/125 . . . 59/137 1646/236 4 0/157 28/215 31/201 0/360 . . 60/208 1706/235 5 6/158 29/176 23/174 0/655 . . 59/175 1765/233 6 8/132 34/109 15/124 3/54 0/300 . 60/113 1825/229 7 . 3/143 8/107 38/145 10/213 2/86 61/149 1886/227 8 ..... ..... 0/424 40/174 18/185 1/203 60/179 1945/225 9 . . . 48/146 9/231 2/142 59/159 2004/223 10 . . . 40/165 5/249 15/252 60/194 2064/223 11 . . . 29/233 2/194 30/249 60/240 2124/223 12 . . . 45/176 11/259 4/159 60/190 2184/222 13 . . . 35/190 1/245 24/240 60/211 2244/222 14 . . . 2/200 31/204 27/218 60/210 2304/222 15 . . 1/338 33/193 16/219 11/107 60/186 2364/221 16 ..... ..... ..... 33/219 26/191 1/104 60/204 2424/220 17 0/200 1/100 32/141 22/150 5/93 . 60/140 2484/218 18 1/338 . 31/196 27/187 2/186 . 60/193 2544/218 19 . 18/162 35/163 7/190 0/720 . 60/167 2604/217 20 . 33/164 25/178 1/180 . . 59/170 2663/216 21 2/116 36/133 22/184 0/277 . . 60/151 2723/214 22 . 21/180 39/175 0/257 . . 60/177 2783/213 23 4/177 6/210 48/135 2/89 . . 60/144 2843/212 DAY1 2.7/234 3.8/264 6.7/242 4.7/226 4.3/250 1.3/312 ..... 23.4/247 DAY2 1.2/160 5.0/168 6.7/167 6.8/177 2.3/206 2.0/218 . 23.9/178 TOT 3.9/212 8.8/209 13.4/205 11.5/197 6.6/234 3.2/255 . 47.4/212 BREAKDOWN in kilo-points by hr EA6IB CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Two HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 180 546 783 ..... ..... ..... 1508 1508 1 77 280 316 . . . 673 2181 2 352 188 80 . . . 619 2801 3 39 206 286 142 . . 673 3474 4 95 142 280 38 . . 556 4030 5 130 99 92 28 . . 349 4379 6 118 114 144 28 . . 405 4785 7 . 22 73 396 312 . 802 5587 8 ..... ..... 42 249 265 28 583 6170 9 . . . 224 252 132 607 6777 10 . . . 193 244 186 623 7400 11 . . . 184 230 255 669 8069 12 . . . 68 100 122 290 8359 13 . . . 52 172 69 293 8652 14 . 38 76 210 201 67 592 9244 15 . . 62 167 189 67 486 9730 16 ..... ..... 69 215 186 87 567 10297 17 . 39 127 114 92 . 372 10670 18 38 41 76 121 . . 275 10944 19 10 63 110 10 . . 194 11138 20 68 96 101 23 . . 288 11426 21 121 68 116 10 . . 315 11741 22 46 48 130 21 . . 245 11986 23 65 40 141 . . . 246 12232 0 95 45 91 21 ..... ..... 252 12484 1 12 103 111 25 . . 251 12735 2 24 162 87 . . . 272 13008 3 40 68 54 . . . 162 13169 4 10 99 111 10 . . 231 13400 5 8 116 90 21 . . 236 13636 6 64 59 44 40 10 . 217 13853 7 . 31 19 73 148 66 337 14190 8 ..... ..... 1 105 142 42 289 14479 9 . . . 72 41 87 201 14680 10 . . . 90 31 84 205 14886 11 . . . 117 33 112 262 15148 12 . . . 146 66 63 275 15423 13 . . . 137 61 187 386 15809 14 . . . 43 136 138 318 16127 15 . . 67 141 81 47 336 16463 16 ..... ..... ..... 127 113 21 261 16724 17 0 9 40 77 20 . 147 16871 18 1 . 69 134 16 . 220 17091 19 . 52 53 29 1 . 135 17226 20 . 48 45 14 . . 106 17332 21 10 40 77 10 . . 138 17470 22 . 43 114 1 . . 158 17629 23 16 84 114 1 . . 216 17844 DAY1 1339 2041 3105 2493 2242 1013 ..... 12232 DAY2 281 959 1189 1435 900 848 . 5612 TOT 1620 2999 4294 3928 3143 1860 . 17844 Call us next contest EA6IB team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 1,244,408 This time I did not make any mistakes. Let's continue withouts mistakes, in contests and life! Missed A71 and 9H for European Zoo. Maybe a new record, with only 6 antennas (2 3-el wire yagis, 2 beverages, 2 k9ay-loops) Maukka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8EW Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 32,721,331 Great TNX to our host Pekka OH1RY and his XYL Taina! Also TNX to Manolo EA8ZS for supporting this operation. some FOTO is here: http://www.lral.lv/ea8_2006/foto/index.html http://public.fotki.com/ly2cy/ea8ew 73! Girts YL2KL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA9/OL8R Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 3,277,714 QTH: Ceuta EA9 Station setup: FT 857 Nbook + N1MM + Microham USB adapter antennas 40,30,20,17,15,12,10 - Vertical SP7GXP 80 - Inv Vee at apex 10m 160 - LW 41m I arrived to EA9 on Sunday previous week to be well prepared for upcoming contest. I had nice QTH on tophil of the city with clear view to south Spain (Andalusia), Gibraltar and direction to US. Hostel QTH was in the arabic part of the city with well spoken spanish (unfortunately zero English). On Monday I setup vertical. I worked just 2 hours on 17m making 250 QSO. Owner came to me explaining that I do TVI to him and all neighbours around. I was allowed to work from 02:00 am till noon each day. I decided same moment to leave that place. In 20m2 one could count 10 different TV antennas beaming to all possible and unxpected at once directions. I had no other QTH as backup prepared. I had chance to leave EA9 or find something else. EA9LZ arranged another location on opposite part of the EA9, small cottage colony and racing area. I was moved to wodden cottage. Owner promised I can stay till Saturday. On that day I would have to move to other cottage 200 meters distant. There were no other option just to accept it or move cottage colony completely. To cut short story, during contest I had to move from one QTH to another one loosing 4.5 hours, another approx 2 hours I lost fixing broken 80m Inv Vee. Net working time was approx 36 hours. Within one week I had to set up into 3 different QTH;s and made totally 6400 QSO signing as EA9/OK1FCJ before and as EA9/OL8R during contest 73 Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EG3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,385,056 First time in SO2R. I try to be 48h but I cant, at 00:00h sunday I stop with 2000Q's and I woke up at 07h. I have learned very much on the SO2R but I have very much for learning. This year I could not be with my friends in EA6IB. Congratulations for they great score. RIG : IC765/IC775 & PA's antennas : Inv. L for 80/160m, GP for 40m, Half wave verticals for 20/15 (J-POLE) for second radio, KT34XA 13 mH. Fernando. EA3KU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI/SP4Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,736,280 Thanks to all worked me It was nice pleasure to work from EI I was afraid about my spiderbeam and mast due to strong wind but was OK all the contest. RIG IC7000 + ant SPIDERBEAM, Dipole (40m), Inverted Vee (160,80m) See you Wes SP4Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI7M Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 96,903 Very high level of utility QRN ruled out our normal entry this time. I could not resist having a try on the quietest band, which was 80 meters!. Apologies to those who called to no avail. Jerry/EI6BT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ER4DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 6,813,433 Thanks to Vasiliy to let me work from his station. Even with aurora condition was not to bad here.The problem was not enough NA stations on all bands. Anyway,I am so happy with my performance. Congratulations to my friend Jose,CT3NT with a BIG score(Jose,please let me advice how to be feet for 48 hours). CU,Serge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5MC Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 209,883 A semi-serious effort from my new QTH. Just a wire vertical (last 5m bent and sloping) from a ca 18m high spruce 40m from the house, managed to attach also 6 radials to it before it became too dark on Friday evening... Then realised that my rig went totally dead on RX - thanks to ES2FN got a Mark V quickly and could come QRV in the contest! My aim was to have some idea how the place is working and how is the QRM/noise situation, also to have fun of course. It was fairly good really, I copied much better than most DX guys copied me, Hi! And no special RX antennas, just receiving on the same vertical. The highlight for me was KH7X calling me the 2nd morning, worked also NL7Z from zone 1 and ZL6QH in almost full day-light. Quite many nice mults from Caribbean as well, not too many far-east (e.g. only 17 JAs) but an average count of US stations (ca 50). So, have to be rather pleased to consider a modest antenna set-up and not too good conditions. Hope to be more equipped for the next year's event. 73, Arvo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6DO Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 205,219 Very good condx, no QRM & QRN. But got a fever 39 deg Saturday morning and spend some 1/3 contest in bed. See you next CQ WW CW! 73 Neil ES6DO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 258,856 My favorite contest. Unfortunately I was not able to participate as SOSB 160 from country QTH due to family reasons. Highlights: 5A7A on 160 with my poor 160 m and 8Q7DV on 6 bands. IC775DSP 200W C31XR@12 m Half sloper 160-40 CU next year! 73, Nodir EY8MM http://ey8mm.codan.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4DNW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 133,623 Thanks to all, really happy to work 31 new dxcc on 80m ! working with FT1K5, 600w, 1/4 wave vertical, 2 beverage see you very soon for the next contest spec TNX to hp3xug, aa6dy, n7ua, n6ro for calling me. 73 Jerome F4DNW worked: zone nr of qso 2 2 3 3 4 50 5 141 7 1 8 10 9 4 10 1 14 176 15 220 16 100 17 21 18 9 20 24 21 2 25 7 30 1 33 8 34 2 35 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 216,474 Powered by Win-Test 3.6.1 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5TNI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 643,632 http://www.didier83.fr/f5tni/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 170,130 Thanks a lot for your answer at my call. Dx had very good ears. But It is very difficult to find a free hertz! My rig is FT817, 5 watts - TH5MK2S - Vert DX88 - Doublet Best 73 to all and see you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6ARC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,018,476 Nice weather for ducks this CQWW CW week-end! Thanks to Jo F6CTT for the hospitality. His four efficient Beverage antennas did a great job. Wind and rain noise sometimes pushed the S-meter well over 9 on the two transmit antennas. Signals over the short path “Asia” were still pretty good around midday, and not too bad over the long path “W6/W7” (wkd two KH6s). During daylight, I called some DX stations (e.g. B1Z)who had problems copying my prefix: they probably thought the band was not open towards Western Europe. Thanks to those who gave me points and multipliers. Oliver - F6ARC http://www.dxbeam.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8BPN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,392,600 Nice contest, a shame I could not use the amplfier on 20/15/10 meters because of TVI problems. CQ did not create yet a special category HP/LP!! hi! Never mind a big fun and some very nice DX on the low bands. Thanks a lot to all who called or replied me. See you next year for this one or before for the next CW contest. 88 from F8BPN Mau ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FS/AH8DX Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 128,377 Suitcase Station: Elecraft K2, Sony Vaio and Vertical. This was the lightest that I have traveled in years and I am sure my signal was light also. I ran qrp all weekend so the reasoning behind me having to repeat callsigns and reports endlessly. With me traveling so much I thought that it would be a great idea to take my wife and two kids on a Thanksgiving vacation and do the contest in between playing with them on the beach. As much as I would have loved to sit in the chair all weekend behind the radio; I knew that my children needed their dad's attention also. I first started the contest out on 160, but after logging only four stations in a couple of hours I knew that I needed more power and a bigger antenna. I decided that 15 was probably the best band to do qrp. I tried a new spot for this test that was about 500' above the ocean on the side of a cliff and just attached a vertical to the balcony with four radials to the north. With a flat swr it played great. The Elecraft K2 heard very well also. I just wish I could have held a frequency better. I had to operate high in the band almost to 21.100 at times to get away from everyone. Highlight of the test was working Bob, E51YAQ at almost 10 pm my local time. He was the only signal on the band calling cq and he heard me calling him. Thanks for the great ears Bob! Maybe being familiar with my call helped also. It was also nice to be back in FS after traveling so often to 8R1EA. Thanks everyone for having gud ears and pulling my signal out of the mud; see you all in the next test. Craig, AH8DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5FY Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,674,400 Only 37 hours, I was so tired! Using a vertical for 10/15/20/40 @25m high and a long sloper for 80 /160 in my new location in Cayenne. WINTEST is a super CW loging program, I love it! Thanks for QSO with me, 73's Didier / FY5FY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0AZS Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 44,394 What fun! Working 5W to a G5RV at 8m... Popped in and out during the weekend as I was generally busy doing other things but tried to catch multipliers as I heard them. One plea to all with contest software including partial call checkers... I made a number of calls where the station came back with my call correct first time... but when signing, it was changed to another one (always the same)... which required time for both parties to correct it. I soon realised they were not used to my call and grabbed the other one from the call checker. The moral... trust your ears... pretty much all of you got it right first time. Anyway Looking forward to the next one and thanks to all for the contest. 73... Marc G0AZS (K1UG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0CKV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 705,501 This was fun. Although this was my first CQ WW contest for more than 35 years I felt right at home after a few minutes. I guess it was different – in the 60’s I used high power and big antennas but this time I was running barefoot into literally very wet strings at 25 ft up in my suburban back garden. Here is a photo of my fabulous ecologically correct antenna farm: http://www.g0ckv.com/antennafarm/wetstring.jpg . Can you spot the 1mm black wire in there? With such antennas I couldn’t hear or work much with very low elevation angle as is obvious from the zone count, nor would I even try to waste my time in any real pile up. I didn’t attempt a single CQ, it was all 100% S&P – but that may well have been a mistake. The vast majority of operators were great. Thank you to all those DX who were able to pick out my faint whispers. Some of you guys have put together contest stations that beat the old commercial HF stuff into the dust. That HC8N signal booming into Europe on all bands would get my price – how do you do it??? (Pssst: Do you have any hints on what I should do in my suburban garden to get a signal like yours for next year?) It was interesting to observe how many of the smarter big guys placed themselves up the band rather than jamming each other at the low end of the band. After a while I hardly listened at the low end – the qrm was such that it would have been a time-waster with my low power and bad antennas. Conditions must have been outstanding judging from the ease with which I leisurely S&P’d together my score. Sunspot minima used to mean misery but the world must have changed. My objective was to have fun and I met the objective. It is a pity this contest doesn’t run every weekend … 73 de Olof G0CKV – (SM6CKV) (SK6AB) SM0CKV W6CKV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G2R Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 615,954 Semi-serious effort from me this year...unfortunately the only antenna available from a fairly hastily erected inverted L at 30ft vertical and 45ft horizontal fed via a SGC230...contesting cutting edge is was not! and that only got put up by 10pm on the Friday!..so it was all a bit last minute and I certainly could have been more prepared and rested at the start of it...not too bad a result I think, only manged to stay in the seat 32 1/2 hours so much more work needed on 'in the seat' technique....this I think is really the golden rule! The crappy antenna did really did not help...evidenced by the lack of zones (I just could not hear a lot of the moe exotic stuff, let alone work it)...this was my first time in a full assisted mode...on the whole I feel it may be a slight disadvantage for the LP entrant with poor antenna as you can end up sucked into pointless fights for mults when another 'easy' and equally valid mult is just around the corner!...this perhaps diluted the effort...still ya'live'n'learn. For next year... Better seat!!!!...Bob (GU4YOX) was quite right this can be a surprisingly limiting factor if you get it wrong...my arse was numb to say the least The lack of acres chez'G0WAT may point the way to a single band entry as a more competitive section Make sure you are not working on 'stuff' up to the event... Make sure the other house PC is working so that you don't have to give up the operating desk/homework desk for the children to finish their R.E. or swot up on homework subjects prior to Monday morning 25m Inverted L/SGC 230(borrowed for the event)/FT1KMP/100w/Microham Keyer and Wintest... 73 de Paul G0WAT (G2R - Stevenage and District ARS Contest call) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3LZQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,077,755 CQWWCW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2006-11-24 CallSign Used : G3LZQ Operator(s) : G3LZQ Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : 14 Gridsquare : IO93PS Name : John Dunnington Address : PO Box-36 Gilberdyke Brough HU15 2WX City/State/Zip : Country : ENGLAND ARRL Section : DX Club/Team : CDXC UK Dx Foundation Software: N1MM Logger V6.10.10 Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN 1.8 145 230 63 15 3.5 226 395 90 24 7 160 316 80 27 14 210 495 92 31 21 128 295 74 23 28 71 124 46 16 Total 940 1855 445 136 Score : 1,077,755 Rig : FT1000-MP + ALPHA 87a Antennas : 160m Vertical 80m 4-Square 40m 4-Square Tribander X-7 at 40ft (way down due to winds) Soapbox : A s/p test for the most part due to other distractions Nice to give a few points to the deserving. Tried N1MM in anger for the first time..interesting. Missed the dipoles/loop for Eu Q's as too many Dx Ants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3PJT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,151,748 Ants - 160 TEE, 80 Vert, 40 4 sq, 20-10 OBW 10-5 Rig - K2/100 plus Alpha 99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 286,032 Topband at the bottom of the sunspot cycle was the place to be! High winds at the Devon field-day contest site on the Friday prevented the 20m antennas being installed for the orginally planned SOSB/20 entry. Instead a 160m inv-vee dipole was wound up to 95ft and three 160m listening antennas were stretched out around the garden. These latter made all the difference. Excellent 160m conditions produced 349 W (and 29 VE), 256 DL, 121 UA, 88 OK and 64 (zero-point!) G. 25% of the 1,588 Q's were with North America and 72% with Europe. Being called by several Caribbean stations really helped the Multiplier total. Additional mults heard that did not make it into the log were UA0YAY in z23, HS0ZDJ in z26 (called several times but no reply even with no-one else calling), LU8YE in z13 and 9Y4AA. Apart from these, every Mult heard was worked. Was QRV in the shack for 34 hours. Most of the daylight hours on the Saturday were spent outside setting up temporary 160m receive antennas. A weekend to be remembered on Topband! 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 971,102 RIG: FT-1000MP MK-V, 100W ANT: 250' Doublet at 40' QSO Ratio: 76% S&P : 24% Run 160m Almost ran for 60 mi