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 minutes; never worked as many North Americans in a weekend on top band before. 80m Like top band, great condx. Delighted with QSO count as antenna is a full wave on 80 and a real pig to load up. 40m What happened?! 40 seemed impossibly hard for me. High QRN, low MUF? Did anyone else struggle? North Americans always seemed stronger on both 20 and 80. Rate always nose-dived each time I went to 40. Normally such a reliable band. 20m Plenty of NA and opened especially well each afternoon. 15m Choice DX to be had but exclusively S&P. 10m Very surprised. Took a break on Sunday morning, woke at lunchtime to find signals on 10m. All S&P. Thanks to Tom (M0EDT) for the loan of his doublet and Marlene for her roast chicken Sunday dinner. Manual ATU made slow QSY-ing but a great time was had with a single wire antenna and low power. Dez G3WW, G0DEZ, ZC4DW, ZD8DEZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,811,408 First serious SOAB since 2002, it was great to be back though I think I prefer it when there are some sunspots! Sorry not to have found TZ5A on 160, but I did work my first ever ZS on the band. Doubling the length of the beverage this year really paid off when working North America. Nice moment on Sunday when I moved off 40m to pick up a few Qs on 80. Switched back to 40 and without moving the dial there was JT1BH CQing, easy double mult. 80m opened well to the States in the last half hour of the contest and in the middle of the run was delighted to be called by HS for a double mult, then OY in the last minute. It's clear from reading 3830 that W was workable on Sunday on 10m, but I missed it. That would have been the 500th mult! 160m Shunt fed tower 80m Delta loop 40m 4-square 20m 4el up 73ft; 4el fixed up 38ft 15m 4el up 83ft; quad up 40ft 10m 4el up 78ft; quad up 40ft 580ft beverage Ten-Tec Omni D + Ten-Tec Titan FT1000MP + Ten-Tec Centurion Win-Test 3.6.1 Dave G4BUO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4EDG Class: SOSB/160 QRP Total Score = 24,771 After having entered SOSB QRP on all bands 80 to 10 over the past few years, it was time to have a go at 160 QRP. I was generously offered a seat at Jan’s, G0IVZ to use his antenna set-up. Over 2 weekends we put up two inverted vees, one at 120’ firing E/W and another at 100’ firing N/S as well as a 600’ beverage in a westerly direction. So even with just 5Watts I was hoping for big things! I was not to be disappointed; the first hour resulted in 38 Qs, 6 Zones and 28 countries. Working North America was reasonably easy, but my little signal lacked the oomph to work the Caribbean, even when I was calling alone, either due to finding them first or during a lull in the pileup….a few ?? but that was all, although I did manage VP9I, I think the terrific performance of the beverage increased my expectations a bit too high! Enjoyed cracking the pileups of the closer in stuff. Conditions on the second day seemed a little down on the first, and I couldn’t really work anything to the east until after 2030…….well into darkness. UA9 (Z17) was the furthest east worked. Gear used was a little unconventional, for receive an old Kenwood R-820 Rx with 500 and 250 Hz filters, and on transmit a homebrew TX with a pair of 2SC1971s in the final. This set-up is full QSK…. essential for pileup cracking using QRP. Most disconcerting moment…………seeing my SWR/Power meter reading over 5Watts when receiving whilst Jan was operating on 40M………sorted with a 160m BPF! Hats off to the great scores by those in the HP category. 73 Steve G4EDG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 468,792 Another all S&P effort on the "wet string" antennas and my best QSO total to date. Good conditions on all bands - nice to see at this stage of the sunspots. Thanks for all the QSOs and particularly the 57 stations who made the effort to winkle out my puny signal on 160. IC-756ProIII, 100w, MFJ auto-tuner, 30m inverted V doublet at 10m, 10m wire vertical. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4IIY Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,001,552 Great condx, especially on LF. Total operating time was only 30 hours, due to domestic commitments and being limited to two opertors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,092,721 Great fun with an essentially new team here. Although our score is above last year, I think others will have moved ahead more, given the conditions, so we still have some learning to do ! But great conditions, and nice to see a little activity on 10m. LF was awesome ! Great performance from the WinTest logging system again. No technical issues, and even the promised high winds stayed away. What more can you ask ? (Answer:- more mults !) Thanks for all the QSOs guys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G5XV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 942,585 Enyoyed the opening to VK9, VU2, 3B8, Hi..etc etc, plus the good run to NA on 10m on sunday afternoon with the beam over the north pole..ish. Worked from Home and 200watts into an old 3ele yagi + 240ft doublet. 40m was the boggy band, not sure what happened there, I think 80m took the whole time on LF bands. I worked to black shift, Avril, 2E0KOP worked the saturday day shift on HF. Used SD logging went without a hitch! Ken..G0ORH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 666,900 One to be forgotten about as only 4 hours into the contest we had a power cut that lasted almost 15 hours !!! - Fault was a blown transformer that was installed in 1949 ... not a bad run for a transformer !! After that length of time OTA we just could only treat the contest as a training opportunity. 12 months in the planning and of all the weekends - Murphy really did catch us out this year. Many thanks and apologies to Bob (M0CCE) who took the trip over from GD land especially for this contest. Lets hope next year proves more productive. However, the highlight of the contest that must be mentioned are thanks to Sue (M3UZL) and Amy (M3YMA) for the scrummy farmhouse cooking. The home beef cooked in guiness was undoubtably the finest I have ever had. I think it will keep me going until next year lol Thanks once again for the contacts. Steve G4KIV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,753,968 Towers were low on the first night due to forecasts of strong winds which sadly never arrived... Must surely have affected our low band totals due to the 40m yagi only being about 35ft AGL. In addition, we had no 80m loop until the second night so we were using a relatively low dipole on that band which didn't do us any favours either. We also had a phone line fault with the ADSL dropping out a total of 17 times on Sunday alone, and we lost it totally from about 8pm GMT until the end of the contest, so we were left with no DX cluster during these periods. As usual, great competition with G5W. Congratulations to them. Kudos to 9A1P, OM8A, OE4A etc... Even at the sunspot minimum 10 million points is still surpassable in M/S. Equipment: Ten-Tec Orion & FT-1000MP MkV 2 x Acom 2000 Win-Test 3.6.1 160m: Full-size quad loop 80m: Full-size quad loop + dipole 40m: 2el 40-2CD 20m: 4el SteppIR + 7el X7 15m: 4el SteppIR + 7el X7 10m: 4el SteppIR + 7el X7 Thanks to all who called. 73, Simon M0CLW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GJ2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,741,594 Very little in the way of visits from Murphy, for a change. Too bad for me about the operating hours... 1000 more QSO's were certainly there to be had otherwise. I have a feeling that 35-36 hours is my upper limit now. Great condx to USA on top band, also nice opening on Sunday morning for those who caught it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0GAV Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 558,296 Great conditions and thanks to all the DX who called me. Intended to spend more time in the chair, but visitors and family commitments kept me away for a few hours. Couldn't find Zone 1,6,27 & 37 - I probably spent too much time doing S&P and hunting for mults anyway. 73 Gavin GM0GAV (13 dashes, need a shorter callsign!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0OPS Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 319,214 Hi Well what a weekend. Only used an "L" for 40/80 and a windom for 160, 20, 15, 10. Gave the new radio a good run for its money. Hihghlight was the opening on 10m where I worked VK9 and 5a but very little EU for me. Next thing is to improve the antenna system for 20m and above. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU4YOX Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 214,200 A really enjoyable weekend here in Guernsey. Sometimes the Pile Ups were BIG! The first night saw 200+ US in the log and I felt this was going to be a big year. Indeed it was, with scores up generally. I was surprised when Steve, VK6VZ called me at greyline - great for Z29. Also some new AF countries worked but didn't get on very well with South America or the Carib. This is where I could have done better I think. But on the whole, great fun and thanks for everyone who worked me. Apologies for those I couldn't pull through.... FT1K with VL 1K Amp. Inverted L at 60' for the first two nights and then 85' for the last session. Gale force winds here prevented me from the extra height needed in the first 30 hours. Beverages and Loop for Rx'ing See you all next time, 73 Bob GU4YOX KX6N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA5MRC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 146,848 It's been quite an experience to reach zone 3 and to hear stations from even California on twenty meters the second day. Propagation a Saturday was not so nice. I have been using 100 W output and wire antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 181,216 Rig: Old... DRAKE TR7, Home Made PA(KW) Ant: Vertical (28m) Rx Ant: 2x50m Lw + Preampl. BFW16A Nice contest! Next year agn! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8GY Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 74,625 Rig:IC-781 + SB220 Ant:Inv.vee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8LNN Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 138,800 RIG: Icom IC751A + Home Made PA 800W Ant's: Vertical @23m, Inv.Vee, 4 Beverages SW: K1EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 556,416 TS-870 - 100 W This year the beam was down due to work around the house. I used my vertical Butternut HF-9VX from 10 to 80m and a short dipole from Kelemen on 160m more then 80 % was S&P Continent Statistics HB9ARF CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator 26 Nov 2006 2358z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 3 22 22 37 46 0 130 14.2 South America CW 0 0 2 7 14 0 23 2.5 Europe CW 86 144 160 120 75 44 629 68.9 Asia CW 1 6 21 18 20 1 67 7.3 Africa CW 3 5 11 14 18 8 59 6.5 Oceania CW 0 0 3 0 1 1 5 0.5 Thanks to all and hope to hear you next year 73's Phil - HB9ARF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC8N Class: M/M HP Total Score = 47,800,000 This effort was dedicated to two of our team who had to cancel their plans at the last minute -- James, 9V1YC for too much work and Zoli, HA1AG for medical reasons. We hope they will join us next year. Being down two ops left us with one op per band plus Trey, N5KO to fill in where needed. Congrats to the teams at 5A7A, TZ5A, IH9P plus the other big multis for another year of fine competition and to all the ops worldwide who make this such a fine radio contest. 73, Steve K6AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8I Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,680,810 Hello OM ! This is contest is verry OK. My RIG: IC7400 ant: 20-15-10 mtr 4el QUAD up 16mtr. 80mtr Dipole(RX EWE ant ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK1AR Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 941,981 Murphy visited several times. No amplifier so changed class, no rotator for new 40 meter beam but fortunately had a sloper on the USA and a high dipole. Also line noise which I never had before. Could hear KC1XX, K1TTT, etc. all day long! I'm at 10,200' ASL overlooking the city of Bogota - about 1,500' higher in elevetion with an almost straight drop off to the North and West for 180 degrees. To Europe and the East I can see peaks of the Colomiban Andes at least 60 miles away! Spectacular. This new QTH seems very FB will be better prepared next time. Hoping this is a new South American SOSB 40 record. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL1VAU Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 112,914 Very fun and enjoyable contest.. I could not imagine that TZ5A, IS0N, EA6IB, IH9P and other nomally uneasy stations called me when I sent "CQ TEST". Propagation for North and South America were worse than last few years. I could get only two contact with Zone 5 but also unique QSO with Zone 11 (PS2T).. Signal from European zone was great over all night time.. The real over S9 from F6ARC and G0IVZ via long path was impressive.. Eventhough, I missed most easy EU multies like ON, SV, CT and many more. Working 3V and 6W were difficult due to local wall.. Anyhow, satisfing the result with short vertical and my basical HF station.. CU next year and thanks to all.. 73 from Rocky, HL1VAU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,195,540 First serious SOABLP from my home qth in downtown Milan. I found 40m very noisy the first night, while 80 and 160 were simply amazing, and I am still surprise of what I was able to do on those bands. I didn't work zones 1, 6, 19, 31, 36 on any band. Ramon, XE1KK, wrote: "I really hope the usual complain about not finding zone 6 is over" No, amigo, zone 6 is not on my log, so I'm still complaining a lot,...hi! I made 35% more points then last year winner from Italy, so I'm pretty satisfied. I only slept for 4 hours, but I took my breaks for lunches and dinners, and my Win-Test say I operated 39.5 hours considering breaks longer than 30 mins. K5ZD, you are my hero! Forget those complains, you're always one step ahead... I'm waiting the audio files on the web, so I will know how LOUD I was!! Since we cannot have less than zero sunspots, can you all imagine what will we be able to do next year? I'm waiting already.. Cu next time. Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IH9P Class: M/M HP Total Score = 38,790,668 With a "titan" like HC8N and two very requested countries like 5A7A and TZ5A, mostly in the actual period of solar cicle, there were not so much match. Our planned Qs/Mults goals have been achieved, all our usual field-day setup worked like a charm and all the operators too. We just had to cancel the multiplier station because some setup problems and a couple of last minute missed operators but, looking at the final numbers, it could not change the final score so much. A single QSO more was hardly possible for us, so we're very satisfied and happy for our second time in the CW leg of CQWW Contest. Low bands really SUPER! 20 and 15 not so rich as we hoped, with bands closed too early in the afternoon. 10 meters really better than in our previsions. Best congrats to the fantastic job done at HC8N,TZ5A and 5A7A and thanks to all teams and singles who confirmed CQWW as "THE CONTEST" once more. See you on next year! Joe, IT9BLB/IH9P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1YDB Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 124,644 Lot of fun! Best 73's Flavio http://digilander.libero.it/ik1ydb/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,603,828 Nice to be some hours on air once more. Andy IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,520,066 This time Murphy kept away from our location and we were able to run the whole contest without problems. Moreover, the improved setup and skills have made this our all time best result in CQWW CW. The nice conditions on LF have produced a good number of multipliers. A little US run on 10 m only on sunday afternoon. Nice to see Phil, IK4ZHH joining the team for the whole contest. Many thanks to Claudio, IK4DCW for the technical support. Further info, photo's and more on www.ir4m.it See you in the next one. The IR4M team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,090,000 Our best CW score. Amazing low bands conditions dispite our poor antennas on 80 and 160. Congrats to the EA6IB's team, great number of qso and multipliers. Thanks all for calling us. 73 de IR4X's team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IS0XDA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 263,889 Transceiver: Kenwood TS-480 - 100 Watt - Antenna: 40 m. Dipole half wave. Nice to me to work many stations with a simple half wave dipole for 40 m. The satisfaction to have worked VK9AA that has asked me QSY in 15 and 20 meters has been large, therefore like has been large the pleasure to work ZM1A and ZL3WW (distance > 18.000 Km) in 40 m. 73 - Gianni, IS0XDA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J79Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,709,888 IC746Pro Ameritron ALS500M amp 400W 10/15/20... TA33@40' 40/80/160... 160m windom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA8RWU Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 567,630 First time ever 40m single effort for CQWW. The first day condx was great, but the second day was not so good. I felt like I was on 20m and guess band was open almost all day long. The condx on the first day was like in 1997. So now a happy new year, 2007 and cu all in many contests this year, too! 73's Akira, JA8RWU [Continent Statistics] 40 percent North America 600 43.4 South America 25 1.8 Europe 550 39.8 Asia 167 12.1 Africa 12 0.9 Oceania 28 2.0 [Cty above ten QSOs ] K 563 UA 143 UA9 88 UR 86 DL 39 OK 38 G 24 OH 21 SP 20 LZ 19 YO 18 VE 15 S5 14 UN 14 YU 14 JA 12 HA 11 BY 10 KH6 10 LU 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JJ1WWL/1 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,223 FT-857M(50W) + ATAS120 (In the regulations of Japan, the output of the potable(mobile) station is up to 50W. ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JN4MMO Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 195,260 Used equipments;FT-1021(1000),T3-11DX Tribander I lost Zone 02,35 & 36. Thank you for QSO. Moreover, let's meet next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 248,976 40 METERS: Path from Colorado to eastern Europe was blocked by heavy-duty absorption. Didn't really open up for us until Sunday afternoon. But nonetheless, sure had some great moments on 40 mtrs! RIG: K2/100 + ACOM 1000 + 2 el. 40-2CD @ 71 ft. ~ Alan K0AV Colorado Springs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DI/6 Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 87,318 I enjoyed EU Longpath Sunday morning! 73, Dave, K0DI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 512,560 Nice conditions. Wish I could have put in a full effort, but just didn't have the energy from the start. On top of that, the rotator indicator on the main 20/40 antennas failed 5 hours in. Figured that was a good excuse to bag the all out effort. Sure were some FB ops out there, especially 9Y4AA. Congrats to K0SR for the FB score from zero land. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 34,391 Part time effort, limited amount of time to spend on the contest. 73 Jim K0HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 629,800 Soapbox : This contest started off really bad! I threw in the towel after 2 hours with the bands in crappy shape Friday evening. I was having troulbe even working Canadian and Caribbean stations let alone real DX! I understood we got a solar blast on Thursday, so I didn't expect much. I made 22 contacts on 40 and 2 contacts on 20m and threw the switch about 8 PM. Well, knowing that conditions can really peak after a solar event, I was hoping things would get better. So I fired the radio back up about 11:30 PM Friday night... Wow! Things were still the same... I plugged along for another 2 hours and my log showed 61 contacts when I threw the switch the second time at 1:30 AM. That's about 4 hours of effort, 61 contacts, and an average of 15 Q's per hour. Well maybe conditions will really take off by morning. Saturday morning (8:30 AM) I stumble out of bed and hit 80m... Wow! Things are still the same... But I did put some Pacific (KH7X, ZL4PW, VK4EMM, and ZL6QH) in the log on 80m. I usually sleep through those openings! I hit 160m for VE6SV and KH6ZM contacts then it was off to 40m for my first sprint of 5 EU stations. About 9:30 AM I move up to 20m and the yagi on the tower. In a half hour I put 16 EU stations in the log and wander out of the shack to see if there's anything more interesting going on. About an hour and a half later I come back and "just for the heck of it", I check 10m. With highly inoized layers you might luck out with some propagation. Well there was just enough magic in the air to tease 5 stations into the log, a mixed bag of four SA, W3LPL, and 6W1RW. That took 15 minutes so I could see my rate was skyrocking at this point! I figured if 10 was okay, 15m might be good... Well, it was not too bad... I spent the next hour and a half working 33 stations, with a quick jaunt back to 10m to put zone 4 in the log (W0AIH). The stations were a mixed bag, but mostly SA, with a few EU, AF, and E51YAQ thrown in to keep it interesting. Then it was off to 20m to start an hours worth of crawling up the band and dropping a hodge-podge of continents in the log. The rest of the afternoon was spent bouncing from 20 to 15 with an ear on 10m for any fresh activity (a total of 4 new contacts). When the half-time bell rang, I had 312 contacts in the log. With 100 Watts I S&P most of the time, and this weekend was no exception. My normal habit is to start at the bottom and work up the band. The N1MM Logger (and several other contesting programs) have the capability to post realtime scores. I was using this feature this weekend. I have to admit, it sucked me in! Friday night I was in 5th place in the Single Op Assisted, Low Power category. On Saturday I checked the scoreboard at (www.w1ve.com) periodically to see my standing. I could see my score inching up slowly. This did provide an incentive to keep me in front of the radio to see if I could "just push it up a little higher". By Sunday, propagation was beginning to recover. All the "easy" stations were already in the log, so finding new stations became the challenge. Normally my number of QSO's begin to taper off the second day. But this year was different with nearly a 50/50 split for the two 24-hour periods. Propagation continued to improve as time went by so I think this brought the casual contesters late to the game. The last few hours are usually pretty fun, and this year was no exception, Especially when signals start to arrive from the Pacific and Asia. I put some of those rare prefixes into the log once again, although the pileups were no match for my barefoot signal. I had to let some slip away in order to balance multiplier vs. rate. There were a few occassions where there seemed to be a pipeline for the signal so I got lucky on those QSO's. The creme-de-la--creme was finding Minnesota Wireless Association member Tony Wanshura, KMØO running XU7MWA on 20m. I heard him within the last 15 minutes of the contest! I even worked him! Go MWA! I worked 32 of 40 CQ Zones. I missed these: 18-19-21-22-23-29-36-39. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,879,440 Great contest! W0UA ran lots of good rate and dogged 80 one night for lots of great DX. W1XE ran rate and busted pile-ups both days. I had lots of fun working mults and busting pile-ups. I hope I will be able to do this for a long time to come. 73, Chuck and the gang ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,933,098 Pretty happy with this effort considering conditions. It's still pretty weird to do better on 160 meters than on 10 meters! I really enjoyed hearing the W2PV call this weekend too. 73 Steve K0SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,995,705 Murphy strikes! Just before the start of the contest I discovered that there was something slipping on the 40 meter rotor and could not reliably point the antenna. I got it set on EU and expected that we would use the four square and the fixed South antenna for everything until the Pacific started coming in, then I'd turn it and leave it there. The next day we put the antenna back on EU during the day and repeated the process. The middle of the second day, the teltale smell of burning bakelite got us all going. It turned out to be the L-7 power supply. That put the 20 meter station at 100 watts. I moved 20 to the 80 meter station but as I was moving it, I accidentally put the output into the old 20 meter station instead of the antenna. I'll drop the 756PRO off at the repair shop today. On the good side, N1ICE stopped by to try her hand at CW for the first time in a contest. She didn't feel too good at first but gradually got better. Practice will make her feel better about CW contesting. She'll have to learn that the "YL Advantage" of at least one S unit doesn't apply on CW. The important thing is that everyone had a good time. MVP this time goes to W1END for his first contest using computer logging. Eldon held down the fort admirably while he was operating. Good luck to all and 73, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 98,697 SOAPBOX: Friday night had a party to go to with the wife. Lots of dancing and fun..maybe too much fun...Saturday, had to cut firewood, wash the very dirty ramchanger from elk hunting in mid October plus another party to go too. More dancing and lots of fun, maybe too much fun. Sunday, didnt get out of bed from previous night till 7:30am got on for a good run of EU LP on 40mtrs which I wish I could have stayed with but went to early church and then out to breakfast and more firewood cutting and getting my reloading equipment from a friend that has had it for a long while. Cleaned the chainsaws so I can service them and then shower shave and NO PARTY tonight..Look at a little of the Charger vs Raiders and Chitown vs New England..finished off on 20mtrs with a mini run. So did my 200 Plus Q's for GMCC could have done more but too MUCH FUN to be had this time of the year. Have fun and God Bless, bill K0UK Go GMCC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1AR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,013,500 What a great contest! I operated in the self-appointed SOCA(A) category (Single-op Crapping Around Assisted) from Doug, K1DG's New Hampshire QTH. Doug was busy conducting science fair experiments from his new Maine location that many of you have been hearing about. The best part about SOCA(A) is that you can move, right in the middle of a 180-hour on 15 meters, to work JT1C on 40M LP! Thanks to the DG clan for the use of their electricity and radio equipment. Plans next year include some activity from K3LR as well as the newly appointed K1EA shack (which is attached to a very nice, new house on the same property). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 561,924 First year using a Beverage on 80 meters. Simply outstanding results exposing layers of stations which were S1 or less on an 80m dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 2,541,212 IC-775 N1MM Logger WinKey USB 160 Inv L 80 Inv V 40 AV-640 20-10 X7 @ 60' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1DG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,600,000 Fun time from the new QTH in Maine. Still working out the bugs - considering that there were no antennas up or radios on-site until September, just getting on all bands was a considerable victory. Still learning what works and what doesn't - this QTH is very different from my home station in NH. I've gotten so used to SO2R that using just one radio as I did this weekend requires a lot of adjustment. Like actually thinking about band changes. You have to gamble that you're right vs. listening on the second radio and knowing if the other band is open. I gambled wrong a lot of times. It's also hard to find multipliers without a second radio. I completely missed whatever opening happened Saturday on 10 and only made 7 Qs. I think 6 of the 7 calls started with the same letter (P40T, P40W, P40A, PJ2T, PJ4A, PZ5ZY...gotta get one of those "P" calls). Caught up a bit on Sunday, with 2 or 3 trips to S&P through the band. No Europeans (except CU2A). Spent more time S&P than running to try things out, especially on 80 and 160. Very pleased with the results. It was a tough start on 40 with the MUF to Europe lower than 7 MHz, but the afternoons were pretty good. Worked some great DX on the band in the grey-line times, like XU, JT, BY, and 9M2. Simple 80 and 160 antennas worked fine on transmit, but need receiving antennas for next year. The stacked 4-element SteppIRs worked fine, but I discovered Sunday that the lower antenna alone (at 60 feet) was much stronger than the upper (95 feet) or the stack on 15. Some signals went from solid copy to totally inaudible. I knew this from modeling the array, but had forgotten to try switching around on Saturday. Listened to the U.S. multis report in on 3830. What an amazing finish! And I can't wait to see how close the DX multis were. HC8N, TZ5A, and 5A7A were beacons on all bands. Congrats to all the ops at LR, XX, and LPL. And of course K5ZD's score is simply amazing. Thanks to everyone for all the Qs. Let's all do it again. Same time next year. 73, Doug K1DG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 115,236 I spent the first night at W2PV (K1RX) on 160M. Went home Saturday morning to do a little operating from my station. Put in a part time effort, while catching up on sleep and nursing a bad back. Since I only have a stealth inverted L for 160M, I wasn't really expecting to do much on the high bands. I could get it to resonate with some magic from the internal tuner. I could only work the loud ones and didn't have too much luck busting pileups (except when good timing worked). This week was good on 160M. I actually heard VK, KL7, and JA during the week before the contest and a ZL during the contest (couldn't work him). Never heard any of those mults or zones before on 160! Hope these conditions last the winter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 830,271 TS-940 with N1MM logger. KLM KT-34A at 50 ft. 40m dipole at 50 ft. 80m & 160m wire verticals ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 181,000 Had to turn the preamp on for Sunday operation! Sigs quite weak! I thought conditions were better during the SSB weekend. Tom, K1IM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,835,090 Enjoyable contest . . . was great fun watching the event unfold on W1VE's Live Scoreboard. Thanks to K1OA and W1VE for the time they were able to devote to operating the contest. 73, Jim K1IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,838,788 Just a very part time effort this year. K1KI made 600Q the first day, KM1P made 750 the second day. Nice having VQ9 OX and 5H3 call in during one minute on 40m... Low bands were magic - very quiet and lots to work. Nice weather Sunday allowed us to get a 2L40 beam up for future use. 73 Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 35,144 My operation this year was "semi-serious", although more serious than any previous WW contest. Conditions seemed excellant. I could occasionally hear both sides of a QSO in Europe. I had a real pleasure working VQ9LA in the last 10 minutes for a new multiplier and a new country. Someday, I need figure my DXCC standing. Worked: 3X, 4N, 4O, 5A, 6V, 8P, 9Y, C6, CM, CT, CU, DL, EA, EA6, EA8, F, G, GD, GI, GJ, GM, GU, HA, HC8 , HI, HK0, IH, I, IS0, J7, KH6, KL7, KP4, KV4, LA, LY, LZ, OE, OH0, OK, OM, ON, P4, PA, PJ2, PJ4, PY, PZ, UA, S5, SM, SP, SV, TI, TK, TM2Y, TZ, V2, V3, V4, VE, VP2M, VP5, VP9, VQ9, W, XE, ZF, ZL, and ZS, but not in that order. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1NQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,718,613 ICOM 765 N1MM with real time score - when modem was working. sb-220 w/ 160m mod. partially working. Had major relay issue requiring constant attention. Tried to fix it before the contest. As ususal it failed just before the start. I managed to replace the waffer with stuff in the junk box. I finished the 160m mod Friday. Never really tweaked the input circuit so SWR limited me to 500w on 160. Found out the 765 tuner was not working as it constantly seeks. My new Winkey does not work so I built a LPT keying circuit. New 2 element phased verticals on 80m was much better. Doubled my qso over the single vertical. Antennas 160m - use tower with 3 inverted fed elevated radials 80m 2 phased wire verticals with 3 elevated radials each 40m ef240s at 77 feet 15-20m th6/th6 70/40 10m th6 @40' fixed on EU Top th6 developoed swr issue when some creature packed a trap last week. Novel use of wood dowel to tap SB220 relay when it was sticking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1NU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,101,030 Very part time effort. Best condx on 80 and 160 I can remember. Decided I had time on Friday to throw up a 400' beverage (very quick, no terminations) and glad I did. 160 was incredible Friday night. This was my first CQWW with my K1NQ 80m 4-square and it rocked. Nice to see 10 open just enough to get all those AF multipliers! Most of them had moments here and there when there was no pile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 463,359 This is probably as well as I can do with an 80 meter inverted vee with the center at about 30 feet, at least in the 20 hours I put in. More time on 80 would have helped, and maybe on 40, too. But, mostly, I can work just about every station I can hear, which isn't all that many. JAs and deep Asians are exceptions; I can hear them but not vice versa. I'm surrounded by noisy electric fences in all directions. I did not call a single CQ; I figured if I did I might get calls I could not hear. I even got through most pile-ups fairly quickly. At this score level, there is no point in waiting long for a multiplier; even if it's a rare country or zone, it's no more valuable than any other, score wise. No use trying to fight the "assisted" people. Working Libya on 40 and 15 was way too cool. I think the level of operating skill in all the major CW contests has never been better. I called some really weak stations who came right back to me and I can only attribute this to better receivers and filters, especially in Europe. Jim Cain, K1TN/9 Indiana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Total Score = 11,852,545 Operators: K1TTT, K1TWF, K1MK, KB2WJY, N1IW, NB1B, NF1D, WO1N and LU1CKY (the dog) Equipment: Check out Dave's website www.k1ttt.net Soapbox by WO1N : We all extend our deepest appreciation to Dave for the use of his great station. For K1TWF and myself, this is our 10th running at Dave's station for this contest. Nearly a full Solar Cycle. Every year brings new and unusual band behavior. This year was the type you dream about (almost, could have used a bit more of 10M). We expected 40M behavior to be similar to last year when the MUF goes crashing through 7 MHz and 40M because a pile of frustration. Last year it got to us (well, me, since I opened it). We were ready for it this year and didn't let it throw off our pace. Our only 40M disappointment was a failure on the 180' 40M antenna in middle of Sat. night/Sun. morning. We initially suspected the KB1H guys sent a crew up in the middle of the night to steal it, but at first light saw it was still at the top of the tower ;-). This hurt our country total as we struggled a bit in the pileups to work those juicy Sunday morning Asian mults on the 4 Square. Attempting to break a pile up at an output power of 15W didn't help either. In the thrash to diagnose the problem we backed off power and once we decided the issue was not in the shack Dave turned the station back over to me. I hadn't noticed the Daiwa cross needle meter was in the 20W position. I dutifully set the output to an indicated 15 on the scale. That would be 15W on a 20W max scale. Dave walks over after 15 minutes or so of me try to work a JT1 and points that little fact out. Aarrghh! I was a bit frustrated with myself at that point so I walked outside to get a breath of fresh air and swear at the birds for a minute. I composed myself, sat down and tuned up the band a bit. Hmmm, I catch the tail end of a call "XRO"...9M6XRO. I throw my call in and work him first call on the 4Sq with about 1300W out. Sweet! I spot him and then sat there for 3.2 seconds to hear the world descend on him in full force. I'm sure he was cursing me for that... A quick trip to the top of the tower and Dave had the top beam percolating again. I guess the ring rotor got hungry and ate the coax.... The low band conditions were stellar. I did stints on 160, 80 and 40. I barely had to use the beverages the bands were so quiet. Dennis, NB1B opened 80M and ripped off 300 or 400 Q's in the first 3 hours. We ended the first night with 88 countries on 80. I looked back over the data on Dave's site for the past 11 years and our 111 countries on 80M were the highest ever from Dave's station in this contest. Speaking of NB1B, this was his first stint with us. Talk about taking us to school! He kicked butt racking up an impressive Q count. I had two opportunities to open bands. The first morning on 20M which I unfortunately had to turn over to NB1B. You know the drill...bounce around the band throw your call at the really loud stations and they CQ in your face. Finally, the first Eu contact was at 1107Z with the DR1A guys (they were loud!). Picked off a few more loud Eu stations, settled in at 14012.7 at 1125Z and we ran there until late in our afternoon. From nothing to wide open in the span of probably 10 minutes. I really was hoping Dennis would oversleep or something but he was hovering over me right at the scheduled start of his shift at 1200Z (darn!). The second opportunity was opening 40M on Sunday afternoon. It didn't open quite as dramatically as 20, but the process is pretty much similar. I got bumped off of one frequency early on, settled into another squeezed pretty tightly by an S51 below me and then, after a short while, one of the IR4 guys above me. The IR4 guys were a bit unfair settling within the passband of my 250 Hz filter and ignoring my requests to QSY. In an awesome sequence I'll never forget, I slid up above them and two OK stations, who I will forever be indebted to, followed me. I worked them in quick succession, at which point the IR4 guys slid up on top of me again. I then slid back down to my original frequency and we all lived happily ever after. I managed a 98 hour at that point! We ran with a lean crew this year, to everyone's enjoyment. We were either operating or sleeping. No distractions, lots of focus on the contest. We could support perhaps one or two more ops in the peak sunspot years, but for the bottom of the cycle, if you have some night rats (like me), 8 ops for 6 radios seemed like the right number. CU in 160M from K0TV, Ken WO1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,759,902 Going into the weekend I knew I'd be off during some prime time to attend the calling hours and funeral of a non-ham friend (yes, I do have some of those) but still managed to log as much operating time as usual. Biggest puzzle is the low QSO total on 40 -- could never get anything going there. Rates were disappointing except on 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 273,575 Thank to everyone for all for Q's! Nice JA openings. It was exciting working B1Z, VK9AA and a few others LP. Biggest challenge was working 9J2SZ. You had to be in the pileup to appreciate that one (o: Surprised I never got zone 1. I gave up on the VE1III pile up. Lots of fun! 73, Ralph - K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2BA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,888,368 First MS from this QTH. Dipoles on 40, 80, 160 meters with 2 beverages. 8 element log for 10-20M and a 5 element 15M Yagi on seperate 150 foot towers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,310,683 Have to find a country for TO5X and change it in write-log and DT8A shows as South Korea and gave Zone 13, score may change to the better. Paul K2DB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,949,387 Unlike during the SSB weekend, the weather was mild and sunny in Vermont - no power outages. This was useful as we spent many hours during the contest to attempt to repair the motor on the 100' rotating tower - with no luck. Most of the time the big 20 and 40 m. antennas were fixed on Europe. 40 was unproductive on Friday night - we figured the MUF to Europe was below 7 Mhz Sat. nite was much better. In fact, we could here Europe on 40 meters 24 hours. With a reduced crew, we were happy to do a M/2 insead of our usual M/M. Many thanks to K2DO who came up in supporting role. CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2006 Call: K2LE Category: Multi Two Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: CW Country: United States Zone: 05 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 86 220 2.56 13 48 80 432 1199 2.78 27 101 40 1026 2920 2.85 34 124 20 1213 3504 2.89 36 133 15 734 2110 2.88 26 112 10 37 91 2.46 14 23 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 3528 2.85 150 541 => 6,949,387 All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted. Operator List: K2LE W2AX N2UN N2GA W2LK Equipment Description: FT=1000 MPs 160: TOP LOADED VERT 80: DELTA LOOP 40: 4 ELE @ 100' + 3 ELE @ 75' 20: 5 OVER 5 AT 95/65' + 3 ELE @75' 15: 5/5/5 10: 6/6/6 Club Affiliation: YCCC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ONP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,047,200 Setup is as follows: Equipment: IC-756 PROIII, AL1200 Antennas: TH-7 at 50 feet, wires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,568,658 Pretty close to last year's score, up about 3%, which is probably not good enough to move up from last year's #4 US. One problem was that I missed just about all of Saturday's and part of Sunday's 10-meter opening and I can't blame anyone but myself. Seems I forgot that I had connected my low TH6 (fixed to SA) up on the tower relay box, and substituted a 6-meter antenna as "Ant 2" on the ICOM-756PROII. When I tuned to 10, the noise and signals seemed way down, but hey, this is the bottom of the cycle, right? The amazing thing is that I was able to work 9Y4AA, CT9L, LU1HF, and HC8N with 100W and 7 elements on 6! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SS Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 493,339 Relatively short openings to Europe, both days. That was much better than phone where it only opened on Saturday. The band was relatively quiet and little QSB, which helped things. Hope I'm not too old when the sunspots return. 73s, dave/k2ss ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TA Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 87,710 My 3rd and final effort in SOSB/80/LP. Special thanks to OH2BH, ZL4PW, RU1A, YT0A, T97M and others who took the time to correctly pull my call from out of the enoise! Favorite QSO: E51YAQ for a new 80M band country. This was my personal best performance of the three years...thanks to all for the contacts! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,856,104 No, I don't have 80 and 40 lines swapped. It's just 40 turned out to be a major disappointment for me. I felt really weak there, couldn't get any run going, stayed in pile-ups forever and spent half an hour to get 2 JAs for a mult. At the same time everyone who I asked was telling me I'm really loud. HC8N came on my freq to complain about my signal and said he could hear me everywhere on the band. Go figure. Anyway, to compensate for 40, 80 was perfect. The only mult I heard and couldn't work was A45XR. The EU pile-up on him was huge and I already had lost my patience on 40. The first trip to 160 started with loud bang which took me off the air for about an hour. Luckily, WA3FET has a spare one for everything. After that I was really careful on this band. G3TXF and F5IN were as loud as it gets. Congrats to K5ZD and K4ZW for the big scores. Brilliant job guys ! Congratulations also to LZ4UU who made a magnificient showing from the construction worksite at LZ9W. My sincere thanks to Jim, WA3FET, for letting me operate his station again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3JGJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 122,368 Great contest, nice to hear and work some of the more rare stations. 8Q7, TZ5, LU's, E51, CX's. Best SB80 score yet, thanks for all contacts.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 18,729,854 What a great CW DX contest this was! Chasing W3LPL and KC1XX is more fun than you can imagine! All of the operators here had FUN! Having FUN is #1! Sincere congrats to the XX and LPL teams for another outstanding showing! Several new K3LR operators joined us this time. Congrats to Doug, N6RT and Mark, M0DXR for putting up great numbers during their rookie contest here on 15 meters. They might live 6000 miles apart, but what a TEAM! It is pure magic when you watch N2NL and N6MJ operate a band together. These guys are in total sync and it is no wonder they won the Silver medal this summer at WRTC 2006! 40 meters is really cooking as the N2NC - KL9A team really poured on the mults. K3UA and K8CX had our largest score ever on 80 meters. N3GJ and W2AU worked 76 more guys this year (ref 2005). Even some EU stations. Not bad for the low point of the cycle! I am very fortunate to have all of these operators come to K3LR and put in 48 hours of hard work, however another hero in the TEAM is Dave, W9ZRX who works many, many hours every week taking care of the computer network and every project I can think up. Without Dave's help, I would never be able to have this station work so well. Thanks to Ashley, KI4MTU for keeping our spirits high and reminding us that radio contesting is the best sport on the planet! Station description (HARDWARE tab) and pictures are located at: http://www.k3lr.com We will see everyone for the ARRL DX Contest in Feb. and Mar. 2007! Happy Holidays from the K3LR team. Very 73! Tim K3LR k3lr at k3lr.com BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES OPERATORs 160 322 771 2.39 23 93 K3LR 80 1394 3764 2.70 35 122 K3UA + K8CX 40 1581 4329 2.74 40 158 N2NC + KL9A 20 2189 6227 2.84 40 167 N6MJ + N2NL 15 1524 4235 2.78 34 138 N6RT + M0DXR + N3SD 10 225 473 2.10 22 74 N3GJ + W2AU --------------------------------------------------- Totals 7235 19799 2.74 194 752 => 18,729,854 Continent Statistics 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 122 228 233 218 197 101 1099 14.7 South America 13 24 54 94 94 71 350 4.7 Europe 168 1104 1156 1588 1184 24 5224 69.7 Asia 2 49 106 264 25 0 446 6.0 Africa 14 30 40 48 42 25 199 2.7 Oceania 9 26 54 41 37 8 175 2.3 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 24/28 104/47 100/61 35/19 5/7 1/2 269/164 269/164 1 28/15 103/34 57/28 22/16 . . 210/93 479/257 2 24/10 86/16 44/17 18/10 . 1/0 173/53 652/310 3 34/15 115/6 61/8 15/5 . . 225/34 877/344 4 22/14 78/8 22/9 23/9 . . 145/40 1022/384 5 39/7 87/10 38/9 11/4 . . 175/30 1197/414 6 19/6 98/4 30/2 11/4 . . 158/16 1355/430 7 20/7 70/2 48/2 12/8 . . 150/19 1505/449 8 5/2 24/7 26/3 11/3 ..... ..... 66/15 1571/464 9 6/1 14/4 19/6 8/8 . . 47/19 1618/483 10 9/2 10/3 9/4 6/4 . . 34/13 1652/496 11 3/2 12/2 15/9 36/19 8/14 . 74/46 1726/542 12 12/0 3/0 24/5 179/29 57/29 6/3 281/66 2007/608 13 . 1/0 10/0 199/9 190/42 3/4 403/55 2410/663 14 . . . 151/3 175/24 21/22 347/49 2757/712 15 . . . 151/7 174/9 27/15 352/31 3109/743 16 ..... ..... ..... 126/5 133/6 27/10 286/21 3395/764 17 . . 1/0 121/3 73/6 11/5 206/14 3601/778 18 . . 27/0 68/1 38/4 30/4 163/9 3764/787 19 . . 31/2 41/5 43/3 4/2 119/12 3883/799 20 . . 61/4 25/1 24/4 6/1 116/10 3999/809 21 . 57/0 112/4 48/3 21/6 3/0 241/13 4240/822 22 2/0 44/3 46/5 58/2 12/3 2/0 164/13 4404/835 23 9/0 57/1 96/5 52/3 1/0 . 215/9 4619/844 0 11/0 48/0 68/2 13/0 ..... ..... 140/2 4759/846 1 7/2 45/0 57/1 4/0 1/0 . 114/3 4873/849 2 9/0 35/0 45/0 12/2 . . 101/2 4974/851 3 4/1 36/0 21/2 8/1 . . 69/4 5043/855 4 8/1 30/0 20/0 7/1 . . 65/2 5108/857 5 3/0 41/0 43/2 4/0 . . 91/2 5199/859 6 4/0 42/1 42/1 2/0 . . 90/2 5289/861 7 6/0 31/0 60/1 1/0 . . 98/1 5387/862 8 1/0 21/1 35/1 ..... ..... ..... 57/2 5444/864 9 . 3/1 39/0 2/3 . . 44/4 5488/868 10 2/0 15/0 21/0 . . . 38/0 5526/868 11 3/0 4/0 21/1 46/0 4/0 . 78/1 5604/869 12 1/0 5/1 24/0 85/2 65/2 1/0 181/5 5785/874 13 . 1/0 9/0 80/2 132/2 8/5 230/9 6015/883 14 . . . 76/3 116/1 17/9 209/13 6224/896 15 . . . 110/0 94/0 16/7 220/7 6444/903 16 ..... ..... ..... 101/1 50/1 6/1 157/3 6601/906 17 . . . 67/1 26/0 12/3 105/4 6706/910 18 . . 3/1 25/1 13/1 5/2 46/5 6752/915 19 . . 26/0 30/3 14/4 11/0 81/7 6833/922 20 . 1/0 47/0 22/0 20/2 4/1 94/3 6927/925 21 . 20/0 61/0 26/3 12/1 2/0 121/4 7048/929 22 3/1 30/4 24/1 22/3 20/1 . 99/10 7147/939 23 4/2 23/2 38/2 19/1 3/0 1/0 88/7 7235/946 DAY1 256/109 963/147 877/183 1427/180 954/157 142/68 ..... 4619/844 DAY2 66/7 431/10 704/15 762/27 570/15 83/28 . 2616/102 TOT 322/116 1394/157 1581/198 2189/207 1524/172 225/96 . 7235/946 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 26 Nov 2006 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3B8 1 2 2 1 1 3D2 1 2 3V 1 1 1 1 3X 1 1 2 1 1 1 4J 1 1 4L 1 2 4U1I 1 1 4U1U 1 1 1 1 4X 6 6 6 4 5A 1 1 2 1 1 1 5B 2 3 3 2 2 5H 1 1 2 2 5W 1 1 1 5Z 1 1 6W 2 2 2 2 2 2 6Y 1 1 7Q 1 1 7X 1 8P 2 4 4 6 3 2 8Q 1 1 1 1 9A 1 15 21 22 17 2 9G 1 1 2 1 9H 1 1 1 1 9J 1 1 1 1 1 1 9K 1 9M2 2 2 9M6 1 2 9N 1 1 1 9V 1 9Y 1 1 2 2 1 1 A4 1 1 1 1 A6 1 BV 1 BY 1 2 4 C3 1 C6 1 2 3 3 2 1 CE 2 2 3 3 4 CE9 1 3 CM 2 4 8 6 2 CN 2 1 1 CT 2 4 2 5 3 2 CT3 3 5 4 4 3 3 CU 1 1 2 1 1 1 CX 1 1 2 2 2 D4 1 1 1 1 DL 19 213 183 289 275 DU 2 EA 5 32 60 54 63 6 EA6 1 2 2 4 2 1 EA8 1 7 7 11 6 3 EA9 1 2 2 3 1 EI 2 4 4 10 7 ER 2 4 4 2 ES 3 3 4 3 1 EU 9 8 9 4 EX 1 F 11 51 70 88 95 1 FG 1 1 1 FJ 1 FK 1 1 FM 1 1 1 2 2 1 FO 1 1 1 FY 1 1 1 1 1 G 24 94 70 98 82 GD 2 3 3 2 3 GI 2 1 3 5 3 GJ 1 2 1 2 3 1 GM 3 19 3 17 10 GM/s 1 2 1 1 GU 1 1 2 GW 2 7 2 7 7 HA 5 32 41 46 30 2 HB 4 16 22 26 24 HB0 1 HC 1 1 1 1 HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 HI 1 2 3 3 2 1 HK 1 4 6 5 2 HK0/a 1 1 1 1 1 1 HL 2 HP 1 1 2 2 2 1 HR 1 1 1 1 2 1 HS 1 3 HZ 1 1 I 4 39 61 83 71 1 IG9 1 1 1 1 1 1 IS 1 1 3 5 4 IT9 2 3 6 5 4 1 J3 1 1 1 1 J7 1 2 2 2 2 1 JA 25 41 195 12 JD/o 1 JT 1 1 JW 1 1 1 K 39 97 96 66 74 51 KH0 1 1 1 KH2 1 3 3 2 KH6 5 6 12 7 10 2 KL 2 4 1 7 3 KP2 1 1 1 1 2 1 KP4 3 4 4 3 7 4 LA 2 11 4 13 2 LU 3 9 19 28 17 LX 1 2 2 2 3 LY 2 19 9 28 10 LZ 2 22 32 24 20 OA 1 OE 2 10 11 17 18 OH 28 19 38 21 OH0 1 2 2 2 OK 9 90 82 120 85 OM 6 23 26 26 16 1 ON 2 21 14 28 17 OX 1 1 4 OY 1 1 1 1 1 OZ 1 12 9 12 12 P4 3 5 5 5 7 5 PA 8 28 25 49 43 PJ2 2 2 2 2 2 2 PY 3 6 17 37 35 27 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 R1FJ 1 S5 4 38 37 36 34 3 S9 1 1 1 1 SM 5 19 16 35 16 SP 5 44 55 65 55 ST 1 SV 2 5 10 9 11 SV5 1 1 1 SV9 1 1 1 T7 1 T8 1 1 1 T9 7 5 5 4 1 TA 1 2 1 TF 2 8 2 TG 1 1 1 TI 2 2 3 4 2 2 TK 1 1 2 1 1 TU 1 2 1 1 TZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 UA 2 58 58 115 21 UA2 1 2 3 4 2 UA9 9 32 27 4 UN 2 4 1 UR 6 51 77 81 16 V2 2 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 1 1 1 V5 1 2 2 2 3 2 V7 1 1 VE 53 85 77 82 61 18 VK 1 10 21 12 7 VK9C 1 1 VK9N 1 VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 2 VP2V 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 VP8/h 1 2 2 2 VP9 1 1 VQ9 1 1 VR 2 3 VU 3 XE 3 8 12 14 13 4 XU 1 1 YB 1 3 YI 1 1 YL 3 8 9 8 3 YN 1 1 1 1 YO 12 24 28 25 YU 1 29 32 34 22 1 YV 1 1 5 6 4 4 Z3 1 1 3 6 5 Z7 1 2 1 1 1 ZA 1 2 1 ZB 1 ZC4 1 ZF 1 1 2 2 2 1 ZK1/s 1 1 1 1 1 ZK3 1 ZL 3 6 8 4 10 5 ZP 1 1 1 1 ZS 2 2 7 9 8 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,206,549 Time limited due to professional considerations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,124,008 Great scores and alot of fun at the bottom of the cycle. B1Z was amazingly loud at the end of the contest on 40M LP. 73,Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 166,838 Could not find any real European opening on 20 meters, the QSO count and rate really suffered. Lots of fun, as always. paul TS-850S, 400 watt Ameritron AL-811 amp, N1MM Logger 40/20 fan dipole at 30 feet; 80 meter dipole at 60 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,050,458 Part time (12 hour) effort around family, etc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 6,358,117 bottom of sunspot cycle eh? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4AQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 102,925 http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/WW_Rules_20083006.pdf WAC: 6 of 6 DXCC: 68 unique I decided to switch from QRP to Low Power when I could not make a Q in the first 15 minutes of the contest. But, to keep things interesting, I also decided to use Hustler mobile antennas on 15, 20 and 40 meters, mounted on my 15-psgr club wagon. The antenna for 10 & 80 meters was a 50-foot NCA (No Counterpoise Antenna) configured as a sloper favoring Europe, bottom-fed. NT4XT asked me at the office if I tried to work 5A7A (Libya), one of the hottest DX during Nov-2006. I told him I would wait for the CQWW. Would you believe I worked them on 40cw? Wow! They answered me on my first call. Now THAT "Made my Night," hi. Not bad for 100 watts into a Hustler mobile antenna either. My other highlight was working CS2R/Portugal on 80cw. (Possibly my best DX on 80.) There weren't many Q's on 80 because of my high ambient noise level and a short 50-ft NCA wire. Stn: FT-897D xcvr, 100 watts; Hustler mobile antenna (40, 20 & 15 meters, fed with 50-ft RG-6 + 17 ft or so of very small coax to the Diamond "trunk lip" base mount); 50-ft NCA bottom-fed as a 50-ft sloper on 10m/80m. Ten-Tec 238 L-network tuner used for the NCA only. microKEYER. WriteLog 10.60g. --Matt, K4AQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EJ Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 83,448 Low power, AP8A Cushcraft Multi-band Vertical. Started out on 40m and decided early on to do a single-band 40m effort. Having only a LP Vertical now is like "new" radio ... was interesting to stay with one band and a vertical all weekend. Very pleased with worldwide GOOD operators! Left quite a few heard but unworked, or would have made 100 countries easy for the weekend. 73 K4EJ in Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 515,565 Operated a few hours from home on Friday/Sunday and a few hours from NR4M on Saturday. Thanksgiving weekend is always split between several commitments so was thankful for the time I had to spend playing radio. Thanks for the Q's. FT-1000MP/Field QRO Amp 8 ele LP Quarter-wave wire vertical for 40m Vertically polarized phased array for 80m 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 314,922 Congrats to K2SS who did a better job. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4GM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 167,244 Only antenna was 80m inverted V with MFJ Tuner. Had fun on 15! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4IE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 189,728 Other obligations negated a full blown effort, but it was fun. Strange, didn't work any Russians at all and no Zone 16, but did work more Africa and Pac than usual. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 58,739 MORE WIRE, Faye......I need LOTs MORE WIRE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 960,190 Another great CQWW CW has come and gone. A surprise visit from an old college pal made a full-time effort out of the question this year. During the time I did have to operate, I had a blast. I again enjoyed participating in the W1VE scoreboard. The low bands were very quiet, which was a pleasant surprise. The general operating quality was pretty high. It seems more folks might be getting the message that signing often benefits everyone involved. Some fabulous DX -- it only happens in CQWW! Thanks so much to all of the intrepid DXpeditioners -- you make this contest the best of them all. Below is something I captured after the contest. I've never heard the M/M scores so close before. Congratulations to all the CQWW champions out there, both single and multi-op. The CQWW CW is the king of contests, no doubt about it. http://www.k4ro.net/k4ro/audio/CQWW_CW_2006_Multi_Scores.mp3 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4UJ Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 6,536 Antennas : Inverted-L Soapbox : 160M low power, need I say more ? kinda like standing in line at Disney World, loads of fun and boring all at the same time, you have to have patience and let the pileups work down before you can get thru the kilowatt+ wall. XE was not well represented, both stations seems to cave to the pressure under the large pileups. Missed PJ2T due to QRN at their location. Found 9Y4AA CQ'in before the pileup arrived. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 9,100 The band was not as good as the SSB test but had a nice opening to Africa Sunday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,635,161 Upside: First time in several years to have THE weekend reserved and uncontested. Stayed up the whole first night and was very pleased with the LF result. I've never worked this many countries on 160 in one sitting before. 80m was fun after about 1AM local when the local noise from plasma TVs and such goes away. By then the European opening is gone but I can hear much better into the Carib where all the other mults hang out. The second radio made no qsos but was instrumental in finding band openings and extra mults. The solid state amp makes changing bands quick and easy. I'm asking SandyClaws for an sutomatic bandpass filter so I don't have to swap filters manually.... Absorbtion on the high bands was pretty bad. 15m had no Eu except CS2 and IR2T. 40M was spectacular as a result. It was interesting to see how the various Carib stations handled 10m. Even on a "dead" band many were making QSOs by patience, waiting for a ping of QSB to get the the callers. The high point of the day was finding a clear spot on 20m and have ST2T answer my CQ. Interesting to have two zone 34 stations in the log when it's notmally missing completely. Heard two mults on 40m that I could not work no matter what I tried - 9N7JO and a JU. This is my Nth year missing zone 22 for a sweep. Tried for an 8Q7 on 20m but the east coast had him covered. I get a perverse pleasure from blasting through piles on SE Asian and Pacific mults ...so the score is even. Zone 26 was always the tough one when I lived on the other coast. Downside: Is it just me or are the operating practices of some of the MM/MS multiplier station ops becoming really obnoxious? ...calling repeatedly, regardless of the DX operator's instructions. Just because you're using up CQ-ing time or might lose your run frequency is no excuse for being an ass. I would not want my call to be used like that. Food for thought. I'm going to bed. The old man is tired. 73, Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,876,289 First, a HUGH thanks to John Evans N3HBX for the use of his new station for the weekend. John has engineered and built a very competitive station that will no doubt be making plenty of noise in the years to come. I approached John this summer about the possibility of using it for CQ WW CW. For single ops, CQ WW CW is the most competitive in my opinion. I wanted to see how I would fare going into battle with a vastly superior antenna farm compared to what I have at my home station. No doubt it helped but K5ZD’s score, and maybe others, show I still have a ways to go to close the gap. Randy’s numbers are phenomenal and, he got 3 hours of sleep to boot! Mark KD4D, my 40-meter partner at W3LPL’s for ARRL CW, helped me set up John’s station on Monday night prior to the contest. I wanted to stick with Writelog and my SO2R box. I arrived John’s at 2 PM Friday. After booting everything up and taking the station for a test spin, I decided it was time for a pre contest nap. I have a hard time sleeping during the day, even at home. I may have dozed off for a few minutes on the cot but that was about it until I took an hour break at 07Z on the second day. I started the contest running on 40 and the second radio S&Ping on 20. 20 yielded just 3 QSO’s and the rate on 40 was pretty slow. I decided to jump to 80 with the 3-element wire beam on Europe and bingo; I was off to the races! The 10-meter opening to Europe was fun. Many of the signals were just above the noise. I should have made more than one attempt at running stations on 160 with the 3-element wire beam when signals from Europe were loud. The one time I did, someone scolded me for bad key clicks. Sorry but my radios at home are modified. I’ll mention it to John. By early Sunday morning, I had worked every zone (aggregate of all bands) except 23 & 36. After I snagged JT1C on 40, I thought hey, maybe I have a chance to get them all this weekend. As the day went on, no sign of zone 36 anywhere. I kept hoping my fellow IBB employee S9SS would show up but time was winding down. Finally at 20:21Z I came across a 5NN 36 on the second radio and there was S9SS. A minute later he was in the log! To echo K5ZD’s comment, there were numerous times during the weekend when I asked myself why I’m doing this. It happens when operating from home too. Yet in the aftermath, I realize just what a blast I had and I’m sure I’ll be back for more. Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 37/28 37/33 3/2 --+-- --+-- 77/63 77/63 D1-0100Z - 90/19 14/17 - - - 104/36 181/99 D1-0200Z - 88/7 23/16 - - - 111/23 292/122 D1-0300Z - 62/3 16/10 - - - 78/13 370/135 D1-0400Z 13/14 61/0 6/3 - - - 80/17 450/152 D1-0500Z 12/15 57/5 - - - - 69/20 519/172 D1-0600Z 21/18 19/2 - - - - 40/20 559/192 D1-0700Z - 44/16 2/0 - - - 46/16 605/208 D1-0800Z 5/4 --+-- 27/13 --+-- --+-- --+-- 32/17 637/225 D1-0900Z 4/2 4/4 12/11 - - - 20/17 657/242 D1-1000Z - 3/4 9/4 - - - 12/8 669/250 D1-1100Z 3/0 5/3 3/2 31/19 - - 42/24 711/274 D1-1200Z - - 4/2 127/27 2/4 - 133/33 844/307 D1-1300Z - - - 74/6 60/28 - 134/34 978/341 D1-1400Z - - - 7/2 155/20 1/2 163/24 1141/365 D1-1500Z - - - - 125/8 8/15 133/23 1274/388 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 105/5 8/10 113/15 1387/403 D1-1700Z - - - 125/5 12/10 - 137/15 1524/418 D1-1800Z - - - 81/4 20/16 - 101/20 1625/438 D1-1900Z - - 34/2 29/10 4/2 4/4 71/18 1696/456 D1-2000Z - - 105/8 17/10 - - 122/18 1818/474 D1-2100Z - - 95/4 2/2 9/3 - 106/9 1924/483 D1-2200Z - - 80/2 - 5/5 - 85/7 2009/490 D1-2300Z - - 39/2 30/6 - - 69/8 2078/498 D2-0000Z 21/14 --+-- --+-- 11/7 --+-- --+-- 32/21 2110/519 D2-0100Z - 9/3 67/0 3/1 - - 79/4 2189/523 D2-0200Z 3/3 7/1 48/1 - - - 58/5 2247/528 D2-0300Z 8/5 21/3 - - - - 29/8 2276/536 D2-0400Z 2/2 59/6 1/0 - - - 62/8 2338/544 D2-0500Z 2/1 7/0 12/2 - - - 21/3 2359/547 D2-0600Z 7/2 34/0 - - - - 41/2 2400/549 D2-0700Z - - 51/3 - - - 51/3 2451/552 15 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 9/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 9/0 2460/552 60 D2-0900Z 1/0 1/0 66/1 - - - 68/1 2528/553 D2-1000Z - - 24/3 5/5 - - 29/8 2557/561 D2-1100Z - 4/5 1/0 48/5 - - 53/10 2610/571 D2-1200Z - - 2/4 99/3 20/0 - 121/7 2731/578 D2-1300Z - - - - 32/2 77/21 109/23 2840/601 D2-1400Z - - - - 69/1 9/7 78/8 2918/609 D2-1500Z - - - - 124/1 9/8 133/9 3051/618 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 85/6 10/2 3/4 98/12 3149/630 D2-1700Z - - - 67/3 15/7 - 82/10 3231/640 D2-1800Z - - - 69/6 6/2 1/1 76/9 3307/649 D2-1900Z - - 24/0 22/9 - 3/0 49/9 3356/658 D2-2000Z - - 64/2 - 9/5 2/2 75/9 3431/667 D2-2100Z - - 62/0 6/0 - - 68/0 3499/667 D2-2200Z - 5/2 12/0 4/2 1/0 - 22/4 3521/671 D2-2300Z - - 35/0 25/4 - - 60/4 3581/675 Total: 102/80 617/111 984/145 970/144 783/121 125/74 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 51 477 793 746 666 77 2810 78.5 AS 1 7 27 74 5 0 114 3.2 SA 7 9 25 32 40 20 133 3.7 NA 33 99 99 84 47 18 380 10.6 AF 7 17 20 23 19 10 96 2.7 OC 3 8 19 10 6 0 46 1.3 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3B8 1 2 1 1 5 3X 1 1 2 4L 1 1 2 4X 1 4 2 3 4 14 5A 1 1 1 1 4 5B 1 2 3 5H 1 1 2 1 5 5Z 1 1 6W 1 1 2 1 2 1 8 6Y 1 1 2 8P 1 1 2 1 1 1 7 8Q 1 1 9A 7 19 17 10 3 56 9G 1 1 2 9H 1 1 9K 1 1 9M6 1 1 1 3 9V 1 1 9Y 1 1 1 1 1 5 BY 1 1 C3 1 1 C6 1 1 2 3 1 8 CE 1 2 1 4 CM 1 2 1 1 5 CN 1 1 CT 2 1 1 1 2 7 CT3 1 3 2 2 2 1 11 CU 1 2 1 1 5 CX 1 2 1 4 DL 6 87 145 162 162 12 574 EA 1 13 34 31 26 1 106 EA6 1 2 2 1 1 7 EA8 1 5 5 7 5 1 24 EA9 1 1 EI 1 2 3 5 1 12 ER 1 3 1 5 ES 1 2 3 1 7 EU 4 5 5 3 17 F 2 22 47 48 51 13 183 FK 1 1 FM 1 1 FO 1 1 FR 1 1 FY 1 1 G 2 27 49 51 59 10 198 GD 2 2 1 2 3 10 GI 1 1 3 1 1 7 GJ 1 1 1 3 GM 2 7 5 8 5 27 GM/s 1 1 GU 1 1 2 GW 4 4 8 3 2 21 HA 16 19 19 21 4 79 HB 8 13 10 13 2 46 HB0 1 1 HC 1 1 1 3 HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 HI 1 1 1 3 HK 1 1 2 1 5 HK0/a 1 1 1 1 4 HP 1 1 2 HR 1 1 HS 2 2 I 1 13 42 36 37 7 136 IG9 1 1 1 1 1 5 IS 1 3 1 3 1 9 IT9 1 1 1 3 J7 1 1 1 1 4 JA 1 6 52 1 60 JT 1 1 K 2 36 24 26 6 7 101 KH2 1 1 1 1 4 KH6 3 4 2 1 2 12 KL 1 1 2 KP2 1 1 2 KP4 1 1 1 1 3 1 8 LA 2 3 4 3 1 13 LU 1 3 2 9 5 20 LX 1 1 LY 1 12 6 12 5 36 LZ 14 17 5 14 1 51 OE 4 16 3 9 32 OH 8 9 9 2 28 OH0 2 1 1 1 5 OK 3 60 69 54 57 243 OM 2 10 23 11 12 3 61 ON 1 4 8 11 8 3 35 OX 1 1 2 4 OY 1 1 OZ 5 6 3 7 21 P4 2 3 4 5 5 2 21 PA 1 7 23 22 34 4 91 PJ2 1 1 1 2 2 1 8 PY 2 1 10 13 10 5 41 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 5 S5 2 22 27 13 18 2 84 S9 1 1 2 SM 2 4 8 16 6 36 SP 2 20 41 32 28 123 ST 1 1 SV 1 3 5 1 1 1 12 SV5 1 1 SV9 1 1 T9 2 2 4 3 1 12 TF 2 4 6 TI 1 1 2 3 2 1 10 TK 1 1 1 3 TU 1 1 TZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 UA 1 22 36 56 6 121 UA2 1 2 3 1 7 UA9 1 8 10 19 UN 3 2 5 UR 2 31 40 33 12 118 V2 1 1 1 1 4 V3 1 1 1 1 4 V4 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 V5 1 1 2 VE 18 47 51 33 18 3 170 VK 2 9 1 12 VP2M 1 1 2 VP2V 1 1 2 VP5 1 1 1 1 4 VP8/h 1 1 2 VP9 1 1 VR 1 1 VU 1 1 XE 1 2 4 5 3 1 16 XU 1 1 YB 1 1 YL 2 5 5 1 1 14 YN 1 1 1 3 YO 3 13 15 11 42 YU 1 14 18 22 22 1 78 YV 1 2 2 1 6 Z3 3 1 2 1 7 ZA 2 1 3 ZC4 1 1 ZF 1 1 1 1 4 ZK1/n 1 1 ZL 1 4 4 2 11 ZP 1 1 2 ZS 1 2 3 3 4 1 14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 421,718 Fun, fun contest! Best conditions overall in at least the last two years. 15M was a bit wispy, but still my money band, with steady activity and good openings almost everywhere. I just returned from a trip on Friday night, so I let the XYL decide what level of participation I would have. Finally got started at about 0800Z on Saturday morning. Fell asleep before sunrise, but was pleased with low band conditions, 160M was the quietest ever in my 13 years at this QTH. I ducked in and out of the contest, and managed about a half-time effort. Highs: Unexpected runs on 15M, with call-ins from TF4 and OH0. Great results on 80M, most Europeans ever logged on that band, including RU1, Zone 16. Very Quiet 160M band, not as much activity as hoped for, but still very good! Snagging V7 with a slow CQ on 15M. Overall a very balanced effort for this low-wire station. Lows: Hearing 3B8 at my sunset on 80M, S9+, only a few callers, and not being able to raise him. Hearing a very strong IH9P calling others, but never CQing on 160M. Minor software glitches. Difficulty breaking pileups into the easy Central and South American mults (Need a better N/S antenna). With conditions on the upswing, it will only get better! One of these days I'll actually try a full-time effort! This was great fun, and certainly helped me ralize why this contest thrives year after year! Rig 1: Omni VI to 66' CF dipole @35' fed with ladder line (40-10M) Rig 2: Omni VI to 200' CF dipole @30' fed with ladder line (160-10M) Paul, K5AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5FP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 620,592 First contest in many,many years. Lots of FUN. Will do better next time.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,408,670 This was a great contest and a fun weekend with an outstanding group of guys! We felt good about our efforts this year. We had more than our usual problems but N5OE and N5RR pitched in to help me and all was well after I got some sleep about 28 hours into the contest. If I had known we would be entering the contests in the multi-multi mode 25 years ago, I would have wanted to have more children :-) Kevin, N5DX, is a great operator, getting better in every contest, and dedicated to the idea of doing well. It was fun to watch him and Chuck, KM5G, take command of 40 meters using the new antenna we put up 10 days before the contest. It is a single, rotatable, 6 element Yagi on a 110 foot boom up 135 feet and works very well from this location in Arkansas. Special thanks to all the operators who came from some distance to be on the team and contribute to the good time had by all. Happy Holidays & 73... Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5MQ Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 162,181 First CQWW with the 2 element yagi on 40m. Also first time in the assisted and HP category. Amp is only about 500w but worked fine. Mostly used the cluster to find qso's. Only called cq for maybe 1.5 hours. Had a great time in the contest. Made several long path qso's Saturday and Sunday evening. The Highlight of the contest was working VK9AA Cocos (Keeling) long path Sunday evening. 73, Dave K5MQ www.k5mq.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,687,580 I decided to spend a weekend DXing in the CQWW CW and not really contesting. That means I operated assisted and worked as many DX countries and zones as I could. Since I wasn't going for score, there was no pressure for me to run and hold a frequency. But I did run occasionally when I got bored or there were no DX pileups to try to break. I spent 48 hours in the chair and dozed occasionally when I just couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. I made QSOs in every clock hour of the 48 hours. The lowest total in any one hour was 2 QSOs in the 1200Z time slot the second morning. That was when I took my longest doze break of 45 minutes. The other doze breaks were generally 15 to 20 minutes in length. I had worked hard the week before to set up my new Microham SO2R box for the contest. I had originally thought I would spend more time running and doing the 2 radio thing. But it didn't happen because I was having too much fun DXing. The low bands(40, 80, & 160) were about as good as I have ever heard them from Central Texas. Who would have thought that I would have worked over 100 countries on 80M. That really surprised me. 40M was the hottest band with openings world-wide. It was great fun. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,768,730 Super condx, especially on 80M. The bad news - a hard drive glitch wiped out all QSO's (about 150 or so) the first morning from 1206Z - 1350Z. Lost about sixty 40M Q's and ninety 20M Q's, along with some good mults on both bands. George (K5TR) made a valiant effort to recover them with no luck - Thanks for your efforts George. Still not sure what happened. Score was about 400K lower as a result. Anyway, George's station played very well in my first single op CW effort in 4 years. Thanks to all for the contacts and to George for use of his super station. CU in the next one. 73, Gator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5YAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 849,493 Running low power in one of these things makes you humble. At times though getting past a huge pile up causes a big grin. Dennis - K5YA had too much of a head start on me this year. On 40 meters VK9AA told me "QSL QSO" and proceeded to CQ again. I had his attention 3 times but failed to get him to hear that second A. Could have used that one. TF8GX on 20 thought I was hassling him because he too thought he had already worked me. The only other TF I had heard was TF3CW with a huge pile up on him so I know I had not worked the TF8. Need to start peddling faster in the next one and an amp would also help. 40 and 80 meters were in great shape. I did better on 80 than ever even with big power into my Vee! Very good conditions both nights. I always enjoy 20 meters when you can hear all continents at once with similar signal strengths. 40 meters had the same conditions breifly Saturday evening. Maybe some of the big stacks experience that often but a 4 element 20 meter yagi pointed over the pole and signals from everywhere coming makes for radio fun. Pretty civil operating from all this time except in some of the piles a number of guys just kept sending their calls - almost as if they wanted to make sure no body heard who was getting worked. Im guilty of tossing in my call trying to sneak past some others but not 4 or 5 times in a row without taking a breath! It's like they seem to be thinking - "I'll pound that guy and all his callers into submission." The bands seemed pretty good considering the point in the cycle - but then CW and a good DX contest seems to light them up. K5YAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,233,680 Wow, what a weekend! This was the type of contest for what I like -- periods of high rate and then periods of multiplier chasing. I love looking for mults! Incredible rates on Sat morning. Had a 4 hour stretch with over 170 per hour! Never did that before. If I wasn't so old fashioned and sent my call after every QSO, probably could have increased that a bit. This included a period where I went against convention and moved down from 15 before it was closed. The center of gravity for this contest is now in Eastern Europe (zone 15 and 16) so you need to be where they are. Was also hoping 15 would still be good the second day (and it was). Wandered into some pileups that were huge and got lucky fast. Amazing what calling slightly off frequency can do for standing out from the crowd. Made myself take a 30 minute sleep break the first night. Then slept 3 hours the second. Mult totals were so high the first night that I knew I could afford to sleep (and it was clear that high band rate was going to be the key to a big score). Felt good all the way to the end. Was only out of the chair 7 times all weekend. Low bands were amazing. Had 56 countries on 160m the first night (and 81 on 80m!). Bands were so quiet here. No static, so 80/160 sounded just like a good night on 40m. Even had a 160m run of Eu stations Fri night. Activity on 80 and 40 was spread over 100 KHz. Hard to run and still find time to cover everything. Missed some easy mults on 80 as a result. Line score at the half way point was 2348/133/419 for 3.6M. I would have been very happy to end the contest then. Always difficult to look at another 24 hours in the chair. Set my goal at breaking 8M (and never expected to make it). Took a 10 minute break to celebrate and refill my water glass. Caught the very end of the 10m opening Sat morning when I found CT1AOZ with a big signal. Listened earlier on Sunday and was suprised to find the band open to more of Europe. All signals were weak, but they could hear me. Had a wild hour running at 150+ rate on 15m and chasing mults on 10m. Adds a little stress and excitement to the process. 10 wasn't good enough that I wanted to give up the rate on 15m. Missed a few mults as a result. Heard a weak 5A7A work someone, but never heard them CQing. Asia was the lost continent this weekend. Only worked a few JA on 40 and 20. Had to call almost all of them. Not even that many UA9s. Band was open great, but only so far and only so long. No equipment failures. WriteLog crashed two times for unknown reason. Logged on paper while doing the restart. Recorded the audio that was streamed on the Internet. Will put the recording files up on my web site as soon as I can. Some parts of the contest will be pretty boring listening. The quality of operating was generally good. The European ops just keep getting better and better (and more of them). Only a few crazy pileups where everyone kept calling and calling. Only one real frequency fight. I spent a good part of the contest asking myself why I do this. Amazing how much fun it seems to have been when I look back on the weekend... I am sure the more time passes, the more fun it will have seemed to have been! :) Some numbers: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 145 467 888 1151 668 12 3331 80.6 NA 59 77 95 92 45 15 383 9.3 AF 6 18 26 24 15 9 98 2.4 SA 8 11 28 42 42 29 160 3.9 AS 0 8 33 72 3 0 116 2.8 OC 2 9 15 9 7 1 43 1.0 QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off (Mins) 0000Z --+-- --+-- 77/66 --+-- --+-- --+-- 77/66 77/66 0100Z 20/25 51/45 - - - - 71/70 148/136 0200Z - 85/16 18/8 - - - 103/24 251/160 0300Z 11/7 78/5 7/3 - - - 96/15 347/175 0400Z 25/13 27/8 - - - - 52/21 399/196 0500Z 76/5 17/6 - - - - 93/11 492/207 0600Z 36/9 24/3 - - - - 60/12 552/219 0700Z 8/5 71/2 6/4 - - - 85/11 637/230 0800Z 5/6 24/8 15/13 --+-- --+-- --+-- 44/27 681/257 0900Z 2/0 16/11 4/2 4/8 - - 26/21 707/278 1000Z - 5/2 9/1 - - - 14/3 721/281 1100Z 2/0 3/1 5/4 67/30 - - 77/35 798/316 36 1200Z - - 9/5 114/14 4/8 - 127/27 925/343 1300Z - - - 75/7 101/27 - 176/34 1101/377 1400Z - - - 19/9 161/12 - 180/21 1281/398 1500Z - - - 126/8 45/15 - 171/23 1452/421 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 163/5 9/8 --+-- 172/13 1624/434 1700Z - - - 139/5 - 14/20 153/25 1777/459 1800Z - - - 84/7 30/17 5/6 119/30 1896/489 1900Z - - - 45/14 23/13 2/1 70/28 1966/517 2000Z - - 87/5 6/3 - 2/1 95/9 2061/526 2100Z - - 119/6 - 9/3 - 128/9 2189/535 2200Z - - 77/6 11/4 - - 88/10 2277/545 2300Z - 18/0 27/3 26/4 - - 71/7 2348/552 0000Z 4/4 49/1 --+-- 2/0 --+-- --+-- 55/5 2403/557 10 0100Z 2/1 40/4 12/0 1/0 - - 55/5 2458/562 0200Z 17/5 - 1/0 7/5 - - 25/10 2483/572 20 0300Z 6/1 11/5 38/1 - - - 55/7 2538/579 0400Z 2/0 21/1 26/2 - - - 49/3 2587/582 0500Z 2/4 2/1 76/3 - - - 80/8 2667/590 0600Z - 6/1 90/3 - - - 96/4 2763/594 0700Z - 3/0 109/2 - - - 112/2 2875/596 0800Z 1/0 6/1 72/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 79/4 2954/600 6 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2954/600 60 1000Z - 2/0 - - - - 2/0 2956/600 50 1100Z - 1/0 10/1 87/5 - - 98/6 3054/606 1200Z - - 1/0 126/1 7/1 - 134/2 3188/608 1300Z - - - 33/0 121/5 8/9 162/14 3350/622 1400Z - - - - 139/4 15/15 154/19 3504/641 1500Z - - - - 102/5 13/7 115/12 3619/653 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 105/4 8/0 --+-- 113/4 3732/657 1700Z - - - 71/6 5/1 2/2 78/9 3810/666 1800Z - - - 30/6 6/2 1/1 37/9 3847/675 1900Z - - 43/2 1/1 6/1 4/2 54/6 3901/681 2000Z - - 58/0 6/0 4/3 - 68/3 3969/684 2100Z - - 58/1 8/4 - - 66/5 4035/689 2200Z - - 29/0 27/5 - - 56/5 4091/694 2300Z 1/1 30/1 3/0 8/0 - - 42/2 4133/696 Tot: 220/86 590/122 1086/ 1391/ 780/125 66/64 182 /144 /155 Most worked countries (>100 QSOs): 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total DL 33 80 113 244 164 634 EA 3 13 30 35 20 2 103 F 6 22 58 51 46 183 G 11 36 53 84 33 217 HA 2 18 26 30 30 106 I 3 15 42 54 43 1 158 OK 17 42 73 79 68 279 SP 5 14 37 57 39 152 UA 3 32 73 92 12 212 UR 3 21 60 59 27 170 VE 27 34 38 34 15 148 Unique callsigns worked = 2820 The best 60 minute rate was 193/hour from 1337 to 1436 The best 30 minute rate was 196/hour from 1417 to 1446 The best 10 minute rate was 222/hour from 1343 to 1352 There were 720 bandchanges and 346 probable 2nd radio QSO's. The following 11 stations were worked on 6 bands: ZF1A 8P5A CT9L V47NT PS2T TI5N HC8N P49Y KP3Z 9Y4AA V26K Worked 26 other stations on 5 bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 82,620 I had great hopes that my new mulitband dipole as in inverted vee with apex at 55 feet in my palm tree would be a huge improvement over dipoles at 20 feet. To make a long story short, the multiband dipole did not work well, especially on 80. Thankfully, I had a spare 40 meter dipole that I put in place of the multiband dipole. I had good results with it. Quite a thrill to work the OH0 via gray line at sunrise this morning on 40. Thats a first for me. Several new countries for me - Mali, Kenya and Tokelau. Too many new band countries to list. Missed the Libya group. Missed a lot of countries that I worked in SSB contest. Missed FY and VK especially. And where are the HL's? I think I'll pass on the 160 contest next weekend, and concetrate on getting a pvc dipole up the palm tree for the 10m contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 15,792 Like others, only spent a small amount of time between putting up outside Christmas decorations. All S&P, with packet help. Some effort Sat night, rest Sunday day. Broke through many pilups, the station felt loud most of the time on 15 and 20. Normal stuff: FT-1000MP & AL-80b, about 800w Ancient TH-3 up abt 65' Wires for the rest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 12,320 Just some periodic cherry picking QRV. Lots of D4B Wannabees on the bands :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 297,000 Ants 80 ground plane, GAP Titan, off center fed 270 ft dipole up 55 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 236,180 considering no Europe on 15, I had a good time and some very nice dx showed up again...so I can't complain..everything worked, so that is good news...this is the grand daddy of tests for sure.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 766,743 I didn't plan on operating as much as I did, but the opportunity presented itself to spend a fare amount of time in the test. Much of this time was spent trying to pierce the auroral oval. I would send little bits of RF on their way towards Europe, but they would hit the contraceptive oval and come wimpering back all disturbed and such. I tried to explain to them that there was a food fight on the sun resulting in cosmic food particles bombarding earth and this is why the oval got so big and mean for some of us up north. Some of the little RFs did get through though so who knows what will happen in 9 months? Best part of the weekend was wishing I was still in college so I could write a paper on pileup psychology. The contest pileup is a wonderful expose of all 7 of the deadly sins. I too thought it was quite bad this weekend and I must admit I even joined in on the riot mentality a few times. The funny part is trying to hack through the JW pile (eventually succeeding) only to find that a CQ five minutes later up the band yields a TF for that tough zone 40. Yes, the Guy who built the RF medium has a sense of humour. I didn't do as much CQing as I should have, but it was fun to scan the bands S&Ping up and down. The six inches of snow and freezing cold weather made for some cozy heat coming from the old Alpha 374A. I dusted it off and put it inline so I could make quicker band changes. It has a fairly new pair of 8874s in it and it ran like a champ on all bands. Wish I had spent more time Saturday and Sunday morning working the long path on the low bands and short path on 15 and 20. I thought I might beat K5ZD, but then the paint fumes left the basement. Thanks for the QSOs. I hope to give this a real serious effort one of these years. 73, Matt-K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 271,908 The 40M OTH Radar jamming was a pain. I never found a decent 10M opening in the NW. No antennas for 80/160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 55,168 Limited activity but fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 445,120 FT1000MP and AL811 with Force 12 GT5/ HF2V verticals. Verticals always a challenge, but the fun always outweighs the handicaps! Great to hear old friends...thanks for all the Qs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 1,587 Equipment Description: Friday: IC746, 80W. Saturday: Ten Tec OMNI-D, 110W. 175' Long Inv L @ 37'. Comments: Finished Rebuilding The OMNI-D PTO In Time For The Saturday Evening 160M Session. The Ten Tec OMNI-D Did An Excellent Job. I Am Always Amazed At What You Can Work With 100W And A Good Antenna. I Woke Up Too Late To Work UA0 and JA On Sunday AM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 62,883 Just a few hours in the chair; working some DX. Rig: FT1000MP + ALS-600 amp Antennas: 3 ele quad, 204-foot G5RV, 160-meter vertical Software: WriteLog 10.58e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,974,858 The crew had blast this weekend, with ORG K8NZ returning from FL for the weekend. (Ron and I did our first multi-single together in 1967.) Very strange conditions first night. After the first 90 minutes, nothing on 40m was coming direct path, and the only band that sounded "normal" was 80m -- which sounded like 20m with 60db of attenuation. But things recovered and we had great rates on 20 and 15 Saturday morning, so the 1st day wound up well. Conditions the second day were disappointing. We had a normal dose of problems, with an amp relay failing and the feedline to the 7/7 10m stack causing an SWR problem. Thanks to a great crew, both were repaired before the end of the contest. This one is the most fun of all, and it was made all the more special by K8NZ returning to OH for the fun of it. Thanks to everyone who helped get the station ready, especially after the disasterous SSB weekend. 73 de Tom, K8AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8CC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,815,550 Station: 2 x FT-1000Ds 160 PT-2500A 140' shunt fed tower, 500' 2-wire beverage NE/SW 80 Henry 2K-3 Wire four-square, dipole at 110' 40 4-1000A 3L @ 120', dipole @ 80' 20 3-1000Z 5L/5L @ 120'/60', 204BA @ 80' 15 3-1000Z 5L/5L/5L @ 141'/94'/47', PV-4 @ 60' 10 2 x 3-500Z 5L/5L/5L @ 90'/60'/30' It was, as they say, an "interesting" weekend. The first night everything above 40M was dead, 40M was simply not runnable for DX and as K8BB put it, "The entire world is on 80 and 160 meters". We felt very inhibited by our latitude on 40M the first night. Shorty 40s in AZ were kicking our butts to Africa most of the evening and we could not get a CQ answered by a DX station until EU sunrise. We finished the first night with more QSOs and countries on 80M than any other band. Due to a combination of inadequate recruiting on my part along with the Thanksgiving holiday, we wound up with only three ops (Uli, Don and myself). This is just not enough to keep fresh ops at the key in a CQWW multi-single with the mult transmitter. Fortunately, Ian/K8MM came by late Saturday afternoon and stayed until Sunday morning. The operating chairs were never left empty, but having fresh ops over the course of the weekend was one area where I think we could improve. On a happier note, 20M Saturday morning was arguably the best 20 CW opening we've ever had at K8CC. Don wedged in on 14047.6 and then I took over with some of the fastest CW running I've ever done from here. It's a great feeling - a steady stream of callers while seemingly possessing the ability to brush aside QRM at will. This was the second DX outing for the new 5L 44' booms at 120'/60' (the other test being NU1AW/8) and the results seem pretty good. I can't wait to add five 45G sections and another beam next summer. 15M was not very good for us, again we believe because of being further north and west than some of our competition. We had only one 100+ hour on 15 all weekend, although the band was runnable for the usual durations. My favorite moment from the weekend came on 80 CW early Sunday morning. I had just finished working WH0S easily when a spot came through for AH2R a couple KHz away. I QSY'd to the frequency which was absolute bedlam. AH2R actually had a pretty good signal, S7 on the FT-1000D s-meter. However, the pileup would not stop calling and eventually AH2R simply stopped. It took about three minutes for the pileup to eventually wind down and the frequency was quiet. As I was describing the situation to KK8I (who was trying to run EU on 40 at the "run" station) out of the 3.5 MHz ether I hear a single "CQ AH2R". A quick punch of the F4 key, and what was arguably the most QRM-free QSO of the weekend (OK, so that doesn't include 28 MHz...) went into the log. Three minutes later, the frequency was bedlam again. We got INRAD roofing filters and the W8JI noise blanker mods in the two main FT-1000Ds before SS CW, and these seemed to make a huge improvement during this past weekend, particularly on 40. As K8BB commented, "Before, everyone sounded clicky now only the truly clicky stations sound that way". Everything ran pretty well. Discovered that the middle 5L 10M yagi would not rotate late Saturday and the wiring to the 10M WX0B StackMatch had been crossed. Got those fixed Sunday afternoon, but the problems really weren't of much effect. Congratulations to the team at K8AZ for a really FB job from this weekend. 73, Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,574,083 Low bands were a blast! Great contest! Thanks to all the Expeditions! K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,805,205 TT Orion II, Alpha 91B, 3 el SteppIR at 78', M-Squared 3 el 40M yagi (40M3L) at 71 ft, sloper for 80 and 78' vertical for 160 (shunt fed tower). Single Op ONE radio, because I aint smart enough to do SO2R! ;-) I wanted to operate the complete contest period but the "Chinese Dragon" wiping out 40m for periods of time, plus a new local noise, made it difficult to do much the second night. Put in a token appearance that night. Large kudos to the 40m JA ops who worked with me patiently while I pieced callsigns together in the noise! All in all, it was a fun time though, and the bands cooperated better than I originally predicted. 73, Bob K8IA Near the Superstition Mts Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 369,964 Just a part-time effort this time. Other distractions kept me from getting serious until Sunday morning. Conditions seemed to be pretty good, especially to Africa. I've got some serious power line noise which is hurting me on 80 and 160. Hope the power company comes up with a fix before the 160 contest next weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MN Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 14,413 I didn't have time for a serious effort and my single beverage antenna (toward JA) had broken. I decided to see how many countries I could work during a single morning and a couple of casual evenings of operation with an inverted L. Even I was surprised by the results. Dave K8MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8ZT Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 201,096 First time workng KH6 on 160 was an early morning highlight. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9AY Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 10,100 Part-time shakedown of the makeshift antenna farm. Just for fun, I did all receiving on a K9AY Loop. I'll use the Beverages next weekend! 73, Gary K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 396,865 All S&P. Looked for new band countries expecially on 80/160. I just put up some Beverages and tried in the test. They worked so well and the weather was great so put up a couple more during the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 257,397 CQWWCW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2006-11-25 CallSign Used : K9ES Operator(s) : K9ES Band : 80M Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : 5 Gridsquare : EL98 Name : Eric L. Smitt Address : 2175 Ohio St City/State/Zip : W. Melbourne FL 32904 Country : USA ARRL Section : SFL Club/Team : Florida Contest Group Software: N1MM Logger V6.10.10 Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN 3.5 647 1751 113 34 Total 647 1751 113 34 Score : 257,397 Rig : IC-756 Pro-2, Ameritron AL572 1KW output Antennas : Homebrew 4-Square, Folded Dipole @ 50 feet, K9AY Switched RX Array Antennas played really well. With 5 minutes left in contest, worked the last new country, C3 (Andorra). Worked many FCG'ers looking for Zone 5, and all the FCG DXpeditions. OJ's Eric K9ES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 208,120 Sure glad Spike TV had a James Bond marathon on TV this weekend! Nothing like contesting with "Bond, James Bond"...that said I could of done better. Christmas wish list this year has new lot/house with lots of land for new and big antennas. Probably have to wait another year or years (ugh) for that stuff, hah! Sure did not feel loud on 15m. Spent probably five hours setting up holiday lights on the house on Thu/Fri...sure wish I had set up the Force12 vertical dipole as that would have been a better antenna to use for this contest. I liked the online scoreboard...needs more participation though. Happy Holidays & Best of health to all, Eric FT-857d Cushcraft R7000 WriteLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 676,498 Lots of good dx! Tnx to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 378,000 Loads of fun though the only antenna was a temporary 80-10 vertical. 73, K9OM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,509,994 Finally a good effort by our team produced a decent score. Usually we work hard but end up with too low a score. This contest proved we enjoy CW much more than SSB. Friday was a busy day for me. I noticed during the bad weather Thursday that the 5 element 20M beam was free wheeling. After a few calls I got to my third level of climbing help and N1ROZ came to help me re-align the antenna and reclamp the boom on the mast. I also finished the termination of our new beverage into the shack but at 1PM local time it sounded no different than our existing beverage. Same daytime noise level. When you host a M/M you usually start the contest tired just getting all the loose ends and final preparations done. At 4PM local time I had to attend a service for a friend's deceased mother. That meant I would miss the start but our seasoned crew knew what to do and where to start. I arrived back home 40 minutes into the contest and after one hour we had 36 QSOs less that K1TTT on 80M. I kept asking the operator if he started late! Just joking! The Realtime scoreboard really keeps me motivated and interested. We do not need to see KC1XX, W3LPL, and K3LR as they are on the top level of M/M. Next comes NQ4I (improving all the time), K1TTT, K1RX, and a few others. This is the group we use as a yard stick. It;s obvious that Dave (K1TTT) and I watch the scores. At one point we got a talk message asking if our update was busted. It is also interesting to get talk messages from a few who are watching the webcam. Oopps! Does that mean we a DQed? N2TTA had a 162 hour followed by a 145 hour on 20M the first day. K1EBY had a number of hours over 100 with the Last 10 counter at times well over 300. KM1X had an outstanding first night on 160 where we ended up with 83 countries and 20 zones. NB1U missed some operating due to a funeral but when in the chair he kept a steady rate and busted many a pileup for the new multiplier. Special thanks to N1GKI who continues to provide our IT support and got very little sleep time when here. Our three new computers ran great but the two older machines had issues. Especially when the Bandmap got crowded. (N1MM Logger) Well, we had lots of fun. Food included beef stew, chili, chicken and dumplings, pizza, and stuffed shells. Sunday afternoon we lost some steam as some had to leave for work that evening. The last two hours we were down to two operators. I still need to work on operator management but it is tough to make people sit around when there are only two or three bands open. There was alot of work to prepare for this season and I want to thank everyone who helped. Digging holes for the new beverage poles in New England is a feat of its own. We grow rocks here! We wish to thank all for the QSOs and keep working us in future contest. Next up is playing in the ARRL 160 contest between chores and an office dinner. After that N2TTA will be doing a Single OP effort in ARRL 10. 73 Dick - KB1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 18,726,390 Congratulations to the K3LR and W3LPL teams! Strong work by the LPL team for their 5BDXCC - as W3UR put it today: the hard way! A super job by everyone on the team. The low band numbers are among the best ever seen at XX. KA1R joined us again and posted a new high country total on 160. After posting his best 80 Meter score ever in last year's WW CW, W1FV upped the bar again this weekend with an even stronger showing. The 40 Meter boys worked real hard to keep the rate up, willing the MUF higher, through the night. In the end, they were rewarded with a 40 zone sweep and what looks like (after a quick check of the 3830 archives) a new high country total as well. A photo finish, lots of laughs, and great hosts will make this weekend well remembered for a long time! Thanks for all the QSOs and we'll see you in February! BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 452 1063 2.35 22 91 KA1R 80 1611 4586 2.85 35 126 W1FV 40 1548 4395 2.84 40 153 KC1XX,KM3T,WC1M,K1EA 20 2218 6285 2.83 38 150 W2RQ,WA1Z 15 1299 3617 2.78 30 130 N3RD,WC1M 10 231 520 2.25 23 77 K1GQ,KM3T,WC1M --------------------------------------------------- Totals 7359 20466 2.78 188 727 => 18,726,390 Continent Statistics -------------------- 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 152 146 156 213 159 77 903 12.0 South America 14 25 47 99 95 62 342 4.5 Europe 282 1393 1216 1743 1010 70 5714 75.7 Asia 3 35 100 147 8 0 293 3.9 Africa 12 27 38 42 34 21 174 2.3 Oceania 3 28 38 29 24 3 125 1.7 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 21/25 137/51 64/55 24/17 2/2 1/2 249/152 249/152 1 14/11 126/17 76/20 13/7 . . 229/55 478/207 2 25/9 103/7 46/7 12/9 . . 186/32 664/239 3 33/5 110/13 42/15 20/4 . . 205/37 869/276 4 21/8 97/6 13/5 9/10 . . 140/29 1009/305 5 33/12 99/4 17/6 9/8 . . 158/30 1167/335 6 23/5 87/8 28/6 9/5 . . 147/24 1314/359 7 20/6 82/9 28/6 8/3 . . 138/24 1452/383 8 11/6 39/14 8/5 2/2 ..... ..... 60/27 1512/410 9 9/3 18/4 12/5 2/0 . . 41/12 1553/422 10 11/0 11/3 11/3 2/1 2/4 . 37/11 1590/433 11 2/0 8/1 14/14 109/42 34/30 1/2 168/89 1758/522 12 2/0 2/0 16/1 207/16 97/21 3/3 327/41 2085/563 13 . . 6/2 174/12 171/21 7/9 358/44 2443/607 14 . . . 174/4 134/23 23/17 331/44 2774/651 15 . . 3/0 173/6 119/12 16/11 311/29 3085/680 16 ..... ..... ..... 159/7 80/8 12/5 251/20 3336/700 17 . . 8/1 122/3 42/8 29/5 201/17 3537/717 18 . . 65/2 73/1 28/6 10/5 176/14 3713/731 19 . . 101/2 17/5 26/6 3/0 147/13 3860/744 20 . 24/1 134/3 36/0 27/2 5/3 226/9 4086/753 21 2/2 34/2 68/4 26/3 15/2 . 145/13 4231/766 22 5/2 75/3 78/7 35/1 1/0 . 194/13 4425/779 23 24/1 31/0 39/2 12/3 . . 106/6 4531/785 0 34/1 75/4 25/2 7/0 ..... ..... 141/7 4672/792 1 22/0 55/2 29/3 11/0 . . 117/5 4789/797 2 35/2 56/1 25/1 3/1 . . 119/5 4908/802 3 29/4 53/0 31/1 5/2 . . 118/7 5026/809 4 16/1 44/1 32/2 2/0 . . 94/4 5120/813 5 10/0 38/1 36/2 1/0 . . 85/3 5205/816 6 17/1 69/0 72/0 3/0 . . 161/1 5366/817 7 12/1 53/1 82/0 1/0 . . 148/2 5514/819 8 3/2 23/1 37/0 1/0 ..... ..... 64/3 5578/822 9 4/1 2/1 10/0 2/0 . . 18/2 5596/824 10 1/0 1/0 14/2 2/0 . . 18/2 5614/826 11 3/3 4/3 19/1 69/1 7/0 . 102/8 5716/834 12 . 1/1 17/1 115/2 61/0 29/12 223/16 5939/850 13 . . 2/0 105/1 148/3 37/8 292/12 6231/862 14 . . . 86/2 101/2 14/6 201/10 6432/872 15 . . . 102/0 89/1 10/6 201/7 6633/879 16 ..... ..... ..... 94/1 35/0 7/1 136/2 6769/881 17 . . 1/0 50/1 19/1 12/3 82/5 6851/886 18 . . 13/0 40/1 16/0 6/1 75/2 6926/888 19 . 1/0 53/3 21/2 9/4 2/0 86/9 7012/897 20 . 5/0 79/1 20/0 19/1 4/1 127/3 7139/900 21 1/1 7/0 52/1 35/1 6/3 . 101/6 7240/906 22 2/0 10/1 32/1 9/4 10/0 . 63/6 7303/912 23 7/1 31/1 10/1 8/0 1/0 . 57/3 7360/915 DAY1 256/95 1083/143 877/171 1427/169 778/145 110/62 ..... 4531/785 DAY2 196/18 528/18 671/22 792/19 521/15 121/38 . 2829/130 TOT 452/113 1611/161 1548/193 2219/188 1299/160 231/100 . 7360/915 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 26 Nov 2006 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3B8 1 2 2 1 1 3D2 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 3X 1 1 1 1 1 4J 1 1 1 4L 1 2 4S 1 4U1I 1 1 1 4U1U 1 1 1 1 4X 9 5 8 3 5A 2 1 1 1 1 1 5B 2 4 2 2 2 5H 1 1 1 2 1 5R 1 5W 1 5Z 1 1 6W 1 2 2 2 2 2 6Y 1 1 7X 1 8P 2 2 3 5 4 3 8Q 1 1 1 1 9A 3 18 27 20 23 3 9G 1 1 1 9H 1 1 1 9J 1 9K 1 9M2 1 9M6 1 1 9N 1 1 2 9V 1 9Y 1 1 1 2 1 1 A4 1 1 1 1 A6 1 BY 2 1 C3 1 C6 1 2 3 3 2 1 CE 2 2 2 3 4 CE9 1 4 CM 1 3 7 4 3 CN 2 1 1 CT 1 3 2 5 2 2 CT3 2 3 4 4 2 2 CU 1 1 2 1 1 1 CX 1 1 2 3 2 D4 1 1 1 DL 50 268 191 298 205 13 DU 1 EA 10 26 50 49 44 7 EA6 2 2 2 4 2 1 EA8 1 7 9 9 6 3 EA9 1 1 2 2 1 EI 4 5 6 9 5 ER 2 3 4 3 ES 3 8 5 5 1 EU 2 11 12 15 4 EX 1 1 EY 1 F 12 56 74 82 75 13 FJ 1 FK 1 FM 1 1 2 1 1 FO 1 1 FY 1 1 2 1 1 G 37 105 72 134 50 6 GD 3 4 2 4 1 GI 3 2 2 4 2 GJ 1 2 2 3 1 1 GM 6 19 11 19 5 GM/s 2 1 1 GU 1 2 1 GW 2 7 5 9 4 HA 3 39 35 46 40 2 HB 4 19 25 25 23 2 HB0 1 HC 1 1 1 1 1 HC8 2 1 1 1 1 1 HI 2 3 3 3 3 1 HK 1 1 2 6 4 2 HK0/a 1 1 1 1 1 1 HL 2 HP 1 2 2 1 2 1 HR 2 1 HZ 1 1 1 I 8 51 72 71 66 6 IG9 1 1 1 1 1 1 IS 1 1 3 4 2 IT9 2 3 5 4 4 1 J3 1 1 1 1 J7 1 2 3 2 2 1 JA 2 40 83 1 JD/o 1 JT 1 JW 1 1 K 76 51 49 82 66 48 KH0 1 1 KH2 1 2 2 KH6 2 7 8 6 9 1 KH8 1 1 KL 2 2 1 4 1 KP2 1 1 1 1 2 1 KP4 2 3 4 3 5 2 LA 1 19 6 13 1 LU 4 11 23 25 16 LX 1 2 1 2 1 LY 2 21 11 35 10 LZ 1 26 30 25 16 2 OA 1 1 OE 2 13 12 13 10 OH 7 34 18 46 13 OH0 2 2 2 2 OK 19 115 81 126 81 1 OM 9 32 24 31 18 1 ON 5 18 16 26 15 1 OX 1 1 2 3 OY 1 1 1 1 1 OZ 4 17 3 14 10 P4 3 5 5 6 5 4 PA 8 30 31 47 30 1 PJ2 2 2 2 2 2 2 PY 2 5 11 38 38 21 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 S5 9 32 40 32 37 2 S9 1 1 1 1 SM 10 33 14 46 7 SP 10 67 50 88 56 ST 1 1 SV 2 3 10 12 9 SV5 1 1 SV9 1 1 2 T7 1 T8 1 T9 9 4 5 5 1 TA 3 2 TF 3 7 1 TG 1 TI 1 2 2 2 3 2 TK 1 2 3 1 1 TU 1 2 1 1 TZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 UA 10 116 92 170 24 UA2 1 2 2 5 2 UA9 10 26 29 UK 2 UN 4 4 2 UR 9 82 74 103 38 V2 2 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 1 1 1 V5 1 1 1 2 2 2 VE 51 58 55 68 41 3 VK 10 14 9 8 VK9C 1 VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 VP2V 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 VP8/h 1 2 1 2 VP9 3 5 VQ9 1 1 VR 1 1 VU 1 4 XE 1 3 9 12 7 2 XU 1 YI 1 2 YL 3 12 3 12 3 YN 1 1 1 1 YO 1 17 28 27 21 YU 2 28 32 30 25 1 YV 1 1 5 5 6 4 Z3 1 1 4 4 3 1 Z7 1 1 3 1 1 ZA 1 2 1 ZC4 1 ZF 1 1 1 2 2 1 ZK1/s 1 1 1 1 1 ZK3 1 ZL 1 6 7 6 4 1 ZP 1 2 ZS 2 1 8 7 5 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 128,266 FT897@100w - ~600' random loop at ~30' Operated mostly in 30 minute segments in between doing the usual weekend chores and such. Lucked out and caught 5A7A when I was just walking past the radio Saturday afternoon. Got a couple of solid hours in here and there, with one good long stretch Sunday afternoon. 15M was the workhorse here. This band has always been my favorite. It was open most of both days and was very quiet QRN-wise, but with plenty of good dx. What's all the complaining about the sunspot lows? If this is bad, I can't wait to see what fun is to come in a few years. Worked a lot of Africa and South America, not as much Europe. Had a nice opening to ZL late Sunday afternoon. Nothing like bagging ZL on one quick call. Seems my new loop is working out better than the old longwire. It solved all my RFI problems too. Lots of noise on 20, 40 and 80m here made working those bands less pleasant. Had a few nice openings on 10m too. Only disappointment...no JAs. Heard some late Sunday on 20M but with lots of flutter. Couldn't copy good enough to even try to work them. Favorite moment...working KH6 on 160m at sunrise Sunday on one call! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 751,600 First time to break the 750,000 mark. GO FCG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 46,110 Writelog says 6.5 hours, but it was a fully distracted 6.5. Low power and low dipoles played suprisingly well. 100% point and shoot s&p. I think I'll try to put more time in the chair next year. Highlites were working through several fairly large pileups, working JA on 20 and working a couple of the african mults through their pileups on 40M. Great fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG6DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,361,380 Great Long Path openings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,909,120 Equipment: FT-1000MP, CT10 Antennas: A4S, 40-2CD at 50 ft, 1/4L Sloper (80m) Conditions seemed much better on Saturday. I should have operated 10m during the day on Sat but I thought the trend was for better conditions on Sunday. It didn't happen and I barely got a US multiplier (N6RO) on 10 m late on Sunday. The only openings I had to Europe were via LP on 40 m and a polar opening to northern Scandinavia on 20m. And the result was only about 10 Europeans in the log. There were many mults on all the bands that could not hear me causing a lot of frustration. SeaQ Maui restricts to low power because of neighborhood issues with interference to electronic devices. I had a nice finish on 20m with 125 QSOs the last hour after 20 QSOs in the previous hour. Lots of KBs (a YCCC greeting) from the northeast guys. I'll be active as VP9/W6PH in both 2007 ARRL DX Contests. Aloha, Kurt, W6PH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6NF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,024,526 Another good education with lessons learned... Best comprehensive display of decorum/etiquette that I have seen...Mahalo for the Q’s. Aloha, John KH6SH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI1G Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,324,218 So if the bottom of the sunspot cycle nearly brings 5 band DXCC in a weekend, who needs sunspots ?? Just remember that there are no meters like 10 meters, bring me the sunspots !! Never worked zones 23,24,26 or 28. Nice to hear all of the activity from the African zones, zone 36 could use some more activity if anyone is looking for a place to go next year. I think I worked more TF's during this contest than ever before, keep up the great participation. Thanks for all of the QSO's, hope everyone has a great holiday season and will look for you next time around. 73, Rick KI1G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 247,418 Just 8 hrs between holiday stuff. 70 degrees both days didn't keep in for long. Just some S&P. Tought to run with my stuff! 73-Chuck KI9A ICOM 746 Heath SB-1000 @ 600w G5RV @ 55' & A3 @ 25' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 14,700 Working Europe at Alaska local noon early this week indicated topband was peaking too early from a coronal hole stream that hit soon after. Worked some good rate when East coast had sunrise and a few Europe stations at their sunset. Mostly picking off anyone I could hear at a very slow rate in-between the +20 static crashes. Even this poor score required a lot of hours with the butt in the chair. Topband is fun waiting for good stuff to pop up out of the noise and I didn't miss anything I could hear longer then 30 seconds. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 237,110 Heard and worked only 1 Russian Station, all bands were great. Did mostly Seek and Log. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN6RO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 150,528 All S&P just looking for countries. I am not a good cw op at all, but this test was great fun and makes me want to improve my cw skills. Only operated casually due to getting a new dog, and having to leave for the Airport at 20:00 Z on Sunday. FT-1000MP, TL-922 amplifier, KLM KT-34 at 60 feet, Inverted Vee at 60 feet for 40 and 80, Inverted -L at 60 feet for 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN7T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 131,768 The zone 40 pileups on 20 meters were absolutely unruly - way too many impatient ops, also too many ops calling over the exchanges creating just that much more confusion. The DX station probably could have worked twice as many contacts without having to do the double and triple exchange repeats. That is just one example, no doubt there were countless otheres. It's time to stop accepting that as the norm and challenge ourselves to improve the process. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 610,590 I had a great time the first night, on Saturday morning I had 250/34/81 on 40M and figured 1M was a sure thing. Then the realty of DX contesting from W7 hit me! 20M was poor to EU and 15M was worse. The enthusiasm started fading.....I got on for the afternoon 20M JA/Asia run but spent most of the weekend with the family. The strangest part of the whole test was during a JA run on 20M. Someone signing TI3*** started CQing absolutely ZERO BEAT on me, 599 off the back of the beam, without even a "?". He just wouldn't let up and even told me the freq was QRL. During 20 years in W0 I was isolated from hard core DX contesting and had only read about down and dirty frequency stealing in the contesting comments....certainly our domestic contests have little frequency "spats" but this kind of aggressiveness was a first for me.... ANT: Optibeam 4020 (3 el 40/5 el 20) at 90' M2 4 el 15 at 38' Butternut HF2V RIG: TenTec OMNI VI and ALPHA power 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson, AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 33,000 FT-1000MP Hand turned 3-element tribander at 20ft. I enjoy the single band experience. It allows me to be three times as frustrated for only one half the time. Thank you KT8X and K7ZZ for the country and zone multipliers. John kq6es ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 812,343 OPERATING TIME I say 39 hours, CT sez 29 hours. Well, I was "in the chair" but I guess CT thought otherwise. Even at 39 hours, this is the fewest hours I have operated in CQWW (serious effort) since I was the "10 meter guy" at K2GL/N2AA m/m. I did antenna and tower work all week. I was supposed to finish Wednesday but at 4:30pm local time I find myself on the tower IN THE DARK and it is starting to hail. Oh well. I am "almost done" and will finish Friday. I work another six hours on antennas on Friday. UGH...I just can't forecast how long things take me now. Could not stay awake by 0606z first day and went to bed..and did not set the alarm. Figured I'd let nature take its couse. I was back in the chair at 1217z (including showering, etc). Not too bad. Day two I force myself to bed at 0900 and the alarm wakes me up 2 hours later, but it isn't until 1152 that I'm back in the chair. FUN STATS: 1. Worked a total of 102 DXCC countries. Not bad for qrp in one weekend at the "bottom" of the cycle. 2. Nice opening to JA a couple hours after sunset local time (20m) on 11/25, putting ten of them in the log. Always makes me happy. 3. Worked on FIVE bands: 9Y4AA and HC8N 4. Worked on FOUR bands (no small achievement with qrp either) 8P5A CT3KN CT6A CU2A DF0HQ DR1A EA8EW G4BUO G5W HI3A KP3Z LR2F OK5W OM8A P40T PY2NY TI5N TZ5A V26K VC3E VE2TZT YW4D ZF1A MY STUFF: First time giving the Elecraft K2 (qrp cw only...I did not buy the amp) a genuine, serious workout. Still getting to learn this radio. Sure wish it had some more features for contesting, such as RIT/XIT readout of offset and an "always on" display for VFO B. Quite a nice radio and seems basically uncrushable from this location. Best sounding rig I have ever used from here on the low bands. I was, and am, very impressed. Ed McMahon: "A Pair of K2's." Karnak: "What is in KR2Q's future." SO1R for this contest. Outside: Optibeam "small" tribander (OB11-3) at 72' and 402CD at not much above it (but at 90 degrees). 2L 5-bander HB quad at 54 feet (from ARRL antenna HB). 160: 1/2 wave wire with center at 50 feet and ends at six (6) feet on tower 1. 80 meters: 1/2 wave inverted V with center at 50 feet and ends around 15-20' on tower 2. COMPLIMENTS HC8N was everywhere and workable! I even heard them off the back of the beam (on every band, including 10). G4BUO...4 bands and basically all were one-call QSO's. Take your bow! FUN: Working double mults at sunrise BY INTENTION! Especially great to "run into" VK6 while "the pursuit of double mults" was on with the sun rising. Hannibal: I love it when a plan comes together. THE GOOD (?): Hearing the other guy some back to either R2Q or KR2 and then have them noticably pause...and fill in MY CALL! thanks Randy????? THE BAD: Where the heck did all the other KR callsigns come from? It used to be "just me." Had a hard time convincing some stations that I was NOT KR5V, KR4-whatever, Prefix # KR, and even KR1ST (how does 1ST sound close to 2Q?). But in the end, they all "got it." CONCLUSION: Overall, had a enjoyable time. Good contest, good competition, good friends, and lots of good surprises during the sunspot bottom de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 113,828 I intended to work as 20 meters only. When I turned on the radio at 0100z and found 40 meters open I could not resist the temptation. Glad I did as 10 and 15 were open and provided some fun. I was S&P only as my old ears just do not get the calls the first time as they once did. That is not good when calling CQ. It was a fun cintest and I made my usual 200 plus contacts. Ilook forward to next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0T Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 2,128 A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,900,800 Well, another cqww contest has come and gone. The bands seemed to be decent for the most part. It was a pleasure to host another Multi-2 with such good friends and great operators. I started out the contest solo, and then Al K0AD came over for a couple hours Friday night. The low bands were good. It was very nice to be able to hear and work Europe on 80. I thought 80 was going to finish stronger then it did for the contest. By the end of Friday I had more Europe in the log than Caribbean. I bagged it kind of early Friday night. I just could not keep my eyes open. Then I got some sleep. I got up at 6:00 am hoping for some good Asia on 40 and 80. They were there, even bagged a few Ja’s and some other stuff on 80 meters. That was great. Greg K0OB came over around 8:00 AM., and he jumped into the 20 meter mayhem. 40 stayed production till after 9:00 am. Then it was off to 15 meters. It was also nice to hear and work Europe on 15. We kept checking 10 meters though out the day but, nothing really came up on 10 meters. Jason NN7L came over just after 10:00 AM. We were glad to work W3LPL on 10 meters for the zone 4 and USA mult…Hi. As many have said 20 was the grind but, keep going band. Saturday didn’t have a lot of luck running. We tried to run here and there, with varied success. On Saturday afternoon I got on 20 and had a great Ja run and Asia. It was fun. Lasted about 1 ½ hours. The run gave me fond memories of being at the farm with neat mults calling in. Saturday afternoon, before the Ja run we were looking at the qso total rates from last year and we were a little behind. But by midnight when Jason was heading out we were ahead of last years pace. Jason did a fine job busting the pileups on 40 and 80 meters. It still amazes me that after everyone stops calling and I hear KT0R KT0R from the dx stations on the low bands. I stayed up till about 1:30 AM Saturday night then hit the hay. Sunday morning I got up and was hoping for more Asia but, just not a lot there. However I did get a few Q’s and multipliers. Then Greg K0OB came around 8:00 am or so. And off to the races. 20 and 15 were going. Al K0AD came after church and 15 meters was surprising how well it was going. As most of us know that Sunday is notorious for the huge pileups, again I am so amazed that we busted so many. There were a few we had to come back for or try several times. But I think we worked most of what we heard. 9K2HN was one we just could not muster. I even heard him on 80 but with no avail. There were many times when I would say wow listen to this pileup, and Al or Greg would laugh and say wow you got through that. Or they would say the same. We kept checking 10 meters and it started to pop, stations here and there. You would listen and nothing then the magic band would open and there is one. Boom got another mult GREAT ! Nice quiet band and just a whisper on some stations and they would come right back to us. It will be fun when the cycle comes back and we have 10 meters again. Greg K0OB left around 3:00 pm and it was Al and myself till the end. It was fun watching the score climb and getting the mults. The last hour and a half we going like crazy trying to get what ever we could. Al did a super job on 40, and I was trying on 20. We kept fighting over the rotor. My 20 and 40 meter antenna is on the same mast. So I wanted Asia heading and Al wanted Europe…Al kept working guys off the back. I would swing to Africa or something and so go Al go. I agree with K0SR, S9SS was the biggest pileup on 20. I was shocked I got him in 2-3 calls. I will really miss working Charlie in the dx contests. What a great operator. All weekend I was hoping to work Tony KM0O ie:XU7MWA. I heard just a whisper a few times on 40 meters, no luck. Then on 20 the last 15 minutes after K0RC spot and had a S4 signal and huge pile up. No luck…Sorry Tony maybe at your next DX adventure. All in all we had a great time. We beat our last year score by 400K points. All the hardware and software worked great. TRLog rules in my book. Congrats to all the great scores out there. And my xyl says “And I know what you are NOT doing next weekend.” So I’ll see you all on 160. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 140,415 Apparently I get nosebleeds above about 1874 (a great run freq in CQ160 CW, but too high for CQWWCW). Simple plan: Start well rested, sleep some Saturday, play with kids all daylight hours Sunday. Work 400 EUs, most of the zones, but not too many countries (I tend to DX). That would have broken the record. Instead: Started tired, slept in the chair somewhat, played with kids all day Sat and Sun. Worked 355 EUs, barely most of the zones, and less than DXCC Highlights: A zone 18 station tried to steal my run frequency. Made him work me first. Never expected than on topband! Working lots of zero point friends for zone 5 credit. Always happy to do that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,400,837 73 Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 8,890 First time I've been home since leaving for college since August. Quite limited time as I was trying to see all the old HS friends and spend time with the parents. Hung the 80m antenna back up Saturday after making a run to the radio store to get a new balun and made an unexpected radio purchase of a Yaesu FT-920 while I was there. Looking forward to Christmas break so I can spend more time playing with it. Fun contest, looking forward to a more serious effort next year. GO WWYC! Colin KU5B safe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 792,624 S&P all weekend. Never felt BIG enough to try running this year. It will sure be nice to get a few sunspots back once again. Thanks to all for pulling my peanut whistle out of the QRM. All Q's are appreciated. See ya'll again next year. Rig = TenTec Jupiter @ 100 watts Antenna = 102' G5RV @ 45' Software = N1MM version 6.10.13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,126,660 My first SOAB effort in CQWW. It seems I was not spoiled by operating from Caribbean, last two years in M/S from P40L. Although the high bands closed early, there was enough motivation at this end of the solar cycle. 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 7 18 82 74 49 30 0 0 0 260 VE calls = 12 27 37 66 20 4 0 0 0 166 N.A. calls = 8 18 25 23 18 2 0 0 0 94 S.A. calls = 2 7 29 20 43 11 0 0 0 112 Euro calls = 1 15 56 192 1 0 0 0 0 265 Afrc calls = 1 11 11 15 11 1 0 0 0 50 Asia calls = 0 5 42 33 29 0 0 0 0 109 JA calls = 0 39 304 147 267 0 0 0 0 757 Ocen calls = 2 13 34 18 33 2 0 0 0 102 Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total calls = 33 153 620 588 471 50 0 0 0 1915 73 de Denny, KX7M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: L44DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,903 First time in cqww cw, only some minutes. Tnx all qso. Qsl via ea5kb. 73' de LW1DTZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA3BO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 489,786 Not a full time effort this year. Pain from a gall stone prohibited continuous operation. Could not fully skip the contest though. I had looked forward to this weekend for a long time, and was very disappointed when I realized that I could not participate from the local club station, LA3S. So I did some part time operation from home. With only 100W and a vertical antenna, it was mainly S&P. Conds were quite good on low bands. Surprised to work HC8N and ZM1A on 40. 10m was almost dead as expected. But a few stations, even some DX, came through. Interesting short skip on 10 and 15 late Sunday. Thanks to all who responded to my calls. Hope to recover till next year! Svein - LA3BO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA6FJA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,005,048 What a aurora show! first 12 hours gave me 350 QSOes I could hear many station but it were attunated with aurora.... Didnt had time to fix new 80m array, coz had fever since tuesday, werent sure I could manage the contest at all. I have got a comtek PVS-2 for 80m which will get better chance to work some more there than a loop on 80m. and a beaverage from K1FZ bruce will handle to east-west for low bands. Had a bread at saturday due very depressive aurora, and then I came back saturday nigth with little better conds. The biggest thrill were that I heard lot of DX on 10m saturday monrning 6 UTC. VK9, +++ but they didnt heard me.. so coz of the bad conds at saturday I thougth I could work some 15 and 20m S&P, but the rotor got blocked into west.... :S so I lost all to the east on 15, 20 and 40m at sunday. had nice run to US on 20 & 40, seems when that it were really good at sunday. Worked a lot of westcoast at 21 UTC 15m, when all ppl hunting at 40 etc I got some nice stuff there. Used to good conds when we have aurora. Setup Kenwood TS2000 microHAM MK Keyer WLOG HP Pavalion Turion 64 XP3000+ 2,0ghz Antenna: Mosley PRO-67-B @ 20m 2el 40, 3 el 20 /15 and 4 el 10m +80m Loop 10-15m agl a old AL80A with 500 Watt. QSL for northamerica via KM3X QSL for world via WY4N or via the slow-bureau. 73 LA6FJA Go WWYC! some ppl have bad IMD and splatter a lot over the band... so dont be confused if you heard a station sent QRP QRP QRP hehe when your peaking 60db's here and are 10 khz wide...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,113,780 Lot of fun, in spite of the auroral activity and the lack of signals making it through. This really was a maximum effort, and we feel rather pleased with what we made. Next years tower and 40m yagi will make us more competative. Cu in the contests to come. LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,956,549 Great contest again, even when the condx were not that great this year. Lost 1 hour operating time due to thunderstorms. Thanks to all who called. See you next year. Bjorn LB1GB http://www.la8w.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 307,680 Another operation from the "propagation challenged" area - inside the Aurora Zone. With Aurora Activity Level at 6 and 7 during most of the contest, this was a big struggle. Even with lots of nice mults, ST, 5A, TZ, HC8, XU, VR2, VK9 etc, I am quite dissapointed with my mult level, but I just couldn't find any more..... Only JA worked, AND heard, was at 2230z Sunday! It's a strange experience to see how the band changes when the Aurora Zone moves. During the contest I had several 'out of the zone' experiences. On Sunday night, I was running Europe, with a few waek east coast US stations in between, and suddenly a 'corridor' opened to the western US, with stations from CO, UT, MT and WY. Strange! And extremely fun! As always, CQ WW is THE contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX1KC Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 382,160 Due a recent TVI Problem I went portable for the contest, I haven't been on 80 for about 10 years, so this was a real nice challenge, i used my ft1000mp and micro keyer, qth was at my brothers station LX1UN, using a single 27 meter high vertical, no beverage, I had a a lot of fun an i am satisfied with my results, i missed a few multis, i heard them well, but big big pile ups, so i didn't work AH2R, KH7X, BA4RF, 3B0/, S9SS, 9N2JO, XE, and a few others, 80 meters is much different to 40 what i usually work from my station, anyhow, maybe some different entry next year Tnx everone who called me 73s Chris LX1KC LX6T (ending 31.12.2006) LX5T (New contest call starts 01.01.2007) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,815,536 Thanks for all who called us. It was a real pleasure to work together with DF1LON DL4SDW DL5SEJ DL8SCG in the Contest. We missed a lot of multipliers on 20m as we were not able to run 40M and work Multipliers on 20M. The antenna setup will be changed and improved next year. This was our best result in the CQWWCW since we started contesting from this new Contest site which was put up in 2003. more informations on www.lx2a.com, some pictures will come soon!!! 73s de Philippe LX2A(ex LX2AJ) / LX7I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 326,882 Wow! Wow! Wow! Amazing! Run was good, mults were calling, were loud, no problems to get through not only W.Eu at sometimes even NA wall. After long preparation I took 1-week vacation to put Beverages to improve receiving capabilities. Tx setup remains the same as year ago, just almost constant two-week rain improved soil conductivity or something – but accsess road to the site was not useable. On Friday afternoon I had five 240..260 m Beverages plus one 375 m long to JA and 2 x 310 m end fire array to 310 degres (Eastern USA). No time to test before contest, as always. Contest started with impressive 124 + 120 + 90 q/h rates on first hours with mostly Eu calling. NA was coming too, but with deep QSB and heard better or equally on 270 deg Beverage instead of direst 310 deg. The same continued both nights. Left station in the morning after 7 hours with 545 / 17 / 82 – almost 200 contacts plus against last year score. Restarted before sunset with alone JA3YBK in log, rate remained 40.. 60 qso/h till 03 z, then dropped down twice. It got easier and easier to detect new mult by crowd calling, but harder and harder to get them into log, but fortunately they were answering on CQ. Went to sleep next morning with 1303 / 25 / 103 never even dream to have DXCC in 29 hours on TB! Conditions improved to east on Sunday night – most of mults answered my CQ with 9N7JO as last one (and DXCC #200 for me) at 2300 utc. 6 USA stations called in very last minutes to close the show. Polar paths were closed due to Solar wind (no use of 350 deg BeverageJ), very few JAs (55 deg), no zone 1, 3, 19, East coast found their way around. Caribean and African stations were loud, no problem to copy even LP stations. All preparations paid off fully - I passed my last year result on 26 th hour of contest, 100 DXCC on 29 th hour. 6 new DXCC for me, counted at least 10 missed possible mults with some very easy ones (as 4U1ITU) Amazing number of DL’s again, followed with USA, UA + UA9/0 and all others! Thank you guys! 73 and CU in next contest! Arunas/LY2IJ This and previous years QSO’s per country added if anyone interested in. 2006 2005 DL 259 179 K 214 50 UA 159 147 OK 76 88 UR 75 63 UA9 74 69 G 63 44 SP 55 72 OH 38 31 PA 38 17 I 37 18 F 31 22 JA 30 54 SM 30 33 S5 29 24 OM 26 19 HA 21 22 YO 18 12 HB 17 10 VE 16 9 LY 15 15 YL 14 14 EU 13 13 LZ 13 8 OE 13 10 EA 12 4 YU 12 16 LA 12 13 OZ 11 9 SV 10 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2OX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 289,328 Wanted to pop in for few hours with HP,but my ACOM2000A seemed not working ,so tuned arround calling whoever appeared on spot window..I don't remember how long I had not operated LP and was pleasantly surprised that it's possible to break through pileups on many of DX's with LP. I tried to check in our existing club entry as LITHUANIAN CONTEST GROUP ,but score submittal page does not allow now to enter prompted clubs anymore and moving to SELECT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY7Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 678,704 TS 850S/AT + ACOM 2000A 5 el YAGI @27mh 5 el YAGI @20mh ------------------------ NA 523 SA 40 EU 1030 AF 30 AS 372 OC 35 ------------------------ Part time operation. Propogation was not good enough to stay more on the air. Did not hear zone 1 and 36 73! Andy LY2TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,198,738 Thanks to LZ CONTEST TEAM for letting me use the station as a single operator! Also thanks to all of you who kept me awake for so long time:) Here is how this score came true: BREAKDOWN QSO/mults LZ9W CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... 143/47 ..... ..... ..... ..... 143/47 143/47 1 . 154/11 . . . . 154/11 297/58 2 27/23 63/14 . . . . 90/37 387/95 3 34/13 27/5 32/27 . . . 93/45 480/140 4 13/8 13/0 64/13 . . . 90/21 570/161 5 . 5/4 27/7 66/19 . . 98/30 668/191 6 . . . 101/28 . . 101/28 769/219 7 . . . 25/3 59/21 2/4 86/28 855/247 8 ..... ..... ..... 17/9 51/15 16/7 84/31 939/278 9 . . . 58/3 24/9 3/2 85/14 1024/292 10 . . . . 116/17 . 116/17 1140/309 11 . . . 27/4 52/11 7/7 86/22 1226/331 12 . . . 33/1 27/5 15/5 75/11 1301/342 13 . . . 26/0 66/14 15/6 107/20 1408/362 14 . . . . 105/4 7/3 112/7 1520/369 15 . . 72/15 . 30/0 . 102/15 1622/384 16 ..... ..... 92/5 78/2 ..... ..... 170/7 1792/391 17 . . 36/4 77/3 . . 113/7 1905/398 18 . . 115/21 . . . 115/21 2020/419 19 . 33/5 43/10 . . . 76/15 2096/434 20 53/14 2/0 45/0 . . . 100/14 2196/448 21 . . 169/1 . . . 169/1 2365/449 22 12/2 . 82/4 . . . 94/6 2459/455 23 . . 167/4 . . . 167/4 2626/459 0 6/1 21/3 75/5 ..... ..... ..... 102/9 2728/468 1 5/1 . 118/3 . . . 123/4 2851/472 2 . 26/3 74/3 . . . 100/6 2951/478 3 14/1 . 24/2 . . . 38/3 2989/481 4 25/2 21/0 . 3/3 . . 49/5 3038/486 5 . . . 91/10 . . 91/10 3129/496 6 . . . 9/1 81/10 . 90/11 3219/507 7 . . . . 77/7 . 77/7 3296/514 8 ..... ..... ..... 86/12 2/3 ..... 88/15 3384/529 9 . . . 1/0 39/2 21/8 61/10 3445/539 10 . . . 53/7 13/2 . 66/9 3511/548 11 . . . 70/4 8/3 16/6 94/13 3605/561 12 . . . 156/3 . . 156/3 3761/564 13 . . . 54/5 53/7 . 107/12 3868/576 14 . . . 1/0 77/5 8/5 86/10 3954/586 15 . . . 75/4 12/0 . 87/4 4041/590 16 ..... ..... 43/1 23/2 ..... ..... 66/3 4107/593 17 9/0 47/7 2/0 . . . 58/7 4165/600 18 . 21/0 7/1 9/0 . . 37/1 4202/601 19 . 8/0 123/2 . . . 131/2 4333/603 20 . . 115/3 . . . 115/3 4448/606 21 24/3 30/1 7/0 . . . 61/4 4509/610 22 . 5/0 78/0 . . . 83/0 4592/610 23 20/3 15/1 23/0 . . . 58/4 4650/614 DAY1 139/60 440/86 944/111 508/72 530/96 65/34 ..... 2626/459 DAY2 103/11 194/15 689/20 631/51 362/39 45/19 . 2024/155 TOT 242/71 634/101 1633/131 1139/123 892/135 110/53 . 4650/614 LZ9W CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 25 Nov 2006 2359z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 10 125 479 310 230 3 1157 24.8 South America CW 0 5 12 11 23 3 54 1.2 Europe CW 213 448 970 619 405 87 2742 58.7 Asia CW 16 43 165 184 216 12 636 13.6 Africa CW 4 13 14 15 15 4 65 1.4 Oceania CW 0 1 4 2 8 1 16 0.3 73! Iliya ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M6T Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 604,318 Rig : FT1000MP + Elecraft K2 + PA. 4 square + Dipole @ 70ft. 2 x 180m Beverages W/E. Soapbox Not had the time to devote to radio for the last year due to the arrival of my baby daughter, but managed to plan in the CQWW CW weekend at least. We're starting to re-build the old M6T multi-multi station at a new site and this seemed a good opportunity to put the hard work in to build up the 80m 4 square. Many thanks to Darren, G0WCW in particular for taking two days off work and another day at the weekend to help me get this antenna up, and to offer to deal with the chore of laying out 128 radials. Before the contest I thought that going for ON4UN's 1993 record (631k) would be a good ultimate target, but probably not achieveable. I also thought that I'd be very happy if I made 2000 QSOs and 2500 QSOs was the most I could hope for. I missed John's record by a bit (and a bit more when you consider what I'll lose in log checking) because I didn't find enough mults, but also my pts/Q are too low. However the QSO totals exceeded my wildest expectations (2634 raw QSOs). Congratulations to Chris, SP7GIQ for doing enough to break the record though, and I suspect we may see some more big scores to come. I tried to receive in band with beverages & a K2, but didn't have good enough isolation, or have the SO2R stuff set up at with any automation - just ran out of time (was still building the station at 2358). Therefore my ability to look for mults was a bit hampered. I wasn't sure how good conditions really were since the system was new to me (although it seemed to be working very well), but it's clear from the results that conditions were really excellent. Disappointed to miss zones 1, 12, 27, 31, 36 and 37 - especially 1, 12 & 31 which I know were worked in this part of Europe - I called in those directions but no-one found me and I didn't find those mults on the 2nd Rx. Highlights - Operating from a quiet location again - Some great hours on day 1 - Nothing blew up - Being run off my frequency by a real W7 90 mins after sunrise (in a bizarre sort of way a highlight) -Being called by many rare things like UA0YAY, TZ5A, 3XD2Z, VQ9JC, RK0LWW, JT1CS, HC8N (huge), and the end of contest double mult goodies like VK4EMM, VK6HD & HS0ZDJ (very loud & especially pleasing since I'd called HS0ZEE earlier in the afternoon who just CQed in my face, but who I understand has noise) Lowlights -Two blatant frequency steeling exercises from Eastern Europe single ops. One of the even had the nerve to tell me off for steeling his frequency (and I hadn't moved!) - Missing a lot of easy mults (and some hard ones) - Clicks (feeling self righteous having just done the FT1000MP click mod myself - everyone should do it) - Not having the time to prepare quite well enough. - Not having done enough CW in the last 18 months - Not getting enough sleep in general Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. Sincere thanks to Bob, G4BAH for the use of the station. Thanks to Dave, G4BUO & Justin, G4TSH for additional help in getting ready, and to Andrew G4ADM for a fabulous roast dinner on Sunday night. As it's a new station I'd particularly appreciate any relative signal reports. 73, Andy, G4PIQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MM0BQI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 230,100 The best fun I have had in ages! This was my first 'serious' effort in a CW contest and I set goals of 500 Qs, 20 new band slots and 4 new countries. In the end I achieved 523 Qs, 14 new band slots and two new countries. Not bad for 20 hours effort! The antennas are a limiting factor here with wire dipoles stretched across the roof and bent to fit the small garden. Despite this I worked TZ on three bands, ZL, HC8, B7 and lots of others (more to do with their ears and receivers I think!) Looking at the spread of zones worked I see I am not really getting out to the DX and had to work very hard for everything outside Europe and the US. 80m was a great place to be, even with the low loaded dipole I worked the world, possibly an 80m single band effort in the future.... Thanks for all the Qs it was great fun. Log will be uploaded to LOTW after the contest deadline for any one who needs confirmation. 73 Jim, MM0BQI 50 watts to 80/40 loaded dipole in the garden and 10/15/20m nested dipoles above the flat roof. Plans to errect the HF2V after dark were blown away by the gale force winds! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0HF Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 49,344 Part-time effort, mostly search and pounce. Running LP on this band and trying to hold a run freq just didn't seem to work out! During a nice JA run Sunday someone thought they could take over my freq and enjoy the run so I moved up 50 kc and didn't miss a beat. E51YAQ called me and N1MM logger didn't know what country it was, entering E51YAQ/ZK2 did the trick. Aside from an eventful contest, I solved a few RFI issues with my new station layout, one was the infamous "rotator control needle swing" keeping perfect beat with any RF I'm generating. My station now has full USB control, works great. It's time for a new rotator, my Ham M is not what it used to be! Congradts to all the DXpeditions on a fine show. I finally put TI5N in the log minutes before the end. Phil, our fellow GMCCer, once again gave us all that TI5 mult. Thanks Phil! '73 Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,879,008 No packet available at remote location, so had to do it the old fashioned way! Had lots of fun with great guys, great ops. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0SXX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 586,950 Operated from Lost Creek Cabin, the FB rental shack of W0LSD... helped to quench a little of my 'antenna envy'... glad to work (and short chat) with W0ETT from GMCC and TI5N (N0KE) on 15, 20 and 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0VD Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 10,971 I wasn't up for an all out effort on all bands and after seeing how good conditions were from PJ4 for the SSB running, I opted to do 10M SB. Boy, what a difference from Colorado than in "warmer weather". However, I suppose that's to be expected. It was fun when the band was open, but I found it was very sharp - almost like 6m. I could hear an island in the Caribbean but not the next island over. I also think I worked almost as many AF as I did EU too - that was a pleasant surprise. 10M seemed to either be very short or very long. In fact, the best conditions began at sunrise and lasted about 2 hours. By 3pm local time it was done for the day. It's certainly unpredictable at the bottom of the cycle! Thanks for the Qs and see you all in the ARRL 10M from VP5. 73 Kelly - N0VD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0XB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 197,600 Pretty punky bands, I'd say, hardly any 20 meters from here...poor to EU, and only a handful of JA's near the end on 20. Too bad. Hit and miss operation on my part, but getting used to my SO2R setup which is all new again. Takes a lot of practice! HI. Hope the new cycle brings better condx. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0YY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 58,464 I really wish this contest happened on a different weekend. Had a house full of people and could only sneak away for a couple of hours. All S&P. So added a few band countries. Found 160 to be a challenge. Europe was not as strong as the week before the contest from this location. But the big signal award was IH9P on Sunday evening, just after local sunset - he was over S9 with all the attenuation cranked in! Had fun anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,284,069 Spent the past 12 months upgrading low band capabilities. Really paid off at the bottom of the cycle. Best totals ever on 80 and 160. Made this contest one of the best ever even though my score is lower than 4 years ago. Don N1DG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,597,705 Conditions seemed fairly good, all things considering. On Friday night, 160/80M were particularly hot while 40M was dead (huh?). 20M/15M opened early to europe, while europe on 10M was a real challenge (skewed south). I've had the Orion now for almost 3 years, and I continue to be impressed by its main receiver when the going gets particularly tough. N1MM Logger software was superb, especially its support for vfo-b/subreceiver. Orion/Acom 2000A C3S tribander @50ft 40M delta loop & dipole 80M vert 160M inv L Beverages NE/SE/SW/NW N1MM Logger software Thanks for the q's and apologies to those I couldn't quite pull out. 73, Barry N1EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1RR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 174,200 This was the first CQ WW CW contest in a very long time that I did not plan to operate seriously in because my son returned home from his first semester at Wake Forest University. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,524,532 Great fun as always. Conditions were obviously great for this time in the sunspot cycle, but not as good up here at Latitude 45 as it was for some of you folks. From here, 40M was playing weird all weekend. I never really saw a EU sunrise surge on either day. 40 opened early as expected and signals into EU were easy to work from about 2:30pm local here. I never had anything like the sustained runs of last year. Spent a considerable amount of time CQing with some success but not great. Long Path openings on 40M were less than previous as well. From what I could tell from the ARRL Prop Bulletin put out today, I was suffering from an abnormally high A index at my latitude. So that put me more on 80 where I put in my best 80 score ever for me in a CQ WW. The antennas worked great and conditions here were a lot better. Missed the VK Sunday morning but he wasn’t hearing a bunch of other people either. Never heard Zone 1 (or on any other band either). Conditions to EU were just excellent. I had a few runs especially between 05 – 06Z on Sunday morning where I was running 50 – 60 rate for about 45 mins. 160 played pretty nicely. I think I missed some by not going there in the last 2 hours. I usually find that it is just too early but 40 was a bust in the last hour. I feel good on 160 with my antennas, but not great. 20 was in very nice shape although closing earlier than last year and I never heard central and southeast Asia despite nice JA openings both evenings (even ran about 10 JAs over the 2 evenings with about 30 mins total investment). I couldn’t bust the zone 27 pile-ups Sunday evening but other than that, I worked all the DX that I heard towards that part of the world. My Qs were down somewhat vs. last year but the main reason for that was being able to go to 15M earlier and staying there longer on both days. Best rate on 20 was Saturday morning with a personal best (Domestic) 210 on the 10 min rate meter and a last 60 mins rate of 155. I was at 135 plus for a solid 2 – 2 ½ hours on 20M Saturday morning. 15M was very nice both mornings. Had 80+ rate going consistently for a few hours. Much deeper openings than 2005 including lots of Russian prefixes this time. There was A LOT of activity on 15 and that helped band crowding on 20. Had some nice Pacific openings but no JA heard from here. 10M was okay. I was hoping for better all weekend. I heard some faint EU but couldn’t work them. I did work CU2 in Zone 14 and many loud Africa stations. Worked South America obviously but signal strengths were not nearly as loud as for CQ WW SSB. Never even heard anything west of zone 4. Overall my score was virtually identical to last year with a few less Qs. 80 was up, 20 and 15 combined to be very similar but slightly up, 10 and 160 were very close. The big story was 40 where I was way off of last years pace. No Murphy on this one. Got in a solid 44 hours (my record is 44.5). I would have stayed up longer if I was running 40M at 08Z but with conditions the way they were, I took a nap. All the antennas did well. I fixed my 10M connector problem so the new 5 el at 70 feet played very nicely. I would still like to improve my antennas on 40 – 160 but wouldn’t everybody. Beverages are a real help for contests. This year I found that noise was quite low. I hardly used it on 40 but always use it on 80 and 160. I now have 2 beverages, 1000 feet NE and 600 feet West both terminated at the ends. See you next week for my first ever full 160 contest. 73 Ed N1UR Antennas: 2 – 70 foot Towers 10: 5 el @ 70 and 3 el @ 50 fixed south 15: 3 el @ 80, 5 el @50 fixed south, 8 el @ 30 fixed NE 20: 4/4 @ 70 and 35 (top rotates, bottom fixed NE), 2 el @ 57 feet fixed south 40: 2el @ 80 80: 2 el wire array at 60 feet (NE/SW) and sloper to the south 160: inv vee at 70 feet and vertical T with 32 radials (60 feet vertical) FT-1000MP/FT-990 DXDoubler TRLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1YU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 736,874 FT-1000MP + AL-1200 + two towers with stacked tribanders. It was fun to work EU from here. Also Pacific and Alaska are easy. 900 + 600 QSO done. Thanks to K1VR host. 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2AA/HK Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 790,400 HK1AR's 10,000 feet high QTH is beyond dreams! However, the air is too thin for overweight geezers. Marvelous openings around the world in the middle of the night at 10K feet. 9N7JO was the only signal on the band for about 20 minutes, so loud I first thought he was local. Found it difficult to run EU with LP. Made some silly mistakes, like self inflicted RX de-sense, which didn't help. Missed zones 1, 18, 23, 36 and 40. Pileups filled with Ws are a complete waste of time. The location is truly magnificent! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 380,275 TS-850sat - 100W Force 12 C-3ss, Random wire and LDG Tuner Writelog K1EL WinKeyer USB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 489,984 COnditions were quite good for the bottom of the cycle. Hey, I got 5A7A on four bands. That was quite a thrill! I sure wish I had a beam on 40 meters! Thanks to all the great ops with good ears that could hear my 100 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GC Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 151,088 Equipment: PROIII, AL-1200, dipole @35' That was fun! It always amazes me what you can hear and work with a simple low dipole on this band when conditions are right. Worked everything I heard except for A45XR and AH2R(wicked pileup). Wasn't on for sunrise on Saturday but on Sunday managed to work JH1OGC(good ears) some VK's(zones 29 and 30) and E51YAQ. Biggest pileups busted were S9SS, 8Q7DV, D44AC and GJ2A with 8 minutes to go (thanks Rich). Looking forward to the next one. 73's Mike, N2GC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,213,564 Amazing weekend - never expected to do 4M points from southwest New Mexico, with no sunspots and slightly disturbed conditions. Highlights, by band: 160 - Pretty average Friday night. Worked a handful of EU Saturday night around 02Z, but no EU sunrise enhancement either night. With my mediocre 160 antenna, I'm extremely thankful for any EU QSO's ! Only 1 JA and 1 UA0 - very poor condx in that direction. 80 - Super propagation and very low QRN both nights. Still amazed at the S9+ signals from some of the EU big guns. The 80 meter wire beam does work ! Only 1 long path QSO - UA9ZZ. 40 - Thank you Japan ! 533 JA QSO's - I believe that is the highest JA QSO number I have ever had on 40 as a single-op. Maybe the falloff in JA activity has reversed ! All non-Asia 40 meters QSO's were search-and-pounce. Probably could have run some EU early in the evening, but was too busy on 15 and 20 at that time. Very exciting to work 39 zones - never came close to that before as a single-op. 20 - A very tough band from here to EU. Just too much absorption on that path most of the time. A 2 hour EU run Sunday morning was the best I could do. Asia runs were fun in the early evening, but otherwise, this was a search-and-pounce band. 15 - Marginally open to EU and Asia both days, but signals weren't strong for very long each day, and couldn't rack up big numbers of QSO's on this band. 10 - Not as good as CQWW SSB, with only short openings to 1 or 2 stations at a time, but nearly every time I checked the band during the day, I found a new multiplier. Lowlight - One of my rigs crapped-out again (as it did in CQWW SSB), costing me 30 mins during a JA run. I have the replacement board, but considered the surgery too high risk just before the contest. After all, it was fine throughout SS CW. Thanks for all the QSO's, and the great DX activity ! Congrats to Ralph, N5RZ, operating at K5TR, for the great 5-land SOAB competition. Our scores are 0.17% apart ! Callsign: N2IC Contest: CQ-WW-CW Category: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW Operators: N2IC -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 2 81 32 1 116 116 4.7 0100 0 0 36 53 0 0 89 205 3.6 0200 0 0 24 44 0 0 68 273 2.8 0300 0 25 13 26 0 0 64 337 2.6 0400 11 20 16 0 0 0 47 384 1.9 0500 2 19 10 0 0 0 31 415 1.3 0600 4 14 46 0 0 0 64 479 2.6 0700 0 2 85 0 0 0 87 566 3.6 0800 3 1 54 0 0 0 58 624 2.4 0900 1 10 69 0 0 0 80 704 3.3 1000 0 5 87 0 0 0 92 796 3.8 1100 0 6 53 0 0 0 59 855 2.4 1200 3 35 28 0 0 0 66 921 2.7 1300 2 16 5 7 0 0 30 951 1.2 1400 0 0 4 29 38 0 71 1022 2.9 1500 0 0 0 15 68 0 83 1105 3.4 1600 0 0 0 26 14 8 48 1153 2.0 1700 0 0 0 23 25 4 52 1205 2.1 1800 0 0 0 16 23 2 41 1246 1.7 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 2000 0 0 0 3 9 4 16 1262 0.7 2100 0 0 0 65 7 0 72 1334 2.9 2200 0 0 0 9 71 0 80 1414 3.3 2300 0 0 1 7 66 0 74 1488 3.0 0000 0 0 36 9 4 0 49 1537 2.0 0100 0 0 13 49 1 0 63 1600 2.6 0200 10 16 0 0 0 0 26 1626 1.1 0300 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1628 0.1 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1628 0.0 0500 5 5 10 0 0 0 20 1648 0.8 0600 2 1 35 0 0 0 38 1686 1.6 0700 0 1 30 0 0 0 31 1717 1.3 0800 0 2 51 0 0 0 53 1770 2.2 0900 0 5 56 0 0 0 61 1831 2.5 1000 0 7 52 0 0 0 59 1890 2.4 1100 0 6 26 0 0 0 32 1922 1.3 1200 0 5 55 0 0 0 60 1982 2.5 1300 0 31 13 1 0 0 45 2027 1.8 1400 0 0 2 48 0 0 50 2077 2.0 1500 0 0 0 74 1 1 76 2153 3.1 1600 0 0 0 48 0 5 53 2206 2.2 1700 0 0 0 1 5 10 16 2222 0.7 1800 0 0 0 10 7 5 22 2244 0.9 1900 0 0 0 12 7 4 23 2267 0.9 2000 0 0 0 5 8 5 18 2285 0.7 2100 0 0 0 11 5 3 19 2304 0.8 2200 0 0 0 14 32 0 46 2350 1.9 2300 0 0 0 4 51 0 55 2405 2.3 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 45 232 912 690 474 52 2405 Gross QSO's=2444 Dupes=39 Net QSO's=2405 Unique callsigns worked = 1708 The best 60 minute rate was 116/hour from 0000 to 0059 The best 30 minute rate was 138/hour from 0020 to 0049 The best 10 minute rate was 168/hour from 0020 to 0029 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSO's/minute 11 times. 3 QSO's/minute 115 times. 2 QSO's/minute 477 times. 1 QSO's/minute 1062 times. There were 333 bandchanges and 118 (4.9%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 17 4 461 5 670 6 1182 7 8 8 59 9 8 ------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3B8 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 3V 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 3X 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 4L 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 4U1U 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 5A 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 5B 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.2 5W 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1 5Z 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 6W 0 1 2 2 1 0 6 0.2 6Y 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1 7X 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 8P 1 1 4 3 1 1 11 0.5 9A 0 3 4 5 3 0 15 0.6 9J 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 9K 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 9M2 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 0.2 9M6 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 9N 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 9V 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.2 9Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 BV 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 BY 0 1 8 5 4 0 18 0.7 C6 0 1 1 3 1 0 6 0.2 CE 0 0 1 2 3 1 7 0.3 CM 1 2 3 1 2 0 9 0.4 CN 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 CT 0 1 0 3 1 1 6 0.2 CT3 2 3 4 3 2 1 15 0.6 CU 0 1 2 1 1 0 5 0.2 CX 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 0.2 DL 1 9 14 26 13 0 63 2.6 DU 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 0.2 EA 1 3 6 6 7 0 23 1.0 EA6 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.2 EA8 0 2 3 2 3 1 11 0.5 EA9 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 EI 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.1 ER 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 ES 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 EU 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 F 0 3 5 16 12 0 36 1.5 FJ 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 FM 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 FO 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1 FR/j 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2 FY 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 G 2 5 3 15 5 0 30 1.2 GD 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 GJ 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 GM 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 *GM/s 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 GU 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 GW 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1 HA 0 3 4 7 4 0 18 0.7 HB 0 0 0 5 4 0 9 0.4 HC 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.2 HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 HI 1 1 1 3 1 1 8 0.3 HK 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.2 HK0/a 1 1 0 1 1 1 5 0.2 HL 0 0 15 5 4 0 24 1.0 HP 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2 HS 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1 I 0 4 7 5 6 0 22 0.9 *IG9 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1 IS 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 J3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 J7 1 0 1 1 2 0 5 0.2 JA 1 70 533 232 193 0 1029 42.8 JD/o 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 JT 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 JW 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 K 1 6 30 30 19 7 93 3.9 KG4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 KH2 0 1 2 2 1 0 6 0.2 KH6 2 2 9 9 2 1 25 1.0 KL 1 2 2 3 2 1 11 0.5 KP2 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 0.1 KP4 1 1 3 4 2 1 12 0.5 LA 0 1 0 3 0 0 4 0.2 LU 0 1 5 1 18 7 32 1.3 LX 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.1 LY 0 0 1 7 0 0 8 0.3 LZ 0 2 0 6 1 0 9 0.4 OE 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 0.2 OH 0 0 2 8 0 0 10 0.4 OH0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 OK 0 2 6 21 4 0 33 1.4 OM 0 1 3 2 2 0 8 0.3 ON 1 1 1 7 1 0 11 0.5 OZ 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.1 P4 1 3 2 4 4 2 16 0.7 PA 0 0 1 5 3 0 9 0.4 PJ2 1 2 2 2 2 1 10 0.4 PY 1 2 8 7 22 4 44 1.8 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 S5 0 6 10 12 11 0 39 1.6 S9 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.1 SM 0 0 1 7 1 0 9 0.4 SP 0 2 4 15 1 0 22 0.9 SV 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0.2 SV9 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 T7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 T8 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 T9 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.2 TF 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 TG 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 TI 1 2 2 2 2 1 10 0.4 TK 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 TU 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 TZ 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2 UA 0 1 11 11 1 0 24 1.0 UA2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.1 UA9 1 10 29 15 4 0 59 2.5 UN 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.1 UR 0 2 3 11 0 0 16 0.7 V2 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.2 V3 1 1 0 1 0 1 4 0.2 V4 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.1 V5 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1 V7 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 VE 7 17 47 44 28 2 145 6.0 VK 0 4 15 3 2 0 24 1.0 VP2M 0 1 0 0 1 1 3 0.1 VP2V 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 VP9 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.0 VR 0 1 3 1 1 0 6 0.2 XE 2 3 5 7 3 0 20 0.8 XU 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 YB 0 0 3 2 4 0 9 0.4 YL 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1 YN 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.2 YO 0 0 2 4 0 0 6 0.2 YU 0 3 3 14 2 0 22 0.9 YV 0 1 3 2 2 1 9 0.4 Z3 0 1 2 2 1 0 6 0.2 ZF 1 1 1 2 2 0 7 0.3 ZL 1 4 5 2 4 2 18 0.7 ZP 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.1 ZS 0 1 2 1 2 0 6 0.2 ??? 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 25 1 70 548 237 196 0 1052 43.0 14 8 29 35 102 54 1 229 9.4 15 0 28 52 105 40 0 225 9.2 04 4 11 40 31 21 2 109 4.5 08 9 12 20 22 18 8 89 3.6 03 2 5 17 25 12 3 64 2.6 05 2 6 19 17 15 4 63 2.6 09 4 9 13 11 11 6 54 2.2 11 1 2 9 7 24 4 47 1.9 16 0 3 15 24 1 0 43 1.8 19 1 9 16 11 4 0 41 1.7 13 0 2 6 2 21 8 39 1.6 33 2 7 10 7 6 2 34 1.4 07 3 5 4 7 5 4 28 1.1 32 1 7 8 3 5 3 27 1.1 31 2 2 10 9 3 1 27 1.1 24 0 2 11 7 5 0 25 1.0 20 0 2 6 13 4 0 25 1.0 28 0 3 8 5 6 0 22 0.9 06 2 3 5 7 3 0 20 0.8 30 0 3 12 3 2 0 20 0.8 27 0 1 6 5 2 0 14 0.6 35 0 2 3 5 3 1 14 0.6 18 0 1 7 4 0 0 12 0.5 01 1 2 2 3 2 1 11 0.5 10 1 1 2 2 2 2 10 0.4 17 0 0 9 1 0 0 10 0.4 38 0 1 2 2 3 1 9 0.4 12 0 0 1 2 3 1 7 0.3 26 0 0 3 2 0 0 5 0.2 02 1 1 2 1 0 0 5 0.2 34 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 40 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.2 29 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.2 36 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 21 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1 39 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 23 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 37 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 22 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 45 232 912 690 474 52 2405 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1289 2 bands 237 3 bands 119 4 bands 38 5 bands 17 6 bands 8 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: CT9L TI5N 8P5A ZL6QH HC8N PZ5ZY 9Y4AA VP5W ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 14 97 567 371 227 13 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,185,811 I just moved to from my old home in Mt. Kisco (.29 acres) to my new home in Chappaqua (1.19 acres). Dropped wife and kids off at air port on Thursday. Off to Florid they go to see the Grandparents. I was going to start much needed antenna work but it was raining so I had Turkey at a friends house. The weather gods where with me on Friday and did much needed antenna work. Built and put up a K2KQ (Don) double L antenna for 80/160 and took down a trap dipole for 80/160. Murphy made this a 9AM til dark affair. Antenna was up but would need re-supporting to make it family friendly. I ran out of light and hung up the lower elements where it would not be kid friendly. Finally in the dark I drove in the 8 foot ground rod and attached my station ground. I know I am not supposed to do antenna work the day before the contest but it is almost never that a weekend without family responsibilites comes along so getting my wire farm functional was a priority. New antenna played well and had fun Friday night. Saturday was another beautiful day. Morning contesting and then a few more hours Antenna work. First fixed up the wires on the 80/160 double L. Next the G5RV I threw up when we moved in, and was facing E/W, was taken down and put up facing NE/SW. This played a bit better into EU. Back inside for more contesting. Sunday I spend an hour or two cleaning up the Coax lines and ropes. I was hoping to break 1000 contacts but considering all the antenna work I got done, I am happy with my contest score. This was a lot of fun and work. Next spring I will attempt to get my C3SS back up. I miss it. 73, Mike - N2NI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 99,918 Rig : Elecraft K2/100 Antennas : 160M: 83' vertical many odd length radials. 80M: 1/4 wave wire vertical with two raised V radials. 40M: wire half square 20-10M: 4 element SteppIR Rx: 295' coax beverage about 2M above ground at 70 degrees, two direction switchable. Soapbox : The tradition continued this year, worked on antennas from daylight Friday 'til about 2 hours before the start of the contest. It was great exercise! I had matching issues with the 160 and 80 antennas, and needed to put up the half square for 40. Oh and replace the radials that were eaten by the mower or removed... It was so !@$^^#&%^@ fun ;o) Oops, almost forgot finishing the 295' coax beverage (definitely worth the time) Wasn't sure if I was going to go for SOSB 80 or 160. Both antennas were new, and unproven, with the matching issues, I was a bit verclempt needless to say. I decided to go with 80 when I sat down a half hour before the start. Made a few QSOs before the contest, decent first call contacts into EU, 4O3B and I started the contest at 00:00. I operated virtually all search and pounce, called CQ several times with poor results. Didn't manage to break 100K, but came close. Figure I missed about 10 countries and 4 zones. Canada was out in force, as was Mexico, nice to have 2 point folks in quantity on the low bands (and elsewhere when things are slow). Hopefully all of these folks will be on for ARRL 160! Lots of juicy DX on 5A7A (my apologies to them for the dupes, entered HA7A who I could have used!), TZ5A, AH2R, WH0S to name a few. Was thrilled to hear (sadly not work) several Asiatic Russian stations and the real heart breaker 8Q7DV (he was solid copy for about 15 minutes Sunday night, only heard one US station work him tho'). I have to wonder if the phased Tee verticals I used last year would have been enough to make the Q with him and the plethora of JA stations heard Sunday morning. Pacific/Asia openings Sunday were the best I've heard on 80. Managed several nice QSOs up to 2 hours after local sunrise. I was tickled to work KL7RA at 7:30AM on Sunday on 160, he was as loud as many lower 48 stations, and if you went a little down band KH7X was loud and clear as well (worked them earlier). I played on the other bands, looking for countries and giving the SteppIr a work out. 10M was active, primarily SA and Africa for a few hours each day. 15M was hopping in the morning, managed a little run of EU stations. I thought 20 was a bit quiet. 40 sounded great with EU and the Pacific available at the same time. The beverage worked well for nulling a lot of the loud signals, definitely a nice tool. A number of DX stations worked split, definitely easier to hear them, although I'm sure some were upset about the spectrum spread. It still surprises me how many stations don't listen to the DX before calling and callling and calling and ... My hat is off to the DX that deal with the pileups. S9SS seemed to have monster pileups on 80 and 15. He has QRN on the low bands more often than he liked, so 80 was a challenge for him (sadly I couldn't break that pileup). Working a new multiplier is the meat, but thanks to the potato folks the VE, DL, G, GM, YU, F, 9A and other stations (JAs for the west coast) who make it a real horse race. This contest has it's share of casual ops who are a welcome addition to the fray. Thanks to all, see ya on the Top Band next weekend! Cheers, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2YO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,032,704 This weekend I practiced SO2R techniques. I'm doing better, but there is alot more to learn. I keyed W3BP's wonderful station. Thanks, Bruce! 73s de Chip N2YO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 85,224 We had our three adult children in for the Thanksgiving week/weekend with their spouses and our grandkids, so any meaningful CQWW was not possible, as usual. I did get on briefly Sunday after everyone had left. 15 was pretty good, and of course I was a fresh callsign. The band was pretty good to EU. Congratulations to the great efforts. There were some terrific scores from this part of the country (N5RZ at K5TR, K5YA, N5AW-LP, K5NA, etc.); wow! 73 all, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3CZ Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 290,565 Great contest! Good propagation, many stations, many countries! From the bottom of the sunspots .... My thanks go to Richard WD4CBA who let me use his super-station again this year. WD4CBA station: Orion II ,Emtron Amp and 4 square verticals for 40m. Web site: http://www.freewebs.com/wd4cba/ I managed to pull out all but 3 zones on this band. Sorry that I missed VK9AA who showed up briefly with a solid signal but multiple attempts to "get him" did not show results. Highlights - working B1Z and JT1C easy! Also working ZS1,2,3,4 and 6 call area in a single WW contest - never happened before.Great job to all of you guys in ZS land who showed up on the band! Where were all the UA0's(zone 19) and East Coast of Africa (zone 37) ?? Thanks to K1AR for pointing out that we had a bad signal in the begining of the contest! This helped a lot to get things checked and fixed on time. Should maybe move on to the other bands in a future? Kind'a got "stuck" to 40m band for a long time,hi. 73, Vlado N3CZ (ZS6MG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,940,000 This time, Murphy hit us BIG TIME! Less than an hour into the contest we lost rotation of the top 5 el 20M Yagi. It was stuck at 130 degrees. Then we had all sorts of problems with our Winkey to N1MM interface causing the F-keys to stop working. This required many reboots. And then there was the noise! We have been fighting with the local power company to fix some bad insulators on the 34KV lines on several poles on my road. They produce intermittent, but very strong noise all day long. During this weekend, it was the worst we have encountered so far. It affected all bands, but was especially bad on 10M, where we had to sit for long periods listening to S-9 noise coming from the NE while 10M was open to europe, and on 40M, where we had to stop calling CQ on Friday evening because we couldn't copy anything weaker than S-7. Congrats to Howie's team at NY4A for a great job. Perhaps by the ARRL contests we will have the noise problem fixed. Our thanks to all who called us and our apologies to those we couldn't copy due to the noise. See you all in February/March. 73 de Sig, N3RS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,066,280 All S&P. N1MM Logger 6.10.15 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 517,570 Navy Duty broke this contest up into just 15 hours...but had a blast... Was low power (100W) on top band..but high power other bands! New QTH...One EU Beverage (for 160) and new antennas did well. Was really only a 160/15M workout as 20/40 antennas fixed NW ever since ARRL SS here at the new QTH..will have Station 100% in 2 weeks! ICOM 756 PRO 2 AL-1200 6L monos for 10-15 5L mono for 20 2L mono for 40 80 M dipole 160 SHUNT fed tower and 1 EU BEverage for receiving! 73 Jose - N4BAA USN Serving Proudly ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4BAA Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 28,810 Subitting log as SB160LP entry after being notified I could do so. Wish I would have had time to do 100% both nights!... New antenna and beverages working great! Thanks to all who hung in there to pull the call out! Jose - N4BAA GO PVRC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 83,955 Only able to get on the last 2 hours due to holiday traeling, but had a great time.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GN Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 128,964 Needed one more weekend to install the 3xC31XR stack on the new tower and had a rotator failure Tuesday on the old tower (C4XL stuck on 5A7A!), so decided at last minute to go single band 80. Never expected to work DXCC on 80 in a weekend with a wimpy inverted vee at 80 feet! I'll get the new stack installed and the rotator fixed, then look out in ARRL DX CW! 73, Tim, N4GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4HXI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 152,004 It's so much easier than last year when my job required me to work on Sunday! Compared to last year - nearly 100 more Q's and 20 more zones on all bands results in twice the number of claimed points! Goals for next year - Extra Class license, a new wire antenna for the QTH and 250 K in points. Even though I sacrificed Q's to work on my end to ensure correct call signs, we'll see if my efforts paid off when the UBN reports are generated. 73s from NC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4IJ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 255,040 IC-746PRO, HyGain TH5 at 65 ft. N1MM software. Almost exclusive search and pounce. Don't have a signal for Running them. Missed HS0, 5H3 and ZA. Other than that, happy with country total. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,242,060 WHAT GREAT LOW BAND CONDITIONS....CW IS NOT DEAD YET..MANY MANY GREAT OPERATORS ALL WEEKEND. UNFORTUNATELY THIS OLD DISABLED SENIOR CITIZEN SLEPT 6 HRS BOTH NIGHTS MISSING LOTS OF ASIA STATIONS ON 80 AND 40 AT SUNRISE. FIRST EFFORT IN MANY YRS AND ENJOYED IT THOROUGHLY. TX TO ALL THE EXCELLENT OPERATORS WHO MADE IT HAPPEN. NICE RENEWING OLD ACQUAINTANCES AND MEETING NEW FRIENDS. 73s JERRY CENTRAL ALABAMA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,835,856 CQ WW CW DX Contest 2006 - N4KG SOAB(Assisted) High Power (1000W) Who needs SunSpots? It couldn't have been better than this! This just may be my Best-Ever Multiplier Count as a Single Operator. What a BLAST chasing multipliers around on all bands (All S&P) using archaic VISUAL Packet Spots on one computer and logging on a separate laptop with my new Icom 746PRO (GREAT little radio). I know, it's way past time to upgrade to modern computer technology! Who would have drempt of working 16 stations from 4 continents on 6 Bands? 5A7A 6W1RW 8P5A 9Y4AA CT9L EA6IB EA8EW HC8N KP3Z P40W PS2T TI5N TZ5A V26K V47T VP5W And another 12 stations on 5 Bands, including another continent? CT3KN CU2A FM-TO5X HK0GU IH9P J79Z OK5W P40A VP2MDG V31XX ZF1A ZL6QH More Later... Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 810,277 Emily Post taught me to be nice. CQWW taught me to be ruthless! I did enjoy the nice 10-meter opening Sunday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 140,616 First night condx not so hot....second night much better...can't believe checking spots after the contest that I missed J79, 9H6, 9M2AX and some others that would have put me over 100 countries....oh well.. Ended up with a lot less Q's than last year but one more zone and three more countries....got 3B8/OM0C with three minutes to go on Sunday evening for a new all-time country - #278. Thanks to Tom & Marsha for putting up with me once again. Operating from there is a real treat....turns 160 into some other band - like mebbe 40m. See you this weekend in the ARRL....you'll have to listen a little harder as I'll be operating from home with an inverted vee. 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 122,808 Lots of S&P with 80M OCFD @ 40ft and a Saturday afternoon wire GP thrown over a tree. Doubled last year's score. Next year maybe back to all band. Thanks for Q's and to all DX station that dug me out of the mud! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4RR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 259,569 Its been 15 years since we operated the last CQWW-CW. A lot of new prefixes! What country is TO5X in zone 8? CT wouldn't give me an answer. DE N4RR n4rr@wmccinc.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,560,896 My first almost full time effort in a number of years. High line noise on 80 and 160 and Rig problems on 10 limited my score. Otherwise for a tri-bander at 50 feet and no saltwater for 100 miles in any direction I am pleased with the score. 73's Terry N4TB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,566,060 The Case of the Empty Six-Pack and the Curious Association with the Half Loaded Tower Perry Mason was huddled with his gorgeous secretary, Della Street, when they heard a knocking sound of di-dit dit on the door of his private office. Della exclaimed, "that's Paul Drake's secret knock," as she leapt to her feet to fling open the door. Perry said, "Paul, I need your help with another investigation of the mysterious happenings in the Black Hole. Weak signals were heard from a long- silent station, N4TZ/9. Find out why the signals were so weak and sporadic. The only clues we've heard involve an empty six-pack and a half-loaded tower. Lt. Tragg thinks its merely a case of too many 807s, but I know that Terry drinks nothing stronger than Diet RC." ****** Paul Drake's Report N4TZ/9 went QRT in the spring of 2005 following the January 2005 ice storm that also wiped out N9RV's antennas. He spent the summer of 2005 working on building new antennas, and was nearly ready for installing same when an unexpected addition to the family caused work on the station to slow to a crawl. Sporadic progress was made through the summer of 2006 so that when the final mowing of hay occurred in October 2006, antennas were installed. A 5 element 20 meter yagi was installed at 130 feet with the help of a crane. However, there were several incidents with the crane and its operator so that all further installations were accomplished by two undersized middle-aged fellows and a hand-operated winch. A full-sized 3 element 40 meter yagi was placed at the 121 foot level of the tower. Then, on subsequent weekends they installed a 10-15 meter duo-bander at 99 feet on a ring rotor, fixed another 10-15 job at 75 feet fixed on Europe and placed a second 5 element 20 with a Cushcraft shorty-forty at 61 feet on another TIC ring. Instead of finishing construction of another 10-15 yagi, suspect erected by himself a full-sized 80m four square and a shortened element 160m four square in his hay field, skipping the Ft. Wayne hamfest to tune the top loaded 160m elements and laying 24 radials down for each of the 8 verticals. Apparently, Terry was relying upon the "cascade of miracles" approach, because the last thing he did was install coax and control cables from the house to the tower and antenna field. He explained that there was only time to do things one time if he was going to make the CQWW CQ weekend festivities. Although many USA contesters for years have been clamoring for changing the contest to another weekend, N4TZ did not expect the deadline to move! On Thursday, the day before the contest, he finally ran some RF to the antennas. The 80m 4 square had between one and two watts of power dumped into its dummy load with 75 watts making it from the house through 600 feet of flexible coax. The news wasn't as good with the new 160m antenna - between 25 & 50 percent of the power from the shack was dissipated in the hybrid's dummy load. No time to make changes. Check the other antennas. The 20s were fine. Each of the 40s had good SWR, but the relays in the Stackmatch at the bottom of the tower was clicking like a secretary's long fingernails caressing her keyboard. Terry removed the Stackmatch, patching the big 40 through to the six-pack. The rotatable 15 showed a very high SWR on the MFJ analyzer, but the bottom fixed one seemed ok. Made note to check out the relay box at 80' later. Both the 10m antennas seemed ok. The right side of the six-pack had issues. Several antennas seemed to be selected at once, although the RF-interlock copied from TopTen Devices prevented destruction of the Orion connected to it. The left side seemed to work ok. Friday morning, an effort was made to finally get the new K7NV prop pitch to turn. Several days of effort had found that it turned when the control box was at the base of the tower, and at the Polyphasor panel at the end of the house. However, the Romex through the attic to the shack refused to conduct enough electrons through the wire to move the rotor. Three separate 450 foot runs of #12 and #10 wire from the base of the tower through the second floor shack window provided marginal excitation to the rotor. A spare 12 volt power supply was inserted in the common motor return lead from the M squared controller and the big 20 & 40 yagis spun like a top. Since the station hadn't been operated in over 18 months, the BIOS battery in the shack's computer had died. No replacements were available for the vintage part, so TRLog was installed on a Windows 95 computer. The N4TZ shack relies upon TRLog's reading the radios' frequencies with a pair of serial ports and then using a pair of parallel ports to control the tower mounted six pack. Several hours were spent finding the secret to making the computer communicate with the 56k data rate of the Orion; there was no problem with the OMNI VI on the other side of the operating table. Just enough daylight was left for a slow crawl up the tower to check out the rotating 15m yagi - the MFJ showed extremely high SWR at the connector near the ring rotor, and the feedpoint was way too far out on the boom to reach. All 15 meter operations would have to be done with an antenna fixed NE. ***** Operator's statement A final run-through on the bands from the shack showed that the 160 meter position had gone bad on both sides of the six-pack. It was decided to use the OMNI VI switched for the five high frequency bands and dedicate the Orion to 160 and the second run of coax from the shack to the six-pack. I began the contest gently feeling my way to make sure I didn't blow anything up. Things seemed to go smoothly, as I worked most stations heard on 40 & 80 on the first call. 160 was a little more difficult; I figure that the loaded verticals were approximately 50% efficient (modeled R was 11 ohms, measured R with radials was about 18 ohms), and half of that was lost in the hybrid's dummy load. Combining that with approximately 5 or 6 dB gain from the 4 square should net me a signal roughly equal to that from my previous nearly full sized vertical. Results seemed to bear this out. Then, Murphy visited again. He first poked his head in the door when I noticed a buzzing pattern on the 80 meter monitor scope, later determined to be the death throws of the six-pack. When daylight arrived, a trip to the base of the tower showed that the six-pack was useless. From that point on, all band changes required the following drill: 1) run down stairs and the length of the house, out the door, sprint to the tower base, open the cabinet containing the wiring, unscrew two coaxes from the shack to the previously selected two antennas and screw on two different antennas, retrace my steps, making sure no pets get out the doors. A review of the log shows I made 14 of these trips, with the fastest time being 12 minutes. An autopsy of the six-pack showed that a number of RF bypass capacitors had developed very low resistances, effectively selecting multiple antenna ports. This symptom had previously been noted several years ago when lightning damaged three TopTen relay boxes. In that case, replacing all of the bypass caps with new ceramic discs solved the problem. The home-brew six pack will receive the same operation this winter before the next contest. The final 10-15 meter duo-bander will be installed in the huge gap on the lower half of the tower between the lower 20 and the green field at the base of the tower. Hopefully, that will solve the Case of the Empty Six-Pack and the Curious Association with the Half-Loaded Tower. ***** Summary I was pleasantly surprised to work as many multipliers as I did on 15 with the antenna fixed toward Europe. The Windows 95 computer ran the entire contest without the need for rebooting, and both radios were perfectly behaved. After the six-pack emptied out, I decided to get some serious sleep time each night, which probably reduced the multipliers on the lower bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 496,620 Particularly enjoyed the LP opening Saturday night late on 20 meters. Snagged JD1AMA, KG6DX, JH4UYB and T88MR. A thrill working 5A7 on 80 and 40 using my 130' sloper. The 80 / 40 inverted V got all tangled up when one leg broke lose, so it's out of service. Running 100 watts here to an A3S at 75' and the sloper, which is tied to the tower at 68'. Larry Vogt, N4VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,619,046 Fun time! The low bands were a lot of fun, but I shut down around 7 pm local on Saturday evening to entertain company. I slept 90 minutes the first night. 15M was decent to Europe both mornings, making it fun. It was nice to be able to run for some good time periods. This was my best score in three years. I was very happy with the station, but I'll be ripping it down soon because I am moving locally again! Oh well, rebuilding is fun! Happy Holidays! Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,976,578 Radios: Tentec Orion I + Icom 746Pro Antennas: Rotating: 4L SteppIR @ 135’, Force 12 C4SXL @ 137’ HB Quad @ 48’ (2L 20/15, 4L 10) Fixed: Th3jr @ 60’ SE, 40m Lazy H NW/SE @ 120’ Array of 5 80m Sloping dipoles from 135’ tower 3 elevated radials on 137’ tower for 160 540’ Beverage NE Excellent conditions for sunspot minimum! Low noise levels on the low bands compared to last years. Far and away my best 160 meter totals ever (even worked 2 new countries). Probably spent too much time there score wise but it was fun. 10 and 15 were better than last year. From my perspective conditions on 80/40/20 were not quite up to 2005 but still good. I’ve still never worked all 40 zones in this contest - missed zone 22 this year. Heard 8Q7DV on 40 but unable to work them. Missed normally easy zones 17 and 18 on 20 meters but got both on 40. No European runs this year. One short JA run on 15 Saturday afternoon and a little better one on 40 Sunday morning – otherwise mostly S&P with occasional answers to CQ’s on the second radio. In this contest the activity level allows one to be reasonably competitive with other low power stations with just S&P (not true in the ARRL DX Contest). S&P QSOs: 1057 Answers to CQ: 186 with 19 zero point QSOs = 167 net 10m: 1 1 USA 15m: 62 10 Eu 31 JA 10 VE 5 USA 6 Other 20m: 31 15 Eu 9 JA 5 VE 1 USA 1 Other 40m: 92 2 Eu 68 JA 3 VE 12 USA 7 Other -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 8 13 5 0 26 2.1 0100 0 0 53 0 0 0 53 4.3 0200 0 0 28 6 0 0 34 2.7 0300 0 19 4 3 0 0 26 2.1 0400 5 9 14 2 0 0 30 2.4 0500 11 5 5 0 0 0 21 1.7 0600 0 6 22 1 0 0 29 2.3 0700 10 21 0 0 0 0 31 2.5 0800 1 8 14 0 0 0 23 1.8 0900 2 8 14 8 0 0 32 2.6 1000 0 4 25 1 0 0 30 2.4 1100 1 1 2 0 0 0 4 0.3 1200 0 3 7 7 0 0 17 1.4 1300 0 0 3 15 29 0 47 3.8 1400 0 0 0 0 52 4 56 4.5 1500 0 0 0 0 15 23 38 3.0 1600 0 0 0 0 32 4 36 2.9 1700 0 0 0 16 26 1 43 3.4 1800 0 0 0 9 14 0 23 1.8 1900 0 0 0 0 19 0 19 1.5 2000 0 0 0 6 14 4 24 1.9 2100 0 0 0 29 2 0 31 2.5 2200 0 0 0 1 32 0 33 2.6 2300 0 4 0 7 23 0 34 2.7 0000 2 9 0 22 1 0 34 2.7 0100 0 0 13 10 0 0 23 1.8 0200 0 0 27 0 0 0 27 2.2 0300 0 14 4 0 0 0 18 1.4 0400 7 3 2 0 0 0 12 1.0 0500 5 8 1 0 0 0 14 1.1 0600 1 7 4 1 0 0 13 1.0 0700 0 5 3 0 0 0 8 0.6 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1100 1 0 4 0 0 0 5 0.4 1200 0 0 57 2 0 0 59 4.7 1300 1 0 0 40 5 0 46 3.7 1400 0 0 0 25 10 2 37 3.0 1500 0 0 0 10 0 8 18 1.4 1600 0 0 0 33 0 5 38 3.0 1700 0 0 0 13 9 3 25 2.0 1800 0 0 0 9 8 3 20 1.6 1900 0 0 0 11 7 2 20 1.6 2000 0 0 0 7 5 1 13 1.0 2100 0 0 0 5 15 0 20 1.6 2200 0 0 0 24 1 0 25 2.0 2300 0 0 0 21 7 0 28 2.2 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 47 134 314 357 331 60 1243 Gross QSO's=1247 Dupes=4 Net QSO's=1243 Unique callsigns worked = 796 The best 60 minute rate was 73/hour from 1345 to 1444 The best 30 minute rate was 76/hour from 1347 to 1416 The best 10 minute rate was 120/hour from 1353 to 1402 There were 140 bandchanges and 33 probable 2nd radio QSO's. ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 14 3 27 33 72 54 2 191 15.3 25 1 5 92 47 44 0 189 15.2 15 1 21 48 59 54 0 183 14.7 08 9 18 22 22 23 11 105 8.4 04 8 7 16 17 16 3 67 5.4 09 5 7 10 12 12 11 57 4.6 11 0 3 6 10 20 5 44 3.5 13 0 0 5 10 18 9 42 3.4 33 2 9 8 7 10 3 39 3.1 05 5 6 4 8 12 1 36 2.9 03 2 6 9 8 10 0 35 2.8 07 3 4 6 6 8 5 32 2.6 16 0 0 5 19 0 0 24 1.9 20 0 1 10 3 8 0 22 1.8 31 2 3 4 3 7 1 20 1.6 32 0 2 7 2 6 1 18 1.4 35 0 2 3 4 4 3 16 1.3 06 2 4 5 4 1 0 16 1.3 27 0 0 4 6 4 0 14 1.1 12 0 1 2 2 3 3 11 0.9 10 1 1 2 2 2 1 9 0.7 38 1 1 1 2 3 1 9 0.7 24 0 0 1 7 0 0 8 0.6 01 1 2 0 3 1 0 7 0.6 30 0 1 2 1 3 0 7 0.6 19 0 1 1 3 1 0 6 0.5 28 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 0.4 02 1 1 0 2 1 0 5 0.4 37 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 0.4 34 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.3 40 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.3 29 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.2 39 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 26 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 36 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 17 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 18 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 21 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 23 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 47 134 314 357 331 60 1243 QSO Distribution by continent: 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- USA calls = 1 1 12 2 7 4 27 VE calls = 14 19 17 32 31 0 113 N.A. calls = 16 28 33 36 34 16 163 S.A. calls = 6 12 25 37 55 29 164 Euro calls = 4 48 94 156 113 2 417 Afrc calls = 3 13 14 18 22 7 77 Asia calls = 0 2 7 17 4 0 30 JA calls = 1 5 92 46 44 0 188 Ocen calls = 2 6 20 14 21 2 65 Total calls = 47 134 314 358 331 60 1244 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 575 2 bands 102 3 bands 49 4 bands 42 5 bands 19 6 bands 9 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: HC8N 8P5A CT9L PZ5ZY TI5N P40T P49Y 9Y4AA WP3F ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 14 44 160 190 156 11 ZONES - WITH CALL OF FIRST STATION WORKED: Zone 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- 1 KL7RA KL7WV AL1G KL7WV 2 VE2WDX VE3NE/2 VE2WDX VO2WL 3 VA7ST VA7ST KG6VPU VA7RN VA7ST 4 VE6SV VC3E W2OO VE6JY VC3E K5NA 5 VY2TT N1UR VY2TT VO1TA K3VA K4SV 6 XE2S XE1HSW XE1NTT/2 XE1CT XE2D 7 HR2DMR HR1RTF HK0GU HP1/DJ7AA V31XX TI5N 8 KV4FZ CO6LP 8P5A ZF1A TO5X J79Z 9 PZ5ZY P40W YW4D PJ4A P40T P40A 10 HC8N HC8N HC8N HC8N HC8N HC8N 11 PS2T PS2T PS2T ZP0R PS2T 12 CE4CT 3G1X 3G1X CE4CT CE1U 13 LU4DX LP3U LT1F LU1HF 14 EA2LU G5W EA5AFP M5X DL8DYL CT1AOZ 15 IT9GSF YT0A 9A4D SN8U YU1TT 16 UW5W RS3A 17 UP5G 18 RK0AXX 19 RU0LL RW0LZ UA0DC RU0ZM 20 5B/M0XAA YR2V P3F C4M 21 4L8A 22 23 JV800DA 24 B7P VR2PX 25 JE0VJV JA0FVU JL1MUT JA1FWY JA3YBK 26 XU7MWA 27 T88MR T88MR KG6DX 28 9M6XRO YB0ECT YB2OBL 29 VK6LW R1ANC 30 VK4EMM VK2BJ VK4XY VK4AN 31 KH7U KH6ZM KH6BK KH6BK KH6BK KH6BK 32 ZL6QH ZL2IFB ZM1A E51YAQ ZL6QH 33 CT3NT 7X0RY CT9L CN2WW CT3NT EA8EW 34 5A7A 5A7A 5A7A 5A7A 35 6W1RW TZ5A TZ5A TZ5A TZ5A 36 S9SS S9SS 37 5Z1A 5H3EE 38 V51AS ZS4TX ZS4TX ZS4TX V51AS V51AS 39 3B8/OM0C 3B8/OM0C 40 JW1CCA JW1CCA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 133,240 Thanks everyone for the qsos. Just hunting for mults. Ant-klm 40m3 at 45'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6GK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 71,868 Had lots of fun! Amazing what you can work with mostly dipoles at 36 feet! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6MU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 163,200 Only S&P. Tough going with 100 watts to backyard vertical. 73... John, N6MU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6OR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 216,909 great fun. c u agn next test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,273,050 4 Transmitters, 5 IRON MAN ops. Haven't done this contest MM in about 10 years; we had a good time, especially on the low bands. 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 59 61 59 104 28 145 0 0 0 456 VE calls = 33 43 40 75 21 6 0 0 0 218 N.A. calls = 19 36 43 50 45 18 0 0 0 211 S.A. calls = 8 19 36 52 61 39 0 0 0 215 Euro calls = 1 22 119 290 29 1 0 0 0 462 Afrc calls = 2 16 24 25 21 5 0 0 0 93 Asia calls = 2 28 85 72 17 0 0 0 0 204 JA calls = 19 210 518 306 203 3 0 0 0 1259 Ocen calls = 7 27 58 38 49 11 0 0 0 190 Unknowns = 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 0 0 7 Total calls = 150 462 983 1015 475 230 0 0 0 3315 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 589,722 This is my first time using Win-Test sofwater by F5MZN. I give it my highest recommendation, especially if you like CT or NA. See http://rawilson.googlepages.com/win-test.gif for a screen shot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 67,704 I really enjoyed this contest. Conditions were better than I expected, and I was able to add three new countries along the way. I'm always amazed by the sensitivity of the stations and operators that enable them to hear my little whistle in the dark :-) Thanks to everyone for all the Qs. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 518,512 FT-1000MP MkV Field & AL-1200 microHAM microKEYER Cushcraft X-9 @ 17m high Stuck North. 40m Dipole @ 17m high 80m Half Sloper @ 12m high N1MM Logger As usual, the contest was a lot of fun. Although, it sure seemed like I spent more than 28 hours at the key. N1MM Logger software was flawless. I can't say the same for my operating. I would like to thank the crews at TZ5A & HC8N for QSOs on 80m through 10m. I was presently surprised considering my tri-bander was stuck North. I think I could have worked my neighbor W6TK on 5 bands, but I didn't hear him on 10m. 73 es TU, Bill N6WS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7DD Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 200,000 Part time effort. Too much turkey and family left over from the holiday. Decided to try the internet to try for 100 countries. Not much fun but it helped in the short run. Thanks for all of the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7FE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 94,864 Maybe 6 hours total operating time. G5RV and R8 vertical antennas. Working friends from CADXA (VooDoo Contest Group)as TZ5A on 40,20,15 was highlight of contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOSB/80 QRP Total Score = 7,452 This was a big improvement over my previous attempt at this category in 2002, and a new zone 3 record. Third contest with N1MM and first with a fast computer, which this program absolutely needs to perform as it was designed. Should have done this years ago. Part of the enjoyment of contesting for me is the oppportunity it gives you to observe all of the interesting propagation modes that occur over a couple of nights of solid operating. The best one for me was listening to UA9ZZ from zone 18 CQing on 3545 kHz at our sunset, with S9 signals out of the northwest. He couldn't hear my QRP signal and that's as it should be. Happy holidays and 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7OR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1 It should be renamed CQ in my face World Wide. I decided to only call those that my database said I had never worked or just not confirmed. I got exactly zero of them that I called (maybe 9 or 10 stations) Oh well. Worst contest weekend ever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 54,243 My first CW contest! Wheee! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7UA Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 213,332 Europe short path over the pole was poor. However long path was better here around SR and that helped with mults. The highlight was being called by 8Q7DV and 9N7JO while beaming long path to give them Zone 3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 136,584 With the low sunspot counts and the disturbed A, I was looking at a long weekend running 20M S/B LP from the Pacific NW. So, I set a goal to practice making the best use of both VFO's on my FT1000MP. (Since I was single band, SO2R wasn't going to be any more effective than 2 VFO's and less dangerous to my 2nd rig). I think I made some progress as I could essentially set the main VFO on repeating CQ and find a fair number of other stations in between transmissions. Even some juicy mult's. I bumped up both the zone and country counts over last year despite fewer Q's and fewer hours of the band being open. My fingers learned some new tricks on the keyboard side (staggering/aborting CQ's and swapping VFO's) but the ears learned something better - as I think I enhanced my abilities to identify an interesting prospect with just snippets of code or the furor of a pileup. The 2nd VFO search isn't as efficient as doing pure S&P but allowed me to do a few short runs to JA/Asia and scan the bands as well. My brain is handling the two audio streams better these days as well. I think I worked everything I heard. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm hearing quite enough after listening to another local, Dan/W7WA, work stations several times (after the band died for me) that I couldn't even tell were there. Gonna have to work on that. 73 dink ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 391,816 I got a cert in the mail for first place in the seventh call area last year for a mediocre effort. I didn't feel that it was worthy, so I thought I'd crank things up a notch this year. Besides it is much more fun. The numbers are up in almost every category except for a slight decrease in 20 and 10M Q's. Most notably is the improvement on 40 meters. The new antennas are working well. I spent more time carefully planning, with a focus on mults. At the end of the contest, I don't feel that SO2R really helped much. It did help to ease the slow times in the chair. I set a goal of 550 Q's, 175 counties and 100 zones. It's gratifying that the results line up pretty closely. 20 was behaving strangely on Sun. As expected, it never openened as broadly. However, it seemed to me that it was opening, closing, and re-opening. Maybe I was just hallucinating from lack of sleep. 8-). I had better runs to JA than I expected with solid 80 hours on both afternnoons. Good JA activity it seems. 40 just wanted to open to EU, but the conditions would not have it. There was some interesting long path both mornings. Just could'nt work any EU's. I came close with S53M but I just couldn't get his attention. I was hoping to at least get the fringe of zone 14-18 and maybe 20 - 21. I did get EA8 and 6W though. On 80 is was the usual NA/CA stuff with JA for good measure. I worked LA5HE last week for my first over the pole Q. Too bad the conditions didn't allow for this circuit. So I guess I would say that 20 was constraind much like 15 with the notable exception of zone 14. A big wind storm kicked up late Sun so I had to crank the tower down an little early. I woulda easily bested 600 Q's. It seemed that 5Z1A practically jumped in front of me to get me to work him. A slow day in the pileups I guess. ;-). I wish I would have at least heard 5A7A. Thanks to V37RY for enduring the move from 15 to 20 in fine shape. Also the same to KL2R for helping me with zone 1 on 15 and 20. Sorry I lost you in the attempt at 40M. Ended the contest with that one on the table. I think that was really the only one I let slip by due to carelessness. My appologies to all for the QLF moments. I had to cut the contest short due to a rare wind/snow storm in the PAC NW. The tower is not guyed and must be cranked down. The total Q's would have been well north of 600 otherwise. Anyway... Not sure how this score will play out, but it's one I feel pretty good about. CU in ARRL DX in Feb. Looking forward to it. 73 - Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8ET Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 671,610 I was quite surprised to have a better score this year than either of the past two years! Had a great time! A huge "thank you" to all the stations that pulled my signal out of the noise. I even worked two EU stations in the middle of the afternoon on 40. 9A1P and DJ1YFK get my award for "best ears on 40"! Already making plans for another attempt nest year. 73 - Bill - N8ET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 711,723 Shields up, this was a lot more fun than either SS CW or phone, even though my time was very limited. Sorry, PVRC. I went to the WVU football game which was fun except for the outcome. I made only about 135 Q's before 1150Z Sunday, then operated off and on only running about 30-40 minutes on 15, the rest S&P. The environment was multiplier rich to say the least; on 20M at 21Z the Caribbean guys were lined up like ducks in a row from 14030-14050 kHz, all booming in. Other highlights were 160 at 02Z the first night breaking thru to EU stations with ease working about 30 stations in 30 minutes. 15 was in great shape with good signals from northern Eu and a few Russians; the difference between the big guns S9+ and the little guys answering CQ's S1-5 never ceases to amaze. I missed the Eu opening on 10 except for CU2A, but condx to Af were good and Caribbean sigs made it thru after 16Z. I enjoyed giving the serious competitors a Q when they needed it the most. The pro's like 8P5A, P40W, P40T, CT3NT, etc. really have a running rhythym the rest of us would love to attain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8XX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 38,808 First DX contest in memory except for occasional club multi. Was surprized that my peanut whistle 100 W to a wet noodle (40 meter dipole fed with 450 ohm open wire line at 35') managed to snag as many as I did. Couldn't compete with the "BIG" pileups, but surprized myself in getting through some of the smaller ones in competition to some very loud US signals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 136,416 Played around for a few hours between family obligations. Had fun cracking some pileups on 80m Saturday night. FT-1000MP SB-220 2el 40m @ 95' 4el 20m @ 85' KT34-A fixed SE @ 37' 80m Delta Loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9FN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 48,195 I intended to just make a few Q's primarily to work on 80 meter country totals and also to add some others for DXCC challenge. I ended up playing a little more than I intended between yard work, travel, and other distractions but had fun in the limited time I operated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 978,384 40m project didn't get finished, so SOAB was not in the cards this year. Single band was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. Was kinda bored the first night and wandered up to 80/160 for a few QSOs, but was pretty focused after that. Hard to get a feel for overall conditions from just operating one band. From the way things sounded before the contest, I would have guessed that 15 meters never really opened to EU -- and then I find out afterwards that guys even worked EU on 10! On 20m I thought conditions were normal or below normal, but that the fantastic activity of the WW more than made up for it. Sunday was better than Saturday. At about 2200z both days the band just opened to the north with everything coming in from that direction. There was also a nice pre-dawn opening to Asia on the second morning that netted some interesting QSO's. Congrats to the USA M/M boys for a photo finish! - Pat N9RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 138,086 Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP, Ten-Tec Titan 500W Antennas: 160M Inv "L" (80M) 40M Delta loop (40M, 20M, 15M, 10M) 20M Bobtail (20M N/S Path) Software: N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2U Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,875,423 One radio. 73.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 392 It was 70 degrees here this weekend - that's why! 73 NA4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 12,198 CQWWCW always happens on opening weekend of deer season....came home a little early from hunting and operated the last hour of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NH6P Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,131,279 Good conditions on 160, 10 and 15 here on the Big island of Hawaii. We were not able to operate on Sunday, but still had fun. Station is working well but did have some power line noise Saturday night that gave us problems on 160. See you all next year, Aloha Fred W6YM/KH6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 220,311 Started the contest low power but after about 1 hours I took the Alpha out of the box and wired it in. See you next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN1N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,951,120 This was fun. Lost my Alpha sometime around midnight Sunday (05Z). Then the computer stopped keying. Couldn't figure it out and was so tired I just couldn't think anymore after an hour of trying to get it going, so went to bed. Got up at 1430Z! Oh well. Nothing rotating yet on 40, but who needs 40 when you have 80 and 160! :-) Best and most interesting QSO was with XU7MWA on 40 Saturday morning--somehow he heard me calling him with my beam on EU. 73 and thanks to all the DXpeditioners who really gave us all a lot to tune around for. I tuned a lot and really enjoyed it. Other than the ridiculous spotting--caused pileups on S9SS, most operators were running well and identifying often G3TXF is now the loudest EU on 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN2W Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,600,487 Operation from Wm.H.Pouch BSA Camp Staten Island NY W2WHP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3Q Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 2,213,652 There are always a few surprises during a contest. While cqing into Europe on 40m in the late afternoon, a JA answered me long path. He was as loud as most European stations that I had been working. You never know what neat path and multipler will appear during a contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 12,417,608 CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2006 2 Amps failed during the test...also the balun on the 80m yagi blew out taking one of the Alpha's with it...lots of fun...some new op's to the station crew...condx were definately better for us on Fri night and went down hill from that...our best effort to date...over 12% better than last years score...the new 8 el 15m yagis are doing a great job, but some work to be done to improve the rotational reliability...Ugh TIC's....de Rick nq4i Call: NQ4I Category: Multi Multi Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: CW Country: United States Zone: 5 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 263 571 2.17 21 78 W4SVO 80 687 1785 2.60 32 113 K2SX K2UFT 40 1224 3233 2.64 40 144 VE7ZO K4TD 20 1748 4871 2.79 38 145 W1MD K1XX W7FB 15 1223 3338 2.73 31 127 NT6X N4OX 10 242 508 2.10 25 74 NQ4I --------------------------------------------------- Totals 5387 14306 2.66 187 681 => 12,417,608 All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted. Operator List: ______________________________________________________________ Equipment Description: BREAKDOWN QSO/mults NQ4I CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 18/22 46/41 96/56 25/28 14/13 1/2 200/162 200/162 1 15/11 58/22 99/29 10/7 . . 182/69 382/231 2 17/11 54/16 76/16 20/10 . . 167/53 549/284 3 21/12 58/12 79/15 14/1 . . 172/40 721/324 4 11/5 27/4 33/11 5/2 . . 76/22 797/346 5 21/10 36/7 29/8 5/1 . . 91/26 888/372 6 13/4 44/5 28/4 8/4 . . 93/17 981/389 7 11/4 37/3 28/1 12/6 . . 88/14 1069/403 8 7/6 11/4 17/4 12/7 ..... ..... 47/21 1116/424 9 2/0 11/8 28/6 14/11 . . 55/25 1171/449 10 5/0 4/2 26/3 . . . 35/5 1206/454 11 6/0 6/2 15/5 11/8 6/8 . 44/23 1250/477 12 3/2 6/3 12/5 126/27 44/38 1/0 192/75 1442/552 13 . . 4/1 151/10 129/21 4/7 288/39 1730/591 14 . . 4/0 148/5 143/9 13/20 308/34 2038/625 15 . . . 144/3 115/10 20/12 279/25 2317/650 16 ..... ..... ..... 97/2 106/9 41/9 244/20 2561/670 17 . . . 97/5 77/4 21/2 195/11 2756/681 18 . . . 46/0 44/16 13/5 103/21 2859/702 19 . . 10/1 20/6 29/3 8/4 67/14 2926/716 20 . . 19/1 37/5 36/5 7/3 99/14 3025/730 21 . 1/0 39/2 56/5 21/8 2/0 119/15 3144/745 22 1/1 2/0 46/1 63/5 25/2 1/0 138/9 3282/754 23 2/0 36/0 49/5 21/5 2/0 . 110/10 3392/764 0 15/4 31/0 49/0 15/4 1/0 ..... 111/8 3503/772 1 15/4 29/4 50/0 9/0 1/0 . 104/8 3607/780 2 12/0 32/1 43/2 15/1 1/0 . 103/4 3710/784 3 7/1 25/0 31/0 9/0 . . 72/1 3782/785 4 3/0 17/2 27/1 7/0 . . 54/3 3836/788 5 14/0 37/2 32/2 3/1 . . 86/5 3922/793 6 9/0 17/1 47/1 5/2 . . 78/4 4000/797 7 6/0 12/0 20/0 3/0 . . 41/0 4041/797 8 4/1 3/0 41/0 ..... ..... ..... 48/1 4089/798 9 . 4/1 23/0 1/0 . . 28/1 4117/799 10 8/0 11/3 23/3 5/1 . . 47/7 4164/806 11 5/0 2/0 17/1 13/0 . . 37/1 4201/807 12 . 6/0 10/0 92/0 37/0 . 145/0 4346/807 13 . . 3/0 78/2 101/5 18/13 200/20 4546/827 14 . . . 63/1 91/0 17/7 171/8 4717/835 15 . . . 72/1 71/2 24/9 167/12 4884/847 16 ..... ..... ..... 63/1 37/0 13/3 113/4 4997/851 17 . . . 41/1 29/0 17/3 87/4 5084/855 18 . . . 28/1 14/0 7/0 49/1 5133/856 19 . . 5/0 16/1 8/2 1/0 30/3 5163/859 20 . . 4/0 18/0 16/2 6/0 44/2 5207/861 21 . 2/0 21/0 7/1 10/1 3/0 43/2 5250/863 22 4/0 9/0 26/0 15/1 13/0 4/0 71/1 5321/864 23 8/1 14/2 15/0 28/1 2/0 . 67/4 5388/868 DAY1 153/88 437/129 737/174 1142/163 791/146 132/64 ..... 3392/764 DAY2 110/11 251/16 487/10 606/20 432/12 110/35 . 1996/104 TOT 263/99 688/145 1224/184 1748/183 1223/158 242/99 . 5388/868 BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr NQ4I CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 5/217 11/258 34/170 6/259 3/242 1/84 60/201 60/201 1 3/270 20/173 34/175 2/259 0/0 . 60/182 120/192 2 5/211 18/177 30/152 7/174 . . 60/167 180/183 3 6/199 22/156 27/176 5/176 . . 60/171 240/180 4 9/75 20/81 28/71 3/99 . . 60/77 300/160 5 13/97 23/92 20/86 3/87 . . 60/91 360/148 6 5/146 34/78 16/104 6/78 . . 61/91 421/140 7 5/143 29/76 20/84 7/108 . . 60/87 482/133 8 8/54 12/57 25/41 15/49 ..... ..... 59/48 541/124 9 2/53 14/46 36/47 7/114 . . 60/55 601/117 10 7/41 7/33 45/35 . . . 59/35 660/110 11 8/48 8/45 24/38 13/52 8/47 . 60/44 720/104 12 1/144 3/140 4/181 38/200 14/185 0/327 60/192 780/111 13 . . 0/554 33/275 26/300 1/335 60/288 840/124 14 . . 0/514 29/305 29/298 2/482 60/308 900/136 15 . . . 33/258 22/315 5/254 60/279 960/145 16 ..... ..... ..... 20/293 33/192 7/332 60/243 1020/151 17 . . . 30/197 25/185 6/226 60/195 1080/153 18 . . . 26/107 25/107 11/74 61/101 1141/150 19 . . 8/71 19/62 23/77 8/59 59/68 1200/146 20 . . 9/132 19/118 27/79 5/80 60/99 1260/144 21 . 3/21 18/131 27/124 10/120 2/77 60/119 1320/143 22 1/95 0/300 20/139 29/132 10/144 0/1200 60/138 1380/143 23 0/554 17/126 30/97 11/110 1/114 . 60/109 1440/141 0 9/97 13/147 32/93 7/132 ..... ..... 60/110 1501/140 1 11/85 19/93 23/130 6/88 1/109 . 59/106 1560/139 2 6/119 24/81 24/107 6/142 0/400 . 61/102 1620/137 3 4/113 20/76 31/60 6/94 . . 60/72 1680/135 4 10/18 18/56 28/58 4/114 . . 60/54 1740/132 5 7/120 29/78 22/89 2/72 . . 60/86 1800/131 6 8/66 10/106 36/78 6/50 . . 60/78 1860/129 7 7/52 17/43 36/33 3/67 . . 62/39 1922/126 8 5/47 5/34 47/52 ..... ..... ..... 58/50 1980/124 9 . 13/18 45/30 1/44 . . 60/28 2040/121 10 8/58 15/45 21/64 6/46 . . 51/56 2091/120 11 8/37 6/22 22/47 14/56 0/0 . 50/45 2140/118 12 . 4/91 3/197 36/152 15/149 . 58/149 2199/119 13 . . 0/491 24/194 32/192 5/239 61/198 2259/121 14 . . . 24/157 29/186 6/167 60/172 2319/122 15 . . . 26/167 26/166 9/166 60/167 2379/123 16 ..... ..... ..... 34/111 21/107 5/160 60/113 2439/123 17 . . . 29/86 21/83 11/91 61/86 2499/122 18 . . . 31/55 15/55 13/32 59/50 2559/120 19 . . 10/30 31/31 12/39 2/35 55/33 2614/119 20 . . 5/47 25/43 19/52 5/67 54/49 2668/117 21 0/0 6/20 25/51 11/40 20/30 2/102 64/41 2732/115 22 6/41 4/121 21/74 10/89 13/62 2/107 56/76 2788/115 23 5/91 11/77 9/99 33/52 1/84 . 59/68 2847/114 DAY1 1.3/117 4.0/109 7.2/103 6.5/177 4.3/185 0.8/170 ..... 24.0/141 DAY2 1.6/70 3.5/71 7.4/66 6.2/97 3.7/115 1.0/111 . 23.4/85 TOT 2.9/91 7.6/91 14.5/84 12.7/138 8.0/152 1.8/137 . 47.5/114 BREAKDOWN in kilo-points by hr NQ4I CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 232 449 624 315 149 23 1792 1792 1 111 237 350 77 0 . 774 2567 2 113 189 204 115 . . 621 3188 3 137 158 214 25 . . 534 3722 4 54 63 138 27 . . 282 4004 5 103 99 114 14 . . 330 4334 6 43 88 68 53 . . 253 4587 7 41 64 42 65 . . 213 4799 8 62 49 56 72 ..... ..... 238 5037 9 2 98 81 111 . . 292 5329 10 5 26 51 . . . 82 5411 11 2 28 64 76 86 . 256 5667 12 23 36 64 367 398 1 889 6557 13 . . 12 279 322 81 695 7251 14 . . 5 225 255 223 708 7959 15 . . . 204 237 125 566 8526 16 ..... ..... ..... 145 192 97 434 8959 17 . . . 154 118 30 302 9261 18 . . . 53 171 55 279 9540 19 . . 20 70 49 47 186 9726 20 . . 31 82 72 38 222 9948 21 . 1 62 105 96 1 266 10214 22 8 3 64 117 45 0 236 10450 23 1 45 102 68 2 . 218 10669 0 47 33 52 54 ..... ..... 186 10855 1 41 76 50 5 1 . 174 11028 2 7 43 57 16 0 . 123 11151 3 14 23 35 9 . . 81 11232 4 3 33 39 7 . . 82 11314 5 13 58 54 11 . . 135 11450 6 9 29 61 28 . . 126 11576 7 3 14 24 4 . . 46 11622 8 10 3 53 ..... ..... ..... 66 11688 9 . 10 30 1 . . 41 11729 10 2 35 65 12 . . 114 11843 11 1 0 29 17 0 . 47 11890 12 . 8 11 117 48 . 184 12074 13 . . 4 114 165 131 413 12488 14 . . . 88 117 77 282 12770 15 . . . 97 105 86 288 13057 16 ..... ..... ..... 83 38 33 153 13210 17 . . . 54 33 40 128 13338 18 . . . 39 14 5 58 13396 19 . . 6 24 29 1 60 13456 20 . . 5 20 27 8 60 13517 21 0 1 26 13 16 2 59 13576 22 2 11 24 24 11 3 74 13651 23 18 33 13 40 3 . 106 13757 DAY1 938 1633 2365 2817 2193 722 ..... 10669 DAY2 168 409 640 878 607 385 . 3088 TOT 1106 2042 3005 3695 2801 1107 . 13757 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,653,452 Sure was great to have the core NR4M team back together again. WK3W and his son Henry operated with us for a while as well. If one doesn't count not getting the 160 antenna to work as being a Murphy visit, the only place we saw the bugger was in the computers (of course). Once the contest ended Steve NR4M found a bad CAT5 cable on the machine that was giving us fits! The 160 antenna was resonant at 1600khz. We fired a barefoot IC756 into it using a tuner to work what you see in the 160 column. Managed to work some Eur as well as KH6. Thanks to everyone for the Qs and we'll see you in the ARRL CW in a few months (hopefully with more aluminum in the air and a tuned antenna for top band. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 521,140 Juggled the family and a full holiday weekend and still managed to run in and out of the shack enough to get credit for 24 hours of operating. It sure didn't seem like that. I'm very pleased with my numbers on 160 and 80, which show that all the antenna work of the past few years has not been in vain in my suburban back yard. 40 was still difficult for me. The high bands simply suffered because I didn't have time to sit in front of the radio during daylight. I started the contest with 15 minutes of CQ's on 80 meters and then broke away to give the 2 year old a bath and put her to bed. I went all night the first night because that usually means no QRM from the family...but my new son decided to have a really bad cold, so that had me and the XYL hopping. The two year old now gets up right at sunrise, so those early 20 and 15 meter openings to Europe are a complete disaster! (When you are playing "tag" in the basement with the kid during the 12 and 13z hours, you aren't making QSO's!) Some personal highlights included 3 new countries on 160 meters, lots of fun on 80 meters, but deep Eastern Europe was rough. I worked a zone 16 on 40 meters over an hour after my local sunrise and broke a pileup for a ZS4TX double mult. On 20, 5Z1A gave me an all-time new DXCC. On 15, I got lucky to find a lonely V51AS - later he had a pileup that was just ugly. I worked 6V7D during my few minutes on 10 meters (and also had him on 80.) Hope to see you in the ARRL 160 and 10 meter contests. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000's - SO2R 160 meter inverted L 80 meter inverted L and inverted V 40-10 W4OP end fedz dipoles QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z 2/3 13/8 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/11 15/11 D1-0100Z 10/12 16/12 1/2 - - - 27/26 42/37 D1-0200Z 9/3 13/6 - - - - 22/9 64/46 D1-0300Z 11/6 28/13 - - - - 39/19 103/65 D1-0400Z 1/0 9/6 - - - - 10/6 113/71 D1-0500Z 3/0 6/0 11/16 - - - 20/16 133/87 D1-0600Z 1/0 10/3 15/15 - - - 26/18 159/105 D1-0700Z 6/4 11/11 1/0 - - - 18/15 177/120 D1-0800Z --+-- 4/0 3/5 --+-- --+-- --+-- 7/5 184/125 D1-0900Z 5/4 7/2 4/4 - - - 16/10 200/135 D1-1000Z 2/1 12/2 5/3 - - - 19/6 219/141 D1-1100Z - 4/3 7/5 14/19 - - 25/27 244/168 D1-1200Z - - - 22/10 7/13 - 29/23 273/191 D1-1300Z - - - 9/2 19/12 1/2 29/16 302/207 D1-1400Z - - - 5/5 2/0 - 7/5 309/212 D1-1500Z - - - - 3/3 3/6 6/9 315/221 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 315/221 D1-1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 315/221 D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 315/221 D1-1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 315/221 D1-2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 315/221 D1-2100Z - - 17/11 - - - 17/11 332/232 D1-2200Z - - - 8/7 - - 8/7 340/239 D1-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 340/239 D2-0000Z --+-- 7/2 --+-- 2/3 --+-- --+-- 9/5 349/244 D2-0100Z - 14/3 - - - - 14/3 363/247 D2-0200Z - 5/2 - - - - 5/2 368/249 D2-0300Z 1/1 5/0 15/5 - - - 21/6 389/255 D2-0400Z - 10/1 11/8 - - - 21/9 410/264 D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 410/264 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 410/264 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 410/264 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 410/264 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 410/264 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 410/264 D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 410/264 D2-1200Z - 1/0 6/5 - - - 7/5 417/269 D2-1300Z - - - - 19/11 - 19/11 436/280 D2-1400Z - - - - 17/10 - 17/10 453/290 D2-1500Z - - - - 1/0 6/11 7/11 460/301 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 460/301 D2-1700Z - - - - 3/4 1/1 4/5 464/306 D2-1800Z - - - 22/17 9/6 - 31/23 495/329 D2-1900Z - - - 13/4 16/7 - 29/11 524/340 D2-2000Z - - - - 4/2 7/1 11/3 535/343 D2-2100Z - - 4/0 9/3 3/0 - 16/3 551/346 D2-2200Z - - - 5/4 1/0 - 6/4 557/350 D2-2300Z - 3/1 10/4 2/0 - - 15/5 572/355 Total: 51/34 178/75 110/83 111/74 104/68 18/21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT6AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 124,152 Portable operation, planned big effort, couldn't raise Tribander, too many trees. Same with getting many wires up, the trees were all in the wrong places. Single 40 meter delta loop fed on 40-10. Maybe better next time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY3A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 649,696 Really interesting to hear the nightime LP/skew paths. At night everything came in from the SE here except Africa. OrionII, 91B and 4L@75ft 73; Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,134,952 Nice condx, no equip failures, and great comradeship. Thanks for the qso's. 73, Howie N4AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 620,737 Tried a serious effort but had some troubles to be on the air all the time. Anyhow had fun and can add some points for BCC. 73 Wolf, OE2VEL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,837,849 First i have to congrats OM8A Team on their superb score. It´s look like after Ivan OE1DIA/OM3LA export some "OE4A Technology" to OM8A, they are can´t be stoped.....hi! Also our compliments to OM7M ans 9A1P Team. OE4A Station is designed mainly for SOAB acitvity; we realize after this contest if we still want to be competitive in this category we need some changes! now we have many plans for next year.... But let´s back to contest... our team was quite small: Sasa 9A3AG - thanks for bringing nice food from 9A land! Andy KL1A - never getting tired from pile up..after contest he still operated till morning hours Tadej S51TA - Hope next contest he will stay longer (till end of test) as 18 hours Tomaz S59W - i hope our "First Class Op" after his 9V/VK/YB tour he will be more interseted on radio as during this contest Braco OE1EMS - i hope i will get once relaxed and not to tired into contest There wasn´t much prepearing work after WW DX SSB we just show up on the location friday late afternoon and make some small tuning for CW contest; nothing else! condx was much better as expected and we reach our main goal to set new OE M/S record. In compare with OM8A (-91), OM7M (-88) and 9A1P (-28) i realy dont know how we missed so many mult´s. I know it´s hard to compare it on 160/80 where we dont have real RX/TX antennas but we are missing also to many mults on high bands... Since our 2 technical supports operators OE1WWA and OE3WLB wasn´t on the contest site last weekend i was quite busy repairing all broken stutfs. One of our FT1KMP MV was replaced with spare one, Tuningbox for Titanex vertical V160HD was demaged and some problems with BPF.... Thanks for calling us and and hope to work you again! For more informations please visit our Web www.oe4a.com 73 es best dx de OE1EMS for OE4A Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH0M Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 211,172 Many have praised the conditions in this one but I must differ. Ms Aurora once again placed a veil between Northern Europe and the juicy DX pots. To get into the US/Canada was hard work, the same goes for JA. Essentially nothing except Europe was really loud. As for tactics, I probably did too little S/P. Moreover, head-on competition (who would want that, anyway?) from OH0K on the next hilltop just 12 kilometres away took its toll on multipliers and Q's (goes the other way round, too, of course). The score is rather bleak. A number of highlights nonetheless, such as three stations from zone 7. And the CQWW CW Contest is always FUN, whatever the circumstances! Big thanks to everyone who called me, in particular the 300+ DL and UA stations! And, thanks OH0Z-guys for letting me use your superb station! 73 de Mika OH2JA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BH Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 580,000 Our 5th (very hard) try at the European record from 1993 by ON4UN. At (60N,24E), where Martti's 3-el yagi sits, you can reach zone 9 in the west and zones 22, 24 and 26 in the east from below the aurora-affected polar path. When the auroral oval "shrinks", that is when the Northern magnetometers show K-indeces at 0-1-(2), we can have a direct path into zones 4, 5 and 25, where the 3-point QSOs are. Last time it happened in CQ WW 1995. Well, something they call the "Coronal hole 248" decided to play with us this time. K-indeces were 0-1 still on Wednesday, but on Thursday they started to raise and reached levels of 4-5 here in the North. In OH2, you are just south of the oval, so there's so- mething to be worked from the south, but I guess the situation in places like OH8X, TF4M and JW1CCA must have been different. Guess it was the same in UA0, KL7 and VE6. I monitored VY2ZM and W1MK during the contest to see how the skip was. There is darkness between OH2 and W1 from 21Z untill 08Z. Signals varied from S0 to S9+10 and it was easy to determine the "movements" of the "aurora cloud". Changes could be fast, 40dBs in a matter of minutes. Well, this much for complaints. Great event once again. Great competition, operators and level of activity. It still is a thrill to operate a yagi on 80, although it was the 5th time. I'm happy for the high scores in EU. I know that the 1993-record was broken and maybe we got it "home", who knows. We will hear about it at CCF's cruise in January at latest: http://www.contestclubfinland.com/ "Time-Zone" distribution of OH2BHs QSOs http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/PU/CQWW2006_Day1.gif http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/PU/CQWW2006_Day2.gif rgds OH1WZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,660,194 Big thank you goes to Jukka OH6LI who called me and gave us this opportunity to work from OH4A. We had great competition with OH5Z and OH1F who were also in M/S category. In claimed score we are all within under 2,5% so everything is open for UBN check. The station consists of following antennas: Two towers: 42m and 45m rotating 160m: 3*1/4 wave slopers around each tower 80m: 2 el 40m: 2/2 stack and another 2 el shorty on other tower 20m: 4/4/4 stack on each tower 15m: 4/4 stack on each tower 10m: 4/4/4 stack on each tower The conditions weren't great but it didn't matter as this time we were on the same starting line with the big boys. We didn't have to build our field day style M/S station so we missed 15+ hours of hard work on Friday. That meant we were refreshed at the beginning of the contest and were able to keep both stations on the air simultaneously for about 42 hours. I slept for 2,5 hours and Timo for 1,5h. When one got tired on the run station we rotated the operators from run to mult and vice versa. Anyway we had good time and if we could do it again we would beat our competition with much bigger margin. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH5Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,533,775 Thanks for nice contest! see also new webpage: www.oh5z.com 73 Juha, oh5cw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8A Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 577,486 Poor condx with poor wheather! Without power almost 3 hours on sunday afternoon.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8GZN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 65,120 Had much more qso's on lower bands than ssb and less 15+10m,though 5a7a and tz5a was nice surprise. Aurora was a challenge on saturday but it luckily went away and sunday was much easier. Thank you for all the Q's and multis! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FDR Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 291,770 Surprised by the conds on 15m, much more fun then expected, so I decided to be a real participant and hunt for the score. At least 9 or 10 more DXCC mults heard but missed; some of them heard only when they called some big guns and I never catched them calling CQ, the others (mostly from EU) just were not able to read my low power signal at that particular moment. Never heard zones 1,2,31,36,40. On Sunday afternoon I even thought for a while that the final result might be good enough to claim for a new national record in this category, but then the band closed extremely fast, it took just a few minutes and my hope has gone :-) Nice contest anyway, thank you and 73. Radim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FHI Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 109,536 TS570D DOUBLE BAZOOKA Inv."V" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1JOC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 163,000 Using FT817, 5Watts,Zepp.2x10m , up17m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1KDO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 420,112 TRX: TS-830S PWR: 100W only ANT: Multiband FD-4, GAP-TITAN Vertical Thank´s all for contest QSO with us. 73 Standa OK1WN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2AB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 379,559 You can see my web sites: http://ok2ab.cq.sk RIG: FT-1000 MARK-V ANT: Dipole 2x27m Delta loop 80m Delta loop 40m 3 el.Y 14-28 MHz Thank you for nice QSO and contest. OK2AB Rosta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 316,062 START AS SOAB/LP BUT VERY TIRED AND THEN SWITCH TO SOSB20/LP VERY GOOD RUN JA ON SUNDAY AND LATER USA 13-15UTC TNX FOR QSO 73 LUDEK OK2ZC OK2ZC.NAGANO.CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3X Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 31,655 TS830S, ant. delta loop 170m up 15m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4W Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 64,328 Sorry, in contest time I was a little bit Ill. Best way for me, was to sleep in night HI. But very interesting experience in transmit to long wire antena HI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,790,558 Condx was very good in my area this year. My big thaks Vitek OK5MM and our fried Lada without them this operation would not be so good. This year we all hard worked on the station and its prove that hard work wasnt wasted. All antennas worked very well. Special 40m beam was magic. My compliments to all stations, where called on my CQ. I never made to much qso on CQ. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7D Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 260,804 RIG:FT-1000MP MARK-V PA:1,5 KW ANT: Inv. Vee dipole@18, 2x full dipole to NW/NE @20 Missed S9SS and 8Q7DV. Thanks for calling of my CQ`ing to: 9N7JO, HS0ZDJ, 8P9NX, CO6LP, C6AQQ, EX2M, VE3NE/2. Nice contest! CUL next year. 73 David OK1DTP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,688,000 Great contest. This is our new team record. Thanks very much for QSO´s. Congratulation to OM8A for superb score. Thanks and congrats also to our rivals OK5W,OL3A,OE4A,9A1P,OE4A,OM7M,G6PZ and many many others team in M/S category. See you in the next season. 73 de OL7R HF Contest team (www.OL7R.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL9Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 447,336 Rig:TS690,PA 800w,ant 5el and 3el yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM0M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 12,091,550 M/M separates man from boys. In order to open space for team building we entered M/M category for the second time. New OM M/M record was established. Fantastic CONDX on low bands made the contest memorable. The number of mults on 80m and 160m are more than satisfactory, even without the single RX antenna on low bands. TNX for all ops: OM0WR;OM3CGN;OM3DX;OM3TWM;OM4KW;OM6KW;OM7ZZ;OM8AQ;OM8AW;OM8DD; OM8HG;OM8ON;OM8YL ANTS: 160m -2el vertical beam 80m-4SQ 40m-3el yagi 20m-6el owa 15m-6el owa 10m-6/6 owa RIG: FT1000MP-HM 2KW 2xTS850S+OM POWERS IC746+AMERITRON 4xMICROHAM USB micro KEYER LOG: WINTEST VY 73 DX OM8AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM1II Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 418,407 FT-1000MP MARK-V Field ANT: Windom/80-10m and vertical AP8/80-10m WinTest with microHAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,276,755 Afer some technical problems in SSB part when we decided not to enter as M/S, we fixed it into the CW. But, Mr. Murphy was with us again. Network fell down, stack match on 20m didnt work and interference between the run and mult was sometimes too high. Because of this facts we definitely will change the logging software. Finally we did break 100 Countries on 160m. On the other hand 80m wasnt so good as usually. Other bands was relative good especially Tami's (OM5MF) 10m score was valuable and I am satisfied with the result. Thanks to our friend from OM5M(OM2KI,OM4DW) for helping us during the contest. Congrats to OM8A for their marvelous score. Its prove that hard work wasnt wasted. Seems that OM-land has become M/S leader in EU :-) Also want to congratulate our competitors from 9A1P and OE4A. Boys when we heard you on 15m and you wkd USA it was very depressed for us ,cause we didnt hear anything and we had only 300 Q on 15m first day. OE4A livescore board was also very interesting and we thinking about it too. Thanks for calling us and we have brand new picture qsl cards so if you want to confirm it only send short email to om3pa@zoznam.sk 73 and CU in the next one. Lubo,OM5ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7RU Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 127,400 RIG: IC-706 MkII, PWR 100 W ANT tuner: MFJ-969 Interface: MicroHAM microKEYER ANT: Vertical 18 m + 32 x 20,5 m radials Inv Vee - mainly for EU 80 m was really BIG BAND. All equipments work fine, I was a bit tired, but in a good mood all the time :) Thanks to every competitor! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM8A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,714,424 Great weekend, after some problems with beverages in ssb part everything worked perfectly during CW part. No major failures, good DX conditions on low bands. Great runs on 80m sunday morning. Our best result in CQWW CW ever. Thank you for calling us. Congratulation to our friends at OM7M, OE4A, 9A1P, OK5W and others... CU in the next contest. More info on the web www.om8a.org 73 OM8A crew. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 258,500 Thanks for the qso 's. I worked 3 new ones on 80m with thanks to TZ5A, ST2A and V31XX. Most heared 5A7A, TZ5A and HC8N. Nice dx contest. 73 DIRK on4ct ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON5KQ Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 244,016 This time, I could only partly partissipate and more important was not able to spend too much energy in it. Had a very exaustive qrl-job to do the Friday before until late night...so energy was gone before the contest even started... Nevertheless spend about 20hours from 9:00utc on Saturday. So no big expectation, as the first 8 hours were daylight condx... However, I knew, that if condx would be at least average 24hours of DXing would be possible with my 4square next to saltwater (see fotos at www.on5kq.be) Indeed - JA's and other far east stations were loud even at local noontime. Fun ! KC1XX called me with the antenna to JA - I could hear him, even with 3 s-units attenuation at the side of the antenna... I never spend time to break any pile-up on a different qrg than my running qrg, so could keep a clear channel on the primary calling qrg. That's why I missed several rare ones, especially in far east Asia. This is because I could not work the stations with first call in the really crazy EU-pile ups. Here in western Belgium, I have a condx disadvantage against all the central and eastern EU's who not only are louder when calling in the pile-up, but more important may here the Asian stations much better when the band opens. In my qth, I must switch the beam in the same direction than peak EU'QRM... big disadvantage for this direction... For US-stations: This situation is very similar for mid-west station, when the band opens to EU - not only you have the longer haul compared to east coast stn's, but you also get all the QRM from eastern coast which eventually makes it impossible to hear the weak EU's... From about 00:00h UTC on beginning Sunday, I was able to work many US-stations. None of them was really loud - even the known big guns not reaching even S9, but loudest stn's where just about S7... On the other hand there wher many many being S3 and even weaker. It is a great advantage of the 4square to be extremly quite into the NW direction. In this direction I have only 3km farmland before the Ocean... just nothing which can disturb with local noise... So gradually the band opens to US and finally K6XX called me from Zone 3 being the first on Shortpass. From 15:30utc already about 10stn's made it via longpass into my log (thanks for your patience over there.... also LP W6/W7 is behind the EU qrm curtain from my western Belgium location....) W7ZQ called me from Wyoming with his big quad antenna... often worked on longpass before the contest... this was the first short pass contact... Thanks for the spot's on the cluster which certainly kept my running at a reasonable rate of about 70qso/min. Sorry, I am no real good CW-operator: I tried my best, but there is a lot to learn ! I was happy see my rates being much better than last year however - not because of condx, but because of little better OP skills... From 3:30utc the condx changed rapidly and the opening to USA was killed.... Heard somewhere at 4:30utc KC1XX working EUs... he was only s3 !!! THe band was almost dead into the north west. So tried to work some multipliers to southers directions and the carribean. I was astonished to reallywork every Carribean stn with first call - even this direction is not a saltwater take-off path for my 4square here... However the metal roofs here (my own roof is 2000m2 steel on the house) and the neighbor company measures even 30000m2 of metal roof - there steel started when my local radials stop) Never thought about it, but may all this steel is at least the same than saltwater ?!? Worked some interesting stations very quickly: LU8XW being loud ! DT8A as well with a nice signal from Antarctica ! This time also Zone 12 made it into my log with 2x Chile worked. Thanks XE1KK called me with booming signal and gave me Zone 6 - the only worked. All by all - lots of fun before I decided to pull the plug early on Sunday morning at about 07:00utc with P40T being last stn in the log... I was extremly exhausted and need to sleep! So I left my remote contest place (at Bruggemarine Center company) and after a drive of 65km I was home... Thanks for all stn's who called me. As always I am very interested in reports of everyone ti have some feedback about my signal strength compared to other EU's on 40m... Ulli, ON5KQ ex PA5AT, ex DF8MQ, ex DF0RR ex member of PI4COM contest team ---------------------- e-mail: on5kq@on5kq.be web: www.on5kq.be ---------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON9CTZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 267,235 FT1000MV+GP on the roof..... 73 de Jaro ON9CTZ /OM3TZZ/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP5T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,063,600 First serious contest effort with my new call . Had the chance to use my good friend Joe ON4JZ/OP4K 's fine station in a small M/S effort with 3 Ops . Put up a quarter wave sloping vertical wire fed @ the top for 160 m late last week and adjusted the 80 m dipole in the CW segment.Together with the big Optibeam 4 bander this would have to do the job.There are no possibilities for putting up extra and spaced antennas for a multiplier station on the roof and a attempt to use the low band antennas with feedpoints just inches away from the yagi proved to be a unwise decision so we closed the second station. Big problem is the very high citynoise and NO RX antennas so we had to dig into the 59 noise levels with all we had available on the radio to make a descent score.All in all the TX capabilities of this setup @ Joe's place are very good but we have to find a way to get better receiving in town . Very few signals on 10 meter so we argued about what we missed but had no clou. As Joe is a basket ball referee he had to go out for 4 matches during the weekend and so we slept out part of the contest. No activity from saturday 1900 till sunday 0100 . We had great fun and Rookie Geert ON7GF seemed to have enjoyed his first ever CW contest . Thank You all for calling OP5T and if You wish to qsl send it to my usual call ON5UM. Thanks to Joe for his hospitality and great friendship. 73 es DX JIM - ON5UM/OP5T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,502,797 What a contast! Isn't CW contesting to be filed under 'Hard Drugs'? I enjoyed some very good runs: most of the time 'last hour' was over 90 and even 8 hours of +100, with a top hour of 153 QSOs. That was new for me! N1MMLogger with Microham's MK2R+ really is a killer combo. The weakest link in SO2R is the operator. I need to practice. But it is so much fun. The score was 2.35 meg with 40 minutes to go. I wanted to break the psychological barrier of 2.5 million, so I really pushed the second radio barefoot on 40/80 while running 160m. I calculated that I needed 4 to 5 mults to get there, but after GJ2A, EA9EU, V26K I was out of luck - pile ups too big for barefoot breaking. Then a CT1 called on 160m for a country mult! Add a couple of QSO's 'et voilà': 2 500 000. points... I think I did not do too bad with my Field Day setup, but I am left with a lot of 'what ifs'. "What if" the WX was good? I Lost the first night due to bad WX: no low band antennas up because of very strong winds. I left the crank up tower down. I just don't risk damaging the tower or the antennas. I put it all up Saturday night, in the dark, when the wind was gone. "What if" I could have used my new sloper array for 40m? My backup 40m vertical came down earlier this week (Murphy!!!): worn out fiber mast due to UV exposure for over 5 years. Applied a quick and dirty solution on Friday and it held up. I will replace it with aluminum tubing! "What if" there had not been the unexpected RFI on 20/15m? It made the keyboard lock up or disable some keys. That wasn't there before! So I needed to solve that in the contest. Tin foil and ferrite everywhere! "What if" I had a second amp for the second radio along with a second tribander? Now I had to SO2R with the S&P rig barefoot, and I have only one tribander for 20/15/10m. Still: CW contesting is the greatest thing there is in the hobby. If it weren't for that... 73 ES TNX for the QSO de Franki ON5ZO / OQ5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OR2T Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 40,194 Due to family circumstances/commitments my operating time was limited this year. Sunday morning 0837 UTC i worked K1LZ and W1MK, that is nearly 1,5 hours after sunrise! Looking forward to next year's event. Thanks for calling OR2T. 73' de ON4ATW - OR2T Theo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT4A Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 400,932 The last several years i always did 40 m SOSBHP CW in the cqww,with my home brew 4 el full size yagi, with real good results. So decided to try 80 SOSBHP CW this year. The last effort i made on 80 m was back in 2001 in SSB (first place in Europe back then). I am using a two element vertikal array with the feedpoints 5 m high and 6 elevated radials for each element ( fed 0-90°,spaced 90°)on 80 m this year, next year it will be sure a 4 SQ. For rx i use a beverage for JA and 2 times a K9AY. Best qso's was being called by KH7X my sunday morning. A total of nearly 600 Nord Amerika qso's and called by some very nice multipliers made my weekend complete. cw has always been my favorite mode and i am sure i will be,specialy fast cw. Tnx to all, and hope to cuagn on the bands sn in cw. OT4A (ON4AEK) Theo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ3RIN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 760,984 As usual a great experience and pleasure to participate in the CQWW CW event. We enjoyed every minute. Had no visit of Murphy this time. All the equipment and antennas just worked smooth and nice. We worked hard to collect those mults this time. Had some good runs on 20 saturday. 15 was ok but the signals kind of weak. 40 was extremly crowed and it was a figth to keep the freq. SWR on 80 was not the best so we spend more time on 160. Where were the JA's on the high bands? Thank you so much for the qso's and see you all next year. 73 de OZ3RIN CW TEAM OZ1FJB & OZ1ETA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7BQ Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 68,607 As usual good contest and lots of stations, missed VK and ZL. Rig IC746 and a 9 meters high top-loaded vertical in a 10 x 10 meters garden! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ8AE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 847,300 Hope all of You enjoyed the contest as much as I did. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40A Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,471,138 This was a fun five week vacation in Aruba. After doing some antenna and house work, I did the usual tourist things such as riding ATVs, snorkeling, shopping, going to the beach and dining out with my wife. It was also nice to visit fellow contesters W2GD / P40W and AE6Y / P49Y. The CQWW contests are major events where the best operators compete. The CW contest in particular really attracts the most talented operators in the world. I am happy that I was able to participate in both modes. I operated QRP for this contest and I was able to run stations for nearly the entire period, which is not bad for the bottom of the solar cycle. I had so much fun running stations that I spent too little time chasing multipliers. My 10m openings were very limited, however conditions were great on the other bands, especially 40m. I worked only one station on all six bands - HC8N. I did work a number of stations on four and five bands. I had a great time in the contest and it was the perfect way to end my vacation. A description and picture of my antennas are on http://www.qrz.com/p40a . I would like to thank everyone for the QSOs. Please QSL via WD9DZV. 73, John KK9A / P40A p40a@iguanavilla.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 11,041,688 Callsign: P40T Contest: CQ-WW Category: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CW Operators: N6AA -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 199 0 0 0 199 3.0 0100 0 0 204 0 0 0 204 3.1 0200 0 0 211 0 0 0 211 3.2 0300 0 0 192 0 0 0 192 2.9 0400 0 37 111 0 0 0 148 2.3 0500 0 158 0 0 0 0 158 2.4 0600 56 109 0 0 0 0 165 2.5 0700 88 48 0 2 0 0 138 2.1 0800 0 113 0 0 0 0 113 1.7 0900 25 6 42 1 0 0 74 1.1 1000 0 19 33 41 0 0 93 1.4 1100 0 0 0 154 0 0 154 2.4 1200 0 0 0 11 189 0 200 3.1 1300 0 0 0 0 185 0 185 2.8 1400 0 0 0 0 155 0 155 2.4 1500 0 0 0 0 105 46 151 2.3 1600 0 0 0 0 136 4 140 2.1 1700 0 0 0 83 63 3 149 2.3 1800 0 0 0 196 0 0 196 3.0 1900 0 0 0 196 0 0 196 3.0 2000 0 0 0 52 142 0 194 3.0 2100 0 0 0 1 181 0 182 2.8 2200 0 0 0 103 39 0 142 2.2 2300 0 0 0 85 3 0 88 1.3 0000 16 0 100 0 0 0 116 1.8 0100 75 0 0 0 0 0 75 1.1 0200 0 0 140 0 0 0 140 2.1 0300 0 0 96 2 0 0 98 1.5 0400 0 0 99 5 0 0 104 1.6 0500 1 1 108 0 0 0 110 1.7 0600 0 3 53 0 0 0 56 0.9 0700 0 4 95 0 0 0 99 1.5 0800 2 1 84 0 0 0 87 1.3 0900 0 0 20 2 0 0 22 0.3 1000 0 0 69 0 0 0 69 1.1 1100 0 0 5 81 0 0 86 1.3 1200 0 0 0 132 0 0 132 2.0 1300 0 0 0 10 95 0 105 1.6 1400 0 0 0 0 112 31 143 2.2 1500 0 0 0 0 0 223 223 3.4 1600 0 0 0 1 0 125 126 1.9 1700 0 0 0 1 153 6 160 2.5 1800 0 0 0 0 50 44 94 1.4 1900 0 0 1 2 70 6 79 1.2 2000 0 0 0 85 17 0 102 1.6 2100 0 0 0 134 13 0 147 2.3 2200 0 0 0 36 65 0 101 1.5 2300 6 1 2 62 1 0 72 1.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 269 500 1864 1478 1774 488 6373 Gross QSO's=6527 Dupes=154 Net QSO's=6373 Unique callsigns worked = 4049 The best 60 minute rate was 227/hour from 1457 to 1556 The best 30 minute rate was 244/hour from 1508 to 1537 The best 10 minute rate was 264/hour from 1518 to 1527 The best 1 minute rates were: 6 QSO's/minute 6 times. 5 QSO's/minute 129 times. 4 QSO's/minute 450 times. 3 QSO's/minute 710 times. 2 QSO's/minute 654 times. 1 QSO's/minute 454 times. There were 84 bandchanges and 13 probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 14 4 2719 5 2372 6 1228 7 18 8 14 9 8 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 05 108 121 408 379 401 246 1663 25.5 04 69 99 366 308 295 152 1289 19.7 14 25 83 248 187 375 20 938 14.4 15 13 67 268 174 312 22 856 13.1 03 20 51 169 140 181 14 575 8.8 16 4 31 191 118 105 1 450 6.9 25 0 7 66 54 7 0 134 2.1 20 0 3 44 11 31 0 89 1.4 08 12 12 14 17 9 12 76 1.2 17 0 0 26 18 0 0 44 0.7 09 6 5 6 8 7 5 37 0.6 13 0 1 4 7 11 4 27 0.4 33 3 2 7 10 2 0 24 0.4 11 2 1 5 10 5 1 24 0.4 06 0 3 6 6 3 2 20 0.3 35 2 3 3 2 3 3 16 0.2 07 3 1 4 2 4 1 15 0.2 32 0 4 3 2 2 0 11 0.2 02 1 1 1 2 2 1 8 0.1 18 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 0.1 21 0 0 5 1 1 0 7 0.1 30 0 0 2 5 0 0 7 0.1 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.1 22 0 0 2 2 1 0 5 0.1 34 0 0 2 1 2 0 5 0.1 31 0 1 2 0 2 0 5 0.1 01 0 3 1 0 0 0 4 0.1 12 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.1 28 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 0.1 38 0 0 0 0 3 1 4 0.1 40 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.1 37 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.0 19 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.0 26 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.0 27 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.0 36 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 39 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 24 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 269 500 1864 1478 1774 488 6373 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 2734 2 bands 709 3 bands 333 4 bands 175 5 bands 66 6 bands 32 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: K1IR W1TO W3BGN N4TZ W3LPL KV8Q K3ZO K2BA N3RS VE2TZT N1UR K3LR VE1RGB K2QMF NY4A K1TTT WA1S N5AU KB1H N5AW K5GO OM0M N2KPB NQ4I W2PV N6RO W2FU W2YC HC8N KC4D 8P5A TZ5A ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 112 182 914 598 824 104 Planned to do a 2-radio effort, but second radio lost sensitivity, and somehow my audio set-up always had both radios coming out of both headphones. Did make two real second radio QSOs, HC8N and KC1XX on 20. FT-1000MP Mk-V Alpha 76A TR-Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 12,244,382 Rig: IC756ProIII, Alpha 87A Ants: 160M vertical dipole, 160M Inverted V, 3el 80M wire beam (EU), Inverted V 4 ele 40M wire beam (EU), 2 el 40M wire beam (US/AS), F12 C4 Force 12 4 el 20M yagi, Cushcraft 4 el 15M yagi, Force 12 5 el 10M yagi, C4 RX - beverages NE, NW, E/W, N/S. CQWW is the BIG SHOW, the ultimate test of operator skill, stamina, propagation knowledge, planning, and execution. The level of competition is like no other contest. I am thankful to have participated in this great event once again, and hope all of you had as much fun as I did. Learned a week before the contest that I'd be sharing the SOAB HP catagory with P40T (N6AA@P43P) and P49Y (AE6Y). For one small island country this is alot of RF from three stations who likely will be in the top ten world list. Talk about competition just from your own country! Arrived Tuesday to find just minor antenna problems, a broken beverage and a bad splice on a rotor cable. Wasn't so lucky with my Titan amp. power supply, the surge relay in the primary wouldn't close. Very special thanks to Emily, P43E, for offering me the loan of her amplifier at the last minute. Unfortunately I don't have time to write a full blow by blow description of the action, but here are some highlights and lowlights: Before the contest, working 5A7A and TZ6 on 160M barefoot. Being called by VK9AA and 9N7JO for double mults on 40M during the last hour. Catching what was probably the best opening to EU on 10M Sunday morning adding 43 EU contacts to the log (Last year I didn't work a single EU stn on 10M during either WW weekend). Five 200+ hours, 10 hours over 175/hour. Rate meter over 400 at times. Quiet low band conditions, especially on the first night. Breaking the 1000 qso total level on 80M for the first time. The 3el wire beam to EU is really working. Keeping my butt in the chair....there was no room for error by oversleeping this year. Responses to CQs by many difficult to work Asian mults on all bands. Operating in the less crowded upper portion of the bands seemed to work well. Succesfully sharing 160M with P49Y - we are just 1 mile apart and use a gentlemen's agreement to time share the band. TNX Andy! Keeping the rate steady most of the contest (avoiding the dreaded DXing syndrome), knowing full well N6AA/P40T was out there cranking along after nearly a week of practicing his running techniques. Had an 80% success rate when asking stations to QSY to other bands. TNX to all who were willing to move to one or more bands. Enjoyed the company of N6AA and AE6Y for Thanksgiving Dinner (pasta at Don Carlos) and the traditionial after-contest get together (at Tony Romas) - no Dick, we aren't crazy to go out for dinner immediately after 48 hours of battle! Only one equipment failure, the C4 rotator stuck NW all day Sunday. A 30 minute power disruption (blown fuse in 220 line to amp) Saturday had little impact. Left too many double multipliers on the table (missed bigs stns. like 5A, TZ, ZS, and a multitude of other easy ones on several bands - the downside to S01R). Congratulations to CT1BOH for his continued excellence, N2NT for breaking the NA record, and to everyone esle who ventured beyond their home country borders to make available so many great multipliers for the rest of us to work. Special thanks to my Aruban hosts Humphrey and Corrie, to NO2R and other members of the Frankford Radio Club for their assistance diagnosing my amplifier problem, and to all of you who had fun last weekend and made it into my log. CU from P40W for ARRL DX CW in February. 73, John W2GD BREAKDOWN QSO/mults P40W CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST CW Single Operator HP HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... ..... 221/38 ..... ..... ..... 221/38 221/38 1 . . 190/10 . . . 190/10 411/48 2 136/37 . 3/1 . . . 139/38 550/86 3 6/1 163/42 . . . . 169/43 719/129 4 127/12 26/5 . . . . 153/17 872/146 5 13/4 127/6 . . . . 140/10 1012/156 6 22/2 123/1 . . . . 145/3 1157/159 7 2/2 77/16 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 83/26 1240/185 8 8/3 32/5 57/10 4/7 ..... ..... 101/25 1341/210 9 8/3 23/8 37/9 1/2 . . 69/22 1410/232 10 14/1 76/6 7/5 . . . 97/12 1507/244 11 . 1/1 55/8 44/32 1/2 1/2 102/45 1609/289 12 . . . 99/13 112/36 . 211/49 1820/338 13 . . . . 174/24 . 174/24 1994/362 14 . . . . 192/12 . 192/12 2186/374 15 . . . . 80/3 113/16 193/19 2379/393 16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 223/5 ..... 223/5 2602/398 17 . 1/1 . 1/1 199/10 1/2 202/14 2804/412 18 . . . 32/5 112/6 13/1 157/12 2961/424 19 . . . 231/11 . . 231/11 3192/435 20 . . . 190/8 1/2 . 191/10 3383/445 21 . . . 100/0 69/3 . 169/3 3552/448 22 . . . 149/3 10/0 1/1 160/4 3712/452 23 . . 51/6 17/15 . . 68/21 3780/473 0 ..... ..... 175/8 ..... ..... ..... 175/8 3955/481 1 . 84/9 62/3 . . . 146/12 4101/493 2 5/5 80/0 . . . . 85/5 4186/498 3 19/2 37/0 44/1 . . . 100/3 4286/501 4 . 129/1 2/0 . . . 131/1 4417/502 5 . 24/0 72/0 . . . 96/0 4513/502 6 . . 130/3 . . . 130/3 4643/505 7 . 3/2 37/8 1/2 . . 41/12 4684/517 8 2/1 2/2 42/2 ..... ..... ..... 46/5 4730/522 9 . . . . . . . 4730/522 10 . 14/2 . . . . 14/2 4744/524 11 . 12/0 46/4 3/2 2/1 1/1 64/8 4808/532 12 . . . 142/8 . . 142/8 4950/540 13 . . . 34/3 83/4 . 117/7 5067/547 14 . . . . 56/0 94/17 150/17 5217/564 15 . . . . . 189/11 189/11 5406/575 16 ..... 1/1 3/3 4/3 4/4 111/9 123/20 5529/595 17 . . . 3/3 105/6 7/7 115/16 5644/611 18 . . . 2/1 150/3 4/1 156/5 5800/616 19 . . . 104/7 2/0 1/1 107/8 5907/624 20 . . . 141/4 1/1 . 142/5 6049/629 21 . . . 158/2 1/2 . 159/4 6208/633 22 . . 1/0 135/0 . . 136/0 6344/633 23 10/0 6/1 104/7 . . . 120/8 6464/641 DAY1 336/65 649/91 622/89 869/99 1174/105 130/24 ..... 3780/473 DAY2 36/8 392/18 718/39 727/35 404/21 407/47 . 2684/168 TOT 372/73 1041/109 1340/128 1596/134 1578/126 537/71 . 6464/641 P40W CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator 26 Nov 2006 2359z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 295 577 690 1162 890 464 4078 61.8 South America CW 11 11 12 35 38 30 137 2.1 Europe CW 66 438 619 301 652 43 2119 32.1 Asia CW 1 17 42 96 12 0 168 2.5 Africa CW 5 6 6 17 15 9 58 0.9 Oceania CW 0 7 7 18 6 0 38 0.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,044,685 This trip was completely unplanned. For the last two years, my station co-owner John, W6LD, has operated this contest as a multi-single, P40L (setting a SA MS record last year). He couldn’t make it this time, and due to some last-minute scheduling changes, I was able to make a very quick trip, arriving on Thursday and leaving on Tuesday. With the help of P43A, P43L, P43RC and W2GD, the antennas had been beaten into shape last month for CQWW SSB, the Alpha 87A had been replaced, and it seemed that everything was in order for a short trip that would actually feature operating, not station maintenance (though I don’t recommend flying all night two days before the contest). This was my first ever CQWW CW, and, wow, was it a learning experience! There were three of us in AB HP on Aruba, and I got taught some real contesting lessons by two of the best, both prior winners: Dick Norton, N6AA, operating as P40T at Jackie’s, P43P, and John Crovelli, W2GD, P40W. The three of us were at roughly comparable stations within about four miles of each other, and the two of them outscored me by a combined 5 million points! In talking to them afterwards, and comparing rate sheets, it was clear that the major edge they had was the ability to take advantage of high-rate opportunities on the first day. Thus, each of them had about 900 more QSOs than I did on the first day, but only about 100 more on the second day. I probably spent too much time looking for mults, as I had about the same number as Dick, even though he had 1000 more QSOs. But mainly, I just have to get better at the art of picking whole calls out of the packet pileups and responding quickly. Regardless, it was a terrific experience. As usual on Aruba, even on a short trip there is the bonus of having fun with very friendly people, including Jean-Pierre, P43A; Chris, P43C; Emily, P43E; Jackie, P43P, Joop, P43JB; John, KK9A, P40A; John, W2GD, P40W;Dick, N6AA, P40T. Equipment: Radios: Two IC-756 PRO 2s, Alpha 87A, Alpha 86 Antennas: Force 12 4 el 10/15/20, 2 el 40, C31XR; inv vees for 80, 160; 3 beverages Software: CQPWIN, ver. 10.5 73 and thanks to all who participated, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA0CLN Class: SOSB(A)/160 LP Total Score = 73,950 Lots of multipliers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 57,528 Had 2 important non radio activities during daylight so decided to go fer a single band activity. (40m). Just a simple 2x9 dipole only 4m up had to do the job. Best surprise suddenly hearing 9M2CNC close to 7100 es being hrd on 1st call. cu in 2007 Harry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA4A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,052,736 Rig : FT1000D + 400W PA Antennas : 160 In V ; 80 In V ; 40 rotary trap dipole ; 20 , 15 and 10 FB23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA7FA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 229,824 First Time, nice experience!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 20,694,848 K4BAI, K1TO and N4TO reunited for a M/S after operating together in Barbados as 8P9Z in 1999. Noah, K2NG has assembled a fine station on Bonaire which minimized the set-up time required from us. The QTH is in the shadow of cellular and paging towers on a hilltop. Thanks also to multiple-time visitor Jeff, KU8E for his assistance in preparing for the trip and to Geoff, W0CG/PJ2T for assistance in licensing over on Curacao. The group that operated PJ4E for CQWW SSB left the place in pristine condition - thanks, guys. Conditions exceeded our expectations, especially since we thought that the same solar event that wiped out the bands on Sunday of CQWW SSB would come back 27 days later and wipe out Saturday for CQWW CW. As a result, we had a lot of fun on all of the bands, including a brief 10M opening to Europe. KeyerS were about the biggest issue we had, as we had failures to 2 of them. There were numerous other small issues, but who expects an expedition to go perfectly anyway?! We very much enjoyed the island's sights and cuisine and encourage you all to visit. Bonaire can be reached directly by jet from non-USA QTHs and is also a popular cruise ship destination, as we found out during our frequent visits to open-air City Restaurant on the waterfront. We took an 8-seater Divi Divi flight over from Curacao. N4TO was particularly enamored with the Harley-Davidson shop. Thanks for all the Qs! 73, Dan, K1TO on behalf of John, K4BAI and Vic, N4TO P.S. The FCG will get 2/3 of the score and the SECC the other 1/3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB(A)/80 LP Total Score = 26,820 IC-706 MKII - 100W DIPOLE ANTENNA@8M up. N1MM SOFTWARE. Tnx fer Qsos and New one 5A7A :)!!!!! 73s Ira. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 13,966,520 Thanks Mr. Oms for another chance to operate his great station at Araraquara. The contest was going very well until a very strong storm in them left without energy 5 hours before the end of the competition (19:00Z).... probably we break 7000 QSOs barrier... A lot of QRN on low bands due to bad weather. See you next year.... PS2T - Araucária DX Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT3T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,230,597 Manager PY3FOX 73, be prepared ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 124,542 Club/Team : Uirapuru DX Club Software: N1MM Logger V6.3.11 Rig: Yaesu FT-920 Antena: Single Wire Dipole 7 meters over the floor... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1NB Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 389,727 Rig: FT920 Ant: KT34XA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,235,248 WW share men and boys (I am in the second category)... Six years after my last All Band effort, I felt like a trash hi hi... No more health to be on more than 36/35 hours hi hi... Was amazing, anyway, and the big surprise, for me, was 4 countries on 160m plus all those mults on 80m, using my original setup with no amplifier, like year 2000. Best 73 and see you soon... Vitor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY5KD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 661,760 This was my first CQWW-CW ever. Lot's of fun. Thank's to all who answered my qrs cq. Thanks also to Mr Oms PY5EG for let me use his FB station. CU next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PZ5ZY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 11,469,330 Dupes have been removed from the QSO totals above. It's always interesting to see how the ol' body reacts to sleep deprivation. I decided to operate for as long as I could and then decide what to do to deal with the problem. After pretty much stayed in the chair for the first 26 hours, I started to feel so badly that the accuracy and score would certainly suffer during the second day if I didn't get some sleep. So at 11PM local time, I set the alarm for 3AM. I woke up at 2:30AM on my own, feeling pretty decent. Back to the fray! Two hours later, something happened to the receiver audio in my TS-850. After talking to the radio in terms that became less and less congenial, I replaced it with Ramon's FT-920. I've never used a 920 before, but noticed that when I called CQ, stations would answer, so it was probably OK. Therefore, 43.5 hours in the chair. A great pleasure to see the clock hit 0000Z Sunday evening! During each of the two afternoons before the contest, the QRN from developing thunderstorms would make 15 and 10 meters useless for a couple of hours, until it actually started raining. I figured that would probably happen during the contest as well....but it didn't! We just got your typical tropical downpour each afternoon with no noisy prelude. Also, there was a 2-hour power failure in the area just one house away, but not at the PZ5RA QTH...what good fortune! The setup... Transceivers: TS-850/FT-920 - no SO2R Amp: Acom 2000 @ 1000 watts (That's the legal limit in PZ, plus I'd rather run 1000 watts for an entire contest than push for more and run the risk of amp failure during the event) Antennas: Some kind of 7-element Mosley for 10-40 @ 50 feet, Inverted vee for 80, some kind of Alpha-Delta shortened antenna for 160. No separate receiving antenna. TRLog on an aging IBM Powerbook...the F1 key sticks on it. I wonder why? Stat highlights: 3 clock hours of over 200 QSOs, the best being 231 during the 18Z hour the first day. I was amazed at how productive 15 was; I really had to drag myself away from the band, with attention to 20 probably suffering as a result. Openings on 10 to multiplier-rich Europe were marginal, but nearly 200 of them made their way into the log. 80 and 160 were challenging....my ears probably lost yet another 2 db. from the static. Overall, ~2800 US QSOs & ~2500 Eu QSOs with some 700 Qs from the rest of the world. Thanks to Ramon and his XYL for keeping me supplied with food and drink during the 'test. 73 - Phil, N6ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,746,000 Congrats to OM8A and others M/S. Bad propagation in north-eastern EU, but nice contest as always. A lot of fun of 160m carribeans, nice NA opening sunday 12z on 40m but shortly. East coast was SP and West Coast was LP. Only 503 USA on all bands :-( IC-756, 2xIC-756PRO2, IC-775DSP, FT-1000MP, TS-950SDX 26 ANTENNAS, 5 PA'S, 7 PC'S, 8 MONITORS, 12 OPERATORS, BUT ONLY 2 SLEEP PLACE TNX all for QSO's! 73! Max www.rk3awl.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU1A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,640,720 160 80 40 20 15 JA | AS | 18 | 50 | 183 | 125 | 13 | | 389 K | NA | 120 | 186 | 279 | 393 | 85 | | 1063 VE | NA | 9 | 13 | 15 | 29 | 2 | | 68 Both CQ WW SSB/CW was a disappointment this year because of the bad propagation. After the successful last year's WW CW (First Place EU M/2) we decided to improve our setup. This time that was a 40 meters project. We build a monster 4 element, 24 meters boom yagi and H-type stacked four of them fixed to US. The top two are rotatable thought. This is a copy of our 20m and 10m stacks, which played perfectly. We spended every weekend in the entire Summer finishing the job. The Antenna came out perfect. The difference between a single four element antenna in regular (no Aurora) propagation is 1-2 S-units! (for more details go to: http://ru1a.ru/new/rus/photoalbum.php?antennas/40m_4x4y/ ) 160: The major improvement althought was to cross the 100 countrys and 30 zones line on the Top Band. UA1ARX's unique operating skills gave us a boost in 160m band performance. 80: Alex, RU1AA is a very good and trained operator, who specializing in EME Q's, took an 80m band and for the first time in his life worked 38 zones, with a 99% chance forking all 40 of them! We heard 5H3EE and Zone 6 (Mexico) and even tried to work them, but unfortunately the propagation was not on our side this year. We worked a small amount of US stations with three element wire-yagi... 40: Our 40m antenna helped us work US during the daytime via the short path, but the technical problems with the receiving did not gave us a chance to use this antenna in full potential. 15: We worked only 13 JA's for the entire contest on 15 mtrs! Being so close to the East and having such a good antennas for this band didn't help at all! 10: As usual 10 meters gave us a chance to work a few mults from the Carribean, but we didn't worked a single State Side station... Congrats to the EA6IB and IR4X with their fantastic results and thanks for the competition! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU3VD Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 150,750 Radio: Icom IC-7k, Ant: 3 el. Yagi @ 13 m., Soft: PocketPC Logger. 73! Alexey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,863,280 This time Murphy hit few hours before the contest to one rotor and 80m antenna.. Condx here worse than last year.. 73, Tine Brajnik, S50A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50B Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 139,629 RIG: IC-756PRO3 ANT: LOOP, DIPOL, 1 X BEVERIGE 180M NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50U Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 249,184 No serious contesting for last two years but finding my self still full of motivation :-) Good conditions in spite of bad WWV numbers. Most of nice MTPLs were coming back on CQ even usually easy HC8N who had QRN problems with many EUs calling with no success both nights. With that great competition on TopBand will be hard to hit Top 6 EU as I need some W's more from Nigel and some MTPLs from Kaz run ;) Thank you all for Q and thanks 6V7D (K1XM) for calling me as my last MTPL just few moments before contest end. Log will be uploaded to LoTW ASAP but after wwcw log submission deadline. CUL Dan, S50U http://s50u.s50e.si ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51FB Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 419,332 Saturday was better then Sunday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52AW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 875,048 ANT: 5L quad at 60m RIG: FT-1000 mp mark V + PA Zone Total 2 2 3 62 4 312 5 410 6 7 7 6 8 24 9 18 10 1 11 11 12 1 13 7 14 528 15 323 16 274 17 59 18 29 19 6 20 53 21 7 22 2 23 1 24 9 25 192 26 6 27 6 28 5 29 3 30 13 31 3 32 9 33 15 34 1 35 6 36 1 37 1 38 1 40 5 73 de Karl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52OP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,600,340 Thanks for qso's! 73, Sandi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52W Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 799,524 I had a great fun, even only 20h QRV. It was my first SOAB in WW. 73 Damjan S52W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52ZW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 437,640 Continent Statistics S52ZW CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Unlimited 26 Nov 2006 2105z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 0 0 0 0 540 0 540 46.4 South America CW 0 0 0 0 37 0 37 3.2 Europe CW 0 0 0 0 395 0 395 33.9 Asia CW 0 0 0 0 158 0 158 13.6 Africa CW 0 0 0 0 21 0 21 1.8 Oceania CW 0 0 0 0 14 0 14 1.2 TS 950 SDX + 1500 W ANT 6EL YAGI @ 23m TNX FOR QSO...73 Fredi S52ZW,9A2ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 176,601 I work from my home with simple horizontal loop and IC-737.Nice condition.I hard many mults but not work,(BV,9N,A7,ZL,PY, etc), 100w is too little for eu zoo. 73 de S53F Vinko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53M Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 851,000 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % SA 0 0 30 0 0 0 30 1.3 EU 0 0 1235 0 0 0 1235 52.4 AF 0 0 23 0 0 0 23 1.0 AS 0 0 367 0 0 0 367 15.6 NA 0 0 666 0 0 0 666 28.2 OC 0 0 37 0 0 0 37 1.6 Great competition on SOSB 40m in S5. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53O Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 737,100 rx ts850+1kw,ant 4xvertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AJ Class: SOSB/80 QRP Total Score = 3,608 Only limit time due to yob obligations rtx Yaesu FT-817 5W in to Morgain 40/80m sloper dir. NW TNX K1TTT to here me HI 73,s CU Janez S57AJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 787,000 FT-1000 MKV Field Ant: 5.el.yagi @ 31m 5.el.yagi @ 17m (fix to 305) Pa: Home made 1,5 Kw Pc: IBM A31P + Writelog Please check your logs. Many stations call me twice. For example I have K3LR twice in log. They call me in different cond. I check last year UBN,NIL report and found a lot of SH5AL and SH7AL. Tnx for all QSO-s see you in next test. 73, Ivo S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,309,720 FLU COME SUNDAY EVENING. IF THAT HAPPEN JUST FEW HOURS BEFORE... GOOD CONDITIONS ON LOWER BANDS. MANY SUPER DX WORKED ON 80 M. ONE OF THE HIGHLITHS ON 80 WAS BEING CALLED BY ZS4TX. THANKS BERNIE! FUN! 73 DE SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 60,390 Linear (800W at best)was now OK, so I'm back to HP. But the condition on 28 MHz was B A D this time. No any kind of Pile-up at all. I stayed on S/P 99% of time. 3XD2Z and VP2M?? was the only DX-es I've hrd but couldn't work. Some of DX was extremly strong for short time, than fade off completly for the rest of the contest. I am talking about 10 minutes or so. VK's (exception was VK9AA) has been worked first day only. No JA's for us. USA was there, but vy vy weak. KC1XX and W3LPL style stations only. No little-pistoles pointers at all. No Russian/Ukrainian Pile-up, no decent E-Sporadic this time. A lot of serious work and patience has been put in this contest for only 276 QSO's. What to say ... See you next time! 73, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,113,660 Too many home chores during the contest! 100 Watt TS850, TH6DXX, trap dipole for 160-80-40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57UN Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 400,363 KENWOOD TS 950 SDX VERTICAL TX ANTENNA,2xBEVERAGES RX ANTENNNA 73 and see in arrl 160 de Renato S57UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S58M Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 371,966 2x 2EL quad, IC 775 DSP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S58Q Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 57,750 Good result for only 350 W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SE5E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 626,625 What a joy to be part world's biggest ionospheric experiment! It was nice to make the bands alive again. 73 de Ingo SM5AJV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SJ2W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,173,158 This a preliminary score but it is over our expections consindering how the propagations were. 40M was THE band. Thanks for all the qsos and SM2HWG's station worked great once again! http://sm2hwg.sm3wmv.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK3GW Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 118,144 After finishing third place in Sweden last year ( yes, THIRD!) I wanted to claim my revenge this year. SK6M great topband signal inspired me to try a wire four square. CQWW Phone was spent with European and World Champions Team OH2U @ OH0Z, and after that my motivation was on top. The weekend before the contest I gathered all needed parts, and with lots of help from SE3M, SM3GUE and SE3A we were able to put up four full-size wire verticals hanging from the towers. With only six hours of day light per day, we were happy to get all running in just a weekend. Unfortunately we did not have time to sort out the remaining issues such as: final tuning of radiators, radials and complete check of the comtek switch. (Borrowed from SM5AQD TNX!) When the contest started I had: Antennas tuned for 1770kHz, lots of wasted power in the dummyload, Comtek showed flat VSWR curve between 1950-2150kHz and high VSWR in the shack on 1810-1850 (broken or not properly tuned hybrid?). 7-8 radials on ground per vertical. Despite this the antenna showed pretty good F/B. To start from the end: NO, I did not break the SM record by SM0AJU @ SL0W from last year. I have 3000 points higher score, but after logg checking this will most probably be lower. The last hours was a BIG fight to keep the rate up, and with two hours left of the contest I almost gave up. But, after 9M2AX and 9N7JO called in with strong signals on their sunrise I was suddenly closer again. I also heard a couple of stations calling others, but never me: 9Y4AA, SV9, VK6, CM6YAC, TI5N, JA:s ( Did NOT work ANY JA!) and a couple more... Mistakes: A good rate on 160m is not the same as on 20m. I left my run frequency too often to look for mults. In the end I got used to the new Tentec Orions Sub reciver, for multiplier/qso search. I am used to beam JA or NA on other bands, but this new antenna for 160m was too tight on the back to let the EU:s be strong enough. Since about 90% of the QSOs comes from the south, it is preferable to be strong in that direction too. Probably took too much off time. Highlight: Help and support from friends to get the antenna ready. I now can hear the stations SK6M are working ;-) The antenna can be improved by some tuning and a proper ground plane. It was the right choice to upgrade to a Tentec Orion. I have a feeling that I was NOT so loud? Only 7 stations spotted me during the weekend. Please send recordings and comments to sm3sgp@kkn.net. 73 de Gus, SM3SGP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM0CXU Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 71,478 I had planned to do as PY2ZXU but had to do an unplanned trip to Sweden and managed to participate some hours. Biggest surprise was to get called by HC8N. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM3C Class: SOSB/80 QRP Total Score = 31,620 Rig: Yaesu FT-817, 5 watts Ant: Inverted vee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM5MX Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 25,482 Just a brief test run with my new Inv. L antenna. It seemed to work OK, so I slept well Saturday-Sunday night, for a change. 73, Rolf SM5MX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6CNN Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 265,816 Rig: TenTec Orion ACOM 2000A Lannabo vertical Great fun. I have to figure out how I can fit a 4-square for next year... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN2B Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 306,565 Congrats Nigel's score. Here 150 NA qso less but seems better with east direction. Too high aurora level does not help to us as usual in north Poland. I had ready all for effort on 20 m but with level 6 or more (from NOAA) it's suicide and I change directly before contest on top band. Many thanks for everybody who called me especially few rare mults. Kaz SP2FAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN2M Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 142,002 TRX: IC 775 ANT: INV V RX ANT: K9AY, 5 Beverages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN5J Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 89,793 FT-101-ZD, antenna - home made - Delta: http://www.sp5psl.pzk.org.pl/htm/delta_sp5psl.html 73 de Jan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP0PZK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,524,042 Rig: - FT1000MP MkV Field, PA 500W Antennas: - Inv V 1.8Mhz - Inv V 3.5Mhz and Inv V 7Mhz (common feeder) - Tribander 73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2ASJ Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 71,988 Rig.ic765 tx.ant full size delta loop up 50mrs. in vee at45m,40m vertical,and 3long wires each 162m system.Nice contest. Jurek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP3LWP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 972,704 TRX IC718 ANT 16OM - LW 80-40M - W3DZZ 20-15-10M - VERTICAL TNX ALL FOR QSO BEST 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6A Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 430,000 Cant stay longer due to healh problem , any way conditions were good and activity too. NIL from zones 1,12, 37 and 39. Using IC 756pro + gray box, antennas 2x2el Yagi, one to JA and the second one to W ,for receiving Beveridges which I,v lose during some agriculture work. Next time must hire safeguard,hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SX5R Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Total Score = 28,938 Work commitments did not allow even a one-day effort. However I had lots of fun during my 4 hour participation. Equipment used was : Kenwood TS-850SAT @ 100W 12m high vertical base loaded @ an antenna coupler Software: Writelog V10.52F EA7URC Telnet access packet cluster. Thanks for all the Qs and QSL through LotW or direct via QRZ.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SZ6P Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 333,610 WIRES....FOR EVER I used two wire antennas a WINDOM FD4 (Fritzel) and a hand made DOUBLE BAZOUKA (RG58). Both inverted Vees. I was impresed from the low noise of the Double Bazouka... The QTH was close to the sea and this was a real preveledge EQUIPMENTS AND SOFTWARE. YAESU FT897D ATU PULSTAR LINEAR 500 WATTS N1MM LOGGER (Tks Tom) CU AGN SV1BJW--Vasilis or Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T88MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,478,136 Rig: FT1000MP + VL1000 solid state amp Antenna: 10/15/20: Force 12 C3 @ ~45' on a small hill 40: Force 12 vertical 80: 8 el 6M beam (!) Logging software: WinTest v3.4.5 Not sure if I was able to outwit, outplay or outlast anyone but I can declare that I am a survivor of CQWW CW 2006 - Palau! Rewards were many: Great food, great people, great scenery, great pileups (!) Alas, I wasn't able to win total immunity and had a few obstacles to deal with: -- Flight delays meant one less day in T88 (and unplanned bonus day in KH2) -- In spite of three different 80M antennas, I couldn't get any to work. -- Daily lunch time poolside BBQs (50' away...) which weren't to be missed! -- One particular snarling 20M EU pileup. But overall things went well. All the inside equipment worked flawlessly. After initially deciding to make it a four band contest because of the lack of working 80M antennas, the second night I decided there had to be a couple "local" stations that I could throw a few watts at for at least a couple 80M mults. I switched through all my antenna choices just looking for the one that produced the most noise/signal. Of all things it happened to be the 8 el 6M beam. So I force-fed it with 800W to see what would happen - the amp didn't reject it so.... First station I called came right back, as did the second, and the third. Cool! Figured that was fun....but for kicks thought I'd try it again at sunrise. And a bunch of EU was worked. Well, you gotta do what you gotta do. No such luck, however, for 160......and I tried! The Pacific may not be the most ideal place to make a large score at this point in the sunspot cycle but I absolutely love visiting the region. While it would almost seem strange to not include one of the CQWWs in a DX trip, I may reevalute things a bit and perhaps opt for non-contest trips to some of these neato places, and try shorter trips for contests from more QSO/Mult friendly locations. Running the pileups is always a blast. But then you have to balance "workin' da boys" and prepping for the contest. One way or another, I'll see y'all next year from somewhere. Palau is a very intesting place. I hope I was able to add a little excitement to your contest effort by putting the T88 mult out there. For now, the tribe has spoken.....it's time to go and close out another fantastic CQWW event. Thanks for the QSOs! 73, Mike K9NW / T88MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93Y Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 956,862 Equipment: Transceiver: ICOM 756PRO-III + homebrew CIV interface Amplifier: Alpha 8100 Antennas: 4/4 el. YAGI 24/10m high + vertical delta loop 7m high Stacking device: T93M Desk Match Computer: DELL Inspiron 640m + WinTest v3.6.1 + WinKey v10 After Danny, T93M was active in CQ WW SSB he proposed my activity in CW part of the contest. I quickly agreed on that, with hope that there would not be any snow at his 1007m asl QTH. At the end I was able to get to the place without problems and really enjoyed nice and sunny weather which is not common at the end of November. At the same time Sarajevo was freezing inside a thick layer of fog which closed Sarajevo International Airport on Friday and which remain closed as of today (Thursday)... I arrived at the location on Friday around 1000UTC together with Senad T94CT (ex. T95LSD). We unloaded the equipment and set-up 20m position in very short time. I made some SSB QSO's to check whether everything is OK and let Senad operating while I have enjoyed a nice weather and took some pictures. Later Senad and I tuned 80m dipole to CW segment of the band so Edin, T97M, who planned to operate 80m LowPower, would need to do it after his arrival around 1700UTC. After Edin arrived, we made quick setup of his station, make sure that there is no interference between our stations and tried to get some rest before the start of the contest. I started the contest without the slightest idea what to expect. Friday afternoon I spoke with OC Timo, OH1NOA (CT8T) who, because of the so many problems at his location could not operate All Bands, also planned to operate 20m and who was thinking that it would be possible to reach 3000 QSO's and score of 1M points. I thought that is OK for Portugal which is much closer to USA and that more realistic number for Bosnia would be 2500 QSO... I have finished with 2810 QSO which is closer to 3000 than 2500 (HI) and very close to the Timo's million. I am happy with 140 countries worked but I am not happy with the fact that I missed zones 31 and 36. I have heard Kan, KH6BK sometimes deep into the EU Saturday/Sunday night but he could not hear me, while S9SS was working only USA during the last hour of the contest. I really wander what antenna he was using so he could not hear those strong EU MS/MM stations. Other multipliers not worked are DU3NXE (heard at the same time as KH6BK) and HR2DMR (could not go through USA wall on Sunday evening). The only problem for a whole weekend were two 15 minutes power cuts. During the first one on Sunday morning I let my CQ QRG and gone S&P with battery powered radio, while during the second one I kept my QRG and my 100W signal was heard all over the USA... All of the equipment used operated without a single problem during the whole weekend. Alpha 8100 is a really great piece of equipment and it was easily running at 1500W for hours. Desk Match designed by T93M is the "magic box" which allowed me to transmit a signal to different directions at the same time. Contact Danny for more details about it or check http://www.myantennas.com At the end I would like to thank Danny for letting me operate from his contest QTH which will be equipped for SOAB operation next year. Thanks to everybody who called during the weekend and gave this operator enough positive energy so he does not need to switch radio for days after the contest :-) QSL is OK via the bureau or via QRZ.COM address. Picture gallery is available at: http://www.t93y.com/slike/default-eng.asp?gallery=cqww2006cw&title=T93Y_CQ_WW_CW_2006_SO_20m 73's Boris T93Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T97M Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 247,103 Rig : TS 850 S, Antenna : Dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2RC Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 74,350 Hello Since 2001,but never used CW up to March 2006.After some succesful SSB scores (I am current SSB LP 160 CQ WW and CQ WPX world record holder with YM0T contest location) I decided to start CW contesting at my home QTH.It was my first experience and a very good score for me:)Equipment was simple:A TURTLE operator,no CW software,an inverted L and 4 surface radials without a receiving system:) Enjoyed the CW contesting and will try to hold CW 160 LP CQWW and CQ WPX world records next time. Congrats to VP9I.And thanks to eveyone who give me a call with slow rate WPM. 73 TA2RC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,311,193 We used WinTest for the first time and we are very pleased with the software. The Aurora danced overhead and to the south of us during the entire contest. The first 9 hours brought only 134 QSO's, but things picked up occasionally for short periods when a corner of the Auroral blanket lifted. We had some marvelous runs to the US with signals barely audible, but easily workable. Magic. Considering the poor conditions, we are pleased with the final score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,855,664 Great time at TI5N QTH. We had much wind prior to the start of the contest and the resultant line noise on the lower frequencies hindered much of our early efforts. We had a total of 4 people man 2 rigs for the entire 48 hour period. Thanks to all who contacted TI5N. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,580,113 A very windy week-end: we lost the 20m monoband beam @ 24m the first minute of the contest, so the spare triband 3 elements @ 9m do the job for the 48 hours. This explains our poor performance on the 20m band. Too dangerous to climb the tower with such a wind to repare. During the first night the K9AY RX antenna was also broken but quickly fixed in the morning. Despite this the team motivation was kept until the end. A fun contest anyway. QSL via F6BEE, 73 and thanks to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM4Q Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,098,076 Forecast condx were terrible first night. Due to heavy wind we coul'nt turn the 3 elt 40 m yagi. We lost time to repair this antenna on saturday morning, then we lost the XP 807 and repaired it. Both had connections failures due to the windy time. Then everythings was under control except propagation on the upper bands! The team was great and we had a lot of fun during the contest. Probably, TM4Q is the only team, all over the world, to eat stew deer and jugged hare for diner ! For sure we have lost some points ! I really thanks F5MYK who spent 6 months onboard large boat and left P.R.C. 15 days before contest time and push hard boat's engines to be on time at the station ! We allready planed some ideas for next year and we should be back, more stronger. But even it remains a hard job to be in the european top ten we expect to do it. But nobody knows when ! Thanks to all of you for points. TM4Q Team. We worked with : 3 FT 1000 MP MV, 1 TS 850, 1 Commnder HF 2500E, 2 OM 2500, 1 SB 220, XP 807 (14-21-28) up 20 m, 3 EL KLM 40 M up 23 m, 1 KT 34 up 15 m, Sloppers and dipoles on 80, Shunt feed on top band, R5 GP, K9AY and Beverages as receiving ant. Software was WINTEST. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM7XX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 677,450 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : TM7XX Mode : CW Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 20 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : 14 Locator : IN78RJ Operating time : 24h47 BAND QSO DUP DXC CQ POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 20 1980 60 134 36 3985 2.01 15 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 1980 60 134 36 3985 2.01 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 677 450 Operator : F5MUX Antennas : 6el 20m Dxbeam @ 26m + KT36XA @ 12m Rig : Ts-850sat Amplifier : Homebrew by F5TTU Soapbox : Wind, rain, sometimes the storm and a catastrophic propagation on 20m... Big thanks to Xavier F5TTU & F6KHM gang for lending me this super station. 73, Lee F5MUX Powered by Win-Test 2.32.1 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TO5X Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,980,040 What a great contest and effort by all my team mates. Didn't have as many countries or zones as I usually do. There was a problem with a port conflict on the laptop and I was forced to make a decision to use either cw keying or vfo controll - I went with the cw keying and and had to forego the ability to be agile and chase multipliers. This will be definatelly be resolved by next year as the dxcc count and lack of multipliers really hurt my final score. Laurent's station operated flawlessly. Enjoyed being on the other side and my apologies to all the stations I didn't get a chance to pull out of the pileups - wish I could have worked you and stayed awake longer :-) See everyone next year from C91. /lee - k5un/to5x ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TZ5A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 40,923,498 We had a great experience this year once again from Mali. Only 1 major glitch occurred. We discovered upon getting our equipment out of storage that a significant amount of coax and rotor cable had been "lost". This included all our coaxial stub filters. John, G4IRN, had not left the UK so he was able to acquire 300 meters of RG8X to bring with him and we acquired some 3 conductor cable in Bamako which we doubled up to make the 6 conductor runs needed. All the equipment, amps etc worked just fine. The K2/100's and Alpha amps (76's and 78's) were used for each station. Our mults totals were the best ever and for the first time we recorded 5 band DXCC mainly because we put up a dipole along with the vertical on 80m and it made a huge difference. It was great to have some good 10m activity. We felt we squeezed as much productivity out of our field day style setup as possible. Fantastic job by the HC8N and 5A7A groups too. Good competition and good fun. The Voodudes plan to move to another West African nation in 2007. Plans are already underway but it is too early to make any announcements. Thanks for all the QSO's. 73, TZ5A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA4FER Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,975,128 RIG:2xFT1000MP, SO2R-master, W3NQN-BPF, C31XR/ 3 feedlines, 2el40, dipoles80,160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA6LV Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 862,718 My congrats to K3LR-team - great score! Especially 40/158 on 40 m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9AYA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 656,564 What GREAT CONTEST is that CQWW CW! It certainly is one of those things that makes life so wonderful and exciting. This time I was going after Asian 40m LP record, but just missed it. My congratulations to all new record makers, but very special one goes to my good old friend Nick - UN4L for his amazing 80m LP score of 470k from his new location on shores of river of Tobol. 73's & GL, Willy UA9BA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UN7PCZ Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 419,855 Ant. : 2 GP phazing. TRX : JST-135 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT1IA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 25,571 73 Vladimir UT1IA http://www.qsl.net/ut1ia/ ------------------------------ "Contesting is fun !" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU7J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 13,478,870 Sincere congrats to the EA6IB for an outstanding showing! Special thanks to our friends from RU1A for the competition. Happy Holidays from the UU7J team. Very 73! Vlad UU5MAF http://www.uu7j.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V26K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,043,526 This was my eleventh trip to the Caribbean for CQ WW CW and ninth visit to the V26B super station. I would like to thank WT3Q, N3OC, V21N and Team Antigua for helping to make this effort possible. The status of the station was unclear this year. While the V26B gang did their normal upkeep of the station prior to SSB contest, additional work was done after they left. I got a report from N3OC that the status of the 20M stack was unknown and that the 15M rotor box had failed. To make matters worse, the station owner, V21N, suffered a broken hip and heart attack shortly after the SSB contest and had to be evacuated to Florida. Fortunately, V21N is on the road to recovery and doing well. The station also was in great shape when I got there and worked flawlessly through the contest. This was the first year ever that I beat my QSO, multiplier and score goals as shown below. Goal Goal Actual Actual Delta Delta Band QSOS Mults QSOS Mults QSOS Mults 160 224 50 235 44 11 (6) 80 624 93 679 90 55 (3) 40 1556 131 1777 120 221 (11) 20 1219 118 1101 115 (118) (3) 15 1620 124 1704 119 84 (5) 10 348 35 376 66 18 31 Total 5601 551 5872 554 271 3 Score Score Score Goal Actual Delta 7,700,000 8,043,526 343,526 I also establish what I call scenario goals. There are three scenarios from Zone 8 - run 3 point QSOs (mostly Europe), hunt for multipliers, and run 2 point QSOs (NA & CA). These goals help me manage my operating time allocations. The following is a comparison of my operating scenario goals vs. actuals: Goal Actual Delta Run 3 Pt 27 28.2 1.2 hours Hunt 5 2.2 (2.8) hours Run 2 Pt 11 11.7 0.7 hours Total 43 42.1 (0.9) hours I operated the contest differently than I had originally planned. The change in plans was driven by my anticipation that high band conditions were not going to be good to Europe, due to the G1 disturbance in the hours just prior to the contest. I therefore felt that I would need to place greater emphasis on NA (Run 2 Pt) than I have in years past. I also decided to limit my hunting to short periods of time, generally on the order of 10 to 15 minutes. (In years past I hunted in 30 to 45 minute blocks.) I think both decisions were good calls. The above scenario time allocations produced the following results: QSOs/ Mults/ Points/ Scenario QSOs Mults Hr Hr Hr Run 3 Pt 4082 395 145 14 203751 Hunt 51 63 24 30 428823 Run 2 Pt 1739 96 148 8 119267 It interesting to me that the Run 3 Pt rate was not much different than the Run 2 Pt rate. I also note the impact of hunting in short durations resulted in much better points / hour rates in this scenario than I have seen in past years. I thought that conditions were better during the second half of the contest. The European sunrise on Sunday produced some interesting and much needed multipliers on 160M. I think the most exciting event was a brief and intense 10M opening to Europe at 1320z on Sunday. The opening only lasted about 20 minutes, but produced 74 QSOs and 26 multipliers. I was really lucky to have caught it. I work all dupes and I got plenty of opportunity this year! I logged 164 duplicates, which means that at least one full hour of operating time was wasted. It is particularly frustrating to note that several stations duped me multiple times. I sign my call after every QSO, so I am not sure why I enjoy so many dupes. Thanks for all the QSOs. I will go again in 2007. QSL via AA3B. 73 Bud V26K / AA3B Here are other breakdowns and information: Hr 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 00Z 166/41 166/41 166/41 01Z 179/13 179/13 345/54 02Z 187/11 187/11 532/65 03Z 173/5 173/5 705/70 04Z 131/37 18/0 149/37 854/107 05Z 151/15 151/15 1005/122 06Z 93/16 2/0 27/2 122/18 1127/140 07Z 47/2 95/5 142/7 1269/147 08Z 1/0 54/2 55/2 1324/149 32 09Z 0/0 1324/149 60 10Z 73/9 7/13 80/22 1404/171 17 11Z 34/2 93/25 18/16 145/43 1549/214 12Z 192/34 192/34 1741/248 13Z 161/19 1/2 162/21 1903/269 14Z 165/4 165/4 2068/273 15Z 115/2 21/3 136/5 2204/278 16Z 66/13 84/5 150/18 2354/296 17Z 2/2 1/1 76/17 4/5 14/12 97/37 2451/333 18Z 1/1 137/7 1/2 139/10 2590/343 19Z 186/4 186/4 2776/347 20Z 4/5 141/3 145/8 2921/355 21Z 112/4 4/6 1/2 117/12 3038/367 22Z 143/3 143/3 3181/370 23Z 129/2 129/2 3310/372 00Z 3/0 55/6 1/2 3/3 62/11 3372/383 01Z 1/2 1/2 2/4 3374/387 59 02Z 3/0 3/0 3377/387 59 03Z 118/16 118/16 3495/403 04Z 148/8 148/8 3643/411 05Z 45/13 25/4 70/17 3713/428