CQWW SSB Soapbox built 1-29-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3V6T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 27,249,210 We used new hardware this time, some new antennas, and new towers too. All other things went the same as before. Small problems with electricity, networking, but the rest performed excellent. The team has grown up this time by comming to visit us Dima and his wife Oxana. Greetings to all thet we have made qso with, with hopes to see You all next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W9JR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 871,920 Just part time participation. Good opening on 15/10M. But only 2 stations from U.S. I still dont have low bands antenna system. See you in CW part. I hope can make some points on 80/40M too. Running: FT-100MPMKV Field + ACOM 2000A / N1MM Logger and LPD Antenna 73s Stan 3W9JR/OK1JR/NT3I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0ABC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 659,880 To start with I thoroughly enjoyed this contest. Initially was planning to be on SOSB 80m but couldn’t finish tower erection so maybe for WPX? First time SOSB and this was real experience for me. Looking back easily could do about 300+ QSOs more (nothing to say about few more zones especially from Africa I had no luck with and countries) have had planned everything better strategy wise. Propagation first day was better than second, looks K 4 did its job... was hoping to work more stations from NA… European QRM was as it was expected extremely high and no surprises there, I guess I am not alone… Thanks to everyone I worked with and really sorry for those few stations I couldn’t finish QSOs due to high QRM. Equipment used: 3el40m full size from M2 at 22m Acom 2000A CU in WPX contest 73 Gia 4L0ABC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4M5R Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 421,498 In the beginning of the Contest, our rotor antenna that I used was broken and no chance to turn... The antenna was stay beaming to USA... no way to turn onto Europe or any direction... Hope better on next year... CU on the next one... 4M5R (YV5TX OP) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4N6FZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 208,458 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : 4N6FZ Mode : PHONE Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 40 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : 15 BAND QSO DUP DXC CQ POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 1263 11 90 21 1878 1.49 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 1263 11 90 21 1878 1.49 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 208 458 Operators : DD5FZ (4N6FZ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 864,621 FT890AT, dipole with balanced feedline, 15m: 2ele loop It was more to have some fun and give the multi to some of you. Therefore I was able to take the long power cuts easy. With 100W and dipole antennas from home its been very difficult on the low bands. See you all in CW from the 5I3A location, then with a little better antennas and a serious try for a good score. 73 Mike, 5H3EE/DL4SM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1RY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,172,070 I had S9+ plus line noise on Saturday and Sunday on 160 and 80 meters and just gave up trying to work anybody. Last year I had no noise, but also no power to the property and no real antennas, so I take what I can get and do with what I can with it. Everything worked as well as can be expected. Thanks to F6BEE (6W1RW), the antennas got up on the tower and they work. 20 meters Sunday night was wide open, but many people would not just call once and then listen. USA operators seemed to have taken lessons from the Italians on how to operate phone. I worked three JA's station. What pity they no longer are as active as before. They are very good in pileups. Anyway, this is supposed to be fun and only a hobby. 73, Albert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7W2W Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,850,192 160m - in V 80m - dipole 40m - deltaloop 15m - 4 el. yagi OK1RI design 20m,15m,10m - 10 el. logper IC-756 and PA OMPower OM2500HF Very nice contest from north Africa. I would like to thank Fratisek 7X0RY and Afif 7X2RO for their support. QSL via OK buro or direct. 73 Ondra OK1CDJ/7W2W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P2K Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 481,344 What a tough contest from this end. Propagation seemed tough especially on day 1 and it did not help that I had to attend an AGM and missed about 8 hours of prime time from about 18:00hrs on Day 1. This meant that I only achieved about 50% of my goals. Still, it was nice to work quite a few good DX stations including 3X, 6W, 5Z, 9K, 9M2, XF4 and VK9N. Regretably I also missed a few good ones including J3A and A71EM who was very loud here in the Caribbean, but who couldn't hear me through the wall of EU's. Also had a strange situation where my flavour of Windows XP pro did not seem to work well with my Micro-Keyer and Writelog. As a result the voice keying function refused to work. I finally decided to revive an old MFJ unit on Sunday -- and it had quite a bit of a buzz, so regrets to those who had to endure the buzz. I tried everything -- toroids, foil, grounding, nothing worked, but it helped me keep my run frequency for the last few hours of the contest for about 900 Q's. Thanks to all the stations who responded to my CQ's and to all the great stations that go to various parts of the globe to make contacts during the CQ WW contest. Dean - 8P2K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8R1EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 1,635,000 Suitcase dxpedition station as always: Elecraft K2/100 transceiver Dentron MLA2500 1KW Cushcraft A3S Fixed North @ 50' Well what a test. It is 3 a.m. and I am headed back to the states from Guyana. I found a wifi hotspot at the airport here in Guyana so I am submitting my score. The airlines now make it even more difficult to take a complete station on the airline. They all seem to have reduced their weight limit to 50 pounds now instead of 70. This means that I must pay excess luggage for that third bag. My trip after all finished I will have payed US$450 in excess/overweight luggage. Tried to hand out as many warc cw and rtty qso's before the test. I decided to do a single band 15HP effort. This was based on not getting other antennas to play properly so I picked a band that I could have fun with and still be fairly competitive. I knew that 20 was going to be a zoo. Europe for me opened fairly early on Saturday morning at about 6 a.m. local time. Though my antenna was fixed north, the Cushcraft A3S seemed to play ok since it was not that narrow; therefore I could work Europe and the States at the same time. At just 50', I was amazed of the preformance. The band though was strange. The EU sigs were there but I had to have the AF and RF gain on my Elecraft K2 almost all the way cranked up. If I would have left the knobs at the normal position, I could barely tell stations were there. The band was noisy so I ran the NB in position 1 all weekend long. Thank goodness for that NB in the K2; that saved me from the atmospheric crackling (sp). Those sigs from EU would fade in and out. The sig would be there when they gave their call. I gave the exchange but by the time they needed to confirm, I could barfely hear them. Some contacts I would have to give uo because I just couldn't make a full contact; that's how bad the QSB was and the QSB lasted all weekend long. The afternoon Stateside runs experienced the same QSB. Very few stations this weekend were a true 59. Most were 55 and many were just above the noise. Talking about frustrating. These conditions went on all weekend. the band on Sunday opened up a little earlier but another problem arose. I was getting into the neighbors tv, telephone and computer and the spoiled 28 yr old still living with his mom next door wanted me to get off so that he could talk to his girlfriend in VK land. One of those internet romances I guess. After letting the phone ring for 45 minutes nonstop I decided to give him an hour to do all of the talking over the internet he could do (AAARGH). Zone and Country count done becuase the antenna was fixed north. 4000 qso's on 15 at the bottom of the cycle I guess isn't too bad. Time to go back to the drawing board designing another suitcase station with the new airline restrictions. Next stop FS and PJ7. Please look for me next month signing FS/AH8DX. Later, Craig, AH8DX & 8R1EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8S4S/6 Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 1,026 An hours when the rates was slow on 20m. It was hilarious to use the callsign "8S4S/6" on the air! Most stations had a real problem understanding the call during S&P, I didn't even try to work any DX-Mults with pileups using this call. Many also asked "what's your call again??" when they called in on me. The op at IR4X laughed very much when (and after) I called in on them :-) Equipment: FT-1000 MkV Field MFJ-434B 5el MB @ 12m SB220 @ 500w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,563,896 Wow what a weekend, I think its the 1st contest that we had nice WX for all the 48 hours. Strange condx on high bands, 15m almost exploding on saturday and even some USA qsos on 10m. 20m was very good too. Sunday brought bad condx with 15m almost completly closed and just some short skip on 10m. Activity in EU was very good with lot of newcomers and 52% of the 6313 qsos are EU, just 33% of NA(probably because lack of 15m condx sunday). 40m was as good as last year with some good runs over 200qso/h. Tnx all for qs and cu in the CW part We love this game! Dave 9a1un http://www.9a1p.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A2EU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,862,448 Good propagation on Saturday, with some NA opening on 10 meters. Very unusual propagation on Sunday, European stations were 59++ on 10 and 15 meters all day long. QRM levels were very high and very hard time to break pileups on 80 & 40 meters with low power. I have bettered my last year's score by 200k. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A3B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,753,167 40% of time we work Low power beacuse our TL-922 go'n QRT ............. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A6A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 258,480 I worked from my holiday location - Island Hvar EU 016. Antenna : 2 x inv V for 80m NW and NE beverages RIG: Ts 690S Kenwood + 1 kW PA home made ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,509,260 Station: IC-756 Pro I plus IC-PW1 amplifier running 400W Antennas: Force 12 C3-S at 12m, 40m Inverted V at 12m Great to be back in Malaysia for the contest. Wow, what a mix of good conditions and really poor conditions. Not a 100% effort as there were too many jobs to do around the station. I am very dissappointed with my multiplier score. Highlights: 1. Good activity from both 9M2 and 9M6/8. Sadly still not as much contesting activity here in 9M2 compared to HS (thanks to Khun Champ, E21EIC). 2. Working FY5KE on 10m at 23:30 local. That's 10,500 miles from here with an SFI of 75 :-) 3. 10m open to Eu. I was not expecting that! 4. Getting time to sleep both nights... Lowlights: 1. No propagation on 40m to Eu the first night. 2. 20m closing early both nights 3. QRM :-) Thank you for all the QSOs. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW once I am back home in the UK later this week. 73 de Rich, 9M2CNC/G4ZFE/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A45WD Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 607,347 I had hard time with noisy band and problems in keeping the run frequency. The final score is better than expected, so thanks everybody for patience and I hope to see you in CW week-end. 73, Alex A45WD (YO9HP). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,960,856 Congrats to K5ZD! This was SO1.5R -- just used the Orion as spotting RX. FT1000MP was main rig. Nice to have a European opening Saturday morning on 10 meters. Thought the 160m totals would exceed 10m this time but it didn't work out that way. The winds brought line noise but fortunately mostly to the South and West, mostly on 15. Only had one brief power blip -- not even enough to reboot computer. Cooked wattmeter sending unit on 40m early Sunday (swr is high on that beam up in phone end). Slept more than usual. Phone, ugh. 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 0 0 0 72 0 0 72 72 01Z 2 0 0 39 6 0 47 119 02Z 6 12 33 0 0 0 51 170 03Z 6 21 0 13 1 0 41 211 04Z 0 0 47 1 0 0 48 259 05Z 2 4 1 17 0 0 24 283 06Z 6 10 0 23 0 0 39 322 07Z 0 1 49 5 0 0 55 377 08Z 3 13 8 3 0 0 27 404 09Z 3 4 13 0 0 0 20 424 10Z 0 1 1 14 0 0 16 440 11Z 0 2 1 57 2 1 63 503 12Z 0 0 0 18 43 2 63 566 13Z 0 0 0 23 55 4 82 648 14Z 0 0 0 25 12 51 88 736 15Z 0 0 0 0 29 52 81 817 16Z 0 0 0 40 31 6 77 894 17Z 0 0 0 30 25 5 60 954 18Z 0 0 0 118 0 0 118 1072 19Z 0 0 0 136 0 0 136 1208 20Z 0 0 0 68 0 22 90 1298 21Z 0 0 0 0 21 37 58 1356 22Z 0 1 0 22 19 1 43 1399 23Z 1 0 7 7 25 0 40 1439 00Z 0 0 18 15 7 0 40 1479 01Z 1 5 0 2 1 0 9 1488 02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488 06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1488 07Z 0 5 0 4 0 0 9 1497 08Z 0 2 16 5 0 0 23 1520 09Z 0 2 7 1 0 0 10 1530 10Z 0 14 2 0 0 0 16 1546 11Z 1 1 2 15 3 0 22 1568 12Z 0 0 1 29 4 0 34 1602 13Z 0 0 0 30 8 0 38 1640 14Z 0 0 0 52 4 0 56 1696 15Z 0 0 0 11 20 0 31 1727 16Z 0 0 0 46 8 0 54 1781 17Z 0 0 0 46 8 0 54 1835 18Z 0 0 0 37 0 11 48 1883 19Z 0 0 0 59 0 8 67 1950 20Z 0 0 0 35 6 1 42 1992 21Z 0 0 14 23 0 0 37 2029 22Z 0 0 3 13 14 5 35 2064 23Z 2 4 2 9 2 0 19 2083 ---------------------------------------------- tot 33 102 225 1163 354 206 ---- 2083 SO2R MAIN AND ALTERNATE RADIO BREAKDOWNS station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC Main Alt rate total -------------------------- 00Z 72 0 72 72 01Z 47 0 47 119 02Z 51 0 51 170 03Z 41 0 41 211 04Z 48 0 48 259 05Z 24 0 24 283 06Z 39 0 39 322 07Z 55 0 55 377 08Z 27 0 27 404 09Z 20 0 20 424 10Z 16 0 16 440 11Z 63 0 63 503 12Z 63 0 63 566 13Z 82 0 82 648 14Z 88 0 88 736 15Z 81 0 81 817 16Z 77 0 77 894 17Z 60 0 60 954 18Z 118 0 118 1072 19Z 136 0 136 1208 20Z 90 0 90 1298 21Z 58 0 58 1356 22Z 43 0 43 1399 23Z 40 0 40 1439 00Z 40 0 40 1479 01Z 9 0 9 1488 02Z 0 0 0 1488 03Z 0 0 0 1488 04Z 0 0 0 1488 05Z 0 0 0 1488 06Z 0 0 0 1488 07Z 9 0 9 1497 08Z 23 0 23 1520 09Z 10 0 10 1530 10Z 16 0 16 1546 11Z 22 0 22 1568 12Z 34 0 34 1602 13Z 38 0 38 1640 14Z 56 0 56 1696 15Z 31 0 31 1727 16Z 54 0 54 1781 17Z 54 0 54 1835 18Z 48 0 48 1883 19Z 67 0 67 1950 20Z 42 0 42 1992 21Z 37 0 37 2029 22Z 35 0 35 2064 23Z 19 0 19 2083 -------------------------- tot 2083 0 ---- 2083 QSO POINTS BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ------------------------------------------------------ 00Z 0 0 0 126 0 0 126 126 01Z 3 0 0 106 15 0 124 250 02Z 16 31 95 0 0 0 142 392 03Z 14 55 0 38 0 0 107 499 04Z 0 0 134 3 0 0 137 636 05Z 4 11 3 51 0 0 69 705 06Z 11 24 0 69 0 0 104 809 07Z 0 3 140 15 0 0 158 967 08Z 6 28 20 8 0 0 62 1029 09Z 7 9 28 0 0 0 44 1073 10Z 0 2 3 40 0 0 45 1118 11Z 0 5 2 170 6 3 186 1304 12Z 0 0 0 53 115 6 174 1478 13Z 0 0 0 62 158 12 232 1710 14Z 0 0 0 71 36 133 240 1950 15Z 0 0 0 0 86 140 226 2176 16Z 0 0 0 117 91 16 224 2400 17Z 0 0 0 87 68 15 170 2570 18Z 0 0 0 345 0 0 345 2915 19Z 0 0 0 381 0 0 381 3296 20Z 0 0 0 189 0 58 247 3543 21Z 0 0 0 0 59 98 157 3700 22Z 0 3 0 55 48 3 109 3809 23Z 2 0 20 18 65 0 105 3914 00Z 0 0 33 42 21 0 96 4010 01Z 2 14 0 6 3 0 25 4035 02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4035 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4035 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4035 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4035 06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4035 07Z 0 13 0 12 0 0 25 4060 08Z 0 6 40 15 0 0 61 4121 09Z 0 5 19 3 0 0 27 4148 10Z 0 21 5 0 0 0 26 4174 11Z 2 3 4 42 9 0 60 4234 12Z 0 0 2 67 10 0 79 4313 13Z 0 0 0 80 20 0 100 4413 14Z 0 0 0 137 10 0 147 4560 15Z 0 0 0 33 49 0 82 4642 16Z 0 0 0 120 23 0 143 4785 17Z 0 0 0 127 20 0 147 4932 18Z 0 0 0 105 0 31 136 5068 19Z 0 0 0 150 0 23 173 5241 20Z 0 0 0 96 14 3 113 5354 21Z 0 0 30 56 0 0 86 5440 22Z 0 0 6 26 39 14 85 5525 23Z 5 10 5 25 6 0 51 5576 ------------------------------------------------------ tot 72 243 589 3146 971 555 ----- 5576 0 point QSOs: 115 2 point QSOs: 328 3 point QSOs: 1640 MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest UTC 160 80 40 20 15 10 rate total ---------------------------------------------- 00Z 0 0 0 16 0 0 16 16 01Z 4 0 0 23 9 0 36 52 02Z 10 15 30 0 0 0 55 107 03Z 4 11 0 7 0 0 22 129 04Z 0 0 19 0 0 0 19 148 05Z 0 5 2 15 0 0 22 170 06Z 3 6 0 11 0 0 20 190 07Z 0 1 14 4 0 0 19 209 08Z 2 6 2 3 0 0 13 222 09Z 1 4 11 0 0 0 16 238 10Z 0 0 1 4 0 0 5 243 11Z 0 2 0 6 4 2 14 257 12Z 0 0 0 4 28 3 35 292 13Z 0 0 0 1 21 5 27 319 14Z 0 0 0 2 1 19 22 341 15Z 0 0 0 0 5 9 14 355 16Z 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 360 17Z 0 0 0 3 7 6 16 376 18Z 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 382 19Z 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 388 20Z 0 0 0 9 0 15 24 412 21Z 0 0 0 0 6 11 17 429 22Z 0 0 0 11 8 2 21 450 23Z 0 0 2 3 4 0 9 459 00Z 0 0 3 1 2 0 6 465 01Z 0 2 0 0 1 0 3 468 02Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 468 03Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 468 04Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 468 05Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 468 06Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 468 07Z 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 471 08Z 0 3 2 0 0 0 5 476 09Z 0 2 3 1 0 0 6 482 10Z 0 6 2 0 0 0 8 490 11Z 0 1 1 4 3 0 9 499 12Z 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 503 13Z 0 0 0 1 3 0 4 507 14Z 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 510 15Z 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 512 16Z 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 515 17Z 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 518 18Z 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 523 19Z 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 524 20Z 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 525 21Z 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 526 22Z 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 528 23Z 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 531 ---------------------------------------------- tot 25 67 93 154 116 76 ---- 531 QSO BREAKDOWN BY CONTINENT station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest 160 80 40 20 15 10 total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- N America: 23 51 60 201 69 39 443 (21%) (5%) (11%) (13%) (45%) (15%) (8%) S America: 4 9 13 69 72 65 232 (11%) (1%) (3%) (5%) (29%) (31%) (28%) Europe: 3 30 137 813 154 94 1231 (59%) (2%) (11%) (66%) (12%) (7%) Africa: 3 7 4 23 25 7 69 (3%) (4%) (10%) (5%) (33%) (36%) (10%) Asia: 0 0 0 40 17 0 57 (2%) (70%) (29%) Oceania: 0 5 11 16 17 1 50 (2%) (10%) (22%) (32%) (34%) (2%) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- QSOS PER MULTIPLIER BREAKDOWN station: AA1K contest: CQ World Wide DX Contest Mult QSOs 01 2 02 164 03 104 04 172 05 173 06 15 07 3 08 10 09 10 10 6 11 77 12 17 13 56 14 14 15 5 16 3 17 11 18 12 19 -- 20 11 21 2 22 -- 23 1 24 1 25 36 26 1 27 2 28 1 29 18 30 20 31 8 32 13 33 8 34 1 35 2 36 1 37 -- 38 3 39 1 40 6 1A -- 1S -- 3A -- 3B6 -- 3B8 -- 3B9 -- 3C -- 3C0 -- 3D2 -- 3D2/c -- 3D2/r -- 3DA 3 3V 2 3W -- 3X 3 3Y/b -- 3Y/p -- 4J 1 4L 2 4S -- 4U1I -- 4U1U -- 4U1V -- 4W -- 4X 1 5A -- 5B 2 5H -- 5N -- 5R 1 5T -- 5U -- 5V -- 5W -- 5X -- 5Z -- 6W 2 6Y 5 7O -- 7P -- 7Q -- 7X 1 8P 7 8Q -- 8R 2 9A 24 9G -- 9H -- 9J -- 9K -- 9L -- 9M2 -- 9M6 1 9N -- 9Q -- 9U -- 9V -- 9X -- 9Y 3 A2 -- A3 -- A4 1 A5 -- A6 -- A7 -- A9 -- AP -- BS7 -- BV -- BV9P -- BY -- C2 -- C3 -- C5 1 C6 4 C9 -- CE 17 CE0X -- CE0Y -- CE0Z -- CE9 -- CM 9 CN 8 CP -- CT 16 CT3 13 CU 9 CX 15 CY0 -- CY9 -- D2 -- D4 2 D6 -- DL 209 DU -- E3 -- E4 -- EA 112 EA6 3 EA8 20 EA9 3 EI 15 EK -- EL -- EP -- ER 3 ES 4 ET -- EU 4 EX -- EY -- EZ -- F 72 FG 7 FH -- FJ 3 FK 1 FK/c -- FM 3 FO -- FO/a -- FO/c -- FO/m -- FP -- FR -- FR/g -- FR/j -- FR/t -- FT5W -- FT5X -- FT5Z -- FW -- FY 4 G 109 GD 3 GI 9 GJ -- GM 19 GM/s -- GU 1 GW 14 H4 -- H40 -- HA 14 HB 12 HB0 4 HC 6 HC8 -- HH -- HI 12 HK 10 HK0/a -- HK0/m -- HL -- HM -- HP 2 HR 9 HS 1 HV -- HZ -- I 136 IG9 -- IS 5 IT9 15 J2 -- J3 7 J5 -- J6 -- J7 -- J8 -- JA 36 JD/m -- JD/o -- JT 1 JW 1 JW/b -- JX -- JY -- K 116 KG4 -- KH0 -- KH1 -- KH2 2 KH3 -- KH4 -- KH5 -- KH5K -- KH6 8 KH7K -- KH8 -- KH8/s -- KH9 -- KL 2 KP1 -- KP2 12 KP4 9 KP5 -- LA 7 LU 56 LX 2 LY 11 LZ 11 OA 6 OD -- OE 20 OH 17 OH0 2 OJ0 -- OK 61 OM 8 ON 43 OX 3 OY -- OZ 7 P2 -- P4 10 PA 46 PJ2 12 PJ7 2 PY 77 PY0F -- PY0S -- PY0T -- PZ 2 R1FJ -- R1MV -- S0 -- S2 -- S5 37 S7 -- S9 1 SM 14 SP 31 ST 1 SU -- SV 8 SV/a -- SV5 2 SV9 1 T2 -- T30 -- T31 -- T32 -- T33 -- T5 -- T7 -- T8 -- T9 4 TA -- TA1 -- TF 6 TG 2 TI 9 TI9 -- TJ -- TK 1 TL -- TN -- TR -- TT -- TU 1 TY -- TZ -- UA 34 UA2 3 UA9 12 UK -- UN -- UR 28 V2 7 V3 3 V4 1 V5 3 V6 -- V7 2 V8 -- VE 173 VK 20 VK0H -- VK0M -- VK9C -- VK9L -- VK9M -- VK9N 1 VK9W -- VK9X -- VP2E -- VP2M 4 VP2V -- VP5 10 VP6 -- VP6/d -- VP8 -- VP8/g -- VP8/h 1 VP8/o -- VP8/s -- VP9 5 VQ9 -- VR -- VU -- VU4 -- VU7 -- XE 15 XF4 4 XT -- XU -- XW -- XX9 1 XZ -- YA -- YB 1 YI -- YJ -- YK -- YL 3 YN 6 YO 10 YS -- YU 21 YV 15 YV0 -- Z2 -- Z3 3 Z7 5 ZA 1 ZB -- ZC4 1 ZD7 -- ZD8 1 ZD9 -- ZF 1 ZK1/n -- ZK1/s 1 ZK2 -- ZK3 -- ZL 13 ZL7 -- ZL8 -- ZL9 -- ZP 2 ZS 6 ZS8 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,114,732 Sunday was tough. I don't ever remember working some many 2 pointers and being happy to find them! I was connected to the WL2GetScore Love Score Poster throughout the contest. It was fun to watch the shoot out between WE3C and K3WW. I suspect that score boards are here to stay and I think we should all consider supporting them going forward. 73 Bud AA3B YEAR QSO QPTS ZON CTY SCORE 1987 55 152 15 35 7600 1988 435 1242 63 163 280692 1989 1015 2922 78 247 949650 1990 934 2652 100 315 1100580 1991 912 2460 112 356 1151280 1992 1438 4083 118 448 2310978 1993 1107 3104 114 472 1818944 1994 884 2397 103 392 1186515 1995 1127 3160 109 400 1608440 1996 989 2777 101 372 1313521 1997 1265 3512 123 449 2008864 1998 1379 3827 128 490 2365086 1999 2053 5900 137 486 3675700 2000 2126 6106 137 496 3865098 2001 2305 6605 131 490 4101705 2002 2022 5753 135 505 3681920 2003 1723 4854 124 460 2834736 2004 1869 5294 133 512 3414630 2005 1427 4010 115 436 2209510 2006 1388 3859 118 430 2114732 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,100 Only managed an hour on Friday night. I was coming off a cold, and wasn't feeling well, so I pulled the plug early and went to bed. Spent the rest of the weekend pretty sick. By Tuesday, I'd come down with a pretty bad sinus infection and had to take two days off from work. Well, there's always next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 123,025 Spent most of the weekend assembling new TH11DX. Hoping to get it up on new tower before SS. It was good to see 10m and 15m open. The low bands were very noisy here. The only 5 bander was PJ2T...they were loud everywhere. See y'all in SS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB5K Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,821,610 My neighbor Craig is a new ham, AD5YJ, and in less that three months time has went from no license to amateur extra class. He has been bitten by the DX bug so the idea was to introduce him to contesting in CQWW SSB in a multi-two operation. My other neighbor Greg, WD0ACD and his wife Carla, N5KUR do serious roving in the UHF/VHF contests and they also came over and helped. Everyone had fun and will be back. Highlights was working VQ9X on 40 meter long path at sunrise and working 8J3YAGI on a few bands. 73 Terry - AB5K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 18,166 Fun, but a lot of work. I prefer CW contests but I had noticed that the all-time points record for 40m low power unassisted SSB for the 7th call area was pretty low and decided to give it a shot. The current antenna here is only a fixed wire dipole, so I had to scratch and claw for each contact. The noise wasn't bad here in southern Arizona but signals during the contest were much weaker than usual. I couldn't work very deep into southern Europe and heard very little from northern Europe, but I was able to eventually get almost everyone into the log I could hear. I have a large mountain immediately to the west of me (check the photo on my listing at QRZ.com) that blocked low angle paths to Asia, so I guess I'm lucky to have gotten what I did. Best DX worked was probably 3V, 6W, and V5. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 52,808 I had lots of stuff to do around the house this weekend, so just popped in here and there to make a few QSOs. Mostly trying to work new phone entities for 2006, as well as pick up all-time new phone prefixes. Was glad to work E51QMA in North Cooks on 75 SSB for an all-time new band/mode country. It was fun working Paul VP9I on 10 meters at 0045Z Friday night. I pity the folks who had to stay on 15 meters Sunday, I don't think I heard a single European all day. It was a surprise to work EC8AUZ, EA8/DL6FAW and EF8A on 10 meters all within about 10 minutes of each other on Sunday morning on 10 meters - spotlight propagation! I did not work USA on any band but did work zones 3/4/5 on all bands 80-15. Zones missed: 1, 17-19, 21-24, 26-29, 34, 35, 39 and 40. I called 4L0ABC for a while, heard VQ9X and VK6. I heard a whisper from XX9X on 20 meters. 73 - Jim AD1C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD7MI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,031 First time in CQ Worldwide DX Contest, SSB.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 3,780 Had to entertain out of town guests so was only able to get on for two hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG0A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,182 Fun while it lasted, need to get my beam back up though and a good wire for 80 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4MT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 88,049 Well I can't compete against the Kilowatt stations, but 100w to an Inverted V didnt produce too bad a score for on and off operating while doing house chores. Also managed to snag a few new countries to boot. 15m was by far the best band of the weekend see you in the CW... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ1M Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 155,490 ALSO TB-wires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK6DV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 53,594 An on and off effort to prepare for the NOV Sweeps. It was fun seeing 10M open on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL2F Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 109,648 Great contest. The most fun yet. Thanks to all the stations that worked me. Real nice to work ZL's & VK's on 80m. FT-857D, MFJ-969 TUNER, HEIL MIC, HOMEBREW 'STAPLER' FOOTSWITCH. ANT. 160M FULLWAVE LOOP @ 75FT, INV.V 40/15M AT 75FT E/W, 20M DIPOLE AT 85+FT E/W. See you in the next contest 73-AL2F KRIS IN ANCHOR POINT ALASKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AY8A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,976,190 Transceiver: TS-870 Antenna: 4 EL. 3 BAND JVP34DX AT 12MTS HIGH 40 y 80 Dipoles Inv V Amplifier AL-1200 Soft: N1MM My QTH in this downtown of Buenos Aires See you in the next contest!!! 73´ Diego - LU8ADX (AY8A Contest Callsign) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B7P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,233,000 Many thanks BG7KTA let us build B7P contest station in his farm. 10m: 5 ele @ 13m 15m: 4 ele @ 16m 20m: 4 ele @ 15m 40m: 3 ele @ 16m 80m: full size 1/4 wave gp for TX, 2 beverages for RX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: BG1ND Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 218,799 didn't worked 48 hour and ten meter loss and use homemade 2ele mono hb9cn 20m and 2ele mone 15m hb9cv 12mh so 80m and 40m band with ant V DP .very poor . so transceiver wery older yaesu ft-747gx but very enjory .and thanks for bg1izx bg1mrg helped . thanks bg1nd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AQC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,268,316 FT-1000MP, Ant.G5RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,502,770 Hi to all Contesters ¡ ¡ ¡ Nice contest, the propagation this year is better to the 2005. For first time I work 2 zone and 2 cty in 160 meters, thank's to Lucas LT1F@LU1FAM for the QSO with zone 13 and LU cty. Many thank's to Claudio CE3AVV for repair my Digital Voice Rercorder and to Dale VE7SV for testing my station for 1 week. Regards CE4CT Roberto ex-CE4PBB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 1,156,566 First night was noisy. Lost AC power from 1600-1700 first day. Second night was good to middle east and SE Asia. Beat the record by 40%. The new bidirectional beverages worked very well. Best rate at the beginning of the test (214 QSOs/hour). Thanks to all for the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2ZR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,530,536 What a great location. Power outage for over 2 hours during prime time. Then station interference causing computer to constantly re-boot required me to QRT until Sunday morning. Consequently only able to put in 31 hours. Thanks for all the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 17,993,195 Rig : FT1000MKV - IC756 - IC736 - TL922 - OM POWER - ALPHA 91 Antennas : TH7DXX - 4 EL 10M YAGI - 3 EL 20M YAGI - 2 EL 40M YAGI(Finnish Ant) VERTICAL 1/4 80M - INVERTED L 160M First serious contest from our new contest qth in Marocco!!! New setup, new team, new qth, a lot of work for build all the contest station before the contest, but we really have fun during all the time in Marocco. We visited also the super contest station CN2R in Casablanca and we meet the super W7EJ! This is the first score after merge the log after several N1MM failures during the contest. Big thanks to our friend Ahmed and Omar. Was special pleasure and nice have with us our new friend Said CN8WW. Thank you for support CN3A to ARRAM,CN8LR,CN8BD,SV8CS,IK2CHZ,IK2EAD,IK2BCP,IZ2FTR Cu next one from CN3A!!! 73, Stefano IK2QEI and Matteo IK2SGC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3/HA5PP Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 1,127,448 The CQWW is the best contest for me. Gud condx on Saturday but bad on Sunday therefore I was "MULT" mainly. Madeira is a super geographical place for contesting. There was a big surprise to "mult" with low power, in the end of the contest I could pick up the "mults" very easily over the big guns (really unbelievable) . :) Thanks for the Q's. 73s Zoli HA5PP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3YA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 26,037,090 The Madeira Team would like the give a special thank you to each of the stations that came to our QRG to work us or at least tried to worked. We improved from last year on antennas and the overall setup of the station. The contest was running pretty good until we went on the second night where a big thunderstorm with strong insite lightning completelly ruined our chances of keeping the rate we were getting by that time. With 3 electricity faults, one of them of over 11 minutes, the low bands with the noise of the thunderstorm and lightning sound we couldn't manage to do more that was made over that night. At least the competition was pretty tight this year, we would like to congratulate all the teams that made the CQWW DX SSB a great contest, and hope that next year we have a better luck. Also we would like to congratulate the 3V6T crew for their good job on the contest. Best 73s and see u next year, Madeira Team www.madeirateam.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,236,741 This score was really a disappointment for me. After all the hard work we had during last months installing the second tower with another set of antennas in order to improve our LP station, not because the performance of the new antennas, but I have to recognize that the score was due to the bad propagation conditions. 10mtrs was a surprise and when the band opened, nice European pileup that produced some good results, missing the good pilup’s from NA. 15 and 20 meters and 40 meters where so hard to work and I had huge problems getting runs going, there were not a single frequency free and when it was, it there was also 59+40 splatter making listening almost impossible. I have to recognize that I was missing from the other years the good and huge pilup’s from the NA stations, also Europe, I was very sad to experience another reality. Where are the CONTESTERS? Some years ago we use to run huge pilup’s during several hours, this time we called CQ Contest and the pilup was really just for some minutes. That’s perhaps the reason why we couldn’t find any free frequency anywhere, everybody decided to install comfortable in one frequency and do not move anymore from there and not looking for multipliers neither. Asia was quite difficult to work. The band that I enjoyed a lot was 160 meters, there I experienced a very nice Pilup even if I worked only 166 Q’s, very good conditions to NA. That’s all folks, hope to see you, and the propagation, next year, if my station will be available for me, Priority to the Junior, FILIPE, CT1ILT. 73, de CT1CJJ, (AKA CT6A), SOAB LP -SO1R- CQWWSSB 2006. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9L Class: M/M HP Total Score = 22,834,320 Ops: YO3JR-YO9GZU-DF7ZS-DL8OBF-DD2SMA-AI6V-AI6YL-DJ6QT As team we had a lot of fun within our fieldday-operation, 80 and 160m was difficult. Beams: TH5 - TH6 - DJ2UT - 160m: Dipol - L 80m: 2x Vertical - inv. vee 40m: 2el fullzise beam, GP, inverted vee This is a unchecked score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,059,849 It was one of the toughest contests for me so far. Before the contest I got flu and only a couple of hours after the beginning of the contest I felt like losing my voice. I was quite sure not to be able to make a full 48 hours, but fortunately I was wrong. There was quite much antenna work this time and it took me two full days up on the tower to replace the lower tribander with a new one and repair the 40mtrs 2el yagi. It was quite a challenge to take off the driven element of 2el yagi up on the tower in a descent storm. Fortunately I got all antenna work done during Wednesday and still had some time to get ready for the contest. The start was really slow and I tried all I could, but first three hours were less than 100Q´s / hour. Only after five hours I was able to break the 500 Q´s line and I was waiting high bands to open up. 10mtrs was a big surprise and when the band opened, nice European pileup began and produced some good hours with rates of 244/286/244. A little after Europeans faded out, the stateside stations began to build up and one hour of 253Q's was still ran on 10mtrs before band closed. Somehow I felt that low bands were really poor this time and I had huge problems getting run going on 40mtrs. Maybe because most of Europeans can go up to 7200 kHz, NA stations won't listen down anymore. This time it was particular hard to work Asian stations. During the entire contest I worked only one (1) JA station and missed almost every Asian multiplier! During Sunday I was looking for Asia in every possible point, but NIL. 20mtrs was so hard this time. There were not a single frequency free and if I was able to find a descent spot, it was only a matter of time when there was 59+40 splatter on my frequency making listening almost impossible. But I know it was same for all! I'm so lucky to have such a good team around CU2A station. Without a help of CU2CE, CU2DX and CU2BV in Azores and OH2BH and OH2PM in Finland I would not be able to put CU2A on the air, not at least for almost 6000 Q's. Also my sincere thanks to Paula, CU2YL, for taking so good care of me! See ya in CW at CU2A (SOAB HP) de Toni, OH2UA Ps. More information at www.cu2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX5BW Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 1,683,000 The Propagation was better then the past year, unless a big local storm stop my operation sunday morning. I afraid to loose some zones, i heard zone 28 but the stations was working many USA and JAPAN and do not hear to me, snif...Hope propágation be going up in this new solar cicle.I run only a total of 28 hours but were 28 hard pile-up hours!!! 73 to all friends, PEDRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,298,535 Nice contest! because I have extra radio activity and not had time for a full contest effort I did all bands. Was very nice to work as many friends and to move to other bands to gave them CX on others bands. Unfortunately my 40 add 80 mts antennas are not very high, and we also have a big storm on sunday so the QRN was high. Great to heard my friend Dale N3BNA, the guys at ZP5MAL, "George Grande" W1XE at K0RF, Bill at TI5N and much more friends. Big points to work KH7X in 80 mts. Was the first DX I heard and I called him and answer at the 2nd. call!!. And lefting 5 minutes to end the contest I was called by HS0ZDR for a double mult in 15 mts! Bad poit to VP5DX. He or she started calling 1 khz up of my frecuency. I had a very interesting USA pile up and when VP5DX start calling, the guys at USA pointed the antennas to the south to work this station and the splatters made me very bad QRM!. See you in CQWW CW!!! 73, Jorge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 15,587,932 Sorry fellows, some hours after the Contest we made a typing error: DF0HF was not on. Of course it was DF0HQ again. 73 See you also in CQWW CW DF0HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DG5OBB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,393 Hello, only some QSOs by S&P mode. Thanks for the QSOs in CQWWDX-SSB 2006 and see you next year. 73 de Klaus, DG5OBB DG5OBB"at"darc.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 145,092 I decided to operate on single band 40m with high power but only a rotary dipol in 19m up from the ground. In case of problems with the Packet Radio access, it is not possible to connect a DX Cluster since a lot of month. The DB0BRO digipeater on the Harz mountains (Brocken) is down, I believe for ever and my only reachable digipeater DB0NHM in Northeim - City is a real "Packet island" without any links. So I do not want to loose all possible multis on other bands and I called CQ by myself on the 40m monoband. I hoped that all DX stations want to get DJ1AA in the log..hihi. And right, also ZL6QH gave me a call..: QSO: 7000 PH 2006-10-28 0533 DJ1AA 59 14 ZL6QH 59 32 1 Not bad for my only dipol and from the Leine river valley in only 120m asl and hills up to 400m around my home QTH. So I called CQ for 90% and 10% S+P check the band up and down by myself. By the way: I do not have an internet access point in my shack. Believe me, it is not easy without any external information by a cluster system. Try it by yourself and come back to the roots..hihi. It is a real task to get experience.. My station: ICOM IC756PRO3, ACOM1000, FBDX660 with EWS3040 Rotary Dipol for 40m, 19m up from the ground. On the PX side I used WIN-CT program with a serial interface for the ICOM 756PRO-III radio control. Results for my about 32 hours activity from 37547 Kreiensen, JO41XU: CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2006 Call: DJ1AA Category: Single Operator Power: High Power Band: Mono 40 Mode: SSB Country: Fed. Rep. of Germany Zone: 14 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 0 0 0.00 0 0 80 0 0 0.00 0 0 40 1165 1284 1.10 21 92 20 0 0 0.00 0 0 15 0 0 0.00 0 0 10 0 0 0.00 0 0 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 1165 1284 1.10 21 92 => 145,092 Continent Statistics DJ1AA CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator 29 Oct 2006 2112z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent SSB North America SSB 0 0 54 0 0 0 54 4.6 South America SSB 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 0.7 Europe SSB 0 0 1049 0 0 0 1049 90.0 Asia SSB 0 0 41 0 0 0 41 3.5 Africa SSB 0 0 12 0 0 0 12 1.0 Oceania SSB 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 73 de Mirko DJ1AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ3WE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 723,788 The computer says, I only took part for 28:22 hours. It felt a lot longer, though. I am only using a single dipole of 65.6m length and 11m average height, bent several times in all planes for all bands. So you can't really expect a lot. In view of that antenna restriction, I am quite happy with the results especially on the low bands. 10m and 15m were a nice surprise with above average performance especially on Saturday in these lousy days of low sunspot activity. My imprression is that (a) the big guns from the US (K1TTT, W3LPL, K3ZO, K3LR - to name just a few) were a lot weaker than in previous events and that (b) the number of big guns is dramatically increasing year by year all over the world (W, UK, F, I, DL, JA and especially to the East of Western Europe). Operating conds: 65.5m long and on average 11m high dipole bent in all planes, fed by ladder type feed line and matched by the HB9KOF SAMS (high power remotely located semi-automatic symetrical matchbox), IC-781+ ALPHA-87A PA. MK-Keyer, WIN-TEST-Log. Powered by Win-Test 3.5.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,245,070 My first CQWW entry as SOAB(A) HP from DL, last 2 years I was in the group of CT9L. Could use the station from DJ6QT again. Very good condx specially on the high bands. Had not more time due QRL at monday morning I had to go QRT earlier and thru any other reason I didnt heard my beeper wduring the night to sunday so I slept longer the I wanted. Here are two bad things ... Amp on 160m was running the second night, and again I had the problems with receiving on 40m with the big antenna. Anyway great fun, cu soon in November, Matt, DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK1MM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,396,674 160: 2el Vert. Array 80: 3el Vert. Array 40: Vert. Array + extended double zepp @25m 20: 4el Yagi @28m 15: 4el Yagi @25m + 4el Yagi @35m. 2el@34m 10: 7el Yagi @33m, 4el Yagi @10m RX: 3 Beverages (6 directions) Nice contest and result with good runs to stateside on 80 and 160m, but with lot's of improvement on 40m depending on the missing 40m beam. 73 de Stefan DK1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,318,125 Only part time becaus of work committment but lot of fun. Did not expect the condx so good. It seems CQWW can replace sunspots (?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1EFD Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 66,381 IC761 HF9V + Optibeam OB11-3 timeshared with DL9LR on 20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1RG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 568,079 Station Description: MkV FT1000MP + PA 600W Antennas: 80m Inv. L 40m Half Square / HF6V 20m Quad Loop 15m HF6V 10m HF6V Was again fun to work this contest. Thanks to all for the points. Interesting opening to the west coast on 20 on both days. See you in the cw - part... vy73 Gerald, DL1RG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1Z Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 50,490 used the contest mainly to compare antennas Equipment: Drake R-4C/T-4XC Inverted Vee@36m Fullsize 1/4 vertical Antennas performed identical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4YAO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 112,135 Orion, 8877 PA 80: Inv-L 40: L/4 SLoper 10/15/20: 2 Ele @ 10 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DM2SR Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 124,416 Nice Contest... but terrible station. It seems i had a bad modulation, a power problem and a problem with the Beam too, i don't know why... So i stopped on saturday afternoon, because nothing really worked here. I hope for a better result next year 73 DM2SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DM7A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 631,904 TS-850S - 3el tribander @ 25m - Dipoles & Sloper My annual share of "fun" in the ultimate hooligan mode of ham radio - SSB. Greatest fun: Waiting for those retards who are stealing my time by not IDing for ages. Lidz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,166,940 Hi @ all ! First of all thanks to all the stations for the QSOs. Many thanks to DL1YD, DJ2QV, DK5TX, DF8AE, LX1NO for travelling a lot to operate with us in the contest ! We had fun together, but the contest never had been like we wished for ! Mr Murphy was at the QTH all the weekend. We had one technical problem after the other and we never got a good run on any band. We don´t know until now, what was wrong, but we tried our best to keep on in the contest and did the best on it. Anyway, we hope all of you had fun and we will try to do better in the next one ! Hopefully CQWW-CW will be much better for us ;-) Thanks again to all and CUL For the DP4K Team Heiko, DK3DM See info about our station on : http:\www.taubeneiche.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP9Z Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 643,500 very nice contest, as usual... vy bad conditions on sunday... only a few ja`s and w`s. see u in the cw-part. vy 73 jo dp9z@df9zp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,698,600 We enjoyed the great condx on Saturday very much. Too bad 15m was way down on Sunday. We only could work 5 Ws on Sunday on 15m. Unfortunately we didn't hear any station from zone 1 the whole weekend. CU in the CW part. 73s de DQ4W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,939,428 160: T-Vertical, Dipole @ 30m 80: Vertical Array, Dipole @ 30m 40: 3-ele @ 35m, 2-ele @ 27m 20: 5/5-ele @ 31/19m, 5-ele @ 33m 15: 5/5-ele @ 34/25m, 5-ele @ 18m 10: 5/5/5-ele @ 31/25/19m We expected propagation to be bad on Saturday and better on Sunday, but it turned out the other way round. Saturday even 10 meters opened to the States (107 W/VEs) and 15 meters was hot. Sunday we only worked 3 JAs and 2 Ws on 15 meters. 160 meters was marginal both days, only 26 W/VEs total. See you all in CW. 73 de DR1A http://www.dr1a.com http://www.df0cg.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR5A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,165,466 Not many of you already new DR5A. The Call is mainly used for VHF Contest operation from our portable location. After a rather successfull VHF and up season we decided to make our first M/S entry from that location. On Friday morning we set up our small portable contest station: Running Station: FT1000MP + AL80b FB-33 (3ele 20m/15m/10m) 12m up Windom (160m/80m/40) 80m long and 16m up Vertical 40m Multi Station: FT1000MP + Acom 1010 R7000 (40m-10m) We are satisfied with the score compared to our small setup. What we missed several times was a second beam for the Multi Station. On day two it was very difficult to get the rare and needed multis. Sometimes we switched the beam from the running station to the multi station which results in a very loud "ahh": signal increases from S1 to S7 and only one call was needed to log a certain station. Very high local noice on 160m of S9. We could not realy find the source as there are green fields, green fields and green fields around us. But we have some wind turbine near to us and maybe they cause that noice floor. High band conditions on Saturday were very good and we even logged US on 10m. On Sunday not a single US station was heard on 15m and rather low US rates even on 20m. Very nice Sunday evening 10m opening to Zone 8, 9 and 10. http://www.dr5a.de/ 73 de DR5A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR5N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,329,637 Good contest for our location. Only sporadic Condx on 10m with several not reachable African Stations. Good runs on 15 and 20m. 40m very crowded und overloaded band with small using of the new range 7100-7200. Bad: Our 160m antenna will not work! Must build new one for the CW Contest. Tnx to all, see you in CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E21EIC Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 151,605 Vy nice to heard signal from Laos by XW1A, Larry after to gave him CQ WW SSB info. I think he could made high score for the first time in CQWW. I heard many new Thai-Hams on the air like E20PFE, E27EK, HS5FAI and HS9JSQ. Also I heard E20WXA, E21YDP, HS6MYW, HS0ZBS, HS0ZEE, HS0ZCW and HS0ZDX show up in CQWW too. I could not forget HS0AC RAST-HQ station opoerated by HS1CKC, HS0ZDJ/W2YR and KL7ENY/HS0ZCG. I worked few stations from USA and only KC1XX from zone 5. I missing zone 1,2,6,7,39 and 40. Thanks to ALL QSOs! CU in CQ WW CW from Cambodia as XU7ADE (Low Power/Dipole) 73, Champ, E21EIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E21YDP Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 18,673 I am happy to worked OA4AA, 5K4DX, YV4A and LU7HN on SSB. Thanks to all QSOs. 73, Dej, E21YDP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 314,956 Yaesu FT-920 N1MM Logger 3 ele Yagui Tribander Only for keep fit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2BI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 696,377 We had the usual power line noise which was about s9 for hours, so we apologize for not being able to copy everyone. WX here was the best ever for a ww contest, so that was good for antenna assembing. For a number of reasons we were not able to use any multiplier stations :-( It was fun anyway. Ants: 3 ele @ 10 meters, Dipole for 40/80 @ 9 meters Rig: TS-2000 Amp: Yaesu FL-2100B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,030,000 After a very hard antenna work I lost all my energy on the way. Despite the bad antenna planning and considering the reduced operating time ( 34 hrs ), I am satisfied with the 4M points. Tnx for the Qso and see you on cw part- this time M/S. 73 de Julio, EA4KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5ON Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 204,388 CQWW nevers fails to deliver! A last contest at my La Eliana QTH before it goes to long-term let. Cobbled together my trusty old bits and bobs, namely TS850, Ameritron ALS500, and my old laptop, and plugged into the TA53M at 40'. Not the world's best contest station, especially with the amp running off car batteries and only giving 200-250w, but managed to make a fair attempt. I didn't take my valve amp because I didn't want to put my back out, but after lugging all those car batteries around, I'm not sure that was a good idea! Glad I fitted the Inrad filter and voice keyer in the TS850, would have been much less comfortable otherwise. Band condx on Saturday excellent, left with the majority of QSOs and mults already under my belt. Sunday the band opened later, closed earlier, and was more selective. Mangaged to work a VU3 only to hear him right down on the next pass 5 minutes later. Missed working VK4UC for a double mult under similar circumstances. Also missed the best midday slot for running EU due to an unavoidable visit, then pratically no stateside in the afternoon. The usual surprises were there though: VE6 in zone 3 at 10 in the morning local time, ZL on the long path when the band was just about closed, calls from Asia with the beam on South America, and all those other anecdotes that make CQWW so enjoyable. Been three years since I was last able to make a decent attempt at CQWW and I had a great time. Thanks to Esteban EA5FY for popping round to say hello, and special thanks to my family for their understanding and support, without which I would not have had such a great time. To help you understand what this means, my wife and children were building kitchen cabinets and suchlike while I was on the radio. Whenever guilt got the better of me and I went to ask if they needed a hand, the reply from all three was unanimous: "GET BACK ON THE RADIO!" Or maybe they just don't appreciate my joinery skills?! To paraphrase K1AR, "Are we still having fun?" YOU BET! 73 de Duncan EA5ON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7HBP Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 426,717 Great propagation on saturday (more of 1100 Qso´s this day), and very poor conditions on sunday. Where are the japanese stations?. But it is always fun to participate in this contest every year. TX/RX: ICOM IC-756PROII ANTENNA: Optibeam OB11-3. LINEAR: ACOM 1000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 334,558 73s, Nino EA7RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 163,908 Hard hours with listening through heavy thunder and lightning, quite seldom in EA8. I used a pair of 2-element wire yagis and 4 beves. Most of the time I could not copy europians from north with any antenna, RX or TX, but better from west. I have to study more this strange band. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA9LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,194,069 Unfortunately, 10 meters no chance to increased my Qso's, only operating 38 hours my health it's not enough strong o support more hours. about 40meters like always very complicated Europe to close and QRM too big. but Okay I am enjoy very much in the contest. One more time many thank's my best friend EA9LS and his support, and ofcourse all station call me and never stop. see you next contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC2DX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,039,314 Thank´s everyone for the nice time we had this weekend. We had 2 new operators on our team who were participating for the first time in a contest. They did a great job on the multiplier radio, they were learning fast! We missed lot of multipliers because we had just a vertical antenna for 10,15,20m on the multiplier radio while the running radio was using the tribander.We also had a mobile phone conection for cluster spots (not interfaced with our software) which gave a lot of failures... We had a great JA running during the first morning on 15m and an incredible opening on 10m on Sunday with big EU rates. Great surprise! We had to stop one hour before the end of the contest for diferent personal reasons. Equipment: - 1 Yaesu FT-1000MP - 1 Yaesu FT-1000MP MKV Amplifiers: - Kenwood TL922 - Ameritron AL811HX Antennas: - 160m. Inverted L - 80m. 1/4 Full size vertical - 40m. 1/4 Full size vertical - 20m.15m.10m. Tribander Explorer 14 & Vertical Software: N1MM Logger V6.10.10 See you all next year! We hope to improve our station for the next time. Best regards 73! EC2DX Contest Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED3SSB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,892,800 Our first serious effort in M/S basis, from the team point of view with 4 individuals, so the station was the full 48h, runnig. Great conditions on saturday with surprising open in 10m, also good runs in 80m and 20m with USZA and a beatiful run in 160 Sunday morning. Sunday the conditions was worst than saturday and the rate went down. Thank to everybody that contact us. Multimedia info => http://cq.uv.es/ed3ssb/ED3SSB_CQWW_SSB_2006/Concurso/ http://ed3ssb.blogspot.com ED3SSB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 211,680 Part time effort, 40-10, with IC756PROII and Diamond CP-6 Vertical, which will not tune to 75 SSB, and had no time to get the long wire up for 80/160. Plus, family arrived from USA so sightseeing obligations cut out most of Sunday. Thanks to the Voice Recorder and static exchange, I was able to operate while they slept, but some stations were still challenged by the EI - Slash/Slant/Portable - callsign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,090,952 Congratulations all round on another fun event. Conditions were a big surprise for us on saturday with good openings into Asia / pacific which is unusual for us. Our multiplier total was well up on last year due to this. On the flip side, conditions to north america were not as good as previous years, so our point/qso average was much lower this year. Thanks to our club members for the work in getting ready for the event, and to Pete G4CLA and Dan LY3MM who travelled to operate. CU in CW leg. John ei8ir ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES1A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 924,756 The storm which has begun 2 hours before the contest has put in non-working condition practically all aerials. From four aerials Yagi only one on 10 meters band has remained in working condition. Besides that on the mast where there were aerials on 15 and 20 meters, because of a strong wind the rotator has broken. It`s not so easy to make QSO beaming only one direction. Hi-Hi! :-)) Now repair is required for all aerials. That is why we took part in the contest only as a multiplier. Our thanks to all who heared us and answered. Anyway we do hope to take part in CQ WW DX CW Contest. 73! ES1GE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5RW Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 191,952 Aurora did its' job: Saturday was very poor and Sunday even worse... lost my motivation. Missed even zone 4 - horrible! Rig - TT Orion, Emtron DX2-SP, 2 el Quad, dipole - worked well. Still wondering how unassisted SOSB stations keep showing better mults compared to assisted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,375,040 That was a difficult one. Horrible conditions and score is over 1 mio down from last year although station was better including 160 full size 4 Square up just on Friday before the contest. Exhausting antenna work and no time for rest before the contest forced me to take a 3 hour break and nap during the 2nd night. Just could not stay up and focus any more. At a time I thought it would not mean much but this ca 200 000 points could still make a difference now - look forward to OH8X score that should be in the same range as mine. CU2A is in the other league and S50A also has a comfortable lead. Congratulations guys! 10 meters open to East was a nice surprise. Were semi-joking with VK6HD on 15m that let's work on 10m later and it actually happened! Thank you Mike! Had I known I will miss 29th zone on 20m would have tried to QSY. That is a shame indeed! The second missing zone was 1st. Never heard a KL7 anywhere. I am quite happy with the multiplier total that is better than last year. Lack of good US propagation on 20m (less than 500 NA in total while working over 1100 US-VE in WAE just a while ago!!!) gave a lot of time for S&P with second radio. Also thanks to many nice mults for moving with me, ZC4CW, XX9C, XU7ADX, VP9I, TU2/F5LDY, ST2T, HQ9R, HI9L, C52T, 7Z1SJ, 6W1SE, 3XM6JR, ZM2M, OY9R, 5R8FU and several others. Counted about 50 extra mults from QSY-s. 8R1EA has an incredible signal on 15m. Well heard long after the band was dead and nobody else on. Reading about the modest set-up there makes me wonder even more. Must have been a great QTH. Outstanding effort indeed! But the biggest thrill of the contest and maybe of all the CQWW-s so far for me definitely was KH7X calling in on 80m long path Sunday morning. I have never worked KH6 before on 80m in my life, contest or otherwise. With those lousy conditions this would have been the last thing to expect. I was stunned after finally getting the call through the noise. Thank you Mike for patience!! As Steve, GW4BLE, I also have fresh QSL-s ready now and can finally settle all my debts to many patience guys waiting. Sorry fot that. Not sure abt CW yet, will maybe do multi op, kind of torture is this 48h thing:) 73 Tonno ES5TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6Q Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 394,030 Allmost lost my voice, hi , no voicekeyer:) hrd all 40z, but not in log zones 1 ; 39 bad prop. i guess.. cu in CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 190,476 Field day operation. Antenna installation took about 2 hours on THU. I will put some pictures on my Web within few days. Antenna: 4 sloping dipoles from 55 m tower. Phased with Comtek ACB-80 320 m BV to EU. Comtek ACB-80 Equipment and software: IC775DSP ACOM 2000A WriteLog I beleive Single Band SSB contesting on the Low Bands from Central Asia is over to me. EU covered entire band with very little chance for remote stations. Almost each CQ ended with EU station calling CQ on your freq. So most of the contest I did S@P. First East Coast station Heard KC1XX and loudest was K1LZ. Just a few station I heard I didn't work from US. I missed VE3REM for Zone mult. Special thanks for 3DA0WW and E51QMA for comming back to my CQ and New One and 5R8FU for pation. I beleive that Vlad UN0L (UN9LW) set up new Zone 17 record. Old UW9AF result on CQWW Web should be removed because it is not calculated correctly. Simple calculation shows that his result is over 5 poitns per QSO which is impossible. Congrats to Jim CN2R and his Super Result. I hope he will post it shortly. 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 3DA 1 1 3V 1 1 4J 2 2 4L 1 1 4X 2 2 5B 2 2 5R 1 1 7X 1 1 9A 5 5 9K 1 1 9M6 1 1 9N 1 1 A6 1 1 BY 3 3 CN 2 2 CT 1 1 CT3 3 3 CU 2 2 DL 37 37 DU 1 1 EA 8 8 EA8 2 2 EA9 1 1 EI 3 3 EK 1 1 ER 5 5 ES 3 3 EU 3 3 EX 1 1 EY 2 2 F 5 5 FY 1 1 G 11 11 GD 1 1 GM 5 5 GU 2 2 GW 3 3 HA 3 3 HB 3 3 HB0 1 1 HL 1 1 HZ 1 1 I 19 19 IT9 1 1 JA 5 5 JT 2 2 JY 1 1 K 9 9 KH0 1 1 KH6 1 1 KP4 1 1 LA 8 8 LX 2 2 LY 12 12 LZ 5 5 OE 4 4 OH 20 20 OH0 1 1 OK 25 25 OM 7 7 ON 7 7 OZ 4 4 PA 6 6 PJ2 1 1 PY 1 1 S5 12 12 SM 12 12 SP 27 27 SV 6 6 SV5 1 1 T7 1 1 T9 2 2 UA 118 118 UA2 1 1 UA9 79 79 UK 3 3 UN 10 10 UR 48 48 V2 1 1 VE 1 1 VK 2 2 VQ9 1 1 XX9 1 1 YI 1 1 YL 3 3 YO 1 1 YT6 1 1 YU 6 6 Z3 3 3 ZL 4 4 ZK1N 1 1 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 0 464 0 0 0 0 464 74.4 AS 0 121 0 0 0 0 121 19.4 AF 0 14 0 0 0 0 14 2.2 NA 0 12 0 0 0 0 12 1.9 SA 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 0.5 OC 0 10 0 0 0 0 10 1.6 CU in CW contest! 73, Nodir EY8MM http://ey8mm.codan.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4BKV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,053,000 First time reaching 1M points ! but it's really hard to make qso on 7000-7100khz with only 100w and a multiband vertical ... it was my first experience with SO2R, and I got a lot of multiplier on higher band with this method. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5BEG Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 64,622 TX : FT990 , k2 100w Ant : Dipole , sloping wire vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM/K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,655,223 A bunch of firsts in this one: - First visit to Martinique - First visit to St Lucia (port of embarkation to FM...) - First time with DSL to the shack computer from the DX side - First time to try SOAB Assisted category from DX side - First time to use WinTest logging program (FB!) Another great weekend "workin' da boys" (and girls!) Heavy local noise made things really tough on 160. Tried different things to work through it but it was just not going to happen. With CW you have the option of very narrow filters. I know from home experience that this station puts out a nice signal on topband but I didn't want to be an alligator so I worked what I could and retreated to higher frequencies. All the other bands played great....lots of unsolicited "you're very loud" reports - always a nice psychological boost! Nice conditions from here for the most part. My thanks to Laurent FM5BH for accommodating me on relatively short notice and providing top notch toys to make the noise. Thanks also to Givan J69AC for schlepping me around St Lucia during my time there. As always, thanks to everyone for the QSOs! Hope to see y'all from Zone 27 for the CW bash. 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5AN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 865,950 thank you to the station of north america 73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5JC Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Total Score = 37,248 FT 847 100 watts into a halfwave vertical I missed a lot of mulplier with my little pistol setup VQ9X was workable during 30mn and never get some short skip like V26B and PZ5RA. thanks for all QSO QSL via F5CWU or LoTW soon 73 Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5JC Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Total Score = 62,074 FT 847 100 watts into a halfwave vertical thanks for all QSO QSL via F5CWU or LoTW soon 73 Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5KE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 20,666,207 Besides few technical problems, basically caused by heat and humidity under these latitudes, we had a great time this year in French Guyana. Highlights were the 160m and the 10m (unexpected to be that good with a low SFI), and the overall worked multipliers. Lowlight was the 40m, the band we still need to improve seriously. As usual, the 6 beverages set worked as great as possible, even up to 10m from time to time, when signals were strong enough. This RX diversity at FY5KE makes possible what wouldn't be without : low bands RX (noisy at 5° latitude), high rates using a dual running position (with the Win-Test partner tool), multi direction RX (while we only have one TX antenna per band). This overall claimed score is a bit more than 2005 previous one. We had a real fun fighting against the red part of the graph of the Win-Test objectives window (see http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Menu:Windows). And, definitly, the struggle paid ! CU next year. For the FY5KE contest team, 73 de Herve F5HRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 164,754 No towers, amps, beams or internet used here - just good old wet string! First time using the 756ProIII in this marathon so it was a good chance to compare it with the 706MkIIG as used in the previous 4 years. Needless to say there was no comparison. The 706 used to fold under all the strong signals on the lower bands but the 756 was streets ahead and I just love the twin filter controls. Antennas here are very simple. The first is a 30m inverted V wire doublet fed with 450 ohm ribbon with the apex at about 10m up in the midst of a very fully and wet leafed 20m high oak tree and scrunched most of the time into a 15m garden. The other antenna is a 10m wire vertical with 3 wire radials, with the base at ground level tied into the next fully and wet leafed oak tree about 7m ft away from the first. So most of the RF absorbed into the trees no doubt! Aims for this weekend were to have fun, enjoy my usual S&P dabble, balance the activity across all 6 bands and see what could be done with relatively little ERP, with a target of at least 500 QSOs for the first time. Most pleasing experience was getting the doublet to emit some power on 160, with 25 Qs and 15 DXCCs after some patient calling in the wee small hours. Also happy to make 500+ Qs in the periods I was able to operate and all search and pounce. Some of those Qs took a lot of calling but that's all part of the small station experience! Summary was 540 Qs for 164,754 points. QSO numbers by band were 160 (25); 80 (100); 40 (101); 20 (126); 15 (130); 10 (58). Not too much in the way of DX interest but pleased to get a handful of South American and Caribbean stations in the log plus 7W2W, 6W1RY and 9M6DXX. Very enjoyable as ever and a few more Qs in the log. Thanks to all the stations who pulled me out of the RF stew! Same again next month for CW. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,476,675 A two-opertor MS entry this year - a last minute decision. Good conditions on Saturday turned a bit sour for us on Sunday. But great fun, despite the lack of sleep ! See you in the CW leg. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0IIO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 354,192 Amazingly crowded bands for such poor condx. Great fun, but hard work with only 100 watts and a 40m EDZ antenna. Bring on the CW. 73, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0OPS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 143,003 Good contest. Only used wire antenns. 10m was good when it opened. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM3WOJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 315,880 Great contest as always - 15m was always going to be tough from N Scotland at this point of the sunspot cycle. Very few 3-point QSOs possible - mostly Eu - thanks to all the DL and DO stations. Could hear many big Eu pile-ups on Sunday but absolutely zero from whoever they were working. Great to be called by lots of mults - 5H3EE, 5X1GS, 7Q7HB, DT8A, etc. - seemed more activity from ZS as well. I need a vanity call - my 39-year old callsign GM3WOJ is way too long! Please work me in CQ WW CW - I'll be signing GD6IA (SOAB HP) 73 Chris GM3WOJ/ZL1CT www.qsl.net/gm3woj ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,179,566 Propagation generally rather poor up here, especially on Sunday. Only possible to work six NA stations on 15m all weekend and none on 10m. Low bands were also below par. Average points per QSO only 1.3 which is terrible for a DX contest Delighted to get back to SOAB this year and would have been happier if my full antenna compliment was available over the weekend but my 85ft crank up collapsed on Thursday 0800z, destroying my 20m and 40m yagis and wiped out my 160m L support. By 1800z Friday I was QRV on six bands again, thanks to a C3 at 25ft for 20m, a low 40m delta loop and a very low inverted L on 160! Still, it was great fun as usual. Thanks to all who called and moved for multipliers. Keith GM4YXI (GM7V) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW4BLE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,454,112 Rig failure on Saturday morning, left me with a single radio and the ability to search out mults severly restricted. Spent a lot of time trying to get it fixed and lost the incentive a bit after that.... Got back on later with some reasonable runs to USA. Have got some new QSLs printed if anyone needs a card ;-) 73 Steve GW4BLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA1ZV Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 22,792 RIG: FT7B limited 5w ANT:FD4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG1A Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 238,840 RIG: TS-870s ANT 5el.trybander ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3C Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 365,148 Thanks to all and CU IN THE NEXT ONE TINO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3NR Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 769,608 Thank you every body, go conditions last saturday, nice contest, Thank to HI3CCP for his site, www.lomadeltoro.com 73 Edwin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3TEJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,158,099 Thanks to all been logged this time, Only one night in 40 and 80 due to very high qrm on saturday night 9+25 db all time ( power line noise) Also tks for the nices run on sunday 850 qsos in last hours. In God willing next year better time on the low bands CU in the next contest for sure 73's, Ted P.S. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6PSG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 839,370 Icom 735 Mosley TA53 + Kit 40 horizontal loop for 80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Total Score = 47,996 I actually wanted to distribute my HZ multiplier and to look for some new ones. Then I discovered that 10m was not that bad at all. So I tried to make most of it what was left after coming home from work at 16:00 (13:00 UTC). It was really nice to hear stations on the otherwise extremely dead 10m band (especially here in HZ). See you in the next contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8FAX Class: SOSB(A)/10 QRP Total Score = 735 Very poor activity due to very little time to give in this test. Only one new DXCC: EA8, but I hope to have a QSO with this country, out of Contest time. Sorry for my poor English. Best 73 and Good Luck de Jacob IC8FAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8POF Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 60,250 Again a fine CQWW despite bad prop on sunday. Hope better next time. Rig used : Yaesu FT1000mkV_Field + 500W into 2 full size dipols and 1 HF2V antennas. Software: N1MM contest logger 73 de Phil IC8POF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IG9R Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,061,900 great propagation around 360° during the half first day and the second day, open every direction, but very unluchy, during the second day because my the contest has been finisch at 13.14 zulu cause strong wind and destruction of the shak curtin. see you next year from IG9R Lampedusa is. AF-019 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK3UMT Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 134,120 Very enjoying contest this year (results -vs- my poor location). Thanks to all cqww contesters !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO3Z Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 369,504 Many difficulties to listen. Many radio stations in the same frequency. Many thanks to who have connected to me. ... to the next year 73 de IO3Z (IV3ZXQ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,700,932 Fantastic contest at IO4T, best WWDX SSB ever! Great team and HW worked ok. Good run jub mainly by HLQ EFN VET ZHH, fantastic (!) mult job mainly by HVM MAX XCL. Nice webcam, livescore and "nap box" job by EFN, K9AY by IK4VEU. Our target was 3000 qso but conditions were ok for better. Saturday conditions has been very nice! Wow! 15 JA than US, a little 10m US too! Sunday we thank you e-sporadic. Pushed on 10/15 (e-sporadic EU qsos) instead of crowdy 20 on sunday afternoon. A 14z run on 40m let us work the band not busy and get some more qso than in 2005. I think conditions on low bands were better in 2005; even with a rx antenna 160 qso were really difficult. No way to do better on 40m, no way to break EU pile on asia mult and long path ZL VK .. sunday morning. RIG FT1000MP - FT920 PA AL1200 - TL922 *On IO4T roof: 10m 4 delta loop 15m 5L (12m hight on the roof) 20m 5L (10m hight on the roof) KLM KT34A 40m sloping dipole + 1/4 vertical 80m sloping dipole + 1/4 vertical 160m dipole + 20m vertical *On IO4T garden (>200m of cable away from shack): K9AY single loop to improve See you for WWDX CW for small but for sure funny effort. Any comment to IK4VET@amsat.org Andy IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4B Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 447,920 It has been a fantastic contest for me enjoying the new Yaesu FT-2000 trx, new antenna loc., nice 20m propagation summed up into an higher score (IR4B op IK4AUY). Power out 500W, with one tetrode tube, into TH7DX by Hy-Gain. For my FT-2000 and contest story page with data, pictures, see my website at http://xoomer.alice.it/sergiocartoceti/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 6,022,590 A great Contest... as usual! Fulvio, ik4mgp www.ir4m.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,674,000 After a great saturday with an amazing open on 10 meters to NA and vy good conditions on the other bands we had a vy poor sunday with no good conditions. 10 were almost closed and 15 were vy bad to JA and NA. A great number of QSOs and MULT but our QSO/points rate was vy low. Special thanks to Dave K5GN, who enjoyed the team for the first time. He made a great job searching MULT. Thanks for calling us and to all friends for changing bands on our request. 73 de Claudio I4VEQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9YVO Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 53,300 73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IU9A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 791,560 73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IW4BRG Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 132,867 First contest in new station 2 el delta loop without rotor control and ic 775 73 Enzo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IW7EFC Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 225,720 Wauuu! THE VERY BIG CONTEST !!! Propagation? Very very very goood! A lot is amused me. Too much beautiful to participate to this contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA5FDJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 691,428 Get back to SOSB/15 since 1995. On the first day had a good CONDX but no on the Sunday. Of couse it was a great fun and see you from JA5BJC in the CW part! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JJ1WWL/1 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,948 FT-857M(50W) + ATAS120 (In the regulations of Japan, the output of the potable(mobile) station is up to 50W. ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JQ1BVI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 294,036 I was done the participation none through necessity due to the breakdown of a linear amplifier. It showed reducing by half in a low bands. It was able to enjoy 14 and 21M North America. However, 14 and 21M Eu is far. It will be necessary to challenge in the system of 2Radio next year. Thank you for the friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0DD Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 37,800 They say I recently recovered from a 15 year COMA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 268,134 I hate to be labelled as a quitter but 39 Qs in about 4-1/2 hours Sunday morning was causing the "fun-meter" to be on the low peg so I turned off the rig and drove home. My AL1200 died Saturday and had to put backup Centurion on in its place, other than that everything seemed to work FB. Thanks to Jeff/K4JNY and Scott/W4PA for letting me play with their toys (Orion II-> amp-> 6/6 stack and 4L SE). Congrats to N7DD on a great showing. Even a good Sunday run would not have gotten me close. 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0KT Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 30,750 The DXE receive 4-square was very helpful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0KX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 335,196 Another contest has come and gone & the propagation still sucks here in Minnesota. For you boys that radio contest from 9 land, you are not in the "Black Hole" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 752,262 About 21 hours of S & P and a half hour of CQ's. My CQ's only yeild 0 pt statesides and a few VE's. So I ended up doing much more DXing than contesting. It was fun though and I made some neat contacts. My peanut-whistle station is not real good at busting pile-ups, so I stayed away from packet and the resulting pile-ups. When I ran across the big piles I seemed to be the last in line. Spent an hour going back to the 3XM6JR pile-up and never did get him. Also heard some neat stuff on 40 meters that would not listen up. Frustrating. Had fun tho. Hope to join the multi-op for CW (to create pile-ups rather than get in them), and hope to work everyone next weekend in SS (especially all those KL7's, and VY1MB. CUl K0OU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 234,718 The phone contests are not my favorite so I had no problem wandering off to attend to other chores around the house. I painted a kitchen wall, hung some pictures, went to the hardware store, mailed some packages, repaired a broken keyer, slept a lot, etc. Total contest hours were under 17. My contest highlight was breaking some of the pileups in low power class. Sometimes you get lucky with timing your call just right! Fellow club member Rich, N0HJZ, traveled to Canada and put VB4MWA on the air. I hope you worked him! I had to work him long path on 20m because he wouldn't respond to my calls with the yagi pointed NW. Saturday I broken the boom off my Heil BM-2 and spent an hour looking for the spares I bought for this occassion. I put them someplace I'd be sure to remember. I'm still looking. I strapped on the Proset but that mic element didn't seem to have enough gain for the Icom. Conditions were definately better on Saturday for EU and Asia paths. Sunday was pretty much SA and some OC toward the end. But maybe I missed some of the other paths because of my errands. I heard K7RC and K0RF active so I expected the normal callsign confusion. It wasn't bad but what threw me was a consistent mistake of "Whiskey Zero" instead of "Kilo Zero". I'm going to have to listen to my DVK on a second radio to see what's up with that! I also heard K1TTT and K2TTT during the contest. Did David build a second station in 2-land? This was my first contest with the Icom IC-756 Pro III. It worked flawless and I took advantage of the Twin PBT often. I discovered the Notch filter has a 3rd position that eliminates CW or tuner-upper tones. It didn't help with the QRM when the SSTVers who the pictures on 14.228. I was using the new W1VE realtime scoreboard. It's in the beta shake-down stage right now. It worked well during the weekend although there were a few outages along the way. I'm sure in the long run, this tool will change the fact of contesting. My 18 contacts on 10m were Carribean and South America stations, although the bandmap was loaded "green" (double mults) quite often. On the opposite end of the spectrum (literally) my 18 contacts were with our friends in Canada. I can hear the DX on 160m but my 100 Watts just doesn't make the trip. My low inverted vee (70 ft apex) doesn't help get my signal into EU. 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 896,040 S&P ALL WEEKEND... SOUTH HEARTLAND AR CONTEST SOCEITY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,127,352 Saturday was fun until about 2300Z. Sunday was torture. I quit at 1300Z and went fishing instead. When you're at the bottom of the cycle, the K Index hits 5, and you live above the 45th parallel this contest can get very slow.... 73 Steve K0SR (No, not Zulu Sugar, it's ZERO Sugar!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,777,919 After having no power failures here for a few years, we had two major power failures in the last two weeks. The first one had a tree catch on fire and require the fire department to come and put out the fire in the tree. We had a power failure for 3 ½ hours on Saturday afternoon. I brought the station up on generator and after doing some soul searching, we decided to run the amps anyway. Luckily everything was alright and we were able to continue without commercial mains until the power was restored. I spent the last hour wondering when the generator was going to run out of gas. Luckily it never did and we went back to commercial mains without having to re-fuel. Just before the start of the contest, we had a relay failure that caused the 15 meter stack to show a very high SWR. We got that fixed and were able to get the stack online. 75 meters was absolutely wonderful this year. We’ve never done better on this band. The additional radials on the four square really did the trick. At one point, the 40 meter operator was complaining about having low output and difficulty working other stations. The problem we found was the wrong boom microphone plugged into the radio. The live mike was the one on the headset lying on the desk next to the radio, not the one on the operator’s head. We had a new team member this year who had never operated a contest before. After spending some time listening he got up the courage to get into a chair and operate. With some coaching, cajoling, and criticism he got into a groove and was having a ball. I think we’ve got a new convert. Please welcome KB1NEF to the contesting fraternity. Now all Rich needs to do is get his code up and he can play in the CW contests too. He’s missing more than half the fun without the CW weekends. W1VE’s new live score reporting web site was loads of fun to watch while we operated. We enjoyed the real time competition as the scores climbed. It was quite a horse race wondering who would end up on top. We’ll really know when the scores come out after the UBNs tell the tale. Good luck to everyone and we’re looking forward to the CW weekend in four weeks. For Team K0TV, Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,851 JUST A FEW MINUTES..THANKS PTL BILL K0UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 133,848 Bring back the sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,691,919 160 INV L 80 INV V 40 AV640 Vertical 20 X7 @ 60' 15 " 10 " IC-775 N1MM Logger A bit above last year, lost power - only 2 hours, minimal antenna damage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 756,140 Very lazy, just pointed and clicked on spots. It is getting too difficult to fight the noise in this contest. This is the only contest in which I use packet. The rest of the time I do it the old fashioned way. 160 results were disappointing. I can hear a lot more than I can work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1HT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 583,395 The storm produced several power outages. Fortunately, the longest was only about 30 minutes. From the propogation forecast, I was expecting Sunday to be the better day for 15 and 10. At least I was able to spend some time on those bands on Saturday. All QSOs were search-and-pounce. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 236,672 Low yagi height = slow to open up EU in the morning. CU on 40m CW for CQWWCW Tom, K1IM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1JC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 256,999 My first scored contest. Need to work on my 40 and 80 meter antennas. Had fun. Joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,112,242 A tale of two days... Lots of fun on Saturday while Sunday was hard work! Exceeded our overall points goal by 10%, but with fewer QSOs and more multipliers. Expected 15m to be more productive. Windstorm took out the power twice for about a minute each time - enough to head to the kitchen for a snack. Had a couple of brief periods of bad rain static but listening on lower antennas worked well. Could really hear the wind howling above the trees for a lot of hours - made it tough to turn the 20 and 40m beams. Had to pull out the chainsaw to remove a 12" diameter tree that fell across the driveway... Best hour was 190 on 20m late Saturday afternoon. Sunday's best hour was just 74... and only had seven hours over 50... -- Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,145,202 Note to self: check the station out B4 the contest starts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,052,136 What a wild weekend – both RF and weather! High winds, heavy rain, the flicker of power and one shut down for a 30 seconds over the weekend and THEN, Saturday, we find 10 M open to Europe direct path all morning! Wow and who said we are at the low point of the sunspot cycle. Over 300 Q’s, 21 Zones and 73 countries! It pays to check all bands over the weekend and not assume the band(s) will be dead because you heard it that way for the past several months! Had a number of new ops joining us this weekend, many new to the YCCC too. Fun was the first priority but generating a nice score was the motivating element. Unfortunately, our old CT DOS version software does not lend itself to feed into the real time score web site. From I hear, sounds like it really paid off in many interesting ways – motivation being one of them! At K1RX, I was just too busy keeping things up and running, working with the new ops and operating when we were short handed. We had only a flicker of power loss and was able to stay live all weekend! Operators attending our fun weekend included: WA1T W6PH (going to KH6 for CW) K1EP N1GLT (new member) K1FUB (new member) KB1MNT (new member) K1NQ K1YU (ex-K1FOO) K1RX Thank you to our world wide friends that make this contest so much fun! 73, Mark, K1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 111,504 100 watts, one dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,513,376 Saturday we had two power failures of about 15-20 minutes each. There was heavy rain almost all day, and lots of precipitation static at times and one thunderstorm that went by almost too close for comfort. Sunday we had high winds and only one power blink. But on the plus side the new DSL line stayed up all weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,015,290 After putting it off for a couple of years, I did major antenna work (repair) over the 10 days before the contest. Everything came together Friday morning, and all of my antennas were up and ready. My efforts were rewarded by poor band conditions and a high noise level all weekend that made it virtually impossible to CQ. If any stations did answer me, I couldn't hear them. So, I spent the bulk of my operating time searching and pouncing. I anticipate having a more rewarding time in CW when I operate from Montserrat. 73, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2OAK Class: M/S LP Total Score = 100,620 First time out for a reconstituted station. The Carolina Windom 80 was knocked down by a tree during a recent storm, a new Alpha Delta plus went up just in time for the contest and performed pretty well with the Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark-V. A Gap Titan is coming together for next time as well. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,106,496 I like to think about the propagation as being half-full. Yes, Sunday was pretty bad. But we got much more than we could have expected on Saturday, with a terrific 10 meter opening. Tried running with little success, maybe 30 QSO's that way all weekend, all 20 and 15. I spent a good deal of time before the contest putting up a 160 antenna (low vee), but it was hardly worthwhile. 80 and 40 were pretty much like they always were. Congrats once again to Ed, N1UR who, even with the power problems put up a nice score. If I knew that, I might have operated more hours! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 739,540 Just first effort with new antennas and station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2WK Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 420,912 Station Description: FT-1000D, QRO Commander @ 1.5kW output. Antenna(s): 6 (48' boom) over 5 over 5, top rotatable on 140’ tower. TH7 on 65’ tower, Hy-Gain 3L duo-bander @ 75’. Operators: Walt Kornienko, K2WK Thanx to a most gracious host, Bob, W4MYA for keeping me motivated and "in the chair" for the weekend. What a thrill to operate with so much aluminum in the air. This was my first contest in almost 6 years and I was suffering from dyslexia. Sorry to all whose calls I basardized :) See y'all on CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3BU Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 40,579 Condx were terrible on 160, came short of beating the US record, but good enough for new assisted, so submitting as assisted. Thanks for Wal's super QTH hosting and for all those QSOs, even the zero pointers. Yuri, K3BU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3DNE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 473,463 FT1000MP MKV SB220 Cushcraft A3 at 42 ft. 75/40m inverted-vee at 55ft. 360ft. NE/SW reversible beverage. N1MM logger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,868,606 73 PHIL KT3Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 15,818,088 Just a super job by the KC1XX and W3LPL teams. Both of these teams have super operators and an outstanding host behind them. They put up great scores this weekend! We we fortunate to have one of our best crews ever. All of the operators had a great time and enjoyed the biggest contest on the planet! What a treat is was to see young YL Ashley, KI4MTU run stations in her first ever contest here at K3LR! She has only been a ham for 10 months! She is hooked! We ran a new logging package this time. Windows based WinTest was bullet proof. 12 computers ran non stop without rebooting once! Amazing! For station description, pictures and details, please see the K3LR web page at http://www.k3lr.com We'll see everyone in 4 weeks for the CQWW CW contest! See you then! Very 73! Tim K3LR k3lr@k3lr.com BAND QSOs QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES OPs 160 309 441 1.43 16 57 N2NC 80 1001 2426 2.42 28 105 K8CX W9ZRX K3LR 40 1066 2642 2.48 31 118 K8GL W2RQ KI4MTU K3LA 20 3098 8600 2.78 40 165 N9RV K1AR 15 1400 3714 2.65 32 136 K3UA N2NT N3SD 10 493 1053 2.14 23 87 N3GJ LU7DW LW8EXF --------------------------------------------------- Totals 7367 18876 2.56 170 668 => 15,818,088 Continent Statistics K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 29 Oct 2006 2359z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 226 464 345 409 266 186 1896 25.1 South America 9 26 59 138 144 187 563 7.5 Europe 63 491 601 2242 845 94 4336 57.4 Asia 0 9 14 247 44 3 317 4.2 Africa 10 17 23 65 70 18 203 2.7 Oceania 4 35 58 69 55 13 234 3.1 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 12/14 27/31 99/38 171/74 45/25 44/14 398/196 398/196 1 12/8 32/17 71/22 75/16 45/5 4/2 239/70 637/266 2 11/5 70/14 56/22 67/7 8/0 8/0 220/48 857/314 3 19/10 76/9 80/18 22/5 2/0 2/0 201/42 1058/356 4 15/8 93/16 57/10 19/3 1/0 . 185/37 1243/393 5 21/4 69/7 65/7 11/3 1/0 . 167/21 1410/414 6 8/0 28/5 45/7 28/17 . . 109/29 1519/443 7 6/0 30/4 46/3 43/11 1/2 . 126/20 1645/463 8 9/0 14/7 49/3 40/7 3/3 ..... 115/20 1760/483 9 6/0 15/4 36/4 59/7 10/7 . 126/22 1886/505 10 17/0 22/3 11/2 45/4 17/8 . 112/17 1998/522 11 6/0 15/0 3/2 145/6 43/17 2/2 214/27 2212/549 12 . 7/1 4/0 182/4 65/24 4/4 262/33 2474/582 13 . 5/0 1/0 145/8 77/25 21/13 249/46 2723/628 14 . 13/0 5/0 154/5 120/12 64/19 356/36 3079/664 15 . 14/0 16/0 59/4 138/8 16/2 243/14 3322/678 16 ..... 6/0 18/0 114/3 154/6 8/1 300/10 3622/688 17 . 13/0 13/0 142/3 162/2 13/1 343/6 3965/694 18 . 4/0 13/0 131/1 116/7 17/3 281/11 4246/705 19 . 4/0 11/0 126/1 79/3 65/22 285/26 4531/731 20 . 9/0 6/0 92/2 33/3 56/5 196/10 4727/741 21 . 15/0 10/0 102/2 39/5 26/7 192/14 4919/755 22 . 3/0 5/0 98/2 20/1 3/4 129/7 5048/762 23 3/0 23/0 18/1 68/2 26/1 6/1 144/5 5192/767 0 26/0 26/0 23/0 27/0 12/0 15/5 129/5 5321/772 1 7/1 21/4 22/1 17/0 8/0 2/0 77/6 5398/778 2 4/1 15/0 19/0 2/0 . . 40/1 5438/779 3 5/4 12/2 23/0 1/0 . . 41/6 5479/785 4 13/0 27/1 16/0 3/0 . . 59/1 5538/786 5 12/4 25/1 25/3 . . . 62/8 5600/794 6 27/2 34/0 11/0 1/0 . . 73/2 5673/796 7 12/6 20/2 25/1 9/0 . . 66/9 5739/805 8 4/2 13/1 11/0 6/0 ..... ..... 34/3 5773/808 9 8/3 7/0 13/1 7/0 . . 35/4 5808/812 10 9/0 11/3 10/2 8/0 1/0 . 39/5 5847/817 11 17/1 8/0 2/0 12/0 1/0 . 40/1 5887/818 12 . 11/0 9/2 68/0 5/0 2/1 95/3 5982/821 13 . 16/0 4/0 99/0 14/0 4/0 137/0 6119/821 14 . 16/0 7/0 99/0 13/0 4/0 139/0 6258/821 15 . 6/0 4/0 104/3 19/1 5/0 138/4 6396/825 16 ..... 7/0 14/0 81/0 10/0 8/0 120/0 6516/825 17 . 6/0 8/0 85/1 24/0 18/0 141/1 6657/826 18 . 7/0 10/0 72/1 11/0 23/1 123/2 6780/828 19 . 10/0 12/0 58/1 23/2 14/1 117/4 6897/832 20 . 13/0 11/0 47/1 15/0 6/0 92/1 6989/833 21 . 15/0 10/0 57/0 12/0 6/1 100/1 7089/834 22 . 10/1 15/0 44/1 22/1 17/1 108/4 7197/838 23 20/0 58/0 24/0 53/0 5/0 10/0 170/0 7367/838 DAY1 145/49 607/118 738/139 2138/197 1205/164 359/100 .... 5192/767 DAY2 164/24 394/15 328/10 960/8 195/4 134/10 . 2175/71 TOT 309/73 1001/133 1066/149 3098/205 1400/168 493/110 . 7367/838 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 29 Oct 2006 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3A 1 1 3C0 1 3DA 1 1 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 1 3X 1 1 1 1 4L 1 1 4X 3 10 1 5B 2 1 2 2 1 5H 1 1 1 5R 1 1 5Z 1 6W 1 1 2 2 2 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 7X 1 1 2 1 8P 1 2 3 2 8R 1 9A 9 12 16 15 1 9H 1 9K 1 1 1 9M2 1 9M6 1 9V 1 9Y 2 1 1 A4 1 1 A6 1 A7 1 BV 2 BY 4 C3 1 1 C5 1 1 1 C6 1 2 2 2 2 1 CE 2 5 9 9 17 CE9 2 CM 5 4 7 7 1 CN 1 3 2 6 5 1 CP 1 1 1 CT 2 6 7 18 12 2 CT3 3 4 5 5 5 3 CU 1 2 3 5 4 1 CX 2 6 12 14 D4 1 1 1 DL 4 79 88 388 139 23 DU 1 6 1 EA 3 30 49 129 124 5 EA6 1 2 2 2 EA8 3 2 5 16 15 5 EA9 1 1 2 2 EI 1 4 10 18 10 3 EL 2 1 ER 1 1 3 ES 1 5 3 EU 1 5 EY 1 F 8 36 34 132 57 7 FG 1 1 2 3 2 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FK 2 1 2 FM 1 1 4 4 2 FR 1 1 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 G 9 55 81 281 55 7 GD 2 1 2 4 2 GI 2 3 8 16 7 GM 1 11 16 33 7 GM/s 1 GU 1 1 7 3 GW 4 7 7 37 10 1 HA 5 10 25 12 1 HB 1 5 8 32 12 HB0 1 1 1 1 1 1 HC 2 3 2 2 HI 1 3 2 3 3 2 HK 1 5 4 14 8 6 HP 2 2 1 HR 1 3 5 3 5 HS 3 HZ 1 1 I 5 44 58 250 102 12 IG9 1 1 IS 1 12 3 1 IT9 1 3 4 25 10 2 J3 1 1 1 1 1 2 J7 1 JA 5 7 168 31 1 JT 1 JW 1 1 JY 1 K 131 67 111 143 113 120 KH0 1 1 KH2 2 2 2 2 KH6 7 4 9 10 1 KL 2 1 13 2 KP2 2 2 2 3 4 4 KP4 1 2 4 7 6 4 LA 4 2 16 2 1 LU 5 12 42 39 68 LX 1 3 4 1 1 1 LY 1 5 5 15 2 LZ 7 2 14 10 1 OA 1 1 1 1 1 1 OE 1 3 13 49 15 2 OH 1 1 28 23 6 OH0 1 1 2 1 1 OK 1 30 19 72 29