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 2 OM 1 9 4 12 4 ON 2 21 19 77 18 1 OX 2 OZ 1 7 3 28 9 P4 2 2 2 3 2 2 PA 3 11 17 80 28 4 PJ2 2 2 2 2 4 3 PJ7 1 1 1 1 1 PY 1 5 20 40 50 58 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 S5 2 17 18 45 20 4 S9 1 1 SM 7 2 33 15 SP 2 21 19 71 15 ST 2 2 SV 3 6 19 8 SV5 1 1 1 1 SV9 1 3 2 T7 1 1 1 1 T9 3 1 6 3 1 TA 1 2 1 TA1 1 TF 1 7 2 2 TG 3 2 1 1 TI 3 1 3 3 3 TK 2 TT 1 TU 2 3 UA 3 18 100 12 UA2 2 1 2 1 UA9 1 1 36 5 UN 6 UR 9 15 44 6 V2 1 1 1 3 2 3 V3 1 1 2 1 1 V4 1 1 1 V5 1 1 1 1 1 V7 1 1 1 1 1 VE 80 354 195 172 75 17 VK 2 13 35 27 17 2 VK9N 1 1 1 VP2M 1 1 4 4 1 VP5 2 2 2 2 2 2 VP8/h 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 2 2 1 VQ9 1 1 1 VR 1 VU 1 XE 2 6 3 14 14 5 XF4 1 1 1 1 1 1 XW 1 XX9 1 YB 1 3 YL 1 2 3 YN 1 1 2 2 2 YO 1 7 22 11 1 YU 1 12 8 34 14 YV 1 2 4 6 8 7 Z3 1 4 1 Z7 1 2 1 1 ZA 2 1 ZC4 1 ZD8 1 ZF 1 ZK1/s 1 1 2 ZL 2 10 11 17 19 7 ZP 2 4 4 4 ZS 2 2 12 21 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,290,380 Major Murphy attack Sat. morning, lost 5 hours, up tower 5 times. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 14,679 Tons of fun, not much time. I don't know how you guys can stand SSB contesting, it is painful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,299,940 2nd attempt to send this...and Im back to work already... I liked the real time scoreboard. I kept pushing while WE3C was asleep or disconnected, but he would get back on and go on a mult chasing binge or decent run and pull ahead again. Perhaps separate awards could be sponsored by someone for the guys that keep their scores posted real time, with all the advantages and disadvantages associated with this practice. I kept thinking of KI1G peeking at the scores and laughing at us, or was this just a W4 year for real big scores?? 73 Chas K3WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ADR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 151,822 Had a good time here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 321,810 That was fun! Conditions were good including nice openings on 15m and 10m. Worked 2 new DXCC entities, Dodecanese and Revillagigedo. Missed some easy mults by not spending any time on 80m but my relatively low doublet/dipole isn't a good DX antenna for 80 and I had some trouble tuning the amp due to a high SWR. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, Barry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,559,942 Initially, I had planned to do SB15. But in the weeks before the contest, power line noise has been very bad (s7 to Europe S5 to East Asia and pacific on 15M). The "man" from Georgia power has been very conscientious and has spent many, many hours trying to find the multiple noise sources that have been plaguing my for many years. The good news is that in the week prior to the contest, he found several likely suspects. The bad news was that fixing them before the contest was not going to happen. (As of this writing the repairs have yet to be done.) So, I decided to do SOAB(A) so I wouldn't be too bored even though my only 20M antenna is a wire beam fixed to Europe. 15M was hot on Saturday, but my very high noise level precluded trying to run. 10M was I nice surprise. Still, I was frustrated to see the NE stations were working into Eu for almost two hours before it opened up down here in north Georgia. This was obviously an Es opening. As the noise was only S3 on 10M I did try to run there and had some success. On Sunday, 20M was a zoo. There was no such thing as a "clear" frequency. Almost everywhere I listened there was more than one station calling "CQ". I finally just picked a spot and worked as many as I could. I still had a blast even though my score was disappointing. Next stop, CQWW CW (yeah!) Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 594,659 The Saturday opening on 10m was really neat. Hope this is an indication of more to come. Wanted to check out my new antenna and am very pleased with the result. Thanks for all the Q's. C U on CW which will be much more pleasing to the ear. FT-1000/Field QRO Amp 8 ele LP up 55' wire vertical for 40m 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4HR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,104,287 K4HR has been upgraded to multiple towers and antennas - the addition of 4el StppIr @ 120' along with 2el 40m @ 100' and new loops for 80 & 160 (completed the day before the contest) puts a new contest station on the map in Stafford County Virginia. Using the Acom amp with auto antenna selection based upon N1MM control made operating a real pleasure. The only low point to operating from K4HR is that it is within 2 miles of K4ZW. Judicial use of band selection is required to prevent interference between the stations. Real Time Score reporting worked for 1st six hours before it quit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4JAF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 28,714 part time effort with my Elecraft K2, just completed this week. Tough on 20 with 10 watts but good on 15 expecially on Saturday evening. Jim K4JAF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 20,493 Obviously very little time spent in this one. This is what the bands sound like at my QTH these days: http://www.k4ro.net/k4ro/audio/K4RO_QRN_CQWWSSB2006.wav It's a power pole right at the end of my driveway. I am praying that it gets fixed by CW SS Saturday, but time is running out. I've done a lot of work on the station over the last several months in preparation for CW SS. Unfortunately if this noise persists, it will all be for naught. Anyway, this was all S&P, because you can't run with line noise like that. I used packet too, because I wanted to play "pileup buster" and see who I could beat in the raging chaos. Naturally I didn't bother calling unless I could clearly hear the DX. Many were heard in the pileups calling who obviously could not hear the DX, and would never hear their call if it came back. I still don't understand why anyone would call a station that they cannot hear. Most interesting call sign of the contest: 8J3YAGI Best news was hearing that AD4EB got to operate at K1TTT. Jim is a FB radio op and technical man as well, and I'm glad he got to see how the big boys do it. Hats off to David for opening his station to so many operators year after year. C U in CW SS. I'll be the weak one who can't hear very well. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 9,180 Saturday was busy with Ham classes and Testing. Happy to report, we have 9 new or upgraded hams in the Savannah, Ga area. Sundays weather was so nice, yard work beat out a serious effort and the score shows it! 73 Bill K4WP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 42,408 Really nice to see 10M alive! Would be good if a few ops checked it out in between contests - we are missing some good DX because everyone thinks the band is dead and avoids it ;-) 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,727,262 What a difference a day makes. Conditions on Saturday were great for this point in the cycle. The 10 meter opening to Europe was a blast! I was around 2.7 meg (points) at the end of day 1 but then conditions went in the tank Saturday night. The lowbands did seem to be as productive as I had anticipated. Kind of neat to be able to operate a lot of transceive on 40. Sure will be nice to get the BC stations relocated in the next couple of years. Been thinking about suggesting to the Pentagon that they add 20 meter SSB contesting, at the bottom of the cycle, to their list of terror "interrogation" techniques. Looking forward to WW CW next month! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,714,021 Another CQWW and another great weekend. Saturday was terrific on 10M and I was surprised by how many European multipliers we were able to hear and work. That one day was better, multiplier wise, than all of last year on 10M. But on Sunday, someone pulled the plug and conditions were really poor, especially on 10M. But the other bands were affected greatly too. We plugged along here and did the best we could. Congratulations to K1KI and their terrific M/S score. They must have been operating on a different planet then we were on. Also congratulations to K5TR and their excellent effort to win the battle of Austin. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,848,070 Another fine CQ WW SSB contest. Last year we did M/S with three OPs and had a good time - this year N5TR could not join us so WM5R and I decided to give it a go with just two. It worked out pretty well and both of us even got some sleep. I had the audio hooked up to the two stations in such a way that we could do some SO2R type operating in the hours when there was only one op awake. The low bands were better for us last year but we still did well on the low bands this time. The high bands were better for us and we were doing better score wise than last year until the poor conditions on Sunday set in. No real changes to the hardware from last year. Thanks for all the contacts and all the fun. Lots of numbers: Contest Dates : 28-Oct-06, 29-Oct-06 Callsign Used : K5TR Operators : WM5R K5TR Category : Multi-Single Default Exchange : 59 4 BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Countries Zones ___________________________________________________________ 160SSB 64 64 68 17 9 80SSB 101 101 248 62 22 40SSB 352 351 932 102 31 20SSB 950 940 1940 135 37 15SSB 1091 1076 2483 127 34 10SSB 115 114 295 49 20 ___________________________________________________________ Totals 2673 2646 5966 492 153 Final Score = 3,848,070 points. Station: http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html 160 - 1/4 wave sloping vertical - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 120'. - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 40 - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 120' fixed NE - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 97' - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 20 - 6 element yagis at 80' and 40' fixed NE - 6 element yagi at 90'(rotates) - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE 15 - 6 element yagi at 70' (rotates) - 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE 10 - 6 element yagi at 60' (rotates) - 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE Continent List 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 33 4 21 233 198 5 494 VE calls = 15 18 24 121 104 10 292 N.A. calls = 10 25 34 59 47 22 197 S.A. calls = 4 10 25 61 84 55 239 Euro calls = 0 17 91 218 342 10 678 Afrc calls = 1 7 14 26 27 7 82 Asia calls = 0 2 6 41 8 0 57 JA calls = 0 6 109 142 201 1 459 Ocen calls = 1 12 27 39 65 4 148 Total calls = 64 101 351 940 1076 114 2646 HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ----- ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 0 --- --- 15/20 30/45 96/38 4/8 145/111 145/111 0.04M 1 --- 8/13 18/25 33/5 25/4 --- 84/47 229/158 0.09M 2 --- 5/7 7/8 61/5 --- --- 73/20 302/178 0.13M 3 3/6 7/9 12/12 35/11 --- --- 57/38 359/216 0.19M 4 4/5 7/7 33/12 16/4 --- --- 60/28 419/244 0.25M 5 5/5 5/5 28/10 --- --- --- 38/20 457/264 0.29M 6 --- 5/5 23/3 14/18 --- --- 42/26 499/290 0.35M 7 --- 3/3 24/12 6/6 --- --- 33/21 532/311 0.40M 8 1/1 9/7 17/1 --- --- --- 27/9 559/320 0.43M 9 --- 11/4 11/5 7/3 --- --- 29/12 588/332 0.47M 10 8/0 1/1 15/4 --- --- --- 24/5 612/337 0.50M 11 --- 2/4 8/2 --- --- --- 10/6 622/343 0.52M 12 --- 5/3 6/0 13/12 --- --- 24/15 646/358 0.56M 13 --- --- 1/2 18/8 39/29 --- 58/39 704/397 0.69M 14 --- --- --- --- 85/15 5/8 90/23 794/420 0.80M 15 --- --- --- 3/2 78/19 3/5 84/26 878/446 0.94M 16 --- --- --- 9/11 77/7 4/6 90/24 968/470 1.10M 17 --- --- --- 2/2 80/6 1/2 83/10 1051/480 1.23M 18 --- --- --- 3/3 71/10 13/7 87/20 1138/500 1.39M 19 --- --- --- --- 53/2 23/17 76/19 1214/519 1.51M 20 --- --- --- 3/4 70/10 6/7 79/21 1293/540 1.65M 21 --- --- --- 4/5 72/1 --- 76/6 1369/546 1.77M 22 --- --- --- 4/5 71/1 2/2 77/8 1446/554 1.89M 23 --- --- 1/2 5/5 45/2 --- 51/9 1497/563 1.99M 0 --- --- 1/1 2/2 104/2 --- 107/5 1604/568 2.16M 1 --- --- 1/1 20/2 40/3 --- 61/6 1665/574 2.27M 2 --- --- 5/1 69/0 --- --- 74/1 1739/575 2.38M 3 4/0 12/3 13/1 9/3 --- --- 38/7 1777/582 2.46M 4 --- 3/1 2/0 19/3 --- --- 24/4 1801/586 2.52M 5 2/3 2/2 1/1 11/2 --- --- 16/8 1817/594 2.58M 6 --- 1/1 3/0 --- --- --- 4/1 1821/595 2.59M 7 2/2 4/4 --- --- --- --- 6/6 1827/601 2.62M 8 1/1 2/3 35/1 --- --- --- 38/5 1865/606 2.71M 9 --- 1/1 47/2 --- --- --- 48/3 1913/609 2.81M 10 17/1 --- 19/2 --- --- --- 36/3 1949/612 2.86M 11 17/2 4/1 1/1 --- --- --- 22/4 1971/616 2.90M 12 --- 4/0 2/2 43/0 --- --- 49/2 2020/618 2.98M 13 --- --- --- 30/0 17/6 --- 47/6 2067/624 3.07M 14 --- --- --- 74/0 1/1 2/3 77/4 2144/628 3.16M 15 --- --- --- 39/0 33/2 2/3 74/5 2218/633 3.28M 16 --- --- --- 38/0 1/1 --- 39/1 2257/634 3.34M 17 --- --- --- 59/0 1/1 --- 60/1 2317/635 3.40M 18 --- --- --- 32/0 --- 34/1 66/1 2383/636 3.50M 19 --- --- --- 44/0 --- 7/0 51/0 2434/636 3.55M 20 --- --- --- 27/2 17/1 8/0 52/3 2486/639 3.64M 21 --- --- --- 58/1 --- --- 58/1 2544/640 3.71M 22 --- --- 1/1 45/0 --- --- 46/1 2590/641 3.77M 23 --- --- 1/1 55/3 --- --- 56/4 2646/645 3.85M D1 21/17 68/68 219/118 266/154 862/144 61/62 1497/563 D2 43/9 33/16 132/15 674/18 214/17 53/7 1149/82 TO 64/26 101/84 351/133 940/172 1076/161 114/69 2646/645 Gross QSO's=2673 Dupes=27 Net QSO's=2646 Unique callsigns worked = 2014 The best 60 minute rate was 145/hour from 0000 to 0059 The best 30 minute rate was 196/hour from 0000 to 0029 The best 10 minute rate was 270/hour from 0001 to 0010 The best 1 minute rates were: 7 QSO's/minute 1 times. 6 QSO's/minute 3 times. 5 QSO's/minute 9 times. 4 QSO's/minute 33 times. 3 QSO's/minute 166 times. 2 QSO's/minute 498 times. 1 QSO's/minute 950 times. ------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3C0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 3DA 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 3V 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 3X 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 4L 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 4X 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 5B 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 5H 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 5R 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 5Z 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 6W 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.2 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 7X 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 8P 0 1 1 2 1 0 5 0.2 8R 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 9A 0 1 1 6 7 0 15 0.6 9K 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 9M2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 9M6 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2 9Q 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.0 9Y 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 BV 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1 BY 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0.2 C5 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1 C6 1 1 2 2 1 0 7 0.3 CE 0 0 2 2 6 4 14 0.5 CE9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 CM 0 2 4 4 4 1 15 0.6 CN 0 1 1 3 2 0 7 0.3 CP 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 CT 0 1 3 2 5 1 12 0.5 CT3 0 3 3 4 4 1 15 0.6 CU 0 1 1 2 3 0 7 0.3 CX 0 0 0 2 4 2 8 0.3 D4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 DL 0 1 3 31 61 0 96 3.6 DU 0 1 3 3 7 0 14 0.5 EA 0 1 6 18 54 3 82 3.1 EA6 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 EA8 1 1 3 3 5 2 15 0.6 EA9 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 EI 0 1 1 2 4 0 8 0.3 EL 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 ER 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 ES 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1 EU 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 EX 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 F 0 2 8 11 26 1 48 1.8 FG 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 FK 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0.1 FM 0 1 1 3 2 1 8 0.3 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 G 0 1 6 15 32 0 54 2.0 GD 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 GI 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.2 GM 0 1 2 2 2 0 7 0.3 GU 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 GW 0 1 3 3 3 0 10 0.4 HA 0 1 1 3 4 0 9 0.3 HB 0 0 1 2 3 0 6 0.2 HB0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 HC 0 0 1 3 2 1 7 0.3 HI 0 2 1 3 2 1 9 0.3 HK 1 1 2 4 5 4 17 0.6 HL 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0.2 HP 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 0.1 HR 0 1 2 2 2 0 7 0.3 I 0 1 12 28 38 1 80 3.0 *IG9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 IS 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 *IT9 0 0 1 3 3 1 8 0.3 J3 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 JA 0 6 109 142 201 1 459 17.3 JD/o 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 JT 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 JW 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 K 33 4 21 231 199 6 494 18.7 KG4 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.1 KH0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.1 KH2 0 0 1 2 2 0 5 0.2 KH6 0 2 1 8 6 0 17 0.6 KL 0 0 1 9 1 0 11 0.4 KP2 1 2 2 3 3 2 13 0.5 KP4 0 1 1 4 4 3 13 0.5 LA 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 LU 0 1 6 21 25 13 66 2.5 LX 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.2 LY 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.1 LZ 0 0 1 1 5 0 7 0.3 OA 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.2 OE 0 0 3 2 6 0 11 0.4 OH 0 0 0 5 8 2 15 0.6 OH0 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2 OK 0 1 3 8 10 0 22 0.8 OM 0 1 2 5 1 0 9 0.3 ON 0 0 3 9 5 0 17 0.6 OZ 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.2 P4 1 2 2 3 2 2 12 0.5 PA 0 0 3 5 8 0 16 0.6 PJ2 1 2 2 2 3 2 12 0.5 PJ7 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 PY 0 1 4 15 25 21 66 2.5 PZ 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.2 S5 0 1 6 10 14 1 32 1.2 S9 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 SM 0 0 0 2 3 0 5 0.2 SP 0 0 1 2 6 0 9 0.3 ST 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 SV 0 0 0 5 4 0 9 0.3 SV5 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 T7 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 T9 0 0 1 2 1 0 4 0.2 TF 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 TG 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.2 TI 0 1 2 2 4 2 11 0.4 TK 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 TU 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 UA 0 0 1 4 1 0 6 0.2 UA2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 UA9 0 1 1 19 1 0 22 0.8 UN 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.1 UR 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 V2 1 1 1 1 2 2 8 0.3 V3 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.1 V4 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1 V5 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.2 V7 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 VE 15 18 24 120 103 9 289 10.9 VK 0 4 13 13 18 1 49 1.9 VK9C 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 VK9N 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 VP2M 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 0.2 VP5 0 1 2 2 2 1 8 0.3 VP8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 VP9 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 0.2 VQ9 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 VR 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1 XE 2 2 3 11 3 1 22 0.8 XF4 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.2 XX9 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.2 YB 0 0 1 1 15 0 17 0.6 YN 1 1 1 2 2 1 8 0.3 YO 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.2 YU 0 0 2 7 6 0 15 0.6 YV 0 1 2 2 3 2 10 0.4 Z3 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 Z7 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1 ZD8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 ZF 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.0 ZK1/s 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.2 ZL 1 2 5 6 11 1 26 1.0 ZP 0 0 1 1 3 1 6 0.2 ZS 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 25 0 6 109 144 202 1 462 17.3 14 0 10 47 111 217 5 390 14.6 04 32 11 23 159 105 5 335 12.5 05 12 4 10 98 126 6 256 9.6 15 0 7 39 90 108 5 249 9.3 03 4 6 11 91 71 4 187 7.0 08 6 18 20 29 29 17 119 4.5 13 0 1 6 23 30 15 75 2.8 11 0 1 5 16 28 22 72 2.7 09 4 7 10 15 16 12 64 2.4 33 1 7 10 13 13 3 47 1.8 30 0 2 12 12 17 1 44 1.6 07 1 3 8 10 11 3 36 1.3 32 1 3 6 9 14 3 36 1.3 06 3 3 4 12 4 2 28 1.0 20 0 0 4 10 14 0 28 1.0 28 0 0 3 4 16 0 23 0.9 27 0 2 4 5 11 0 22 0.8 31 0 3 2 9 7 0 21 0.8 12 0 0 2 2 6 4 14 0.5 24 0 1 2 8 3 0 14 0.5 10 0 1 2 4 4 2 13 0.5 35 0 0 1 5 5 2 13 0.5 02 0 2 2 7 2 0 13 0.5 19 0 1 1 9 1 0 12 0.4 01 0 0 1 9 1 0 11 0.4 16 0 0 2 6 2 0 10 0.4 38 0 0 2 3 3 1 9 0.3 17 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 0.3 18 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0.3 29 0 2 1 2 2 0 7 0.3 36 0 0 0 2 2 1 5 0.2 40 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 0.1 37 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.1 39 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0.1 23 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 34 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.1 21 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 64 101 351 940 1076 114 2646 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1638 2 bands 226 3 bands 79 4 bands 47 5 bands 13 6 bands 11 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: FY5KE PJ2T FS/WY3P XF4DL ZL6QH J3A V26B 6Y1V P40A VE7SV WP2Z ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 41 20 145 609 780 43 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5YAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,164 K6VVA said it best - just piddlin' around. Good to hear 10 meters open. K5YAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,883,284 Family commitments meant I wasn't going to be able to do a full out 48 hour effort. Due to the bad weather, I got more time than I expected and managed to do 33 hours - most on Saturday (when conditions were good). I was doing so well on 20m that didn't even think to check 10m the first day. Spent 30 minutes there the first day and about 20 minutes the second. Only Carribbean and South America. Slept 4+ hours each night. Wow, DX contests sure are more fun when you do that! Proved to myself that without the low rate late night garbage hours, you miss out on a lot of multipliers. What happened to the Carribbean on 160m? Only worked a few of them and never heard stations that should have been easy to work there (P40, PJ2T, etc.) YV4A was my only zone 9!! IG9C was booming the first night, but deaf. Second night all of the Europeans seemed to hear better and was able to work a bunch (including the IG9). 40m fooled me. So many stations were working transceive that I didn't put in the time working split. Kind of avoided the band (since I wasn't serious, I had that option!). As a result, that is where I missed the most easy multipliers. Nice to get VQ9X in the last hour. 20m was a zoo, as expected. Even so, avoided any really messy frequency fights. Gave the super check partial function a work out! Nice to see so many of the new VHF calls on HF. Especially from the UK. What country is R7C? Breakdown by Continent 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % OC 0 2 6 4 13 0 25 1.0 NA 35 43 33 99 58 18 286 11.3 SA 1 5 9 35 48 51 149 5.9 AF 5 11 12 22 26 1 77 3.0 AS 0 1 2 36 12 0 51 2.0 EU 44 227 138 983 554 0 1946 76.7 QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 0000Z --+-- --+-- 13/14 49/28 8/10 --+-- 70/52 70/52 0100Z 2/2 10/15 34/15 6/4 - 1/2 53/38 123/90 0200Z - 28/21 28/15 - - - 56/36 179/126 0300Z - 91/11 8/1 - - - 99/12 278/138 0400Z 12/10 23/6 - 3/3 - - 38/19 316/157 0500Z 2/2 32/2 10/8 3/6 - - 47/18 363/175 0600Z 10/6 15/5 9/3 4/4 - - 38/18 401/193 0700Z - - - 10/3 - - 10/3 411/196 53 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 411/196 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 411/196 60 1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 411/196 60 1100Z 1/0 4/3 15/16 65/21 1/2 - 86/42 497/238 5 1200Z - - - 58/10 73/39 - 131/49 628/287 1300Z - - - 6/0 128/18 - 134/18 762/305 1400Z - - - 78/13 26/3 - 104/16 866/321 1500Z - - - 129/4 4/1 - 133/5 999/326 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 10/0 163/9 --+-- 173/9 1172/335 1700Z - - - 2/0 94/6 - 96/6 1268/341 1800Z - - - 9/1 105/5 - 114/6 1382/347 1900Z - - - 1/0 31/13 34/25 66/38 1448/385 2000Z - - - 144/6 - - 144/6 1592/391 2100Z - - - 152/3 1/2 - 153/5 1745/396 2200Z - - 2/0 25/8 30/12 - 57/20 1802/416 2300Z - 4/1 2/0 27/12 - - 33/13 1835/429 0000Z 4/2 1/0 23/4 7/1 3/1 --+-- 38/8 1873/437 0100Z 7/7 30/2 1/1 - - - 38/10 1911/447 0200Z 2/2 8/5 20/4 - - - 30/11 1941/458 0300Z 6/1 2/0 - - - - 8/1 1949/459 55 0400Z 32/10 10/2 5/1 - - - 47/13 1996/472 0500Z 6/2 27/8 1/1 - - - 34/11 2030/483 5 0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 2030/483 60 0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 2030/483 60 0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2030/483 60 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 2030/483 60 1000Z - 4/5 5/3 - - - 9/8 2039/491 35 1100Z - - 6/2 24/4 - - 30/6 2069/497 1200Z - - - 36/1 7/2 - 43/3 2112/500 1300Z - - - 93/1 1/1 - 94/2 2206/502 1400Z - - - 99/0 - - 99/0 2305/502 1500Z - - - 10/0 11/5 - 21/5 2326/507 30 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 64/3 --+-- --+-- 64/3 2390/510 1700Z - - - 11/0 24/6 - 35/6 2425/516 1800Z - - - - 1/0 32/10 33/10 2458/526 39 1900Z - - - 53/6 1/0 3/1 57/7 2515/533 10 2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 2515/533 60 2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 2515/533 60 2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 2515/533 60 2300Z 1/0 - 18/5 2/0 - - 21/5 2536/538 23 Tot: 85/44 289/86 200/93 1180/142 712/135 70/38 Unique callsigns worked = 1922 The best 60 minute rate was 183/hour from 1548 to 1647 The best 30 minute rate was 198/hour from 1616 to 1645 The best 10 minute rate was 210/hour from 1615 to 1624 There were 151 bandchanges and 37 probable 2nd radio QSO's. Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1541 2 bands 230 3 bands 87 4 bands 48 5 bands 14 6 bands 2 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: YV4A 6Y1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,571 My station is very small. Consisting of a pair of 100 Watt ICOM transceivers, a 14 x 27 foot vertical Delt Loop, a 45 foot indoor coaxial dipole and an indoor 10 x 10 foot square horizontal loop. I live in a mobile home park that allows no visible antennas. I hope to do better on CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6DEX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 66,720 My first 'real' contest...been a ham for only a six months and am looking foward to having a real antenna in the next one... Radio: Mark V Field Ant: Wire DP up 20 Ft. Thanks for a fun event, K6DEX - Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 58,995 I've made contacts in CQ WW without entering for about 20 years, and this is my first time to actually compete. Propagation and condix were frustrating Friday night and Saturday morning. Things got better Saturday night and Sunday. 20m was a huge disappointment for me. It was good to see my old friend 10m open a tad. 15m was a big surprize with the activity. I worked no Europe this contest (except Azores). Best DX for me was CU2 on 40, that I earned from screaming for 15 minutes straight. I hope to have inverted vee up to 65 feet for CQWW CW. Rig: FT-990 Ant: Alpha Delta DX-CC multiband dipole up 20 feet. Software: N3FJP - absolutely a godsend for assisted mode! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GMM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 56,850 JUST PLAYING AROUND IN MY SPARE TIME ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 327,496 If I thought we would do this well I would have repaired some antennas, etc. TH-7 @ 35' 2 el 40 @ 45' leaning delta loop for 75/80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 317,889 Thanks for the Qs and CU in the CQWW CW Contest. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6QK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 244,155 The station config. was a FT-1000MP, Alpha 91 Beta, 4el SteppIR, MFJ Voice Keyer, and WriteLog. I had RF problems on 15 and 10 so had to run low power on these bands but ran 1500 on 20 as is indicated by my score. I have some RF troubleshooting to do but I'm sure I'll find a solution and it won't be running low power on all the bands. Conditions were much better than I expected. I was surprised that there was as much activity as there was on 15 and 10. All in all it was a good contest for me. 73, Harv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 304,817 First cqww from this qth with a rotator on the beam and new beam for this contest 3 element steppir ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 10,800 Piddled a bit here and there briefly. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BTW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 229,704 Great openings on 15 meters for this part of the cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 235,040 Good Conditions all weekend ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 1,302 Very short, very casual operation. 73, Denis - K7GK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 60,320 I used my K2@5watts and a Force 12 C3S antenna. I can only rotate the antenna from 90 degrees to 300 degrees because of one pesky limb on an overgrown tree in the neighbors yard, but that was enough for SA, EU and JA where most of the contacts were. I didn't enjoy watching the A and K indices rise, or the Au oval get bigger as the week-end progressed. As I knew all along 20M is no place to be with QRP during the last couple of hours on Sunday afternoon. All in all the contest was fun, I exceeded my target score and had fun. My voice loves wave files. 73, K7HBN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7KR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 219,474 Conditions seemed strange though much of the contest. Very few JA's heard on 40m and EU seemed to be a much tougher haul than usual from AZ. On the flip side, it was nice to see more Q's from the ZL and VK crowd! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LAZ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 29,580 TOO many other things to do,,,watch for us from VP5W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LMM Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 627 This year: Mag mount 20M Hamstick on van in driveway. Next Year: tower; SteppIR; and amp. I guess I could have really handicapped myself by trying QRP. Lots of family stuff hence only 3 hours. As a new General all the contacts are new ones for me. CU in the next one. Hope to have a better antenna for the remainder of the contests. 73, Mac. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,144,460 After the week from hell getting equipment back from repair and on line, the station played very well. The new antenna farm is performing to expectations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,801,128 Overall, the raw score increased 1,625 points over 2005. It isn’t much, but I’ll take it one year lower in the solar cycle. After the first 24 hours, my score was 1.6 meg; typically the final score is double that total. This shows how tough it was in the final 24 hours. The only dramatic difference this year was 15m: 697 Qs in 2005 versus 372 Qs; a 46 percent drop. Never did work any northern EU, and JA was mediocre to nil Saturday/Sunday. I knew 15m would be tough, especially when I heard N7DD running EU Friday morning giving 59+10 reports to stations registering 53 here. Bring on cycle 24! Congratulations to the operators in VK on an excellent showing - I can’t ever remember working so many. A special congratulations to nine year old VK1AA on a fine performance in his first CQ WW! Well done Josh! Many thanks to all the great operators that made into the log! 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 53,436 Just Playing Around While Getting Redy For SS CW. 2 ele tribander at 20 80/40/10 Inv Vee at 30' 20 Inv Vee at 30' 160 Inv L at 35' 80W, IC-746, Stock Mic. See You All In SS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZSD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,802,255 We started the contest a few minutes late after a long week of moving the entire station to the new room in the house. Most everything worked, including me crawling under the feet of the two operators wiring the last items for the first 6 hours of the test. We kept a fairly relaxed atmosphere for the two days, breaking for meals and having fun. This was a very enjoyable contest, with operators coming and going all weekend. I still do not have automated antenna switching, so many trips to the patch panel in the garage for band changes. That is the next item on the list. We had a great time and thanks to all who drove up here and helped, it is very much appreciated. A big thanks to all the traveling operators who went to the four corners of the globe providing all the great mults. Many thanks to all the great ops out there, and see you next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,842,006 This was a contest when Murphy was definitely "in the house". Inside, we had failures of two separate amplifiers, a coax switch, and a logging computer. Outside, a significant wind storm caused a rotator clamp on the 6L20/6L15 to let loose and, later, the 4L40 began to spin on the mast. We got all of the inside stuff diagnosed, fixed and back on line by 00z on Saturday, and were hoping for a much more focused second day. And then, at 0006, the AC mains power went out....another casualty of the wind storm. The power stayed out until about 0130 Monday morning, so the contest was over 1/2 way through. And so it goes. Many thanks to a great crew. We still had a blast, and even the antennas were fixed by CW SS. 73, Tom, K8AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 180,169 Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B, 3 el SteppIR at 78ft. Tech problems Saturday and poor cndx Sunday cut this one short for me. CU all in CW Test next month. 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8LN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 400,810 limited operating due to grand daughters birthday party Sat afternoon and hamfest on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 68,295 Sunday only. Boring. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 91,504 First operation using homebrew "no guys required" 4-Square on 80 M using 61 foot self supported, pole (20 ft aluminum and 40 foot fiberglass) with small coil to resonate to 3650 KHz, and using Comtek 4-Square controller. Each vertical has 14 1/4 wave radials. Antenna performed better than expected. Radio = IC756 Pro-2 Linear = AL572 1KW output Antenna = 4-Square First major operation from new QTH. Big towers will be up for 2007 CQWW and we will have M/2 station. OJ's and thanks to all I worked. 73's Eric K9ES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 6,660 Nice to see 10m open up. Just messing with the new USB to radio connection. Best of health to all, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 114,642 Even though I had to hunt up a microphone, I decided to make a few qso's. Condx on 15 were quite good which made it interesting. Thanks to all who q'd. 73, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9RX Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 33,124 Since I am self employed and work weekends I was only able to dabble... had fun though! Had a couple great runs. This worked out fine as Sunday was pretty poor here in AZ with the A up as high as it was. The 746PRO is NOT a contest radio - of that I am now sure. I have an Orion II on its way so maybe next time we'll do a bit better. The 4/4/4 (top at 121') worked quite well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1CQR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 31,828 Had a ball Saturday during the bad weather, lost all my VHF antenna's in the storm, good thing this was not a VHF contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 309,662 Score might have been a liitle better if I didn't have the tower lowered to 25 feet because of the winds on Sat/Sun. You can work a lot more with the tower at 75 feet. Still had a good time, especially working Hawaii a few times and the South Cook Islands (on 80 meters). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA9FOX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 169,614 Just goofing around between family and work obligations... passing out Qs to the deserving. 73 - Scott KA9FOX ka9fox@qth.com Picture Gallery: http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/gallery ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB0FHP Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 7,920 Oh I wish I had a couple of more dB! This was undoubtably the hardest time I have had in a contest - low power and on 80M...using only a cheezy wire vertical strung in the trees, with only minimal radials. I think I got really tired of "AGAIN AGAIN?". I really appreciate everyone's patience with working my puny signal. The first night was fair, with the big guns battling it out. Only until much later was I able to work some DX at the Eu grayline. The second night was much better, with quite a few new countries. Next year some RX antennas and phased Verticals! 73 ALL! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,053,720 I had better start this off with saying we had fun. The final score was disappointing but we did the best we could with the limited operating time each of us had. Obvious from the lack QSOs we surely miss our operators that run. Hopefully a few will be back and a few new ones found or developed. Only one operator was here the full 48 hours and most of the time only two people in the chairs. The last two hours W1TJL operated alone. The weather sure played havoc with most of us. Lots of precip noise on the upper antennas and a short power failure on Friday night. Saturday on 10 meters was a pleasant surprise. Even later Sunday South America added to the QSO total. I guess we tell our mistakes so others can learn. On Saturday I did not get out in the barn until almost 11 AM local time. Signals on 15M were strong and I could not understand why the operator was not running. He said people he called answered but could not get a run going. I said let me try! I sat down and before I called CQ I noticed that the radio was set on the 160M inverted Vee! Two points to mention. First though simple, the antenna switching here at KB1H is manual. You have to have the correct antenna selected at both the Daiwa switches and the antenna tuner at the operating position. When operators only use your station twice per year operating procedures are forgotten. A more fool proof method would be definitely better. We probably lost 3-4 hours of prime running time on 15M that Saturday morning. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs and I am sure we will do better in our preferred mode of CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB3MMX Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 1,914 tough conditions! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 765 XF4DL and FY5KE were new ones on 160 for me. Mostly testing out my 160 setup at the cabin for the coming CW contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 13,290,382 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 273 413 1.51 11 48 WA1Z 80 899 2473 2.75 25 105 W1FV 40 978 2558 2.62 29 116 K1GQ,K1EA 20 2144 5882 2.74 39 154 K6AW,K1ZZ 15 1723 4760 2.76 32 140 N6IG,KC1XX 10 275 716 2.60 21 71 Everyone --------------------------------------------------- Totals 6292 16802 2.67 157 634 => 13,290,382 Congratulations to everyone on the K3LR and w3LPL teams, with particular congrats to N9RV and K1AR with a monster 20M score at LR! You all posted great results on each band and we really enjoy the competition and rivalry. We were very fortunate to have Jim, N6IG, and Dave, K1ZZ, who joined us for the first time, along for the ride this weekend. Despite the challenges with wx and conditions, we had a fun weekend with a great crew! We were also very pleased with the performance of our new fixed-EU 15 Meter stack, which is a set of 15M6 6/6/6/6 with rotatable top at 200' and ~50' spacing. Jim and Matt looked like they were having a lot of fun and were very pleased with how it played. Pictures of the construction can be found at: http://www.kc1xx.com/gallery/New-15m-Eu-stack. Also, a very big thank you to KM3T for spending a long day on-tower the weekend before the contest getting things wrapped for this weekend. We continue to benefit from having great hostesses in Christine and the girls, who keep us going in this crazy game we play with support, great food and entertainment. In another contest this weekend, the Mason NH Candyland Championship (board game for children), Anika and Bob are currently tied 1-1 in a 3-game series. Game 3 will be played just before the WW CW weekend for the championship . :-) Thanks to everyone for all the QSOs! We'll see you in WW CW! 73, The XX Team Continental Breakdown 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 194 165 209 287 229 59 1143 17.7 South America 6 19 40 108 173 103 449 6.9 Europe 69 683 702 1662 1248 90 4454 68.9 Asia 0 8 9 55 20 4 96 1.5 Africa 9 20 22 44 71 18 184 2.8 Oceania 0 27 36 44 34 2 143 2.2 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 11/13 39/26 61/38 48/43 44/34 5/7 208/161 208/161 1 13/1 72/11 71/17 41/14 23/1 2/1 222/45 430/206 2 16/6 67/14 54/11 34/5 5/0 . 176/36 606/242 3 14/6 55/14 54/18 17/4 1/0 . 141/42 747/284 4 13/6 56/9 49/15 12/7 . . 130/37 877/321 5 9/2 63/10 36/7 17/15 . . 125/34 1002/355 6 13/1 53/7 87/7 37/16 . . 190/31 1192/386 7 3/0 19/5 72/1 32/6 . . 126/12 1318/398 8 5/0 12/8 32/4 14/3 2/3 ..... 65/18 1383/416 9 3/0 17/9 29/6 97/10 37/18 . 183/43 1566/459 10 8/0 6/1 14/3 80/4 43/17 . 151/25 1717/484 11 6/0 2/0 6/2 114/7 67/18 5/5 200/32 1917/516 12 . . . 148/0 130/20 37/15 315/35 2232/551 13 . . . 74/4 198/12 27/13 299/29 2531/580 14 . . . 59/3 166/10 41/10 266/23 2797/603 15 . . . 29/3 190/5 8/3 227/11 3024/614 16 ..... ..... ..... 79/1 205/7 9/2 293/10 3317/624 17 . . . 86/1 158/3 5/3 249/7 3566/631 18 . . . 69/8 116/4 14/1 199/13 3765/644 19 . . . 66/1 75/7 46/19 187/27 3952/671 20 . 3/0 3/0 70/6 46/3 6/5 128/14 4080/685 21 . 16/1 39/0 86/2 17/3 20/3 178/9 4258/694 22 . 27/3 28/0 46/2 15/0 . 116/5 4374/699 23 5/2 37/1 50/4 9/5 15/1 . 116/13 4490/712 0 13/1 38/1 24/1 5/0 12/0 ..... 92/3 4582/715 1 21/3 30/0 28/0 2/0 . . 81/3 4663/718 2 7/6 22/3 11/2 1/1 . . 41/12 4704/730 3 8/1 26/0 14/0 4/0 . . 52/1 4756/731 4 15/0 33/1 11/0 14/4 . . 73/5 4829/736 5 19/8 55/0 17/3 23/0 . . 114/11 4943/747 6 21/2 29/0 24/0 3/1 . . 77/3 5020/750 7 5/1 16/2 20/1 7/0 . . 48/4 5068/754 8 3/0 15/1 14/0 1/0 ..... ..... 33/1 5101/755 9 3/0 11/0 18/2 5/0 . . 37/2 5138/757 10 10/0 15/0 3/0 7/0 . . 35/0 5173/757 11 5/0 9/1 3/0 23/0 3/1 . 43/2 5216/759 12 . . . 59/0 7/0 1/0 67/0 5283/759 13 . . . 83/4 9/0 . 92/4 5375/763 14 . . . 54/1 13/1 7/0 74/2 5449/765 15 . 1/0 5/0 74/2 24/1 1/0 105/3 5554/768 16 ..... 3/0 4/0 66/0 12/0 ..... 85/0 5639/768 17 . . . 70/2 19/0 14/2 103/4 5742/772 18 . . . 49/0 10/0 14/3 73/3 5815/775 19 . . . 71/5 13/2 11/0 95/7 5910/782 20 . 6/0 . 65/2 7/0 2/0 80/2 5990/784 21 . 1/0 22/0 40/0 15/1 . 78/1 6068/785 22 7/0 20/1 48/0 35/1 13/0 . 123/2 6191/787 23 17/0 25/1 27/3 19/0 13/0 . 101/4 6292/791 DAY1 119/37 544/119 685/133 1364/170 1553/166 225/87 ..... 4490/712 DAY2 154/22 355/11 293/12 780/23 170/6 50/5 . 1802/79 TOT 273/59 899/130 978/145 2144/193 1723/172 275/92 . 6292/791 BREAKDOWN in mins/QSO's per hr KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX 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 3V 1 1 2 2 1 1 3X 1 1 1 1 4L 1 1 4X 3 2 5 4 1 5B 3 1 1 3 1 5H 1 1 1 5R 1 1 5Z 1 6W 2 1 1 2 2 6Y 1 1 2 1 1 1 7Q 1 7X 1 1 1 1 8P 1 1 2 3 2 8R 1 9A 1 11 12 16 16 4 9H 1 2 9J 1 1 9K 1 1 1 9M2 1 9M6 1 9Y 3 2 A4 1 1 A7 1 BY 1 C3 1 C5 1 1 1 C6 2 2 3 3 CE 1 3 7 11 9 CE9 1 CM 3 4 4 8 1 CN 1 2 2 3 4 1 CP 1 3 CT 1 6 9 13 11 1 CT3 4 5 3 4 5 3 CU 1 2 4 4 4 1 CX 2 4 13 9 D4 1 1 1 DL 4 117 128 283 260 11 EA 5 38 47 92 150 8 EA6 1 1 4 1 EA8 2 4 4 6 18 4 EA9 1 1 1 2 EI 1 5 11 16 14 4 EK 1 1 EL 1 ER 1 1 4 2 ES 2 5 3 1 EU 3 9 1 EX 2 F 10 38 29 87 83 13 FG 1 1 4 2 1 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FK 1 2 FM 1 1 4 5 2 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 G 9 72 103 157 129 11 GD 1 1 3 3 2 GI 1 6 7 18 4 GJ 1 GM 3 12 14 31 8 GU 1 2 4 5 GW 5 8 12 23 15 4 HA 9 12 24 21 HB 2 7 14 16 14 HB0 1 1 1 1 1 1 HC 1 2 4 HI 1 3 2 3 3 2 HK 4 3 10 9 2 HP 1 1 4 HR 2 3 6 3 3 HS 1 HZ 1 1 I 4 50 67 164 121 13 IG9 1 1 IS 1 1 5 1 IT9 1 6 4 19 14 1 J2 1 J3 1 1 1 1 1 1 JA 2 3 7 3 JW 1 1 JY 1 K 109 32 85 137 95 25 KH0 1 KH2 1 1 1 KH6 5 3 3 4 KL 1 1 KP2 2 2 2 3 5 2 KP4 1 2 3 7 6 LA 7 1 5 5 LU 3 5 30 46 29 LX 3 3 2 1 LY 11 5 19 5 LZ 1 6 3 11 13 1 OA 1 1 1 1 1 OE 2 4 17 27 21 2 OH 12 1 23 8 OH0 1 1 2 1 OK 1 41 18 67 40 OM 1 11 7 13 10 ON 2 25 27 44 33 3 OX 3 OZ 3 7 4 18 11 P4 2 2 2 4 2 2 PA 3 18 17 59 46 2 PJ2 2 2 3 3 3 4 PJ7 1 2 1 PY 2 12 34 58 40 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 S5 3 17 21 42 21 7 S9 1 1 SM 14 1 31 15 SP 26 21 79 30 ST 2 2 SV 3 2 10 7 SV5 1 1 1 1 SV9 2 2 T7 1 2 1 1 T9 7 2 5 4 1 TA 1 2 2 1 TF 1 1 7 1 TG 2 2 1 1 TI 2 2 3 3 2 TK 3 TT 1 TU 2 3 UA 20 23 82 15 UA2 2 2 3 2 UA9 20 4 UN 5 UR 24 13 56 14 V2 1 1 1 2 2 1 V3 1 2 2 1 1 V4 1 1 1 1 V5 1 1 1 1 1 V7 1 1 1 1 VE 73 97 76 77 58 6 VK 12 22 15 11 VK9N 1 1 1 VP2M 1 1 2 3 1 VP5 2 2 2 2 3 2 VP8/h 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 3 1 2 1 VQ9 1 1 VU 1 XE 4 6 11 9 1 XF4 1 1 1 1 1 YA 1 YB 1 YI 1 YL 2 2 4 2 YN 1 1 1 3 2 YO 2 8 19 27 YU 1 15 9 29 16 YV 1 2 4 3 14 2 Z3 1 1 3 3 Z7 1 3 2 2 ZA 2 2 ZC4 1 ZD8 1 ZF 1 ZK1/s 1 1 2 ZL 8 7 19 11 2 ZP 1 2 4 2 ZS 1 4 9 20 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 158,184 Great to work EU on Saturday and have strong runs to JA and Asia. Sunday - oh well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 218,008 Interesting conditions! Finally 10 mtrs was worth operating. Missed a few good multipliers. N1MM logger had a lock up at the worst time (there is first time even for a good logger like N1MM). Lost the 160 loading coil but still made one good QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG1E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 809,930 Due to work commitments was only able to operate Friday night Sat night and Sunday afternoon.Missed all Saturday EU run time 0900Z to 0500Z Sunday morning and loads of EU Q's and mults.Propagation was great on 80 and 40 with signals well over S9 from all over the globe.Lots of noise and rain static on the high bands.Hope to improve antenna system and do better in the future. TS930S, SB220 80M & 40M Inv Vees @ 50 ft Force 12 C3 @ 60 ft Al KG1E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG2V Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 2,128 Wish I had more time to play ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6GMP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 752 Sorry, much earthquake damage from the October 15th earthquake (see my webpage at www.kh6gmp.com) so my activity in the contest was almost non existant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7X Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 308,667 The worst conditions I have ever experienced on this band from this station in 28 years of operation. No Zone 14 heard, only 1 Zone 16 station heard, and impossible to work him with the less than 1 second he spent listening between his CQ's. Only 4 EU stations worked, all in Zone 15, and all via long path, with much time invested calling 3 out of 4. The only EU station that called me was OH6XX, 1.5 hours before my sunrise, via long path. Thanks for listening, my friend. We worked every weekend for 2 months prior to this contest doing a complete rebuild of the 80 meter tower, the guying system, and erecting a new 2 element opti-beam yagi with the hope of being ready for this Oceania record attempt... Many thanks to Alex, KH6YY for embracing, and continuing the tradition into the 4th decade, and to KH7U, AH6OZ, NH6UY, and my buddy Mike, who I used to do towers for a living with, for all their hard work each and every weekend leading up to the CQ WW SSB. Even with the lousy conditions, this is 18% more QSO's, and 9% more multipliers than ever before in a CQ WW SSB weekend from this station, and exceeds the oldest Oceania record on the books set in 1985 by 28%. The antenna is definitely working, we can only hope that the conditions for CW will be better. Many thanks for all the QSO's, hope to see you all later this month on a better mode, in improved conditions. Aloha- Mike KH6ND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK1L Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 276,208 I did what I could to work the contest into the busy weekend to put some points on the board for the club. Longest time in the chair was 1:30 twice. Thirteen individual stints with a number only 15-20 mins. A few visits from Murphy, which might affect the rest of the season. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK3Q Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 7,623 The peanut station here got clobbered on 20, although I did sneak around with S&P for some 20 meter contacts. Got better results on 15 and even a few on 10. No matter the score, it was fun and I get to add a few points to the FCG scoreboard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 129,276 Worst condx ever here for a CQWW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 20,750 Rig: FT-897 Pwr: 5 Watts Antlers: 20m & 40m doublets, 40m horizontal loop, 80m inverted vee, all kindly appreciating the support they were receiving from the trees in the backyard I only worked a bit on Sunday afternoon and set the goal at 100 contacts which I made. It was nice of ten meters to make an appearance, and 15 meters stopping by is a real treat. The problem we have at this point of the sunspot cycle is that as the upper bands become unavailable, evenyone descends on 20 meters. If the other bands would be coninously open like at the peak of the cycle, then stations are more spread out and pile ups are less deep or high, depending on how you like 'em. :) This makes it tough for a peanut whisle like me to get heard. Still getting through a pile up at very limited power levels still gives you a great sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. After a year of being virtually absent from the contesting scene it's nice to feel that competitive flame inside me igniting again. Maybe i'll try a full contest again soon. 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,663 TS940S to 402CD at 30 (yes, thirty) feet, fixed on CN2. Better than nothing! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 414,166 Well, was hoping for a Multi-Two efforts but lack of operators. I just did a part-time SO-Assisted. Was on Friday night and Saturday on and off. Went to W0AIH to operate on Sunday. Great to be out at the farm again. The 4 Rhombics antennas seem to play well. Having a rhombic in each of the common directions make a great rotor, fast too. Conditions were so so. Was nice to hear some Asia in there. See you all in SS. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 21,286 Someday I'll learn my lesson and stick to friendly phone bands like 40m! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 22,018 Using Force-12 (Flag pole) Vertical. Noise level was very high, especially on 20 & 40m. Nice to see 15m active and some activity on 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7G Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 21,484 First time with rotatable aluminum in 12 years, but the bottom of the sunspots so it all evens out.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 226,590 First DX operation from three different places in Alabama! I started the test from the dorm and made only one qso on 15m. On Saturday, N4JDU and I went over to N4JF's place and I operated for a few hours there while 15 and 10m were HOT. Had a great time talking to these guys. Got back to the dorm and did some work on an English paper. A few hours later the contesting bug hit me so I decided to work some more form the dorm. This was a great night as I worked my very first BY and VR. S.E. Asia was booming in on 15m that night. Gave the club station a call and 10 minutes later had plans to go over there for most of Sunday. I spent at least 8 hours there simply S&P on 10,15,20. 10 and 15 were open most of the day to SA (as is expected) but I heard some EU on 15 earlier in the day. 20 was packed but I had lots of fun looking for mults. 40 and 80 numbers are from lack of patience this weekend to run split. A very fun high band contest to say the least! Hope to hear you in CW part when I'll be back for a part time effort in TX probably running only low bands this time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 324,984 500 watts and wire antennas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 428,400 Had a great time! 73, Eric KV1J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ1M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 854,764 Jim Dalterio Memorial Station ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5OM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 143,616 40/80 are hopeless with dipoles. ugh! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: L40K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 69,550 Rig: TS 450 SAT Antena: Dipolos The day Saturday 28 a strong storm affection my city, in spite of I could operate it along 11 hs Very good the conditions in 15 meters, better than in 20 meters 40 meters with a lot of very difficult static. 160 meters and 80 meters don't listen any station ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: L44DX Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 621,440 Great signal from NA, K3LR, KC1XX, W3LPL, N3RS, W6YX, K1TTT. From EU, 9A1A, DR1A, S52WZ, DF0HQ, OE2S first listened when open (2 days). Surprise call me ZL2UO, breaking down NA pile-up. Tnx for all qso. Station: TS-850 90W 6 Elements for 10,15,20 JVP @18Mts QSL via EA5KB TU de Esteban LW1DTZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LB8IB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,892,892 A Solar wind shock front from a coronal hole on the sun reached earth just in time before the contest started. The propagation from Norway was very poor during the whole weekend and 76% of my Qso,s were with EU stations! On the positive side 10 and 15 were wide open to EU both days. Despite the bad propagation I had a great time and only took a short nap the second night. Cu all agn in the CW part. We will operate Multi Single from LN8W. 73 de Olaf LB8IB www.la8w.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,418,185 Lost our mult antenna early sunday. Tried to fix the steppir motor on the bigir vertical, but we need to get some spare parts to it. Spent some time on sundag putting up 1/4 vertical for 80m. Had fun on 10m saturday evening, even making it in NA with one qso (tks K3LR) 40m was a mess. Sorry for the rather "laid back" operation in this one. With K-6 index on saturday night, and average K-4 whole sunday, the bands just not alive.....thank god we have voice keyers. Promise a 100% effort in the cw contest - propagations or not. LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 174,200 Disapointing with few mults. Fun anyhow. Tnx to all who called. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LT1F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,120,144 Thank for all QSOs :) Murphy: Had a couple of problems from the start of the contest. The TL922 was broke so the only amp available was an L4B, this ment no amp on 160 :). Then, the 80 meter antenna was also broken so I only managed to work a couple of stations tunning the antenna with 100w :) and in addition to all this, we had a thunder storm + power went off from 03z to 11z :) Anyway it was really fun!! Some good runs on 10 meters and 15 meters. 6 bands QSOs: AY8A CE4CT I will like to thank LU1FKR and the LT1F gang from all the support. Hope to see everybody in the CW part, also doing SOAB from LT1F but this time with new 80m antennas :) 10/28/06 14:36Z - 10/28/06 16:54Z 138 mins 10/29/06 02:27Z - 10/29/06 03:00Z 33 mins 10/29/06 03:22Z - 10/29/06 10:49Z 447 mins ----> Power Went Off 2006-10-28 2026Z - 7,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 420 per hour by LU1FAM 2006-10-28 2029Z - 5,4 per minute (10 minute(s)), 324 per hour by LU1FAM 2006-10-28 2103Z - 4,3 per minute (60 minute(s)), 257 per hour by LU1FAM Logging Soft: N1MM Please visit: www.badpower.com.ar Lucas LU1FAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU4DX Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 680,800 CQWWSSB Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2006-10-27 CallSign Used : LU4DX Operator(s) : LU4DX Band : 20M ASSISTED Power : LOW Mode : SSB Default Exchange : 13 Gridsquare : FF95 Name : Juan Pablo Mercé Address : Ave. Soarez 109 City/State/Zip : Chivilcoy BSAS B6620LRB Country : Argentina ARRL Section : DX Club/Team : LUCG Software: N1MM Logger V6.10.10 Band QSOs Pts Cty ZN 14 1472 4255 125 35 Total 1472 4255 125 35 Score : 680.800 Rig : Icom IC-775DSP Antennas : 6 Elem. triband Yagi @24mH Soapbox : I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2006-10-31 Signature : Paul LU4DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU5HM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,791,904 TNX to all QSO´s.- PSE QSL via EA5BK.- 73 Ramon LU5HM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX2A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,028,000 Again a nice CQWWSSB, this year I had a better amplifier on the second TX which made it easier to work multipliers. Still spend too much time to work the multis which resulted in a low number of QSOs. I got some experience in SO2R but need still a more practice. Cu in the next Contests and thanks to all who called me. If you worked me on 3 Bands you can request a direct QSL if you need one. 73s de Philippe LX2A ( ex LX2AJ) / LX7I www.lx2a.com WWYC and RRDXA Member ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX6T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 302,321 qso points were only 2029 this year, hope next year will be better again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,028,000 Sorry my call was LX7I in the Contest: Again a nice CQWWSSB, this year I had a better amplifier on the second TX which made it easier to work multipliers. Still spend too much time to work the multis which resulted in a low number of QSOs. I got some experience in SO2R but need still more practice. Cu in the next Contests and thanks to all who called me. If you worked me on 3 Bands you can request a direct QSL if you need one. 73s de Philippe LX2A ( ex LX2AJ) / LX7I www.lx2a.com WWYC and RRDXA Member ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 96,760 DL 259 UA 114 SP 83 UR 62 G 56 OK 56 I 45 PA 33 OH 27 UA9 24 LY 23 OE 21 SM 19 F 18 OZ 16 LA 14 OM 14 S5 14 K 12 SV 12 GM 11 9A 10 YO 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY8O Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,729,808 Finaly better then expected. Results from unchecked log, raw QSOs. Thanks to everyone for the nice weekend & see you in CW part! 73, Remi LY8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ4UU Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 29,028 A very "funny weekend" - 19 hours at job,17 on the radio... Pleased to hear so many JA-s (at least 40),some of them replied to my CQ. Many guys didnt heard me(as expected),missed even EI,CT and CU mults:( 73!LZ4UU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,551,086 M4A = Cambridge University Wireless Society. QSL via M0BLF. A very fun contest entry with a large team made up almost entirely of current students or recent graduates of Cambridge University. We had our fair share of problems, such as melting two baluns during the weekend, which left us with 80m for much of Sunday evening, and we also had only one 14/21/28MHz antenna, so the mult station could not use these bands while the run station was on one of them. Nevertheless, we improved on our score from last year and felt that conditions weren't as bad as they might have been. More information at http://www.domsmith.co.uk/contests/cqww06/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M8C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,661,811 In the Cray Valley RS's 60th anniversary year, this was a good team effort. We have a good radio site at Dartford, but it's not really big enough for an M2 station. The topband dipole had to be stretched out across an adjoining car park after dark, and we had no receive antennas. Plenty of club members turned up to help and/or operate, and we had some good runs especially on Saturday. 10m conditions were awesome for the bottom of the cycle: while turning the beam to pick up K3NA, I paused the CQ and was very surprised to be called by HS0ZEE! OA4WW was a big disappointment on 40m, I'm pretty sure he was hearing us but wouldn't make the QSO so we lost the double mult. DJ4PT also gave us a lot of grief on 20m on Sunday afternoon. One of our members G3SXE usually joins a Canadian team in zone 2 but this year it was the turn of Bob VE3SRE to join us, he couldn't get over the lack of snow! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MI0LLL Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 575,958 TX: FT-1000MP ANTENNA: 5el US + M2 KT36XA AMP: CHALLENGER II (3/4 of the time) SOFTWARE: N1MM Conditions on Saturday were great, starting off with being able to work 1.5h before daylight which continued to a nice opening to the US shortly after mid day GMT, however very few zone 3 logged, day 1 finished off with 1410 Qs. Day 2 was a different story, conditions was way down therefore spent most of the morning chasing much needed mults, mid day opening did not happen and not one US station was logged at all on the Sunday, only the east coast big guns could be heard weak via the direction of south America later on in the day, finally around 1500z the amp had enough and threw in the towel forcing full time S&P mode. Thanks to all who made it through, logs to be uploaded to LOTW. Chris MI0LLL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 946,330 Pretty difficult conditions much of the weekend from the far north midwest, but still a lot of fun. Need more antennas! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 5,304 Could only squeeze in 2 hours on Sunday. Wanted to add a few points to the YCCC total. 73, Rick N1DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1HTS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,950 A higher priority kept me from operating more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 82,062 With many things scheduled this weekend and with only a few wires in the air my participation was only S/P when I had time to sit at the radio. Had a good time and was surprised how successful I was, even breaking a few pileups. 73, Bruce - N1LN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,279,675 As usual, it was with great anticipation that CQ WW approached. The SSB test is sometimes fun, sometime not. This one was more in the “not” category. I had done quite a bit of antenna work over the summer. There is now a second tower at N1UR. Both are at 70 feet. This second tower allows for 40 and 20 to be pointed in independent directions and get 40 and 15 away from each other. It also allows for some additional hardware up in the sky. I was concerned about the forecasts of weather locally as well as the geomagnetic conditions. With the QTH here in Vermont being at just shy of 45 deg lat, it doesn’t take much to be affected. And we were…. Despite that, I was actually 50 Qs ahead of last year on the low bands as I took my first nap at 08Z. I was encouraged. Then, the unthinkable….a power outage at 1115Z, just as I am trying to run on 20M. It was windy, but nothing like they predicted (or what would come later in the weekend). After about 30 mins, I decided that this wasn’t going to be a brief one so I set the alarm for another 90 mins of sleep. Woke up to find the power off STILL. Did another 45 mins sleep and then stayed up until the power finally came back on at 1445Z. Luckily, it stayed on for the rest of the weekend despite much stronger winds and constant rain and snow. Well, missing the best possible 3 hours of the contest, changed my view on the rest. I felt that the most competitive score was not possible unless conditions REALLY improved on Sunday for a second shot (as we know, the reverse actually occurred). So I set out to see how close I could get to last years score of 1.7 Meg and 1317 Qs. I actually really enjoyed the rest of the contest. I had the least success running of any contest so far from this QTH (since 2004). I would have brief runs of 5 – 10 Qs at a time. Spent 80% of the time S & P. The low Q count affected my decision as I typically figure that up to 900 – 1000 Qs are workable strictly S & Ping in CQ WW. Since it looked like I would have a tough time hitting 1200 Qs, if I had 30 rate S & Ping and no success running (which was frequent), I kept S & Ping. SO2R running was only possible for maybe 50% of the time I ran (which I did). The rest of the time was such a slug fest you couldn’t risk losing a precious clear spot and were straining to hear though the QRM anyway. 160 was a real disappointment to the Carib. Seemed like very very few stations even attempted to go there (if they did you couldn’t hear them from here). I worked one EU station. 160 SSB low power is tough especially with high absorption like this weekend and 45 deg lat. 80 was okay, considering, my 2 el phased array played pretty well and I was able to work many EU stations (maybe 50% of those attempted). I only CQ’ed near the end and received a few VEs for response (greatly appreciated) and even a few zero pointers (also graciously accepted). 40 was disappointing. I tried CQing many times. I would have 3 – 6 responses over 15 – 20 mins (I did that about 5 times). I was typically between 7150 – 7200 listening “on this frequency and 70xx”. I think that I had as many people call my on frequency as below this time. I felt “loud” on 40M when calling EU S & Ping but was not productive CQing. 20M was, as usual, a slugfest. But worse this year since, even slugging it out, I had very low productivity on 20 while CQing. Again, I felt LOUD on 20M when calling other people (even second and third tier level signals) and cracked some pretty darned big pile-ups with just a few calls (to EU, AF, and Indian Ocean). While warming up about an hour before the contest, I had a nice JA run on 20M with even a BY calling in. Worked a few JAs in the contest on 20M (all S & P) but never heard any of the Asian zones otherwise. Also never heard 17, 18, 19 anywhere. 15M was frustrating because I knew I missed some of the best opening to EU with my power outage. I had a few responses on Sunday to CQs to EU but very few. Almost all of 15M was S & P. South America was chocked full of sigs and easy calls most of the time. Sounded like a morning EU opening for a while. Worked a little Pacific but no JA. 10M. I missed the EU opening. My rotating 10M antenna has a problem (not sure what). All I had was 10M south and there was plenty to work in that direction. If I heard it, I worked it. Even had about 5 Qs from CQing south (all CX and PY). All and all, I had fun despite the loss of power at the most critical time and the 10M antenna problem. Other than that, the station is playing great. See you all in CQ WW CW! Ed N1UR Towers - 2 - 70 foot 45Gs: Antennas: 160: inv vee at 70 feet and vertical T with 32 radials 80: 2 el phased array at 65 feet to EU/SW and south ½ wave sloper 40: 2 el at 80 feet and inverted vee at 60 feet 20: 4/4 (70 and 35 (fixed EU)) and 2 el south at 57 feet 15: 3 el at 80 feet, 5 el at 50 feet south, 8 el at 30 feet EU 10: 3 el south at 50 feet and 5 el at 70 feet (broken) Beverage: 900 feet NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BZP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 479,780 Not the best of conditions but where did everyone go on Sunday ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 61,798 Equipment: IC-756PROIII, AL-1200, Dipole @35' First phone contest with new radio. Spent most of the time playing with different filter combinations and other settings on radio while tuning across the 40 mtr zoo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,130,572 Didn't feel like a no-sunspot weekend - More like a middle-of-the-cycle weekend with a geomagnetic disturbance. The low bands were just terrible - noisy and absorptive. Heard very little on 160, and had usually-easy Carribean stations CQing in my face on 80. Eventually worked most of them, but it was a struggle. Too many stations on 40 didn't listen up - at least not when I was hearing them. No long path on 40 or 80, except for RU6LA on 40 - the only zone 16 heard on that band ! 20 was as-expected. Can't run EU from here, but pretty decent JA runs. 15 was excellent until Sunday morning. Excellent JA activity and propagation on 15 Friday and Saturday night, and fairly good EU on Saturday, but no EU on Sunday. 10 meters was the big surprise. Worked a handful of EU Saturday AM, and a short, weak JA run Saturday night, an hour after sunset. The best part of that opening was being called by YB1UUN and 9M8YY. Overall, the score is down about 10% from last year, due mostly to poorer low band condx, and Sunday's geomagnetic activity. Slept about 5 hours Saturday night, and lost 2 more hours in 15-30 minute chunks when both of my TS-950SDX's gave me major problems. The rig problems also had a significant impact on my attitude. Thanks for all the QSO's ! 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3AD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,967,966 , ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,475,622 A difficult weekend. We had several short term power outages due to high winds and trees hitting high tension lines. This caused some computer glitches and one of the stations went down for a couple of hours. All in all, conditions for the first 24 hours were pretty good for this part of the sunspot cycle. Sunday was a different story! 15M never really opened to europe and we had terrible line noise to the northeast. Hopefully, we will be able to get this fixed before the next contest. My thanks to all the ops. Some were only here a limited amount of time, but all made significant contributions to the score. Thank you to all who called in and to those who spotted us on the various bands. 73 de Sig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3YW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 436,248 I had an enjoyable weekend again. Lots of activity on 15/20 and even a short jaunt on 10. I did mainly S&P as runs did not seem all that productive. The wind here on the East coast was relentless and not friendly as our electric went off several times and that kept me busy getting ready to get the generator hooked up, but thankfully the electric came back on after just a short outage. It was either operate radio or have heat in the house- and that's a no brainer. See y'all soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,152,684 ` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,562 First contest from new restrictive covenant QTH. I used rain gutters and downspouts to fashion a 120' inverted L and a low/bent 65' OCF doublet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 351,300 Just spending a few hours in the chair in prep for SS. Low bands were FB but noisy the first night due to a big front East of here. Twenty was great the first night with good polar openings. Discouraging to hear some many US stations transmitting from 7020 to 7080, including otherwise top ops at otherwise top stations. FT1000MP w/Inrad, Acom 2000A; Writelog, wires in the woods. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 390,420 Just had a few hours to mess around. Maybe it was just the hours that I was on, but I'm sure this is the highest percentage of South America I've ever had in any WW log! 73, Tim, N4GN n4gn@n4gn.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4IJ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 170,064 100% Search and Pounce. No a single CQ. Rig: Icom IC746PRO. Antenna: HyGain TH5 @ 65 Ft. I think this is the best country count I have had with low power. Sure is tough working Europe from OK compared to my previous East Coast QTH. A big wall of US signals to hear through. Sunday afternoon brought a lot of Africa to the log. The contest was fun, but CQWW CW is even more fun. Doug, N4IJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 300,252 VERY RELAXING CONTEST. LOTS OF ACTIVITY FROM ALL OVER. DIDNT SPEND MUCH TIME,BUT ENJOYED THE TIME I HAD. ENJOYED MEETING NEW FRIENDS AND VISITING WITH OTHERS. 73s JERRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,280,000 CQ WW SSB DX Contest 2006 - N4KG SOAB(A) HP I like collecting Multipliers and tuning around the bands to observe propagation and activity. QRP contesting is compatible with those goals during high sunspots. At the Low end of sunspot activity, I moved up to the Low Power (100W) category to have more fun on the Low Bands. Low Power Assisted produced even more multipliers so I enjoyed that activity. After discovering that CQ groups everyone that uses Packet Spotting into the one and only ASSISTED Category, regardless of power, I decided to go High Power Assisted this year to enable me to work more of the elusive or difficult multipliers in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Welcome to the World of Packet Pileups… This is no place to walk “barefoot”! Conditions this weekend were challenging with stark differences in propagation between the first 24 hours and the second 24 hours due to the magnetic disturbance mid-weekend. From the USA, 20M was the workhorse for the weekend. Several stations from SE Asia were coming through with fair to good signals the second night just before and after my sunset. XX9C had an especially good signal and pileup to go with it. I never did work him, but using VFO B, I ran around making contacts with AH2R, B1Z, B7P, BY1DX, YE0X, and 9M6DXX between calls to XX9C. 40M was GREAT the first night but lacked volume of new stations the second, as usual. Several stations in the Pacific (JA, VK, ZL, AH2R) were easily worked after sunrise. 80M was surprisingly difficult to Europe the first night and noticeably better the second. I was especially surprised and pleased to hear and work several Pacific stations in JA, VK, ZL before my sunrise peak Sunday morning. From Alabama, 160M was the PITS all weekend. The first night I heard (and worked) 6Y1V, a VE3, and a K4 around 0600Z. The second night I heard and worked PJ2T, V26B, more VE’s, and YV4A while the East Coast was happily working all over the Caribbean and Europe. NONE of them were discernible here. Sunday morning I was pleased to pick up XF4DL on 160 to complete 6 bands. 15 Meters opened earlier and stayed open later than expected on Day 1. Foolishly, I just danced between 15 and 20M all morning while more astute contesters (or those watching Packet Spots from ALL Bands) flocked to the European opening on 10 Meters. Such is the price one pays for only watching spots from the current band… Day 2 opened to the SE and never moved beyond EA (and Italy). Back to 20M. UGH! My rate became so bad that I took an hour off to literally walk-the-dog before noon! What a surprise to work a CT1 as my first contact on 10 Meters at 1930Z Saturday followed by CU, EA8, and lots of stations to the SE. Sunday afternoon would have been very boring without all of the activity from the Caribbean and South America on 10, then 15, and finally 20 Meters. Day 1 618 Q’s 103 Zones 326 DXCC (aka Countries) Day 2 315 Q’s 19 Zones 35 (new) DXCC Countries N4KG SOAB (A) High Power 32 Hours (all S&P) from ALA Band QSO Zone DXCC 160 12 6 7 80 93 18 52 40 159 24 83 20 309 31 107 15 274 29 98 10 86 14 31 Total 933 122 378 = 1,280,000 points Multi- 6 Bands 5 Bands 4 Bands 3 Bands Banders 1 PJ2T CU2A T40M CE4CT 2 V26B FM/K9NW CT3YA CN3A 3 XF4DL J3A CT9L CQ9T 4 6Y1V NP2B EA8AH CX6VM 5 P40W EA9LZ DF0HQ 6 (4) PJ4E EI7M DQ4W 7 VE7SV FS/WY3P EA4KR 8 YN2EJ GW4BLE ED3SSB 9 YV4A HB0/HB9 EF8A 10 HD2A TM2T 11 (9) HI3TEJ HG6N 12 HI9L HR2RCH 13 WP2Z IR4X 14 LR2F JA3YBK 15 OE4A AH2R (KH2) 16 OT6A LR1F 17 PS2T LT1F 18 S50A LU7HN 19 TI8M OE2S 20 VE2IM OH0Z 21 VY2TT OM5M 22 VP2MDY OM8A 23 VP5DX PY2SBY 24 YT0A PY2ZXU 25 ZL6QH PR2A 26 ZS9X RU1A 27 3V6T RK2FWA 28 9A1P V51W 29 V73RY 30 (28) VE6AO 31 VP5T 32 VP9I 33 XE1RCS 34 3DA0WW 35 5B/AJ2O 36 6W1RY 37 7W2W (37) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 585,920 Surprisingly long openings on 15m. Can't remember what contesting was like before the cluster! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 97,940 Due to other commitments, missed out on Friday night and all day Saturday. Got on late Saturday night for a few contacts before band went dead. Operated most of Sunday but condx were not good. Can't believe didn't work a single G, ON, GM, SM, OZ, OH, LA, PA, LY, YL, etc.....that part of Europe never opened here on Sunday. 9A's and S5's were very strong along with a few DL's and lots of I's.... Still, like all CQWW Contest, a fun time. Best DX was probably 3C0M. 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PQX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,090,695 Team - Carolina DX Association ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4RV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,047,148 Quite a difference between Saturday and Sunday. That K index of 4 certainly suppressed conditions on Sunday. Saturday conditions had good 15M runs to Europe. We had a huge wind storm on Saturday which broke the 40 M wire beam. That resulted in an emergency re-build that completed at darkness. Otherwise, a fun weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 849,537 The first full-blown contest with new equipment, new antennas and a new QTH (a ridge-top in West Virginia). Therefore, I spent too much time trying things out by punching through to DX rather than going for rate. Next project is to get out of paper logs and into computerized logging, which I hope to have up and running by the ARRL contests. No time to do it by CQWWCW, so I'll still be on paper then. Really slows things down. A big cold front with extremely high winds ripped across the ridge Saturday night. In the dark early Sunday morning I realized that it had gotten harder to crack pileups, even though the MonstIR seemed to be working normally. Also, the paths seemed really skewed. At dawn, I looked out and discovered the MonstIR had shifted about 50 degrees from what the control box was reading. Since the mast was pinned both to the antenna and to the rotator, I'm surprised. Need to do some checking. Spent the rest of the contest applying a 50-degree correction factor. Inverted Vees for 80 and 160 held up okay. Best move I made was jumping on the 10-meter opening on Saturday just as it happened, figuring it might not be there on Sunday. Worked as far north in Europe as EI and as far east as Italy and got a ZL, which I consider a fine opening for this point in the cycle. And there wasn't a good opening Sunday. No receiving antennas yet for 160, so I never worked Europe there. But I did get E51QMA on 160...but, unfortunately, that was on CW on Monday morning. He was loud. 73, Steve N4TX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 49,833 Never enough free time... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,199,872 Considering where we are in the sunspot cycle, conditions were amazingly good the first day but boy what a nose dive after that. Fifteen was full of Europeans and JA's on Saturday, but Sunday only the big guns were coming through. Score almost identical to last year - three less Q's and 11 more multipliers. "Murphy" paid a bit of a visit this year. Was unable to fix a problem with my SO2R hardware before the contest. Had to go with no voice keyer or mic switching on the Orion which basically killed SO2R. Line noise to west - has been there in the past but this time it was S9 at times. QSOs MADE IN EACH ZONE CQWW 2006 PH - N5AW Zone 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ---- --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- 1 - - - 3 - - 3 0.29 2 - 1 1 1 1 - 4 0.39 3 1 3 2 3 20 1 30 2.94 4 3 11 7 17 12 1 51 5.00 5 1 1 3 8 13 1 27 2.65 6 2 4 4 7 4 2 23 2.25 7 - 2 6 9 7 4 28 2.75 8 - 9 15 23 28 15 90 8.82 9 1 6 11 16 18 16 68 6.67 10 - - 2 3 3 2 10 0.98 11 - - 7 19 25 25 76 7.45 12 - - 3 6 7 8 24 2.35 13 - - 4 23 25 32 84 8.24 14 - 4 10 46 75 - 135 13.24 15 - 1 10 40 57 - 108 10.59 16 - - 1 6 2 - 9 0.88 17 - - - 1 - - 1 0.10 18 - - - 2 - - 2 0.20 19 - - - 3 - - 3 0.29 20 - - - 2 5 - 7 0.69 21 - - - - - - 0 0.00 22 - - - - - - 0 0.00 23 - - - - - - 0 0.00 24 - - - 4 2 - 6 0.59 25 - 4 7 33 66 - 110 10.78 26 - - - 1 - - 1 0.10 27 - - 1 - 4 - 5 0.49 28 - - - - 3 - 3 0.29 29 - - - - 1 - 1 0.10 30 - 1 1 8 9 - 19 1.86 31 - 2 1 4 5 - 12 1.18 32 - 2 4 7 9 3 25 2.45 33 - 4 6 10 15 - 35 3.43 34 - - - - 1 - 1 0.10 35 - - - 4 3 - 7 0.69 36 - - - 1 1 - 2 0.20 37 - - - 2 1 - 3 0.29 38 - - 1 2 3 1 7 0.69 39 - - - - - - 0 0.00 40 - - - - - - 0 0.00 RATES - CQWW 2006 PH - N5AW HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ----- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 0 --- --- --- 19/22 38/26 --- 57/48 57/48 0.01M 1 --- --- --- 34/13 17/5 --- 51/18 108/66 0.02M 2 --- --- --- 22/11 --- --- 22/11 130/77 0.03M 3 --- --- 13/18 3/0 --- --- 16/18 146/95 0.04M 4 --- --- 13/10 3/1 --- --- 16/11 162/106 0.05M 5 3/6 10/15 4/5 --- --- --- 17/26 179/132 0.06M 6 --- 2/0 3/6 11/14 --- --- 16/20 195/152 0.08M 7 --- --- 25/16 1/2 --- --- 26/18 221/170 0.10M 8 1/1 3/2 4/2 1/0 --- --- 9/5 230/175 0.11M 9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 230/175 0.11M 10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 230/175 0.11M 11 --- --- 7/3 --- --- --- 7/3 237/178 0.11M 12 --- 4/7 1/1 26/14 3/4 --- 34/26 271/204 0.15M 13 --- --- --- --- 46/26 --- 46/26 317/230 0.20M 14 --- --- --- --- 33/14 --- 33/14 350/244 0.24M 15 --- --- --- 1/0 29/7 3/4 33/11 383/255 0.27M 16 --- --- --- 1/0 13/5 18/12 32/17 415/272 0.31M 17 --- --- --- --- 25/7 8/4 33/11 448/283 0.35M 18 --- --- --- 10/4 19/7 --- 29/11 477/294 0.39M 19 --- --- --- 1/0 36/9 2/2 39/11 516/305 0.43M 20 --- --- --- --- 1/1 37/13 38/14 554/319 0.49M 21 --- --- --- --- 33/8 5/0 38/8 592/327 0.53M 22 --- --- --- 1/0 53/0 --- 54/0 646/327 0.57M 23 --- --- --- 34/11 2/0 1/0 37/11 683/338 0.62M 0 --- --- --- 11/1 --- --- 11/1 694/339 0.64M 1 --- --- --- 20/4 3/1 --- 23/5 717/344 0.67M 2 --- 1/0 9/1 --- --- --- 10/1 727/345 0.68M 3 1/1 5/2 6/3 --- --- --- 12/6 739/351 0.70M 4 --- --- 4/3 18/7 --- --- 22/10 761/361 0.74M 5 2/1 9/7 --- 3/1 --- --- 14/9 775/370 0.77M 6 --- 3/3 6/1 2/0 --- --- 11/4 786/374 0.79M 7 --- 8/6 7/5 --- --- --- 15/11 801/385 0.83M 8 --- 1/1 2/1 --- --- --- 3/2 804/387 0.84M 9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 804/387 0.84M 10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 804/387 0.84M 11 --- 5/2 --- --- --- --- 5/2 809/389 0.85M 12 1/1 4/2 2/0 5/2 --- --- 12/5 821/394 0.87M 13 --- --- 1/2 22/4 --- 1/2 24/8 845/402 0.92M 14 --- --- --- 6/2 18/6 --- 24/8 869/410 0.96M 15 --- --- --- 20/3 1/0 --- 21/3 890/413 0.99M 16 --- --- --- --- 9/4 --- 9/4 899/417 1.01M 17 --- --- --- --- 10/1 8/2 18/3 917/420 1.04M 18 --- --- --- --- 2/2 19/3 21/5 938/425 1.08M 19 --- --- --- 12/2 3/0 4/1 19/3 957/428 1.11M 20 --- --- --- 11/4 6/0 1/0 18/4 975/432 1.14M 21 --- --- --- 6/1 13/0 --- 19/1 994/433 1.16M 22 --- --- --- 6/0 8/0 --- 14/0 1008/433 1.18M 23 --- --- --- 4/3 4/0 4/0 12/3 1020/436 1.20M D1 4/7 19/24 70/61 168/92 348/119 74/35 683/338 D2 4/3 36/23 37/16 146/34 77/14 37/8 337/98 TO 8/10 55/47 107/77 314/126 425/133 111/43 1020/436 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 27,072 80 and 40 meter only effort with dipoles. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ED Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 647,711 I only had a limited time to operate with other family obligations. Was nice to hear 40m open to EU the first night and 20m open the first morning. 15m was barely open to EU from the west coast the first morning so not much opportunity there. Even had some 10m and picked up a few zones there. Nice to see a little 10m at the rock bottom on the SSC! 73 de Craig, N6ED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 83,729 Disappointing condx to EU led to a semi-serious effort. Sigs better LP, but only worked two - heard another dozen who never listened for USA, or couldn't hear me through the crud. Two 4L yagis are not enough! 40m USA calls = 13 VE calls = 34 N.A. calls = 34 S.A. calls = 24 Euro calls = 15 Afrc calls = 11 Asia calls = 13 JA calls = 145 Ocen calls = 23 Total calls = 316 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 21,942 Just playing around, demonstrating the station to a ham neighbor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,745 Oh I wish I had a couple more dB! This was undoubtedly the hardest time I've had in a contest - low power and 10-80m Folded dipole using it strung in the trees. with no radials. I think I got tired of "AGAIN AGAIN" . I really appreciate everyones patience with working my weak signal The first night was fair, with the big guns battling it out on 20 and 40m. Next year I hope to have better antenna system up. 73 all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 79,094 Part time effort to help the CADXA score. Met my goals: make at least one non-USA Q on each band and break 200 Q's. Worked XF4DL for one of the 160 QSOs; they have good ears! Got lots of sleep and saved my voice as well. 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 966 Yaesu FT-100 (Yes... one hundred) 100w 80/40 dipole at 30 feet Just thought I would try to make a few contacts with my VERY modest setup. Nothing like having the other station come back with "again... again... again... November 8 again... again... you're 598" :) Dave N8IA (the other 8IA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 310,445 The sun giveth and the sun taketh away pretty well sums up the weekend, Sunday was a bust with K index as high as 4 and and the bands are still El Stinko as of Monday evening. I was trying to be a good PVRC member and concentrate efforts on SS, so I chose 15 single band. It's a lot different place with a band full of signals than on an average day. I was off the week of Oct 8th and several days had huge pile-ups over 8-10 deep calling me around 14-17Z from Eu as I was one of the few ops active; the WW saw a reversal fortune for sure. I also worked AT6MYL in Mumbai, India the weekend before the contest running barefoot, sigs over S9, no central Asians even heard in the WW, let alone a RA9. Throughout the weekend intermittent Sporadic E enhanced DX propagation. During the first 2 hours ther was Es to the south and west without which there wouldn't have been much of any DX to work and there was a good opening to VE1/9 as well. I didn't attempt to run the VE's concentrating on the DX. By 0130 SA was getting pretty weak; at 0250Z E51JD was worked; he and VK9NS were my only semi-rare countries worked the first evening. ZL's were on in relative abundance. Last QSO was YV4A at 02Z and the same ZL's were still around. 48 Q's/10 zones were worked, much better than expected. I made it to the shack at 1115Z and the band literally sprang to life to Eu at 1120 no doubt due to some helpful Es to VE1 again. I knew better than to try and run thru the Eu working Eu curtain til sigs were available from a large area and loud. I caught PVRC'er Hal at 4X0WV and found ST2T along with 5B/AJ2O, SV9COL, 3DA0WW, and 3V6T. ES5TV did a good job pulling out my S2 signal thru the crud. Starting around 1215 signals acutally went down to the point where there wasn't much new to work; very few Q's were in run mode. About 13Z, the band opened well, but running remained difficult. There was a huge amount of jockeying for a good run frequency and a lot of blatant attempts to take my run frequency from both EU and NA; 15 was no better than the zoo on 20. It wasn't til about 14Z that I was able to hold a run frequency for more than 10-15 minutes. I had to take off a total of 45 minutes during the 1420-1513Z time frame to help with a service man which was unavoidable, and after that I knew I was hopelessly behind. My best rate hour was 15Z where 92 Q's were made in 47 minutes and 9H1DE + HB0/HB9AON called in during my run. Condx continued to be better than expected during the 17Z (worked 88 Q's) and 18Z hour. Many thanks to EA8/DH6FAW who was quite loud for giving me a nice spot to run around 21328 when he went QRT. A few loud Scandinavians/RK2FWA were worked until around 1830Z. I could only run a few stations after I returned from a 30 minute break at 19Z, but there were still plenty of loud sigs from the Mediterranean area. The smallest country with the biggest presence was definitely CT3 with booming signals thru the afternoon. Madeira has become a real hotbed of contest activity. A total of 18 Q's were made with zone 33 about half of which were CT3. My last Eu worked was IM0/IK0FKB at 2046Z; it was amazing how late the Eu/Af signals held in there probably aided by Es and auroral E. My first JA was JA7YRR at 2233Z, but the band didn't open well til over an hour past sunset at 2320Z when I fould JA7NVD over S9 and a good 20 db or so louder than any JA before! Suddenly the band was full of decent strength JA's. I had some good luck easily working AH2C and getting weak DX6M. Then I was calling a weak JA1 who couldn't copy me when JR3IIR and a UA0 called me for my only Asiatic Russian QSO of the contest. By 2345 the JA's were rapidly weakening, a short opening to say the least. S&P produced a better rate than trying to run them. Sunday can best be described as contest torture. I did find about 11 more countries but only managed at total of 91 QSO's all day. Best hour was a whopping 16 Q's at 17Z when there was a weak opening to CT/EA/I only. I only found about 10 new Eu Q's all day. On a positive note the only pile-ups I didn't break were T70A and 5R8GZ (no stateside heard working him) both of which had many Eu callers. Some of the big ones were easy to plow thru. Thanks for the Q's and see you from "rare WV" in both modes of SS. QSO's per zone: 14 - 281, 15 - 153, 20 - 19, 16 only 7, 25 - 29, 30 - 8, zone 32 - 11, 38 - 8, 8 - 36, 9 - 22, 11 - 37, 13 - 33. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 134,044 Very part time, very casual effort between weekend chores. Had some nice runs to Asia. FT-1000MP SB-220 (1200 to 1300 watts out) 4el yagi (26' boom) at 85' KT34-A fixed SE at 37' CU in CW SS!!! 73, Charlie N9CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 2,130 Wx too nice to play radio this weekend. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 267,920 Conditions for most of the first half of the contest were OK for the bottom of a solar cycle. Then propagation went in the tank as the A & K indices rose. 160/80m especially suffered here in central Texas Sat night and even the big Euro stations were a lot weaker on 40m Sat night. 15m suffered as well Sunday AM with very little Eu coming thru. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5Q Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Total Score = 3,690 Concentrated on 10M for a short time this year. Too many things going on in family matters and besides, my buddy, Charles K5UA, was out of town to motivate me to run MS HP with him. Maybe next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1RD Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 61,202 QRP with just a single G5RV up about 50 feet was about as I expected it to be with a few surprises. I worked Hawaii, New Zealand, and a few other far away places. The bands were reasonably quiet so the trick was to speak (and be heard) when nobody else was talking. Most QSOs, once I was in the clear, had easy exchanges. Some were tough, and for that I'm grateful to the good ears on the other end. Surprises, if any, where how effective 10 & 15m were even at the bottom of the cycle. Score is approximate (I'm still working on the score calculation in Cab-converter. N1MM gives me a slightly higher score.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE3F Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,318,900 First day a blast ! Second like going to work!!! Very good mults on 20 and nice Runs. Looking forward to cw . TEAM NE3F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 205,856 Due to knee surgery only operated 8 hrs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG9T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 462,265 Ran M/S so my grandson could help out. He showed up at about 1500Z on Saturday and the wall to wall noise on 20 drove him out of the shack in about 15 minutes. He came back a couple of other times and had a more pleasant experience. A compliment from one of the PJ2T op's made his day. A lot of the time the conditions seemed pretty poor, especially on Sunday morning, but things seemed pretty good at other times, at least on the non-polar paths. Jim K8IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 980,084 Great contest for the bottom of the cycle..Thanks to Glen K1GW for joining us and adding his skills to our group...welcome to KW7A and AD7BN two new aspiring contesters ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ8J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 7,599 Equipment: XCVR: Alinco DX-77T Antenna: Antron A99 I managed to get on for a few hours on Saturday afternoon. As my wire antenna is a wreck and only the Antron vertical is left, I was pretty well limited to the higher bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,647,280 Now that the posting pileup has died down a bit I will throw in the NK7U story. For the 13th year in a row NK7U fielded a multi-op team for CQWW SSB. This year again a M/2, which has become our class of choice since it was instituted in 2002. We have found this to be an ideal class for us at is matches the number of operators we can usually assemble. Though the NK7U station very much would support a M/M operation we can rarely round up enough operators for such an endeavor. (One memorable example on a NK7U M/M was in 1999 CQ WPX SSB contest the story of which can be found on www.nk7u.com.) Before getting into the story let me offer a few broad observations: * First, as has mentioned by several others our score was down about 10% from last year. Our total mults were actually up with some new band records mentioned later. What got us was a 50% or so drop in 15M QSO’s. We also agree that Saturday was a heck of a lot better than Sunday. Of course Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were better than either Saturday or Sunday for those of you monitoring the bands last week. Why does it always seem that way? On Sunday from the 0200 hour through the 1500 hour we did not exceed 50 QSO’s in any one hour and actually averaged 22/hour during that period. For the five hours starting in the 1000 hour we averaged 15/hour. Talk about dedication. * Second, we commend the effort by many of the technology leaders out there to design a standard realtime score posting methodology. And a special thanks to W1VE who actually implemented it, put up a server, and wrote the WriteLog utility. We had fun watching our battle with K0TV, the only other M/2 to post their scores. We were pretty close all weekend. I think we were ahead once when they had power problems related to the weather. Then they pulled ahead Sunday morning -- we closed the gap for a while and then they sprinted to the finish. Despite the postings to the contrary we gained no operating benefit from the score postings. It was fun and motivating to see where our competition was at. And, as in the past, at NK7U we are committed first to having fun and second to competing. This is a hobby after all for 99% of us. * Third, with respect to flurry of postings on zero point QSO’s I will echo K1TTT’s latest posting -- CQWW DX “Is what it is”. Enjoy it like it is or do something else. When WPX added 1 point QSO’s a few years ago it made sense -- it is a contest about working prefixes. CQWW DX is about working DX -- that is why it is called a DX contest. And, for the record the % of stateside QSO’s in our log this year was essentially the same as last year at 15%. * Finally, each year as a M/2 we have compared our score with the top US M/2 score to see how we are doing. And, this year we are proud to see we continue to gain on the competition. Top Post NK7U NK7U as % of top post 2002 N3RS/12.9M 3.0M 23% 2003 K4JA/13.0M 3.6M 28% 2004 K3LR/20.3M 6.2M 30% 2005 N3RS/11.3M 4.0M 35% 2006 N3RS/ 7.4M 3.6M 48% After a three years of “gaining slowly” we made a major jump this year. Because our 2006 score was down only 10% from 2005 while N3RS’s dropped a whopping 35% we made up major ground. We have gained 25% in the past four years for an average of 6% per year. At this rate we might win this thing in another 9-10 years. :) In last year’s writeup I postulated NK7U should be able to get to 50% of the top score by the top of the next solar cycle. Well, we have arrived. The question now is can we hold on? Now getting into the contest itself. This year I will do a band by band summary. 10M ==== Was that a surprise or what? We made five times the QSO’s this year we did last, and we didn’t even get the benefit of the Europe openings the east coast did. As sunrise approached NK7U on Saturday morning we could see the 10M spots on the cluster. The question was what kind of opening would we get in the northwest corner of the US? Our master band opening finder, KL9A, used one of the rigs we had to monitor the band during the day. At 18:34 the first 10M QSO went into the log with ZW5B. We managed a couple of Africans -- C52T and 6W1SE just after 1900. Our big hour was the 2000 hour with 24 QSO’s. The band pretty well closed up for us at 2200 with our last QSO of the day with LU7HN. Sunday certainly was not as good but the band did open enough to extract 9 more precious mults. The band opened right at 1800 with us working PY2MTV. The top hour again was the 2000 hour with 16 QSO’s. And the band closed up at 21:45 though we managed one last QSO at 23:56 with CX2DE. 2006 QSOs 100, Zones 12, Countries 32 2005 QSOs 19 Zones 6 Countries 12 15M === This was the big transition band for us with our QSO count down 50% from last year and mults down 1/3. This is even with the addition of a fixed stack of three 6 element beams aimed at Europe. Last year I think we got away with a lot more than we should have on 15M given the flux level was the same as this year. I think we got what we deserved this year. Despite being generally strong to Europe and JA during the days leading up to the contest, 15M left us short. I know west coast stations further south than us had pretty good openings we were just a bit too far north. At the start of the contest the band was open to JA -- sort of. It slammed shut at 00:45 with just 40 QSO’s in the log and just 18 JA’s. We snuck in one last QSO at 3:41 with XX9C, but that was it. On Saturday morning predictably the band opened to the Caribbean and South America relatively early -- at 14:45 or so, about 45 minutes after sunrise. The first European didn’t go into the log until 16:30 when CT4HA went into the log. Over the next 2 hours we added just 16 Europeans to the log all from the F, EA, CT area. At 18:40 OH8X dropped by for the usual afternoon opening into Scandinavia. Over the next 45 minutes we work a dozen LA, OH and SM stations. During the time the band also opened slightly to central Europe and we worked some of the big guns -- DF0HQ, S50R, YT7Z, and IR4X. This opening was pretty well gone by 2000 and it was back to tracking down Caribbean and South Americans and then the South Pacific mults. The band opened Saturday afternoon to JA at 22:25 which is reasonably early. However the opening was not strong and we worked 50 or so JA’s over the next two hours. The band slammed shut again at 00:45. Sunday was pretty dismal by comparison. It once again opened about 14:30 to the Caribbean and South America. We did not have a single Europe or Africa QSO all day. We heard only one JA -- just a couple minutes before the end of the contest. Total 15M QSO’s for this period -- 110 and 45 of these were zero pointers. 2006 QSOs 444, Zones 29, Countries 81 2005 QSOs 808 Zones 33 Countries 92 20M === This band has always been a “money band” at NK7U and Joe has invested a huge amount of effort in building his 20M capabilities over the years. Currently with a total of 46 total elements on 20M not counting a couple of tri-banders, he has to have one of the biggest 20M antenna assortments around. These are arranged as follows: * Europe Stack 5/5/5/5 * JA Stack 6/6 * Caribbean 4 * Rotating 5/5 This year the station and its operators really showed how strong a 20M capability NK7U has. We set an all time Country total record and our second best total mults level. Looking at the mult totals from the big east coast multi-ops: Zones Countries Total * K3LR (M/M) 40 165 205 What contest were they in? * K1TTT(M/M) 35 139 174 * N3RS (M/2) 37 144 181 * NQ4I (M/2) 37 146 183 * KC1XX(M/M) 39 154 193 * W3LPL(M/M) 40 158 198 * W4RM (M/2) 35 118 153 * K0TV (M/2) 32 132 164 * NK7U (M/2) 38 146 184 What is also amazing is that NK7U missed Zones 29 and 30 and VK and ZK1/s as countries because of the hills behind the QTH. (See the photo on www.nk7u.com to get an idea.) If we didn’t have this hill we would have been 40X148 or so. The band was open to JA, OH-Land and South America at the start of the contest. Soon after we started working into Zone 18 and 19. Two years ago in our only ever 40 Zone effort, Zone 19 was our last zone and by the end of the first hour this year we had 4 of them in the log. Go figure. At 00:50 TU2/F5LDY called in as a total surpise. A couple QSO’s later ZC4T was in the log for another good one. The JA’s started slowing down after an hour but we continued to work into Zone 18 and 19, OH-land, and then a few Zone 16’s started calling in as well. We did get a fairly good opening into deep Asia to work the “stans”, though not an epic opening as in the last couple of years. Calling in were HS, several UN’s, EX, 9K, 4L, 5B and JT. A real surprise was 9N7JO who we caught CQing. The band stayed open reasonably late with our last QSO’s around 0500. The next morning the band opened around 12:45 toward the Caribbean. It was not until 14:30 that Europeans were coming in and we started working them. The band was not quite runnable and it took until 15:30 to get our runs going when W7ZRC squeezed in at 14186. He managed to hold that frequency for 30 minutes and worked a very respectable 54 stations in that time. It took us 20 minutes to find another run frequency when K7MK settled in at 14161.In the next 40 minutes we worked 74 stations. We S&P’s and had short runs until the band closed up to Europe about 2000. For the morning and afternoon we had 300 European QSO’s. Just as the band closed to Europe it opened to JA and we settled into running JA and Asia. The band closed down in that direction much earlier -- around 1:45 or so. For the next couple of hours we picked up a few South Americans but the opening to Zones 16, 17, 18, 19 we had Friday night was just not there. Following a similar pattern the band opened much later on Sunday morning as well. Our first European didn’t go into the log until 15:50 more than an hour later than Saturday and it was not runnable until 16:30 though thankfully it stayed open just about as late - until 2000. During this day’s opening we added 155 Europe QSO’s to the log -- about half of the day before. Each contest always has a couple of good stories in it. This year one occurred at 15:20 Saturday with SF7WT called in on 20M. Stan said: “I heard you last night at 3AM local on 20M, you were the only stateside signal on the band” That kind of report we will take any time. 2006 QSOs 1314, Zones 38, Countries 146 2005 QSOs 1469 Zones 35 Countries 137 40M === This year another big improvement in NK7U’s antenna arsenal is a 3 element beam currently fixed on JA. By NK7U standards this is not a large antenna but it is in a critically important location. After the first couple of years of operation at the current NK7U QTH we began to feel we were missing something on 40M. Comparing logs with other stations in the area showed we just were not making the JA QSO’s we should. We then modeled the rotating 4 element beam with N6BV’s amazing HFTA program and found it had a major null at the main JA arrival angles. We then examined other locations on NK7U’s towers and found that even a small 40M antenna on his JA towers would outperform the current 4 element beam by 10-15db. W7ZRC was kind enough to donate an old 3 element KLM and up it went on the tower. We didn’t get much of a chance to test it before the contest so it was in real life contest conditions that we found out how well the design worked. And, it worked just as planned. KL9A’s comments were “I have never had JA runs on 40M from NK7U like this before. The 3 element beam is 2-3 S-units better than the 4 element beam.” K7ZO had several 59+30 and 59+40db reports from JA stations. Our JA 40M QSO totals were well up from last year. We also set an all time 40M QSO record this year. So, the project was a success. This is one of the best testaments of using modern modeling software and seeing the results I can think of. If you have not used N6BV’s HFTA get a copy from the ARRL today -- it comes with the Antenna Book. We also had another 40M spot story this year. Last year, checking out NK7U spots after the contest we found this amazing entry. LX1KC 7213.8 NK7U 59 , NOON HERE 1001 30 Oct 2005 We didn’t actually work LX1KC which was a bit disappointing. This year this spot was found. C52T 7187.5 NK7U QSX 7053 Booming in hr 0744 29 Oct 2006 This spot was about 45 minutes after C52T’s sunrise. At the time we were working JA’s so he was actually off the back of the 3 element beam. And, as last year, we didn’t actually work him. Next year guys -- hang in there and work us please! 2006 QSOs 435, Zones 31, Countries 85 2005 QSOs 398 Zones 31 Countries 88 This was our third year in a row with 31 zones 80M === We also set an all time QSO record on 80M this year breaking the 400 QSO barrier. We also had our second best mult total ever. NK7U added a beverage system this year with a 720’ beverage toward EU and a 480’ one East/West. This will certainly give us a broader listening range when working into Europe as Joe’s beam has a very narrow bandwidth. However, conditions that way were not so good this year and we had just 5 QSO’s with some of the big gun stations in the south -- TM2Y, IR4X, etc. Continuing, operating wise there was good news/bad news this year. On the good news front the radar problem seems to have moved off this band. We noticed it on the lower part of 40M on Friday night, but that was it. So, much better than last year. On the bad news sign is there appeared a new operating style by JA operators in their small segment of the band from 3794 to 3804. In several cases stations would fire up right next to us and then listen split just above or below this band segment. This was very disruptive and led to some short nerves on our end. 2006 QSOs 407, Zones 26, Countries 58 2005 QSOs 398 Zones 27 Countries 60 160M ==== A pretty uneventful year for us on 160M. We were working the day before the contest to put up a four square 160M half-wave sloper system. We had everything rigged and pulled up two of the four antennas to find out the center insulators had various physical failures. So, we gave up on that project and operated the contest with the good old ¼ wave ground plane. Most DX were the Caribbean and South America multi-ops. We did manage to snag ZL6QH for some real DX. 2006 QSOs 33, Zones 8, Countries 14 2005 QSOs 82 Zones 9 Countries 17 I could go on and on, but this is enough. Check out more good NK7U material on our website, www.nk7u.com. Scott/K7ZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM6E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,175 I just dabled a bit to work stations that are in countries I have been visiting or will be going to for business and wanted to hear which stations were active. I have to go next week to Argentina (Sunday night) for a business trip and a convention, Cisco's Networkers. I will be gone for 2 weeks and, arriving Saturdary for SS SSB. Add to that a mini-birthday part for my son (turning 2), so the amount of time for SS CW will not be as much as I would like but I WILL be fresh meat either Saturday or Sunday just prior to departing the house Sunday late afternoon. I anticipate to be on Saturday evening and hand out as many Q's as possible on 80m/40m for SS CW. I return from my trip on Saturday afternoon, 11/18, so I will most likely take advantage of Sunday 11/19 to be fresh meat to a degree in the AM. If I get off a plane after being away for 2 weeks and go directly to get on the radio, I may not have a shack any more if I travel again! I should be able to get on from LU land, I have a few stations that I will be having dinner with and hopefully, operate from in Buenos Aires. Javier NM6E soon to be LU/NM6E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN2W Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 118,590 Station played well. Look forward to CQWW CW for all bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3Q Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,411,024 Had one highlight Sunday evening. After working a DK on 40m, I spotted him on the cluster. Then immediatelly after pushing the enter key, I heard him say, "thanks for the spot". At which time I replied "your welcome" and then there was a chuckle on his 40m frequency. It was pretty cool to be using ham radio and spotting cluster at the same time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,042,260 A huge thankyou to N3HBX for the use of the Poolesville station this time. John usually does this one from there but relinquished it to me. Good conditions on Saturday, bad conditions Sunday. If only Sunday was a good day - conditionwise. I've improved a lot of operator skills, but need to work on others (i.e., weak signal perception and patience on 40 meters). I still cannot get 40 meters to work for me! Congrats to K4ZW, W9RE, and K5ZD. More later...Time for a nap. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 660,240 This was Multi-operator from my "new" Vashon Is. QTH with the members of the Vashon-Maury Island Radio Club (W7VMI), many of who were brand new to CQWW. We had a single radio (no mult radio) and an occasional dial-up connection for spots. Goals were to earn a bunch of points for the Western Washington DX Club cummulative trophy competition, and have a good time - so all goals were accomplished! Only a BC filter smoked, leaving all the important radio, amp, towers and antennas working. I'm really pleased we made a DXCC on 20m in one weekend, and had some good activity on 10m. Equipment: Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 Writelog 160m inverted L with 2.5 radials 80 slopers E and W shorty 40 at 50ft 3 el Steppir at 55 ft C3 tribander at 55 ft Beverage receiving antennas NE and SE. Rate Sheet: QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 2/4 32/28 --+-- 34/32 34/32 D1-0100Z - - - 43/37 4/1 - 47/38 81/70 D1-0200Z - - - 27/3 - - 27/3 108/73 D1-0300Z - - 9/14 5/0 - - 14/14 122/87 D1-0400Z - - 7/7 - - - 7/7 129/94 D1-0500Z 2/3 9/13 1/0 - - - 12/16 141/110 D1-0600Z - - 3/4 - - - 3/4 144/114 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 144/114 D1-0800Z 6/4 9/10 4/5 --+-- --+-- --+-- 19/19 163/133 D1-0900Z - 12/11 10/4 - - - 22/15 185/148 D1-1000Z - - 3/5 - - - 3/5 188/153 D1-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 188/153 D1-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 188/153 D1-1300Z 1/0 5/0 - - - - 6/0 194/153 D1-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 194/153 D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 194/153 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 40/25 --+-- --+-- 40/25 234/178 D1-1700Z - - - 30/14 7/10 - 37/24 271/202 D1-1800Z - - - - 9/10 35/12 44/22 315/224 D1-1900Z - - - - 13/11 24/9 37/20 352/244 D1-2000Z - - - 5/4 21/3 2/3 28/10 380/254 D1-2100Z - - - 20/20 11/7 - 31/27 411/281 D1-2200Z - - - 10/8 30/4 4/4 44/16 455/297 D1-2300Z - - - 26/9 20/4 - 46/13 501/310 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 501/310 D2-0100Z - - - 25/0 4/1 - 29/1 530/311 D2-0200Z - - - 9/1 - - 9/1 539/312 D2-0300Z - - 5/2 7/0 - - 12/2 551/314 D2-0400Z 3/2 2/0 3/4 - - - 8/6 559/320 D2-0500Z 1/0 5/2 7/4 - - - 13/6 572/326 D2-0600Z - - 2/0 - - - 2/0 574/326 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 574/326 D2-0800Z --+-- 2/1 4/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 6/3 580/329 D2-0900Z - 2/3 5/4 - - - 7/7 587/336 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/336 D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/336 D2-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/336 D2-1300Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/336 D2-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/336 D2-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 587/336 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 7/0 --+-- --+-- 7/0 594/336 D2-1700Z - - - 12/1 6/1 - 18/2 612/338 D2-1800Z - - - 17/0 4/1 - 21/1 633/339 D2-1900Z - - - 6/3 2/1 27/9 35/13 668/352 D2-2000Z - - - 2/1 8/1 - 10/2 678/354 D2-2100Z - - - 3/1 7/0 3/0 13/1 691/355 D2-2200Z - - - 1/1 15/0 - 16/1 707/356 D2-2300Z - - - 12/3 13/2 - 25/5 732/361 Total: 13/9 46/40 63/55 309/135 206/85 95/37 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,800,000 more later ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR3X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 712,842 I wanted to do more, but I was just to tired to keep on searching and pouncing. CW is so much nicer! Managed to work one European on 10M Saturday...that was the highlight for me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 175,030 Lots of fun as always, even though I know my no-tower/no-beam setup has no chance of really competing in this contest, especially in these down solar times. Most of my op time was at night, or in small 10 minute bursts through the daylight hours while dealing with the family, carving pumpkins, watching football, meals, etc. If you had a QSO with me, it was on tape, as I used 100% recorded voice files with Writelog again for this contest. I did CQ a bit on 75 meters and found a few VE's, but that was it for the CQ Machine. Look for full voice files operation in the November SS SSB! The voice files really did their job as usual late at night, so I could contest without disturbing the XYL or kids. But they really proved their mettle during the day when I was balancing the 2-month old and keyboard at the same time...many Q's were completed with my boy screaming at the top of his lungs - but none of that was heard on the air! (Just my own personal source of QRM, eh?) Highlights included working XF4DL on 80/40/20 for new band countries. The only other new one was CE on 15, which for some reason has always eluded me. The 10 meter opening on Sunday was nice - a reminder of the way things used to be when I would work mountains of Papa Papa stations from PY. My antenna highlight was my new 40 meter inverted L that allowed me to actually be heard in Europe this year. In fact, I worked more Europe on 40 than 20 - as that band was really tough for on my low power signal on Sunday. Lowlights included losing four daylight hours on Saturday to a power outage. The big bummer was that I had set aside that time to operate. Instead I used half of it to do antenna work. My antenna lowlight is thanks to Mother Nature, who knocked down my 80 meter inverted vee this summer. I replaced it with an inverted L, but you could tell the difference - ZERO Q's with Europe. Not good. See you in the SS/CW, SS/SSB and CQ WW CW. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000's inverted L's on 160, 80 and 40 W4OP EF dipoles on 10, 15 and 20 QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z 3/4 --+-- 5/9 --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/13 8/13 01-0100Z - 2/2 9/9 - - - 11/11 19/24 D1-0200Z 1/0 1/0 4/3 - - - 6/3 25/27 D1-0300Z - 3/0 8/4 - - - 11/4 36/31 D1-0400Z - 4/1 1/0 - - - 5/1 41/32 D1-0500Z 1/0 3/3 9/7 - - - 13/10 54/42 D1-0600Z - 1/2 5/9 - - - 6/11 60/53 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 60/53 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 60/53 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 60/53 D1-1000Z - 2/2 1/0 - - - 3/2 63/55 D1-1100Z - 6/0 8/4 - - - 14/4 77/59 D1-1200Z - - - 3/5 6/9 - 9/14 86/73 D1-1300Z - - - 2/2 6/8 - 8/10 94/83 D1-1400Z - - - 3/3 4/5 - 7/8 101/91 D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 101/91 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/0 7/5 1/2 9/7 110/98 D1-1700Z - - - - - - 0/0 110/98 D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 110/98 D1-1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 110/98 D1-2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 110/98 D1-2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 110/98 D1-2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 110/98 D1-2300Z - - 1/0 4/6 - - 5/6 115/104 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 2/1 3/2 --+-- --+-- 5/3 120/107 D2-0100Z - 3/0 - - - - 3/0 123/107 D2-0200Z 2/0 - - - - - 2/0 125/107 D2-0300Z 2/0 - 10/3 - - - 12/3 137/110 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 137/110 D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 137/110 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 137/110 D2-0700Z 2/0 2/2 5/4 1/2 - - 10/8 147/118 D2-0800Z --+-- 1/2 10/8 --+-- --+-- --+-- 11/10 158/128 D2-0900Z 2/2 5/4 4/2 - - - 11/8 169/136 D2-1000Z 1/0 1/0 2/1 - - - 4/1 173/137 D2-1100Z - 1/0 - 1/1 - - 2/1 175/138 D2-1200Z - - - 12/12 8/7 - 20/19 195/157 D2-1300Z - - - 6/5 6/4 - 12/9 207/166 D2-1400Z - - - 2/1 - - 2/1 209/167 D2-1500Z - - - 9/7 4/3 - 13/10 222/177 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 1/1 --+-- --+-- 1/1 223/178 D2-1700Z - - - 3/3 10/3 16/12 29/18 252/196 D2-1800Z - - - 3/1 7/6 14/9 24/16 276/212 D2-1900Z - - - 5/2 6/6 1/1 12/9 288/221 D2-2000Z - - - 10/5 2/0 - 12/5 300/226 D2-2100Z - - - 1/1 - - 1/1 301/227 D2-2200Z - 1/0 - 6/3 1/0 - 8/3 309/230 D2-2300Z - - - 4/0 - - 4/0 313/230 Total: 14/6 36/18 84/64 80/62 67/56 32/24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS4T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 385,605 Thanks to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT0F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 47,875 This was my first DX contest from my new QTH. The tower is not back in the air,so this was with a multiband dipole strung in the trees. Boy, do I miss my tri bander! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT1N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 148,626 RIG: ORION 2 566AT ANTENNAS: 160 DOUBLE L, HOHP LOOP @ 60' 80 HOHP LOOP @ 60', DOUBLE L 40 HOHP LOOP @ 60', HUSTLER 5BTV 20 HOHP LOOP @ 60', HUSTLER 5BTV 15 HOHP LOOP @ 60', HUSTLER 5BTV 10 HOHP LOOP @ 60', HUSTLER 5BTV SOAPBOX: Had fun (I think!). Boy, this is the first CQWWDX I've done in a long time, had forgotten how brutal it can be especially on 20m. Just played when I could make time in between home duties. Wind and rainstorm made things interesting but no major visits from Murph (unlike Joe, W1AO, nearby. You shoulda called me, Joe!) This was a total S&P effort, without directional antennas. Missed out on good condx reported on 20 on Sat but 15 and 10 surprised me. Sat nite disappointing on 80 & 160 especially, Sunday kinda blah overall. Next year hope to have better antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 652,000 I was faced with the typical "life QRM" this weekend. Can't even recall all that was going on but between kids (7 and 9), XYL's birthday on Sunday, radio club cookout Saturday afternoon/evening, church, going with son #2 to his Indian Guides "tribe meeting," and some house painting I was only able to muster a few "select" hours here and there. I was on for small segments of time, usually and hour or two but sometimes as short as 15 minutes for a whopping total of around 13 hours. It was great to hear many PVRCer's out there. Most of my activity was S/P....only "ran" about 150 Q's. Lot's of fun..can't wait for the return of the sun spots! 73, jeff nx9t FT1000d Single 3-500z 2 el. quad @ 72' 40m Rotatable dipole at 75' Assorted wires (40, 80, and 160) www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OA4WW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,805,007 Many thanks to Radio Club Peruano for hosting me. Special thanks to Manuel, OA4AHW and Pablo, OA4DJW for their help in setting up the station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,059,568 first M/2 in SSB was quite a challenge, good condx on saturday especially on 10 and 15m, 160m-antennas came down in storm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE4A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,661,140 It´s look like i will never learn this leason. Once again i get to tired into contest. To much work prepearing station and OE4A web (www.oe4a.com). I had very bad start with first hour 73 and second 117 QSO´s/h, also lost about 50 min first day hanging on tower and replacing conector on 20m yagi, nevertheless finish first day with about 3100 QSO´s. After 24 hours of contest i was very tired and i got some backache which was from minute to minute stronger and stronger and i decide to take short brake. After 2 hours of sleep i was´t in better shape and i was thinking about to abort the contest operation. But thinking about what my friends and my self allready have done for this contest i decide to continue. Second day wasn´t so good as first and i did´t have enough concetration and power to do more 2nd radio operation. Also very bad wetter condx with much QRN in last 6 hours of contest made operation not quite easy. I finish with about 5200 qso´s (only abt 320 qso´s in last 6 hours); with much lower QSO and multi nummber´s as i expected. I clearly missed my target. First time operated SO2R with Wintest and EZ Master. Both works great, but i still need more time to get more confortable with it! Thanks again to Rainer OE1RLC, Walter OE1WWA, Wolfgang OE3WLB big support once again and also Andy RW3AH for helping me to bring all new antennas up! Thanks Chris OE8CIQ for OE4A Web support and everybody else helping and supporting me and OE4A! Thanks for QSO´s and i hope to work you in CW part. Detailed Station setup is available on our web page www.oe4a.com 73 es best dx de OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE9R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,196,780 Equipment and antennatest, operatortraining, many visitors and lots of FUN! Thanks for all the contact´s, some pics at: www.oe9.oevsv.at/adl901 73ss OE9R - Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH1F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,851,564 CU on CW from CT8T! 73, Timo OH1NOA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH6AC Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 33,600 Equipment: Icom IC-756PRO III, 1kw PA, TRLog. 4-el rotatable yagi 39m agl. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH6NIO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,336,270 As my 20 m stack had a problem with the phasing lines and thus it didn't work very well I was mainly just testing WinTest-logger and having fun while chasing dx on the bands. The low bands were just terrible here in the north. The big guns from the east coast could not copy my signal on 80 m. FY5KE had a very good signal on 160 m as well as on the other bands. Unfortunately 15 m did not open well in our evening to the west coast. 10 m was a nice surprise on the bottom of the cycle but on sunday the bands were wiped out by the aurora. I'll have my 20 m feedlines repaired by the CW-leg so I'll put in a bit more serious effort then. 73 & thanks for the QSOs de Teijo OH6NIO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH7M Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 845,748 I had two alternatives this year; Either 20 SOSB or 40 SOSB. OH7M antennas on both bands are quite OK (5/5 monobander stack + several other single antennas on 20 m and 3/3 stack + 3 el on 40 m) However I decided to go to 20m due its a bit pain to work 40 SSB from this part of the world since OH is still limited to TX 7-7.1 MHz. I had some technical issues which prevented me to utilize all the 20 m antennas; However I had KT34XA fixed to 200 deg (EU) and 5 over 5 stack rotating, both played well. 20 meter start was slow, I managed to log only 100 qs on couple first hours, then the band went silent and I was feeling tired and I took a “nap” 2Z-5Z. Saturday morning hours produced best qso/hour in whole contest, mostly EU but some AS came in pretty well. At 14332 I was forced to leave the frequency by some DL OM’s who said that they have been in this same freq. last 31 years even I had been there more than hour logging qsos! I also got offended by some German words like "ar** l***" Probably they though I did not understand. Anyway it was 31 yrs experience of Ham Spirit on that freq. Saturday evening I had few short opening to US but could not get run going. I heard OH8’s logging NA stations so probably propagation did not reached east Finland that well. One other thing I noticed during the contest that I cannot stay awake 40+ hours, at least without any preparations. There is only one thing which can prevent me to fall as sleep when I’m tired; a big pileup ? There were not too may of them during the weekend, or they were just way too short. We’ll try to get M/S or M/2 team for CW part so CU then. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, De Mikko OH4XX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8GZN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 33,375 Had fun time operating, though my G5RV didn' worked on 40/80m as expected. Upper bands were pretty ok. Thanks for your patience and all the Q's and multis! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8L Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 958,550 Again working with N1MM software, its work quite well only twice go down with windows. Starting of the contest was difficult, power line was cut off during snowstorm and I lost two first hours. On saturday I lost powers quite many times for som seconds.... Look station information www.oh8lq.com Jari OH8LQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,598,205 Radios : FT1000MP MarkV + FT1000MP + amp Antennas : www.radioarkala.com Software : Win-Test 3.5.0 Soapbox : Learning SO2R. Unfortunately, as the hours went by, and the more "phlegmatic" the operator became, the more SO1R it still was to become. :( Highlight: a 2 hour opening to NA on 15m on Saturday night. Where were all the JA's? Way too few NA logged on 40m, too. :( Not happy with 80m-160m qsos either. Must put more effort on low bands on CW, although the condx don't look too promising. At one point the computer started an "intensive discussion" with radio 2, having almost no time for anything else - like for example adding qsos. Fortunately the interface problem was found and solved, cutting off some valuable operating time, though. Without the absolutely obligatory break on Sunday night I probably wouldn't have made it to the end. For the last hours I watched somebody else playing with the radio(s) and the keyboard, using my hands. Luckily enough, "he" seemed to be quite developable - so I'd better make a deal with him for the CW weekend, too. Have to tell him not to forget the low bands either. :) MNI TNX Veijo & Juha ! CU on CW - OH8X - dit dit 73 de Pasi OH6UM/OH2IW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2ZAW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 105,570 Thanks all for QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 951,944 ANT 2x5Y full size @52/26m + single el. delta loop. Once more I went for 40m SB. First day was reasonable propagation, since midnight quite a bad one. Second night even big guns like W3LPL, K3LR, KC1XX etc. were sometimes 55. All the others were than not audible at all ! I have worked only ONE zone 3 station the second night. At around 1300Z sunday my IC756PROIII emitted huge smoke and even flames were visible inside. It still played as RX but TX was dead - so I switched it off. Set up old IC737A but I felt people are calling but I have heard mostly JAM!!!. So Next TRX came on the TT ORION - I do not like it on SSB - it is horrible but nothing else left so I had to go with it until the end and I have to say - it was a difference ! Another problem was I was unable to set voice keyer for ORION so I had to go old-fashion way with mike only. So this all had cost me at least 1.5 hour. Also few storms were near by in total maybe 2-3 hours my receiving capability was very limited... to say it loud I was deaf. For some comparison with last year a few "interesting" zones: zone 3 4 5 14 15 16 17 25 32 2005 16 200 435 960 403 252 63 196 11 2006 56 220 482 1059 482 262 58 120 15 I wonder if the old-new call OK5R helped a bit ? I had a feeling it did. The "Etalons" big EU MM stations as a rule of thumb made a bit less on 40m this year compared to last.... With the total score I am well over very old Eu record of 9A1UN from 1992 - the pre-error checkout era - after last year disastrous UBN check-out I do not know. I usually do not finish so bad... I was trying hard this year so we will see. This year my buddy OK1RF will be in CT for CQWW-CW so I will be probably again on 40m SB - Hope to work you all again. 73 ! Jiri OK1RI - OK5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK7M Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 860,890 Nice contest, the conditions were much better on saturday, on sunday there was no good opening to NA and the sormy wx caused high static noise level. Amazing short skip conditions all the time, I never worked so many EU contacts on 20m in contest before. Missed some country mults because my 756proIII refused to transmit below 14.110 on USB :( The setup was IC-756proIII + PA and the antennas 3 5 el modified ZX yagis. the following link contains some pictures from the contest site http://picasaweb.google.com/ok1dig/CQWWSSB_2006 73 ! Daniel / OK7M ( OK1DIG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL1X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,937,472 RIG: position A - Icom 756 Pro II + TL922 position B - FT1000 mV Field + TL922 ANT: inv Vee for 160m, vert. loop for 80m, 5 el OWA for 20m, 6 el OWA for 15m, ECO tribander with 40m ext. kit. This year I joined again OL1X crew for CQ WW SSB contest, this time also with my daddy. Thanks to some investment made to the technology since the last year and a great work done by Pavel OK4PA in few days and nights before the contest, we were able to set up 2 operating positions for the very first time. Great fun - though none of us had any previous experience in M/S operation and we struggled on low bands and in tactics, the benefit is evident. I'm also very happy the monobander for 15m seems to work now fine as well, it looks we finally found the way how to fix it. Due to the wind storm, we lost our 80m loop during the second night, what was discovered later on Sunday, so lot of time was wasted on 80m with no chance to make more then just marginal number of QSOs :-) Because of this and because almost all operators had to leave quite early and could not stay to the end of the contest, we quickly decided to stop on Sunday evening and dismantle the gear in peace. Thanks to anyone who made a call and see you next time. And as always - big thanks to Radek, OK1MAL, for all his support and help. 73! Radim, OK1FDR (on behalf of OL1X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3X Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 17,499 old TRX TS830S, ant. delta loop 170m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4W Class: SOSB/160 QRP Total Score = 6,996 Never more ssb 160m and QRP hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,437,002 Great contest. Other info: www.OL7R.net TNX and see you in the CW part. 73 de OL7R team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL9Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 489,000 Nice contest,but WX-condition was bad.We was strong wind at Sunday,rotator was broken antena beaming to NA. Rig:TS690,PA 800w,ant 5el yagi 25m agl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM0M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,371,680 We started the contest like M2 but after few hours we were switched to M/M from very simple reason that number of allowed band changes was “overflowed”. So small M/M with 3xFT1000MP+OM Power AMPS were reality. The M/M category even with small setup is the biggest fun I am experienced up to day. TNX for all team members: OM1KW,OM1II,OM3CGN,OM3DX,OM3TWM,OM6KW,OM7ZZ,OM8AW,OM8DD,OM0WR The highlight of the contest are 10M openig + application of new software. Wintest network even with old PC’s worked flawlessly. CU in CW part OM8AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM5M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,416,392 www.om3kff.sk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM8A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,234,179 After 3 years of hard work on our masts and antenna systems it was finally time for our hamshack . It has undergone major improvements and was almost fully automated. Thanks to the band decoders and antenna switches from the company MicroHam and other switching systems from OM2KW our work during the contest became efficient and fast, especially in the area of switching between bands and antennas. The whole network of cables and relays worked 100% during the contest and also our amplifiers from OM Power. Wolfgang OE3WLB has also a big part on the good results as he prepared a lot of band filters. We used the contest software from N1MM as usually. The system worked 100% without a single fallout for 48 hours, although a small upgrade of our computers was needed. Thanks for this FB software. Despite the powerful technical improvement of our work stations we didn’t succeed to reach last year’s results because of a higher ionosphere. Even though, the sum of connections and multipliers is higher than last year. The condx on Saturday were very good and it seemed that we could reach 7000 QSO’s. After the first half of the contest we had 3700 QSO’s and it filled us with optimism but on Sunday the condx changed drastically and the 15m band, which was our hope, closed up totally. On Saturday we made ca. 1100 connection on 15m, on Sunday only around 50. On Sunday 15m didn’t open at all towards Japan and in the afternoon it was also closed towards North America. We spent the morning on 10m, where some shortskips appeared, and we made around 150 QSO’s within Europe. The main band was 20m, where we had predominantly connections to Europe. So the average points for connection has been rapidly decreasing under 2. Sunday evening we were desperately seeking for opportunities and so we ended up switching between lower bands. Therefore, points weren’t coming as we were used to from previous years. We can say, that the DX conditions were the worst what we experienced so far, at least in Central Europe. Despite these hostile conditions we are satisfied with the results. We thank to everybody who has called us and we are looking forward to hear each in CQ WW CW under better conditions. We would also like to congratulate to 9A1P for achieved results. 73 and GL OM8A team www.om8a.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ4T Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 127,551 First time contest with my new vanity callsign. Tnx a million to all, and see you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 420,180 A tough nut to crack, with 20m fully loaded with big signals. Unassisted so I had to dig for my own gold. The problem is some operators rely on their packet pile up and don't ID very often (unless their call is QRZ?). Sometimes I decied to jump in and work 'm and then ask for their call. Luck was on my side, it weren't dupes. The good thing about the band being so packed was you had to listen for every possible clear frequency to start a run. That way I encountered many (weak) DX mults. Also, two times I returned to my old running QRG after a S&P excursion to find it taken by... a double mult! Woohoo ;o) Sadly missed out on some easy double mults (KL + KH6) and I bailed out early without a LU country mult. How did that happen??? Tired and fed up with SSB I guess - long live CW! For KH6 I might blame conditions but I worked a true KL1 on Friday when checking the setup and I worked a dozen PY so LU should have been possible too. CU in WW CW, hopefully SOAB with beter pre-contest preparation... Stuff used that wears Mr. Murphy's Contesting Seal of Approval: * TS-850 + 1 kW * KLM KT-34XA @ 21m. * N1MMLogger 6.10.10 * the brand new MK2R+ interface 73 de Franki ON5ZO / OQ5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT6A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 13,667,120 We are still checking the log-files. After completing we will put the final score here again to inform you all. Again these contest we had a large number of new contest operator, all willing to learn. We had also our special guest Murphy (with all fam members hi).The technical team in the crew had a full time job these contest. It was again a great event for the crew and we will be there again in the WPX. Starting from next year, 2007, we will operate in contests always with the same callsign: OT5A. Th call will not change every year again as till now. If you like more info pse see at WWW.ON7LR.ORG You will read soon more about the score, crew and the story.... Best regards, 73 Guy ON7NB for OT6A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT6W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 521,381 WITH OUR BETTER ANTENNAS WE GET BETTER RESULTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ3RIN Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 854,733 When you have to put equipment from different persons together into a contest team for the first time, you are glad to start early. We started early Friday evening (local time) and had some problems with computers, network, antennas, cables etc. However, we were finished to get on air on time. This time we do not forget any equipment to be picked up 1 hour after the contest starts. Highlight The new 4:1 balun for our low band loop did succeed to manage 1 kW. The very good conditions on 10 M so far north (117 different DXCC’s) Lowlights We burned the band filter on 40 M because we by a mistake placed it AFTER the amplifier. The band filter on 10 M was from start out of order. Suddenly we did have high SWR and low power on 10 Rig: Station 1: FT-1000MP MK-V ETO 91B, Heil headset, MFJ-434 Voice Keyer Station 2: TS-850, FL-7000, Heil Headset Logprogram: Writelog for Windows version 10.61 Antennas: 3 el beam for 10, 15 and 20 M, 40 M vertical, loop for 160 and 80 M QSL via OZ0J. QSL card should be printed before Christmas. Also QSL via LOTW CUAGN on CQWW CW and 160 M SSB On behalf of the team OZ0J Jorgen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,143,500 Six years ago I operated my first CQ WW Phone contest from Aruba. I stayed at a rental home and operated field day style using a small tribander at 30 ft. A year later I purchase a home, which I named Iguana Villa, and I started building a more serious contest station. I did the best that I could from a small residential lot near the hotel area. During this trip, with the help of WD9DZV / P40D, I finished installing a second tower for the 10m and 15m beams. When I purchased this home, I never imaged having so much aluminum in the air. All of the antennas, except for the 40m OptiBeam are homebrew and built very heavy duty. Being close to the sea seems to offer some signal enhancement and also plenty of corrosion problems. I also changed the guy wires this trip since the four year old ones were looking pretty rusted. A current picture with antenna descriptions is on http://www.qrz.com/p40a. The contest starts at 8:00pm local time in Aruba and coincidently 20m nearly closes at the same time making for a slow start and forcing me to the low bands sooner than I like. 40m was in excellent shape all night and I had an unbelievable Japan run on for an hour starting at 0830z. 80m and 160m were good, but a little noisy. When the sun came up in the morning I ran Europe on 20m and 15m. I did not experience a great 15m European opening and after 18 hours in the chair I was disappointed with my QSO total. Finally 15m opened to the US and I had some nice rates in the upper 200s and one 303 hour. I had my second radio on 10m listening for any openings and that band opened during my good 15m opening. Since I was finally logging a lot of contacts I hesitated in changing bands and unfortunately missed some of this rare 10m opening. After the 10m and 15m runs, 20m became hot to the U.S. and Japan and at the halfway point my QSO total was looking pretty good. The second day was a basically a repeat, 80m and 160m were even noisier so I took a three hour break and had dinner and a nap. Since I struggled at times to make a lot of QSOs, I spent less time hunting for multipliers that I should have and I missed a lot of easy ones. Conditions were better than predicted and this was definitely another fun CQWW contest. It was also great to see W2GD / P40W and AE6Y / P49Y again. Thanks for all of the QSOs, especially the 14 who worked me on all six bands and the 52 who worked me on five bands. Please QSL via WD9DZV. 73, John p40a@iguanavilla.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,449,828 Rig: IC756ProIII, Alpha 87A SO1R Antennas: 160: Vertical Dipole, Inverted V @ 70' 80: 3 ele wire yagi pointed EU @ 60', Inverted V @ 70' 40: 4 ele wire yagi pointed EU @ 60', 2 ele wire yagi to US/JA @ 70', F12 C4 20: F12 4 ele @ 72', F12 C4 15: Cushcraft 4 ele @ 82', F12 C4 10: F12 5 ele @ 76', F12 C4 800' beverage EU, 450' beverage US/JA, 500' bev N/S, 500' bev E/W A Story: Arrived on Aruba Tuesday afternoon knowing there would be plenty of work to do before the contest. Back in July while attending WRTC2006 in Brazil my Aruban host had emailed me that the 15M beam had broken in two at the mast during a bad wind storm and fallen into the street. Later a neighboring ham, P43W confirmed the damage with photos. So at a minimum I knew I would be doing major antenna surgery at the top of the 14 foot mast which after 15+ years of service is of questionable structural integrity. The game plan was to complete all other setup and repair chores before addressing the 15M yagi problem. I figured on using my C4 backup on 15M if things didn't work out as planned. P40W/P40R is not a plug and play station. To make it operational takes many many hours of laying cables and erecting or repairing wire antennas. Approximately 1600 feet of coax and control cables are deployed, beverages partially erected, and wire antennas re-strung from their inactive status. It is the equivalent of one person setting up a 4A Field Day station. Definitely not your normal 'vacation'. As I started laying out the beverage feedlines, P49Y/AE6Y stopped by to say hello and discuss the coming week. He reported problems at his station too and I promised to take a look, and help when I could. We agreed to meet for dinner that evening. Over the next 3.5 hours, until after dark, all of the feedlines and control cables were laid out and routed to the shack. The furthest 140 meters of the NE beverage re-erected (it crosses outside of the property line, but no one seems to mind much), and some preliminary SWR checks were run. Most everything looked about normal.....a plus. What I didn't expect were problems with the wall air conditioner unit in the shack. It was installed about 6 years ago and fortunately had previoiusly worked perfectly and never required service. I turned it on Tuesday afternoon and it was horrendously loud, the compressor was not happy. It initially blew cold air but by later in the evening when it was operating much more quietly it was no longer supplying the cool dry air needed to make the weekend a reality. Made arrangements the next day to have the A/C service person come and take it away for evaluation. Ultimately learned the compressor was shot. Fortunately my host had a used wall unit pulled from a rental property....it worked....and was installed Thursday evening. Wednesday morning I set out to complete beverage antenna installations. The locals had helped themselves to the #12 and #14 house wire I use for a counterpoise ground system at the far end (not the first time this has happened). Took an hour to cut new radials and make the repair. Then repaired the 160M vertical dipole. When I left the island last May after WPX CW, I knew it it needed a new center insulator and balun due to corrosion damage, and the feedline needed to be evaluated for damage and the connectors replaced. One climb up the 2nd tower and an hour later the antenna was operational. Next came installing the 3 ele 80 and 4 ele 40M wire yagis that hang inverted V style from a catanary rope between the two towers. This is always a 'fun' job since it requires alot of walking around many obstacles, mostly of the cactus variety. Used a full 1000 foot roll of nylon string to get the ends of the elements in the air. Total installation time 3.5 hours. Then to finish off the day an old 4 ele Cushcraft 15M yagi that had resided in the weeds for at least 10 years was extricated. Cleaned off the accumulated dirt and salt and put the boom and elements together with liberal use of lubricants. It seemed to clean up nicely and I hoped it would be a viable replacement for the 5 ele F12 that had failed after 12 years of reliable service. Enough work for one day.....headed to Tony Romas for dinner. Thursday dawned sunny and hot. I prefer a cloudy day to do tower work....at least on Aruba....the sun and wind do a real number. Finished assembling the 15M beam and planned out how to remove the remains of the old 15M yagi, which is now a close spaced 3 element, all on one side of the mast - it looked very odd. Eventually got my nerve up and climbed the tower and then the mast. Installed an angle iron step between the 20 and 10 meter yagis and stood on the 10M boom. So far so good. The old mast seemed to be a bit wobbly but otherwise no obvious defects were evident. Installed another step and gingerly climbed up so the 15M boom/mast plate was a head level. Things are rocking and rolling a little more, but holding together. Rigged a pulley above my head with the pull rope. Loosened the U-bolts holding the 15M boom/mast assembly and worked the beam down the mast a few feet....the weight imbalance making it difficult. Eventually got it down far enough to unbolt the plates....the antenna came off the mast. Disassembled the elements from the half boom...and lowered everything to the ground. A major sigh of relief when that was done, it had taken 2 hours! As I climbed down, the 10M yagi was unbolted and dropped on top of the 4 ele 20, and I loosened the boom of the 20 to tilt the elements downward. The idea was to create enough clearance to tram up the replacement 15 up and above the lower antennas. Drank 2 qts of Gatorade when finally reaching the ground. By 3 p.m. had the tram rope rigged and nos needed assistance. Andy, AE6Y/P49Y answered the call and came over. We proceeded to get the antenna rigged on the tram...there wasn't alot of room to work, many thorny trees/bushes strategically located in the wrong places. Together we pulled the antenna up to the 55 foot level and I went back up the tower. With the luck of the Irish the tips of the new antenna just cleared the upper tower guys with the help of a wind gust or two. After that it was just routine work, bolted in the beam, hooked up the choke/feedline, and put the 10m and 20 meter antennas back in place.. Another 2 hours of tower time logged. Hooked up the coax to the rig and the SWR curve looked good. P40W was just about ready for CQWW PH 2006. I'd promised to help Andy with his antenna project later that day/evening. His F12 4 ele 20 with interlaced 40M elements had been repaired and was ready to be remounted on top of their 60' Rohn 45G tower. Ended up spending another 2 hours up on a tower in the dark as the P43 ground crew got the antenna properly positioned and rigged in the cunuca which is full of bushes and cactus. It was an exiting experience, the wind kept gusting as they trammed the antenna up to me and fortunately one of those gusts helped push the element tips over the guys. Got the antenna bolted in, coax cables connected and then off the tower to get cleaned up and have a late pasta dinner with P49Y. He offered to loan me his Alpha 87A for the contest for my part in helping with 20/40M antenna. THANK YOU ANDY! Each evening after dinner while I tried to diagnose the problem with my non-functioning Titan amplifier, I noted the noise level on 160 and 80 kept increasing. The T-storms in YV-land were clearly visible and becoming more numerous. Unfortunately this trend would continue through the contest weekend. Of course on the Monday night after the contest the noise level had dropped to a very tolerable S-5. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Friday was a planned day of rest. I actually listened to the bands to get a feel for conditions, and did some human engineering of the operating position. One final trip was made to the store to buy ‘contest food’ and then an afternoon nap. Unfortunately when I awakened after just 1.5 hours, my back was killing me with muscle spasms. Counted myself very lucky I had gotten through 3 days of intense station preparation without health problems. Couldn’t go back to sleep so took a walk to try to loosen up. Unfortunately its now 5 days later and my back is still a problem. Decide to start on 20M, for no other reason than I really dislike operating 40 SSB. Conditions to the US are fading, signals are generally weak with QSB. But it was the least of all evils and stuck with 20M for 1.5 hours, a slow start, just 184 the first hour. Decided to try 80M at 0130, found it noisy, S&Ped for multipliers. Moved to 160 at 02Z, again finding it very noisy so again S&P for mults. Worked EA8 and many Carrib, but I would never manage to work a single European on 160M all weekend, a major disappointment this time in the solar cycle. Finally made it to 40M at 0207Z, S&P’d for 20 minutes, picked up 20 quick mults, then found a nice run frequency on 7144, reasonably quiet. Ran off another 143 qsos before going back down to 80 and 160 for what turned out to be fairly non-productive op time. Around 06Z hour managed to grab 3794 and had a relatively good run of EU and USA for 1.5 hours. The 3 ele 80 wire beam is working as I had hoped, at least well enough to hold a busy frequency. A few more round trips to 160 and 40 rounded out the first evening. With my back hurting, decided on a 1.25 hour nap from 0930 to 1045. Woke up to a nice run of post-sunrise W’s on 40M for 45 minutes. Then on to 20M for my first taste of EU below the US band before S&Ping up the band to knock off the loud multipliers prior to taking a listen to 15M at 1200Z. Didn’t feel conditions were quite right yet so quickly back to 20 for another hour of mostly EU/US. Back to 15M again at 13Z for a nice run of EU below the US band. Took a listen on 10M at 14Z and found a few workable EU stations but it was not runable. Returned to 15M for nearly 2 more hours alternating between 21134 and 21447. At 16Z found Al, 6W1RY on 10M and moved him to 15M and soon thereafter Olli, OA4WW for a 3 bander double multiplier move. From this point on began to move double multipliers whenever possible (e.g. C52T, D44BS, 9J2BO, etc.) At 1830 had a mini-EU run on 10M, 17 stations in 14 countries. Then some weak W’s made it into the log before the flood gates opened and it was off to the races with the best rate hours of the weekend. Put 725 qsos in the log over the next 3 hours on 10M….mostly N.A. but a smattering of EU. Got me pumped. Spent the 22Z hour on 15 and 20 (222Q) before finishing out the first day on 20M (206 hour). Stuck with 20 for another hour of mostly US before taking a needed 30 minute ‘power’ nap. My ability to process data was too compromised to continue. Awoke refreshed and back to the grind, this time on 40M for nearly 2 hours of 100/hour rate. Made my way back down to 80M at 0145 for an hour of EU/US running. Its noisier than the first night but stuck with it since the mults kept calling in. Went to 160M at 0500Z but the noise was terrible and only managed a few Carrib mults. By chance I checked 20M at 0515 and found it wide open to VK/ZL, a very pleasant surprise. Ran 40 OC stations (including 2 E51s) before returning to 40M. Alternated between 40 and 80 a few more hours….the rates are not great. Decided to take another 1.5 hour nap at 0745Z and be up at 0915 to be up for the sunrise opening. Unfortunately this was not to be since I slept through 2 alarm clocks blaring until 1100Z. (I need to find a better system for waking up.) Spent the first 1.5 hours after sunrise on 20M since I was still missing many easy EU multipliers. Found 14.141 particularly productive. Went to 21445 for the first time at 1245z and found the band about to open but kept going back to 20M where the rate seemed the same. Between 1310 and 1338 did some CQing on 10 and was rewarded with 6 additional EU/AF multipliers. Then it was back to 15M for the next 3 hours to run both EU and US at ~ 200/hour. Moved a dozen multipliers to 20M. At 1800Z ten meters opened to the states once again. Signals were loud and the rate was a respectable 195/hour, not bad for a Sunday afternoon. After putting 293 q’s in the log over 1.5 hours, it was back to 15M where the rate was slightly higher and added another 206 contacts that hour. The next hour I had two short power failures of 10 minutes each which killed the rate but some mult hunting was productive. Decided to close out the contest on 20M. This turned out to be a productive decision, with 225 and 227 hours back to back. This is my 20th year competing from Aruba in CQWW. Every contest has been an adventure. Special thanks to NO2R for helping get my equipment ready, AE6Y/P49Y for providing assistance replacing the 15M yagi, and P43E for paving the way with the DTZ. CU again during CQWW CW from P40W – SOAB HP. 73, John W2GD BREAKDOWN QSO/mults P40W CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Single Operator HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... ..... ..... 184/21 ..... ..... 184/21 184/21 1 5/9 21/24 . 106/4 . . 132/37 316/58 2 3/3 . 100/45 . . . 103/48 419/106 3 3/3 26/20 63/3 . . . 92/26 511/132 4 3/1 15/6 67/1 3/0 . . 88/8 599/140 5 4/3 74/10 1/0 . . . 79/13 678/153 6 3/1 114/10 . . . . 117/11 795/164 7 . 48/4 61/7 . . . 109/11 904/175 8 4/3 22/5 33/5 1/0 ..... ..... 60/13 964/188 9 4/2 13/0 15/0 . . . 32/2 996/190 10 . 5/1 2/1 . . . 7/2 1003/192 11 1/1 . 96/8 31/24 1/2 . 129/35 1132/227 12 . . . 177/21 4/4 . 181/25 1313/252 13 . . . . 199/49 . 199/49 1512/301 14 . . . . 221/4 4/7 225/11 1737/312 15 1/0 . 1/1 . 176/21 3/5 181/27 1918/339 16 ..... ..... ..... 4/6 54/9 24/25 82/40 2000/379 17 . . . 45/5 86/3 6/2 137/10 2137/389 18 . . . 2/1 107/4 35/14 144/19 2281/408 19 . . . . . 299/7 299/7 2580/415 20 . . . . . 310/1 310/1 2890/416 21 . . . 9/3 4/0 124/4 137/7 3027/423 22 . . . 48/1 174/6 . 222/7 3249/430 23 . . . 206/6 . . 206/6 3455/436 0 ..... ..... ..... 184/2 1/1 1/1 186/4 3641/440 1 . . 2/2 28/0 . . 30/2 3671/442 2 . . 108/7 . . . 108/7 3779/449 3 . 2/0 122/4 . . . 124/4 3903/453 4 . 88/9 . . . . 88/9 3991/462 5 5/2 2/0 20/2 40/6 . . 67/10 4058/472 6 1/0 20/1 63/5 . . . 84/6 4142/478 7 . 1/1 88/1 . . . 89/2 4231/480 8 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 4231/480 9 . . . . . . . 4231/480 10 . . . . . . . 4231/480 11 . . 1/0 104/9 . . 105/9 4336/489 12 . . . 61/4 30/1 . 91/5 4427/494 13 . . . 10/3 57/5 11/6 78/14 4505/508 14 . . . 11/7 159/5 . 170/12 4675/520 15 . . . 1/1 188/5 . 189/6 4864/526 16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 236/5 ..... 236/5 5100/531 17 . . . 29/1 107/1 3/0 139/2 5239/533 18 . . . 1/0 2/3 187/3 190/6 5429/539 19 . . . . 85/1 106/1 191/2 5620/541 20 . . . . 187/1 19/2 206/3 5826/544 21 . 1/1 1/1 49/2 11/4 1/1 63/9 5889/553 22 . . . 224/3 1/1 . 225/4 6114/557 23 . 2/1 2/1 223/3 . . 227/5 6341/562 DAY1 31/26 338/80 439/71 816/92 1026/102 805/65 ..... 3455/436 DAY2 6/2 116/13 407/23 965/41 1064/33 328/14 . 2886/126 TOT 37/28 454/93 846/94 1781/133 2090/135 1133/79 . 6341/562 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49Y Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,688,508 As usual, this operation was from the P40L-P49Y station (ex-P49V QTH) owned by John, W6LD, and myself. Although the weather was excellent the whole week I was on there, and I managed to get lots of sun, this was the first trip in which all the sun was enjoyed while sweating in the backyard doing antenna work, with nary a trip to the beach the whole time. When I arrived on the island on Tuesday, the station only had fully operational antennas for 10 and 15. Our 4 el 20/2 el 40 had been taken down a few days earlier by Lisandro, P43L, and Jean-Pierre, P43A, and lay propped against the back fence. The 40m driven element had loosened on the boom, tilted at an alarming angle and broken the coax, and the 20m reflector had literally dropped off! This antenna had lasted for seven years on Aruba, which is actually a pretty respectable service life. Now, in addition to those maladies, the capacitance hat rods had corroded to unstable brittleness and the braid on the feedline had rusted away along the boom (due to a small hole that had been taped over at some point, but had admitted enough water to do the damage). I spent the next few days repairing the antenna, then on Thursday night, it was raised — after sundown – in a truly heroic two-hour effort featuring JP and Lisandro on the tram, Raul, P43RC, and myself on the pull line, and John Crovelli, W2GD, in the wind and dark on top of the 55’ Rohn 45 tower. Friday morning I had to re-attach the 80m dipole, and then on Monday spent the entire day building and installing a new 160m inverted vee. The old one had been made from copper stranded wire, and in some places its existence was literally “hanging by a thread”, i.e., with only one strand surviving the ravages of corrosion. As W2GD noted in his write-up, keeping a station going on an island is definitely not a plug and play experience. In addition to helping us, John had a huge amount of maintenance to do on his own station, not even counting his usual installation of beverages and vee beams for 40/80. This included replacing a 15m beam, half the boom of which had literally fallen off – and it was the top antenna above two others on a mast of dubious condition. If he ends up winning the contest, he certainly deserves it. As usual, one of the highlights of contesting from Aruba is the opportunity to spend time with local hams and visiting contesters. Both work and socializing was a pleasure with P43A (Jean-Pierre) and his wife P43C (Chris), P43L (Lisandro) and his wife Lissette, P43RC (Raul), and P40W (John - W2GD). The main lowlight is my usual after-the-fact feeling that I missed an awful lot of multipliers. For example, I never even heard, or worked, ZS9X or zone 38, and similarly missed some other stations with large scores that should have been workable. I’m somewhat mollified by noting that my mult totals are about the same as the nearby multi-ops PJ4E and PJ2T, but still it seems that a lot of DX was missed. Anyway, thanks to everyone I did work for another exciting CQWW. Equipment: Radios: IC-756 PRO 2, Alpha 86 amp Antennas: Force 12 4 el 20, C31XR (fixed North) Software: CQPWIN, ver. 10.5 73, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA6Z Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,563,570 Nice openings on the high bands on Saturday. Great to have some beverage antennes on topband. CU all next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/M HP Total Score = 18,608,676 With a mix of 7 operators with operating time desires ranging from "Not very much" to "Expect to be Iron Man" to "If the bands are good, I want to opeate a lot" to "I'd rather snorkel", we decided to go Multi-Multi in this one. With some tweaking of the PJ2T setup, W0CG came up with a 4-station configuration that seemed like it would be adequate. As it turned out, an 8th (uninvited) player showed up: Murphy! During the course of the contest, we lost 4 transceivers and an amplifier. The radio stockroom of PJ2T was being drained at a record rate. As one might expect, some of the "spares" weren't quite up to the specifications of the original setup. While it didn't get to the point of using radios without knobs, crystal controlled transceivers and the like, there were a few compromises. When one of the amplifiers quit working in the middle of Saturday night, we dropped back to a 3-station configuration rather than risk subjecting additional hardware to the harsh group of operators manning the station for this event. The Writelog network seemed to require continuous care and feeding, although when one flakey computer died completely, its replacement provided much more stability. It seemed like many stations in the area were having more success working into Europe than we were. The terrain in that direction isn't the greatest. One might describe it as being uphill. This proved to be a particularly troublesome problem on 10 meters, where we hardly heard any Eu at all. Also, due to an ambitious maintenance effort underway at the station, the customary 10-meter European yagi wasn't available. On the low bands, the QRN was quite high both nights. Ah, the joys of the Caribbean. We got a pretty good rainstorm Saturday night, which provided enough rain static to pretty much wipe things out for awhile. Still, a few QSOs managed to get into the log. After all, if this was easy, we'd probably be involved in some other competitive sport. Thanks to the PJ2T Caribbean Contesting Consortium for letting a number of non-members fill out their ranks for this event. -N6ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 14,412,600 Icom 756 Pro - MLA2500 Icom 756 Pro II - AL1200 N1MM Version 6.10.8 - network worked flawless! 6963 Radio 1 contacts 307 Radio 2 contacts Thanks to K4QPL for letting me stay at his house before going to the Raleigh-Durham airport. It was a pleasure meeting Jim, NX9T - Jeff, and K4CIA - Bill. The group started our trip with a 3 night stay at Sunset Waters on Curacao. Geoff had invited us to stop by to operate from Signal Point (PJ2T). Our first THANKS goes to Geoff and Cindy, its hard to meet a nicer couple, each of us really appreciate your hospitality and help you provided the team to make our trip painless. On the Bonaire (PJ4), our taxi picks us up an hour early and we missed Geoff to say good bye. We get to the airport for our 11:45am reservations and Divi Divi has none. No problem we got on the next flight and arrived around 1:30pm. Picked up the rental truck and were on our way to K2NG's place on a hilltop about 20 minutes away. Nice location with a 400' drop to Europe and USA. The noise lucky for us was quiet for most of the contest. THANKS Noah for allowing us to operate from your place, everything worked well and had very few problems that wasn't solved. Met K6AM, N6ZZ, and W4PA at Curacao airport on the way home and was able to talk with Scott about both of our stories during the flight to Miami. Sorry to hear of all the troubles at PJ2T Thanks Keith, Kelly, and Phil for the awesome time we made a great team. 73, Kyle ----------------------- http://www.wa4pgm.us/PJ4/ - photos coming soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP5NW Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,000,000 CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST -- 2006 Call: PP5NW Category: Single Operator Power: High Power Band: Mono 20 Mode: SSB Country: Brazil Zone: 11 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 20 2128 6250 2.94 37 123 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 2128 6250 2.94 37 123 => 1,000,000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NDX Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 56,650 problems with rotor and QRM 73 Rafael ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2SBY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,070,745 After I always work in SOSB10LP now SOABLP and I made a good choose because after some contest with low number of QSO I get to do some better numbers. I just was very upset in 20 meters because a lot of stations from Europe dont listen anyone from south america and I think maybe could be a good Idea sometimes theirs turn the antenna to south america only one station that beam south america I work that was G5W that I give my thanks. But in general I think that was and say thanks for a lot of stations from USA that work in really perfect conditions with me. Also a special thanks for africa stations that came easy to listen and made QSO. A special comments to a station from Namibia that listen south america but dont answer for sometime in this case I lost one country and zone that I know that´s no important to him but for me could be good. Station: IC756Pro 3 Element Triband Made in Brasil 3DX3 Electril (10,15,20) 6 Meters high Dipole to 40 meters ( 8 meters long ) 9 meters high Dipole to 80 meters but in crazy format in a terrain 20 meters long. 6Met high. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2YU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 673,611 Rig: Icom IC-706MKII with hand mic + TMC Amplifier +/- 400W + 5el. Yagi homemade (short boom) up 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2ZXU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,271,112 First time a WW Phone contest as Single Op, thanks to all that had patience towards the end when I was so tired that I could not get your calls right. That my call is long and not yet exists in the Chq. Partial did not make it easy either. 160,80 and to some extent 40 difficult due to thunder-crackings. Thanks to PY2DM, Mamiro for letting me use his facilities! 73, Thomas, PY2ZXU/SM0CXU, Ex. HZ1AB/HZ1EX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,424,280 www.rk3awl.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3BM Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 228,995 My first CQWW since 1997 (as UA6LU) and since I moved from Rostov-on-Don to Moscow and got my new call sign RL3BM. IC756PROIII and home made OWA 6 el. Yagi on 48' boom 21m. high - big fun!!! Unfortunately it was no opening to USA and Canada here. See you in the contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU3VD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 148,959 73! See you in CW contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU6LA Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 396,495 none 1-31-34-37z 40M % NA 162 11.2 K-129 EU 950 65.4 DL-172, I-85, SP-80, OK-63, G-45, F-33 AS 269 18.5 JA-127, UA9/0-81 AF 16 1.1 SA 22 1.5 OC 33 2.3 YB-11, DU-8, ZL-6, VK-5 unforeseen offtime 21z-1z (second night) ;-( 3el beam @20m - 2el quad @30m TS-850+PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RZ4CWW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,861,398 We hav`t good antennas, hope to make up soon. Thanks 2ALL for QSO`s! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51CK Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 208,607 73 DE S51CK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51NZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 117,970 It was a hard job with wire antenna, but anyway a lot of fun and new experience. Thank?'s to all of you for qso's. 73', Huby - s51nz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52ZW Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 745,044 TS-950SDX + PA 1500W + 6el yagi @ 23m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 743,508 I'm thankfull to Karl (S52AW) who invite me to test his new antena on 7 MHz (5 el. full size QUAD, 65 m AGL) which worked perfect. The conditions were good, specially first night when was good opening to NA. Stations from zone 03 were very strong. In the morning were also good on long path to ZL, VK, KH7. It was pleasure to worked with this antenna, but disadvantige was to work EU and Karl said that should not be problem for next contest. Mni tnx also to Zvonka (S52AW/xyl) who made a great support during the contest and gave me a great hospitality. ANT: 5 el. quad 65m up (213 feet) RIG: FT-1000 mp mark V + PA 73 de Vinko S53F Country Total 3A 2 3V 1 4J 1 4L 2 4X 2 5B 1 6W 1 6Y 1 7X 1 8P 1 9A 9 9K 1 9M2 1 9M6 1 9N 1 9V 1 9Y 1 A6 1 A7 1 BV 1 BY 6 CE 2 CM 4 CN 2 CT 9 CT3 2 CU 2 CX 3 DL 170 DU 5 EA 48 EA6 1 EA8 4 EA9 1 EI 11 EK 1 ER 4 ES 8 EU 3 EX 2 EY 1 F 47 FG 1 FJ 1 FM 1 FY 1 G 85 GD 2 GI 3 GM 13 GU 1 GW 8 HA 15 HB 7 HB0 1 HC 2 HI 1 HK 5 HL 9 HR 4 HS 1 HZ 1 I 50 IS 2 IT9 5 J3 1 JA 111 JT 2 JW 1 K 655 KH2 1 KH6 1 KP2 2 KP4 2 LA 15 LU 6 LX 2 LY 22 LZ 8 OA 1 OE 15 OH 19 OH0 1 OK 44 OM 10 ON 29 OZ 20 P4 2 PA 38 PJ2 2 PY 18 PZ 1 S5 12 SM 18 SP 87 ST 1 SV 3 SV5 1 T7 1 T9 3 TA 2 TF 1 TG 1 TI 1 UA 153 UA2 2 UA9 62 UK 1 UN 7 UR 70 V2 1 V3 1 V4 1 V5 1 VE 57 VK 9 VP2M 1 VP5 2 VP9 3 VQ9 1 VR 1 XE 7 XX9 1 YB 4 YI 1 YL 5 YN 1 YO 27 YU 13 YV 8 Z3 2 ZA 1 ZL 16 ZS 1 Total 2206 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S55O Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 89,131 Hellow! Nice ctest! Need a better antenna for JA and SA, S. Or a vertical would be good 2. 2 el inv V on 45m (USA) worked good, just some multi in Karibes need to do a better work on ssb :) Lots of fun, 20K over ex s5 record in the band so i'm realy satisfied, but it can be done over 100k for sure. Thanks to all that answered me and hope you didnt log s550 or s55oo cuz that's not me :) GO GO WWYC! s55o Bostjan - Ian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56C Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 22,348 My first CQ WW SSB QRP try. Thanks to all who catched qrp sigs. S56C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,008,098 CU in CW part. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 90,872 I expected much better conditions due to min Sun cycle.Only 18 USA stations - last year 44 and 74 DXCC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 100,245 A day before contest smoke from linear PS forced me into LP category this year. I wish I had more power on some delicious MTPLRs. PJ4E refuse to work EU on Saturday. Almost half EU called him! On Sunday, J3A was the only one I can hear from Caribbien islands, absolutely no USA that second day. No VK/ZL or Japan for us this time, but funny and unexpected E-sporadic in EU keep us not fall asleep among CQ button. Thank's god someone invite Voice-keyer. For Southamericans: You know that we in EU listen to you PY/LU/CX guys for long time after band went nearly dead, running just USA. It was impossible to breake USA barrier in many cases. One additional antenna on receive - for EU would be very nice. The contest is not only in America! 73, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 943,983 Lost two hours erecting antenna for 80 and 160 with very bad SWR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57UN Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 157,680 Kenwood TS-950 SDX + PA 1500W + INV.VEE @ 13m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SJ2W Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 15,892 I had planned a serious SOAB effort and was all setup already on Thursday evening. Motivation was high but when we got hit by a big snow storm I had icing on the antennas which stopped working properly. At one point on Friday I could only use the verticals, none of the beam had an SWR that was ok to work on. That changed though and I had the big antennas working on 10,15,40,80 and 160 but unfortunatly not 20M. That kind of made my motivation drop so I ended up doing the contest just semi serious. I switched over to working assisted and made about 2000 qsos during about 25 hours. I will send in the log SB160M assisted just to get a lame SM record. I had a few fun US runs on 15/20M and even worked W3LPL on 10M during the night via some ES/Aurora, he was S9+ and the only signal on the band at that time. The night before I got 3 VE stations. Also heard N7DD on 15M at that point, only US heard. Lowbands were strange. I had FY5KE S9 in the morning on 80 well after our sunrise, I called and called but they did not hear me. I had problems all weekend working guys on 80M even though they were S9. When trying to get a JA on Sunday evening on 80M I had to turn the tower around and use the 2el yagi, the 4 SQ was not enough...very strange propagations. I worked N7UA and W6KW long path on 80M and N7UA called in later on 20M to thank for the QSO, that was fun! Also worked buddy N6MJ at W6YI and a few other W6/W7 LP on 40M. 10M was a huge suprise, so was 15M and 20M was also quite good. 40M SSB sucks and when I wasn't serious I didn't spend much time struggeling on that band. Now we'll play M/S in CQWW CW from the same station. Big thanks to Lars, SM2HWG and his wife Cindy for the chance to use this mighty fine QTH. Next SOAB activity will be the 9A CW Contest! http://sm2hwg.sm3wmv.com Mike (SM3WMV / SM3W / SJ3A) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6U Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 322,392 It was a very fun contest, despite some bad condx and faults. I borrowed a FT1k and a Voice Keyer to try tome SO2V instead of using my old TS-850SAT with the DRU-VK. It was a nice change, especially to be able to do some multie-hunting on VFO2 between the CQ's. However murphy came around on friday before the contest, the borrowed brand-new MFJ keyer had a faulty connection to the rig shorting +5V to ground, making the FT1k act like a scanner ;-) That was taken care of prior to the contest, and during the contest everything worked flawlessly. Many thanks to SM6YOF/Janne for borrowing me the rig and other support, also thanks to SM6MIS/Sten for the voicekeyer. On saturday condx were average or perhaps slightly above average for the time being. Between 17z-20z there was some heavy static rain that came in S9 to S9+20 on all bands, wich made everything very boring, but it eventually disappeared. During sunday the band opened very slow, and when it finally opened, no real runs was possible, where was all the JA stations?! I only worked a handfull during both days. Later on when it opened up towards NA, I got reports that my frequency was clear and the signal descent into NA, but very few stations came back to me. During the slow times on 20m I worked on 15 & 10 with my other callsigns for fun, wich was great to get some rate again. Overall it was a fun contest as usual. I didn't get my frequency stolen as many times as with low power earlier years ;-) Equipment: FT-1000 MkV Field MFJ-434B 4el MB (CueDee) @ 16m SB220 @ 800-900w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6YOU Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 43,758 Few hours when the rates was slow on 20m. Equipment: FT-1000 MkV Field MFJ-434B 5el MB @ 19m SB220 @ 700w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 55,266 IC-756PRO + SB1000 = 800 W Beam A4S + GAP Titan Had to close down after 6 pm both days to let neighbours watch TV. Very frustrating not beeing able to work more on 10 and 15. Will move out of town for the CW part next month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN2B Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 123,799 My first performance in CQWW SSB 160. The greatest event the former the once on SSB/160 NL7Z in the log. The outright fantastic activity of European stations. The greatest activity of the station in my log: DL 331 UA 125 G 100 I 77 OK 70 UR 65 SP 47 PA 41 F 37 LY 28 OH 28 SM 27 UA9 25 Long beverages very helped to me though the second day cracks from the storm and aurora completely closed directions north. I am surprised that so a lot rare multipliers called out me, thank you all. Kaz SP2FAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN5J Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 6,837 TRX: FT-101-ZD, Dipole, Delta up 8 m 73 de Jan sn5j/sp5jxk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN5N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,317,720 VY 73! Krzysztof "Chris" SP5KP/SN5N eMail: sn5n@op.pl http://sp5kp.w.interia.pl/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP3LWP Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 55,968 Trx IC718 Ant GP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP5COF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 15,158 Tnx fer QSO's!!! 73 de Cesar - SP5COF - (17 Years Old) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP5WLO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 49,755 Vy tnx fer All QSO. 73 de Luk SP5WLO (16 Years Old) Club SP5PSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 186,000 After 40 years of more or less serious contesting, I was tryimg come back to the begining of the "road" , and started from the middle of the town using "naked" radio and piece of wire. And I must sau it was quite interesting , even some DX stations are in my log,hi.Any way next contest (cqwwcw) I will run from the country site, monobanders and "gray box" should help a bit. Cu, 73 de Zbig sp6a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP8BRQ Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 835,946 All the time big short skip over 1000qso's with Eu. Sunday abt 1800GMT my rotor is stoped with my 5el yagi beaming to LU...that was over the contest for me.See you in CW part on 40 or 80 meters. 73's Andy sp8brq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ6MS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 18,139 Unfotunately in this year just couple hours of LP S&P...Nothing from SQ6Z.Thank`s for all qso`s and your patience when trying to copy my call correct:) Cogratulasions for 3V6T,5B/AJ2O and 9A1P team`s.Great job guys! Vy73 de Maciek ... --.- -.... -- ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ9UM Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 48,888 Tnx for all qso's! Rig: IC-706MKIIG Ant: Inv "V" @11m CU in the next contest! 73! Alex SQ9UM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV1DPI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 43,216 I had not time and i tried just to give the multiplier to some friends. Tnx for calling me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SX5P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,647,144 It's the second time we participate in this category and we believe we overpassed our expectations ... The antennas worked great and the 40m Vee beam brought the points from States side according to plan . The 20m long vertical for the 80m band did give us extra countries not even heard to our dipole. We look forward to participate next year in the CQWW contest , enjoying it as much as we did this year . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93M Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,293,275 IC756PRO3, Alpha 8100, EZmaster, 4 over 4 el Yagi + delta loop. HIGH points of contest: great propagations to west coast of US and high activity of new HF European hams like 2E0's, DH's, etc. LOW points of contest: Too many kW's are being used to produce wide signals. Beside crowded band jammers were very active, I do not see the point of being a HAM with nothing else to do. Bad behavior of IU3X who came to claim frequency (14.320) back where I made 11 QSO's after asking QRL?. His argument was that I have to look at DX cluster to see that he was spotted there before and that his intention to come back after his QSY (probably to work multiplier)is justified. After short argument I red him callsigns of all 11 qso's I worked there and left him a frequency. So, next time when someone tells you to look the DX cluster in order to clarify the fact who can claim the frequency (and of course if you do not have a cluster) just go to aggressive S&P mode to make up for the time lost arguing. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF4M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 100,890 The magnificent Aurora made conditions difficult. I was unable to work any stations on 80 and 160. Must build bigger antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 761,277 Condx were not good, but I got a decent opening on 10 meters to the States on Sunday and was able to run 250 Qs over 2 hours. But all USA and Canada! It was fun to be asked by 3V6T and 5B/AJ2O to go to another band. I NEVER get asked to do that from home ....HI! This year I went the entire first night without sleep. I have never done that before. The second night I slept 3 hours from 2 AM to 5 AM local time. That is a record for no sleep in a contest for me. The other two hours of off time came from eating and clean up during especially slow times. My real advantage came from the runs from CQing. I did 4 hours on 15 meters on Saturday and got 425 Qs. I did 2 hours on 10 meters on Sunday and got 255 Qs. After that run, I did 1 hour and 15 minutes on 20 meters and got 190 Qs. So in a little over 7 hours of op time I got 870 Qs or almost 2/3 of my total Qs in the contest! The only trouble is that they were almost all USA and Canada, and no mults. So the entire rest of the contest was S & P, and I still didn't get a good number of country mults. Well, it was great fun! Keko and Sophie are wonderful hosts, and Sophie is a fantastic cook, serving me at the rig during the contest! You can read about the group that went down there for the 2005 CQ WWDX SSB contest in the lead article in the Oct 2006 CQ Magazine. Thanks to all those that dug out my weak QRP sig! 73, ...Bill W8QZA qrp ============================================================= Rig: Kenwood TS 940s with output set at 5 watts. Writelog contest logging program. Antennas at TI5KD: Quad up 25 meters, 4 el 10M, 3 el 15M and 20M TH6 Tribander up 25 meters, fixed north 2 el yagi for 40M up 30 meters 2 el 40M Quad fixed at 20 degrees 80M rotatable short dipole up 32 meters 80M loop with apex up 27 meters 160M inverted V with apex up 30 meters A3 tribander up 12 meters fixed 135 degrees 20M 4 el yagi fixed north up 15 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI8M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,584,765 Our group always enjoys operating from Costa Rica with our friend Carlos - TI2KAC. It was a pleasure to also have Juan Carlos - TI2JCY operate with our group again and to meet and operate with Gene - TI2CCC. We hoped the low bands would be kinder to us, but conditions and persistent RF noise made those bands very challenging. We were somewhat disapointed in our 160m results due to this noise. Of course we also hoped for a decent 10m opening but it was only fair at best and our score shows it. 10m has previously been a very productive band for us but it was not to be so this time. Thanks to all for the Q's and for any needed repeats or fills. It is always good to hear so many familir calls in the pileup. Bob - W4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TK1KJ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 229,292 TK1KJ station setup was rather simple: A vertical antenna and 300W, in the middle of a location surrounded by hills. I had some good moments of pile-up with Europe, but having my signal go further was really difficult. I missed many points and some multis. So my score is not exceptionnal, and i do not break TK SOSB-20M record (from 1978). Anyway, that was a great moment, and a real pleasure to hear so many "thanks for new multi" or being called by big guns. See you next year ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2Y Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,616,348 When I saw my antennas and one of the towers after having been called by my neighbour after monday PM local hurricane, I first thought the contest season was over, at least the CQ WW DX SSB. The 15m boom of the 5 el 20m beam (at 24m) was folded at the mast clamp, with half of the antenna now upside down over the 2nd half. Broken 20m rotor. Three half elements of the 15m beam (at 21m, on the same tower)were bent, same situation for the 40 m beam on another tower and a 5 WL 2m yagi on a 3rd tower also had its boom bent at 45° from its alignment. The broken trees are just a detail bringing work of no use for radio. As we found only 4 operators, we had planned a M/S for a couple of weeks and as 3 of us had took friday and monday off, so we decided that we would go to the station, fix as many antennas as we could during daylight on friday and operate at will after the tiring day(s) and with the antennas available at the time. On friday, 2 of us spent 4 hours each on towers, taking down the 2m, 15m and 20m bent antennas, having to cut the boom of the 20m to take it down safely. Yann F5UTN brought his 4 el 20 m beam that was sleeping in his garage and we put it on top the the tower. Dark came too early and at 7 PM Franck F8CRH said he couldn't see the bolt holes of the 15m beam. So we left it at 21m tied to the side of the tower. We put it back to its side mount on saturday morning and it took less than 90 minutes, with no QSOs. As both 15 and 20 m beam are on the shunt-fed 160m tower, I first thought the 160 m wouldn't load but it did, with a VSWR higher than usual but the antenna was still doing well in the first night and perfectly after the 15 m was attached. We didn't do anything on the 40 m beam because we were tired, had no time left and also because the VSWR dip had moved from 7030 to 7120, workable for an SSB contest in a country were we can't still operate over 7100. As we had not scheduled the operating rounds for the originally planned M/S operation and after several discussions, we decided 20 mn before the contest start to enter M/M, with the objective to beat the very low F record (made from my station when it was also in bad shape in 1994). We did it ! We were very diappointed by the 40m, with no run to the US. We supposed the antenna was not radiating well because the linear loadings of all 3 elements had moved sideway and were bent, thus detuning all the antenna. The beam was taken down on monday morning to replace the bent tubings for the CW contest. So, though the score is not good for a M/M, we all had our share of fun, we had many new experiences and fatigue and best of all, we entred the contest. CU you all in CW, some ops from TM2Y and other from 6W1RW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,509,356 Nice week-end, nice wx, no tech problems...Strange. rig: 160: full size dipole 80: dipole hor + dipole vertical sloped to US 40: 2 elements DXBEAM at 30m (new company, wonderful antenna!!!) 20: 6 elements DXBEAM design at 26m, our best band! Tnx DXBEAM!!! 15: KT36xa at only 12m....We decided to "sacrifice" 15m antenna, by installing a 2 el.40 and a 6el.20m on the main tower. 10: 5 elements at 15m Something looking like some beverages at 5m high, one 210m to US, an other 120m to 30°. 4 completes stations using TS850 (run), FT1000mpMK5field and TS870 (multi) and FT990 dedicated to 10m in an other shack 100m away... See you at the CW part! 73's from TM6T team@F6KHM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU7J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,200,200 cu in wwdx cw! www.uu7j.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY5L Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 128,874 It is very difficult to work on 100w with simple GP on the bottom of the cycle... But anyway I collected sufficiently gud overall mult:)) Special thank's to K7RL for his great patience and very good ears, as a result I've got zone 3 and last mult in the contest. Tnank's for everybody, 73! Igor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ7U Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,725,704 FT-1000MP,ACOM-2000;160m-Inv Vee;80m-DL;40m-2el beam;20m,15m,10m-4el Steppir. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V26B Class: M/M HP Total Score = 18,729,434 Team Antigua had lots of problems with the station this year on our arrival. But we got everything working great after a week of hard work before the contest. Work had to be done on every tower. But, V26B only gets a few days of maintenance a year so we are lucky anything works! We only had two radios this year, so we consider this a good score for only two radios from two-point land. Everything worked flawlessly during the contest, except for the 160m propagation Saturday night. Our host, Roy, V21N busted his butt getting the shack fixed up this year for us. A few days ago, he fell and broke his hip, and was medivaced to Miami, where he apparently suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing during surgery to repair his hip. He is currently on a ventilator but is apparently responsive, so our thoughts and prayers are with him! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 78,735 Took way too much time off. Only ended up working about 15 hours - I've learned my lesson! It's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 871,080 I really dont like SSB contests, so I dont know why I do this.... At least I caught some good DX ,Hockey and Football this weekend. Surprised by 10 meters and disappointed that my 80 mtr antenna really sucks... The SteppIR worked great , along with the 25 year old Hygain 40 mtr yagi ... Most unusual qso DT8A on 10 mtrs... Strange how one of the east coast mega station guys, could not hear the ST2BF pileup,when he plopped down 200 HZ, below him. Yaesu FT1000MP - Alpha 76A about 800 watts 4 el SteppIR at 72 feet 2 el Hygain 4O2BA at 80 feet and wires on 80/160 mtrs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3NR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 266,016 [Mark-V field, Al811 400-500W, HF6V vertical, 160m inv-L] Limited time. Had fun trying to get some rate going. Logged onto the cluster just to see if/when I got spotted and see how it affected rate. Tnx QSOs. See you on CW for more serious effort. 73, Chris VA3NR. Callsign: VA3NR Category: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH SSB Contest: CQ-WW-SSB Operators: VA3NR -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 0.8 0100 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.2 0200 0 0 70 0 0 0 70 11.4 0300 5 0 48 0 0 0 53 8.7 0400 0 0 7 2 0 0 9 1.5 0500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1500 0 0 0 0 10 0 10 1.6 1600 0 0 0 7 11 0 18 2.9 1700 0 0 0 3 7 0 10 1.6 1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 1.1 2100 0 0 5 18 15 2 40 6.5 2200 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 0.5 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0500 0 64 0 0 0 0 64 10.5 0600 0 53 0 0 0 0 53 8.7 0700 8 2 2 1 0 0 13 2.1 0800 1 0 25 0 0 0 26 4.2 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1500 0 0 0 20 4 0 24 3.9 1600 0 0 0 6 5 0 11 1.8 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1900 0 0 0 6 7 0 13 2.1 2000 0 0 0 19 4 5 28 4.6 2100 0 0 7 12 2 0 21 3.4 2200 0 0 27 13 3 0 43 7.0 2300 0 0 85 0 0 0 85 13.9 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 14 119 285 107 68 14 607 Gross QSO's=612 Dupes=5 Net QSO's=607 Unique callsigns worked = 491 The best 60 minute rate was 110/hour from 2236 to 2335 The best 30 minute rate was 144/hour from 2305 to 2334 The best 10 minute rate was 162/hour from 2312 to 2321 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSO's/minute 2 times. 4 QSO's/minute 11 times. 3 QSO's/minute 29 times. 2 QSO's/minute 91 times. 1 QSO's/minute 284 times. There were 36 bandchanges and 0 probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 3 4 362 5 161 6 71 7 8 8 1 9 1 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 5 12 47 109 11 1 0 180 29.4 4 2 35 81 10 2 0 130 21.2 3 0 29 65 11 9 0 114 18.6 8 0 1 9 14 19 5 48 7.8 14 0 1 4 15 4 0 24 3.9 9 0 2 3 8 7 1 21 3.4 33 0 4 3 8 3 0 18 2.9 11 0 0 2 4 5 5 16 2.6 15 0 0 0 10 1 0 11 1.8 6 0 0 1 5 3 0 9 1.5 13 0 0 1 3 3 2 9 1.5 7 0 0 2 2 3 1 8 1.3 10 0 0 2 1 3 0 6 1.0 38 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.3 35 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.3 31 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0.3 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.3 04 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.2 32 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.2 30 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.2 37 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.2 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 14 119 285 107 68 14 607 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 411 2 bands 53 3 bands 19 4 bands 7 5 bands 1 6 bands 0 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 8 75 225 64 33 6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 2,964 FT 817, 5W, vertical and dipoles. Tnx for the QSOs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3SK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,030,320 After a number of years of relative calm, Murphy hit us hard this year. Friday, VA3GGF, VA3MW, VA3SK and VE3RZ arrived early and started to put up two 80m half squares and an 80m inverted vee. The weather was cold but quite enjoyable to be outside. The antennas went up and then a 204BA was mounted at the 85 foot level on the main 110ft tower. The 3 element 40m beam did not survive the winter and could not be repaired before the contest so we set up a two element vertical phased array (half wave spacing with switched half wave phasing line). The elevated radials for the 160m inverted vee (90 feet high and the rest horizontal) were unwound and strung out. By this time, VE3TPZ and VA3PC had joined the group. Shortly after, VE3HG and VE3ESH arrived. Both VA3MW and VA3SK got their exercise in tower climbing with VA3MW winning by climbing all four towers in the afternoon for one reason or another.. The two stations were assembled, the run station consisting of a 756 PRO III and an LK500 Amp, the Mult station consisting of a 756 PRO III and an ACOM 1000 amp. Then the first of Murphy's visits - the 756 PROs would not communicate with the PCs running Writelog. After short time and an upgrade to 10.61, things were finally setup on the mult station 5 mins before start of contest. Problems with the run station carried over until 30 mins after the start of the contest. The second surprise from Murphy was the failure of the wireless internet link. A barbeque antenna at about 70feet had worked well the previous month, but refused to operate for the contest. The backup plan for the CLX cluster failed when the radio link could not be established - oh well, back to the "good ol' days" and manually searching for the mults.... The 40m verticals seemed to play well, but the N/S 80m half square was not working. At this stage nothing could be done about that till morning. Qs were made, but at a slightly lower rate than in '05. The mults were much lower. During the night, the snow started.... The 160m vertical was no longer working. By flashlight, repairs were made to re-connect the vertical wire to the vaccumm variable capacitor.... By morning about 6 inches on the ground. The NE/SW 80m half square was only up about 30 feet at one end due to the snow accumalation on a long support rope weighing it down. Repairs were made to the N/S half square, VA3SK being the tower climber at one end. VA3MW fixed the 80m inverted vee which had been attached at the 100ft level to the wrong coax!! His climb down was very scary with the tower icing due to the falling temp. Qs continued throughout the day with 15m and 10m surprising most people. Night-time brought the 40/80/160m runs but not at rates that were expected. Mults remained very low... The snow continued unabated, by Sunday morning, close to 12 inches was on the ground. Then Murphy really came alive as the wind freshened and then blew... This brought about a power failure at 7:00am local time. This lasted for an hour. Later in the morning 15m had great propagation to Africa and things were going well till Murphy finally nailed us with a power failure at 13:00 local time. After about an hour, with the wind howling and the snow still coming down, it was decided to call it quits for this year... A good decision as the power only finally came back at 21:00 local time on Sunday evening. As the winds continued their 100km/hr blow, the final half of the 40m reflector broke at the boom and was left swinging on the kevlar truss. No doubt this will be on the ground shortly! Still great fun was had by all - VA3PC takes the prize for superb chilli for Saturday evening, the satellite TV worked well so we could see the Maple Leafs win the shoot out against Montreal.... There is always next year... To see some photo evidence of this weekend of fun, http://portcredit.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 25,560 A casual effort, family committments plus a power outage on Sunday. For some reason, 40m,80m and 160m did not work for me. It was so bad I suspected a neighbour had cut my coax, but no. Conditions on Sunday seemed much worse than Friday/Saturday. SSB is not my thing so I look forward to the CQWW CW next month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 999,555 Many thanks to Allan, VE7SZ, for hosting me for the weekend. His stacked 4-el 20 meter array works very well, and he now has a pair of 3-element SteppIRs at 140 and 70 feet to add some more directional diversity. Conditions in VE7 were surprisingly good, at least until Saturday evening. The rates into the USA were, at times, really vibrant, with 3 hours over 200. During the 22 and 23z hours on Saturday I felt like I was operating from the Caribbean. EU was very good on Saturday, and peaked a bit late with the best hour of about 160 at 18Z. Unfortunately, conditions dipped starting at about 02Z on Sunday, and, although EU was not a complete washout the next day, it paled in comparison to the Saturday condx. The bad weather in the area produced a power outage on Sunday, and I lost most of the 19z hour. Fortunately, I was able to finish the last four hours of the contest on generator power. Many thanks to all for the QSOs. In view of this being the sunspot minimum, it was a surprisingly fun weekend! 73, Gary VA7RR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VB4MWA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 946,714 I'm looking for a spot to operate from next year. Anyone have a QTH they would like a guest operator at? After Norway, Iceland & Canada, maybe I need some place warm! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC3R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,352,052 First attempt at doing a contest from my cottage location. I now have a nice list of things I need to do before the next attempt. A bunch of antenna projects and $85,000 for that empty lot next door. It was fun using the special contest call sign. I hope to use that every time I operate a contest from that location. Thanks for working me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC7G Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,166,552 Interesting "black hole" conditions to Europe, both short and long path. Very strong 80/40 signals from them but only a few heard us. Frustrating to say the least. I kept wandering out looking at the antennas thinking they must have all fallen down. Great Saturday openings on all bands, rotten on Sunday. Q's are up from last year, mults are down, but the score is slightly better. Good to see some increased JA activity on all bands. Dale VE7GL http://ve7gl.reboot.bc.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1DHD Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 487,190 What a great weekend. This was my best effort yet as far as solo contesting from home. My new DX-sloper worked great for me on 160 but I am still disappointed at not being able to get more of the mults on 40 and 80. I can hear them, but at 95W, they just don’t hear me! :-( Friday evening and Saturday were particularly good for me. I spent a lot of time before the contest working out Propagation Predictions but in the end, I just followed my gut and when 15 opened and stayed open I worked it to death and was even surprised by a bit of an opening on 10m too. Sunday was another story. I feared that the winds would be a problem, so set my beam on Europe late Saturday evening. However, Europe seemed not to open very quickly for me at any rate, and there I was stuck pointed NE for most of the day. When there was finally a break in the gale about 4pm I managed to nurse the beam around to SW (BOY, would a StepIR have been nice in this condition!!!) and then had to leave it fixed. BOY, were the winds high out here on the coast!! In the final analysis, I am quite pleased with my effort. 73 Howard – VE1DHD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 309,714 Very limited 11 hours for this one...Had planned about 25 hours on-air, but didn't make it...Lost all of Sunday morning at work, as 100 kph winds were causing problems with one of our 70 metre offshore trawlers which was trying to dock, lost Friday night fixing a washing machine that wouldn't wash, and then Sunday afternoon my newly shingled roof on the house sprung a leak and had to be looked after...First Murphy visit in years for me, but at least it was during WW SSB and not WW CW... SSB not my favourite mode by any stretch of the imagination, but it's always fun to pick up a few goodies and chat with some stations...Always fun to pick off the plethora of P40's, VP2's, 8P6's etc that always show up for WW on 5 bands...Propogation to SA and the Caribbean was phenominal at times... Highlights: -Watching other station's scores on "Livescores"...Thanks to W1VE for setting up this web based application...Very nice... -10 and 15 actually had some good openings... -Rate meter hit 400 at one point... -A 6W and 5Z calling me at the same time... -XF4DL on 2 bands, a new one for me... Lowpoints: -Wind blew up my main 80 metre antenna, had to use the backup... -Very few JA's heard...Propagation just not there... -No Zone 1's logged... -Listening to the many overdriven, WIDE signals taking up valuable bandwidth... Looking forward to SS CW and WW CW coming up... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2IM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,143,916 Finally, have some time for write-up after returning from Zone 2 and sorting things out… First of all, I’d like to congratulate John, VE3EJ with an outstanding score achieved from Zone 4! I really admire his dedication and effort put in building his super station. Anyway, this was my 8th year of going to Sept-Iles, QC doing a semi-Field Day style operations in CQ Contests. Already done 5 CQ WW SSB Contests, 4 CQ WW CW and 1 CQ WW 160 CW and this was so far my WORST effort ever. Surely, driving 1500 km one way and then installing antennas and equipment does not make you feel rested enough before the contest, but this time it combined with Murphy visits, poor conditions and weather, and computer and equipment failures. Conditions were pretty good on Wednesday and Thursday, at least VE2XAA could work a lot of JA’s on 20 and 30 m CW way after our sunrise, and morning 15 m opening to EU was promising with last Europeans worked after 1700 UTC both mornings. With the help of VE2XAA and VE2NN we put up a TA33jr tribander on a 30’ push-up mast and AP8A vertical with 6 radials for each of the 40 and 80 m bands. These antennas were intended to be used with 2nd radio. The Mosley Classic 37 and dipoles for 40/80/160 was the antenna system for main radio. Murphy stroke first on Friday afternoon when I started to set-up computers and software for the contest. After almost 4 hours of troubleshooting it turned out that network card on one of the computers was not working. Then, for some reasons N1MM which performed flawlessly in the previous days, started to glitch (probably, something wrong with the computer set-up after replacing a network card), so just an hour and a half before the contest I decided to go with old trusty CTWIN interfacing it with my laptop (which has no other ports, but USB) through the RigExpert USB interface and REAUDIO driver. Contests started as usual with attempts to find a CQ frequency among Big Guns and slow rate. First hour resulted only in 70 QSO combined 20 and 40 m bands. Then rate went up a bit after QSYing to 75m and reached 150/hr in the 2nd and 3rd hour. Right in the middle of the morning EU run on 20 m the main amplifier blew up… It took long half of an hour to replace it with a smaller 500 watts one from the 2nd radio setup. I think I was so disappointed that almost missed EU run on 15 m which was very short on Saturday. Didn’t even work Zone 20 on 15… Alex, VE2XAA managed to fix amplifier later in the day on the spot, but it never gave me a full power again. The weather changed dramatically by the end of Saturday. The wind was blowing like crazy all night long, rain and thunderstorm were so strong at the moments that I had to shut down for awhile, because the static level was way over S9+20! I was watching through the window how poor TA33 tribander was swinging on the tiny 30’ mast back and fourth, and I have no idea how it survived. I was so darn lucky not getting a direct lightning strike and not losing any antenna. Later, when we were driving back home just about 80 km south of Sept-Iles we saw a lot of fallen trees at the both sides of the highway, and road workers were cutting them in pieces pretty fast… A state of emergency was declared in two towns in Northern Quebec which lost electicity, not very far from the place we were staying. Anyway, on Sunday conditions changed to the worse too, there was no EU on 20 and 15 in the morning, and I had stay on 40 up until 1300 UTC. Then it was a struggle all day trying to work weak Europeans on 20 and occasional South Americans and Carribeans on 15 and 10. However, I enjoyed a couple of hours of 180+/hr U.S. pile-ups at the end of the Contest. The highlight of the contest was… a meeting after the contest. I got a phone call from K3FMQ and KD3TB, who were a part of 3-men VE2DXY M/2 station that operated from the Motel at the opposite edge of the town and he invited me to join “Zone 2 meeting” at “Mike’s” restaurant in downtown Sept-Iles. When I arrived there I found also 3 members of VA2ZM crew, and they told me how one of their vertical was “stolen” by flood of St. Lawrence river… so we had a good time and a lots of fun sharing contest stories. It’s amazing the guys from the U.S. are driving 1500 miles one way from Pennsylvania for the 3rd year in a row, just to give people Zone 2 in the Contest and have some fun…Same with VA2ZM crew – 3 guys are coming to Sept-Iles from Montreal for 3 years now. That’s what I call real dedication. I hope the picture of 7 “Zone 2” guys celebrating at “Mike’s” will be in the CQ Magazine shortly. Thanks to Alex, VE2XAA and Rodrigue, VE2NN for their usual help with set-up and antenna installation, and to Igor VA3YDX, who lent me a bunch of coax for this trip. Special thanks to Doug, VA3DF and Peter, VE3SUN of Contest Club Ontario for donating tribanders for “Zone2 project”. One of them is already there and the other one goes to Sept-Iles next time. Me and Alex also left some other antennas and computer stuff there for future trips. Thank you to all who moved for me and to everybody who called. See you all in CW. Yuri VE3DZ / VE2IM / VO1AAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,285,382 Towers went up Wednesday, and I spent all day Thursday and Friday getting ready. Just an absolute blast from the new QTH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 61,776 N1MM Logger V6.10.10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 399,218 Just a part time job. Actually I don't like SSB contests .. so noisy :-) I prefer CW. Condx was pretty good exept low bands. Thanks all who called me. 73, Alex,VE3KF Icom 765 R8 vertical and wires 80/160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KZ Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 133,376 Welcome to the wondrous world of Single band QRP on 20m! I guess I was just too lazy to change the station around after the ARCI test last weekend. Looking at what I had done back in 2001 running all band QRP on SSB at the SS peak, I thought it might be fun to see how it felt at the bottom of the cycle. I decided on 20m as the best test bed especially if 10 and 15 were dead. They weren't but at least I didn't lose a lot of sleep doing the bottom three bands. At 00:00 I worked KH7Q. Nice start for QRP! It took only 25 minutes to work a 6 continent WAC. The band was also full of east coast U.S. short skip, way over S9. Worked 40 Q's in just over an hour and then went QRT until 10:38 Saturday morning when the Caribbean, African islands and Europe started to be workable. It was a cherry picking exercise S&Ping up and down the band with the antenna at 45degrees and then again at 150degrees. It became apparent that with the power differential of 4 or 5 S-units that me calling stations stronger than S9 was the most productive approach to making a decent rate. I kept going until 15:38, acquiring 61 countries. This rate wasn't going to hold up but the adrenaline was flowing very well thanks! The remainder of the day consisted of on-and-off operating. The band was starting to sound awfully familiar, up and down, back and forth! I put away the earphones for the night at 01:43z. Last QSO until morning was ZL6QH. The operator commented that I was exactly at his noise level! I now had 88 countries and it was obvious that I now had a Golden Fleece to capture, a DXCC, single band QRP. This was going to be a lot harder than in 2001 when I worked 107 Countries on 10m during an All band effort. Dawn broke on Sunday to a band with propagation sounding much like Saturday, including all the callsigns heard! A certain tedium set in but, taking numerous breaks, the QSO and country total very slowly climbed. By 19:00 I was still 6 countries short of 100. I had only accumulated 8 more in 8 hours. With 5 hours to go, things didn't look good. Also the pileups were getting huge on any "new" station that appeared, particularly the Africans! An additional 2 and one half hours of abusing my mike brought 3DA0WW, TF4M, S9SS, 6W1RY, PZ5RA, and TO8RR(FG) into the log. Try as I might I couldn't get any "safety margin" countries in the log. 3XM6CP just wasn't hearing me and neither was CV5D. One "almost insurance" QSO was R7C which TRLog thought was in Asiatic Russia but was, alas, only at UA3DPX's QTH according to NG3K! I packed it in at 23:15 after another run of east coast short skip. I have a QTH with a 100m drop off to the east. It was perfect for these conditions. That is not always the case. USA calls = 67 VE calls = 2 both zone 2 N.A. calls = 35 S.A. calls = 25 Euro calls = 222 Afrc calls = 19 Asia calls = 4 JA calls = 6 Ocen calls = 4 Total calls = 384 IC-706MKIIG and 4el 204BA at 50' Thanks for all those good ears out there. I KNOW that my signal was indeed in the noise during many of the QSO's. Hats off to the great operators out there. See you in the CW portion, maybe HP ;-) 73 Bob VE3KZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 6,356 Only had a dipole at roof level. Could hear lots of signals. Difficult trying to work some stations on split...for example, S53F and EA8BVX were low in the band, but both listening on 7217. Ahhh well. I finally sat on a freq and ran split in the last two hours of the test and went from 44 qsos to 114. That was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 22,698 Just a part time effort where time permitted. I had alot of fun and I wish to thank all who worked me. 73 Ted VE3SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SY Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,534,308 EQUIPMENT: 2 FT1000MP, Alpha 87A, QRO DX2500DX ANTENNAS: Dipoles on 160 and 80, 2El Beam on 40, 4El on 20 with 3El on 15 and 10 plus an A4 tri-bander. This was a weekend of mixed experiences. Starting off two of our team got caught in a major traffic jam and arrived several hours later than planned. Also Paul 3SY was just getting over laryngitis and was only able to operate for 20-30 minutes before loosing his voice. Fortunately with M/2 we had an extra op to fill in so we didn't miss a beat. At the start of the contest 40m was a zoo which really held down the rate on that band but 20 managed to fill in with a higher rate. Between the two bands we held a rate of about 100/hr for the first 5 hours. Conditions seemed to vary considerably over the weekend. There were hours when calling even the stronger stations was difficult and other times when you could do no wrong. We really hated to resort to S&P but at times there was little other choice when running yielded few results. Sunday morning before sunrise a blizzard blew through and for an hour or more the snow static was so high we could not operate. Then the noise would drop in and out over the next hour. So for several hours we made virtually no contacts and at the prime time for some sunrise DX. We networked Writelog between the two stations and had frequent network drops. This was surprising as we used the latest release of WL and both computers ran XP. What also surprised and annoyed us was the losing of a number of contacts when the network crashed. I have never see that happen before in years of using WL and the contacts could not be found on either computer nor on the adi file used as temporary storage by WL. We are seriously considering using some other software in the future. On the bright side this was the best score achieved at VE3SY in M/2 operation. This no doubt was the result of three new operators this year but who were not new to contesting. Nick VE3EY, Peter VE3NWA and Steve VE3SMA in addition to Paul VE3SY and Don VE3XD. We made a great team and everyone filled in to operate and give pointers and assistance as needed. Another highlight were the meals prepared by Paul and Don's XYLs Marg and Barb. We all very much enjoyed the results of their culinary talents and are looking forward to doing this all again next year hopefully to improved conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3ZIN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 24,570 First CQ WW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5RI Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,699,984 On 20 and 15 meters some good runs on the first day with openings into EU and a short burst into the far east. The second day, as the A index rose, not much outside of North and South America but we ran the Q numbers up with lots of USA stations...relatively good action on 40, 80 and 160 with some very nice DX...good friends, good food, good beer and good condx considering the state of the sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5UA/6 Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 768,453 Poor propagation from under the auroral blanket and a funeral on day two temperd this year's effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6AO Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,428,063 Not bad considering we had some empty chair time and one of the FT-1000 and Henry 3K went down early in the first shift!. managed to press the Ameritron 160m linear and an FT-847 into action for the second station on Saturday afternoon. Also got the radials down for the 160m vertical just before the first major snowfall of the year. Nice working in the totally renovated VE6AO. Check the webcam at www.ve6ao.org. 73 and CU for CW! Jeff, VE6GJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 133,475 Last year I did my first CQ WW SSB contest and did a LP SO/15m. This year I decided to tackle 20m and what a zoo! I managed to almost double last year's score by putting in more hours, improving my antenna from a TH3 to TH6, and using my accumulated experience since then. While I'm happy about the progress, I can see there is still a lot more to learn about operating and improving efficiency. Friday night wasn't too bad for starters and by the time the band folded I had made 130 QSOs. I woke up early (5:15AM) on Saturday morning only to fill my bandmap with new mults but not able to work anything. All the signals sounded like they had been put through a blender. In the first 7 hours of operating I had made only 35 Q's! Then all of a sudden at noon local time, the band opened to Europe. In the late afternoon I ran JAs for a while and quit about 8pm, as the band had pretty much folded up. I decided to sleep in on Sunday morning due to my bad experience the previous morning. Of course I missed the opening to Europe! I didn't hear many JAs on Sunday, but this time South America opened up pretty nicely. I also ran a bunch of American stations at the rate of about 1/min for quite a while at various times throughout the day. The mystery to me was that I never heard Australia or much of Scandinavia. I was also jealous of all the east coasters working Europe and Africa long before I could. Oh well, that's life. Anyway I managed to put in a lot more time than last year and it certainly helped. Now to catch up on my laundry! 73 and CU all next time. Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 72,808 Hi All: Well did that weekend ever have it's ups and downs!! Looks like I will be the only ALBERTA CLIPPERS in the club listings. I guess I'll have to carry on as b4 by myself. The contest was another great event in the VE6EX log. If you missed the openings, don't bother Bo-Hooing about it. If you worked QRP, the openings did it all. Saturday mourning till noon local I only managed 3 qsos Hi. But...in the afternoon while calling CQ with my ~3 to 5 watts I was called by a ZA1 for an easy double mult, and promptly got deluged by a spotting. Did that ever get my full undivided attention !!!. You had to be there for the openings!!!! Thank you CQ for another great event!!! Thanks for the Spots, to whoever did them. They made all the difference in my claimed 448 QSOs. Thank you to all who struggled with my dreadfully weak signal as it happened. The only reason QRP works is because of the super ops and setups on the other end who worked on my sig instead of dumping me. VE6EX was:: 2el delta loop at 60' TS940s/inrad 1.8 filters, running great as ever; at the appropriate power under the watchful eye of the peak BIRD. TRLOG, excellent as ever providing me with the worlds best band map and never a flaw to confuse the issue year after year. Cheers, Dan VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6JY Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 174,080 Virtually all search and pounce. Highly variable conditions, hardly any Europe the second morning. Operated some on other bands as well, lots of Europe on 15m the first day. 73 Don VE6JY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6SV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,847,880 Not our best showing - as our plans were on and off due to team members work schedules and family commitments. But it was WW DX and you just have to be there! Propagation at 53 degress north was interesting, fun and frustrating. With the K-index over 3 for more than 30 hours of the contest, paths were skewed,signal absorption high, openings short and a lot of hours with no propagation to speak of to anywhere! The Sunday effort was a one man show - but it enabled me to practice my SO2R skill and it sure needs practicing! Looking forward to the CW event. 73, Gord VE6SV www.ve6sv.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6TR Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 50,112 Poor conditions to Europe during the day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6WZ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 93,120 I came up short of my expectations for mults...the lack of a good EU opening really can make or break that one !! Also the Asia opening in the AM was pretty anaemic. Still pleased with the result, and I thank all who called me. IC-7800 KW 2 el Yagi at 100' see you in the CW test !! 73, Steve VE6WZ www.qsl.net/ve6wz/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7ABC Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 131,936 As the score shows, virtually no 10M action at all. 15 Proved to be OK, but I had a constant S7 noise level to contend with for most of the time. Every once and a while it would quieten down, and I could work even the very weak ones. Took a little time to talk to a couple of US ops and one of the big local stations and they complained of poor band conditions. I guess I wasn't alone. This year, the highest my rate got to was 102 per hour, the lowest it has ever been. All in all though, I had enough fun to want to be back next year. Thanks to all who answered my cq's. 73.. de..Graham VE7ABC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,629,431 Very good conditions Friday night and Saturday morning but poor conditions Saturday night and Sunday. We had a very very big wind and rain storm on Saturday night with damage to several antenna's. Sunday afternoon we had a couple of inches of snow and by the end of the contest we had bright sunshine in a clear blue sky. The weather was much like the propogation. Thanks to all for the qso's. See you on CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 522,720 That was the weirdest contest I have ever been in... signals were all over the place. Sunday was terrible here as besides the poor conditions on the air... I had to keep pulling the antenna out because of lightning passing through... However the biggest surprise was when 10 metres opened to Europe for about 2 hours on Saturday morning. Oh I long for 10 metres to be open again... It is just me or has the number of stations operating decreased dramatically over the last few years? Anyway a good contest all in all and I had fun which is what it's all about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9NC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 522,720 That was the weirdest contest I have ever been in... signals were all over the place. Sunday was terrible here as besides the poor conditions on the air... I had to keep pulling the antenna out because of lightning passing through... However the biggest surprise was when 10 metres opened to Europe for about 2 hours on Saturday morning. Oh I long for 10 metres to be open again... It is just me or has the number of stations operating decreased dramatically over the last few years? Anyway a good contest all in all and I had fun which is what it's all about. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK1AA Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 3,400 Call: VK1AA/M Operator: Josh, 9 years old. Location: Car park, Sydney Radio: 60 W and low dipole. Josh passed his F class exam early Sunday morning so this was his first CQWW contest. We learned how to tune radio, copy calls and how to reply to stations calling CQ. Working W's split on 40m was fun too. W6YI, K3LR and W3LPL got in log on both 20 and 40m. Thanks for pulling our signal out of noise - today you made one dad proud and one kid very, very happy. CU soon, Nick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK2MIC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 7,446 14153 PH 2006-10-29 1034 VK2MIC 59 30 GM0B 59 14 3 14287 PH 2006-10-29 1031 VK2MIC 59 30 DR1A 59 14 3 14154 PH 2006-10-29 1018 VK2MIC 59 30 JG2KKG 59 25 3 14249 PH 2006-10-29 1012 VK2MIC 59 30 WH0AC 59 27 1 14266 PH 2006-10-29 1007 VK2MIC 59 30 YA9KM 59 21 3 14163 PH 2006-10-29 1003 VK2MIC 59 30 JF1SQC 59 25 3 14224 PH 2006-10-29 0954 VK2MIC 59 30 JH7XGN 59 25 3 14229 PH 2006-10-29 0952 VK2MIC 59 30 3W9JR 59 26 3 14158 PH 2006-10-29 0939 VK2MIC 59 30 W3LPL 59 05 3 14182 PH 2006-10-29 0931 VK2MIC 59 30 JJ0KRD 59 25 3 14205 PH 2006-10-29 0930 VK2MIC 59 30 JE7YSS 59 25 3 14174 PH 2006-10-29 0927 VK2MIC 59 30 ZL/AI5P 59 32 1 14177 PH 2006-10-29 0539 VK2MIC 59 30 UW9I 59 16 3 14161 PH 2006-10-29 0537 VK2MIC 59 30 K5TR 59 04 3 14153 PH 2006-10-29 0536 VK2MIC 59 30 E51CG 59 32 3 14263 PH 2006-10-29 0530 VK2MIC 59 30 P40W 59 09 3 14220 PH 2006-10-29 0528 VK2MIC 59 30 YV4A 59 09 3 14206 PH 2006-10-29 0527 VK2MIC 59 30 W6YI 59 03 3 14196 PH 2006-10-29 0526 VK2MIC 59 30 FK8GM 59 32 1 14191 PH 2006-10-29 0524 VK2MIC 59 30 PJ2T 59 09 3 14185 PH 2006-10-29 0523 VK2MIC 59 30 W6CCP 59 03 3 14161 PH 2006-10-29 0419 VK2MIC 59 30 KV0Q 59 04 3 21212 PH 2006-10-29 0326 VK2MIC 59 30 ZL6QH 59 32 1 14170 PH 2006-10-29 0322 VK2MIC 59 30 W7WA 59 03 3 14163 PH 2006-10-29 0320 VK2MIC 59 30 K7RC 59 03 3 14240 PH 2006-10-29 0300 VK2MIC 59 30 WH6R 59 31 1 14287 PH 2006-10-29 0248 VK2MIC 59 30 K6HNZ 59 03 3 14250 PH 2006-10-29 0116 VK2MIC 59 30 ZM2M 59 32 1 21269 PH 2006-10-29 0110 VK2MIC 59 30 K9BGL 59 04 3 21239 PH 2006-10-29 0101 VK2MIC 59 30 NQ4I 59 05 3 21245 PH 2006-10-29 0059 VK2MIC 59 30 K3LR 59 05 3 21217 PH 2006-10-28 2346 VK2MIC 59 30 K7ZZ 59 03 3 21261 PH 2006-10-28 2342 VK2MIC 59 30 N7DD 59 03 3 21214 PH 2006-10-28 2334 VK2MIC 59 30 K0RF 59 04 3 14242 PH 2006-10-28 1259 VK2MIC 59 30 OH8L 59 15 3 14151 PH 2006-10-28 1236 VK2MIC 59 30 OH5KW 59 15 3 14215 PH 2006-10-28 1218 VK2MIC 59 30 RZ4HWS 59 16 3 14296 PH 2006-10-28 1158 VK2MIC 59 30 DK1MM 59 14 3 14287 PH 2006-10-28 1156 VK2MIC 59 30 UU7J 59 16 3 14238 PH 2006-10-28 1151 VK2MIC 59 30 RS3A 59 16 3 14229 PH 2006-10-28 1148 VK2MIC 59 30 SP8BRQ 59 15 3 14192 PH 2006-10-28 1141 VK2MIC 59 30 ES6Q 59 15 3 14185 PH 2006-10-28 1139 VK2MIC 59 30 YE0X 59 28 1 14149 PH 2006-10-28 1136 VK2MIC 59 30 UA9MC 59 17 3 14133 PH 2006-10-28 1133 VK2MIC 59 30 SM6U 59 14 3 7096 PH 2006-10-28 1127 VK2MIC 59 30 JH1AEP 59 25 3 14176 PH 2006-10-28 1108 VK2MIC 59 30 RZ1ZZ 59 16 3 14281 PH 2006-10-28 1059 VK2MIC 59 30 OH5Z 59 15 3 14211 PH 2006-10-28 1053 VK2MIC 59 30 RO4M 59 16 3 14179 PH 2006-10-28 1049 VK2MIC 59 30 OH0X 59 15 3 21277 PH 2006-10-28 1033 VK2MIC 59 30 EI7M 59 14 3 14194 PH 2006-10-28 0818 VK2MIC 59 30 KH7Q 59 31 1 21166 PH 2006-10-28 0534 VK2MIC 59 30 UA4WKW 59 16 3 21278 PH 2006-10-28 0514 VK2MIC 59 30 UA9UZZ 59 18 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4AN Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 2,581 Too many visits from Murphy!!! Used IC746Pro, Emtron DX-1, HF2V, Inv Vee. Other bands are shown for club total (180,115 points) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4UC Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,702,874 NO PACKET SPOTTING USED. INTERNET TURNED OFF FOR THE WHOLE CONTEST. PROPAGATION WAS BAD ON THE FIRST DAY, WORSE ON THE SECOND DAY. THE BIG SURPRISES WERE THE HIGH QSO COUNT ON 10M AND THE LOW QSO COUNT ON 20M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK8AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 217,100 Zone QSO's 3 38 4 38 5 38 6 1 7 1 8 13 9 5 10 2 11 5 14 15 15 40 16 25 17 11 18 14 19 7 21 2 22 3 23 2 24 8 25 390 26 4 27 18 28 41 29 11 30 26 31 3 32 7 33 3 38 5 39 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK9AA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 1,438,591 First SSB Contest for me from Cocos and first time using my new K2. Stayed only 3 days on the islands this time. RIG: K2 + amp spiderbeam @ 7m Be back in November - CU in CQWW CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 318,563 VO1HE Yaesu FT-920 Heathkit SB-220 SteppIR 3 Element Beam Wire Dipoles Decided to run 15M single band this time. A week before the contest, my amp started giving trouble on 15 and my rotator controller stopped indicating the beam direction. Monday, I poked around at the amp and turns out it was probably dirt on the band switch so 15 started working again. Then, without any warning, the rotor controller started to work again. Good to go! Had a look around on Friday before the contest and the band was alive. Lots of European and African stations and then swinging into the US. Things looked good. At the start of the contest, the band was, of course, dead... which is one of the reasons I chose it. I knew I'd get some sleep and, if the band was open during the day, I might do alright anyway. Got up bright and early on Saturday and turned on the rig. Lo and behold! there were strong Europeans already there. Tried calling a few but found the propagation was one-way! Called CQ for a while to no avail. Only worked 5 stations so I got a cuppa tea and waited for the band to open for real. When it did, it really did. I was running Europe and not hearing any QRM or splatter, which was good until I lifted the footswitch one time and found myself surrounded by big US stations who, apparently, couldn't hear me. Oh well. Skip was short to the US. Worked a bunch of W1 and W2 stations but not a lot of W6, which usually pounded in here lately on 15 during the afternoons. Saturday was pretty good and I worked 850 Qs before the band started to go. It looked like I might have a good weekend if Sunday was anything like Saturday. It wasn't. I got up early to stake my claim and found the band TOTALLY dead. There were absolutely no signals to be heard for at least an hour. In the first 2 hours I worked 5 South American stations. For most of the morning, I could hear a few SA stations, some South Africans and S9SS. It was well into the afternoon before I started hearing any great number so stations and it took me the rest of the day to hit my goal of 1000 Qs. Anyway, I managed to get a few new band-countries and one all-time new one so it was a good weekend overall. I was looking to do 1000 Qs and met that goal but was also hoping to do 100 countries but fell a bit short. Thanks to all who worked me and sorry to those I couldn't hear. CU all in the 2 SS contests and CQWW CW. Gonna be a busy month :) 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1JNS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 282,044 This was my first contest, I really enjoyed it very much, looking forward to many more. Thanks for the Q's 73 Jason VO1JNS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO2MK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,483,454 Great contest, we enjoyed working from Zone 2 and had fun, Thanks for the contacts, 73 VO2MK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9I Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,112,560 Station: FT-1000mp Antennas: 160 Inverted-L 80 G5RV 40 Dipole 20-10 Cushcraft A4 This year I had a working voice keyer! I decided to go SOABLP rather than assisted to see if I could break the country and zone record. The answer was no. Conditions were OK Saturday but lousy Sunday. I had fewer QSOs on 160 than last year but the multiplier was about the same. 80 was tough. QSOs and multipliers were down. I could not work zone 15 (which I did on 160). Loud Italians would CQ in my face. 40 was interesting with the new European allocations. I called CQ on 7147 and worked a few Europeans, a South American, a couple Canadians, and some W's. Eventually I listened split and got more W's. Saturday night I found 7152.5 clear and called CQ. A European asked me to please listen down - that's a first! 20 was frustrating. Look at my QSO total. Now consider that I never worked or even heard an LZ or YO. I worked two Ukraine stations by calling them, and both QSOs were difficult. I'd call CQ and loud Europeans would come by and take the frequency - they couldn't even hear me. I thought I would have fewer QSOs on this band than last year but Sunday afternoon I had a US run including a 300+ hour which brought the total up. I had some good European runs on 15 on Saturday. Sunday was not as good. 10 was open to the US at the beginning of the contest but nobody was there. I caught the European opening Saturday morning. I couldn't run but I picked up a few nice multipliers. The afternoons were frustrating. I could hear South Americans running the US but I only heard some of the stations they were working. I couldn't get much going for USA runs and found my best rate was walking up the band calling LU and PY stations. I also slept too much. Enough complaining. Overall it was fun. Phone is OK when the rate is above about 100, which it was for eleven hours. It is more interesting when it is above 200, which it was for four hours. And I now have a working voice keyer! Thanks again to Ed, VP2GE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VR2/AA1ON Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 246,915 Will try to have a vertical up for the low bands in time for CQWW CW !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 91,043 This was a dry run for the CQWW CW which is my favourite to see how band conditions are at the current Sun spot low. Running a barefoot IC-746PRO and the tiny FOrce 12 Sigma-5 vertical dipole on my roof. The antenna works well, as I was able to work every one I called and punched through several pileups in less than 3 calls. 99% was S&P, with a very few CQs. Highlights were being called by VE6JY on one of my very few CQs on 20M, the very nice opening into Europe on 10M, big sigs out of South America on 15 & 10M, hearing VK9AA crunching the band on 15M, and the nice multipliers flowing out of Africa. I could CQ on 10M and find new multipliers out of EU, Far East & Africa!!! Limited operating time, no antenna for 40/80M due to space restriction meant fewer QSOs and zones. It was good to hear many familiar calls out of the past as I have been off air 8 years and back only a couple of months ago. Will hope to see many of you in the CW section in November. Any one have an idea for a space limited magic antenna for 40/80M ?!!! :) 73 de Prasad VU2PTT vu2ptt@gmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 715,428 Another great CQWW but strange condx.One-way propogation,no-way propogation and other challenges.Due to family illness, missed most of the 10-15 meter opening on Saturday and Saturday night was so tough that I packed it in early.No 40m antenna, so lost a lot of ground there.Managed a few mults by loading 80m vertical but barefoot didn't cut it with a mismatched antenna.Sunday brought high winds,rain static and lightning but at least didn't lose power like some stations.Miss the action/comradarie at old VY2SS contest site.Thanks for the Qs and hope we got into your log.73,Bill FT-990 SB-220 10-20:SY-1 Yagi 1/4 vert.on 80 40 to be re-configured ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,876,788 This was the 1st M/2 from VY2TT and with 6 operators, the largest multi since the station was put together. Butts were in both chairs for the full 48 hours. After making repairs to the 160m and 80m antennas, the pileups from EU were good in the two days before the contest. The team was disappointed to find 160m and 80m were a struggle once the contest started. On the other hand, 15m was just terrific on Saturday and the 10m opening was a pleasant surprise. Once ferrite was applied to the network cables, Writelog worked without many dropouts. Having wireless capability in addition to wired allowed keeping up with the action without looking over the shoulders of those in the operating chair. It also made it easy to check email, etc. on breaks. No equipment failures or power failures and excellent cooperation among the operators made this an enjoyable experience for all. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 227,013 Nice to work so many old friends in this one. Special thanks to KH6ZM, VK6VZ, VK3ZL, ZL6QH, TF8GX, ZS9X (and all the others) - who found a way into my log, or tried to. 73 JEFF VY2ZM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 814,740 East coast contesting is a blast! Am now offically licensed in SC and operating from new house. Joined Carolina DX Association because of their promotion of contesting and because I know some of the guys. Conditions were really super Saturday. I couldn't believe 15M could be so good at the sunspot minimum. On the other hand 80 and 160M were quite noisy. For the weekend, I put up some wire antennas, almost field day style. The 80M sloping vertical and the 160M inverted L which were put up on Thursday and almost touch at the top of my 54' tower (where I have only VHF antennas) share 15 temporary radials at ground level even though they are about 25' apart. On 40M I used a 160M FW loop some 20' above ground. Also on Thurday, I put up a trap dipole, one of the driven elements of a TH7, at 39' on a temporary tower and was amazed at how well it worked on 10/15/20! Can't wait to get my Hygain Hytower up next week and the TH7 up next year. Thanks for all the Qs, and CU in the WWCW, both SS, and the 160M test using low power and unity gain antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,709,975 http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 31,255 Spent 16 hours at a Flight Instructor Refresher Clinic this weekend, so only had a short time to operate in the evenings. Pleasantly surprised how long 15 and 20 stayed open .. good DX and and all bands were relatively quiet from Kansas. Until next time ... 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 22,995 Another modest effort accomplished during study breaks. I was thinking about doing a SOSB/15M effort, but figured that I would just get on to make a few points. I tried on a few occasions to get runs going on both 15 and 20 without much luck, so this score is the result of some insufficiently aggressive S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AJT/VE3 Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 948,909 Finally getting the hang of “running” split on 40m instead of pure S&P. Great to have 10m open for a bit. I worked a number of AF and OC stations but not one EU. I was trying to run on 10m with the ant pointed due South and was called by a couple of CA stations saying I was amazing loud in CA, go figure. The new antenna is in the garage so I hope for better things next year. I hope everyone had a great time see you in CQWW-CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CTN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 451,091 Equipment Description: FT1000MP MK5 @ 100 WATTS TENNADYNE T10 LOG PERIODIC @ 40' 160 INVERTED L X 35 RADIALS 45' vertical section 80 METER DIPOLE @ 40' 40 METER 2 EL WIRE BEAM @ 40' 15 hours and low power. Pretty much a hard time everywhere especially on 80 and 160. The usual 80 meter ops listened up, but many others did not and made a S&P effort quite difficult. 160 was sparse. Better luck next time. 73 Dave W1CTN - Radio Ansonia CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 591,075 Are we at the cycle bottom yet? Yuck. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MAT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 117,392 Loved when 10 meters opened Saturday afternoon. Doubled previous high score. Got S9SS first call *just* before the pile-up hit! My Dad was too late and missed it on 20!! I am 12 years old and it was a lot of fun!! - Matthew W1MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,032,570 I have never worked this hard for this many points. Where were all the asians? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2/T98T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 76,936 QTH: CLIFTON,NJ ANT:2el wire beam to EU + GP RIG:TS590s + AL80A 1kW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2AU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 15,980 Due to School and Work I could only get on for about 2 Hours. Still as always I managed to have fun. The highlight was being able to work my dad who was operating with the 6Y1V Team From Jamaica. I am glad to submit my small score to the YCCC Effort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,388,152 First-ever 1M+ score! Can't wait for sunspots!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2RZS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 92,473 Nice to see activity on 15 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 592,514 Nice to hear 15m in good shape and even a marginal 10m opening to EU (at least on Saturday. Didn't operate Sunday.) Also nice to hear a lot of new calls and not too many "last two letter" guys. My goal was 500K and didn't want to quit in the middle of a good EU run. CU in CW. 73, Barry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2XL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,073,694 This was really a Multi-single. We entered as M/M so we didn't have to worry abt the 10 minute rule. Conditions much better than expected. Bob W2XL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2ZQ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,614,704 Conditions OK, although not great, on Sat., but really slow on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3/NH7C Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 99,507 Station Description: Yaesu FT-1000 Antenna(s): 2 element beam Operators: Sid - NH7C Remarks: Thank you to Jim, WX3B, for the use of his station. Although I worked stations on all bands, I concentrated on 40 meters to check the performance of Jim's new antenna on 40. I was able to better our 2005 N3CA@WX3B Multi/Multi effort on 40 by 150 QSOs, 9 Zones and 35 countries. Club: Potomac Valley Radio Club ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3GM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,262,430 Didn't expect to work EU on 10. A pleasent surprise!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,116,024 All contacts were S&P. Saturday was fast and furious on 10M - a great opening to the south. Worked lots of PVRCers in warm sunny locations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 13,483,665 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES OPERATORS 160 373 606 1.62 15 64 K1HTV ND3A W3IDT 80 858 2306 2.69 28 108 NI1N K8UR N3CA N4CV 40 1091 2936 2.69 31 120 WR3Z KD4D 20 2063 5720 2.77 40 158 K3RA K4ZA N3CA W3IDT 15 1212 3399 2.80 32 138 K1RZ K3MM N4CV 10 431 990 2.30 24 87 ND3A NK3R W3LPL --------------------------------------- Totals 6028 15957 2.65 170 675 => 13,483,665 Club Affiliation: Potomac Valley Radio Club Continent Statistics 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 233 183 205 289 167 144 1221 19.7 South America 8 24 48 131 131 157 499 8.0 Europe 123 627 776 1469 784 101 3880 62.5 Asia 1 14 19 102 53 1 190 3.1 Africa 13 23 22 49 65 24 196 3.2 Oceania 1 27 51 100 31 9 219 3.5 QSO Counts By Band-Country PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3A 1 3C0 1 3DA 1 2 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 1 3X 1 1 1 1 4L 1 1 4X 4 4 4 4 5B 1 3 1 2 2 5H 1 1 1 5R 1 1 5Z 2 6W 1 2 2 3 2 6Y 1 2 1 1 4 1 7P 1 1 7X 1 1 1 1 1 8P 1 2 3 3 8R 1 9A 2 9 15 8 15 4 9H 1 1 9J 1 1 9K 1 1 1 9M2 1 9M6 1 9Q 1 1 9Y 3 1 1 A4 2 1 A7 1 BY 3 C5 1 1 1 2 1 C6 1 2 2 4 2 1 CE 2 4 11 9 14 CE9 1 CM 4 5 6 6 CN 1 3 2 5 5 1 CP 1 2 1 CT 2 7 7 21 16 3 CT3 4 6 4 4 5 1 CU 1 2 3 5 4 2 CX 1 6 9 14 D4 1 1 1 DL 12 107 138 236 151 8 DU 1 2 1 EA 5 40 57 112 96 6 EA6 2 1 4 3 EA8 3 4 5 14 13 3 EA9 1 1 1 1 1 EI 2 5 13 14 8 4 EK 1 EL 2 ER 3 1 4 ES 3 4 3 1 EU 2 3 EX 1 EY 1 F 16 43 32 79 56 9 FG 1 1 3 3 2 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FK 1 2 1 FM 1 1 4 3 2 FY 1 1 1 1 1 1 G 16 63 125 145 67 10 GD 1 1 2 4 1 GI 2 3 6 15 7 GJ 1 GM 2 10 16 24 6 GU 2 1 4 2 GW 6 8 12 20 11 1 HA 2 9 13 15 10 HB 1 8 11 14 8 4 HB0 1 1 1 1 1 1 HC 1 4 3 3 HI 1 4 2 4 3 2 HK 1 5 5 13 8 8 HM 1 HP 2 3 3 HR 2 3 7 5 4 HS 1 HZ 1 1 1 I 16 59 69 165 78 18 IG9 1 1 IS 1 1 5 2 2 IT9 2 6 6 14 6 1 J3 1 2 1 1 1 1 JA 4 8 59 40 1 JW 1 1 JY 1 K 144 46 71 96 38 80 KH0 1 KH2 1 2 1 KH6 6 3 7 7 1 KH8 1 KL 1 1 7 KP2 4 2 2 3 4 5 KP4 1 2 3 4 5 2 LA 5 3 8 1 LU 3 6 37 34 46 LX 5 3 2 1 LY 1 6 4 12 5 LZ 1 6 4 14 8 1 OA 1 1 2 1 1 OE 2 4 17 29 17 2 OH 5 1 18 5 3 OH0 1 1 1 2 1 1 OK 1 36 27 47 31 1 OM 2 11 7 6 5 1 ON 2 27 28 46 24 3 OX 1 OZ 4 7 7 24 5 P4 1 2 2 3 2 2 PA 7 15 20 52 26 PJ2 2 2 2 3 3 3 PJ7 1 PY 1 4 17 35 41 53 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 S5 3 20 25 34 24 8 S9 2 1 SM 1 7 2 27 5 3 SP 4 18 21 55 21 1 ST 2 2 SV 1 3 4 12 6 SV5 1 1 1 1 SV9 2 2 T7 1 1 1 1 T9 5 1 5 3 1 TA 2 1 2 TA1 1 TF 1 2 8 1 TG 2 3 1 1 TI 1 2 2 4 4 3 TK 1 TT 1 TU 1 2 UA 11 23 53 10 UA2 2 2 3 1 UA9 1 1 17 1 UN 1 2 UR 18 16 42 4 V2 1 2 1 2 2 1 V3 1 1 2 1 1 V4 1 1 1 V5 1 1 1 1 1 V7 1 1 1 1 VE 72 93 90 107 55 20 VK 10 33 57 8 1 VK9N 1 1 1 1 VP2M 1 1 2 2 1 VP5 1 2 2 2 2 2 VP8 1 1 1 VP8h 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 3 1 3 1 VQ9 1 1 VU 1 XE 2 6 6 14 11 4 XF4 1 1 1 1 1 1 XX9 1 YB 2 1 1 YL 3 2 2 2 YN 2 1 3 2 2 YO 2 7 13 9 YS 1 YU 2 13 8 27 11 YV 2 3 4 5 10 3 Z3 1 1 5 1 Z7 1 1 2 1 ZA 2 ZC4 1 ZD8 1 ZF 1 ZK1s 1 1 1 1 ZL 1 9 8 24 8 4 ZP 2 3 4 4 ZS 1 1 3 17 9 BREAKDOWN QSOs/Mults HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 15/17 27/28 58/36 100/69 39/24 23/13 262/187 262/187 1 18/11 64/22 86/34 39/16 18/7 . 225/90 487/277 2 14/5 58/18 64/8 34/5 . . 170/36 657/313 3 14/6 65/10 59/15 9/2 . . 147/33 804/346 4 22/14 79/10 55/12 13/4 . . 169/40 973/386 5 18/3 38/7 51/5 20/9 . . 127/24 1100/410 6 13/0 27/8 59/9 40/12 . . 139/29 1239/439 7 3/1 18/2 62/4 28/7 . . 111/14 1350/453 8 1/0 24/9 71/4 12/3 ..... ..... 108/16 1458/469 9 9/2 7/3 43/5 5/5 . . 64/15 1522/484 10 12/0 2/0 16/0 25/7 12/11 . 67/18 1589/502 11 5/0 14/0 4/2 94/6 41/20 . 158/28 1747/530 12 . . 4/0 115/10 63/32 2/4 184/46 1931/576 13 . 1/0 . 86/1 102/25 24/12 213/38 2144/614 14 . . . 80/3 127/9 34/11 241/23 2385/637 15 . . . 50/5 161/3 58/13 269/21 2654/658 16 ..... ..... ..... 114/3 127/4 14/0 255/7 2909/665 17 . . . 99/2 119/3 13/7 231/12 3140/677 18 . . . 103/0 93/5 23/2 219/7 3359/684 19 . . 1/0 82/0 47/6 51/17 181/23 3540/707 20 . . 7/0 88/2 28/6 57/16 180/24 3720/731 21 1/0 1/0 8/0 58/3 22/0 35/2 125/5 3845/736 22 11/0 27/3 57/1 73/3 10/0 3/1 181/8 4026/744 23 14/0 43/1 49/3 36/5 39/5 1/1 182/15 4208/759 0 22/0 37/1 23/1 3/0 13/1 3/5 101/8 4309/767 1 24/3 30/4 36/0 5/0 . 1/0 96/7 4405/774 2 15/3 30/2 25/1 4/0 . . 74/6 4479/780 3 24/5 40/0 19/0 8/0 . . 91/5 4570/785 4 26/1 30/1 21/1 13/0 . . 90/3 4660/788 5 25/2 52/0 40/5 2/0 . . 119/7 4779/795 6 18/2 35/0 24/0 5/0 . . 82/2 4861/797 7 5/3 26/1 41/0 27/1 . . 99/5 4960/802 8 5/0 23/3 16/0 21/1 ..... ..... 65/4 5025/806 9 5/1 7/0 18/1 15/0 . . 45/2 5070/808 10 11/0 16/3 11/2 11/0 . . 49/5 5119/813 11 7/0 10/0 4/0 14/0 2/0 . 37/0 5156/813 12 . . 1/2 19/0 7/0 5/0 32/2 5188/815 13 . . . 31/1 10/0 6/0 47/1 5235/816 14 . . . 49/2 10/1 6/1 65/4 5300/820 15 . . . 47/0 20/4 4/2 71/6 5371/826 16 ..... ..... ..... 44/3 21/1 1/0 66/4 5437/830 17 . . . 85/2 17/0 14/0 116/2 5553/832 18 . 1/0 . 84/2 8/1 25/1 118/4 5671/836 19 . . . 43/3 11/1 14/1 68/5 5739/841 20 . . 1/0 44/0 12/0 1/0 58/0 5797/841 21 . 2/0 11/0 47/1 16/0 1/0 77/1 5874/842 22 7/0 5/0 22/0 26/0 13/1 9/2 82/3 5956/845 23 9/0 19/0 24/0 13/0 4/0 3/0 72/0 6028/845 DAY1 170/59 495/121 754/138 1403/182 1048/160 338/99 ..... 4208/759 DAY2 203/20 363/15 337/13 660/16 164/10 93/12 . 1820/86 TOT 373/79 858/136 1091/151 2063/198 1212/170 431/111 . 6028/845 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,968,525 Wow, High winds took their toll! Lost packet antenna Saturday and my slow dial up for telnet was intermittant all Sunday. Lost the use of my high 15 Friday night and the low 15 Saturday afternoon. No High 20 meter beam and the 40m beam is kaput so was redused to small low antennas on 15 and 20 and a Delta loop on 40. Ten meters was super on Saturday. 73, Dallas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3YY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 172,974 First chance to try out my new FT-2000 in a major phone contest environment. It did very well. No problems with QRM from nearby stations and the receive audio quality is very nice and transparent. If the station you're listening to has clean audio, he sounds great, and if he's over-modulating he doesn't sound so good. The FT-2000 doesn't add anything to the mix. Main problem for me this weekend was the lack of current WriteLog support for the FT-2000. I'm sure they'll support this rig soon, but I fear not before the fall contests are over. As a result of not having a rig interface, I missed a lot of the features I've grown used to, like clicking on spots and having the rig automatically go to that frequency, having the log automatically updated when I change bands, logging the exact frequency of each contact, etc. This made the assisted category A LOT less fun. I felt like I spent my entire time cranking VFO's around, especially on 40-meters. I kept thinking, how did we ever do this when there was no logging software, packet cluster, and rig's were manually tuned?! I tried W1VE's real-time scoreboard and that was fun. The most interesting QSO was with IO4T - while watching their operation on their real-time webcam! I would have asked the operator to wave, but it was a very weak 10-meter QSO. 73, Bob - W3YY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4CEO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 114,636 As usual I had fun! The Ameritron ALS-600 worked great into the Hamsticks on my auto in the driveway. Made my goal of 200 QSOs. Highlight was working FK8FM on 15m and XF4DL on 10, 15 and 20m. Confirmation #: 1008854.cq-ww-ssb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 165,640 TS-440S G5RV R7000 Wish I could have been in the Carribbean operating....maybe next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,450 S&P for a total of about four hours spread out over Sunday afternoon. The highlight was working VK4WR and VK4CZ back to back on 15 meters. Murphy showed up and caused problems with either the external keyboard or the laptop's din plug for the external keyboard--just as I'm trying to log 5Z1A. Swapped the keyboard out, and the problem did not come back. Ole Murph is probably waiting for sweepstakes..... Conditions seemed okay for this part of the sunspot cycle, but I really need real antennas. tnx to all, kaz, W4KAZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 742,862 Used N3FJP's system for the first time (at W4SK's insistance TNX John. System is very good. Longer 10 Mtr openings would have been nice. Hope everyone had as good a time as I did. 73's GD DX Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 225,616 Certainly did not expect such super conditions. Even the predictors didn't think so. Are we really at the bottom of this cycle??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,590,297 The team had a great time, and all the hard work over the summer paid off as the new beverages, antenna switching and new fixed SE beam really helped make this a more enjoyable time for the ops and the score. 73 Bill W4RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 236,652 All I wanted was a better antenna, more time to work in the contests and lots of sunspots......I got none of them. But, it was fun. I just hope that next year we have better conditions! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WS Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,392,908 Our first effort in M/2 after 15 years in the M/S category. What a difference in strategy, band changes, etc. Network ran well all weekend- had an amplifier problem and our 160 antenna was problematic with all the rain on Friday night and wind on Saturday morning. Quick patchwork on Saturday salvaged the band for us. 20 was the band here in NC. 15 was a scatterbrained nightmare both days, but more especially Sunday- skew, backscatter, and in/out conditions hurt us. At one point, the east coast US stations were 5-7 kcs wide and 20-30 over S9 here in NC- then they would disappear in a flash. We even started a run on an absolutely dead quiet frequency only to find a station there 5 minutes later (sorry Jim!)The Sunday 1 hour 10 meter band opening to the south helped a bit on an otherwise dead band (didnt have the Saturday 10m opening everyone up north seemed to have). Our NE and NW beverages worked great- Robert's stations took a massive lightning hit this summer and we only realized on Wednesday that our beverage pre-amps were destroyed- replacements were overnighted and culled together to deliver 80 and 160 switching capability to all stations on Friday. Station interaction was minimal, but theres still room for improvement. Our low yagis were critical this weekend, hearing things when the high ones would not. we were late in getting things ready for theis year's WW- lots of schuleing conmflicts- everyone is so busy. We'll be sure the mad push 2 days before doesnt happen next year. Life is like that at our cheap champagne station on a cheap beer budget (with apologies to N4ZC). Everyone learned something and we all had a blast- which is why we do this, right? The season is open! Now to get ready for Sweeps- More on our website soon- 73, Henry, W2DZO W4WS M/2 Winston-Salem, NC http://w4ws.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 250,381 1st 'test using my new N1MM logger.....I like it much better than my ?? yr old "NA" !!! Wish I had devoted more time, but there are more 'tests a'coming!!! gz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5MF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 323,190 All search and pounce. Had plenty of fun. Found a couple of new countries for me. Missed the sweep of XF4DL on 10mtrs, but got'm every where else. Nice 10 mtr opening on Saturday, but Sunday was a rough day. Didn't even bother with 10. Every one seemed to be down on 20 and was all crowded together. Sure am glad that I have the roofing filter in the ft1000mp, it really helped a lot. All I need now is to get the tower up and get some altitude under the beam. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5PR Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 72,250 Much better condx than last year on 10. 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % OC 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 7.1 SA 0 0 0 0 0 159 159 37.8 AS 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 2.4 NA 0 0 0 0 0 183 183 43.5 EU 0 0 0 0 0 32 32 7.6 AF 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 1.7 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 5H 1 1 6Y 1 1 8P 1 1 9A 1 1 9Q 1 1 9Y 1 1 C5 1 1 C6 1 1 CE 11 11 CT 2 2 CT3 3 3 CX 14 14 DL 4 4 EA 3 3 EA8 1 1 FG 2 2 FJ 1 1 FK 1 1 FM 2 2 FY 1 1 G 2 2 HA 1 1 HC 2 2 HI 2 2 HK 8 8 HP 1 1 HR 2 2 I 6 6 IT9 1 1 J3 2 2 JA 10 10 K 115 115 KH6 1 1 KP2 3 3 KP4 6 6 LU 47 47 OA 1 1 OE 1 1 OH 3 3 OK 2 2 ON 2 2 P4 2 2 PJ2 3 3 PY 59 59 PZ 1 1 S5 3 3 T9 1 1 TG 1 1 TI 3 3 V2 2 2 VE 24 24 VK 15 15 VK9N 2 2 VP2M 1 1 VP5 2 2 VP9 1 1 XE 8 8 XF4 1 1 YN 1 1 YV 4 4 ZK1/s 1 1 ZL 10 10 ZP 5 5 Zones 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 25 30 31 32 33 35 36 37 Countries 5H 6Y 8P 9A 9Q 9Y C5 C6 CE CT CT3 CX DL EA EA8 FG FJ FK FM FY G HA HC HI HK HP HR I IT9 J3 JA K KH6 KP2 KP4 LU OA OE OH OK ON P4 PJ2 PY PZ S5 T9 TG TI V2 VE VK VK9N VP2M VP5 VP9 XE XF4 YN YV ZK1/s ZL ZP Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 30/15 30/15 30/15 D1-0100Z - - - - - 7/1 7/1 37/16 35 D1-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 37/16 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 60 D1-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 37/16 39 D1-1300Z - - - - - 6/6 6/6 43/22 50 D1-1400Z - - - - - 35/7 35/7 78/29 D1-1500Z - - - - - 19/6 19/6 97/35 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/11 36/11 133/46 D1-1700Z - - - - - 11/1 11/1 144/47 D1-1800Z - - - - - 15/4 15/4 159/51 40 D1-1900Z - - - - - 28/12 28/12 187/63 D1-2000Z - - - - - 43/7 43/7 230/70 D1-2100Z - - - - - 49/4 49/4 279/74 D1-2200Z - - - - - 14/0 14/0 293/74 D1-2300Z - - - - - 5/0 5/0 298/74 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 5/2 5/2 303/76 39 D2-0100Z - - - - - 9/0 9/0 312/76 32 D2-0200Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 312/76 60 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-1300Z - - - - - - 0/0 312/76 60 D2-1400Z - - - - - 2/0 2/0 314/76 54 D2-1500Z - - - - - 4/5 4/5 318/81 17 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 318/81 60 D2-1700Z - - - - - 16/2 16/2 334/83 6 D2-1800Z - - - - - 20/1 20/1 354/84 D2-1900Z - - - - - 28/1 28/1 382/85 D2-2000Z - - - - - 11/0 11/0 393/85 D2-2100Z - - - - - 5/0 5/0 398/85 D2-2200Z - - - - - 9/0 9/0 407/85 D2-2300Z - - - - - 14/0 14/0 421/85 Total: 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 421/85 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 35,854 Equipment (as simple as is gets at my temporally QTH) TS 440 SAT and a Hy-Gain 12AVQ vertical on a roof (no antennas for low bands this time) I think I did better than I was expecting, thanks to good 15 M band opening on Saturday (I was rather impressed by making some EU and Africa QSOs). I did not make too many contacts on Sunday as I spent very little time at the radio and the 15 and 10 M bands were somewhat down, just too many "no reply" cases. The contest was fun, still many stations to work to score points inspite of operating from the US this time. Regards Sergey VK2IMM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6EB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 40,108 Antennas : MULTI WIRE DIPOLE @ 20 feet Soapbox : Wanted to have a tribander up for the contest but didn't make it happen. Wasn't able to put in a full time effort due to other issues, 14 hrs. Have to get up antennas, impossible to run in the crowded conditions with out resonable antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6OAT Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,639,773 Our thanks to Brad, K6IDX for the use of his great station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6RFF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 49,764 Wind storm damaged rotor. Antenna fixed at due west. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,352,125 Thanks to everyone who called in. We had a great time in spite of S7 noise from the Santa Ana winds. Our best hour was 293 qsos. Everyone on our team did an outstanding job and celebrated with a steak bbq. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 188,518 Only eight hours of participation from 'YX this weekend due in part to the need to attend to station and tower maintenance and other obligations. Enjoyed a good amount of activity at the start -- 15 and 20 stayed open through sunset to SA, OC, and AS. Missed most of the good openings on Saturday but Sunday nevertheless exceeded expectations, particularly on ten meters. Visitors seen at the shack during the contest included Dan KC8LZI, Carol W6GEM, Larry KI6CCH, Dave KB6OEN, Randy KI6DDW, Harry KX6C, and two significant arachnids (a black widow in the shack dispatched by Dave AA6XV and a tarantula outdoors left to enjoy its natural habitat in the foothills). 73 from W6YX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 66,997 Used Hustler Mobile antennas for each band at 120 feet up.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 3,705 Just a couple of hours. Playing with the DVK setup so I can get it ready for SS. Did this one with a barefoot FT-840, with no filters, and a G5RV antenna. N1MM Logger DVK works slick. Being able to change macro's on the fly is really cool!! 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 248,472 Just a very part time effort in between committments over the weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RJL Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 71,780 Casual S&P using low dipoles. Heavy rain first night with high noise level but it was quite second day. Enjoyed the chase. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,732,561 Congrats to EJ, ZD and ZW! Wow to EJ. Completely missed 10M European opening Saturday morning. Nice support detailed report from AA1K (check q's per zone though). More later still recovering. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA0KDS Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 21,409 Just put up a new antenna system. First time using my new old KLM 2 element 40M beam up at 65 feet. It worked great. I heard stations that I never new were on 40M with the old 40 foot Inverted Vee. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3C Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,258,698 Wish I had more time to contest. Thanks everyone! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7RR Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 32,220 Kenwood TS-570D 100W. Cobralight Jr. as inverted vee and Hustler 4BTV. Only the second year I worked this contest since coming back to the hobby. I didn't hear as much EU from Arizona as I did last year, probably due to the cycle. I worked the same stations on more than one band, more than I did last year, to get the points up.--WA7RR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB0TRA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 23,766 KC0WYC joined WB0TRA in a M/S effort. My first time using voice memory keying from WriteLog; think I need to do some work on adjusting levels. Conditions seemed poor and I hope to have better antennas up for next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB6S Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 166,012 Wow! Great prop on Saturday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 166,300 Brutal, but fun. Tough going with 100 watts amongst all the kilowatts and SSB splatter. Thanks to all who pulled me out of the mess. 10 was wide open Saturday afternoon and sounded like 20 with all the activity. Unfortunately, I had to pull myself away from the rig for most of the opening in order to watch the Ohio State Buckeyes game. See you all on CW next month! 73 - Rick WB8JUI Icom IC746Pro Sommer XP506 @ 50' N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC6H Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 241,472 I enjoyed the contest, a good warm up for SS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4DDU Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 114,165 Not bad considering my headset bit the dust late Saturday night and had to use a ptt hand mike after that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 864,084 FT1000mp 100w TH7DX @ 50' 40m Dipole 80m Inv V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE3C Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,000,608 We usually run M2 in the major phone contests, but due to operator commitments to DX locations or other conflicts, our normal crew was not available for this one. After discussing it several time with Bob, KQ3V, we decided it would be better if we both operated from separate QTH’s than do Multi-Single. I was aware of the Live score reporting beta from the N1MM reflector and have been a long time supporter of this idea, so was anxious to participate. However, I could not find where in the latest version of the program it was turned on? The manuals or Help did not indicate how to report my score. Finally, I did a search of the N1MM reflector on Thursday night before the contest and discovered the secret. Config/Configure Ports, Telnet Address, Other/Other Tab/Start Contest Reporting Application, whew, no big deal, just a check mark! Testing on Thursday and Friday before proved that everything was working and reporting accurately to www.getscores.net. I put several “test” QSO’s in my log and all seemed to work and the score was reporting accurately to the web site. I then deleted all of the test QSO’s but it did not clear the scoreboard, one Q was left on the board. Panic! Nothing cleared it, so I did the only thing I could think of and that was shutdown N1MM. Watching the board, my call disappeared. Started up N1MM again and bingo, zero Q’s reported, I was ready to go! While this was all going on, Wednesday, I was trying to set up my DXD for SO2R. I’m not a big SO2R operator, but have used it in the past to some benefit, especially when things slow down. Well, guess what, I plug everything in (changing over from 2S1 configuration with two MP Fields) and no lights on the DXD! I pulled the cover, check the power supply, voltage to D1, but nothing on the other side! Man, now what? A quick E-mail to Dave, N3RD, to see what he thinks, probably a bad D1 diode. OK, try to get to Radio Shack, find what I need, figure out how to fix it, wait, I really hate all this change over stuff. I E-mailed Dave, do you have another DXD? Yes, go down Thursday night, I can pick it up. I figure this is a sure thing vs. scrambling to fix the DXD and hope that was the problem. Anyway, it will buy me time to figure out the scoring thing. Got a second DXD from Dave and had a nice pre-contest chat. Headed home, new DXD fired right up, found the checkbox for the score reporting, life is good! (My plan is to set up the repaired DXD for a CW configuration on two other rigs.) Earlier in the week I found out that Andrew from XX Towers would be coming down to reinstall the prop pitch motor for the 80M beam. I had the motor rebuilt by Kurt, K7NV, and was anxious to have the beam back in service for the contest. Lots of hours on the tower paid off, Andrew got it back in business, but it is not turning very fast. I think we have a voltage drop issue that needs to be fixed and all will be OK. I kept the beam on EU and used the 4SQR for all other directions for the contest. What this all leads up to is a pretty exhausted operator going into the contest. Bob & I talked and both said, hey, we will do what we can, but not going to be a big effort event for either of us. Well, let me ask you, have you ever been to an auto race? Have you ever been to a horse race? Have you ever watched the Olympic races? Have you ever been in a race? Well, I have now… Welcome to the new world of Live score reporting! The contest started off on 20M with Asia and South America giving me a decent rate for the start. I watched the www.w1ve.com/livescores/ web site on a second monitor I had set up off to the right of my run radio. The print for the score reporting is small, so I had to look close. I set the refresh to every one minute, so I could hopefully see what was going on quickly. K3WW, Chas was first and AA3B, Bud was second and I was third in SO(A). My score seemed to be reporting OK, there was about a minute delay or more at times between what I showed in N1MM and the scoreboard, but not much of a lag. As time went on for the first hour I was making Q’s, but both those guys were racking up the Mults and were they ever! I thought, it’s early, I always seem to go DX chasing in this one and don’t concentrate on running, just keep running and I did. My score was low, my Q’s high, I kept going. Bud came by at some point and I told him “Hey you’re beating me!”. After a while, I started questioning what I was doing. Both the other guys were beating me and by a lot. I thought, no, stick with the Q’s, left 20M in the second hour with 119 Q’s and headed to 80M. For whatever reason, I was able to find a clear calling frequency and listened down, and they came and kept coming, very good runs. Listened on the EU beverage, a lot of weak ones, but good solid runs, Q’s were growing. The first full hour on 80 yielded 84 Q’s, not too bad considering it is the first night and all the DX works each other. But, then the rate started slowing down and was seeing a lot of 160M spots, so I started using SO2R. Don’t know what the changes made to N1MM SO2R functions are, but everything worked great. I decided to just use the manual DXD switching and not worry about the automatic stuff. It was so easy, just click on a 160M spot, it went immediately to my left S&P radio, changed that radio while CQing and listening on 80M on the right Run radio. I know this is different than most setups, but I like the S&P rig on the left so I can tune it with my left hand and my right on the keyboard. When I was ready, throw the green DXD audio switch and listen to the S&P frequency (while the 80M CQ is going) and see if I can hear the call out station. When the CQ stops, quick switch back to listen on the run rig and work anyone there. I could do the dual listen, S&P left ear, Run in right ear, but that is too hard for me. Then the fun started, listened for the 160 spot to QRZ and throw the red DXD TX switch to the left and give a call. If I didn’t get an answer quickly, a call or two, back to the 80M Run and CQ again. This put 25 160M Q’s in the log while working another 124 on 80M over three hours. Somewhere during this time, my score passed Bud, the Q’s and the mults picked up on 80 & 160 pushed me ahead. Chas, was still up there, but getting closer. His Q’s were lower, but he had a huge lead on Mults. It was time to do something about that. I noticed that 20M had a bunch of spots on it and was thinking it might be the typical north OH’s at that time (06 -07Z), so I check it out. I don’t know why, but the band was open with a lot of the regular EU big stations coming through very strong, so I started calling. One call and I worked one, then another, each one a new mult, as EU was not open before. 26 Q’s almost all mults went in the log. Then I started feeling pressure, I had not been on 40M, no Q’s, no mults, man I don’t like that band. So, thought, well I am past EU sunrise, maybe I can get a run going with the EU stations still looking for 40M activity. I tuned around listening for a clear calling frequency figuring I would have to listen down and came upon W3BGN calling CQ. I listened, waiting to hear his listening frequency, so I wouldn’t use the same one and discovered he was working stations straight up! Hmm, I wondered if I could get anything going like him, moved up the band, found a “clear” spot and wow, they started answering me, 116 Q’s later, I was happy. The bad part of all this was, I wanted to sleep, not a lot, but some, before sunrise so I would be rested and could run a decent rate. I crashed for two hours, 9 & 10Z. Woke up, thought I got to get back on that radio! The first thing I did was look to see where Bud and Chas were. Well, Chas still was leading, but not as much as I thought he would be by me sleeping. Again, he was beating me with his mults. Time to get on 20M, I should have checked 40M for Asia stations, but didn’t. Called on 20M, move to 15M, back and forth, no good runs until 16 & 17Z on 15M (114 & 126 Q’s each hour). At 13Z I started seeing a lot of 10M spots, so I did the SO2R thing and put 35 Q’s in the log, most EU mults. I tried to keep running on 20M or 15M, but it was hard with the 10M activity, so I strayed from my run strategy to get a lot of the 10M opening mults. This seemed to help though, as Chas was ahead, I was ahead, it was really a horse race during this time, and boy was it fun. (I wasn’t sure K3WW’s score was reporting real time because the time shown on the scoreboard was always an hour behind, this kept me pushing as I figured I was an hour behind him. It turns out that he was reporting real time the entire contest). Not to bore you, but this scoreboard thing made the contest not boring for me! It made me focus and kept me moving. I usually get really bored the second day and have been known to fall asleep calling CQ. The scoreboard changes all that. I can’t remember a contest flying by as quickly as this one for me! Second day, the same thing, only less Q’s, 15M and 10M were not as good as everyone has observed. However, the SO2R and scoreboard kept me really busy. I was thinking K3WW was an hour ahead of me, there was no way I was ahead of him. So, I pushed, and made mistakes, but the scoreboard kept me going. Slept about 2 hours the second night, same thing, was worried Chas would get way ahead. I missed some 15M mults and didn’t go to 40M soon enough at the end, but felt real good about reaching the 4MM raw score. The score reporting showed my band information, Q’s and mults. Chas and Bud’s wasn’t reporting that information. I didn’t have the opportunity to see if that would help operating strategy, but it might. Maybe in CQWW CW that will be available. To me, the real time score reporting adds a missing element to radio contesting. It takes us from the isolation of our operating environment and puts us together in an arena for all of us to see and spectators anywhere in the world to observe. In my view it completes the picture by answering the question of how is the other guy doing and how well am I doing? I had the web page running in the house for my wife to watch and also a friend was checking it out to see how I was doing. I plan to share the web site with others so they can watch contest events in the future. Tnx to all for the hard work of developing the cutting edge real time scores applications! Hopefully, more people will participate in the fun of live reporting their score and join in the race. 73 es tnx for all the Q’s! John, WE3C we3c@hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE7K Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 31,125 Equipment: Icom-756PRO, Alpha 99B, C4XL at 55 ft. First successful attempt to use the N1MM Logger. Europe was literally dead but got CN, 6W, V5, EA8, V7, FK, and a host of more common DXCC entities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WG4M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,170 That was fun, but I think my ears are still ringing. Paul, WG4M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,901 Big score ;>) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4Y Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 54,080 Unable to put a concerted effort due to Familt obligations this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO1N Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 84,000 Equipment: FT1000D, C3-SS@38', R7, N1MM Soapbox: Part time effort from home after doing both night shifts at K0TV. A blast at both locations, especially using the 80M 4 sq at Jerry's. That thing rocks! The home station is a bit not up to snuff, hence I really didn't even attempt any low bands. 40M and 100W with a trap vertical just don't hack it...15M was great on Saturday afternoon. Not so on Sunday from here. Fun to sit at home and listen on local UHF to the K1IR and K0TV operations in panic with power failures etc. Consider, all over the world we've got guys getting up at all sorts of ungodly hours, driving to friends houses to put in a few hours operating. Driving home half asleep in some cases. Drinking way to much coffee, eating way to many munchies, only to subject their ears to the most mind bending cacophony of noise sometimes known as SSB. What a hobby! CU in SS, Ken WO1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP2Z Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,716,528 Where did 160M go to on Saturday night? 10M was a pleasant surprise after this past year's ARRL. Nothing broke. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 105,120 See you in the CQ WW CW ... 73' http://www.wp3c.qth.com Att Alfredo Vélez WP3C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WU9B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 478,998 This is my highest CQWW score so far from my modest "Little Pistol" Station. I wish I could compete on 40 and 80. Propogation was bizarre at times. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 103,662 Ran the MP in this one but used the new FT 2000 two or three times to see if I could hear any better and found it much quieter. It made the difference two or three times whether I heard the receive freq of the DX station or not. Very frustrating hearing some of the asian stations working simplex the entire weekend and not being able to work them because they were below our phone allocation. Tnx to everyone and 73'......Fred WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XW1A Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 149,877 My First time in CQ WW SSB Contest! Tnx! 73, Larry, XW1A [QSL via E21EIC] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB2ECG Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 14,364 Because of 'Mudik Lebaran' we can not join the whole contest periode, but stil got the fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,280,705 Had to work lot of EU. Licensed power (500 W RF) was insufficient on those CONDX to make US runs successfully... See all in WW CW from EA8EW 73! Gunar - YL2GD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL7A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 280,478 First contest from new contest position. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YM0T Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 86,490 Hello all! Another fine contest DX-pedition from Kefken Island.Conditions are moderate to good,but nothing heard from Asia and Middle-East:((.Used a home made 18 m high wire wertical with bottom coil.Located to sea side which is looking for EU and NA.My current 160 LP record was 67.716 and this year made 86.490!! Special thanks to all stations called me;and Con,DF4SA for sponsorship to Spiderbeam 18 m pole. See you on CW part.I will try first time! 73! Ozer,TA2RC/YM0T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YM2W Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 492,532 In saturdy band opening in Ankara at abt 06.00UTC, first QSO on log with XX9C - good start and realy nice signal for long time. Band close at 15.00 UTC after first 800 QSOs, but after 3 hours (19.00 UTC) again one signal on the band - V26B, but not any more,why ??.. Saturday only 1 QSO with USA(K1KI), one VE(VE1TK) and one JA(JA3YBK), many thanks for call! In sunday band start with good opening to UA, and also WKD 9xJA. Again some good EU pile-ups, but not any K/VE...In 15.11 UTC band total death and not any signal from SA (EU wkd SA more next 4 hours...grr). But generally nice contest, with someperiod 7QSO/1min, nice DXCC (AH2,5X,ST..) and firstly many good friend on the air. TRX IC7400+600W+ 4el Yagi. QSL via OK1TN. Thanks for ALL QSOs and see you again in CW part. 73 from Ankara Pavel, OK1MU (TA2ZAF-YM2W) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO3GSM Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 5,658 Nice contest, maybe THE BEST! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO3JW Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 194,011 Hi to all Thanks for your call in contest! Hope to meet you in cw part 73 Pit YO3JW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5BRZ Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 29,410 Nice experience on a QUAD SYSTEM trying to work more Countries ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5OAG Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 79,060 Nice experience! see you again Sandor, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5PBF Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 81,345 I HOPPE TO SEA IN CW TEST.TNX TO ALL FOR CONTACTS. YO5PBF BOBY FROM BAIA MARE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,112,590 Kenwood TS-930s + ampl Ant : 5 el.Yagi Software : CT 10 73 de Marko 4N1JA - YT2T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT3B Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 73,200 Fantastic low band location, 100 m from the see, conditions were not good second night . Hope to be back soon . Tnx to Ranko, YT6A, for the great time in Montenegro again . Luc ON4IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT6A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 438,672 One week before contest I put up rotary 2L80 yagi, on 45m high tower.. It is design with reflector on 12m long boom, and High Q coils. I used Al tubes from 3L80 by M2, which mechanical and electrical designs were unsatisfactory. Antenna works great. Final measuring shows frequency shift of just 10 kHz, comparing modeling values. I was expecting Martti, OH2BH to come and to operate as 4O3B, but prior to his business obligations he had to go suddenly in BY, and I had to try it myself. First night I finished with 800 Qs, what was very promising. Unfortunately, second night was disaster, comparing first one and I did only 50 USAs. Also, unexpected problem occurred - rotator was broken by strong north wind sometimes at Saturday night and yagi was self controlled…?? Best moments in contest were KH7X, long path and NL7Z. Thank you Mike and Kevin. Many other rear MULTs come on my CQ. Finally I did slightly over EU record, and hope my pertinacity to be sure about every call sign will be helpful in good UBN. Unfortunately, the conditions were not so good and rotator problem definitely did limitation on final score. I hope in WW CW everything will be much better. Worse signal on band was ER1Q. They probably think that bad and over modulated signal will help them to make better score? No, it will not. Thanks to all for calling and excuse to all DXs who did not complete contact, but have on mind this EUs mess and terrible QRM almost all the time. 73 Ranko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT9X Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 850,325 CU in the CW parth @ 20 m. 73 Milan,YU1ZZ (YT9X) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV4A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,500,638 Electric outage for 1 and later 4 hours Sunday afternoon. 40 meters rotor broken before the contest, but nevertheless a lot of fun, good company and camaraderie between the members of the team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YY5RED Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 8,296 Many thanks to all that worked me during the contest, in special to the US and Caribbean stations. Very hard conditions to Europe. See you in the next contest. 4M5DX GROUP Rafael Gianni (YY5RED) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YZ2A Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 1,046,078 4 el. quad up 20m 1.5 kW by yu1kk Kenwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YZ6AMD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,340 It was great contest. I have some problem on my equipment on 20m and the results is not what I expect on this band. There is no other solutions than go on the upper bands. On the other side great opening on sunday 12GMT on 15M and one hour later on the 10M. What about 40M, that is definitely crazy band, working on cw part on SSB contest today is the normal thing:) That is not worst, but now I am talking about good things of this contest. I have the informations that is from Montenegro also working: Ranko YT6A in SOSB-80 HP. Toby 4N6FZ(DD5FZ) and many others... At the end, thanks for all station for calling me and for patience. Special thanks for VK9AA, YB1TC, ZY7C, ZS9X, V26B and many others. Go Montenegro, Go WWYC! 73's Nikola ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1BYZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 392,133 Enjoyed the contest, which is saying something as SSB not realy for me. Lots of search & pounce with lots of happy recipients with ZL in there logs. Could have been a lot more but you guys need to turn off those auto CQ's and listen! I guess you want to keep the frequency but you also want new mults, they come if you listen. Plenty of exciting DX and a couple of all time new ones. Nice little runs on 10m & 15m. Need to do something for 80, 40, plenty of huge signals here, just couldn't crack the wall. 73 John ZL1BYZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL6QH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,591,420 The ZL6QH super station atop Quartz Hill in Wellington New Zealand was again put to good use during the CQWW weekend, fired-up by a team originating from ZL, VK, and the US. During the week prior to the contest, the station experienced 150 kph winds, requiring us to carry out urgent repairs. We were well rewarded with a visit to a local hostelry for sustenance and a libation or two. We all looked rather rosy in the cheeks, but this was due to being in the gale force wind all day and had nothing to do with booze. Honest! Severe gales were also experienced during the contest along with torrential driving rain but the sun finally came out as we packed up at the end of the contest. The start of the contest brought 15m into life, with the log being nicely fed for a few hours, along with 20m and 10m adding to the fun. A good opening into NA near 1900z on the first day was swiftly capitalised to enable the 10m log to look a littler more respectable. 10m conditions on the second day were stellar. We experienced some reasonable conditions on 15m to Japan and NA. The EU path was variable at best, with a number of EU mults heard but not logged. The EU stations were often audible in the quiet conditions at ZL6QH, but our signals were swamped by the general band QRM in EU. The recently installed twin 5 element 15m yagi antennas were given a serious test drive, one yagi fixed on JA/EU and the other on NA. They proved to be very effective, when the NA propagation faded away, the JA path appeared to open up and then vice versa - akin to a propagation pendulum! 20m performed well in the late afternoon and early evening, however, it was not always easy going as stations in the northern hemisphere were not beaming towards New Zealand. However, at the right times the 5 element wire beams, and the short and long path vee beams, pulled in the QSOs. The 15m station ended up making slightly more contacts than the 20m station in a hotly contested race that was eventually put aside with a wee bit of whiskey between the rival operators. Ralph K9ZO, the 40m op found operating conditions in New Zealand much more difficult to judge than he had experienced at other locations. New Zealand is near the antipode of Europe and the East Coast of the United States, which means that it is a long way from anywhere! However, Ralph enjoyed working friends stateside as the sun rose across the North American continent, as well as working the JA pileups, including DS2, JT0, and BY. 80m was difficult on Saturday night, mainly because of a loose wire at the feed point of our 80m/160m vertical antenna which caused a lot of QRN and made it difficult to tune the antenna. This problem was solved during the day on Sunday (after fighting gale force winds and horizontal rain!) so Sunday night was much better. There were some good openings to NA and via the long path to Europe, but it was very difficult to get through the QRM wall on the short path to EU. Top Band conditions were not brilliant, with a number of EU stations (particularly the UK) calling to no avail! We were rewarded with 76 contacts and 9 zones on 160. We were pleased to work some goodies like FY5KE, GI3OQR, VO1MP, and XF4DL. The station equipment suffered a few casualties, with a linear amplifier deciding that sending RF to the ether was not longer within its remit, but making sparks within the tank circuit seemed much more fun. The circuit breakers popped a few times - usually during extensive concurrent CQing - which caused a stir! Bob ZL2AMI had an argument with his amplifier, as it decided to light-up like a Christmas Tree within the HV PSU. Bob, with his years of experience behind him, launched into the PSU with gusto and soon effected a working repair by replacing a glitch resistor that had gone up in smoke. Considering the band conditions, the general feeling was that we hadn't missed any significant openings and couldn't really have done much better under the circumstances. Band ops: 160m and 10m:Gary ZL2IFB, Doug ZL2AOV, Bob ZL2CA 80m: Brian ZL1AZE 40m: Ralph K9ZO, 20m: Brian, KA7KUZ, Graeme ZL1ANH 15m: Phil VK2BAA, Bob ZL2AMI Malcolm ZL2UDF also dropped in on Sunday night to give the ops some well deserved breaks. The antennas were allocated as follows: 160m - sloping dipoles supported from a 40 metre mast 80M - 1/4 wave vertical with elevated radials 40M - vee beams 20M - 5 el yagi beams to USA and EU (LP), vee beams in other directions 15M - 5 el yagi beams to USA and EU/AS, vee beams in other directions 10M - 6 el yagi beams to USA and EU/AS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS9X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,064,987 Our first M2 from the new contest station just outside Bloemfontein. The station is built around an existing Military Comms station that became unused in the satelite era. Several large Log P antennas and verticals were complimented with an OB17-4 for this contest. The famous Battle Creek Special low band antenna that saw service from Bouvet, Marion isl, Penguin isl,Lesotho, Walvis Bay, Maldives, Kerguelen etc over a period of 14+ years were also used. Unfortunately the weather did not play along and left us with S9+30 QRN on the low bands from local thunderstorms most of the weekend. I am sure we missed many callers on 80 and 160. Sorry if we called CQ in your face without answering! This was probably the first semi serious attempt at M2 from South Africa and we hope to upgrade our very basic M2 setup to something more elaborate next year in the CQWW SSB. PC problems caused a network loss for the first 12 hours so apologies for all the dupe QSOs... There is a picture of one of the LP antennas on qrz.com if you are interested. Thanks for all the QSOs. Signal reports will be appreciated so that we know where to try and improve our setup. Getting into Europe on 40 and 80 the first night was almost impossible. On Sunday it was only slightly less almost impossible... :-) Bernie, ZS4TX Jan ZS4JAN Barney ZS4S Dennis ZS4BS John ZS4S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZW1TT Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,348,650 GROUP AFFILIATION RIO DX GROUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZW5B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,339,440 Thanks to Mr. Oms PY5EG for his nice superstation ZW5B. It is always a pleasure to operate from that nice place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 2,448,354 Very surprise with the conditions! The CQWW has the magic to open the propagation! best 73 to all Sergio PP5JR ZX5J. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY7C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,954,358 Rig : IC-756ProIII + PA Alpha 91B IC-756ProIII + PA Yaesu TL-922 Antennas : 160m Dipole @ 40m 80m USA Yagi 3el @ 30m / Eur Yagi 3el @ 30m 40m 2x2 Yagi @ 20/40m 20m 5x5 Yagi @ 30/20m 15m 6x6 yagi @ 24/12m 10m 7x7 yagi @ 8/15m Soapbox : After rebuild our Contest Station, we had no idea how it would perform on the bands when the contest start. The first hour with 207Qs and over 1000Qs after just 4th hour we were more confident. Even with some little troubles, we notched down our last year score just after 18 hours. So our goal was 7000Qs and 15M pts, but some unexpected problems (Murphy) dare show up on the weekend. On Thursday, we tested the 160m dipole, and we lost it on the Friday, allow working only a local station. On 10, we skip the Saturday morning (Europe) and Sunday night (Pacific) opening. The running station hit very late the 10m on Sunday morning and it was amazing working 300 stations in 1,5 hour with a great surprise XX9C “Break On Through (To The Other Side)” the European Pile Up. The low band was under exploited. The 3 elements yagi for 80m toward EUA worked great, but the other yagi beaming to Europe needs more adjustments. We could hear better Europeans on the USA yagi. For the CW leg should get one K9AY Loop and at least one beverage to USA. But we are very happy with the new station and ZY7C Team wants to thank you all for the QSOs on many bands! QSL via PT7WA. CU all on CQWW CW! Best 73, ZY7C Team Index of Calls Call: 3V6T Class: M/2 HP Call: 3W9JR Class: SOAB HP Call: 4L0ABC Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: 4L8A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 4M5R Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 4N6FZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: 4O2A Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: 4O5A Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: 4X/AA4V Class: SOAB HP Call: 4X0WV Class: M/S HP Call: 5B/AJ2O Class: M/S HP Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB LP Call: 5Z1A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 6W1RY Class: SOAB HP Call: 7S2E Class: M/S HP Call: 7S7V Class: SOAB LP Call: 7W2W Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: 8P2K Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: 8R1EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: 8S4S/6 Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Call: 9A2EU Class: SOAB LP Call: 9A3B Class: M/S HP Call: 9A6A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Call: A45WD Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Call: AA1QD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA2DC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA4LR Class: SOAB LP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Call: AB5K Class: M/2 HP Call: AB7E Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: AC0W Class: SOAB LP Call: AC5ZS Class: SOAB LP Call: AD1C Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AD7MI Class: SOAB LP Call: AD8J Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: AG0A Class: SOAB LP Call: AI4ME Class: SOAB LP Call: AI4MT Class: SOAB LP Call: AJ1M Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AK3E Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: AK6DV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AL2F Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AY8A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: B7P Class: M/2 HP Call: BD1DRJ Class: SOAB LP Call: BD7IBN Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: BG1ND Class: SOAB LP Call: BG1QMU Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: BY1QH Class: M/S HP Call: C6AQC Class: SOAB LP Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Call: CN2R Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: CN2ZR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Call: CT3/HA5PP Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: CT3YA Class: M/2 HP Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Call: CT9L Class: M/M HP Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Call: CX5BW Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB HP Call: CX9AU Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: DC3HB Class: SOAB LP Call: DF0HF Class: M/M HP Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Call: DF1DX Class: SOAB QRP Call: DG5OBB Class: SOAB LP Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB/160 LP Call: DJ1AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: DJ2YA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DJ3WE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DJ4AX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DK1MM Class: M/S HP Call: DL0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL1EFD Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: DL1RG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL1Z Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DL4MCF Class: SOAB LP Call: DL4RCK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL4YAO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL9LR Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DM2SR Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DM7A Class: SOAB LP Call: DP4K Class: M/S HP Call: DP9Z Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Call: DR0T Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Call: DR5A Class: M/S HP Call: DR5N Class: M/2 HP Call: E20PFE Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: E21EIC Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: E21YDP Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA2BI Class: M/S HP Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Call: EA5ON Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: EA7HBP Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: EA7OT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: EA7RM Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: EA7RU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: EA9LZ Class: SOAB HP Call: EC2DX Class: M/S HP Call: ED3SSB Class: M/S HP Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Call: ES1A Class: M/2 HP Call: ES5RW Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: ES5RY Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: ES5TV Class: SOAB HP Call: ES6Q Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: EY8MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: F4BKV Class: SOAB LP Call: F5BEG Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB LP Call: F8KCF Class: M/S HP Call: FM/K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: FM1HN Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: FM5AN Class: SOAB HP Call: FM5JC Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Call: FM5JC Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Call: FY5KE Class: M/S HP Call: G0KPW Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Call: G5W Class: M/S HP Call: GM0F Class: SOAB HP Call: GM0IIO Class: SOAB LP Call: GM0OPS Class: SOAB LP Call: GM3WOJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: GM7V Class: SOAB HP Call: GW4BLE Class: SOAB HP Call: HA1ZV Class: SOSB/20 QRP Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: HG1A Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Call: HG6N Class: M/2 HP Call: HI3C Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: HI3NR Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: HI3TEJ Class: SOAB LP Call: HK3SGP Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: HK6PSG Class: SOAB LP Call: HS6MYW Class: SOAB LP Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Call: IC8FAX Class: SOSB(A)/10 QRP Call: IC8POF Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Call: IF9A Class: M/S HP Call: IG9R Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IK3UMT Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: IO3Z Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Call: IR2C Class: M/S HP Call: IR4B Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IR4M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: IR4X Class: M/2 HP Call: IT9YVO Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: IU3X Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Call: IU9A Class: SOAB HP Call: IV3IPS Class: SOAB HP Call: IW0HOU Class: SOAB HP Call: IW4BRG Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: IW4DGS Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: IW7EFC Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Call: IZ7GWZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: IZ8DPL Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: J3A Class: M/M HP Call: JA5FDJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: JJ1WWL/1 Class: SOAB LP Call: JQ1BVI Class: SOAB LP Call: K0DD Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: K0EJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Call: K0JJR Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KT Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K0KX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0OU Class: SOAB HP Call: K0PC Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K0RF Class: M/S HP Call: K0RH Class: SOAB HP Call: K0SR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0TO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Call: K0UK Class: SOAB LP Call: K1BV Class: SOAB HP Call: K1BX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K1GU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1HT Class: SOAB LP Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K1JB/VE9 Class: SOAB HP Call: K1JC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1KI Class: M/S HP Call: K1RU Class: SOAB HP Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Call: K1TN Class: SOAB LP Call: K1TR Class: SOAB HP Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Call: K1VU Class: SOAB LP Call: K1ZW Class: SOAB HP Call: K1ZZI Class: SOAB HP Call: K2BA Class: M/S HP Call: K2DM Class: SOAB HP Call: K2GN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2OAK Class: M/S LP Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Call: K2PT Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Call: K2TTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2WK Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K3BU Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Call: K3DNE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Call: K3MD Class: M/S HP Call: K3NA Class: M/M HP Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3RWN Class: SOAB LP Call: K3STX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB HP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3ZM Class: SOAB HP Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4ADR Class: SOAB HP Call: K4BP Class: SOAB HP Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4EA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4EJ Class: SOAB(A) LP