IARU Soapbox built 7-25-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 2E0CVN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 456,144 Great contest. Cu all in IOTA - Cray Valley RS - M8C - EU-011. I will be active on WARC/6m b4 IOTA and all bands after as well as the rest of the team will b active on all bands with various calls. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,811,282 New towers were loaded with first antennas. Will be ready for CQ WW. Ten minutes rule limited us for MPLs hunting. I hope that log checking will be serious this year. 73 Ranko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 696,988 KLM 10-30-7 LPA, 80/40m dipole FT890, FL-2100Z Due to local noise I did break off on sunday morning. There is nothing I dislike more, then feeling deaf. Sorry to all, I was still awake...Hi. This noise is a known problem in Dar es Salaam, during working days...now also at the weekend!? The positive recognition was, that we have a usable 80/40m antenna now at the clubstation - it is working somehow. Thanks Joseph/5H3WJ, to help bringing it in a much better position. Still it was not a rescuer thrue the night... The multi looks terrible, 2nd day is missed badly. 73, See you all next time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8R1K Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,888,048 Great fun! Tnx fer QSO´s! Olli ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A/S51DX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 67,828 Worked with 100W and coupled 40m dipole at flowers hight, so the result is not so bad at all. Congratulate to all of you who pull me out, specialy ST2A who receive my tiny sig with high speed CW in the middle of the pile up on two bands - what an operator! The call is really an killer - become tired to give the call so many times and repeated it over and over again. I was on EU-170, CI-082 - Pag island. Thanks, Janez S51DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,265,844 Total QSOs and HQ stations up from last year. QSO points, zones and score down from last year. 73 Bud AA3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 21,460 Antennas: A3S/A743 at 15m (40-10m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 100 watts Comments: Just managed to get on a bit Saturday afternoon and evening. Pleased to find signals on 10m again. All S & P this time -- just scanned down the whole band. Don't believe I made it to the bottom of 40m before I got distracted with something else. Lots of HQ stations, although I don't have them separated in the score above. They seem to have taken over this contest entirely. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB4GG Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 1,288 Operated mobile in Alabama for this one. Thanks to all who dug out my signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 4,935 New location here. Setup antenna on first day off in a while. Using Butternut Vertical and a new rig (new to me). MK-V-FT-1000MP. Dont have rig set up for computer logging completely yet. This was a trial run and the rig was great. Need to get that INRAD filter mod installed ASAP and I think it will be alot better as well as getting N1MM going full strength for me. Thanks to all for the contacts and to headquarters for the multi. 73 fer nw BOB AD5VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4MT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 166,833 Great contest, managed 16hrs in the chair. Score was triple last years, but less DX and more 1pt contacts, bands were in bad shape here, would have operated for longer but had two bad storms pass overhead. Equipment Yaesu FT1000MP MkV - 100w 264ft 160m Dipole at 65ft. Thanks for all that heard my signals and came back...till the next one... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 792,832 Nice Contest with my good friend XQ4CW Danilo, 73 CE4CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1DRB/P Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 5,852 My small contribution to IARU 2007 due to lack of time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 3,097,026 It was great to be back at Azores again. We had such a beautiful weather during our stay and it was nice to see friends on the island again. Boy I love that place ;) Before the contest I set my goal more than 3000Q´s, but during the contest what a poor propagation it was! On the other hand because of low rates I had a lot of time to play with 2nd radio and multiplier hunting was quite efficient with it. I felt that I was doing well with multipliers because I managed to work all but two multipliers heard during the contest and was running ahead of my multiplier target. Well, after the contest saw some single ops having about 50 mults more than I have. That’s something I wouldn’t be able reach no matter what I would have been trying. Still a lot to learn… 14 stations were worked on all six bands and 12 of them were HQ stations. Only non HQ stations on all bands were K3CR and EA3KU. Many thanks to all of you for Q´s. 1843 different stations were logged during the weekend and every contact was much appreciated! Huge thanks to José, CU2CE, and Paula, CU2YL, for great hospitality and congratulations to Francisco, CU2DX, for getting married during the contest ;) 73 de Toni, OH2UA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 19,050,510 online QSL-request at www.dl5axx.de/dxlog available ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,103,235 TS850S, PA 500W, 3el tribander @ 25m, dipoles -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1200 0 0 0 0 51 37 88 88 5.0 1300 0 0 0 32 9 39 80 168 4.6 1400 0 0 0 101 0 0 101 269 5.7 1500 0 0 0 91 0 0 91 360 5.2 1600 0 0 0 95 0 0 95 455 5.4 1700 0 0 0 89 0 0 89 544 5.1 1800 0 0 13 35 11 3 62 606 3.5 1900 0 0 109 0 0 0 109 715 6.2 2000 0 27 60 0 0 0 87 802 4.9 2100 0 157 0 0 0 0 157 959 8.9 2200 1 98 0 0 0 0 99 1058 5.6 2300 46 2 2 2 2 2 56 1114 3.2 0000 9 7 30 3 0 0 49 1163 2.8 0100 11 28 12 0 0 0 51 1214 2.9 0200 9 18 17 0 0 0 44 1258 2.5 0300 0 24 12 2 0 0 38 1296 2.2 0400 0 0 25 21 0 0 46 1342 2.6 0500 0 0 64 1 0 0 65 1407 3.7 0600 0 0 67 0 0 1 68 1475 3.9 0700 0 0 0 13 12 6 31 1506 1.8 0800 0 0 0 0 48 0 48 1554 2.7 0900 0 0 0 0 82 0 82 1636 4.7 1000 0 0 0 0 4 58 62 1698 3.5 1100 0 0 0 0 0 40 40 1738 2.3 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 76 361 411 485 219 186 1738 Gross QSO's=1758 Dupes=20 Net QSO's=1738 Unique callsigns worked = 1054 The best 60 minute rate was 159/hour from 2055 to 2154 The best 30 minute rate was 164/hour from 2133 to 2202 The best 10 minute rate was 192/hour from 2104 to 2113 ------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 29 20 82 119 109 109 94 533 30.3 28 20 164 130 112 32 38 496 28.2 27 2 29 47 32 25 25 160 9.1 8 0 13 30 88 0 0 131 7.5 30 1 17 11 28 9 2 68 3.9 18 5 14 16 8 7 5 55 3.1 37 1 3 4 7 4 3 22 1.3 39 1 2 4 6 1 0 14 0.8 4 0 0 2 12 0 0 14 0.8 DARC 2 2 2 2 2 2 12 0.7 9 1 2 0 6 0 0 9 0.5 31 0 0 2 5 1 0 8 0.5 7 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 0.5 36 0 1 3 2 2 0 8 0.5 SSA 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 ARI 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 LRAL 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 FRR 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 45 0 0 0 5 1 0 6 0.3 CRC 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 SRAL 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 SRS 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 RSGB 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 PZK 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 32 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.3 LRMD 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 REF 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 UBA 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.3 NRRL 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 0.3 UARL 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.3 ARABH 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.3 URE 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.3 MRASZ 1 1 1 1 1 0 5 0.3 BFRA 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 0.2 USKA 1 1 0 1 1 0 4 0.2 20 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.2 11 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 0.2 SARA 1 1 1 0 1 0 4 0.2 ZRS 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.2 OVSV 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.2 VERON 1 1 1 0 0 1 4 0.2 JARL 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 14 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 SRR 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2 19 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.2 54 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0.2 33 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 ARRL 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2 REP 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.2 44 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 21 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 17 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 RAAG 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 AC 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 IARU 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 RCA 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 15 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0.1 RL 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.1 53 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 MARTS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 34 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 49 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 AARC 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 RCU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 60 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 59 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 290 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 12 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 VRNA 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 FRRA 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 R1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 RAST 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 76 361 411 485 219 186 1738 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 669 2 bands 213 3 bands 96 4 bands 47 5 bands 13 6 bands 16 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: UT5UGR UA3RAR SK9HQ YL4HQ UA4CCG YR0HQ OL4HQ OH2HQ YT7HQ RL3A GB7HQ SN0HQ LY0HQ TM0HQ OP0HQ DA0HQ ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 11 131 142 255 67 63 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 979,170 Thanks to Walter, DJ6QT for the station. This year we were Multi Op from his station, condx were not so good like last year, not many good openings to the US and JA, but lots of short skip with German stations peaking 20 over S9 in on 20m from north DL. We hat not really good antennas for the low bands thru the storm Kyrill in january. We didnt fixed the antennas yet. Anyway very nice (HOT) WX and a nice weekend with contesting, cu again next contest ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL/K9GY Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 37,296 Yaesu FT-817 (5 watts) and miracle whip antenna on roof of car. Started out for an hour in the bright sun (black car + black radio + Hot sun = hot ham + hot radio!). So finished out the last 1-1/2 hrs in the shade off post near the farming fields across the Autobahn. Only wish EU was this loud back in Illinois, hah! Best of health to all, Eric DL/K9GY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,009,878 Saturday was very slow. I tried to make the best out of it but NA was once again almost not there. Have not worked a single JA. However, the new 160/80 vertical helped to work more multipliers on the low bands than the years before but I spent most of the time S&P'ing. Best rate was in the last two hours of the contest. At least I made over a million points.... Maik DL2AA 'more to come...' SO/ZN+HQ by hour and band Hour 160M PH 80M PH 40M PH 20M PH 15M PH 10M PH Total Cumm D1-1200Z - - - - - 48/15 48/15 48/15 D1-1300Z - - - - 13/13 34/3 47/16 95/31 D1-1400Z - - - - 50/16 - 50/16 145/47 D1-1500Z - - - - 34/7 5/3 39/10 184/57 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 11/9 9/0 30/7 50/16 234/73 D1-1700Z - - - 90/20 - - 90/20 324/93 D1-1800Z - - - 61/13 - - 61/13 385/106 D1-1900Z - - - 4/1 3/2 - 7/3 392/109 46 D1-2000Z - 1/1 8/6 13/6 - - 22/13 414/122 18 D1-2100Z - 11/9 30/8 - - - 41/17 455/139 D1-2200Z - 20/13 17/7 - - - 37/20 492/159 D1-2300Z 11/11 52/5 - - - - 63/16 555/175 D2-0000Z 19/13 21/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 40/15 595/190 D2-0100Z - 1/1 11/5 - - - 12/6 607/196 D2-0200Z - 2/0 - - - - 2/0 609/196 59 D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 609/196 60 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 609/196 60 D2-0500Z - - 43/5 - - - 43/5 652/201 14 D2-0600Z - 1/0 32/0 20/4 3/0 - 56/4 708/205 D2-0700Z - - - 14/0 - 1/0 15/0 723/205 41 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 6/6 30/2 10/0 --+-- 46/8 769/213 16 D2-0900Z - - 19/1 - 7/0 35/2 61/3 830/216 D2-1000Z - - - - 95/3 - 95/3 925/219 D2-1100Z - - - 121/2 1/1 - 122/3 1047/222 Total: 30/24 109/31 166/38 364/57 225/42 153/30 160M PH 80M PH 40M PH 20M PH 15M PH 10M PH Total % EU 30 104 151 294 188 145 912 87.1 AF 0 1 1 3 6 1 12 1.1 AS 0 2 7 27 8 0 44 4.2 SA 0 0 5 11 22 7 45 4.3 OC 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 NA 0 2 2 28 0 0 32 3.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 2,459,340 Problems with allmost everything: One broken boom, one broken reflektor, one broken beverage, broken radiator of the 80m´s wire yagi (maybe the worst thing), one broken linear amplifier, one broken laptop, broblems with the electricity, had to disconnect the phasing unit because of the arcing connectors! Still on the air 23h 50min!! Tired but fun(ny)!!! Thank you!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES1GF Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 150,000 Great Contest! Very Thanks to ZC4LI(STEVE) and ES9 Head Q.(ES5RR ES5QA ES4MM ES3RF ES1LS ES1A) and all who worked me,73! de Vlady(ES1GF) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4BKV Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 532,120 First time participating to this contest and it was a great fun in 20/15/10m (thanks to KT34 Yagi). The 168m horizontal loop antenna was not the best for 80/40m and with only 100W it's really hard to make contacts on theses band. Please remember also that in some countries (like France) the extension to 7100-7200 khz is not plan before the official deadline in 2008 (i listen plenty of stations after 7100 but unable to answer as they are making QSO in simplex). anyway a great fun and hope to be available the full time 24 hours next time for a better score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4DNW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 459,612 Gm all a very good opening on 15m/10m, EU AS nice also on 40m,and low bands just a little crak k=5 saturday evening 20m was bad with NA, tnx to all F4DNW Jerome ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 77,226 Nice contest, lake of propagation compared to 2006 so less dx contacts. Many head quarters stations so difficult to find OM ad YL. 73 Fabrice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 487,224 IC-7000, 80 Watts Doublet (80m 1/2 wave dipole (balanced feed)) Only meant to be a practice session for IOTA, testing the laptop and IC-7000 in contest environment. IC-7000 held it's own but the laptop had a few glitches. Good sporadic-e on 10m but couldn't take advantage on 15m where the doublet refused to tune. See you in a fortnight as EI9JQ from EU-115 73 Dez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7V Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 897,575 Last minute opportunity to do this one as SO for the first time. Fun contest, but conditions seemed pretty awful. Without the sporadic E on 10 and 15 this would have been a dreadful slog. Sleeping right through the night did not help score either. Thanks for all the calls. The support for contesting from DL and SP in particular is phenomenal. Regards, Keith GM4YXI (GM7V) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA3LN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 632,346 - first time passed the 1k qso mark from home - vertical is not a running antenna on high bands from HA - almost 90% S&P - SO2V is fun Powered by Win-Test 3.11.0 http://www.win-test.com 73! Csaba HA3LN --- http://www.ha3ln.hu/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,547,675 It was a nice summer contest again! Too bad the great condx missed it by a day ! :( The great NA condx from Friday and Satuday night was gone by Sunday ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8K Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 817,020 IC-781 150W 3El tribander yagi,dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6P Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 576,534 ICOM 735 TUNNER MFJ-962 HEATKIT SB 220 (400W) MOSLEY TA 53 G5RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL1/VK6DXI Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 15,522 For change I could operate during the contest from ITU zone 44. Equipment used was an IC7000 and a fishing rod antenna (6m), out through the hotel window, on a 15th floor. I had some noise issues on 20m but otherwise it was fun. I had a nice short opening, over a gray line, to South America. Worked CX1AA, LR4A on a first call.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,614,976 9th IARU HF, it is one of our favourite contest. We expected better 20m conditions where we logged just few JAs and very few W6/7. Es on 10+15m gone up and down... better in 2006. On 40 good EU run and USA on CW but W6 did not hear us! We try at 04z W6YI W7ZR N6AA W6EEN and some more spotted by AD6WL but we had answer from EU running near that one! On 80m no way to break pile up on PS2T, P40W and some more zone mults; if we had a real multiplier station we probably have more ZONES on all bands. Nice mult job on 160, it has been great to compare K9AY loop and BOG on VY2/KW8Q signal. Rig: FT1000MP + IC 761 PA : AL1200 + TL922 ANT: on the roof KLM KT34A + 5L 15m + 5L 20m + sloping dipole on lower bands + 20m hight vertical 80+160m on the garden 200m away K9AY loop + BOG to nw tnx to IK4ZGO for help. Andy IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR2Y Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,228,266 Thank you for the qso`s, cu next one! Stefano IK2QEI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EWS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 33,282 This was my first contest in a while. The first from my new station setup, and I enjoyed it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 557,520 More ssb Q's than usual and DX was scarce, but great fun and good rates Dont know how many of the mults were HQ stations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 265,990 Only three of the HQ stations I heard were not worked: YL4HQ-Latvia-20ph; LX0HQ-Luxembourg-20cw/40cw; and R9HQ-Russia-20cw. Propagation was both good and bad! Ten meters provided 63 contacts in 11 ITU zones but the path was confined to North/South routes. The normal summer static made 160m unbearable and 80m another challenge. I was so tired Saturday night I forgot to work 80m phone! I probably lost some easy contacts and zones. I staggered to bed at 04:30 UTC after 15 hours of contesting. The dog woke me up around 08:30 UTC but I managed to avoid getting up for another half hour. I got back on the bands about 09:45 UTC. The cluster was full of 20m spots but the problem in MN was 20m not being open. I worked the low bands on CW and caught all the early birds. I returned to 20m at 11:40 UTC and had my first contact on CW. I enjoy the IARU contest because everyone gets to work everyone and there's always interesting DX. It's also fun to find and work all the HQ stations. In the 2007 IARU it was 90% S&P for me using the same old equipment (IC-756 + IC-2KL + TH-11DX @ 22m). 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 411,345 DID NOT HEAR MUCH EUROPE ON ANY BAND AND NO ASIA...GOOD 10M OPENING ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 103,964 No excuses. Rig: TS-130S, 85W output Ants: 80 Inv Vee ^ 51 ft 40 sloper toward northeast ^ 60 ft 20 sloper toward west ^ 40 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 33,280 A recent thunderstorm downed my low-band wires, so I was limited to using my KLM KT-34A triband yagi on 20 and 15 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 820,615 Very close thunderstorms forced me off a few times. 160 and 80 unbearable with no RX antenna. Nice 10M and 15M openings Saturday afternoon and an excellent 40M opening to Asia Sunday at sunrise. FT-1000D and QSK Alpha 76 C31XR at 60', XM-240 at 75' 67' vertical on saltwater for 80/160 Thanks for the Q's! Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 26,112 Indoor, second floor, 40 Meter bent dipole. Worked P40W on all three bands. Man, this is a great radio location; it's easier to work Europe than W6/7. Reminds me of when I moved to Connecticut 34 years ago and the thrill of hearing EU on 40 with an indoor dipole there. If only I could have an antenna outdoors. Did better than I expected; I should have kept a log instead of just dupe sheets (remember dupe sheets?). Only ran 50 watts, hoping not to meet my neighbors. No 15 Meters for the same reason. Jim Cain Atlantic City (I'm about six miles from the Boardwalk.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 25,704 Was able to operate for only a short time but still had fun. Condx very poor, at least when I was on... 73, Ted K2QMF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 166,608 Nice to hear 15 and 10 open, even if only short skip altho some EU on 15. Had three major thunder/lightening storms during the day that forced me to run for the hills (there aren't many of those in this part of the country). Then, I had to go out for most of the evening so limited amopunt of time to operate. Was real happy with the rate though given my limited antenna farm (one vertical). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,523,490 Just couldn't get the phone thing going. Felt much better on CW, so I stuck with it most of the time. Thanks to WA3FET for letting me use the station again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3JT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 228,410 New 40M ground plane worked well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LL/6 Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 158,895 Great fun! This was my first serious contest operation since 2000 and only second IARU since 1978. Just back on the air for past year after a 7 year hiatus. Nice to have some activity on 10 and 15. Amazing how the bands "open" during a contest. Was lucky to be on 3800 at the exact moment when Randy V73RY came up on the band. Did spend some time convincing folks that I was *not* Dave, K6LL. My apologies in advance to Dave ;-) Already looking forward to next year. 73, Cliff K3LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 161,355 Classic DX Mult = 4 IC-751 to SB-200 CDX score USA SOHP = 645,420 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 39,168 Got on from 0130-0530 Z and most of Europe was gone from 40. Thanks to N6RO for my only 15 M QSO, it was at about 11 pm here! Conditions on 40 were OK, but 80 was not so great. Had fun, and the highlight was having EL2DX call ME for an all-time new DXCC for me. Thansk for the QSOs, paul Kenwood TS-850S, Ameritron AL-811 amp, N1MM logger. Fan dipole for 20/40 at 40 feet, 80 M wire vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,307,616 I was thinking of a mixed mode entry, but CW was more fun and phone bands didn't sound busy when I checked. Took a brief nap, club meeting this afternoon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3ZT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 33,306 This year's IARU Contest was a Lot of Fun for Me! Favorite Contacts: Hawaii on 40 Meters and New Zealand on 20 Meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 724,055 Sorry to be imprecise, but the breakdown between zone mults and HQ mults is approximate. My logging program didn't keep up with anything but total mults per band. FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW, TH6DXX, zepp, dipole, inverted vee, "t" vertical. Good band conditions to North America and pretty bad band conditions to the rest of the world. At least 20M didn't close completely at night and 15M was open surprisingly early (11Z). Thanks for all the QSOs. My score is considerably better than when I did this contest SO2R with the same station and antennas in 2005. I can only attribute that to the good sporadic E skip on the higher bands that allowed many more North American area QSOs. Total DX QSOs had to have been way down from 2005. Maybe I'll get the SO2R setup going again soon. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 16,881 Rig: Collins S-Line @ 100 Watts (32S3 and 75S3C) Antennas: 5 band vertical plus Inverted Vee was used on 80 Scoring this contest was confusing to me. I hope I have it right. I had 331 QSO points. I had a good time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 103,792 Thanks for the Q's.... 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FTO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 5,880 Gear:Kenwood TS 570, attic dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4IJ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 20,808 Had lots of fun, thanks everybody! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4JPD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 319,054 Thunderstorms, good food, goats and dogs at McElroy Manor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MIL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 27,939 First time entering this contest. Just running 100 watts into about 40 feet of wire up in the attic due to home owner restriction. Was sirprised to see a small 10 meter opening. Best thing about this contest is the exchange. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 815,178 Zones and HQ mults were not broken out by program. Very little DX propagation Saturday morning -- the openings just weren't there. It was mainly a North American QSO party, which was great for some good rates. I had a couple of 5-QSO minutes, which are equivalent to 300/hr -- not bad for CW! My best clock hour was only 130, but with seven hours above 100 and six above 90 per hour, I'm not complaining. The real highlight was TEN METERS. Sporadic E really kept things interesting throughout Saturday. Good to hear N9RV QRV again. Thanks for the QSOs folks; this is one of my favorite contests. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 351,680 Even though the IARU contest is one of my favorites, I was only able to mount a part-time effort. Between lawn work, family social obligations, and pool maintenance (read that as maintaining goodwill with the XYL for contesting in the summertime), there just wasn't a great deal of time left for this one. But, hey, 12 hours of contesting is still better than a "poke in the eye with a sharp stick," right? My only complaint was that the local QRN level was unfortunately high during the contest. I had to adopt a "love/hate" relationship with the QRN. The QRN kept me from hearing as well as I would have liked, but at least there was rain in the area, which we desperately need. According to the rain guage on my Davis WX-station we are 22.5 inches below average rainfall at this point in the year. My thanks to everyone for all the QSOs and a special thank-you to those who hung in there with me during the QRN. 73, Rick K4TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 14,719 Just played around chasing DX for a few hours between thunderstorms. Ten Tec Omni VI G5RV up 75 ft Ten Tec Centurion at 800watts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 292,932 20 was down by almost half, but 15 and 10 provided some nice runs. Tried SO2R for second time ever. Easier this time, but still not natural with separate audio streams in each ear. Hopped to pick up lots of the mults on second rig, but then lost primary so had to settle for single radio. Had 29 more Q's than last year, but 26 fewer mults. Glad high bands did open, as local thunderstorms within about 30 miles almost killed the low bands overnight. Overall, it was a great contest. Many thanks to all those who stopped by. Look for us as a M/2 in NAQP. 73, Mark "Putting NORTH Louisiana on the contest map" See you in Dayton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,746,552 Larry, K5OT, agreed to team up with me to do a two-man M/S in the IARU this year. Last year Rich, N5ZC, came down from Amarillo and did the 2006 contest with me. Larry did the SSB operating and I did the CW operating and we ended the contest with a nice balance between CW and SSB contacts. That was one one of our objectives because that strategy was effective last year when Rich and I won the category. Operating the contest with just two people is intense. The intent is for both operators to stay in the chair (and awake) for 24 hours. Larry and I managed to do that. While one of us was working stations the other operator was always determining the next band/mode to switch to. It got a little tough to stay awake for the last two or three hours, but we both made it. There was a threat of thunderstorms for the entire 24 hours of the contest and at times we could hear thunder in the distance. But we kept our eyes on the weather maps and never had to stop operating. I think conditions were down some from last year. But 10 meters surprised us with some nice stateside openings. The conditions on 15 meters were very poor. Of course, 20 meters was a key band on both modes. The low bands were pretty good, but sounded unoccupied because of the summertime noise. I worked more Europe on 80M than I expected and it seemed easy to get through from Texas. But the static crashes were brutal and maybe that's why 80 and 160 meters seemed unoccupied. The IARU is a fun contest even though it is top-heavy with HQ stations. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 60,356 I was a mixed category entry, but I do not have breakdowns for phone /cw. During last year's IARU contest, I worked tons of EU countries on 20m during the 0200z to 0500z timeframe. With the K index at 4 this year, it just didn't happen. I had rigged up a 2 element dipole beam pointed north, and oh well. At least I worked some new EU countries the night before the contest. When I noticed that 20 was becoming the ITU Zone 6 QSO party, I decided to switch to 40 at about 0300z to work back East. I think it was a good choice, and had some good runs going on Phone. I switched back to 20 a few hours later to find some good openings to VK/ZL and JA. Nice to see some activity on 15 and 10 the first morning. Amazing propagation to Northern California. Best DX: V73RY on 40 and 80. Tnx Randy! Rig: FT-990 Ants: 40 meter inverted vee up 55 feet Multi-band Alpha-Delta DXCC dipole as sloper from 55 feet 2 Element VE7CA style 20 meter wire beam up 20 feet 10 Meter Ringo Vertical Software: N3FJP IARU Contest Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 462,105 Good stateside openings on 15 and 10 were nice consolation to very limited propogation to Europe. 87% of my contacts were to North America with only 19 Eu Qs. I had some fun early in the contest when my main antenna switch failed and I had to replace it. My thanks to everyone for the QSOs, It was great to work many new Ops on 10 and 20 SSB. Dana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 55,952 Started out slow. Picked up in the late afternoon and great into evening. 20m stayed open late for Norcal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,083,082 Solar disturbance certainly hit at an inauspicious time. Virtually no Eu heard. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 56,097 with these condtions lucky to work much Europe, only on 20 tho...had fun for a few hours, 40 cw a blast... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7QQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 287,861 The EU pile-ups were Great well both guys that called me on CQ's Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 363,140 Rig: FT1000MP; Force 12 6BA, HF2V, 6BTV Thanks to the sponsers for a great time, and thanks for all the Q's! 73...John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZSD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 596,375 This contest prodded me to start a month ago and put up 2 new antennas and work more on antenna switching, I usually do these things in October, and thanks to a lot of help, they are now done. It sure is nice doing antenna work in the summer. Many thanks to Hank, Kevin, Al, and Jim for going the distance to help put up antennas, and then spend time here for the contest. It was an enjoyable Saturday here and mostly relaxed, good conversation, food, and drink. The 24 hour format is rather comfortable especially with 5 operators splitting time on one transmitter. The weather was just beautiful, 76 degrees, so we sat outside, inside, cooked and relaxed. In retrospect, we could have spent more time making sure we worked all the mults available. We all enjoy a good run, and early on I suggested running over searching and pouncing for mults. I remember saying several times that later in the day would be better for working the dim afternoon Euro signals. Being heard through the Midwest and East Coast wall is an exercise in patience during marginal conditions. Unfortunately, 20 meters worsened through the day, and our west coast evening summertime propagation over the pole was gone, hence, very few European mults, even the big HQ stations were gone. There seemed to be no opening on 40m to Europe as well. Fortunately 20m to the states from here on the west coast really started to produce great runs in the evening. Then around 11pm local, 40m phone was hot with a great run. The rates were so good we did not go back to 20m where propagation over the pole came back around 1am local, I found this out after the fact. We really had fun the last four hours on 40m cw with great rate and big Asia and Oceana numbers. Jim, KI7Y was grinning ear to ear running 40m cw. We finished the contest at 5am local with a good QSO total, and a really low mult score. I will read this post next year before the contest. Many thanks to all the great ops out there. Brad K7ZSD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 378,753 Nice suprises....LR4A and CX1AA on 160 plus Europe. Need more activity from Zone 3...VE4YU was only station heard. Great contest....poor 15 and 10 meter condx! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 459,316 Ten-Tec Orion II (100 watts; 3 el SteppIR at 78 ft; M-Squared 40M3L at 71 ft; 80m Inv Vee at 65; 160m vert (shunt fed tower); K9AY Rx Loops Nice to see 20m open for DX the entire dark period. Not so during the day from out here in the west.Totals here were very close to my last years performance but pts/qso were less due to poor daytime DX openings. Sincere thanks to ARRL/IARU for sponsoring my summer favorite contest! CU all in the Fall. 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 85,500 Part-time effort. 43% of QSOs via CQ mode. Very poor conditions. No DX heard on 10 and 160 meters. DX almost nil on 15, and sparse on 20, 40, and 80. Most enjoyable part was time spent on 80 meters with a nice 1.5 hour CQ run -- rate over 100 for a while and peaked at 140. 160 was fair, but activity seemed quite low from U.S.A. 73, Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 972,000 (QSO totals are for mixed mode - forgot to jot down CW/SSB breakdowns.....) One radio: IC-765 One amp: Alpha 87A Various antennas The IARU NAQP! At least that's what it seemed like at times. I knew it was going to be tough going when all the big EU HQ stations were 30dB below their usual signal levels on 20M. Worked whatever DX I could and W/VE for rate. Sporadic E was present throughout the event and that kept the W/VE stations going into the log on several bands, albeit many of them fellow zone 8 one pointers - in fact a fair number of "6-Banders" this time. Low bands were ok but noisy. Huge signals from South America on 80/160! I always enjoy the IARU....thanks for the QSOs! 73, Mike K9NW . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 85,456 I succeded in beating last years score dispite the qrm. Had to work a little longer to get it. Mostly s+p with some short running during the last hour. Probably should have run more earlier. I don't have a voice keyer, so I was running out of voice toward the end. Also got a little tired and started attempting to rotate the vertical I use for 80 meters using the F-12 key. Never did rotate. Lots of fun. Steve KA2KON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,320 My first time in the IARU and lots of fun searching and pouncing through the 24-hour period. Scored my first DX on 80-meters late in evening and enjoyed the Pacific/JA opening on 20-meters as well. Overall, a stellar goodtime running 35-watts into a random wire from the central coast of California. I'm looking forward to next year. Best results to everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 175,680 Zone value includes HQ mults. Managed to beat my last years score by 40K points. New voice keyer worked superb. Good runs on 15 and 10 - E-skip conditions on 10 (sounded more like 6 meters). Only worked zones 4,7, and 8 on 10 mtrs plus ARRL in 225 Q's (4 mults) versus working 9 mults with zones 4,6,7,8,10,12 plus ARRL/IARU/VRNA on 80 mtrs in 28 Q's through S9+ QRN. Just odd. Had to watch nearby storms all weekend as QRN levels even made 15 noisy at times. Fortunately, late evening QRN on 40 and 80 was tolerable, all else considered. Not as much DX around to work - even on 20 it was tough. Maybe it was just condx. Unfortunately a committment on Saturday early evening cut into some prime time to scrape up some more mults and 5 pt QSOs on 20. I only had 92 pure one-pointers versus 45 off-setting 5-pointers out of 706 QSOs, not counting the HQ stations. Usually I like it to be more balanced. Hence part of the reason for the low mult count. Thanks to everyone who listened up, especially my lone JA on 20. QRP has its moments that leave you wanted to reach out for the AMP switch. Funny how half the time folks said I had a great signal and the other half of the time they could barely hear me. I even had a single unidentified report say I was "splattering all over the band" and needed to "turn down my gain". You know, it always amazes me that these "experts" never give out their call, and don't really understand that S5 is about -60 dB (the selectivity of many receivers) below 30 over 9, so at 2.1 Khz away in the direction of the sideband, don't be surprised to still hear some signal there. I just went back to my run, and got a few more honest opinions (not to mention I monitor my output) just to make sure that something that I hadn't changed in the last few years had changed. Such is the fun of contesting. See you next year. -Al ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,287,611 Thanks again to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting us invade the farm. He has upgraded the antenna switching, allowing us to split transmitted power between antennas and rapidly switch between them. That helped when we were getting answers from Europe and the US at the same time. The new 80-meter Lazy-H worked very well and gave us a rotatable antenna on 80 to go with the 3-element delta loop fixed on Europe and the inverted vees. Conditions on 80 and 160 seemed good for mid-summer. We had a lot of QRN Sunday morning, but it was worse after Europe pretty much disappeared. About 400 fewer QSO's on 20 meters this year. We missed the beginning of the 10 meter opening here but it was short! We had a blast. Thanks for all the QSO's. (I know the total QSO's don't quite match between the mode breakdowns and the summary sheet. I'm not quite sure what Excel and the logging program did there! :-), but they're close enough.) IARU HF Championship -- 2007 Call: KD4D Category: Multi Single Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: Mixed Mode Country: United States BAND QSO QSO-PTS PTS/Q ZONES HQ STNS 160 48 106 2.21 11 13 80 239 545 2.28 18 29 40 486 1462 3.01 27 35 20 978 2604 2.66 30 37 15 188 478 2.54 19 24 10 10 18 1.80 4 0 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 1949 5213 2.67 109 138 Score: 1,287,611 points BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KD4D IARU HF Championship Multi Single HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 12 ..... ..... ..... 56/18 12/10 ..... 68/28 68/28 13 . . . 22/5 48/19 10/4 80/28 148/56 14 . . . 74/9 23/6 . 97/15 245/71 15 . . . 31/1 44/3 . 75/4 320/75 16 . . . 34/4 48/3 . 82/7 402/82 17 . . . 102/5 . . 102/5 504/87 18 . . . 119/3 . . 119/3 623/90 19 . . . 95/2 . . 95/2 718/92 20 ..... ..... ..... 69/8 13/2 ..... 82/10 800/102 21 . . . 128/2 . . 128/2 928/104 22 . . 27/21 78/0 . . 105/21 1033/125 23 . . 100/14 . . . 100/14 1133/139 0 . 55/29 2/0 . . . 57/29 1190/168 1 18/15 21/3 . . . . 39/18 1229/186 2 8/5 13/4 51/9 . . . 72/18 1301/204 3 . 26/2 80/3 . . . 106/5 1407/209 4 ..... 15/1 56/5 21/4 ..... ..... 92/10 1499/219 5 . 33/4 31/4 . . . 64/8 1563/227 6 . 40/3 35/2 . . . 75/5 1638/232 7 . 22/0 29/2 11/2 . . 62/4 1700/236 8 22/4 14/1 16/0 . . . 52/5 1752/241 9 . . 56/2 . . . 56/2 1808/243 10 . . 3/0 54/3 . . 57/3 1865/246 11 . . . 84/1 . . 84/1 1949/247 TOT 48/24 239/47 486/62 978/67 188/43 10/4 . 1949/247 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 12,144 Fun contest to work CW only. It was fun to work so many stations during the opening on 10 meters Saturday afternoon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1F Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 46,240 Nice openings on 10 meter. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF3B Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 271,080 Would be nicer if N1MM summary identified HQ Mults separately. Enjoyable contest with some nice runs and happy surprises on 3.5 MHz. All in all, good fun and perhaps next year will be able to make a bigger effort. Congratulations and thanks to all the superb ops ... you make these contests worthwhile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 40,326 Glad to see 10 meter activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4IGC Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 62,712 Had a good time this year in the contest.I had a slow start, just causual operating while doing other things. Was real pleased to see that all bands were open at some point or another. Was going to run QRP again this year but decided not to at the last minute and ran low poer 100 watts. Used my MarkV Field for the rig, antennas used: 282' loop. 20 meter Lazt H, Gap Challenger ground mounted, Maco V5/8 (10 meters) and my 8 element Sterba Curtain. Later in the day I tried to make an all out effort and make up some Q,s but I think that I spent a little too much time running. I think perhaps next year I will do more search and pounce to try and raise my score. Hopefully the bands will open up a little better next year so that our club (Low Country Contest Club) will have some representation in the QRP catagory. Bands really started to slow down after midnight but had some really nice openings on 20 into the North and South Pacific. Best contacts for me were into Pitcairn Island and New Zealand. Many TNX goes out to the many stations who answered my calls see you all next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5U Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 35,751 Due to prior commitments, only got 8 hours operating time in. Due to a broken beam pointing NW and a broken rotator, I never heard much out of Europe on 10/15/20. But, did manage to eke out a few DX QSO's on those bands. It was nice to 10m open with some activity midday and to hear 20m open so late--my only JA's and KH6 were on 20m CW at around 0700Z. Hopefully, next year the station and I will be fully QRV for this contest. It's one of the best. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK0HF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 127,405 Mostly S&P. Looking forward to better band conditions next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL3R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 475,180 Many thanks to Rich, KL7RA, for use of his station. Used new K3 radio - which worked VERY well. The receiver is a joy to use. This radio will be seen at many contest stations soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 209,095 Good warm up for NAQP, not much DX in this one from here. Not a peep from EU on 20/15 by 1800Z, so I spent the afternoon at a pool party with my wife. Came back home in time to eek out a few EU mults on 40 at their sunrise and run 1 point W6's on 80.... 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 34,074 Also worked phone Qs, 15 on 20m, 2 on 10m. Only one new multiplier on phone. John kq6es ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 22,250 Too nice out. Spent most of the time with my wife enjoying the day. Elecraft K2 HB 2L Quad @ 55ft 402CD @ 80 feet OB11-3 @ 72' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS8O Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 45,430 First attempt at this contest. I know that I will do it again in the future. Most contacts in the back yard, did manage a couple ZL's for the farthest contacts. Bands were quite dismal for long distance. Use only 100 watts and wire at this time, hope next year to have beam's up for the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 147,140 Well, fun to get on when I could. Had several things going on. Missed Europe and JA. Still had good time. Mult total were down. Nice to have so on 10 meters. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,311,821 Had nice rates-500Q after 3 first hours, but missed on critical mults during the same time, I think. Had thunderstorm hanging around for few hours on saturday night so did not hear too good and had to shot down for almost an hour. 2400Q is my personal best in IARU, but had better scores before... Thanks to everyone. 73. Alex KU1CW/EU1CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 276,432 IC756PRO - AL811H (600watts) - Center fed zepp @ 35 Feet A fun contest - Wish I could of operated more. DX Condx not very good but stateside rate plus 15 and 10 meters open made it fun. CU in the next one. Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 957,480 Great contest, but condx was very poor. 82.2% EU contacts speaks for itself. Highlights: ZL4PW longpath at 23:00z on 20 meters. VA7ST zone 2 longpath on saturday morning 20 meters. Silly me tried to beam short and almost lost the contact. Thanks for calling again Bud. Other highlights: 1321 of them. 1 is for hitting forehead in table at 02:00z. Time to wake up! Bjorn LB1GB@LN8W http://www.la8w.com/ QSO/ZN+HQ by hour and band Hour 160M CW 80M CW 40M CW 20M CW 15M CW 10M CW Total Cumm OffTime D1-1200Z - - - 64/15 4/4 16/10 84/29 84/29 D1-1300Z - - - 46/4 17/11 - 63/15 147/44 D1-1400Z - - - 73/5 5/1 8/4 86/10 233/54 D1-1500Z - - - 35/4 12/4 - 47/8 280/62 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 24/5 3/1 9/5 36/11 316/73 D1-1700Z - - - 49/1 14/6 4/1 67/8 383/81 D1-1800Z - - 35/19 14/0 8/2 1/0 58/21 441/102 D1-1900Z - - 21/7 14/7 - - 35/14 476/116 D1-2000Z - 27/14 9/0 7/2 - - 43/16 519/132 D1-2100Z 30/21 16/6 4/3 - - - 50/30 569/162 D1-2200Z 64/1 3/2 - 6/4 - - 73/7 642/169 D1-2300Z - 72/4 - 2/2 - - 74/6 716/175 D2-0000Z 5/2 14/1 13/11 --+-- --+-- --+-- 32/14 748/189 D2-0100Z 3/2 16/4 - 1/1 - - 20/7 768/196 D2-0200Z 4/4 4/1 4/1 - - - 12/6 780/202 D2-0300Z - 34/3 13/1 - - - 47/4 827/206 D2-0400Z - - 10/1 8/1 - - 18/2 845/208 D2-0500Z - - 11/3 24/1 - - 35/4 880/212 D2-0600Z - - 2/0 52/1 5/3 - 59/4 939/216 D2-0700Z - - - 77/0 9/1 - 86/1 1025/217 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 104/2 7/1 --+-- 111/3 1136/220 D2-0900Z - - - 68/3 2/1 10/0 80/4 1216/224 D2-1000Z - - 2/1 9/2 11/1 20/1 42/5 1258/229 D2-1100Z - - - 59/6 5/2 - 64/8 1322/237 Total: 106/30 186/35 124/47 736/66 102/38 68/21 160M CW 80M CW 40M CW 20M CW 15M CW 10M CW Total 3V 1 1 1 1 4 4J 1 1 4O 1 2 1 4 4X 1 1 5B 1 2 1 1 5 5H 1 1 8R 1 1 2 9A 1 5 1 8 3 3 21 9N 1 1 A2 1 1 1 3 BY 1 1 CM 1 1 CT 1 1 1 3 CU 1 1 1 3 DL 16 25 3 92 3 8 147 EA 2 1 3 8 3 17 EA8 1 1 EA9 1 1 EK 1 1 ER 1 2 3 ES 1 2 1 1 5 EU 1 1 3 5 EX 1 2 1 4 F 2 4 3 14 1 3 27 G 2 2 2 14 1 1 22 GM 1 1 2 4 HA 6 10 6 36 7 7 72 HB 1 1 1 8 2 2 15 HB0 1 1 HR 1 1 HZ 1 1 I 1 4 5 19 7 8 44 IS 3 3 JA 2 2 K 2 6 67 1 76 KL 1 1 LA 2 4 1 1 8 LU 1 1 1 3 LX 1 1 1 1 1 5 LY 2 5 2 5 1 15 LZ 1 2 14 2 19 OE 1 3 1 6 1 1 13 OH 1 3 4 5 1 14 OH0 1 1 2 OK 7 13 3 37 6 2 68 OM 2 2 1 13 1 4 23 ON 2 5 3 9 3 1 23 OY 1 1 OZ 1 1 1 3 P4 1 2 1 1 5 PA 2 2 1 15 1 1 22 PJ2 1 1 2 PY 1 5 5 11 S5 2 4 5 14 5 6 36 SM 3 5 1 3 1 1 14 SP 8 8 6 33 1 2 58 ST 1 1 SV 3 3 SV5 1 1 T9 1 2 1 2 1 2 9 TA 1 1 1 3 TF 1 1 UA 16 25 13 101 10 1 166 UA9 4 4 13 44 65 UN 5 5 UR 7 16 5 44 6 5 83 VE 1 18 19 VK 1 1 VQ9 1 1 VR 1 1 VU 1 1 XE 1 1 YL 4 4 3 4 1 16 YO 2 6 3 21 5 2 39 YU 3 6 6 20 7 4 46 YV 1 1 Z3 1 1 1 3 ZC4 1 1 1 1 4 ZL 1 1 ZS 1 1 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LW4EU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,622,420 First time in this contest outside of WRTC. It´s FUN! Tnx everybody for the Qs speacially to all the LIDS from WWYC!!! :-) Tnx to Jorge, LW4EU for hospitality and support!!! Martin, LU5DX @LW4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ3FN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,429,032 Great contest as always,,,, Second radio burned out after first 4 hours,, see u next year :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 847,704 New SteppIR 4-el put up last week (thanks Alex GD6IA and Brian GD4PTV); antennas for 80 and 160 put up in the morning did not achieve SWR below 3:1 so decided to enter low power as amp would not load on low bands. Still in process of cabling shack and couldn't get the SO2R controller/logging software/radios to play together nicely like good little children, so wound up using manual paddle and one radio for contest; the paddle started sticking and finally broke altogether early Sunday morning. Plugged in second key but it was old and sticky so had to QRS and sound sloppy for Sunday. N1MM software skipped over 15M when changing bands (what was THAT all about???) so had to activate WriteLog when changing bands and now have to manually re-enter Qs to combine the two when sending in the logs....and then there was the propagation! Where was the West Coast? Where was the Pacific? But still lots of fun, and personal best in this contest....will be better prepared next year!! Thanks to all for digging out my signal and for putting up with the sloppy cw, and thanks to Ann for keeping me fed, watered, and getting up in the middle of the night to find out how I was doing! 73, Bob, MD0CCE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 709,594 The last time that I did IARU was 2005. I always enjoy this contest for the combination of high rates for a low power station as well as the different summer propagation and “one shot at it” 24 hour cycle. Even though CW is my favorite mode, I also enjoy SSB contesting and like the MIXED category in this one because it adds an additional strategic component that is unique for most contests. The station here at N1UR was up to the task. Everything was a go and I was rested for the solid 24 hours stint. Propagation during the week was not great and indicated that the only chance for JA from here was 20M from 1130 – 13Z and that EU wasn’t overly strong (but was plenty workable) at the 12Z opening. Also 10M E Skip to the South East and Texas was a regular occurrence. I was listening about a half hour before the opening gun. Never heard a JA. EU was there but the general signals were not loud. I opened running on 20M CW with split antennas (top to US/JA and bottom to EU). It’s a tough decision to “split” 150W into two 75W signals but it is successful. I had a 100 opening hour with 80% being US stations, no JA. I picked off some HQ mults on 15M at the same time. I still don’t have “the formula” down for the IARU contest. Is it domestic? Is it DX? The running of 1 and 3 point US Qs feels good but really isn’t score productive like running EU (when its doable). And unlike WPX, no mults call in when you are running the US. So I constantly waffled between “rate” and better score. After a couple of hours, I switched to 20M SSB run where I had a 90% US/VE run of almost 180Qs in 90 mins. Felt great, but I eventually let it go in favor of S & Ping at a good clip the 20M EU signals on both SSB and CW. I know that there is supposed to be over 100 HQ stations. I basically worked the same 30 or so on 80 – 15. I had a great rate going on 40 CW from 23 – 02Z with over 50% of it being EU. I decided to make one, and only one, pass at EU on 80 CW/SSB to grab all of the mults and did so around 0245Z to catch the most “dark” sigs. With the concentration required on the 100+ 40 CW running, it was going to be tough to SO2R the 80 mults at the same time. I was quite surprised at the first call grabs of just about every CQing EU station across the band from 0245 – 0330Z using the 150W and 2 el wire array. Things were so good there that I even tried a couple on 160 (without much success). Rate was, again, quite easy on 80M CW. I should have tried a little 80M SSB running as well but didn’t. But again it was exclusively W/VE at about 2 point average. Took a 45 min nap at 0730Z since everything was slower and virtually all running was 1 point W/VE. I hoped for the “last blast” from 11Z + but it didn’t happen. Again, no JA. I did manage a few Asiatic Russians in the last hour. Running on 20M was not producing EU and decided that constant mult chasing was a better strategy for the last hour. I actually feel good about the mult total (interesting note – very few mults were not available on CW…the reverse was not the case…mults would have been lower exclusively SSB). And the Qs total is a record high for me in IARU Low Power. But the points per Q resulted in a lower score than expected. I was very happy to hear the solid number of new US hams trying “this contesting thing”. Sure, a number of them had to be coaxed through but many stayed in the game after that. One of them duped me later. I was his first contest Q about 30 mins prior. His second attempt was clean and crisp. I didn’t tell him “You a dupe OM…worked you at blah blah blah zulu”. Why, what’s the point? No, instead, he felt good and confident. Keep him that way…he’ll figure it out. See you in CQ WW SSB! Ed N1UR Antennas: 160 – T Vert and Inverted Vee 80 – 2 el phased array and ½ wave sloper south 40 – 2el at 80 ft 20 – 4/4 at 70 ft and 35 ft (NE) and 2el South at 55 ft 15 – 3 el at 80ft, 5 el at 50ft South, 8 el at 30 ft NE 10 – 5 el at 70 ft and 3 el South at 50 ft Beverages 900 ft NE and 600 ft W (on 80M, I literally can’t hear 25% of the callers from W/VE on the NE Beverage meanwhile EU is Q5). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2QT Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 336,175 Ran LP to avoid RFI issues with a neighbor (after 20 years of no interference!). Great contest with its work everyone format and 24 hour duration. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 169,856 That was loads o' fun! Lotsa action on all the bands, nice to hear 10 busy. 160 and 80 were noisy here and the 80M antenna was the 160M Tee (not very effective) but kudo's to YV5AJ for copying me regardless. The openings to EU were on and off, but strong enough at times. 40M really surprised me, considering the antenna is a sloper headed NNW made a lot of "easy" DX contacts. Heard more VKs, ZLs and JA than I've heard in a while. Rig was an Elecraft K2, antennas included 4 el SteppIr. Thanks to all for a great time! 72, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2YO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 147,636 IARU HF is always a fun contest! 73s de Chip N2YO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3AD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 905,575 NOTE Zones and HQ mults are combined as that is how software reports it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,140,704 No EU on 15 (other than a handful) or 10. No JAs on 15 (actually one). Few on 20. It was like a high rate W/VW contest with a good dose of JAs on 40 early Sunday morning. We had a nasty rain and lightning cell come over at about 1900Z. I shut down and disconnected everything and took from 1909-1942 off, but operated with S-9 rain static before and after; it probably cost me an hour overall. That occurred right in the middle of a pretty high rate run on 20 SSB. I tried hard, and had pretty high rates. Because wife had taken ill with a serious chest cold and serious cough, I was pre-occupied the day before the contest, and started a couple of minutes late getting on the radio. I took no sleep breaks (see an unplanned rain break below that was very non-relaxing). As you can see, I had unusually low multiplier numbers. That pretty well cost me 15-20% on the score. Why? Look no further than between my ears! My biggest problem was a stupid cockpit error with TR-all my fault. My TR Elmer, K5PI, had handed me two special "config files," one called "standard" and one called "so2r." As I gained experience, I had modified them, but still used both. Then in the last couple of months, I got "smart" and consolidated evereything into one file called "standard" but didn't notice that it lacked the critical instruction to make "TWO RADIO MODE = TRUE." Since I have been honing my TR moves on the Sprint and the wonderful NS on Thursday nights, I had not noticed the problem since these automatically put the setup into SO2R mode when one selects the Sprint. But for a "regular" contest like this, one has to tell TR to go into the SO2R mode. Well, dumb ole' me had forgotten, and in the brief practice sessions before the contest, I tried the set-up files, and it seemed to be OK, but I was not uusing the SO2R capability. So you can imagine my surprise when I tried to CQ on the active radio and S&P another band to pick off mults and other unworked stations, and TR balked. it would not call the station I had lined up on the second radio. I sort of freaked out. With all the other things going on, I simply tried for "rate" and was SO1R. That went on during most of the daylight hours, until at 2133Z I was looking at the manual and discovered the instruction that must be used for SO2R. I then edited the config file and VOILA!, all was well in TR-Land. That error cost me the mults (mostly the HQ stations which do not come through CQing) on 20-15-10 meters and that was a fatal problem, even though my QSO rates were pretty good. Other than the N3BB mental problem, the station seeemed to work well. Some observations, many of which have been mentioned by others. 1. The CW portion of the contest is disciplined and the operators are crisp and savvy. Nary a person did not know his zone, etc. Operating on SSB is an entirely different contest, with many 2x3 calls and many, many people having no clue what was going on. I had to inquire where the operator was, as many people simply gave me "599 One" as the report. That was fine, as things are fast on phone. I actually really enjoy phone contesting and for some strange reason seem to do better there than on CW. 2. The 6F75A group (Mexico) really had a terrible time with an ill-advised call. They sent it by paddle, not by computer, five or ten times to me and I think they sent "6F75A" one time. mostly it was "6F7HA" and other assorted variations. I found the document prepared by K0RC which listed the HQ stations very valuable. If it was not for that, that one QSO could have taken five minutes the way they were having trouble sending. Over all, the K0RC document was terrific. 3. It was a thrill to wotk a Russian polar station on Zone 75. He was a super operator, with just the right touch and speed. 4. The JA run on 40 meters was really good. I worked about 125 assorted JA-HL stations plus a few others in BV-BY-9V-YB in the final three and a half hours. The band was excellent to that part of the world. 5. I worked one weak JA on 15 meters. He was calling CQ. 6. 160 meters was pretty useless here due to QR-November. Congrats to all the great scores. Jim N3BB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 126,500 My first try with this contest. It was fun, but more zones would have been nice! Good openings on 10 and 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW/1 Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 210,255 Too much going on outside the contest to put in a full effort. However, what time I did put in was most enjoyable. Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EEB Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 329,209 This was my first ever IARU HF. It was a very different and interesting format from I was use to. I had hoped to put in the full 24-hours, but I ran out of steam a few hours short of the finish line. My best hour was 14Z with a 91. My worst hour was 23Z with less than 30. I had 7 hours above 70Q/hour, not too bad for a wire antenna at 20 ft. I can't wait to I get a tower. Equipment: Icom IC-756 Pro III ETO Alpha 78 PalStar AT1500CV Win-Test for Windows 3.11.0 A horizontal wire antenna at 20 ft. (Loop) was used for all contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EK Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 12,095 Limited time allowed only 3 hours of operating plus getting run of the radio by many thunder storms. nice to see some activity on 10 meters. 73, ed N4EK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 250,000 Note: NA 10.53 does not calculate score correctly since ALL HQ stations are listed as ONE POINT QSO's regardless of QTH! Zones and HQ mults are also combined. AARGH ! .................. Where did all the DX go? Daytime propagation across the Oceans was DISMAL from Alabama! Afternoon, Evening, and Nighttime Propagation was much more productive. This contest ‘felt’ like an FOC Marathon with it’s Bonus Points for 5 and 6 Band QSO’s and with activity from NA, Europe, and the British Empire. Saturday night I began filling in missing bands, mostly with other Zone 8 stations including 3 excursions to 10 and 15 Meters with N4OGW (MS), W9WI (TN), and WA1FCN (AL) after Midnight local time to complete 6 Banders with each of them. 6 Band QSO’s = 11 - 5 Band QSO’s = 10 - 4 Band QSO’s = 16 I was pleased to contact CU2A, LU4A, and TI5N on 5 Bands. CU2A and T90HQ were my only Europeans on 10 Meters. To my mind, the 1 / 3 / 5 QSO point format is WAY TOO Discriminatory to stations in densely populated Zones. Consider the following: 1 Point QSO’s = 266 = 40% of Q’s => 266 points = 15% of Score 3 Point QSO’s = 246 = 37% of Q’s => 738 points = 41.7% of Score 5 Point QSO’s = 153 = 23% of Q’s => 765 points = 43.2% of Score Zone 6 = 74 QSO’s, Zone 7 = 87 QSO’s, Zone 8 = 266 QSO’s (1 pointers) Yes, working stations on different Continents is more difficult, BUT, how can one justify giving 3 points to guys in the Central States for working the nearby East and West Coasts while awarding only 1 point to East Coast Stations for working other East Coast Stations? This is Especially Discriminatory for those of us living in the SouthWest corner of Zone 8 with a HUGE handicap to Europe compared to our fellow Zone 8 inhabitants in the upper NE USA. Looking at my QSO Breakdown by Continent is especially revealing: NA = 77%, EU = 14.7%, SA = 5.2%, OC = 1.2%, AF = 1%, AS = 0.8% Interestingly, K4TD (AL) and N4OGW (MS) who put in more time and ran High Power had similar distributions. I’m gald I didn’t take this contest too seriously and took lots of OFF Time during the Day! Tom N4KG / LP (= 100W) in North Alabama ( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 45,504 IC746Pro/100' dipole @ 35'. I love this contest! Maybe next year I can spend a few more hours on it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 18,100 Had fun! Storms kept operating time down. Used only the Hamsticks on my auto with the FT2000D in my HOT HOT garage. WriteLog users beware, my version 10.62 did NOT total my score correctly when converting to the Cabrillo file. 362 points X 50 multipliers equals 18,100, not the 14,400 as indicated. For Mr. tOad: (4011888.iaru-hf) Highlite: working P33W and 3V1A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OGW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 916,164 Due to a logging software glitch I accidentally sent zone 7 for the first 52 qso's (sorry!!!). I will put the zone I actually sent in the cabrillo. Lost a half hour fixing that and other station problems. My zone is listed incorrectly in the latest .CTY file. Conditions and score down from last year. From here this seemed more like a NA qso party than a worldwide contest and 20m never opened well to Europe or Asia. 852 1-point zone 8 qso's, 79.6% USA/VE overall !! Tor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 484,706 Had equipment problems which cost me about 30 minutes and then the thunderstorms cost the other 90 minutes.(W3LPL helped me fix the equipment problems, bad audio on 10 meters when the voice keyer was hooked up, by providing a known critical ear of my audio....Thanks Frank) Static on low bands was 20 over 9 at times, making for a major headache, literally. Rate was decent, but DX was not plentiful at least here in extreme northwest Florida. Interesting to get several comments on my BIG signal on 20 meters when the antenna is an old Telrex TB6EM tribander at 40 feet and 800 watts from an Ameritron AL-572, driven by a Kenwood TS-830S. The activity on 10 meters is very noticeable with the change in licensing. Should be interesting when the sunspots come back to see how the two worlds collide. There are alot of groups meeting on 28.300-28.500. See ya'll next year, probably on CW for a change. 73, Jay N4OX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 906,246 Condx were not bad. Pleasant surprise to find 10m in good shape again this weekend and 15m better than the last couple of weeks. Thunderstorms in the area the whole 24 hour period but only had to shut down twice for short periods of time. Thanks to all who called on 10m and didn't have a clue what was going on. Easy to give a quick lesson on phone about ITU zones. 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5XZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 147,778 Limited time and heavy QRN from power lines and storms but I had a great time! Waiting to put up 40/80/160M antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 420,284 70% USA and Canada Continent List 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 9 93 185 283 56 13 639 VE calls = 1 9 23 32 7 0 72 N.A. calls = 0 2 4 13 1 0 20 S.A. calls = 0 5 15 4 0 0 24 Euro calls = 0 0 9 30 0 0 39 Afrc calls = 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 Asia calls = 0 3 13 29 0 0 45 JA calls = 0 6 46 93 0 0 145 Ocen calls = 0 5 13 18 0 0 36 Total calls = 10 123 308 504 64 13 1022 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 580,464 Had to miss 7 hours Sat. afternoon, so not much production on 15 and 10m. But good to hear 10 open to US in the morning. This was pretty much a NAQP plus JA! TR-Post 6.79 did not recognize the HQ mults, so I counted them manually. Continent List IARU 2007 N6RO 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- USA calls = 47 145 188 284 152 85 901 VE calls = 8 21 16 42 8 1 96 N.A. calls = 3 4 1 7 0 1 16 S.A. calls = 0 10 8 1 0 0 19 Euro calls = 0 0 5 16 0 0 21 Afrc calls = 0 0 3 3 0 0 6 Asia calls = 1 7 15 20 0 0 43 JA calls = 2 54 82 68 0 0 206 Ocen calls = 3 11 15 8 2 0 39 Total calls = 64 252 333 449 162 87 1347 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 903,720 With the K-Index at 3 or 4 all weekend, conditions were very poor, and never really improved much, though there seemed to be plenty of activity. You know things are bad when you can only work one JA from Northern California on 15m! Even the "big guns" in Europe were very weak here on 20m. Many thanks to all the stations, especially HQ stations, that agreed to try a quick QSY to 80 or 160 for a new multiplier. My new Force 12 Sigma 180S 80m antenna with Tornado Tuning drive seemed to work very well. Next year should be better for everyone, right? Congratulations to N6MJ at W6YI for his very big total. 73, Bob, N6TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 181,818 We had four new Generals joing Matt KQ7W and I for the contest. They did a sterling job on the bands, learned a lot, and enjoyed it to the point they are asking "when's the next one". 73, Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7NT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 101,094 Rig : TenTec Orion II, 100 watts Antennas : Dipole at 30 feet with tuner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 386,843 This contest is traditionally a Multi-op for Guy/N7ZG and myself. It makes for a nice cap to the contest season. Unfortunately, making it a multi-op forces you into the mixed category and phone isn't a strong part of our skill suite. Still we slogged on through and I think we had our best phone performance to date. My apologies to those who found me laughing in the middle of my phones CQ's - sometimes my tongue just doesn't work. Note to self: get that sound card and voice interface working (it just doesn't seem a priority the rest of the year ). As others have noted, the Pacific Northwest was essentially locked out of Europe by the high A/K indexes. We heard a few and all those packet posts by our neighbors to the south made our mouths water but mother nature wasn't going to relent. Fortunately, we can only go up from here (I hope). The JA's did make a re-appearance from their no-show in the CW WPX, that was good news. However, total points were depressed from last years levels (our best) even though Q's and mults were our best ever. Sure glad this contest starts and ends early in this time zone (0500). You only lose 1 nice day and with another operator to swap out with, I can still get things done in the yard. Still one of my favorite tests. Hope the IARU/ARRL take the concerns about rule breakers seriously and that we can get the "boycott" crowd satisfied and back in the fold. 73 dink, n7wa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 40,152 Only had a couple of hours to play ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8FE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 66,075 Radio: Icom 756 Pro Heathkit amp Used Gap Vertical Antenna for 40 & 80 and Quad for 10/15/20. Good contest. Lots of NA stations. Picked up some good HQ stations to QSL and many fills for my 5 band WAS. Thanks everyone who participated in the contest. 73, Marsha N8FE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 4,833 I had only a few hours to operate to due to family visiting from out-of-town, compounded by a busted rotator. Didn't hear any Europe when I was on - mostly just NA and SA - but nice to see 10 open up! Rig = Ten Tec Argonaut 509 (3 watts out) Antenna = Wilson System 3 - three element tribander Yagi at 15 meters See you next year! 73, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 153,104 Emergency FM broadcast antenna repairs kept me from doing a full effort. When I could operate, thunderstorms limited it! Murphy is alive and well! Doesn't seem like a year has gone by since I was in Brazil at the WRTC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 15,050 SOAPBOX: SPENT MOST OF MY TIME PUTTING UP A NEW BEAM INSTEAD OF WORKING SOAPBOX: THE CONTEST. SO DIDN'T GET STARTED UNTIL THE CONTEST WAS HALF SOAPBOX: OVER. BUT IT WAS FUN NEVERTHELESS TO WORK THE CONTEST AND BE SOAPBOX: ABLE TO HEAR SO MANY WEAK STATIONS. EVEN HELD A CQ FREQUENCY SOAPBOX: SEVERAL TIMES AND THE NUMBER OF STATIONS REPLYING WAS JUST SOAPBOX: AMAZING. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I CAN REMEMBER WHERE THE RATE SOAPBOX: METER STAYED AT 90+ QSO'S PER MINUTE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD SOAPBOX: OF TIME. SO I'D SAY THE BEAM IS WORKING. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG9T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 171,842 All phone QSO's by 11 year old W9JJC, including a couple of nice 20 meter runs. CW by grandpa K8IR. About the same number of QSO's as last year, but points snd mults down. The low bands were unusually quiet for mid-summer. The only 6 bander was K4BAI. Lost an hour finding a new buzz on 80 meters. Turned out to be the power supply in the bedroom surround sound system the xyl gave me for my birthday in May. Needless to say she was back to only two audio channels from the TV for the duration of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK6A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 33,497 Fighting a lot of noise on 20 M all day Saturday. Evening was quiet but I fell asleep at 11:30. Didn't hear any Europeans on this year during my operating time. My new FT2000 worked great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 186,676 This year good friend W7SW came visiting, and we went Multi-single, High power, CW-Only. We soon passed my last year score when I was SO QRP CW. The 5AM start time is a little tough here, but we worked some low band contacts until the sun got higher. We took time off Saturday to visit the local Strawberry Festival. We also went to sleep and then got up again at o-dark-thrirty to operate the last two hours. All the equipment and antennas seemed to be working,but we were unable to work Europe on 40m, even though we managed it on 80m. Nice to work a dozen US and SA guys on 10m, although even 160m out-scored 10m. Thanks for the contacts! Mark K6UFO Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 3-el SteppIR at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' Two 80-meter half-slopers 160m inverted L Writelog software QSO/ZN+HQ by hour and band Hour 160M CW 80M CW 40M CW 20M CW 15M CW 10M CW Total Cumm D1-1200Z 6/3 19/7 2/2 - - - 27/12 27/12 D1-1300Z - - 25/11 - - - 25/11 52/23 D1-1400Z - - 6/0 54/11 - - 60/11 112/34 D1-1500Z - - - 9/4 - - 9/4 121/38 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 6/3 17/4 --+-- 23/7 144/45 D1-1700Z - - - 2/1 - - 2/1 146/46 D1-1800Z - - - - - - 0/0 146/46 D1-1900Z - - - - - - 0/0 146/46 D1-2000Z - - - - - 2/2 2/2 148/48 D1-2100Z - - - 19/0 12/4 5/2 36/6 184/54 D1-2200Z - - - 16/3 21/3 9/3 46/9 230/63 D1-2300Z - - - 40/6 13/1 - 53/7 283/70 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/3 2/0 --+-- 38/3 321/73 D2-0100Z - - - 25/0 - - 25/0 346/73 D2-0200Z - - 11/2 11/3 2/1 - 24/6 370/79 D2-0300Z - - 3/2 65/5 - - 68/7 438/86 D2-0400Z - - 13/2 14/4 - - 27/6 465/92 D2-0500Z 3/1 32/9 23/2 - - - 58/12 523/104 D2-0600Z 1/1 9/2 23/5 - - - 33/8 556/112 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 556/112 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 556/112 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 556/112 D2-1000Z 3/0 12/4 4/0 - - - 19/4 575/116 D2-1100Z 3/1 2/1 30/0 - - - 35/2 610/118 Total: 16/6 74/23 140/26 297/43 67/13 16/7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP2KW Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 49,770 Had other commitments Friday evening and all day Saturday, so not much effort. The usual suspects were N2BJ, WB9Z, and N0NI...good job guys. I may be wrong but to me there wasn't much participation, I kept hearing the same stations on the bands, and for sure it was the worst propagation so far this year. 73 de NP2KW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3D Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 140,112 Part time effort. Did 15 Q's on SSB in the very beginning (marked them as unclaimed), then switched to CW. Getting ready for NAQP RTTY next weekend. Thanks to all who called. 73's Andrei EW1AR-NP3D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ3X Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 57,104 My first time in IARU; I really enjoyed it. See you in NAQP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 975,453 NR4M team had a great time as usual in the IARU. This year we had the pleasure of Bill, KC4D and Fred W4DF joining us. There were actually a smattering of phone Qs, made, but for the most part it was CW. The station is slowly coming together. This year we had the first 40M OWA up, fixed on Eur at 100ft. Thanks to Steve and Caroline for the great hospitality always experienced at the Goat Farm (NR4M). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 45,210 For some reason, I decided a few days ago that I would try the QRP Mixed category. It worked out pretty good really. I was able to call CQ on just about every band for a few contacts here and there. Yeah, S&P was a little more difficult, but it was fine. Most of my op time was after the family went to bed. I caught an hour nap when things got real slow overnight. Best DX on SSB was ZL1V on 20 meters - how he heard me, I don't know! On CW it was LR4A on 40 meters after sunrise here. Thanks to everyone for all the Q's! 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net TS-2000's inverted L's on 160 and 80 W4OP end fed dipoles on 10-40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 86,043 That was fun! Not much of a final score though due to my choice to just "run'em" rather then hunt around for the HQ multipliers (the ones I worked are included in my zone listing). Must of my runs were with North American stations but there was a nice period into EU on 20m during one my visits to the contest! I enjoy the run much more than the S/P so for me, this was it. The 5 hours I was one provided excellent rate and kept me quite busy. I even had trouble surfing the net and doing email in and around the Q's! :) Thanks to all and I hope everyone enjoys the rest of the summer. I can't believe it's already mid-July. 73, jeff nx9t www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 907,055 Fun Contest. I thought 40m was in quite good shape this year. I could hear the weaker EU and worked the VK/ZL's with ease. Heard W5/6 working JA's but I wasn't able to copy them. I don't have a 160m antenna here yet so in the wee hours of the morning I turned off the amp and managed to load (my 10m beam I think) with the xcvr's tuner and work a couple. The first q on 160m was KD4D and working him with that antenna was like working first dx. I did manage to work VE1 with it though! Seems I don't do very well at finding the HQ mults. Something to work on next year. Congrats to Bud AA3B and Chas K3WW for their great scores. 73; Steve NY3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH0R Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,251,108 IARU contest is always a graet fun. Unfortunately I met this year some unexpected obstacles and cound not run fulltime. Score and QSO# were only half of those in 2006. It was a mighty moment when I, after maybe more than 10 trials, got N1BUG call copied on 160m. Thanks paul for patience. It does not happen every summer that we can get IARU zone 8 on top band. See you all next year again, full time, I hope. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH6KZP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 837,237 What was to be an exciting contest from my upgraded little pistol station eventually turned into an exercise in torture due to heavy aurora.... Anyway, it was still fun! :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1DSA Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 22,392 Rig: TS-690SAT (reduced power) Pwr: QRP 5W out. Ant: INDOOR half-size G5RV (in a loft) Log.: SD v13.23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 808,461 OK2ZC.NAGANO.CZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,611,148 cca 20 h CW and 4 h SSB / all OPs prefer CW, hi In night /19 Z to 6 Z / only CW - then ZERO SBB QSOs 80 nad 160 m... - good training for CW contests. Thanks for contacts and cu in WAEDC CW 73 de Pavel OK1DRQ /OL8M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 15,179,307 You can find more info on http://olhq.crk.cz/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,597,155 73 and thanks for all the contacts! Franki ON5ZO / OQ5M http://www.on5zo.be ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,800,000 First serious effort in IARU SOAB CW since 1997. Poor condx first 3 hours, resorted to S&P, but afterward things gradually improved. Nice EU ten meter opening at 1800 UTC but almost all HQ stations. 15M was very good both to EU and NA, but very few AF stations on any bands. Best hours of contest were 02/03Z when I went to 40M for first time.....with a peak hour of 180. Good JA sunrise opening on 40M. Overall, noted the increased activity from N.A. and great runs of EU. Many thanks to P49Y and P40L for the use of their station during this visit to my tropical home away from home. QSL via LOTW or N2MM. 73, John W2GD/P40W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 225,342 Nice short skip conditions on higher bands - in particular also 20m on Sunday. Had 2 hours less sleep planned; missed therefore some HQ stns on 80 es zones on 40m . A very enjoyable event again. Wkg condx : Ten Tec Orion II - 100w - inv. vee es dipoles cu next year Harry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PG7V Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 412,050 Rig: Yaesu FT-2000, 100 W Cushcraft R5 vertical @16m high G5RV dipole 2x 16m, feeding point @15m high Longwire for 160m http://www.pg7v.net Enjoyed the contest, nice short-skip, especially at the end of the contest on Sunday. Most of the time worked S&P, chasing HQ stations. 239 QSO's were made with HQ stations. CU in the RSGB IOTA contest from Texel Island (EU-038) as PC6IOTA. Active also several days before and after the contest. Info: http://www.pc6iota.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 6,068,278 The PJ2HQ Qs for this contest are on LOTW already, if you need a card please QSL via DL6LAU (ONLY for the IARU 2007). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,697,968 Working from that mega station PS2T (PY5EG property) during IARU was unbelievable. I was expecting "zero" propagation, but even under that condition I had great time, with no-stop for lunch/dinner and 100 QSO/hour! Finish with 2420 clear contacts and totally tired. St 1 - FT9000D, Acom 2000 St 2 - FT2000, Alpha 77dx 40m SteepIR, 15 and 10m stacked yagis. Bazooka on 80/160 and K9AY for listen antenna. Writelog and MicroHam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1NB Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 463,572 Very nice, but I missed the usual NA opening on 20m and 15m, and the huge pileups. 73 to all, Felipe PY1NB ps: see the submitted scores database at http://www.dxwatch.com/ct_scores.php ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2KC Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,859,044 First contest from new QTH. 4 El CUBICAL QUADS 10/15/20M 2 El Yagi (PP5UA) 40M Invert V 80M FT100D + APLHA 87A www.py2kc.cjb.net msn:py2kc@hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2MTV Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 3,564 RIG; FT1000MP FIELD, PWR ABOUT OF 100 WATTS, ANTENNA DIPOL 40/80 @ 4MTS UP, 3ELE YAGI HOME MADE @ 5MTS, SOFTWARE N1MM LOGGER Vs 7.7.1 Thank you very much to all contacted stations, in next opportunity hope to be with the station in better conditions to accomplish excellent contacts and to be present in full time of this wonderful party. Congratulations to all. 73. André PY2MTV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 400,800 TS450sat 3el Triband @ 13Meters Inverted V for 40M 80M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2TO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,340,236 Ad hoc assembly of team and station, started 1h late due to set-up problems. Thanks to PY2DM, Mamiro for hosting us at his fine station. Thomas, PY2ZXU/HZ1EX/SM0CXU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2YU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,090,220 Rig: IC-706MKII + Amp TMC (300W) Ant.: 10/15/20 - 3 el. Tribander (3DX3) @ 14m 40 - Dipole @ 10m 80 - Dipole @ 12m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,291,904 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 0 14 51 154 0 0 219 VE calls = 0 5 6 19 0 0 30 N.A. calls = 0 0 10 4 0 0 14 S.A. calls = 0 11 48 20 19 0 98 Euro calls = 163 448 428 634 433 282 2388 Afrc calls = 0 3 6 8 14 0 31 Asia calls = 21 42 88 152 36 16 355 JA calls = 0 2 13 55 0 0 70 Ocen calls = 0 3 9 13 4 0 29 Total calls = 184 528 659 1059 506 298 3234 QSL via W3HNK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 15,125,024 Contest : IARU HF World Championships Callsign : S50HQ Mode : MIXED Category : Multi Operator - Multi Transmitter (MM) Overlay : Headquarters Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : ZRS Operating time : 24h00 BAND SSB CW ITU HQ POINTS AVG ---------------------------------------- 160 340 444 13 54 1427 1.82 80 571 751 20 37 2604 1.97 40 1582 1772 41 48 8604 2.57 20 1684 1451 52 61 9275 2.96 15 1255 957 37 79 5539 2.50 10 597 745 21 33 3045 2.27 ---------------------------------------- TOTAL 6029 6120 184 312 30494 2.51 ======================================== TOTAL SCORE : 15 125 024 Operators : S50K, S50U, S50X, S50XX, S51BX, S51IV, S51NM, S51QN, S51ZO, S52AW, S52CW, S52EZ, S52OP, S52X, S53F, S53O, S53XX, S54W, S54X, S55HH, S56M, S56P, S56ZZZ, S57AW, S57M, S57PKT, S57S, S57Z, S58M, S58V, S59NA S50HQ - Continents All bands - All modes QSOs (with dupes) ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 79.8% ! 11.4% ! 1.9% ! 0.6% ! 5.7% ! 0.6% ! ------------------------------------------------------- S50HQ All bands - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! ! ----------------- ! 12 ! 800 ! ! 13 ! 807 ! ! 14 ! 725 ! ! 15 ! 737 ! ! 16 ! 841 ! ! 17 ! 703 ! ! 18 ! 764 ! ! 19 ! 612 ! ! 20 ! 624 ! ! 21 ! 546 ! ! 22 ! 518 ! ! 23 ! 417 ! ! 00 ! 307 ! ! 01 ! 270 ! ! 02 ! 273 ! ! 03 ! 248 ! ! 04 ! 293 ! ! 05 ! 307 ! ! 06 ! 325 ! ! 07 ! 327 ! ! 08 ! 423 ! ! 09 ! 477 ! ! 10 ! 454 ! ! 11 ! 351 ! ----------------- ! ! 12149 ! All S50HQ QSL's via bureau and LoTW. S50HQ log merging by Dan, S50U Powered by Win-Test 3.7.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51J Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 574,090 Nice contest, with moderate conditions. Some participant discovered the new meaning of SO2R. They use cecond radio to banish someone from the frequency with strong and annoying QRM. But HAM is fun, isn't it? My FT-920, new Chalenger 811, 3ele 3bander, home made inv. V for 40-80-160 and my 59 years old ears, couldn't do better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56G Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 11,800 Nice contest worked from living room :) Ant: two wires (dipoles 10&20m) and a fishing rod on the roof (10&15&20m) Rig: IC-746 73 de tom*/s56g ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,492,128 VERY BAD CONDITIONS ON ALL BANDS. ONLY 9% OF CONTACTS WITH NORTH AMERICA! WORKED JUST FEW JA's. 10 M WAS OPEN ONLY FOR EUROPE BUT W4QN SURPRISE ME COMING ON MY CQ WITH COMMENT "GOOD SIGNAL INTO FLORIDA"! BUT HE WAS THE ONLY ONE! ANYWAY I ENJOY CONTEST AND I HAD FUN... 73 DE SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59TI Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 7,439 Nice contest (I managed to do even a "Worked All Continents" :) Ant: two wires (dipoles 10&20m) and a fishing rod on the roof (10&15&20m) Rig: IC-746 73 de YL Urša S59TI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK9HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 13,337,776 Preliminary score ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6EQO Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 241,164 Rig: Elecraft K2 at 5 watts Ant: Butternut HF6V vertical End-fed Half-wave Dipole for the 80 meter band Both antennas at 22 meters over ground More info at: http://hem.bredband.net/b101180/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 345,709 Fine contest. Short skip on higher bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T90HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 14,338,806 160m CW Crijetez, Gorazde - Merso, T93C; Mito, T94GZ; Elvir, T97G 160m SSB Lipici, Srebrenik - Kreso, 9A5K; Mark, 9A8A; Meho, T93O, Mico, T99Q 80m CW Cavljak, Sarajevo - Nino, T95MNP; Emil, T99W 80m SSB Prijedor - Richard, F5VCO; Ranko, T90R; Vlado, T90T; Braco, T93J; Jasko, T94JU; Zoka, T96C; Robi, T98U; Dado 40m CW D. Srnice, Gradacac - Semso, T94S; Ivek, T96Q; Boban, YT9A (ex. YZ1AU) 40m SSB Prijedor - Richard, F5VCO; Ranko, T90R; Vlado, T90T; Braco, T93J; Jasko, T94JU; Zoka, T96C; Robi, T98U; Dado 20m CW Konjuh, Kladanj - Tomo, T92T; Seki, T92W; Zico, T94D; Terza, T94VT; Mujo, T94W; Max, T99Y 20m SSB Nisici, NR Sarajevo - Danny, T93M; Boris, T93Y; Senad, T94CT; Ado, T94OM 15m CW Crijetez, Gorazde - Merso, T93C; Mito, T94GZ; Elvir, T97G 15m SSB Nisici, NR Sarajevo - Danny, T93M; Boris, T93Y; Senad, T94CT; Ado, T94OM 10m CW Lipici, Srebrenik - Kreso, 9A5K; Mark, 9A8A; Meho, T93O, Mico, T99Q 10m SSB Smetovi, Zenica - Suad, T94XZ; Edin, T97M; Dado, T99D; Mujo, T99T 73's Boris T93Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 959,952 Weird condx here, got run going only after 8 hrs and by then was touristing the contest. What's up with Canadians ? Worked more them than perhaps in any other contest before... Also worked only 300 5 points QSOs. Thanks for host Keko TI5KD for using his fine station during our vacation here in TI. Tnx for QSOs, Marko N5ZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA6LV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,322,400 Had problems with 80/160 therefore slept at the night... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU7J Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,496,955 This is our raw score. Unfortunately, the conditions to US was very bad but it was a nice try for us in M/S (we operated HQ last years) anyway. Congrats to P33W with a winning score! See you next contests! http://www.uu7j.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY5ZZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 923,784 Band Mode QSOs Pts Sec 1,8 CW 15 19 4 1,8 LSB 12 14 12 3,5 CW 188 438 37 3,5 LSB 13 15 3 7 CW 134 364 38 7 LSB 15 25 6 14 CW 274 834 17 14 USB 184 498 37 21 CW 202 548 23 21 USB 137 367 30 28 CW 128 337 19 28 USB 123 327 17 Total Both 1425 3786 244 Score: 923 784 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ7U Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,247,027 Ant: 160m-Inv Vee, 80m-DL, 40m-2el, 20m,15,10m-Steppir 4el. FT-1000MP, ACOM2000. Thanks to Sergey,UT5UDX for use his station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31UB Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 430,287 Well, this was fun for the most part! The QSO total for the first 4 hours was 90. After that things got a whole lot better. Nothing broke but I did have a HUGE storm on Saturday night that took me off the air for 10 minutes or so. Stayed on 15 until VERY late Saturday evening; thanks to the US guys for staying there! As many have said, this one sure felt like a NAQP. I think I counted on 73 EU for the entire contest mostly on 40m. VK/ZL's were booming on 20m on Saturday night. Meant to sleep 30 minutes 4 hours before the end but I ended up sleeping throughout the rest of the contest, sorry y'all! Thanks for the Q's and the fun! I'll be back in Belize quite soon I'm sure! Nice to hear Dennis (K7BV / V36M / V31BV) on 6m and coincidentally, see him at the airport! What a superb guy! 73, Colin KU5B / V31UB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2WDQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 439,360 FT-1000, PA Ameritron AL-80B Antenna: Butternut HF2V (single vertical) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 31,868 Not much time, bands were in good shape. Worked VE1 in last few minutes on 10 meters, he was S9+. Icom 756 Pro, Explorer 14 up 50 feet with 40 meter kit and Alpha Delta Sloper for 80 and 160. Thanks for the Q's Harry VA3EC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3NR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 243,500 Mk-Vfield 100watts, DX-CC multi-band dipole at 35', HF6V vertical, 160m inv-L. Tnx QSOs. Primary objective was to have some fun and didn't worry about score at all. Mission accomplished. 73, Chris. -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1200 0 0 1 49 13 0 63 63 7.5 1300 0 0 0 23 17 13 53 116 6.3 1400 0 0 0 10 3 3 16 132 1.9 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 132 0.0 1600 0 0 0 1 1 11 13 145 1.5 1700 0 0 0 2 12 22 36 181 4.3 1800 0 0 0 18 3 8 29 210 3.5 1900 0 0 11 10 6 6 33 243 3.9 2000 0 0 6 5 0 2 13 256 1.5 2100 0 0 0 31 10 3 44 300 5.2 2200 0 0 27 8 6 3 44 344 5.2 2300 0 0 10 69 0 0 79 423 9.4 0000 0 0 80 6 0 0 86 509 10.2 0100 0 0 77 0 0 0 77 586 9.2 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 586 0.0 0300 0 5 45 6 0 0 56 642 6.7 0400 0 24 22 1 0 0 47 689 5.6 0500 0 70 4 0 0 0 74 763 8.8 0600 3 31 10 0 0 0 44 807 5.2 0700 4 17 8 1 0 0 30 837 3.6 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 837 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 837 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 837 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 837 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 7 147 301 240 71 71 837 Gross QSO's=840 Dupes=3 Net QSO's=837 Unique callsigns worked = 570 The best 60 minute rate was 114/hour from 0039 to 0138 The best 30 minute rate was 130/hour from 0104 to 0133 The best 10 minute rate was 162/hour from 0119 to 0128 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 16,441 K2, 5w, 20 m vertical with parasitic reflector, 15m vertical, 40m vertical,80m dipole, 160m 1/4-wave wire. Lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 238,374 Band QSOs Pts Sec HQ 1.8 1 3 1 0 3.5 120 350 15 5 7 169 525 19 8 14 369 1089 26 25 21 36 102 6 5 28 8 22 3 1 Total 703 2091 70 44 * FT920 + SB221 (400-800w) * N1MM + MMTTY * 3 ele. tribander @ 45' * 40M half-squares (EU/Pac, US-VE/Asia) * 80M 3/4-size delta loop (1 week old) SFI=76, A=16>14, K=4>3. Short report: ------------- - EU only opened at 1 a.m. (0800z) and it was very weak - 40M half-squares worked lots of Pacific and SA DX - 80M delta loop worked great -- plenty of DX and NA - Met goals for mults, not points or Qs - High power keeps rate going, but only slightly more productive overall than last year with 100W. Long report: ------------ If you live in an area where Europe was workable on Saturday, rejoice. It didn't happen here. The day before the contest I heard deep layers of EU stations working North America in the afternoon and evening. Yet in the contest only a few EU stations were heard all day on 20M. I turned the beam that way every 15 minutes or so looking for a brief opening that just never happened. Oneseys and twoseys only. If anyone in Zones 2 and 6 (left coast) did really well this year, they get big kudos from me. Well done! 20M mults sat at 30 or so till 0700 (midnight local), when I found DA0, YT7 and OL4 HQ stations -- on the edge of unworkable, but made it through. Then, just after 1 a.m. (0800z), I heard very weak HG0, LX0, S50 and GM3 stations. Had to use every trick in the book and every watt I could squeeze out of a pair of 3-500Zs to work them. Went back to 20M at 0948Z (nearly 3 a.m.) to hear signals a bit louder, and worked YR0, SN0, OM7, LY0, T90, LN2, SK9 HQ stations. That was pretty much all there was from EU here, plus a small handful of non-HQ stations in the mix (curious that virtually nothing other than HQs were heard here). So, the only 20M EU opening felt more like a poor 10M regional ground-wave opening. Didn't think I'd come close to last year's 52 mults on 20M, but ended up with 51 after all. I had been reading recent contest reports of east-coast stations working EU on 15M, but have never heard a peep from EU myself, being so close to the auroral oval. Being cheeky, while working a marginal NA 15M opening Saturday afternoon I turned the beam north over the pole and called. Got two HQ stations and an SP3 5-pointer, all out of the blue and down in the noise, but they were complete shockers. Haven't worked EU on 15M in at least two years. One of my personal goals in each contest is to top by previous year's totals on each band. In this one, I raised the Q totals on all but 40M -- 169 this year, 235 last year though mults rose from 22 to 27. It was a conscious choise to spent more time on 20M working the Pacific mults, taking away from 40M 3-pointer time in the mid-evening when there would be fewer mults to be found there. Have never run HP in this contest. Going from 100w to 400-800w made a difference in rate and mults, but score increased only slightly from last year: Year Qs Pts. Mult Score (claimed) --------------------------------------- 2007 703 2091 114 238,374 -- 40 HQ 2006 630 2012 96 193,152 -- 44 HQ 2005 267 843 42 35,406 -- 10 HQ 2004 462 1446 88 127,248 2003 181 31 17,019 2002 235 799 77 61,523 -- 27 HQ Aimed for 110 mults, 1,000 Qs and 300,00 points -- hit only the mult target, and it was very hard work (but fun). Surprises included several VKs on 20M and 40M, and good DX from B.C. on 80M -- ZL4PW, PJ2, PY2, LW, YV5AJ, ZW5B, and FO5RH(!) on 80M (delta loop works). Five-banders with K0RF, K6NA and LR4A. Four-banders with 13, including YV5AJ and TI5N. Conditions overall were pretty bad -- SFI=76, A=16>14, K=4>3. Had hoped for flux to hit 80+ but it didn't happen. Sun spot count was "elevated" at 41 by the end, but no benefit observed. I am confident we've turned a corner, though, and may see improving conditions by the fall contest season. It can't get worse. Hmmm. I've said that before through these many months of the bottom. Looking forward to casual CW and RTTY contesting for the summer. See everyone on the bands! -- Bud, VA7ST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2DWA Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 22,504 All reports sent were 59 04, unless otherwise noted. Equipment Description: Yaesu FT-101EE, Hallicrafters S-38, G5RV @ 3 meter high. Comments: Moved to a new QTH some weeks ago, not radios, not antennas installed yet. I was trying to get some station to operate from (because of the information about my buddies in Argentina will be active as LR4A in HQ category), but as I couldn't find any one available around, I try to set up something to be in the air from my home. During the last week, I was trying to assembly some wires in the basement for get electricity at the station, getting some coaxil cables, getting some aluminum, repairing my dead FT-101EE, etc. Finally on Friday I got my radio working, but not 160 because the X-tal in the LO for 160 in the 101 is dead (I couldn't find any spare Xtal, perhaps is too old, but if you have some available let me know). On Saturday I found that the place I've choose for installing a pipe, also was chosen for a skunk to make his "home", by the way I need to convince him slowly to move, finally I got the place free (without any stinky spill) for my pipe, at that moment the rain was heavy but thanks to the help and support from my wife Nelida LW8EXF, the pipe was raised and the G5RV was up. I made my first 50 QSOs smoothly and happy, I was having fun working split in 40 meter using the S-38 as receiver (not external VFO on my FT101), but as the place was free from the skunk, Mr. Murphy came for his first visit to my new QTH, while I was trying to call CX1AA, the SWR on my antenna suddenly raise to 6:1, I went outside, under a heavy rain and strong wind, to see what happen with my antenna (maybe the skunk revenge I was guessing?), after some test I found my RG-213 was short-circuited; got some minutes of disillusion, but I remember I had a piece of RG-8X (a gift from F9IE) on my garage, btw I went outside again to change the coaxil on my antenna, of course the rain was heavier than before at this point (Nelida help me again taking caring of the very slippery ladder).. Coaxil changed and I'm on the air again; around 2AM local time, tired, dirty, wet and hungry I made my QSO 100th, time for a warm shower, hot pizza and some sleep. Woke up at 6AM, the propagation was bad, the bands very noises (more rain), but I was in the air again, I made my last QSO at 1159UTC in 20 meter with my friend Daniel LU1DK at LR4A (RCA), Great end of contest.... Contesting is FUN, it isn't? See you in next contest 73, Claudio VE2DWA/LU7DW/VE3AP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,879,840 Thanks to Paul, VE3SY and Marg, VE3RE for letting me use the station once again. Thanks to Paul, VE3TA for ACOM2000A loan. FT1000MP (2pcs.), Alpha87A, ACOM2000A, N1MM, DX Doubler for SO2R. As it was mentioned before, with all ths HQ activity Europeans are highly advantaged in this contest. Just imagine those extar number of mults on low bands!. However the contest format is very interesting so I always try to participate. Had some computer issues at the beginning, but then everything worked more or less flawlessly, not counting two short power outbreaks that probably cost me at least two dozen contacts. Not sure that my version of N1MM calculates points properly... Conditions seemed to be much better than last year. Great showing of CCO members! Worked at least 20 of them. Was difficult to push myself to make some phone contacts since I decided to enter Mixed Mode category this year for a change. CW activity is amazing. See you next contest. Yuri ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GSI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 174,270 First time entry for me in this contest and had a lot of fun. Look for my log in LoTW soon, cards via Buro Ok too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,345,837 Many thanks to Don for letting me operate from his station. As always, it was fun to operate this contest. My setup allowed me to use two radios for CW, so I tried to use the second radio more often this time - when there were no interference issues. Sorry for being deaf on 80 and 160. There was no receiving antenna. The Beverage was removed few weeks ago since the field is used by a local farmer. I was expecting more QSOs on 40, especially with Europe, but it also looks like that I went to 40 too late. Lots of activity from the states. Congrats to Yuri VE3DZ for an excellent score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 32,364 Didn't have the time to be serious so I enjoyed a relaxing part time effort and checked out the antennas for the fall. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 213,744 Thanks to Lali, VE3NE for use of his QTH. Orion I Alpha 78 A4S & Dipoles WinTest 3.12, WinKey2 73, Paul, VE3TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 392,679 Bad local weather caused more operating time :-) At least 60% S&P with no spots also mis-interpreted the rules so no quick band changes or SO2R :-( Hope all had fun and thanks for the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3WO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 43,337 No 40m antenna (dipole snapped in a recent windstorm), so I kinda fooled around for a few hours after the kids went to bed, running on 80 and 20. Condx were definitely open to the Pacific on Saturday night, just couldn't find much activity in that direction. Too bad; the VK's and ZL's that I heard were quite loud, and first-call workable. Nice to get a little active again! 73 - Travis VE3WO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 790,617 Band conditions on 10, 15 and 20M were fair at the best so I've decided instead of having long slow runs of 3 and 1 pointers go after multipliers and also switched to low bands much earlier than I was planning. At the end this decision has resulted in fewer contacts but better mults count which helped somewhat with my modest 2.9 points per QSO ratio. FT1000-MV, TA-33Jr, 40M Inverted L, 160/80M Sloper, all @ 35M. I like this contest and looking forward to see you guys on the air again. Thanks all for the QSOs. 73, Yuri VE3XB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 195,600 9 Phone contacts were made for checklog only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6SH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 39,803 Awful conditions on 20/15 with very few EUs worked. Happy to give out the "AC" multiplier although quite a few ops still have trouble with the exchange (even NU1AW!)! Yes, "AC" (or R1,R2 and R3) are valid exchanges and count as multipliers. One operator refused to accept AC and logged me as 02-oh well. A very fun summer contest. Station: FT9000C VL1000 C3S@17M EF140V@18M V84 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7BZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 15,433 I only had a brief opportunity to participate, but Saturday night conditions on 20m produced a large multi-layer pileup on my run frequency that at times seemed endless. What an enjoyable treat! Paul, VE7BZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7RAC Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 634,368 Well, that was fun. We were a little late getting this organized but, to our delight and thanks to Ed Frazer, VE7EF, our RAC Director, we were able to be the RAC HQ station. We had hoped to muster 5 ops for this one but two couldn't make it so our shifts were 8 hrs on and 4 off. VE7UF isn't set up for phone contesting so I arrived on Fri to try to get everything going, including the sending of wav files for CQing, etc. This took quite a bit longer than I expected and it was an hour into the contest by the time we got the ssb position functioning properly. We were pretty excited on Fri evening to hear 20 wide open to Eu. Sadly, the excitement didn't last. Worked very little Eu. Had a great run on 20 ssb on Sat aft for a few hours. Pretty well all NA though, with a sprinkling of SA. A lot of the signals were pretty much in the mud. Had the short term rate up to 283/hr which is far and away the best I've ever done. By the time I'd finished my shift I was pooped. Gives me an even greater appreciation of those ops who can maintain high rates for hours and hours. We were fortunate that VA7AN was able to join us. Doug has been away from contesting for many years and this was his second outing from VE7UF. He was pretty impressed by the operating and logging automation provided by N1MM. Welcome back, Doug. As always, the gear at VE7UF performed flawlessly (except for a sticky key on a keyboard which generated a certain amount of excitement). Oh, and the 80m 4 square doesn't like the phone band. Had to explain a surprising number of times that 59 RAC means we're a HQ station. Would have been nice to have a call with HQ in it but VE7HQ and VA7HQ are already taken. All in all, a really good time. We're pretty happy with our score, given the conditions. Mults really sucked, though. 73 and thanks for all the Qs. Jim Smith VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 20,658 Another part-time effort with my IC-746PRO and Sigma5 vertical. Highlight (or should it be lowlight?) was that I did not hear any stations from NA or SA during this contest. Not great conditions to other parts as well and my antenna is a bit deaf :) I should have better antennas running by CQWW CW at least. CU all! I will be in Santa Monica, CA for a month from 29th July till 1st September 2007 - hope to see some of you in person. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT (Log uploaded to LOTW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2/KV8Q Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,181,856 What a thrill!!! I usually operate a contest with my little 100W to a simple G5RV that I use for all bands. To actually operate with HUGE antennas and full power is quite a shock. I have no idea how this score will stand up to the rest of the pack; but, I never had so much fun in a contest. Many thanks to everyone that provided me with a contact. Thanks to my wife for including this stop as part of our vacation and to Ken, K6LA, for the use of his PEI DX Lodge. Thanks, also, to Tony, KC8UR, for all of his support and being my QSL manager for this effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,620 Got on for a few hours of S&P, mainly to try out a new amp on 40 meters. Mostly N/S propogation into the black hole during the short time I was on, although I did work ZL on 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AW/4 Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 6,769,480 A big "Thanks" to A.R.R.L. for use of W1AW callsign by the N.C. members of Potomac Valley Radio Club. Also thanks to W1AW Station Manager NJ1Q for handling QSLs & LOTW ! -- CallSign Used : W1AW/4 Operator(s) : AA4NC NT4D KA1ARB K4MA WB4MSG AG4RZ W2DZO KG4NEP WS4NC KU4BP N4AF W4MY W0UCE Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : MIXED Default Exchange : ARRL Gridsquare : FM15 Name : Howie Hoyt N4AF Address : 549 Bluebird Tr City/State/Zip : Blounts Creek NC 27814 Country : USA ARRL Section : NC Club/Team : Potomac Valley Radio Club Software: N1MM Logger V7.7.0 Band Mode QSOs Pts Sec 1.8 CW 90 148 9 3.5 CW 594 1700 53 3.5 LSB 337 337 1 7 CW 1070 2958 59 7 LSB 787 1499 11 14 CW 1539 5193 52 14 USB 1502 3786 35 21 CW 805 2177 47 21 USB 511 1149 19 28 CW 168 422 10 28 USB 465 1021 36 Total Both 7868 20390 332 Score : 6,769,480 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KLM Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 17,391 What a time to have the TB on the ground awaiting the new tower install. Had a good run on 15M and 40M Saturday. Suprised how many ops copied my QRP signal. Had a great time and 73 to all. KLM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UE/VE1 Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,180,195 Bands were no better than poor here. The JA opening on 20M Sun morning was over by the time it normally happens; I was fortunate in checking early, and working in working the 11 JAs that I did work. 20M to Europe Sunday never happened; signals were weak and watery. Fortunately, 15 and 10 were already somewhat open to the US, so there was stuff to work, although they were all 3 points instead of the 5 points the Europeans would have given me. I think 10 and 15 were open much better than the QSO totals that I posted; both totals suffered from not enough stations being there. Before I left home for this trip, I didn't have time to take down the 160M dipole at the home station, so I didn't have 160M here. I left probably 15 mults on the table by not spending that hour. Since it looks like I'm 2K behind VY2/KV8Q, that omission may have made the difference. Congrats to VY2/KV8Q for a nice score. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. Dennis W1UE/VE1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2TB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 122,745 Can I buy a sunspot or two? Condx made Saturday all stateside. Glad to see some nice openings on Sunday. Had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 141,453 No relay for 80M and 160M antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3NX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 354,199 Another fun one! First I want to thank Art, N3DXX, for allowing me to use his great station as well as the W3NX memorial callsign. It was really fun to operate from such a well equipped station! Second, I want to thank my wife Elena, and my kids, Nicholas, Victoria, and Sophia for allowing me to devote a whole summer day to playing radio. They always get a big part of the credit for my effort in this contest! I almost met my goals for this contest! Had a phenomenal first hour... my best ever in any contest at any station. After that things seemed to slow down considerably. Not sure if it was conditions or what was happening (or if it was the rush of the first hour coloring everything). Didn't really feel like things were going well again until the afternoon. Europe seemed like a chore to work on both 20 and 15. On the flip side 40 was fantastic! Thanks to all the European agencies for finally allowing phone ops up to 7.2MHz. It was fun to actually have European HQ stations calling me on 40! 80 was also good, but the new band plan still has me befuddled for phone. Another personal best score! This year provides a bunch of motivation to upgrade the home station. Catch everyone next year! 73 de Nick N3NR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BQF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 87,425 ZONES, ZONES, ZONES!! Couldn't seem to get out of the US/VE with this poorly pointed 40m dipole, but did get some rates of over 200/hr. Lots of activity and very good signals. Thanks for all of the Q's! Omni 6 Plus/Titan III 40m Dipole Tom - W4BQF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 11,610 Only 112 QSO's spread out over several hours. I spent a lot more of my operating time listening to various run stations and just soaking in the propagation observations on the bands. I just couldn't get into operating the contest on either mode. But maybe thats because I spent the first five hours ripping apart and re-building the station set up. All was not lost. I was able to debug a problem with the DVK input to the radio(a bad RCA jumper). Since I had just completed a new feed-through panel, I also needed several new jumpers to go from the panel to the station. I had more fun soldering up jumpers than I did operating. I also discovered that my 20 meter dipole seems to favor the east, so it must have some interaction with the other wires in the yard. Working the European stations I could hear was easy, but working US stations to the west was difficult on the 20m dipole. Interesting. I tried in vain to work the ZL who had a really good S8 signal here on my dipole. I was able to work KH6ZM after trying in vain earlier to work KH6 and KH5 through the pile of sixes and sevens. Working Europe simplex rather than split on 40 meters was fun. It seemed to help spread things out on SSB. CW on 40 was very difficult this year. It sounded like the US 'five landers' had a decent shot at running on 10 meters. Am eagerly awaiting more sunspots here in central NC! 73, W4KAZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PTS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 14,300 Yaesu FT-857D MFJ 993B Auto Tuner Cobra Ultralite 80-10 Dipole Had fun in my first contest. Worked S&P only...that'll change as the cw improves. The rig and computer program worked well....WinTest gets an A+. 15 was nice for a good while in the afternoon... Thanks to Ron, WD4AHZ, for getting me started in contest mode...it's gonna get addictive, I can see!!! 73 to all... Dan, W4PTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 232,596 I decided to go low power as I do not have the antenna hardware to compete with the big boys., plus I new Jay, N4OX would be operating high pwr from N.Fl. Anyway I used 4 wire antennas, two wire verticals(1-49' & 1-97'), plus I designed a 10mtr. rectangular loop which I put up in the same tree as the two wire verticals. It was at 35'. Then I made a 2el. horz. phased array for 20mtrs.,using 1/2 wave spacing, 180 degrees out of phased. This was at 40 feet, in the same tree, off of some large branches. I am using an Omni 6 plus, 100 watts.Two hours into the contest I had to shut down because of thunder storms. So that blew 15mtrs. I ended up breaking the low power phone record by W3LL, by 31,000 pts. Not bad for stealth antennas in downtown Ocala, Fl. Mark W4SVO. Cu all from NQ4I in October! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 169,290 I set out with only one goal, to beat last year's effort. It didn't start too promising as all I was hearing was zone 8 stations on 20 meters. Things started opening up and I was well beyond last year's score by the middle of the contest. 20 meters stayed open late, so I was able to get a number of stations there before moving down. My wife spoiled me by bringing food and drink to the shack so that I could concentrate on the effort. What a lady!!!! I am really blessed to have her!! I was beginning to slow down a bit when N4PN stopped by while I was trying to run stations on 40meters and got me back on track by clearing my head. Thanks, Paul!!!! All in all, lots of fun. I can't wait for some sunspots!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WTB Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 565,985 ***N1MM Contest Log did not seperate zones and HQ mults...so I combined the two and listed both together under Zones. This was the first time I worked this contest since 2002 and I could really see the effects of being at the bottom of the cycle. Runs were very good, but 68% of my contacts were here in the continental US. I hadn't planned on operating... but decided to at the last minute... in order to evaluate my new FT-2000 under contest conditions. I will have to say I was very surprised...the rig seemd to work very good during crowded band conditions...the roofing filters worked as advertised... The DSP was very good for weak signals and worked quite well for QRN on the low bands. I have operated a TenTec Orion for the past 2 years but recently switched to the FT-2000. Guys I know the numbers on the FT-2000 receiver look poor .... but don't overlook this radio...it will surprise you .... the receiver is actually pretty darn good. I noticed a lot of new operators on the bands that were not familiar with contesting ...so I ended up doing a lot of explaining ...especially about the ITU zones. Overall the contest was lacking the propagation I had hoped for...but at least the bands were not dead ....If high rates are what you were looking for ...then this one sure didn't get boring !! Here are a few stats from the contest............. My QSO's by Continent: NA ... 1157 EU ... 238 SA ... 57 OC ... 35 AF ... 9 AS ... 8 My Countries worked per Continent: EU ... 37 SA ... 13 NA ... 12 OC ... 6 AF ... 4 AS ... 4 76 Total Countries Worked 23 Total ITU Zones Worked 1504 Total QSO's minus 27 Dupes = 1477 Total Qso's My Best 60 Min rate ... 167 from 12:10 - 13:09 UTC My Best 120 Min rate ... 253 from 19:09 - 21:08 UTC My most notable Qso's were on 20..which included... YJ / Zone 56 FO / Zone 63 ST / Zone 48 Thanks for all the Q's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5JR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,736 756 ProII Al-80B Zep at 25 feet. Only had a short window to make a few Q's. Several T'Storms around and using the back-up antenna. 73 Mike / W5JR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,200,914 I had a good time this weekend – conditions were surprisingly good. Ten meters was open all Saturday morning, and it was a good solid opening all over the US. Fifteen was good for stateside all day, too. I felt like I did pretty well, but staying awake in the chair for 24 hours was tough! You say there are *48* hour contests, too!? I never had any DX runs, really, except for 40M to JA. The JAs were mostly weak, as always, but I worked over a hundred of them for 5 points each. Apart from that, just about all the DX was the big stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5VX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 429,548 I decided to open the station to anyone that wanted to come operate. We had a good time, and I decided that I was not going to stay up all night. Went to bed at midnight. Not a lot of DX, but action was pretty hot with runs to the US on 20 and 40. 10 was a bust with very little activity and had only 200 Qs on 15. I always forget that I am going to have to listen to a lot of QRN for this contest. I should have gotten on 80 PH and worked a mult or two. Come on sunspots!! Bill, W5VX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5ZL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 587,208 This was my annual retreat to N5AW's fabulous hilltop station where for the third year running Marv has graciously allowed me to play in IARU. The recent severe storms in Central Texas have wreaked havoc with various parts of Marv's antenna and rotor system, but it was still an awesome location to run this contest from. As always, I hauled my Pro II and laptop and a few personal peripherals up to Marv's. In the past two years I've split antennas with Bob W5EK who has run a Single Op LP CW entry from the same room, but with the reduced antenna footprint this year I decided to go it alone. Probably evened things out in the long run. This time around I was never able to get any sustained runs going (either that or I would get impatient waiting for a run to materialize and would abandon it too early), so the contest this year was largely - maybe 90% - S&P. The super high rate phone runs that have occurred in previous IARUs never happened, so my phone totals reflect that. This is also the first time I've not taken any rest breaks during the contest. Aside from a brief weather shutdown (which was NOT restful), I was in the chair the whole 24 hours. I wasn't "present" mentally for periods during the last couple of hours, but I was determined to slog it out to the end without wimping out. What that proved to me, as if I didn't already know it, is that I do not have the ironman constitution that a lot of my aging contesting peers appear to still possess. How do you guys do a 48 hour contest??? That just ain't right - on any level. BTW, I use N1MM software and probably just don't know how to easily extract zones and mults from the summaries properly, so those columns may be inaccurately reported in this form. The Total Score is that which is computed by the N1MM software and presumably takes into account all the key parameters (QSO points, zones, HQ mults, etc.). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 193,968 Rig: TS-440S, 90-100W Ant: Trap verticals - 12AVQ at 25ft, 5BTV at 15 ft During day hours not much DX happening on 15 and 10 M, so worked all I could hear. Not enough signal to get some South American mults from my side. Lots to do on the bands staring late afternoon. 20M was kept open for long offering very good propagation to JA, Australia and Africa. Europe seemed to be illusive with not to many multipliers from there. Plenty of activity on 80 and 40 m offering reasonable RUNs. 80M score beat my 15 M score what I did not expect. Worked many old friends from everywhere. Did better than what I was expecting. Fun contest. Many thanks, Sergey VK2IMM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6AQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 76,608 If there was ever an EU opening to Los Angeles on any band, I sure missed it. But overall, for being the bottom of the sun spot cycle, I thought the bands were behaving themselves. Virtually no noise at this QTH. QRP at the bottom of the cycle requires a lot of patience, though. I can hear them. They can't hear me. Writelog, which behaved flawlessly, may separate Zones and HQ Mults, but as far as I can tell, it combines them, so I just counted the HQ mults by band and subtracted from the total for zone mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6GMU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 304,875 Paul-W6GMU was the CW operator, V.P.-K6LQP was the SSB operator, and Arnie-N6HC operated both modes. This was the very first contest operation for V.P.. Paul has used the "Hotel California" station on two occasions. It was a learning experience for everyone. I plan on making the station available to guest operators for future contests. It is far from a "super station" but better than what many local hams have who are CC&R "challenged". Maybe we can mint some new contesters. Thanks for all the QSOs. See you in the next one! Arnie N6HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KY Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 41,643 Only able to put in a few hours of S&P, but condx were good. Openings to EU and the JA's were there on time.. CU in the NAQP's and CQP... 73, Art W6KY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NF Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 7,424 Just playing around a bit. Terrible conditions on 20 and 15. 40 was very nice even early Saturday afternoon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NOW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 14,467 lots of fun, had a few gud runs on 40cw and 20ssb. thanks to those stations who kept trying until i could pull them out - 73 de w6now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6XR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 148,998 The IARU was the first run for my new "downsized" QTH. Gone are the three towers and miles of radials on hilltop acres. All the antennas are done except 80 and 160 and I am happy with how the stationh is playing on 40 through 10 whare all on one tower. The conditions were not that good here in Upstate NY but many European stations worked their way into the log. Turned the antennas to the west and quickly found the expected Pacific mults indicating the propogation was not so bad for that path. Couldn't do much more than 7 hours as I'm in a damn body cast due to a broken back and sitting was an adventure and would have probably concerned my docs, but they aren't contesters. The IARU is a good chance to see what additional work needs to be done before fall arrives and it's apparent 80 and 160 need work! Thanks to all who called as your QSO is apreciated. W6XR is a single radio Ten Tec Orion II and a Kenwood TL922 running Writelog. The tower is 89' tall and is home to Force 12's 240N and C31XR. 160 Nothing yet 80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,528,804 Conditions leading up to the contest were great, but once the contest started it all went downhill. Only managed a total of 77 q's with EU the entire contest. Participation from the US seemed to be up a bit, and I had no problem keeping a steady rate of stateside stations which was a real life saver. The 2 best contacts of the weekend were 5H3EE calling in on 40m, and A25HQ calling in on 20m during a JA run around 1am local time. Thanks again to Jim, W6YI for the use of his station and the great hospitality. Its always nice to get away from life for a weekend and play radio. 73, Dan N6MJ BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Zones _______________________________________________________ 160CW 45 45 99 7 7 80CW 217 217 651 12 19 40CW 613 613 2140 33 35 20CW 777 777 2436 32 39 15CW 388 388 1037 12 20 10CW 123 123 313 5 8 _______________________________________________________ Totals 2163 2163 6676 101 128 Final Score = 1528804 points. 585 2nd Radio Q's HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 12 1 55 40 0 0 0 96 96 13 0 2 71 24 2 0 99 195 14 0 0 8 56 28 5 97 292 15 0 0 0 18 101 32 151 443 16 0 0 0 13 91 23 127 570 17 0 0 0 14 54 40 108 678 18 0 0 0 47 32 10 89 767 19 0 0 0 57 19 1 77 844 20 0 0 0 43 24 2 69 913 21 0 0 0 51 17 5 73 986 22 0 0 0 26 17 5 48 1034 23 0 0 5 48 3 0 56 1090 0 0 0 40 46 0 0 86 1176 1 0 0 24 50 0 0 74 1250 2 0 5 32 59 0 0 96 1346 3 0 7 69 32 0 0 108 1454 4 4 11 45 46 0 0 106 1560 5 9 64 4 25 0 0 102 1662 6 14 9 31 52 0 0 106 1768 7 7 0 41 32 0 0 80 1848 8 6 7 39 29 0 0 81 1929 9 0 32 38 7 0 0 77 2006 10 4 13 69 2 0 0 88 2094 11 0 12 57 0 0 0 69 2163 TOTAL 45 217 613 777 388 123 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 34 129 279 464 320 108 0 0 0 1334 VE calls = 6 24 36 64 30 11 0 0 0 171 N.A. calls = 1 6 7 17 6 1 0 0 0 38 S.A. calls = 3 9 14 16 16 3 0 0 0 61 Euro calls = 0 1 27 46 3 0 0 0 0 77 Afrc calls = 0 0 3 6 2 0 0 0 0 11 Asia calls = 0 7 35 42 0 0 0 0 0 84 JA calls = 0 34 189 101 6 0 0 0 0 330 Ocen calls = 1 6 22 20 4 0 0 0 0 53 Total calls = 45 217 613 777 388 123 0 0 0 2163 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 237,718 First time out of the gtate for a 24-hour contest, lots of fun. EU was difficult to raise, as conditions were not very favorable for QSOs in that direction. Did not work all bands available, next time will try harder to work lower and higher bands as conditions permit. Highlight of the event, receiving call from V8FEO while calling CQ, forgot to exchange operator call for DX QSO on personal log. Oh well, lesson learned. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 17,753 No Europe, Russia or JAs for me this year. Could hear them but they no hear me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 31,635 That was fun but conditions were pretty poor here in the PNW. I worked 1 European station, 1 African statin and a few South Americans. I did hear a few Eu. stations, but they were so far in the noise I could barely hear them. This was like a NAQP contest. Lots of activity though. Did manage to hold a frequency for a couple of hours and had a pretty good run going for a while. Skip was really short here on 15 and 20. Worked a bunch of zone 6 stations on 20 and even some on 15. But, I had a lot of fun and I guess that is the main thing!! Log is already on LOTW. 73 and thanks for all the Q's. TS-450SAT + SB-200 ~500 watts 80 meter inverted V, 3-40 meter phased verticals, home brew 2-el monobander on 20, 160 meter inverted L on 15. N1MM Logger 7.7.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 252,384 Sorry I could not do more time. No EU or AF to speak of. AS was also pretty quiet here. Maybe next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 242,569 Family commitments only allowed half time effort. Missed the primary operating time, but enjoyed the time I was able to get on. Managed to work 9 stations on all six bands. Lots of 1 pointers. 1 pointers = 481 3 pointers = 492 5 pointers = 65 73's Ken W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 275,840 Glad to have entered test, as this was only about my 4th contest in over 40 years to have over 1000 qsos. Too bad 20 was so poor, at least at this qth. 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1Z Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,528,804 Thanks to Christine and Matt for offering the station for the day. BAND QSO QSO-PTS PTS/Q ZONES HQ STNS 160 34 54 1.59 6 10 80 276 768 2.78 19 25 40 473 1545 3.27 23 29 20 1039 3643 3.51 32 34 15 227 597 2.63 21 20 10 39 69 1.77 7 3 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 2088 6676 3.20 108 121 Score: 1,528,804 points BREAKDOWN QSO/mults WA1Z IARU HF Championship HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 12 ..... ..... ..... 135/15 5/3 ..... 140/18 140/18 13 . . . 78/9 23/5 6/3 107/17 247/35 14 . . . 53/2 22/8 15/2 90/12 337/47 15 . . . 64/2 32/8 2/1 98/11 435/58 16 . . . 51/5 19/3 5/1 75/9 510/67 17 . . . 58/3 30/5 4/0 92/8 602/75 18 . . . 69/1 22/2 4/1 95/4 697/79 19 . . . 75/5 20/0 . 95/5 792/84 20 ..... ..... ..... 72/5 9/0 ..... 81/5 873/89 21 . . . 116/6 7/1 . 123/7 996/96 22 . . . 62/1 32/6 3/2 97/9 1093/105 23 . . 113/13 4/1 . . 117/14 1210/119 0 . 20/7 56/4 15/2 2/0 . 93/13 1303/132 1 . 34/7 72/5 9/1 . . 115/13 1418/145 2 1/1 82/16 . 6/1 . . 89/18 1507/163 3 18/11 24/1 25/3 1/0 . . 68/15 1575/178 4 ..... 37/3 53/16 ..... ..... ..... 90/19 1665/197 5 8/3 41/7 20/2 1/0 . . 70/12 1735/209 6 1/0 12/2 38/3 1/1 . . 52/6 1787/215 7 . 11/0 56/5 . . . 67/5 1854/220 8 5/1 10/1 22/1 9/0 . . 46/3 1900/223 9 1/0 5/0 18/0 15/2 . . 39/2 1939/225 10 . . . 64/1 3/0 . 67/1 2006/226 11 . . . 81/3 1/0 . 82/3 2088/229 TOT 34/16 276/44 473/52 1039/66 227/41 39/10 . 2088/229 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6BOB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,916 Weather better than the bands, so spent the day hiking in the mountains. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 7,100 I only had a few hours to devote to this one. Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 810,540 Same effort on my part as last year... about the same amount of Q's. But 300,000 points less... Why? The 5 point DX was way down. No JA's worked this year on any band, only a few Asians were worked on 20. The bottom of the sunspot cycle REALLY sucks. The best thing I can say about the contest was the surprise Es opening on 10. Congrats to W7WA for his great SO HP SSB score. WB9Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC1M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,135,060 Antennas: 160M - trapped vee @65' (legs 100 degrees apart - a neighborly compromise) 80M - trapped vee @65', delta loop @75' 40M - 40-2CD @110', 4-square 20M - 4/4 @96'/64' (SteppIRs), C3E @50', 4-el @72' 15M - 4/4 @96'/64' (SteppIRs), C3E @50', 5-el @50' 10M - 4/4 @96'/64' (SteppIRs), C3E @50' 580' beverage aimed 20-degrees Equipment: Orion + Alpha 87A, FT-1000D + Acom 2000A, Writelog, TopTen and homebrew band decoders and switches. Could it be that we have a dead tie for first place USA/VE SOAB HP between WA1Z@KC1XX and W6YI(N6RM)?!?? Has that ever happened? Can't say I've ever seen two posted scores exactly the same, especially not on the leader board. Could be a zone 9 VE with a higher score lurking out there, but it'll be really neat if the tie for first holds up -- at least until the UBN checks. Total mults are identical too, though the Zones and HQs are reversed. I guess that makes sense between EU and AS. Wouldn't it be a gas if the scores were identical after UBN checks? I think we should all chip in for a second plaque if that happens... Anyway, congrats to WA1Z and N6RM for great efforts, and to K3WW and AA3B for their fine scores as well. This contest was the maiden voyage for my long-awaited stacked SteppIRs. Spent the last few weeks finishing the tower cabling (MicroHam stack match, two runs of heliax and five more control cables), building/mounting the second TIC ring and building/tramming the second 4-el SteppIR. Lots of work. But it was worth it. The 2-stack played very well on 20. It was pretty good on 15, too, though it should play even better when I add the third SteppIR at 34' sometime in the next few weeks. Then again, I don't think antennas are what we need for 15 these days -- we need sunspots! 10 meters seems a distant memory and a wishful dream. The antenna work wore me out to some extent. Adding to that, I stayed up late Friday night finishing a PC program to tune the SteppIR stack (a complicated story I won't go into here.) The program worked well, but I wasn't in the best of shape Saturday morning. It was a bit more than the usual slog getting through the next 24 hours. I ended up needing to take a couple of naps in the wee hours to get my head clear enough for the Sunday morning runs (which never materialized.) I haven't done a serious effort in IARU since 2004, so it was nice to get back to one of my favorite contests. I like the morning start, the compressed 24-hour format, the one shot at each opening, and the combination of zone and HQ mults. Unfortunately, I lagged pretty badly on HQ mults this year. With the possible exception of 15, I think that was more operator error than propagation or antennas. It's always hard to tell. For example, my mults were quite good on 20. Was that a function of the new stack and good propagation on 20, or was it a matter of spending more time on that band than others? My sense is that it's a combination of these factors, but my log indicates I didn't hit the second radio hard enough when other bands were open. At times the rate was so high on 20 and 40 that I couldn't concentrate on the second radio and I didn't want to leave the rate for S&P. I need to work on juggling the two radios better, but I know I can do that when I'm in top form. What I really need to work on is my S&P rate and technique. I think that's the weakest part of my game, and it figures into both pure S&P and using the second radio effectively. Like many contesters, I got my start doing pure S&P at low power with meager antennas. I was primarily a DXer back then and used contests mainly as a way to find new countries. I S&Ped for DX, not for rate -- I skipped stations I didn't need for a new one. I was pretty good at listening, finding DX and timing my calls, but I never learned to maximize rate while tuning. When I got into contesting, I found running to be a lot of fun and concentrated on developing that skill. As a result, my S&P rate is pretty low. It's not a matter of calling the same station over and over -- with high power and good antennas that doesn't happen often. It's more a matter of deciding when to continue listening and when to move on without working the station, when to work every station I hear and when to work only new mults, etc. Also, to find the exotic mults I need to swing the antennas more. Having more antenna choices will help, but I need to improve my knowledge of propagation, too -- a never-ending quest, it seems. Anyway, once I get all the hardware and software in place, I need to get back to working on operating skills. It seems I'm always in one mode or the other: building or operating, and it's tough to concentrate on both at the same time. When I'm building, as I've been for about a year, I'm more interested in the next task, redesigning, optimizing, etc. Sometimes I find myself tinkering during contests when I should be focused on operating. Once the station building settles down, I gradually shift my attention back to operating. Hopefully all the work will be completed well before CQ WW CW and I'll be focused on operating in the big one. See you then! 73, Dick WC1M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 34,440 Very part-time effort in between working at a Hurricane Expo, having lunch afterwards with our local Director of Emergency Management, and playing in a Trivia Tournament Saturday night. Maybe next year, they'll get the date right, so we won't make other plans! Ron, WD4AHZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF3C Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 33,956 Thanks to AF4Z and PCARS for the use of the club station. TS850 + Harris RF103A Amp @ 1KW Moseley Pro67C @ 60' Inverted Vee @ 58' Writelog I had some trouble getting everything set back up from Field Day when I arrived at the club station around 1830Z, but once that was resolved the only persistent problem I experienced was between the keyboard and the chair (otherwise known as the "ID 10 T" error). Many thanks to everyone who slowed down to answer my CQ, especially if it took me a couple of tries to complete the QSO. 73, Chris WF3C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 99,146 Only worked 13 % Europeans, most on 20 meters, 80 % of QSOs were W/VE. Had a hard time convincing some people I was in zone 7 (my cabin) not 8 (my home). Another good reason to copy what you hear, not what's in your database. Fun with occasional good rates. 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 533,600 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 162,525 I had a lot of folks think they were in the CQWW and couldn't convince them to give me their ITU zone. Their code readers weren't functioning properly I guess. Had a bit of trouble with RF locking things up a bit...gotta research that stuff...this is all post field Day and putting the shack back together always presents these little problems. WN6K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 235,277 Intended to play fulltime, HP for the first time in this event, then Murphy paid a visit... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 689,415 Best outing for us in 5 attempts now. No electro-mechanical failures and the boys stepped up to the plate. Good effort and a lot of good comradere. Glad to have K9MUG operate with us again and first timer at WW4LL, Gordon N4LR. Very pleasant to see openings on 10 and 15. Lots of noise on 80 as we had several cells of thunderstorms move thru during the course of the contest but never shut down. Many thanks to those that contacted us! 73'.....Fred WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW9R Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,864 Two hours of cw fun, since I couldn't spend the whole week-end "playing", I jumped in to hand out some points... cw contesting - there is nothing else like it :) Pat WW9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2GG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,106,960 This is the WRTC-2006 “Team Mexico” (PW5U) reunion using David´s new callsign for first time. David had to get a new passport Thursday before the contest in order to make the trip. We operated from the XE1KK QTH. According to David, the accommodations are “de lujo”. But we both sorely missed the Brazilian hospitality, TNX AGN dear PYs. We had a fantastic time!. Bad propagation but lots of fun. It’s amazing what can be heard with a two digit solar flux. Murphy killed the amp for 3 hours, but XE1GFF came to the rescue. Thanks to the 10 minute rule we had to deny many QSY requests. Heard P43W working P33W. Cool! XE2WWW paid us a visit during the contest. Next time we will try harder to get him to operate with us. XE2K was stealing our phone mults on all bands, and XE1MM the same on CW. (hi hi!). Please don’t work them next time!!! :-) As usual the best part is working friends: XE2K and XE1MM on top of the list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 473,265 This year enjoy to made a lot of contacts with several good friends and have a scape from the hard work of the season- specially my WX- the bad part of this was the propagation, I enjoy the worst propagation in this contest in several Years, I was in the idea to log a lot of HQ stations from EU , but only 2 stations from 3 Qsos with EU , my North West location here in Mexico was the less lucky , for several minutes i get the doubt that my antennas has a problem, but not- very badly- the propagacion from 20 and Up was only Short skip, This is the kind of propagation needed in the CA QSO party, a lot of CA stations - my neighborns- in 15 and 20m very strong, 40m was also bad, Asia save me a little , many thanks to those JA's and others countrys that call me , save my score, the best 80m run i get in years, the DX's and Multipliers where calling me!! , a few Qsos but Quality . 160m was dead , was a shame the lowest noise ever and not Much contesters to log. The Score was 200k lower that 2006 and the multipliers LIMITED is the word. My pay was good at least have a little fun and Hoping to be a good multiplier in the logs of the others Contesters. LOG uploaded at LOTW , Support LOTW www.dxxe.org www.xe2k.net Hector Garcia XE2K XE2K at DXXE.ORG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB2ECG Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 55,338 Too bad that I could not work any stations on 10m! Very surprise with some QSO's on 80m and 40m! Thanks guys! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL2PP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 124,176 Trcvr ICOM-751A Ant - Delta 159m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL4HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 8,022,984 Tech.support: YL2FZ, YL3GAO Log merging : YL2GD 73! Gunar - YL2GD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO5KIP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 483,642 TS-870 rig and 2 INV. VEE antennas: 40&20m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT9X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,521,143 73`s Milan YU1ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1ARC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,381,604 Tks to host Ljubisa, YZ1PL and Sinisa, YT1NT for tech support. Nice top of the hill location with 3 towers and 3 monobanders. Murphy played with mic connector but we preffer CW anyhow. FT-1000MP Mk-V and SB-220 worked fine, air condition failed :-) 73 de Mario, YU1/S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV7QP Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 125,644 Rig; IC735 110w ANt: Dipoles 40/80 - Yagi 2 ele 10/15/20 L Invertes 80/160 FB Contest. Regular propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YZ1ZX Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 122,067 This was testing contest location of my friend YU1DO, Tualri JN94WM west Serbia. All done with two antena GP vertical for 10m and GP vertical for 40m. Tranciever Yaesu FT847 and 100W. Thanks to all who contact me, see you next year. Nikola YZ1ZX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,062,988 SO1R Antennas:- C/Craft A3S @ 50Ft Titanex 160HD Amp:- Acom 1000 Rig:- Icom 756 Pro 3 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's Condx were pretty good all round and with 10M showing more signs of life it could be that the sun spot cycle is on the up. Gripes. Can't think of any worth mentioning, which makes a nice change. The standards of operating seemed to me to be very good. Best hour was 150 with another 4 over the 100 mark. 73 and hope to cu in the next one. Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL1V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,696,450 The first outing for the ZL1V callsign in the last 2 years. Conditions poor at the start, then improved as the contest progressed. 160m and 15m were poor and 10m was non-existent – TI5N was the only station heard on 10m all weekend. High points of the contest : the ratemeter over 400 briefly on 20m SSB, lots of new HQ stations active this year (we worked 34 different ones), working QRP stns like NS3T. Low points : poor 15/10m, some QRM on 40m from the OTHR in BY, Eu HQ stns leaving 10ns pauses between CQs. Please QSL ZL1V via Steve N3SL, 22 N Hidden Acres Dr, Sioux City, Iowa 51108, USA (via the bureau to N3SL is OK) Thanks for the use of the ZL6QH station and thanks to ZL1AZE, ZL2AMI, ZL2BSJ and ZL2AOV for logistical support. 73 from Chris ZL1CT, Tony ZL2AGY and John W2ID ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL6A Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 1,092,987 Elecraft K2, IC-780 plus amps, quads, dipole and vertical. Very enjoyable contest- first hour reached 220+ from US/VE - last hour reached 150+ from JA/US. However, the NZART callsign ZL6A seemed to confuse many callers expecting Zone 60 in the exchange. Next year we'll try to get an SSB HQ station running. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZP0R Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 586,880 A difficult week before the contest, with flue conspire to me to do a better effort, my trhoat only resist the first 12 hours..then i past to the S&P activity due to the pain. Ten opening was very short saturday afternoon, but allowed to put some mults..again 15 meter was the money band..the 15 meter setup.of thre stack monoband pay again his fees !! was on 15 for about 10 hours..then move to 20..with stay for a couple of hours with nice conditions to Eu..then move to 40..and the odisey beguin..there is much a diference runing a kilowat than only 100 watts on 40..so never generate a decent pileups and some Europeans guys not hear me..:-( try to come back to 20..but conditions to USA wasn´t good so move again to 40..contiune S&P..This winter in Paraguay is extremely cold compare with winter before..remember some times that i have to use the AC in Iaru contest !! hihi..anyway..was a great contest with lot of friend meeting again o the air..also want to Thanks all that come back to my cq call and said sorry to those people i can´t hear . Untill next contest Tom ZP0R http://www.qsl.net/cx6vm/ZP5AZL/station.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS6AA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 310,016 Learning to SO2R - I feel a bit like a juggler with one ball too many in the air. Propagation wasn't bad considering it's winter time in the southern hemisphere and our winter propagation is traditionally terrible. I allowed myself to sleep until 6am (0400Z) because in CQ WPX, when I woke at 4am, the bands only opened at 8am. Of course, when I got to the radio with a cup of coffee at 6:15 am, North America was loud and clear on 40m, but I only managed a few before it faded again. That'll teach me. Anyway, at least I got some NA multipliers. I borrowed a spectrum analyzer from work to monitor 10m - a bit like a big beautiful fish finder. But no fish were found - I only managed 4 QSOs on 10m during a brief and patchy opening to Europe. A couple of openings to the US on 20m and 15m kept me in the hunt though. I heard very little from Japan, despite pointing the beam east several times. Highlights: working K1ZZ (AC) and NU1AW (IARU). Oh, and having N6TU and N6TV call consecutively while running (kind of an echo). Never mind, it doesn't take much to amuse me during contests... C-31XR tribander at 60ft with separate feeds for 20, 15 and 10m. Dipole on 40m. TS-850S and TS-930S, both 100W. 73 'till CQWW Andrew Index of Calls Call: 2E0CVN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: 4O3A Class: M/S HP Call: 5H3EE Class: SO CW HP Call: 7L4IOU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: 8R1K Class: SO CW HP Call: 9A/S51DX Class: SO CW LP Call: 9A3B Class: M/S HP Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Call: AA4LR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AB4GG Class: SO SSB LP Call: AD4EB Class: SO CW HP Call: AD5VJ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AD6WL Class: SO CW LP Call: AI4G Class: SO SSB LP Call: AI4MT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: B1HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: CE4CT Class: M/S HP Call: CT1DRB/P Class: SO CW LP Call: CU2A Class: SO CW HP Call: DA0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: DB7TF Class: SO SSB LP Call: DD1MAT Class: SO SSB LP Call: DG1ATN Class: SO SSB LP Call: DJ1OJ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DJ1YFK Class: SO CW HP Call: DJ5IR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DJ7IK Class: SO CW LP Call: DJ8OG Class: M/S HP Call: DL/K9GY Class: SO CW QRP Call: DL2AA Class: SO SSB HP Call: DL3YM Class: SO CW LP Call: DL4RCK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DL6KVA Class: SO CW HP Call: DL9JON Class: SO Mixed HP Call: E21EIC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SO SSB HP Call: ES1GF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: ES5RR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: F4BKV Class: SO SSB LP Call: F4DNW Class: SO CW HP Call: F5CQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: F5LCU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: F5UKL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: F8DVD Class: SO SSB LP Call: G3WW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: GM7V Class: SO SSB HP Call: HA3LN Class: SO CW LP Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Call: HG8K Class: SO CW LP Call: HK3W Class: SO SSB LP Call: HK6P Class: SO SSB HP Call: HL1/VK6DXI Class: SO Mixed LP Call: I1COB Class: SO SSB HP Call: IO3X Class: SO SSB HP Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Call: IR2Y Class: SO Mixed HP Call: JF1NHD Class: SO CW LP Call: K0AD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0EWS Class: SO CW LP Call: K0HB Class: SO CW HP Call: K0KX Class: M/S LP Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0RC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0RH Class: SO SSB HP Call: K0XP Class: SO CW LP Call: K1GU Class: SO CW HP Call: K1IB Class: SO CW LP Call: K1PT Class: SO CW HP Call: K1TN Class: SO CW LP Call: K1VU Class: SO SSB LP Call: K2QMF Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K2SX Class: SO CW HP Call: K3CR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K3FH Class: SO CW LP Call: K3JT Class: SO CW HP Call: K3LL/6 Class: SO SSB HP Call: K3MD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K3OQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K3STX Class: SO CW HP Call: K3WI Class: SO CW HP Call: K3WW Class: SO CW HP Call: K3ZO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K3ZT Class: SO SSB HP Call: K4BAI Class: SO CW HP Call: K4BK Class: SO CW LP Call: K4CZ Class: SO CW LP Call: K4EU Class: SO CW LP Call: K4FTO Class: SO CW LP Call: K4IJ Class: SO CW LP Call: K4IU Class: M/S HP Call: K4JPD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4MIL Class: SO SSB LP Call: K4MX Class: SO CW LP Call: K4PHE Class: SO SSB HP Call: K4RO Class: SO CW HP Call: K4TD Class: SO CW HP Call: K4WW Class: SO CW LP Call: K4WX Class: SO SSB HP Call: K5ER Class: SO SSB HP Call: K5NA Class: M/S HP Call: K5NZ Class: SO CW QRP Call: K6GEP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K6NA Class: SO CW HP Call: K6NR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6QK Class: SO SSB HP Call: K6RB Class: SO CW HP Call: K6TA Class: SO CW HP Call: K6TD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6VVA Class: SO CW HP Call: K6XX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7BTW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7QQ Class: SO CW HP Call: K7WP Class: SO CW LP Call: K7ZSD Class: M/S HP Call: K8GL Class: SO CW HP Call: K8GT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8IA Class: SO CW LP Call: K8ZZV Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K9MMS Class: SO CW LP Call: K9NW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K9RS Class: M/S HP Call: KA1DWX Class: SO CW HP Call: KA2KON Class: SO SSB LP Call: KA3DRR Class: SO CW LP Call: KA4OTB Class: SO SSB LP Call: KA8Q Class: SO SSB LP Call: KC5R Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KC7V Class: SO CW HP Call: KD4D Class: M/S HP Call: KD5J Class: SO CW LP Call: KE1F Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KE5OG Class: SO SSB LP Call: KE9S Class: SO SSB HP Call: KF3B Class: SO CW HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SO CW HP Call: KG4IGC Class: SO SSB LP Call: KG5U Class: SO CW QRP Call: KK0HF Class: SO CW LP Call: KL3R Class: M/S HP Call: KM2O Class: SO SSB HP Call: KN4Y Class: SO CW LP Call: KO7AA Class: SO CW HP Call: KQ6ES Class: SO CW LP Call: KR2Q Class: SO CW QRP Call: KS8O Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KT0R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KU1CW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KU8E Class: SO CW HP Call: LN8W Class: SO CW HP Call: LN9Z Class: M/S HP Call: LU1BJW Class: M/S LP Call: LU1DZ Class: SO CW HP Call: LV6D Class: SO SSB QRP Call: LW4EU Class: SO CW HP Call: LY0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: LZ1VB Class: SO CW QRP Call: LZ3FN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: LZ8A Class: SO CW HP Call: MD0CCE Class: SO CW LP Call: N0AV Class: SO CW HP Call: N0NI Class: M/S HP Call: N1UR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N2MUN Class: SO SSB HP Call: N2NS Class: M/S HP Call: N2QT Class: SO SSB LP Call: N2SQW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2WN Class: SO CW QRP Call: N2YO Class: SO CW HP Call: N3AD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3BB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3KHK Class: SO SSB LP Call: N3ZL Class: SO CW LP Call: N4CW/1 Class: SO CW HP Call: N4CYV Class: SO CW LP Call: N4DW Class: SO CW LP Call: N4EEB Class: SO CW HP Call: N4EK Class: SO SSB LP Call: N4KG Class: SO CW LP Call: N4LF Class: SO CW LP Call: N4LZ Class: SO SSB HP Call: N4OGW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4OX Class: SO SSB HP Call: N4PN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4VZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: N5AN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N5XZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6AA Class: SO CW HP Call: N6NF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N6QQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6RO Class: SO CW HP Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Call: N7BV Class: M/S HP Call: N7FO Class: SO CW HP Call: N7NT Class: SO CW LP Call: N7WA Class: M/S HP Call: N8BJQ Class: SO CW HP Call: N8FE Class: M/S HP Call: N9FC Class: SO CW HP Call: NA2M Class: SO CW LP Call: NA3M Class: SO SSB HP Call: NA4BW Class: SO CW QRP Call: NA4K Class: SO CW LP Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Call: NF4A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NG7Z Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NG9T Class: M/S HP Call: NK6A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Call: NO2R Class: M/S HP Call: NP2KW Class: SO SSB LP Call: NP3D Class: SO CW HP Call: NQ3X Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NQ4I Class: M/S HP Call: NR4M Class: M/S HP Call: NS3T Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: NS9I Class: SO CW LP Call: NV4B Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NV8N Class: SO SSB LP Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Call: NY3A Class: SO CW HP Call: OH0R Class: SO CW HP Call: OH6KZP Class: SO CW HP Call: OK1DSA Class: SO CW QRP Call: OK3C Class: SO CW LP Call: OL3A Class: M/S HP Call: OL4HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: OM7HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: ON5GQ Class: SO SSB HP Call: OQ5M Class: SO CW HP Call: OT1A Class: SO CW HP Call: P33W Class: M/S HP Call: P40W Class: SO CW HP Call: PA3ARM Class: SO CW LP Call: PG7V Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PJ2HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: PS2T Class: SO Mixed HP Call: PY1DX Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: PY1NB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY1SX Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY2DEZ Class: SO SSB LP Call: PY2KC Class: SO SSB HP Call: PY2MTV Class: SO Mixed LP Call: PY2NA Class: SO CW LP Call: PY2TO Class: M/S HP Call: PY2YU Class: SO CW HP Call: RA9KM Class: SO CW LP Call: RD3A Class: SO CW HP Call: RK3DZB Class: SO SSB HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: RN3BD Class: SO CW HP Call: RS3A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: S50HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: S51F Class: SO Mixed LP Call: S51J Class: SO CW HP Call: S56G Class: SO SSB LP Call: S57DX Class: SO SSB HP Call: S57UN Class: M/S HP Call: S59TI Class: SO SSB LP Call: SK7OA Class: M/S LP Call: SK9HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: SM6EQO Class: SO CW QRP Call: SN0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Call: SP6IHE Class: SO CW LP Call: SQ8LSC Class: SO SSB LP Call: SV5DKL Class: SO CW LP Call: T90HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: TI5N Class: SO CW HP Call: TM2T Class: M/S HP Call: UA6LV Class: SO CW HP Call: UA9CLB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UP0L Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UU7J Class: M/S HP Call: UY5ZZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UZ7U Class: SO CW HP Call: V31UB Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VA1CHP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VA2WDQ Class: SO CW HP Call: VA3EC Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3NR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VA3RJ Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3RKM Class: SO CW QRP Call: VA3YP Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VA7ST Class: SO CW HP Call: VE1DT Class: SO CW LP Call: VE1RGB Class: SO CW LP Call: VE2DWA Class: SO SSB LP Call: VE3DZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3EJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3EY Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE3GSI Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3JM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3KI Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SO CW QRP Call: VE3TA Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3UTT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3WDM Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3WO Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3XB Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3XD Class: SO CW LP Call: VE6SH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7BZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7IO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7KET Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7RAC Class: Headquarters HP Call: VK2AEA Class: SO CW HP Call: VU2PTT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VY2/KV8Q Class: SO CW HP Call: W0LM Class: M/S HP Call: W1AW/4 Class: Headquarters HP Call: W1EBI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1KLM Class: SO SSB QRP Call: W1UE/VE1 Class: SO CW HP Call: W1UJ Class: SO CW HP Call: W2JU Class: SO CW LP Call: W2OO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W2TB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W3CP Class: SO CW LP Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB LP Call: W3NX Class: SO SSB HP Call: W4BQF Class: SO CW HP Call: W4KAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4NZ Class: SO CW HP Call: W4PTS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4SVO Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4TMN Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4WTB Class: SO SSB HP Call: W5JR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5KFT Class: SO CW HP Call: W5VX Class: M/S HP Call: W5WMU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5ZL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SO CW LP Call: W6AQ Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: W6EU Class: SO CW HP Call: W6GMU Class: M/S LP Call: W6KY Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W6NF Class: SO SSB LP Call: W6NOW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W6TK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6XR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6YI Class: SO CW HP Call: W6YX Class: SO SSB HP Call: W7QN Class: SO CW LP Call: W7WA Class: SO SSB HP Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW HP Call: W7ZR Class: SO CW HP Call: W8MJ Class: SO CW HP Call: WA1FCN Class: SO CW LP Call: WA1Z Class: SO CW HP Call: WA2JQK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WA4OSD Class: SO CW LP Call: WA6BOB Class: SO CW LP Call: WA6L Class: SO CW QRP Call: WB2AA Class: SO CW LP Call: WB4TDH Class: SO CW LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SO CW LP Call: WB9Z Class: SO SSB HP Call: WC1M Class: SO CW HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO CW LP Call: WF3C Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WI9WI Class: SO CW HP Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW LP Call: WN6K Class: SO CW LP Call: WO4O Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WW4LL Class: M/S HP Call: WW9R Class: SO CW LP Call: XE2GG Class: M/S HP Call: XE2K Class: SO SSB HP Call: YB2ECG Class: SO SSB LP Call: YL2CZ Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: YL2PP Class: SO CW LP Call: YL4HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: YL5T Class: SO CW HP Call: YL7A Class: SO SSB HP Call: YL8M Class: SO CW HP Call: YO5KIP Class: SO CW LP Call: YT9X Class: M/S HP Call: YU1ARC Class: M/S HP Call: YU1LA Class: SO CW HP Call: YV7QP Class: SO Mixed LP Call: YZ1ZX Class: SO SSB LP Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Call: ZF2EK Class: SO CW LP Call: ZL1V Class: M/S HP Call: ZL6A Class: Headquarters HP Call: ZP0R Class: SO SSB LP Call: ZS6AA Class: SO CW LP Call: ZY3X Class: SO Mixed QRP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: Headquarters HP Call: B1HQ Call: DA0HQ Call: LY0HQ Call: OL4HQ Call: OM7HQ Call: PJ2HQ Call: S50HQ Call: SK9HQ Call: SN0HQ Call: T90HQ Call: VE7RAC Call: W1AW/4 Call: YL4HQ Call: ZL6A Class: M/S HP Call: 4O3A Call: 9A3B Call: CE4CT Call: DJ8OG Call: HG6N Call: IO4T Call: K4IU Call: K5NA Call: K7ZSD Call: K9RS Call: KD4D Call: KL3R Call: LN9Z Call: N0NI Call: N2NS Call: N7BV Call: N7WA Call: N8FE Call: NG9T Call: NN7SS Call: NO2R Call: NQ4I Call: NR4M Call: OL3A Call: P33W Call: PY2TO Call: RL3A Call: S57UN Call: TM2T Call: UU7J Call: W0LM Call: W3LJ Call: W5VX Call: WW4LL Call: XE2GG Call: YT9X Call: YU1ARC Call: ZL1V Class: M/S LP Call: K0KX Call: LU1BJW Call: SK7OA Call: W6GMU Class: SO CW HP Call: 5H3EE Call: 8R1K Call: AA3B Call: AD4EB Call: CU2A Call: DJ1YFK Call: DL6KVA Call: F4DNW Call: K0HB Call: K1GU Call: K1PT Call: K2SX Call: K3JT Call: K3STX Call: K3WI Call: K3WW Call: K4BAI Call: K4RO Call: K4TD Call: K6NA Call: K6RB Call: K6TA Call: K6VVA Call: K7QQ Call: K8GL Call: KA1DWX Call: KC7V Call: KF3B Call: KG4CUY Call: KO7AA Call: KU8E Call: LN8W Call: LU1DZ Call: LW4EU Call: LZ8A Call: N0AV Call: N2YO Call: N4CW/1 Call: N4EEB Call: N4OGW Call: N4ZZ Call: N6AA Call: N6RO Call: N6TV Call: N7FO Call: N8BJQ Call: N9FC Call: NP3D Call: NY3A Call: OH0R Call: OH6KZP Call: OQ5M Call: OT1A Call: P40W Call: PY2YU Call: RD3A Call: RN3BD Call: S51J Call: SP2LNW Call: TI5N Call: UA6LV Call: UZ7U Call: VA2WDQ Call: VA7ST Call: VE3TA Call: VE3WO Call: VK2AEA Call: VY2/KV8Q Call: W1UE/VE1 Call: W1UJ Call: W4BQF Call: W4NZ Call: W5KFT Call: W6EU Call: W6YI Call: W7WHY Call: W7ZR Call: W8MJ Call: WA1Z Call: WC1M Call: WI9WI Call: YL5T Call: YL8M Call: YU1LA Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW LP Call: 9A/S51DX Call: AD6WL Call: CT1DRB/P Call: DJ7IK Call: DL3YM Call: HA3LN Call: HG8K Call: JF1NHD Call: K0EWS Call: K0XP Call: K1IB Call: K1TN Call: K3FH Call: K4BK Call: K4CZ Call: K4EU Call: K4FTO Call: K4IJ Call: K4MX Call: K4WW Call: K7WP Call: K8IA Call: K9MMS Call: KA3DRR Call: KD5J Call: KK0HF Call: KN4Y Call: KQ6ES Call: MD0CCE Call: N3ZL Call: N4CYV Call: N4DW Call: N4KG Call: N4LF Call: N7NT Call: NA2M Call: NA4K Call: NS9I Call: OK3C Call: PA3ARM Call: PY2NA Call: RA9KM Call: SP6IHE Call: SV5DKL Call: VA3EC Call: VA3RJ Call: VE1DT Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3KI Call: VE3WDM Call: VE3XB Call: VE3XD Call: W2JU Call: W3CP Call: W6/VK2IMM Call: W7QN Call: WA1FCN Call: WA4OSD Call: WA6BOB Call: WB2AA Call: WB4TDH Call: WB8JUI Call: WD4AHZ Call: WJ9B Call: WN6K Call: WW9R Call: YL2PP Call: YO5KIP Call: ZF2EK Call: ZS6AA Class: SO CW QRP Call: DL/K9GY Call: K5NZ Call: KG5U Call: KR2Q Call: LZ1VB Call: N2WN Call: NA4BW Call: OK1DSA Call: SM6EQO Call: VA3RKM Call: VE3MGY Call: WA6L Class: SO Mixed HP Call: DL9JON Call: ES5RR Call: F5CQ Call: IR2Y Call: K0OU Call: K0RC Call: K2QMF Call: K3CR Call: K3MD Call: K3ZO Call: K4JPD Call: K6NR Call: K6TD Call: K6XX Call: K7ABV Call: K7BTW Call: K9NW Call: KT0R Call: KU1CW Call: LZ3FN Call: N2SQW Call: N3AD Call: N3BB Call: N4PN Call: N4VZ Call: N5XZ Call: N6QQ Call: NK6A Call: PS2T Call: RS3A Call: UA9CLB Call: UP0L Call: UY5ZZ Call: VA3YP Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3JM Call: VE3UTT Call: VE6SH Call: VE7BZ Call: VE7IO Call: VE7KET Call: W1EBI Call: W2OO Call: W2TB Call: W5JR Call: W5WMU Call: W6TK Call: W6XR Call: WF3C Call: WO4O Class: SO Mixed LP Call: 2E0CVN Call: 7L4IOU Call: AA4LR Call: AD5VJ Call: AI4MT Call: DJ1OJ Call: DJ5IR Call: DL4RCK Call: E21EIC Call: ES1GF Call: F5LCU Call: F5UKL Call: G3WW Call: HL1/VK6DXI Call: K0AD Call: K6GEP Call: K8GT Call: K8ZZV Call: KE1F Call: KS8O Call: N1UR Call: N5AN Call: N6NF Call: NF4A Call: NG7Z Call: NQ3X Call: NV4B Call: PG7V Call: PY1NB Call: PY2MTV Call: S51F Call: V31UB Call: VA1CHP Call: VA3NR Call: VE3EY Call: VU2PTT Call: W4KAZ Call: W4PTS Call: W5ZL Call: W6KY Call: W6NOW Call: WA2JQK Call: YV7QP Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: K3OQ Call: NS3T Call: PY1DX Call: W6AQ Call: YL2CZ Call: ZY3X Class: SO SSB HP Call: DL2AA Call: EA8/OH4NL Call: GM7V Call: HK6P Call: I1COB Call: IO3X Call: K0RH Call: K3LL/6 Call: K3ZT Call: K4PHE Call: K4WX Call: K5ER Call: K6QK Call: KE9S Call: KM2O Call: N2MUN Call: N4LZ Call: N4OX Call: NA3M Call: NX9T Call: ON5GQ Call: PY2KC Call: RK3DZB Call: S57DX Call: W3NX Call: W4WTB Call: W6YX Call: W7WA Call: WB9Z Call: XE2K Call: YL7A Class: SO SSB LP Call: AB4GG Call: AI4G Call: DB7TF Call: DD1MAT Call: DG1ATN Call: F4BKV Call: F8DVD Call: HK3W Call: K1VU Call: K4MIL Call: KA2KON Call: KA4OTB Call: KA8Q Call: KE5OG Call: KG4IGC Call: N2QT Call: N3KHK Call: N4EK Call: NP2KW Call: NV8N Call: PY1SX Call: PY2DEZ Call: S56G Call: S59TI Call: SQ8LSC Call: VE2DWA Call: W3LL Call: W4SVO Call: W4TMN Call: W6NF Call: YB2ECG Call: YZ1ZX Call: ZP0R Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KC5R Call: LV6D Call: ND0C Call: W1KLM