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. ~~~~~~~~~~~