NAQP CW Soapbox built 2-20-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 189,882 Best low band conditions I can remember in this contest. High bands conditions.... 73 Bud AA3B Hour Rate 1 102 2 78 3 99 4 88 5 81 6 111 7 104 8 97 9 99 10 100 Off Times: 20:59 21:32 23:30 00:02 04:03 04:35 05:32 06:00 337 Second Radio QSOs 589 Unique Calls YEAR QSO MLT SCORE 1991 639 191 122049 1992 538 219 117822 1993 571 222 126762 1994 552 197 108744 1995 497 168 83496 1996 501 161 80661 1997 620 201 124620 1998 697 209 145673 1999 730 210 153300 2000 774 234 181116 2001 890 245 218050 2002 950 260 247000 2003 1020 261 266220 2004 1023 248 253704 2005 832 225 187200 2006 831 203 168693 2007 959 198 189882 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 52,650 Spent most of my time on 80m trying to pickup ND and ID for WAS, but no luck. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 87,731 Antennas: A3S/A743 at 15m (40-10m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (160, 80m) Equipment: K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 100 watts Comments: This is a personal best number of Qs for the NAQP CW. Wasn't sure if I was going to be able to pull off a full-time effort. Rates on the higher bands were pretty slow on the whole. However, this time I didn't miss the shift to the lower bands as the higher ones went long. Got a late start, but didn't miss much. 10m was non-existant. Only worked N4GG on that band. 15m was already quite long. First went to 40m at 2130z. Under different conditions, I can remember not hitting 40m until after 0000z. Thought 40m would be the big money band, but 80m turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Also made a lot of Qs on 160m -- I think the most ever on that band. Conditions were really quiet on the low bands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA6PW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 23,826 This is one of my favorites and had planned on a full time effort. I woke up Saturday morning with a fever and chills. Took some medication and decided to start the contest and was able to hang in there for 5 hours before pulling the plug and going to bed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 122,342 Boy that was fun. But glad it only lasts 10 hrs. I'm beat! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,482 Could only be on 6.3 hour and most of that at night. Had a great time and the vertical did the work. See you next week for SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 112,277 I really enjoy NAQP CW -- there's no better contest to practice SO2R in. But this was a part-time effort only. Ended up managing 8 hours, but enjoyed it as usual. Thanks to all the good ops out there. 73, andy, ae6y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI2N Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 51,120 AARGH! I got so caught up I forgot to stop operating after 10 hours. The claimed score is for my first 10 hours; hopefully the sponsor will agree to making only the last ~1-1/2 hours of my log a checklog. I had no 160 meter antenna for this contest and I really missed it. Of course, most of my 160 meter Qs wouldn't have counted anyway (see above). I have two weeks to heave something up. Propagation seemed l-o-n-g on 40 meters. Only NH from 1-land, no 2s or 3s at all, no VE3. Thanks to everyone who dug me out of the QRM/N. 73, Redd, AI2N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK9F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,766 Too many conflicts today kept me from full time participation. Then I had my 746 torn apart installing new Inrad filters which took longer than expected. They were worth it, but cut into operating time. Antenna is 135' open wire fed dipole up 25 feet. Hope to see everyone for the SSB and RTTY NAQP. 73, Howard AK9F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 77 TS-850, 100W, inv-V at 24m Very bad condx this time. Only heard/worked the southern states, loudest signals in NAQP came from V31JP and YV6BTF... Worked AZ and NM, but didn't succeed to work anything further west. W6EEN was heard (but not worked) quite early, around 0030z, later some faint traces of N2NL and NK7U were heard, but for a proper QSO still some 6dB were missing. Nothing heard at all on 80m. High local noise level didn't help. Still enjoyed it, although I didn't manage to equal my last years' score. 73, Fabian "FAB" DJ1YFK / AD5UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 5,400 Powered by Win-Test 3.7.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 24,250 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 203,520 Fun contest with lots of good rate throughout. Disappointed in my mults and probably missed a bunch by not starting out on 15 meters. Never did hear any 1's, 2's, or 3's on top band. Special thanks to W0ETT for putting together three different teams of Grand Mesa Contesters. Colorado was well represented in this one! I think I'm going to start using my middle name (Ken) :->. Seems like it takes forever to send my real name and it really slows down those second radio Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0FX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 113,562 Fun contest as usaul. Thanks to W0ETT for putting the GMCC teams together. Equipment: IC-765, KT-34XA, 2 el 40m yagi, 80m inv vee, 160m inv 'L'. Thanks for the Q's....Don K0FX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0IO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,440 The only thing running was the furnace in the room next to the shack, couldn't get any good runs going. My Black Lab, Tasha would come over from her bed and check how I was doing every hour or so, then she would shake her head and leave. It was fun, even if mostly H&P. --John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 127,925 The best I've done in a while. Low bands were quiet and easy to work. Made it fun. F5IN called me on 80! Q's and mults pretty evenly divided between 20, 40, and 80. Spent most of the last hour on 160 watching the mults grow. Cool. Hope the low bands are as good for SSB. CU all then. TNX to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 110,205 It was about 7 F here so it was time for some antenna work in the morning and then a few hours sitting in front of the radio. Activity was good and all the bands seemed in pretty good shape here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 99,180 I got off to a slow start and took the 3rd hour off for my first break. That decision cost me some Q's and Mult's on 15m and 20m I'm sure. I didn't log on to the W1VE scoreboard until later in the day when I realized my new software installation had not logged me on by default. Rick, WB8JUI, and I had another horse race during this contest. I lost count of the number of times we traded the lead position. It "felt" like 10m should have been open but there were no takers. My only contacts were KT0R and WA0MNO who followed me up there for our own state multiplier. I had two stations give me "QSO B4" near the beginning of the contest. I didn't wait around to discuss their mistakes, so I guess they'll take the penalty in their logs. I lost one QSO in a computer crash at 2228. I didn't get the callsign written down before it disappeard from the screen but I do know the name. So if you worked me on 40m at that time, let me know. I have it narrowed down to two callsigns. :-) 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK/6 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 51,968 First a big thanks to Bill Snider K6KM and N6RER Ginny for allowing me to come to his fb qth to play radio. Had fun will do full write up on GMCC reflector..got to head to Roseville ASAP PTL bill K0UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 103,125 High bands were lousy. The whole east coast disappeared from here in East TN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 166,646 That was fun. I believe the last time I operated this contest seriously it was called a CD Party and my exchange was ORS VT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1QO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,632 NAQPCW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2007-01-13 CallSign Used : K1QO Operator(s) : K1QO Band : ALL Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : ANN NH Gridsquare : FN42LU Name : Ann Byers Address : 8 Bartlett St. City/State/Zip : Newton NH 03858 Country : USA ARRL Section : NH Club/Team : Yankee Clipper Contest Club Software: N1MM Logger V5.7.2 Band QSOs Pts Sec 1.8 70 70 26 3.5 51 51 20 7 35 35 19 14 22 22 11 21 20 20 8 Total 198 198 84 Score : 16,632 Rig : FT-1000D 100W Antennas : OCF Dipole @50' 160M Dipole Soapbox : I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2007-01-14 Signature : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 172,216 First serious effort in NAQP in years. Discovered after the fact that one of the control wires to the 80-meter 4 square was broken, so the phasing was messed up. It's not a great domestic contest antenna at the best of times -- I should have kept the dipole up for backup. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 71,022 Lots of fun! Thanks for all the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2KW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 140,760 This was ugly. My new fiance needed emergency surgury this morning. I took care of her, got her home, and then rushed to N0FW's for the contest (she wanted me to play radio- she's a keeper!!) I got to Pete's station about 30 minutes late, and couldn't get the DXD box to work with N1MM. Finally got on the air an hour late. It was all down hill from there... I've never operated a real contest from Ohio, and I think I botched just about ever band choice I could make. Also suffered from the "where do I point the antenna syndrome", which never hit me in CA (just point the antenna at 70 degrees, and don't think). Well, I learned a lot, and had a good time. Thanks to Pete for letting me use his FB station, and to all those who QSY'd! That's what makes this contest fun. 73, Kenny K2KW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 85,956 Great Fun... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 31,200 First contest qactivity fm new QTH in SC but still using the trusty Butternut vertical. This time the antenna is not on the back porch but in the "wetlands" with the snakes and the deer and the gators. It was easier working on it when it was on the porch. Guess there wasn't a lot of activity fm SC judging from the "Tnx SC" comments I received and the lack of an SC multiplier in my log on any band. Will try and be a ctive as much as I can in some of these contests tt have state mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3KU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,906 After finishing family obligations, started at 0000Z. High bands dead; 40M weak. Had fun on 80M, even managing to run. Nice not to be clobbered by the KW stations. Interesting to watch the propagation shift, even on 80M. I had decided ahead of time that I would QSY to another band if asked; to practice fast band changes, and just to be nice. Only one guy, K3CR, asked me to move -- to 160M. Well, to get on 160M I have to disconnect the coax'es ffor the antenna (95-ft dipole) and xcvr from the Transmatch; use a clip lead to connect to connect the xcvr coax center pin to both sides of the antenna coax; and remember how to activate and operate the internal tuner in the TS-850. And with all that the SWR is still about infinity, and I am running about 10W. So I said to Alex "I'm very weak." He wanted to try anyhow, so I said "Give me three minutes." And there he was, for my only QSO on 160M; and the mult. I think that next time I will not QSY to 160M for just anybody. :>) Worked several active op's whom I do not remember from SS CW. I hope that the people who like the QSO once-per-band and the short report also like the non-challenge of auto-fill for the report after QSO on the first band. I know I had several second-band QSO's that would not have happened if you actually had to copy the report (gasp!). I will submit an absolutely un-massaged log. Mr. Fumble Fingers here might still have one name in the log as "Barrry". I noticed the error, but I can't remember if I fixed it during the test. (QRX one while I go back and proof read these comments.) 73, Art K3KU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,704 I knew my XYL had a dinner party planned and that I was going to be the chef, but even that was not my biggest problem. I was to start cooking at 3 pm local time, so thought I would get 2 hours in BEFORE the prep/party and would then operate again from 10 pm till 1 am, at least 5 hours total. Instead, 2.5 year old would NOT take his nap and was very fussy, so no afternoon operating (15 min was all I could manage). Party went fine, but at 8 pm got violently ill with vomiting all over, abrupt end to party and he was crying till about 11 pm. XYL thought I was insane to give up sleep to operate, but fortunately baby slept all night long (till 6 am, anyway). 40 was basically done when I got on at 11 pm, so it was a 160/80 contest working on my SO2R skills S&P'ing on 40. Sorry for all the mixed up exchanges, a novice SO2R op and too much wine. Maybe next year I'll have better luck. paul K3STX TS-850S and TS-520S, 80 M vertical, 160 M inverted L, 40 M dipole up 60 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3SV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 800 Attic dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,848 FT1000MP, 100 watts, TH6DXX, zepp, dipole. Had to take out almost 5 hours to attend a wedding and reception thereafter. Hope to be full time next time. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 36,288 Murphy struck! I went to the shack about 30 minutes prior to kick-off and found the computer dead. Power works, but no POST or beeps. I spent about 2 hours trying to find the problem. I finally decided to pull out an old PII I had, found a HD for it and commenced to load the OS. This took about 2 hours. Then I had to load the contest software. When I finally got on the air, 15 and 20 were dead. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,133 Much later start than planned, but ALWAYS enjoy the NAQPs ... 100W contesting in the domestic events is definitely the way to go ... so much more chance for the little stations to be heard by not having the big cannons spaced every 3KC up the whole band! I continue to applaud NCJ for these events. Worked a few of my FCG Brothers (OJ)and the signal from KN4Y/m was BIG here in Pasco County. FT1000MP and CushCraft AP8A vertical. 73/OJ K4EJ 2006-2007 Contest Season FLA CONTEST GROUP "scorekeeper" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 52,094 Lost interest after a few hours but hung in to get past 50K. My 40M antenna sucks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FXN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 106,049 HAD A GOOD TIME BUT CONDX FROM HERE WERE NOT GOOD. I THINK THE BLACK HOLE MOVED SOUTH TO GET AWAY FROM THE STORMS. DAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4LW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,390 Didn't think I'd get on for even this part time effort, otherwise would have signed up for a team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,250 Rig: TS-2000 & LDG AT-100 Auto Tuner Antennas: 80 Meter Sloper (NW) & 20 Meter Dipole (N-S) Thanks for the Q's. 73 Tom K4MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4NO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 177,840 What a great contest, thanks to all for the QSO's and hope to work you in the SSB contest Greg K4NO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 196,088 QSOs are up, mults are down. Not sure what I did wrong this time. Probably should have called CQ on 15 meters more, but the footprint seemed much smaller. Mult moving was very unsatisfactory. I can't remember the last time I wasn't able to work W4OC on six bands. (Don was hearing better than I was.) QRN was intense as the night went on, and the short Beverages were used for about 90% of all of the 160-80-40 QSOs. TCG was out in force. Good to hear some of the old gang back in action, as well as several new calls. The NAQP remains one of my favorite contests. Thanks for the QSOs and the QSYs. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 105,504 This is one NAQP that I won't soon forget. My 80M yagi went out of service today. It was taken down off the main tower about two hours before the start of the contest to repair a broken reflector. (It will go back up tomorrow morning)... To get the 80M yagi down, the main tower had to be secured so it wouldn't rotate. Therefore, none of the main 40-10M yagis on that tower were really available either. Also, the 160M vertical was put on the ground to allow the 80M yagi to be lowered. The only antennas that remained were the multiplier yagi and two small dipoles for 40 and 80. I had to abstain from using SO2R functionality because all the available antennas were on the same switching system... What a mess... I almost pulled the plug, but decided to give it a go anyway since the NAQP is one of my favorites. Also, I knew the ACG guys would be merciless on me if I bailed at the the 11th hour... :-) On the bright side, I was fortunate to observe plenty of good operators. I want to specifically cite VE7CC and W6EEN for exhibiting good sportsmanship in the tight spaces on 40M late in the contest; it was certainly appreciated. The signals were decent on most of the bands I operated (even on 15M). The K9AY loops knocked out most of the QRN on 80, and 80 yielded my biggest QSO payoff. I called CQ on 10M a few times, but I only ever heard one signal. That's probably due to the antenna restrictions. My two biggest surprises were: (1) not working GA on 40M and (2) having KH6NF call me on 40M near the end of the contest. I never heard ND, SD, NE, AK, UT, NU, NWT, PEI or YT on any band. Hope everyone had fun. 73, Rick K4TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 62,010 FT-1000MP, Hexbeam, 80/40 Sloping Inv Vee @ 35'. Wish I had a 160 m antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,703 Only two words to describe this contest....forty meters. The band was amazing! Here in South Texas, 40M was open to both coasts and all points between at 2100Z, 3 pm local! I had the best sustained runs on 40M that I can ever remember in this contest. This was a part-time effort, so I didn't spend a lot of time preparing. I thought I had a good logcfg.dat file for TR after switching computers a few months back, but I didn't! I ended out adding needed features on the fly during the first couple of hours of the contest. In retrospect, I should have taken two or three minutes early on and gone through the config file to get it right because it really slowed me down. Only checked 10m once with no joy, but 15M was so bad I didn't think I'd have a chance of working anyone on 10M. Thanks to all for a good time! Paul, K5AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5BG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 135,026 The tribander and 40M beam were stuck pointed to the east due to ice build up. Strange not being able to get guys on the west coast to hear me in this contest. Thanks to all. 73, Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 134,736 Our usual M/2 operation was cancelled by Mother Nature's ice storm across Oklahoma at the last minute. Luckily, there is no serious damage to the aerials (yet), but our roads are simply treacherous. I decided to get on and make as many q's as possible. The antennas have about 3/8" of ice on them and SWR averaged 3:1. The NW beverage had fallen to the ground and was under 2" of sleet. The rotor was stuck East. I had to stop 10 or more times for 5-10 minutes each while a wave of freezing rain/sleet passed over. It would put the S meter on +30 and keep it there. Apologies to those I could not copy or had to give up on. We are lucky though, as there does not appear to be much serious damage, and we only lost power briefly for 4 periods. We'll be back. 73, Ken K5KA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 225,105 A storm front with lots of rain and lightning come through Saturday morning before the NAQP Contest. Our power went out about 1500Z and didn't come back until after 1700Z. I was starting to get really worried and thought I might end up doing the contest with a generator. But the power came back on and the thunderstorms atayed away during the contest. I felt I used my time poorly during this contest. My first mistake was the first two hours when I really tried to make something work on 10 and 15 meters. 10M was non-existent and 15 meters turned out to be poor. But I was afraid not to focus on these bands at the beginning because I might miss something. And there certainly wasn't going to be a second chance to get productivity on those bands later in the day. So the QSO rate for my first two hours was really poor. By the time I dropped to 20M, that band was hot as a pistol and loaded with signals. I established a running frequency and started a series of some very good runs. Mayabe I was fresh meat being late to go to 20M. The same thing happened on 40M after 2300Z. There seemed to be no end to the QSOs. I think this contest has achieved enough activity that you can no longer run out of QSOs on an open band. There are always going to be more QSOs to be made. This led to my second mistake. The QSO rates were so good on 20M and 40M that I didn't take as much time off as I should have during the daylight hours. At 0100Z I had taken only 30 minutes off and I forced myself to stop on a hot 40M band to take another 30 minutes off. When I returned, 40M was still providing an excellent QSO rate and I continued on while making a few second radio QSOs on 80M. Now for my third mistake. At 0300Z I only had a few QSOs on 80M and ZERO QSOs on 160M. And I still had to take another hour off with only 3 hours to go in the contest. So I spent an hour on 80M and a hour on 160M to finish out the contest. That's why my 80M and 160M QSO totals are about the same. I was really there just to get as many mults on those bands as I could. The NAQP is a great contest and loads of fun. It is just long enough to be a challenge but not so long it kills you and the entire weekend. I really enjoy it. Thanks for all the QSOs. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 61,908 Our M2 plans fell apart and with rain coming I talked myself into a SO. Had my best start ever and really wanted to finish this one then the cold front hit! Rain static and crashes were steady +10-30 over. Took all my off time in the afternoon hoping it would pass but no luck. Rained 5 inches over the next 4 hours. Tried to get back on several times but just couldn't pull anyone out except the really big signals and lighting was really bad here so decided better to just QRT. Thanks for all the QSY's! nz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TA Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 297,876 Station: TS850, TS950, NA10 160: Inverted vee, apex at 85 ft 80: Wire vertical 40: Dipole @ 75 ft 20: Inverted vee, apex at 50 ft 15: Duo-band 10/15 yagi at 30 ft * 10: Duo-band 10/15 yagi at 30 ft * During the first part of the contest we used the 40-mtr dipole on 15 because we thought we'd need the duo-band yagi on 10 meters. Silly us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 159,280 Started late and missed a bit of 15. No 10M here. Heavy QRN from passing storm really took a hit on 80/160. Sorry to those who called and I could not hear due to storm. Lots of good rate, but I never got my Mult passing down this time around, so Mults were hurting. Still was fun, as usual! 73, Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 128,691 Conditions were a very solid mediocre this time. 15 was gone after 2 hours and 10 was a black hole. 20 closed early,0 so was left with my little dipoles on 40 and 80 after 0000. Congrats to all you guys with the big antennas at quiet locations with scores up around 300K CU next time John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,521 I did not meet my goal of 200 QSO's. 15 meters and 40 were quite disappointing. There seemed to be deep QSB on 40 and 80 tonight, which seemed to contradict the K index of 0. I think I need to learn more about propagation. I just ran out of stations to work on 80 the last hour and a half. LOTS of Montana stations on this weekend - they must have a team - thanks! Station: FT-990 Alpha-Delta Multi Band Dipole as inverted vee 20 feet at apex 40 meter inverted vee 55 feet up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6III Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,530 Beam has been taken down for my pending move. We are packing up the house around here so my heart is not into this contest. Anyway, I have left my multi-band wire up so I could at least make a few Q's. Thought I make 10 Q's on each band. Almost did that, but only heard 1 station on 10m (W0YK). 73 es hope to be on from NEVADA COUNTY (CA) later this Spring. New QTH is Grass Valley, CA. de Jerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 175,935 1/2 my kingdom to have 10m back, the other half for a decent 160m antenna. 73, Ken, K6LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 171,471 First time with N1MM in so2r mode. It seems to work pretty well. Nice to work the regulars, and some irregulars, too. See you next weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,364 Always a fun contest, even with just 100 watts. Good conditions on 160M. Never heard ND, SD, RI, ID, or AK. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John. (http://www.k6mm.com) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 134,001 Thanks for the Qs. It was great to have 15 meters this time around. Dana ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 19,788 CHECK LOG ONLY (Forgot and started with my AL-80B on) - just some short on and off fun time in between other stuff like grocery shopping, laundry, and working XT2C on 80m which was kind of a thrill. 73 & CU in the LQP on 1/17/06 ( http://www.k6vva.com/lqp ) ... Rules changes are coming! Rick, K6VVA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6WWW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 40,940 IC756 + G5RV. High bands never panned out. 160 sounded lousy. Score significantly lower than 2004 from AL. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 81,640 Main 80M GP quit just before the contest. As it was lustily snowing I didn't get to fix it, had to use a low wire on 80/160. Lots of fun, not too much storm static. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 120,600 Much fun; sorry didn't spend full-time in this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,440 had a good time, even tho time really cut back...lots of good cw ops and think everyone was having fun.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 184,470 Thanks to Gene, KB7Q for getting a team together to make MT easy to get. It was fun actually finding it easy to work MT from MT for a change. Thanks to Eric, K7ABV for my lone 10 meter contact and for the only station I worked on all 6 bands. Got a late start by 40 minutes and I think that hurt the 15m totals. Thanks to all, Matt--K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 180,668 The 40m and 80m antennas suffered some damage in the endless string of storms in the last few months. Needless to say, it was tough going on those bands. At least I was able to get on and partake in the NAQP fun. 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7SV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 171,186 Had a great time in NAQP CW as usual. As observered by others, high bands reflected the current sunspot state as did the low bands. We did have some form of propagation to the south, but few stations made themselves known. Heard Tor, N4OGW CQing for some time on the band. Also heard W9WI and I believe WO4O who couldn't hear me. Worked N4ZZ, K4GMH, K3AM and N8II on ten as well. Thanks to the latter two for six banders! Can't wait to augment the KLM shortie on 40 with the stack of 4 el OWAs. Also looking forward to some gain antennas on 80, although the 110 ft high dipole really played well. Thank to all for the Qs and to those who did or tried to move bans with me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 81,082 Sorry if I seemed like a lid ... first time using Win-Test software. A little bit of SO2R. Conditions and participation both seemed up this time. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8FC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 82,782 Wow, what a blast ! Equipment used was an Elecraft K2/100 rig that I built in the fall. I cannot say enough good things about this little K2 rig. Using WriteLog and a microHam keyer this radio really shined. The combination of DSP and good IF crystal filtering made the signals stand out on 160 where I really needed it as I had extremely bad atmospheric static for the entire evening. Unfortunately, I missed much of the prime time (beginning two hours) of the event. After a late start, 15 meters was virtually empty here. It did not take me long to realize that the mob moved to 20. It seemed to me that folks were bailing out of the bands really quite early and that the 20 meter activity shifted to 40 early in the afternoon and so on with the east coast leading the way. Thanks to all my Colorado friends who participated and thanks to all folks who gave me a point. Ski Bums #1 are the best ! Joe K8FC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,998 Station: TS-930SAT/PIEXX+Inrad Roofing+Inrad 400's TS-930SAT/PIEXX+Kenwood 500's 40/20/15 fan dipole at 25 feet 80 zig-zag dipole at 25 feet 20 ground plane at 15 feet 130' BOG unterminated Soapbox: Had great plans to do this from K9ZO (Thanks to Ralph for getting the station almost ready, though!)...but, the threat of ice storms kept me home. I'm happy with some parts of my performance and not so happy with others. I thought of N4ZR's CQ-Contest post about concentration several times in the first two hours as I tried to make a go of it on 20, 15, and 10 with only one radio and no beam. The second radio really helps you maintain focus. Felt louder on 80, 40, and 20 than I ever have from this QTH. Had S9 buzzing on 80 for most of the contest. I laid out a short BOG this morning; that helped a little bit. I was still an alligator...sorry! The Inrad roofing filter for the TS-930S is great. I haven't done the blocking measurements, yet. But, it really performed well with strong local and skywave sigs. Thanks to local Zack, W9SZ, who QRB'ed with me for the IL mult on 10, 15, and 160, as well as the other three bands! 73 and thanks for the QSOs... --Ethan, K8GU/9. http://www.k8gu.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 167,440 Orion II, 3 el SteppIR @ 78', M2 40M3L at 71', 80m inv vee, 160m vert (78') Another noise limited weekend, but I still had fun!This is still my favorite domestic contest. Next one up for me will be CQWW 160 CW. CU then. 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 87,694 My best hour was 2200, mostly running 40. I took a break from 2315 to 0015 and when I came back, 20 was gone, 40 had almost no signals, and 80 was already long. Guess I should have put supper off for a few minutes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,848 Got on for the last 1.5 hours after spending the day playing in a regional bridge tournament here in Cleveland. I probably should have stayed home Saturday night and played radio, as I had perhaps my worst results ever. OTOH we played again today, when I finished up the gold point requirement (the most difficult) for Life Master ranking, and my wife with the same gold points qualified for Life Master. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8NZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 86,317 Fun to see what can be done from FL with just a ground mounted vertical and 100w. Seems to work well on 40m, but 80 is a problem with no operation above 3525. Still had a good time. 73, Ron, K8NZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 74,250 My first NAQP and enjoyed it. 40-10 yagi frozen at 25 feet due to ice storm night before. 160m antenna not finished! Started on 15 and then 20. Prop was over my head!! 40 and 80 were very good. Best rates were on 80 at the end of the test. QRN picked up the last two hours and blanked some exchanges. Good contest and pushing me to become a better operator. Thanks for the Q's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,835 Radio - IC756 Pro-2 Antenna (10-40M) Gap Challenger 80M - Doublet, 4-Square ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 374 aka "CAPONE IL" Read all about Capone at: http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone.html Interesting enough when Capone initially moved to Chicago (at approx 72nd Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway) he was about 20 miles from my QTH! In addition, Capone was born on Jan 17th (same as my XYL, hah!)... Using his name in the contest so close to his b'day was coincidence. QRP worked better than I would have predicted: MD, FL, VA, OK, TX, CA, AZ, WA, WY, CO, BC Contest was fun for the limited time I put into it. Typical excuses: errands, family time, etc. Wife and I watched "Walk the line" about Johnny Cash. Good movie if you haven't seen it yet. FT-817 Cushcraft R7000 with base at 11' above ground Happy New Year & Best of health to all, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,107 Got off to a poor start, but 80 and 40 were good to me. 160 was a pleasant surprise. Just put up an inverted L with 2 radials and what a surprise!! My personal best in an NAQP CW. Thanks to all who qso'd. 73, Darrell (aka ROD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 94,866 Got Murphyed twice. Lost the first 25 minutes of the log in a crash, then later, the big vertical had an infinite SWR on 160...had to force feed the 80M inverted Vee on 160...not good. Still...had fun. Thanks for all the points! 73...Don, K9NR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 83,076 Just passing out a few QSOs here and there while watching ball games. Condx seemed to be pretty decent. With a fair amount of pre-contest "check 10M at top of the hour" talk I was expecting a flurry of activity......bzzt. Worked a few anyway. At different times from NE Indiana it was open (granted, that's probably being a bit generous) to at least W1 and W5. Spent quite a bit of time calling CQ but few takers. See y'all in the next one! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 126,072 How about that?! Excellent conditions and lots of activity. The rate stayed high the whole contest, what a blast! We even had an all Montana team (K7BG, W7IZL, KB7Q) in the game. The inverted "V" was reluctant to load on the cw end, but the long wire actually worked better on 80 anyhow. The TH7's rotator was frozen north for the first hour, it was - 15. TH7@55' trapped inverted V for 80/40 long wire K1/100, N1MM logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,525 I really did not have a lot of time to work on this contest, but did what I could. Used the 40M delta loop, 80M sloper and 160M dipole. All taking resident on a 70' tower. I did get some work done on the new station. Got the 155CA assembled and just need to repair one part in the gamma match and it will be ready for the the tower. Spent alot of time with little stuff, but all necessary to get the project completed... hi hi.. Conditions seem pretty good during my operating period. I have already seen some pretty nice scores. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,770 Ended up with more time than I thought. Band conditions fairly good but got on too late and missed good 15m openings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 20,088 That was fun. Conditions were favorable for qrp and there was plenty of activity to keep the S&Per busy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 21,560 My first NAQP actually keeping score. 80m and 40m were loads of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6NF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 78,480 Aloha, John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 12,950 very part-time around family committments.. the last 35 minutes on 80m were a blast! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 24,610 Didn't have a lot of time to spend on the contest this year. Didn't hear ND or SD at all. Look for you next week in the SSB contest. 73--Scott KN3A N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y/M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,013 Operated mobile in motel parking lot in Pasco county Florida before and after a bowling tournament. The 100 watt maximum makes a contest more of a challenge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO1H Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 14,440 Wow no 15m at all. I started this VERY part time effort late. The qsy requests were many. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 152,759 It is always fun to work everyone in this test.... Low points: -WX0B SO2R box still in the shop, not much fun operating SO1R -15M not in very good shape, 80M always tough from Arizona -plans to go to N2IC's (to defend the multi-op record) fell through, not enough ops... High points: -N1MM program is great, why did I put this off for so long? -I felt really loud with the 3 el 40M yagi at 90' -the 160M Q's were made tuning the center conductor of the HF6V running ~50 watts See you on SSB in a week! 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 100,859 Finally - not only worked Wyoming (2 stations - K7VU on 40 and WC7S) but managed to move Dale, WC7S, my neighbor, through all six bands and my lone 10 meter QSO. Never heard a peep on 10 otherwise. CU all in the SSB leg. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 73,152 Well, another fun contest. Had too many things going to put in a full effort. I just had a hard time getting going. Bands did not seem in that great of shape. Seemed like 40 & 80 went long early. Was fun as always. See you all next this coming weekend. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU4J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 131,064 Thanks to Jim-W0UO for letting a nomad contester like me to use his station while he was out of town! Took a while to get use to the station and my first attempt at SO2R was a bust. I should have taken my off time early, because apparently I missed the best part of 160m at the last hour. Weather dealt us a nasty hand with rain, lightning, and then ice! Anyway it was FUN!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU7Z Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 96 I thought I was going to have time to play! Not this time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 116,022 IC 756PRO and Wires. What a difference a "real" 160 meter antenna makes. Now if I can just put up a good 80 meter antenna maybe I will finally have a decent score. Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 127,452 My best effort in this event. I'm still amazed at what can be done with 100W to a 102' G5RV @ 45', even on 160! Thanks for all of the Q's. See you all in August. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY4F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,830 Apologies to my team mates for a rather dismal input on my part! My paltry antenna's were a real limiting factor. High QRN and some form of repeating man made noise made the copy difficult to say the least... Ummmm lets see, can I find any other excuses? Oh well, still great fun. There's always next time! Doug KY4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,182 CW not my cup of tea however wanted to help a little for the concerted ACG Team effort. 1st effort for the Alabama contest group(ACG). Hope nobody missed the AL multi as it surely was not due to lack of activity. Look for all in SSB this comming weekend. ACG will be out in force again. KY5R will be M-2 fer the event. GL to all Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5D Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,910 My best friend's daughter scheduled her wedding on the same day as the NAQP. What was she thinking about? Anyway, my operating time was severly limited, but boy, it sure was fun during the 2 1/2 hours I could spend in the party. Scores seem a little better than usual from what I can recall. Congrats to all. Just think of how much fun it'll be when we get sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 73,260 It was fun. Starting at about 2330Z I thought T-storms were in the area the way the qrn was on 80 meters. The temperature was only about 19 degrees at the time though. Made it tough at times to copy the weak ones. Thanks for all the qso's. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0SXX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 81,900 Whew.... Murphy's contest! 1: XYL came down and told me I was blowing away the TV. 2: Forgot that while remodeling the basement I had disconnected my shack ground wire and, after the K2's antenna tuner was acting fussy, it took me 30 minutes to realize I had no ground system. 3: Temporary 80/160 vertical was acting funny and took me another chunk of time to find that one side of the balanced line feed was disconnected. 4) Loose power connector on my laptop made me lose power and reboot several times mid-qso! That was the first 3 hours and the rest of the contest went smoothly and allowed me to get my full 10 hours in! Antennas: dipole at 35' plus 88' inv L for 80/160. Radio: K2 100W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0XB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,939 Very short operating opportunity for NAQPCW this year. Thanks everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 101,355 Let me start by looking back over the past 4 years. I really missed the fun at Mike's (K5NZ, aka: W5NN) and the M2 entry. Oh well, time marches on. This was my first NAQP from the new QTH. Next time (not next week) I hope to say it was my first NAQP from the new QTH with the new completed antenna farm and entering as M2. My start was less than exciting. The little and low A3 just could not do much on 15, and 20 was not much better. I actually think it was more related to not having multiple beams already pointed in the various directions. It was just too slow to rotate so it just stayed WNW. A big THANKS to the California crew for making up 25% of my 15 and 20 mtr Qs. I never had any good long runs, with my high 10 minute rate topping out at 148 and my best 60 minute rate at 110. Not bad, just not consistent. Oh well - I will give SSB a try next week. 73, Bruce - N1LN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1QME Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,312 1st timer in this 'test. Casual operating for just a few hours on low bands in the evening to provide RI mult. Look forward to seeing you on for CQ WW 160 contest at end of month. 73, Bill N1QME RIG: Icom 737 @100 watts to off ctr-fed dipole on 80/40; inv L on 160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 266,858 Great activity made it tough to use the 2nd radio - Every time I got ready to S&P on the 2nd radio, someone would answer my CQ ! Too bad 10 didn't play like it did 28 days earlier. Only QSO was WA5Y, 15 miles away. Never heard a peep, otherwise. Probably spent too much time on 15, but needed all I could get there to balance the dismal performance of 160 from the SW corner of New Mexico. 20 played very well. 40 was a bottomless pit of QSO's. 80 and 160 are always tough out here. Some folks hear very well on 160. Others are, well, deaf. Used all my off-time in the last 7 hours, which may not be the best strategy - felt I could have made many more QSO's on 40 and 80 if I had more time. Thanks for all the QSO's ! 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 281,120 That was lots of fun, as usual, even from the very bottom of the sunspot cycle. It's always great to hear and work everyone on the bands. The NAQP CW is one of my favorite contests, and I'm really thankful to Dave and Barb for hosting me and allowing me to enjoy the January NAQP West Coast Propagation Advantage(tm). It was also great seeing N6KT who was visiting for most of the contest period. Lots of weak signals on all bands, except for 40 which was a bottomless pit for me. I had trouble getting any rate whatsoever on 80 and 160 all night, but 40 always responded with a quick run whenever I went back. My off-time strategy followed propagation. There were times in the late afternoon when only one band was really open, making the decision easy when to take off. I counted about 330 2nd radio QSOs. If you worked a weak W6NL and K6BL, that was Dave and Barb out on their front porch with a TS-930 plugged into a dummy load, with an inline tee and two clip leads laid across a chair as an antenna. They both worked several dozen stations, including N9CK (great ears!). It looks like a statistical tie between KL9A and I, with N2IC and N6MJ close behind in the west. Congrats to all, including Scott, Yuri, and Mike back east. Thanks to everyone for the moves! 73, Dave N2NL6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 46,440 Should have spent more time on 80 and 160! New Marconi's for 80 and 160, 76' for 160 (repaired from ARRL 160 storm) and 45' for 80, both played well. CU in CQ160 CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 73,815 Not having real 20 or 160 antennas hurt a bit. Still more antenna work to be done. Thanks for the QSO's 73, Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 219,090 Pasted below are my Rate and Mult files. This is a PR for me, to the best of my reecollection. I left the radio feeling that I did my best. I tried over and over to move stations to ten, but must have missed some ten meter possibilities looking at W5KFT and others. Never heard a peep here on the band. My sole ten meter contact was from running the six bands with AC5AA 15 miles away in Austin. We got around five inches (maybe more) of rain here in the twelve hours before the contest started. The creeks flooded big time. But the rain stopped one hour before the contest started, and in general it was really quiet in terms of listening. There was some lightning-type QRN on 160 and 80 later on, but I felt that I was hearing well. This NAQP, I took off from 2030Z-2103, and that probably was a good decision. My other off times were 0300-0326, and 0509-0559. Around sunset, the rates on 20 and 40 really got high. I had four straight hours of over 100 an hour and then a 99 after those four. The two hours right at sunset were 110 and 131, and it felt like I was a DX-pedition with a constant pile up. However after reading the reports from N5DX and N2IC, they were having the good rates plus 10%! Still, 160 was really good when I had to QRT at 0510 and I am sure I left some easy mults on the table there. There always is a debate; does one take off that last hour? In the summer, no! 160 does not even open until then. But in the winter, I don't know. My feeling is that I missed 10 or 20 mults on 80 and 160 all combined, and that would have increased my score by 5-10%. But I would have given up some QSOs to do it. Certainly, I had to be on during the peak run rates mentioned above. But perhaps another half hour in the 03Z hour would have been smart. I think so, as that would have left more rich multiplier time toward the end. Comments? Please email me separately. I tried to move quite a few stations, and had 30 succesful band moves including the five local band-moves with AC5AA. Of that total, probably 6 or 7 were from stations who called me and asked me to move. Several were stations whom I had asked previously, but we failed. There were two guys that not only moved around with me but came back on frequency and asked me to move later when other bands opened! These included V31YN and VE9DX. They called me later and suggested we try again when earlier tries had not worked out. Thanks! There were quite a number of unsuccessful move tries as well. Results were poor on 15 and nil on 10. Also, our team member KZ5D moved me to 80 and 160 after he called me on 40! There were a few others who asked me to move. One was VE3NE (no luck on 10 meters) and there were one or two others I have forgotten. The NAQP really is an amazing event all in all! My off times were 2030-2103, 0300-0326, and 0509-0559. Congratulations to European stations UT5UIA and DJ1YFK for calling in on 40 meters. UT5UIA was so loud that he sounded like a W8! I didn't hear much at all from my local compadres and competitors K5NA, K5PI at W5KFT, or K5OT at N5TW. They probably were off running them just like I was. This contest is a real "tour de force" of operating skill. The level of CW is high, and SO2R skills are tremendous. It's a pleasure to compete at this level, and also to work all the old pals and folks who are casual and simply enjoying CW and the hobby on a Saturday. Here are the numbers. I haven't reviewed any ommisions or errors. These are raw right off of the TR Post Utility: N3BB Rate HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 18 0 0 0 58 55 0 113 113 19 1 1 1 56 33 1 93 206 20 0 0 0 29 6 0 35 241 21 0 0 43 61 0 0 104 345 22 0 0 42 58 2 0 102 447 23 2 3 74 31 0 0 110 557 0 0 8 122 1 0 0 131 688 1 0 32 66 1 0 0 99 787 2 0 26 63 0 0 0 89 876 3 11 36 0 0 0 0 47 923 4 39 46 0 0 0 0 85 1008 5 7 4 0 0 0 0 11 1019 TOTAL 60 156 411 295 96 1 N3BB Mults 160CW Al Ct In Md Mo Ne Ok Tn V3 XE Ca Fl Ky Mi Ms Nm Or Tx Va vE3 Co Ga La Mn Nc Oh Sc Ut Wi 80CW Al Ct In Me Nc Ny Sc Va vE3 Ar De Ks Mi Nh Oh Tn Wi vE7 Az Fl Ky Mn Nj Ok Tx Wv vE9 Ca Ga La Mo Nm Or Ut XE Co Il Md Ms Nv Pa V3 vE2 40CW Al De In Me Nc Ny Sc Vt vE2 Ar Fl Ks Mi Ne Oh Tn Wa vE3 Az Ga Ky Mn Nh Ok Tx Wi vE5 Ca Hi La Mo Nj Or Ut Wv vE6 Co Ia Ma Ms Nm Pa V3 Wy vE7 Ct Il Md Mt Nv Ri Va XE vE9 20CW Al De Il Md Nc Oh Tx Wi vE3 Ar Fl In Mi Ne Ok Ut Wv vE5 Az Ga Ks Mn Nh Or V3 Wy vE6 Ca Hi Ky Mo Nj Pa Va XE vE7 Co Ia La Ms Nm Sc Vt vE1 vE9 Ct Id Ma Mt Ny Tn Wa vE2 15CW Ca Hi In Me Nc Nv Pa Va vE1 vE7 Co Ia Ky Mi Nh Ny Sc Wa vE2 vE9 Ct Id Ma Mn Nj Oh Tn Wi vE3 De Il Md Mt Nm Or Tx Wv vE6 10CW Tx End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CBK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,825 It was a great contest... except for all that infernal beeping. I am pretty sure it was some kind of code, or something. Cheers es 73! Jay, N4CBK Alabama Contest Group Team #2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 189,719 Had zero prep time, so just fired up without any thought to strategy and not even sure all the wires were still up in the trees. They were, but I'm one slot short on my six pak and the 10 was hooked up and the 15 disconnected - not good. The great "benefit" of non-resonant crummy antennas in trees is everything "works" on every band, so I used the 80M inverted vee on 15 - didn't seem to matter much. Ten was dead - really dead. 15 was the usual West Coast SS scenario from this end. Shuffling antennas caused me to use the poorer wires on 20 - I really ought to plan this a little in advance! 40, 80 and 160 were first rate. 80 and 160 were particualrly good and working the West Coast on 160 with 100W seemed no problem at all - for a change (unlike August). The QRN from the midwest storm was nice and loud on 160, but new receiving wires here helped a lot. Had the usual EU stations demanding to work me on 40 - put 10 Qs in the non-contest log just to get them to go away. The risk is always that they will spot you and then its off to the races or QSY. I didn't move folks as much as I should have - yet again. This is a great contest - op skills and courtesy are high - good competition and plenty of stations to work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 196,112 Blew up a bandpass filter on the main radio and wasted far too much time trying to chase it down. In any case, it was a fun contest as always. The low bands were really FB! 73, Tim, N4GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,700 A CW CONTEST IS ALWAYS RELAXING AND A LOT OF FUN. NICE MEETING OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES. GOOD TO HR SO MANY AL CONTEST GROUP MEMBERS PARTICIPATING. LOW BAND CONDITIONS WERE VERY GOOD. I ENJOYED IT VERY MUCH ALTHOUGH I WAS ABLE TO OPERATE ONLY PART TIME. HOPE EVERYONE HAD AS MUCH FUN AS I DID... 73s JERRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 116,280 I operated the first 2 hours then spent the next 2.5 hours making preparations fot the installation of a replacement side door in my garage. Not the best operating strategy to say the least but how often can one count on shirt sleeve wWX in January? Naturally the replacement door is taller than the original and the trim is wider. Fortunately I did have about 1/4 inch clearance to work with. I KNOW, call CQ more or get set up for SO2R. Hey, I'm a 'multiplier' oriented guy. Thanks for the QSY's. It didn't take long to figure out that 'go to' freq's needed to be well out of range from contest activity! QRN on 80M was 'intense' for a while from an approaching storm yet my best rate (and best hour) was on 80M. 160M was a real treat. Picked up 8 mults in the last 30 minutes and heard VE6 just AFTER the closing bell. The more I use my Icom 746PRO, the better I like it, especially having the ability to set up 3 different filter bandwidths for each mode without shelling out $150 a pop for crystal filters. I must admit that the original 746 does sound 'cleaner' on CW and the audio peak filter is a nice feature that I miss on the DSP radio. Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OGW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 213,786 Nice to see 10m open! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,000 Sorry ACG Team#2 Guys, had to play radio in one hour sprints. Wound up working most of day and night (actually still working)... 73, Jeff N4YQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 173,810 Always enjoy this one. Thanks for all the Q's. 73 Don n4zz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW/0 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 23,175 Not exactly my best showing. Arrived at our Colorado vacation home late Wednesday. Beautiful day Thursday but decided to wait until Friday to put up my antenna - a G5RV strung from the peak of the house to a nearby tree. Friday the weather was miserable - cold and rain mixed with ice pellets so decided to wait until Saturday morning. Mistake. Overnight we had over a foot of snow and still coming down. So Saturday I finally get the antenna up 15 minutes after the contest starts. Make 50 Q's in the first 45 minutes but then I have to take the XYL to the grocery store (still snowing). On the way home I manage to slide into the ditch. I spend two hours trying to get it out with out success (even with the help of a neighbor). I decide to abandon the car for the warmth of the neighbor's house and a glass of wine. End up operating less than 4 hours. The good news - another neighbor with a bigger vehicle pulled me out of the ditch Sunday. Marv, N5AW/0 Pagosa Springs, CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 261,144 That was fun. I went to 40 meters earlier than usual, which hurt my 20 meter QSO total, but the rate was just to good to give up. I was lucky to work K3CR on 10 along with a few other stations that answered my CQ. VE9DX answered my CQ on 160 and quickly moved to 80 and 40 for two new mults, thanks Andy! 73 Kevin/N5DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5OE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 65,975 Well this was certainly not an outstanding effort and result as can be seen here by the score. I got a 1.5hr delay on getting started on 15m and 20m, and then right when 80m was starting to take shape for me here, I had another 3 hour delay with only 15q's in the log. Local WX/ICE conditions had ALL my antennas that could rotate, stuck in place. Fortunatly I locked the rotatable tribander NE the night before, and with a fixed tribander on the same tower set to the NW I was able to still take part in some good antenna switching despite the fact of a 3.1 swr on 10 and 15, but 20m was usable at a 2.1swr :) Thankfully these antennas dont have much F/B and this scenario works for 360deg coverage more or less:) 40m,80m and 160m were pretty good here, this is the first contest from this qth that I actually had TWO receive antennas to play with! In previous efforts I was locked into a 750' NE/sw RX pattern only, but with the addition of a short 150' SE/nw antenna a week before, I was truly excited and pleased with the results from this meager setup. It is so nice to switch RX antennas and it make the differance on 80 and 160 between getting the exchange info on the first call rather than sending a few ?'s. I have to mention that working a lot of VE's, an XE and a V31 on 160m were the highlights for me,,,it should be obvious now that I have the famous top band disease. Overall this was another great contest with loads of great operators, I feel this was a successful effort from this end with improvements in overall Q's and rates from last year. This leaves me excited and anxious for the next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5TW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 174,800 Thanks to Tom N5TW for another opportunity to contest from his fine station! 73, Larry K5OT.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,720 Rig: IC706Mk2G Antenna: 1/2 size G5RV run around ceiling in living room of 2nd floor apartment Power Out: Generally 50W (sometimes up to 100 if needed) Wasn't sure if I would be able to get on the air for this one. I was hoping to do a multi with W5TM at his place, but the WX turned bad on Friday and travel out there would have been difficult. I'm living in an apartment now, so had to come up with a quick solution. I had the 1/2 size G5RV coiled up in a box and decided to give it a shot. Worked surprisingly well, especially on 40M. Tried to force some 80M RF into it, but not with much success. Sorry to those I was not able to hear (noise level was about S6 or so most of the time) - hopefully I can come up with a better antenna for next time. I'll be actively looking for a more antenna-friendly QTH in the spring/summer. 73 and thanks for the Q's Al N5UM Oklahoma City, OK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 220,420 Fun as usual, but had trouble staying focused late in the day. Getting old, I guess. HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM TIME ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- OFF 18 0 0 0 27 120 0 147 147 19 0 0 0 34 83 0 117 264 20 0 0 0 69 27 0 96 360 21 0 0 0 40 10 0 50 410 30 22 0 0 3 83 7 1 94 504 23 0 0 27 17 0 0 44 548 30 0 0 0 101 9 0 0 110 658 1 0 25 76 0 0 0 101 759 2 0 43 62 0 0 0 105 864 3 38 42 2 0 0 0 82 946 4 15 27 1 0 0 0 43 989 30 5 18 23 0 0 0 0 41 1030 30 TOTAL 71 160 272 279 247 1 324 BAND CHANGES, ABOUT 250 SECOND RADIO QSOS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 32,648 Conditions seemed poorer than last year, but I almost equalled my score from last year. Even in these conditions, I was able to break 300 Qs (308) and 30K points (32648). I really enjoyed being able to steal the contact from other bigger stations in a pileup. Doesn't happen often, but great fun when it does. I was surprised at the number of states that appeared to be "no shows". I hope others were able to work them. Big chunks of the mults list on each band were still there, unworked at the end of the contest. I had to QRT at 0530Z because I had not used enough off time along the way. I had more Qs on 80 and 160 this year, and more mults on 80 as well. I was using my 160m top loaded vertical as a top- loaded half wave vertical on 80m, and it seemed to do pretty well. I think it's a keeper. Now to figure out what to do about the upcoming ssb NAQP. I'll work it as well as I can. Thanks for all the Qs. Hope to see everyone in the next contest. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6ZZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 26,508 Put up an 80 meter sloping dipole at the new QTH. Came to the conclusion that antennas that are actually designed for the band of operation would probably work better. Soon.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,125 Limited amount of operating as my computer kept freezing. Finally reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled the operating system and the logging program. Worked fine after that but it took 5 hours of fiddling around to get things working right. Then in the evening watched a DVD movie with the XYL....3 hours or so. Maybe better next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7CW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 189,345 This was my first chance to give my new station a workout with antennas for all bands. Still some work to do - mostly on the op's concentration and skills. All the skilled ops make this contest fun. Thanks for all the QSOs. 73, Bud N7CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ON Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,812 Very limited operating time and frozen antennas. Brrr. Thanks for the QSO's. 73, John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,088 Hated not doing a serious effort in this test - one of my favorites. Antennas are still disfunctional from December windstorms and will be until weather is good enough for climbing. So..., I played here and there in the evning for an hour or two (total). At least the SWR on the antennas is still OK. 73 dink ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 49,248 Started off running 20 and S&P 15. Was slow at first. Took 2 hours to get 100 in the log. So, I had a half hour lunch break. Hit it again and the rate got better. The meter was over 150 for awhile. 15 never seemed to really open. By 4pm PDT I had 300 in the log so I grabbed dinner and had a full hour break. I was hoping to hit the low bands hard afterward. The low dipole didn't really cut the mustard on 40 (I decided not to put up the K1WA sloper array for this test). Consequently, the low band totals are a little dissapointing. It took 3.5 hrs to put another 130 Q's in the log. Had a couple of good moves, but still have to work on that. It was fun though. The NAQP's are becoming my favorite domestic tests. Thanks to Chris KL9A for inviting me to join the Corner Pocket team. The setup for this one: Radio #1: Elecraft K2/100 Radio #2: ICOM 751A Antennas - 160/80 half sloper Cloud warmer dipole on 40 3 el SteppIr at 25ft on 20 Cushcraft R7 on 15 80 x 60 foot lot. CU in the CQWW 160 and ARRL DX CW/SSB. 73 - Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 100,496 I was feeling none too peppy or motivated all day Saturday, so the end result wasn't up to what it could have been, but respectable. My first QSO wasn't until 1830 after spending a lot time in the kitchen cleaning up other's crud and walking the dog. 15 was about as expected to a bit better, but CA was weak enough that some around S1-3 couldn't even hear me and everyone on backscatter was deaf or busy on the 2nd radio. Condx were better to CA thru WA around 20Z but activity was sparse by then. 20 was OK for about an hour, but rate dropped; I did manage a few backscatter Q's there and the skip zone was as short as MN and LA. I went to 40 at 21Z which seemed to be a good time with the skip zone as short as OH, NC, and NY. Once the skip lengthened, my running on 40 was over, but I made a good S&P pass across the band working several mults and lots of CA. 80 was good for a nice rate running for about 1.6 hours at 2315Z. I hit 160 a bit too early around 0230Z, but the rate/mults were good enough to keep at it. Around 03Z, 160 was a hummin'. Thanks for the Q's and sorry for the less than full time effort and somewhat low score. NS3T, put me over 100K right at the end with a QSY up the bands, thanks Jamie! Until then, I had only worked MD on 80M and 160M. Total actual operating time was about 7.1 hours; best hours were 90 Q's in 19Z hour on 20, 99 Q's in 00Z hour on 80, and 98 Q's from 0232-0331 mainly on 160. One of the most pleasurable parts of the NAQP is running into contest friends that I've worked many times. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,712 FT-1000MP. 80m delta loop. XM-240 2el 40m yagi @ 95'. Homebrew 4el 20m yagi @ 85'. KT34-A tribander fixed SE @ 37'. No 160m antenna, which really hurt my score. NAQP is always a fun contest with great operators and lots of activity. It seems to get better every year. 80m was fantastic here... seemed like an endless well of QSO's. Thanks for all the QSO's! 73, Charlie N9CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 37,375 20, 15 and 10 were very unproductive. Could not buy a multiplier. Listened and called on 10 thru out the afternoon and did not hear a soul. Of course, 5 watts probably got me a little past the back yard...I did coax N4GG to qsy and so I at least avoid the goose egg. Thx Hal. 160 was amazing especially for 5 w into a 75m dipole. I figured a handful of q's and a couple of multipliers, but great condx coupled with ops that were on their game this year yeilded mults as far as ON, TX and PA. Thanks to VE3EJ, K5BG and AA3B. See you next week from WW4LL M2. 73's Brian I hope Ga. found your log on many bands as we had 5 teams registered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA5TR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 80 My 10 WPM CW and a 20M attic dipole, limited time, but fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA7RF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 160 I plea the 5th on this score ;>) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE9U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 95,485 Rig: IC765 Antennas: Cushcraft A4 @ 56 feet Cushcraft AP8 Vertical (acually inverted L due to ice storm...it never popped back up!)..had to tune it through my tuner. 160 meter inverted L Wow, I cant believe some of the scores on 3830 refector. Not sure if its their antennas, location, SO2R or what...probably a combination of all. I havent had time to set up the SO2R box I just bought from K0SR/W0ZT, but am not set up antenna-wise to do it properly yet anyway...hopefully I'll finally get to my antenna projects and get SO2R set up for next fall! This is a fun contest. Highlights were being called by a V3 on 160 and F5 on 80! 73 Scott NE9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,220 Not a good showing for me this year. Coming off a really bad cold and didn't have much motivation to work hard. Got sleepy during the contest. Gave up 2 hours before the end to pack it in. Just wasn't into it this year. Besides, I'm bummed out about losing my beam and beverage during the windstorm a couple weeks ago. I'm essentially deaf on 80M and 160M so didn't do any CQing on those bands. Noise here is atrocious without a low noise receiving antenna. Thanks for pulling me out with my weak signals on 20M. I had many repeats due to no beam. 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 279,285 Great start with 196 q's the first hour! Fell behind last year around 0000z and it was a struggle to the finish. 45 mults on 40m... what's up with that? I must have moved at least 15 guys to 40m, and not one of them worked. 331 Q's... you'd think SOME of those other mults would have found me! The band really died not long after sunset. I could only hear a few guys, and they were running stuff I never even heard. So I was stuck on 80 and 160 for most of the last few hours! Ah well, whatever. Fun contest otherwise. 2nd radio q's were down, not sure why. I certainly used it just as much as I always have. My goal was 1300 q's... just missed it, DANG! Worked OR on 80 and 160 only. That really hurts. Congrats to The Chief on the FB effort. That's 3 years in a row it'll come down to log check! (Assuming someone else didn't clean our clock) Thanks to everyone for moving, and the boyz for the intense competition! -Chris KL9A -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1800 0 0 0 30 166 0 196 196 14.9 1900 0 0 0 67 62 0 129 325 9.8 2000 0 0 0 99 30 0 129 454 9.8 2100 0 0 9 53 7 0 69 523 5.3 2200 0 0 45 88 0 0 133 656 10.1 2300 0 0 46 16 0 0 62 718 4.7 0000 0 33 122 1 0 0 156 874 11.9 0100 0 37 84 0 0 0 121 995 9.2 0200 1 51 18 0 0 0 70 1065 5.3 0300 22 66 6 0 0 0 94 1159 7.2 0400 21 31 1 0 0 0 53 1212 4.0 0500 49 38 0 0 0 0 87 1299 6.6 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 93 256 331 354 265 0 1299 Gross QSO's=1313 Dupes=14 Net QSO's=1299 Unique callsigns worked = 703 The best 60 minute rate was 196/hour from 1800 to 1859 The best 30 minute rate was 222/hour from 1800 to 1829 The best 10 minute rate was 252/hour from 1801 to 1810 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSO's/minute 13 times. 4 QSO's/minute 76 times. 3 QSO's/minute 121 times. 2 QSO's/minute 213 times. 1 QSO's/minute 141 times. There were 494 bandchanges and 252 (19.4%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 4 813 5 383 6 102 7 1 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- TX 5 8 26 29 20 0 88 6.7 CA 21 20 26 9 4 0 80 6.1 TN 2 16 19 17 23 0 77 5.9 IL 3 13 20 20 7 0 63 4.8 OH 3 8 13 17 19 0 60 4.6 ON 0 12 9 15 21 0 57 4.3 FL 2 5 19 20 9 0 55 4.2 MN 4 16 15 17 0 0 52 4.0 GA 3 7 11 14 16 0 51 3.9 PA 2 9 12 11 13 0 47 3.6 AL 1 7 11 11 17 0 47 3.6 CO 7 13 13 6 0 0 39 3.0 NY 0 8 9 10 9 0 36 2.7 VA 1 10 6 7 10 0 34 2.6 NC 0 6 9 5 11 0 31 2.4 WI 2 7 9 10 1 0 29 2.2 AZ 4 6 4 13 1 0 28 2.1 IN 3 3 6 6 9 0 27 2.1 MD 1 4 5 5 10 0 25 1.9 KY 1 4 7 5 7 0 24 1.8 NJ 0 2 5 11 6 0 24 1.8 MI 2 5 5 6 4 0 22 1.7 OK 1 3 6 10 2 0 22 1.7 MO 0 4 8 4 5 0 21 1.6 MA 0 2 4 5 8 0 19 1.4 NM 2 5 2 8 0 0 17 1.3 LA 1 2 4 6 3 0 16 1.2 CT 1 5 4 4 2 0 16 1.2 AR 1 4 2 5 4 0 16 1.2 NH 0 2 4 5 4 0 15 1.1 KS 0 3 6 5 1 0 15 1.1 IA 0 4 6 5 0 0 15 1.1 MS 1 2 3 4 3 0 13 1.0 WA 5 2 2 2 2 0 13 1.0 SC 1 3 3 1 4 0 12 0.9 WV 0 2 1 3 4 0 10 0.8 DE 0 2 3 2 3 0 10 0.8 MT 2 3 2 1 0 0 8 0.6 WY 0 3 3 1 0 0 7 0.5 SK 0 2 2 3 0 0 7 0.5 UT 3 3 0 1 0 0 7 0.5 NS 0 2 0 2 1 0 5 0.4 OR 3 2 0 0 0 0 5 0.4 NB 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.3 ME 0 1 2 1 0 0 4 0.3 BC 1 2 1 0 0 0 4 0.3 MX 1 1 0 1 0 0 3 0.2 QC 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.2 PY 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 NE 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0.2 MB 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.2 V3 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 NV 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 YV 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 PE 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 RI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 HI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 CU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 ID 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 93 256 331 354 265 0 1299 Callareas Worked Area QSOs Pct ------------------ 0 134 10.3 1 78 6.0 2 100 7.7 3 149 11.5 4 272 20.9 5 160 12.3 6 87 6.7 7 77 5.9 8 107 8.2 9 135 10.4 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 353 2 bands 182 3 bands 106 4 bands 46 5 bands 16 6 bands 0 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 25 65 92 92 79 0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO5W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 40,224 CW's alive and well in NAQP, fun contest as usual with good participation. This was the first time in several runnings of NAQP that I've operated from home, with my 20m and 40m wires at 25 feet, so I was a little concerned about holding up my end of the Austin Tamale. But I was pleasantly surprised especially with the performance on 40M. When I went to 40M at around 2200Z I thought that it was a bit early, especially since I had no antennas for 80/160 and would need no time there. However, there didn't seem to be much left on 20M so I decided to try 40M. Arriving there I found a good bit of activity already in progress and after a couple of S&P sweeps of the band with some good results I found an open spot and decided to see what I could do running a few. Well I felt loud and must've been cause I was able to hold the frequency until 0030Z when I decided to take a quick break for dinner. And during that time the rate meter climbed to 120 and stayed there for almost 30 minutes and above 90 for most of the remainder. While not earth-shaking by many standards its unheard of in previous operations from my station. Thanks to all for the Qs. 73/Chuck/NO5W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3D/W2 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,890 Part time effort. Was looking for ND and Alska for LOTW completion of 5B WAS. Thanks to everyone for QSO's. 73's Andrei EW1AR-NP3D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 66,600 Not a bad score for squeezing a contest in between family activities. I operated the first 100 minutes without a break, then the XYL and kids unexpectedly returned to the house about four hours earlier than planned(!) Too much of my time at night was spent calling CQ and typing callsigns with one finger while I used the other arm to deal with the five month old harmonic. Conditions from my QTH seemed down. I could barely raise 6's on 15 meters, 80 and 160 seemed a bit punk and 20 wasn't exactly lighting fires. No matter, it's always fun to be on the air. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000's inverted L's on 160 and 80 W4OP end fed dipoles on 10-40 QSO/MUL by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-1800Z - - - 33/19 35/12 1/1 69/32 69/32 D1-1900Z - - - 39/3 8/4 - 47/7 116/39 D1-2000Z - - 18/11 13/1 1/1 - 32/13 148/52 D1-2100Z - - 48/13 4/1 - - 52/14 200/66 D1-2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 200/66 D1-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 200/66 D2-0000Z --+-- 25/18 5/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 30/20 230/86 D2-0100Z 6/6 59/15 25/7 - - - 90/28 320/114 D2-0200Z 15/10 7/0 4/0 - - - 26/10 346/124 D2-0300Z 36/8 5/2 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1 45/14 391/138 D2-0400Z 29/5 20/4 10/1 - - - 59/10 450/148 Total: 86/29 116/39 111/35 90/25 45/18 2/2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS4T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,418 Well, ya' don't use CW you lose it. Thanks everyone for your patience. Station working well -- mostly operator problems! Part time effort. I've a 200' run to a 40/80 mtr vertical. On 80 it has about 125 KHz bandwidth. At the low end of the band I calculate I'm losing 90% of my power to additional line loss caused by high SWR. Bought an auto-tuner at hamfest the morning of the contest and put it at base of the antenna 30 minutes before starting. Seemed to be a BIG help as far more responses to CQ's than ever before. I've more experience with SSB so will know more next weekend with NAQP SSB. Also put a 4:1 balun on the full size 80 mtr horizontal loop and have noticed significant improvement there too. Surprised I found anyone on 10 meters. He answered a CQ on the second go round. Kevan NS4T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 40,560 Reasonably pleased with the result, as I think I made the correct strategic moves for a change... I never would have thought that I was going to depend on 160 m qsos so much; it wasn't that many years ago that I couldn't even make a qso on this band. As it is, I still don't have a real antenna and everything I get is a gift. As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run QRP. 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 122,813 l ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3NR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 116,366 Mk-Vfield, HF6V vertical, 40m dipole at 30', 160m inv-L. QRN on 160 & 40 at times but 80 was amazing. A bottomless pit of stations. Every time I went to 80 the ratemeter stayed above 110/hr. I think this is a personal best for me in this contest. Much fun! Tnx QSOs. 73, Chris VA3NR QSO/MUL by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-1800Z - - - 35/17 19/9 - 54/26 54/26 D1-1900Z - - 5/4 12/4 6/2 - 23/10 77/36 33 D1-2000Z - - 49/22 17/3 2/1 - 68/26 145/62 D1-2100Z - - 65/9 6/1 4/1 - 75/11 220/73 D1-2200Z - - 39/4 23/2 - - 62/6 282/79 D1-2300Z - - 13/2 10/0 - - 23/2 305/81 34 D2-0000Z --+-- 35/20 6/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 41/22 346/103 30 D2-0100Z - 102/17 - - - - 102/17 448/120 D2-0200Z 12/11 63/7 7/0 - - - 82/18 530/138 D2-0300Z 49/18 8/3 2/0 - - - 59/21 589/159 D2-0400Z 41/5 5/0 14/1 - - - 60/6 649/165 D2-0500Z - 52/1 - - - - 52/1 701/166 Total: 102/34 265/48 200/44 103/27 31/13 0/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 8,040 K2, dipoles, 1/4-wave 160m wire, vertical with 20m director. Quiet and long conditions on 40m made western states easier to reach. Thanks for digging out the small signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 83,941 Gear: * FT920 * N1MM Logger * 3 el. tribander @ 50' * 80M inverted-V at 60' * pair of 40M delta loops pointed east * 18AVT/WB ground-mounted vertical, 36 radials * 160M Inverted-L (20' horizontal, 60' vertical, 50 horizontal) against vertical's radial field Couldn't hear much at all on 160 with the very bent Inverted-L (first 20' are horizontal about 6 feet off the ground, then up 60' and across 50'. Terrible -- Qs down by 90 and mults down 21. Yikes. Made me quite non-competitive this year. Have to replace all my ropes in the trees after a couple of weeks of severe windstorms here. They got beat to hell, and everything has sagged with no way to tighten things up without fear of breaking what's left up there. Repair plan is in place to make it all way better (higher, stronger) than ever, though. 80M was in great shape. Up by four mults there, though down by 3 Qs from last year. Thought the droopy 80 inverted-V at 60' would be rotten but it played all right. 40M delta loops just wouldn't play today. Used the ground-mounted vertical almost exclusively, to good effect. Mults up by 3, and Qs up by 40+ there. Still no hell, though. 20M was pretty good but still disappointing with Qs down by 60 or so, and mults down by 12. 15M saw good prop, with Qs down 30 or so, but mults up by 2. Overall score was down by 43,000 due to loss of 160M and 20M's poor showing. Year-over-year stats: Year Qs Mults Score ======================== 2003: 412 147 60,564 2004: 206 62 12,772 2005: -- -- -- 2006: 737 172 126,764 2007: 587 143 83,941 Preparing for the next big contests now. Have acquired the bits and pieces to start phasing the currently unused 40M raised verticals for EU. The two 1/4-wave elements are 34' apart from N to S, 4 raised radials ea. Have carefully measured (with RX noise bridge) a 3/4-wave line to go between the feedpoints. Will feed the array from the south end for EU and hope for good things. Also will make the 40M pair of delta loops and (soon to be raised) 80M delta loops switchable E-W. Canuck hams, run -- don't walk -- to Princess Auto for Omron 12v SPDT relays ($0.51 each, if you can believe that) and 4-wire telephone cable for control lines ($1.49/50' -- another bargain). Spent $18 and got everything I need to relay-control half a dozen wire antenna elements, including a 12vdc power supply and switches. Gotta get busy to be ready for UK DX RTTY next weekend and CQ 160 after that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 114,380 Good fun watching Livescores during this one...When more stations sign on it will be even better... Condx continue to be healthy on the low bands, even through the noise...Thanks to all who patiently pulled out my report on 160, managed 15 mults there, with 50 watts, 2:1 SWR into my 80 m INV-V...I have to get a real 160 antenna in the air one of these days...80 was in good shape, 40 was a little disappointing... No QSO's with ND, SD, HI, AK, ID, NV and the 3 VE territories... Most worked S/P's - TN(47), ON(37), PA(33) and FL(31)... Best clock hour - 1900-2000 with 116 Q's... Best 60 minute rate - 154 # of requests to QSY to other bands - 31, most were successful... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CRU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,980 Weary from a long stressful day, I could not resist jumping into the contest. Started at 2310z and had both fun and surprises. My score was much less than last year, but then again so was my time. Great to give out the points and to have another opportunity to work on my cw skills, just reaching 4 years licensed a month ago. Started on 40, and got 20 qso's on 40 then 3 on 80 before taking a break. Returned for another 7 on 80, then moved to 160 and my very marginal antenna. Much to my surprise the qso's were plentiful here, with good copy on most too. Got 25 qso's before fatigue made me stop at 0400z. Antennas are an inverted vee on 40 with apex of 25 feet, a dipole on 80 up 30 feet, and a damaged 160 sloper with a 60 foot wire now at less than 40 feet from severe winds in the ARRL 160 bending the pipe over 45 degrees, with only 3 radials and a base coil. Rig is a 756 ProII and bug is an old and cranky Johnson Speedx that was originally used by Hans VE3CRU SK from the 60's to the 90's. I used this bug with Hans in the 60's too as swl. Congratulations to all who did well in this contest, and all who participated and I hope to be in it for maximum time next contest. Thanks to the organizers too. 73, Bill VE3CRU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 237,896 Conditions were great and the bands were quiet. Thanks to Paul VE3SY and Marg VE3RE for letting me use the station yet again. See you all in CQ 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GLO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,246 Poor Props. See you all next year. Condx very poor, no signals heard on 10 mtrs at all. Bob, VE3GLO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 85,550 40m was really bad. A KH6 called me on 160m but could not copy the complete call. All in all condx were kinda funny. Good practice before the 160m contets. 73 Lali VE3NE / HA9RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,469 I am a little disappointed with myself. Even though I went to 160 for the last hour, my score is down 2,760 from last year. Never got a run (I must have been CQ'n always on the band, that was gone already). Only S&P worked for me this time. rig: MkV1000MP, Enzee stealth wires for 20, 40, 80 and 160. QTH: The Black Hole of Toronto 73, Ben ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,651 A fun contest...but a long day. I was up early, then got dabbling into the PSK Fest. That is a fun one too! Got tired early into the test. Heard JFF across town...but he could not hear me on 15 nor 40! Anyways, I did 13651 points better than last year. A definite improvement. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,757 80/40/20 Dipoles at 25 ft Orion I WinTest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 63,431 My goal was to improve on last year's score, since this year I had a better 80m antenna (shunt-fed tower vs. my old G5RV), and a better tri-band yagi (TH6 vs. my old TH3). I got off on the wrong foot by thinking the contest started at 1PM local time, instead of 11AM - so I missed almost the first two hours. While it is possible to make up the 2 hours at the end, there was almost no one on by that time and the condx here were very poor on 40m and 80m. I still don't have an antenna for 160m - but I doubt that it would have mattered. I started out on 20m, made about 100 QSOs, then switched to 15m. I had some real good runs going, with up to 225 QSO-hr (my new high), before I switched back to 20m. Then my FT-1000MP developed it's notorious VCO problem (I just read about on the MP reflector) - which meant that the rig was dead between 7.500 and 14.500 MHz. This caused me to switch to 40m much sooner than planned (about 3PM local time). At least I did better on 40m and 80m than last year! My score was down about 20% from last year - which isn't bad, considering all the problems. And at least it looks like my rig shouldn't be too hard to fix. Thanks to all for an enjoyable, yet trying contest. CU all in the next one. Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,300 Just giving out points... 15 did not last long, 20 left shortly after. Worked V31JP on 40 at 20:44, still daylight here, 40 and 80 went long early. Lots of midwest heard on 160. Its my guess the QRN was high. Did work W7IZL and KO7X on 160 quite early which was somewhat of a surprise. Thanks to all that called. 73 Andy (VE9DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 17,600 First time in the NAQP. I noticed from last year's list that there were no VOs on for it so figured I'd give it a go. All S&P. Started a bit late on 20M and the band was fairly active. It was really nice hearing all signals at roughly the same signal strength. There might be something to this power limitation. There were no signals splattering a wide swath and there didn't seem to be any trouble making a contact within 2 or 3 calls. I was really happy with the way my 40/80 dipole played. There weren't very many that I heard that I couldn't work. Got a few new states on those bands too so things were pretty good all around. Not sure if I'll be in the SSB contest next weekend. I may play a bit on 20M but my dipoles are not cut for the high parts of 40/80 and aren't that efficient. CU in the next one. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 135,805 Lots of forecasts threatened an ice storm for my part of Kansas this weekend. The ice went south and we got several inches of sleet instead, so the antennas were clear as were the bands. Started out on 20m. I only heard a few mults on 15m and picked them off with the second radio. CQd a bit on 15m with little reponse (a number of very loud stations already worked seemed to be the only ones on the band) and CQd a bit on 10m with nothing heard. Good rates but less mults for me this year for some reason. The mults were there as I see from other posts, so I may not have gone back to 20 and 40 as often as I needed to. Lower bands were also relatively quiet and open earlier than usual for me. I worked V3 on 40m and two S5s on 160 (they called me). Overall, missed NV, ND, SD, AK (did hear NV) stateside and NU, YT, NWT, AB, MB, NF, LB north. Worked quite a few stations on 4 bands, but only N6RO on 5 bands. Thanks for all the Qs .. hope to hear you all on again next weekend on SSB! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,102 Enjoyable CW contest where I made most of my contacts on 40m. 80 and 160m were pretty important to this contest during the low sunspot cycle. I went out of my way to work GM Ski Bum team members whenever I came across them on each band: N0KE, KO7X, K0EU, K8FC, K0FX, K0UK/6 (nice signal, Bill, from N6KM's QTH!), N0SXX, W0ZA, W0RAA, and K6XT. Also worked GMCCer Mike, W0MU on 80m for a point. So, the gang gave out plenty of CO and, thanks to Alan, WY contacts during the NAQP. Hope we can reprise it for the upcoming SSB effort. BTW, nice to work Steve N2IC on 15 thru 160m; glad he can hear the weak ones! - On 15m, there were a lot of west coast stations that I could hear weakly but they couldn't hear me. Later condx changes and I could work some but not others... One way skip?? 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: IC756 pro 3 to yagis 10 - 40m and verticals for 80 and 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,050 I also worked a number of stations while mobile on 20 meters that I was not able to log. Odd conditions on the low bands. The DX Eng 4sq worked great again. I could use a more omni directional receive antenna for domestic contests. Does this antenna exist? Congrats to all. Tons of snow and frigid temps have kept the SteppIR on the ground. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RAA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 38,902 Had a great time, and look forward to the next one. Thanks to all who worked me. Lots of QRN on 80, so had to ask for some repeats. Everybody was patient. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0YK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 140,777 CQ'd in 10 for two hours while running on 15. Worked eleven local club members and pretty much proved the band wasn't open. 160 was also disappointing. A few hundred more QSOs would have made this even more fun than it was. Thanks for the calls. 73, Ed - W0YK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AJT/VE3 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 714 Ant 75m hamstick with "custom extension" clamped to balcony railing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1END Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,720 This is rapidly becoming a "must do" contest. It's a lot of fun. Started on 15M and worked down to 80M as conditions required. Checked 10M often but heard nary a peep. 40M seemed long when I got there and so did 80m somewhat. So missed some nearby mults on those bands. Still handicapped with no 160M antenna but I have lots of good intentions. The ice storm on sunday-monday would have been good antenna raising weather - hi. Glad it didn't happen a day sooner as we lost power for a day. Had fewer requests for name repeats so I guess the folks are getting used to me. Thanks to all for a fun time. - Eldon W1END ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 90,666 My first crack at SO2R, fun stuff. The second radio has some receiver sensitivity issues, so I was limited to working big gun signals. Noise from Cambridge was high as usual, took awhile to pull people out on 160 and 80. 73, Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 117,040 That sure was fun! This was the first time I've been able to operate this contest in three or four years. Activity seems to have increased and this has become one of the busiest contests around. CW is alive and well, at least for contesting. This was my first full contest from my new QTH. It was a very basic operation with one wire antenna and one radio. The antenna - a half wave dipole for 160 fed with ladder line - just went up on Friday so it was untested until five minutes before the contest. The middle is only up about 30 feet so I'll have to relocate it later, but at least I have something that allows me to operate all bands. The first half of the contest was a real struggle but things got much better once 40 started heating up. My rate for the first five hours was 51/hr. This increased to 77.6/hr for the last half of the contest, mainly due to nearly three hours on 80 meters at an average of 92/hr. I took one 30 minute break at 2345 and then operated straight through to 0430. In retrospect, it probably would have been better to have taken at least part of my breaks during the first three hours of the contest. I think I reached the same conclusion years ago but I forgot the lesson. Reviewing previous results and soapbox comments before a contest would seem to be a good idea. I did very little mult moving. Having to mess with the tuner for each band change makes QSYing very slow. This is not the contest to operate with only one radio and one antenna. Hopefully I'll be better prepared for the next one. I'm hoping to be on for CQ 160 in two weeks. 73, Hal W1NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2OWL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,341 It's always a hoot being HOOT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 50,575 Next time will have bigger antennas. Shame 10 meters wasn't there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 62,829 I had been sort of bummed out that I would not be able to put in a full-time effort for this contest, but things worked out a lot better than I thought they would. I was able to get on the air about 2210 as 20 was fading and 15 was nonexistent. I couldn't really get anything going there and went to 40, which was pretty hot and got a good rate going S&Ping through the band where everyone was a new one. I was feeling relaxed and even took a 30 minute break to have dinner with the XYL about 2300. Then I settled down in the chair for the duration of the contest and didn't get up until the gun fired at 0600. I wasn't doing all that great on 40, which seemed to be going very long, and where the signals were not all that strong. But things changed for the better when I finally went to 80 about 0100. I found a clear frequency at 3547, sat there running for three hours, using the second radio to S&P on 40 when the rate slowed down, and put 270 Q's in the log. The last two hours of the contest were spent going back and forth on 160 and 80. I never did make up for all the valuable mults that I missed on 15 and 20, but did have an enjoyable time on the low bands, especially 80 meters. 73 - John, W4AU Orion I and Omni VI+ KT-34A Double-Zepp for 40 and 160 Dipole for 80 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4BW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,145 I knew I would be Part Time, but ended up not getting on the air until after 2300z. 20m was fading fast so I moved to 40m, where of course there were plenty of sigs. When I moved to 80m, I found I couldn't make my 80m loop load down at the bottom of the band, so no 80m Q's really hurt. Due to this, I went to 160m far earlier, but found a surprising number of stations. I operated on and off until about 0400z. The NAQP is always a fun effort with a good mix of good activity, excellent ops and a bit shorter duration. Thanks for the Q's. Bob - W4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,700 More CW practice. I tried my hand at a couple of runs with mixed success. My CW skills still need a lot of work, because sometimes they are up, and sometimes down. This turned out to be a down day, but still better than in the past. More practice needed. Its pretty obvious that the most cost effective station improvement I can make will be to become a better CW operator. 73 W4KAZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 387,280 Nothing heard on 10M. QSO's down 13. Multipliers down by 7. Pretty good! Had a problem with N1MM. Every QSO gave an error on the 0 machine. Asked about it on the reflector, had an answer two hours later, applied the fix and no more errors. That is "on line support" if I ever saw it! Thanks Tom! Thanks for all the contacts and hope to do it again next weekend on SSB! Take care Bob in VA for the crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,560 Decent conditions, even the low bands were hot. As expected mostly West propagation on 20/15. Nothing here at all on 10. 160 proved quite useful this year to the NE. But 80 seemed to do better. 40 skipped out quite early. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 237,664 Contest went very well. No computer, equipment, or operator problems. Setup was a breeze - I got there at 1615 and was ready to go in about 15 minutes. No problem staying focused - seems like my attention has tended to wander in contests the last year or so - not good. Only things I weren't happy with were a lot of unsuccessful multiplier moves to the high bands and despite 159/41 on 160 meters, I think I'm weak on transmit there. The number is deceptively high because there were plenty of loud east coast stations and I was there early because 20 was just stinky. I never did work W7IZL in MT who told me two different times I was too weak to copy despite his being S7, and it took a while for a QSO with K5TA in NM as well. The 160 vertical and the N4KG antenna appear to be about equal on close in stuff within a few hundred miles. Further out, the vertical wire has about 1 to 2 s-units advantage over the KG. More commentary about NAQP CW and other stuff (sooner or) later at w4pa.journalspace.com 73 Scott ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 72,141 This is one of my favorite contests. Just long enough to have a lot of fun but not long enough to loose much sleep! Rig used was a Ten Tec Paragon to a 176' CF zepp at 60'. Thanks for the Q's. 73, Puck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 45,235 Heavy icing caused antenna detuning. Spent lots of time retuning antennas as the icing changed. Great activity. Fun contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,980 Didn't think I would have any time to get in this one, but when a ham friend who was walking on the beach in front of my house called to tell me I should check my SteppIR I took time to fix it and then ran the guys for a while. Starnge thing with the SteppIR; one side of the reflector had somehow worked loose and it was hanging almost straight down. Good thing I've not had time to be on since the 10M contest, because tuning the SteppIR or rotating it would have been disastrous. Simple fix after getting to it by simply reinserting the fiberglass tube back into the rubber sleeve and drive housing. I checked the others while I was at it, and they all were secure. Was testing the antenna and there I went off on a mini NAQP run for about an hour or so. Nothing like fresh blood to get the run rate cooking! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 200,232 The weather god smiled on me for once. We had huge storms throughout central Texas -- almost 7 inches of rain in Austin -- but they bypassed the W5KFT "radio ranch" completely. We got a little drizzle and I had very little QRN. (Good thing, too, because the beverages weren't working.) I tried hard to get 10M to open, but no luck. 15 was a disappointment, too. I think I've over emphasized mults lately, so this time I tried to focus a bit more on rate and ended up with four hours over a hundred. What a great contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6EEN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 170,373 All sorts of problems this time... minimum of S5 noise on all bands (sorry if I CQed in your face), the second radio died and it's replacement also had major issues, had to fix 160 antenna in the middle of the contest during an off-time which took longer than expected, etc. My nerves were frazzled early, but finished it out... thanks for the QSOs. 73 de Doug, N6RT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 54,735 15 Meters was like FM. No noise. 20 was the same. 40 had S9 noise and 80 S3. K7SS threw me off my stride when he called me at 5 wpm. VE3's out in force! No room for antennas. Wish I had a real antenna instead of an all band vertical... CU in the SSB side if I can find my Heil... CU in the RTTY for sure... 73, Art W6KY www.w6ky.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NOW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 950 Well, i had to do things from 10am until about 2pm when I finally got on the air. and operated for 2hrs and had some good prop on 20m where I had a gud run (i called cq this time - on cw). Had lots of fun and I love this contest. Only station worked on 4 bands WN6K. tnx Paul! (need to get an antenna on 80/160 one day) Only DX station V31 but lots of VE and W4/W5's. thanks to all, and see you in the SSB (maybe I can operate for 10hrs this time - sorry guys newborn in town!) 73 de w6now "lets contest NOW, not later" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 258,230 Thanks to Jim, W6YI, for the use of his station. The line noise was back again for this one, so that made copy tough at times. The low bands werent as good as last year. Had trouble getting rate on 80, and most people just CQed in my face on 160. It was still alot of fun, and am looking forward to NAQP SSB. Congrats to KL9A and N2NL for great scores from the west coast. 73, Dan N6MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 95,667 My original plan for this NAQP CW was to help out in the first 7 hours of a W6YX M2 since I had a conflict for most of the rest of the contest. On Friday evening it became clear that no one else was available for the M2 so I signed up as a single-op on an NCCC team and resolved to put in as much time as I could. Last minute babysitting duty for my 5-month-old grandson delayed my arrival at the W6YX shack until 25 minutes before the contest start. Most of the 25 minutes was spent turning on equipment, then finding and hooking up everything I needed to convert the station from RTTY Roundup use to CW. I finally had it all hooked up (or so I thought) at 1802Z - only 2 minutes late. I CQed on 10 meters hoping to pick up a local for at least one mult there, or more if the band was open. With no answers on 10 I prepared to switch that radio to 15, but then N6NF began CQing on my frequency so I worked Tom for my first Q. That's when I discovered that I had forgotten to link the two computers together. Another couple minutes fiddling with settings and I finally made my second Q at 1806 after finding a run frequency on 20. Running on 20 was productive early so I kept one radio on 20 until just before I was forced to leave at 0100. After about 10 minutes of running on 20 I started to alternate CQs on 15 and 20. I think I missed a bunch of mults on 15 because I wasn't there for the first 15 minutes and waited a bit too long before I started to S&P there. My SO2R set-up was primitive. In the past I've used loaner SO2R boxes or a Radio Shack audio switch to switch left/right/both into either ear. The cables on the Radio Shack switch had been cannibalized for other uses and I didn't have time to find and reconstruct the cabling. So I had two Heil headsets on top of my head, crossing so that I heard one radio in each ear. I know I missed several calling stations that I normally would have copied by just switching both ears to the same radio. By the time I'd turned down the volume on the other radio these weak stations would be uncopiable. Sorry if I missed some of you because of this. I switched the second radio from 15 to 40 meters at 2246 and probably should have gone to 40 earlier as I could work all stations heard, although CQing wasn't productive then. Before leaving at 0100Z I managed to work 3 mults on 80. I returned for the final 25 minutes of the contest and focused on getting mults on 80 and 160. The FT1000MP tuner managed to load into the second 80M inverted vee on 160 since it appeared the 160 antenna was unavailable. CQing was getting a high rate on both bands, but not many mults so I did a bit of S&P. In the end I worked another 21 mults in the last 25 minutes. NAQP is one of my favorite contests, either as M2 or SO. I wish I would have been able to operate the full 10 hours and choose my off-times. Having more time to set up and check everything out would also have helped. -Mike, N7MH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7CT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 162,750 SO1R NER (Not Enough Radios) I thought 10 meters sounded open, but no Q Thanks to NI7T for letting play at his fine station again. I am still learning what the station is really capable of. I will do better in the future. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 4,536 Not much activity for me in this one as I had to work today. Got home about 0130 and it was 41 degrees down in the shack. Figured I might as well watch the Saints and Eagles till it warmed up a bit. I really like the low power format!! Seems a lot easier to work stations when everyone is LP. Thanks for the Q's and 73. Tom W7WHY Radio 1 TS-450SAT Radio 2 FT-840 Antennas 160 meter inverted 'L', 80 meter dipole, 80 meter vertical, 40 meter vertical. N1MM Logger version 6.12.104. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 126,856 What fun! A personal best for me. Conditions were good for 20-80. 15M did not last long and 10 was non existant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,480 Wasn't able to stay long. Seemed like condx were good for the cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8UE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,910 This was fun. I was mobile until 0100z due to an out-of-town meeting, logging with a tape recorder, and could work almost everything I heard on 20, plus a bunch on 40. CU full time in August. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 243,828 Was 10 meters open, I must have missed it here! Lot's of newcomers in this one, hope they had fun. I didn't manage my off time very good at all. With possible storms, the Colts game, etc. I managed to take off at some good rate times. The storms never materialized but the Colts won! HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 18 0 0 0 44 46 3 93 93 19 0 0 0 14 25 1 40 133 off time 20 0 0 0 37 21 0 58 191 off time 21 0 0 94 8 2 0 104 295 off time 22 0 0 71 25 0 0 96 391 23 0 13 63 19 1 1 97 488 0 0 57 2 0 0 0 59 547 off time 1 0 98 17 0 0 0 115 662 2 62 53 5 0 0 0 120 782 3 37 56 3 0 0 0 96 878 4 70 4 26 0 0 0 100 978 off time 5 45 25 0 0 0 0 70 1048 off time TOTAL 214 306 281 147 95 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9SZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,112 Great fun! I might not use my real name the next time I do the CW part of this contest. It was a challenge getting it across a few times! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 78,364 First time ever in this contest. I feel I did somthing wrong, not sure what yet? Thanks John k4bai for your sugestions. 73 BoB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 61,180 I started out on 15M and it wasn't working so I dropped down to 20M and it seemed fair but then it started to fade early, at least to me. By 4:30pm I moved down to try 40M and then just kept trying 20, 40, 80 and 160M. All in all, the bands from 20M on down were in pretty good shape when they were open. Antennas used were an OCF dipole, vertical and inverted-L for 160M. The highlight of the contest was when I was holding my one month old grandson on my lap while running using the radio speaker instead of headphones (nout loud of, course). Now, I know this is going to sound biased because he is my grandson but he was really enjoying the sound of the code. He kept looking around for what that mystifying sound was and where it was coming from. I think we may have another CW operator in a few years and who says CW is dead. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6O Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 71,955 Thanks Kevin, K6TD, for his hospitality and his station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7BNM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,224 Nothing heard on 10m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 94,978 Great band conditions on 80 and 160 meters. I periodically checked 10 meters, calling lots of CQs, but was only able to find activity there around 1900z. 40 was a bit of a disappointment, going long rather early. About 85% of the QSOs were S&P. Where were the Dakotas? Missed them both, as well as Alaska and the usual rarer Canadian sections. Once again, Bob K0RC beat me in our on-going W1VE scoreboard challenge. Not much of a challenge on my part, as Bob has always ended up with the better score. It definitely makes things interesting and provides that extra push when needed. Thanks to all for the QSOs and patience during requests for repeats. Hope to see you all next weekend on SSB. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE9V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 118,976 Due to some family "issues", couldn't operate full time. Had S9+20 line noise before start of contest, calmed back down to S8 for contest. Was nice to have CU2JT call in off the side of the 40M beam, ER5AA call on 80M, and S53O called in on 160! Those are some serious signals to make it over my line noise! Always an awesome contest!!! Chad WE9V http://www.we9v.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 46,848 I enjoyed this NAQP CW as much as all the others. It has become one of my favorites. It just has a friendly feel to it. Thanks to all for the QSOs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI0WA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 26,928 I decided to use the Iowa DX and Contest Club call, WI0WA in memory of Larry, W0ETC, who died recently at too young of an age. I set up N1MM logging program with the wrong contest as I found quickly. I was also trying to send my scores to the live scores web site. After much confusion and too much LID sending I found my problem. The activity seemed to be down at my QTH. The noise was S9, which required many repeats. Thanks for all the QSOS. Bill N0AC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,696 Got on too late to make much use of 15 and 20. Testing out my new IC-7000. Thanx for the QSOs Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 164,808 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 75,686 Went help a friend in early afternoon so missed some 20m time but had best 80m totals of ANY effort. Highlight was working a new country on 80m - F5IN called me. Boy would the bands be that quiet every nite. Everytime I worked a 'new mult', it seemed to come with a wierd name...froggy...jumpy or whatever... WN6K, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO1N Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,220 Equipment: FT1000D, C3-S@38', R7, 80M vertical "C", N1MM Good fun as always. My apologies to W8RDR. I just could not get your name. Short effort, spent some time de-lousing a nagging lock up problem on 20M. I think I finally got it, just in time for the band to be totally shutdown... The web form submission for the logs is really slick. CU all in the next one, whatever it is ;-) Ken WO1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 140,805 Miscalculated my time-off and wasted 30 minutes at a loss of QSOs and Score. I publicly apologize to my TCG Tri-Cities team mates! For those wanting to identify GOOFY... tatoo Wo4o on the Disney character. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,486 100W, R7 vert + 80m inv L + 160m inv L Went QRT at 0100Z to watch the Saints game. Came back afterward for the end but had trouble concentrating...that was one intense game. Tried to work 160 with the 80m L by mistake for a while, wondering why hardly anyone heard me. 73, -- Ray WQ5L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT9U Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 128,095 Lots of fun as usual but looking forward to more sunspots. 73...Jim, WT9U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW1M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,938 Token effort. Noise problems. Minimum antennage. Maximum Murphy. But I had fun anyway, in my first HF contest from Maine since the 1963 SS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW9R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,148 Wow, it was great to work so many old friends. See you all in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV6BTF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,626 THE CONDITIONS VERY BAD FOR ME TNX TO ALL FOR NEW STATE ON CW SORRY FOR ND, NOTHING .... 73'S TO ALL AND SEE YOU NEXT WEEK END JOSE YV6BTF Index of Calls Call: AA3B Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4FU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Call: AA6PW Class: Single Op LP Call: AA9DY Class: Single Op LP Call: AC5AA Class: Single Op LP Call: AC6T Class: Single Op LP Call: AD4EB Class: Single Op LP Call: AD6ZJ Class: Single Op LP Call: AD8J Class: Single Op LP Call: AE5X Class: Single Op LP Call: AE6Y Class: Single Op LP Call: AI2N Class: Single Op LP Call: AJ1M Class: Single Op LP Call: AK9F Class: Single Op LP Call: DJ1YFK Class: Single Op LP Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Call: K0EJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K0EU Class: Single Op LP Call: K0FW Class: Single Op LP Call: K0FX Class: Single Op LP Call: K0IO Class: Single Op LP Call: K0MPH Class: Single Op LP Call: K0OU Class: Single Op LP Call: K0PC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0UK/6 Class: Single Op LP Call: K0WA Class: Single Op LP Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1HT Class: Single Op LP Call: K1KD Class: Single Op LP Call: K1MK Class: Single Op LP Call: K1PQS Class: Single Op LP Call: K1PT Class: Single Op LP Call: K1QO Class: Single Op LP Call: K1TR Class: Single Op LP Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K1ZZI Class: Single Op LP Call: K2KW Class: Single Op LP Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op LP Call: K2SX Class: Single Op LP Call: K2XA Class: Single Op LP Call: K3CR Class: Single Op LP Call: K3KU Class: Single Op LP Call: K3STX Class: Single Op LP Call: K3SV Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WI Class: Single Op LP Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op LP Call: K4BK Class: Single Op LP Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4EA Class: Single Op LP Call: K4EJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4FJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4FXN Class: Single Op LP Call: K4GMH Class: Single Op LP Call: K4HAL Class: Single Op LP Call: K4IU Class: Single Op LP Call: K4KO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4LW Class: Single Op LP Call: K4MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K4NO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4OGG Class: Single Op LP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op LP Call: K4TD Class: Single Op LP Call: K4TX Class: Single Op LP Call: K4WI Class: Single Op LP Call: K4WW Class: Single Op LP Call: K4ZGB Class: Single Op LP Call: K5AF Class: Single Op LP Call: K5BG Class: Single Op LP Call: K5KA Class: Single Op LP Call: K5KG Class: Single Op LP Call: K5NA Class: Single Op LP Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K5TA Class: M/2 LP Call: K5WA Class: Single Op LP Call: K5XR Class: Single Op LP Call: K5YAA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6AM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Call: K6III Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6LL Class: Single Op LP Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6NA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6NR Class: Single Op LP Call: K6OWL Class: Single Op LP Call: K6RB Class: Single Op LP Call: K6RIM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6WWW Class: Single Op LP Call: K6XT Class: Single Op LP Call: K6XX Class: Single Op LP Call: K7ABV Class: Single Op LP Call: K7BG Class: Single Op LP Call: K7RL Class: Single Op LP Call: K7SV Class: Single Op LP Call: K7UP Class: Single Op QRP Call: K7VU Class: Single Op LP Call: K8BB Class: Single Op LP Call: K8FC Class: Single Op LP Call: K8FU Class: Single Op QRP Call: K8GT Class: Single Op LP Call: K8GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K8IA Class: Single Op LP Call: K8IR Class: Single Op LP Call: K8MR Class: Single Op LP Call: K8NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K8ZZV Class: Single Op LP Call: K9CT Class: Single Op LP Call: K9ES Class: Single Op LP Call: K9GY Class: Single Op QRP Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op LP Call: K9NR Class: Single Op LP Call: K9NW Class: Single Op LP Call: KA1DWX Class: Single Op LP Call: KA1VMG Class: Single Op LP Call: KA2D Class: Single Op LP Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Call: KC7V Class: Single Op LP Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op QRP Call: KE0WO Class: Single Op LP Call: KG4CUY Class: Single Op LP Call: KH6NF Class: Single Op LP Call: KI7Y Class: Single Op LP Call: KJ0G Class: Single Op LP Call: KK8D Class: Single Op LP Call: KM9M Class: M/2 LP Call: KN0V Class: Single Op LP Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Call: KN4Y/M Class: Single Op LP Call: KN6RO Class: Single Op LP Call: KO1H Class: Single Op QRP Call: KO7AA Class: Single Op LP Call: KO7X Class: Single Op LP Call: KQ6ES Class: Single Op LP Call: KR4F Class: Single Op LP Call: KS0T Class: Single Op LP Call: KT0R Class: Single Op LP Call: KU4J Class: Single Op LP Call: KU7Z Class: Single Op LP Call: KU8E Class: Single Op LP Call: KV8Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KY4F Class: Single Op LP Call: KY5R Class: Single Op LP Call: KZ5D Class: Single Op LP Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Call: N0IJ Class: Single Op LP Call: N0IM Class: Single Op LP Call: N0KE Class: Single Op LP Call: N0NI Class: Single Op LP Call: N0SXX Class: Single Op LP Call: N0XB Class: Single Op LP Call: N1LN Class: Single Op LP Call: N1QME Class: Single Op LP Call: N2GA Class: Single Op LP Call: N2IC Class: Single Op LP Call: N2NC Class: Single Op LP Call: N2NL Class: Single Op LP Call: N2NT Class: Single Op LP Call: N2SQW Class: Single Op LP Call: N2WN Class: Single Op QRP Call: N2ZN Class: Single Op LP Call: N3BB Class: Single Op LP Call: N3SD Class: Single Op LP Call: N4AF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4CBK Class: Single Op LP Call: N4DD Class: Single Op LP Call: N4DW Class: Single Op LP Call: N4GG Class: Single Op LP Call: N4GN Class: Single Op LP Call: N4JF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4KG Class: Single Op LP Call: N4NM Class: Single Op LP Call: N4NTO Class: Single Op LP Call: N4OGW Class: Single Op LP Call: N4TB Class: Single Op LP Call: N4YQ Class: Single Op LP Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: N5AW/0 Class: Single Op LP Call: N5DO Class: Single Op LP Call: N5DX Class: Single Op LP Call: N5OE Class: Single Op LP Call: N5PO Class: Single Op LP Call: N5TW Class: Single Op LP Call: N5UM Class: Single Op LP Call: N5WLA Class: Single Op LP Call: N6MU Class: Single Op LP Call: N6NF Class: Single Op LP Call: N6OO Class: Single Op LP Call: N6RO Class: Single Op LP Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Call: N6ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: N7BF Class: Single Op LP Call: N7CW Class: Single Op LP Call: N7ON Class: Single Op LP Call: N7WA Class: Single Op LP Call: N7ZG Class: Single Op LP Call: N8II Class: Single Op LP Call: N8JF Class: Single Op LP Call: N9CK Class: Single Op LP Call: N9CO Class: Single Op LP Call: NA0N Class: Single Op LP Call: NA4BW Class: Single Op QRP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Call: NA5TR Class: Single Op LP Call: NA7RF Class: Single Op LP Call: ND2T Class: Single Op LP Call: NE9U Class: Single Op LP Call: NG7Z Class: Single Op LP Call: NK7U Class: Single Op LP Call: NN7ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: NO5W Class: Single Op LP Call: NP3D/W2 Class: Single Op LP Call: NS3T Class: Single Op LP Call: NS4T Class: Single Op LP Call: NS9I Class: Single Op LP Call: NZ1U Class: Single Op LP Call: VA2SG Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3GGF Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3NR Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Call: VE1OP Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3CRU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3EJ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3GLO Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3KI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3TA Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3TW Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XB Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XD Class: Single Op LP Call: VE5ZX Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6CNU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6WA Class: Single Op LP Call: VE9DX Class: Single Op LP Call: VO1HE Class: Single Op LP Call: W0BH Class: Single Op LP Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op LP Call: W0MU Class: Single Op LP Call: W0RAA Class: Single Op LP Call: W0UY Class: Single Op LP Call: W0YK Class: Single Op LP Call: W0ZA Class: Single Op LP Call: W1AJT/VE3 Class: Single Op LP Call: W1END Class: Single Op LP Call: W1EQ Class: Single Op LP Call: W1MX Class: Single Op LP Call: W1NN Class: Single Op LP Call: W1TO Class: Single Op LP Call: W2LHL Class: Single Op LP Call: W2OWL Class: Single Op LP Call: W3CP Class: Single Op LP Call: W3TZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4AU Class: Single Op LP Call: W4BW Class: Single Op LP Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4MYA Class: M/2 LP Call: W4NTI Class: Single Op LP Call: W4NZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4OC Class: Single Op LP Call: W4PA Class: Single Op LP Call: W4PM Class: Single Op LP Call: W4RK Class: Single Op LP Call: W4ZW Class: Single Op LP Call: W5KFT Class: Single Op LP Call: W5TM Class: Single Op LP Call: W5VX Class: Single Op LP Call: W6EEN Class: Single Op LP Call: W6EU Class: Single Op LP Call: W6IZT Class: Single Op LP Call: W6KY Class: Single Op LP Call: W6NOW Class: Single Op LP Call: W6OAT Class: Single Op LP Call: W6TK Class: Single Op LP Call: W6YI Class: Single Op LP Call: W6YX Class: Single Op LP Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op LP Call: W7CT Class: Single Op LP Call: W7OM Class: Single Op LP Call: W7WHY Class: M/2 LP Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op LP Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op LP Call: W8MJ Class: Single Op LP Call: W8RU Class: Single Op HP Call: W8UE Class: Single Op LP Call: W9RE Class: Single Op LP Call: W9SZ Class: Single Op LP Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Call: WA2MNO Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4DOU Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4OSD Class: Single Op LP Call: WA6O Class: Single Op LP Call: WA7BNM Class: Single Op LP Call: WB0N Class: Single Op LP Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Call: WE9N Class: Single Op LP Call: WE9V Class: Single Op LP Call: WF4W Class: Single Op LP Call: WI0WA Class: Single Op LP Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op LP Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op LP Call: WN6K Class: Single Op LP Call: WO1N Class: Single Op LP Call: WO4O Class: Single Op LP Call: WQ5L Class: Single Op LP Call: WS4Y Class: Single Op LP Call: WT9Q Class: Single Op LP Call: WT9U Class: Single Op LP Call: WW1M Class: Single Op LP Call: WW9R Class: Single Op LP Call: YV6BTF Class: Single Op LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 LP Call: K5TA Call: KM9M Call: W4MYA Call: W7WHY Class: Single Op HP Call: F5IN Call: K6VVA Call: W8RU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA3B Call: AA4FU Call: AA4LR Call: AA6PW Call: AA9DY Call: AC5AA Call: AC6T Call: AD4EB Call: AD6ZJ Call: AD8J Call: AE5X Call: AE6Y Call: AI2N Call: AJ1M Call: AK9F Call: DJ1YFK Call: K0EJ Call: K0EU Call: K0FW Call: K0FX Call: K0IO Call: K0MPH Call: K0OU Call: K0PC Call: K0RC Call: K0UK/6 Call: K0WA Call: K1GU Call: K1HT Call: K1KD Call: K1MK Call: K1PQS Call: K1PT Call: K1QO Call: K1TR Call: K1ZZ Call: K1ZZI Call: K2KW Call: K2QMF Call: K2SX Call: K2XA Call: K3CR Call: K3KU Call: K3STX Call: K3SV Call: K3WI Call: K4BAI Call: K4BK Call: K4CZ Call: K4EA Call: K4EJ Call: K4FJ Call: K4FXN Call: K4GMH Call: K4HAL Call: K4IU Call: K4KO Call: K4LW Call: K4MM Call: K4NO Call: K4OGG Call: K4RO Call: K4TD Call: K4TX Call: K4WI Call: K4WW Call: K4ZGB Call: K5AF Call: K5BG Call: K5KA Call: K5KG Call: K5NA Call: K5NZ Call: K5WA Call: K5XR Call: K5YAA Call: K6AM Call: K6GEP Call: K6III Call: K6LA Call: K6LL Call: K6MM Call: K6NA Call: K6NR Call: K6OWL Call: K6RB Call: K6RIM Call: K6WWW Call: K6XT Call: K6XX Call: K7ABV Call: K7BG Call: K7RL Call: K7SV Call: K7VU Call: K8BB Call: K8FC Call: K8GT Call: K8GU Call: K8IA Call: K8IR Call: K8MR Call: K8NZ Call: K8ZZV Call: K9CT Call: K9ES Call: K9MMS Call: K9MUG Call: K9NR Call: K9NW Call: KA1DWX Call: KA1VMG Call: KA2D Call: KB7Q Call: KC4HW Call: KC7V Call: KE0WO Call: KG4CUY Call: KH6NF Call: KI7Y Call: KJ0G Call: KK8D Call: KN0V Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y/M Call: KN6RO Call: KO7AA Call: KO7X Call: KQ6ES Call: KR4F Call: KS0T Call: KT0R Call: KU4J Call: KU7Z Call: KU8E Call: KV8Q Call: KY4F Call: KY5R Call: KZ5D Call: N0BUI Call: N0IJ Call: N0IM Call: N0KE Call: N0NI Call: N0SXX Call: N0XB Call: N1LN Call: N1QME Call: N2GA Call: N2IC Call: N2NC Call: N2NL Call: N2NT Call: N2SQW Call: N2ZN Call: N3BB Call: N3SD Call: N4AF Call: N4CBK Call: N4DD Call: N4DW Call: N4GG Call: N4GN Call: N4JF Call: N4KG Call: N4NM Call: N4NTO Call: N4OGW Call: N4TB Call: N4YQ Call: N4ZZ Call: N5AW/0 Call: N5DO Call: N5DX Call: N5OE Call: N5PO Call: N5TW Call: N5UM Call: N5WLA Call: N6MU Call: N6NF Call: N6OO Call: N6RO Call: N6ZZ Call: N7BF Call: N7CW Call: N7ON Call: N7WA Call: N7ZG Call: N8II Call: N8JF Call: N9CK Call: N9CO Call: NA0N Call: NA4K Call: NA5TR Call: NA7RF Call: ND2T Call: NE9U Call: NG7Z Call: NK7U Call: NN7ZZ Call: NO5W Call: NP3D/W2 Call: NS3T Call: NS4T Call: NS9I Call: NZ1U Call: VA2SG Call: VA3DX Call: VA3GGF Call: VA3NR Call: VA7ST Call: VE1OP Call: VE3CRU Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3GLO Call: VE3HG Call: VE3KI Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3NE Call: VE3NZ Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3TA Call: VE3TW Call: VE3XB Call: VE3XD Call: VE5ZX Call: VE6CNU Call: VE6WA Call: VE9DX Call: VO1HE Call: W0BH Call: W0ETT Call: W0MU Call: W0RAA Call: W0UY Call: W0YK Call: W0ZA Call: W1AJT/VE3 Call: W1END Call: W1EQ Call: W1MX Call: W1NN Call: W1TO Call: W2LHL Call: W2OWL Call: W3CP Call: W3TZ Call: W4AU Call: W4BW Call: W4KAZ Call: W4NTI Call: W4NZ Call: W4OC Call: W4PA Call: W4PM Call: W4RK Call: W4ZW Call: W5KFT Call: W5TM Call: W5VX Call: W6EEN Call: W6EU Call: W6IZT Call: W6KY Call: W6NOW Call: W6OAT Call: W6TK Call: W6YI Call: W6YX Call: W6ZL Call: W7CT Call: W7OM Call: W7ZR Call: W7ZRC Call: W8CAR Call: W8MJ Call: W8UE Call: W9RE Call: W9SZ Call: WA1FCN Call: WA2MNO Call: WA4DOU Call: WA4OSD Call: WA6O Call: WA7BNM Call: WB0N Call: WB8JUI Call: WE9N Call: WE9V Call: WF4W Call: WI0WA Call: WI9WI Call: WJ9B Call: WN6K Call: WO1N Call: WO4O Call: WQ5L Call: WS4Y Call: WT9Q Call: WT9U Call: WW1M Call: WW9R Call: YV6BTF Class: Single Op QRP Call: K7UP Call: K8FU Call: K9GY Call: KD2MX Call: KO1H Call: N2WN Call: N6WG Call: NA4BW Call: VA3DF Call: VA3RKM