WPX SSB Soapbox built 5-31-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 2E0CVN/P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,009,547 What so hard to understand about 2E0!? So many people could not understand 2E0 have they never hear one before??! Not complaing as it was a nice rare mult!! Due to antenna problems on 40m not too much was worked which meant a lower score :-( No USA hardly on Saturday night or Saturday for that matter! But on Sunday there were hundreds of US just like normal with 20m still open at 23:00utc Very hard to a get run going! Splatter made it hard to pull out the weak ones. Nice opening on 15m on Sunday which included V31 @ 21:37z and also on 10m there was a short opening sunday afternoon SOAPBOXL FT-1000MP MKV - 50watts - C3SS 6Ele @ 50ft - 40/80m Dipoles Thanks to Ralph 2E0ATY/M0MYC/HS0ZHC for the use of his station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W9R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 547,456 We have had some visitors from Europe. So, this year WPX SSB Contest was just warm-up for CW part. Have no time to make some night 40M QSOs. See you soon 73s Stan 3W9R/OK1JR/NT3I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L2M Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 3,675,732 It was not so good conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L4WW Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 2,118,160 I hated this decesion but had to move in LP category. Striong winds prior to contest have damaged power lines and the only option was to use a small generator, which by the way was srared by my friend Mamuka 4L2M running LP on 20m next to me. He did pretty well breaking old Asian record so congratulations!. Propagation was bad most of the time.... very few US stations were heard and worked. Still pleased with the result and what's most important I am getting valuable contest experience. Thanks to all whom I worked and see you next time! 73! Gia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3B Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 2,792,560 It was only discovered on Sunday that 80M beam was backwards - 180 degrees off! Also it was bad weekend since the station was in clouds all the time - no receiving with the beam while those beverages were very weak as they should be! But why would I look for execuses? Breaking the EU record was the objective and it was met. Thanks to Ranko, YT6A for allowing me to use his fine station. One more postive experience under my belt! Martti, OH2BH/4O3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5B/AJ2O Class: M/S HP Total Score = 25,088,232 A day before contest we had 15m open to NA until 9:00 p.m. local time just like in old good days, so we were sure we would have great 15m. As an addition I had great NA runs on 80m an our before contest and everything was so good. So good that 15m closed 4:00 p.m. local time 5 hours earlier than was predicted and we just had to listen how other guys running NA. The same frustration was waiting for us on 40 and 80 with almost no NA until last contest hour. Hope we didn't do too bad compiting with D44AC, 5D5A and CQ9K. 73s, Harry RA3AUU P.S. Leaving to KH8S in several hours. CU from there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5C5Z Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 12,040,080 What fun operating at a real station. Thanks to Jim CN2R (W7EJ) for the opportunity to operate here. Had some real doubts about the contest with the conditions prior to the test but the RF from CN has just got to be one of the best locations for contesting. Unlike CQWW in October there was not interstation interference and no computer problems or power outages. A few more hours of propagation would have been nice. Thanks to all for the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5D5A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 32,907,600 First of all, thank you to CN8WW to join with us for all the contest and give to us a lot of support! Said is a nice guy a very nice person! Special thanks also to Omar and CN8WK Ahmed, SV8CS Spiros. Thank you to all of you for the qso`s, nice opening sunday morning with JA Long Path. Thank you also to D44AC, 5B/AJ2O, CN5W, PJ2T for the competition. I think CQ9K was M/2 or M/M this time. Someone is joking here with CN3A on 3830. But unfortunatly we did only 6200 qso and not 10000 hi!!! as he wrote. So, cu next one 73 Stefano (IK2QEI) & Matteo (IK2SGC) 5D5A Team qsl via I2WIJ Mr.Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5Z4/9A3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 33,936 Carpenters dropped my radio when doing some work in the house and damaged the micropohone. I managed to get the radio back operational on Sunday afternoon, thanks to 5B4ES support. With a 100 w into a vertical antenna it was tough to get any attention when everybody was beaming elsewhere and conditions were not too good. 20m was open till the end and I managed to work a few stations, including a few bonus 40m QSOs. CW would be much easier, but I will be back in Italy soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6F75A Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,029,014 A short but intense participation using FMREs 75th Anniversaty Contest Call. Conditions to EU were very limited on all bands. 15 meters pileups were great having NA SA AS and OC at the same time the first hours in the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7J1AQH Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 234,937 First effort with new station. ===================== CQ WORLD WIDE PREFIX CONTEST -- 2007 Call: 7J1AQH Category: Single Operator, Tribander-Single Element Power: Low Power Band: All Band Mode: SSB Country: Japan BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES 160 0 0 0.0 0 80 0 0 0.0 0 40 34 167 4.9 12 20 182 418 2.3 108 15 163 369 2.3 111 10 13 29 2.2 8 -------------------------------------- Totals 392 983 2.5 239 = 234,937 All reports sent were 59(9), unless otherwise noted. Equipment Description: Kenwood TS-690S, Steppir 3L yagi @ 45 feet high ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P1A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 18,274,170 No meters like 20 meters Raging line noise, blank display on one TS-850, and the worst propagation I have seen from 8P, but still had some fun moments. Thanks to K2RD for lending me his MFJ noise elimination boxes. They worked surprisingly well, but took away a lot of flexibility. Had fun on Sunday. When running the US, a station came on and said “There is a Pakistan station on frequency.” Certainly this was due to a broken AP1A spot. (I once wore an AP1A call sign badge at Dayton). Not to pass the opportunity, I said “Wow, I need Pakistan. Please standby for the Pakistan station.” I could hear several station laughing and breaking VOX on frequency. I chuckled about that for a few hours. Thanks to everyone for the QSO's. Great to see all the new callsigns on HF QSL via NN1N 73, Tom W2SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5CW Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 250,000 Everything I heard i have worked, mostly S/P :) Worked with fullsize 4el. yagi - ALPHA 86 - FT1K Software: WIN-TEST ... you must try it :) Pictures of 9a1p 40m antenna: http://www.9a1p.com/40m/1.jpg http://www.9a1p.com/40m/2.jpg 73 and cu in CW... Patrik 9A5CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,946,831 Having fixed antennas towards USA nad JA with out possible rotation, could not get better score. In statistics small No of EU QSOs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 15,009,750 Very bad conditions especially with NA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A45WD Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 1,409,085 Propagation, especially to Europe and South America, better than expected. But there is a balance in everything: no station from USA / Canada in my log. Unfortunately I did a limited effort due to my job commitments. Thank you for calling! 73, Alex A45WD - YO9HP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3E Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,798,583 Thanks to NE3F for the use of his station...and his YL Barb for her culinary hospitality. Favorite Contest..c'mon spots!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 217 Antenna: Shunt-fed 15m tower with 29 radials Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 100 watts Comments: Thought I was going to get to operate a couple of evenings. Just managed to get on for a half hour on Friday night. Was checking out the expanded phone priviledges on 75m, looking for some DX. Surprisingly, there was very little crowding at the time that I was on. Only eight contacts, but hopefully I'll get a few DX confirmations out of that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,078,886 Thanks to Paul, W0AIH, for the use of his fine station and for the opportunity to operate this event from his place. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD7J Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 324,115 30 years in a row cqwwssb, arrl phone & now cqwpxssb, lots of fun using w7fp,vp2mba,ad7j, wa7ar & 1 of 3 at KH0AC 1980 cqwwssb. Few more qsos, especially usa stns. this year than last but alas less mults hence lower score than last year, wait till next year, God willing! Cheers Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG4RZ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,955,456 First major contest at WB4MSG since the rebuild. Station layout worked great, and we only have a couple of minor problems left to address. We lost 2 radios, but were able to get one back up, so we did the majority of the contest on three rigs. Radios used: FT1000mp, FT920 (still DOA), FT100, TS-450s (died but brought back to life) Amps used: Henry 2KD 80-10...what a workhorse. it ran for the full contest with no issues at all. Dentron MLA-2500...another workhorse, and our only amp on 160. Homebrew amp, 80-10 , shame on me for not remembering what tube is in the beast, but it is a well built unit we recently acquired when a local ham decided to move into a retirement community. This was actually the first time we put power on the unit, and it worked well all weekend, and when paired with the ft-100 made for one heck of an 80m station. If you worked us on 80, this is what you heard. Thanks go to my father-in-law, Gene, WB4MSG, for the station and the bulk of the equipment. Thanks to Gary,WA4VMC, for the use of his TS-450s and the Dentron. Special thanks go to my wife, Brandy, for putting up with another weekend of me being in "contest mode", and Special thanks go to my mother-in-law, Cathy, KB4TKO, for all the food, drinks, and putting up with the noise, heat, and general confusion that goes along with trying to keep a house running during a contest weekend. We lost 9 hours total to repairs and sleep....Gene and I just could not seem to keep the radios covered during the overnight times. Also, for anyone who uses eQSL: I found out about our time problem with the log after I had uploaded the log to eQSL. (The log was off by 1 hour ahead) Rest assured it is now correct in my logfiles, but I have not yet corrected all the eQSL entries. I will work on this as I get time. Thanks to everyone that spotted us, and thanks to all the PVRC members for support, contacts, spots, and motivation! 73, Tim, AG4RZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AH0AH/W3 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 22,022 Used AH0AH/W3 as required by contest rules; station callsign is officially AH0AH since Washington, DC is the primary station address. (Total of 242 reflects total *points*; there were 113 QSOs.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AH6JR Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 349,112 Chinese Over the Horizon Radar blew out the Saturday nite/Sunday morning portion of the contest here on 75 meters. Some stations were loud enough to come over the top of the radar but very few were copyable thru it.. I could hear the radar starting to come thru here at 08:30UTC at 10:30 UTC it was full bore until 1/2 hr after sunrise approx 1700UTC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: SO(R)AB LP Total Score = 10,944 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ WPX Contest Log 2.5 ARRL-SECTION: VA CONTEST: CQ-WPX-SSB CALLSIGN: AI4ME CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CATEGORY-OVERLAY: ROOKIE CLAIMED-SCORE: 10944 OPERATORS: AI4ME CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club NAME: Don Michalek ADDRESS: 2437 Broomsedge Trail ADDRESS: Virginia Beach, VA 23456 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ai4me@cox.net SOAPBOX: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK1W Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,004,754 Probably the worst conditions on 40m for a WPX Phone contest that I can ever recall. Friday night started OK, but Europe virtually disappeared after the first 2 hours. If the first 2 hours had not produced such a high rate, not sure I would have continued. Was interesting to hear some of the big Eu multi-ops at our sunrise (which would be local noon for them!). Only heard 3 JAs, all loud, but none listening up. Saturday night about 22z, just as the band was opening, my wife announced that I was taking her out to dinner. No refusing that request. Missed what was probably the best 3 hours of the evening. Sunday afternoon the band had a suprising amount of USA activity. Calling CQ resulted in a slow but steady rate. Finally, with 2 hours to go the bands returned to "normal" and it was possible to work some Europe for valuable 6 point QSOs. I have a lot more respect for the KC7EM USA record set back in 1995 (1.95Meg). Biggest suprise was calling CQ around 22z on Saturday and having 2 VK stations call in on the long path. Also being called by two different 9K2 and HZ1 stations. Nice to exchange notes with K9NW during the contest. I think we are both nuts to do single band 40! Some numbers: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 0 0 760 0 0 0 760 79.1 EU 0 0 150 0 0 0 150 15.6 AF 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 0.7 SA 0 0 19 0 0 0 19 2.0 AS 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 0.8 OC 0 0 17 0 0 0 17 1.8 Most worked countries: K 676 676 VE 57 57 DL 27 27 G 17 17 OK 9 9 VK 9 9 EA 8 8 PY 8 8 S5 8 8 SP 8 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 491,538 First time using new Club Call of AK6M. Proved to be valuable for its prefix value -- not many AK6 stations in contests these days. Had some good runs on 20M (the "money band", but conditions were strange all weekend (lots of QRM/QSB). Europe on Sat/Sun was very difficult compared to last year. Short 10M opening on Saturday afternoon was nice -- all So. America/Caribbean stations. Ran 700 watts using FT100MP Mark V, Ameritron AL-811H, Force 12 C3SS + G5RV, and N1MM Contest software. No Murphy-related problems. Thanks for the Qs and CU in WPX CW soon. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AN8A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 49,506,516 IT was wonderful experience to operate the great station built by OH1RY with fantastic crew. We were heading for M/2 world record and target was at least 50 mio points. Conditions were poor and the result is just 5% over HC8N last year's record. Let's see if we have been accurate enough:) Thanks for all the QSOs! 73 Tonno ES5TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AY7X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,101,032 Equipment: TS 870 ALPHA 91B JVP 34 DXA Three Bands (three elements) 14 21 and 28 Mhz up 39 Feet JVP 34 Band (three elements)7 Mhz up 98 Feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,765,272 Many thanks to Norman 5B4AIF, for the use of his station and the C4I call sign. Thanks to Vesco LZ3CQ to make this trip together to Cyprus for first time and make M/2 effort with Norman. We spent a lot of time to build a lot of antennas and change position of some old. We really prepared to make SOSBs but after a hard work decided to start on M/2 category considering free time of Norman and big wish to break 1000 QSO limit in contest operations. Very bad propagation on high bands and strange on low bands... US stations were weak on 20m and 40m first day but can make a few we just had to listen how other guys running NA..... Thanks to everyone for stopping by and giving us a QSO. Hope to see you on some other contest from there. Equipment: 2 x Yaesu FT-1000MKV Field ACOMs Antennas: Tribander: LS86 by ACOM + DHF-6 by ECO 40m: G.P.+ Inverted Vee at 10m 80m: GAP VOYAGER DX + Inverted Delta Loop at 15m 160m: Inverted Vee at 15m Software: Writelog 73s Andy / LZ2HM Band QSOs QSO points Prefixes Score: 160m: 75 412 14 80m: 369 2121 121 40m: 556 3130 173 20m: 1359 3959 374 15m: 733 1837 220 10m: 75 217 20 Totals: 3167 11676 922 = 10765272 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4M Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 4,300,251 Local spark by Easter preparation from local citizen!!!!! It's every Year... S9 and only station with same level. This year new chinese electrical toy was very hard ):, ):. In spite of like usually it's WPX SSB Cotnest - selebration!!!!!!! It's my 25th SSB Contest since 1955 - it was in USSR and illegal... Go ahead 70th OM and more ages! Because forget by the way that need put finger on Morse key, and life continiue..... Thanks to all contester's! 73's, Ben, ex UC2AA (since 1950, EU1AA, 5B4AGM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,650,345 Nice contest but very bad condition in 10 meters and low band using wires... TRIBANDER + WIRES STATION Kenwood TS-850S Drake L4B Mosley TA-33M Dipols inverted V for 40 and 80 meters. 73 y DX's Roberto, CE4CT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 1,739,352 A Good contest for me. More then doubled the old world record. This is WPX SSB SOSB record number 3 for me. 5C5Z operated on 20M at my station to post a new record for SOSB 20M. TX: Elevated vertical(4 radials), 47M rotating dipole, Inv-Vee @27M RX: 2 x K9AY, EU-SA 189M beverage, N-S 189M beverage, NA-AF 219M beverage Condx were not good to NA. No noise, a little QRN to the West. Asia was down. This was mt first use of the 3 bidirectional beverages on 160M. They worked well except for a very strange problem. 2 of the beverages stopped working in the 'towards' direction. Lost the NA and SA directions. I worked on this problem during both days, after the band went dead. All 3 beverages are >100 meters from TX vertical The beverasges would not fail during the daylight hours and after no RF for ~8 hours they would magically start working again in both directions. At darkness (1900Z) the 2 directions would go dead after calling CQ. This happened on all 3 evenings. Hope to solve this problem before CQWW. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Look for me again on 160M during CQWW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 40,653,889 TNX SO MUCH ALL STATION, VERY NICE QSO WITH D44AC, BUT BAD OPERATOR,...SORRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 13,560,764 IC735 + 2x3-500z / IC7000 + 4x811a A3S tribander and wires... (multiplier hunting with the 160m dipole !) Personally, my worst contest experience from CN... very disappointing, especially one month after a nice ARRL-DX-CW. First of all it was SSB (IMHO the worst contesting mode; should never had touched this "thing" again !) and secondly nothing worked as expected... We had to cancel "last minute" the initial plans which were to operate from CN8MC in Rabat (the 40-2CD still broken and potential interference risks with 5C8A initially announced SOAB), and as we already had the "not refundable tickets" improvise a quick alternative. Obviously it did not turn out to be a good idea, at least for the score ! Anyway, we still had fun, if not always during the contest, at least before and after ! Despite the very poor conditions Mohamed and Jean-Luc could still enjoy a few good runs on 15 and 20, unproductive in terms of Q-points, but at least they could keep a run going, which almost never happened on 40 and 80... We will remind only the good things: Morocco friendly people and hams, food, wine, weather, the good ambiance within the team and a nice evening in Casa with Dick W7ZR (alias 5C5Z ). A special thanks to SiMo' CN8PA for the time and efforts spent for taking down his home A3S and rotator, putting them back on the "beach-house" tower, then down and up again ! See you in the CW part - Insha'Allah ! For the Dar Bouazza Contest Group Patrick F6IRF/CN2WW more soon on http://cn2ww.blogspot.com/ Paper-QSL via EA7FTR, Electronic confirmations through LOTW and E-QSL.cc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1AOZ Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 55,752 Mr MURPHY was here... Yes. Linear PS gone away... Transceiver PS also gone... Work part of day ( saterday) to get parts and part of night repairing... guys...was too tired to start like a lion at a middle of contest (hihihi) anyway was another good contest and hope all is fixed to be full time in CW... best regards from Jose CT1AOZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 2,110,773 Many thanks to all who calling me. My apology to all who calling my without my answer. Local powerline near my new location generating very hight noise level. Terrible experience. Not very encouraging to future. 73 ! Jiri, CT1JLZ / OK1RF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D44AC Class: M/S HP Total Score = 19,860,937 Thank's to Carlos for his hospitality, as usual a gentelman, providing everything ready for the Contest. Setup was a FT1000 + IC751, ACOM2000A + FL2100, tribander Optibeam 16, 40m Dipole, 80m Vertical, no antenna on Top Band. Condition was pretty good on high band, friday evening before the contest a great opening to EU on 10m hoped us a thrilling Contest, but as usual never did !! Lower Band was frustating the first night due bad condition, 2nd day a good run of USA on 80m with the West Coast challenged us. 40m was the worst band, the dipole did a good job but not enough to get a clear frequency with EU pile-up in the EU Zoo !! Thank's to every one for the QSO, and for great competition from exotic sites, see you next year. 73 de Fabio I4UFH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DD5FZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,660,744 BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG ----------------------------------- 160 99 0 27 184 1.86 80 374 0 207 820 2.19 40 382 1 150 1113 2.91 20 592 0 233 1264 2.14 15 187 0 92 349 1.87 10 5 0 3 7 1.40 ----------------------------------- TOTAL 1639 1 712 3737 2.28 =================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ6TK Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 6,160 Hi, the Rotor of my FB33 Beam was defect. It was unable to turn the antenna around.When I checked 15m with my R5 Vertical no signals on the band. The Antenna pointing to NNW. It was very hard to work in this position with 100 Watts. Never mind, but SSB is not my Mode. 73 and moin moin from Flensburg, Wilf - dj6tk - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,019,316 I had not much time this weekend so only a small entry. Lowbands were quite good the first night and 20m was better the second evening. Had lots of fun and met some very good friends. Hope to hear you in WPX CW again. Vy73 de Matt, DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0MFS Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 3,276 Hi, it was only a short test with the call of our clubstation DL0MFS(100 years of Naval Communications and Signal Training in Flensburg-Muerwik). I used only a FD4 Antenna and 100 Watts with my FT-920 Transceiver. I heard ZM3WW with a good Signal but no chance against the big gunsVY 73 es gl, Wilf - dj6tk - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1ECG Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 29,044 just a few points due to lack of time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DN3FA Class: SO(R)AB HP Total Score = 19,200 We worked this contest from home for training purposes. Dominik, my 11 year old sun, wanted to learn how to contest. He had a lot of fun starting with S&P and then trying his first CQ. After the first "88" I had to explain something. In the next QSO he got the answer: "Thanks for points my lady" and he began laughing out loud. Today he asked at least three times for the next contest date. I think that was successful youth work ;-)) BTW: DN-Calls are special german training calls CU in WPX CW as DR4A again 73 de Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO7GG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,370 Muhahaha, my first contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 25,600,438 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 661 1531 1202 798 273 162 4627 63.5 NA 16 126 226 1177 34 0 1579 21.7 SA 0 12 81 74 99 8 274 3.8 AF 6 12 19 36 51 14 138 1.9 AS 11 43 112 262 129 6 563 7.7 OC 1 1 41 34 30 0 107 1.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total K 14 103 172 1046 10 1345 DL 217 470 118 73 70 68 1016 UA 44 89 110 133 11 4 391 I 32 61 161 47 12 1 314 G 51 146 78 8 3 5 291 UR 28 60 68 65 8 229 SP 25 80 73 29 18 1 226 UA9 5 27 42 98 47 219 OK 44 70 56 28 3 201 PA 25 51 15 32 26 46 195 EA 15 42 66 45 13 1 182 F 18 62 43 14 16 1 154 JA 17 84 30 131 VE 2 16 20 90 1 129 PY 5 34 31 39 8 117 S5 15 33 36 15 5 1 105 YO 1 29 36 28 6 100 ON 7 40 9 11 13 11 91 LY 12 17 20 15 14 6 84 YU 8 27 22 25 2 84 9A 6 18 34 15 4 1 78 OH 8 15 16 24 9 3 75 LU 19 19 34 72 OM 11 25 16 16 3 1 72 OE 6 20 23 10 2 1 62 GM 4 15 23 11 4 2 59 SM 9 14 16 16 4 59 HA 3 16 21 15 1 56 OZ 10 22 12 6 2 52 EA8 2 4 7 11 15 3 42 HB 12 14 13 3 42 EU 3 6 9 13 6 3 40 YL 4 10 9 10 5 2 40 VK 14 14 7 35 BY 4 21 8 33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z 66/55 57/52 23/22 12/10 --+-- --+-- 158/139 158/139 D1-0100Z 67/35 120/67 52/35 5/2 - - 244/139 402/278 D1-0200Z 49/21 90/40 47/30 1/0 - - 187/91 589/369 D1-0300Z 33/12 71/22 53/27 16/10 - - 173/71 762/440 D1-0400Z 24/8 49/14 60/25 19/7 - - 152/54 914/494 D1-0500Z 19/7 39/17 46/12 30/12 - - 134/48 1048/542 D1-0600Z 9/5 66/19 22/8 38/14 3/1 - 138/47 1186/589 D1-0700Z - 56/9 37/11 70/28 7/0 - 170/48 1356/637 D1-0800Z --+-- 26/6 65/16 73/31 18/5 --+-- 182/58 1538/695 D1-0900Z - 24/3 62/11 86/20 30/11 2/0 204/45 1742/740 D1-1000Z - 17/5 62/10 65/16 26/11 11/6 181/48 1923/788 D1-1100Z - 17/2 58/9 75/32 30/12 24/3 204/58 2127/846 D1-1200Z - 23/2 30/6 113/23 62/17 13/4 241/52 2368/898 D1-1300Z - 25/2 42/4 92/26 24/3 7/0 190/35 2558/933 D1-1400Z - 22/4 38/6 87/28 26/3 8/1 181/42 2739/975 D1-1500Z 6/1 40/2 43/6 59/19 18/4 5/0 171/32 2910/1007 D1-1600Z 20/3 72/5 46/7 91/24 17/4 1/0 247/43 3157/1050 D1-1700Z 39/4 65/4 39/1 22/10 11/3 - 176/22 3333/1072 D1-1800Z 24/3 59/6 42/4 42/7 11/1 - 178/21 3511/1093 D1-1900Z 45/4 73/6 41/1 53/6 3/0 - 215/17 3726/1110 D1-2000Z 36/1 65/3 46/3 54/7 - - 201/14 3927/1124 D1-2100Z 43/1 54/4 40/4 42/4 - - 179/13 4106/1137 D1-2200Z 36/0 66/5 28/6 23/4 - - 153/15 4259/1152 D1-2300Z 25/2 43/4 36/4 9/1 - - 113/11 4372/1163 D2-0000Z 10/0 38/5 24/2 5/0 --+-- --+-- 77/7 4449/1170 D2-0100Z 6/0 20/3 10/0 1/0 - - 37/3 4486/1173 D2-0200Z 6/0 24/0 27/4 - - - 57/4 4543/1177 D2-0300Z 7/1 26/0 16/1 3/0 - - 52/2 4595/1179 D2-0400Z 9/0 20/1 12/2 7/1 - - 48/4 4643/1183 D2-0500Z 7/0 14/0 21/2 18/2 - - 60/4 4703/1187 D2-0600Z - 17/1 20/2 39/5 4/0 - 80/8 4783/1195 D2-0700Z - 14/0 27/1 47/3 28/2 6/1 122/7 4905/1202 D2-0800Z --+-- 10/2 45/3 37/5 24/3 19/1 135/14 5040/1216 D2-0900Z - 15/1 41/4 33/5 25/4 18/2 132/16 5172/1232 D2-1000Z - 11/0 37/2 28/4 71/13 24/1 171/20 5343/1252 D2-1100Z - 7/0 38/5 61/6 27/5 8/0 141/16 5484/1268 D2-1200Z - 11/0 28/1 84/20 34/5 13/0 170/26 5654/1294 D2-1300Z - 17/0 17/0 108/18 17/2 13/2 172/22 5826/1316 D2-1400Z - 9/0 15/0 96/15 19/0 6/1 145/16 5971/1332 D2-1500Z 5/0 19/0 17/1 87/13 16/2 2/0 146/16 6117/1348 D2-1600Z 6/0 24/2 21/1 69/9 15/2 2/0 137/14 6254/1362 D2-1700Z 10/0 22/1 29/1 66/9 11/2 5/1 143/14 6397/1376 D2-1800Z 14/1 32/1 37/4 64/13 14/0 3/0 164/19 6561/1395 D2-1900Z 16/0 29/3 23/3 93/16 5/2 - 166/24 6727/1419 D2-2000Z 27/1 20/2 22/0 148/26 11/3 - 228/32 6955/1451 D2-2100Z 14/1 17/1 24/0 59/5 9/1 - 123/8 7078/1459 D2-2200Z 7/0 35/4 20/1 34/4 - - 96/9 7174/1468 D2-2300Z 10/1 36/2 53/4 17/3 - - 116/10 7290/1478 Total: 695/1671726/3321682/3122381/523 616/121 190/23 73 Ben DL6FBL More info: see http://www.dr1a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR6IOTA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,853,192 IOTA EU-129 pse QSL via DM5DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3QP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,330,148 Confirmated!, we're in the lower point of the sun cycle, short opennings, high bnd closed, 20m absolutly crowded,... we hope that the conditions will improve step by step in the near future. Sincerly on Sunday I checked the transceiver and the conections, the filters,.. because we didn't heard anything in 10m and 15m, the bands was with no signals, as if the transceiver front-end was blowed-up, but all was due to propagtion. Thanks to everybody and see you next contest or in Dayton. EA3QP - Eugeni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,300,000 Very hard contest. Tnx for calling. 73 de Julio, EA4KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,669,662 Just for fun! Not many time for contesting this time. 73 de Jose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5ON Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 620,368 Just finished installing my new antenna on the thursday (THANKS José Luís EA5YC). Got up early saturday with a view to doing SOSB 15m but the band just didn't open. After weighing up my options I decided to do SOAB and just have fun while putting the antenna through it's paces. Spent a lot of time on 10 and 15 just to see how I got on, instead of getting the points on 20. Saturday evening I tried loading up the antenna on 40 and then on 80 on Sunday morning, managed a few contacts. Tried the same trick sunday night and my XYL ran through to tell me I was causing TVI (communal TV antenna for the whole building!) so that put an end to the contest..... I'm just glad I can run a KW on the higher bands with no problems at my new downtown condo. Rig TS850S (my 765 still at the fixers) Tremendus 2 (1 kw) Optibeam OB6-3M at 27m (90') on top of the building Thanks to all for the QSOs 73 de Duncan EA5ON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5VK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,454 No stations on 10 m. band. No nois on 15 m. band. Few strong stations on 15 m. from Atlantic islands. Nice to hear them, without QRM, and working what I could'nt. HI! 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA9LZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 11,762,016 Well, first thank you to all station call me during the contest. Second, I would like to have the propagation like in 8P or P40, but unfotunately, I have not. I was in cold with some grades during all contest, maybe better luck next year. congratulations to the AN8, CN2R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EC2DX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 10,733,310 First M/M effort from EA2. Very bad propagation on high bands and strange on low bands... US stations were strong on 40m but not many on the log, it seems that they don´t hear down anymore and in EA we still have band restrictions up to 7.100 :-( We also had problems between the 160m and the 40m dipoles. They were too close so the 160m one had to be removed on Sunday morning. Antennas: - 4 EL Yagi 10m. - Explorer 14 Tribander. - TH3 Tribander. - Dipole 40m. (EA5BRE). - Fullsize Vertical 80m. - Inverted V dipole 160m. Anyway we had a very great time between friends. Special thank´s to EB2BXL for the use of his QTH. Thank´s everybody for calling. See you on the next one. EC2DX Contest team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EH7T Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 123,039 Hi, bad conditions in my side this year. I called and called and no propagation. There was only a little esporadic on saturday to Europe and a few USA stations only. Very bad propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EM5U Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 4,257,840 Nice to hear a lot of friends UU7J,OE4A,8P1A,5B/AJ2O,S50A and etc. First day only 30!!!! USA stations becose aurora broke all my plans. anyway,nice to be inside this event.see you in CW from ER4DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES2MC Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 733,580 A semi-serious effort with my modest wire vertical hanging from a spruce. Mostly EU worked, conditions, as many others have mentioned, did not allow much DX from these latitudes. Hope to be more equipped by the autumn... 73s, Arvo, ES2MC/ES5MC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5RW Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 952,182 It can't be worse - we must have hit the bottom of the solar cycle. By Sunday morning: 1 (one) US call worked, 1 (one)JA call worked, 1 (one) Oceania call worked. The QSO count though for our latitude was not hopeless. Still didn't consider it worthwhile to continue. Thanks to guys who called. CU during upslope soon. 73 de ES5RW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8CC Class: SO(R)SB15 LP Total Score = 61,864 First contest. I am 11 years. 73 Zaur ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F1JKJ Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,150,318 It could have been a great time, if only my transceiver hadn't stopped working 4 hours before the end, not allowing me to be in the final rush hours ! However, it was fun to operate this contest in which even a "F1" is an interesting multi and can get some decent runs. This was also my first time with an amp (600W solid state), it worked flawlessly. Propagation did not seem good on saturday, but was better sunday. 20M was crowded, only the "VE sweet home" at the bottom was not. Lucky them ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4EGZ Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 1,471,930 IC-756 pro L inverted 160m Dipole on 80m vertical and dipole on 40m 10/15/20m Quad 4 ele ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6KZC Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 1,266,165 It's 1 test in SO2R and i don't receive my ICE filter for contest only use a stub and is not very good. On 10m antenna probleme on trap :( Thanx all for QSO CU next contest. 73's F6KZC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0RTN Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 130,000 Conditions stank so I was very glad that I was only playing around with my new antenna (wonda-doublet at 15m agl). It works fine. ZM3WW, JH4UYB and VR2C through the 40m wall here in QRM Alley were the high points (with 100 Watts), and 4D9RG on 20 with a booming signal was also a nice catch. Conditions seemed to pick up on Sunday evening, but I had to QRT at 1900Z due to a major work meeting on Monday that I needed to be fresh for. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SO(A)SB15 LP Total Score = 7,205 70 Watts and 1/4 wave GP Hard going, bottom of the cycle. 59 QSO's but 5 new ones on PHONE - SSB not my usual mode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,170,294 That was hard work! Condx could have been better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 35,046 Tnx all! Next contest (cw) agn! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HH4/K4QD Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 2,076,198 I operated again from the NW Haiti Christian Mission. Rig: Kenwood TS-520S, Antenna: Mosley TA-33 at 60 feet Good contest even with rather poor band conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,968,218 TX ALL FRIEND CONTAC TO STATION IN THE CONTEST .....I WEARING NEXT YEAR OPEN 10 METERS......73S AND GOOD DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,962,894 Thanks to all been logged this time, The best contest hours only at beggining over 200 qso's mark and then history.... Very bad propa on 15 ... Jeezes A lot of ANTI HAMS all over... Entirely hours of deliberated QRM .. My goals for the test was 5,000,000 points and 800 Mults maybe next time should cahnge category because low power entrys is getting more complicated at least with Kilo you can deserve more respect.... God bless you all and CU in NEXT PILE Insha'Allah, If God Will, Si Dios lo permite My apologies to my friend Hiro JA6WFM I couldn't pick up him from the heavy pile on last hours on 20... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6PSG Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 600,400 MOSLEY TA 33 JR ICOM 735 (60W) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HP1WW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,948,499 FT1000MP & ALPHA 87A verticals for 7, 14, 21 & 28 MHz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 448,518 Limited time effort. Very nice conditions on low bands, especially 80m toward NA. Made a lot of DXing, S/P and bad spots verification! As others also commented I found a lot more stations without following packets and without figthing with the unruled masses. 73 Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,571,930 IO4T anctive on wpx since long time. Refreshing team with some new op made this possible. Bad contidions and a Murphy visit keep us away from target (2500-1000pfx) but it has been funny any way. 2h of stop caused by a power failure and AL1200 was off too! May be we lost some qso/mult on 15m. Fortunatly 20m opened sunday evening, if not ... panic for last hours 8-) Incredible signal on 10 sunday evening by D44AC peaking over 9 when the band was just opened to some PY. ANT. KLM KT34A 5L 15m - 5L 20m on the roof sloping dipole on 40m vertical 80/160 RIG ft1000mp + ic 761 PA AL 1200 + TL922 Improvemets nedeed mainly on: rx antenna, 40m antenna and ***ssn*** of course. We all are very tired to operate so crowded bands. Tnx to all the team and to IK4ZGO, IZ4HWA for support. Next one IARU HF. See you! Andrea IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ3UD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,183,760 Rig : ICOM PRO III Antennas : DIPOLE 40/80/160 - LOOP 80M - LOOP 40M - TRIBANDER 10/15/20M POWER 500 W - TL 922 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,561,000 Tough one! Not that being at the bottom with SFI=70 and K=3 one would expect pile-ups on high bands but when I heard lots of loud US (20/30db over S-9) calling HV0A on 15 Friday afternoon prior to the contest I thought it wouldn't have been that bad, especially on Sat. On the other hand forecasts themselves went totally wrong and Sun ended up to be better than Sat, but way below how conds were prior to the contest. That said it has been fun anyway. A few highlights and lowlights as usually. Successfully tested a 6x2 antenna switching with vacuum relays after several months of work, not a single glitch! Thumbs up ;-) After wiring all cables and with one radio ready to go I made a quick check just to see if everything was ok. 80mt ant showed infinite SWR. It wasn't neither a coax cable or a relay fault. Thus, we took a flashlight and went outside. Well, half element of the 80mt yagi wasn't in his place anymore but it was resting into vertical polarization right against the tower :-S That was the result of some wind/snow we had a few days b4. It was the 1st and only storm out of a quiet and warm winter. So I ended up using the 160mt dipole on 80mt with 50w input :-) Unfortunately even the spare antenna (80mt ssb slooping dipole) which needed just to fix the lower end and connect the coax was damaged too. We couldn't find a connector to replace the broken part...definitely it wasn't my lucky day! Thanks anyway to Claudio I4VEQ for coming up there to check things. Being totally focused on a SOAB effort I found it would have been really boring to turn into a SOSB, especially as the only reasonable option was 40mt. I didn't want to do it again :-P Got a challenge with QRN for a few hours on Sat and almost the whole Sun which prevented me from using all the yagis but luckly there is a quad so RX on 1st radio was ok. Starting from Sun morning I became something like SO2R distracted as the TX input relay of PA on STN A started to fail. So I ended up running guys and typing stuff with a hand and eventually forcing the relay to switch on with the other :-) SO2R setup was really basic. Two networked PCs with their related keyboards, a pair of headphones on RADIO A and my MP3 player ones which I put into left or right ear depending on how I was feeling comfortable at a given moment. Dynamic mic on 2nd radio. No voice keyer so I didn't have to care about multiple sigs on the air ;-) Guess I'm ok for the "die hard" category! 252 2nd radio qsos but it might have been much much better. Didn't feel I need WT smart functions with my SO2R setup so used the default software up here: WL which started to duplicate qsos in a crappy way whenever I networked PCs after a reboot. Apparently missed the best opening to US on 40 which happened right when I took an offtime the 2nd night and a JA opening on Sun morning. It really hurt when Dan LY6M told me when he switched on the radio the first thing he heard was a JA guy S-9+ on 15mt :-( Last but not the least thanks to Claudio I4VEQ and Francesco I4IND. It's always nice to play with a Multi op. setup from a top notch contest station into Single op. mode :-) Matt.EYZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3JCC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,560 Hi In this period i'm very busy in the job even of saturday and sunday this is the reason of only 2 hrs op. time.....just for fun before the time to go...hi. Some problems whit an old PC...sorry for 2 qso lost. I can't to say nothing about the prop. and the contest for the few time on air....i hope in the next year perhaps with more time and new antenna. www.iv3jcc.tk 73 to all iv3jcc Gianni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J75RZ Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 891,792 Operating from the Rain Forest in Dominica was an experience! We don't know which was worse - the rain, the bats, the birds, the rain, the rats, the rain, the lizzards, the rain, or the propagation. All our antennas were vertical dipoles in the trees. The constantly wet leaves didn't help our score. On second thought, it was the propagation. Daytime was a major disappointment, as was 160 meters. In spite of it all, we had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JQ1BVI Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,272,378 In WPX and Eudx, I am the most favorite contests. Why? ?It is healthy. When taking a rest for 12h, meal, shopping, and sleep can be taken. ?It does while it is in JA and Prifexs of JQ1 is unusual. It made QSO of VP2E, 3DA0EI, J28JA, and 9J2BO. ?In the serial number, the meaning of the strategy is deepened. However, I was participation after an interval of five years. QSY, job change, and the child's birth. ??The life environment has changed between them. And, the environment that enjoyed the contest again was made. As for NA, it was wonderful, and EU was not good for a day. NA was not good on the second day. However, EU was good. The number of JA decreases very much, and BY, UA9, and 0 have increased very much. If you see Asia in the next cycle peak, Q of BY will become a main current. Time that call of a lot of nostalgias was able to be heard. I was happy. In the following contests, let's meet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 358,435 nOT COMPETITIVE, BUT I DO ENJOY IT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 471,170 Soapbox: I got on the air periodically, between getting the batteries installed in the motorcycles, bringing my birds out to their aviary for the first time this year, wandering around the yard enjoying the 65 degree wx and sunshine, and going to dinner on Friday night. For the bottom of the solar cycle, this "wasn't too bad" for DXing. I even got a few 10m contacts in the log! 88 "Entities" I put a few "nice ones" in the log: C52T, 3DAØEI, 5C5Z, KØBUD, D44AC, 5D5A, ISØ/WHØQ, TC3D, 3XM6JR, ST2R, JW7QIA, BX5AA, B7P, and others... I almost escaped Murphy, but he dropped in for the last 20 minutes of the contest. That was when I moved from 20m down to 40m to troll for easy multipliers. I worked 11 stations for 10 multipliers but for some reason the software did not put those contacts into my log! I noticed the problem with 2 minutes to go. After it was over I grabbed paper and pencil and reconstructed those contacts as best I could. I'll need to ask how to handle this situation so those fellows don't get a NIL penalty. For the time being, I have included those contacts in my log and put 001 for the received serial numbers. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,800,426 THANKS TO EVERYBODY THAT CALLED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 97,020 Nice runs in very part-time effort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PT Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 69,350 Lots of static on bands at my QTH (80/40/20), fence dipole and flagpole is getting old, need to get a tower and yagi to make this more fun. Works OK for Sweeps but not for DX. New QTH is the first step and we are looking now, this will be my last PVRC contest, will be showing up on the FCG rolls next season. 73, Radar K2PT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 509,472 Very part time effort. Most was Packet assisted S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3EST Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,724,114 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 2,116,582 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW output, TH6DXX, zepp, dipole, inverted vee. Thanks for the QSOs. Glad so many US stations got on to work each other when DX QSOs were hard to come by. 20M was very poor on Saturday, but improved on Sunday. 15M was poor and 10 was open only to South America, Caribbean, and a few locals. Worked only one JA (JA6GCE on 20). 40 and 80 were pretty good, but 80 was noisy and I didn't try 160. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK/4 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 41,925 Station: Collins KWM-2A Hustler 5 Band Vertical I had a great time. Thanks to all who participated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SO(TS)SB20 HP Total Score = 771,260 Because I'm a big college basketball fan, installed a TV in the shack so I could operate and watch the NCAA Tournament basketball games at the same time. Neat!!! Big thrill to have EL2DX and ST2A call me back-to-back. Likewise it was neat to get a small opening to JA late Sunday afternoon and have 9M8 and 9M2 call in during that opening. Worked 99 countries so couldn't be happier with my results. Really neat to hear the 5C5/5D5's sport those prefixes. When I was QRV as CN8FC a few years ago tried to get the authorities to allow me to use 5E5 but they refused so it's good to see the tide has turned. Good to hear HD2A. Reminds me of my 3 years as WA4UAZ/HC1 when was able to operate the first CQ WPX CW as HD1A..... As usual this contest is great fun with a lots of prefixes available even when conditions are down. Thanks for the Q's. 73....//Steve K4EU FT-1000MP/Field QRO Amp Tennadyne 8ele LP up 50' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 41,724 Band Contacts Mult 160 2 0 80 47 39 40 31 20 20 40 25 15 39 32 10 9 8 168 124 Rig: R4C Rcvr / T4XC Xmtr Antenna Sys: All Wire Dipoles Total operating time: 22 Hours 16 Minutes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,287,434 As "Comic Book Guy" from the Simpson's would say with great disdain, "Worst conditions EVER. I will only operate another 20 hours." :-) First time I've never been able to run Europe on ANY band on the first morning of DX a contest. The auroral oval was reaching into the lower 48 states. I've never seen it that ugly during a DX contest. Conditions improved by Sunday, but not all that much. While twenty meters was runnable, just about every frequency had at least two or more people calling CQ on top of each other. Working the really weak ones was all but impossible. I actually enjoyed the operating quite a lot, in spite of the really lousy conditions. I think my ears are getting used to the never- ending QRM of phone contesting. It's like my brain just ignores the splatter and wall-to-wall QRM. I just make contacts in spite of the absolute chaos happening on frequency. I remember being amazed when last year, we at KM9P operated about 200 hertz from K3ZO for the better part of a day on 14.226. Fred won the single op category, and we won the multi-single trophy. It is still possible to make QSOs, even when the entire world is crammed into one open band. Worked a bunch of new operators and a whole slew of serial number 1's. I'm going after the TCG's RadioActive award this year (see this link:) http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/radioactive/index.html My focus this year is on QSO numbers, regardless of point value. I've also been trying to pace myself so as to not burn out, since I am operating contests literally every weekend this year, so far. I'm operating a lot more phone and RTTY, and having a ball with it. I spent a lot of time running USA on 40 meters, and there seemed to be a bottomless pit of callers. I took the time to welcome new operators to HF, and had a blast saying hello to all of my friends. One thing about non-competitive phone contesting is that you get to chat with the other guys that are just goofing around. It's kind of rare to run into a lot of these guys outside of the heat of battle, and I enjoy the opportunity to exchange some laughs together. If this contest were still 30 hours for the single op, I would have probably gone the distance, ran SO2R, and and really competed. 30 hours gives more stations in less-advantaged areas a shot at top single op honors. In other words, more meaningful competition for many of us. I guess there's no chance of that ever changing back, is there...? Thanks for the QSOs! 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 93,670 Had fun for a few hours between family obligations and then heading down to FL early on Sunday morning for a fishing trip. Ant: G5RV Rig: Ten Tec Omni VI+ Amp: Ten Tec Centurion Tuner: Ten Tec 238 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,094,210 Decided to get off the sidelines and let folks know that Pat (W5WMU) is not the only station in Louisiana. Dusted off the amp and entered in high power class. Also got the SO2R box cabled up about 2 hours before the contest and tried it for the first time. Now THAT took some getting used to. I salute those guys who can run rates over 150/hr AND run mults on the 2nd. That will take practice! Still love the F-12's and the ability to switch multiple tri-banders pointing diff directions lets you pick up mults w/o having to wait on rotors. Last year This year 618 Q's 1306 319 Mults 494 402,897 Score 1,094,210 Broke 1000 Q's for first time. Broke 1,000,000 points for first time. Guess the effort paid off. "Thanks" to everyone for stopping by for the Q. Some were quick and easy and some took some effort, but they are ALL appreciated! Look for K5ER and W5WZ in the next contest, putting NORTH Louisiana on the contest map. "See you in Dayton" 73, Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,012,743 Based on some of the comments I got during and after the contest I am sure there are several that might be surprised that my score is not larger than it is given that I was so far ahead in QSOs for almost the entire contest. There are several reasons for not having a huge score but the overriding one is not having the propagation to work much DX. The only really good opening to any DX happened at the end of the contest when I was just running out of operating time. One of my big concerns going into the contest was the forecast thunderstorms predicted for Sunday. If I lived about 75 miles west of where I do my off time plans would have been almost perfect as there were storms out there most of the day on Sunday. The only real chance we have from here in Texas is if at least 15 meters opens for us - so when we never got anything to speak of to Japan and Europe on 15 meters it was just one big North American rate fest for me and that was fun. I was considering going 15m single band due to some problems with some of my 20 and 40 meter antennas but I am glad I did not. There are clearly many newly upgraded hams on the HF bands and I hope they stick around for a few years and get to play at the sun spots return - as I think they will have a blast. WM5R did a great job from the W5KFT station. That station is about 40 miles north of me. It will be fun to figure out when and how he worked 50 more prefixes than I did. I suspect it has something to do with his rare prefix - but it might also be that he was on 20m some in those last hours of the contest when the band was finally open to Europe. Our scores are only 0.4% apart. And now the numbers...... Contest Dates : 24-Mar-07, 25-Mar-07 Callsign Used : K5TR BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Prefixes _____________________________________________________ 160SSB 14 14 28 1 80SSB 231 231 368 23 40SSB 554 547 1010 111 20SSB 2217 2154 3019 554 15SSB 205 205 477 82 10SSB 65 65 171 20 _____________________________________________________ Totals 3286 3216 5073 791 Final Score = 4012743 points. Continent List 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 10 192 434 1605 59 11 2311 VE calls = 3 20 31 187 2 0 243 N.A. calls = 0 9 20 46 18 2 95 S.A. calls = 0 3 19 56 59 52 189 Euro calls = 0 3 15 125 1 0 144 Afrc calls = 0 3 2 14 3 0 22 Asia calls = 0 0 0 17 0 0 17 JA calls = 0 0 6 69 38 0 113 Ocen calls = 1 1 20 35 25 0 82 Total calls = 14 231 547 2154 205 65 3216 HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ----- ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 0 --- --- --- 192/120 2/2 --- 194/122 194/122 0.04M 1 --- --- --- 70/31 68/34 --- 138/65 332/187 0.11M 2 --- --- --- 123/53 9/4 --- 132/57 464/244 0.19M 3 --- --- 13/6 123/46 9/7 --- 145/59 609/303 0.30M 4 --- --- 110/27 16/8 --- --- 126/35 735/338 0.40M 5 --- 6/2 66/22 3/1 --- --- 75/25 810/363 0.49M 6 --- 34/7 55/15 --- --- --- 89/22 899/385 0.59M 7 --- 21/4 21/5 --- --- --- 42/9 941/394 0.64M 8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 941/394 0.64M 9 --- 2/0 20/4 --- --- --- 22/4 963/398 0.67M 10 --- 7/3 57/14 --- --- --- 64/17 1027/415 0.76M 11 --- 4/1 27/1 --- --- --- 31/2 1058/417 0.78M 12 --- --- --- 13/6 5/4 --- 18/10 1076/427 0.81M 13 --- --- --- 19/5 20/8 --- 39/13 1115/440 0.88M 14 --- --- --- 87/23 --- --- 87/23 1202/463 0.98M 15 --- --- --- 145/23 --- --- 145/23 1347/486 1.11M 16 --- --- --- 169/28 --- --- 169/28 1516/514 1.28M 17 --- --- --- 160/19 --- --- 160/19 1676/533 1.42M 18 --- --- --- 126/17 --- --- 126/17 1802/550 1.54M 19 --- --- --- 48/15 22/4 --- 70/19 1872/569 1.66M 20 --- --- --- 138/21 3/0 --- 141/21 2013/590 1.83M 21 --- --- --- 124/16 1/0 --- 125/16 2138/606 1.99M 22 --- --- --- 88/12 5/1 --- 93/13 2231/619 2.12M 23 --- --- --- 60/17 28/8 --- 88/25 2319/644 2.30M 0 --- --- 4/0 70/15 5/2 --- 79/17 2398/661 2.45M 1 --- 8/1 14/1 44/4 --- --- 66/6 2464/667 2.54M 2 --- 89/3 4/2 2/0 --- --- 95/5 2559/672 2.66M 3 2/1 29/2 46/4 --- --- --- 77/7 2636/679 2.78M 4 --- --- 68/7 --- --- --- 68/7 2704/686 2.88M 5 --- 2/0 28/3 --- --- --- 30/3 2734/689 2.94M 6 12/0 24/0 8/0 --- --- --- 44/0 2778/689 2.98M 7 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2778/689 2.98M 8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2778/689 2.98M 9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2778/689 2.98M 10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2778/689 2.98M 11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2778/689 2.98M 12 --- 5/0 6/0 8/4 --- --- 19/4 2797/693 3.02M 13 --- --- --- 36/16 --- --- 36/16 2833/709 3.14M 14 --- --- --- 39/15 3/2 --- 42/17 2875/726 3.27M 15 --- --- --- 71/11 1/0 --- 72/11 2947/737 3.40M 16 --- --- --- 100/12 1/0 --- 101/12 3048/749 3.54M 17 --- --- --- 57/4 3/1 6/0 66/5 3114/754 3.63M 18 --- --- --- --- 10/4 36/10 46/14 3160/768 3.79M 19 --- --- --- 12/8 10/1 23/10 45/19 3205/787 3.97M 20 --- --- --- 11/4 --- --- 11/4 3216/791 4.01M 21 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 3216/791 4.01M 22 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 3216/791 4.01M 23 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 3216/791 4.01M D1 0/0 74/17 369/94 1704/461 172/72 0/0 2319/644 D2 14/1 157/6 178/17 450/93 33/10 65/20 897/147 TO 14/1 231/23 547/111 2154/554 205/82 65/20 3216/791 Gross QSO's=3286 Dupes=70 Net QSO's=3216 Unique callsigns worked = 2607 The best 60 minute rate was 202/hour from 0003 to 0102 The best 30 minute rate was 222/hour from 0003 to 0032 The best 10 minute rate was 246/hour from 0013 to 0022 The best 1 minute rates were: 6 QSO's/minute 6 times. 5 QSO's/minute 29 times. 4 QSO's/minute 115 times. 3 QSO's/minute 280 times. 2 QSO's/minute 511 times. 1 QSO's/minute 713 times. There were 369 bandchanges and 174 (5.4%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 5 4 1088 5 1225 6 872 7 7 8 15 9 4 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 2153 2 bands 334 3 bands 89 4 bands 28 5 bands 2 6 bands 1 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: WW5X ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 4 64 229 1730 91 35 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 85,936 20 meters started out white-hot on Friday night. When it closed, the QSY to 40 and 80 was greeted with nasty QRN. I'm not sure if it was the storms over New Mexico, or a solar flare, but the QRN was S9. 20 was so-so on Saturday. 15 open just a peep. 80 meters was tremendous on Saturday night. The QRN disappeared and it was clear sailing. No openings for me to Europe on 20. Worked very few JA's. I entered as assisted, but I don't think I got any prefixes from spots. I looked at the big picture about what band was open etc. Best DX: D44AC on 20 and 80. Rig: FT-990 Antennas: Sloping 80 meter dipole from 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee at 50 feet Sloping 40 meter dipole from 50 feet running N-S (Sunday afternoon) Sloping 20 meter dipole from 40 feet (Sunday afternoon) Alpha Delta DX-CC Inverted V at 20 feet Software: N3FJP - worked well ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6QK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 41,328 My wife and I were leaving on a 14 day cruise on Saturday at 0600 so there wasn't much time to operate and get a few hours sleep but I did manage my WPX contest fix. There's always next year. Thanks to those who worked me. 73, Harv K6QK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 436,363 20M was almost a no show for NorCal. Thanks for help digging out hte QSOs! 73, K6TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 11,147 I prefer CW these days. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 138,866 WOW SUNDAY MADE IT GO FOR ME...SATURDAY THE BANDS WERE IN THE DUMPER FOR THE MOST OF THE TIME...HAD FUN AND ONLY S AND P...NEVER CALLED ONE CQ THE ENTIRE WEEKEND...I PLAYED MOST OF THE WEEKEND AND YOU CAN TELL FROM THE SCORE...GUD TIME THO.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LMM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,645 Limited activity from my modest station: 100W into an inv vee at 60ft. SteppIR goes into the sky in 2 weeks. Hope to see some improvement then. 20M was very noisy all contest long. Worked some lower bands at night. As always: heard many more than could hear me - could have worked about 20-30 more uniques. DId not hear ANY JAs. Unusual. Any contest worked is fun as this one was also. Tried to CQ and only got a KI4 to come back. All others S&P. Watch out next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7SS Class: SO(TS)SB10 LP Total Score = 56 Nice VK opening at 7pm local on Friday. Highlight was working KE7MAN, Sam, who is 7 years old. Will try and remember to look back at this score in a few years from now, after watching 10 come back to life. 73 de K7SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Total Score = 40,375 Only had a few hours to fool around getting 1 PFX per QSO on 20M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 15,403 I just got on to work the MRRC team at KP2TM (found them on 2 bands), and hung around for a bit to pass out some more qsos to the deserving. CU in the Michigan QSO Party on Saturday, April 21. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 337,552 A very part time effort. Had other things to do this weekend, and only operated small times in evening. IC-756Pro-2, Ameritron AL572, "near full size" 4-Square, Dipole Info on homebrew 4-Square on http://k9es.painloss.com/index.htm 73's Eric K9ES W. Melbourne FL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 716,000 Not anticipating being around all weekend, I had two objectives going into this one: 1) See how much DX could go in the log without operating split now that a large part of Europe is QRV up to at least 7.200. I only went split when calling stations CQing below 7100. 2) See how much daytime activity there might be on 40M. #1 was affected by conditions, or lack thereof. I was able to work most of the usual suspects with the big stations in EU but was never able to tap into the lower tiers. JA heard but not worked....no QSX up. VR2C had a nice signal Sunday morning but same deal. VK and ZL worked with decent signals, VK6 in particular. Bottom line is that 2 el @ 80' in NE Indiana wasn't quite enough to overcome the bad condx this time. It was much more enjoyable calling CQ and only having to manage one frequency though! #2 pleasantly surprised me. While never fast and furious, there seemed to be a slow but steady stream of callers always available during the daytime hours. Because of this I actually spent a lot more time in the chair than I had planned on. Worked a fair number of /AG and /AE types and it was nice to be able to take a little extra time to congratulate them on their new privileges. Hopefully they had a good contesting experience and will be back in the fray for future events. ~830 1 pt QSOs! Congrats to K5ZD and KY5R on nice scores. As Randy noted, we might be a little nuts for doing single 40M in a phone event. I suppose someone has to do it though. Considering rehab..... Thanks for the QSOs! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1NEF Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 615,081 This was my first contest. I had a blast. Thanks to everyone see you next year!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB6MTH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,060 Inverted V@35 ft (45' each arm). 3 hours casual, unassisted. First time playing from my own home, usually I play at W4WS, W4NC, or WB4MSG. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC3R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,570,588 This was the last one in a series of 4 contests that I did seriously starting with ARRL DX CW. After each one of them I thought that it just couldn't get any worse. Well, I was wrong all three times. This one added some other realities, particularly specific to the US Phone contesting. Ugh, I'm really glad it's over. Hopefully we'll get a little bit better conditions in May. Thanks to everyone who patiently waited and repeated his call/number until I was finally able to sort it out. My sincere thanks to WA3FET who let me operate the best SO station on the East Coast again. 73, Alex LZ4AX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 196,582 Friday evening was great. Saturday was bad and Sunday even worse. Could barely hear a few stateside stations. So bad in fact, that I made 15 2m EME QSO's on Sunday and only 15 SSB QSO's on 15m in the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,798 Just popped in a few times to give out some points. It's a lot of fun finding a new multiplier under almost every rock and even more fun giving out a new multiplier late in the contest from the always "rare" NJ. Looking forward to CW WPX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,499,378 Well, that was a lot different from last year! Late Saturday night, 40 was so bad we went to 160. That worked out well, with 100 QSO's and several Europeans on top band. Usually, the rates on 40 into Europe are better, but not Saturday night. Despite poor conditions on 40 Saturday night, our QSO total is way up from last year on 40 - because 15 really didn't open on Sunday, we spent more time than usual working US stations on 40. We had two new additions to our team: Miriam, K3MIM and Mark, NA3D. Mark had a great last hour of the contest on 40...60 QSO's with a lot of Eurpoeans. A shame we didn't have cdonditions like that Saturday night! Thanks also to David and Andrea Evans for putting up with us and, most importantly, our mascot "Ender". (Ender is an Australian Cattle dog and keeps us company. Thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting us join him at the "farm." See you in the CW contest! HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... 1/1 59/45 125/89 ..... ..... 185/135 185/135 1 . 85/31 48/36 16/6 . . 149/73 334/208 2 . 64/33 86/37 . . . 150/70 484/278 3 . 60/38 23/12 . . . 83/50 567/328 4 . 48/29 31/20 . . . 79/49 646/377 5 . 35/7 36/19 . . . 71/26 717/403 6 . 66/19 43/17 . . . 109/36 826/439 7 . 38/7 31/14 . . . 69/21 895/460 8 ..... 26/5 24/12 ..... ..... ..... 50/17 945/477 9 . 15/7 20/4 . . . 35/11 980/488 10 . 11/0 17/4 12/2 . . 40/6 1020/494 11 . . 14/6 23/3 . . 37/9 1057/503 12 . . 27/7 62/31 . . 89/38 1146/541 13 . . 6/1 94/36 13/10 . 113/47 1259/588 14 . . . 91/24 33/15 . 124/39 1383/627 15 . . . 73/21 28/11 . 101/32 1484/659 16 ..... ..... ..... 81/18 26/9 ..... 107/27 1591/686 17 . . . 84/21 40/5 . 124/26 1715/712 18 . . . 84/11 22/7 36/10 142/28 1857/740 19 . . . 101/25 24/3 3/0 128/28 1985/768 20 . . . 86/23 56/5 . 142/28 2127/796 21 . . . 78/16 45/9 . 123/25 2250/821 22 . . . 67/8 24/4 . 91/12 2341/833 23 . . 25/7 65/7 . . 90/14 2431/847 0 ..... 32/7 41/3 7/1 ..... ..... 80/11 2511/858 1 . 62/9 25/3 . . . 87/12 2598/870 2 . 57/5 19/4 . . . 76/9 2674/879 3 . 46/6 40/6 . . . 86/12 2760/891 4 10/3 27/3 19/1 . . . 56/7 2816/898 5 48/5 20/0 2/0 . . . 70/5 2886/903 6 29/2 38/5 3/1 . . . 70/8 2956/911 7 16/2 33/8 9/1 . . . 58/11 3014/922 8 5/0 8/1 17/2 ..... ..... ..... 30/3 3044/925 9 . 6/0 13/1 . . . 19/1 3063/926 10 12/0 4/0 8/0 9/3 . . 33/3 3096/929 11 . . 11/0 67/21 . . 78/21 3174/950 12 . . 34/2 94/24 . . 128/26 3302/976 13 . . 53/1 67/22 . . 120/23 3422/999 14 . . 66/3 53/18 . . 119/213541/1020 15 . . 40/1 51/5 7/5 . 98/113639/1031 16 ..... ..... 53/6 72/11 ..... ..... 125/173764/1048 17 . . 12/1 50/7 25/5 . 87/133851/1061 18 . . 19/0 65/6 7/2 3/0 94/8 3945/1069 19 . . 27/4 51/12 2/0 2/0 82/164027/1085 20 . . 46/3 63/8 2/1 . 111/124138/1097 21 . . 40/3 43/6 . . 83/9 4221/1106 22 . . 19/2 50/5 . . 69/7 4290/1113 23 . . 60/2 27/7 . . 87/9 4377/1122 DAY1 ..... 449/177 490/241 1142/341 311/78 39/10 ..... 2431/847 DAY2 120/12 333/44 676/50 769/156 43/13 5/0 . 1946/275 TOT 120/12 782/221 1166/291 1911/497 354/91 44/10 . 4377/1122 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 220,886 Friday evening (saturday UTC) was wild and 20 sounded like times past! Worked 2 BY and 1 BV. Good opening over north pole. When the sun came up, where were the sunspots then?? Ten opened some and 15 was way down from ther tests this year. Still operating with tribander antenna at 15 feet. So watch out when I raise it soon. I hope its up before the BS7!! Best DX to all Ed KE3D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE7MAN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 48 First contest with own call. KE7MAN ran the radio, N9ADG (dad) logged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF4GTA Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 35,088 An out of town wedding caused me to miss most of the contest. I had fun catching the last part. Hope to see all of you during the Georgia QSO Party, April 14 - 15. 73 de KF4GTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 201,235 Very limited time spent ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 92,547 80 single band entry with a good run that ended at 0530z the first night and few Q's afterwards. Europe path skewed to the East which is always a bad sign for us. Band recovered a little the second night and I had a very slow S&P rate for ten hours until the BY radar wiped out any chance of a good JA run. The band filled slowly with the regular W6/7 non-contesting folks that chat every morning so I gave up. Checked 160 a few times to see if I wanted to switch bands but it was worse. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 159,174 425 CONTINENTAL U.S. q's... 72 DX (including VE and U.S. Possesions) Condx very poor, but you all know that.... Hope condx better in May. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,171,213 Many thanks to Jeff K4JNY, for the use of his station and the KM9P call sign. Had several nice comments from those who recognized the former call of Bill, W4AN. We almost didn't do this one as some of our "first team" ops could not be there. But, thanks to help from relatively new-to-contesting Kenny AB4GG and Howard KE4MBP along with regulars K0EJ, NA4K and KD4HIK (and a few pinch-hit hours from K4JNY), we were able to keep the radios going for the full 48 - in spite of the (lack of) propagation. Thanks to everyone for stopping by and giving us a QSO. 73, Ted W4NZ Summary: BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES 160 58 103 1.8 3 80 600 1051 1.8 92 40 776 1614 2.1 263 20 1235 2434 2.0 463 15 144 328 2.3 79 10 34 97 2.9 19 -------------------------------------- Totals 2847 5627 2.0 919 = 5,171,213 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,209,823 I like the WPX format of everyone works everyone, and everything counts something. That makes it fun for a little pistol station that can put an odd prefix on the air. Spent more time than I intended, but I did get some sleep each night. Not much going until Sunday, then 20 and 40 picked up. 15 never produced anything and not even a peep on 10 - that made 20 meters a real zoo. 80 was fun with our new SSB privleges. Contesters able to co-exist with the "good ol' boys" pretty well. Got some CW QRM on 3.723 from an N5 calling CQ. I wonder if he thought he was still in the novice band. Also Someone told me I was out of the band on 7.147. I grinned and continued making Q's. Was nice to work some Europeans direct around that freq. Then I picked up some nice African mults toward the end - ST2R, EH1A, and 3DA)EI answered my cq's on 20 m in the last 2 hours, and then I busted the pile on C52T in the last hour - fun! I still prefer the CW part in May - but this one will keep me from going into withdrawals until then. CU all in May - K0OU (KO0U in WPX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2BH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 935,066 Bands where pretty funny,but pretty good contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2TM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 15,969,766 Equipment: FT-1000MP/Alpha 76PA, NA 10.61 and an MFJ-432 voicekeyer Antennas: 2L 20/15/10 Quad at 50' Cushcraft 40-2CD at 40' 80M AI1H dipole at 35' No antenna for 160 and no receive antennas Our second WPX SSB trip to the "Villa On The Edge" QTH which is the home of KP2TM. After 5600 QSOs and 16M in 2006 with just two ops, we were looking forward to 2007 even though our sanity was questioned for making such a trip near the sunspot minimum. We arrived on Wednesday, and spent Thursday R&Ring the reflector loops on our 2L triband quad. The wires were fraying at the corners where they passed through the Cubex fiberglass spreaders, and the 20M loop was already broken and hanging down. Before the trip we had consulted with the master quad builder Greg, K8GL and applied many of his tips to make the quad more durable in the future. Friday was spent gathering food supplies and setting up the station. As others have reported, 28 MHz was in very good shape the afternoon before the contest. We received a S9+25dB signal report from an HB9 while we were running just 100W! While this was unexpected, we were skeptical such conditions would last, and we were unfortunately correct. In 2006 we had a very good first 30 minutes on 10M, and followed that with 200+ Q/hr rates on 15 for the next 90 minutes before having to descend into the quagmire of 20M. This year there was no 10M, and after starting on 15M we were down to 20M ten minutes into the contest. However, 20M was good and we were able to make it produce last through most of the 04Z hour. In years past, we've found 40M to be very difficult in this contest, both from WP2Z in 2004 and KP2TM in 2006. One would think that having a 40-2CD overlooking the ocean with a clean shot to Europe from many hundreds of feet above the water (both stations) would make being a big sig into Europe a piece of cake. This year was different; the first night we started out running W/VE with QSX at 7166, and several of the EU big guns called us amongst the NA. Op K8CC picked up the hint, and checked his transmit QRG on 7077 and found it relatively clear so started running transceive and has two 100+ hours in a row working Europe before the band closed. We went straight to 40M from 15M the 2nd night and while the rate wasn't as good, the callers were still predominantly Europe. Overall, we were a lot more pleased with 40M this year and the band's numbers bear it out - 2006: 673Q/3074pts/4.56PPQ, 2007: 880Q/4290pts/4.88 PPQ. On the other hand, 15M which was such a bottomless pit of QSOs in 2006 (2859, or over 50% of our total) never really got good. The band opened late both mornings and signals were consistently down from last year. This year, we were working more W/VE and as a result our points/QSO average dropped slightly from 2.34 in 2006 to 2.29 this year. 80M is never a crucial band for us, and our decision to stay on 20M through the early evening the first night and 40M the second night hurt us, for while we seemed to get out OK, it seemed like by the time we got to 80M Europe was largely gone and most of W/VE was asleep. Despite the great Friday afternoon conditions, 10M never really opened up. We were watching the PacketCluster and occasionally scanning the band, but We only had one QSO the first day, and a couple of brief forays to the band in the 18Z and 20Z hours the second day when we heard signals. WE wound up only working a handful of Spanish stations, and most of our Caribbean neighbors like NP4A, NP3U, TI5N, and VP2E. Fifteen minutes after the contest was over we were down at the bar on the beach seeking food, and they kept the kitchen open to feed the hungry contesters. On Monday we took down the driven element of the quad and made similar repairs as we had done to the reflector on Thursday. Hopefully the antenna will now be ready for many more years of contest QSOs. I guess we're starting to understand what it means to contest from the Caribbean during a sunspot minimum. When you can make 5000+ QSOs with just one rig, we can't hardly wait for the sunspots to return. Now if we could just figure out a way to make KP2 a three point county :-) Thanks for all the QSOs. 73, Tim, K9TM Dave, K8CC Ken, W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 909,636 I started operating about an hour late into the contest. 20 meters was all but gone. So I went to 40 meters. What a hoot the rate really took off and I was running state side. No real dx on the low bands. Some SA and a few Africa. The 2nd radio was mostly useless. Just too much qrn. 80 was a struggle with the static cashes and I didn’t even get on 160. Ended the night with 431 qso’s. Most were 40 meter qso’s. Got up Saturday morning thinking that would at least run Europe on 20 meters. No luck there. The K index was 5 so I was on 40 meters calling CQ with good success. Made about another 100 qso’s. Then had to quit for a few hours of things to do around the house and with the boys. Then went back to 20 and still not much better. VE4VV called me on the telephone and asked me if his radio was broke. I said the bands are broke. Hi 20 picked up a bit with only a few Europe. I worked a few hours here and there getting a few q’s on 15 and 20. I did put the snowblower away and cleaned the garage a bit and got he kids bikes out and played some basketball too.Then watched a movie with dinner and the family. Worked some 80 for a 90 hour and put the kids to bed. Fell asleep and woke up at 2:00 am local and ran some 80 and 160. The bands were good for all USA and some Pacific but, of course most people were asleep. Went back to bed with 945 q’s in the log. Q total was good but the score was way down due to not much dx. Got up Saturday morning and 20 was open to Europe and I had high hopes that things were getting better. In a few hours I had 1100 q’s in the log. Then I had to break for lunch and some other things to do. Took the boys to the park to practice their baseball, tryouts this week. And then got on for a couple hours with very poor rates. More or less bagged it and said that is good for now. Funny to hear soapbox of stations on the east coast saying oh 15 meter was awful and then working 200-350 qso’s and anther saying 40 meters was the worst I ever heard working 800+ qso’s and 150 of them being Europe. You guys don’t know what ruff is. All in all good contest as always. Qso total not bad but, score way down. I wish at least the USA contacts were with double on the low bands. That would help a lot. Also Europe must have just a lot more activity than USA. Then European qso numbers were way higher than most USA stations. Always good to see old friends and meet some new ones too. See you next time. Vry 73 Dave KT0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 62,328 ICOM 756PROII to Force12 Flagpole Vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4ZB Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,040,396 After 3 years of being part of the NQ4I M/M team, was on my own. Thanks to Bill, K4WP, for allowing me to use his new station for WPX. He has put together an excellent general purpose shack with FT-1000mp Field plus Quadra for 10-40m to Steper IR, and Icom 756 pro plus amp and balanced line dipole for killer signal on 80m. My favorite contest, tough to run on 20m, but nice runs on 40 and 80. Thanks to all for Q's and spots; also to the SECC guys on the bands; also to KT4PD, whom I've never met, who found me with just minutes to go to swap prefixes. Best - Jere ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 2,413,392 A HUGE thanks to Bob and family for their wonderful hospitality even at such short notice of a single op effort. As of about 4 hours before the contest we were planning a serious M/2 effort but due to operator issues this wouldn't have been possible. I was already on my way out of Houston around 3pm when Bob called and said that this operation had been scrubbed. He then very graciously asked if I wanted to do a single op and I of course had to say YES! Op'ing from his station is always a good time and lots of good conversation. Arrived in Somerville around 4:30 and made the always necessary run to Dairy Queen (I love Texas) after getting the antennas hooked up and computer re-programmed. The contest started and boy was it a total mess. People were crammed on 20m and took me 10 minutes or so to find a good run frequency after being run off by some notable big guns....come on guys, I may be young but as some of the WWYC'ers say, "Don't mess with KUB". I went to sleep around midnight and got up at 6am only to find the band dead with just a few South American stations. By 9am the band was hopping, but where were the Europeans??!! I had logged MAYBE 5 total from Friday night and Saturday combined. Some very nice JA runs to be had but this really felt like doing single op during NAQP SSB (not totally a bad thing, I had so much fun working the US piles). Went to sleep Saturday night at 11pm or so and decided I wouldn't get up until 7am on Sunday. Well, this may not have been the best decision but an extremely LONG week before this contest made sleeping for 6-7 hours inevitable. Finally on Sunday morning the EU's started to boom in and continued like that for the remainder of the day. Congrats to W7WA for his fantastic score, looks like you're the man to get pointers from. Dinner on Sunday evening with his family was really great, they are such nice people. Listen for NX5M during the CW part as we put together a good M/M team...but if you hear my call, you'll know what happened. Until next time. 73, Colin KU5B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KW7Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,749,803 Pleasure and pain best describes my WPX contest. The pain of trying to operate an all band contest on essentially two bands; but the pleasure of getting a few good openings that make it fun. In the pain category, this weekend’s periodic heavy rain showers created rain static, which it made a tough to hear. I know Seattle is known for its rain, but we don’t often get the downpours responsible for the static. At one point, I had to take an unscheduled break because the noise was 20 over 9. That was a first during a contest. Another first was getting jammed on 40m Saturday night at the start of a nice EU run -- any kind of sustained SSB EU run on 40m is rare here during a contest weekend. The guy also took the extra step of following me around the band as I moved to avoid him. That little dance lasted about an hour before he finally swore at me and left. Guess I happened to be at the right place at the wrong time. Fortunately, there was plenty of propagation left to enjoy the remaining run. Thank you to the patient operators that repeated their exchange several times to make the QSO! In the pleasure category, getting a chance to run EU stations on 40m for several hours was a thrill. Propagation on day two was a relief compared to the poor propagation on day one -- especially on the low bands. Thanks to all the great operators that make this contest such a blast. And to Paul, the real KW7Y. 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 859,845 Great activity but not always gud cndx. Fri/Sat hi-QRN to the west then Sat depressed cndx to EU/JA. Oh well just thankful fer the 1 pointers. My 2nd serious attempt in 2yrs in WPX. Last year baby monitor RFI on 20mtrs squelched my effort. Also noted was the activity of newly upgraded ops which was encouraging. Had a good time all in all. All equipment worked well just an ocassional glich from the ops seat Hi Hi. CU next year , Tim KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: L44DX Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 386,393 Tnx all qso. Qsl via EA5KB 6 Elem. 10/15/20 @18mts TS-850s Esteban LW1DTZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,932,312 Propagation seem to be failing on us every single time we enter a serious contest, and this time was no exception. Well, nothing to do about it, and we just need to focus on doing our best. Had a lot of fun though, and after all the hardware trouble we had with network and computers, we endend up with 2 hours offtime. From 0100z-0200z we worked 2 qsos....:(((( After the first day nobody beleived we would be so close to the LA M/S record, so 2nd day was great after all. Will be dreaming about sunspots to appear soon :) Cu in the cw contest. LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR2F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 14,919,657 THANKS TO ALL FOR THE CONTACT. QSL VIA LU2FA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LS2D Class: M/S CABALLOS D Total Score = 4,336,972 THANKS A : LU7DP / LU1DP / LU7DFM .- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LT1F Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 18,558,162 Rigs: IC-775DSP (LU1FKR), IC-765 (LU1FKR), IC-775DSP with Inrad roffing filters (LU4DX) Amps: Drake L4B (LU1FKR), Ameritron AL-1200 @ 1000 W (LU8ADX). Antennas: 28: 6/6 el yagi (not in stack) 21: 6/6 el yagi (stackable) 14: 5 el yagi / 4 el yagi (not in stack) 7 : 3 el yagi KLM type 3.5: 2 el Delta loop aimed at USA (LU1FKR/LU5DX) RX: 600 Ft bev straight North Coaxial Stubs at the output of the array soulition 6 pack. Logging Soft: N1MM - 2 Pc networked via ethernet. Remarks: We really had a great time during WPX SSB. No equipment failures, no antenna issues, no interstation interference. Just Qs, B-B-Q, pizza and fun! Propagation was tough, specially during Sunday. 3300 Qs at halfmark, but only 1500 during the second day. The Delta loop was erected on Saturday it took 10 hours of work to get the performance we wanted. We tested it on Sunday morning and made 40 + Qs search & pounce, all the reports were really good. Everybody getting our callsign at the first shot. Altough the QRN level was high the was no need for the beverage. CU in WPX CW! THE LT1F Bad Boys: LU1FKR, LU1FAM, LU1AEE, LU4DX, LU5DX, LU8ADX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 820,045 Very few DX - 22 AS, 5 NA, 8 AF and 5 SA (with LU - new for DXCC). At the end of contest found out that central Eu (270 deg) Beverage was not functioning. Congrats to CN2R and SN3R for new WW and EU records (old one I passed too). Tnx for QSOs! 73 Arunas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0YY Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 6,272 FT-1000MP Delta Loop at 70 feet WriteLog 10.55D Just a few hours to play. Noisy on Friday with local storms but better on Saturday evening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 256,316 I ENJOYED THE TIME SPENT RENEWING OLD FRIENDSHIPS AND MAKING NEW ONES. THE BANDS WERE NOT IN GREAT SHAPE FOR SURE, ALTHOUGH 20 WAS THE BAND TO GO TO HERE. 15 AND 10 WERE DISAPPOINTING. HOPE EVERYONE HAD AS MUCH FUN AS I DID. 73s JERRY N4JF CENTRAL ALABAMA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 380,613 Just playing around part time, Low Power. Never did hear a single European on 15M ! As expected, many (most?) 40M DX stations were only listening on their frequency most of the time. Best DX of the weekend: 3DA0EI (40M) 3V8BB (40,20) 3XM6JR (20) 5B/AJ2O (80,40) 9K2HN (40M 7158 KHz transceive, worked barefoot!) D44AC (80,40,20) EA9LZ (40M) LX8M (40,20) PZ5A (40,20) Z37M(40) Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 750,956 Despite strange conditions I enjoyed this contest. I was able to run a lot, but of course worked mostly 1 point QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DA Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 116,982 Totally abusive running 100 watts and a few dipoles. Miracle contact: 3XM6JR on second try. Throw your call in, you never can tell! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 22,442 After more than a week of zero sunspot days, I came into this contest with really low expectations and a lot of worry. I figured if I could wrestle 100 Qs out of this mess and maybe 10K points, I'd be doing well and could retire from the field with my dignity intact :-) Well, it wasn't as bad as I expected, but not a whole lot better either. When the dust finally settled, I found I had exceeded my expectations with 146 Qs and 22442 points. I had two 6 pt Qs (Hawaii on 75 ssb), eight 4 pt Qs (seven VE and one KL7), twenty 3 pt Qs (a mix of South America, Japan, Hawaii and Australia), nine 2 pt Qs (Central America, Carib'n and VE), and then 107 1 pt Qs from all call areas of the continental US. The expected influx of JA stations didn't really show up this time. My 6 JA Qs were in the first six hours of the contest. I heard them weakly the next day, but they were few in number and none that I had not already worked. I was able to maintain my tradition of actually working all bands, with 4 Qs on 160m, 30 on 75m, 28 on 40m, 56 on 20m, 25 on 15m, and 3 on 10m. My wire antenna farm worked as well as conditions would allow. For WPX I put a 54 ft doublet oriented on JA, more or less. It helped on 20 and 15m. The antenna that really pleased me was my 160m top loaded vertical. I used it on 75m as a top-loaded half-wave vertical with good results. I was surprised when some more distant statins actually came back to my call. My practice is to call everyone, because I can never predict who will hear me and who won't. My worst hours were on the first day--20Z produced 1 20m Q and 1 15m Q, and 23Z produced 1 20m Q. My best hour was the 02Z hour of the second day with 16 Qs. I only had five hours with 10 Qs or better. This WPX was a real tough slog. Fortunately, the Attitude of this Little Station could best be described as stubborn :-). I was going to see it through to the bitter end. I'm now beginning to get an idea of what battle fatigue might be like. Thanks to everyone who worked with me to complete our Qs. It's really appreciated. Hope to see you all in the WPX CW. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AZ Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 278,332 IC 746Pro, 2 of a 3 el SteppIR at 65 ft, 40 & 80M Inverted V Did I mention that the 7QP is coming up, http://7qp.org 7QP May 5-6, look for K-7-Papa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 70,560 Part time effort for the club score. Europe was a struggle on 20 and no JA's were worked here on any band; VK6 on 40 meters but no JA's???! Interesting ethics exhibited by some US ops with respect to split operation on 40 meters. They'd better hope the FCC wasn't listening! Thanks to our friends in South and Central America for the Q's on 10 and 15 meters. See you all in May for the fun half of this contest: CW! 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,516,120 A tough weekend. Started good for a couple of hours, most of Saturday was a real struggle and Sunday afternoon picked things up. Almost gave up early Sunday until I found a spot on 20 and had a nice run of 3 pointers and mults from EU. Short but decent 10M opening on Saturday - only a couple of Q's on 10 on Sunday. Like the extra space on 80M. Nice not to have to fight for a frequency. 40 was surprising - not as many 6 pointers as I would have expected. Is nice not to have to work split as much. Did not hear lots of guys listening up (their loss). Nothing broke (any more than it already is). 2 ele 40 needs to come down for major repairs and one rotor turns but have no idea where it is pointing without running outside to check. Thought I'd use my own call for a change. Could not have been too many N8's on. Took me most of the weekend to find another one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 126,671 Started to do a QRP run but that was not to be. Too much QRN and a wall was up between the US and EU that I could not bust. So I cranked it all the way to 100W and it did not make a difference. Just think, last year I won this contest for USA QRP. 73 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9ADG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 47,190 KE7MAN operated, N9ADG (dad) logged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA1QP Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 222,453 Didn't have much airtime, but had lots of fun. There is always next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 5,684 Squeezed a little radio in on Saturday so I could ride most of the Rome to Chattanooga 'Tour de Georgia' route on Sunday. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA7RF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 108,852 Better result than last year with much worse conditions. Had my 80-meter vertical down for improvement and got it back up only late Saturday afternoon...it was worth doing the work during the contest with D44AC as a reward. Very disappointed that Asian stations were not QSX-up Saturday morning on 40. Many nice mults heard with great signals...VR2C was incredible and among at least a half-dozen stations heard more than an hour-and-a-half after my sunrise. Still had problems with rag-chewers in the JA window on 80. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA7XX Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 589,572 I think ugly pretty much sums this one up. Terrible conditions from here. If it was not the aurora then it was the power line noise. I worked everything I heard but running was a real challenge. You know it is bad when you can't run US-VE. 15 was open just the first night. Nothing on Saturday or Sunday. Could not run on 40 or 75 first night and pretty much tossed in the towel at that point. Went to bed and probably missed the best part of the contest running JA's on 40m. I am a volunteer fire fighter and we got called out on a wild land fire around 2pm on Saturday. That was much more exciting than the bands! Unfortunately unless we get some serious rain or snow this will be a very long fire season. Saturday night 40 and 75 seemed to be good but I had no takers. Very strange conditions. Sunday, I felt like I was getting out well. I think there was some serious inbound signal dampening going on as most callers (when I could run) were very weak. Was it just me or was packet spotting way down this year? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NB7V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 682,656 WOW! TORTURE = WPX at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. The bands were up and down all weekend, Rain static on sunday and every goofball with a radio Jamming, Tuning up, or giving me a piece of what is left of his mind. Nets that you can,t hear with a 6 ele yagi, but the person defending the net is 20over9! I can't wait until next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1HP Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 55,800 73, Eric KV1J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1RD Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 36,162 My Elecraft K2 and G5RV did well considering the conditions. Not a big score, but added to my QRP DXCC total. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 2,540,251 15 meters sucked !!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NH6P Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 1,456,026 Very poor band conditons on 15M, unable to work many W/K stations, sure hope this is the real bottom!!!! Aloha, Fred W6YM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,601,320 I have actually never operated a serious DX SSB contest as a single op prior to this! EXPECTATIONS: 1) Leading up to the contest, all predictions were for quiet atmospheric conditions. 2) 15M was fun from Florida during the two ARRL DX weekends, so there was no reason to expect otherwise this weekend. 3) Get the SO2R set-up working on SSB for the first time ever. 4) Based on a good weather report, a static-free weekend. 5) Lots of 6-pointers on 40 with low sunspots and a decent antenna that finally rotates again. 6) A bunch of Japanese QSOs on 20 to increase the prefix count. 7) FUN! REALITY: 1) Other than the very beginning and very end, conditions were unexpectedly bad. After staying at 0 or 1 for many days, the K-index rose on Friday and was often 3 or 4 during the contest. 2) Checked 15 several times on Saturday and heard nothing to the east at all. Finally on Sunday near 17Z, a few EAs and Fs answered, but the band never really opened. 3) Many thanks to Gary, W9XT for getting a custom cable to arrive on Friday. It worked fine, but it turned out that I had two other issues preventing SO2R on SSB. 4) Static Friday night was steady and annoying, but not crippling. 5) Very disappointing DX results on 40, with many DX stations not listening up at all. 6) 3 total JAs all weekend. When JI2ZEY called at 2215 on Sunday, I was energized with hope for a nice JA run to finish the contest, but I never heard another JA at all. 7) FrUstratioN. There is a deeper pool of prefixes to work than ever before, especially in Western EU, and thanks go out to all of those that made the effort to operate despite the less-than-perfect condx. 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America SSB 14 101 745 1035 30 1 1926 62.0 South America SSB 1 1 12 43 44 10 111 3.6 Europe SSB 5 124 88 745 28 0 990 31.9 Asia SSB 0 2 4 15 3 0 24 0.8 Africa SSB 1 3 4 14 13 0 35 1.1 Oceania SSB 0 0 4 14 1 0 19 0.6 HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT OFF 0 ..... ..... 158/102 ..... ..... ..... 158/102 158/102 1 . 4/2 73/28 . . . 77/30 235/132 2 . 67/48 . . . . 67/48 302/180 3 . 35/27 21/10 . . . 56/37 358/217 4 . . 107/55 . . . 107/55 465/272 5 . . 105/44 . . . 105/44 570/316 6 . . 15/5 . . . 15/5 585/321 50 off . . . . . . . 585/321 4H 11 . . . 40/27 . . 40/27 625/348 16 12 . . . 63/33 . . 63/33 688/381 13 . . . 84/32 . . 84/32 772/413 14 . . . 146/35 . . 146/35 918/448 15 . . . 123/28 . . 123/28 1041/476 16 ..... ..... ..... 123/32 ..... ..... 123/32 1164/508 17 . . . 121/33 . . 121/33 1285/541 18 . . . 119/29 . . 119/29 1404/570 19 . . . 112/31 . . 112/31 1516/601 20 . . . 96/30 . . 96/30 1612/631 21 . . . 119/35 . . 119/35 1731/666 22 . . . 48/17 35/23 11/8 94/48 1825/714 23 . . 80/10 1/0 . . 81/10 1906/724 0 ..... ..... 119/13 ..... ..... ..... 119/13 2025/737 1 . . . 10/7 . . 10/7 2035/744 47 2 6/1 13/4 . 5/0 . . 24/5 2059/749 40 3 . 58/9 . . . . 58/9 2117/758 4 . 32/6 51/14 . . . 83/20 2200/778 5 15/2 19/1 28/3 . . . 62/6 2262/784 6 . . 13/2 . . . 13/2 2275/786 48 off . . . . . . . 2275/786 4H 11 . . . 16/9 . . 16/9 2291/795 42 12 . . . 62/22 . . 62/22 2353/817 13 . . . 68/26 . . 68/26 2421/843 14 . . . 49/10 . . 49/10 2470/853 15 . . . 50/11 16/4 . 66/15 2536/868 16 ..... ..... ..... 12/3 32/7 ..... 44/10 2580/878 17 . . . 12/5 33/8 . 45/13 2625/891 18 . . . 62/14 . . 62/14 2687/905 19 . . . 78/23 . . 78/23 2765/928 20 . . . 85/20 . . 85/20 2850/948 21 . . . 71/18 . . 71/18 2921/966 22 . . . 78/13 . . 78/13 2999/979 23 . 3/0 84/9 . 3/3 . 90/12 3089/991 DAY1 ..... 106/77 559/254 1195/362 35/23 11/8 ..... 1906/724 5:06 DAY2 21/3 125/20 295/41 658/181 84/22 . . 1183/267 6:57 TOT 21/3 231/97 854/295 1853/543 119/45 11/8 . 3089/991 12:03 Next contest for me is the Florida QSO Party on April 28-29 when K8NZ and I will again use N4M/m and activate a bunch of counties. www.FloridaQSOParty.org is the place for more info and incidentally the 2006 FQP results are posted there now as well. RIP, Phil, N6ZZ. 73, Dan, K1TO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 239,400 Poor conditions and horrible line noise in almost every direction. I thought about quiting several times, but stuck with it. Thanks to everyone especially those that I required so many exchange repeats. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK7U Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,178,610 AS ALWAYS, THIS IS A FUN CONTEST. DEFINITELY LOOKING FORWARD TO THE HIGH BANDS COMING BACK. "REALLY" APPRECIATE ALL THOSE QSO's ON 10M (0) AND 15M (39). LOTS OF GREAT STATIONS CALLING IN ON 20M (THANK GOD FOR 20M). VERY FRUSTRATING LISTENING TO ALL THE DX WORKING EACH OTHER ON 40M AND "NOT" LISTENING UP IN OUR BANDS. ALTHOUGH I CAN'T BLAME THEM, WHO WANTS TO WORK SPLIT. WHAT AGENCY CAME UP WITH THESE BAND PLANS ANYWAY!! THANKS TO ALL FOR THE CONTACTS AND ALL THE REPEATS, LOTS OF QRM. GREAT TO SEE ALOT OF NEW CONTESTERS TRYING THIS CONTEST, HOPE THEY ENJOYED THE EXPERIENCE. LOOK FOR ALL IN THE 7QP, SHOULD BE A FUN CONTEST AGAIN AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU TURN OUT FOR IT. (WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO THE FIRST WEEKEND OF MAY ANYWAY) 73 JOE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM6E Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 3,230 After spending the previous 3 weeks working in the caribbean and away from the family, I knew I couldn't spend much time playng radio this past weekend with it being my daughters 4th birthday. So, a few quick Q'S on Friday night were made and that was it for this "multiplier." Javier NM6E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 29,639 Stole a minute here and a minute there from other commitments. Lobster with the wife on Saturday and the son's birthday party on Sunday eliminated any chance for a major effort... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4GG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,812,307 Wasn't planning on getting in it at all, but somehow the rig sucked me in and once I got started it was hard to quit. Even an SSB contest on dipoles with no sunspots is better than no contest. Low bands were noisy the first night but propagation was good and the QRN was off the back of the RX antenna. Second night didn't seem nearly as good but was a lot quieter. Could never get much going on 20 as 'wires in the woods' are just not hacking it when 20 is the only open band and propagation is poor. This was the first outing for the NN4GG call - which was not as successful as hoped. I think I was the only NN4 on, but most of the operating was S&P, so I spent a lot of time convincing folks who recognize my voice and saw N4GG in SCP that there was another "N" in the call. A lot of folks busted my call to N4GG -despite trying my best to convince them to accept a new mult! The few runs I had going were another story - once spotted the NN4 call got a lot of action. It will be NN4GG again in WPX-CW, but after that - I'm not so sure. 2X FT-1000MP+Inrad & ACOM 2000A; Writelog, HB SO2R, Wires in the woods that now include a K9AY loop that was a huge help (TNX Gary!). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3CW Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 492,480 The best opening to my area was with 20 and 15 mtrs bands.Few contacts on 80 mtrs, 10 mtrs and 40 mtrs.I was not able to improve other scores from the same contest on the past.The propagation was mostly with North America. Only few Europe and South America. Scanty stations from Pacific mostly from VK2 and VK4, only one ZL on 20 mtrs.Maybe next year the propagation will be better. Anyway I had a nice time working the contest. Best 73 Julio NP3CW San Juan, P.R. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ5D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,574,664 Mostly a S&P effort with NQ5D who wanted to get his feet wet in contesting. Let him work the opened band S&Ping and I would tune for mults here and there, but he did most of the work as I was outside doing other things most of the time. Think he is hooked, even had him doing a little running on 40 Sat evening. Our plan was to operate some Friday and Sat but he wanted to come back Sunday too! Seemed like lots of activity, too bad 15 never opened much here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR3X Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 50,964 I had a good time in a very limted operation. It was nice work a few South Americans on 10M. I cranked up an OLD TR7 for this one and had fun playing with it. I hope to be on for quite a bit in the CW version...just too early to tell right now. 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR6O Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,012,125 Well, I think we enjoyed some of this weekend. High bands had pitiful propagation, noise on the low bands, new inter-station interference problems, etc., made for the lowest MM score in our history (about 17 years). But individual iron-man efforts made it a relative success. We sort of missed the race with our usual MM competition, NQ4I, NX5M, K8CC, etc. Great to have K6RC back with us. He and I had more fun jamming bluegrass on mandolin and guitar, than we did listening to noise on 160m! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 94,392 Made a few contacts on other bands, but decided early in the contest to do an 80 meter single band entry and it was a lot of fun. I made it until around 3am local time on both nights and then had to go to bed, so my score could have been even better! 79% of my QSO's were made by CQ'ing. It became obvious to me early that I wasn't going to have much luck getting through to Europe (or any DX for that matter) so plan B was to CQ, high, low and in the middle of the new phone band to find as many US and 4-point VE's as possible. The highlights included being called by ZY7C, J75RZ, PJ2T, YW4M and CQ9K...so that tells me my little 80 meter wires are doing the trick at least part of the time (maybe when the wind blows the RF the right way?) Above 3800 was difficult of course, and several times people plunked down right on top of me and started calling CQ and listening down (not on their frequency where they probably would be able to hear me making Q's.) So I took advantage of the new phone band in the US and simply went down to their listening frequency and started CQ'ing there...and that worked very effectively. My best runs were all under 3700. It sure is nice to have all of that real estate for phone contesting now. At one point, I had been CQ'ing for 90 minutes on 3634 when 5D5A decided he would use the frequency. I tried in vain to fight that off, but since he couldn't hear me, the battle was lost. One guy said "HEY YOU'RE ON TOP OF 5D5A!!" I decided not to argue the point that HE was on top of little ole me! This version of my pre-recorded voice files was my best by far. It still needs a lot of fine tuning, but I am very happy with the product, now totaling over 16,000 wav files and 500+ MB of space on the shack computer. I took some time to record some prominent ops as well this weekend and will dissect that in coming months to see how to best tweak my stuff. Thanks to everyone for the Q's. It was a fun winter contest season. Hope to see you here and there before WPX CW. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000 100 watts three inverted L's with directional radials one to EU, one NW, one W and soon one to the SSE. -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 5 6 0 0 0 0 11 11 2.8 0100 12 4 0 0 0 0 16 27 4.1 0200 3 22 0 3 3 0 31 58 8.0 0300 0 12 0 0 0 0 12 70 3.1 0400 0 24 0 0 0 0 24 94 6.2 0500 0 31 0 0 0 0 31 125 8.0 0600 0 25 0 0 0 0 25 150 6.5 0700 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 158 2.1 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 158 0.0 1100 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 162 1.0 1200 0 13 0 0 0 0 13 175 3.4 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 175 0.0 2000 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 180 1.3 2100 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 183 0.8 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 183 0.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 183 0.0 0000 0 11 0 0 0 0 11 194 2.8 0100 0 31 0 0 0 0 31 225 8.0 0200 0 32 0 0 0 0 32 257 8.3 0300 0 41 0 0 0 0 41 298 10.6 0400 0 28 0 0 0 0 28 326 7.3 0500 0 21 0 0 0 0 21 347 5.4 0600 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 353 1.6 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 353 0.0 1100 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 354 0.3 1200 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 359 1.3 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 359 0.0 1800 0 2 1 0 0 0 3 362 0.8 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 362 0.0 2000 0 5 0 0 0 0 5 367 1.3 2100 0 11 0 0 0 0 11 378 2.8 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 378 0.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 378 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 20 351 1 3 3 0 378 Gross QSO's=386 Dupes=8 Net QSO's=378 Unique callsigns worked = 367 The best 60 minute