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 rate was 49/hour from 0219 to 0318 The best 30 minute rate was 58/hour from 0258 to 0327 The best 10 minute rate was 90/hour from 0303 to 0312 The best 1 minute rates were: 3 QSO's/minute 4 times. 2 QSO's/minute 48 times. 1 QSO's/minute 270 times. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT4TT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,295,252 My best score so far. Had a few problems people not spotting me correctly and had already worked them before. Also on a run had a telephone ring and had 6 open mics with laughter. But it was funny. Not to mention the guys who do SSTV will not I.D. themselves after they come up and cause qrm AFTER you have been up on freq for a while and doing a run. Then they say you are the problem. I am up for them to move to ONLY 10 meters. They hide behind the qrm they cause.. No men in that group. As always my thanks to K0UK for allowing me the chance to operate from a great location. His hospitality is wonderful. I hope to get my place up and running soon from Idaho. ED now NT4TT look for a call chage by next week maybe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NV1N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,068,088 Glad that one is over...at least we know what the bottom feels like. Long live the new Cycle! I was actually thinking that the conditions would be good on the first day and get worse as the contest went on based on the forecast and that as I went for nap at 5:30pm local on Friday I was listening to JA coming through nicely on 20M. Contest started on 20M with some nice USA and SA. Mostly S & P to start but at a good clip. I skipped 40 and went right to 80 at 01Z since EU is never listening up at the start. Had a decent run on 80 but all US and Canada. EU could not hear us at all on 80M. I went to sleep at 06Z and was slightly ahead of last year. I am very pleased with the performance of my 80M 2 el phased array. Worked about 20 SA stations at 05Z on 20M for a pleasant surprise. 20M was the absolute pits into EU all day Sat but the worst Sat morning because EU was working each other and the US was not loud enough to crack it. It was so bad that I took a 1 hour off time at 13Z in the hope that the conditions would recover. They did a little and I look back and am glad that I took that hour. I had no EU Qs on 15M on Sat and had 10 10M Qs to LU and PY. The 40M EU was pretty bad Saturday late afternoon and evening but I did get a call from a VK long path on my frequency. I was constantly dragging behind last years rate by 50 - 100 and never fully recovered it. The plentiful US prefixes made of the lack of UA and JA and Eastern EU prefixes but obviously with lower points. Slept again at 06Z. 20M sounded WAY better on Sunday morning however it was impossible to get a run going to EU until about 16Z. I believe it was because 15M was so dead, even inter-EU, that literally EVERYONE in EU was on 20M. I was able to plug away at a 40ish rate S & Ping until finally being able to "run" at 60 - 70 rate for a few hours in the afternoon. I was able to do a little 15M S & Ping into EU on Sunday. I received many "wow, you are my first USA station on 15M!" comments around 15Z on Sunday. Had some nice USA runs on 40 and 80M to end the contest from 21 - 00Z with a little bit of EU mixed in. The best 80M conditions to EU from here seemed to have been the last 90 mins of the contest. Unfortunately, much of EU was QRT by then. Even in crappy conditions, I continue to enjoy this contest. The points system, as crazy as it is, makes for some really interesting strategy decisions. Its a fun contest. See you in WPX CW! Ed N1UR/NV1N NV1N is the club callsign of my company, SB Electronics, maker of the world famous "Orange Drop" capacitors since 1959! www.sbelectronics.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 143,440 Multi-Two was the plan unit about 2000z Friday because operator changes at the last minute forced me to just cancel. I decided to get on 15m and put in a little effort....but not much. The first few hours on 15 were not bad at all despite the rates being down. Spent a few hours on Saturday afternoon but the band was all but gone at sunset. Got back on Sunday at 1515z, made my 300th qso at 1542z, turned everything off and disconnected it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX6T Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 594,706 Lets see.... Low power. Puny antennas. West coast. Bottom of the solar cycle. No US propagation on 15. No decent opening on 20 to EU. Huge broadcast interference on 40. Very few of the DX listening in the US band on 40. Phone contest. How did I make any Q's at all? Really looking forward to the CW test in May from ZF1A CU all then, John, K6AM/ZF2AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 373,184 I had a very enjoyable outing even though it was another "time challenged" weekend. I spent around 7 hours and mixed in some runs with S/Ping. All-in-all things went pretty well while I was on the air. This is a great contest with the work everyone mentality. I can hardly wait for conditions to fire up again so that 10m takes off! 73 and thanks for the Qs. Jeff NX9T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY6DX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,265,331 Bands were great except 10 and 15. had we had an opening on either or another hour we could have broke the u.s. record. We will settle for the new nli section record. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ1U Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,827,776 I arrived 20 minutes before the contest. The first two hours was with SO1R. N1GKI and KB1H were working on a $5 SO2R setup. In the third hour I was able to move to a different chair and play for the first time with SO2R. We were never able to seperate the audios so left radio in left ear and right radio in right ear. This made listening very hard with both radios in both ears. 20 Meters Day 1 was terrible. Heard KC3R and others running but was never able to get a good run going. Much different and better on Day 2. Jumping into the $5 SO2R for the first time at the start of the contest is not recommended. No time to test and set software audio levels both in and out. After too many complaints of terrible audio the true SO2R operation was abandoned and just having two radios/amps for quick band changes was nice. Probably a critical mistake was not enough off time during the night. Towards the end running on 20M was going good but I had to quit at 2100Z. Also no time left for any low band QSOs to end the contest. After stopping discussion with KB1H included managing operating time so there is some left at the end where new stations are coming on and also to take advantage of the 6 point QSOs that are harder for the Midwest guys to work. After all, it takes 6 QSOs to equal the one on the lower bands. Understanding propagation is also lessons to be learned. Where to be and when to be there. Why more southern stations seem to have a better run rate at times. It is amazing what a few hundred miles can mean. Thanks to all for the QSOs and the use of the KB1H station. Yuri - N2TTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 19,439,539 bad WX! bad condx! but we are happy to claime new EU rekord in M/2 categorie let see how did our main competitors UU7J and TM6M? tnx for qso and cu in cw part! more info under www.oe4a.com 73 es best dx de OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8GZN Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 33,872 Small effort with new radio, had fun time operating. Condx wasn't the best this time. Tnx for Q+multis, CU in CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,747,052 Had some hopes of improving my SOAB score from last year, especially by putting a lot more effort on low bands. But... Well, after the first night those hopes were (mostly) gone... Not a whisper heard from W/VE during the first night on 40-160m and the handful midday JA's on 20m had an unusually biiiig flutter in their signals. After recognizing the first night's poor condx I should "of course" have taken most of the rest periods during the first 15 hours or so, but unfortunately I'm not that tough guy yet... :) Anyway, the station worked perfectly, and it was much fun to operate a contest again. Saturday evening finally even produced some decent NA runs on 20m. The short opening to JA on 15m on Sunday was one of the few highlights of the contest. MNI TNX again Veijo OH6KN & Juha OH8NC ! 73 de Pasi OH6UM/OH2IW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1BN Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 2,127,070 Thanks very much for QSO. Especially thanks for QSO ZL1KMN, D44AC, P40W, JY4NE, 4L4CC, P49MR, who answer on my CQ. I used FT-1000MP MARK-V Linear amplifier 2x3-500z TX Ant: Dipol for USA @17m Dipol for Asia @15m RX Ant: Beverage 275deg 353m Beverage 140deg 178m Beverage 030deg 150m K9AY 030/120/210/300deg Thanks and hope to see you in next contest. 73 Petr OK1BN ok1bn@seznam.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1DQT Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 503,010 Tnx for another fine contest in few hours of my activity, but have to say I better like CW! Here is my continent statistics. EU NA SA AF AS OC TOTAL 287 60 31 10 43 5 435 65.8 13.8 7.1 2.3 9.9 1.1 Tnx to all those who worked me and CU in WPX CW soon. 73! Jirka OK1DQT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 6,448,720 Since both our 40m huge Yagis are laying on the ground - we were planning to put them up (after some repairs needed due to 180km/hour winds in january) in tuesday and wednesday before the contest but since it was raining+snowing and there was -1deg C and at least 20m/s wind we gave up.... Up to that local farmer called and said he wants to start in the fields around our station during the week before WPX so the beverages had to go sunday before the contest and due to the weather he was happily omitting labor..... The only option was to go single band. I ruled out 160 (no bever.) + 15 (from Central Eu in the bottom !?!) so I was guessing for 80 or 20m. I decided I am not "man" enough for 80m SB SSB operation yet - maybe I will grow to it.... - so 20m was left. The propagation was not the best I could imagine, but not complete disaster. The "third layer" of stations, specificaly in NA was most of the time unreachable, it was sort of weird. The "strong" ones were loud as usually but the weak ones were not just weaker but they were nonexistent. Mostly I could hear either strong ones or no one at all ?? One would expect that the ionosphere is a linear system, not a Smitt trigger - it behaved like the letter one. There was super LP propagation to VK in Sunday morning - 44 stations made it into the LOG, some of those /M or QRP. ALL OF THEM QUITE LOUD. I hardly remember working /M VK in last 30 or so years. Here is my continent statistics. EU NA SA AF AS OC TOTAL 1090 1066 81 47 349 81 2714 40.16 39.28 2.98 1.73 12.86 2.98 I am amazed how it compares to the one kindly posted by YT2B. It would be interesting to see similar data of other big Eu's. I know most of Eu is unreachable for us here in OK on 20m, while being in the center of Eu propper, but ..... Once more thanks for the QSO to all I was able to dig out of the "man made mess and sun made noise", and my apologies to the ultra weak ones I was unable to dig out this time - and I know there was quite a few..... 73 ! Jiri OK5R - OK1RI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 853,674 Many thanks for all contacts. Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK7M Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 1,138,860 Due to fatal antenna failiure I could take part only for 17 hrs, had to QRT at 00:08 UTC on 25th :(, bad luck .... maybe next time. 73 ! Daniel OK7M(OK1DIG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL0W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,662,335 TNX for all contacts !!!! more info on www.OL7R.net 73 from OL7R HF Contest team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 59,682 For fun. Thaks all for QSOs. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM3DX Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 17,712 RIG: Kenwood TS-850S and Linear amp. 2x 3-500Z (800 Watt out) ANT: Eco 3ele. tribander beam at 45 feet Is this really minimum or will be next worse? I participated to the contest in few ours only but I checked openings during full contest. At Saturday nice opening to Indonesia on 10m. At Sunday morning nice opening to Japan on 15m and quite good to US in the last evening on 20m.Thank you very much for your contacts to everybody 73 from Michal, OM3DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM8A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 13,536,635 see later www.om8a.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 16,826,888 Equipment: IC756ProII, Titan Amp. (1KW) Win-Test Logging Software Antennas: 160M Vertical Dipole, 3 ele 80M wire beam EU, 160/80 Inverted V, 2 ele 40M wire beam NW, 4 ele 40M wire beam EU, Force 12 4 ele 20M, Cushcraft 4 el 15M, Force 12 5 ele 10M, Force 12 C4 tribander + 40M Beverages NW, N, NE, E/W This was a last minute trip. P49Y asked me to come down to make some antenna repairs, so I had an opportunity to put P40W on the air once again. Conditions leading up to the contest were pretty good early in the week, 160 and 80 were dead quiet, and 15/10 were showing some strong signs of life on Thursday. But it all went downhill Friday. The high bands were stone dead and a very active weather system over the HK/YV border moving east was generating lots of QRN from T-storms. And to make matters worse, a local powerline QRN source had popped up, the result of salt buildup on the power lines after nearly a month of no rain on Aruba. It peaked NW from the station, and I couldn't find a combination of antennas that would lower the noise below S-7, particularly on 15M where the spikes were particularly strong. Not very encouraging. Decided to start the contest on 20 meters up around 14300. Signals weren't exceptional but there were plenty of stations to work. The 241 first hour was by far the best rate of the weekend, and the next 2 hours of 217 and 154 weren't bad, but after three hours 8P1A/W2SC was already 100 ahead. This would remain the trend all weekend. The 0300 hour was spent on 80M. Unlike ARRL DX PH, I found CQing down around 3700 was productive, fewer stations were doing split operation. The 87 hour of mostly EU was encouraging, the 3 ele wire beam was working. Went to 40M at just before 0400 and the rate to EU was even better, with another 122 stations added to the log. Rates to the USA on 40M were lousy, I never really got a decent run working split all weekend, and didn't even think to go up into the US phone band to go simplex (live and learn). The remainder of the night I drifted back and forth between 40 and 80, even tried about 15 minutes on 160 with very poor results, the QRN was just too high. At 0829 called it a night and took a 3.5 hour sleep break. Saturday morning started out on 20M at 1200 but quickly transitioned to 15M before the end of the hour. The rate to EU on 15M wasn't great, but the band exhibited some signs of life, even though EU signal levels were S-3 on average. On of the mistakes made all weekend was to try and force 15M to play. This was particularly evident on Sunday when better rates were available on 20M. Between 1400 and 2100 UTC kept bouncing back and forth between 20 and 15, rates in the 120 to 160 range, not good not bad. A brief 10 minute sprint on 10M at 1800 scooped up about 18 contacts, mostly PY/LU but 3 W5 stations made it. Never heard any USA other than Texas all weekend. Finally decided enough with 15M and went to 20M at 2100, to enjoy two 180 hours back to back and finished out the first day with a 140 hour. Spent another hour on 20M, then briefly tried 40M before taking an hour off. Found 80M better the second evening than 40, esp. to EU. But this was a fatal error, I should have concentrated more effort on 40 to be competitive. Sigh. Took a 6 hour sleep break at 0700. Woke up to find 20M in poor shape, heard P49Y really struggling. Decided to take another hour off, listened again, worked a few stations, conditions were no better, and took my final off time period. When I got back to the mic at 1400, went to 15M and had three hours of 100/hour EU run, not great, but they kept coming back, right at the noise level. Fortunately the line noise had temporarily subsided, but I could hear the 'eggs' ready to fry at anytime. So tried to masx out the quiet time on 15 for several hours. In the end, I should have transitioned back to 20M earlier. At 1830 there was a brief 10M openning to Texas, EA, CT and Africa. No volume, but some signals were failry loud on 10M. The bottom of the sunspot cycle, can't expect much. Transitioned to 20M at 1900, to run EU. Only one more trip to 15M at 2100 to run W's for rate broke up the pattern. Finished out the contest with a 184 hour and 20 mults on 20M. After the contest P49Y came by to take me to dinner where we also met up with P43W and P49MR. These post-event social gatherings make the weekend so much more enjoyable. Congrats to W2SC for his great winning effort at 8P1A, to AE6Y/P49Y for giving me the opportunity to put his station in order and the enjoyable time we spent together before and after the contest, and to my hosts Humphrey and Corrie who continue to tolerate the maze of wires running about all over their property when I'm in contest mode on Aruba. 73, John W2GD/P40W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 14,000,480 Not the most enjoyable outing, primarily due to high noise levels, including power line or other man-made noise that made 15 very difficult to use, plus high atmospheric noise on 40 and 80. John Crovelli (P40W) and I were hoping for rain to wash down the power lines, but it didn't rain until Monday morning, about 3 days too late! I found the contest itself difficult, mainly due to the noise levels and also the lack of 10 meters. My measly 16 QSOs on 10 contrasts with my first DX WPX experience, at ZF2AF in 2002, when 10 produced 3000 QSOs! Nonetheless, it is always fun to operate from Aruba. More than a day was spent in antenna repairs, primarily assisting John on our 20/40. One of the 40m elements had come loose and we had to tilt the antenna and put in some bolts to hold it. Sounds straightforward, but it was a lot of work, particularly in the constant wind. Our antennas seem to be close to reaching the end of their useful life, having been struggling with the Aruban air for 8 years now. One nice feature of the island is that, I guess by necessity, all the local hardware stores have excellent stocks of stainless steel nuts and bolts. The only other off note this weekend was conflict with the CW guys on 40. I found a clear spot at 7025 Friday night, but was repeatedly jammed by CW ops sending CQ and QSY. Then, to make matters worse, they even jammed my listening frequency! CW guys often claim to be of a higher moral standard than phone ops, but this was simply malicious interference. As usual, the ham community is very welcoming on Aruba, and this short trip featured visits with Jean-Pierre (P43A) and his wife Chris (P43C), Jackie (P43P), Martin (P49MR), Randy (P43W), Lisandro (P43L) and his wife Lissette, and of course John (P40W - W2GD). Equipment: 756 Pro2 X2, Alphas 87A, 86 Ant: 4 el 10-15-20, 2 el 40, inv. vee 80, beverages Software: CQPWIN ver. 10.6 73 and thanks for the Qs, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 17,700 May occasionally extend mi contest activities to phone as a changfe from cw so decided to "bring" mi voice over the ocean fer the vy first time es gain some experience wid mi trx parameter settings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 16,674,280 This was by far our worst contesting experience since we kicked off the PJ2T operation in November, 2000. Despicable conditions -- it was tempting to turn off the boxes and go to the beach, but we hung in there. The coronal hole Friday night and Saturday spiked the K index up rapidly, killing 10 and making runs on 15 impossible, even from here. The high A index and tremendous QRN the first night also killed the low bands. Most of this contest experience was like getting dental work. Paradoxically, 10 meters was wide open on Thursday before the contest, and we had our first runs into Europe from here for several years. Many thanks to Helmut (DF7ZS) and Annette for making the long trip to PJ2T(their third), only to encounter our worst conditions in seven years. At least the sunshine held up and their beach experiences were good ones. Thanks also to WA9YYY for signing on at the last minute and joining with a group of characters heretofore unknown to him. It was also great to see K2PLF and CCC member N4RV back on site again. Long time member W9JUV rounded out the crew, having made so many trips to PJ2T now that I have lost count! So we're here: the bottom. Things just can't get any worse, and the contest community can now look forward to a few years of constantly improving conditions. If we had any more operations like this one I'd be looking for a different hobby. On the plus side, we had another great weekend with zero hardware and zero software problems. Writelog was perfect yet again, and our recently acquired Titan III played flawlessly at the run station. The ionosphere is the only thing that broke this weekend. Many thanks to all of our CCC members and guests for their continuing support of the station. 73, - Geoff, W0CG, PJ2DX, for the PJ2T gang ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AF Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 547,085 Tnx all! Vy 73 to W1CU and LU8ADX, operators of PX5A (WRTC 2006) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 16,014 IC-746 100W DIPOLE ANTENNA@10mUP N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PW2C Class: SOSB10 QRP Total Score = 25,000 FIRST CONTEST IN MY NEW HOUSE. RIG: YAESU FT 1000MP MARK V FIELD ANTENA : SHORT DIPOLE TO 80 AND 10 METERS ONLY 5 METERS UP. TNX TO ALL FRIENDS HEAR ME ON 10M. CU IN CW 73 PY2WC - WAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB15 QRP Total Score = 68,355 Amazing contest without any TVI!!! 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2MTV Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Total Score = 25,872 Rig FT1000MP Field PWR 100 Watts Antenna 3 elements Yagi Mono band 28Mhz Home Made @ 6 Meters Hi . Software N1MM Vs 7.3.6 73. Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,947,758 Was a big challenge, coming back to Low Power after years running SOSB 20m High Power hi hi. A lot of good friends around, like AC8G, W6OAT, KX7M, KU8E, K4BAI, ES5RR, well, I need to write a book with all good friends callsigns... And big surprise - 10m alive! Ok, only French, Spanish and Italian stations, and I don´t know why hi hi. See you at WPX CW Contest... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2SBY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,006,200 hI TOP ALL Propagation is bad like never before. For few moments I check my antenna because I have a QRM very low but I call and anyone appear. 15 meters are the better band for me but not better like in WW2007 SSB but 20 meters is really funny. I listen stations from Europe calling with a signal 9+15 db but I call and nothing. I live a funny moment a station 9A1A calling and I try more that 4 times and I listen one station from Brasil calling I know that station have a monoband antenna and high power and also after 6 trying nothing to. But is all ok because will be impossible to be bad like today and so I meet the contest guy in october in WW2007. Thanks for all and all the best. 73 from Elvis PY2SBY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2ZZO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,459 Used MFJ Window Mount Antenna on apartment balcony to 1st time operate with my Brazilian callsign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY3DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,462,498 Excellent contest!!! I had a great chance to test my station and get back on the air, after a very long time off, because of hard wind troubles in my place. Still have no rotator (broken). The antennas was pointed to EU all the time. That's why I can't work some great multis at the dawn, coming from my back, via short path, like OC or AS. No KH6's, no HL's, no VK's and very little JA's on all bands. Even thought, was nice to work so many friends from many places, some of them I met personally at the 2006 WRTC in Florianópolis-SC, Brasil. Certainly I'll get back on track for the CW part, just for having fun and make some noises. Hope the rotator will be fixed, after all. Thanks to all of you guys that worked me and my apologies to the ones that I can't copy. Best 73! Paul - PY3DX Rig: TS 850 SAT Ant: 160m - No antennas - 0 Q's 80m - Dipole @ 30 mH 40m - Monoband Yagi 2 ele. by PP5UA @ 40 mH 20, 15 and 10m - TH6DXX @ 35 mH Pwr: 100W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY4RDS Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 6,232 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 4,125,000 EU - 1481 QSO NA - 454 QSO AS - 331 QSO OC - 63 QSO SA - 52 QSO AF - 30 QSO 73, Ross QSL via W3HNK www.rk3awl.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3FT Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,407,480 Really It was Dx contest for me. It's not easy to concurate with central europian station. Mni tnx who calls me and answers me. Ant: 2*2quad (@ 50 and 90m) QSOs MADE IN EACH COUNTRY wpxssb rl3ft Prefix 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ------ --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- 3A - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 3V - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 3X - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 4L - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 4X - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 5B - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 8P - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 9A - 18 - - - - 18 1.72 9K - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 9M6 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 9N - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 A6 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 BV - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 BY - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 CN - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 CT - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 CT3 - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 CU - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 D4 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 DL - 197 - - - - 197 18.83 EA - 22 - - - - 22 2.10 EA8 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 EI - 4 - - - - 4 0.38 EK - 4 - - - - 4 0.38 ER - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 ES - 9 - - - - 9 0.86 EU - 6 - - - - 6 0.57 EX - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 F - 21 - - - - 21 2.01 FM - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 G - 52 - - - - 52 4.97 GI - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 GM - 5 - - - - 5 0.48 GU - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 GW - 5 - - - - 5 0.48 HA - 11 - - - - 11 1.05 HB - 7 - - - - 7 0.67 I - 45 - - - - 45 4.30 JA - 9 - - - - 9 0.86 K - 12 - - - - 12 1.15 KP4 - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 LA - 8 - - - - 8 0.76 LU - 7 - - - - 7 0.67 LX - 3 - - - - 3 0.29 LY - 18 - - - - 18 1.72 LZ - 9 - - - - 9 0.86 OE - 6 - - - - 6 0.57 OH - 19 - - - - 19 1.82 OK - 58 - - - - 58 5.54 OM - 18 - - - - 18 1.72 QSOs MADE IN EACH COUNTRY wpxssb rl3ft Prefix 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ------ --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- ON - 12 - - - - 12 1.15 OZ - 12 - - - - 12 1.15 P4 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 PA - 18 - - - - 18 1.72 PJ2 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 PY - 9 - - - - 9 0.86 S5 - 27 - - - - 27 2.58 SM - 13 - - - - 13 1.24 SP - 64 - - - - 64 6.12 SV - 3 - - - - 3 0.29 SV5 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 T9 - 5 - - - - 5 0.48 TA - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 TA1 - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 TR - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 UA - 88 - - - - 88 8.41 UA9 - 48 - - - - 48 4.59 UN - 5 - - - - 5 0.48 UR - 57 - - - - 57 5.45 VE - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 VK - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 VR - 1 - - - - 1 0.10 YB - 2 - - - - 2 0.19 YL - 10 - - - - 10 0.96 YO - 25 - - - - 25 2.39 YU - 21 - - - - 21 2.01 YV - 3 - - - - 3 0.29 Z3 - 4 - - - - 4 0.38 ZL - 3 - - - - 3 0.29 73's Yury RL3FT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RN9CWJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,732,000 Poor CNDX on Sat. much better but still very poor on Sunday. This was my 4th encounter with the BOTTOM in my contesting career. I must admit this one IS very deep indeed. TNX to Vadim - UA9CLB, the owner of most advanced contest station east of Moscow, for letting me operate it. He's been in VK land for the past two weeks and he's doesn't know yet that I've burnt down two of three HP amps in the contest... I must've been too agressive or mebbe the amps need to be upgraded. TNX ALL for the Qs CU in WPX XW with better CNDX. 73's & GL, Willy UA9BA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW4PL Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 465,062 CU next contest! 73! Andy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RZ9OZO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,646,096 qso with OC 3 % AS 22 % AF 1 % SA 2 % NA 6 % EU 66 % ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,427,500 Nice weekend at S51SL's place. Thanks Matjaz for having us at your place whole 4days. OP's: S51SL, S53RM, S53ZO, S53MM, S55OO RIG: 2X FT1000mpField + QRO ANTs: 5el 10m, 5el 15m, 4el 20m, 2el 40m, 3xsloper 80m, invL 160m, kt34a SW: N1MM + wlan PCs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51FB Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 715,170 Strange propagation. Some signals very loud but majority on the noise level therefore I tried to minimize the noise level – HI. On Saturday no JA’s but on Sunday there was nice opening and I worked 90 of them. On both days I managed to work 2 VE’s and 14 of K’s, that was the worse since I am working from this QTH. Thanks for all called me. RIG: TS 950 SDX PA: 1.5 kW ANT: 5 el Yagi Miha / S51FB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 423,315 Ant:horizontal loop Rig:ic-737 Pwr:100w 73 de S53F Vinko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54O Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 722,890 Ant:3el 3band beam + dipol Rig:ts-850s Pwr:KW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S55O Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 157,042 This time just some fun with hp and a bad antenna. Thanks to all that worked me, it was fun. Now that usa dont call anymore above 3800 it's realy hard to hear them in the local qrm even with beverages. Heard ND8DX cqing for at least 1h before working him at 23.13 UTC (yea in pure daylight - he was surprised a lot :P). Lots of stations from usa, karibian heard, very few had a qrx for eu - is it realy that hard?- or they were in the middle of the EU QRM and hard to work. Thanks and next time it will be better :) Thx to s52x as usual! Pozdrav Boštjan S55O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,571,760 Poor start, excelent condx at the end! Lot of splaters making CW & RTTY more enjoyable. Surprising 10 m openings with strange ionospheric noises. No tech problems this time! 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56G Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 18,216 It was a nice semi-contesting weekend with family on our summer house. I managed to get 80m dipole much higher on trees with help from my daughter. Strong wind (100+ kmph) started shortly after and the wire survived well. Decent opening on 15m to SA generated a lot of happy grins. Hygain DX-77 (vertical) had a problem on 20m with high swr. K2's ATU tuned it well but it performed lousy. Thanks to all "good ears" out there that copied my tiny signal. Rig: K2 #3719 @ 3W , 80m dipole, DX-77 @ 2.4m (8ft ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,124,953 Just kiding with fixed wire dipols. At least 15 times electicity blackout! We got 30 cm new snow during the contest. Thanks for all calls - we enjoyed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 66,000 10 meter Aleksander report! This contest would be more fair to us ''monobandars'' if the Prefixes would count on each band separatly, i.e. CQWW. That would forced other M/S and SO/ALL Bands stations to appear on ''low-rate bands'' too. Late evening, at 21:00 UTC I was listning for more than 1 hour SM, LA and North Germany Beacons on 10m, approaching 59+ 10dB. I was calling 1 hour to that direction with 800W and 4 el. monobander, and guess what? One hour calling brings me 0 (Zero!) QSOs! Am I the only masohist on 10m out there? Oh, well, LY7A heard me on that time, and start to call 1,5 kHz down from me. He was 59 +++. So, we are two! It will be interesting to know how many QSOs they made in that time? Conditions? From bad to worse? This MUST be bottom of sun cycle. Or am I said that last year? The only bright moment was JA6WJL called me from 90 deg (about 45 deg away from the normal!)for the only Japan station, and of course three VK's just as 001,002, and 003 for me at the beggining of the contest. (VK6KRC, VK6JR/m and VK6TQ) I say well, what a start! How wrong was I ... Also thank's to Vladimir D60VB, who call me late Sunday evening, with signal well over S9, and we start to discuss about how to getting licenses in Comoros an other farawy countries, about his QSLing plans when he will be back home and the stuff like that while Andrei, D69XC take some snack time. TNX Vladimir! That is what you can do on 10m in those days, without wasting much of the final score. This is not part of the contest, but it is fun. No USA's again this time. 98% of South Americans on S/P. Brazilians, do you know contesting without CQ-ing? 73, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59TI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 19,224 This was my first wpx contest. I was on our summer house with my family, so the contest was fun for all of us. :) Thanks everybody for the nice qsos. 73 de Ursa, s59ti ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SJ2W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,279,812 The propagations were terrible half of Saturday but improved after that. I think we had about 86% EU on Saturday evening before we got some nice openings towards the US. We ended up with about 56% EU. We had a blast and claimed a new SM M/S record. We look forward to next time with hopefully more sunspots. Thanks to Lars, SM2HWG and wife Cindy for letting us use the station once again. Tnx for the qsos 73 from Camp Cindy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6U Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 62,016 Was working at the clubstation both days. Called in on some friends on saturday while checking for local noise, the bands was almost completly dead on saturday. The bands got better during sunday, so I worked some hours for fun. 73 de SM6U ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM7YGZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 11,544 My modest log, hi ! 73 ./Rob SM7YGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN3R Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 876,650 Special thanks go to Bogdan SP3RBR & All SP3KEY GANG for very helpfull hard work in station preparation before contest. Kiryll storm destroy our vertical few times, and last correction and matching was done a week before event. 312 QSO`s and few NA mults first night - better then last year. All NA stations came better on 4 SQ K9AY. Second night was worst - no NA at his sun set. 1 hour after midnight rate go down to around 10 / hour and comming up after 3 hours. Just before my sun rise few US & one Canadian called me. They are better on BEVERAGE. But after my sunrise I succesfully called 1 Canadian & 1 US station and heared several US ( no reaction for my call ) - all on 4 SQ K9AY. On BEVERAGE was only S 4 noise. TKS for all who called me. TS850S + GU43B Full size vertical + 90 radials 4 SQ K9AY 1 BEVERAGE US direction Wieslaw, SP6HEQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SO2R Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 5,536,848 Last year was good propagation on 20 so I decided this to repeat in this year. All more that antennas from 40 and 10 are damaged after large winds from January. On Saturday at the large wind set up large static cracks and at K 4 additionally was not the opening on NA. After first day I had for 300 qso less as into year earlier and a lot less than stations from south Eu. On Sunday it was a lot better but with difficulty to make up losses when the competition is very much goods. Comparatively to Jiri OK5Z I had 200 EU, 50 OC and 30 SA less and 30 NA and 40 AS more. My first contest of the where second day I made for 400 qso above first. Supose 100 mults diferent was Europeans. Northern Poland this is not good place at enlarged level Aurora. Similarly as VE4. Most of weak stn from NA I can heard only on Stack 6 over 6, no signals on simple antena. Cu next year. Kaz SP2FAX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SO8A Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 2,354,858 Op time 27 hrs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ST2R Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 2,723,274 BOY THAT WAS HARD. RIG OLD FT840, ANTENNA LOG PERIODIC. NO VOICE RECORDER SO THAT WAS LIKE IN OLD DAYS. ONLY GOOD CONDITIONS FOR ME WAS IN THE MORNINGS AND EVENINGS. OVER A DAY I CALL AND CALL STATIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS. CAN YOU BELIEVED? A LOT OF THEM CAME 59+20 AND THEY DIDNT HEAR ME. WHAT A FRUSTRATION. MY PRIMARY GOAL WAS TO BROKE AFRICAN 20M/LP RECORD. AND IT WAS HARD. I PASS THE RECORD MARK SOMETIME LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON. AND IN THE EVENING STATES ARE LUCKIELY OPENED. THAT HELPS ME TO PUT RECORD MARK TO 2,7 M. NOBODY LISTEN TO THE SOUTH! THAT WAS THE BIG PROBLEM. MY 100 W SIGNAL AND LOG PERIODIC SHOULD BE ENOUGH. BUT NO, NOBODY HEAR ME... ANYWAY I OPERATE FULL 36 HOURS AND I ENJOY THE CONTEST. AND CONTESTING FROM AFRICA IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT AS IN EUROPE. HEHE.. REGARDS! SLAVKO ST2R (S57DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SX5P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,584,005 IT IS THE 2ND TIME WE PARTICIPATE TO THE CONTEST AS SX5P AND WE ARE MORE THAN PLEASED TO OVERPASS OUR PREVIOUS SCORE BY 50% . ALL THE OPERATORS ENJOYED IT AND GAVE THE BEST OF THEM AT THEIR TIME IN FRONT OF THE FT1000MP'S ... IT IS DIFFICULT FOR US TO COMPETE THE OTHER M/2 TEAMS SINCE WE DO NOT HAVE BIG TOWERS NOR STACKED ANTENNAS... BUT WE ALWAYS TRY TO PARTICIPATE BASED ON OUR WILL TO OVERPASS OURSELVES AND ONLY OURSELVES ... OUR NEXT GOAL IS TO CREATE A SMALL WEBSITE FOR PEOPLE TO FIND MORE INFO ABOUT US AND SUBSTITUTE ONE OF OUR HY-GAIN EXPLORE14 WITH A MOSLEY ANTENNA PRO-67-B . IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING A RECEIVING ANTENNA IN 80,160M AND YOU DO NOT HAVE PLACE FOR BEVERAGES , ERECT A K9AY LOOP SYSTEM BY ARRAY SOLUTIONS AND YOU'LL BE AMAZED FORM THE RESULTS ... IT IS SMALL AND CAN GIVE YOU AN ADVANTAGE IN RECEIVING . THE CONTEST WAS AS WE WERE EXPECTING IT TO BE ... UNPREDICTABLE IN THE CASE OF PROPAGATIONAL MATTERS... BUT WE DID ALLRIGHT TO ALL BANDS ... CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BIG TEAMS OF OUR CATEGORY AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT "BATTLE"... FROM RHODES ISLAND GREECE THE BEST WISHES TO ALL AMATEURS THAT CONTACTED US AND HOPE TO SEE YOU IN THE IOTA 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2/AJ3M Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 66,660 I was in Istanbul on my way back from my business trip to Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Thanks to Soyhan, TA2IJ, and Selim, TA2DS, I was able to participate in the contest from Soyhan’s QTH. Rig: IC706MkIIG + amp Antenna: Inv V 73, Masa, AJ3M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2K Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,215,828 Hello all This is first contest operation of club station TA2KI.A demo multi one contesting :) and used only 100W and wire or verticals.Also QTH was not a contest location.Operated for to hold 2x1 call sign.Look for us at next major contests.First:CQ WW DX SSB from Kefken Island with a serious effort. 73! TA2K team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 866,558 This has to be the bottom and we should start back up soon. Thanks to Keko, TI5KD for the use of the station again. QRP sure was rough in this running of WPX SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,941,559 See you during the CW part! 73's Franck, F8CRH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM4W Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 366,916 Too far west for asian mults. Not far waest enough for NA mults. Just forget this one ... Vy 73 Herve F5HRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 18,832,576 Contest : CQ World Wide WPX Contest Callsign : TM6M Mode : PHONE Category : Multi Operator - Two Transmitter (M2) Overlay : --- Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : France Operating time : 48h00 BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG ----------------------------------- 160 177 3 24 450 2.54 80 703 12 259 1833 2.61 40 1667 28 446 5006 3.00 20 2543 44 511 6229 2.45 15 221 0 78 593 2.68 10 39 0 6 113 2.90 ----------------------------------- TOTAL 5350 87 1324 14224 2.66 =================================== TOTAL SCORE : 18 832 576 Operators : F0ELK, F1AKK, F4DXW, F5MUX, F5TTU, F5VCR & F8DBF Setup : Dipole 160m, dipole 80m slopped to US, DxBeam antennas www.dxbeam.com : 2 el 40m @ 30m, 6 el 20m @ 26m, 6 el 15m @ 12m, 5 el 10m and KT36XA. RX : K9AY loop, short beverage. TS-850SAT, 2 x FT-990, homebrew amplifier by Xavier F5TTU. Soapbox : After a first positive test in M/2 category during the famous ARRL SSB, we decided to try again this week-end. TM6M is the callsign used by the young contest team of F6KHM. This RadioClub station is located in the center of Brest, with some limited space. This restrictions prevent us from using efficient RX antenna like a real beverage. However, we are continuing to improve this setup. Congratulations to OE4A, Braco and is team with only 3 operators, for the good performance, wo have also improve the previous EU record instead of the poor propagation conditions. You can certainly count on us to do our best in the next contests. On behalf of the team, 73 de F5MUX Laurent Powered by Win-Test 3.8.4 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TO5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,833,135 This contest brought back memories of my first 1964 WPX contest when I used a vertical and 100 watts. I thought conditions were tough then and this event seemed just as slow and tough as then. I am glad this is the bottom of the cycle and that conditions will only get better. I only worked a couple of Japanese stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU7J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 15,377,040 Our congratulations to OE4A, it was very interesting to compete, we hope to win next time. 73! UU7J Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31RG Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 6,379,620 Station: poorly filtered TS850 400 watt Ameritron ALS-600 2 el quad @ 40 feet (leaning about 10 degrees on the mast) three verticals (one in salty lagoon, one in a marsh) I originally made plans for WPX SSB from V31 because it was the only weekend all season that worked out (I'd much rather had a CW weekend). Also, the XYL loves it down here, so Belize is an easy sell. I arrived the Wednesday before, finding that things needed a little work at V31MD's. By Thursday evening, everything was sorted out for the most part. Seeing that the old TS850 wouldn't work with my Rigblaster Pro, I had to resort to an MFJ voice keyer which was (thankfully) nestled away in a cabinet under the rig. About three hours before contest, I started getting symptoms for something I hadn't experienced since I played lacrosse years ago: the pre-game nervous stomach. Well, you know what that means. :) But it was a good sign that I was in the right frame of mind, so I just went with it. The best sustained rates were the first two hours on 20m, then on 15 Saturday. An EU run on 20m Sunday was close third. By far, 20m was the most productive band, but I could barely stand the crowds. It was nearly impossible to find and keep a frequency. Once, I found myself being intentionally jammed by one of the pig farmers on 14.282, where a brief 'scuffle' ensued. I gained my senses pretty quickly (realizing that when you fight with an idiot, you are an idiot) and tuned away. It was harmless, but I did have to get up and walk away from the rig for a few minutes. 40 meters was really tricky for me on fone. This is where an experienced ssb operator really shines, but I pretty much had to make due. Doing split and listening on your own frequency is pretty cumbersome on the 850, and I quickly put that idea aside. Figuring I would pick up the EU mults on 20m, I decided to go above 125 and stay below 200, just to work stateside simplex. It worked out pretty well, with a few EU coming up too. On Sunday, I went below 14.150 and had a really nice EU run, picking up many mults, while simultaneously avoiding the zoo above it. Ended the contest with a nice run on 15m. I was really happy to see the clock hit 0000 on Sunday evening. My goals were modest: + get the 'first million' monkey off of my back as soon as possible, as I have never had a million point outing as a single op. That was taken care of in pretty short order, and was a huge confidence builder. + post a reasonable score: 4M seemed reasonable, 5M if I could make myself sit under the headphones and listen to weak SSB signals and a din of constant hash for 36 hours. 2500 Q's seemed reasonable, 3000 if I could pull a K6AW and go iron-man style. Even for someone who doesn't even own a decent microphone, it seemed reachable. What I would do differently: + arrive a couple of days earlier in the week, to take care of whatever needs to be taken care of. The quad is not on its mast very well, and is off about 60-90 degrees (depending on the wind) from what the control box says, so I had to spend time running outside to see where it was really pointing. It would have made sense to just fix it beforehand rather than doing the Broken Rotor Two-Step every hour or so. + bring my own rig, headset, etc. while the 850 is just fine for casual DX-end pileup running, or a CW contest, it just doesn't cut it on fone. it pays to be intimately familiar with your gear in this situation. + build at least one receive antenna and point it north. the verticals really get out, but I couldn't hear anything below S7 much of the time 40m and below because of the tropical storms. + get more stateside casual (and competitive) experience in fone contests, particularly on the low bands. A decent fone op could've likely made 8-10M from this shack over this past weekend. + plan a better Red Bull strategy. I'm not a coffee drinker (typical Southerner), so this is very important. I started sliding downhill on Saturday evening until the XYL made an emergency 'Bull run into town. + SO2R. it is the only way to go if you want to really be competitive, and I truly found that out this weekend. I missed a LOT of mults. I can't believe I missed the 9K2. Got ST2T, but missed the Kuwaiti group. And they made like a gazillion Q's. Go figure. What I did right: + got prop charts from Dean/N6BV (thanks, Dean!) I posted them right above the computer, and they were pretty much on, and guided how I ran things. + brought the XYL. she was pretty good at keeping food and sodas coming at me. + made myself sit in the chair all day Sunday. Five minute headphone breaks were all that I would allow myself. When 20m just got to be too much, I would go up to 15m and call CQ. While the 15m rate was about half of the 20m rate on Sunday, it was much easier to just go up there for 30 minutes, run a few, then when it dried up, drop back down to 20 for half an hour or so. This worked out pretty well, and was pretty much what I had to do in order to not throw the headset across the shack. In closing, the final verdict is that I likely won't do a serious SSB SOAB effort for a while. A serious CW effort from here is the next big project. Thanks to everyone for the Q's, and in particular, thanks to the entire Radio Oakley crew for all of their pre-contest support and advice. 73, Robin - K4VU/V31RG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 176,008 TS570DG, 100W in Butternutt Tnx for another fine contest but have to say I better like CW! Tnx to all those who worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3CCO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,114,775 20m was a real fire-cracker into Europe/Africa. One JI2 called but that was the extent of the JA opening! Nice to exercise the CCO club call getting it some running in preparation for the Ontario QSO Party in April. Also giving the operator some exercise! Thanks for the Q's and thanks to all the other CCO members who were on. 73 Bob VE3KZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 366,894 Points for Contest Club Ontario ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA6TTT Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 63,384 Wuff, was that bad or what? It really tests your patience with conditions like this. Being geographically challenged is one thing, but then to add in being in the auroral zone...? Friday started out good and even tried 160m. 15m opened on Saturday. After that, we almost had a complete fade out here above 53 degrees north. Pretty lights in the sky though. 20m didi recover on Sunday, but for the most part the bands were dead. You know it's bad when you can't even work the Carribbean on 20m. CU nect year. Andrew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7AM Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 56,565 Part time effort ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC5X Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 735,744 (48-hour Flu) + (Propagation Blackouts) = A bad weekend ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC6R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,726,648 Propagation ...we don't need no "stinking" propagation! You know...if we ever have any decent propagation during a contest..we would not know what to do with it! Great team - Max VE6RST/VO1CV and Gerry VE6NAP Congratulations to other Canadian M/S Teams ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC7GL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,951,794 It was hard to get up for this one. Rotten conditions for this location, at least until Sunday where we had a somewhat decent EU opening on 20M. Only one contact on 15M says it all. We just didn't have propagation to the SE on that band, nothing much in any other direction except Hawaii, and the mult-station sat idle with nothing to do during much of the day. 40M was passable. Otherwise a real yawner. Let's hope the CW section is a bit more lively. Dale VE7GL - VC7GL http://reboot.bc.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GLO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 58,550 Conditions were not great from my QTH. Maybe next year Bob, VE3GLO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 106,875 Wow... The worst condx I have ever seen on 160 in the WPX SSB. I was going to put up a balloon vertical but the forcast didn't look good so I decided not to. That was the only thing that went as planned for the weekend because we had windy condx Saturday. Friday night the QRN was 20 to 30 over 9 on the vertical and S9 on all of the beverages. Even the loops were S5 to S7 so I was pretty much deaf most of the time. Everyone I did work also complained about the noise. It was really something. I gave up and went to bed around 4 am Saturday. I got on HF for a few hours on Saturday and Sunday afternoon while waiting for propagation to open on 160 and worked a few stations as follows: BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q PREFIXES 80 10 34 3.4 4 40 14 66 4.7 6 20 102 251 2.5 78 15 40 103 2.6 34 10 0 0 0.0 0 -------------------------------------- Sunday morning around 0200z the band finally started to settle and I managed to work Europe, Africa and South America. I didn't get half of what I had last year score wise. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the world made out. I'm sure they didn't have the QRN in Europe we had here. As I type this the storm front that caused me all the grief all week end is now here and I can hear thunder outside..... Oh well it was a heck of a training / learning experience if nothing else. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,478,968 This operation was operated as M2 but we weren't planned to enter in a real competition, our target was to show to the new contesters how is running two bands at the same time in a contest, we haven't got a big score, but we got our target of getting new people in contest. We had 6 new contesters visiting and operating at VE3RM. These people was hooked!. Some of them operate 80 meter during day light to loose their fear, other more courageous tried 20 meter for the first time during the EU running, other were monitoring 15 meter looking for some opening, other were listening VE3SY's operation because as they were M2 same as us and they could compare his operation with ours, but for sure everybody have fun. This people isn't only planning to enter in the next Ontario QSO Party (next weekend) as SO or MOP, at least three operators are planning to enter the CW course ASAP at the local RC trying to learn the code before WPX CW to make some QSO in the contest! Congratulations to Paul VE3SY and his super gang for his score, they had did a great operation in the low bands. THANKS again to Don VE3RM for his host, his teaching and his patience. 73, Claudio VE3AP/VE2DWA/LU7DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SY Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,021,704 Many thanks to Yuri VE3DZ, Nick VE3EY, Peter VE3NWA who assisted for VE3SY to operate M/2 class for this years SSB WPX. Thanks also to Paul VE3TA for the generous loan of his ACOM 2000A amp for our RUN2 station. Friday night QRN levels and poor EU path on Saturday AM kept the Q rate below our expectations however Saturday night saw decent Q rates on the lower bands and Sunday resulted in some decent runs on the higher bands. Antennas are monobanders... North tower has 4el on 20 with 3 el on 15 and 10. South tower hosts an A4 tribander and a 2 element 40 metre beam (tuned for CW end of band). 160 - 40 antennas were dipoles with a NE<>SW beverage. Rigs were both FT-1000MP - one into an ALPHA 87A and the other an ACOM 2000A. For logging we decided to use Win-Test and while a few familiarization issues arose, it proved to be very stable. Thanks as well to my wife Marg VE3RE who kept us all well fed and lots of coffee on hand. And of course thanks to all fellow contesters for the Qs. Paul VE3SY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SO(TS)AB LP Total Score = 250,404 So much for planning! Though I was prepared, begged permission from the wife and kids to put in a strong effort, checked antennas and all was OK. Computer and SW was updated and latest check and country files loaded. Then murphy enters the picture. First I am told that we have to go out for a few hours Friday night. I could live with that sm it would give me 30 minutes of op time at the start of the contest. Started on 20 and it was wide open to SA and promising to turn into good condx for the South pacific and Asia. Worked 20 S&P contacts in the first 20 minutes before leaving. After returning to the rig at about 0400 I couldn't believe the noise level. I checked 40 & 80 m and the QRN was 20dB over 9 on the dipole. And to make things worse, the BiggIR vertical wpouldn't even load on 40 m. 27 contact in 90 minutes and I decided to call it quits at 0530 and try again in the morning. Back on at 0900 and thought I would try to catchthe JA and ZL/VKs on 40 before 20m opened up. Again couldn't get the vertical to load and VSWR was crazy on the other bands. Managed to work just a few strong stateside signals on 40. Noise was still very high. Looking at the near real time MUF prediction at http://www.spacew.com/www/realtime.php indicated that we were under a huge Aurora! To make matters worse, it looked like the MUF was not going to hit 20 m between us and EU. Now what...huge noise on the low bands, no propagatiion on the high bands, and a defective 40m antenna! In the daylight I went outside to see if there was any visual problems. I soon discovered that the freezing rain we had 2 days before had weighed down the guy wires and caused one of the telescoping sections of the BiggIR vertical to collapse into the lower one, hence the antenna could not extend to its full length on 40. It was also way to windy to try and effect a repair. Struggled all day to make what contacts I could on 20m. A few Carribean and SA. was the best I could do. Trying to run a freq with 100 watts and a dipole was not working! 15m opened for about 15 mins with S2-S3 signals at best, even from a few of the big gun SA stations. 10m might as well be consider microwave from here! Finally gave up on 20m at about 0130z. EU never appeared but I could hear the VE3's and stateside stations working them. The MUF tool just verified the fact that there was no path between the black hole of central Canada and EU. Asia didn't look promising either. Forget 40m and it was on to 80m. To my surprise, the noise was way down and actually had a few runs going. Heard a few EU but there was no way to get their attention with the 100w and dipole when there was so many others calling. Gave up on the DX and just concentrated on working whatever stateside I could. Packed it in at 0440. Sunday morning the weather looked promising to attempt an antenna repar. The MUF prediction also indicated a promising day. Spent 4 hours pulling the antenna down, extending and securing the tube and finnaly retensioning all the guys. Back on the rig at 1600 and still no EU The VE3's and VE2's were working them and I could tell they were there but way too much QRM to have a chance. 15m never opened here. Checked every 15 miutes or so as I had hoped that could be my "money band" as 20 was way too crowded for me to try running. Went above 14.3 and below 14.15 and still no luck. I would have to be content with stateside contacts it appeared. Finally about 1830 the band opened into EU and North AF. Made several contacts and was even surprised with a couple South AF contacts. Spent the rest of the contest bouncing between 40 and 20. Picking up the higher score 40m contacts between working the new prefixes on 20. Spent a lot of time in the chair with not many contacts to show for it. Hopefully the plans for a tower and beam happen this summer and maybe next year I can be more productive. Antennas will help but unless I move, this QTH is still a black hole of propagation. Between the Aurora and lower MUF paths, what can you do? All DX is two and 3 hops away at best! My apologies for rambling! 73 to all Ed VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5JCJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,490 Interesting first time in this test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 346,500 I used to think the three words to be most feared were, "I love you". After this contest, I've changed my mind. They are now, "Again, my number?" Without a doubt, these were the worst conditions I've ever experienced in my 2+ years of contesting - and doubt they can get any worse. Being at the sunspot cycle low is one thing, but having aurora conditions almost all weekend is just too much. About the best thing I can say about this contest is that I now have a mental baseline against which I can judge all future contests. In other words, it can't get any worse! The contest started at 6PM local time on Friday. I made a total of 2 QSOs on 15m and 10m was dead as could be. On 20m, the JAs and EUs were gone by this time, and I managed to work some South America and US. Switching to 40m and 80m, band condx were poor as well. I called it a night at 12:30AM (Sat morning) and got up at 6AM to see what was on. There were no signals on 20m, and I managed to work a few stations on 40m and 80m. Condx didn't improve much all day and it didn't matter that I took 4 hours off (9:30AM to 1:30PM) to attend a local ham flea market and look at possible Field Day sites out of town. Saturday was almost a total wash out as I heard no Europeans and only 1 or 2 JAs! Sunday wasn't much better, but at least I STARTED to hear the big gun European stations coming through around 11:30AM local time. I made a list of about 20 of them, as none could hear me. Finally, around 1:30PM, I started getting through to some. It usually took 10 or 12 times (or more!), screaming into the mic to get my serial number across. (Thanks to all those who stayed with me, and I don't blame those who didn't!) While condx improved over the afternoon, it appeared that there just weren't many hams doing the contest. Again, this must have been just my observation, as I heard some of the big gun stations with huge numbers. Anyway, thanks to all those who struggled to pull me through and know that next time the condx will be better. 73, Jerry VE6CNU (Running FT-1000MP barefoot (100W) with TH6 DXX at 42', inverted vee for 40m, and shunt-fed tower for 80m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 21,845 Greetings All: Well in the qrp world from here it was a toughie, considering last year I did ~1.4 million in the low pwr all band class (95 more watts HI), the rest all the same. Only managed one(thats uno,,( 1 Q )) the first night on 80. Ken in CA heard me, but none of the locals could !!! So Sunday I went skiing with the kids and the deep powder at 9200' at Sunshine Village made up for it all. Good choice and never look back. Theres always another contest weekend. Cheers, Dan VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6FI Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,239,061 Just no signals on 15m and 10m. Well you make the best of conditions. Denis Ve6aq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7KET Class: SO(TS)SB40 HP Total Score = 78,166 Inv-V at 50ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,185,998 This is our first effort after rebuilding from the wind damage of early November 2006. Photo's of the damage are on my website at http://bcdxc.org/ve7sv_nov2006_storm_mt_thom.htm Conditions were very poor but we are happy with our results. So now....for no QRN, good conditions, some 10 and 15 meter opening and we should really have fun. See you all for WPX CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK6DXI Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 514,771 Contesting on SSB on 40 m is always difficult from anywher, but from this part of the woods it is really special. Thank you all for being patient with me.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1DJT Class: SO(R)AB LP Total Score = 52,130 This was my first contest, tried the N1MM logger and S&P for all contacts. It was a great learning experience and lots of fun. Looking forward to many more contests in the future. 73 Daisy VO1DJT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,408,192 Sure didn't feel like 28 hours. This was great! The most fun I've had in a contest... ever! If this is how I can do with this set up at the bottom of the cycle... come on sunspots!! My antennae for the low bands are no good for the phone parts of the bands and 10 and 15 have not been stellar of late so I figured I'd run the money band only. Plus I wanted to get some sleep. I think it was a good decision on my part but never started out that way. Friday night, I pointed that antenna to NA and worked a bunch of W/VE and a few South America and Central America stations before the band crapped out. I figured that I would get up early the next morning and get a jump on the rest of the continent into Europe and hopefully catch a few VK/ZL on the greyline path. Man, was I wrong. I heard maybe 5 stations that I could work from 5AM to 7AM local so I took a break and went for a coffee. Came back an hour later and still nothing. So I went to breakfast with the regular bunch of local hams for a couple hours. Yeah, I know, this is not the way to win a contest. Anyway, when I got home around 11AM local time, the band was open finally so I squeezed in and went to town. I decided to try Gerry W1VE's Live Score page and talked Gus VO1MP into doing the same. This made the contest very different; and the most fun ever. I have no idea why there were only 30-40 stations connected to it. I figured that I would just be one of the also-rans in the list but found that Gus and I were leading the pack for the section. I had N1MM and Internet Explorer situated in such a way that I could follow the scores while operating. That made it all the more enjoyable to beat Gus in the category that matters... Mults! And I was single band too... all the more reason to gloat :) My voice keyer, such that it is, was not working properly so I had to do it all myself but my voice is not that bad today. Got another one on order. I have no idea how some of these other guys manage to keep from blowing out their vocal cords with the way they shout into the mic. There was one big time contest station operating on the higher region of 20M on Sunday that was about 50kcs wide. I could hear him from about 14300 to 14350 no problem... on the back of the beam. When I found where he was actually operating, he was that distorted it was painful to listen to. Many of the European stations were equally as bad, audio-wise. I tried to use an even tone and normal talking voice and found that I got just as good results than if I shouted at the top of my lungs. One of the more interesting things I heard was when I took a look at the top of the band to start S&P for mults. There was a European station calling CQ on 14349 and a US station berating him for operating outside the band edge. I found it interesting because, as loud as the European station was, he was not splattering outside the band edge nearly as far as the US station was. Some highlights of the contest were in the last couple hours when 20M went long. I turned the beam north and got a few stations that I normally never hear, Alaska, Yukon, Japan, Taiwan (an all-time new one) and the last 2 zones I needed (Asiatic Russian 18 & 19), and a bunch of mid-west and western states. I had a few nice ones in Africa call me and even got a 4S for a new one on this band. I think I only missed Paraguay in South America. VP8NO gave me a call as well. Anyway, sorry if I don't share your view on how lousy the bands were. I do agree that they weren't peak but, for my money, they were good enough to give me a taste of how things will be. The gear worked great. I have to say that the SteppIR is a fantastic antenna for single band operation with a minimum of tuning required as opposed to band changes. My 30 year old SB-220 ran like a champ. I could use a good SSB filter in the rig but I may end up getting a new rig later on. We'll see. I set a few goals for myself at the beginning: 1. 1000 Qs 2. 1M points 3. 100 countries I got them all so I can't complain. Anyway, I can't remember everything that I was going to write about. Going to have to take notes in the next contest. Having never done this good before and having never entered this contest seriously, except for the M/S effort from VO1MX@VO1MP last year, I guess I did OK. And if I can manage to keep nipping at Gus' heels, then you should see some more nice scores out of VO1 in the coming years. Rig: FT-920 Amp: SB-220 Antenna: SteppIR 3 Element Log: N1MM 7.3.6 Motivator: W1VE's Live Score web site. (Get on and try it!) (No, I'm not getting paid :) ) 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,269,684 Fun Contest , even though conditions went for a walk after Friday evening and didn't recover until Sunday , still enough activity to keep trying .. Stayed connected to W1VE's on line reporting site for the contest was a nice diversion and was interesting to see the scores as they developped or (didn't, as the case may be ).. interesting stuff ... and fun as Paul VO1HE and I were both able to monitor each other's activity or lack there-of .. put a new twist on contesting for me ...... Kudos to Gerry - W1VE ... Guess now I can get back to regular living for a while.. Thanks for all the QSOs C'Y'ALL NEXT ONE GLWCDR 73 Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1TX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 157,976 Great Fun!!! Excellent learning experience.. Can't wait for the next contest..73!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP2E Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 593,970 We were pleased to provide the VP2 prefix (mainly via S&P mode) to about 600 stations. Ray ran some US on 15, and I called mainly EU, SA and US stations on 15 and then 20. Only one US station on 20 told us we were NOT a new multiplier. We even managed to work a few JA stations on 20 near the end. After reading other comments about the overall contest conditions from the Caribbean, I think we used the correct operating strategy for this one. We got our first contest "taste" of our new logging software "Win-Test". It stayed networked perfectly. (we only used 2 computers, but it stayed up without any hickups) It will take some time to learn all the various things it can do, but our previous networking issues appear to be resolved without any changes to hardware. Since we won't be in S&P mode when cycle 24 starts showing signs of life, we can't have any networking issues remaining when going after the very top category in multi-contesting. We have been busy since early February finishing the house and grounds construction, and have recently started on the new antenna work. 15 meters has found its new home on a tower far, far away from the 40 meter yagi. Our 3L yagi is a super antenna for 7 MHZ, but it's pretty good on 15 as well. This is not great news in a multi-transmitter environment! 20 meters is already at home on its present tower, but will be changed to add new Telrex yagis soon. 80 and 160 always present problems with keeping up good transmit antennas without continual maintenance. We're still working on this one. "Hi" horizontals are great until the wind starts rising and they turn into "Bye". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP57V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,927,582 Thanks for all the Q's ! Great fun with the 1st ever VP57 Prefix. QSL via W5CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 373,296 Interesting condx here.Terrible on low bands both nights,not much better on higher bands Sat., but Sunday brought improving signs.Since I was only on from time to time to pass mult really didn't matter that much, but once my schedule opened late Sunday, decided to run for a while on 20m.Well that was fun and for the first time in a long while I actually put contacts in the log on all six bands.Not many mind you, but they were there. Heard several loud stations on 10 but no matter what I tried just couldn't raise them.One way prop apparently.Oh,and BTW,to the stations that thought they heard a VY2 on 160; THEY DID! Oh, well put a few new ones in the log and had fun.Will try for more serious effort next year. Thanks to CQ for a fun contest and hope we got in your log.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 16,766 Was out of town this weekend but returned with 3 hours to go hoping to stir up some fun with a "fresh" call. Spent most of an hour on S&P and then some unexpected company dropped by and I was unexpectedly done. Fun while it lasted, and I will enjoy reading your posts. Time to start planning improvements for the next contest season ... 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1LRY Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 4,770 I remember getting my license in 1991, working a 10 meter contest from my 5th floor condo with a dipole running along the patio roof and having a ball doing it. Now my G5RV and Gap Titan won't tune on 10 and 15, and condx are terrible....Gosh, I love this hobby. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 87,600 After many years of being NB1B I decided to try another primary callsign. I did S&P only, and wanted to get a feel for how quickly this call could be grasped by the station called. I used the phonetics Whiskey One Uniform Echo. Of the 200 QSOs, I was copied correctly on the first try by 188 stations, copied as W1UT 8 times, and as W4UT 4 times(for the purposes of this test, a "QRZ?" or a "W1?" didn't count as a try). For those that copied W1UT, changing the last letter phonetic to "Easy" or "Ecuador" resulted in correct copy on the 2nd try. I haven't tried the call on CW yet, but no one should be miscopying my call as "N6JB" any more. See you down the log. Dennis W1UE (ex-NB1B) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,146,416 I made a semi-serious effort this weekend, although lots of household stuff had to get done as well. 20m was a zoo, 15 was a wasteland and 10 wasn't even worth retuning the amplifier for! 40 was decent in the evening, but 80 and 160 had a little too much QRN to get going on, plus I had to call it an early night both nights, which sure didn't help. Because 20 was the only viable band for the most part, it was jammed tighter than I've seen it since CQWW 2002 or 2003. Finding (and/or holding) a run frequency from this little pipsqueak station was a heck of a challenge, too. No big surprises, but a few nice ones. Had fun for the most part, of course. I'd really like to do this one from a big M/M next year, though. 73, Peter, W2IRT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3/E21EIC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 231,150 Short time to visited K.Fred, K3ZO house in my travel trip to USA. I will back to his station again on May 8 - 15, 2007. Thanks to K3ZO to supported station. 73, Champ, E21EIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,272,538 Doubled last years score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 666,126 First time over 1K. Hope this is the bottom of the cycle, 20 can't take much more pressure ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 208,219 TS-440S N1MM logger R7000 es G5RV Tnx for the Qs 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 134,610 Just played some. Use my 160 mtr. inv. "L" at 75 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4V Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,712,276 43 man/hours on the radios. Very noisy Friday night. Information on this special event call can be found at http://www.arrl.org/?artid=7299 Thanks for the QSO'S Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,381 Had a chance to play a bit with my 12 year old - I think he's hooked!!! More ammunition to get the tower up. Just 100w to a 400' loop fed with ladder line- 73, Henry, W2DZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6TKV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 86,800 Really surprised to work OH8X and IR4X on 40M with 125W and an R7. Sure harder than with KW and beam, but worthwhile to pass along to new General Class ops in the Riverside County ARA, our local club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,792,592 Thanks to all for the qso's. Lots of noise on Friday night on the low bands. Saturday provided a suprise when 20 propagation disappeared on during the morning, it eventually returned later. 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % OC 1 11 16 36 8 0 72 3.6 AS 0 2 61 180 4 0 247 12.2 SA 0 4 13 50 45 18 130 6.4 NA 7 112 435 819 41 0 1414 69.9 EU 0 0 44 93 0 0 137 6.8 AF 0 2 6 14 0 0 22 1.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 70,192 Used Hustler Mobile Antenna.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WA Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 37,444,000 No local QRN problems for a change. However the atmospheric noise on 20 from the east and west was appalling at times Friday evening and on Saturday afternoon. There must have been some monster electrical storms somewhere. Decent conditions Friday evening and on Sunday. In between was mostly a domestic contest for me. It was nice to hear so many newly minted KI4 hams on the air. 73 de Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 42,250 Very part time operation here. Friday night the QRN was murder here. Now I know what the guys in the south have to contend with. Operated about 8 hours,according to N1MM, all S&P. Just can't get in the groove in a SSB contest. SSB is the hardest of all the contests for me for some reason. Much rather work CW. Sure a lot of unique calls. It was fun to see who was behind some of these callsigns that I had never worked or heard before. Also fun to work the regulars who I usually work on the other modes. 73 and see 'ya in the next one. Tom W7WHY Radio 1 TS-450SAT + SB-200 ~500 watts Radio 2 FT-840 N1MM Logger 7.3.6 160 inverted 'L', 80 meter vertical, 80 meter dipole, 40 meter verticals X 2, 20 meter vertical, 20 meter HB 2 el monobander, 130 foot center fed zepp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AKS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 173,808 First WPX from east coast, different ballgame than from W6. Lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7XX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,526,979 A real old time multi-single. One radio, no multiplier position, no automation, a broken down computer, one OM "has been" contester and one up and coming YL contester. Fun time. Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B, 3 el SteppIR at 78 ft, M-Squared 40M3L 3 el 40m yagi, 80M Inverted Vee, 160M shunt fed 78' tower, K9AY rx loops. CU CQWPX CW in May 73, Bob K8IA 88, Sandy N7RQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB1HBB Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 170,950 My Force 12 Sigma-5 came through for me. Worked 63 countries. Had a lot of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 258,420 Ouch! Have we hit rock bottom yet? Thanks to all for pulling me out of the noise. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,200,240 Sure not the most fun contest I ever operated.... The local thunder storms really screwed up my schedule Friday night and Saturday. I shut down and disconnected the main antenna feeds several times.... glad I did, I don't think anything got blasted. Never made it to 160. I had the network at the base of the 160 vertical disconnected to protect it from lighting. With all the rain we have had, there is a big pond around the base of the tower, so I said the hell with putting on the rubber boots and 160 meters this weekend. 15 meters sure was as disapointment into EU, compared to the ARRL DX CW and SSB Contest weekends as many EU's were worked on 15 here both weekends. I did work a few southern EU's including VQ9 and 5B, nice to see some semi-rare African activity on 15. No JA's were worked on 15. Most 15 meter QSO's were made with the second radio. 20 meters was the usual zoo and I'm still trying to figure out why a certain KD2 would move within 300-500Hz of my clear run frequency and call endless CQ's with no answers. I lost track how many times this idiot tried this, always CQing with no takers when I continued to run stations. With Seven 20 meter yagis to chose from, including a 6 over 6 over 6 on a 200' tower... it going to take a LOT to run me off. I'm sure glad the contest season is over for me for a while, I have operated a LOT of contest since the September CQ WW RTTY contest, including three from the PJ2T station. But.... I'm sure in a few months I'll be ready for the June VHF and July IARU World Championship. WB9Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC4J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 134,046 First time with a good 160m antenna up man what a difference even worked some dx! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,164,464 FT1000mp 100w TH7DX @ 50' 40m Dipole 80m Inv V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 549 A single-radio M/S as there weren't enough antennas to support the second rig. FT-1000MP MkV + Alpha 87A (1.5kw) 10m-20m 3-ele SteppIR @ 75' 40m SteppIR Rotatable Dipole @ 75' 75m Inverted Vee @ 70' Was the inconsistency in the rules for multi-op serial numbers ever resolved? Paul's copy of N1MM reset numbers per band even though we listed the category as Multi-One. Reading the rules after the contest, it looks like we should have issued a single set of serial numbers as we used only one transmitter. vy 73, Chris WF3C (for W4QG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 21,112 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM5R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,996,340 W5KFT Station: http://www.kkn.net/~w5kft/ Beverages - not working this weekend 160 - Inverted V @ 145' 80 - Sloping dipoles - NE, NW from 150', SE from 135' 40 - Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 150', rotatable Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 70', fixed NE 20 - Hy-Gain 204BA @ 157', rotatable Hy-Gain 204BA @ 105', fixed NE Hy-Gain 204BA @ 53', fixed NE Hy-Gain TH7DXX @ 45', fixed NW Hy-Gain TH7DXX @ 75', fixed NW 15 - Hy-Gain 155CA @ 135', rotatable Hy-Gain 155CA @ 90', fixed NE Hy-Gain 155CA @ 45', fixed NE 10 - Hy-Gain 105CA @ 140', rotatable Hy-Gain 105CA @ 100', fixed NE Hy-Gain 105CA @ 60', fixed NE Hy-Gain 105CA @ 30', fixed NE Radio 1: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1500 Radio 2: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1200 Headset: Heil Proset DVK: W9XT Contest Card Software: TR Log 6.78 Other: WX0B SixPak, WX0B StackMatches, Ameritron RCS-8V switches, ICE bandpass filters, Top Ten Devices Band Decoders, Top Ten Devices DXDoubler, CDE rotors I always love to operate contests from the W5KFT Ranch Station. With the recent rains, everything on the ranch was green and lush, SOPABOX: and the bluebonnets (our state wildflower) were everywhere. I saw more wildlife than usual from the three kilometer long driveway to the ranch house, including jackrabbits, wild boar, squirrels, four or five different species of birds, and eight to ten deer. Robert K5PI had been out there this winter and modified the Top Ten boxes to drive the SixPak in addition to the ICE bandpass filters, which was a pleasant surprise - no more remembering to switch antennas during a band change. Bryan was out at the ranch on Friday and we tried to repair the Beverages. The remote coax switch, preamp, transformer, and other hardware had all been mounted on a tree branch that died and fell over (and is now home to a fire ant colony). The remote coax switch had gotten water in it, and we swapped that out, but it appears that the preamp is also dead. We ran out of time and lacked a spare preamp anyway, so I operated the contest without receive antennas on 40 meters, 80 meters, and 160 meters. This is the first time I've operated the CQ WPX phone contest as an all-band single-operator. I've not done a lot of single-operator DX contests aside from the IARU HF World Championships in the summer, and of course the conditions are quite different then. A lot of the time, I felt like I was pretty clueless, and was saved mostly by the fact that for most of the contest, there was only one open band to choose from. My off-time strategy was to take four hours off each night to sleep. There's not so much DX to work from Texas on 40 and 80, and without Beverages I figured I'd have even less to work. I also figured that most of the W/VE multipliers I'd hear on 40 and 80 would likely OAPBOX: have been already worked on other bands. So, I took time off around 0700 UTC both nights. The first night, I just couldn't get up when the alarm went off at 1100 UTC, so I went back for another hour of sleep, and even then I was kind of slow to get moving. I didn't take any off time during the day on Saturday, as the weather forecast predicted storms on Sunday and I wanted to keep off time in case I had to shut down for a time for lightning or a tornado. On Sunday, I had a little under three hours of off time remaining, but I had to wait until the afternoon to take it before the weather radar on the TV assured me that the storms weren't going to get to us before the end of the contest. Unfortunately, Sunday afternoon was by far the best opening to Europe on 20 meters, and I am sure I missed out on multipliers during my off times. My one run on 15 meters was on the first night of the contest during the 0100 UTC hour, when I worked stations in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and South America. 15 meters never sounded good enough to try another serious run later in the contest, although I did make a few efforts on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, a small herd of cows was jogging by the station and one of them was issuing a series of short, really deep-throated calls that manged to resonate with the building walls and it sounded just like I remember it sounding at my office last year when they were screwing drywall into wall studs on the floor above us. It was only when I caught sight of the cows outside the window that I figured out what the noise was. I had fun. 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- ---- USA calls = 24 145 459 1248 17 0 1893 VE calls = 3 11 50 188 1 0 253 N.A. calls = 1 5 17 44 8 0 75 S.A. calls = 0 4 9 47 43 3 106 Euro calls = 0 11 20 231 0 0 262 Afrc calls = 1 2 1 18 3 0 25 Asia calls = 0 0 0 21 0 0 21 JA calls = 0 0 2 110 25 0 137 Ocen calls = 0 1 6 32 25 0 64 --- -- -- -- -- -- ---- Total calls = 29 179 564 1939 122 3 2836 HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ----- ------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 0 --- --- --- 154/93 4/4 --- 158/97 158/97 0.02M 1 --- --- --- 52/22 63/42 --- 115/64 273/161 0.07M 2 --- --- 7/4 102/38 14/6 --- 123/48 396/209 0.14M 3 --- --- 2/1 134/40 4/3 --- 140/44 536/253 0.22M 4 --- --- 64/29 37/9 --- --- 101/38 637/291 0.31M 5 --- 14/4 110/28 --- --- --- 124/32 761/323 0.41M 6 2/1 35/11 14/2 --- --- --- 51/14 812/337 0.45M 7 6/0 --- --- --- --- --- 6/0 818/337 0.46M 8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337 0.46M 9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337 0.46M 10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337 0.46M 11 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 818/337 0.46M 12 --- --- 54/13 15/12 --- --- 69/25 887/362 0.53M 13 --- --- 1/0 22/7 13/7 --- 36/14 923/376 0.58M 14 --- --- --- 72/37 3/2 --- 75/39 998/415 0.70M 15 --- --- --- 112/33 --- --- 112/33 1110/448 0.82M 16 --- --- --- 106/22 2/1 1/1 109/24 1219/472 0.93M 17 --- --- --- 100/32 4/2 2/0 106/34 1325/506 1.08M 18 --- --- --- 104/25 1/1 --- 105/26 1430/532 1.21M 19 --- --- --- 93/23 4/3 --- 97/26 1527/558 1.34M 20 --- --- --- 74/23 --- --- 74/23 1601/581 1.47M 21 --- --- --- 68/16 1/0 --- 69/16 1670/597 1.58M 22 --- --- --- 69/21 1/0 --- 70/21 1740/618 1.71M 23 --- --- --- 80/13 1/0 --- 81/13 1821/631 1.84M 0 --- --- --- 81/16 1/1 --- 82/17 1903/648 1.97M 1 --- --- 35/2 21/3 --- --- 56/5 1959/653 2.05M 2 --- --- 102/10 --- --- --- 102/10 2061/663 2.17M 3 --- 6/0 71/11 --- --- --- 77/11 2138/674 2.31M 4 --- 25/1 47/12 --- --- --- 72/13 2210/687 2.45M 5 --- 64/7 21/2 --- --- --- 85/9 2295/696 2.59M 6 17/2 33/5 4/0 --- --- --- 54/7 2349/703 2.70M 7 4/2 --- --- --- --- --- 4/2 2353/705 2.71M 8 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2353/705 2.71M 9 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2353/705 2.71M 10 --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 2353/705 2.71M 11 --- --- 24/0 --- --- --- 24/0 2377/705 2.74M 12 --- 2/0 8/0 11/6 --- --- 21/6 2398/711 2.80M 13 --- --- --- 37/26 --- --- 37/26 2435/737 2.97M 14 --- --- --- 48/18 --- --- 48/18 2483/755 3.13M 15 --- --- --- 45/13 2/1 --- 47/14 2530/769 3.26M 16 --- --- --- 62/5 3/1 --- 65/6 2595/775 3.34M 17 --- --- --- 5/0 --- --- 5/0 2600/775 3.35M 18 --- --- --- 47/10 1/0 --- 48/10 2648/785 3.44M 19 --- --- --- 69/22 --- --- 69/22 2717/807 3.62M 20 --- --- --- 2/0 --- --- 2/0 2719/807 3.62M 21 --- --- --- 64/12 --- --- 64/12 2783/819 3.77M 22 --- --- --- 47/23 --- --- 47/23 2830/842 3.97M 23 --- --- --- 6/2 --- --- 6/2 2836/844 4.00M D1 8/1 49/15 252/77 1394/466 115/71 3/1 1821/631 D2 21/4 130/13 312/37 545/156 7/3 0/0 1015/213 TO 29/5 179/28 564/114 1939/622 122/74 3/1 2836/844 Unique callsigns worked = 2335 The best 60 minute rate was 167/hour from 0007 to 0106 The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 0016 to 0045 The best 10 minute rate was 228/hour from 0031 to 0040 The best 1 minute rates were: 6 QSO's/minute 3 times. 5 QSO's/minute 13 times. 4 QSO's/minute 63 times. 3 QSO's/minute 213 times. 2 QSO's/minute 532 times. 1 QSO's/minute 798 times. There were 201 bandchanges and 93 (3.3%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 5 4 1094 5 1031 6 670 7 8 8 16 9 11 10 1 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1931 2 bands 318 3 bands 75 4 bands 11 5 bands 0 6 bands 0 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 10 55 227 1557 80 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO1N Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 107,512 Equipment: FT1000D, C3SS@38', R7, 80M Double L, N1MM Part time effort. Antenna's all tuned for CW. When the snowstorm hit Saturday evening it sent the SWR off the chart for 80M and 40M so really could play. I nominate TM2Y for the best ears on 80M. He picked my call out first call Sunday evening on 80M about 20 minutes before the end of the contest.... 10M forget about it...15M dead dead dead on Sunday. CU in the next one, Ken WO1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 2,624,809 Hi Thanks to all for qso's, see you in the WPX CW. 73' http://www.wp3c.qth.com Att Alfredo Velez WP3C/WP4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,729,024 Thanks again to Brian N3OC for use of his station during the WPX Phone weekend. Knowing that unfortunately 15M would not play too well this weekend, more than the usual amount of time was spent on 20M with good success. We were very surprised at the huge QSO totals for EU and SA on 15, especially the propagation experienced between both continents. Oh well...give it another year or two. Congrats to all the "big" scores from the DX stations given the bad propagation. See ya all with WR3Z again during WPX CW weekend. 73, Barry WR3Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT4PF Class: SO(TS)AB HP Total Score = 2,844,024 TKS TO DAVE, KB4ET FOR THE USE OF HIS CLUB CALL. DIDN'T WORK ANOTHER WT4, SO GUESS I GAVE MOST A NEW PREFIX. I HAVE TWO SMALL PIECES OF WIRE RUNNING AROUND ON MY LOT AND MY NEIGHBORS ABOUT 200' LOG (NE & NW) AND THEY MADE THE DIFFERENCE ON THE LOW BANDS FOR RECEIVING. HIGHLIGHTS: BEING CALLED BY ST2A ON 20M IN RUN AND 9K2HN ON 40M SUNDAY AFTERNOON IN DAYLIGHT. LOTS OF /AG's AND /AE's WORKED IN THIS ONE. HOPE EVERYONE CHECKS MY CALL AS I THINK I GAVE OUT "WT4 FOXTROT PAPA" A COUPLE OF TIMES ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS I HAD BEEN UP SINCE FRIDAY MORNING. COULD ONLY OPERATE 30 HOURS, AS WAS OUT OF TOWN ATTENDING GRAND DAUGHTERS GYM MEET IN STATESBORO, GA. - THAT TOOK CARE OF MORE THAN MY TWELVE HOURS OFF INCLUDING SLEEP TIME. BY THE END LAST NIGHT, I WAS HAVING TROUBLE REMEMBERING THE CALL AND JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE..GREAT FUN AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE CW TEST. 73, PAUL, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT8C Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 446,124 S and P only. Trying new FT-2000 to see how it handles QRM and weak signals. Thought it did very well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Total Score = 325,710 Lots of good operators in this contest, repeating and pulling out signals under poor conditions. A special thanks to Dane, ST2T for going out of his way in an attempt to allow me to copy the proper exchange, even though conditions wouldn't allow it. Other notable ops were YV5JF who was QRP, LU1FBK, WN6K, K2RET and KI3O. Had a great time. Tnx to all and 73'.....Fred WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW9R Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 529,948 Wow, the WPX-SSB is over already. The day time band conditions were terrible for my verticals... It wans't until the evening hours that my Gap Voyager did it's magic on 40 & 80 meters. I can't wait till the days when 10 and 15 really open up. All in all it was a great time. Station: Yaesu FT-1000 Mark V Ameritron AL-811H (500 Watts) Gap Titan for 15 & 20 mtrs Gap Voyager for 40, 80, and 160 N3FJP contesting software. See you all in the next one, Pat WW9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,033,875 A favorite contest of WX3B! I must admit an envy to all of you with large towers and stacked arrays on the high bands. This year's effort was toned down (ah....we too almost all of Saturday OFF from 9:15am to 3:30pm) and we featured several new WPX Contesters. Our star surprise effort was made by Mary-Jo (NY3A's Girlfriend) who could be heard CQing late in the afternoon on 75 meters. Congratulations to Bob, W3RAR for his first run of Europeans on 160 meters, and to W3ARS and NY3A for slugging it out on 20 meters and running Europe Sunday. Thanks to K1RH for supplying drinks & snacks and tirelessly CQing on 40 meters (again) - at least this time you got some play time in on 20m. It was also Mark's first guest appearance at WX3B (KB3NGI) and it looked like Mark was having fun even though his bands weren't always the "hot" ones. Mark picked right up on the end of contest PASS EVERYBODY to ALL bands idea. K3LP brought his son Ryan over and I wish I had captured the sweet bed-time picture of David sleeping and Ryan curled up next to him. N3VOP had the exitement of a child at Christmas after working some JAs on 20 meters Sunday evening. It was good seeing Steve, N3SB after about a year off from contesting at WX3B. Steve has tirelessly answered the call for many of WX3B's antenna parties and loaned the equipment for the 10m operating position. Bryan, N3ST had to make due with low antennas this weekend, he is used to a 160 foot self supporting tower at his own home. N3YIM pounced his way around a hot 20 meter band and was seen at the contest SEVERAL times over the weekend. A Great weekend - special thanks to all my spotting "cheerleaders....and there were many of you this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX5S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,715,855 We had fewer operators, for fewer hours, than last year - but propagation was providing fewer hours, fewer countries and fewer points anyway. Thanks to Matt WX5S for the call and early Ssaturday morning operating. And thanks to Dean N6DE who operated Saturday night to Sunday morning and put in so many low band contacts. During the days, we managed some South America contacts on 10m, we think ... and even some JA's on 15m, Thanks! Some very nice DX on like the 3DA0EI, 3V8BB, C52T, E51USA and ZM8CW - and of course a bunch of great prefixes.One of our computers kept shifting back off (on?) Daylight Savings Time and logging everything an hour later - but I think we got the log straightened out. Thanks for the contacts! Mark K6UFO, for "WX5S" at W6YX Stanford University. Equipment: Yaesu FT-1000MP & MkV Alpha 78 amps Antennas: Tribander: Force12 C31XR at 60 ft 10m: 5-el at 31 ft 15m: 6-el at 75 ft, 5-el at 25 ft 20m: 6-el at 65 ft, 5-el at 36 ft. 40m: 4-el yagi at 65 ft, and inverted vee at 55 ft. 80m: inverted vee at 55 ft 160m: T antenna, 60ft at top. Writelog 10.47E on Daylight-Savings-confused computers... QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 76/41 10/10 --+-- 86/51 86/51 D1-0100Z - - - 6/5 64/45 - 70/50 156/101 D1-0200Z - - - 3/2 82/34 - 85/36 241/137 D1-0300Z - - - 79/58 - - 79/58 320/195 D1-0400Z - - 9/7 11/10 - - 20/17 340/212 D1-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 340/212 D1-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 340/212 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 340/212 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 340/212 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 340/212 D1-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 340/212 D1-1100Z - - 4/1 - - - 4/1 344/213 D1-1200Z - - 20/7 - - - 20/7 364/220 D1-1300Z - - 3/1 - - - 3/1 367/221 D1-1400Z - - 1/1 12/4 - - 13/5 380/226 D1-1500Z - - - 10/4 - - 10/4 390/230 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 36/35 --+-- --+-- 36/35 426/265 D1-1700Z - - - 11/11 9/9 - 20/20 446/285 D1-1800Z - - - 10/10 18/8 - 28/18 474/303 D1-1900Z - - - 4/4 30/16 12/7 46/27 520/330 D1-2000Z - - - 1/0 3/3 15/3 19/6 539/336 D1-2100Z - - - 21/17 5/3 - 26/20 565/356 D1-2200Z - - - 16/6 5/5 - 21/11 586/367 D1-2300Z - - - 22/7 12/4 - 34/11 620/378 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 56/23 --+-- --+-- 56/23 676/401 D2-0100Z - 6/6 6/6 50/14 - - 62/26 738/427 D2-0200Z - - 25/5 18/6 - - 43/11 781/438 D2-0300Z - 10/10 39/17 - - - 49/27 830/465 D2-0400Z - - 42/10 - - - 42/10 872/475 D2-0500Z - 5/1 33/8 - - - 38/9 910/484 D2-0600Z 5/0 50/7 1/1 - - - 56/8 966/492 D2-0700Z - 8/0 31/3 - - - 39/3 1005/495 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 13/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/2 1018/497 D2-0900Z - - 18/1 - - - 18/1 1036/498 D2-1000Z - - 13/6 - - - 13/6 1049/504 D2-1100Z - 19/5 5/1 - - - 24/6 1073/510 D2-1200Z - - 7/0 - - - 7/0 1080/510 D2-1300Z - 1/1 2/0 - - - 3/1 1083/511 D2-1400Z - - 4/1 - - - 4/1 1087/512 D2-1500Z - - - 21/4 - - 21/4 1108/516 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 19/3 --+-- --+-- 19/3 1127/519 D2-1700Z - - - 15/11 - - 15/11 1142/530 D2-1800Z - - - 11/6 - - 11/6 1153/536 D2-1900Z - - - 15/10 - - 15/10 1168/546 D2-2000Z - - - 11/9 - - 11/9 1179/555 D2-2100Z - - - 11/7 - - 11/7 1190/562 D2-2200Z - - - 26/5 - - 26/5 1216/567 D2-2300Z - - - 25/4 - - 25/4 1241/571 Total: 5/0 99/30 276/78 596/316 238/137 27/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE2K Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,952,706 In one Word -- SLOW-- i found this contest slow in several ways, not much to work and call, the first day was only 500 q's, i was specting much more, the propagation was very poor and the DX's very limited to my East, my West pay very good ones but also i miss several common Big guns from Asia, maybe they operate single band and not appears in 40m, was good be called by several good DX during the slow runs of JA's, fun to say Hi to several friends and learn a little more, Log uploaded in LOTW . C U in the Next XE2K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL6W Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 2,036,700 CU in WPX CW! 73! Gunar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO4RDN Class: SOSB15 LP Total Score = 422,960 RIG ICOM 746 100W ANT 3 EL 3BAND. TNX TO ALL. VALI YO4RDN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT1BX Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 74,052 Working with TS-930S and oblong turned to east. Awful conditions, helped by QRM from local radio during most time of the contest, made impossible to work. Only few times QRM was low enough, so I managed to work some DX-es. See you in CW part. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2B Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 4,615,154 HI, Call : YT2B Operator : 4N1JA RX/TX : Kenwood Ts-930s Amp : abt 1 KW Ant : 5 el. beam @ 25m Location : Niska Banja spa nr. Nis city . abt 600 m/asl Software : k1ea CT 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent SSB North America SSB 0 0 0 759 0 0 759 29.4 South America SSB 0 0 0 19 0 0 19 0.7 Europe SSB 0 0 0 1661 0 0 1661 60.4 Asia SSB 0 0 0 210 0 0 210 8.1 Africa SSB 0 0 0 23 0 0 23 0.9 Oceania SSB 0 0 0 13 0 0 13 0.5 Very variability and prodigious conditions . CU in CW part , i will be active like YT2T . 73 de Marko 4N1JA (YT2T,YU2A,YT2B,AD5YH...). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV6BTF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 582,470 Tnx to all for great contest in few hours 73's de Jose YV6BTF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM3WW Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 5,396,598 Finally, the torture of the phone part of WPX has come to past. On the first day, two hours before the band got closed, the generator ran out of the fuel leaving me probably 1 million points short. Later on, I’ve found additional 3 litters stashed somewhere in the trunk of the car, but it was already too late. As Srecko YU1DX would say: "Murphy just won’t let me alone". I had lot of spelling related problems with the Japanese hams, but that was kind of expected. The cw part is coming and it should be real relief after the phone part, especially because I prefer it over the ssb. The real help came from computer guru ZL1KMN who came in to rescue and installed everything that I needed for the voice recordings. It’s so much easier hitting the F1 and other function keys instead of non-stop talking for 30 hours, but I guess you all knew that, right? The European small pistol stations (those having attic antennas for 40m and special super-duper 3m whip having 12.8 dB gain) can’t really expect that I hear them at 4pm my local time, 3 hours before sunset. They should either wait for the propagation peak, or get the better antennas, or be more disciplined when I’m asking for a call partial and not calling all at once which unfortunately became the norm. Perhaps they should listen and learn from Japanese operators – they are so well behaved and disciplined that working the weaker stations is not problem at all. The equipment was a standard one: TS930, KNTD400 amplifier, 3 el full size yagi and quarter wave vertical for 40m (that actually helped me to pick up some callers coming on a side lobe of the beam, such as couple of JAs and/or VKs during my Ws run). Finally, thanks again to everyone who called me and see you again in cw part of the contest. ZM3WW qsl cards will be printed by SKY CC club and YT6A, whilst sending the cards via bureau will be handled by YU1FW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZP0R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,225,400 First want to thank to my brother N3BNA for all he did for the ZP0R Contest Station without his support never the station could be what is now, still lot to do in the future but will be step by step. Another thanks is for encourage me to do all band LP i had already that plan so the month before i only call cq barefoot in all band testing the station and how is going with only 100 watts, but i was figthing with the idea to go SO 15 HP also. In 15 meter the King of the Band still is my dear friend Sergio Almeida, PP5JR (ZX5J), he did again a outstanding Job operating 6 hours less ! , congratulations Sergio !! Have a good Radio is important yes it is..have a good array system is much much important , specially when cross for my mine the crazy idea to go low power, havins such nice amps. But i thougth weeks before that if i enter again in AB HP, i could expect to be in the top 5 again in SO AB (A) HP like 2006, but i tougth with all the station improvement, and the low sunspot cicle will give me some handicap to the others competitors specially in 15 meters with the good opening North /South. So propagation help me in this cruzade because the conditions btw USA and EU were really poor in the past contests specially on 15..so will give me and extra advantage over somes stations. South America is very competitive in 10 meters (specially from the deep south, CX and LU) when the sunspot cicle is low and also in 15 meter, were we share the honors with the PY`s guys. 20 meter is a strange band from ZP..some time you have nice opening in the afternoon with EU and a nice condition from the Sunset (one our after sunset) to USA but no more.. is not a 24 hours band from ZP, but help in the final score when the rate on 15 come down. I needed to be smart on 40, and the planification pay off..i decided to call cq with not listen up the first day..so i could run some european station..but all the money without south american competition and splater was in the sunrise with the JA´S 80 percent of my qsos on 40 was in the sunrise of saturday and sunday with JA`s Station so wasnt no necesary to spend to much time on 40 to improve my score on 40 meter from last year..you know in the prime time hour of 40..is practically imposible to compite with all the SA station runing a Kilowat. 80 meter was a deseption..i dont know what happen but i coudnt hear nothing..the KAZ was cuted (for some stupid neighbord) and the transmited antenna have the perfect place very down in the band 3.680 so when i go up..with only a 100 wats (less with the SWR) nobody can hear me. so i dont wast to much time in this band, and decide to focus in bands more productive..i dont know what is the problem on 80 from my station..but still is a signature to complete to be more competitive in the future. i can hear LUs and PY`s runing EU and W´s station and i can hear a wisper of them..really bad. Also after go to 80 meter and check the SWR, got some interference on the keybord computer and i have to reboot my computer because the keybord doesnt work..so was a payne because i have to image my time of and on..( i have to check my log if i dont croos the line..hope so not !!) Second radio ( Icom 756) help me a lot in this adventure, because i can check opening on 20 and a esporadic opening on 10..while running the money band that was again 15 meter, and were also i have my better antenas system a 5/5/5 in a 110 feet tower. First nigth i start of course on 15, and run USA station and JA`s station for almost two hours , the good think is that at that time the band is not really crowed and is easy to find a good place for run without splater interference, then go to 20 meter and run for almost two hour with a lot of payne due splater interference , sorry thouse station that call me me and i coudnt hear but have a 4 el for 20 at at 81 feet pay the sacrifice. After the 20 meter batle ,i went to 40 knowing that withtout power will be not so much competitive..after S & P for some mults..i found a decent frecuency an start to call cq and could log some loud Europen station and catch some nice prefix..after spend and hour and a half there..i decide to take a brake..and wait for the sunrise opening. Here the sunrise start at 9:30 utc..so following the grey line i call cq toward to Japan and bingo !! was a very productive one hour run..loggin almost 150 JA´s station was amazing because at 10:30 UTC was a really day light and i could still hear JA station.. After that i took a break of two hours so i almost complete my 6 hour brake of first day..as was the original plan..so i could spent the rest of the first 24 hours..runing on high bands. When i return and tunning the 15 meter band, i found my friend ZP5MAL working and EU pile up..so i found a frecuency and start runing also for about 5 hours..with a decent rate..then went for quick time to 10 made some qsos and PX´s..and then to 20 meter and had a nice run with European station righ before the sunset..spending about one houre and a half..then return to 15..when the band is nice to USA and Japan..that was my first 18 hours of the contest despite the resting time..so i complete the first 24 hours with the 70 percent of the total final qsos. Second day was almost a duplicate of the first day, but the propagation was really really poor and the line noise increase a lot..i espexted a 10 meter more decent opening , but never happen..so the qso rate when really down the second day.. Anyway was a very nice contest, WPX is really fun and was really good to contact with all friends from the FRC and Araucaria DX group...an many others LUs, and from all the world.. Radio amateur competition is a great sport for me..and always after finish a contest i am looking for the next one..so Thank you for all that calling me..and sorry to thouse that i couldnt hear..See you in next contest. BANDS QSOS PX 160 0 0 80 0 0 40 303 89 20 746 229 15 1.630 610 10 54 18 ---------------------------------- TOTAL: 2.733 946 8.225.400 points. Station description: Rigs: Icom 765 , Icom 756 Logging software Writelog Antennas: 160 meter array 100 feet dipole 80 meter array 100 feet dipole 40 meter array: 2 el monoband 85 feet 20 meter array 4 el monoband 81 feet 15 meter array 5/5/5 110 feet top antena 10 meter array Two TH6 stacked. 73 to all Tom ZP5AZL // ZP0R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 12,171,357 Good conditions. Very huge pile up with europe in the first day. But in the secound day, after my 12 hours period out off air, a lighting storm took me out of the air. I lost 6 hours in the end of the contest ...with good conditions. Result: only 30 hours on air!!! But a enjoy so much...very happy to be with a very very nice friends in the station --- they operated the other bands---, and of course, to have the oportunity to work a lot of my best friends in the world. See you in the contests...and in Visalia. Sergio PP5JR/ZX5J/PX5E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY100S Class: M/M HP Total Score = 36,916,326 After some years without any major MM effort we decided to organize a operation from our station in Curitiba (ZW5B). Our friend PY5KD Luciano, expended some time to fix some major problems at the station and from Thursday to Friday we completed the job. My old Brother Carl and his wife Sue came to help us and they really made a fantastic job. As usual, my other brother Thomas SM0CXU came together and worked hard to make the 80 meters available. The idea was to use the 100 aniversary of the Scout Community in Brazil to make a special homenage to our friend PY5CA Maia and his wife Milu for the excelent job they are doing in this activity. This MM effort is dedicated to you!! We had the following operators on the team: AI6V, AI6YL, PY2YU, PY2NDX, SM0CXU, PY2BK, PY5CC, PY5DC,PY5CA, PY5KD, PU5RAS, and PY5EG. The MM category is really a great instrument to consolidate our friendship. Thanks to all the operators for the high spirit of radio ham competition. Thanks to all friends who entered in our log and for the patience with our complicate callsign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY7C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 20,083,852 Thank you for QSO! QSL via PT7WA ZY7C Team http://www.zy7c.org.br Index of Calls Call: 2E0CVN/P Class: SOAB LP Call: 3W9R Class: SOAB HP Call: 4L2M Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 4L4CC Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 4L4WW Class: SOSB40 LP Call: 4L8A Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 4O1A Class: M/2 HP Call: 4O3B Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 5B/AJ2O Class: M/S HP Call: 5C5Z Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 5C8A Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 5D5A Class: M/S HP Call: 5Z4/9A3A Class: SOAB LP Call: 6F75A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: 7J1AQH Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: 8P1A Class: SOAB HP Call: 9A3B Class: M/S HP Call: 9A5AQA Class: SOAB LP Call: 9A5CW Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: 9A5W Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 9K2HN Class: M/S HP Call: 9N7JO Class: M/S HP Call: A45WD Class: SOSB15 LP Call: AA3E Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AA4LR Class: SOSB80 LP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Call: AC0W Class: SOAB HP Call: AC5ZS Class: SOAB LP Call: AD7J Class: SOSB20 LP Call: AG4RZ Class: M/M HP Call: AH0AH/W3 Class: SOAB LP Call: AH6JR Class: SOSB80 HP Call: AI4ME Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: AK1W Class: SOSB40 HP Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AK9F Class: SOAB LP Call: AN8A Class: M/2 HP Call: AY7X Class: M/S HP Call: C4I Class: M/2 HP Call: C4M Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Call: CN2R Class: SOSB160 HP Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Call: CN5W Class: M/S HP Call: CT1AOZ Class: SOSB15 HP Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOSB80 HP Call: D44AC Class: M/S HP Call: DB7TF Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: DD5FZ Class: SOAB HP Call: DJ6QT Class: SOSB160 HP Call: DJ6TK Class: SOSB15 LP Call: DJ8OG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: DL0MFS Class: SOSB40 LP Call: DL1ECG Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: DL3TD Class: SOSB40 HP Call: DL4MCF Class: SOAB HP Call: DN3FA Class: SO(R)AB HP Call: DO7GG Class: SOAB LP Call: DP4K Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: DP9Z Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Call: DR1X Class: SOAB LP Call: DR5N Class: M/2 HP Call: DR6IOTA Class: M/S HP Call: E21YDP Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: EA1DR Class: SOSB40 LP Call: EA3QP Class: M/S HP Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB HP Call: EA5KV Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: EA5ON Class: SOAB HP Call: EA5VK Class: SOAB HP Call: EA9LZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: EC2DX Class: M/M HP Call: EC8ADW Class: SOSB20 LP Call: EH7T Class: SOSB15 LP Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Call: EM5U Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: ES1A Class: M/S HP Call: ES2MC Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: ES5RW Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: EY8CC Class: SO(R)SB15 LP Call: F1JKJ Class: SOSB20 HP Call: F4DZR Class: SOAB HP Call: F4EGZ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: F4FDA Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: F5BEG Class: SOSB80 LP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB LP Call: F6KZC Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: FM5AN Class: SOAB HP Call: FM5FJ Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: G0RTN Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: G3WW Class: SO(A)SB15 LP Call: G4IIY Class: M/2 HP Call: GM7M Class: M/2 HP Call: HA6IAM Class: SOSB20 LP Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB160 LP Call: HG6EU Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: HG8R Class: SOSB80 HP Call: HG9R Class: SOSB20 HP Call: HH4/K4QD Class: SOSB20 LP Call: HI3C Class: M/S HP Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Call: HK3W Class: SOAB LP Call: HK6PSG Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: HP1WW Class: SOAB HP Call: I2WIJ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Call: IQ3UD Class: M/S HP Call: IR4X Class: SOAB HP Call: IT9RBW Class: SOSB20 HP Call: IT9STX Class: SOSB20 HP Call: IU3X Class: SOSB20 HP Call: IV3JCC Class: SOAB HP Call: IV3OWC Class: SOSB80 HP Call: J75RZ Class: M/2 LP Call: JQ1BVI Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K0AD Class: SOAB HP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KX Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K0RC Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K0RH Class: SOAB HP Call: K1VU Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: K1ZW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2DB Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2PS Class: SOAB HP Call: K2PT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2QMF Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2TTT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K3EST Class: SOSB20 HP Call: K3SWZ Class: SOSB80 LP Call: K3WI Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB QRP Call: K4BAI Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: K4BK/4 Class: SOAB LP Call: K4BP Class: SOSB20 LP Call: K4CZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K4EU Class: SO(TS)SB20 HP Call: K4GMH Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K4IU Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K4JAF Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Call: K4PHE Class: SOAB HP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4WX Class: SOAB HP Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP Call: K5PI Class: SOAB LP Call: K5TR Class: SOAB HP Call: K6DEX Class: SOAB LP Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K6KO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6QK Class: SOAB HP Call: K6TD Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6VVA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB HP Call: K7LMM Class: SOAB LP Call: K7RI Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: K7SS Class: SO(TS)SB10 LP Call: K8BL Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: K8GT Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Call: K9ES Class: SOSB80 HP Call: K9NW Class: SOSB40 HP Call: KA1VMG Class: SOAB LP Call: KA2ASU Class: SOSB15 LP Call: KA2D Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: KA3FZN Class: SOAB LP Call: KA4OTB Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KB1NEF Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KB5ZFE Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KB6MTH Class: SOAB LP Call: KC1ME Class: SOAB HP Call: KC3R Class: SOAB HP Call: KC7V Class: SOSB15 HP Call: KD2HE Class: SO(A)SB15 QRP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Call: KD2RD Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Call: KE2DX Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Call: KE3OM Class: M/S HP Call: KE5OG Class: SOAB LP Call: KE7MAN Class: M/S HP Call: KF4GTA Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Call: KH6GMP Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KH6WT Class: SOAB HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB HP Call: KL7RA Class: SOSB160 HP Call: KM2O Class: SOAB LP Call: KM9M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KM9P Class: M/S HP Call: KN5H Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Call: KP2BH Class: SOAB LP Call: KP2TM Class: M/S HP Call: KR4F Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: KS2G Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KT0R Class: SOAB HP Call: KT3W Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Call: KT4ZB Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KT7G Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KU5B Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KU8E Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: KV4T Class: SOSB15 HP Call: KW7Y Class: SOAB HP Call: KX7M Class: SOSB15 HP Call: KY0W Class: SOAB HP Call: KY5R Class: SOSB40 HP Call: L44DX Class: SOSB10 LP Call: L81H Class: M/S HP Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB80 HP Call: LP1H Class: M/S HP Call: LR2F Class: M/S HP Call: LS2D Class: M/S CABALLOS D Call: LT1F Class: M/2 HP Call: LU1BJW Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: LU4WG Class: SOSB15 LP Call: LU6KA Class: SOAB LP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOSB10 LP Call: LV6D Class: M/S LP Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB160 HP Call: LY9Y Class: SOAB HP Call: LZ1RGM Class: SOSB40 LP Call: LZ4UU Class: SOSB40 LP Call: N0NI Class: M/2 HP Call: N0YY Class: SOSB80 LP Call: N1IW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2BZP Class: SOAB HP Call: N2MUN Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2NS Class: SOSB20 HP Call: N2SQW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2YO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N3UA Class: SOAB LP Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Call: N4KG Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: N4MO Class: SOSB20 LP Call: N4ZR Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N5DO Class: SOSB20 LP Call: N6AA Class: SOAB HP Call: N6DA Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: N6NF Class: SOAB HP Call: N6QQ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7AZ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: N7BF Class: SOAB HP Call: N7IR Class: SOAB LP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Call: N8IE Class: SOAB LP Call: N9ADG Class: M/S HP Call: NA1QP Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: NA2NA Class: SOAB HP Call: NA3M Class: SOSB80 HP Call: NA4BW Class: SOAB QRP Call: NA4W Class: SOSB10 LP Call: NA7RF Class: SOAB LP Call: NA7XX Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NB7V Class: SOAB HP Call: NC1I Class: SOAB HP Call: NE1HP Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NE1RD Class: SOAB QRP Call: NF4A Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: NF6A Class: SOAB HP Call: NH6P Class: SOSB15 HP Call: NJ4M Class: SOAB HP Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB15 HP Call: NK7U Class: M/S HP Call: NM1Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NM6E Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: NN3W Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: NN4GG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: NP3CW Class: SOAB QRP Call: NQ4I Class: SOSB15 HP Call: NQ5D Class: M/S HP Call: NQ5K Class: SOSB20 HP Call: NR3X Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: NR6O Class: M/M HP Call: NS3T Class: SOSB80 LP Call: NS9I Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NT0F Class: SOAB LP Call: NT4TT Class: SOAB LP Call: NV1N Class: SOAB LP Call: NV2G Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: NV8N Class: SOSB20 LP Call: NX5M Class: SOSB15 HP Call: NX6T Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: NX9T Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: NY3A Class: SOAB HP Call: NY6DX Class: SOAB QRP Call: NZ1U Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: OE3GCU Class: M/S HP Call: OE4A Class: M/2 HP Call: OH0R Class: SOAB HP Call: OH5Z Class: M/S HP Call: OH8GZN Class: SOSB20 LP Call: OH8X Class: SOAB HP Call: OK1BN Class: SOSB80 HP Call: OK1DQT Class: SOSB40 HP Call: OK1JOC Class: SOAB QRP Call: OK5R Class: SOSB20 HP Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Call: OK7M Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: OL0W Class: M/S HP Call: OL6P Class: SOSB160 LP Call: OM0WR Class: SOSB15 HP Call: OM3DX Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: OM7M Class: M/M HP Call: OM8A Class: M/S HP Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Call: P49Y Class: SOAB HP Call: PA3ARM Class: SOSB20 LP Call: PJ2T Class: M/S HP Call: PP5BZ Class: SOSB40 HP Call: PR7AF Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB80 LP Call: PW2C Class: SOSB10 QRP Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: PY2BT Class: SOSB40 HP Call: PY2CX Class: SOSB10 LP Call: PY2MTV Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Call: PY2NA Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2SBY Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2ZZO Class: SOAB LP Call: PY3DX Class: SOAB LP Call: PY4RDS Class: SOSB20 LP Call: RA9CB Class: SOAB LP Call: RL3A Class: SOSB20 HP Call: RL3FT Class: SOSB80 HP Call: RN9CWJ Class: SOAB HP Call: RS3A Class: SOAB HP Call: RW4PL Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: RZ1AWT Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: RZ3ATE Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: RZ9OZO Class: M/S HP Call: S50C Class: M/S HP Call: S50DX Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: S51F Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: S51FB Class: SOSB15 HP Call: S53F Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: S54O Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: S55O Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: S56A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: S56G Class: SOAB QRP Call: S57M Class: M/S HP Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 HP Call: S58L Class: SOSB20 LP Call: S59TI Class: SOAB QRP Call: SJ2W Class: M/S HP Call: SM6U Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: SM7YGZ Class: SOAB HP Call: SN2N Class: SOSB80 LP Call: SN3R Class: SOSB160 HP Call: SN3X Class: SOSB40 LP Call: SN7Q Class: SOAB HP Call: SO2R Class: SOSB20 HP Call: SO6X Class: SOAB HP Call: SO8A Class: SOSB40 HP Call: SP3FYX Class: SOSB40 LP Call: SP4SHD Class: SOSB80 LP Call: SP5COF Class: SOSB80 LP Call: SP8TJU Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: SP9KDA Class: M/S HP Call: SP9NWN Class: SOAB LP Call: SP9XCN Class: SOSB80 LP Call: SQ6Z Class: SOSB40 HP Call: SQ8LSC Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: SQ9UM Class: SOSB20 HP Call: ST2R Class: SOSB20 LP Call: SV1GRD Class: SOAB LP Call: SX5P Class: M/2 HP Call: T97M Class: SOSB40 HP Call: TA1BM Class: SOAB LP Call: TA2/AJ3M Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: TA2K Class: M/S LP Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Call: TM1W Class: SOSB20 HP Call: TM2Y Class: M/S HP Call: TM4W Class: SOSB15 HP Call: TM6M Class: M/2 HP Call: TO5A Class: SOAB HP Call: UP0L Class: SOAB HP Call: UU7J Class: M/2 HP Call: UV5U Class: SOAB HP Call: UW2M Class: SOAB HP Call: V31RG Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3CCO Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB LP Call: VA6TTT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: VA7AM Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VC5X Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: VC6R Class: M/S HP Call: VC7GL Class: M/S HP Call: VE1DHD Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: VE3CR Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: VE3CW Class: SOAB QRP Call: VE3EJ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3GLO Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3HG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: VE3JAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB160 LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: VE3RM Class: M/2 HP Call: VE3SHL Class: SOAB QRP Call: VE3SY Class: M/2 HP Call: VE3TTN Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: VE3TW Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3XD Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VE3YAA Class: M/S HP Call: VE3ZIN Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: VE4EAR Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: VE5JCJ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE6EX Class: SOAB QRP Call: VE6FI Class: M/2 HP Call: VE7KET Class: SO(TS)SB40 HP Call: VE7SV Class: M/S HP Call: VK6DXI Class: SOSB40 HP Call: VO1DJT Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: VO1HE Class: SOSB20 HP Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB LP Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1TA Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: VO1TX Class: SOAB LP Call: VP2E Class: M/2 HP Call: VP57V Class: SOAB HP Call: VY2LI Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Call: W1LRY Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W1OHM Class: SOSB20 HP Call: W1TO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W1UE Class: SOAB LP Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB HP Call: W2OO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W3/E21EIC Class: SOAB HP Call: W3GH Class: SOSB160 HP Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Call: W3TUA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W3TZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W4EE Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W4GHD Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W4KW Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RK Class: SOAB HP Call: W4SVO Class: SOSB40 HP Call: W4TMN Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: W4V Class: M/M HP Call: W4WS Class: M/S HP Call: W5IBM Class: SOAB HP Call: W5YAA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W6AAN Class: SOAB HP Call: W6OAT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W6TK Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: W6TKV Class: SOAB LP Call: W6YI Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W7OM Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Call: W7WA Class: SOSB20 HP Call: W7WHY Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W8AKS Class: SOAB LP Call: W9JA Class: SOAB HP Call: WA2JQK Class: SOAB HP Call: WA3AAN Class: SO(TS)SB40 HP Call: WA4OSD Class: SOAB LP Call: WA6TLG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WA7XX Class: M/S HP Call: WB1DX Class: SOAB HP Call: WB1HBB Class: SOSB20 LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Call: WB9Z Class: SOAB HP Call: WC4J Class: M/2 HP Call: WC6H Class: M/S HP Call: WD5K Class: SOAB LP Call: WE3C Class: M/2 HP Call: WF3C Class: M/S HP Call: WJ2DX Class: M/S HP Call: WJ9B Class: SOSB160 HP Call: WK2H Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WM5R Class: SOAB HP Call: WN2O Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Call: WO1N Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: WO4O Class: SOSB20 HP Call: WP3C Class: SOSB40 LP Call: WR3Z Class: M/S HP Call: WT4PF Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: WT8C Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WV0T Class: M/S HP Call: WV2ZOW Class: M/S LP Call: WW4LL Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: WW5X Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WW9R Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WX3B Class: M/M HP Call: WX5S Class: M/S HP Call: WY3P Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WY7AA Class: SOSB20 LP Call: XE2K Class: SOSB40 HP Call: YL6W Class: SOSB40 HP Call: YL7A Class: SOSB80 HP Call: YO4RDN Class: SOSB15 LP Call: YO5PBF Class: SOAB HP Call: YT1BX Class: SOSB40 LP Call: YT2B Class: SOSB20 HP Call: YV1CTE Class: SOSB20 LP Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB15 LP Call: YV6BTF Class: SOAB LP Call: YY1JGT Class: SOSB10 LP Call: YZ7A Class: SOSB160 HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB15 HP Call: ZL1AA Class: M/S LP Call: ZM3WW Class: SOSB40 HP Call: ZP0R Class: SOAB LP Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB15 HP Call: ZX7A Class: SOAB LP Call: ZY100S Class: M/M HP Call: ZY7C Class: M/S HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: 4O1A Call: AN8A Call: C4I Call: DR5N Call: G4IIY Call: GM7M Call: KD4D Call: LT1F Call: N0NI Call: OE4A Call: SX5P Call: TM6M Call: UU7J Call: VE3RM Call: VE3SY Call: VE6FI Call: VP2E Call: WC4J Call: WE3C Class: M/2 LP Call: J75RZ Class: M/M HP Call: AG4RZ Call: DR1A Call: EC2DX Call: NR6O Call: OM7M Call: W4V Call: WX3B Call: ZY100S Class: M/S CABALLOS D Call: LS2D Class: M/S HP Call: 5B/AJ2O Call: 5D5A Call: 9A3B Call: 9K2HN Call: 9N7JO Call: AY7X Call: CN3A Call: CN5W Call: D44AC Call: DR6IOTA Call: EA3QP Call: EI7M Call: ES1A Call: HI3C Call: IO4T Call: IQ3UD Call: KE3OM Call: KE7MAN Call: KM9P Call: KP2TM Call: L81H Call: LN3Z Call: LP1H Call: LR2F Call: N9ADG Call: NK7U Call: NQ5D Call: OE3GCU Call: OH5Z Call: OL0W Call: OM8A Call: PJ2T Call: RZ9OZO Call: S50C Call: S57M Call: SJ2W Call: SP9KDA Call: TM2Y Call: VC6R Call: VC7GL Call: VE3YAA Call: VE7SV Call: W4WS Call: WA7XX Call: WC6H Call: WF3C Call: WJ2DX Call: WR3Z Call: WV0T Call: WX5S Call: ZY7C Class: M/S LP Call: LV6D Call: TA2K Call: WV2ZOW Call: ZL1AA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: 6F75A Call: AA3E Call: AK6M Call: DJ8OG Call: EA9LZ Call: EM5U Call: JQ1BVI Call: K0RC Call: K1ZW Call: K2DB Call: K2PT Call: K2QMF Call: K2TTT Call: K3WI Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K4IU Call: K6KO Call: K6TD Call: K6VVA Call: KB1NEF Call: KE2DX Call: KM9M Call: KN5H Call: KT3W Call: KT4ZB Call: N1IW Call: N2MUN Call: N2SQW Call: N2YO Call: N4ZR Call: N4ZZ Call: N6QQ Call: NA7XX Call: NE1HP Call: NM1Z Call: NN4GG Call: NS9I Call: NZ1U Call: OM3DX Call: RW4PL Call: S54O Call: S56A Call: SM6U Call: VA6TTT Call: VE3HG Call: W1TO Call: W2OO Call: W3TUA Call: W3TZ Call: W4GHD Call: W5YAA Call: W6OAT Call: W6YI Call: W7WHY Call: WA6TLG Call: WK2H Call: WT8C Call: WW5X Call: WW9R Call: WY3P Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: DL1ECG Call: F4EGZ Call: G0RTN Call: I2WIJ Call: K0KX Call: K4JAF Call: K6GEP Call: K8GT Call: KA4OTB Call: KT7G Call: LU1BJW Call: N4KG Call: N6DA Call: N7AZ Call: NM6E Call: PR7AF Call: PY2BRZ Call: S53F Call: VE1DHD Call: VE3TTN Call: VE3ZIN Call: W1LRY Call: W4EE Call: W7OM Call: WO1N Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Call: PY2MTV Class: SO(A)SB15 HP Call: DP9Z Call: WW4LL Class: SO(A)SB15 LP Call: G3WW Class: SO(A)SB15 QRP Call: KD2HE Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: DP4K Call: K7RI Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: K8BL Call: S50DX Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: 9A5CW Call: ES5RW Call: FM5FJ Call: RZ1AWT Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: EA5KV Call: ES2MC Call: OK7M Call: S55O Class: SO(R)AB HP Call: DN3FA Class: SO(R)AB LP Call: AI4ME Call: DB7TF Call: F4FDA Call: RZ3ATE Call: SQ8LSC Call: VO1DJT Class: SO(R)SB15 LP Call: EY8CC Class: SO(TS)AB HP Call: C4M Call: K4BAI Call: KR4F Call: KU8E Call: NF4A Call: NN3W Call: NX9T Call: TA2/AJ3M Call: V31RG Call: VC5X Call: VE3CR Call: VO1TA Call: VY2LI Call: W6TK Call: WN2O Call: WT4PF Class: SO(TS)AB LP Call: 7J1AQH Call: E21YDP Call: F6KZC Call: HK6PSG Call: K1VU Call: KA2D Call: NA1QP Call: NR3X Call: NV2G Call: NX6T Call: PY2NA Call: S51F Call: SP8TJU Call: VE3RCN Call: VE4EAR Call: W4TMN Class: SO(TS)SB10 LP Call: K7SS Class: SO(TS)SB20 HP Call: K4EU Class: SO(TS)SB40 HP Call: VE7KET Call: WA3AAN Class: SOAB HP Call: 3W9R Call: 8P1A Call: AC0W Call: CE4CT Call: DD5FZ Call: DL4MCF Call: EA4KR Call: EA5DFV Call: EA5ON Call: EA5VK Call: F4DZR Call: FM5AN Call: HP1WW Call: IR4X Call: IV3JCC Call: K0AD Call: K0FX Call: K0GAS Call: K0RH Call: K2PS Call: K4PHE Call: K4RO Call: K4WX Call: K5ER Call: K5TR Call: K6QK Call: K7ABV Call: K8MR Call: KC1ME Call: KC3R Call: KE3D Call: KG4CUY Call: KH6WT Call: KJ6RA Call: KO0U Call: KT0R Call: KW7Y Call: KY0W Call: LY9Y Call: N2BZP Call: N6AA Call: N6NF Call: N7BF Call: N8BJQ Call: NA2NA Call: NB7V Call: NC1I Call: NF6A Call: NJ4M Call: NN7ZZ Call: NY3A Call: OH0R Call: OH8X Call: P40W Call: P49Y Call: RN9CWJ Call: RS3A Call: SM7YGZ Call: SN7Q Call: SO6X Call: TO5A Call: UP0L Call: UV5U Call: UW2M Call: VA3CCO Call: VE3EJ Call: VO1MP Call: VP57V Call: W0BH Call: W2IRT Call: W3/E21EIC Call: W4KW Call: W4RK Call: W5IBM Call: W6AAN Call: W9JA Call: WA2JQK Call: WB1DX Call: WB9Z Call: WM5R Call: YO5PBF Class: SOAB LP Call: 2E0CVN/P Call: 5Z4/9A3A Call: 9A5AQA Call: AB4GG Call: AC5ZS Call: AH0AH/W3 Call: AK9F Call: DO7GG Call: DR1X Call: EI/W5GN Call: F5CQ Call: HI3T Call: HK3W Call: K4BK/4 Call: K4OD Call: K5PI Call: K6DEX Call: K7LMM Call: KA1VMG Call: KA3FZN Call: KB6MTH Call: KD2MX Call: KD5J Call: KE5OG Call: KM2O Call: KP2BH Call: KT4PD Call: LU6KA Call: N3UA Call: N4JF Call: N7IR Call: N8IE Call: NA7RF Call: NT0F Call: NT4TT Call: NV1N Call: OK6Y Call: PY2NY Call: PY2SBY Call: PY2ZZO Call: PY3DX Call: RA9CB Call: SP9NWN Call: SV1GRD Call: TA1BM Call: VA2SG Call: VA3DX Call: VE3GLO Call: VE3JAQ Call: VE3TW Call: VE3XAT Call: VE5JCJ Call: VE6CNU Call: VO1KVT Call: VO1TX Call: W0ETT Call: W1UE Call: W3LL Call: W6TKV Call: W7QN Call: W8AKS Call: WA4OSD Call: WB8JUI Call: WD5K Call: WN6K Call: YV6BTF Call: ZP0R Call: ZX7A Class: SOAB QRP Call: K3WW Call: N6WG Call: NA4BW Call: NE1RD Call: NP3CW Call: NY6DX Call: OK1JOC Call: S56G Call: S59TI Call: TI5N Call: VE3CW Call: VE3SHL Call: VE6EX Class: SOSB10 HP Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 LP Call: L44DX Call: LU8EOT Call: NA4W Call: PY2CX Call: YY1JGT Class: SOSB10 QRP Call: PW2C Class: SOSB15 HP Call: CT1AOZ Call: KC7V Call: KV4T Call: KX7M Call: NH6P Call: NJ4U Call: NQ4I Call: NX5M Call: OM0WR Call: S51FB Call: TM4W Call: ZC4LI Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB15 LP Call: A45WD Call: DJ6TK Call: EH7T Call: KA2ASU Call: LU4WG Call: YO4RDN Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: PY1DX Class: SOSB160 HP Call: CN2R Call: DJ6QT Call: KL7RA Call: LY2IJ Call: SN3R Call: W3GH Call: WJ9B Call: YZ7A Class: SOSB160 LP Call: HA8BE Call: OL6P Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 4L8A Call: 5C5Z Call: 9A5W Call: F1JKJ Call: HG9R Call: IT9RBW Call: IT9STX Call: IU3X Call: K3EST Call: KD2RD Call: KH6GMP Call: KU5B Call: N2NS Call: NQ5K Call: OK5R Call: RL3A Call: SO2R Call: SQ9UM Call: TM1W Call: VO1HE Call: W1OHM Call: W7WA Call: WO4O Call: YT2B Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 4L2M Call: 5C8A Call: AD7J Call: EC8ADW Call: HA6IAM Call: HH4/K4QD Call: K4BP Call: KB5ZFE Call: KF4GTA Call: KS2G Call: N4MO Call: N5DO Call: NV8N Call: OH8GZN Call: PA3ARM Call: PY4RDS Call: S58L Call: ST2R Call: VA7AM Call: VE3XD Call: WB1HBB Call: WY7AA Call: YV1CTE Class: SOSB40 HP Call: AK1W Call: DL3TD Call: K9NW Call: KY5R Call: OK1DQT Call: PP5BZ Call: PY2BT Call: SO8A Call: SQ6Z Call: T97M Call: VK6DXI Call: W4SVO Call: XE2K Call: YL6W Call: ZM3WW Class: SOSB40 LP Call: 4L4WW Call: DL0MFS Call: EA1DR Call: LZ1RGM Call: LZ4UU Call: SN3X Call: SP3FYX Call: WP3C Call: YT1BX Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 4L4CC Call: 4O3B Call: AH6JR Call: CT1JLZ Call: HG8R Call: IV3OWC Call: K9ES Call: LN9Z Call: NA3M Call: OK1BN Call: RL3FT Call: YL7A Class: SOSB80 LP Call: AA4LR Call: F5BEG Call: K3SWZ Call: N0YY Call: NS3T Call: PR7AR Call: SN2N Call: SP4SHD Call: SP5COF Call: SP9XCN Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: HG6EU