ARRLDX CW Soapbox built 3-22-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1LZ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,875,856 cu next time 73`s Krassy, K1LZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7J1AAI Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 67,983 Thanks to Shigeki JH1GTV for inviting me to operate from his station and try out his brand new two element quad. The antenna seemed to work quite well. If anyone recalls how my signal compared with other JAs, your observations would be very welcome. 40M single band from Japan in the ARRL DX is a fairly easy contest to operate as it does not require staying up all night. For this contest, I commuted by train from my downtown Tokyo apartment out to the `GTV QTH, making one trip on Saturday and one on Sunday. Since the last train leaves around midnight Japan time(7AM PST), I missed an hour or so of operating each night when the band was still open to the west coast. At my age I am not often riding the trains at 1 AM on Saturday night. It's quite an interesting experience! Day one was a lot better than day two for me. I ended up with 358/41 at the end of the first day, but could only add another 162/2 on day two. I operated about 11 hours each day, so the rates were pretty poor. For my first hour (0400Z) on day two, I had exactly one QSO and it was a dupe. This was followed by a massive 12 QSO hour for the 0500Z hour. Signals on day two seemed a lot weaker, especially those from the east coast. A lot of Qs were almost at ESP levels. Fortunately, there was not a lot of local noise this time. On day two, the only new mults to enter the log were SD and YT (thanks to a very loud VY1JA). Missed mults: VT (N1UR please fix your beam!), RI, ME, DC, KY, SC, WV, IN, ND and all VEs except for VE3, VE7 and VY1. It's difficult to tell if conditions were just bad or if US/VE stations were merely busy working EU (or just sleeping). Overall I worked a surprising number of FL, AL, NC and VA stations, and the Caribbean and SA stations were very loud throughout the weekend. The ZLs sure seemed to be enjoying themselves. The two strongest signals from the east coast were K1ZZI (operating from W8JI) and NQ4I. I heard both stations frequently throughout the weekend. K3LR was probably the next strongest signal from the east. K1TTT, W3LPL, K1AR, K1KI and W3BGN were all were quite weak when I worked them, but their antennas may have still been on EU. K8AZ was a little stronger than these stations and the strongest signal from 8- and 9-land. A couple of other stations commented on the large number of dupes. I had 33 (about 6%), about half of which were from the big MS or MM operations. I'm not sure why so many of these stations duped me but it does not take much time to work them and with my terrible rates I was happy to have the company. It's always fun to operate from Japan, even if it is one of the toughest places to operate this contest from. Maybe someday we'll have good conditions on both days and we can work half of what the European stations work. Thanks for the contacts. It was fun. 73, Hal W1NN/7J1AAI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A3B Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 35,640 RIG: FT-100MP MV + TL922 ANT: 1. EL. QUAD + RX Beberage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A50KDE Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 118,608 Rig: FT-1000MP MV + PA 600W Ant: KT34XA (@ 25mH) Average poor proagtions on 20 meters........... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,091,671 This would have been a good weekend to single-band 20 meters. Ten was so dead I never even heard any of the local multis calling CQ. Orion I, FT1000MP, Alpha 89/monoband glass-tube amps, lots of antennas Station details at www.aa1k.us 2008-02-16 1206Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by AA1K 2008-02-16 1144Z - 3.3 per minute (10 minute(s)), 198 per hour by AA1K 2008-02-16 1256Z - 3.0 per minute (60 minute(s)), 181 per hour by AA1K Date Hour Total 1_8 3_5 7 14 21 Running Total 2008-02-16 0 73 34 35 4 73 2008-02-16 1 73 12 61 146 2008-02-16 2 69 60 9 215 2008-02-16 3 50 6 36 8 265 2008-02-16 4 44 37 7 309 2008-02-16 5 51 20 31 360 2008-02-16 6 60 11 39 10 420 2008-02-16 7 23 2 12 9 443 2008-02-16 8 59 10 49 502 2008-02-16 9 32 2 3 27 534 2008-02-16 10 36 2 23 11 570 2008-02-16 11 108 1 3 104 678 2008-02-16 12 174 174 852 2008-02-16 13 149 148 1 1001 2008-02-16 14 138 138 1139 2008-02-16 15 124 120 4 1263 2008-02-16 16 80 79 1 1343 2008-02-16 17 61 58 3 1404 2008-02-16 18 76 3 71 2 1480 2008-02-16 19 78 8 68 2 1558 2008-02-16 20 74 25 29 20 1632 2008-02-16 21 112 110 2 1744 2008-02-16 22 109 106 3 1853 2008-02-16 23 57 2 42 13 1910 2008-02-17 0 54 3 4 47 1964 2008-02-17 1 33 5 21 7 1997 2008-02-17 2 17 2 12 3 2014 2008-02-17 3 10 6 4 2024 2008-02-17 9 11 1 3 7 2035 2008-02-17 10 12 3 3 6 2047 2008-02-17 11 44 2 42 2091 2008-02-17 12 99 3 92 4 2190 2008-02-17 13 101 93 8 2291 2008-02-17 14 60 43 17 2351 2008-02-17 15 70 60 10 2421 2008-02-17 16 68 63 5 2489 2008-02-17 17 58 51 7 2547 2008-02-17 18 33 32 1 2580 2008-02-17 19 24 1 22 1 2604 2008-02-17 20 40 33 7 2644 2008-02-17 21 85 84 1 2729 2008-02-17 22 72 65 7 2801 2008-02-17 23 38 27 11 2839 Total All Hours 2839 102 330 768 1553 86 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,829,330 Yuk! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 213,741 Thanks to V31TP and VP6DX for contacts on 5 bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 857,304 Hopefully, this will be the last sunspot-free DX Contest for a while. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 322,245 Antenna: G5RV style ladder dipole 260ft 160-10, Inverted L 80M. No yagis. Rig: IC756Pro II, Dentron DTR2000L Highlight was getting a new one on 3 bands (VP6DX) using wires. Also pleased to get a number of stations on 5 bands, including 6Y1LZ, PJ2T, KP2M, OK5R, and CT1JLZ. Had ZP0R on 4 bands(sorry Dale, missed u on 160). Also 4 bands for H7/K9GY, PZ5WW, and WP3C. 73 AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD0K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,090 Part time operation. Concentrated on DXCC entities needed so ran S&P the entire time. Ran 100 watts into a low (12 foot) dipole. Manged to get 22 new entities added. Band conditions on 40m were never good, especially during thunderstorm activity Saturday evening, although I managed a few 80m QSOs then. 20 adn 15 were generally good, with Sunday being better conditions that Saturday. Never heard any openings on 10m. Just shows that barefoot and low antennas can manage to snag DX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 428,664 Sure would have liked to work EU on 15 meters and anyone on 10 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI6V Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 211,680 Biggest challenge was the snow/ice at qth. Band Condx were pretty good. both days had openings into EU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AWL Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 224,460 My impression was that conditions were down from last year. Could not get any decent run going. Happy it is over. See you next year, thanks everyone for the QSOs. Special thank you, California, for 117 QSOs and, Texas, for 98 :-) 73, Dimitri RA3CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,082,420 Rig : TS480 + ACOM 2000A NCC-1, Noise Cancelling Controller from DX Engineering 160, 80, 40 m - vertical 24 m 20 m - 2x 4el. Yagi,@ 24/11m 15 m - 5 el. Yagi,@ 21 m Mine first SOAB Contest from those locations. Much trouble during Contest. Many a time clear out electricity power line. Noise from el. power line. Poverty of place for some Rx antenna. Problems with computer, cca 60 QSOs on 40 m irrevocable lost. Over all troubles, result overcame my expected. Next time it perhaps will be better. Thank all for QSO. I hope see you in next Contest. 73 Jiri, CT1JLZ / OK1RF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CV5K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,679,328 Ops: CX2DDP Hector CX3AW Luis CX7AT Gus CX8BR Alex CX9AU Dan Equip: FT-920 AMP: 1,5 kW CX7AT design Heathkit SB 200 500w ANT: Mosley 10-40 mts, 5 elem 10 mts, v dipole 80 mts, dipole 160 mts. Operation was on RGSur antenna´s field, Thanks Lupo CV5K QSL manager (CX2ABC) Best 73´s Dan "CX9AU" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX5BW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,273,832 A big electrical storm durinrg the saturday generates lot of QRN and many sparks into the antennas. Some times the hiss provocated over the higher antennas cuts the operation, finally a strong rain clean the atmospher and the noise goes down and permit work a little on low bands. On the sunday the clouds recharge the power again and the QRN cut the operation on the low bands. The propagation was better mainly on 15m both days, 10 meters were fine for 2 or 3 hours, i was checking the 10 meter from time to time while running on 15m and found only PJ2T and another caribean calling as a beacon. Thank you very much to all folks for the patience and help repeating his calls so manny times on the low bands to do a do contact between the high static livel. Summer here it is better for beach, beer, and bbq activities than for contesting, hi ,hi, hope see you soon on the bands.73, PEDRO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 80,700 Just a few hours. Nice to find good friends See you in ARRL SSB. Will be as CW6V with my close friends Tom/ZP5AZL (ZP0R) and Dale/N3BNA. QSL VIA W3HNK 73, Jorge CX6VM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D2NX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 203,175 Equip.: IC756pro (100w) + Cushcraft R7 Vertical standing directly on the ground. 15m on the first day was just miserable, having only 8 QSOs. The second day was much better with the QSOs as far as OH and IN. The states with which I was not able to QSO on any band were NE, DC and ID. Thanks all for picking up my weak signal. Koji D2NX ex. JM1CAX, JY9NX, K0JI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9CY Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 2,385 So with my tiny dipole and only 2-1/2 hours on altogether its OK for me. At least I had some fun. (TS690s - Monoband Wire Dipole at 12m - 100W) Christoph DF9CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 8,925 TS850, Dipoles/Sloper @ 25m Only QRV for the first few hours due to other commitments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 87,720 ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, Toshiba Tecra M4 2x24m dipole, 5-ele-tribander ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 12,546 100W + 40ft wire vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 64,638 Had a good run on 20 late sunday afternoon with a peak rate of 164 an hour. Not too bad for a CW lid like me. Thanks to all who took the time to work me. I am getting used to CW contesting now - it is awesome !!! 73' Maik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2MDU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 89,712 Contest : ARRL International DX Contest Callsign : DL2MDU Mode : CW Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : 500 Locator : JN58RF Operating time : 10h38 BAND QSO S/P DUP POINTS AVG ---------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 50 20 0 150 3.00 40 71 21 0 213 3.00 20 233 42 0 699 3.00 15 2 1 0 6 3.00 10 0 0 0 0 0.00 ---------------------------------- TOTAL 356 84 0 1068 3.00 ================================== TOTAL SCORE : 89 712 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,545,669 Operating the ARRL DX Contest is both a pleasure and a privilege. Good activity and excellent OPs in a competitive yet friendly atmosphere made this year a memorable event for me: Got off to a pretty slow start on 40. I can not really tell, however, if conditions were actually that bad because it was not before Saturday noon that I found out I had operated the main radio all night with a fully engaged attenuator – and -18 dB drastically reduce signal strength, hi. Funny thing is this did not affect 80 and 160 very much – maybe resulting in a comfortable signal to noise ratio there. Anyway – if you called me the first night without success, you now know why, hi. I think that I am gradually becoming more comfortable with SO2R and I was able to pick up a good number of Qs and mults on 80 while running 40. 80 opened early to the West with the first CO worked shortly before 0200 (first W6, however, not before 0430). Did not get any further West than CO on 160 (probably missing the 3 S-units mentioned above …). Spent sunrise on 80 and then worked 40 until the band dried out. After a few hours of sleep came back to 20 and had some excellent runs there (4 consecutive hours over 100 Qs from 1300 to 1700) with radio 2 tuned to 15. Switched radio 1 to 15 at 1700 for 30 mins but the band never really opened for high latitude paths. Conditions there even deteriorated on Sunday: I was listening to OE4A and some South-Eastern EUs on the second radio working strings of stations when I could not hear anything at all. Frustrating yet interesting to see what a few hundred kilometres to the South can mean propagation-wise. 40 was excellent Saturday night (and stations were so loud, hi), so I kept on running until 0130 on Sunday morning. Found 160 was better the night before, yet managed to work into CO again, but nothing further West. Sunday daytime meant milking 20 big time, and thankfully the band was in good shape again. I will likely remember the 1700 and 1800 hours for a long time as it was just a thrill to work a very well behaved pile with lots of excellent west coast signals. Had an extra dose of adrenaline when VY1JA, who I had heard S&P-ing before, stopped by to give me YT on 20. I was even more delighted when W7CA finally completed my lower 48 WAS single band 20 meters endorsed one weekend (hi) giving me that precious WY mult. Went to 40 at 2000 and was surprised to find the band already well open into the East coast and mid West. Lots of dupes called in, too (worked 72 dupes over the weekend!) and I understand that much of this resulted from bad packed spots – so please be sure you work what you hear, not what you see on the screen (hi). Spent the last 20 mins on 160 where W1ZK immediately gave me the last mult of the contest. It was good to see many familiar calls – guys I talk to several times a year for just seconds yet feel very close to. Very happy to work KG5U and NR5M who taught me contesting when I was an exchange student in Houston 20 years ago and N7KA who I had the pleasure of meeting personally some years ago here in DL. Contesting is much more about moments like these than about winning to me. Very special thanks to my host Wolf, DF2PY, and family, for letting me occupy the station. Without his outstanding technical expertise all this would not be possible. And of course thanks to my XYL and the boys – I promise to be home for the weekends now (i.e. until WPX-CW). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 22,002 If this is an indicator for poor condx: This year only about a dozen stations made it across the Rocky Mountains. Thank you OP's for pulling my weak signal out of the noise! I hope this was indeed the bottom of the solar cycle! 73, Uwe DL4AAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4YAO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 45,507 Nice opening to W6/W7/VE7 on 40m both afternoons. If I remember correctly.. N6BV was strongest US west on 40. K5GO super strong. Best sig from the US south. 40m was still open at noon local time! Orion, 8877 80: T-Ant 40: L/4 sloper 20: 2 El Yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 5,082 absolutely bad conditions on 15m from germany... hey sunspots come on... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7/DK6XZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 198,012 CONTEST : ARRL-DX-CW CATEGORY : SINGLE-OP 20M HIGH CALLSIGN : E7/DK6XZ OPERATORS: DK6XZ CLUB : BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA CONTEST CLUB LOCATION : Smetovi Mountain, near Zenica ( T91EZC ) NAME : Suad Zukic ADDRESS : Gymnasiumstr. 104 75175 Pforzheim Germany E-MAIL : DK6XZ@T-ONLINE.DE Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 14 1218 3414 58 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 1218 3414 58 SCORE : 198012 =================== Remarks: ******** Hello! It was nice that I was again able to connect my business trip to Slovenia/Croatia with the Contest-Weekend. So I came to the location on the top of mountain Smetovi ( ~ 1000 m ASL ) at Friday; some of my friends ( T94KM, T99W ) and the equipment with me. Thanks to my Club, T91EZC, allowing me to use the opportunities of this wonderful contest location. But, this time I had multiple unpleasent experiances... One of that was enormous storm that happened on Saturday. I was said, it was probably the strongest storm ( snow and strong winds ) of the last 10 years. Thanks to static electricity ( QRNN ) and its sudden discharge trough the coax my RX becomes death at late Saturday afternoon!! Disappointed, I switched off the box - middle in the best opening to NA - and went to sleep! But the two hours sleep did well to my body and the soul. Awaiken, I felt no angry, but being still really disappointed with my bad luck. The RX-relays are demaged now, but I am able to continue the work ( with special technic I learned in last CQ WW DX C SSB ). At the late evening hours the counter shows 650 Qs in the log. Not extreme bad! It was confirmed by Braco, T93J, who told me by telephone that hi and his stuff is not excited with propagations on 20 meters as well. May be Sunnday would make some things better... ( I was targeting 1300 - 1500 Qs until the end of the competition.) Enjoyment came really on Sunnday: it was a cold but clear and sunny day. I was refreshed and cooled down from the Saturdays stress... CURIOSITY/DUPES: **************** Many callers I had already in my log wanted me again... So without any complains I made exchange with anybody who was calling me. There were guys logging me even for the 3th time!! I tought, at the time of electronic logging, there would be a good reason why someones logging software is not recognizing my callsign as dupe. Simply, I was logged wrong before: the long call with new and unusual prefix made troubles to some guys. As I was caller on someones QRG - it happened several times - confirmations of type came: R EZ/DK6XZ TU ... correction ... AGN ... AGN ... Something about 80 of total Qs were duplicates. Generally, I found it - under given circumstances - very difficult to be a caller and spent the most time CQing, slowing down punctually with my callsign to 24/25 WPM. At the end, my plan was not reached. I was very close to, but missed some additional - realistic - 120 QSOs. Anyway, I had my fun and was able to collect some new experiences. Congratulations to HB0/N0MX-team! Mario, DJ2MX & Co were able to collect over 1400 Qs on 20 m with ( what? ) portable antennas. Fine job really. E7 ... T9-YU4-9A11 ( DISTRIBUTION OF E7 PREFIX ) ************************************************ The confusion trough some from Bosnia and Herzegowina used prefixes is going to find its end in soonest time! Actually, the representatives of four HAM-organizations in the country intended to conference at Smetovi, starting on Contest-Saturday. Due to extreme weather, the meeting-place changed to close city of Zenica. It was obviously a successful and constructive conference, so that the system ( regulation ) was found and finally agreed, how to distribute the new, official, E7-prefix, in all of the political entities and trough all of the amateur radio organizations in the country. Special thanks to Amir, T95O who have iniciated and supported this important meeting. The Regulatory Agency is now about to answer the very first applications to E7 prefix, that is going to be used by all HAMs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Some more weeks it is going to last ... but the implementation of ITU-decission have finally started! Will see you in one of the next... Warm regards Suad, DK6XZ Equipment: YAESU FT-1000 MP + KENWOOD TL922 ( 700 W ) Antenna: CUSHCRAFT X7 @30m - 7L TRIBANDER Paddle: KENT PC: TOSHIBA SATELLITE PIII 1GHz + UCXLog programm "I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations for Amateur Radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge." Signed Suad Zukic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 560,742 Great. The WAS in 20 meters in a single week-end. I'm uploading the log to LOTW. 73, Juanjo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KD Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 48,465 Only three hours to test my new K3. Great Rig. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4TX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 510,138 I couldn't be at home on Sunday, but the time I could operate on Saturday, I enjoy a lot! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 81,627 Buff! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7OT Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 100,512 Great contest, tnx to all Usa station for call me. 73,s de EA7OT... Rig: Yaesu FT-2000 Pwr: 100w Ant: Inverted V @ 15m Software: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 41,400 73s, Nino EA7RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH6L Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 322,200 I made 5081 CQs, I worked 1790 US/VE stations, 150 dupes propably due the wrong cluster announcements, because so many stations called me EA8/OH8L, most of them couldnt agree the corrections, they wanted to decide MY CALLSIGN! Also I had to change reports with over 100 europeans to stop them calling me. But I enjoyed so much again, with the recent new callsign. CU next Year de Maukka ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8EA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,565,198 TNX Pekka, EA8AH (OH1RY) for the opportunity to use his nice QTH and station. The QTH is on the Northern part of Gran Canary island, on a mountain ridge at 28 38' 48'' North & 15 38' 11'' West, in case you'd like to look it up in Google Earth. The elevation is 1400 ft above the sea level. The land slopes deeply toward the Atlantic ocean with a clean shot to North America. One could not wish for a better location in Northern Africa. Antennas: 160: Inverted-V at 85 ft 80: 2 el wire beam at 70 ft 40: 3 el wire beam at 70 ft 20: 4 el yagi at 50 ft 15: 4 el yagi at 45 ft 10: 4 el yagi at 40 ft Beverage, 600 ft long The antennas are not very high above the ground but they are close to the edge of the mountain ridge. Rig: Yaesu FT100MP Mark V ACOM 2000 amp Win-Test contest software As seen in the Summary table, 10 was dead. 15 was also poor with mostly weak signals and very few West Coast stns coming through. The bad propagation was also obvious on 160 with difficulties to reach West Coast. We can't rival the guys operating from the Caribbean. However, unlike them, we can have a good 4 hours sleep on both days, with all 6 bands being closed to NA. 73, Ville EA8EA OH2MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE5E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,108,505 Worked a lot putting up new antennas the week before the contest. We even had Alex KU1CW help us with the 40m Yagi on Wednesday before the contest while visiting his brother Yuri (EA5GTQ). Funny they were attended in Russian by the cofee shop girl when we went there for a hot drink after finishing the antenna work !!! We had Doug K1DG again with us this year and also Yuri EA5GTQ as a new operator. 160m (28m high shunt-fed tower) - Dissapointing to say the least, heavy QSB and QRN the second night prevented us from reaching our '07 results. Best DX was K7NJ in UT. Surprised by little interaction between this antenna and the yagis on the very same tower (confirming K8IA's infos). Receiving antennas are a high priority for '09 80m (inverted V @ 20m) - Also suffered from heavy QRN; we are definetely not very competitive on this band. Worked many CAs but almost no W7s 40m (OB2-40 @ 25m) - This band was our workhorse as 20m opened late and closed early. We felt strong on this band. New antenna worked great 20m (OB11-3 @ 28m & A3 @ 20m) - No matter how hard we try on this band, our F competition always beats us in QSOs, we are pretty sure they enjoy some imposible propagation mode for our ca. 1.000 km longer path. When we started running there the first day, all signals -including W1/2/3/4 big guns- were just at the noise floor ... except VE6WQ with an S9+++ 15m (same as above) - Extremely poor, we only had one real opening on Sunday afternoon which lasted less than 40 min. DG really worked them very fast; rate meter reaching 220Q/hr. This opening was very spotty with signals spanning from S0 to S9++ for similarly equipped and located stations. There seems to be a pipeline between TX and my QTH, they were always there. 10m - Nada TRX - 2xFT1000MP + Acom 2000 & Alpha 76 Writelog Looking forward to ARRL DX CW 09 Thank you all for the QSOs 73 from the "dit boys", Juan EA5RS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 448,806 Last Year: 160 6 5 80 41 21 40 266 32 20 525 51 15 311 44 Tot 1149 153 527,391 After three tries, SteppIR finally got me a working 80 meter coil for the BigIR, which did help the 80, but I never found 15 open (operator error or just didn't happened - how could I know!!). Unfortunately the new attempt for an "over the bluff, top fed, bottom-hatted 135 foot vertical" for 160 failed to perform; back to the drawing board for next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 165,318 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 17,325 Too much Kw on the air for qrp activity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6ARC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 272,049 Once again, big thanks to Jo, F6CTT, for allowing me to use his equipment. It is always a pleasure to operate in the ARRL Contests from that location. Conditions were not great, nevertheless it could be worse. On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, some signals were too hard to pull out of the mud. Working US/VE stations over the long path on 40m is not an easy task from Western France in February. I must apologize to the ones I couldn’t hear or copy. Many dupes in the log this year: the DX cluster is a useful tool but I guess some users rely blindly on incorrect spots. Thanks to everyone who called me, Oliver - F6ARC http://www.dxbeam.com http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6BEE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,574,370 160 and 80 not as good as last year. 15m even worse on saturday than on sunday. Very few real run. A pity the W6/W7 worked the previous week end on 160m couldn't make it this time. All this didn't motivate me to stay awake in front of the radio and I think it was also the case for many US/VE ops. I even took some (too long) time to work VP6DX on 30/RTTY on our sunday morning. I had to cool down and clean the F1 key of my keyboard several times during the contest ! I hope we reached the very bottom of the cycle this past week end. Thank you all for calling. 73 de Jacques, F6BEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,243,725 Very bad conditions on 15M. All signals were at the noise level, even those from the main M/S and M/M stations from the east coast. I would have never imagined to have more QSOs and Mults on 160M with my very modest antenna than on 15M. I guess it cannot be worst. I'm rather satisfied with the result on 80M with a single dipole without receiving antenna. Signals were good on 40M. 73 Sebastien, F8CMF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 165,000 Don't you just love the ionosphere? A single 160m dipole (at 40 ft) is very mediocre for all-band contests, and this one is especially poor on 15m so it was great to see that band in bad shape! Isn't propagation a leveller. My 2008 score is slightly up on last years contest thanks to 60 more QSOs, despite missing 10 mults. As an experiment last year I went Assisted but this returned to my preferred Non-Assisted - it's a distraction and I score better without it. Didn't hear a peep on 15m on Saturday but for a 20 minute period on Sunday I managed half a dozen QSOs. Signal levels were extremely low. I expect there will be a big difference in scores between Northern Europe versus Southern Europe - who I could hear on 15m running W/VE. Very challenging. At least 20m seemed in excellent shape and I managed to get a couple of nice runs going on Sunday. There are certainly some very good RXs in North America, and K1GU and K9AY were my joint winners for the best ears award. Well done guys, thanks for your patience. FT-1000MP MK-V (low) 160m dipole 150 W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7R Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 24,885 Enjoyable contest as always. Limited to Butternut vertical HF6V and a 170m beverage on 315 degrees. Furthest West stations TX and NE. Heard 3 stations in CA but couldn't hear me. Thanks for the QSOs see you next time. 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7V Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,242,645 The ARRL DX contests are great contests, even in low-sunspot years. If a band is closed to the USA/Canada, you can relax and not worry about missing Qs and mults. We started off as a Multi-2, but problems configuring the logging software and the fact that we didn’t notice the ‘6 QSYs/hr’ rule meant we ended up as a Multi-multi entry. 160m – wkd most of our QSOs here in the first 7 hours, but band seemed good overall. Furthest wkd was AR/OK – most stns we called could hear us. 80m – in good shape – lots of activity from TX – best DX was ND,CO. 40m – in fairly good shape, but our results a bit disappointing – we have a new antenna under construction to improve results on 40m – best DX was CA but needed more QSOs and mults on this band. 20m – our best band – good openings both days with lots of mults available. 15m – wkd about 12 stns the first day, then another 69 in a weak opening on the second day – nothing further west than VE3 heard or wkd. 10m – completely utterly dead for the whole 48 hours, despite over-optimistic checking by me whenever 15m showed the slightest signs of being open ! Some minor technical problems – one sick 756 ProIII, one Beverage unterminated by some chewing creature of the night and a mouse nest in the Beverage switching box. One amusing incident – I was accidentally locked into the shack by Keith GM4YXI and had to phone at midnight to be released – this is taking ‘staying in the operating chair’ a step too far! More than usual dupes maybe – one busted spot (GM7X) resulted in a flurry of callers on Sunday – interesting to compare the list of dupe callers immediately after that spot with their entry category – so far only one VE station is claiming ‘unassisted’. Sending GM7V many times at 20wpm seemed to get rid of the problem. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs – please QSL via M0CMK. All GM7V logs are on Logbook of the World. LoTW is excellent – 16 hours after the end of the contest we had over 500 confirmations on LoTW. Thanks to Keith GM4YXI for hosting GM7V from his great QTH 20 miles North of Aberdeen. 73 Chris GM3WOJ/ZL1CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: H7/K9GY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,908,692 Me encanta esto! (I love this!) Many thanks to Bonnie (my XYL) who let me leave on Valentine's Day. Also a big thank you to wonderful hosts Octavio and Martha. I think my Spanish is getting somewhat better with these trips to Central Am. Now if I can just learn to send CW, type, and not sleep I'll be ready for the next contest, hah. Huge pileups on 15m from 18-22z Day 1...Wow! On Day 2 it was mentioned that my 15m signal had a spur about 1 to 2 kcs up...so maybe time for the shop? 15 hours of 100+ rate (13 on Day 1...two on Day 2). 10m was dead...although I see the V3 gang made some Qs...umm must of missed something there! Had a bandpass filter in place but couldn't have the 817 on when I was on 15m so I need to rethink that approach. Downloaded getscores about ten mins before the contest started, hah! Would be nice to see more participants post their scores though. It was great to defrost from the Chicago winter...we got a lot of snow this yr. FT-857D FT-817 on 10m QRX using 30m dipole MicroHam USB interface II (bought a week ago!) WriteLog 10.65c Antennas at YN2N antenna farm: Dipoles for 160, 80, and 40 3L beam for 20, 15, 10. If you're interested in a great contest location for WPX SSB then Octavio has rental availability during that time http://www.yn2n.com Best of health to all, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA7GN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 75,504 Equipment: FT2000; AL-811HX 3 El Yagi @ 11m height I really enjoyed this contest. The rig is pretty new, was good to test it, after years in low power, GPs and dipoles. I think I may want to erect a higher pole by next year, though... later Sunday evening I was only able to hear HG7T exchanging with NA stations, but mostly S0 from the other end. Thanks for all who replied, CU in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8JV Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 75,312 thanks to all calers 73 pali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB0/N0MX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,983,822 We had great fun during this year's ARRL DX CW contest. We enjoyed working the pileups, giving out new band points for interested DXers, the nice weather and the beauty of the principality of Liechtenstein. Unfortunately there was some local noise on the low bands which made receiving difficult sometimes. Note: For HBØ/NØMX QSL only via DJ2MX (direct or via DARC buro). Please don't send your QSL card to the US address nor via the ARRL buro. For more information please visit our website: http://www.dk9tn.de/2008/hb0 Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 from HBØ/NØMX team: DJ2MX (NØMX), DJ4MZ, DJ5MW, DK4YJ, DK9TN Worked States/Provinces ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! TOTAL ======================================================= CT ! 7 ! 18 ! 25 ! 36 ! 7 ! ! 93 MA ! 14 ! 39 ! 54 ! 64 ! 9 ! ! 180 ME ! 2 ! 6 ! 5 ! 10 ! ! ! 23 NH ! 9 ! 15 ! 20 ! 24 ! 8 ! ! 76 RI ! ! 6 ! 6 ! 6 ! 1 ! ! 19 VT ! 1 ! 7 ! 7 ! 10 ! ! ! 25 NJ ! 6 ! 35 ! 66 ! 74 ! 8 ! ! 189 NY ! 13 ! 46 ! 73 ! 83 ! 3 ! ! 218 DE ! 3 ! 6 ! 6 ! 9 ! 1 ! ! 25 PA ! 17 ! 46 ! 64 ! 85 ! 15 ! ! 227 MD ! 6 ! 30 ! 35 ! 44 ! 6 ! ! 121 DC ! ! ! 2 ! 1 ! ! ! 3 AL ! 2 ! 7 ! 24 ! 26 ! 1 ! ! 60 FL ! 6 ! 32 ! 62 ! 57 ! 5 ! ! 162 GA ! 5 ! 11 ! 15 ! 27 ! 2 ! ! 60 KY ! ! 3 ! 10 ! 11 ! ! ! 24 NC ! 6 ! 32 ! 53 ! 53 ! 3 ! ! 147 SC ! ! 6 ! 12 ! 16 ! 1 ! ! 35 TN ! 1 ! 8 ! 33 ! 37 ! 1 ! ! 80 VA ! 11 ! 34 ! 48 ! 64 ! 6 ! ! 163 AR ! 2 ! 5 ! 6 ! 3 ! 1 ! ! 17 LA ! ! 6 ! 14 ! 9 ! ! ! 29 MS ! 1 ! 3 ! 7 ! 8 ! ! ! 19 NM ! ! 1 ! 3 ! 6 ! ! ! 10 OK ! ! 2 ! 5 ! 11 ! ! ! 18 TX ! 5 ! 20 ! 43 ! 74 ! 4 ! ! 146 CA ! ! 6 ! 13 ! 66 ! ! ! 85 AZ ! ! 5 ! 8 ! 23 ! ! ! 36 ID ! ! ! ! 4 ! ! ! 4 MT ! ! ! ! 2 ! ! ! 2 NV ! ! 1 ! 2 ! 4 ! ! ! 7 OR ! ! ! 1 ! 12 ! ! ! 13 UT ! ! ! ! 7 ! ! ! 7 WA ! ! ! 2 ! 32 ! ! ! 34 WY ! ! ! 1 ! 2 ! ! ! 3 MI ! 3 ! 12 ! 21 ! 45 ! ! ! 81 OH ! 7 ! 28 ! 32 ! 72 ! ! ! 139 WV ! 1 ! 6 ! 8 ! 12 ! ! ! 27 IL ! ! 17 ! 16 ! 50 ! ! ! 83 IN ! 2 ! 10 ! 14 ! 26 ! ! ! 52 WI ! 2 ! 12 ! 12 ! 28 ! 1 ! ! 55 CO ! ! 3 ! 6 ! 18 ! ! ! 27 IA ! ! 2 ! 6 ! 14 ! ! ! 22 KS ! ! ! 2 ! 4 ! ! ! 6 MN ! ! 7 ! 11 ! 25 ! ! ! 43 MO ! 1 ! 4 ! 10 ! 16 ! ! ! 31 ND ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 4 ! ! ! 6 NE ! ! 1 ! 3 ! 7 ! ! ! 11 SD ! ! ! ! 2 ! ! ! 2 NB ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 3 ! ! ! 5 NS ! 1 ! 4 ! 5 ! 9 ! 1 ! ! 20 NF ! 2 ! 4 ! 4 ! 4 ! 3 ! ! 17 PEI ! ! 2 ! 1 ! 2 ! 1 ! ! 6 LB ! ! ! ! ! ! ! QC ! 1 ! 6 ! 8 ! 14 ! ! ! 29 ON ! 3 ! 16 ! 25 ! 47 ! ! ! 91 MB ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! ! 1 SK ! ! ! 1 ! 3 ! ! ! 4 AB ! ! 1 ! ! 5 ! ! ! 6 BC ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 8 ! ! ! 10 NT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! YT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! NU ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ======================================================= ! 140 ! 574 ! 913 ! 1419 ! 88 ! ! 3134 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 42,456 TS-870 100 Watts Dipole's for 10 - 15 and 20 m Vertical Butternut HF-9VX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,391,916 The station worked fine. (No stolen beverages or major tech. problems) Good opening on low bands and fine first hour on 40. Heard numerous good signals from west coast on 80 while I S/P, but worked only AZ and WA. They did not preferred CQ. K1XM was the strongest on 160. 20m was OK, but somehow we lost hundreds of Qs as I checked our rivals scores. 15m Nice 1 hour opening on Sunday evening. I was aked by George, HA6ND whether WJ9B is a pirate? Because of his 59+ signal while the others were on the noise level. Referring to K4RO s call at 70 WPM: I was sitting wonderingly, how he knew that I am a QRQ guy because I CQ-ed at about 35WPM only that time. It was a funny moment indeed. Thanks everyone who called! Anti HA3OV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG7T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 162,525 My rig:FTDX9000D and 4 ele SteppIR MonstIR Up 40m very good propagacion but sri VP6DX big QRM. 73&DX Tibi HA7TM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8R Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 182,700 i workd on two different band, ha8jv 80m, hg8r(my contest call)on 20m. station setup: 36m vert.+400m beverages on 80m, 4el.quad on 20m. ts870+tl922. on sunday moning band was verry good on 80m, but i started to late (0140z). i sleep to much (hi). thanks for nice contest cuee the next 73...pali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,592 Hi Guy's Many thanks FB QSO, Cu next contest.. But AM only BAREFOOT..Hi. de HL5YI.. CHAE . G,L 73. e e .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 8,613 As usual I started out on 20m. But no good propagation, so I decided to enter 40m single band. It was a bit tough sometimes with 100W and Vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2GPT Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 109,065 Hi folk. First time for me. Amazing! Setup: FT-2000 Steppir 3 el. N1MM See you next time. 73 de I2GPT, Vic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 195,636 Do we really get, someday, to the bottom of this sunspot cycle? I begin to doubt it! I knew in advance 15M wouldn't have been like last year (140q, 33m), but didn't expect it could be so awful! My only 4 qsos were almost invented! When I cannot here KC1XX beacon, at some point in the day, it has to be bad! And it was really worse! Anyway there were some highlights as well: WA, CA, OR, and NV on 40M long path, for my LP and windom, have some value. As well the 9 mults on 160m! To K3LR: yes, we did it, at last! and you were LOUD and CLEAR! Saturday was almost impossible to run on 20, since all the boys were there. Sunday was a bit better but keeping a frequency in the ARRL is harder than in the CQWW! That's all. Cu next one. Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK7JWY Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 150,864 I used my usual domestic setup: FT1000MP TL922 YAGI 4-el @ 20mt above ground (city area) Wintest Worked all States, but South Dakota ! It's a pity. Many thanks to everyone and see you the next time. 73 de IK7JWY Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK8UND Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 45,360 another step to improve my cw, thank u 4 ur patience :)))!!!! 73s Sal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO3N Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 183,396 IT SEEMS TAKERS'S NUMBER INCREASE MORE AND MORE . IT WAS FUNNY WORKING PILE-UP US STATIONS . THANKS FOR CALLING ME AND SEE YOU ON AIR . 73 DE JULIAN .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,111,254 We are quite happy, station worked fine, no problem at all, target ok. Good number on 80 (fine rx job by bvg) and on 40 for a dipole. On 20 big big crowd forced us to call often > 14100, 15m were really a (bad) surprise. 160m are vy difficoult from our citizen qth but sure there is something to improve. FT1000MP, IC761 AL1500, AL1200 Filters dunestar, stubs. Switch boxes by IZ4EFN. IO4T roof: 15m 5L (12m hight) 20m 5L (10m hight) 40m flat top full size dipole (6m hight) 80m sloping dipole + 1/4 vertical "biscia" 160m dipole + vertical "biscia" IO4T garden (2/300m away from shack): K9AY, beverage 200m Great competition between top italian teams: IR2C IR4X IR4M, great job OMs! Welcome to IZ4EFN: 1st serius CW effort for him! Check out semi-serious event during our operating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBiEFrvJkT8&feature=related ;-) Andy IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,756,000 Poor conditions with only a good opening on 160. Cu you on phone next weekend. Claudio I4VEQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3ZXQ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 109,950 My first experience in the ARRL Contest (novice in CW) :-)) Thanks for all the QSOs and see you next time. TX - Icom 756 PRO III ANTENNA - OPTIBEAM 12/4 - 2 Element in 40m Amplifier Home made Software - N1MM 73 de IV3ZXQ (MAU) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J7DX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,995,638 This was our third consecutive year as a M/M in ARRL DX CW from the island Commonwealth of Dominica. This year the ops were Paul N4PN, Charlie NF4A, Don W9IU, Kevin WN9O, and Jim WI9WI. We all started from our homes in Florida, Georgia, Indiana and Wisconsin on Saturday or Sunday the weekend before the test and met Monday morning in the airport at San Juan for our 1300 flight to J7. We arrived more or less on time and picked up our bags plus the shipment of heavy items including our amps which had been sent by air freight in advance. This is an entirely field day type of operation at Sea Cliff Villas in the town of Calibishie on the northeast coast of the island. Although most of the antennas and coax are stored on site, there are no towers, all antennas must be erected and taken down, and all the RF equipment and computers must be shipped in advance or carried on the flight down. We were met at the airport by our local friend and contact Lambert Charles, J73LC, and taken with all our gear on the 20 minute drive to the operating site. After a quick job of unpacking some things we raised a 40 ft bamboo pole with 40 and 30 meter antennas on it for some casual operation that night. We then went to the local store to get food and supplies and ate at a local restaurant. We did little operating that night since we were all tired and had a big day the next day. We spent most of the daylight hours and a couple of hours after dark on Tuesday and Wednesday erecting our antenna farm. This is described below. We did some casual operation, mostly at night, over the time prior to the contest with our J7 calls, J79PN, J79PC (NF4A), J79IU, J79KM (WN9O), and J79WI. On Thursday, the 3 who hadn't been to the island before went on a tour with Lambert, while Don(IU) and I (WI) did a bit more antenna work, operated some and napped a bit. Everything was ready with 4 HP stations and networked computers by Friday. We started the test on 160 through 20 which died after about 2 hours. We tried to maintain signals on any open bands and for the most part succeeded. We operated in 4 hour shifts, and everyone pretty much had a crack at every band at some point during the contest. At times (evening) we had 4 stations going and in the mid to late morning only 2 (20 and 15). Other than losing an IC-7000 out of the box and having issues with the 160 meter inverted L prior to the test there were no equipment problems or interstation interference issues. The station: Position #1: IC-7000, Ameritron 811 amp reholed for 572s by W8JI, 1000 W 160 m: inverted L with about 15 radials, 500 ft beverage to US 10 m: 4 element beam on 40 ft bamboo pole Position #2: IC-7000, Ten Tech Centurion 1000 W 80 m: phased inverted Ls with about 12 radials each 15 m: C-3 at 20 ft on push up mast Position #3: TS-480, ACOM 1010 800 W 40 m: Phased full wave delta loops designed and executed by K1XX on 44 ft fiberglass push up masts Position #4: IC-7000, Ameritron AL-80 600 W 20 m: 3 element monobander on 30 ft bamboo pole ICE filters Networked computers running WinTest 3.19 Our score was less than the last 2 years mainly due to 10 meters never opening for us. We spent hours monitoring and calling CQ into what was for us a dead band. We had a few brief moments of spotlight propagation into TX (7 QSOs) and LA (1 QSO), but that was that. We had less QSOs and mults on 160 and 80, but more on 40 and 15 than in the past. Strangely our QSO total on 20 was exactly the same as last year with 1 more mult. I've been there all 3 years and I felt conditions on 160 and 80 were worse than the past 2 years with more noise and weaker signals. Conditions on 20 and 40 were excellent, and while 15 opened later than in the past, with the limited European openings from the States we had an endless supply of stations to work while it was open. We got up at sunrise Monday and tore down most of the antennas before N4PN and NF4A had to leave. We operated some on 17, 30, 80 and 160 (the wire antenna) on Monday and then tore them down Tuesday morning. The remaining 3 of us left Tuesday afternoon and everyone got home safely in spite of a few late flights. We had an excellent team with everyone pitching in on station set up and dismemberment,and everyone spending some long hours in the chair with little sleep at times. It is a bit of a challenge to run a M/M with 5 operators. Our thanks to all who helped, especially Lambert Charles J73LC, Jim and Gwen Klink, our hosts at Sea Cliff, and DonFord Harper, our tree climber and handyman extraordinare. Also to George K5KG , and Ron KK9K for advice and equipment loan, and K1XX for his superbly designed 40 meter array. Jim WI9WI, J79WI for the J7DX crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 569,808 They all but me(RWU) were part-timers and I was alone after Sunday evening(1000z). I overslept on Monday and started at 2155z. Too much snow, snow static, very bad high band condx and no effective beverage(something wrong, tried to fix it in the snow in vain). No 10m, only four mults(CA,OR,NV and UT)on 15m (48 in 2007). We could not hear the stations they JF1NHD, JA0QNJ were working on 15m. But enjoyed ARRL DX as usual and experienced rare zero ssn contesting! Thanks to all that worked and spotted us during the contest! 73's Akira, JA8RWU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 191,100 Limited time so all S&P of low hanging fruit. Rotor microprocessor blew when I turned on power and had to rely on 160m loop ant. IC 756proIII IC-PW1 160m loop w/bal line ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,081,782 That was pretty grim. I've gotten used to poor 10 meter numbers....but I almost did better on 160 than on 15 this time. That ain't right. Still I'm pleased with this score, surprised myself. 73 SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,312,144 This year we had a plan. We were going to use our band changes more effectively and we did. The team was ready and we never had a problem with enough operators unlike previous years. Even the overnights were fully staffed. Since I finally fixed the four square for 40, that was working FB and provided some much needed help for quick swings of the antenna. Murphy struck the first day when I had just fallen asleep, one of the operators came running in complaining of the smell of burned resistors. I quickly identified one of the amplifiers as the culprit and started to analyze what went wrong. A burned resistor was found and a replacement fabricated. When the new resistor was soldered in, the amp still didn't work but a popped fuse was found in the same circuit and the fuse replaced. The amp then hummed along without problems for the rest of the contest. Equipment problems were minor and the team came through with flying colors. Most importantly a good time was had by all. MVP this time goes to K1HI for making over 1000 of our 20 meter QSOs. See everyone in two weeks. I'll see a few of you next week for the CQWW 160 phone weekend. I'll just be giving out points. Make sure you're spotted! Best 73, Jerry, K0TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 733,338 Thought I would try going most of the way. Dont think I can do a 40hrs or even 30+ hrs in the chair. Started the contest on 20mtrs with a good run of JA and UA with SA mixed on for mults. Had to spend time with the xyl watching a movie friday night so missed the 40mtr window and some on 20mtrs. Had a good run of JA on 40mtrs and good LP 40mtrs. Saturday worked as long as I could getting some sleep now and then. Saturday a fair run on 20mtrs and just worked the low bands. Noise was up and sounded like we were having snow static but it was clear. Picked the mults where I could find them on the low bands. Another early run of JA 40mtrs and LP then on the 20mtrs when it opened up. 20 was the band to be during the day. 10 was nothing here at all. 15mtrs SA some and a few KW JA but no runs EU or JA. Sunday did the 20mtrs mostly with a fair run of JA then a good walk on 40mtrs picking EU that the east coast didnt need. Called CQ on 20mtrs to finish this game off. My hats off to those who can stay in the chair...Hi..Had a few GMCCer heard, K0FX saw hims spotted and W0ZA, K07X, K6XT, N0IJ, K0AV, K0ALT, KV0Q on 80mtrs, W0GG, I may have missed some. Now to get ready to leave for California. Will be at N6RO hopefully for ARRL DX MM..Thanks to all the great ops who stayed with my poor ears. Some were just whispers...PTL bill UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1AR Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,891,172 Conditions spoke for themselves. Hopefully, our results will be more like a good single op score in a few years. This was the first time Glenn, K6NA, operated with the K1AR team at K1EA. Apparently, the Europeans were a little louder than his experiences in San Diego. Thanks to Ken for hosting another great contest. We had a FB time, even with the lousy conditions. 73 John, K1AR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 94,536 New 3-ele Steppir not working, so had to rely on 80 meter dipole which actually did a very good job. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,621,935 I knew before the test that if I lost it would be from a lack of a working 160m antenna. It is not always fun being right. Although, even with 20 more mults I may not have won after log checking. AND, there may be more scores out there. I was motivated for this one only because of the competition. I used N1UR's 2007 totals as a goal and I met them, however, he did better! Friday night I dug out the broken 160m tuning circuit for the shunt fed tower (3ft of snow) and twisted the wires together. I called many stations but only worked 1 European. I can hear fine with my beverage... I need to bring back my Inv L. Only heard N1UR when we were on 10m working the same guys. I was on 14.041 for 8 straight hours Saturday. I'm amazed how close our totals are. (most of them): N1UR K1BX 160: 42 32 13 11 80: 177 64 168 60 40: 409 77 509 79 20: 1204 87 1126 88 15: 75 42 77 45 10: 3 2 4 2 ----------------------------------------- 1910 307 1897 285 1,741,536 1,621,935 Congrats Ed. 160m Shunt fed 50' tower, 500' beverage NE 80m Inv Vee @60' 40m 402CD @50', Inv Vee @ 50' 20-10m X7 @60', A3 south @ 30' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,937,440 What a great contest. Despite truly poor high-band conditions, the competition was fierce. It sure looks like there was a 'ceiling' on what was achievable, creating extremely tight races in most categories. In M/S, we were in a dead heat with K1LZ for the entire contest. With the ability to see competitive position updated at five minute intervals on getscores.org, our motivation was driven to its max. We were also aware of other likely M/S teams in the game [K8AZ and KT3Y], who were not posting to getscores, but could potentially be trouncing us. So, we did our best to keep the pressure on for the full 48. Station The station was in reasonably good shape going into the contest. Upgrading the 40m TIC ring to a Green Heron controller did wonders in stabilizing its operation. We had no trouble with 40m rotation through the entire contest - a first for the station. Our "Dual-Rate Station" was not working properly as of Wednesday. This critical capability was not something we could afford to live without. So, I spent all night Wednesday getting it running. The Beverages were not in good shape as Friday approached. K1VR came over and we spent much of the day in the marshy woods, in the snow reconstructing a field of broken wires. Most of the wires were buried under the snow; this was a major job. Many thanks to Fred for his help with this ugly task. We really ned to get the active RX 4-square technology running here. That should relieve us somewhat from this constant maintenance requirement. Line noise has plagued the station since CQ WW. On phone, the s7 noise level really impacted our ability to hear anything to the NW on the high bands. It was a killer for weak Asia/Pacific mults. On cw, with narrower RX bandwidths, we are not affected quite as much. This one has been quite difficult to track. Back in January, I identified a pole generating some arcing about 1.5 miles away from the station in the direction of greatest signal strength at the station. After many fits and starts, the power company came out the weekend before the contest and replaced everything on the pole. They cured the arcing. But, they didn't cure our QRN at the station. I had identified a source - but not the right one. I continued the search through the week prior to the contest - imposing on several neighbors to turn their power off. Even after the contest started, I continued the search, and with a few tips from friends on the RFI reflector, was able to track the source down to a very small localized area. I believe I have identified the house that's generating the problem, but nobody was home all weekend, so we lost the opportunity to fix it for this contest. I am hopeful that the issue will be fully addressed before the SSB weekend. In the end, because there was so little propagation in that direction for us, we were not impacted too severely by this problem. Toward the end of the contest, we encountered a small issue with the main mast rotor losing calibration. I climbed and determined that there were no mechanical issues. I will have to investigate this further. We realized that there are a few station improvements that need to be made to get another 1% out of our efforts . . . 1. Better 160m transmit and receive antennas [wire 4-square in the woods?] 2. More than just one 40m antenna so we can cover multiple directions [and you think you can find a spot for that on the tower, Jim?] 3. Better Beverages or other receive antennas 4. Ability to receive on the second Rate radio and tune for mults/Qs while the main Rate op is running Team This time, we welcomed K1TWF and WO1N to the team. Both have competitive contesting experience with the likes of K1TTT, K0TV and K1KI. After coming to the station for their training sessions just a few days before the contest, they were able to dive in and help make a real difference, right away. They drove hard and contributed greatly in bolstering both our runs and multiplier hunting. Kudos again to W1VE and K1VR, anchoring the run and mult functions, respectively. Gerry generated Rate when it shouldn't have been possible, and Fred filled in the Mult Chart with all the tough ones - particularly on the low bands. After staying up all night on Wednesday to get the station working properly, dealing with excessive work issues, and rushing through the Beverage repair job on Friday, I suffered a major crash over the weekend. I couldn't seem to stay awake long enough to put in any quality hours in the Rate chair, so I did what I could to add to the Mult count. Other Observations QRP - So many! This is a great thing for contesting. These stations are a challenge to copy - and getting them correctly into the log is a tribute to station capabilities and operating skill. And, of course, these stations help to increase the pool of available QSOs. On-Air Behavior - We had very few 'run-ins' with other stations this year. Our general feeling is that, despite crowded bands, competitors seemed to get along pretty well. www.getscores.org - Everyone with an internet connection and a computer logging program should be on the live scoreboard. The board showed a total of 92 stations posting in this contest. If there's no interface for your logging program, complain. If there is, and you need help setting it up, ask for assistance. Summary It isn't conditions that make for a great contest. It's competition and participation. As long as we have enough stations trying to win, combined with a large number of stations who want to get on for a few hours and make a few QSOs, we have a formula for a successful contest. We're definitely looking forward to the next 'big one'. 73, Jim K1IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,721,770 First SOAB in a long time. Wasn't sure how much sleep I would need. Turns out it was easier than 10 years ago. Probably could have gone all 48 hours but slept for 90 minutes early Sunday morning. Noticed I wasn't doing so well during 18-20z on Sunday but not sure if that was lack of sleep or not. I've always figured 10m was one of my most competitive bands. Only heard K1TTT there (40 miles away) and a bunch of my own home electronic equipment noises. Was waiting for 15m to sound better before I checked 10m much but 15 was never really good enough to call CQ - I just kept tuning 15m for new signals once in a while. Good thing 20m wasn't open when it was dark out - turning the beam requires daylight so I can see where it is pointed. After a long series of MM M2 and MS efforts here, it was quite different to have to do so much tuning for QSOs and especially multipliers instead of relying on packet/Internet spots. Much more satisfying, too. Only had one fairly brief equipment issue when something in the 4-square antenna started arcing on 80m and generating noise in the second receiver. After about a half hour the noise stopped - and the antenna still works pretty well. Will have to wander out and see what burned up when the snow melts. Anyhow, eleven hours of sleep Sunday night appears to have cured the sleep issue. Thanks for all of the QSOs! -- Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 43,014 Note that I used spotting assistance even though I operated only one band. Therefore, I have to submit as either Single-Op All Band Assisted, or Multi-Op. So, for the 3830 reflector, I am using the SOSB/160 category, but I will submit my log to the ARRL as Single-Op All Band Assisted. I had intended to operate casually this year, but the station worked so well that I wound up going nearly all out. I passed last year's QSOs and multipliers the first night. The Electronic Beam Steering Phased Array and SDR Receiving System (still looking for a short name, maybe "Beam Steering Rig" this time) seems to finally have exceeded the performance of my Beverage antennas. The main change for this weekend was to increase the selectivity of the SDR radio to match the selectivity of the Icom 765. Consequently, I operated the entire contest exclusively receiving with the Beam Steering Rig (antennas, Softrocks, computer, keyboard and display). One adverse side effect of increasing the selectivity of the software radio was an increase in latency. In order to get a filter with more "taps" (DSP term), I had to increase the size of the buffers passed from the sound card driver to the rest of the software components. With the latency back at 21.3 milliseconds, I could no longer listen on both radios at the same time without going insane. Fortunately, the increased SDR selectivity allowed me to ignore the Icom 765, except for listening for Japan (and transmitting). The phased array antennas are broadside to a bearing of 67 degrees. As you steer the array away from broadside, the pattern gradually deteriorates. Past about 40 degrees off the bore-sight (a phased array term) the pattern degenerates to a lousy end-fire array (lousy because the spacing is not optimal). The poor performance occurs when the bearing is less than 27 degrees or greater than 107 degrees when switched east, and greater than 287 degrees or less than 207 degrees when switched west. Therefore, the array performs poorly when receiving Japan at a bearing of 330 degrees. Note that the sub-optimal performance is not much of a disadvantage for receiving the Caribbean and South America. So, to listen for Japan, I had to use the Beverages. Saturday morning was too noisy and I was too tired to pursue Asia. Sunday morning was less noisy, and conditions seemed to be better, although not good enough to work Japan. I heard JA3YBK peak at my sunrise, but he didn't last long enough to get past the other callers. In previous soapbox articles, I've complained about the lack of a receiver incremental tuning feature in the software radio (specifically, the SDR-Shell program which provides the user interface). I looked at the documentation again and noticed that there are keyboard commands to manipulate the filter boundaries (corresponds to pass-band tuning controls on a regular radio) and mouse gestures to control fine-tuning. I practiced these commands a bit during the weekend, and now I might be willing to retract my criticism. Nevertheless, a knob might still be more intuitive, since that is what I'm used to. On the other hand, since I used the software radio almost exclusively, I didn't have as many controls to operate. Conditions Friday night seemed poor while conditions Saturday night seemed to be good, although not as good as during the CQ 160 Test. Hopefully, the number of 200 watt and below Europeans that I worked is a testament to my technical prowess, and not just an artifact of conditions. Time will tell. I noticed that I worked more DX during the ARRL DX contest on 160 than in the CQ 160 contest. In that test, I worked 192 10-point QSOs and 8 non-Canadian 5-point QSOs for 200 DX QSOs. In this contest, I worked 214 DX QSOs. Is this a normal pattern? DX: 4U1U, 4X, 6Y, 8P, 3 (9A), (2) C6, CM, CT, CT3, (2) CX, (20) DL, E7, (4) EA, (2) EA6, 2 (EA8), 2 (EI), ES, EU, 12 (F), 24 (G), 2 (GI), GJ, 3 (GM), 4 (GW), 3 (HA), HB, HB0, 9 (I), IS, J7, 3 (KH6), KL, 4 (KP2), 2 (KP4), 2 (LA), LU, LX, 5 (LY), 2 (LZ), 2 (OE), 7 (OH), 17 (OK), 3 (OM), 2 (ON), OZ, P4, 6 (PA), 2 (PJ2), PZ, 3 (S5), 2 (SM), 6 (SP), 2 (SV), T32, 8 (UA), 4 (UR), V2, 3 (V3), V4, VP5, VP6/d, VP9, 2 (YL), YO, 2 (YU), ZL, 2 (ZS) Missed UA2 and TI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,049,736 TNX to K1IR for keeping the team motivated !!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,306,500 Started as a Multi 2 but the logging program apparently got corrupted and started showing all kinds of band change violations, so early Sunday morning after a network crash, we switched the settings to MM (3 radios) and finished no problem. Guess this station is so used to running MM that it just could not deal with this "big" change! The station was on every hour with at least one radio going. Seemed we all got enough sleep believe it or not! The 80 M amp had been experiencing some issues - the smell was bad and after several hours of breathing the "toxic" fumes, decided to take it out. It now sits waiting for my attention on the work bench. The amp we used in its place was the 20 M amp and worked flawlessly (and no smell!). With K1EO as the master comedian, we all had plenty of laughs (as usual). This weekend the new K3 that K1EP brought got tested. First we had to do something with the AGC settings (K1EP preformed all the adjustments) to help deal with the interstation interference (K3 was on 40 & 10). I spent quite a bit of time on it and was very impressed but there were some issues that on the very weak signals, seemed tough to dig them out on 40. My point of reference is my FT-1000D and Icom 781. Without any doubt, it was the operator that had it setup wrong but seemed okay in the beginning. Need more time of the target to really master it. Thanks to our many friends around the world for making the contest what it really is - a fun time, no matter how much time you put into it! 73, Mark, K1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,835 Antenna: 66-foot end-fed wire, 15 feet above ground, half of it inside. A lot of ESP contacts this weekend. Such as, hearty congrats to JA8RWU and JA6SHL, who heard me on 20. Only station east of me heard (and worked) on 15 was D4C. Always fun to work OK1TN. A big lack of Caribbean expeditions this year. Didn't even work Aruba. Someone mentioned that this is his fifth sunspot minimum as a radio operator. Come to think of it, it's my fifth, too. Jim Cain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 370,548 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 117,315 Got on for a couple hours from home Sunday after enjoying operating the first half with the KC1XX crew. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1XM Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,924,609 Who needs sunspots? 160: Orion, Acom 2000, 4-square 80: Flex 5000, FT-1000mp, Acom 2000, 4 square 40: FT-1000mp, AL-1200, 4 sq, 3 el (120') 20: FT-1000mp, Titan 422, 4/4/4(130'), 5 el (90') 15: Orion, AL-1200, 6/4/4 (100'), 4 el (60') 10: Shared with 160, 4/4/4 (90') KT1D and K2TJ took care of 160 and 10. 160 was great, 10 was not so good. Believe it or not there was some overlap time in the evening - they had to leave 160 to go back to 10 to work VP6DX. K1XM was the main 80 meter operator. Conditions were pretty good. W1UE (ex-NB1B) handled 40. The band opened early to Europe and stayed open late, especially Saturday morning. During the night the MUF seemed to drop below 40 for a while. Friday night 80 caught up to 40 for a while but when the sun came up in Europe 40 took back the lead. W1FJ fought it out on 20. This year 20 was a daytime band. We had operators check it at night but all they could hear were the harmonics of 40 and 80. W1KM practically performed a mind meld with the 15 meter radio - he was listening real hard. But there just wasn't much there. With six ops and five radios all of us got to operate on several bands and several radios. And with so few bands open most of the time we all got a bit of sleep too. We had only minor problems. 80 couldn't use the beverage antennas Friday night. The SWR on the 20 meter stack was high. The Flex 5000 held up well on 80. We swapped it out when we were troubleshooting the beverage problem and we didn't have time to swap it back in when we found out what was going on. The software isn't quite contest-friendly yet but I expect that to happen in time. There were jokers on packet and on the air. We were "self-spotted" by someone who bootlegged my call on packet. Al was called by BY1LZ, who gave him 500 250 at a time when 20 was open to China. Real-time scoring is a lot of fun. We watched NQ4I get ahead of us for a while Friday night. We saw W2FU doing an incredible job of keeping up with us on 80 through Saturday morning. It definitely added to our motivation. I think it is time for the top tier multi-multi stations to post their scores so we can watch them too. Overall this contest was a blast - even more fun than I thought it would be. Couldn't we reinstate the second weekend - just this once? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1YU Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 20,790 Short operating time, limited antennas, limited rig, great time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 409,902 Big thanks to Tom, W8JI for giving me the opportunity to operate his super station. Thanks to all of you that called in. Great contest! Ralph K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2CJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 469,650 Sure miss the sunspots! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 434,160 Last year I got my QRP clock cleaned by KR2Q and K3PH. This year I had another go at it with a new high-band antenna, better preparation and a renewed commitment. Despite the poor conditions, I could tell that things would go better for me this year. I had tuned my 40M antenna correctly, and the result was fewer stations who CQ'd in my face. I actually had a decent QRP first hour of 39, including one contact on 20M (KP2M). Unfortunately, 80M was pathetic, as usual. European stations CQ'd in my face all weekend. Maybe if I put up a 4-square... 20M was amazing on Saturday morning. Finding the band open at 1150Z, I walked the length of it from the bottom, picking off stations as though I were the only stateside guy on the band. I kept checking 15M, but no EU opening as far as I could tell. So I did a lot of S&P and some CQing with mixed results on 20M. Back to 40M after working the Caribbean mults on 15M and 20M. It was OK, but 80M was useless for me. How frustrating! So I went to bed early with 497 QSOs in the log. I woke up to do the low-band shuffle at 1030Z. Imagine my surprise hearing VP6DX CQing on 40M with few takers. After working him, I tuned a few kHz and worked ZM3A. Then I found 4U1UN, who I had called on and off for 45 minutes the night before with no luck. Nothing had changed, other than the fact that no one else was calling him -- he STILL never heard me. Only 45 miles away! Must've shot right over Manhattan. Another multiplier lost! 15M actually opened to EU -- barely. I worked 9A7A at 1256Z, and picked up another 5 EU stations over the next hour and a half between stints on 20M. Big disappointment was hearing KR2Q working a CT1 when I couldn't even get a QRZ out of him. This was the first I had heard Doug, and it gave me a boost for the rest of the contest. Win, lose or draw, I always feel good after a contest when I feel as though I got everything out of my station that I could. This time around that is how I feel. Congratulations to my QRP buds K3PH and KR2Q for their fine efforts, despite Bob feeling under the weather and Doug having narcolepsy. See you next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,184,016 I know that 15 and 10 didn't look so good this time around. But let's not necessarily conclude that conditions were lousy. I thought 20 meters was terrific! 849 Q's running LP can't be all bad (but if nothing changes, finding space to operate in the SSB test could be a real slog). Saturday morning got the rate meter up over 200 for a while. No complaints about the lower bands either. Some good runs on 40 late in the afternoon both days boosted the QSO total. Here are last year's claimed scores: 160 33 23 80 115 54 40 329 66 20 685 80 15 134 43 10 14 6 Tot 1314 272 = 1,068,960 so not bad! Antennas: C31XR @ 55' TH6DXX fixed S @ 30' 40m 2 EL Wire beam NE @ 40' 40m Vee N/S @ 40' 80m sloper 80m Vee NE @ 45' 160m dipole N/E @ 35' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,826,594 Come on Sun Spots... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QPN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 150,240 10 was dead and 15 was spotty. 20 and 40 had a high noise level. Two hours into the contest my SB-220 died. I operated with my SB-200 (circa 1968). Most of Sunday was occupied with my mother-in-law's 90th birthday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,235,304 It looks like 15 meters as well as 10 were casualties of the bottom of the cycle for any DX. The good news is that 40 opens in the early afternoon to Europe to make up for the lack of Qs on 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3AN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 92,820 FT-1000MP, IBM laptop, homebrew software, Winkeyer USB. 135' Inv L for 80-40, delta loop oriented E-W for 20-10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 724,608 No iron man this time. To bed at 12:30am each night. Breaks for eating. Disappointing high band conditions. Great low band. High points were instances of breaking gigunda pileups. I wasn't as good at sniffing out mults as in the past. Maybe I need a bandscope (panadapter for us old guys)? Usual local s& noise source(s)on 20 and 15m. Just wait until next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,619,500 Overslept on Sunday - slept 4 instead of 2 hours. Felt good, though. Not sure if conditions were better last year but my score is actually up now. Must have been a lousy performance then. Thanks to WA3FET for letting me use the station again. CU on phone ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3GYS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 49,500 IC-756PRO HY-Tower, vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3KU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 26,754 Just a couple of hours Saturday night and a couple more Sunday morning before succumbing to family responsibilities. With 100W and a dipole it was lots of getting kicked around and CQ-in-my-face. But it's still fun to find 'em without packet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,126,838 Congratulations to the W3LPL and KC1XX teams! Another great competition among the 3 top USA Multi Multi contest teams! We had an outstanding group of contest men here at K3LR for ARRL DX CW. K3UA and K8CX did a super job on 80 meters. N2NC and KL9A were back together as a team and worked everything possible on 40. John, VE3EJ and Lali, VE3NE worked very hard on 20 meters and enjoyed every DXing moment.It was a tough time, but N6MJ and N0AX hung in there and pushed 15 meters as hard as possible. 10 meter experts N3GJ and N3SD worked everything that they heard! My hearty thanks to Dave, W9ZRX who helps me and the K3LR team in so many ways before, during and after every contest. K3LR station details are on http://www.k3lr.com HARDWARE tab. We’ll see you in the ARRL Phone DX contest in 2 weeks. From Team K3LR - Very 73, Tim K3LR http://www.k3lr.com and email k3lr@k3lr.com BAND QSO COUNTRIES OPERATORs 160 272 74 K3LR 80 1030 92 K3UA + K8CX 40 1335 120 N2NC + KL9A 20 1905 125 VE3EJ + VE3NE 15 227 82 N6MJ + N0AX 10 14 5 N3GJ + N3SD -------------------------------------- Totals 4783 498 = 7,136,838 points Continent Statistics K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 26 32 45 48 34 1 186 3.8 South America 10 20 42 49 56 13 190 3.8 Europe 227 937 1162 1642 100 0 4068 82.3 Asia 2 44 61 162 2 0 271 5.5 Africa 5 12 23 27 14 0 81 1.6 Oceania 10 23 54 33 26 1 147 3.0 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 8/8 94/44 158/51 33/17 2/2 ..... 295/122 295/122 1 9/7 88/11 84/12 10/4 . . 191/34 486/156 2 25/16 82/6 48/6 3/1 . . 158/29 644/185 3 22/9 66/4 44/4 4/0 . . 136/17 780/202 4 46/10 50/2 27/4 2/1 . . 125/17 905/219 5 24/4 53/4 34/7 1/0 . . 112/15 1017/234 6 26/5 58/3 46/2 1/1 . . 131/11 1148/245 7 8/2 32/3 57/2 4/3 . . 101/10 1249/255 8 1/0 12/0 55/3 2/2 ..... ..... 70/5 1319/260 9 2/0 6/3 26/1 5/4 . . 39/8 1358/268 10 . 7/2 12/0 28/16 . . 47/18 1405/286 11 3/3 4/0 17/3 49/10 . . 73/16 1478/302 12 1/1 9/0 10/0 134/6 5/3 . 159/10 1637/312 13 . . 7/2 133/16 17/12 . 157/30 1794/342 14 . . . 125/4 22/10 . 147/14 1941/356 15 . . . 136/6 12/6 . 148/12 2089/368 16 ..... ..... ..... 135/1 14/7 ..... 149/8 2238/376 17 . . . 99/2 10/4 . 109/6 2347/382 18 . . 2/1 87/3 21/4 . 110/8 2457/390 19 . . 10/0 67/0 15/7 1/1 93/8 2550/398 20 . . 52/2 39/3 10/3 . 101/8 2651/406 21 . 2/0 69/2 42/4 8/4 7/2 128/12 2779/418 22 1/0 49/0 122/2 26/1 5/2 1/0 204/5 2983/423 23 5/0 53/3 77/1 21/1 1/0 . 157/5 3140/428 0 10/2 43/2 46/1 ..... ..... ..... 99/5 3239/433 1 1/1 21/0 21/2 1/1 . . 44/4 3283/437 2 3/1 32/0 20/0 . . . 55/1 3338/438 3 4/2 26/0 11/1 1/0 . . 42/3 3380/441 4 23/2 40/1 10/3 . . . 73/6 3453/447 5 23/0 39/0 7/0 . . . 69/0 3522/447 6 12/0 35/0 14/0 . . . 61/0 3583/447 7 6/0 22/0 12/0 1/0 . . 41/0 3624/447 8 1/0 10/1 13/1 2/0 ..... ..... 26/2 3650/449 9 . 4/0 3/0 . . . 7/0 3657/449 10 . 9/1 5/1 . . . 14/2 3671/451 11 1/0 6/0 7/3 16/1 . . 30/4 3701/455 12 1/1 3/0 2/0 99/2 10/4 . 115/7 3816/462 13 . . 5/0 119/2 10/5 1/1 135/8 3951/470 14 . . 2/0 93/2 21/3 . 116/5 4067/475 15 . . 2/1 91/1 7/1 . 100/3 4167/478 16 ..... ..... ..... 73/0 11/1 ..... 84/1 4251/479 17 . . . 49/3 10/2 . 59/5 4310/484 18 . . 3/0 39/0 7/1 . 49/1 4359/485 19 . . 6/0 26/0 1/0 . 33/0 4392/485 20 . . 32/1 14/0 1/0 . 47/1 4439/486 21 . 5/0 73/0 35/1 5/1 4/1 122/3 4561/489 22 3/0 41/0 52/0 46/3 2/0 . 144/3 4705/492 23 3/0 29/2 32/1 14/3 . . 78/6 4783/498 DAY1 181/65 665/85 957/105 1186/106 142/64 9/3 ..... 3140/428 DAY2 91/9 365/7 378/15 719/19 85/18 5/2 . 1643/70 TOT 272/74 1030/92 1335/120 1905/125 227/82 14/5 . 4783/498 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3A 1 4J 1 4L 1 1 4O 1 4S 1 4U1U 1 1 1 1 1 4X 1 6 3 5 5H 1 6W 1 6Y 1 1 2 4 3 7Q 1 7X 1 1 1 8P 1 1 1 1 1 9A 3 10 18 29 4 9K 1 9M6 1 1 9V 1 9X 1 2 9Y 1 1 1 A3 1 1 BY 1 2 C3 1 1 C6 3 3 3 2 2 CE 2 3 2 CE9 1 1 CM 1 2 5 3 1 CT 2 2 6 8 3 CT3 2 4 2 2 1 CU 2 2 CX 2 3 3 2 2 3 D2 1 1 1 D4 1 DL 34 144 180 276 4 DU 1 E5/s 1 1 E7 1 2 5 12 2 EA 5 28 46 53 9 EA6 2 2 2 3 1 EA8 3 6 7 10 4 EA9 1 1 1 EI 2 8 9 10 1 ER 2 3 2 1 ES 1 3 1 5 ET 1 1 EU 1 5 3 14 F 17 38 55 75 9 FM 1 1 1 1 1 FO 1 1 FY 1 1 G 27 86 87 120 7 GD 1 4 GI 2 4 6 4 GJ 1 2 1 2 1 GM 4 15 13 15 1 GU 1 1 1 GW 5 6 8 10 2 HA 4 45 48 53 3 HB 2 17 24 29 HB0 1 1 2 1 1 HC 2 HK 1 3 2 HL 1 2 HP 1 1 1 1 HR 1 HS 3 3 HZ 3 1 I 11 60 117 148 9 IS 2 2 7 10 J2 1 J3 1 2 2 2 J7 1 1 1 2 1 JA 1 30 30 115 2 JD/o 1 1 JW 1 1 2 1 KH0 1 KH2 1 KH6 5 6 12 9 11 KL 1 1 3 7 1 KP2 4 2 3 3 2 KP4 2 3 3 2 2 LA 3 11 5 11 1 LU 2 3 5 8 15 3 LX 1 1 1 1 1 LY 6 11 8 22 1 LZ 2 16 23 24 OE 3 7 8 18 1 OH 6 9 10 31 6 OH0 1 OK 16 88 84 114 5 OM 3 23 15 26 1 ON 1 15 20 36 1 OX 1 1 OY 1 OZ 1 11 3 12 P4 1 1 2 1 1 PA 8 22 44 60 1 PJ2 2 3 3 3 3 PY 2 7 20 21 26 7 PZ 1 1 1 1 2 S5 5 15 43 38 7 SM 5 23 15 32 2 SP 5 30 41 51 1 SV 2 3 11 9 SV9 1 1 T32 1 1 1 1 1 T7 1 TA 1 1 TF 1 3 3 1 TI 1 1 1 2 TK 1 1 1 UA 16 54 45 108 UA2 1 3 5 3 UA9 6 15 26 UN 3 UR 6 56 50 76 1 V2 1 1 1 1 1 V3 3 4 3 4 4 V4 2 2 2 2 2 V6 1 2 V7 1 VK 2 4 20 7 3 VP2V 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP6/d 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 1 1 VU 1 XE 2 5 3 3 XU 1 YB 1 YL 2 9 8 11 1 YN 1 1 1 1 1 YO 3 17 30 28 6 YU 4 21 36 29 4 YV 1 2 1 Z2 1 1 2 Z3 2 4 6 ZB 1 1 1 ZD7 1 1 1 ZF 1 ZL 1 10 14 9 7 ZP 1 1 1 1 ZS 5 5 4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 76,464 Conditions were better than I expected. K3 performed well. As a little pistol, I had fun searching and pouncing. Nice openings late Sunday into Japan. :) PK (Paul - K3MZ K2 #3135 K3 #84) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,252,629 Worst 10m/15m contest conditions I can remember. I'm sure the 20m digital ops loved this contest. 73, Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PH Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 342,216 Congratulations to fellow QRPers K2DM and KR2Q on their fine scores! Those guys are really tough! Many thanks to all the DX stations who were able to pull out my 5-watt peanut whistle. Some of you exhibited truly extraordinary patience, certainly more than I would have. Oh yeah, CT says I spent 21 hours at this. But the "off threshold" was set to 10 minutes. If you set it to 30 minutes, you get 27 hours of operation. That is probably more accurate. There were times that it took 20 MINUTES to find a station that I hadn't yet worked and could actually hear me! This happened especially during the low band operations at night, plus on Sunday afternoon on the high bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 958,320 I fell short of my goals of 1000 QSOs and 1,000,000 points, but I guess it's not too bad for a lousy CW operator! I even got a slow run going on Sunday afternoon! Thanks to all of my run "victims" for my stumbles! Thanks also to K3II for the AL-1200 loaner amp, since my Acom is on the blink! It made all the difference! It's good do be back!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3ZM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,985,000 Someone needs to buy a vowel for EE5E (sorry, Doug). It is very musical, however. You can almost dance to it. Nice to see K1ZZ still doing it after all these years. Seems to me I remember when he won this contest, and was on the cover of QST. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CIA Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 299,943 Had fun..first time with computer hooked to the radio with N1MM program. Its a keeper. Amazed to work VP6DX all bands but 20. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 364,206 Show me the sunspots! TS-570DG, AL-811H 400 watts, low A4S, R7, Inv. L., N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 29,949 A very frustrating contest for me. A new powerline noise source from the south raised its ugly head last week. Well over S9 noise from anywhere south of the East-West line. As most QSO's were from the south, I just could not hear any signals less that S7. CQ's in that direction were out of the question. After seeing the scores from the M/M and M/2 stations I realy saw how bad I was doing. Most stations were worked with my antenna over North Africa or North Pacific as I could best null out the noise in those directions. Even so, there were a few highlights. VP6DX was QSO #2. Was called by 7Q7BP,ZD7X and A35RK (off the back). TI5N called me on Sunday while running :) Europe. Could not even tell he was there when I switched to the south antenna. He signal was weak but Q5, and and QRP too. After shutting down for an hour while the T-Storms went through, at 2200 I worked JR1CBC with a S9+10 signal. Then Cq'd and ran :) JA's for about 10 minutes before the band shut down. Most likley missed the first part of the opening. My apologies to all who called that i could not copy through the noise and many thanks to the patient ones who put up with my constant request for repeats. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 91,332 A Part Time S & P operation. TS-2000, MFJ tuner and a 160 meter Inverted "L" antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 75,000 Rig: Yaesu Ft-897D 100 watts Ant: Dipole at 65 feet I do so love it! 100 watts on a wire! 75K is not bad at all when not using beams and other directional antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 455,544 Maybe I'll actually remember to submit my log this year. Conditions were down, but I managed to have a good time. Any time I can run JA is fun contesting. What great ops they are. There are still far too many DX stations not sending their call signs frequently enough. Sending "TU" is a high-rate technique that requires skill to do properly. It is not appropriate when you are working one station per minute, for example. I heard lots of stations pileups turn into a mess, simply because they didn't ID frequently enough. SP3BQ had the strongest and most consistent 160m signal. I accidentally called HG6N at 70WPM. Not sure how; I must have rested my hand on the page up key. I heard what sounded like RTTY tones come from my TX, and then HG6N comes right back with my call sign. Now that's a good CW op. :-) Conditions can only get better from here. Wait. Didn't we say that last year? 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 749,664 CW, DX, all bands, lots of activity -- I'm in contest heaven! Unfortunately, I arrived home after 0300 Friday night, and had social obligations Saturday evening, so I missed about 6 prime hours. I did manage to get in 28 3/4 hours over the course of the weekend, and it seemed longer. I'm in awe of people who put in 48 hours straight. I can't imagine doing almost double what I did. I don't have SO2R set up for CW yet, and didn't want to mess with trying during the weekend, so it was all on one radio this time. I spent the first 90 minutes on 40M with S&P. A bit before 0500, I just had to see if there were any "new ones" on 160M and sure enough, worked 4U1UN right off the bat. At this point I've lost track of which others were new for me, but with VP6DX last week, I've seen my 160M totals move up by 9 to 84 worked in the last couple of weeks. Something good from the sunspot minimum! By 0550 I had pretty milked 160M for S&P, and went up to 80M to grab what I could before hitting the sack for the night. I called it quits at 0630 and caught 6 hours sleep. Back in action at 1230, I spent about half an hour on 40M and then went to 20, where I stayed until 1830, picking up 200 Q's, mostly S&P but a bit of running. Then spent some time on 15M, which was hopping with signals, but no EU. Mostly SA, some AF and ASPAC. T32OU was booming in, as was VP6DX (which has been a fantastic DXpedition, very easy to work from here). At 2030 I spent about 15 minutes on 20M, then went to 40M for 3 hours, at which point I had to break for company. I managed to get back at 0200 and finished up just before 0600 with 550 Q's. I had thought about going for 1000 Q's this weekend (a barrier I have yet to cross), but realized with the family obligations it was not likely. The next morning EU was hot on 20M! I was able to run for 2 hours and picked up another 100 Q's, with some spans where the QSO-o-meter hit 140. 100W EU stations were sounding like KW's. I know by most DXpedition standards the pileups were tiny, but on the other hand they were compact -- no one is spreading out in a contest. I suspect once you have more than half a dozen stations calling at once on the same frequency, it doesn't sound much different -- cacophony!! It was both exhilarating and intimidating at once. Would the callers think I was a total lid, picking out partial calls at best?! I think once you've spent any time on the receiving end of even a small pileup, it changes your outlook about working one on the other end. It really doesn't do any good to call on top of everyone else! At this point I decided to open up notepad and take some notes, so here they are: Some nice QRP from HB9 -- 5 W and then 2W. I feel wasteful with my 800W. Hopped up to 15M at 2PM to see what was going on. Not much compared to Saturday when the band was jumping with signals at the same time. Pretty dead. I was able to work a couple of PY's so the band was open, let's see what happens if I try to run. Answer: get some time to read QST. Then A35 calls in -- nice suprise, thanks! I see 4U1UN is on -- I can hear him better longpath. Try working him but no cigar. Sunday afternoon -- 3PM. CQ'ing and with one answer every 3 minutes, my 1000 Q day is not looking very good. It's all hanging on 40M delivering some big hours. When should I go there? Already worked OT4A there a half hour ago -- I don't recall seeing EU that early on 40 before from here in NC. I've had two 4 landers call me on 20M in the last 10 minutes. Is there some QSO party going on that I'm not aware of? I just give them 5nn NC and keep moving. An HA calls, and then someone else calls him on my run frequency. I let them finish the Q and quickly start CQ'ing, although with the rate I'm seeing here I'm not sure what I'm rushing to protect. 807 Q's and 4 hours to go. Not looking so good. An I station calls with a KW and he is QSB'ing badly. Can't imagine what I'm sounding like on the other side of the pond. 3:16PM and suddenly signals are loud again -- band coming back? Ah, I see on the bandmap someone spotted me. Fresh meat for some. Whoever spotted me was tuned a bit low, so all the callers are where the spot was. I'd move but it would be into the QRM. Calls are now about 90 secs apart. JW8AW calls, nice! Signals continue loud at 2028 -- Italy, Northern Eu. Rate over 40. V73RY calls in with 50W! And I'm beaming 50 deg, he's off the back. ZM1A calls in. Nice! Seems like we have a nice pipe to NZ from NC when the band is open. 2040 -- my spot is stale and so is my run freq. Been a couple minutes since anyone called. 2048 -- I decide I'll go to 40M at 2055, assuming others will arrive 5 mins later. 2130. There's a big hole from 7015 to 7020. Did I miss something? Probably full on the EU side. 2230. Check out 20M just to see -- the bandmap is full of JA's. I usually can't even hear them when that happens, but tonight they're booming in! I start working one after another, 17 of them. More JA's than I've worked in the last year! Big push for the last hour but 88 Q's shy of 1000. Next time! Aftermath. Worked 100 countries, exactly DXCC! Top 10 # of Q's in descending order -- DL, I, OK, G, F, EA, HA, SP, UK, OM 9 Dupes out of 922 -- only 1% dupes. EA8EA, J7DX, KP2M, PJ2T, PJ4O, and V31UZ worked on 5 bands. Thanks and good night! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,351,932 This was a good contest for us despite the poor propagation and thunderstorms all weekend. Everyone did their absolute best and for the most part the station worked without any problems. We were glad to have W5KI who lives about 40 miles away for the weekend and he did an excellent job of staying with it on 160M through the extremely high noise due to the storms. N5RR, K5GO, and N5XR worked 80M and we had one of our best efforts on that band. N5DX, KM5G and K5GO worked 40M, K5KA and K9BGL worked 20M, K0OU and K5LG worked 15M and we all pitched in on 10M when there was something to work. Thanks for all the contacts. We really enjoy it when the last hour is exciting. I think we worked at least one if not several new multipliers on 160, 80, 40, 20 and 15 in the last hour. I appreciate everyone who came from near and far to be here this weekend and to those who operated or not but helped with projects to get ready. Congratulations to all of those who enter these contests in the multi-multi category. Only someone else who enters this category has a complete understanding of how much work is involved and how much satisfaction is gained. Station set up: 160M Icom 765 + AL-1200, 70 foot top loaded shunt fed tower. 80M Icom 7800, Icom 765 + BTI (3-1000Z), 4 Square 40M Icom 765 x 2 + AL-1500, 5L 103'boom Yagi @ 135 feet and 3L Quad (NW) 20M Icom 765 x 2 + AL-1500, 8/8 114' booms @ 146/73 feet (Eu), 6L rotary @ 70' 15M Icom 765 x 2 + AL-1500, 7/7 56' booms @ 90/45 feet, 9L fixed NW 10M Icom 765 + AL-1200, 6L 38' boom at 80 feet Beverages for four directions 73...Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5LH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 109,746 First time to use a computer logging system (Aether 1.0). Great fun and no glitches. Operating efficiency and courtesy were superb as is customary in CW contests. Used 100 W and wire dipoles. Worked all continents, including DP0VGN in Antarctica. Wish 10 meters had been more open and the stormy WX on Saturday night had not caused QRN on 80 and 160 meters. Thanks for all the multipliers. See you in the next CW contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,741,908 This was a pretty good contest for me. This weekend I used what I have learned about SO2R as effectively as I have ever done. But I still have a long ways to go to be really good at it. The sun spots and high band conditions were as low as I ever remember hearing them for this contest. 80M and 160M propagation was superb on Friday night but a front coming through Texas made the bands were extremely noisy. This cut back temendously on the possibilities for the low bands. I was hoping that the front would move on through quickly, but it didn't happen. Saturday afternoon I had to shut down, remove coaxes, and disconnect cables for the thunderstorms that were passing through the area. I lost about an hour and 40 minutes of operating because of that. Saturday evening, the static crashes were just as bad as the night before but band conditions were not as good. The static and noise didn't start abating until about 0900Z in the morning here. At 1100Z, I thought I should take a nap in my operating chair for about an hour. Usually when I do this with my headphones on and the volume blaring, I will wake up in about 45 minutes and get back to work. But this time I must have been too tired and I slept for over two hours and it was after local sunrise when I woke up. Maybe my new operating chair made me feel too comfortable this time. I worked hard on the high bands and spent a lot of time CQing on 10M and 15M while trolling the other bands with the second radio for QSOs. This was fairly effective and I got some unexpected surprise QSOs on the CQing radio. I worked really hard with the second radio going up the other bands and trying to identify calls in each QSO that I tuned across. I had a pizza bet on this contest with my buddy, N3BB, who is also in the Austin area. We ended the contest in almost a dead heat with him beating me by less than one QSO. I have already bought him his pizza at a contest wrap-up and discussion gathering. If the log checking reverses our order of finish, then he will owe me two pizzas back. No problem since more pizza is always better than no pizza. Even with the crummy conditions, I enjoyed doing this contest. That's what it's all about, right! 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6ANP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 612,864 The bands were not the best..evereyone had the same playing field so I won't complain!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,600 Friday night and Saturday were going great. At 08:47Z I called and worked VP6DX on 80. He was my 3rd contact on 80 after working KL7RA and KH6NF. I can still hardly believe that on my 40 meter Delta Loop. I also worked VP6DX on 15 at 2043Z, immediately after having worked T32OU, using the indoor coaxial dipole that is mounted on the center ceiling beam of my mobile home. Saturday evening however I worked EA8EA, AL1G, V31UZ and V31TP on 40 just before my dinner break. When I came back, there on 40 was VP6DX! In a total lapse of "band plan discipline" I spent 3 hours trying to break the pile-up, and never succeeded. I figure I probably cost myself about 30 Q's. When I finally came to my senses, I worked PJ4O on 40. He was really low speed. I had to slow down for him. He asked me to move to 80, something I've never done before. I came up on 3545, the designated frequency, I guess they're a Multi Transmitter station with a much faster operator, and I worked him on the first call. The first SA station I've ever worked on 80 with the Delta Loop. 73's to all, and to all a good night. Bert, K6CSL "The little station in Riverbank" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6DBG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 18,480 barefoot K2 to trap vertical on the roof and/or dipole at 30'. Washed out on EU but otherwise WAC ... including Antarctica! Several new DXCC entities at QRP, which was my main goal. At times very frustrating, but in the last two hours I was busting pileups on 20m to JA with the dipole ... much to my surprise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 80,520 Overall I thought band conditions were average for the bottom of the sunspot cycle. For some reason, the North-South path into South America was the best I've ever worked. I picked up a lot of new countries on 80, like LU, PZ, CX and PY. Working VP6DX on 5 bands was awesome! Also swept KH6LC and KH7Y. My big thrill was to work DP0GVN (Antarctica) on the gray line late on 20m Saturday afternoon. Confirmed on LOTW the next day! Danke Schoen! Was also fun to work OL3R long-path on Sunday morning. I had a chance to visit the M/2 W6EMC station on Sunday afternoon. That is another world compared to my low power and wires. Looking back on it, the CW weekend was 10 times more fun than the SSB. Software: N3FJP Logger Rig: FT-990 Ants: 80 meter sloping dipole at 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee at 50 feet 20 meter dipole at 20 feet 15 meter dipole at 25 feet 10 meter Ringo Ranger vertical Note to myself: 160m antenna was not up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 15,729 First contest from the new QTH. In fact, first operating of any kind from there! My antenna was a quickly re-assembled Butternut HF9V that just happened to fit perfectly into a chain link fence post. I did solder a #12 piece of wire from the ground radial plate I had made to the pole and deer fence. Since we're still unpacking boxes, my operating time was precious but sporadic. I was very pleasantly surprised with how much better I get out from here. We even lost elevation in the move! But from here I can hear and work more stations . . . and I 'ain't even started to get serious'! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 112,962 Thanks for the QSOs. 73, John K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 108,000 Surprised myself with how well I was heard, only used HP on 40 and 80, a little on 15 and 10, not on 20 at all. Did not have to struggle much in the pile ups, if I heard them I could usually get 'em pretty quickly. All S & P. Just a lot of hit and miss time wise between other activities. 40m antenna was a compromise since I lost my high wire in the January storm. Good time had. FT-1000MP w/ Inrad filters AL-80b throttled back to about 600w 3 el Yagi @ 60' 80m inverted vee for both 80m and 40m. W/L. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RIM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 278,520 Main antenna (log periodic) suffered storm damage on January 4; it was finally repaired this Saturday, so missed most of the contest on Saturday, including the morning opening to EU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 7,326 QRP and low dipoles. First posting to this (3830) reflector. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,375 Jumped in for the DX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 58,080 WX considerations for KL8C and rental QTH unavailability for KP2CW axed plans to play as DX this weekend. So it was mostly sporadic on/off activity cherry-picking new band countries via packet, working friends and handing out a few Q's here and there. Nice to hear so many loud JA signals show up in the last hour for some fast fun. The whacked-out cut numbers problem has gotten way out of control. We need to put an end to the CONFUSION and all the UNnecessary AGN? requests that have resulted. Logic and order need to prevail. Contest Sponsors need to CLEARLY state WITHIN THE RULES what cut specific numbers are permitted for power level substitution purposes other than traditional full numbers, and DQ those who use anything different. Contest Sponsors need to CLEARLY state WITHIN THE RULES what cut specific numbers are permitted for power level substitution purposes other than traditional full numbers, and DQ those who use anything different. Contest Sponsors need to CLEARLY state WITHIN THE RULES what cut specific numbers are permitted for power level substitution purposes other than traditional full numbers, and DQ those who use anything different. Yes, there is an intentional echo here. 73 & Tnx for the Q's & new band countries... Rick, K6VVA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 368,303 Terrible QRN from Texas storm Friday - sounded like July - no matter what antenna. Took much of the joy off the low bands and with it willingness to listen to the crashes. 10M never really got started, just a pair of intrepid LU's. Worked only one JA on 15 late Sunday and that was hard work. At 21 hrs not a full time effort so maybe I missed all the good high band openings. 80 really took off Saturday night with big signals from the EU boys and less noise from lightning. 40 was really fun both nights. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,141,758 Sorry to those assuming I was deaf (or worse) during this contest. The rig developed an intermittent problem that put it into SPLIT mode without any indication of it not operating zero-beat. At different times and for extended periods, I was listening about a kilohertz above my transmit frequency, wondering why nobody could hear me! Several frustrating low-rate hours resulted. Not only was 10m horrible, but even 15m was significantly worse than last year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 146,625 good contest, ole 20 held her own, didn't fool with much of anything else, tnx to all for a nice weekend, without much family stuff to do, which is rare... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ACZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 114,048 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES 160 7 21 3.0 6 80 19 57 3.0 15 40 43 129 3.0 30 20 161 483 3.0 74 15 34 102 3.0 19 10 0 0 0.0 0 -------------------------------------- Totals 264 792 3.0 144 = 114,048 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 172,256 Terrific band conditions both days ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,343,742 I was excited to try some new equipment at Brad’s excellent station, which included a K-3 and a MicroHam MK2R. For the time that K-3 was operational, I really like the receiver and the adjustable filter. But unfortunately some apparent problems with it led to frequent freezing of the computer, several reboots and some down time, that luckily came during slow hours. These problems left me SO2R-less and barefoot on 160M for the first third of the contest. After putting in another MarkV for the second radio, the problems have disappeared and I was off to the races. The EU propagation on 20/40/80 was the best I’ve ever seen from here. No 15 to speak of, and a short 10M opening was another lucky find. And as usual, JAs save the day. Big thanks to T32OU for moving for me twice! Working VP6DX on 6 bands was an added bonus. 73, Denis - K7GK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,234,008 SO1R. This was my first full-time effort in a DX CW test. I consider myself a “phone” guy, but find CW contesting addicting. It’s much more civilized compared to the unbridled mayhem of SSB. And you can always find a clear frequency if you try! As a side note, I really feel the disadvantage of not using SO2R in this mode. I can see how productive an operator could be searching for mults on a second radio, while continuing to run on the first radio. Like RTTY, CW seems ideally suited for that, especially now, at solar minimum. Weighing in on my score, it’s light on mults. Pretty tough getting into the 300 range when 10m and 15m won’t cooperate. I’d tune past stations in CA, NV, and AZ working stuff on 15m that was completely inaudible here. 10m was a total bust – nada, zip. In CQ WW last year, 15m surprised me with JA runs, and with some SA on 10m. This felt like we reached some kind of new solar minimum. Unfortunately, I still have wind damage to my top 40m yagi’s reflector element from a storm last October. The riser that holds the linear loading wires snapped off and are now touching the boom. I hope to get the antenna down soon for repairs, WX permitting, of course. I’m not sure how much it affected my signal, but I’m certain it did. It also doesn’t help that the band nose dives in the evening as the MUF drops. Mr. Sol, would it hurt just to have a few sun spots for contest time? Please? Thank you to all the great operators that made it into the log, and for a fun weekend. 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 416,160 ANT: 4 EL STEPPIR @ 55FT, 1 EL 40 @ 63 FT, SLOPERS FOR 80, INV L FOR 160 RIG: IC-756PROII, TEN TEC CENTURION AMP @ 800W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 233,544 Rig: FT897D, FT1000MP + ALS600 amp Antennas: 160-meter helically wound vertical, 160-meter half sloper, 204-foot G5RV, 3/4 element quad Software: WriteLog 10.58d ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,334,590 Congratulations to W3BGN, K1LZ, K1IR, KT3Y, K9RS and the others who fought the m/s wars. Lost more interest in this category these days! Worst high band conditions in 25 years of contesting from this QTH. Not only was 10m dead, but 15m was as much a struggle as 10m had been in years past, and 40m went long much, much too early. Started running on 40m at 20z both days. The bad electrical storms in the SW added to the normal low-band challenges Saturday night, and freezing rain and black ice made the Sunday morning trip for those ops a real adventure. Thanks to everyone for all the Qs. Special thanks (again) to W9ZRX, who did all the heavy lifting on last Fall's conversion to Win-Test and who once again helped greatly with the setup here. Again, Win-Test ran flawlessly for the entire 48 hours. 73, Tom, K8AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 223,494 no CQs ... just playing DXer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8CN Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 34,650 Rig: K2 @ 5W Ant: 20M attic dipole @ 7 meter elevation, oriented N/S; 42 meter long doublet @ 17 meter elevation, running almost due N/S. Did S&P for the duration, and really didn't get started until early Saturday morning. Main goal was picking up new entities toward QRP DXCC. Still learning the idiosyncrasies of this newly erected doublet, especially on 20M. It was frustrating to work South Pacific on 2nd or 3rd call, yet not be able to crack the Caribbean open on 40M after beau coup tries! Listened quickly on 15 and 10 at various times, but didn't push for QSOs on either band due to DXCC entity hunt. Next steps: new wire array for 40/20M, another doublet to handle Caribbean/Central & South America, something vertical for 80M long-haul, and more time in the chair! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8FC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 209,430 This was great fun. Total S&P operation from here when I had a few moments. Concentrated on working as many mults as I could in the time I had. Ten meters was checked over and over again with nil prop at this mountain location in Colorado. I had seen a number of spots for 10 but never heard a thing. Really would have liked the VP6 on ten but alas no joy. Went off on some 12 meter excursions but no joy there as well. (probably help not to use 80 meter antenna). Good condx on most of the bands with the exception of 160 where I had an extreme amount of noise on the beverages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,180,590 Fought the flu the week before, so only a PT effort. Storm crashes on Saturday night meant that the low bands were tough. Freezing rain Sunday morning resulted in a 4:1 SWR on 20 during "prime time". Was able to finally get on LP S&P, and then later with the amp. Rain and snow static rendered 20 useless during parts of Sunday afternoon. HOWEVER....this stuff is fun! Thanks to all the DX who made it interestin. EE5E is still the best call of the contest. Having D2NX and HZ1IK call in on 40 were two highlights. PS How 'bout that 10 meter band? Greg K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 969,354 Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B, (10-20m) 3 el SteppIR at 78';(40m) M-Squared 40M3L at 71'; (80m) Inverted Vee; (160m)78' vertical (shunt fed tower). Pretty much what one would expect at the bottom on the sunspot cycle, my fifth "cycle bottom". Added "bonus" was increased noise on 80, 160 that made things more challenging. All things considered I did enjoy the weekend though! All the equipment and antennas worked flawlessly again. Mni Tnx to friend, Scotty, W7SW, who reminded me before the contest, "Its not all about points, its ALL about having fun!" He is right. Fun was had, hopefully by all. CU on silly sideband the next two weekends! 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8KI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 174,879 rig: Jupiter/SB-221 antennas: Cushcraft A3 at 35' and dipole in the trees. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 607,845 Never heard a blip on 10m. Delighted to work VP6DX on 160-15m. Not a full effort here. The pre-geezer op slept, had a couple of nice dinners and watched a movie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 56,150 Some Saturday afternoon/evening activity after some morning time at the K8AZ M/S effort. My best qso was the last one - VP6DX on 160, low power while running around the house early Sunday morning getting ready to leave for a vacation with my wife. We spent the last 5 hours of the contest in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. From the K3LR and W3LPL reports it seems that HI was missing in action this year. Had I only known! Could have had some really interesting final hours new multiplier packet frenzy activity! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9AY Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 54,432 This was a fairly serious part-time effort -- one more chance to improve 'band knowledge' on my least-familiar band. Despite QRN levels and 2nd day icing (1/4" plus = high SWR & 500W max. power), it was fun, with very good conditions -- in particular, 2300-0000Z Sat & Sun were excellent to EU (local sunset ~2330Z). (2)IC-765, Alpha 99, inv-L (50 ft. vertical part), 4 Beverages. 73, Gary K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 17,496 A real part time operation, with busy family activity during both Saturday and Sunday, celebrating my 60th birthday. Radio = IC756 Pro-2 Tentec Titan 425 Amplifier Gap Challenger Vertical Great working the FCG DXpeditions and K4XS as KH7B. Can't wait to get my towers up, my 80M 4-Square refurbished (with buried radials), and the station playing again as Multi-2. 73's Eric K9ES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 3,813 Condx not so bad on Friday night, unable to operate Saturday night. Picked up a couple Sunday morning. Thanks to all who QSO'd. Darrell K9MUG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,097,388 Missed the first 18:30. First QSO was VP6DX! Low bands sounded pretty good but lots of QRN to contend with due to many storms. 20m was ok....even got a pileup going from time to time on Sunday morning as long as the precip static stayed away. Guess with no 15m everyone was there. Thanks for the QSOs! And thanks once again to John and Jean! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9OM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,177,200 I had planned to do a full-time effort. But then a friend volunteered at the last minute to dig the hole for my new 100' tower providing he could dig on Saturday and I'd assist him! His offer was too good to pass up. So I switched to part-time and decided to try my first "Assisted" contest in order to max mults and make points for the FCG. It really was only a partial assist as I had a separate CPU monitoring packet clusters: no automatic detection of needed mults or automatic freq. switching capability. Perhaps this should be called "Partial Assist". At any rate, it did help maximize mult totals. DX-CW Tests ... about as much fun as a person can have! 73, Dick- K9OM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9SD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,545,081 Had a blast, considering the 2 ele 40 yagi was stuck due south Friday, until K0RAY climbed the tower at daylight, and moved it NE for the duration. 15 was horrible, worked 4 EU stations, really was a bummer watching the east coast EU spots. 20 closed to EU about noon Saturday, but, stayed open until about 4 PM Sunday. that was a blessing. Had a blast, and can't wait until next year! 73-Chuck KI9A ICOM 781 Alpha 87A 160 - 120' shunt fed tower 80 - 4 sq sloping dipoles 40 - 2 ele @ 140', 2 ele @ 50' (seperate tower) 20 - 5 ele 48' boom @ 120' 15 - 5 ele 36' boom @ 135', 5 ele 36' boom @ 70' 10 - 3 Stack KT34xa 120/80/40' 3- 500' bev, E, W, NE, phased pennants NE, K9AY array. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9YC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 601,344 All high wires Had some good fun, especially on 40 and 80 late Saturday afternoon, when I picked up a bunch of EUs. All the antennas played pretty well, and the gear held up fine. Thanks for those who pulled me out of the mud for some nice mults. But I do have some complaints about LIDS at contest stations. I'm getting REALLY tired of the cut number thing, which really falls apart when the other station is in the mud (as were most of the EU stations I worked on 80 and 40). A REAL number provides redundancy -- we can tell from the length of it what might be missing under a fade or static crash, but with a cut number we can only guess. And WTF is AK? Did this idiot mean Alaska? Did he mean 1 KW? "K" is shorter, and unambiguous. And these idiots who send an exchange as ENNK. What the hell is that? And 35 wpm, under lousy band conditions or to a station in a noisy city location is NOT good operating (that was the story of my life in Chicago). And finally, I refuse to work a station split during a CW contest, even if I need their mult. It's a contest guys, even if you are on a DXpedition! In a crowded band, you can only claim the bandwidth of a decent RX filter, not 5-10 kHz. 73, Jim Brown K9YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,108 Had lots of Ham Radio fun this weekend despite conditions. My overall rate reached 17 per hour mostly search and pounce (SP). Called CQ a few times but measured it against SP production and SP produced better results. I maintained a scratch pad for missed multipliers as well. Worked a few from the scratch pad through Sunday afternoon. Fifty watts this time around and an improved wire antenna system really made the difference. However I have yet to work a single Eu and/or African station in any contest thus far. I'm hearing them but not working them yet! Overall, a fun contest and many thanks to the Caribbean operators who worked hard at pulling my signal from just above the noise floor. Many thanks as well to those JA-stations with great signals on 20- and 40-Meters that made a big point differential in my log. 73, Scot KA3DRR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA4OTB Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 20,400 My first CW contest--thanks for the encouragement from several WCARES members, plus a new DXCC country on CW. Life is good! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA6SGT Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 9,450 Brutal band conditions, however some interesting opportunities like working VP6DX, T32OU, and a run into South America and Japan. Things are looking up this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,695,454 Decided to go M/2 in this contest. There was always a problem keeping the seats filled when we go M/M. With the bands as there were, the most we had were two bands to use most of the time anyway. It was nice not worrying about empty chairs. I doubt if our score suffered much from doing M/2. Thanks for the QSOs. 73 Dick - KB1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,441,581 Congratulations to the W3LPL, K3LR, and all the M/M teams for slugging it out this weekend and posting great scores. Also, extra congratulations to all those who slugged it out on 15 and 10 this weekend....that was just awful. Several weeks ago, the 40M 4-ele OWA's driven element bent in half right at the boom. High winds in Mason the weekend before the contest forced the bent part of the element onto the first director making the antenna unusable. Fortunately, Matt was able to coordinate a last minute repair job. Overall, equipment worked surprising well this time. We've been plagued by rotator problems for several contests now, and while we had some frozen rotors on Friday morning, everything was working again by the start of the contest – and stayed that way. A big thank you to W2RQ and K6AW for making the trip to New Hampshire this weekend. Band condx may be variable, but we are always well fed and enjoy the hospitality offered by Christine and the kids contest after contest. Thanks again! Thanks to all the DX stations who took the time to point their antennas to W/VE-land for the weekend. We'll see you on the air again in two weeks! 73, KC1XX ARRL DX CW Team BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/Q COUNTRIES 160 227 681 2.8 70 KA1R 80 1092 3276 3.0 91 W1FV 40 1437 4311 3.0 115 K6AW,WA1Z 20 1928 5784 3.0 123 W2RQ,N1KWF 15 292 876 3.0 92 KC1XX,K1TR 10 15 45 3.0 6 Team effort -------------------------------------- Totals 4991 14973 3.0 497 = 7,441,581 NOTE: QSO totals adjusted, logged W's removed 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 43 28 45 40 35 3 194 3.8 South America 8 17 37 51 55 11 179 3.5 Europe 190 1021 1297 1711 167 0 4386 85.5 Asia 1 23 42 116 4 0 186 3.6 Africa 2 11 20 25 15 0 73 1.4 Oceania 7 19 41 21 21 1 110 2.1 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 15/15 94/30 128/33 30/17 ..... ..... 267/95 267/95 1 12/7 87/8 54/15 14/6 . . 167/36 434/131 2 22/12 80/9 34/10 2/1 . . 138/32 572/163 3 32/7 61/7 37/5 3/0 . . 133/19 705/182 4 36/8 59/3 41/4 . . . 136/15 841/197 5 9/5 57/5 55/8 . . . 121/18 962/215 6 10/3 46/5 56/4 . . . 112/12 1074/227 7 7/3 34/7 83/2 1/1 . . 125/13 1199/240 8 3/0 12/0 54/3 5/4 ..... ..... 74/7 1273/247 9 1/0 5/3 17/2 5/4 . . 28/9 1301/256 10 4/0 6/2 10/0 61/26 . . 81/28 1382/284 11 2/1 4/1 10/4 168/9 2/2 . 186/17 1568/301 12 . 1/0 8/1 175/9 17/11 . 201/21 1769/322 13 . . 1/1 169/13 28/15 . 198/29 1967/351 14 . . . 141/5 22/8 . 163/13 2130/364 15 . . . 110/3 13/5 . 123/8 2253/372 16 ..... ..... ..... 93/1 17/7 ..... 110/8 2363/380 17 . . . 84/1 17/2 . 101/3 2464/383 18 . . 3/1 63/3 20/7 . 86/11 2550/394 19 . . 55/1 54/1 12/5 . 121/7 2671/401 20 . 1/0 112/1 27/0 10/3 . 150/4 2821/405 21 1/1 24/0 97/1 29/4 5/3 9/3 165/12 2986/417 22 4/0 49/2 90/3 35/1 10/3 1/0 189/9 3175/426 23 9/0 68/2 56/0 4/0 . . 137/2 3312/428 0 10/2 45/2 37/2 2/0 ..... ..... 94/6 3406/434 1 7/1 21/2 24/1 . . . 52/4 3458/438 2 11/1 35/0 23/0 1/1 . . 70/2 3528/440 3 4/0 33/0 22/1 . . . 59/1 3587/441 4 10/1 29/1 25/2 . . . 64/4 3651/445 5 9/1 48/0 8/0 . . . 65/1 3716/446 6 6/0 42/0 29/0 . . . 77/0 3793/446 7 4/0 23/1 22/1 . . . 49/2 3842/448 8 1/1 5/0 9/0 ..... ..... ..... 15/1 3857/449 9 . 2/0 5/1 . . . 7/1 3864/450 10 . 5/1 9/3 3/0 . . 17/4 3881/454 11 4/1 1/0 6/3 89/0 . . 100/4 3981/458 12 . . 3/0 96/4 35/6 . 134/10 4115/468 13 . . . 75/1 14/3 1/1 90/5 4205/473 14 . . 1/0 75/0 20/3 . 96/3 4301/476 15 . . . 73/0 16/3 . 89/3 4390/479 16 ..... ..... ..... 67/0 2/0 ..... 69/0 4459/479 17 . . . 48/3 15/3 . 63/6 4522/485 18 . . . 35/0 9/0 . 44/0 4566/485 19 . . 24/0 22/0 2/0 1/1 49/1 4615/486 20 . . 52/1 13/1 2/1 1/0 68/3 4683/489 21 . 32/0 72/0 25/1 3/2 1/0 133/3 4816/492 22 5/0 57/0 47/1 27/2 1/0 1/1 138/4 4954/496 23 4/0 26/0 29/0 4/1 . . 63/1 5017/497 DAY1 167/62 688/84 1001/99 1273/109 173/71 10/3 ..... 3312/428 DAY2 75/8 404/7 447/16 655/14 119/21 5/3 . 1705/69 TOT 242/70 1092/91 1448/115 1928/123 292/92 15/6 . 5017/497 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST Multi Multi 17 Feb 2008 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3B8 1 4J 1 4L 1 2 4O 1 4S 1 1 4U1U 1 1 1 1 1 4X 1 5 7 4 5B 1 5H 1 6Y 2 1 1 2 2 7Q 1 7X 1 1 1 8P 1 1 1 9A 3 11 26 24 4 9J 1 9K 1 9M6 1 9X 1 1 9Y 1 1 A3 1 1 A7 1 BY 1 C3 1 1 C6 2 2 3 1 3 CE 1 3 3 CE9 1 1 CM 1 2 4 3 1 CP 1 1 CT 3 4 5 6 4 CT3 1 3 2 1 1 CU 1 1 CX 1 3 3 2 3 2 D2 1 1 1 D4 1 DL 23 152 222 266 24 E5/s 1 1 E7 1 2 7 12 2 EA 3 32 49 48 13 EA6 2 2 2 4 1 EA8 1 4 6 9 5 EA9 2 1 1 EI 1 10 8 12 2 ER 3 3 3 1 ES 1 6 2 6 ET 1 EU 1 5 7 15 1 F 11 45 62 68 13 FM 1 1 1 1 1 FO 2 1 FY 1 1 G 22 98 98 133 8 GD 1 3 GI 2 3 3 3 1 GJ 1 1 1 2 1 GM 3 17 17 17 1 GU 1 1 2 GW 6 4 6 10 2 HA 5 45 41 58 3 HB 1 17 30 30 3 HB0 1 1 1 2 1 HC 2 HK 1 4 2 HL 1 HP 1 1 2 1 HR 1 HS 2 4 HZ 2 2 I 7 56 111 145 9 IS 2 2 6 9 1 J2 1 1 J3 1 2 2 2 J7 1 1 1 1 1 JA 12 19 71 3 JD/o 1 1 JW 1 2 KH2 1 KH6 4 5 10 8 10 KL 1 1 1 4 1 KP2 4 2 2 3 2 KP4 3 3 2 1 2 LA 2 10 14 16 2 LU 2 2 2 5 15 3 LX 1 1 1 1 1 LY 4 17 9 22 2 LZ 3 15 23 26 2 OE 2 8 10 20 1 OH 4 13 15 36 7 OH0 1 1 OK 19 91 91 124 8 OM 3 26 18 26 1 ON 2 10 19 30 1 OX 1 1 OY 1 OZ 1 9 5 15 1 P4 1 1 2 2 1 PA 3 29 51 57 6 PJ2 3 3 3 3 3 PY 4 21 22 23 6 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 S5 5 17 42 46 7 SM 3 21 21 28 3 SP 10 31 39 59 4 SV 1 4 10 9 SV9 2 1 T32 1 1 1 1 1 T7 1 TA 1 1 TF 3 3 3 2 TI 1 1 2 1 TK 1 2 1 UA 14 78 56 127 3 UA2 1 4 4 2 UA9 3 4 20 UN 1 6 UR 5 65 70 90 5 V2 1 1 1 1 1 V3 3 4 4 3 4 2 V4 2 2 2 2 2 V6 1 VK 6 13 2 2 VP2V 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP6/d 2 1 1 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 1 1 VU 3 XE 2 3 5 3 XU 1 1 YL 3 8 10 10 1 YN 1 1 1 1 3 YO 1 17 29 34 10 YU 3 21 36 41 5 YV 2 1 2 Z2 1 1 1 Z3 2 3 3 ZA 1 ZB 1 1 ZD7 1 1 1 ZF 1 ZL 6 12 6 4 ZP 1 1 1 1 ZS 1 5 5 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC3WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 506,325 Took a bit to get back into the saddle again after being away for a few years. Special thanks to W8FJ who took a lot of time to help me get set up. Also thanks to K3PP, K3CT and KQ3F. (Apologies if I missed anyone, FRC support has been great). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 93,654 Just playing around. Worked the VP6 Dxpedition on 15 - loud here. Also worked Antarctica on 20 (It's been a while). Had vy good luck on 40 and 80. Just didn't have time to get on 160. Always fun - One of these days I may want to do this contest seriously. CU -Al ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2HE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 2,100 Low power was my mode this year as my rig is being repaired. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 141,360 FT-897, 100W, ~600' loop @25ft. My score is barely more than half of last year's. More than 100 fewer Qs. I thought conditions were pretty lousy, especially the first night. 20M seemed to be a struggle for much of both days. Also, I didn't have as much time either night and I felt that must've cut into my score. But the big difference was 15M. I don't think I have one EU in the 15M log and that pretty much made the difference in both Qs and multipliers from last year. At least the band was open some to the south and west. My 80M & 20M results were a bit off from last year but I might've exceeded those results had I spent some more time. 40M was pretty even. I even had more multipliers this year. 10M was a big zero. My only hope was catching 4U1UN, which is only about 20 miles from my QTH, but I didn't check the band more than a few times and don't know if he bothered trying. 4U1UN did oblige me with a new country on 160M. Later, things got so slow around 1900z on Sunday that I went out for an hour or two to take a walk. I came back to find 20M getting lively. Worked a few KL7s QRP, finally getting QRP WAS. They were booming in here, a rarity. Then had a great run of JAs. So the last few hours were the best here on 20M. Finished up logging a new multiplier with 15 seconds to spare, which is always eciting. Please, send sunspots next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4HXT Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 44,082 Looks like the antenna improvments I made in December work. Very happy with this part time effort at the bottom the the cycle. A huge TU for everyone who pulled out my little QRP signal. You are amazing! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 227,766 Had hoped to do this contest seriously, but some family commitments colluded to keep my operating time to a minimum. I didn't have my full heart into this one, so no SO2R. Had some nice time on Friday night (40 and 80 were very nice) and then got up for a Saturday morning EU run, which was a lot of fun. Finished out Sunday night chasing mults and Q's on packet. All in all had a great time. I love CW contests. Details below. *Pre Contest* Before I realized I was not going to be able to do this contest full tilt, I worked out a couple of kinks in the shack. For a long time, my SO2R switching has not been working right. I can never set the headphones to "split" mode with one rig in each ear. I finally discovered what the issue was in preparation for this contest. I opened up my MultiKeyer thinking I had a bad headphone jack. When I got inside, everything looked great on that connector - no bad traces, no bad solder joints that I could see. So I gave everything else a visual check. At that point I noticed that not only is the headphone output stereo, but the right/left audio inputs are stereo as well (for rigs where 1 vfo can be in each ear). In my reassembly of my shack 2 years ago I had used mono cables between the rigs and the MultiKeyer. Replacing those cables with stereo cables brought the "split" audio back. I also moved the antenna tuner back into the shack. It was in the next room with the antenna switches, and i had to run there to tweak things if the SWR got bad on 80. Now I could just do it in the shack. Very nice change. *The "NEWS"* About mid-week, I heard from my son's godparetnts that they had been able to work out coming up for the weekend for my son's birthday party. So, entertaining was in the works. They would be coming on Saturday morning, so I'd at least get a few hours on Friday evening and Saturday morning. In the end, they left right after my son's party at 2 today, so I came back and was able to get on for another 3 hours this afternoon. *Session 1:00:00z-05:24z* All S&P, and mostly following packet spots. I felt really loud, like shooting fish in a barrel for the most part. Very surprising what I could work. Some surprises were T32OU on 40 (pretty big pile), and the ease of working stuff to my west (usually my low dipole does not compete well), but I was able to bag several KH6 stations with ease. I felt loud, but when I tried to run on 40, I got nothing but dead air, and since my motivation was not high, I didn't engage the 2nd rig to go into "CQ Machine" mode and see if I could get something going if I called for a long period. *Session 2:10:05z-15:44z* Started by clearing out all the mults on 40 and 80. Lots of good stuff, ZM1A on 40, ZM2B on 80, VK2AEA on 40, VK3IO on 80, VP6DX on 40. At 11:35z I moved to 20. Cleared the bandmap and settled in at 14080 an hour later. Worked about 110q's in the next 3 hours. So, while for me that's a run, it's really a slow trickle in comparison. Chased some more mults starting at 15:00z and then made some 15M q's - not much there, but it was some good stuff. Would have been nice if a few more folks got on 15! Had a another very short run at 14041 and ended at 15:44z when my friends arrived. *The Blip* After arriving home from a party at around 1am, I sat in front of the rig for about 20 minutes and picked off a couple nice mults on 80 and 40. KH7Y on 80 was nice (wish I had a 160 antenna, he asked me to move for the VT mult). Interesting time of night to operate. 80M is open to so many different places - West and East at the same time. While I only worked a couple q's then, it was interesting to have KH7Y on 80 followed by CT9L on 80. *Session 3:Day 2 21:21z-23:59z - "The Bonus"* My friends had planned to stay through dinner on Sunday evening, however something came up and they needed to head home a little early. Started out on 40 for a minute (because that's where the rig was when I turned it on) but soon realized that I'd better high-tail it to 20 and 15 to work the western mults before the propagation goes away. Worked my only JA at all on 20M at 21:24z. SM2B was a struggle on 15 - good thing my ESP was working. KH6NF was the same on 15. Also worked KL7RA on 20M, which I never seem to be able to work (Sweeps, CQWW, ARRL DX - never). I'll have to make sure I remember the time of day I was successful and try that in other contests. Most of the rest of this session was simply shooting fish in the packet barrel. Did try to run briefly at 7046 with little success, and then again at 7082, again with little success. I need something more on 40, maybe a loop will go up next year. At about 23z I saw I had just about 360 contacts. 400 sure would be nice, but at the rate I was going, it was not looking good. I took my DXer hat off, and just started combing the bands. Worked all the KH6's on 20M (they were lined up on the band right around 14030 - quite funny - one right after another KH6MB, then KH7Y, then KH6NF, then KH6LC). Managed to work VK6DX on 20, and T32OU. The pileup on G4BUE was impressive on 40M also, but somehow I got through on 2 calls. Ended up with 406 q's with DL5JAN being the last one. Thanks everyone, especially my wife and family for putting up with my absence so much. Won't be on for SSB, but I hope to make an appearance in WPX CW. See you down the log. 73 de Al, KE1FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 16,049 Finally a working antenna and rotator for the whole contest! Bands were pretty good for a change. Lots of fun on 20-10. Static on 40/80/160 was trying. A lot of fun. Regards Ed KE3D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF7NN Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,258,544 Limited operation, but fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 84,816 Despite a lackluster effort on my part, had some good periods on 40, 20, and 15m, but missed the good periods on 80m the second night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5U Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 50,976 Good fun. Couldn't stay in the chair as much as I wanted, but enjoyed the time I could get in. I listened on 10m frequently. But,but for all that, I only ever heard K5GO in AR calling some station I couldn't hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6/AA4V Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 65,511 Just had a limited time to play in this one due to visitor from teh mainland and other social obligations (like celebrating the Chinese New Year . CU you all in the phone portion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6/N7ON Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 37,284 Rig: Elecraft K2/100 Antennas: 20m dipole and vertical, 40m vertical A very casual operation from the west coast of Molokai. Much more time was spent out and about on the island than in front of the radio. W/VE signals were better Friday afternoon and evening than Saturday/Sunday. DX stations were really booming through on 40m both nights. 73, John, KH6/N7ON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6/VE7AHA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 222,024 Where were the 11 QSO's I needed to get ahead of C6AWL. And where were the VE boys - MB, YT, NU, LB and NWT But a fine time indeed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,592,775 Conditions not as good as last year. Nice to see the all too short 10 meter opening. Improvements to the 160 meter station paid off. A big mahalo to all the folks who contributed to the totals above. Jeff N6GQ will be here for a single-op effort in the Phone contest. We have instituted an ongoing rooster QRM elimination program that should be in full effect. See you all in WPX CW. 73 and Aloha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6NF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,830,734 Standard 15m rates never did materialize. Appreciate the patience on 80m during the second day. Superb work sequencing during the pileups throughout the entire period. As always, Mahalo for every Q. Aloha, John KH6SH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7B Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 301,962 First time outside the mainland for this contest in 46 years. It IS fun! The station is still not completed so I had to go single band to make a serious effort. I just got the first of the two M2 monobanders for 40 last weekend in 20-25 MPH tradewinds....very exciting! I was hoping to get the other one at 152 feet this week but it just didn't happen, so I decided to do 40 single with just the lower (80 feet) of the two antennas. I had my sights on the world record set by N4BP at C6 with over 2100 QSOs. It was not to be, but I did break the old Oceanic record for 40, so that's the consolation prize. Amazing rates with many bursts and then somewhat lulled again after the spot played out. I could always tell when I was spotted as I was called by the likes of KC1XX, W3LPL and guys who always submit MM, M2 or assisted. First night was great, but the second it seemed noisier and signals were weaker. Conditions were very surprising. The biggest surprise was that at around 9:30 AM EST I was called by a W1 in Maine with a pretty weak signal but very Q-5 on a quiet band. He then said QRP with 5 watts! The band was open at times that the boys back on the mainland usually consider it closed. It was good to meet old mainland stations and be able to give a 599K to them. Thanks to the two guys who dropped by in the last two hours to give me number 58 and 59 for mults. I was appreciated as much as all the guys who spotted me. It really helps. I think guys get somewhat lazy and don't S/P as much as they used to and use the spots as an alternative. Thanks for all the QSOs and I'll definitely see you all in the SSB part of this one as single op single band effort...maybe 20 or 40. 73 Bill K4XS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,783,488 A very good opening on 10 meters Sunday morning with a run of about 100 stations. 15 and 20 meters were real good Sunday. Ten meter amp went up in smoke, so back to getting it ready for SSB. A fun contest. Where was D.C.? Aloha, Fred KH7Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ0G Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 103,632 BANDS SEEMED QUITE GOOD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,401,896 24 hours of propagation on both 20 and 40 this weekend but our usual US openings were probably cut short because of the loud DX stations that call us after every CQ thinking we are in the US. Then we had the fellow in the US tell us "DX only" when we called him. But it was all good. Caught the perfect topband East coast sunrise this trip for a FB hour or so and called a lot of CQ's on a dead ten meter band to heat the room. 15 was poor for us and only produced for a short run both days. It will be the money band in a few years. Our 80 ops did a FB job but we had gale winds with blowing snow causing a lot of snow QRN at times the first night. Lots of down time to eat/sleep while we waited for the bands to transition from Europe to US each day/night cycle. You know we are doing good and working the bands out when the calls start showing up with portable 4. This shows us we are getting down to the retired guys in Fla with their bumper mounted whips on the RV shooting skip to Alaska. Crew reports that had a great time playing radio for the weekend. I sure did, fun contest. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 84,000 Friday night and Saturday morning were brutal this far north, low & slow! By Saturday afternoon, things were sounding better. I decided on my low power entry and I am glad I stuck with it. By Sunday, it all paid off! The bands came alive and 20 meters was the best I have heard it in weeks, if not more. I can always count on the west coast but the east and central US was just pounding into the interior of Alaska on Sunday! I was actually surprised how far my 100 watts was being heard since I have become amplifier dependent up here more than ever. I was not able to work the entire contest but what I did work was a blast. I parked and called CQ more than I did S&P. Thanks to all those that stuck it out to work me. We have had strong SE winds all weekend and currently receiving gusts over 60 mph as I write this. I had some instances of high noise from the local area but it was workable. More than once, someone running Amtor or Baudot or one of the digital modes, QRM'd my frequency which made it hard to hear at times. I moved around but evidentially, I was trespassing on somebody's frequency even though I had been there for a few hours. This accounted for most of my repeats and hopefully I did not bust too many callsigns. It was great working many familiar callsigns and several new! I heard lots of great DX but I was not able to work them in this contest. I sure could have used a few new ones. Other than hitting the wrong Fkey a few times, things went very well with the software (N3FJP). Observation: I can tell it is February as lots of non "4" hams in Florida! It was great working my old neighbors and club members back in Ohio, too. All the best and thanks again for the contacts! I am CW challenged so I sure appreciate everyone's patience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 40,689 Band conditions were not the best this weekend for me. I heard nothing on 10 meters at all. This was part time this year since I had to work all day Saturday, and the Daytona 500 was this afternoon. See you in the 160 meter contest next weekend. 73 Scott Kenwood TS450SAT G5RV @ 35 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Q Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 34,584 73, Dale KN4Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 168,858 Had fun, all bands except ten meters were active. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,133,496 685 JA/BY/HL QSO's (50%) - THANKS !! After the fall contests I was convinced the sunspots were coming back and I had better put up a good 15M yagi for the ARRL DX. So I took down the 4 el fixed NE at 37' and put up a BIG 6 el M2 on a TIC ring rotor at 72'. The whole project turned out to be a lot of work! At least it's 50-60F in Tucson in Jan/Feb. The boom sags so I've still got work to do - there is a nice pic of it on my QRZ.com profile. I guess I could have waited until next year, there was only 1 hour of southern JA and NO EU..... I had a major disappoinment with my 2nd radio amp (Ten Tec Titan). The T/R relay went out in Dec and I sent it to the factory. They "fixed" it but I never tested it. It went out after 3 contacts, so I was left with a low power 2nd radio in a DX contest, not good. Only 50 or so 2nd radio Q's, all on 15M. Lesson learned.... The highlights were a great 40M LP EU run and some really great DX stuff on 80M. I had a 20M EU run on Sunday morning, but the sigs were way down and I'm sure there were a lot of frustrated people calling me that I just couldn't pull out. Maybe I need a new radio AND a new amp..... The only 6 banders were KH6LC and VP6DX, but not for lack of effort, I had the skimmer going on 10M the whole weekind :)) 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 282,480 Part time effort. Got lots of sleep both nights. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2/K3MD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,818,450 IC-7000 ALS-500M PS-75 10-80 trap dpl up 50 ft 160 inerted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP2M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,172,888 Thanks to W0AIH for our only 10m contact. We checked 10m often and this was the only stateside station we heard. John, K3TEJ John, K3CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,237,104 I didn't intend to operate as much as I did, but my expectations were so low with all the damaged antennas, that I was having too much fun to stop! Antennas were as follows: 160 Inv L Low-gain High noise antenna (I am REALLY p.w. on 160!) 80 Wire 4-square - Damaged with Omnidirectional pattern 40 Wire 4-square - the only properly functioning wire antenna 3L 40 "V" wire beam at 40'. The antenna looks like a V when you look at it from behind, with one end of the driven element in the shape of a J and caught in a tree! 20 4L Homebrew Cushcraft with blown gamma match and FIXED at 20 degrees 15 4-stack that WORKS WELL - when you can hear guys on 15. :-) 10 4-stack that WORKS WELL - I used one FT1000MP and one Titan. I had lousy antennas on the "money bands" and expected rotten cndx and limited operating time, so I was pretty unmotivated and I did not want to spend Friday afternoon rearranging the station for 2-radio operation. This is the most non-functional antenna system that I have ever had at this qth during a contest. 10 and 15 which are fine, didn't matter much, except for Sunday AM when I actually had a modest EU run (all S3 or weaker) at 1230z but then had to stop at 13z to meet with a client. The other bands had antennas that were all lightning damaged and will be rebuilt this Spring and Summer. I didn't operate Friday (turned out that I missed great openings on 40-160), opting to spend time with my family. Saturday AM I got up early, and with my damaged 4L at 50', FIXED at 20 degrees.I parked myself on 14089 and called CQ to see who could hear me. Answer: NO ONE at first! While the M/M stns were engaging HUGE pilueps of EU in hand-to-hand combat down below, I, far above the RTTY, had a clear freq. and no callers. This was about what I expected. About 25 minutes later, 20 started to open for me and I had a modest run and then it got interesting. Up in the "nosebleed" section of the band, 5H1HD, 7Z1SJ and JW8AW called me! A little later, after my modest run had stopped, I found Champ, E21EIC right next to me, who at the time had a clear freq. with no callers! I had to pick my spots to cq as I was too puny weak to have a consistent run, but I was amazed at what I could work with the damaged antenna FIXED at 20 degrees. I could even work most of the South American stations with a pileup and most of the Africans, but that took a lot of skill and guile, calling above and below the pileup and occasionally pulling off a perfect tail end, in the 3 nanoseconds between when the US station gave his 599__ and the dx station sent QRZ? This was how I used to operate back in my low power days. You could immediately tell who the really smart ops were as rather than try to pick out one call from 100 calling on top of each other, these guys were tuning at the "edges" of the pileup trying for the easiest and clearest spot to hear callers. This is how ALL stations should operate! The rate is faster, the pileup control is better, and you work "little guys" who would otherwise never be heard. Also, the smarter US ops will notice where the DX station is listening and MOVE to those "edges" and that creates a "thinner" pileup which makes it even easier to pick out calls. It was especially gratifying to be able to work T32OU, VP6DX, and ZM1A on 20 off the SIDE of the damaged antenna - all of them at s3 or less and ZM1A barely audible. WOW! 40 was laughable with the wire beam on Saturday that had one end of the driven hanging down and touching the ground. EU was 2 s-units louder on the 4-square which NEVER happens. The next day I threw the end of the driven back up into a tree where it promptly snagged in a "death-grip" and assumed the shape of a "J", but the sag in the middle was pitiful with the director and reflector at 50' and the driven at about 30'. After I did that, the Wire Beam and the 4-square were equal to EU. (Normally the 4 square is 1 s-unit louder). Once again I went up into nosebleed territory to cq, but I was ignored, so back down I came finally settling on about 7030 where being "fresh meat" outweighed how weak I was, and with the help of a few EU spots, I had a pileup and big run after about 10 minutes. When the MUF dropped I went to 80, where I discovered that it didn't matter which direction I pointed the knob to, EU was coming in equally weak. A true omindirectional pattern! Even with the mal-functioning 4-square, which had lost 1/2 of the elevated radials thanks to 2 icestorms in the previous 5 days, I was still able to have a run, sort-of. It was spotty, but it was fun and just to make the point, 2 UA9's and R35NP called in. It was weird to realize that I had no gain in any direction, and therefore I must be 1 - 2 s-units weaker than if I had a good pattern. I then realized how good cndx must really be! 160 was the usual experience with my high-noise, low-gain 160 inverted L which I have been too lazy to take down and cut up into small pieces for "payback". :-) If I can hear and work someone on that antenna, through all the qrn, fence noise and birdies, I KNOW that the band is WIDE OPEN! Even the garden variety modest stations had 40+ countries on that band! I hit a bunch of the "good" hours and a bunch of the "bad" ones, operating based on convenience rather than looking to maximize score. This was a good weekend for 2 radios since the band openings were spotty, and if you were cqing on one radio and not tuning on another, you missed some band openings - especially on 10 and 15. 4U1UN, who I normally do not hear, was kind enough to qsy to 10 and 15 for me. Thanks! ZD7X and TF3CW and TF3DC were kind enough to answer my cq's. All in all I did far better with such poor antennas and had a lot more fun than I ever could have imagined at what truly is the bottom of the cycle. After the contest, and in looking at the scores, it confirmed my suspicions during the contest that the cndx somewhat favored 3 land stations and those in coastal New England. This is pretty typical of bottom of the cycle when things get marginal and the MUF drops rapidly at night. You want to be as close to the salt water of coastal of New England as possible (ALWAYS a good place to be! :-) or farther South where the MUF is slightly higher. For Eastern stations that were complaining about how bad cndx were that are newer to contesting, or have a short memory, here is a little perspective. Back in 1987 I WON SOABHP in this contest with about (if memory serves me) 2500 q's and a 300 mult, using 2 radios. That contest had BETTER cndx and I was at a decent station with better antennas (KM1H). So, to be able to make 1450 q's and 284 mult in 19 hours with ONE radio and mostly broken antennas, tells you just how much BETTER the activity level and availability of mults are TODAY, than 2 cycles ago! One other thing... it was only in the last cycle that the biggest, baddest M/M stations began to APPROACH 95+ countries on 80. DXCC on 160 was simply a fantasy. Now, DXCC on 80 is an EXPECTATION and DXCC on 160 is POSSIBLE in CQWW. Things have changed A LOT and the DX contests are far more fun NOW with lousy cndx, than they were 1, 2 and 3 cycles ago with BETTER cndx! Thanks for all the q's and congrats to all the stations who operated and had fun. Special thanks to the great ops at VP6DX who made it easy to work them and to all the other DX ops who give us the q's and mults in every contest! 73 Bob KQ2M kq2m@earthlink.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 363,006 Congrats to K2DM who cleaned my clock! Any others? CT sez 23.0 hours, but I say more like 34. 1. I slept waaaaaay tooooooo much (13 hours). Oh well, time for weight loss, exercise, and sleep prep before the contest. I'm not getting any younger and it sure is not getting easier (quite the opposite). 2. Got my first K3 here Jan 30. Assembly finished Feb 2. First real contest experience with this rig. While I have never used an Orion during a contest, this is the BEST receiver I have ever experienced....on all counts. If you have any questions about the rig, please contact me directly. 2nd one should arrive by the end of Q1, 2008 (I hope - ordered Nov 21, 2007). BTW, one of the BEST features about the K3 for a qrp-er is that once you set it for 5 watts, that is exactly what you get: Exactly 5.0 watts on every band, no matter what. I LOVE that! 3. My best 160 score (5 mults) ever - see notes below. 4. If you want a feel for what qrp is like at the bottom of the cycle, check out this time analysis, which tracks how minutes there were between Q's. First column is time between QSO's (lag) and 2nd column is how many times that happened (count), and 3rd column is Rate (Q's per hour). Is it any wonder that I couldn't stay awake? :-) lag count rate/hour (but just for one minute!) 0 53 ? 1 179 60.0 2 117 30.0 3 76 20.0 4 48 15.0 5 25 12.0 6 20 10.0 7 12 8.6 8 12 7.5 9 10 6.7 10 8 6.0 11 3 5.5 12 4 5.0 13 3 4.6 14 5 4.3 15 2 4.0 16 2 3.8 17 3 3.5 18 2 3.3 19 2 3.2 20 1 3.0 21 2 2.9 22 2 2.7 23 0 24 2 2.5 25 0 26 2 2.3 27 0 28 0 29 1 2.1 30 0 31 2 1.9 To be honest, one of the "31 minutes" is actually because my computer locked up (I thought it had crashed) and it took me 31 minutes to get it going again (whew!). The "other" 31 minutes included about 10 minutes of time spent calling ZPØR (silly me). Best Rate was 1200 hour day one with just under 65 QSO's in one hour. The rest, well, don't ask. 5. HIGH POINT: Working 13 JA's (from NJ, QRP) on 20m in about 25 minutes, almost all with just one call. This QTH was just made for JA! http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=qt9cyt8sp6c7&style=o&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=23693720&encType=1 Too bad the opening wasn't longer and populated with more JA's. Or maybe I missed the opening? 6. Worked on 5 bands: J7DX and 6Y1LZ (Thanks!) 7. Antennas: 160: 1/2 wave horizontal wire supposed to be at around 44 feet. This morning I found half of it on the roof of the house. Hey...it's the best number of mults on 160 I've ever had. Who knows? LOL 80: inverted V at 50 feet 40: 402 CD at around 80 feet (probably a bit less) 20, 15, 10: OB11-3 @ 72 feet and 2L quad at 55 feet. Rig: Elecraft K3....just getting to know each other. In my recent NCJ writeup about contesting at the bottom of the cycle (ARRL DX 2007), I said how much fun I had. Well, this is REALLY the bottom, and it sure was not a lot of fun, but I did have reasonably good time...especially when I was asleep! Thanks to all the DX for hearing me...you did all the work. And thanks to EE5E for not only working me again this year, but for putting me in the log this year (he told me so!) - and on 4 bands too...not bad with QRP! Finally, congrats again to K2DM on an FB qrp score. de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 31,047 Family emergency wiped out this contest. Thanks for the Qs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 237,636 Had fun, almost managed to stay up both nights but the kids don't exactly let me sleep in the day :) Once they're a bit older, I hope to go back to serious SOAB and M/S, M/2 operations, but I love going SB on 80 and 160! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,758,580 73, Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 36,156 Force12 Flagpole Vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 450,993 IC756PRO , AL811H , 500 watts 160 meter Inverted L, 40 Meter Vertical 20 Meter Dipole @ 45 ft NW/SW 10 Meter Dipole @ 30 ft N/S 130 Ft Center fed Zepp @ 40 ft N/S 95% S&P- except for a nice EU run on 14103 for a couple hours on Sunday morning. Had to shutdown a couple hours from the end due to thunderstorms. Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 340,452 We had very quiet conditions on Friday night but had lots of QRN Saturday night. Had my share of thrills - a JW and the VP6 on 20, 40 and 80. Heard the 7X but couldn't break the pileup. No antenna for 160 hurts the totals a bit. No Europe on 15 meters and no signals at all on 10. Maybe we'll have a sunspot or two next year when I will be looking for all of you once again. Rig = TenTec Jupiter @ 100 watts Antenna = 102' G5RV @ 45' Software = N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 13,254 A humbling experience to say the least. Not a full time effort but here I am again in a CW test. This might grow on me.But remind me not to run LP fot at least 4 to 5yrs OK! New Ten-Tec radio worked very well as long as I kept my fingers out of the adjustments Hi hi. wish the EU KW guys could have heard my continuos calling...... Condx to EU worse than I expected but SA,Car,OC OK. Not much AF though the ZS guys showed up on Sunday which was great. Thanks to all the participation es look forward to the SSB event coming up. Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 715,701 Boy what a blast !! The condx we had last hours of this weekend were just awsome ! What a suddenly improvement in condx. Very bad- to very good - in a very short time. To bad I overslept a couple of times, and missed a couple of openings. 17 hours offtime is far too much for reaching a decent score. Anyway - had a great time. 73 LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LT1F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,977,830 Hey everybody! We enjoyed another excellent weekend at LT1F!! Our first surprise was arrived at Rosario's bus station and find Mario LW8DQ and Horacio LW7DX two ops at LR2F. I was about 6 am in the morning and after a chat with them we leave to LT1F. Prior to arrive at LT1F we went to Jose's LU1FJ place to get out backup rig an IC756, and continue our trip to LT1F. When you are arriving at LT1F you start remembering wonderful moments with friend with is the most important for us. After we parked our cars, we checked everything and everything was ok. After a while we started connecting the radios and amplifiers. Our main station was an IC775DSP + L4B and our multiplier station was an IC756 + TL922, with to PCs connected. We tested all the antennas except for our 2 El delta loop for 80 and our 160 Slooper. After we connected our 80 antenna we realize that something was wrong. The 75 ohms feed line wasn't working and after 30 minutes Karl LU1FKR solved our first issue. All antennas were working fine, so it was time of computes. Lucas´ notebook wasn't working properly when we tried to load N1MM but a fast delete of internet temporary files (1.5gbs) all was setup and working. We used 2 external USB keyboards, so we ran both station to find any RFI problems. Finally the station was ready to go. We ate our first bbq of the weekend, Santi LU1FT joined us and at 2:30 PM, I went back to take a nap. When I woke up Fabi LU1AEE and Marco LU7ACW (Fabi´s 14 years old son) were at the station. Now going back to the contest Martín started it on 20 which produce 230 Q´s the 1st hour. After 2 hours we switched to 40 and realize that we had a big SWR. Very fast Santi and Karl checked the feed line connector, in the meantime, Martin was on 80 and ran 22 Q´s at 02 UTC which is a big number due to the big EU qrm. When the 40 antenna (3 el) was working ok produce 140 and 170 hours. That was our first night. The morning was slow. At 1PM UTC we started working station on 15. We continually checked 10 but the band was dead for most part of the contest. We ran a few stations but we are used to run big number on 10. During our lunch we received the visit of Juan Pablo LU4DX and Jorge LW4EU, that included our second bbq of the weekend. I want to congratulate Marco LU7ACW, who didn't operate but he check band conditions and put multipliers into band map during the whole contest! He did an excellent job! Thank you Marco!! During the first night we didn't notice any difference between our 2 El Delta Loop and the beverage. Martin and Fabi checked it and fix it, something wasn't working well. Now we are planning to put another one for the SSB one. Our 160 slooper played well, but I have to confess that we didn't pay much attention to 160. I just moved some stations, I want to congratulate K1ZM and K3LR who were the strongest signals in Top Band! That was it. Another excellent contest from LT1F. I want to thank Karl LU1FKR for all his support and all of you who contacted us. Hopefully we will be during the SSB one M/S as well. Calls on 6 Bands: K1XM K3LR KC1XX W7RN Rates: 2 QSO in minute 609 3 QSO in minute 342 4 QSO in minute 147 5 QSO in minute 39 6 QSO in minute 2 Regards, Luc LU1FAM (op at LT1F) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU8EOT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 157,380 RIGs Kenwood TS-180S & Yaesu FT-747GX ANTs Yagi 4el 28Mhz. & Dipole 40M with coil for 80m at 9 Mh east-west, and i use antenna tunner for 20 and 15 Mts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,866,600 This was our first M/2 activity in this contest. During many hours we were only active with 1 station as only one band was open to the us. We also repaired the 80M- 4-square only on Sunday afternoon and missed this good antenna on 80m. A lot of changes of the antennasystem are planned for next year. cu next year on my new homepage www.lx2a.com, you will find more informations, 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 81,807 Condx were very poor first night, slightly improved 2nd night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY8O Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 235,410 Much better then expected. Worked all states - big surprice. Biggest DX was Oklahoma - succeed only on Sunday but 5 stations. Big thanks for VE4AHZ for the last and only mult from MB on late Sunday afternoon. Another surprice - no any technical problems which happens not very often :) Thanks to everyone for the contacts and see you again on the band(s). Also big thanks to Petras LY1PM for superb position and hospitality. Equipment: IC-756PRO2, KW, 3x5 el. yagis stack on 49m rotary mast. 73, Remi LY8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 220,719 Some very nice conditions. Thanks to all those who called; worked all states in the first afternoon, and worked them all again on the second day. Missed VE4, LB and the usual NWT, YUK, and NUN. Went off a few times to chase VP6DX on new band/modes; need to concentrate more! Congratulations to the really big score-producers; must have great ears. Rig: FTDX9000 and Quadra at 400w (legal limit); 4-el yagi at 24m. See you next year! Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0HR Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 144,480 I had roughly the same number of Qs as CQ WW CW and spent less than half the time on the air. First test with my shiny new K1EL USB keyer: http://www.n0hr.com/K1EL%20WKUSB%20Keyer.htm Antennas for lowbands remains a major issue. The sloper isn't getting the job done. More on this in my ham radio blog: http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/ Pat, NØHR http://www.n0hr.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 710,181 On 20 I was called by and worked AU4JMG and had him repeat it several times so 99% sure I had it OK. It is a VU4 assignment!!! A bit later I was called by a HS. 10 and 15 real poor although I did work one JA on 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0MA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 84,000 Had a nice time. Operating time cut short by incoming snow/ice storm. Opted not to be trapped at operating location and packed up Saturday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 133,338 Had limted hours and stuck with S&P. Worked 98% of the stations I heard on the first call. Biggest thrill was VP6DX off the back of my beam on 15M. Listened on 10M a few times but never heard anything. Rig: TenTec Omni 7 100W Antennas: 4 Element 20/15/10 @ 30 ft, 80/40 dipoles MFJ Differential T tuner Computer: HP Pavillion running CT Thanks for the QSOs. 73 Rick N1DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,075,680 Where are the sunspots? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,103,552 When 15M didn't open up much to Europe on Saturday morning, I knew this weekend was not going to be a cake walk to a high score. It was going to take some savvy and hard work to get the qso count up there and chasing the mults was going to be brutal. We're not going to see a lot of high scores. Thanks for all the q's and apologies to all the stations I couldn't quite pull out. 73, Barry N1EU Equipment: 160M: inv L, elevated radials 80M: 1/4 wire vert, elevated radials 40M: delta loop, dipole 20-10M: Force12 C3S @50ft Beverage rx ants NE, SE, SW, NW Ten-Tec Orion Acom 2000A N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,333,080 I was really happy with the performance of this little station. The station has a lot more capability than the op. The only exception was that I had to work anything south using low power to prevent RF from getting into the radio. A recent illness forced me to move the radio from the basement to the upstairs almost directly under the beam. I really had a blast Friday night on 160. Pulled my first all nighter. Orion II - Yaesu Quadra 3EL SteppIR @ 50' 40: Rotatable dipole 80: Phased verts 160: inverted L DL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 142,692 I would like to start out with a slightly different opening to my post contest comments. This is a THANK YOU to the group of local hams from the PVRC-NC East and OCRA radio clubs that have spent many a Saturday helping to build the new N1LN / N1YXU contest station. Although there have been other crew members, the regulars have been: K5WES, KA1ARB, KZ1W, NT4D and W4KAZ. There are a few more Saturdays left before the build will be completed. Then we can all start to really have some fun putting the new towers and yagis to work. The first tower completed was the 4x4x4 stack of HyGain 204 BAs, so the ARRL DX was a great opportunity to see if it was going to play. I didn’t have lots of time as I spent much of Saturday and Sunday getting ready for the next tower party, but based on only 7.5 hours of on the air time, I was quite pleased with the results. Many times my rate was negatively impacted by the size of the pile-up. This was good thing! I really felt loud even though I was using the small amp and running only about 600 watts. The weather is starting to improve and the crew is ready to continue. See you in the pile-ups. 73, Bruce – N1LN (aka: NC4KW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 211,737 No comment! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,741,536 It was evident that this contest was going to be a challenge for me in the fall of 2007. I have spent the majority of my time in China since Sept and knew that whatever issues might crop up between then and now would be impossible to fix due to extremely limited time and winter weather conditions in Vermont. Surprisingly, there was only 2 issues that emerged: my 40M beam has become unusable for some reason and the coax to my NE beverage developed a problem. The beam was unfixable with winter conditions and over 2 feet of snow on the ground and an elevated ridge location of the tower. The beverage coax has over 5 feet of snow bank on it in places but a temporary coax on top of the snow cured that. So into the contest I went with my 40M number 2 antenna, an inverted vee at 65 feet, as the sole weapon. All else was up to the task. I was feeling good going in and expected poor conditions for the first evening and Saturday with hopefully noticeable improvement on the second night and Sunday. I had really hoped to give a strong showing on 80M with my 2 el wire beam and the lack of a beam on 40M. Unfortunately, 80M CQing, for the whole contest was only mediocre and sometimes a waste of time for me. Yet, I could break pile-ups and get first call responses all weekend long into EU with it. I believe that many of the less serious contesters in EU gave up on 80M due to conditions. 160? Well I worked VP6 on the third call but never even heard a G station to call. Go figure. 40M, as expected was excellent to EU from about 1930Z to about 01Z and then the MUF generally dropped below 7Mhz from up here in Vermont. There was prop pickup at sunrise EU time on 40M but the activity did not materialize to drive high rates for me. I spent waaay more time S & Ping and not CQing in the night than I wanted to. 10 - 15 mins on either 40 or 80M CQing without a response is just too much to make it worth it vs. the time management in SO2R. I find 20 - 25 rate or so about the min to make the trade worthwhile. The 40M beam would have helped but it obviously wasn’t an option. 20M runs to EU from 11Z – 15Z were just fantastic both days. I spent most of the time unmoved on a frequency and the rate meter well over 100 for hours on end. I kept listening to 15 and hearing nothing to pull me off 20 even to grab a few mults on Saturday. Unfortunately Sunday was barely better to EU so A LOT of stuff went unworked. It will be interesting to see how I faired vs. others on 15M mults. Sunday was much better to South America and Carib on 15M. 10M was almost a wash out until about 17Z on Sunday when I finally heard and workd 2 LU stations and a CX station. 3 Qs and 2 Mults and much white noise were the weekend’s result. All and all, I was quite pleased with my end results. I had a handful more Qs overall and just the same mults as last year. Given conditions and the lack of a 40M beam, I’ll take it. I was surprised to be able to hold a freq on 40M for 3 solid hours Sunday afternoon and work EU at 60 – 70 solid rate with the inverted vee. Just about doubling my 40M total Qs in the last part of the contest. My score was about 5,000 points higher than last year. Whoever wins the US/VE LP CW category in 2008 will have earned the right. I was on for 43 hours and did one heck of a lot of CQing with S & P on the second radio. The lack of the 40M beam left some Qs on the table and its hard to say how the K index affected me in VT vs. other states but I went to sleep after the contest very satisfied with my performance. I will not be QRV for ARRL DX SSB so there will be a new winner for the LP Combined plaque this year regardless of the outcome of this contest. I hope that others will be motivated as I was and still am for that plaque. I was the first “wood on the wall” that I had ever won in a major DX contest and am quite proud of it. 73 Ed N1UR (on the way back to BY) PS: Look for my wife Christine, KB1PQN, and myself from Spratly from 3/22 – 3/30 including half of the WPX contest where we will be making an entry as Multi-Op. Check out the details at www.n1urspratly.com Antennas: 160 Dipole at 60 feet and T vertical 80 2 el Wire beam NE/SW at 65 feet and half wave sloper south 40 Inverted Vee at 65 feet 20 4/4 at 70 and 35 feet and 2 el South at 55 feet 15 8 el NE at 30 feet and 3 el at 80 feet 10 5 el at 70 feet and 3 el south at 50 feet Beverages: NE 900 feet and W 600 feet SO2R with FT1000MP Mk V @ 150W and FT990 @ 100W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 314,574 Conditions seemed to deteriorate around 1600 Saturday as the baand became noisy with deep QSB. All weekend there seemed to be waves of noise and QSB. I lost a few stations in the middle of a contact. But I had fund with only 100 watts. There should be a low power category in Asssited. Perhaps ssome operators don't realize that rules fact. With the advent of "CW skimmers" (there is no way to police their use) Asssisted may soon become a thing od the past. If there is high an low power in regular single op it makes no sense to punish assisted operators by lumping them all together in one "assisted" category. I think the contest community needs to get over the prejudice that assisted operators are not real operators. It just a testosterone thing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 346,332 Equipment: Icom 756proIII, AL-1200, dipoles @35' Good low band condx. Wish I had more time to play. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 342,507 A long weekend, with many hours spent tuning the band for any new stations. The southern European big guns had consistently excellent signals, but opportunities for running Europe were limited to a few short bursts of improved propagation, and 07Z-09Z Sunday morning. Fine propagation to JA and the far east. The low MUF made for some interesting "daytime" propagation, with stations being easily workable more than 3 hours before their local sunset. Approximate continent breakdown (includes dupes): EU 346 AS 609 NA 38 SA 37 AF 14 OC 57 Thanks for all the QSO's ! 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,832,376 Definitely need to fix 40m ant and put something better up for 80m. With the exception of VP6DX on 5 bands, typical number of multipliers were found. Major Gripe....I wish some of the people who spot dx stations would learn how to copy cw. With the exception of 6Y1LZ, who sends very quickly, all of the other "busted calls" that were spotted were not exceptionally fast. Maybe we should petition the FCC to re-instate the cw requirement or have the sponsors of cw contests require some ability to copy cw. Station....IC 756 PRO, Alpha 78( 2-3cx800a mod, N1MM logging program ( first time used) Antennas : 160m inverted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,228,311 Sent the wife and 3 and 5 year old to Florida to visit the Grand Parents so i could play. Put the C3SS Beam back together (elements where built but needed to be reattached to boom...recently moved to this house) and put it on 5 foot glen martin tripod on top of the Kids Jungle Gym. Total hight about 20 Feet. Played better than the multi-band dipole. This was field day style. Glad we had nice WX on Friday. Also set up the K9AY antenna. It worked great. Busy day. Was worth it as I could hear well. Spots where not helping me so I had to help myself... Now i have to get this antenna down before XYL sees it :)... 73, Mike N2NI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,480,321 Everything was working an hour before the contest. Went to eat dinner, and at 0000z I began to log qsos. However, the second computer (laptop) did not! Rebooted, and the hard disk failed. Since I always use 2 computers for SO2R, I had no way to log info from the other radio. So after fumbling around, I managed to hook both radios into the main computer. Now I had to learn how to do one computer SO2R in Win-test on the fly. My first hour was horrible, but after getting used to the new setup it went pretty smoothly. Conditions were ehhh, but enough for a single op to have plenty to do. Congrats to Alex at K3CR for a great score. Conditions were definitely better last year, so this was a better effort for you! 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2RJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 234,696 Not bad for my part time effort. 40 meters was pretty OK, and I love that band because it's primarily a nighttime CW band if you live in the USA. Looking forward to the IARU test and of course field day. :) CW Rocks!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2RM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,749,040 If this contest is an example, in the bottom of the sun spot cycle there ain/t no meters like 20 meters. We didn't corrupt our score with any 10 meter contacts. WM2H proved that he still knows code and did most of the 160 operation which was all done Saturday evening, and some 80 meter operating. K3ZV and I did operating on the other bands with him operating mostly 15, 20 and 40 and me doing a little of all the bands and trying to keep things going on the late evenings and him during the morning operating. 20 was hot especially Saturday morning with 3 or more stations calling on each over. 73, and thanks for the QSO's N2RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 619,650 I was bummed as the QRN would not let up all weekend and missed what sounded like excellent low band conditions on 160 and 80, oh well. Some monster signals: HB0/N0MX was killer on 80 and 15, ES5QX sounded like a local on 160 Sunday night, EA8EA was loud everywhere... Six bander (yes, it's twue!) V31UZ, usually a distinction held by PJ2T but never heard them on 10. Only a handful of QRP stations worked, not sure if it was conditions or just folks deciding to go other directions. Pet peeves: folks not sending their callsign, I mean seriously is once every few QSOs going to slow you down that much? Weird and/or confusing cut numbers sorry 5nnnnn, ak, 1ttt, can be a real pain in noise and I have to think that the number or repeats outweigh the potential rate increase. I do agree that the ubiquitous "5nn" is outdated/useless. 40 sounded great, but I wasn't hearing many new calls after a while. 15 was all over the place, with a small EU opening Sunday afternoon. 10 was well, at least I worked someone, sadly never heard VP6DX there. Lots of good ears and patience, appreciated as always... Se ya in RDXC! 73, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,742,004 An amazing experience as always. We had a big WX front approaching, with all sorts of dire forecasts ranging from Tornado possibilities to a 100% probability of rain and winds on Saturday as a cold front swept through central Texas. Friday night was not too noisy on the LF bands, although I could hear the noise in the atmosphere from the west. The front crept in as the contest started, but the really bad storms were forecasted to hit on Saturday afternoon and evening. Fortunately the weather at my home was simply rain and noisy bands plus some winds. The bad weather was to the east, and shut down K5NA for several hours. We got very noisy LF bands, but I never got the rain static on any of the antennas. The beverages helped a little. The weather/noise was a shame as the MUF was quite low and we had “long” conditions on 80 and 160, thus we were able to compete a bit better with the east coast into EU. But it was really hard to hear them. I think there was a mini-solar flare around 14:45Z Saturday. My runs on 20 meters dried up, and the signals almost went away for twenty minutes. As usual my formula for these is to CQ all the time and SO2R for the mults and changing bands when conditions merit. Others get some great mult numbers. Mine are low as usual. There is a significant room for improvement, but it’s harder when one is CQing all the time and getting a reasonable rate. I took two short sleep breaks and was off from 07:33 thru 09:14Z on Sat. AM plus from 02:58 thru 05:33Z on Sunday AM. It was very hard to get going when I wakened from the second and the sleep deprivation took fifteen minutes to wear off to some extent as I had a hard time figuring how to operate the station. At first I could only CQ. Then I relearned how to do the 2R for other stations to call. It was not pretty. In addition I took two a half hour off in the 20Z hour Saturday to take a shower and get cleaned up. So those are nearly five hours of “official” off times. In addition I took off two slots of twenty minutes on Sunday to talk with my wife and eat a bit of food. I’m calling it five and a half hours of on-time. It’s too bad that the bands were so bad, especially on Sunday. We had a small opening on 15 meters to EU on Saturday morning and to JA on Saturday afternoon. It was almost a complete wash out on Sunday. Ten meters was really bad for me as I had line noise and was able to hear only a handful of stations who were in the ESP range to start with. The VP6 operators were a model of very high operating capability. Kudos to them. On a minor but irritating matter, I had a problem with USA stations calling, especially on 20 meters in the afternoon. Everyone was camped on 20, and EU was weak but sort of workable. So many W4/W8/W9 stations called that I tried to courteously tell them it was “DX DX” but they either didn’t understand or didn’t care. Some called, overriding any DX, continuously and I had to work them. One might say “who cares-just work them and they will go away.” I tried that at times, but if you start that they all think it’s great and lots more call you, and the DX contest becomes the SS with zero points. The station here is aging, and some creaks and problems were apparent. The antennas need to be overhauled on 20-15-10, and the feedlines need to be replaced. Hopefully I’ll be able to take on that project this summer. Overall, it was hard work, and a “grit-fest” to see it through. Congratulations to locals K5YA, K5NA and N5AW for tremendous results. N5AW has never owned an amp, yet beats me on mults every contest. What a terrific operator. K5NA is more of a DXer who also is an expert contester. I am more of a contester who is a poor DXer. Our scores always are close. I “crushed” Richard by sixty points (yes, not sixty thousand…sixty) out of our 1.7+ million point totals. This one will be an accuracy contest. K5YA has a great station, and ran assisted with very good results. In addition, a small but excellent team operated from the W5KFT ranch station nearby. We have a vibrant contesting group around Austin, and that makes it fun. Congratulations on so many good scores. The CW skills of many people were in full evidence this weekend. Thanks to the many DXpeditions, and to the ARRL for supporting this contest. 73, Jim Some numbers follow: Rate 2008 ARRL CW DX HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 0 0 0 51 8 0 0 59 59 1 0 6 48 0 0 0 54 113 2 0 29 29 0 0 0 58 171 3 13 3 5 0 0 0 21 192 4 1 25 1 0 0 0 27 219 5 2 27 15 0 0 0 44 263 6 1 11 29 0 0 0 41 304 7 0 0 32 0 0 0 32 336 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 336 9 0 3 63 0 0 0 66 402 10 1 1 87 0 0 0 89 491 11 2 0 71 0 0 0 73 564 12 2 11 50 0 0 0 63 627 13 4 11 32 6 1 0 54 681 14 0 0 5 72 4 0 81 762 15 0 0 0 51 1 0 52 814 16 0 0 0 55 34 0 89 903 17 0 0 0 43 15 0 58 961 18 0 0 0 37 5 0 42 1003 19 0 0 0 14 9 0 23 1026 20 0 0 0 24 10 0 34 1060 21 0 0 0 31 17 0 48 1108 22 0 0 0 47 20 0 67 1175 23 0 0 4 46 0 0 50 1225 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 46 1271 1 0 6 23 0 0 0 29 1300 2 1 9 15 0 0 0 25 1325 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1325 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1325 5 0 4 8 0 0 0 12 1337 6 4 0 13 0 0 0 17 1354 7 0 1 33 0 0 0 34 1388 8 0 3 14 0 0 0 17 1405 9 0 1 23 0 0 0 24 1429 10 1 3 22 0 0 0 26 1455 11 1 6 25 0 0 0 32 1487 12 0 4 20 0 0 0 24 1511 13 0 0 0 63 0 0 63 1574 14 0 0 0 78 0 0 78 1652 15 0 0 0 47 0 0 47 1699 16 0 0 0 17 1 0 18 1717 17 0 0 0 10 9 0 19 1736 18 0 0 0 19 9 0 28 1764 19 0 0 0 17 4 3 24 1788 20 0 0 0 15 1 0 16 1804 21 0 0 1 12 1 0 14 1818 22 0 0 3 2 10 2 17 1835 23 0 0 26 0 0 0 26 1861 TOTAL 33 164 794 714 151 5 0802arrl cw dx n3bb 160CW 6Y CT G IS KL OM V2 VP9 9A EA6 HB0 JA KP2 PJ2 V3 C6 F I KH6 OK SP VP6 80CW 6Y CT3 F J7 LX PJ2 TI V6 YO 8P CX G JA LZ PY UA VK YU 9A DL GM KH6 OE PZ UA9 VP5 Z3 9V EA HA KL OK S5 UR VP6 ZF C6 EA6 HB KP2 OM SP V2 VP9 ZL CM EA8 HB0 KP4 P4 T32 V3 XE CT ES I LU PA T9 V4 YN 40CW 4U1U CE EA8 HB0 KH6 OH SM UA9 VP9 ZS 6Y CM EA9 HK KL OK SP UR VR 9A CT EI HL KP2 OM SV V3 XE 9M2 CT3 EU HS LA ON T32 V4 YB 9M6 CX F I LU OZ T9 V6 YL 9V D2 G IS LX P4 TF V7 YO BV DL GI J3 LY PA TI V8 YU BY DU GM J7 LZ PJ2 TK VK YV C3 EA HA JA OD PY UA VP5 ZL C6 EA6 HB KH2 OE S5 UA2 VP6 ZP 20CW 4U1U CT3 F HC JA LY PA UA VK YV 5H CX FR/J HK JW LZ PJ2 UA2 VP2V Z2 6Y DL G HL KH6 OE PY UA9 VP5 Z3 7Q EA GM HP KL OH PZ UN VP6 ZL 9A EA6 GU I KP2 OK S5 UR VP9 ZP 9M6 EA8 GW IS KP4 OM SM V2 XE ZS C6 EI HA J2 LA ON SP V3 YL CM ER HB J3 LU OZ T7 V4 YO CT EU HB0 J7 LX P4 T9 V6 YU 15CW 6Y CT EA8 HB0 KH2 OE PY V2 VP9 9A CT3 F HP KH6 OH PZ V3 YN A3 CX FR/J I KP2 ON SP V4 YO C6 D4 G J3 KP4 P4 T32 VK ZL CE DL GW J7 LU PA T9 VP5 ZP CM EA HA JA LX PJ2 TI VP6 10CW 6Y C6 J7 KH6 Continent List Continent Distribution 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 0 0 7 VE calls = 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 4 N.A. calls = 11 23 24 27 19 3 0 0 0 107 S.A. calls = 2 9 19 14 39 0 0 0 0 83 Euro calls = 13 88 319 535 38 0 0 0 0 993 Afrc calls = 0 4 10 14 5 0 0 0 0 33 Asia calls = 0 3 32 10 0 0 0 0 0 45 JA calls = 5 26 342 100 37 0 0 0 0 510 Ocen calls = 2 11 43 8 13 2 0 0 0 79 Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total calls = 33 164 794 714 151 5 0 0 0 1861 End ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,059 Very part time. Whenever I could sneak into the shack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,375,814 A terrible weekend here. Congrats to the K1AR and WE3C groups and also to the others that braved the crappy conditions. Family issues had me in a poor state of mind entering this contest, but it only got worse as time went on. We lost half of our automatic band switching station when one of the ACOM's died just before the contest. That forced us to manually bandswitch one side of that part of the station. Our main 20M amp blew on the first day, leaving us to the backup 76PA. N2SR and I spent much of Friday evening trying trying to repair the Alpha 89 amp in vain. Then one of the 20M computers crapped out, leaving us short handed to have a fully functional station network. I spent several hours late Friday evening/early Saturday morning trying to get it running. We had to resort to moving computers around as the bands opened/closed on 20M & 40M. My son came over on Saturday morning and helped me get that computer running. We finally had to resort to reformatting the HD and reloading XP. Finally got it working early evening on Saturday. Conditions were about as bad as they get, short of an explosion on the sun. In 54 years of contesting I can only remember one time that was worse and that was in the late 50's when we had a total blackout followed by a period that only permitted QSO's via backscatter from the aurora. That was in a sweepstakes contest. We hope to do better in the SSB contest and look forward to some freckles on the sun. 73 de Sig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 667,776 Probably worst condx I remember in an ARRL contest (about 20 years). 73 de Moe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 909,006 Poor start, strong finish. Propagation just seemed to keep getting better and better but the QRN from approaching storms was there both nights. I was amazed at how well I was getting into Europe Saturday night. If I could hear 'em (between static crashes), I could work 'em. Caught only a few EU on 15M just as the sun was going down in EU (1730Z). Worked EF3A, EA5GS, HG6N, OE4A, T96Q. Only OE4A answered my CQ's for 10 minutes as everyone else must have been on 20M. I was pleased to work V31TP, V31UZ, VP6DX, and 6Y1LZ on 6 Bands. Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 101,394 Modest effort with modest station. Caught VP6 and T32 on 15 m for new ones. Great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 86,760 Who said you can't have fun in an antenna restricted community. Used Hamsticks on my car for 80, 20, and 15, a Comet vertical for 40 & 10. The big surprise was working VP6DX on 80 meters. Every QSO was S & P. The FT-2000D worked great along with the ALS-600. Logging program: WriteLog 10.65 Confirmation #: 4030192.arrl-dx-cw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OGW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 26,040 Did a very part-time 80m single-band effort, only friday night. Could only start operating after 9:00 pm. QRN was terrible on friday night. Saturday night it was even worse and I didn't bother to operate at all. A line of storms moved through in the early morning sunday with thunder and lightning. Also got on a little saturday afternoon, there had 208/47 on 20m, 25/15 on 15m. Tor N4OGW/5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,172,184 The Continent List pretty much summarizes the Lows and Highs: Continent List ARRL DX CW 2008 N4TZ/9 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 VE calls = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.A. calls = 15 18 22 28 18 0 101 S.A. calls = 3 7 20 23 30 6 89 Euro calls = 39 112 176 736 0 0 1063 Afrc calls = 2 4 6 15 1 0 28 Asia calls = 0 0 1 8 0 0 9 JA calls = 0 1 6 18 0 0 25 Ocen calls = 3 10 14 4 9 0 40 Total calls = 62 152 245 832 58 6 1355 NO Europeans heard on 15 meters despite continually tuning on the second radio. The second radio's primary use came Sunday to check out heavy QRN! There was heavy QRN starting about 1800z and continuing on and off until about 2000. Unlike the earlier precipitation QRN around 1000-1200z which was workable by using the beverages (or lower antennas on the tower), the afternoon static was S9++ on all antennas. The only time I had heard that widespread problem before was when a tornado passed a couple of miles from my house in the 2002 CQWW contest. I checked the local tv stations but no warnings were posted. It was pretty windy, but not raining this time. In fact, when the heavy rain started at 1919z the noise went down on the lower antennas and the beverages so I was able to start working people again. It's pretty hard for me to make productive use of the second radio when only one band is really open (20 during the day, 40 at night). With low power I can't reliably work a weak station on the second radio in one or even two calls. TR shows only 37 second radio QSOs completed. This past year I have been only able to use one hand to tune a radio so I need to have a run frequncy to make use of the second radio. I got the new QST telling me the first sunspot has been noted for the new cycle. Things will get awfully boring in the fone weekend without 15 & 10 and tuning those same 100 guys calling CQ on 20 all weekend long. But, I expect to be at it again. It sure is more interesting than the relative certainty of even a dial-up internet connection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 56,400 Antennas: 40m: wire dipole fixed N/S 20/15m: D-3 dipole fixed NE/SW OP TIME: 10 hours casual Highlight was 7:30am Sunday morning working JA's and New Zealand. Not sure I worked any EU on 15m, need to do a little more log parsing. SA has to be off the end of the dipole as they were very difficult to work even though signals were quite loud. JA should suffer from the same problem but they were more workable (at least the ones I could hear!). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 635,304 Hard to keep my head in this one, but I still had fun. I went to bed four hours after the start of the contest - I was simply too tired to continue. The low bands seemed quiter the first night, but signals were strong enough to get through the noise on the second night. Rates were painful during the afternoon hours. I did manage to run a little bit on 20M both days, but nothing spectacular. I didn't use the second radio too much in this one, but it was nice to have the option - the second rig did result in some extra mults. Managed 2 LUs, 2 V31s and 2 CXs on 10. Those were the only dx I heard. I was surprised 15 sucked as much as it did. I figured it would open at least a little to europe one morning for some mults, but it never really happened. I heard 9A7A, 9A1A, YO9HP and EA4TX, but couldn't raise them. Only EU on 15 was a G station. 20 meters was obviously the big band. I was happy with the new bi-square antenna. I was able to run when I could find a clear frequency, which was often above 14.100. Using an AMP would have made it a lot more enjoyable on 20. The Bi-square out performs the tribander, but I still need more kick on 20. 40M - I missed a lot on 40M after going to bed so early the first night, but I had a good time there. I didn't work a single JA, but the path didn't seem to great each morning. I heard two, but no luck for me. 80M - 80 is always a fun band to me. Signals were good both nights. The new beveraged helped on 80 and 40. 160 - The highlight on 160 was getting up at 6:45 local Sunday morning and snagging KH7X and KL7RA witin a few minutes. I didn't spend a lot of time on 160, but conditions seemed good. Station IC 765 and Ten Tec Corsair 160 - Inverted L (75 vertical) 80 - Ground plane 40 - Halfsquare and Dipole 20: Bi-Square and Loop plus TA33JR 15: 2 element delta loop fixed to EU (One qso!), Delta loop, TA33JR 10: TA33JR (roof mounted, about 35 feet high) 360 foot beverage (ne/sw) Writelog, WX0B six pak, Timewave DSP 59+, Dunestar audio mixer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 111,870 Part time effort - signals not real strong on 20 - 40 was better - what do you expect at the bottom of the sunspot cycle - Things should be much better next year! Thanks for all the contacts! 73 Bill N4ZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,095,444 This HAS to be the bottom of the cycle. Poorest I've ever heard 10 meters from Texas in this contest. And if that weren't bad enough local thunderstorms from Friday afternoon until early Sunday morning virtually wiped out 160 and severely impacted 80. With all this it was a struggle to break 1 meg. Of course I think back to the peak of cycle 22 in 1989 when three of us became the first ever low power W/VE stations to score over 1 meg. How things have changed! In 1989 I used a quad at 48 feet, a multiband vertical, one radio and manual logging. Never thought I'd have the set up I have today (see below). Equipment: Tentec Orion and Icom IC-746Pro at 100 watts. Homebrew SO2R controller. TR log. Antennas: 10/15/20 - stack of 2 C3's (2L each) @ 31 and 25 mtrs fixed NE, 3L SteppIR @ 41 mtrs, 4L SteppIR @ 23 mtrs, TH3jr @ 13 mtrs fixed SE 40 - Homebrew Moxon @ 42 mtrs, Lazy H @ 35 mtrs beaming NW-SE 80 - array of 5 sloping dipoles from 41 mtr tower 160 - elevated radials on 42 mtr tower Receiving: one 160 mtr long beverage NE QSOs by Continent: 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- N.A. calls = 15 22 25 27 22 4 115 S.A. calls = 4 10 30 23 40 6 113 Euro calls = 1 74 138 319 26 0 558 Afrc calls = 0 4 9 10 9 0 32 Asia calls = 0 3 10 9 0 0 22 JA calls = 1 16 144 45 20 0 226 Ocen calls = 5 13 21 14 13 3 69 Total calls = 26 142 377 447 130 13 1135 The best 60 minute rate was 75/hour from 1254 to 1353 The best 30 minute rate was 96/hour from 1319 to 1348 The best 10 minute rate was 132/hour from 1333 to 1342 There were 122 band changes and 25 probable 2nd radio QSO's. Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 591 2 bands 86 3 bands 50 4 bands 30 5 bands 12 6 bands 7 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: VP6DX V31UZ J7DX PJ4O 6Y1LZ PJ2T KH6LC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6BV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,116,489 I just couldn't get psyched up for this contest. I suppose it didn't help that I had to climb the 15-meter tower to fix the middle antenna just before the contest. I'm getting too old for that before a 48-hour long contest. The week before we had some high winds, a "20-year storm." Not only did the antennas get blown around, but the power-pole insulators must have been blown around too. The powerline noise was bad for the early part of the contest. Thankfully, things got better later on Saturday when the wind pretty much stopped. Anyhow, I started the contest with high hopes for a couple of hours running JAs on 15 meters. Nada... so I moved down to 20 meters after working one South American station on 15. My attitude didn't get appreciably better after that. We sure need some more sunspots, particularly for us propagationally challenged West Coast guys. Yeah: Whine, whine. I got way more sleep than I usually get in a DX contest, with CT saying that I was on for 37.6 hours. As I said, it was difficult to get motivated when the bands were as poor as they were out here in W6 and when the weak stations were blotted out by powerline noise. Ken, N6RO, was kind enough to let me use his magnificent station. (Thanks, Ken, really!) He said it best, as he was walking out the door to do a music gig on Saturday afternoon. He saw me, looking very bedraggled and bored after sending my millionth CQ, and said: "Boy, the way you look is why I no longer do 48-hour contests." Words of wisdom, indeed. But the human organism has a wonderful ability to forget pain, especially if we get some sunspots next year! Hope springs eternal. 73, Dean, N6BV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6KI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 78,966 Just a few hours S&Ping late Sat nite and Sunday afternoon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 43,602 Too much going on! I just kicked back and did some casual operating. Hey I worked VP6DX on all 6 bands! I really enjoyed the low bands. There is always more focus on them through the sunspot minimums. It would be nice to keep it rolling through the whole cycle. I know... it is not where the big scores are made. One thing for sure the participation was low. Hopefully this will reverse as things improve. Maybe we should go back to limiting the number of contacts per country and spread it out over two weekends. That way we could travel to two places and increase the participation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,294,425 It has been many years since I operated a single-op all band effort in the ARRL DX Contest. This sure is a difficult way to earn WRTC points. :-) The low bands were great. Highlight was a brief but fantastic long path opening to Europe on both 80m and 40m, at local sunrise. That was fun! HA5JI and IZ4EFN already sent me nice some audio recordings of my signal. The other highlight was working BA6QH on 40m -- he was running < 1 Watt output! Lowlight was 10m -- almost no propagation here, plus line noise. 15m was better but the openings were limited. Rig: FT-1000MP (2), Alpha 86, Alpha 87A, 1500W Tx Ant: 5 el 10, 5 el 15, 5 el 20, 3 el 40, 1 el 80 (rotary), Shunt-fed tower on 160m (one tower, small city lot). Rx Ant: KC2TX 160m loop, KD9SV preamp. SO2R: microHAM MK2R+ Software: Win-Test 3.19 Many thanks to all the DX who make this contest fun for the stateside guys. I hope it was fun for you as well. 73, Bob, N6TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 37,152 In spite of us being at the bottom of the sunspot cycle, I really enjoyed this contest. I did this one for fun, rather than serious contesting, but still did fairly well for 5w and simple wire antennas. Almost nothing heard from Europe, just one DL and two OH stations. However, I did work ZS, D4 and EA8 so I did make it across the Atlantic. I did this contest entirely S&P, as CQing in this dust-up would have been a waste of effort. I did well though, so far as getting replies from all the stations I called. I only missed a reply from the lone HL station I heard. I'm down 40+ QSOs and down 20+ countries from my 2006 try. I could really see the drop in conditions in just two years. The only new DXCC entity I picked up was 4U1UN, and my only 10m QSO was LU. This contest was pretty much confined to the "usual suspects". I finished with just 172 QSOs and 72 countries, for a score of 37,152 points. Thanks for all the QSOs and the patient listening. Now to prep for the CQ 160 SSB next weekend. 73, Bob N6WG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7DD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 97,200 Busy this weekend so no real effort. Used Write Log packet window and band map. Kind of fun with 200 watts. Made my goal of 100 countries and quit. See you all in the SSB from 4B2S. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 207,363 A challenging QRP experience: 1) Disturbed ionospheric conditions with quiet sun solar flux values; 2) Another in a long series of "unusual" massive winter thunderstorm outbreaks over the middle of the continent, drifting slowly east during the weekend; 3) Failure in tower-mounted antenna switch caused infinite SWR in 20 meter feed on 5BA around 0100Z on Friday evening; forced to use C3S at 20 feet on 20 meters for the rest of the contest; 4) Rotator on 40 foot tower won't turn until the temperature rises above 60F, which is around 11 a.m. local time each morning; park C3S facing east each evening after 20 meters dies. It can only get better: The tower maintenance is scheduled already and the next sunspot cycle is beginning. Thanks for the contacts and see you in the WPX CW contest. 2 Elecraft K2 transceivers N1MM Logger V7.12.12 Top Ten Devices SO2R controller Antennas Radio 1 20/15/10 meters Force 12 5BA at 73' 40 meters Force 12 EF230/240 at 84' Radio 2 20/15/10 meters Force 12 C3S at 40' 80 meters Delta loop, apex at 72' 160 meters Shunt-fed 72' top-loaded tower K9AY Receiving Loop Array 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7NT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,250 Radio: TenTec Orion II, 100 watts Antenna: Dipole at 30 feet with tuner Had been sick the week before the contest and was only able to manage a very part-time effort. Still managed to work two new countries and several new band entities. I'll be glad when the sun spots began to make an appearance. Richard, N7NT Mesa, AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 27,360 February obligations to the my local Ham Club prevent me from giving this test my all so I decided to go Single Band 40 this year. That way I could plink away in the dark hours and after my Saturday meetings. It was also a chance to learn the band in a bit more detail. It's surprising what shows up in the daylight hours on 40M. Remember when you were learning to be a ham and they said, "If you can't hear 'em, you can't work 'em", Well, this was the contest of... if THEY can't hear YOU, you can't work 'em either. :>) I heards plenty of stations that didn't hear me - particularly in Europe. Then, there were a number of times I got tangled up in a Q that just was not going to turn out anyway but busted on their side. So, I would just dump the Q and sometimes I got 'em later. In all, I figure there were about another 10 European mults that I heard and just couldn't make the deal on. On the other hand, a pleasant surprise was the number of very worakable 5 watt JA's including my good friend JR1NKN/W7KN. It was fun... in a masochistic kind of way :>) cheers dink, n7wa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 151,866 The low bands were not nearly as productive as I had hoped (as compared to years past). 40 was good in the late afternoon, but would be like a wet noodle after dark. 80 was the pits (could be my antenna). Good copy on lots of stations that would just ignore me. The A index was a little high at the start of the contest so I thought the second day would be better. Instead, I felt it was clearly worse. I'm not sure why. 15 meters barely opened at all on Sunday. No 15 JA runs on either of the days. I can now say that I've experienced a solar minimum as a contester. OK, the character building excercise is now beyond old. The bright spot was in working VP6DX in the contest on 4 bands 160, 80, 40 and 15. The mult count is low due to very poor low band performance. A bad day of contesting is better than a good day at work. No significant station changes thus far. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 350,532 Not much time for this one - did not get home until Saturday night. Condx pretty good on the low bands Saturday evening. 20 was good on Sunday. Almost nothing heard on 10 and 15 was most SA and Pacific. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 111,750 I had so many things going on this weekend that put contesting at the bottom of the list, but I did manage to get a little key time in between my daughters Winter Guard competition and other family obligations. Conditions Friday night were great on 160 and 80 meters. On 160M I managed to break through to two EU stations and pick up a total of three new DXCC contacts. On 80M I worked a lot of EU and added a few new ones to on that band. 40M was pretty good but I didn't really get to be around early enough to make the most of it. 20M was the bread and butter bands for sure, but that has been the story the last few contests anyway. 15M was okay but nothing spectacular. EU was not strong and SA never really got going. Of course I was in and out so I might have missed a lot. I never heard a station on 10M the times I was on. From the looks of things I did not miss anything. Overall I did good for a part time effort. Picked up one or two new DXCC on all bands except 15M. Worked three ZL's on 40M, worked T32OU on 40 and 15, worked a lot of KH7 and KL7 stations, and worked PJ4O, PJ2T, 6Y1LZ, J7DX on 5 bands. I even managed to work VP6DX on 15 and 20. This was a good opportunity to explore true gray line propagation. Signals just prior to sunset or sunrise were weak, then for a few minutes the signals would hit 20 over then fade away completely. This was the case for most of the PAC RIM stations that I worked on 15 and 20 meters. No K2's, no K3's, no SO2R with stacked this and that on 200' towers, just a little old tri-bander, some wires, and good old fashioned fun! The way QRP is supposed to be! ;-) 72 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 523,380 Lots of fun, as always. Thanks to all the DX for getting on and making ARRL DX CW one of the best. Surprised how well the XM-240 2el 40m yagi (95') works on 15. Only "real" 15m antenna is the KT34-A tribander, fixed east at 37'. The recent INRAD roofing filter mod to the old TS-930 made a noticeable difference (positive) in it's receiver performance. It already had the PIEXX board and W6NL mods done. Looks like I'll be keeping this 20+ year old rig around for a few more years. 73, Charlie N9CO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 181,746 Had some fun passing out the MT mult for a while with my wire antenna. Lots of people with good ears out there. Let's all hope the high bands get better, 10 and 15 were both pretty bad here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9VN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 360 This was my first try at a DX contest. I wasn't sure how well the "dorm room special" horizontal loop would get out. I could only run about 40 watts, since it is an indoor antenna and I didn't want the RF getting into everything, including myself. Was only on for a few hours due to work obligations, but made good use of those few hours. All my contatcs were on 15m & 20m. I listened through 40m, but the band was too short & all i heard were domestic stations. The power level reporting from some of the stations confused me at first (5TT, 1TT, etc...), but i figured it out eventually, plus it made it really easy to tell the local stations from the DX. Had a bunch of ???'s but stuck with it and eventually got through. It's nice to know that you can still DX, even if you're stuck in an apartment or dorm room like myself. Maybe i'll give it a go for the SSB and see how that works out... 73's Vince - N9VN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 301,002 Log uploaded to LOTW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 29,382 - Just dabbled off-and-on during the weekend. Conditions seemed average for this point in the cycle - no major surprises. Rugged going as usual with 3 watts. Did work Ducie Is. and worked several stations on 4 bands. Thanks again to the good ears out there pulling me through. TI5N sounded good for just 5 watts. See you in the SSB contest! Station: Ten Tec Argonaut 509 - 3 watts out; 3 element tribander at 15 meters and wire dipoles at 13 meters. 73 es gud DX, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1B Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 56,322 Limited time S&P. Still chopping ice from this week's ice storm. Good conditions in afternoon to Pacific on 15m. Rig: FT-2000 Antennas: SteppIR 4 el.@ 70' and 40m. dipole @ 50'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE3F Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,610,555 Team NE3F did ok . Two new cw ops that could run and kept the station on the air. bands were down ,but nice 40/20 runs. Only trouble was a stuck rotorand a long Sunday climb to fix it. My legs still hurt from it. I hope SSB is better , sure missed 15 runs. Steve & TEAM NE3F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 100,440 I didn't have a goal in mind when the contest started -- just wanted to work at building my contesting skills -- but as the final hour approached I found myself within striking distance of 100K points (a big deal for this little pistol!). 20 was the only band with any activity and I had picked it over pretty well. . . and the few new stations that came up were piled up like rare DX. In the last half hour I worked a pileup to get KG6DX for my last mult, then found a hole and banged away furiously for the last 20 minutes. As time ran out, I REALLY wanted that 100K score and a run of JA's in the final minutes was bringing it nearer. With less than 2 minutes to go, I crossed the 100K line and managed one more Q for good measure before the flag dropped (with JA4DQX/QRP!!). Mni tnx to the JA's that brought it home for me! And tnx to all the other good ears and great ops for making it a fun contest. Motorola FT-1000MP Mark-V Field Logikey K-5 keyer Spiderbeam at 35' for 15 & 20 80M OCF dipole at 100' for 40 & 80 N3FJP Contest Logger 73, Rock NE7D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 57,519 I did not have the intention of spending 8+ hours this time around. DX from this part of the country seems to be hard to come by. But I was pleasantly surprised to work so much DX that I got hooked. Nearly all was S&P. CQing a few times was fruitless most of the time. Did have a nice run of EU Sunday morning before church. Checked 10M several times to see if I could hear the VP6 guys but never did. Saw then spotted both on phone and CW. Need them on 10 for 5 bands. Thanks for the q's Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ8J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 672 Alinco Dx-77T MFJ Delix Versatuner II LDG AT-11MP Autotuner 100' ladder-line-fed wire Woke up early Saturday morning and decided to get on for a couple of hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN2W Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 33,099 The clubs first qrp effort. Only single band as we are in the process of rebuilding the station. Hopefully we will be ready for cqww. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,284,310 OUCH! Thanks to John N3HBX for the continued use of the farm. Tower 3 was not movable owing to control box issues; one Orion was spazzing out midway through the test and one FT1000 basically died. That was a HARD contest. Was originally unassisted but was so frustrated by the way things were progressing, that I decided to have fun instead and play DX chaser. Worked lots of DX, was called by some rare DX, got into a VERY nasty frequency fight with an Eastern European guy, completed a six band sweep with all of TWO stations, slept a little, and took comfort in the fact that conditions cannot. possibly. get. any. worse. than. this. I am a single op, but when I hear that K3LR and W3LPLs 10 meter counts were less than my age, its really bad. Now I need to ponder if I'm really stupid enough to repeat this two weeks from now................ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 112,941 Part time effort due to work, all S&P small opening on 10 to snag VP6DX. Just a few all bands, 6Y1LZ, PJ4O. Had fun, had set a goal of 12 hours and 100,000 pts managed to beat the 100k. Nice opening to JA sunday evening on 20m. Look for me full-time in the SSB. FT1000MP MkV 100W 160m Dipole @ 65ft N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 104,544 Limited time to operate due to weekend visitors, but I wanted to reach 100,000 points for the WWDXC. Friday night seemed really slow. Saturday midmorning had a nice bunch of Europeans on 20m, and that was all the time I had. Thanks to the DX for making this a fun contest. NN7SS (op K6UFO) Equipment: Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 amplifier 3-el SteppIR at 55' C3 Tribander at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' 80-meter half-sloper NE and SE beverage receiving antennas Writelog software QSO/DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 3/3 22/4 3/3 --+-- 28/10 28/10 D1-0100Z - - - 21/7 - - 21/7 49/17 D1-0200Z - - 1/1 21/3 - - 22/4 71/21 D1-0300Z 3/3 5/5 9/6 - - - 17/14 88/35 30 D1-0400Z - 7/6 - - - - 7/6 95/41 42 D1-0500Z - 4/3 12/6 - - - 16/9 111/50 19 D1-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 111/50 60 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 111/50 60 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 111/50 60 D1-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 111/50 60 D1-1000Z 6/4 4/4 - - - - 10/8 121/58 40 D1-1100Z - 5/1 13/7 - - - 18/8 139/66 6 D1-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/66 60 D1-1300Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/66 60 D1-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/66 60 D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 139/66 60 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 139/66 60 D1-1700Z - - - 2/2 - - 2/2 141/68 57 D1-1800Z - - - 44/24 - - 44/24 185/92 D1-1900Z - - - 21/10 4/4 - 25/14 210/106 D1-2000Z - - - 9/5 9/9 - 18/14 228/120 D1-2100Z - - - - 18/4 - 18/4 246/124 D1-2200Z - - - 14/6 5/2 - 19/8 265/132 Total: 9/7 25/19 38/23 154/61 39/22 0/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ3X Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 127,926 Had a great time even with the lousy condx. See you all next time around with more time in the chair! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,656,929 160m W4SVO FT-1000D and Alpha 77...new sloping vertical system did great job..we passed last years score by the end of the first night...best score ever from here on 160m! Good job Bulldog!! 80m K2SX and WB4A FT-1000D FT1000MP Alpha 77 and Alpha 78...3 element vertical array still doing great job...will be adding the next 3 elements this spring and then we will have a serious 80m antenna!!K2SX and WB4A hung in there till the end!! Excellent job! 40m K1XX and K5KG FT-1000D x 2 Henry 4K and Henry 3K-A...we moved Charlie K1XX from the 20m team for this contest to 40m and he and George K5KG did an excellent job...worked 3 HS0's XU, BY, 9V1, 9M6, UA9 etc...Charlie and George may have found a home on 40m now... 20m VE7ZO, K4TD,KY4F, and W5LE FT-1000D x2 Alpha 77 and Henry 3K Classic II...for 20m we deployed our greatest assets ZO and TD to our greatest resource 20m....it payed off with dividends!! Our best 20m score in a very long time...the 8 el was the best Mult antenna..in and out in one call! The long nights were lonely and not very productive...ZO had 2 back to back 175+ hours Sat morning! And TD had some great runs Sunday morning...looks like we now have the 20m team in place! W5LE is back in Ga and made it down...glad to have you back Gene! 15m K4BAI and K2UFT FT-1000D and FT-1000MP Henry amps x2...boy what a disappointment 15 m was! On Saturday it was a struggle for each qso...John and Dick kept smiles on their faces, but inside they were disappointed! John worked our first JA on Sat and that was pretty amazing considering the poor EU opening that morning...Sunday was a breath of fresh air with the conditions some what better... 10m NQ4I FT-1000D and Alpha 87A...B-O-O-R-I-N-G...no qso's Friday evening...only 5 or 6 qso's by the eend of Saturday...but on Sunday K1XM spotted us on 10m and made the comment "weak and lonely" within 30 seconds, GB2CP called in and was in the log for the only EU!!! We tried unsuccessfully to move numerous other big signal EU stations from 15m with no success... We had to shut down for a little more than an hour Sunday evening for thunderstorms...so we missed our goal of 4000 qso's...We had only one equipment failure of a Henry 4K Ultra amp on 40m at midnight on Saturday, and I wheeled the Henry 3K from the 10m mult station where it had been sitting with no job to perform and it took up the slack just fine the rest of the weekend...Mexican food was enjoyed after the contest...nothing better than chips, salsa, guacamole and margaritas after a long contest weekend! Our next outing will be CQ WPX SSB at the end of March...ARRL SSB, the station will be in-active...it was really fun to watch the leader-board scores...the first night K1XM, K1TTT,W2FU and our selves as we each see-sawed up and down...K1XM with their superior low band antennas(at W1KM) took the lead at the end of the first 12 hours and managed to hold on to it till the end...there was still lots of jockeying around for the next 3 positions...I think that K1XM finally "got some respect" this weekend!!! Great job guys! And I want to compliment our other competition K1TTT and W2FU...That's what I call a great contest!! Great job!!! GL to all and thanks so much for all the qso's ... See everyone in WPX SSB...de Rick NQ4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,500,485 We had a great crew who had a tremendous time putting the still developing station through the paces. Activity was great while to a degree condx left something to be desired. Ten can only get better. Top band has certainly been better. With the exception of a glitch in the router on one of the Microham keyers, we experienced no failures. There's plenty of antenna work to be done yet, but we were really pleased with how well what is currently in place played. Thanks to everyone for the Qs! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 127,323 Not a serious effort at all, but that's okay. I still had fun. I worked VP6DX for a new country, so that was cool. Thanks to them for joining the contest fun. Also worked my first 4Z on 80 meters for a new band country. Had issues with my 40 meter antennas, which one minute were fine and then the next were haywire. I finally figured it out on Sunday afternoon - it was the remote switchbox and not the antennas themselves. Once again, I have to ask European contesters to please don't use "QSO B4." I must have had eight or ten stations that sent that to me, and I did not have anything close to their call in my log...so I just moved on. At one point on Saturday night, I fell asleep at the keyboard while S&P'ing on 80 meters. I woke up hearing my call sign and 5NN KW in my headphones. I was startled and didn't know what to do. The station sent my call and the exchange again, so I sent 5NN MD. The funny part was that there was no call in my log entry window. So I had to listen to the station for a few Q's before he gave his own call to figure out who I'd just had a contact with! Now if I could only figure out how to sleep AND log the calls, this might be something to experiment with hi hi Please pass on your contest photos and stories for my contesting web site - ns3t (at) arrl (dot) net 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net Your home for ham radio contest news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT6AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 92,664 The joys of portable operating in the mountains! Get up to the cabin about two hours before the contest. No antennas up, Ok not a big deal, I can put stuff up, but about the third trip into the cabin I realize I have NO HEAT!!! Antennas go up first of course. The normal stuff of losing a pulley or two (squirrels eating the support rope I think!) Having 3/4 of my radial field ripped up and dumped in a ball (now who did that?). But I get up a 300 foot loop about 50 feet high fed by the auto tuner at the top. The Sigma vertical dipole is the "backup". Still no heat, I can live with it.. sure.. until it got to about 40 in the cabin around 6pm local. Fix the heater, pilot won't light. Weird circuit, 5th try, found the button in the back that allows gas flow...HEAT! On the air a couple of hours late. Tuner lasts 20 minutes then quits in a current sucking finish. Not good. Work 20 as long as I can. Go out in the dark and construct a 40 dipole and pull it "up", maybe 30 feet. Included angle is too great and it won't feed... go to bed. Fix next morning, straighten it out get it higher about 40 feet and now it works fine! Work some morning 40, but I missed the sunrise stuff, work a little 20-15 until the band gets flat and then build and put up an 80 meter inverted vee. Still, worked a few. The Sigma-5 worked better than a little antenna should. The 40 dipole worked great once I got it up and in the clear. By next year I should have a 40 foot tower with at least a tribander, and maybe a 2 el 40. Hope springs eternal! Score is way off from last year. Murphy won this round! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT6X Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 8,436 Again, thanks for hearing me. I'm so PW! Borrowed TS-940s and a crappy all-band dipole at 17' Mike, NT6X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 23,400 More of a DXing outing than a contest...just put in a few hours looking for new band countries. 73, NX9T (jeff) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,048,082 'Best ears' award to VP6DX team. COME ON SUNSPOTS !! 73, Howie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE1DIA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 43,095 wkd with 200W and dipole in down town of Vienna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE4A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,553,472 Realized my business trip to Europe ended the day before the contest. Rather than fly home and be tired, thought I would try to find a station and hear what the contest sounds like from the other side. Many thanks to Braco, OE1EMS, for arranging an invitation to OE4A. Braco also spent two trips to the station to give me a 160 meter antenna! Station owner, Rainer, OE4RLC, was very helpful in showing me how the station worked and staying with me until the 1am finish time! Rig: FT1000MP Mark V Field Antennas: 160 - some kind of inverted L looking thing 80 - 2-el Optibeam @25m 40 - 3-el Optibeam @20m 20/15 - Big Optibeam @25m Only one radio so band changes sometimes took 10 minutes for me to find a new frequency among all the crowding. The station is one of the quietest receiving locations I have ever experienced. I could hear all the way to the noise floor of the receiver on 40-15 meters. The strength of the OE4A location is on 15m. Too bad the band never really opened so I could enjoy it. Did get two short runs on Sunday. Not sure why the 80m score is so low. Just couldn't get answers to CQs there. Thought there might be a problem with the antenna until I had 6 different California stations call me on Sat night. Even so, never worked any W7 and missed lots of other mults on that band. ARRL DX is much different from Europe than the USA. It seems that most of the activity for the contest is in Europe. So always difficult to find a frequency. Also many times when the band was open to USA, but there was no one there to work. Best examples were the early opening on 40 (band was wide open at 3pm EST, but no one around) and again well after EU sunrise (would be 3am EST, again no one around). I did sleep 2 hours the first morning and 4 hours the second. Contest ends at 1am. Drove to the airport and caught a 6am flight to Frankfurt and then home. TBands open better to the South than the North. Never knew there were so many contesters in FL and NC! hanks again to Rainer and Braco for hosting my contest expedition to Austria! Great fun (even with poor propagation) and great memories. QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 00Z --+-- --+-- 141/36 --+-- --+-- --+-- 141/36 141/36 01Z - 9/8 79/2 - - - 88/10 229/46 02Z 4/4 22/7 47/4 - - - 73/15 302/61 03Z 5/3 2/0 76/2 - - - 83/5 385/66 04Z 38/11 44/10 - - - - 82/21 467/87 05Z 1/0 16/2 22/0 - - - 39/2 506/89 06Z - 1/0 26/0 - - - 27/0 533/89 07Z - - 7/0 1/1 - - 8/1 541/90 42 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 541/90 60 09Z - - 3/0 1/1 - - 4/1 545/91 39 10Z - - - 19/10 - - 19/10 564/101 29 11Z - - - 44/9 - - 44/9 608/110 12Z - - - 123/10 - - 123/10 731/120 13Z - - - 137/5 - - 137/5 868/125 14Z - - - 115/7 1/1 - 116/8 984/133 15Z - - - 110/6 - - 110/6 1094/139 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 109/4 --+-- --+-- 109/4 1203/143 17Z - - - 112/3 1/1 - 113/4 1316/147 18Z - - - 84/0 6/4 - 90/4 1406/151 19Z - - - 49/1 - - 49/1 1455/152 20Z - - 10/0 35/0 - - 45/0 1500/152 21Z - - 37/1 - - - 37/1 1537/153 22Z - - 61/1 - - - 61/1 1598/154 23Z - - 76/1 - - - 76/1 1674/155 00Z 9/1 5/2 27/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 41/3 1715/158 01Z - 82/6 - - - - 82/6 1797/164 02Z - 1/0 52/1 - - - 53/1 1850/165 03Z - 33/2 25/0 - - - 58/2 1908/167 04Z - 43/3 - - - - 43/3 1951/170 05Z 1/0 5/0 - - - - 6/0 1957/170 06Z - - 6/0 - - - 6/0 1963/170 22 07Z - - - - - - 0/0 1963/170 60 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1963/170 60 09Z - - - - - - 0/0 1963/170 60 10Z - - - 3/0 - - 3/0 1966/170 37 11Z - - - 11/0 - - 11/0 1977/170 12Z - - - 38/0 - - 38/0 2015/170 13Z - - - 61/0 - - 61/0 2076/170 14Z - - - 29/0 25/9 - 54/9 2130/179 15Z - - - 68/0 - - 68/0 2198/179 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 83/0 --+-- --+-- 83/0 2281/179 17Z - - - 78/0 15/4 - 93/4 2374/183 18Z - - - 21/0 39/4 - 60/4 2434/187 19Z - - - 61/0 - - 61/0 2495/187 20Z - - 15/0 11/0 - - 26/0 2521/187 21Z - - 47/0 - - - 47/0 2568/187 22Z - - 66/5 - - - 66/5 2634/192 23Z - 23/0 40/0 - - - 63/0 2697/192 Total:58/19 286/40 863/53 1403/57 87/23 0/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FC Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 5,904 TS2000 ant. delta loop vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FKD Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 6,300 Elecraft K2-5W, ant LW 42m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,875,531 During the contest I thought that the propagation is BAD but compared to what came 2 weeks later.... different story. I knew that I could not seriously compete with my buddy OK1RF being CT1JLZ and having already some antennas so the fight was for the second Eu spot. And it was just frustrating to here him when the propagation for me was over how he worked you guys there and I heard just NOTHING ! I just wonder how Dave G4BUO did (again he is over 1000 km closer !!!), last year it was close, so we will see. I was waiting for his post but finally gave up. HI ! Just for fun I was trying to compare where CT1JLZ and me are compared to US for some idea how it might "play" there. Me in JN79 he in IM57 LOCs. So first try was lets say I am at W0AIH where is he and my first guess was it is going to something like VA but... OOPS !! it is 20 miles west of VP9 ! One more try CT1JLZ at W3LPL QTH and me than it is few miles west of ND/MT border ! OK Europe is not that small ! I could (well: almost) in the past keep up with CT8T but he had there only tiny tribander no L antennas to speak about... A pleasure as always and thanks for a call ! 73 ! Jiri OK1RI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL0A Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 46,269 RIG IC746PRO, 100W, SteppIR 3el. Yagi. Interesting condx on Sunday evening, east coast signals disappeared and only W5,6,7, VE5,6,7 could be heard as late as 2230 GMT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 156,576 A real OK 40m race. Two stations (me OL3R and Mirek OK3R) with similar callsigns in the same class with the same equipment in different location in Czech Republic. I hope nobody had problem in listening both callsings, hi. Congrats to Mirek OK3R for his little bit better final score. 10qso difference in our results seems like good information for us, what we can really make on 40m with 4el. monobander. As usual last part of contest was better in US/VE activity. I monitored good middle east and west coast SP opening in window from saturday to sunday. Better LP opening to W6,7 was in Sunday afternoon. Total number of logged LP contats is about 30 QSOs. Missed US mults from Idaho, North Dakota and number of in EU not so easy workable VE mults. VE9 and VE6 came in last contest hour. Equipment: ---------- FT1000MP (modified) 4el. KLM (linear loaded) at 23m PPA 2xSRS457 Win-Test Thanks to all who called CU and 73 de Milan,OK1VWK QSL information on QRZ.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 165,522 Thanks all for QSOs. Limited time. Opereted only for fun. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 81,528 On Saturday morning I worked 2 hours, afternoon other 4 and later evening other 2. Rest I devoted to family :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM2VL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 118,455 First night very bad condx. Made only 383 QSO. Good LP opening at first afternoon - made 35 W6/W7/VE7. Second night very good condx, but at 0135Z the electricity went off and I did not have lights for 4,5 hours, so I had to give up the contest. :(((( Operating time: 0000 - 0700Z - 378 QSO 1425 - 1600Z - 35 QSO 2057 - 0146Z - 339 QSO Rig: FT2000D + OM2500 ; 3/3 Yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM3NA Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 249,480 Rig: FT2000D + OM2500 ; 6/6/6 Yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM5M Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 81,936 Couldn´t get better score with my "ligt" setup comparing to the other big guns from region... Highlight of the contest - nice sigs from some W6´s on the 2nd night... Rig: FT1000MP + 1kW TX ant: Titanex vertical 27m RX ant: Beverage abt 220m at 315deg. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM5ZW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 209,214 Equipment:FT1000MP Mark V + PA Antennas: 4el. HB9CV @ 35m, 2el HB9CV @ 20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7CW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 834,522 FT1000 + OM POWER 2KW 14/21/28 M2 KT-36 XA 1.8 INV.VEE, 3.5 INV.VEE, 7 INV.VEE :-) + beverage 73 Slavo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON6LY Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 33,282 Just worked a few hours sunday afternoon because of QRL on saturday and sunday AM, Logging with SD works fine TX: FT1000MP Ant:4el Yagi fix 290° (US) Pwr:500watts (FL2500) Till the next one. 73 to all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON6NL Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 87,462 Entry from a lazy op. Skipped the first night and could not get out of my bed for the Sunday morning sunrise! Rig : IC756P2, CN101 Power meter Antennas : 10/15/20 KT34A, 40 Delta loop, 80, 160 dipole Glad we are through the bottom of the solar cycle now and it will get only better from now on. For QRPp a wide open 10 and 15 meter band are a lot of fun! 73, Anton, ON6NL *** QRP ; for excellent operators only! *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 600,369 Limited participation, only in it for the fun. More here: http://on5zo.spaces.live.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT4A Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 143,676 Conditions first night not to good, toward the morning the band was almost dead here. The second night was better,but certainly not great. Enjoyed as always fast cw ! equipement : Homebrew 4 el monobander up 25m, Ten Tec ORION and home made amp. Logging and keying was done with N1MM and K1EL winkey. Hope to work you all soon again. ON4AEK OT4A (Theo) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40LE Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 103,428 limited opearting time ( 7.5 hrs only) and facilities ( vertical antenna on beach)Misse ND, SD, VE4, VE6, PEI, NFLD, LAB, VE8 and VY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 82,410 From what I read from other EU stns (I2WIJ ao) I did not miss "much" Saturday afternoon on 15m (was not on till 18.30Z); only stn hrd on Sunday was PI4TUE 30 miles from mi QTH "lonely" CQing. 20m was in gud shape both days. Tks to all who called me Sunday on 40m bween 21.50Z es 23.00Z...best moment of the contest was when VE1DT cld me there/then. Cu next year Harry Station: ORION II 100W 2x8m inv. vee wid 8m open line to shack 2 x 10m dipole fer 20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PI4TUE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 144,000 What started as a planned Single-Op 15M entry ended as SOAB. It started all very promising. VO1MP made it into the log as first entry at 12:05Z, he was S3-5... First US station was WE3C at 12:45Z After having spent about 10 total hours on 15M with QSO rates of less than 10 I was really feeling disappointed: 70 QSO's and 30 sections... Not bad considering the propagation but very very frustrating if you hoped to have some fun. So, the last 4 hours before heading home I tried 20 and 40M. I had instant pile-ups and averaged rates of >160. I hope next year we'll definitely be in the upslope of the solar cycle. 73 Aurelio-PC5A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,249,275 The first night was characterized by tremendously bad low band noise. We made good use of a pennant antenna, which worked better than the Beverage at pulling signals out of the crud on 80. The Beverage was still better on 160. We logged exactly 1000 QSOs in the first 120 minutes. Fun. Saturday morning's reconfig from low bands to high went normally and about at the expected times, and we were off to the races on 20 and 15, but pessimistic about the chances for 10 basd on the early morning MUF map. Sure enough, we only managed 20-something Qs on 10 and 8 mults in a very brief opening at about 2015Z. The second night started quieter and this time the Beverage dominated on both the low bands. Sunday morning was NOT normal, though, as it took almost two hours later than Saturday until we managed the first 15 QSO. 10 never opened except for three mults (LA, MA, and AL) that W9VA cleverly worked by firing at the high MUF region in the Pacific at a 240 degree azimuth from Curacao. Thanks to VE4YU for moving from 40 to 80 and at least twice attempting a 160 QSO, and to everyone else who was patient with our begging for skeds and QSYs, such as N4GN who met us Sunday afternoon on 1822 for the much needed, believe it or not, KY mult on 160. N0YY joined us for this operation and has agreed to become a PJ2T member -- amazing after meeting us and seeing how things work here!! As usual, the biggest thanks go to the members of the PJ2T gang who work hard all year around to keep this place on the air and provide the necessary support. In particular, we thank Goose, W8AV, who labored with me to haul three 200 pound coils of hardline to the top of "Mount Beverage" behind the station and put in nearly a week installing an expanded antenna switching system at the station. This crew did an outstanding job because we decided on Wednesday to go M/M. We dug in and managed to stay awake and to keep all the stations manned whenever needed. The 0900Z hour on Sunday is even agony in the Caribbean, but we hung in there for every possible Q. Thanks for the Qs. See you in the SSB contest. Geoff, W0CG, PJ2DX for the PJ2T gang ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4O Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,038,306 First, sorry for the late post. We are strong believers in annoucing our plans early and results fast - this (Wednesday) is our first shot at an internet connection. We spent several set-up days attempting internet service, essentially to no avail - so on to the contest; one more year without spots except for a few hours. 15M opened slow the first day and increadably slow the second. Last year 10 sounded like a VHF band, this year 15 did for several hours and 10 sounded like a UHF band. 15M did eventually spring to life the second day but it was 'spotlight' propagation at times. 10M was just one more year of constant vigilance paying off. It's hard to think 39 X 13 is a good 10M score. We may have shaded the operating time a little too hard to 40 at the expense of 160 - but missing 2 mults on 160 (VE4 and ND) was an acceptable result considering the rate advantage on 40. This is one of the toughest strategy calls from the DX side. Bonaire is a delightful place and the antennas listed below are on a hill overlooking salt water. Gear: 2 X 746PRO and AL-1200s for run. IC756pro + MLA-2500 for mult listening. C31XR and 2 EL 40 at approx 85 feet, C3 at 65 feet, A3 at 50 feet. Dipole for 80 TX, inverted-L for 160 TX. everage for 80 and 160 receive that got some additional use on the high bands at times. Writelog. W9XT keyers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP5NW Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 14,787 Thank you PP5JR, PP5WG, PP5AMP, PP5FMM and AI6V !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 26,910 IC-736 100W DIPOLE ANTENA@15M UP N1MM SOFTWARE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT5T Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 293,289 Sorry about all the repeats I had to ask for as there were monstrous static crashes. There were two extremely big lightning storms that came through. One hit the house power and took out quite a few fuses and one amplifier. The other had me off the air for a while with everything unplugged. Thanks for all the Qs. Will be back in Aruba for ARRL SSB. 73 Carl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT7AG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,492,344 Great Contest as usual! Pileups with W/VE stations are graceful to manager, even on low bands. First night nothing but slow rate and I hard work to keep me wake. After 10 hours, I had only 500 Q's on the log. Ok, it's Low Power, but it was smelling bad. I could not figure out the problem until Saturday morning: the 40m antenna was beamming to wrong direction (Africa) and I got only huge station from USA/Canada on the log. On the day lights, all gone very well! Strong opening on 20 and 15m. But 10m keeps closed like a thumb. The second radio ware tuned on 28025 listen for Argentinos. On Sunday finally I listen K5NA calling him. I get quick ready for calling him little down on the band. Bingo, 1 QSO and 1 Mult on 10m! More 10min calling and NOTHING!! Gave up ang got back to 15m. Thanks for nice QSO and see you on SSB leg. Best 73 Luc, PY8AZT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1KN Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 173,580 Had an awful first day, making under 300 QSOs. Checking the connections on Sunday morning I foud out I was using the wrong antenna! This score goes to RIO DX GROUP, a new gang that has just gathered in PY! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1ZV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,612 MY FIRST CONTEST IN CW ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2EX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 551,304 Got only few hours this year...I hope to operate more time in SSB. 73 de Eger PY2EX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,221,600 Just my station now. PS2T closed for repair at Atilano PY5EG place in Araraquara. Was nice to try this contest All Band High Power, maybe my first time ever, from my own home. High SWR on 15, but ok on other bands. Spent Friday climbing the tower, trying to find something wrong... Almost all the time with 600/700 watts and the only one mult at 160m with 180w (thanks W2FU)... Quick opening on ten! Thanks and see you around... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2WC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 786,942 STARTED THIS CONTEST SATURDAY ABOUT 18:00Z, I STOPPED AROUND 00:00Z, I ARRIVED AROUND 18:00 AND WORKDED UNTIL THE END, I ENJOYED THIS CONTEST, HAD FUN A LOT, I HAVENT DONE A CONTEST FOR A LONG. EQUIPAMENTS: YAESU FT 1000 MP MARK V FIELD ACOM 1010 AMPLIFIER 500 WATTS 8 ELEM LOGPERIODIC ACOM UP 23METERS HIGH 3 ELEM YAGI 40M INVERTED V FOR 80M TNX FOR ALL. 73 WAL - PY2WC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY5/OK5MM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,222,752 Thanks to Oms/PY5EG for hosting me during the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY5/OK7MT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 930,084 Thanks to Oms, PY5EG for a possibility to use his fantastic contest station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3FT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 691,000 Tnx all. Hope to cu agn. ARRL CW 08 QSO/STATE 1. Pa 127 2. Ny 105 3. Ma 103 4. Va 82 5. Nj 80 6. Md 72 7. Fl 72 8. Nc 68 9. Oh 59 10. Ct 58 11. Nh 57 12. On 42 13. Ca 36 14. Il 31 15. Tx 28 16. Tn 28 17. Mi 28 18. Mn 27 19. Co 24 20. Wi 21 21. Ns 20 22. Wa 20 23. Ga 19 24. In 19 25. Qc 17 26. Vt 16 27. Al 15 28. Me 13 29. Az 13 30. Ri 12 31. De 10 32. Wv 10 33. Nf 10 34. Sc 9 35. La 9 36. Mo 9 37. Or 9 38. Ia 6 39. Pe 5 40. Ne 5 41. Nv 5 42. Bc 5 43. Ms 4 44. Ab 4 45. Nd 4 46. Nb 4 47. Sd 4 48. Ar 3 49. Nm 3 50. Ks 3 51. Wy 3 52. Id 3 53. Mt 3 54. Ut 3 55. Sk 2 56. Ky 2 57. Ok 1 73'S Yury RL3FT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU3VD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 42,432 73! Alexey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50K Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 22,050 Just a quick participation with good run, having footprint all over US and VE at once. Thanks for calls and see you in ssb part. Marko, S50K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51FB Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 29,526 I worked from S53M station with TS 950 SDX, 1.5 kw and 6 el yagi. My main goal was VP6DX and I was successful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52AW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 210,540 ANT: 5L quad RIG: ft-1000 mp mark V + amp. 73 de S52AW, Karl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 133,719 ANT: 2x vert RIG: ic-737 + amp. 1kw 73 de S53F, Vinko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53O Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 22,260 Thanks to Ljubo S53O for his great location.Very poor propagation especialy on Saturday night. 73 de Renato - S57UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54O Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 269,370 IC756, HM PA, N1MM 80m: dipol 40m: delta loop 20-10m: 3el ECO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S55A Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 29,829 N1MM Logger test under new PC. TH7 on repair. 73 de Valdo, S55A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 64,701 Guest op. at S55A without Yagis. Kudos to W/VE ears digging our 100 W into verticals. Low dipole on 160 m. Nice location on hilltop overlooking the sea. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 176,610 AVERAGE CONDITIONS. MIST SD? AND NB? ANYWAY I ENJOY! 73 de SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57Q Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 140,778 Rig : FT1000MP + KW ( 2 x GI7b ) Ant : 3 el. YAGI@36 m ( FORCE - MAG - lin. loaded ) No extra propagation, many short openings, sometimes somebody closed the band HI. 73 de Tone, S57Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S58M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 448,776 Equipment: RTX IC 775DSP + Emptron DX3 Antennas: 1,8 - Inv V, 3,5 - Slooper 7 - 2 el.Quad 14 - 4 el.Quad. I had a big fun. See you in ARRL SSB. Dare, S58M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 700,848 ICOM 751A kW KT34XA 40m-vert. 80&160m-dip. Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 73 Marko S51DS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59KW Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 68,688 ft-1000mp x7 @ 12m writelog 9.23 Playing just this few hours on Sunday. Thanks all for replaying and see you in the ssb part. Marko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP1NY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 271,872 Conds were poor, especially first day. Sunday was much better on 20m. Long opening to West coast. 15m totally deaf!!!! Rig: FT-2000 + home brew PA 500 W Ant: 160 - inv L with few short radials 80 - inv Vee 40 - 2el@18m (too low) 20/15/10 - 7el tribander (X7 alike) No rx ant so far. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2LNW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 16,905 Rig: TS-930S Piexx, HM PA 500W, ant: inv Vee, AV5 vertical, WT 3.19 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ4MP Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 185,193 FT-1000MP + PA home made (GU43B) 1KW 5el. monoband yagi at 30m WriteLog Great contest thanks for all USA station. Wojtek sq4mp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 32,409 WAS A GOOD CONTEST AND AS USUAL ACTIVITY WAS HIGH. I AM VERY PLEASED. I WILL REMEMBER FOR THE YEARS TO COME THIS ARRL CW DX CONTEST AS T H E S N O W O F A R R L. IN ATHENS AND SUBERBS INCLOUDING PIRAEUS WHERE MY HOME IS, WE HAD PLENTY OF SNOW. U N B E L I E V A B L E. FOR YOU IN STATES SNOW IS VERY COMMON,FOR US IN GREECE SPECIALY IN ATHENS, CLOSE TO THE SEA, SO MUCH QUANTITY OF SNOW IS THE DAY's ISSUE. BEST RGDS VASILIS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV6CZQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,046 Rig: IC-737 Ant: G5RV/DIPOLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T32OU Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,264,904 We operated from the Captain Cook Hotel on the north shore of Christmas Island, East Kiribati. We used a TS570 barefoot and verticals within a couple meters of high tide: a MAV160, HF9V, a 40m wire vertical, and a 2 element vertical Moxon dipole array for 15m. We had a similar Moxon antenna for 20m but couldn't get it to play for some mysterious reason. Local noise was another problem for us on 20m, but not the other bands. We monitored 10m at the appropriate times but only heard our rivals up in KH6. Many thanks to all the great and enthusiastic cw ops out there. QSL via N7OU. 73 and CU from the next one, Bill N7OU and Bob W7YAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,603,800 My first plan was to run ARRL CW from OE4A SOSB 80m. One week before i got e-mail from Randy K5ZD, he was looking for station in OE to operate from. Setup @OE4A is at present time not good enough to run serios Multi Op and since i had some bussines in Bosnia i decide to let Randy run SOAB and to operate a bit from my 2nd QTH. This was also good chance to repair few things at T93J contest location. There was not big plans for this contest and after succesfull repaird of 40m antenna and some other things we decide to run Multi Op. Since only 1 Operator was avaible whole 48 hours idea was to Run M/S, but in last moment because of the fun factor we decide to do M/2. Unfortunatly at begining of contest we did´t realize RX problem with our FT1KMP (no spare RIG, one FT2K was allready on the repair). On low bands 160/80 that was not big deal, but attenuation increased with freq. So we stay in M/2 category playing around with more or less with one Radio :( At least i menaged to work VP6DX on 160m :) Sonday aftenoon around 15:00 UTC i was allready on the way back to OE and made the stop @ OE4A to visit Randy K5ZD! TNX for QSO´s and CU in SSB Part i hope in better condx! 73 es best dx de T93J/OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T99W Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 201,840 Setup: TS-850, Amp. SB-200 500w, Ant. 4EL 8m boom up 30m, mountain in Sarajevo ASL 1300m ! At saturday I had problems with weather, SNOW with strong north wind and very cold. Temperature abt. minus 15 degree. Much QRN, static-noice. It was very nice contest with strange conditions ! 73 see you in ssb. Emil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3CW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 61,680 As always, a great contest. Multiple, severe winter storms have left the antenna farm with a single 1/4 wave on 40, and a measly GP with a high SWR for the other bands. In other words: Nothing unusual to report,and everything is normal here at 64 North. But, we shall prevail. A 4el mono. for 20 is coming up for the SSB part. I think Jim K1IR put it perfectly in his summary,(quote): It isn't conditions that make for a great contest. It's competition and participation. As long as we have enough stations trying to win, combined with a large number of stations who want to get on for a few hours and make a few QSOs, we have a formula for a successful contest. We're definitely looking forward to the next 'big one'. I perfectly agree. See you all in the SSB part !!! Siggi TF3CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 1,462,806 Rig: Kenwood TS 940S with output set at 5 Watts Antennas: Quad up 25 meters, 4 el 10M, 3 el 15M and 20M TH6 Tribander up 25 meters 2 el yagi for 40M up 30 meters 2 el 40M Quad fixed at 20 degrees 80M rotatable short dipole up 32 meters 80M loop with apex up 27 meters 160M inverted L ______________________________________________________ So far this year, conditions seem somewhat worse than last year. But you don't really need good propagation to work pretty well into the USA and VE from TI5KD's station, even with QRP. In addition I think I was the only TI station on for this contest. Both of those factors contributed to occasionally attracting some pretty decent pile-ups when I changed to a new band, despite QRP power. Almost all my QSOs were by CQing. The only time I did S&P was when I was looking for a hole to call CQ. Of the over 2,300 Qs, probably less than 100 were by S & P. Normally most of my Qs are S & P. I planned to work through the first night with no sleep. But the American Airlines flight was late getting down on Thursday and did not arrive until until after midnight. So I could only manage 3 hours of sleep before starting set-up on Friday. After that, I wound up having to sleep 2 hours Friday night and 3 hours Saturday night. 10 Meters ( a necessity for a QRP entry!) was a total loss. I checked often on both days during what might have been the peak hours. When I found no USA / VE stations, I called CQ anyway. But I was only able to get 8 stations in three states the entire time. I did get WAS on 15 Meters and missed only Wyoming for WAS on 20 M. It was an exciting contest. Many thanks to Keko, TI5KD, for allowing me the use of his station. And thanks to Sophie, Keko's wife, who is a licensed ham as well as a gormet cook, and served five star meals, ...at the rig! ...Bill Parker W8QZA / TI5N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,293,500 Very bad conditions on 15m, wonderful weather. We have to improve TX antennas on 80/160m... Tnx for qsos, see you during the phone event. 73 TM6M/F6KHM team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM9R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,853,739 Many thanks to F5FLN, F6IRA and the F6KNB team for their invitation to use their superb contest site and for the hosting and logistic support. We really enjoyed the weekend despite the bad conditions and a few technical problems (Mr. Murphy popped-up several times!), but the station is still in construction and the reliability and performance will sure improve with time. It seems that South-East Europe participants got longer 15m openings than we had, due to some E's first hop. On the other side of the spectrum, the 160 and 80m bands never really took-off. Compared to last year exceptional 80 and 15m conditions, this year is unlikely to become a good "Bordeaux milesime" ! TM9R is QSL via F5GGL. Cu in the Russian DX... 73's Pat Pictures, video and stats will be made available within a few days on http://f6irf.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA6LV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 538,200 The conditions were almost good but was active in free time only... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V13WO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 862,752 Rig : IC-7000 Antennas : SALTWATER LAGOON MOUNTED VERTICAL ON 40-80, 5 BAND QUAD 20-10 Multiple local Power Failures, amp died just before contest. sand fleas, mosquitos and a lot of fun. Downside is the number of folks that can't wait for you to work who you are working and insist on interrupting the call or exchange with theirs. Have to work on calls, one letter at a time, between interruptions. Great runs on 15, 40 some on 20. 80/160 too noisy to get anything going. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31TP Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,021,920 Thanks to WC0W for inviting me down again to his cousin's FB hotel, Cahal Pech, again this year. There were only the two of us, so we went M/S and nobody got too worn out. We lost a little over an hour due to a power failure mid-day on Sunday and an amp transplant, but just about everything worked great. This is a something of a Field Day setup with antennas on an old pool deck. We had a TA-33JR, 40/80 inverted vee, and a modified Butternut HF2 for 160. We set up a 400 foot beverage that worked great, and also put together a 10M dipole so we could keep an ear on the band with an IC-706. Setup went quickly and we had a great time seeing the sites -- caves, rivers, rain forests, etc. What a great place! Robert K5PI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31UZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,430,310 4 power outages that lasted for more than 2 hours stole at least 300 Q's of my score... It was very difficult to be in the chair when temp is over 90 in the shack (no A/C), so pent another 5 hours for sleep and cold showers. My thanks to Joe V31JP and Ronnie for their hospitality. Joe was very helpful in fixing minor technical problems, though he and Ronnie live quite far from the shack. Looks like Joe managed to put up a very decent station down in Southern Belize jungles, which is now up for rent. Thanks to all for the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31WO Class: M/S LP Total Score = 862,752 Rig : IC-7000 Antennas : SALTWATER LAGOON MOUNTED VERTICAL ON 40-80, 5 BAND QUAD 20-10 MULTIPLE local POWER FAILURES, amp died just before contest, sand fleas, mosquitos and a lot of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V49A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,491,441 2nd time SOAB/LP from V44. Set up FD-style on the porch of a rental house on the north side of Nevis. FT100D(75W)->low dipoles. Down over 800 Qs from last year, surprisingly nearly all on 80/40. I knew it would be a long weekend when I was already on 80M during the first hour - compared to last year when I was running 100+/hr on 40M for first 4 hours. Did have one high point with a 182Q hour when 15M finally opened Saturday afternoon. Might try this one with some real antennas someday so y'all better watch out! Special thanks to Karl/V44NK for help with licensing and use of his special callsign. Also enjoyed a nice eyeball QSO with local V44KJ post-contest. 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 166,464 Video souvenir of the contest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwSMaytvyg CUL! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2WDQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 708,186 RIG: Yaesu FT-1000 AMP: Ameritron AL-80B (700W) ANT1: Inverted L 160-80-40 ANT2: 2 el. Hybrid Mini-Quad TGMC MQ-26 I/O: RigExpert Plus LOGGER: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3ATT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 82,824 FT767 & GP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 257,904 Not serious at all...just dabbled.... Points for CCO SO1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 175,824 OM7CW reported 2K for power. Does that seem odd since 1.5K was the limit for this contest? I worked him on 2 bands. Did others hear that report as well? Harry VA3EC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 4,128 K2, 5w, vertical and long wire. Sunday was much better from here for Europe than Saturday. Thanks for working a weak signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 94,575 My external antenna tuner failed just before the contest, and as my low band antennas are not very resonant I guess I lost the 40,80 and 160 Q's so I stayed mostly on 20m. Checked 15 and 10 from time to time, but 10m is still a ways away. 15m was not very active either. Hope to have a full size 80m dipole up soon. That should help out alot. Other than that I enjoyed the EU openings and worked a few new ones. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 235,872 * FT920 + SB221 * N1MM Logger * 3 ele. tribander @ 45' * 40M rotatable dipole @ 55' (used sparsely) * 40M 2-el. vertical parasitic array for EU * 40M half-squares E-W, N-S or so * 80M delta loop * 160M inverted-L ================================================= Highlights: * 20M global opening -- JW, KG6, ZS almost back to back * 5-watt JAs and EUs with big sigs * VP6DX on 160-15 Lowlights: * SFI=71, A=11>8, K=3>1 (no help from Cycle 24 yet) * Brutally short EU openings on 20M * 15M dead most of the time * Decent EU opening on 40M Sunday afternoon ================================================= Year QSOs Mults Score ---- ---- ----- ------- 2003 235 122 86,010 2004 307 132 121,572 2005 444 167 222,444 2006 571 176 301,488 2007 609 157 286,839 HP 2008 504 156 235,872 HP Worst outing since 2005, when I was 100W. However, I remember being elated in 2005 with 222,000 LP points, so anything better should keep me happy. I did far better than this in 2006 with 100W as well. I'm neither thrilled nor disappointed in the score, given rather lousy conditions in this part of the world. Went in willing to do 40+ hours, but there wasn't anything to work for long blocks of time. Ended up with just 20.5 hours in the chair and half a dozen good naps along the way, a movie or two, and long brisk dog-walkies. Okay, I let the dog out a few times. Was cursing the 80M delta loop, then realized I actually had better Qs and mults than last year, when I ran an inverted-V. (28Q for 20 mults vs. 53Q for 25 mults this year). Guess the low-angle aerial is not a total loss. Thought 40M was a bit soft most of the weekend, until I found Europe at last. I'm down 1Q and 3 mults from last year. Finally decided to check the band in the early afternoon, suspecting that's when the EU openings are (never get a chance to try it as I usually run 20M at that time of day in domestic tests). Sure enough, found some very nice 40M EU signals and worked a dozen mults on the 2 element parasitic vertical array (which, despite being built to fire at EU, has never shown much favor over the pole until this afternoon. Wasn't a fire hose, but it was working). Definitely have something going on with the 20M traps in the Mosley CL33. I know they don't like more than 600W RTTY, but they should handle 800-1000W CW. A few times, often in a nice run, the normally good SWR jumped to 3:1 and had to cut back power till they cooled off (or something) and things snapped back to normal -- usually the transition happens almost instantly, so something's moving up there in the traps. 20M was pretty good in all directions, except I didn't hear as many South American stations as I had hoped. Plenty of JAs this time out, though again not in the numbers one might expect. Openings to EU both mornings had peaks of about an hour, and soft half-hour shoulders on both sides. Sunday, I was able to work quite a few big gun stations throughout the day. Best hour was 1700z Saturday with 60 Qs, all EU. (Had three hours over 60 in 2007). Had to ask an HB9 to confirm twice his 5 watts he was so loud. At one point Sunday afternoon, I was called by JW8, then ZS, and a few minutes later KG6 -- all with the beam aimed at 30 degrees (Western EU). Mults on 20M were equal to last year (74) but Qs were waaaay down by more than 100 (453 > 342). I know. That yagi needs a good look. 15M was very poor. Only Carib. and SA, and darn few of them... courteously spaced across the low end of the band. CQing got virtually nothing, and those I called didn't seem to hear me very well at all, even running a KW. Mults down by 7 from last year (20->13). No Asian opening at all, and certainly no Europe. Figure my lousy performance on 15M must be related to the 20M trap issue -- 15M SWR is a bit high lately so things are out of kilter. One day, I'll be able to afford a trapless 3-element tribander for this little tower. 401 total callsigns worked in 84 different DX entities (85 last year). My only five-banders were KH6LC, KH6NF, KH7X, PJ2T, and VP6DX. DX check... 2008 2007 change ---- ---- Japan 115 141 -26 Germany 33 50 -17 Hawaii 24 25 - 1 Italy 23 24 - 1 Brazil 17 13 + 4 Rate check... 3Q/min. 5 14 - 9 2Q/min. 62 99 -37 Gotta get psyched up for the SSB legs of this and WPX next month. Not looking forward to either of these at solarmin, but you never know what can happen with the sun. Thanks for all the Qs and see you in the next one. -- Bud, VA7ST http://www3.telus.net/va7st ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 410,400 NICE TO HEAR A LOT OF EUROPEANS ON 20M FOR A CHANGE... WAS TRYING TO HIT THE 300K SCORE... WAS FUN TO POST AND FOLLOW LIVE SCORES... NICE TO CATCH VP6 SO EASILY ON 15m... FROM SMALL CITY LOT RIG: FT-1000MP MKV FIELD, 300W ANT: A3S, G5RV INTERFACE: MICROHAM MicroKEYER II SOFTWARE WIN-TEST 3.19 LOG UPLOADED ON EQSL.CC THANKS FOR ALL QSO 73' PHIL VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 888,609 Thank goodness for 20 m.!!! Another very enjoyable multi-single from VE3CR. Condx were very noisy on the first evening so 80 and 160 were not what we expected, however we'll take what we got. Highlites were: VE3CR working Alaska on 160 for the last remaining state for WAS. Getting called on 40 m. by Saudi Arabia. An extended run into Europe on Sunday AM. Working Australia on 160 m. and validating the recent improvements to the 160 m. antenna! As usual the food and hospitality at VE3CR were outstanding, many thanks to VE3CR and his XYL Sheila. Hope everyone enjoyed the contest as much as we did - and special thanks to those who travelled great distances to activate DX locations. Thanks for all the QSOs - life is good! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CRU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,550 Totally a S & P effort, barefoot in all respects. Europe was best on 20, South America on 15. Most interesting qso's were with TI5N who was running 5 watts. Got both KH6LC and KL7RA with no effort. Thanks to the ARRL for sponsoring, and to all who gave me points and to all participants as well. 73, Bill VE3CRU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 716,646 With thanks for Paul, VE3SY for using his UFB station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FRX Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 13,500 Wow! Great conditions both nights, but noise wiped me out in the last 3 hours and the EU signals faded out. Used my 90ft longwire at 25-30ft (no horizontal portion) and managed to work into VK, VR6, ZK running 90 watts. Still using the old TS-140S with 500 rarrow filter. Tried running, but only managed to get two zero point calls from N8 and VA3. So the rest was digging them out of the noise and QRM. And what's with the idiots tuning up on the DX frequency! Left a lot of Q's out of the log because the Exchange was lost and the pileup resumed. Still learning, I guess. Ah, but what fun! N1MM worked great and the real-time scoring was fun too, even though I was the only SOSB/80 logged on! Thanks for the contacts and all the new countries on 80m! Starting to love this point in the cycle. 73, Jeff, VE3FRX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GLO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,790 Hope to see you all again next year Bob, VE3GLO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 200,208 S&P only. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OBU Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 43,846 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: SD V13.36 and SDCHECK V13.36 ARRL-SECTION: ON CONTEST: ARRL-DX-CW CALLSIGN: VE3OBU CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 20M LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 43.846 NAME: Bert Almemo ADDRESS: 54 Rodda Blvd. ADDRESS: Scarborough, Ontario ADDRESS: Canada M1E 2Z8 CLUB: Contest Club Ontario OPERATORS: VE3OBU X-RADIOS: IC-765 X-ANTENNAS: 4el yagi SOAPBOX: X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: Valid QSOs: 0 0 0 214 0 0 214 X-SUMMARY: Total Bonus: 0 0 0 68 0 0 68 X-SUMMARY: Points: 0 0 0 642 0 0 642 X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: I declare that this station was operated strictly in X-SUMMARY: accordance with the rules and spirit of the contest, X-SUMMARY: and within the conditions of my licence. My report X-SUMMARY: is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. X-SUMMARY: I agree that the decision of the contest organisers X-SUMMARY: shall be final in all cases of dispute. I agree to X-SUMMARY: this data being stored, analysed and cross-checked X-SUMMARY: by computer. X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 0206 VE3OBU 599 ON LR2F 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1345 VE3OBU 599 ON H7/K9GY 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1346 VE3OBU 599 ON S50R 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1348 VE3OBU 599 ON SM3D 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1349 VE3OBU 599 ON TM6M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1356 VE3OBU 599 ON LZ1ND 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1358 VE3OBU 599 ON IR2C 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1400 VE3OBU 599 ON HG8R 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1404 VE3OBU 599 ON LX7I 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1406 VE3OBU 599 ON IO3N 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1407 VE3OBU 599 ON T99W 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1409 VE3OBU 599 ON EE5E 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1411 VE3OBU 599 ON SO4M 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1412 VE3OBU 599 ON OE4A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1415 VE3OBU 599 ON OH4A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1416 VE3OBU 599 ON Z35T 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1417 VE3OBU 599 ON IR4X 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1418 VE3OBU 599 ON YR7M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1419 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A1A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1421 VE3OBU 599 ON YL2GD 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1422 VE3OBU 599 ON SQ4MP 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1423 VE3OBU 599 ON OM7M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1425 VE3OBU 599 ON HB0/N0MX 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1427 VE3OBU 599 ON DD2D 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1429 VE3OBU 599 ON PJ4O 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1430 VE3OBU 599 ON DL3YM 599 700 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1433 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A4W 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1435 VE3OBU 599 ON YT1T 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1439 VE3OBU 599 ON EA4TX 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1440 VE3OBU 599 ON OM/OK1CRM 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1440 VE3OBU 599 ON IR4M 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1442 VE3OBU 599 ON SP9H 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1443 VE3OBU 599 ON OK5R 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1444 VE3OBU 599 ON OL5Q 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1447 VE3OBU 599 ON G3RAU 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1448 VE3OBU 599 ON S57DX 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1451 VE3OBU 599 ON C6AZU 599 200 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1452 VE3OBU 599 ON EF3A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1453 VE3OBU 599 ON OM7CW 599 200 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1455 VE3OBU 599 ON GW7X 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1457 VE3OBU 599 ON GM7V 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1458 VE3OBU 599 ON SP1NY 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1459 VE3OBU 599 ON IK7JWY 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1501 VE3OBU 599 ON SE6Y 599 800 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1506 VE3OBU 599 ON RL3FT 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1509 VE3OBU 599 ON HA0MM 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1511 VE3OBU 599 ON LY90Y 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1513 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A50KDE 599 600 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1514 VE3OBU 599 ON G3ORY 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1516 VE3OBU 599 ON EA8/OH6L 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1519 VE3OBU 599 ON VP9/W6PH 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1521 VE3OBU 599 ON IZ5EKV 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1522 VE3OBU 599 ON YU1DW 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1522 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A8M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1523 VE3OBU 599 ON YL3FM 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1524 VE3OBU 599 ON KP2M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1525 VE3OBU 599 ON IR2A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1526 VE3OBU 599 ON G4IUF 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1528 VE3OBU 599 ON F8CIL 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1530 VE3OBU 599 ON V47KP 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1531 VE3OBU 599 ON WP3C 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1533 VE3OBU 599 ON V26G 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1553 VE3OBU 599 ON HA7GN 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1555 VE3OBU 599 ON V31TP 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1559 VE3OBU 599 ON EA4DRV 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1600 VE3OBU 599 ON MD0CCE 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1605 VE3OBU 599 ON HB9AGA 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1610 VE3OBU 599 ON PZ5WW 599 999 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1613 VE3OBU 599 ON J7DX 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1618 VE3OBU 599 ON CT1JLZ 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1729 VE3OBU 599 ON E7/DK6XZ 599 700 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1733 VE3OBU 599 ON F6BEE 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1736 VE3OBU 599 ON HG1H 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1738 VE3OBU 599 ON DL8PG 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1742 VE3OBU 599 ON HG6N 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1745 VE3OBU 599 ON G4BUE 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1746 VE3OBU 599 ON F5IN 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1747 VE3OBU 599 ON G3RXP 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1748 VE3OBU 599 ON SM5IMO 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1754 VE3OBU 599 ON IO4T 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1755 VE3OBU 599 ON OL1C 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1757 VE3OBU 599 ON F6IP 599 200 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1759 VE3OBU 599 ON XE1CT 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1802 VE3OBU 599 ON KH6LC 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1808 VE3OBU 599 ON DL1YD 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1811 VE3OBU 599 ON OM3NA 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1812 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A7A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1814 VE3OBU 599 ON IK2CIO 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1816 VE3OBU 599 ON LY8O 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1817 VE3OBU 599 ON DL2DO 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1822 VE3OBU 599 ON 6Y1LZ 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1825 VE3OBU 599 ON ES90C 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1827 VE3OBU 599 ON KH7X 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1828 VE3OBU 599 ON YU1BFG 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1830 VE3OBU 599 ON CT9L 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1832 VE3OBU 599 ON IZ2GMT 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1838 VE3OBU 599 ON UA6LV 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1842 VE3OBU 599 ON EA1WX 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1844 VE3OBU 599 ON SN9D 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1845 VE3OBU 599 ON T93J 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1847 VE3OBU 599 ON GM5CX 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1848 VE3OBU 599 ON EA8EA 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1850 VE3OBU 599 ON HA3LI 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1853 VE3OBU 599 ON OE2M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1855 VE3OBU 599 ON DL8SCG 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1856 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A5D 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1859 VE3OBU 599 ON UU4JMG 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1900 VE3OBU 599 ON DL8WEM 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1902 VE3OBU 599 ON YT6M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1906 VE3OBU 599 ON OQ5M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1913 VE3OBU 599 ON EA8ZS 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1915 VE3OBU 599 ON IZ1GAR 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1918 VE3OBU 599 ON OL3Z 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1921 VE3OBU 599 ON ZS6AA 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1922 VE3OBU 599 ON G4BUO 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1923 VE3OBU 599 ON YU2A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1926 VE3OBU 599 ON XE1MM 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 1928 VE3OBU 599 ON S59ABC 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2013 VE3OBU 599 ON TM9R 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2016 VE3OBU 599 ON SN8W 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2018 VE3OBU 599 ON F6HKA 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2020 VE3OBU 599 ON PJ2T 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2021 VE3OBU 599 ON I2GPT 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2023 VE3OBU 599 ON 9A3VM 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2026 VE3OBU 599 ON I2AZ 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2029 VE3OBU 599 ON EA6SX 599 700 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2035 VE3OBU 599 ON PY1NB 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2037 VE3OBU 599 ON EA8OM 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2041 VE3OBU 599 ON KL7RA 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2123 VE3OBU 599 ON LZ9X 599 300 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2127 VE3OBU 599 ON NP2S 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2134 VE3OBU 599 ON CT1ILT 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2139 VE3OBU 599 ON V49A 599 75 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2150 VE3OBU 599 ON HC5/JA6WFM 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-16 2358 VE3OBU 599 ON LT1F 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 0001 VE3OBU 599 ON V31UZ 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1243 VE3OBU 599 ON DK3KD 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1245 VE3OBU 599 ON EA5/UT2XD 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1247 VE3OBU 599 ON RD3A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1249 VE3OBU 599 ON S51TA 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1252 VE3OBU 599 ON OH8L 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1253 VE3OBU 599 ON F8CMF 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1300 VE3OBU 599 ON OK1DRU 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1305 VE3OBU 599 ON RV3FF 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1307 VE3OBU 599 ON OH2K 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1309 VE3OBU 599 ON OM4XA 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1310 VE3OBU 599 ON UA2FL 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1311 VE3OBU 599 ON YT1BB 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1313 VE3OBU 599 ON S51FB 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1315 VE3OBU 599 ON DJ6OZ 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1316 VE3OBU 599 ON EE7AJR 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1317 VE3OBU 599 ON YT5A 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1318 VE3OBU 599 ON LA3S 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1319 VE3OBU 599 ON OL5M 599 700 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1321 VE3OBU 599 ON DK5JO 599 700 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1326 VE3OBU 599 ON OK2ZI 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1328 VE3OBU 599 ON LA2AB 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1658 VE3OBU 599 ON DF1IAQ 599 200 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1715 VE3OBU 599 ON S53MM 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1717 VE3OBU 599 ON OK2W 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1722 VE3OBU 599 ON VP5DF 599 99 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1724 VE3OBU 599 ON KH7Y 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1740 VE3OBU 599 ON CS5NRA 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1741 VE3OBU 599 ON DK7ZT 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1751 VE3OBU 599 ON OL9Z 599 700 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1754 VE3OBU 599 ON LN3Z 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1758 VE3OBU 599 ON G0WKW 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1801 VE3OBU 599 ON F5UFX 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1805 VE3OBU 599 ON IS0SDX 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1813 VE3OBU 599 ON LY7A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1815 VE3OBU 599 ON OH6M 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1822 VE3OBU 599 ON EA8/SP3HRN 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1826 VE3OBU 599 ON LY90A 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1905 VE3OBU 599 ON DL9AWI 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1909 VE3OBU 599 ON SP5ZCC 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1912 VE3OBU 599 ON LN8W 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1916 VE3OBU 599 ON IO2L 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1922 VE3OBU 599 ON S58N 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 1927 VE3OBU 599 ON EI4CF 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2010 VE3OBU 599 ON OH6NIO 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2016 VE3OBU 599 ON IK2HKT 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2032 VE3OBU 599 ON 6Y5/VE4GV 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2038 VE3OBU 599 ON PY2NY 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2044 VE3OBU 599 ON J37T 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2046 VE3OBU 599 ON KP2/K3MD 599 400 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2103 VE3OBU 599 ON TI5N 599 005 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2104 VE3OBU 599 ON CO8LY 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2106 VE3OBU 599 ON AL1G 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2108 VE3OBU 599 ON PT7AG 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2139 VE3OBU 599 ON JA1JKG 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2141 VE3OBU 599 ON JH4UYB 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2143 VE3OBU 599 ON JR1CBC 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2147 VE3OBU 599 ON JH7XMO 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2148 VE3OBU 599 ON JA6SHL 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2149 VE3OBU 599 ON OH5Z 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2156 VE3OBU 599 ON JA8RWU 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2159 VE3OBU 599 ON JA7AKH 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2204 VE3OBU 599 ON 8P0P 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2205 VE3OBU 599 ON PY2WC 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2210 VE3OBU 599 ON SE2T 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2228 VE3OBU 599 ON JA0QNJ 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2231 VE3OBU 599 ON JA7BME 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2235 VE3OBU 599 ON JA7DLE 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2240 VE3OBU 599 ON ZP0R 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2247 VE3OBU 599 ON HK3Q 599 300 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2248 VE3OBU 599 ON LU8EOT 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2250 VE3OBU 599 ON PY2EX 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2253 VE3OBU 599 ON CX5BW 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2310 VE3OBU 599 ON JA2ZJW 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2315 VE3OBU 599 ON PY5/OK7MT 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2334 VE3OBU 599 ON PY5FB 599 500 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2341 VE3OBU 599 ON LU1EWF 599 100 QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2342 VE3OBU 599 ON KH6NF 599 K QSO: 14000 CW 2008-02-17 2355 VE3OBU 599 ON CE6TC 599 100 END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 2,700 Not a very impressive score ! Conditions here were so-so on the first night and poor on the second. So I gave up early both nights. SP3BQ was a beacon here - easily the best signal from Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,062,480 First contest since fall 2006! I was off for about 13 month since my PhD keeps me pretty busy but as Don invited me, there was no reason to hesiate. Couldn't manage to get longer runs on 40m. In fact, afterwards I wondered where I had spent the night. 20m went great but mainly with EU, a JA opening on sunday didn't yield a run either. In sum, lots of things to improve but I had a great time. Thanks to Don who let me operate his station with the new rig (FT 2000) delivered 2h before the contests started (!). Hope to be back soon! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 304,290 Rig: Elecraft K2/100 Amp: single 3-500z (80-10) Ant: R7000, 80m dipole @50feet, 160m 3/4wave inverted L up 30feet. Had lots of fun, biggest surprise was hearing VP6DX on 160m and getting him first call (100w) - before the cluster mob found him.... Now I need the beam... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 60,900 Sunday P.M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,428,108 Strange but good conditions here but ice on my 40m antenna hurt on Sunday afternoon. Most amazing operator heard was 9Y4VU came back to 3 or more people at a time in his big pile-up - WOW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 92,295 Friday evening started out terribly. After 45 minutes I had only made 16 QSOs and threw in the towel. Running 100W doesn't help matters these days. I spent the rest of Friday evening disassembling an old DX-60 that I was given. I dabbled a bit in the contest on Saturday, as the bands weren't great here - but there was a bit of DX now and then. I managed to do a bit of good on 40m on Saturday night, but with S7 noise it is still pretty tough. On Sunday morning, things improved and I actually worked Europe for a while (mostly the big guns). As the afternoon wore on, I worked more south and central America and even managed to work a few stations on 15m. Over all, the contest was a real grind, but that's to be expected at the bottom of the cycle (are we there yet?). I did manage to work VP6DX on 15m (I heard him them on several bands but was unable to break through), and also worked South Africa, New Zealand, and Malaysia. I never heard the rest of Africa or Asia (other than Japan). I keep saying that next year will be better and sooner or later I'll be right. Thanks to all those who pulled me through the noise! FT-1000MP 100W TH6DXX at 13m for 10-20m Inverted VEE for 40m Shunt-Fed Tower for 80/160m N1MM Logger Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 276,996 Hi All: Well was'nt that EU openin on 40 b4 the end great?? I did a parttimer cuz of all the usual reasons plus a skiing crash hurt in Banff the day b4 doing the double blacks with my M/Single partner Michael, age 13. My wings are'nt rubber any more like his are HI!! Still in one piece tho' Another great ARRL event; tnx to the sponsors, all the Q's and see you in the coming events. VE6EX was: TS940sat plus all the Inrads, small HB 3-500 amp @ ~500w into city lot antennas in the heart of Calgary suburbs. 2el loops on 20m, 15m and quarter slopers on the low bands. TRLOG on board for logging; the best... Cheers, Dan.. VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 296,694 Thanks to Don for making the station available again. Don is always a great host. Conditions were down this year from previous years. The high solar wind really took its toll up here combined with the low solar flux. Band closed early at about 0200 on Friday evening and 0100 on Saturday evening. Our midnight over the pole opening to Europe didn't materialize until about 3 AM or 1000Z on both nights. The band stayed open until about 1400 and then we just couldn't hear a European signal until about 1545 each morning. The band closed up about 1800 on Saturday but we could hear Europeans until at least 2300 on Sunday. Overall score was down about 30% from the past few years. We will see how things work out for SSB in a couple of weeks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7FO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 302,016 Oh man, that was a tough slog. Best hours were 55, 50 and 32 Qs. Worst were 3 with 1 Q, 4 with 2 Qs and it's just too painful to go on. This at a 3 tower station with numerous TH6DX, a couple of 40m yagis, a 4 square for 80 and an Alpha Amp. This was the other half of the VE7UF team. We did 2 M/S with VE7YU and VE7UF signing VE7UF and VA7AN and VE7FO signing VE7FO. Some of the low rates were due to the need to swap bands to give each group a fair shot at the activity. i.e. while one group was on 20 the other would be on 40 or 15. But some of the low rates were due to poor conditions at our location. We did the two M/S thing again because it's more fun for the ops (UF has worked the band out? FO comes on and is fresh meat.) This results in a lower score for each group than if we did a M/2 or M/M but I'm sure glad we did. Otherwise, what was a pretty painful experience would have been way worse, as in several hours with no Qs at all. If you read VE7UF's story you will have seen mention of wrapping the coax around the 150 ft rotating tower. He was kind enough to not mention who it was that, believing the tower was stuck because the indicator wasn't moving, tried turning it this way and that hoping to "unstick" it. Guess what, the tower was fine, the problem was with the indicator. I guess that having guest ops is like having the grand kids over - you have to kid proof everything. Believing that the tower was pointing the stack of 3 TH6DX's SE (turned out they were pointing N) I resorted to the Mosley at 45 ft for the Eu opening on Sun am. Hey, they're there, they're hearing me and contesting is fun again. Still, while I had a lot of success with S&P I couldn't get a run going and missed lots of Qs compared to what would have been possible with the stack. It's always fun when hearing an Oc station with OU in the call sign (T32OU this time) to say, "Hi Bill". When he comes back with, "Hi Jim" I know it's N7OU touring paradise again. Many thanks to VE7YU and VA7AN for making it possible to keep both op positions going for the full 48. 73, Jim VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7UF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 457,488 I wonder what the USA stations that we have to work to clear the frequency put in their log for power from our BC sent exchange? We shared the VE7UF station facilities between 2 M/S shations again. This gives the 4 operators more to do, but shorts both station's score. Its all about having more fun making a lower score. We lost the Sunday EU run because the 150 ft rotating tower got turned 400 degrees past the point where there is should be a auto stop. Not good for the coax. Our thanks to all that called. Duane, VE7UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7XF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 299,637 My personal challenge is hunting mults, so mostly S&P. Only my second contest (in 50 years) as HP - it DOES make a difference! Worked only 2 stns on all six bands - KH6LC and VP6DX :-) No JA on 10m, and few on 15m. Plasma TV next door ruined 160 & 80 much of the time. Ralph, VE7XF FT-1000mp, Acom 1000, 3el Steppirand wires. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 287,079 Conditions bad. Lots of QRN here now days for some reason. Out of all the contacts only 7 resulted from my CQing. Mainly S&P here. Thanks to all that called. Happy to QSY on request. Some worked, some did not. I will be submitting my log as a check log. Contacts will be uploaded to LOTW within the hour. 73 Andy (VE9DX} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 289,332 Didn't seem like 19 hours. Never managed many new band/mode countries. Frankly, given the conditions, I didn't expect to do anywhere close to last year. I had the realtime scoreboard up in a window and kept watching the proceedings. Easy to do when you S&P :) Around about late afternoon I was tempted to start calling US stations as I had run out of DX to work. Picked up again on Sunday though. There really needs to be some standards for cut numbers. You can figure them out but it throws you off for a second when you get something you don't expect. Also, when working split, for the love of God give some indication of the RX range. UP is a vast area; even moreso when you don't have the cluster telling you where UP is. Anyway, it was a bit better than last year in score but short on mults. 15 was sporadic and 10 was once again missing. Thanks for the Qs and CU in the next one. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 155,991 First Q 2/16/08 11:29:03 6Y1LZ Last Q 2/17/08 20:53:09 LR2F VP6DX 80/40/15; DXCC: 73 Upload to eQSl and LoTW soon! EI7BA ... Tnx Q John 73! TopBand Log 1818 CW 2008-02-17 0154 VO1HP 599 NF HB0/N0MX 599 KW 3 1821 CW 2008-02-17 0225 VO1HP 599 NF F5IN 599 KW 3 1823 CW 2008-02-17 0116 VO1HP 599 NF OK2PAY 599 KW 3 1824 CW 2008-02-17 1034 VO1HP 599 NF VP9/W6PH 599 100 3 1824 CW 2008-02-17 0227 VO1HP 599 NF G4PWA 599 400 3 1825 CW 2008-02-17 0245 VO1HP 599 NF CT9L 599 500 3 1826 CW 2008-02-17 0229 VO1HP 599 NF PJ4O 599 K 3 1827 CW 2008-02-17 0222 VO1HP 599 NF RU4HP 599 200 3 1828 CW 2008-02-17 0147 VO1HP 599 NF SP2PIK 599 500 3 1830 CW 2008-02-17 0113 VO1HP 599 NF OM3GI 599 KW 3 1830 CW 2008-02-17 0155 VO1HP 599 NF TM9R 599 KW 3 1832 CW 2008-02-17 0110 VO1HP 599 NF SP3BQ 599 KW 3 1833 CW 2008-02-17 0152 VO1HP 599 NF CT1JLZ 599 KW 3 1833 CW 2008-02-17 0245 VO1HP 599 NF KP2M 599 K 3 1837 CW 2008-02-17 0157 VO1HP 599 NF 9A1A 599 KW 3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 353,184 Abbreviated contest effort , mainly S & P ...weather softened a bit on Friday and attempted to change-out the driven element on my 20 meter beam however Murphy was lurking at the top third of the tower which was completely ensconced in a film of ice not visible from the ground, discretion in this case was the better part or safer part of valour so had to abort that effort and to make do with a single delta loop. Had hoped to do a bit of cqing however ...... Murphy was not yet finished , and was joined by his Cousin O'Toole for those of you who have never heard of O'Toole his corollary on Murphy's law simply states that "Murphy is an Optimist" I guess due to the many recent wind storm we have had here some thing must have gone awry on one of the transformers on an electrical pole not far from the house ..... without the noise blanker , the IPO and the notch filter all engaged the noise was 10 over nine ... So apologies to any who might have called while I CQ'ed and didnt copy ... Cheeeeeese one of the reasons I moved here 15 years ago was to get rid of that stuff. and as I type this just about all my noise is gone... any way that's my story and I'm sticking with it, hopefully I get a weather window to fix my twenty meter beam and repair some of the other antennas around here ... Hope to C'y'all next one GLWCDR 73 Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP5DF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,039,696 It's been so long since I've operated 10 meters I've forgotten what it feels like? I felt lucky with this test as I wasn't even sure if 15 was going to open? Noise on 160 must have scared people away. It seemed like not nearly as many 160 participants this year? Thanks for all the representation from the rare sections DC, WY, ID, the Dakota's and the VE1s, VO1s. Where oh where has Montana gone? Never got RI or KY on 160 . . . what's up? Greatest fun you can have for a 2 band contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP6DX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,883,516 We were very glad to participate in this contest and hopefully made many contesters happy. During contest time we worked everybody and actually made over 10,000 QSOs on contest bands in CW in total. We do hope to get 1st place among M/M in Oceania:) and as it seems we might even beat the carribean stations with multipliers. Some statistics follows: VP6DX By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! ! ! 40 ! 72 ! 3 ! 115 ! ! 01 ! ! ! ! 87 ! ! ! 87 ! ! 02 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 1 ! ! 7 ! ! 03 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 04 ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! 1 ! ! 05 ! ! ! 33 ! ! ! ! 33 ! ! 06 ! 49 ! 29 ! 114 ! ! ! ! 192 ! ! 07 ! 53 ! 68 ! 79 ! ! ! ! 200 ! ! 08 ! 45 ! 67 ! 24 ! ! ! ! 136 ! ! 09 ! 34 ! 10 ! 11 ! ! ! ! 55 ! ! 10 ! 30 ! 47 ! 52 ! ! ! ! 129 ! ! 11 ! 36 ! 82 ! 114 ! ! ! ! 232 ! ! 12 ! 8 ! 56 ! 62 ! ! ! ! 126 ! ! 13 ! ! 7 ! ! 35 ! ! ! 42 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 106 ! 15 ! ! 121 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 66 ! 68 ! ! 134 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! ! 135 ! 3 ! 138 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! ! 107 ! 72 ! 179 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 108 ! 160 ! ! 268 ! ! 19 ! ! ! ! 99 ! 158 ! ! 257 ! ! 20 ! ! ! ! 91 ! 157 ! 26 ! 274 ! ! 21 ! ! ! ! ! 132 ! 57 ! 189 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 9 ! 151 ! 10 ! 170 ! ! 23 ! ! ! ! 99 ! 76 ! 3 ! 178 ! ! 00 ! ! ! ! 137 ! 27 ! ! 164 ! ! 01 ! ! ! ! 79 ! ! ! 79 ! ! 02 ! ! ! ! 24 ! 2 ! ! 26 ! ! 03 ! ! ! ! 4 ! ! ! 4 ! ! 04 ! 6 ! ! 66 ! ! ! ! 72 ! ! 05 ! 11 ! ! 113 ! ! ! ! 124 ! ! 06 ! 8 ! ! 64 ! 1 ! ! ! 73 ! ! 07 ! 11 ! 17 ! 40 ! 1 ! ! ! 69 ! ! 08 ! ! 38 ! 42 ! ! ! ! 80 ! ! 09 ! ! 23 ! 55 ! ! ! ! 78 ! ! 10 ! 32 ! 1 ! 63 ! ! ! ! 96 ! ! 11 ! 68 ! 99 ! 120 ! ! ! ! 287 ! ! 12 ! 56 ! 64 ! 101 ! ! ! ! 221 ! ! 13 ! ! 54 ! 50 ! ! ! ! 104 ! ! 14 ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 22 ! ! ! 24 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 1 ! 48 ! ! ! 49 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 64 ! 78 ! ! 142 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! 41 ! 121 ! 44 ! 206 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! ! 113 ! 5 ! 118 ! ! 19 ! ! ! ! ! 160 ! 42 ! 202 ! ! 20 ! ! ! ! ! 81 ! 31 ! 112 ! ! 21 ! ! ! ! ! 125 ! 137 ! 262 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! ! 100 ! 143 ! 243 ! ! 23 ! ! ! ! 101 ! 28 ! 42 ! 171 ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 447 ! 663 ! 1205 ! 1268 ! 2068 ! 618 ! 6269 ! Worked States/Provinces ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! 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QC ! 2 ! 2 ! 3 ! 3 ! 7 ! 4 ! 21 ON ! 14 ! 15 ! 33 ! 20 ! 45 ! ! 127 MB ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! 1 SK ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 5 ! 4 ! 3 ! 14 AB ! 5 ! 6 ! 10 ! 6 ! 14 ! ! 41 BC ! 5 ! 13 ! 9 ! 16 ! 26 ! 2 ! 71 NT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! YT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! NU ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ======================================================= ! 447 ! 663 ! 1205 ! 1268 ! 2068 ! 618 ! 6269 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com 73 All the VP6DX crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,786,697 IC-7000, CT 9.57, W1MD NEC Versa V 486-50 computer Inverted L (160,80) Dipole at 25 feet (40) Cushcraft A4S at 30 feet (20-10) I thought conditions could not be worse than last year but I was wrong. My two 10m contacts were QSY's. One was with W1WEF at 6 am local time and signals were weak but very readable sounding hollow like EME. The other was with K1RX midday with bursts of readable signals which took three or four tries to complete the exchange. The other highlight was the Sunday sporadic E opening on 15m to the northeast and mid-Atlantic which resulted in a lot of multipliers but not nearly enough contacts to make up for the Caribbean advantage farther south. Everything worked well and no problems occurred. For some reason, I was able to put in more seat hours this year than in the past. This was my ninth year of operating from VP9GE. Ed continues to be an outstanding host and makes this contest expedition enjoyable. I will be there for SSB next weekend. 73, Kurt, W6PH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 1,995 Among states I heard here, missed RI. No signals heard from the West Coast even though I was listening both LP & SP, but could hear YB/HS stns work them with 100w :) Looks like conditions are improving and next year should be better. See you all in the phone part and hope to make a few QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 508,248 5W and KW both sound the same on Sat. Too many US stations calling me. VY2LI had 60th birthday party Saturday evening followed by hockey game. Priorities! -Robby VY2SS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 543,144 PEI is a harsh mistress. It took me 34 hours to get to the PEI DX Lodge. It usually takes 14. I spent the night in an airport for the first time in my life. I arrived to find my two 10 meters antennas in fine shape. Everything else was broken, as was my spirit. No sense in going back for ARRL DX Phone. It will all be fixed by next winter, and hopefully PEI winter proofed, although I've thought that before. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,095,200 Thanks to Paul for a great time at the radio again. We sure are longing for 10 and 15 to come back to life again. At least the low bands were in good shape again. Just like they were for CQ 160 CW. I saw N0IJ's comments on the last hour multipliers and looked that over and we had a good burst of activity in the last hour of operating. We had 15 new multipliers put in the log in that time! It seems like we can count on Asia to pop in there on 20 in that last hour and supply a few more multipliers that we had not worked yet. Some of those worked in the last hour were: 9Y4VU, HL2CFY (on 20), ES5QX (160), BD5WW (20), 9V1YC (40), 7X0RY (80), TK5IH (40), YB1CCF (20), 7X0RY (40), 9V1YC (20), ES6AK (40), DP0GVN (20). Hope to see you all in ARRL DX Single Slop Bucket (SSB) in a couple weeks. http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 111,612 Jumped on and off over the weekend to give out the KS mult. Enjoyed the nice 40m European opening on Sunday during the last hour .. actually felt loud into Europe for a short time. Kept checking 10, but if there was an opening, I missed it. Also enjoyed listening to and working the gang at VP6DX. Thanks for the Qs! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 264,600 Enjoyable dx contest with some especially nice condx on 20, 40, and even 80 giving me a number of new countries on several bands. The special dxpedition VP6DX gang were prominent on 40 thru 10 for me. Many other contest expeditions were everywhere passing out lots of mults on all bands - thanks for being there! Heard many GMCCers: KO7X, N0KE, K0UK, K8FC, KJ0G, K0FX, K6XT, KV0Q, W0ZA, K0RI and KI0J. Also, heard N2IC from Silver City with a (eardrum) bone crushing signal 50 over on 40m during the last hour. 73 Ken Rig: FT1000MPMkV 150w to hf yagis and 80/160m vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 60,600 Had a great time, more than doubled last years score. I'm running a very simple station (IC-746Pro/Gap Titan Vertical)Thanks for all the Qs. There sure a lot of good CW Ops out there. You guys did a great job. Thanks again to the N1MM Logger gang... what a fine program. 73 de W0PC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0UO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 663,201 Moved a multiplier for the first time ever. TI5N (QRP) from 80 to 160. It worked!!! Given poor conditions and the huge storm this would have been an easy contest to walk away from. I'm glad I didn't. WØUO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 73,566 Condx better to Europe on Saturday night on 40. Always a surprising band. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AAX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 208,917 Great contest. Had a blast. Stopped to put a feed-bag on, and missed a nice JA opening. Bummer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 158,544 Was great to have newly licensed ham and YCCC member Chip, W1CMC in the shack. He made a couple S&P QSOs and is well on his way to becoming a QRQ master. Spent too much time DXing on 40 and 80 Friday night in the S8 noise. I should have gone to bed earlier Friday and tried running EU Saturday and Sunday mornings. Chip and I installed N1MM and used it for the first time. It made a huge difference to have computer control, though I suspect that the packet bandmap function may have lured me to dwell too long on the S&P and focus too little on trying to run. 73, Clayton NF1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1BYH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 372,240 NO RTTY CONTESTS THIS WEEKEND - REALLY COLD OUTSIDE - THOUGHT I WOULD PRACTICE SOME CW WHILE I WAITED FOR 10 METER PROPAGATION TO WORK VP6DX ! HAD A GOOD TIME AND SURPRISED AT THE REASONABLY GOOD CONDITIONS. STRICTLY S&P - STATION: IC756 PRO3 AL80A AMP @ 500 WATTS TRI-BANDER AT 45 FT VERTICALS ON 40 MTRS DIPOLES ON 80 / 160 AT 35 FT WRITELOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CDX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,880 I should learn CW... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 489,510 Shy of last year's totals, but high band condx not great. I was limited to a single dipole, but managed to work most of what I could hear. Thanks to all the players. George W1EBI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1GD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,260,270 Fun time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 442,878 Single antenna for all bands: Wire, 22 m long, 6 m high. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 97,875 SOAPBOX: Had to work all day Saturday. This was so much SOAPBOX: fun wish I had a lot more time. The best thing SOAPBOX: is my CW copy is getting better...but I still SOAPBOX: prefer S&P contesting operations. I still say SOAPBOX: there should be a separate category for S&P SOAPBOX: only ops. SOAPBOX: Breaking the pile-ups with a wire antenna is SOAPBOX: great. Did the zero beat of the last station SOAPBOX: worked and that seemed to do the trick. SOAPBOX: Things just worked very well in the shack for SOAPBOX: this contest except for the last hour or so SOAPBOX: when my software stopped displaying spots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MK Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 268,224 Orion, HomeBrew 4-1000 amp Tx/Rx ant 4 SQ, WA3FET Phasing Design, Top Loaded 44 foot verticals Elev Radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1MU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 458,952 My goal this year was to try to do as well as last year, but I fell short. Conditions were worse, the mults just weren't there for me, and QSO counts were down (especially with JA). I did manage to get two good nights of sleep. There were numerous highlights. Getting called by D2NX, J28JA, and 5H1HD was goodness. It was great to see guys like ZB2EO, 4K9W, and 9Y4VU (just to name a few) in there handing out mults. The operating skills of our friends in the EU are, in general, very impressive. Many of those guys are as good as one can get. Lots of persistent QRP & QRPp operators. Signals from JA in Sunday were good but the opening was short -- signals from JA0QNJ, JA1YPA and JF1NHD, as well as others, were 5-10 over in FN53. Managed to ride a short LP opening on Saturday at sunset to snag a few Siberians and a VK6, which are always in short supply for the ARRL DX test. The lowlights were in there too. This year the dupes seemed overwhelming. There were a few guys with whom I had 3-4 Q's. It may be time to look into the philosophy of "work the dupes." They sure use up valuable time. Signals on Sunday morning were VERY up and down. So there's always next year. See you then. Radio here was a K3 and an ACOM 1000 at about 800W, feeding 5-over-5 at heights of 15m & 30m. Software was N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 36,720 Although I'm a "dedicated" S&P'er, I decided this year to spend more time trying to run stations. Also this was the first DX Contest that I operated Single Band. I now have a new appreciation for those guys (and gals) who spend time "in the chair" logging back to back Qs, sorting out calls and trying to pick out the weak ones. My run times were short, and I can only imagine what it's like doing that for hours on end. I never thought running could be so mentally draining. So, to all those patient (and I mean patient...especially in the last hour)stations who gave me a Q and a multiplier or two, thanks. See you next year. Frank, W1NK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 787,968 Pretty good conditions for this time of the cycle and lots of activity made it fun. I tried operating assisted this time to see how the "arcade game" works... Lots of funny callsigns and comments but it was fun. Highlights: Good multiplier activity using this method. Less stress and than running although many 100 watt stations were often pretty strong this time. Lowlights: My new SteppIR with the 40m dipole element "froze" on Saturday morning (25F) in the extended position. No antenna for the high bands until the sun and some mechanical twisting allowed the element to retract. This is the second time this has happened and the antenna is at risk of an "early retirement". The hairpin design can use some redesign attention. Overall, this was another good radio weekend and thanks for all the Qs. 73, George .. W1ZT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2CG Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,425,776 We must be at the beginning of the new cycle. 10M & 15M a bust. Finished last 3 hours without an amp on second station. QSL via LoTW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2FU Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,506,566 We had two new faces to the team and also new N1MM users....some learning curve problems didn't thwart our enthusiasm AND the additional ops allowed us to actually have someone use a 2nd radio on a couple of bands for a change. Now, we can't wait for next year!!!! Congrats to all the fine scores posted in light of the weakest conditions I can remember in a major contest. Band QSOs Pts Cty 1.8 279 813 69 K2AXX WB2ABD 3.5 866 2592 88 N2CU 7 892 2667 100 K0SM K5MA 14 1815 5430 118 N2PP N2ZN 21 201 597 75 K2DB 28 13 30 4 W2LB Total 4066 12129 454 Backup, fill-in and support WA2BCK, W2FU Score : 5,506,566 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 800,730 Propagation about as bad as I've ever seen in an International DX contest. 15 was a no-show all weekend for the most part -- at least from the northeastern US. Very limited openings to Europe and much less to South America and the Caribbean than normal. Needless to say, 10 was as flat as a pancake. Although 20m was the money-band, activity on Sunday was very light, as was Saturday overnight. There were a few nice surprises this year; good to see 4U1UN show up on all bands, including 160 and of course a very strong presence by the VP6DX team. I was also very happy that my station behaved itself beautifully all weekend long. Here's hoping we get better propagation on the higher bands for the SSB version in 2 weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2TB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 388,470 Pro3 Emtron DX2sp Tribander at 50' 80/40 trap dipole 40m 1/4~ vert. 160m Inv-L at 45' N1MM Time cut short by XYL breaking her ankle Sat eve and then doctor on Sun. Murphy is really hard up! 73! Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,469,325 Random musings: SO1RPTFD - single op 1 radio, part-time, first day operation (OK, 30 minutes on Sunday morning - I was hoping 15m would open for a fun run.) SO2R is like power windows in a car - once you have it, it's hard to go back. There's so much lost potential with 1 radio. All that time doing nothing, during the CQ! Everybody's b*tching about condx. For the time I operated, granted, not much, I thought it was pretty good. The low bands were the quietest I've heard them in a long time. I had a ton of QRPers call in and for the most part, no problems copying them (other than their incessant repeating of "QRP QRP.") On 40m, I worked almost 300 stations in a little over 2 hours (20-2200Z on Sat.) On 160, my weakest band, I beat W3LPL out to one station - the little things that make us happy. It will probably never happen again :.) The other fortunate thing about this QSO was it was not a packet spot, so I got in and out quickly before all the endless callers arrived. Have you ever noticed a few guys have a knack for dropping their call in just as the DX responds, every time? I used N1MM for the first time from home (used it for the very first time at N3RS in CQWW CW) Some things about it I like better than Writelog, others things not. A couple of times, I don't know what happened, but the radio QSYed on me. One minute I'm CQing on 7000.7, the next minute, I'm CQing on 7035 and some poor W8 is wondering where I came from. Once I realized what happened, I went back to my freq (and apologies to the W8.) Some of these cut numbers are crazy. How about this? Next time you get a wacky cut number, send your exchange phonetically - for example, five nine nine papa alpha (yes, on cw) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2VJN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 863,784 Bring on the sunspots! Friday night was good on the low bands, then the QRN level came way up during the night. In the middle of the night, I had a great 160 run of 35 Qs in 20 minutes. short and sweet. Most 80/40 Eu was worked on LP until Sunday afternoon. Worked a lonesome D4C on 15 Sunday afternoon coming over the south pole. Here is the JA break down of 626 Qs. 40 on 160 90 on 80 294 on 40 198 on 20 4 on 15 0 on 10 Thanks for all those Qs. 73, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2XL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,820,448 Low bands were great ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3BGN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,233,708 Work commitments prevented my annual February trip to P40W. Fortunately my neighbor, W3BGN, had a seat for me at his station which has been piloted to consistent top 5 finishes in ARRL DX CW M/S for literally decades. This was my first participation in an M/S entry in ARRL DX since 1977 (the last was a two weekend ARRL DX CW event with a hotshot teenage operator WB2FLF, who we all know now as N2NT, and K2SX, from my home QTH in WNJ - so so long ago). I really didn't know quite know what to expect. But the veteran ops in the shack took control and directed the show....I became the defacto runner which probably was the best strategy for everyone. Learning the station's complex antenna switching system takes considerable time. The low bands were terrific the first night....quiet conditons, and signals seemed loud out of EU. Had a very nice run on 40 the first few hours while the other ops were tracking down mults on 80 and 160 in their brief QSYs to these bands. We used the allowed six hourly band changes very carefully. Steve's station is top tier on 160, and he exploited this to our advantage too. Looking back, we probably didn't run enough on 80M the first night, but the mult total didn't suffer it seems. 20M was great Saturday morning. The runs were Carib caliber, put a pair of 180 clock hours together back to back and then kept the rate meter hovering near 150 for much of the next several hours too. WOW! The two stack was playing. But 15M never really produced the first day. We struggled just to hear the Carib stations, and after considerable effort only 40 mults made it into the log during the day. Ten meters, forgetaboutit, ZERO qsos day one. Never heard a station to work. The pace predictably slowed the second day. We went to 40M about 2100 or so, the rate picked up nicely compared to 20 which was already waining. But condx didn't seem as good as night one, the noise level was higher, probably the line of storms out in the central USA. Most of the running was done on 40 again the second night, with mults added from 20, 80 and 160 sporatically. In retrospect, the run rate on 80 was probably better and might have been exploited further. Nice to work KL7RA on 160....thanks Rich! Sunday morning we finally saw 15M come to life ever so briefly, just enough to add a handful of EU mults and another 25 or so total mults during the day. Kept checking 10M regularly, and we were rewarded with a few SA mults, many at the ESP level. Again transitioned to 40M about 2100 for a rate boost. Nice to have a 7X call in for a new one. In the last hour we added KG6 and HL on 20, and OY on 160. It was a pleasure operating with two very skilled M/S vets, which provided me with a great look at how the M/S game is played, and we all seemed to have plenty of seat time (and snooze time too). And Steve's family are terrific hosts.....the food was first class all weekend. Congrats to the K1LZ, K1IR, KT3Y, K8AZ and so many other M/S teams for the close competition.....and a HUGE thank you to all the DX stations who stuck with this contest despite mediocre conditions. Maybe in the years to come I'll venture into the multi-op world somewhat more frequently. Had a fun weekend....that's always the bottom line. 73, John, W2GD - for the W3BGN M/S Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3DQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 168 Was planning to do a M/S w/W2CDO, but Murphy intervened in a a big way -- couldn't put more than ~90 w into any of the wire antennas. We suspect it was a result of the unusually high (40+ mph) winds we've been having here in DC for the past couple of weeks. So instead of a multi-op, I went Single Op LP assisted. The combination of low power and assisted made for a surreal experience. Very passive, relying way too heavily on telnet connection and WriteLog's CW decoder. Time to fix the antennas! Eric W3DQ Washington, DC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3EF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,379,700 Wow, what a contest. As W3LPL said on the "real" 3830 a moment after it ended, "Welcome to contesting at the bottom of the sunspot cycle". For a while there it seemed like even 15m was never going to make it to Europe -- and this with 8 elements on my only fully-functional rotator (a TIC Ring). I did manage to work a few, more on Sunday than on Saturday, but running anything on 15 was clearly out of the question. So also, it appeared, was running anything on 80 (as N1UR has commented). My wire 4-square could perhaps be better tuned and strung, but as in Ed's case I found I could work them when I called them (better than usual, in fact, and including Asia and Oceania on the greyline). However, the few times I tried CQing on 80 I very quickly discovered that there were no takers. Perhaps it was just the die-hards out there, all calling CQ. Or perhaps I really do need to fine-tune the antenna to raise the smaller stations for whom I am down in the noise. 160 was open, but seemed worse than last year. It certainly seemed there wasn't as much on. Running was, of course, out of the question. Still, with the new phased inverted L's I managed to work whatever I heard. 10 was officially dead. Or so I incorrectly concluded, now that I see there were a few precious mults to be had. I checked from time to time (even moved once when asked by ZP0R) but no joy, so I didn't look often enough it seems. I don't remember the last time I had zero Qs on any band in this contest, but there it is. Which left 40 and 20. When I arrived back in the US from HB9 (where I spend most of my time), the 40m beam was still on the ground and in need of repair, and the indicator pot on the 20m Prosistel Rotator was shot (and the feedline had torn off as a result). So it was a busy week, what with two days of business travel and various weather problems on top of the very significant antenna work. We finally got both beams connected, and replaced the pot, but neither rotation system is yet fully functional. Still, being able to point them at Europe and leave them there was better than nothing! My exclamation at the beginning of this note reflects my feeling that, like several others have already said of their own efforts, I was really pleased with my performance in this contest. Most people's scores seem to be well down on last year (sadly for me, not N1UR's -- and another great spoiler job by K1BX; warm congrats to you both), but I managed to post about a 15 percent gain. More importantly, I think I may finally be getting really good at this. That is to say, while there is certainly plenty of room for improvement, I don't think I'm missing any of the key points. My biggest handicap is that I really only do the one SO2R contest per year, so it's taken me a while to develop the expertise. But I am finally using both radios--and using them well--pretty much all the time, and it seems to be paying off. What I still marvel at is Marv -- N5AW that is -- who ran more than 200 JAs on 40m, along with posting the usual incredible multiplier total from, yes, Texas. Being in Maryland I have neither the geographic advantage of the real northeast (we are actually below the Mason-Dixon line!) nor the clearly acknowledged disadvantage of parts central and west, so am neither fish nor fowl. But Marv manages to show us all up from the back of beyond with that mult count year after year. Maybe I do have some things still to learn.... 73s from HB9, Maury W3EF (Jet-lagged and contest-lagged and teaching in 12 hours!) Station W3EF (Silver Spring, Maryland -- FM19): IC 7800 150w & IC 765 (80w on a good day) Top Ten selectors and DX Doubler WX0B Six-Pak Writelog Antennas: 160m: Comtek phased inverted Ls (2) @ 75' w/elevated radials 80m: Comtek wire 4-sq (sloping to supports off 125' tower) w/elevated radials 40m: KLM 40M4 @ 125'; wire GP 20m: Telrex 20M646 @ 105'; A3S @ 53' 15m: Telrex 15M845 @ 92'; A3S @ 53' 10m: A3S @ 53' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3GH Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 21,228 QRN bad and gave up early both nights. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,506,510 Our efforts were compromised by S9 line noise on 160 meters to the north east that started a few days before the contest. This made it impossible to call CQ on 160 meters toward Europe, resulting in the loss of more than 100 European QSOs. Our 160 meter team turned in an amazing performance in the face of extreme difficulty. After two exasperating nights on 160, I decided to hunt the noise on Sunday afternoon with a WX3B's portable radio tuned to 1800 kHz (attempts to locate the RFI with a radio in an automobile were unsuccessful). I found nothing after three miles of walking across nearby farmland and residential areas. I began to walk back to my QTH down a road with buried power lines, and soon the noise began to get stronger. The RFI source turned out to be an electrified fence one mile NE of my QTH. The farmer reluctantly agreed to turn his fence off for a few hours, but he re-energized his fence 30 minutes before the end of the contest. After an expasperating week trying convince the somewhat uncooperative farmer to fix his fence, the RFI finally disappeared five days after the contest. Hopefully it will not return, but I'm not yet confident in that. Congratulations and thanks to the KC1XX and K3LR teams for making this such an interesting and challenging competition, and especially to the K1XM team for finishing very close to third place. Soon some of 5 million point multi-multi scorers will be biting on our heels too! I guess we'll have to wait six months to find how this contest actually turned out. Yet another photo finish in the hyper competitive multi-multi category! BAND QSO COUNTRIES OPERATORS 160 167 69 W3LPL AI3M K4ZA 80 982 94 NI1N N3OC 40 1445 120 KD4D K4ZW AC6WI 20 2046 126 N3KS K3RA WX3B AC6WI 15 297 91 K3RV WR3Z 10 19 6 W3LPL WR3Z K4ZW ---- --- Totals 4956 506 = 7,506,510 Continent Statistics 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 26 30 44 61 31 5 197 3.8 South America 8 20 44 54 59 15 200 3.9 Europe 128 897 1277 1837 166 0 4305 84.1 Asia 1 18 52 121 3 0 195 3.8 Africa 4 12 21 29 16 0 82 1.6 Oceania 6 24 53 34 25 0 142 2.8 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 16/15 99/35 166/57 31/18 3/2 ..... 315/127 315/127 1 5/4 87/20 96/9 15/8 . . 203/41 518/168 2 7/6 84/7 68/7 4/1 . . 163/21 681/189 3 18/9 61/7 50/6 5/0 . . 134/22 815/211 4 9/7 60/3 39/3 3/0 . . 111/13 926/224 5 15/9 61/4 41/3 1/0 . . 118/16 1044/240 6 9/4 48/2 47/3 1/0 . . 105/9 1149/249 7 1/0 29/3 51/1 2/0 . . 83/4 1232/253 8 2/2 11/0 74/3 7/3 ..... ..... 94/8 1326/261 9 3/0 7/3 31/1 8/5 . . 49/9 1375/270 10 . 5/0 37/1 28/11 . . 70/12 1445/282 11 . 1/0 16/2 93/20 . . 110/22 1555/304 12 . . 8/1 185/7 6/5 . 199/13 1754/317 13 . . 9/1 175/1 20/10 . 204/12 1958/329 14 . . . 163/6 22/13 . 185/19 2143/348 15 . . . 140/5 13/5 . 153/10 2296/358 16 ..... ..... ..... 118/7 20/5 ..... 138/12 2434/370 17 . . . 115/3 14/5 . 129/8 2563/378 18 . . 5/1 100/2 20/8 . 125/11 2688/389 19 . . 42/0 75/1 16/7 . 133/8 2821/397 20 . . 63/1 36/0 7/1 . 106/2 2927/399 21 . . 86/2 40/5 5/3 6/3 137/13 3064/412 22 2/0 35/1 100/4 24/2 8/2 2/0 171/9 3235/421 23 3/0 55/1 64/1 11/1 2/0 . 135/3 3370/424 0 7/1 47/2 35/2 ..... ..... ..... 89/5 3459/429 1 5/1 27/1 22/1 1/0 . . 55/3 3514/432 2 9/4 27/0 13/0 2/1 . . 51/5 3565/437 3 11/0 27/0 18/2 . . . 56/2 3621/439 4 16/3 33/1 12/1 . . . 61/5 3682/444 5 13/1 38/0 12/0 . . . 63/1 3745/445 6 3/0 22/0 27/0 1/0 . . 53/0 3798/445 7 1/1 13/1 41/1 . . . 55/3 3853/448 8 1/1 8/1 21/1 1/0 ..... ..... 31/3 3884/451 9 . . 4/0 . . . 4/0 3888/451 10 1/1 5/0 4/0 . . . 10/1 3898/452 11 . 2/0 5/1 26/1 1/1 . 34/3 3932/455 12 . 2/0 3/1 118/3 11/2 . 134/6 4066/461 13 . . . 105/0 11/3 1/1 117/4 4183/465 14 . . 1/0 69/2 46/10 . 116/12 4299/477 15 . . . 66/2 29/4 . 95/6 4394/483 16 ..... ..... ..... 61/0 10/0 ..... 71/0 4465/483 17 . . . 55/2 15/3 . 70/5 4535/488 18 . . . 38/0 11/1 . 49/1 4584/489 19 . . 17/0 28/1 1/0 1/1 47/2 4631/491 20 . . 24/1 14/2 2/0 2/1 42/4 4673/495 21 . 13/0 34/0 37/1 3/1 7/0 94/2 4767/497 22 8/0 46/1 31/0 35/2 1/0 . 121/3 4888/500 23 2/0 28/0 28/2 9/3 . . 67/5 4955/505 DAY1 90/56 643/86 1093/107 1380/106 156/66 8/3 ..... 3370/424 DAY2 77/13 338/7 352/13 666/20 141/25 11/3 . 1585/81 TOT 167/69 981/93 1445/120 2046/126 297/91 19/6 . 4955/505 QSO Counts By Band-Country PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 4J 1 1 4L 1 1 4O 1 4U1U 1 1 1 1 1 4X 1 4 6 9 1 5B 1 5H 1 6W 1 6Y 1 1 2 4 2 2 7Q 1 7X 1 1 1 8P 1 1 1 1 1 9A 2 12 22 35 4 9H 2 2 1 9M6 1 1 9V 1 9X 1 1 9Y 1 1 1 A3 1 1 BY 1 1 C3 1 1 C6 2 2 3 1 2 CE 2 3 4 CE9 1 1 CM 1 2 4 2 1 CP 1 CT 2 5 7 8 4 CT3 1 2 2 2 1 CU 1 CX 1 3 3 3 3 2 D2 1 1 1 D4 1 DL 14 120 206 290 10 DU 1 E5/s 1 1 E7 2 1 5 14 2 EA 2 28 51 55 17 EA6 2 2 3 4 1 EA8 3 6 8 11 4 EA9 1 1 1 EI 1 8 8 10 2 ER 3 3 3 1 ES 1 2 1 7 EU 1 3 6 16 EY 1 F 7 45 60 82 12 FK 1 1 FM 1 1 1 1 1 FO 2 2 FY 1 1 G 10 84 111 139 17 GD 1 7 GI 2 3 5 3 2 GJ 1 1 1 2 1 GM 1 12 13 17 4 GU 1 1 1 GW 5 5 10 10 6 HA 3 42 41 66 4 HB 1 17 31 29 3 HB0 1 1 2 1 1 HC 2 HK 1 1 1 3 2 HL 1 HP 1 1 1 1 HR 1 HS 2 1 HZ 2 1 I 6 53 105 171 10 IS 1 2 6 8 1 J2 1 1 J3 1 2 2 2 J7 1 1 1 1 1 JA 11 26 85 1 JW 2 KH2 1 KH6 4 6 12 9 10 KL 1 1 3 5 1 KP2 5 2 2 5 2 KP4 2 3 2 2 1 LA 2 6 6 18 2 LU 1 2 6 8 15 5 LX 1 1 1 1 1 LY 4 13 9 25 2 LZ 2 14 24 28 1 OE 1 7 9 19 1 OH 2 8 13 37 5 OH0 1 1 OK 9 88 103 127 9 OM 2 23 21 29 1 ON 12 22 34 2 OX 1 1 OY 1 OZ 1 9 10 17 P4 1 1 2 1 1 PA 4 24 45 61 5 PJ2 3 3 3 3 3 PY 6 22 23 25 8 PZ 1 1 1 1 2 S5 4 17 41 46 8 SM 1 21 18 34 2 SP 6 29 44 61 3 SV 1 3 11 6 1 SV5 1 SV9 1 1 T32 1 1 1 1 1 T7 1 TA 1 TF 3 3 3 1 TI 1 1 1 1 TK 1 1 1 UA 10 62 45 108 1 UA2 1 4 3 4 UA9 3 9 16 UN 2 UR 6 51 63 98 4 V2 1 1 1 1 1 V3 3 4 3 2 4 2 V4 1 2 2 3 2 V6 2 V7 1 1 VK 5 17 7 3 VP2E 1 VP2V 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 VP6/d 1 1 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 1 1 VU 2 XE 2 4 4 3 XU 1 1 YB 1 YL 1 9 9 12 1 YN 1 1 1 1 1 YO 2 15 25 38 10 YU 3 20 40 36 4 YV 2 1 2 1 Z2 1 1 1 2 Z3 2 5 7 ZA 1 ZB 1 1 ZD7 1 1 1 ZF 1 ZL 9 13 12 6 ZP 1 1 1 1 ZS 1 4 7 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3PP Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,786,636 Wow! It's been a long time since I have seen such dismal conditions. They went along with a severe shortage of operators. At least that reduced the boredom. Not so many sitting around with no one to talk to. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TUA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 50,760 Made my 50k goal and worked some JA's and a KL to boot! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3UA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 322,608 As usual, I arrived home from Russia less than 24 hours before the test, with jet lag and totally exhausted... which cost me dearly when I decided to take a nap the second night at 7 Zulu, set an alarm clock for 8:30 with hope to catch a few western mults and some Qs before the sunrise -- and woke up at 12:20 Zulu, at the bright sunshine! Lost at least 50 QSOs and a few mults, and let N2IC beat me hands down. I'm not even talking about N2MF, who (according to the number of spots) also easily prevailed. Good job, guys. The only hardware problem was with my microKEYER 2R+, which several times started to transmit something on its own. Switching it off and restarting the software router cured the problem, but being unable to transmit for about a minute invited frequency thieves, who immediately started calling CQ on the "clear" frequency. Usually in 30 seconds they realized that the frequency indeed was not unused, and QSYd... but not always. Another funny effect was a busted spot, which put me out of business for almost 10 minutes, when I was called by about 30 EU big guns, trying to make dupes. I transmitted my call after EVERY "QSO B4" -- and still, they trusted their eyes rather than ears... It's good when you are spotted, but not always. The question is -- maybe it's better to QSY and find a new frequency? It's not always easy to find a clear one (see above). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3YY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,154,364 All in all, a great weekend. Spent Friday night and Saturday mostly DXing and S&P. Sunday I did some runs. Had some excellent runs on 40 and good runs on 20. I thought 40 was not all it could be, although it had some great moments. On 20 I've NEVER heard JA's so LOUD! Sunday evening they were 59+15. I even worked a 5-watt JA and he was loud. 160 and 80 were better than I expected. I had 51 countries on 160 and 62 on 80 without really trying. Murphy struck at about 1100 QSO's so that ended the effort. I did another 50 to 100 Q's, but then quit. Enjoyed using my new N3ZN paddle. Purposely sent most exchanges manually just to enjoy the paddle! Worked 4U1UN for #308 on 40-meters! Had to do it backscatter. Also worked VP6DX on 10 CW for a new band-slot. 73, Bob - W3YY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HJ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 37,050 Amplifier power supply blew on first key up!! worked all with 100 watts. Lots of loud EU stations who could not hear me.. Many thanks to all who pulled out the weak one!! Enjoyed working a new country! Regards to all.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 114,939 Interesting test of the new dipoles. The 20m dipole is now officially deemed functional. (Time for an antenna experiment.) First time I've worked Hawaii on three different bands in the same 'test. No joy on 80m. The 40m dipole is definitely in a better orientation for working EU. http://w4kaz.com/qth/?p=109 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 177,174 I have no idea what happened, but this contest I could do no wrong, seems that everything I heard I could work, with no problem at all. Conditions seems exceptionally decent. Considering we are at the quiet sun and everyone says it either is going to get better or worse. Well I don't care if it gives up South Pacific, over the North Pole to Antartica (DP0GVN). Only thing I didn't hear was from the middle east. But they were probably too busy trying to kill each other. Even worked DX on 160 and 80, like VP6DX. Amazing. Point being. Had a ball. And that's what it's all about. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 491,346 Rig: Ten Tec OMNI VII, Ameritron ALS-600 400W Antenna: 176' center fed flat top at 60' The lower three bands were good the first day but QRN increased drastically here the 2nd day. Even so I had a couple of good runs on 40 and 80 in spite of the heavy noise. I don't do well on 160 in DX contests because my antenna performs the poorest on that band on both TX and RX but was pleased to get 24 multipliers there. There are some good ears in Europe on 160! 20 meters was its normal bread and butter band in spite of this being the low point in the solar cycle. Without a yagi for that band and above I normally do as well or better on 40 M where my antenna has some gain over a dipole. It was madding to hear the guys with big yagi's work station I could not hear. 15 meters was a big disapointment with only 54 Q's and 31 multipliers. The short openings to EU allowed a few of the big guns to make my log. A couple of nice ones from the Pacific came through to put a smile on my face but most of the time QSO's there were just plain work! 10 meters was a bigger disappointment - I had ZERO Q's there. I kept checking when I saw a spot for a station on 10 M but I never heard anything. I finally gave up trying. My time was limited due to family matters over the weekend but I was suprised to see I did get on for a bit over half of the contest and my score was slightly better than last year. Thanks for the Q's and CU in the next CW contest. 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,165,303 The team had a great time even with the band conditons and some hardware problems. We had problem with our new 6 beverage X 4 Radio beverage switch box as it did'nt hear very well (noise) on 40 and 80M. So, for ARRL DX SSB it's back to the manual switch panel until we run some more tests to find the problem. Highlight of the contest was having me (W4RM) and my bother (W4NF) on the run radios and having my Dad (W4AD) between us on the mult radio all operating at the same time. We have a picture for QST hopfully it makes it in the write-up. 73 Bill W4RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,978 Force 12 C-4 at 40 feet, 80 m. dipole at 30 feet, Pro III, Acom, MicroKeyer, N1MM logger V. 7.12.12 Death in family forced very early retirement. Thanks for Q's. Vic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZV Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 69,264 Yes Virginia, this was North Carolina and not VY2ZM...sadly! We had fair conditions but QRN from a large thunderstorm cell moving across the southern US made for difficult copy on the weaker signals. Sometimes I had to give up and move on so my apologies if you called and I was "deaf". We fortunately had a slight break in the QRN Sunday morning which did allow a few JAs and JD1BLY to make it through at sunrise. This was my first real contest for the K3 after some shakedown issues in the Stew Perry. I never heard any IMD products the entire weekend even though I used it with the preamp on the first night to try to induce some. The 200 Hz roofing filter came in handy a few times with non-stop callers in simplex pileups...LT1F's was memorable. "W4?"...(pileup)..."W4Z?"...(pileup)...and so on for ~10 minutes. :-) Other K3s worked were VP6DX, F5VJC and SM0MDG. Thanks to all for the QSOs and especially for your patience as I struggled in the QRN. 73, Bill W4ZV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 394,128 Soapbox: My enthusiasm to stay is directly proportional to the rate. Good rate in the first part, but too much time looking for new stations to work on Sunday. Early Sunday morning on the low bands was not as good as Saturday AM, so swept the band and went back ro bed. Running and trying to dig ESP Europeans out of the noise on the low bands is not so much fun, so reverted to S&P. Maybe it's my poor memory, but it seemed that participation was down, especially the Africans and deep Asians. Are we CW guys becoming a vanishing breed? Had two new exchanges, "AK" and "2K", and one non-exchange since I had already worked him on another band, just a simple "my call, a TU, his call," and on to the next caller. He's NIL here. Big signal awards on all bands go to LT1F, VP6DX (got him on 10 thru 40), 9A1A, PT5T, and D4C among others. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZYT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 26,640 Limited time this weekend and plagued by antenna and rotor problems. Got a large slate of antenna projects for the spring. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5JR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 215,736 IC-756 ProII, AL-80B, 160m Inv-L, 80/40 trap vert. Confirmed the need for a real 20-15-10m antenna in the trees to compete with the tri-band yagis. Bothered by 20 KHz wide noise centered on 14.028 - found AFTER the contest to be unused charger plugged in out in the garage, oh well, next time. All S&P. Had a great time, but the static crashes even made it up to 15m right before the storm. A low band receive antenna would have kept me going Saturday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,508,460 Thanks once again to Bryan for the use of his station. Also thanks to ColiN (KU5B) and Dick (W5TA) for a real good time! We had a major power failure that cost us about 4 hours of prime time Saturday morning and some resettimg time once everything was restored! Despite this we enjoyed some good runs. High points included VP6DX on 6 bands, HZ and 7X answering our CQ in the last five minutes for new mults. Thanks to all for the QSO's, GL may the log checkers be kind and see you in the next contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5MF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 151,662 High bands were really tough this year. 15M which is usually the bread & butter, was very slow. Surprised to work DX on 160M, worked VP6DX on 160M. So the low bands were very good, must be that time of the sun spot cycle. Had a great time as always and thanks for all the great DX contacts. See ya next year. Marty W5MF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6EMC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,116,612 A smaller effort than last year (not by design but controlled by lack of operators and some equipment issues). In reality only four full time ops compared to 9 last year. Also some antenna issues that kept the second station off the air for the first four hours. Q's were down by 200 (13%) and mults were down by 17 (5%). Seemed like more "6 band" stations than usual. OTOH --- a fun time and N1MM worked flawlessly for the whole contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KY Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 113,157 IC-756PROII, 100 Watts, Ground Mounted Gap Vertical, N1MM Logger. All S&P. No CQ's. Outstanding ears out there to hear my puny signal.. Worked many stations 5 Bands... Total 62 countries, 127 band countries, 22 zones. Lots of fun for 'no spots'and only 12 hrs operating time.. It will only get better.. 73, Art W6KY www.w6ky.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6OAT Class: M/M HP Total Score = 1,068,969 Our thanks to Brad, K6IDX for the use of his great station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 37,350 Omni VI+, AL-1200, 80 meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, TRLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6XR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 562,716 A very limited comittment managed to producer a huge amount of enjoyment. No glitches with hardware or software and more than ample time to divert my attention to the NASCAR activities when the race was finally started. I only "ran" stations twice during the contest prefering to chase DX and play in the packet swarms instead which gave me the opportunity to get out of the chair and take care of this old body. I still have residuals from an event that precludes a full effort. On 160, I was surprised at how well the Inverted L did and the low band performance was certainly enhanced by the steerable K9AY array. The high bands were about as bad as I can remember in 41 years of this contest. 10 was completely dead and 15 was not much better. 20 was clearly the place to be if you had the discipline to deal with that band. The Orion II again impressed me on all bands especially on 160 and 80. The downside was that I could not hear stations displaced a few hundred cycles from me but those ststion could certainly hear me. I'm already thinking about next year and hoping all the parts of my spine are healed so I can keep those parts in the chair! W6XR is: Orion II and a modified (QSK) TL922 160 Inverted L 80 Horizontal dipole at 75' 40 2 el at 90' 20/15/10 C31XR at 83' Writelog and the normal blue Array Solutions boxes for switching things. Thanks to all who worked me and I might suggest the cut number activity be looked at by the sponsors. I was "brought up" to copy and submit what was sent so my log has such things as AK, 2KW, K, kw and 5NN in it. Hope I'm not DQ'd! The accuracy of packet spots has never been worse. I suppose if you use the cluster, this garbage is one of the many problems encountered. Why was 6Y repeatedly spotted as BY? I think I'm becoming one of the people I used to laugh at --- only need to wear coveralls with suspenders, gain weight so my belly hangs over my belt and grow hair coming out of my ears. It's time to work some of that "Morris" code. 73 Natan W6XR Ithaca, NY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 23,970 As AA7A said, I hope this is the last sunspot-free DX contest for a while. 15 was not a good single band choice. I had the most fun on 80m "after hours," when there were more Europeans than ever to work. VP6DX was omnipresent and loud on all bands. Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,248,390 Conditions pretty tough here too. Never got a run going on 20 on Saturday but finally got a couple hours going on Sunday. No EU's heard in the evening at all. 15 was tough as well, but we had a lot of time to spend there so did OK considering virtually no EU stations were heard. 40 and 80 were better. Propagation was generally good to EU so we worked quite a few. Our new 2 element 160 array did well. No EU heard but plenty of JA's worked Sunday morning. Speaking of JA's, it was GREAT to hear so many of you calling in. Seems like your numbers are growing. That really helps make up for the tremendous advantage the east coast boys have over us in the west. As always, Thanks to Jim, W6YI for the hospitality and the use of his superstation. Look for him as the op in the 160 and ARRL SSB tests in the coming weeks. CU all from ZF1A in May. John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 101,031 A small effort from a small station, all S&P, low power. My last ARRL DX was 2004 with 417 Q's and 217K points. Back then, I had 250 Q's on 10 and 15 M combined. This year, only had 75 Q's combined on 10 and 15. Only half the number of JA's worked this year. Unusual and creative cut number power levels being sent from Brazil - AK, NNN, etc. kept things interesting. Thanks to KH7Y, KH6LC, and PJ2T for hearing me on 5 bands, 80 - 10. Goals were 100 mults and 100K points. Made both, but was close at the end, went to 40M right at the end and found OK5R for a new mult that pushed the total over 100K. Worked VP6DX on 40 and 10 during the contest, didn't try on bands that I'd already worked them. They hear very well down there - great operators! 73, Dave / W6ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7DRA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 324 first night was great second one very poor. even then the first night most signals were in the noise but hearable. true RST reporting would have been difficult. 229, 239, 129................ ran with the usual suspects, inverted L, 833a at about 400 watts, NC183 with a BC453 Q5er back end. thank god for xtal filters and phasing controls mike w7dra ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 61,992 All Antennas were Hustler Mobile.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RH Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 4,209 The propagation Gods came through but the weather man put a 1000 mile long, 300 mile wide series of thunderstorms in East Texas with 20,000 lightning strikes per hour. I heard many I could not work with 100W with +20db static. 73 Bob, W7RH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,140,239 Station 2 x FT2000 and FT1000MP. Six Emtron Amps 160 - 1/4 Wave Vertical, DXE 4SQ RX 80 - Dipole @135' 40 - 4el @ 70', 2el @135' 20 - 6 over 6 @ 78' and 140' 15 - 6 el OWA 10 - 6 el OWA 2 x C31XR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7VJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 304,110 Thanks to all with whom we had a contact, and to the EU stations in particular, as the bands opened up and QRM made copy difficlut at times. This was a great learning experience for us, and helpful in identifying improvements. Network issues, coupled with limited operator schedules and illness effectively ended the contest for us before it began. It was fantastic to have the EU opening Sunday morning; like spring, it gives hope for the future as conditions improve. Was also very encouraging to work our Asian friends and see increased activity. Much to do over the next few months before WW. Very 73 to all. Andrew, W7VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 31,920 Just a few hours in this one as Saturday was a work day here. Had fun while I was on though. Thanks for the Q's and CU in the next one. 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8CAM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 17,748 I had a lot of fun and I managed to get some score even at my age (67) and being off the air for the last 25 years. I owe a lot to my good friend Greg, K8GL, for helping me get back on the air and guiding me through the contest. Looking forward to the next contest. 73's Cart Washburn W8CAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,019,250 Only part time effort this weekend. Came down with flu on Thursday, so a very tuff weekend to contest. Just kekpt working all the spots between bands and S&Ping. Ran for about 3 hours on Sunday morning...that was a blast having a pile up to run. Slept most of the day on Saturday, and slept Saturday night as well. So missed some good stuff I am sure. Anyway enjoyed the time being on. Couldn't use the 40 meter beam, rotor failed and feed coax got ripped apart again. Suprized on the countries worked with the dipole on 40. Seemed like good conditions. 15 meters did not play well from here. Log has been uploaded to LOTW. Ken W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RJL Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 153,600 IC-736, TL-922A, 3 ele SteppIR @ 33 ft, 40 dipole, 80 inverted Vee, Inverted L on 160 but lots of QRN, N3FJP logging, telnet to WR3L. Mostly S&P and limitesd time in chair. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8TOP Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 26,535 Just time to dabble with contest. QRN was a problem, like most other NA stns. Being called by 7Q7BP was the highlight of the operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9WI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 182,277 Not much rate with QRP at the bottom of the cycle! 80m Golden Ears award goes to DL7IO, who not only heard my QRP signal but got everything right on the first try! Kinda sorta worked another European on 80, except he was convinced I was W9RE... 160m Golden Ears award goes to KL7RA for the best distance worked on Top Band with QRP. Honorable mentions to 6Y1LZ, C6AKQ, and both PJ's. (2T and 4O) Worked VP6DX on two bands and heard them everywhere else. Including both 10 and 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA0MHJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 550,314 Who needs 10 and 15 meters? A very enjoyable time considering the overall condx. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 144,672 After 5 years of SB 40 I needed a change. A nice run of JA s Saturday afternoon was my highpoint of contest. 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 93,852 I enjoyed this contest very much. After all, looking for new DX multipliers was my goal. After 38 years of amateur radio I finally decided last year it was time to get my DXCC, never mind we were at the bottom of the sun spot cycle. My goal was to reach 100 DX confirmed QSOs using LoTW. By the end of the CQ WW RTTY contest I made it over 100 confirmed DX QSOs on LoTW. Then this contest came along and I don't have the total number of new DX QSOs I made but I believe it was quite considerable. If I looked at the paper DX QSLs I received over the years all the QTHs I lived at I probably would have made it on paper alone but this was a new challenge and I was thrilled at making DXCC using LoTW alone. Friday night was great early on 40M as well as Saturday evening. Saturday and Sunday afternoon was a lot of fun but not a lot of new DX until later on Sunday afternoon where I make a few more new DX QSOs. Those guys in VP6DX have one heck of a station. I worked them from 160-15M with only wires. They were amazingly loud on 160M early Sunday morning. I was hoping to work them on 10M and when I saw them spotted my aspirations rose to work them on all 6 bands but that never happened. Still it was fun working them on 5 of the 6 bands. 73 - Bob WA2MNO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4DOU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 461,988 It's always a pleasure to spend the last hour on 20 meters and find lots of new multipliers that crawl out of the woodwork. Thanks to all for the q's and looking forward to next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6L Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 121,404 As it always seems to happen, my plan to spend 30 hours in the chair was thwarted by real life. On the other hand, the time I did get to spend operating was a lot of fun! There were some nice openings to EU in the mornings, and both 20 and 15 behaved beautifully during the day. Friday night saw some activity on 40, but I never did have much luck on either 80 or 160 either night. I worked KH6LC on 6 bands (thanks, Lloyd!), and I worked Kurt, VP9/W6PH on 3 bands. I also scored several new ones for me, including 4U1UN who had a great signal but no ears. Chasing VP6DX was also a lot of fun. I spent 30 minutes getting through the pileup on 40 meters, but got him on the first call on 10 and 160. I also took some time to get them on SSB where I could. Worked the K2 into a half-kilowatt amp on 10-80; barefoot on 160. Software was Writelog. I will not be around for most of the SSB contest in March, but will get on when I can. 73, John, WA6L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA8REI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,607 FT-897D 100 watts; Hustler 4BTV vertical ground mounted in 16" of snow 80 meter sloper dipole -- very simple setup I had a stroke Jan. 10. Operated from a wheelchair. Many good catches. Fatigue factor huge due to stroke, so half effort. Still a lot of fun, considering propagation was rather poor. Never heard a peep on 10 meters. C U next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 309,915 Thanks to CV5K, I was not "skunked" on 10 meters. Hopefully this is as bad as it gets, eh? I didn't get started until 1400Z Saturday morning due to being out of town on a business trip. I just can't seem to get my boss to consult the WA7BNM contest calendar before scheduling trips. Oh well, it was Miami - South Beach, and it was 81 degrees... Once again K0RC (Bob) and I had another horse race on the W1VE scoreboard. I wanted to pack it in early Sunday due to the poor band conditions on 10 and 15 meters, but my old scoreboard buddy came charging up out of the pack, with his sights on passing me. So, thanks to Bob, I spent most of Sunday trying my best to hold off his charge. What a great motivational tool, even for those of us not in one of the top positions. Thanks to all for the QSOs! 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8K Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 10,206 Limited time available to operate. Low power & high noise levels made it quite a challenge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,601,144 Antennas: 160M - trapped vee @90', trapped vee @65' 80M - delta loop @75', trapped vee @90', trapped vee @65' 40M - 40-2CD @110', 4-square 20M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 4-el @72' 15M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 5-el @50' 10M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50' Tower#1: Cushcraft 40-2CD, 4-el SteppIRs, 160/80 trapped vee 770-MDP: Force-12 EF-420 AB-577 #1: Force-12 EF-515 AB-577 #2: Force-12 C3E Delta loop and trapped vee hung from trees 580' beverage aimed 20-degrees Equipment: Orion + Alpha 87A, FT-1000D + Acom 2000A, Writelog, W5XD+ keyer/switcher, homebrew Windows antenna switching/tuning software ("AntennaMaster"), Hamation Relay Drivers, TopTen and KK1L SO2R switches, Green Heron and Hy-Gain rotor controllers, microHam Stack Switch and StackMax. Congrats to K1KI, K3CR and N2NT for fine scores. AA1K and K1ZZ did very well, too. It's a pleasure to compete with such great ops -- I heard them doing a terrific job all weekend, all over the bands. Seems like one of them was always in a pileup with me or CQing nearby. You can always tell when an op is doing a quality job, and all of these guys did. The big problem for me this time was a horrendously busy week before the contest. All week I was running around trying to do 20 things at once, thinking that I shouldn't be in that kind of state just before a big contest. My wife went on a rare out of town trip from Wednesday afternoon through Saturday night, leaving me to juggle our kids' ridiculously complicated schedules on Thursday and Friday (we hired a babysitter Friday and Saturday so I could do the contest.) I was hoping to relax Friday afternoon, but a neighbor backed out on a play date for my 4-year old son and I lost the free time. I remember thinking, "I shouldn't be so stressed out before 48-hour single-op effort." I was so busy that, despite plans, I managed not to get a good night's sleep any day of the week. Some nights I got only 2-3 hours (good practice for the contest -- not!) I did manage 6 hours Thursday night, and a 90-minute nap Friday afternoon just before the contest started, but that wasn't enough. This resulted more fatigue than usual, and a near-disaster oversleeping on Sunday morning. I had planned two 90-minute breaks in the wee hours on Saturday and Sunday. The rate went pretty low by 0800z Saturday, and since I was really flagging I decide to take an extra hour and sleep until about 1030z to be fresh for the morning runs. That worked pretty well. I was still tired Sunday morning (zulu), so I decided to take another 2 1/2 hours from about 0745z to 1015z. I hoped to take a quick shower and eat a light breakfast, then get back on the air by 1030z. But I woke up at 1230z, with the alarm clock clutched in my hands. Evidently, it went off and I grabbed it and shut it off. I think the body simply insisted that I get more sleep. I don't know why I woke up when I did, and not a couple of hours later. My unconscious mind probably wanted just a little more sleep, but also wanted to do well in the contest. Anyway, I leaped off the couch and after a quick pit stop jumped into the pileups. It's harder to find a frequency when you start late, of course. The Saturday morning run got going in earnest about 1120z, so I must have missed a little over an hour of the peak on Sunday. My best guess is that I lost about 130 Qs, even considering a higher initial rate from being "fresh meat". Despite the loss of a key hour, I ended up 180 Qs ahead of last year. Probably would have been about 300+ had I not overslept. Given that the conditions were a bit worse than last year, I'm pretty happy with the QSO production. I kept thinking rate, rate, rate and pounded the second radio for Qs and mults as hard as I could. Mult production was another story. I usually suck at mults, but this time was above and beyond sucky. Despite working the second radio as much as I could, I fell behind last year's mult count on Friday night. Having had no luck running 40 at the start of the last few contests, I S&Ped that band in the first hour, picking up about the same number of mults as last year, but not as many Qs. In retrospect, it would have been better to start on 80. I thought it was too early, but judging from how well I ran 80 before 0000z on Sunday, the band was probably runnable. So I think running 80 and S&Ping 40 on the second radio would have produced more Qs and mults the first hour. I did move to 80 from 0100z-0200z, and had a pretty good run. But I wasn't picking up many mults on 40, which means I probably slacked off on the second radio. I had a great hour on 160 at 0300z, picking up 25 mults, mostly EU. I think that the most mults I've picked up in an hour on 160. The rest of the evening was spent going back and forth between 160, 80 and 40, with relatively low rate. I CQed on 80 mostly, so I ended with under 100 Qs and under 60 mults on 40. I was worried about that and hoped to pull that band up during the afternoon opening. The 20m Saturday morning run starting at 1130z was quite good, thanks to my new stack: 73, 162, 131, 76 (what happened there?), 119, 114, and 117. But 15m didn't open at all. It was dead as a door nail (what's a door nail, anyway?) I checked the band frequently with my 5-el monobander at 50 feet, and just to make sure I scanned it a few times with the stack (switching to the 20m monobander to hold my run frequency.) The only signals I heard that morning were KC1XX and K1TTT CQing with no takers. They're both relatively close to me, so it was ground wave. Nothing from EU, almost nothing south (I did work V31UZ early, then PT4TUE and XE1MM later in the morning.) I checked 10m, too, but heard absolutely nothing. By the end of the morning, I was about 60 mults behind last year, with little hope of catching up. Comparing my rate sheets from this year and last, about half the difference was poor mult production on 40 and 15, respectively. I think it was mostly bad operating on 40, and bad propagation on 15. I moved to 40 at 1900z Saturday, and the rate meter took off again. The 20m rate dropped off at about 1800z, so I probably should have moved to 40 then. Still, I had the best sustained run on 40 I've ever had from home: 96, 131, 141, and 97. Wow. My 40-2CD always worked pretty well when I had it at 75 feet on a tubular tower, but after moving it to 110' on the new tower I haven't been impressed -- until now. I think conditions on 40 have been so bad during the past year I haven't seen what the additional height can do. Of course, the real reason my 40-2CD works so well is that it used to belong to K1KI, who told me that it had plenty of QSOs left. Sure does. I think Tom said it was #5 or #6 off of Cushcraft's initial production line. I see from Tom's 3830 post that he's not missing the old CC -- over 1000 Qs on 40 is outstanding! The second night was tough, alternating 160, 80 and 40, with no real rate to be had. Mult production was thin, too. This time I don't think it was the op -- I tuned constantly, sometimes the only way I could get rate, but didn't hear very many new mults to work. By the end of the second night I was 150 Qs ahead of last year, but 34 mults behind. As I said, oversleeping lost me about 130 Qs. Once again, 15 was completely dead during the Sunday morning run, except for a couple of south mults (PJ4O at 1322z and H7/K9GY at 1520z.) Believe me, I was checking often, with all the 15m antennas I have. Then at 1645z I finally started hearing loud stations coming in from the south. It took me about an hour and a half to find 14 new mults on 15. I think I worked only two stations outside of the Caribbean and South America: an OH who drifted over the pole at about 1645, EA8ZS (always loud everywhere) and VP6DX (piece of cake.) 10m? Not a chance. Dead band all weekend, and I checked frequently. So, I had only 23 mults on 15, compared with 40-60+ for the best stations in my category. Those who have read my posts know that I'm always complaining about what a lousy job I do in mults, and this contest is no different. I also complain about 10 and 15 being worse here at higher latitude than the competition. I guess there's corroboration from K1IB, who lives nearby and had exactly the same mult counts as I did on 10 and 15: 0 and 23. K1DG complained about 15 in CQ WW CW this past November when he operated from N1LI, which happens to be at about the same latitude as my QTH. Still, I can only blame part of my mult deficit on 15m propagation here. It's possible I wasn't checking the band frequently enough during my big run on 40 Saturday afternoon. I also didn't try running 40 enough on Friday night, which probably would have scared up a few more mults on that band. Live and learn. Aside from learning how to do a better job on mults, and relaxing and getting more sleep before the contest, I need to work on increasing time in the chair. I left 8 hours on the table this time. Even though most of those hours were during low rate times, there's no doubt my QSO and mult totals would have been better with at least five more hours in the chair. Not a lot of DX highlights this time, but did get called by 4S7DXG on 40 (twice), several HZ stations on 40 and 20, a couple of VUs, and several HS0 stations (my property falls off in that direction, so I'm pretty loud even off the side of the beam.) Lots of Russians to work, but precious few UA9/UA0. Got a small JA run going on 20 late Sunday afternoon, but not a barn-burner rate-wise. Again, I've got good terrain in that direction and can swing the whole stack around. 80 was a joy -- so nice being loud enough to run with just a delta loop and trapped inverted vee. 160 was also quite good, especially the first night. I've only got a couple of low trapped inverted vees on that band, but the Beverage does most of the job. I worked everything I could hear with the Beverage, and the vast majority with only one or two calls (contrast that with the long pleadings required when we have more sunspots.) Makes me wonder why I was about 9-10 mults behind the competition. I think it's because I didn't check 160 often enough during the 0400z-0600z hours Friday night (Saturday AM zulu), and may have missed some south multipliers by sleeping through the 0730z-1030z hours. It's hard to tell, but I thought we had fewer participants this year, at least judging from the mult locations. That said, there seemed to be more Europeans than ever during the pileups. I guess that's the phenomenon of everyone being crammed into fewer open bands. At times it was very challenging to find a spot to run on 20 and 40. Operating habits continue to deteriorate. In large pileups, stations kept calling me while I was working someone else. Don't they listen? They're only making it worse on themselves -- it takes longer to work everyone when people don't listen. I can understand if I was a weak station and they couldn't hear me call someone else, but this happened when I was literally booming into Europe. Other bad habits continue to vex me. Sstations should not repeat their call and/or exchange unless directed. It just wastes time if conditions don't warrant a repeat. Let the other station ask for a fill. It's particularly frustrating when QRP stations insist on repeating everything. Some of you don't realize that I can hear you just fine. And while you're on the subject, it's never necessary or desirable for you to sign /QRP. It's not important in the contest and I can tell you're QRP from the power. It just wastes more time. Other bad habits: Not asking "QRL?" before transmitting, transmitting anyway when someone says "Yes", setting up shop a hundred hertz away from someone, not moving when asked, and so forth. I had to shoo people away from my run frequency pretty often this weekend. A special nod goes to the 20m operator at K5GO, who plopped down virtually on top of me after I'd been running at high rate for hours, then refused to move. I continued to CQ, and he CQed right back in my face, pretending not to hear me. He was at least 40 over S9, so I really don't think he couldn't hear me. Remarkably, we both worked some stations through the noise. After a while, I couldn't work anything through his QRM, so I focused mostly on the second radio. I eventually tired of the game and gave up. Deliberately pushing someone off a frequency isn't clever competitive operating, it's just plain rude. Now, I'm not saying I haven't made operating mistakes. I've certainly inadvertently plopped down on someone or moved too close. But I make a point of listening, then sending "?", then sending "QRL?". I try to find another spot if I wasn't there first. I sometimes screw up calling in pileups, but who doesn't? It's hard to avoid stepping on someone in a 160 pileup with weak DX, but at least I try not to do it. I made one big mistake this time. I was transmitting at 000.5 at one point, and someone dropped by to tell me to check my VFO, I was outside the band. I replied that 000.5 is OK by FCC rules (cf the various posts by K1DG on this subject), only to realize a couple of minutes later that I was really at 000.050! Oops. Fatigue again. I did find it ironic that the person who scolded me for being outside the band neglected to ID. Another inadvertent mistake was a spur coming off my Orion about 1.5 KHz below my transmit frequency. An 80m op from K1TTT let me know about it after the contest. I had a similar report from N1EU about a spur on 160 in CQ WW CW, but we were unable to reproduce the problem. I think it only happens after I've been CQing for a while. I have a pretty good idea where to look to fix the problem. If anyone heard a spur from me on bands other than 80 and 160, do let me know. If I QRMed you, my sincerest apologies. I had one strange anomaly. Saturday morning I looked down at the Acom remote control panel and saw that the amp was off (it, and the 87A, are in the basement below the shack.) I didn't turn the amp off from the panel. Strange. I powered up the amp again and everything was normal. A few minutes later, I noticed low power on the run radio external power meter, and saw from the AlphaRemote software that the 87A was now powered off. Doubly strange. Turned it back on and everything was fine. That's never, ever happened in the many years I've owned those amps, and I can't think of anything that would shut them off like that without leaving a fault status behind (except *maybe* a very sudden power loss.) It seems impossible that both amps would suffer from the same problem at almost the same time. All I can think of is that my 4-year old son got up early, went down to the basement, and turned the amps off because the blowers were making too much noise for him to hear the cartoons on TV. The 87A has a returning on/off switch, which would leave no evidence, but the 2000A has a plain toggle switch. If he did it, he must also have turned the 2000A main power switch back on. He denies turning off the amps, but I didn't ask him until two days later -- an eternity for a 4-year old. Other than that, my antennas and station equipment worked extremely well. The stack is a real killer, and it's such a pleasure to be able to finally have that kind of antenna at home. It's nice to be able to swing all three antennas around to break through a pileup, or split the beams, or divide the stack between the two radios. The old monobanders and small tribander on the tubular towers are useful as well, mainly for working south and other directions ancillary to the stack. They also come in handy when I need to switch the stack to another radio to check a different band. It takes a little time for the SteppIRs to retune, so I sometimes used the monobanders to keep CQing and hold the frequency. Towards the end of the contest, I was able to combine the stack with a monobander and the tribander to listen or spray RF in at least three directions at once. I could have split the stack to cover even more directions, but frankly I didn't think to do that. Needless to say, listening in lots of directions while S&Ping can be very helpful. All that said, I'm still learning how to use and optimize the new configuration here. This is only my second contest with the new setup, and I think it will take a while longer to learn all the things I can do with it and get more fluid in my antenna decisions. My new PC-controlled antenna switching system worked very well, too, though there are still a couple of bugs and some improvements to make (returning the focus to the logger after clicking an antenna button is one.) The software takes care of all antenna switching through two Hamation Relay Drivers, reads the stack configuration from a microHam StackMax, tunes each SteppIR in the stack according to which radio has which antenna(s) and tunes the Acom amplifier for the correct frequency segment and antenna. It was also used this weekend by N3RS to select segment on their 80m rotatable dipole, and by N1EU to tune his Acom amp. I'll eventually post something about it on my website. Contesting continues to be a great activity for me. There's nothing outside of family that I enjoy more (a few almost as much.) There's no end to the quest to improve my operating skills and station. I think the station work is winding down for a while (except maybe some low-band antenna improvements), so hopefully I can boost my operating skills enough to make the top five -- or even win -- from home someday. CU in the next one. 73, Dick WC1M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4LUR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 98,988 Rig : Ten Tec Omni 6+, homebrew 4-1000A amp Antennas : HyGain HyTower vertical This is the 1st contest I have ever entered even though I have been a ham since 1975, licensed at 12 years old. 160 and 80 where pretty noisey most of the time. I moslty just looked for multipliers. Can't wait to get my Pro-57B up here at the new QTH. The HyTower is a great antenna on 80, 40 and 20, but it is crapy on 15 and 10. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 12,384 I normally do a lot more CQ'ing than s/p. Had to give up the CQ'ing this weekend because it was too painful to be getting responses that I could not copy because of the local storm conditions. Unfortunately it did not cause me to lose much sleep. Slept through most of the action both mornings. Doug, n5ect cw op on the chicken farm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE3C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,510,475 This was the final event for our first season of multi CW operation. Overall, we are very pleased with our results and the station performance. We have identified a few things that we need to improve before next year. We continue to struggle with the many callers that go unanswered. It is amazing how many stations that are calling at times and the depth of the pileups. We will work hard to improve this area. We can't thank enough all of the stations calling that make the log and unfortunately those that do not make it too. We wonder if there are even more calling we do not "hear". Congratulations and thank you to all of the great competition, we love it, makes us want to do better and the contest a whole lot of fun. We would post to the live scoreboard if the other M2's participate. It would add another element of fun. Thanks to our team, it was a huge effort by everyone in this one, it made for a great time. 73, The WE3C Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF2B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 63,126 I could have used an 80 meter antenna. Heard them on my vertical but did not have a transmit antenna. Suggest that the "speed merchants" slow down to 30 wpm on the last day. They would still be able to make their scores and would give more of us "slow pokes" a chance to work them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WH2D Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 1,014 Gosh, I used to be pretty good at the ARRL DX. I have clearly lost my touch. But I took a big hit from the weekend Boy Scout campout. And then I got caught up on Sunday chasing VP6DX and running JA's on 12M. By the time I actually got around to it, I only had only two hours to contest! By then I couldn't hear many of the stations calling me on 40. Overall, a lousy performance, Mike. But thanks to N2IC, W7RN, AI6V, W6YI, W5KU, K5GO, N5AW, NQ4I, W9NGA, N7KU, K0UK, N6TV, N4PB, NY4A, NN3W, K5YA, K7AO, N6BV, N7TT, N3BB, K6XX, W5WMU, KO7AA, N3RS, K0FX and K7GK, I had some fun nonetheless. Mike K3UOC @ WH2D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,508,100 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK2G Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 710,040 I was happy overall with the condx being that we are rock bottom on the cycle. T32OU made my day when "he called me". Was trying to work VP6DX all week but no luck. During the ARRL test I worked him on 2 bands calling only a couple times each band. I sure hope 10 and 15 wake up next year. Merrill WK2G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4Y Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 312,678 Did not have the time to do an all out effort. 80 meter antenna not wanting to cooperate. Thanks to all who spotted me. 73, WK4Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM3T Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 104,940 Too many commitments, not enough time. I guess having Valentine's Day during the week and having to take the XYL out to dinner buys time down the log for another contest. Until next time.... 73 de Anthony, WM3T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 192,654 Interesting two days... High bands 20/15 closed early so not many JAs... and too early for wire dipoles to do anything til darkness sets in... Saturday morning there was opening to EU...but felt like I was negative dB as there were many calls, flutter, and struggles to get my call right...and only 12 mults from EU... next day the opening was 'easier' in that if I heard em, I seemed to work em...easier than the day before. Worked VP6DX on four bands and after working them on 10m, I thought well they were so loud, this band is going to open...other than a few LUs and one CX... there was not a hope in that department. WHen things were 'done' I picked up my novel and read a couple of hundred pages so the contest was not a total loss... WN6K, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 828,624 Started 4 hours late due to playing a tennis match. (Not sure I missed much if the lower bands were noisy.) SO2R tested FB prior to the contest but later the 2nd radio failed to TX, so op'd SO1R. S&Ped all 160-80-40-m QSOs. (LP on 160-m.) Roaring waves of QRN during EU run on 20-m local Sunday morning covered all but the stongest signals. V31UZ and V31TP surprised me by answering my brief CQ on 10-m. (Talked V49A [Mark/K0EJ]into QSYing from 15-m to 10-m but we couldn't hear one another.) Late in the contest I couldn't resist the spring-like weather (and invitation from a friend) to go outside to soak up the Vitamin D while playing more tennis. Returned to the radio in time to finish the final hour of the contest with a brief run to Asia on 20-m and S&Ping EU on 40-m. TU fer QSOs 73 RiC wo4o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,935,194 Greetings to all! Thanks to everybody for the qsos, in 10M 0000 qso :-( I will wait you in the ARRL CW I will be as WP4I. 73 & Thanks! http://www.wp3c.qth.com Att Alfredo Velez WP3C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,186,200 Bring on the sunspots, this one was rough! On 15, I worked D4C and an EA8, but nothing on the European continent. I'm sure there were skew path opportunities, but they were during the brief EU peaks on 20. On Saturday signals on 20 were weak and watery during the early run, with rates averaging well under 100. Sunday was somewhat better, with rate spikes (10 QSO's) approaching 200. I was expecting 15 would also open to EU but it didn't. Let's not mention 10. I thought lowband conditions were pretty good, but the weather was a huge factor here. Between static crashes I worked a couple EU's on 160 both nights, but didn't spend much time there. On 40 the rain static was S7 to S9 on both EU and JA openings, but the beverages eliminate most of that. Still, they are optimized for 80/160 and many callers are beneath the noise floor. Am thinking about a 40M beverage system for next fall, at least on EU. With the QRN at summertime levels on 160 both nights, and rain static on 40, I found 80 easier to work. I had no trouble hearing the mults between static crashes, but didn't do much running. After 0900z on Sunday morning, the bands quieted down nicely and I enjoyed working the westerly mults on 80 & 160. During the day neither the QRN nor the rain were a serious factor, but I had to frequently shut down for approaching thunderstorms which turned out to be not very severe. Usually there are nearby lightning strikes, so we disconnect the rotor cables and coaxes - and wait. In once instance I had taken a sleep break for the early afternoon doldrums of Saturday, awoke in time to sit down and run 20M JA's, then kaboom! I had to unplug instead. That particular off-time came to almost 2.5 hours - ouch! There were a total of 5 shut downs, effecting mostly 20M. There were also glitches. The Orion's RIT would stop working for up to an hour, and I am still not sure what sequence of buttons I push to clear the problem. We will try the latest firmware before reporting it. There are also several ongoing problems in the contest software which I have already reported TWICE, and one is substantially worse in the current version: after entering the callsign and sometimes also the number, the QSO goes blank before I can log it. Sometimes this happens a fraction of a second after I enter the call, sometimes later. In the ARRL, this occurred 200 - 300 times. It only happens on Radio A, which is usually the S&P rig (where I can recopy the info), but during runs it means I must ask the station to repeat everything AFTER I have copied and sent it correctly. The software is reportedly open sourced, and I could likely fix these problems if I had the source code. It's time to ask for it (and learn VB). I thank Jay and Sharon for the hospitality and use of the station, which we continue to tweak. Roy -- AD5Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX9U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 224,406 Wish I had an amplifier and the whole weekend to operate!!! Had to work FRI night...Low bands were fantastic...working EU 2 hours before sunset on 40m with 100w and a dipole, then on 80m an hour before sunset WITHOUT a 80 antenna...wow...haven't heard great condx like that in a long time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL2GD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 423,360 Part time operation. Contest highlight - 200 of 40M QSOs were made in last 3 hours of the contest, very hard job to pull signals through EU QRM. My apologies to them who couldn`t beat through... 73! Gunar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL3FT Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 191,250 IC756pro3 (100 w) Ant Optibeam 5ele 20m/3ele 40m/2ele 80m up40m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT0A Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 187,770 My first ARRL as Single OP. Enyoed it very much! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2AAA Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 6,825 Set my goal to reach 100 qso, was in a route to do it, but in sunday afternoon it seemed that somebody pull the switch and made a band dead just like that :) 100% S & P. Best signal was VE6WQ, and best callsign EE5E (it was fun just to lsn their cq) Thanks to all who answered my weak signal IC-745 100w Dipole @ 7m Paper logging and no electronic keyer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1ANT Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 144,126 rig ts 440s :( 1 KW 3 el no dx cluster Thanks everyone for call. Condx not too good first evening. Hard to work with old ts 440s,no filters:( , FT 1k didnt work so forces to use old rig.Results would be much better,but never mind.Congrats to YT0A,YU1LA,HG7T,F6ARC (great score)! s52zw,zl3a ... cu in next contest,gl to all! 73 de Milan YT7KM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1LA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 186,000 I don't know how can I miss VE4 and SD for the second year...Very bad condx first night, better second... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 208,104 First day : 845 qsos and second day rest . Miss SD and YT . Anntena : 5el. beam @ 26m kenwood ts-930s + amp. ~ 1KW Location @ 600m/asl by YT2T . Program : N1MM without SO2R setup CU 73 de Miro YU2A ( ex.YU1BX,YU4NJ ) . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 29,160 RIG: ICOM 735 PWR: 100W ANTENNAS: SLOPER, DIPOLE 40/80 LOGGER: SD FB CONTEST. GOOD CONDITIONS...VIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL3A Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 259,000 over 200 dupe qso.....why? see u in ssb part ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM1A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,548,018 First contest with new K3s - best contest radios we have used. 15m was a nice surprise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM2B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 458,358 20m was a challenge, slim pickings via short path. Nearly half of the 20m contacts were via long path. 15m was better than expected. 40m was the money band, but 80m also was good to me, especially as the grey line moved west across W/VE Very slow rates during daylight hours, took plenty of time outs to break the monotony. Managed WAS multi-band, missed WAS by two on 40m. Good contest, operating standards were excellent. Frank ZL2BR/ZM2B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS6AA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 755,568 ARRL DX CW was the first international contest I entered (in 2003 as ZS1AN with 131,100 points) and still one of my favourites. For me it is a bit more relaxed than CQWW, WPX and IARU as the bands are not always open to NA, so it is possible to spend some time with my family and still achieve a reasonably competitive score. The pileups are also noticably better mannered than in some other contests thanks to all the fine NA ops. Propagation was noticably poorer than last year for the first 36 hours of the contest, with only 40m and 20m opening to NA. My new two-element beam helped me to play on 40m, but I didn't hear even one NA station on 80m where I have only an inverted L. After taking Sunday morning off, I knew that I would need some multipliers on 15m in the afternoon to turn in a reasonable score. Fortunately the ionosphere smiled and I managed a nice run on 15m, and then continued on 20m until about midnight local (2200 Z). For the last couple of hours I was really struggling to put callsigns together in my head, so appologies to those of you who had to give multiple repeats and thanks for your patience. Overall I was satisfied with my effort, although I need to try to be a bit more focussed next time (and get more sleep before the contest!). Index of Calls Call: 4M5IR Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: 6Y1LZ Class: M/2 HP Call: 7J1AAI Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: 9A3B Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 9A50KDE Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AA7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA9DY Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AC0W Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AD0K Class: SOAB LP Call: AD4CJ Class: SOAB LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB HP Call: AD8J Class: SOAB LP Call: AI6V Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: AJ1M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Call: C6APG Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: C6AWL Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: CE3DNP Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOAB HP Call: CT9L Class: M/S HP Call: CV5K Class: M/S HP Call: CX5BW Class: SOAB HP Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB HP Call: D2NX Class: SOAB LP Call: D4C Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: DF9CY Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DK3GI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DK5JM Class: SOAB HP Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Call: DL1AUZ Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB HP Call: DL2MDU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB LP Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4YAO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DL6KVA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: DL8SCG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: E21EIC Class: SOAB LP Call: E7/DK6XZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA4DRV Class: SOAB HP Call: EA4KD Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: EA4TX Class: SOAB HP Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA5DKU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: EA6BF Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: EA7OT Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: EA7RM Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: EA8/OH6L Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: EA8EA Class: SOAB HP Call: EA8ZS Class: M/S HP Call: EE5E Class: M/S HP Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Call: ES90C Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: F4DNW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: F5IN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SOAB QRP Call: F6ARC Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: F6BEE Class: SOAB HP Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB HP Call: G3WW Class: SOAB LP Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB HP Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB HP Call: GM7R Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: GM7V Class: M/M HP Call: H7/K9GY Class: SOAB LP Call: HA7GN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: HA8DU Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: HA8JV Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: HB0/N0MX Class: M/2 HP Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Call: HG7T Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: HG8R Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Call: HP1WW Class: SOAB HP Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: I2GPT Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Call: IK1QBT Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IK7JWY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IK8UND Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IO3N Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Call: IR4X Class: M/S HP Call: IV3ZXQ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: J7DX Class: M/M HP Call: JA8RWU Class: M/S HP Call: JF1NHD Class: SOAB HP Call: K0AD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0KX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0RI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K0SR Class: SOAB HP Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Call: K0UK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1AR Class: M/2 HP Call: K1BV Class: SOAB LP Call: K1BX Class: SOAB LP Call: K1FWE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1GU Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K1HT Class: SOAB LP Call: K1IB Class: SOAB LP Call: K1IR Class: M/S HP Call: K1KI Class: SOAB HP Call: K1LT Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP Call: K1PT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1RM Class: SOAB HP Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Call: K1TN Class: SOAB LP Call: K1TO Class: SOAB LP Call: K1TR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Call: K1XM Class: M/M HP Call: K1YU Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: K1ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K1ZZI Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K2CJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2DM Class: SOAB QRP Call: K2ONP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP Call: K2QPN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K2TE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3AN Class: SOAB LP Call: K3AU Class: SOAB LP Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Call: K3GYS Class: SOAB LP Call: K3IU Class: SOAB LP Call: K3KU Class: SOAB LP Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Call: K3MZ Class: SOAB LP Call: K3ND Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3PH Class: SOAB QRP Call: K3PP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K3ZM Class: SOAB HP Call: K3ZO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4AB Class: SOAB HP Call: K4CIA Class: SOAB QRP Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4DJ Class: SOAB HP Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K4FJ Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB LP Call: K4IU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4JAF Class: SOAB LP Call: K4MM Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K4NO Class: SOAB LP Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K4XU Class: SOAB HP Call: K5FP Class: SOAB LP Call: K5GO Class: M/M HP Call: K5LH Class: SOAB LP Call: K5NA Class: SOAB HP Call: K5NZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K5UV Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K5YA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6ANP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Call: K6DBG Class: SOAB QRP Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K6III Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6JEB Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6NV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6RIM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6RM Class: SOAB QRP Call: K6TA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6TD Class: SOAB HP Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K6XT Class: SOAB HP Call: K6XX Class: SOAB HP Call: K7ABV Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: K7ACZ Class: SOAB LP Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Call: K7GK Class: SOAB HP Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB LP Call: K7RL Class: SOAB HP Call: K7ZA Class: SOAB HP Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB HP Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Call: K8BB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K8CN Class: SOAB QRP Call: K8EE Class: SOAB LP Call: K8FC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Call: K8GT Class: SOAB LP Call: K8IA Class: SOAB HP Call: K8KI Class: SOAB HP Call: K8MN Class: SOAB HP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Call: K9AY Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K9DX Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: K9ES Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: K9MUG Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K9OM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: K9RS Class: M/S HP Call: K9SD Class: M/S HP Call: K9YC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KA3DRR Class: SOAB LP Call: KA4OTB Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KA6SGT Class: SOAB QRP Call: KB1H Class: M/2 HP Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Call: KC3WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KC4HW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: KC5R Class: SOAB LP Call: KC7V Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: KD2HE Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Call: KD4HXT Class: SOAB QRP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Call: KF7NN Class: M/2 HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KG5U Class: SOAB QRP Call: KH6/AA4V Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KH6/N7ON Class: SOAB LP Call: KH6/VE7AHA Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Call: KH6NF Class: SOAB HP Call: KH7B Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: KH7Y Class: SOAB HP Call: KI0F Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: KI7Y Class: SOAB LP Call: KJ0G Class: SOAB HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB LP Call: KK8D Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KL7RA Class: M/M HP Call: KL7Z Class: M/S HP Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB LP Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Call: KN4Q Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KN4Y Class: SOAB LP Call: KN7T Class: SOAB HP Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KP2/K3MD Class: SOAB HP Call: KP2M Class: M/2 HP Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Call: KQ3F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KQ6ES Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Call: KS0T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: KS2G Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KS4DU Class: SOAB QRP Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: KU8E Class: SOAB HP Call: KV0Q Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Call: KY5R Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: KZ1M Class: SOAB LP Call: LN3Z Class: SOAB HP Call: LN8W Class: SOAB HP Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: LT1F Class: M/S HP Call: LU8EOT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Call: LY2IJ Class: SOAB HP Call: LY8O Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: LY90Y Class: SOAB HP Call: LZ1RGM Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: LZ4UU Class: SOAB LP Call: MD0CCE Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Call: N0HF Class: SOAB HP Call: N0HR Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Call: N0KE Class: SOAB HP Call: N0MA Class: SOAB LP Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Call: N1DG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1HRA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1IW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N1IX Class: SOAB HP Call: N1LN Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N1PGA Class: SOAB LP Call: N1RR Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N1SV Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N1SZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Call: N1WR Class: SOAB HP Call: N2BZP Class: M/S HP Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N2GC Class: SOAB HP Call: N2IC Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: N2LT Class: SOAB HP Call: N2MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2MUN Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2NI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2NS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2NT Class: SOAB HP Call: N2RJ Class: SOAB HP Call: N2RM Class: M/2 HP Call: N2SQW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2TK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2VW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2WK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N2WN Class: SOAB LP Call: N3BB Class: SOAB HP Call: N3BM Class: SOAB LP Call: N3HU Class: SOAB QRP Call: N3MX Class: M/2 HP Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4DW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4ECJ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N4EK Class: SOAB LP Call: N4HXI Class: SOAB LP Call: N4JF Class: SOAB QRP Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4LF Class: SOAB LP Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N4NM Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N4OGW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: N4TN Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Call: N4UC Class: SOAB HP Call: N4VI Class: SOAB LP Call: N4VV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB LP Call: N4ZI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: N4ZR Class: SOAB HP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Call: N5DD Class: SOAB HP Call: N5UL Class: SOAB HP Call: N6BV Class: SOAB HP Call: N6KI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6NF Class: SOAB LP Call: N6QQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7BF Class: SOAB HP Call: N7DD Class: M/S LP Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7MAL Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: N7NT Class: SOAB LP Call: N7RK Class: SOAB HP Call: N7WA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB LP Call: N8AA Class: SOAB HP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N8IE Class: SOAB QRP Call: N8RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N8TR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: N9CO Class: SOAB LP Call: N9FC Class: SOAB HP Call: N9RV Class: SOAB HP Call: N9VN Class: SOAB LP Call: NA2M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Call: NE1B Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NE3F Class: M/2 HP Call: NE7D Class: SOAB LP Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NI7T Class: SOAB LP Call: NJ1F Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NJ8J Class: SOAB LP Call: NN2W Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: NN3W Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NN4F Class: SOAB LP Call: NN7SS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: NQ3X Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Call: NT1A Class: SOAB LP Call: NT6AA Class: SOAB LP Call: NT6X Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: NX9T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: NY3A Class: SOAB HP Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Call: OE1DIA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OE3KAB Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OE4A Class: SOAB HP Call: OH6M Class: M/S HP Call: OK1FC Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: OK1FKD Class: SOAB QRP Call: OK2W Class: SOAB HP Call: OK2ZI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OK3R Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OK5R Class: SOAB HP Call: OL0A Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OL3R Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP Call: OL5M Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OL6P Class: SOAB LP Call: OL8R Class: SOAB HP Call: OL9Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OM2VL Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OM3NA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OM3PC Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: OM4EA Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OM5M Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: OM5ZW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: OM7CW Class: SOAB HP Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB LP Call: ON6LY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: ON6NL Class: SOAB QRP Call: OQ5M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: OR2A Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: OT4A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: P40LE Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Call: PI4TUE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PJ2T Class: M/M HP Call: PJ4O Class: M/2 HP Call: PP5KR Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: PP5NW Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: PT5T Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: PT7AG Class: SOAB LP Call: PY1KN Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: PY1NB Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: PY1ZV Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: PY2EX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB HP Call: PY2WC Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: PY4CEL Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: PY5/OK5MM Class: SOAB HP Call: PY5/OK7MT Class: SOAB HP Call: PZ5WW Class: M/S HP Call: RL3FT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: RU3VD Class: SOAB LP Call: RV2FW/1 Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: RV3FF Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: S50K Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: S51FB Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: S52AW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S52ZW Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S53O Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: S54O Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: S55A Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: S56A Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: S57DX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: S57Q Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S58M Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB HP Call: S59KW Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: S59N Class: SOAB LP Call: SN7Q Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: SN8R Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SN8W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SO8A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SO9Q Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: SP1NY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: SP2LNW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: SP3BQ Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: SP6OJE Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: SP8LBK Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: SP9H Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SQ4MP Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: SV6CZQ Class: SOAB LP Call: T32OU Class: M/S LP Call: T93J Class: M/2 HP Call: T99W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: TF3CW Class: SOAB HP Call: TI5N Class: SOAB QRP Call: TM6M Class: M/S HP Call: TM9R Class: M/S HP Call: UA6LV Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: UT2II Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: UT9FJ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: V13WO Class: M/S LP Call: V31TP Class: M/S HP Call: V31UZ Class: SOAB HP Call: V31WO Class: M/S LP Call: V49A Class: SOAB LP Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Call: VA2WDQ Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3ATT Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3HJ Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3RKM Class: SOAB QRP Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Call: VE1DT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE1RGB Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE2FWW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE3CR Class: M/S HP Call: VE3CRU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3CW Class: SOAB(A) QRP Call: VE3CX Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3FRX Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: VE3GLO Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3HG Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3JI Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE3JM Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: VE3MIS Class: M/S HP Call: VE3OBU Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB/160 LP Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3RER Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: VE3RM Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3RZ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3TA Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3XL Class: SOAB LP Call: VE5CPU Class: SOAB HP Call: VE5MX Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE6EX Class: SOAB HP Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE7FO Class: M/S HP Call: VE7KS Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VE7UF Class: M/S HP Call: VE7XF Class: SOAB HP Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1HP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1TA Class: SOAB HP Call: VP5DF Class: SOAB LP Call: VP6DX Class: M/M HP Call: VP9/W6PH Class: SOAB LP Call: VU2PTT Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Call: W0UO Class: SOAB LP Call: W0VX Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W0ZA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W1AAX Class: SOAB HP Call: W1AF Class: M/S HP Call: W1AO Class: SOAB LP Call: W1BYH Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1CDX Class: SOAB LP Call: W1CSM Class: SOAB HP Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Call: W1GD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Call: W1JQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1MK Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: W1MU Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W1NK Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W1NR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W1OHM Class: SOAB HP Call: W1WEF Class: SOAB HP Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Call: W1ZT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2CG Class: M/2 HP Call: W2FU Class: M/M HP Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2JU Class: SOAB LP Call: W2LE Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2OO Class: SOAB HP Call: W2TB Class: SOAB HP Call: W2UP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W2VJN Class: SOAB HP Call: W2XL Class: M/S HP Call: W3BGN Class: M/S HP Call: W3BP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3CP Class: SOAB LP Call: W3DAD Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3DQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W3EF Class: SOAB LP Call: W3GH Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W3IQ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Call: W3MF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W3PP Class: M/M HP Call: W3TUA Class: SOAB HP Call: W3UA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W3YY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4ARM Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: W4GHD Class: SOAB HP Call: W4HJ Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Call: W4PK Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4PM Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4RM Class: M/2 HP Call: W4VIC Class: SOAB HP Call: W4ZV Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W4ZW Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W4ZYT Class: SOAB LP Call: W5GA Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5JR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5KFT Class: M/2 HP Call: W5MF Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W5WMU Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6EMC Class: M/2 HP Call: W6KY Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: W6MVW Class: SOAB HP Call: W6OAT Class: M/M HP Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Call: W6TK Class: SOAB HP Call: W6XR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W6YA Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: W6YI Class: SOAB HP Call: W6ZL Class: SOAB LP Call: W7CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7DRA Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Call: W7RH Class: SOSB/160 LP Call: W7RN Class: M/2 HP Call: W7TMT Class: SOAB LP Call: W7VJ Class: M/2 HP Call: W7WA Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W7ZR Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8CAM Class: SOAB HP Call: W8ERD Class: SOAB HP Call: W8KTQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W8MJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8RJL Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: W8TOP Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: W9SE Class: SOAB HP Call: W9WI Class: SOAB QRP Call: WA0MHJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: WA2MNO Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WA3NKO Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: WA4DOU Class: SOAB LP Call: WA6BOB Class: SOAB HP Call: WA6L Class: SOAB HP Call: WA8REI Class: SOAB LP Call: WB1DX Class: SOAB HP Call: WB2OQQ Class: SOAB LP Call: WB4MSG Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Call: WB8K Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB LP Call: WD4LUR Class: SOAB HP Call: WD5R Class: M/S HP Call: WE3C Class: M/2 HP Call: WE9V Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WF2B Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WH2D Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB HP Call: WK2G Class: SOAB LP Call: WK4Y Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WM3T Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: WN6K Class: SOAB LP Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Call: WP3C Class: SOAB LP Call: WQ2N Class: M/2 HP Call: WV0T Class: SOAB HP Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Call: WX4TM Class: SOAB HP Call: WX9U Class: SOAB LP Call: YL2GD Class: SOAB HP Call: YL3FT Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: YL7X Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: YT0A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YT2AAA Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YU1ANT Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YU1LA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YV7QP Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: Z35X Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: ZF1A Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: ZL3A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: ZM1A Class: M/2 HP Call: ZM2B Class: SOAB HP Call: ZS6AA Class: SOAB LP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: 6Y1LZ Call: HB0/N0MX Call: K0TV Call: K1AR Call: KB1H Call: KF7NN Call: KH6LC Call: KP2M Call: LX7I Call: N0IJ Call: N2RM Call: N3MX Call: N3RS Call: NE3F Call: NY4A Call: PJ4O Call: T93J Call: W2CG Call: W4RM Call: W5KFT Call: W6EMC Call: W7RN Call: W7VJ Call: WE3C Call: WQ2N Call: ZM1A Class: M/M HP Call: GM7V Call: J7DX Call: K1RX Call: K1TTT Call: K1XM Call: K3LR Call: K5GO Call: KC1XX Call: KL7RA Call: NQ4I Call: NR4M Call: PJ2T Call: VP6DX Call: W0AIH Call: W2FU Call: W3LPL Call: W3PP Call: W6OAT Class: M/S HP Call: CT9L Call: CV5K Call: EA8ZS Call: EE5E Call: HG6N Call: IO4T Call: IR4X Call: JA8RWU Call: K1IR Call: K1LZ Call: K2QMF Call: K8AZ Call: K9RS Call: K9SD Call: KL7Z Call: KT3Y Call: LT1F Call: N2BZP Call: OH6M Call: OL3Z Call: PZ5WW Call: TM6M Call: TM9R Call: V31TP Call: VE3CR Call: VE3MIS Call: VE7FO Call: VE7UF Call: W1AF Call: W2XL Call: W3BGN Call: W3LJ Call: WD5R Class: M/S LP Call: N7DD Call: T32OU Call: V13WO Call: V31WO Class: SOAB HP Call: AA1K Call: AD4EB Call: AL1G Call: CT1JLZ Call: CX5BW Call: CX6VM Call: DK5JM Call: DK8EY Call: DL2AA Call: DL3YM Call: DL4ME Call: EA4DRV Call: EA4TX Call: EA8EA Call: F6BEE Call: F8CMF Call: G4BUO Call: G4MKP Call: HP1WW Call: JF1NHD Call: K0FX Call: K0SR Call: K1KI Call: K1RM Call: K1ZZ Call: K3CR Call: K3ZM Call: K3ZO Call: K4AB Call: K4DJ Call: K4RO Call: K4XU Call: K5NA Call: K6TD Call: K6XT Call: K6XX Call: K7EG Call: K7GK Call: K7RL Call: K7ZA Call: K8AJS Call: K8GL Call: K8IA Call: K8KI Call: K8MN Call: K8MR Call: KE3D Call: KH6NF Call: KH7Y Call: KJ0G Call: KN7T Call: KO7AA Call: KO7X Call: KP2/K3MD Call: KQ2M Call: KU8E Call: LN3Z Call: LN8W Call: LY2IJ Call: LY90Y Call: N0HF Call: N0KE Call: N1IX Call: N1WR Call: N2GC Call: N2LT Call: N2NT Call: N2RJ Call: N3BB Call: N4LZ Call: N4UC Call: N4ZR Call: N5DD Call: N5UL Call: N6BV Call: N6TV Call: N7BF Call: N7RK Call: N8AA Call: N9FC Call: N9RV Call: NN7ZZ Call: NY3A Call: OE4A Call: OK2W Call: OK5R Call: OL8R Call: OM7CW Call: PY2NY Call: PY5/OK5MM Call: PY5/OK7MT Call: S59ABC Call: TF3CW Call: V31UZ Call: VA2WDQ Call: VA3EC Call: VA7ST Call: VE3CX Call: VE3EY Call: VE3HG Call: VE3RM Call: VE3RZ Call: VE3TA Call: VE5CPU Call: VE6EX Call: VE7XF Call: VO1HE Call: VO1MP Call: VO1TA Call: VY2TT Call: W0BH Call: W1AAX Call: W1CSM Call: W1EBI Call: W1HIS Call: W1OHM Call: W1WEF Call: W1ZK Call: W2OO Call: W2TB Call: W2VJN Call: W3TUA Call: W4GHD Call: W4NTI Call: W4NZ Call: W4VIC Call: W6MVW Call: W6SX Call: W6TK Call: W6YI Call: W8CAM Call: W8ERD Call: W8KTQ Call: W9SE Call: WA6BOB Call: WA6L Call: WB1DX Call: WC1M Call: WD4LUR Call: WJ9B Call: WO4O Call: WV0T Call: WX0B Call: WX4TM Call: YL2GD Call: ZM2B Class: SOAB LP Call: AD0K Call: AD4CJ Call: AD8J Call: D2NX Call: DL3EBX Call: E21EIC Call: EI/W5GN Call: G3WW Call: H7/K9GY Call: HB9ARF Call: HL5YI Call: I2WIJ Call: K1BV Call: K1BX Call: K1HT Call: K1IB Call: K1TN Call: K1TO Call: K2PS Call: K3AN Call: K3AU Call: K3GYS Call: K3IU Call: K3KU Call: K3MZ Call: K4HAL Call: K4JAF Call: K4NO Call: K4OD Call: K5FP Call: K5LH Call: K6CSL Call: K7ACZ Call: K7HBN Call: K8EE Call: K8GT Call: KA3DRR Call: KC5R Call: KD2MX Call: KD5J Call: KH6/N7ON Call: KI7Y Call: KJ6RA Call: KL8DX Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y Call: KS0M Call: KV8Q Call: KZ1M Call: LZ4UU Call: N0BUI Call: N0MA Call: N1DC Call: N1PGA Call: N1UR Call: N2WN Call: N3BM Call: N4EK Call: N4HXI Call: N4LF Call: N4TZ/9 Call: N4VI Call: N4YDU Call: N5AW Call: N6NF Call: N6RV Call: N7NT Call: N7ZG Call: N9CO Call: N9VN Call: NE7D Call: NI7T Call: NJ8J Call: NN4F Call: NS3T Call: NT1A Call: NT6AA Call: OL6P Call: ON4CT Call: PA3ARM Call: PT7AG Call: PY1ZV Call: RU3VD Call: S59N Call: SV6CZQ Call: V49A Call: VA2SG Call: VA3ATT Call: VA3HJ Call: VA7RN Call: VE1DT Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3CRU Call: VE3GLO Call: VE3JM Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3XAT Call: VE3XL Call: VE6CNU Call: VE9DX Call: VP5DF Call: VP9/W6PH Call: VY2SS Call: W0ETT Call: W0PC Call: W0UO Call: W1AO Call: W1CDX Call: W1JQ Call: W2JU Call: W3CP Call: W3EF Call: W4KAZ Call: W4ZYT Call: W6ZL Call: W7QN Call: W7TMT Call: WA4DOU Call: WA8REI Call: WB2OQQ Call: WB8JUI Call: WD4AHZ Call: WK2G Call: WN6K Call: WP3C Call: WX9U Call: ZS6AA Class: SOAB QRP Call: F5UKL/QRP Call: K2DM Call: K3PH Call: K4CIA Call: K6DBG Call: K6RM Call: K8CN Call: KA6SGT Call: KD4HXT Call: KG5U Call: KR2Q Call: KS4DU Call: N1TM Call: N3HU Call: N4JF Call: N6WG Call: N7IR Call: N8IE Call: ND0C Call: OK1FKD Call: ON6NL Call: TI5N Call: VA3RKM Call: W9WI Class: SOAB(A) HP Call: AA3B Call: AA7A Call: AB2E Call: AJ1M Call: DK3GI Call: DL2MDU Call: DL4YAO Call: DL8SCG Call: EA1WX Call: EA5DFV Call: EA5DKU Call: F5CQ Call: K0AD Call: K0KX Call: K0RI Call: K0UK Call: K1FWE Call: K1PT Call: K1TR Call: K2CJ Call: K2ONP Call: K2QPN Call: K2TE Call: K3ND Call: K3OO Call: K3PP Call: K3WW Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K4IU Call: K4XD Call: K5NZ Call: K5YA Call: K6ANP Call: K6III Call: K6MM Call: K6NV Call: K6RIM Call: K6TA Call: K6VVA Call: K8BB Call: K8FC Call: K9NW Call: K9OM Call: K9YC Call: KA2D Call: KC3WX Call: KE1FO Call: KG4CUY Call: KK8D Call: KQ3F Call: KR4F Call: KS0T Call: N1DG Call: N1EU Call: N1HRA Call: N1IW Call: N2MM Call: N2MUN Call: N2NI Call: N2NS Call: N2SQW Call: N2TK Call: N2VW Call: N2WK Call: N3ZA Call: N4DW Call: N4KG Call: N4VV Call: N6KI Call: N6QQ Call: N8BJQ Call: N8RA Call: N8TR Call: NA2M Call: NJ1F Call: NN3W Call: NN7SS Call: NX9T Call: OE1DIA Call: OE3KAB Call: OK2ZI Call: OQ5M Call: PI4TUE Call: PY2EX Call: PY2WC Call: RL3FT Call: S54O Call: S58M Call: SP1NY Call: UA6LV Call: VA3DX Call: VE2FU Call: VE3UTT Call: VE5MX Call: VE7KS Call: VO1HP Call: W1BYH Call: W1GD Call: W1KQ Call: W1NR Call: W1ZT Call: W2IRT Call: W2LE Call: W2UP Call: W3BP Call: W3DAD Call: W3MF Call: W3YY Call: W4PK Call: W4PM Call: W4ZW Call: W5GA Call: W5JR Call: W5MF Call: W5WMU Call: W6XR Call: W7CT Call: W7WHY Call: W7ZR Call: W8MJ Call: W8RJL Call: WA0MHJ Call: WA2MNO Call: WB4MSG Call: WE9V Call: WF2B Call: WK4Y Call: WM3T Call: YL7X Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB(A) LP Call: AA4FU Call: AC0W Call: DJ1YFK Call: DL1REM Call: K4MM Call: K5UV Call: K6GEP Call: K6JEB Call: KA4OTB Call: KH6/AA4V Call: KN4Q Call: KS2G Call: KT4PD Call: LU8EOT Call: N0HR Call: N1SV Call: N1SZ Call: N2FF Call: N4TN Call: N4ZI Call: NE1B Call: NG7Z Call: NQ3X Call: NT6X Call: S55A Call: S56A Call: VE3JI Call: VE3MGY Call: W0VX Call: W3DQ Call: W3IQ Call: W4HJ Call: W6KY Call: YL3FT Class: SOAB(A) QRP Call: VE3CW Class: SOSB/10 HP Call: PP5NW Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: K4WI Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: D4C Call: DQ4Q Call: K4EA Call: K4FJ Call: KC7V Call: PT5T Call: PY1KN Call: W6YA Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: CE3DNP Call: KI0F Call: KY5R Call: PY4CEL Call: WB4TDH Class: SOSB/160 HP Call: EA6BF Call: K1LT Call: K9MUG Call: LZ1RGM Call: S53O Call: SP3BQ Call: W3GH Call: W4ZV Call: W7DRA Call: W8TOP