SS SSB Soapbox built 12-10-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 32,620 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (40m-10m) Shunt-fed 15m (80m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 Ameritron AL-80A running 600 watts (200 watts on 80m) Comments: Only had a limited time to operate on Sunday afternoon, so I decided to go High Power for once. I figured I'd be able to run stations and maximize my score. Starting at about 1815z, I found 20m very long already so the rate wasn't very good. I jumped to 15m and then 20m scanning the band for mults & Qs. around 2045z, I moved down to 40m. Managed a good run there for about half an hour. Amazing that the band went long by 2300z. Hunted for mults for another hour and then finished up on 80m. Managed to work all but 10 mults. Biggest surprise was working VY1JA easily on 20m. Although I wasn't on for Saturday at all, based on conditions Sunday, this as got to be some of the worst conditions for a Phone SS in a long, long time. I can't wait for the sunspots to return. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 42,768 This contest is always a great opportunity to meet old friends and make new ones. I just tried to hand out a few SC contacts and was amazed at how many told me it was a new mult for them. Well done to Doug, K4LY (ex-W0AH), in the upstate for his nice score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA9DY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 8,554 Had a bad start in the contest. 80m was broken for me, unlike in SSCW it was working fine. Didn't get much time to play. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 3,844 I was only able to get a couple of hours in the chair, but I tried to pass out Qs to as many as I could. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 29,260 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's November Sweepstakes Log 4.5 ARRL-SECTION: VA CONTEST: ARRL-SS-SSB CALLSIGN: AI4ME CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 29260 OPERATORS: AI4ME CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club NAME: Don Michalek ADDRESS: 2437 Broomsedge Trail ADDRESS: Virginia Beach, VA 23456 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ai4me@cox.net SOAPBOX: Missed the sweep this time by 10. Heard all sections except NT. Couldn't work the other missing 9. I could hear them, but they couldn't hear me. Maybe next year! QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-17 2217 AI4ME 1 A 04 VA WX6V 97 U 61 SV QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2222 AI4ME 2 A 04 VA KN4KL 114 M 86 VA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2224 AI4ME 3 A 04 VA N7LOX 114 B 69 WWA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2229 AI4ME 4 A 04 VA N5EPU 147 B 63 AR QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2234 AI4ME 5 A 04 VA W0CEM 76 B 50 KS QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2235 AI4ME 6 A 04 VA KA0BMX 95 B 78 KS QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2241 AI4ME 7 A 04 VA NU6T 93 U 02 SV QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2245 AI4ME 8 A 04 VA K5TR 288 B 76 STX QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-17 2250 AI4ME 9 A 04 VA WC6H 246 B 71 SJV QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0432 AI4ME 10 A 04 VA K9CT 646 U 67 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0444 AI4ME 11 A 04 VA VY2LI 210 B 72 MAR QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0445 AI4ME 12 A 04 VA W8RJL 138 U 54 VA QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0453 AI4ME 13 A 04 VA WP3R 1024 B 65 PR QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0454 AI4ME 14 A 04 VA NN5K 599 A 68 NM QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0457 AI4ME 15 A 04 VA K7IR 663 M 65 EWA QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0508 AI4ME 16 A 04 VA WJ6O 606 U 67 SV QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0509 AI4ME 17 A 04 VA KN5O 549 U 66 LA QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0511 AI4ME 18 A 04 VA WP2Z 609 B 58 VI QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0513 AI4ME 19 A 04 VA K0RH 592 A 59 KS QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0542 AI4ME 20 A 04 VA KB0HH 292 M 75 OK QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0543 AI4ME 21 A 04 VA K7ZSD 323 A 63 OR QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0546 AI4ME 22 A 04 VA N0QO 579 B 07 CO QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0549 AI4ME 23 A 04 VA W6YI 1084 M 56 SDG QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0551 AI4ME 24 A 04 VA K6RIM 526 U 58 SF QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0553 AI4ME 25 A 04 VA N6NZ 571 U 72 SJV QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0554 AI4ME 26 A 04 VA K6NA 906 B 89 SDG QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0556 AI4ME 27 A 04 VA W6YX 589 M 24 SCV QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0600 AI4ME 28 A 04 VA WA3EKL 417 M 64 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0601 AI4ME 29 A 04 VA K3MM 702 U 73 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0604 AI4ME 30 A 04 VA WA2BCK 270 B 65 VA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0605 AI4ME 31 A 04 VA NI1N 890 U 84 VA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0610 AI4ME 32 A 04 VA N3KS 650 U 75 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0618 AI4ME 33 A 04 VA N4RZ 242 A 69 KY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0619 AI4ME 34 A 04 VA WT9U 543 B 75 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0620 AI4ME 35 A 04 VA N2PL 445 M 73 NLI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0621 AI4ME 36 A 04 VA N1LN 500 U 64 NC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0622 AI4ME 37 A 04 VA KZ2I 481 A 64 NC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0639 AI4ME 38 A 04 VA NY3A 191 B 73 EPA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0640 AI4ME 39 A 04 VA KD4D 634 B 71 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0642 AI4ME 40 A 04 VA N2MM 533 B 60 SNJ QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0643 AI4ME 41 A 04 VA N0IJ 750 B 57 WI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0645 AI4ME 42 A 04 VA K9BGL 774 B 55 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0646 AI4ME 43 A 04 VA K1PY 245 A 59 WNY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0655 AI4ME 44 A 04 VA K1LZ 522 B 69 EMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0655 AI4ME 45 A 04 VA W4AAA 663 A 78 NC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0657 AI4ME 46 A 04 VA W3UL 250 U 54 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0658 AI4ME 47 A 04 VA N8HR 565 M 99 OH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0659 AI4ME 48 A 04 VA WB1GQR 768 U 69 VT QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0701 AI4ME 49 A 04 VA NJ1F 639 U 77 WMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0716 AI4ME 50 A 04 VA K1BX 459 A 74 NH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0720 AI4ME 51 A 04 VA W3SO 206 B 00 WPA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0730 AI4ME 52 A 04 VA W3IDT 730 B 57 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0732 AI4ME 53 A 04 VA W3WPA 276 M 06 WPA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0735 AI4ME 54 A 04 VA WC2W 391 B 71 EMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0738 AI4ME 55 A 04 VA W1XX 596 B 54 RI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0745 AI4ME 56 A 04 VA KY5R 761 B 63 AL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0751 AI4ME 57 A 04 VA N1LI 826 M 03 ME QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0805 AI4ME 58 A 04 VA AD2P 198 M 91 NNJ QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0813 AI4ME 59 A 04 VA AJ3G 319 U 89 VA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0815 AI4ME 60 A 04 VA WT1M 299 U 00 NH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0818 AI4ME 61 A 04 VA WX9U 512 A 72 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0820 AI4ME 62 A 04 VA KD0S 1087 B 86 SD QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0825 AI4ME 63 A 04 VA VY2ZM 1095 B 55 MAR QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0827 AI4ME 64 A 04 VA K3DNE 434 U 71 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0828 AI4ME 65 A 04 VA WB4FDT 218 B 67 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0830 AI4ME 66 A 04 VA KB0CIM 546 M 88 MN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0831 AI4ME 67 A 04 VA W8MJ 794 U 81 MI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0835 AI4ME 68 A 04 VA W0NO 837 M 99 KS QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0837 AI4ME 69 A 04 VA K2UF 284 A 55 ENY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0838 AI4ME 70 A 04 VA K4AMC 145 B 54 TN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0841 AI4ME 71 A 04 VA KV2M 67 A 97 SNJ QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0847 AI4ME 72 A 04 VA WN3R 595 B 58 MDC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0850 AI4ME 73 A 04 VA KA1ARB 764 M 79 NC QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0853 AI4ME 74 A 04 VA K6ZM 546 U 75 SCV QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0854 AI4ME 75 A 04 VA W6XU 656 U 72 SF QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0857 AI4ME 76 A 04 VA K0HC 794 S 97 KS QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0859 AI4ME 77 A 04 VA KQ6MU 50 B 94 NV QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 0935 AI4ME 78 A 04 VA NF5B 174 M 95 TN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0937 AI4ME 79 A 04 VA W2GDJ 179 U 66 ENY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0939 AI4ME 80 A 04 VA K2NNY 517 M 95 NNY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0941 AI4ME 81 A 04 VA VE2HIT 80 A 90 QC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0943 AI4ME 82 A 04 VA K8MSF 308 M 55 OH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0944 AI4ME 83 A 04 VA WB9Z 956 B 71 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0947 AI4ME 84 A 04 VA K4OD 239 A 58 GA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0949 AI4ME 85 A 04 VA VE1OP 16 U 76 MAR QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0950 AI4ME 86 A 04 VA W0EWD 494 B 77 IA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0953 AI4ME 87 A 04 VA K1GIL 241 U 76 RI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 0954 AI4ME 88 A 04 VA K0PJ 424 A 77 WI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1011 AI4ME 89 A 04 VA NU2M 131 B 72 NLI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1014 AI4ME 90 A 04 VA W8UM 308 S 13 MI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1016 AI4ME 91 A 04 VA W8BHA 277 B 76 OH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1018 AI4ME 92 A 04 VA AB2DE 317 M 95 NNJ QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1019 AI4ME 93 A 04 VA VE3MGY 225 A 91 ON QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1026 AI4ME 94 A 04 VA VO1TA 152 B 96 NL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1029 AI4ME 95 A 04 VA K2ONP 63 U 55 ENY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1032 AI4ME 96 A 04 VA WA1HFF 14 A 66 WMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1036 AI4ME 97 A 04 VA N9FC 242 B 79 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1039 AI4ME 98 A 04 VA AE1P 282 A 03 NH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1041 AI4ME 99 A 04 VA NS1O 282 M 73 NH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 1043 AI4ME 100 A 04 VA K9GX 691 B 80 IN QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 1053 AI4ME 101 A 04 VA W6RQ 56 U 02 SCV QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1534 AI4ME 102 A 04 VA N5JB 643 B 58 NTX QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1536 AI4ME 103 A 04 VA W5WW 1090 B 90 NTX QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1536 AI4ME 104 A 04 VA K5NA 1454 M 58 STX QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1557 AI4ME 105 A 04 VA N4BP 788 B 55 SFL QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1558 AI4ME 106 A 04 VA K6LL 1277 U 59 AZ QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1603 AI4ME 107 A 04 VA N6HC 737 B 57 ORG QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1605 AI4ME 108 A 04 VA K0DEQ 682 B 55 MO QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1619 AI4ME 109 A 04 VA N5DO 988 M 60 WTX QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1620 AI4ME 110 A 04 VA W0NTA 214 M 64 CO QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1621 AI4ME 111 A 04 VA KP2TM 819 B 77 VI QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1622 AI4ME 112 A 04 VA NN7ZZ 788 B 79 UT QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1623 AI4ME 113 A 04 VA KE0UI 124 A 77 CO QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1641 AI4ME 114 A 04 VA VE6EX 705 M 58 AB QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1643 AI4ME 115 A 04 VA N0NI 1142 M 77 IA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1646 AI4ME 116 A 04 VA N0IM 191 A 83 MN QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1651 AI4ME 117 A 04 VA KX7M 60 U 84 EB QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1655 AI4ME 118 A 04 VA K6LA 1180 B 65 LAX QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1706 AI4ME 119 A 04 VA K7RL 1212 U 84 WWA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1710 AI4ME 120 A 04 VA VO1HE 550 B 90 NL QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1718 AI4ME 121 A 04 VA W7RN 1101 U 59 NV QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1735 AI4ME 122 A 04 VA K0TO 870 B 52 ID QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1737 AI4ME 123 A 04 VA AA6G 428 U 70 SJV QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1738 AI4ME 124 A 04 VA VE5SF 532 A 90 SK QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1739 AI4ME 125 A 04 VA W7UT 388 U 54 UT QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1744 AI4ME 126 A 04 VA KK7VC 243 M 98 MT QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1747 AI4ME 127 A 04 VA K6SV 1060 B 69 SJV QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1748 AI4ME 128 A 04 VA N6RO 413 B 53 EB QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1752 AI4ME 129 A 04 VA W0ETT/M 38 A 58 WY QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1756 AI4ME 130 A 04 VA N3ZZ 299 U 53 SCV QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1757 AI4ME 131 A 04 VA VE5MX 112 B 90 SK QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1804 AI4ME 132 A 04 VA KO7X 675 M 56 WY QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1807 AI4ME 133 A 04 VA WW0AL 271 B 06 CO QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1808 AI4ME 134 A 04 VA N2NS 313 U 97 SJV QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1809 AI4ME 135 A 04 VA K6QK 71 U 78 SDG QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1812 AI4ME 136 A 04 VA W6TA 1331 B 58 LAX QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1817 AI4ME 137 A 04 VA K6NR 858 B 69 ORG QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1819 AI4ME 138 A 04 VA K4IX 686 M 36 VA QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1825 AI4ME 139 A 04 VA K9JF 715 U 59 WWA QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1830 AI4ME 140 A 04 VA W7WW 429 B 92 AZ QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1842 AI4ME 141 A 04 VA KB7Q 858 A 60 MT QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1844 AI4ME 142 A 04 VA VE5ZX 651 A 63 SK QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1845 AI4ME 143 A 04 VA K7MM 796 B 68 EWA QSO: 21000 PH 2007-11-18 1848 AI4ME 144 A 04 VA KB0JI 336 B 65 CO QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1856 AI4ME 145 A 04 VA W7WA 1434 B 70 WWA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1857 AI4ME 146 A 04 VA K0GND 1189 M 56 NE QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1901 AI4ME 147 A 04 VA K0FVF 505 M 59 MN QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1904 AI4ME 148 A 04 VA W0SD 1441 B 62 SD QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1905 AI4ME 149 A 04 VA W5JJ 894 M 97 AR QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1907 AI4ME 150 A 04 VA AE5T 1107 M 89 LA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 1913 AI4ME 151 A 04 VA N0MA 751 M 95 IA QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2022 AI4ME 152 A 04 VA KR0B 862 M 79 MN QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2023 AI4ME 153 A 04 VA K6GT 581 U 57 SCV QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2030 AI4ME 154 A 04 VA N8TR 839 U 79 OH QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2032 AI4ME 155 A 04 VA K8BB 279 A 91 MI QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2034 AI4ME 156 A 04 VA KE1FO 475 B 93 VT QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2039 AI4ME 157 A 04 VA VA3NR 50 U 84 ON QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2039 AI4ME 158 A 04 VA K0FG 304 B 70 MO QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2040 AI4ME 159 A 04 VA K4SSU 1463 B 75 GA QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2041 AI4ME 160 A 04 VA N9UM 193 U 95 IL QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2046 AI4ME 161 A 04 VA K9NS 1720 M 53 IL QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2048 AI4ME 162 A 04 VA VE3XD 486 A 69 ON QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2049 AI4ME 163 A 04 VA W8AJF 292 M 76 OH QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2050 AI4ME 164 A 04 VA N9UC 738 S 53 IL QSO: 7000 PH 2007-11-18 2053 AI4ME 165 A 04 VA W1NK 154 A 77 CT QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2130 AI4ME 166 A 04 VA N0GF 572 M 99 ND QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2146 AI4ME 167 A 04 VA W5KFT 1646 B 93 STX QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2147 AI4ME 168 A 04 VA WB0HCH 1092 B 72 MN QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2150 AI4ME 169 A 04 VA AB5GG 590 M 91 AR QSO: 14000 PH 2007-11-18 2258 AI4ME 170 A 04 VA K0HS 350 M 95 SD QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 2305 AI4ME 171 A 04 VA KE2DX 588 U 93 ENY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 2308 AI4ME 172 A 04 VA AA4V 269 A 63 SC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 2311 AI4ME 173 A 04 VA W5MX 738 B 80 KY QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-18 2348 AI4ME 174 A 04 VA N4OX 1410 B 76 NFL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0001 AI4ME 175 A 04 VA W4PV 284 B 65 TN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0002 AI4ME 176 A 04 VA N9AX 742 A 62 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0004 AI4ME 177 A 04 VA W4GHS 151 B 76 VA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0008 AI4ME 178 A 04 VA NT8V 951 M 61 MI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0010 AI4ME 179 A 04 VA W8JI 1277 M 62 GA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0011 AI4ME 180 A 04 VA VA3XH 429 B 99 ON QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0018 AI4ME 181 A 04 VA K8CC 455 U 69 MI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0020 AI4ME 182 A 04 VA N3HE 296 B 57 OH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0022 AI4ME 183 A 04 VA AJ9C 1165 A 74 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0025 AI4ME 184 A 04 VA N4PN 1351 A 53 GA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0028 AI4ME 185 A 04 VA K8AO 963 B 61 MI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0150 AI4ME 186 A 04 VA K1AR 83 B 69 NH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0152 AI4ME 187 A 04 VA K1KP 851 M 67 EMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0156 AI4ME 188 A 04 VA K4PV 1305 B 65 NFL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0158 AI4ME 189 A 04 VA W1VE 132 B 76 EMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0204 AI4ME 190 A 04 VA K8UP 940 U 66 MI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0208 AI4ME 191 A 04 VA W9IU 1182 U 55 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0209 AI4ME 192 A 04 VA W4MR 593 B 76 NC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0214 AI4ME 193 A 04 VA N9KT 636 Q 92 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0215 AI4ME 194 A 04 VA N9QX 810 U 05 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0226 AI4ME 195 A 04 VA N9JF 322 A 65 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0228 AI4ME 196 A 04 VA K9OR 430 U 62 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0229 AI4ME 197 A 04 VA K1JB 345 U 54 ME QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0233 AI4ME 198 A 04 VA K4ZGB 1314 B 60 AL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0235 AI4ME 199 A 04 VA KK9V 558 U 80 IN QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0241 AI4ME 200 A 04 VA N4MXP 74 A 81 SC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0246 AI4ME 201 A 04 VA W4MY 468 M 76 NC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0247 AI4ME 202 A 04 VA KU8E 703 B 76 GA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0248 AI4ME 203 A 04 VA N8OH 343 U 70 OH QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0249 AI4ME 204 A 04 VA KA9FOX 58 U 79 WI QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0250 AI4ME 205 A 04 VA N9SJ 856 M 96 IL QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0252 AI4ME 206 A 04 VA W4KAZ 589 A 76 NC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0255 AI4ME 207 A 04 VA AI4WB 253 A 05 SC QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0259 AI4ME 208 A 04 VA K1IR 7 B 72 EMA QSO: 3500 PH 2007-11-19 0259 AI4ME 209 A 04 VA K4RG 71 U 93 VA END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4WB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 28,710 MY 2ND CONTEST EVER WORKED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ9C Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 200,800 Lots of work in this one. We need some spots so guys can spread out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 73,200 My original goal was to try and get a sweep before going to bed Saturday night. Worked VY1 early so I thought I had a shot. But conditions were so brutal on 40 meters that I finally gave up and went to bed at 10:30 PM. I spend most of Sunday at KT0R. It was fun, as usual, but we certainly missed the big guy. Nice to work so many MWWers. 73, Al, K0AD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0GAS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 72,680 SORRY TO BE LATE WITH THIS. MY EFFORT WAS PRIMARILY TOWARD THE SWEEP. I KEPT LOOKING THE LAST 2 HOURS FOR THE SKIP TO SHORTEN FOR UTAH. NO LUCK. I WAS DELIGHTED TO HEAR 15 OPEN A LITTLE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HC Class: School Club HP Total Score = 225,760 After several training sessions in the Hesston College computer lab and Friday night on-the-air practice, four students and three faculty/staff operators were READY! It was great to chat with the other school stations including some we've never worked before. It was also fun to see the confidence in our students build as the hours went by and they took their turns helping at the run station. Although rates the first three or four hours were lower than previous years due to the incredibly crowded band conditions on 20m, the often "difficult" sections came easily. Our "countdown" was 5 NV 4 SJV 3 MT 2 LAX 1 BC SWEEP at 0759Z (thanks VE7CC). Big cheer in Kansas! We eventually recovered from 130 Qs down and ended up with 3 more contacts than last year. Thanks to all of you who worked us, offered encouragement to us along the way, and showed great patience when needed. We hope we work you all again next year! 73, Bob, w0bh Hesston College ARC, k0hc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 130,880 I am a little late at submitting this. It was one of my most fun SweepStakes ever. I really enjoy all the QSOs with old and new contest friends. This year was the second time I have had a clean sweep in the phone contest and the first time ever I have had a clean sweep in both CW and Phone. It seems that both on CW and Phone this contest produced the best results on 40 and 80 meters from this location. I am using a HyGain HyTower this year for the first time as my only antenna on 40 and it really played well. I also used it on 75 meters as the dipole seemed to knock out my internet lan connection. The packet spotting networks are the best for getting those multiplier spots. I just can not get used to the sit on a frequency and call CQ method so I did a lot of S&P but looking back at my rates I think next year I will just have to stay on one frequency and call from it 90% of the time. It is great to see the two high scoring South Dakota stations W0SD (W0DB) and KD0S (WD0T) on making sure this great state is in everyone's logs as a multiplier. If you missed SD this year you were not trying very hard. ICOM 756PROII, Ameritron AL-1200, Writelog, Dipoles, HyGain HyTower and HyGain TH11DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 196,640 40 meters is normally the workhorse here, but it sounded like the attenuator was on this weekend. 15 meters was only for the bigger west coast stations. That left 20 and 80 for us popgun stations. The score ended up taking a dip from last years effort. The sweep was pretty easy, when I jumped on a spot for VE2 Sunday after noon. I then went back to my run freq and the second station to call was another VE2. I was also called by a number of KL7's, KH6's, VO1's, VE4's, and VY1EI. I had already worked VY1JA early. Ended up with 3 VY1's in the log. KP2's and WP3's were also abundant. Made it fun. Heading down to AR for the multi-op this coming weekend in CQWW CW. That will be some real radio. CU all then. TNX for the Q's and the fun this weekend. K0OU Steve in MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 6,272 No time for a serious effort this weekend. Just poked around a bit on Sunday afternoon, working sections and listening to many fine ops. 20 was wall-to-wall with lots of big sigs. 40 went long early. 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 81,844 Rig : Kenwood TS-950SDX + SM230 Antennas : HyGain TH-11DX at 22m, Telrex 40m dipole at 20m, wire slopping dipoles for 40m & 75m, inverted vee for 160m. Soapbox : I operated the Phone Sweepstates from my normal QTH in Minnesota. I missed MB for a sweep, although I called VE4EAR on 40m but couldn't get through the pileup before he QSYed up the band, never to be heard from again (at my qth). There was another 4 hours to go so the clean sweep successfully eluded my grasp again this year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 162,740 I punish myself by running LP..try doing a run and holding a freq with 100w...good to see 80m come alive after dark....10m and 15m were a bust from the Midwest....thanks to everybody for the Qs.....Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RI Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 31,950 Started Sat night at 2230. All S&P. IC-756proIII 160m horiz loop Force 12 C-19XR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,356 I thought the I possibly had a sweep in the bag once I worked VJ1JA Sunday afternoon. I did not get started in the contest until Sunday AM so late to the party already. Well a sweep was not to happen. I was counting on 40 in the afternoon for working some of the closer states I was still missing and for some of the others as well. 40 was long and 80 seemed strange, so that plan did not work out. Oh well. A guy can hope. Missed WNY, UT, IA, ND, NL, MB, AK. It was an all VOX operation for me as my foot switch died. At least there was an alternative! Not my normal mode of operation for SSB. 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 208,320 Fifty plus years of SS operating and I still find new things every year. [I figure I am a slow learner]. Started 45 minutes late but made up for that by stopping 30 minutes early. Extremely strong signal strengths on 20 meters on Saturday afternoon made it seem like there was no space on 20 to add one more person. Finding ways to pull out the weaker stations in the presence of the many very strong ones was the secret to making Q's on 80-40-20. The few Q's on 15 meters made me think the receiver had died -- there were almost no signals between the strong ones -- just white noise. Ten meters had only the white noise. Tod, K0TO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1HTV Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 169,760 It was a tough grind with 100 Watts. I continue to find 40M to be the toughest band for me in the SS. Beaming NW on 20M produced WL7O and a number of other Alaska stations for the 79th section. I also found and work VY1JA for #80 and the Sweep. 80 Meters went long early Saturday, coming back after midnight Sunday morning. 80M went long again early Sunday evening, so I switched to 160 Meters for the last few hours of the contest, making 97 Q's on the Topband. I've never heard so much SS activity on 160M in a SS contest! 73 de Rich - K1HTV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 86,488 Wow! I was in WNY, and Northeast was blanked out! Didn't have first 1 in log until past midnight local. Never in my life, and likely never again, will I hear so many "Thanks for WNY, a new one!" At least a full third of my contacts mentioned it. Fact is, I never got WNY myself! Whew. This was a true test of staying in the chair, but boy, it was a trial. We need those sunspots! Maybe next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 117,156 Short effort this time. I spent most of Saturday taking down a tower and antenna, go home about 2 hours after the start, 20 was going away fast and 40 M was tough. 80 M went long in a hurry. Caused some QRM when the band started acting weird - this in combination of using my low dipole (which was tremendous) and my 4 SQ to the west managed to upset a certain 8 lander who launched a long speech about frequency useage to which I responded with the turn of the main tuning knob and find a new spot - life is too short to get wrapped around the axle over stuff like this. Just move on... Loved seeing the full use of the 80 M phone band (for a change!). Was not serious about this one, just helping out the boys! Missed KL7 and NT although I heard J work a 7 and them move along. Lots of KL7 guys operating portable which was, well okay I guess. 73, Mark, K1RX See ya in the WW CW test next week! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RY Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 40,128 Have to work on antennas, this was a struggle. Got one run going on 80 and a small one on 20 other than that it was all S&P. Boy do I miss those monobanders and 70 foot towers I had in MASS. Roy K1RY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DBK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,376 Running low power into a G5RV is an exercise in masochism in any big contest. Oddly, the few contacts I had on 15m were surprisingly easy, because at the time I was working there, the band had so much deep QSB that it seemed like everyone had gone elsewhere. (To 20m, I'm sure.) The good news is that if the QSB fades were slow enough, I had no trouble working anyone I could hear (since apparently there wasn't much competition.) As others have noted, 20m was really busy. Most of my contacts there were relatively late Sunday, when folks started to run out of their 24 hours or took a break for Sunday dinner. 80m was a big surprise for me. I worked a few stations relatively early Saturday evening, then went out for dinner. I got back and thought I'd try to work a handful more, and between about 0530Z and 0730Z I worked about 80 stations. While working 40/hour can only barely be called a rate compared to the big guys, for me doing S&P it was terrific and was definitely the most fun part of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2WK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 197,120 Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3AN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 87,164 Best effort to date in the Phone SS. Missed MB and the usual suspects (NT, AK). It sure will be nice when sunspots come back, to spread the activity out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MIM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 209,760 Below are summaries and a few comments re the now (in)famous "Father (w3idt) / Daughter (k3mim) " ss ssb operation at W3LPL. W3IDT: BAND QSO QSO PTS SECTIONS 80 419 838 - 40 678 1356 - 20 254 508 - ----------------------------------- Totals 1351 2702 80 Score: 216,160 K3MIM: BAND QSO QSO PTS SECTIONS 80 493 986 - 40 629 1258 - 20 189 378 - ----------------------------------- Totals 1311 2622 80 Score: 209,760 Both Single Operator, High Power, Unassisted. Comments or HighLights and LowLights: 1. Once again, we thank Frank (w3lpl) for providing his station and creating the rather special environment (2 separate networks of four radios / computers each - though we never did use 15m), and his xyl Phyllis for letting us invade her home on what should be an "off weekend". 2. Slightly (30/40 Qs) below last year. However this year I (IDT) will inspect the Cabrillo files carefully (and not send in logs which were corrupted in conversion and processing as last year) so the final scores will be higher than last year. 3. We found what appears to be a bug in CT v10 (to which w3lpl recent switched from v9): The first time we switched bands the serial number fields went bonkers on both networks. While I (IDT) went to get Frank so we could find the cause and/or work-around, K3MIM calmly kept track of the next real serial number on her clipboard and just kept going. Work-around: SETSERIAL command in call field permits resetting the serial number field. So we used that each time we switched bands. Reminder to self: fix the bad serial numbers in both logs! 4. Both of us got to 79 sections pretty quickly. IDT missing BC (really!), MIM missing NL. In the middle of Sunday afternoon, a VE7 called IDT on 20 for the sweep, the next caller was a VE7, and the next caller was a VE7! In the last hour or two, we were going to finish up with MIM on 40 and IDT on 80 when IDT got called by a loud, casual VE1 on 80. So we switched bands, and lo and behold a VO1 calls MIM in the last hour for her sweep. 5. By 1800z or so we were both ahead of our last year's qso totals (IDT:1379 / MIM:1361). Expecting typically good results in the last couple of hours we took our respective naps Sunday afternoon. My (IDT) bad time calculations cost MIM about 40 minutes of operating time, and then the bottom seems to have dropped out of both 80 and 40 - our qso totals during the last three hours are well below last year's (the VO1 calling MIM was the only good thing about those last three hours). 6. Was nice to talk briefly with old and new friends, including recent visitors to this area (K9YC and K9LA/AE9YL). MIM had virtually none of the " K...3...M...I...M" stuttering (with the emphasis on the "I") as she had last year with her brand new call as this year she surely was in the database. 7. One real downer: Sunday afternoon some jerk starting hurling obscenities at MIM for being a contester and preventing him from having his regular bullshit session... so she moved a few Kcs and this idiot followed her and the profanities got worse. Someone stepped in and told him to "shut his mouth" and, being a good southern gentleman - by accent - reminded him that there is "a lady present". (Thank you good samaritan!). She then moved 100kc or so. (I don't usually use language as found in the preceding paragraph, but this guy seems to deserve it.) Bob, w3idt, and Miriam, k3mim -- w3idt@arrl.net k3mim@arrl.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 241,760 Boy was 75 painful! Short haul signals became very weak both evenings. I used a new AY loop system which helped a bit, but NI1N on 3803 with beverages left the rest of us in the dust! Just about missed on AK and NT, but AK called me late Sunday after the peak of the opening and just managed to eek out a Q with Jay shortly thereafter for the sweep. Went to 160 a few times in the last couple of hours to have some fun and stir up the "top-band" crowd ;) Ty K3MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,060 Got to play a few more hours than I expected. It was fun. Thanks to the other stations for working this tiny one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 33,670 Had hoped for alot more operating time, but family life got in the way (yet again). Oh well... At least I was not the only MDC station on the air! paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,880 Inverted L at 30'. Had fun playing part time. 73, Tad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 100,960 160 in SS??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 180,120 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1.5 KW, TH6DXX, zepp, dipole, inverted vee. Time was limited by the need to prepare for leaving Monday afternoon for Bonaire for CQ WW CW. Hope to work you all on many bands from PJ4/K4BAI and PJ4A in CQ WW CW. Thanks for all the QSOs. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,384 Yaesu FT-897D Hustler 5 Band Vertical Inverted Vee on 80 Meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 80,160 Thanks for the Q's.... It was good to see that some of us brave souls ventured below the "traditional" 3750-3850 madhouse on 80m. I found the low end of the band, 3605-3625, productive and appealing. 15 was surprisingly good during the day. I guess I tend to go against the grain while 20/40/75 are wall-to-wall with CQ'ers.... Needed SB for a sweep mid-afternoon on Sunday. Found a place to run on 20m and K7AME/M called in with #80. Five minutes later W6TK called in from SB as well. Only heard one AK station - KL7AA.... Happy Thanksgiving! 73....//Steve K4EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4FAU Class: School Club HP Total Score = 45,360 KI4WFJ, and I, W4RIS operated K4FAU from the FAU Boca campus. This year we operated in the S category because I was just hired by FAU ;) We only made 2 contacts more then last year but last year the participation of FAU ARC members was better. KI4WFJ made a total of 11 contacts but this was his first contest. I think I can coach him to participate more in upcoming contests ;) The fact that the internet was not working caused us dearly. Last year we managed 79 sections but this year we only did 70. We missed ND, AK, MT, OR, AB, BC, MB, NWT, QC and SK Depending how well KU5B does this year we might win the Southeastern School Club Plaque! At least we will be second ;) Listening to K0HC I know that they will take home the overall win for School Club and The Collegiate Championship again this year. This was the first contest we could operate on 80M after putting up a B&W BWD. We managed to make 94 contacts on 80M Despite all the local noise and the broadcast stations on 40M I had 2 nice runs on 40M and our total on 40M came out to 139 Qs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4LY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 142,720 Surprised how well the Hygain Hytower worked on 80 and 40 (I felt loud!) and how mediocre it was on 20 and 15. In Colorado, the Hytower was in the clear on a hilltop and worked well on all bands. Here, it's on the east side of a hill with a lot of trees nearby and the house 50' to the north, but works well on the low bands now that I have 30 radials down for 80M. By next year, I should have the TH7 up. Thanks for all the Q's. Low lights: My JRC JST-245 (normally 150 watts) dropped power to 50 watts for a couple of hours Sunday afternoon. I read the manual thinking there must be a function + button I mistakenly pushed, but no. Finally, I turned it off for a while, and it came back on at 150 watts. I should have programmed my computer for the exchange because my voice was giving out Sunday afternoon and evening. High lights: working 3 YLs in a row, being the 80th section for one OM, getting to chat with old friends. CU in the 160M test. Doug K4LY Inman SC ex-W0AH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 47,700 Breakdown as follows: BAND-----QSOs-----Points-----Sections 160------001-------002----------00 80------230-------460----------57 40------055-------110----------10 20------008-------016----------01 15------024-------048----------07 10------000-------000----------00 QSOs: 318 Pts: 636 Sec: 75 Time On: 21.75 Hours Rig: Yaesu FT-897D 100 Watts output Ant: All wire dipoles Contesting-----I may not be very good at it but I DO SO LOVE IT!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 47,664 Great fun to say hi to all of my CW and RTTY die hard friends, and to welcome the folks just discovering the joy of contesting. Just snuck in a few runs on Sunday in between chores. I enjoyed the rates. According to the logging program, these were my runs: 2007-11-18 1633 - 1705Z, 14171 kHz, 74 Qs, 142.2/hr 2007-11-18 1705 - 1719Z, 14170 kHz, 23 Qs, 96.5/hr 2007-11-18 1740 - 1816Z, 7297 kHz, 74 Qs, 123.9/hr 2007-11-18 2238 - 2334Z, 3783 kHz, 137 Qs, 146.2/hr Congratulations to the Top Dogs. It takes a lot of determination, skill, and fortitude to do well in Sweepstakes. That is true regardless of your QTH, station prowess, or operator category. Long live this great contest. See you in the CQWW CW pileups next weekend! 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4SSU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 265,920 Great to see the large turn out of new hams getting on for this contest. Had a chance to shepherd a number of them thru the process after hearing I was their #1. Lots of SECC members in the log. Thanks again to Dave and Gayle for their incredible hospitality. 73's Brian NA4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TMC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 34,584 Rig: Elecraft K2/100 with Heil Proset-HC4 Antennas: low Inverted-V's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,280 Rig - Ten Tec Omni VI at 90 watts Ant - G5RV up 75 fet in trees ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 134,240 WARNING: THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPHS CHRONICLE MY 24 HOURS WITH SS IN A WAY THAT EVEN MY LOVELY, INFINITELY PATIENT AND ADORING WIFE WON’T PRETEND SHE’S INTERESTED IN HEARING! It’s my second year of hamming and second SS, and this contest is growing on me! It’s the right length to feel like you’ve really done something but not so long that you start thinking about cleaning the garage. You can get a decent run going without a ton of aluminum in the backyard. It stretches you enough to feel that you’re a slightly better operator than when you started And you can spend most of Saturday tinkering with your rig so it will break unexpectedly during the test and keep you from getting bored. And SS is not above throwing a sucker punch now and then to keep you on your toes – like the band conditions Saturday night. I confess, prior to Saturday night I wouldn’t have thought of 80M as the best band for a schedule with my friends in CA, but it sure was on Saturday. Or did half the hams in CA get together and build 4 element 80M yagi’s for October’s club construction project? I worked one S9+ SV / SCV / SF station after another, but the guys “up the street” in VA and MD sounded like they were calling from a rock in the South China Sea. My goal was to break 100K points. Seeing some of the scores rolling in now, in retrospect that may have been too modest of a goal, but it seemed like the logical “next target” after last year’s performance. My other goal was to work the full 24 hours, which I almost did – I got confused toward the end and took off 30 minutes more than I should have. Had a nice dinner though! In my extensive experience of four SS’s ;-), MB and NT have been the nail-biter sections to get, so I was quite pleased to work both in the first hour. The two holdouts were ND and, of all things, SB. A ND guy called me during my run on 20M (thanks!) and relieved that pressure, and then I saw a spot for SB, called him, and thanked him for the sweep. Note to the endless parade of SV/SCV/SF guys – if you want a bigger pileup next year, take one of those 4 element yagis to SB. On voice keying: earlier in the week I contemplated buying an MFJ DVK, but being a computer geek I figured I would “really” work on getting WriteLog’s DVK feature working this time. I have two sound cards plus the motherboard sound chip to work with, which is a blessing and a curse. It’s very versatile, which is computer lingo for “very confusing.” After fiddling with the excellent sound configuration utility that comes with WriteLog (really, it is), and then dropping into the .ini file and wondering what the difference was between a “LineInIndexOverride,” a “WaveInMicIndex,” and a “WaveInIndex,” I finally got it all working the way I wanted. I even figured out the “record all QSO’s audio to disk” feature which lets you re-live the glory of the contest one Q at a time at your leisure. In case you finish cleaning your garage and fixing your “tinkered” rig. If you use any kind of DVK, I recommend plugging your transceiver into a dummy load and listening on a second receiver. Nothing works as well to let you know how you’ll sound on the air as you fiddle with audio levels, compression, and filter settings. I heard a couple of guys who really needed to do this – the initial contact by mike on their end was at least an S5 – but when they kicked in the recorded part of their exchange, the level dropped to an S2 . Sounded way under modulated. I also used GoldWave (any WAV file editor would do) to trim my pre-recorded WAV files to remove those long pauses as the other guy’s call sign is spelled out letter by letter. “Kilo……….Four……….XRay…..Delta……..” All-in-all, this system worked. I could type in a call, hit F2, and WriteLog would spell out the exchange including the QSO number and other call. Type in the other exchange, hit F3 and have it send “thanks, K4XD SS.” I even recorded separate WAV files for W0 – W9, K0-K9, etc., so it would say “Kilo Three” in one natural breath and then “Mike..Mike.” But the DVK felt a bit sterile, and during the contest, I ended up using “live audio” for most of the exchanges. It just kept me more involved. And despite living in the South for almost 30 years, my native New Yorker background lets me talk fast on demand. Somehow, the momentum of the run seems broken when you hit a key and wait in silence for 10 seconds while the computer does the work. (Why silence? When I push the “monitor” button on the ICOM, it generates feedback. I’m sure it’s happening because, well, there is a feedback loop between my PC and the radio. I could tinker with it, but then I’m sure something more “versatile” would stop working). I did use the DVK to give my voice a rest when it started getting a little hoarse. I was glad it was there at those moments. On to the event itself. By 2030Z the bands were starting to fill with SS warm-up traffic and the excitement was palpable. Kind of like the buzz in the stadium before the team takes the field. And then at 2100, pandemonium. Even though CQ WW SSB was only a few weeks ago, I wasn’t quite prepared for the signal density on 20M at 2100:01. I tried running but could barely hear the people who answered me through the splatter. I hereby (hearby?) christen those who run at 125/hour or better in the first four hours of Sweeps as having “Ears of Steel.” My hat is off to you gents. Can I borrow your ears next time? Or at least your receiving antennas?! My pre-game mental image of finding a nice quiet 3 kHz wide spot, setting up shop and confidently answering a 150/hr run quickly degenerated into a mad rush to try to get through any pileups in a frenzy of increasingly erratic S&P. Minutes ticked by and the Q’s did not mount up according to my well-conceived plan. As Mike Tyson once said, “everyone has a strategy until they get hit.” It was positively depressing to give my exchange “W6XYZ, please copy number 33U K4XD 06 NC” after hearing “K4XD, please copy 225A W6XYZ 58 SV.” After a couple hours of increasingly desperate S&P I went to 40M, remembering my semi-decent runs from SS CW only two weeks back. OK, this has to get better. Not. I managed to follow up two 26 hours on 20M with a 22 Q run on 40M that took 90 minutes. I literally kept checking my antenna switch to make sure I wasn’t still plugged into the dummy load. Hello, hello, is this thing turned on?? At this point I remembered all the talk on the reflector about 80M being the “SS money band.” OK, I needed some cash, fast. I went down to 80M and the Left Coast was booming in there too. Only problem was the East Coast was not. So I S&P’d on 80M for a couple of hours, with my rate still hovering in the mid-30’s. At this point I compared my rate to that of SS CW from a couple weeks ago and it was actually lower. I almost bagged it in disgust, but just like in the movies, I said to myself, “don’t stop now, you’re not a quitter!” and soldiered on with images of glory in my mind. And things started to improve – I found a spot in the Extra band that had almost 2 kHz of splatter-free spectrum and parked there, enjoying, at last, a couple hours of slowly improving rates. Still nothing to get excited about, but the needle was starting to move in the right direction, with some bursts up to 100/hour. At 3:30AM local time, things started to slow down, including my brain, so I figured it was a good time for Break Number One. Although I read that I should sleep in multiples of 90 minutes, when the alarm went off at 6:30AM local I reasoned that 40 would be open to W1 and W2 land for at least a couple of hours past sunrise so I hit the snooze button and got 30 more minutes of blissful shut-eye. One of my best pre-contest moves on Saturday was setting up the coffee maker for Sunday morning, so a nice fresh pot was waiting for me. I tossed the dog out the door and did a couple of stretch moves to get the blood flowing and quiet the little voice that kept saying “Hey! What are you doing getting up? You’ve only had 3 1/2 hours of sleep!” Back to the dials. (Remember when radios had dials?) I spent a little time on 80M and finally, the East Coast was LOUD. Yay! Life was normal again. Up to 40M at 1300 and things really started flowing. Nothing like seeing the QSO-o-meter hitting 130/hr! I know, for many of you that’s when you look to see if you accidentally switched in the dummy load. But for me it is “big fun.” No 130 Q hours, just a nice peak rate there and many minutes of rate above 60. My best hour was 80 Q’s on 40M at 1500. Things started slowing down quite a bit after that and I spent the rest of the afternoon alternating 30 minute breaks with 30 min S&P’s and piddly runs on 20M. At 2100Z I found a nice slot at 14.205 and spent the next two hours generating 105 Q’s there. Still not a neck-snapping pace by any stretch, but some good stretches with back-to-back Q’s and two or three callers at a time. A nice “beginner’s pileup.” Thanks! At 2126 I saw a spot for SB and hopped up to 14.269 to work W6TK for the sweep. Thanks OM. I’m not sure what made me happier, getting the sweep or finding my run frequency still available when I came back. I know I’m not supposed to chase mults during SS, but hey, I’m compulsive and staring at the white dots in WriteLog’s multiplier window just eats at me. I think this was also the first time I noticed my call popping up on the WriteLog Bandmap (in the “unworked” light blue color – I almost clicked it out of sleep-deprived reflex!). Thanks to any and all who spotted me – the pickup in rate was quite noticeable within minutes. I usually spotted anything I worked that was not on the WriteLog bandmap already. Where do you go after 20M slows down? 40M of course. Well, after 20 minutes and 4 Q’s on 40M, I had second thoughts so back to 80 we go for the rest of the night. I ran for 90 minutes on 3.824 and 3.864, and then things started slowing down and the splatter from people with the same idea started getting in the way of Q’s with the weaker stations. I recalled all that nice spectrum below 3.8 and decided to play there for the last 30 minutes. Fifteen minutes from the end stations started coming out of the woodwork and kept me busy until the final buzzer sounded. I didn’t see myself spotted, and I really thought the rate would be higher in the General end of the band, but maybe a lot of others were avoiding the QRM too. SS humor: My usual end of QSO comment was “thanks for XX” where XX was the other guy’s section. Me: “Thanks for Nebraska” Him: “Thank you.” Two seconds silence, then he comes back with “I wish I could get it!” I guess 80M was long in NE too. Even more random thoughts: * An amplifier is a good thing * I’m really glad I hooked up my AL-80B as a switchable alternate amp to my THP solid state amp. The AL-80B laughs at SWR that shuts the THP down. It runs like a tank for hours. The THP gets tired (OK, hot) and starts cranking back power after CQ’ing every 3 seconds for a while. But the THP rocks for S&P. * My score would probably double if I could get points for all the cheap PC speakers in the neighborhood I “contacted.” * I wish I had the antennas of the Q precedence stations with the S9 signals * Even though for much of the contest my rate was mediocre, thanks to BIC I’m happy with the result * I’m too new at this to feel bad about a score under 250K ;-) * I’m in awe of people with Ears of Steel * I’m in awe of the people who racked up my score or better in 5 hours * I tried my new K9AY loop a couple of times but it was easier to just shout “your number, AGAIN AGAIN!” until I was hearing it in my sleep * Hams are by and large very patient people. When I shouted, “your number, AGAIN AGAIN,” they all calmly repeated their numbers. Thanks! * S&P is OK but Running IS For next year: Figure out how to run more. Improve my receiving antennas. Record even shorter DVK messages. I know it’s popular to say “ham radio is dying” but SS proves to me there are a lot of operators and a lot of good stations out there, still waiting for the right stimulus to come along and activate them. Contesting, and SS in particular, is clearly a powerful stimulus. So are big DXpeditions. It wouldn’t hurt for us to dream up some more. And now, speaking of dreams, I need some sleep. CQWW CW is less than a week away! 73, Rowland K4XD AL-80B BIC Fun of watching points mount up when you get past 60 mults. Value of spots Ears of Steel Pre-fills – off by one? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 95,520 Amp quit abt 45 minutes into the test, wish I had forseen that before I entered in HP. After two dry years, finally got another sweep. Overall, it was a good contest. Mark, KD4D seemed to be everywhere. It was great to work him and all the friends I made at Dayton this year. "Thanks" to everyone for all the Q's and fun. Hope everyone has 73! K5ER "See you in Dayton" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 329,440 People who know me know I am not a phone person and I dreaded the thought of doing the SS Phone as a single-op. But I didn't want the station to go idle this year so Susan and I decided to do a multi-op. Then we heard that Colin, KU5B, was looking for a place to do SS Phone, and we decided to invite him over to join us. This turned out to be one of the better decisions that I have ever made. When Colin said that he was willing to be the runner, I was overjoyed. That meant that my role was simply to sit in the second chair, chase multipliers, and try to find people that we hadn't already worked. Colin settled in doing 99 percent of the running for the weekend and I filled in occasionally only when needed. He did a terrific job of fighting the QRM, digging out the weak callers, maintaining a run frequency, while keeping up impressive QSO rates. In short, Colin was terrific. Our results tell the story because this station has never had as a 300K+ score in SS before. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5QQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 115,360 Wire Dipole @ 35ft for 80 and 40 and Mobile Whip dipole on 20 @ 35 ft. 80 Dipole was new for the CW two wks ago and was a life saver for this event!! Great time and was able to run a freq for the first time in years!! I was not able to do the whole contest as my wife, call B0SS ( B Zero SS) had some other plans this AM!! C U all later Jim PS We need some way to submit a vote for the 5 most over driven amplifier during a contest and if someone 'wins' that award, they get 25% taken off their scores. Signals have improved every year for years but there are a few notorious guys who, I believe, purposely overdrive their amps in order to help keep their freq clean. A listener's vote might go a long way to cleaning up the last of these ding dong lids.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 287,520 Thank y'all for the Qs. **FOUR** "NT" stations (2 VY1s and 2 VE8s) called me during the weekend. That's never happened. I half expected to see a unicorn in the back yard. Our little local club has won the SS gavel for the past 2 years. The members were a little hesitant to participate this year, but I really wanted to extend the streak to 3. After a relatively slow start on CW, Bruce (AA5B) and I, who have done multis in recent years, decided to split up to try to maximize the club score. I'm not sure we've done it, but we're in the running. Bruce, whose own station consists of 50' push-up masts, operated LP at NN5K, our only member with real antennas. I chose HP at home. I have 2.3 towers, but currently no functional yagis except a 3L Hy-gain DB1015A 10/15 trap duo-bander (a relic from perhaps 2 sunspot minima ago) @ 30'. I realized this weekend that I need to investigate low-noise RX antennas for domestic 80m -- I was, unfortunately, a bit of an alligator. I finally tried listening on the 20m dipole, many times for the better. I hope the ARRL doesn't remove the dozens of "NR 1" QSOs that I tutored in the complexities of the exchange -- I'm not sure those guys went on to work anyone else. I enjoyed the friendly banter that you really don't get in CW SS. One exchange was particularly poignant: HIM: "What's your check?" ME: "Sixty-Six, Six-Six" HIM: "Wow -- that's the year I was born." Maybe there's hope for the hobby after all! 73, Scott K5TA Station: SO1R: TS850 + TT Titan I N1MM/Soundcard DVK 80: 1/4-wave wire vertical 40: dipole @ 75' 20: dipole @ 60' 15: Hy-gain DB1015 trap duobander @ 30' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 334,880 Another fun Sweepstakes. I have been trying for a long time to get a full hour above 200/hr and once again I did not make it although I did get closer - next year! I got off to a good start this year but after I made the band change to 40 meters my rate just was not very good. At some point in the evening someone told me I had what sounded like RF on my audio - and indeed it was there - I messed with things and made is mostly sound ok. Maybe my poor audio was one of the reasons for the poor rate on 40 meters - maybe not. Near the end on Sunday I finally found the cause of the trouble - it was a loose power connection on the back of the 12v power supply. After I fixed it things on that radio were working much better. My start was good but the sag in rate I had on 40 meters was not and most good start vanished. The rates on Sunday were quite good with a number of hours at or near 90/hr. Over the last few years I have tried to record all my contests but this time it did not work so I have 30 files with the right names that contain 2 seconds of nothing. I thought I had it working when I was trying it before the contest - I have a nice recording of the 45 minutes before the contest. As to be expected the bands are kind of crowded during the low solar conditions. At one point I even tuned through 160 quickly but did not hear anyone calling CQ - I must have picked the wrong time to listen as I see others made contacts on that band. I don't think I have ever made an SS contact on 160 - next year! Well, really I hope not - come on sunspots. I worked every section twice. The last section I needed was Maine. Thanks for the contacts, noise and fun. Lots of numbers and stuff: Callsign Used : K5TR Operator : K5TR BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults __________________________________________________ 80SSB 151 150 300 3 40SSB 621 610 1220 6 20SSB 1361 1330 2660 71 15SSB 3 3 6 0 __________________________________________________ Totals 2136 2093 4186 80 Final Score = 334880 points. Station: http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/blanco/k5tr_station.html June 2007 wind damage: http://www.kkn.net/gallery/main.php/v/k5tr/windJune2007/ November 2007 CW SS photos - rebuilt station: http://www.kkn.net/gallery/main.php/v/k5tr/cwss2007/ 160 - 1/4 wave sloping verticals sloped east and west - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 120'. - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 40 - Force 12 240N at 120' fixed NE - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 87' - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 20 - 6 element yagi at 80' fixed NE - 6 element yagi at 80'(rotates) - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE 15 - 6 element yagi at 70' (rotates) - 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE 10 - 6 element yagi at 60' (rotates) - 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ----- ------ -------- -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 21 --- --- --- 145/46 --- --- 145/46 145/46 0.01M 22 --- --- --- 189/15 --- --- 189/15 334/61 0.04M 23 --- --- 4/0 140/7 --- --- 144/7 478/68 0.07M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5YAA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,392 Not a lot of time for this one but missed the CW running and don't like missing SweepStakes. Fired up on 40 meters late Saturday afternoon and found large signals at fairly great distances! Running on 40 with LP doesn't come along often but was able to enjoy a couple of good runs Saturday and Sunday. Looked at 15 Sunday and worked 3 PACs in a row. Many sixes sounded like they were talking through a water bucket and I'm sure I sounded the same on their end. 20 - well what a crowd! Great signals but 40 was more fun. Like others have mentioned - worked a number of 0x checks. Happy to report I heard a handful of OTs wish the new ops well before resuming their CQs. N4PN - you are an animal and so is that other OM from Columbus! You guys just keep cranking 'em out. My hats off to your persistence and love of the hobby. K5YAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AK Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 35,242 Propagation conditions were not great, particularly on Saturday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6DBG Class: SO Unlimited QRP Total Score = 2,400 Very tough conditions, operating QRP from Gualala with mostly battery power and a Buddipole. Not the best way to play in my first SSB contest, but those are the cards I was dealt for the weekend... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 5,200 My operating time was limited with my wife in the hospital. I never really got in the hunt for a sweep. I intentionally concentrated on 15m during the day, and 80m at night in order to bag some new WAS states. I totally neglected 20m. Rig: FT-990 Ants: 80 meter dipole sloped from 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee at 50 feet 15 meter dipole at 25 feet Software: N3FJP SS Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6IDX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 200,640 Thanks to Brad, K6IDX, for the use of his station and his useal generous hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 46,200 Hard work even with 400 watts! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 263,200 Murphy visited again, but not as severe as in SS CW. When I was S&Ping low in the new 80m Phone portion of the band, my 80m band pass filter blew as it didn't like the high SWR. No problem, I hit the Exchange L/R radios button in Writelog. Immediately, my 80m antenna port for the other radio on my SixPak blew. Of course, it took about 15 minutes of running back and forth into the equipment closet in the next room to figure this out. Later I found the 40m antenna port was taken out also. Then there was the Pig Farmer on 80m. He told me, "You can't use this frequency." I did. I worked lots of guys right through him, although I needed a few fills. When I asked for fills, I prefaced it by saying, "Sorry there is a Pig Farmer on frequency, I need your number again." So the Pig Farmer starts yelling "Number Three, Number Three." His timing was really bad, so it didn't take too long to get the fills. After five minutes he left, and paid me a few more visits with the same results. I thought I would start the contest low on 20m and avoid the QRM. I was on 14167 and was going great for the 1st 15 minutes, and then the QRM closed in and the rates went to the low 100's. Sunday morning I got on at 1350Z and found 14268 clear. I stayed there until 2317Z. I've never held a frequency that long. In fact, my best hour of the contest was the 1600Z hour. That's never happened before. There were times when I could hear a pin drop on that revered frequency, and then 5 minutes later it was QRM hell. And then a few minutes later it was quiet again. Very strange. With 90 minutes of on time left, after having a 12 minute hole in the log despite constant CQing on one radio and S&Ping on the other, and a rate in the low 20's for the last 60 minutes, I threw in the towel. I should have gotten back on earlier in the morning. I also should have used the voice keyer more on Saturday, because I'm very congested today. 73, Ken, K6LA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 296,160 A persistent jammer hurt my score on Sunday afternoon, but the contest was fun anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 98,080 Lost 1.5 hours due to a sticking amplifier relay in the AL-811H. Many VEs in CW but not so many this weekend in SSB. You never know what you'll need for that sweep. My last 2 (unexpected) mults were QC and WNY. Quite a slugfest. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 85,050 Missed CT, VT, NT, NL, QC. No excuse for CT and VT, I heard stations but was going for rate when I should have stopped and gone for them. With NL and QC I didn't want to spend time trying to break the pileups. Both were on 20m, I had to keep the power to 500w on 20m to avoid a neighbor problem (she just complains, but won't let me into her house to see if the problem can be fixed, I suspect it is the wiring for her surround sound, 15m appears to be no problem) and keep the beam pointed east. Those who spotted me, thanks, I can always tell when I get spotted when the rate starts to climb. Like we all noticed 20m was a challenge, and from this station almost impossible to get any type of run established, had a few moments on 20m where the rate meter went up, but they were rare. Had a couple of good short runs on 15m, but lack of sations there hurt all of us. The best news for me was 40m, 2 weeks ago W6EU and K6ST helped me get the 40m dipole up higher, it is 80'+ on the ends, it really plays great and was "golden". Lack of a better term, 80m really sucked here, I did not even feel loud, amazing on Thur night NS I get great reports of being loud with the low vee, going to re do it into an "L" or high dipole. Also with the 80m vee I have RF getting into my voice keyer and shutting it down 1/2 way through the exchange, thought I had that problem fixed, but it suddenly reoccured late Sat night. The NCCC rallies paid good dividends for me, especially on Sun- good job guys, tnx for those Q's. Fell short of my personal challenge to get at least 600Q's, but just could not get anything going on 80m when 40m went too long. Equipment worked almost flawlessly: FT-1000MP AL-80b @ 1kw out all bands except 20m 3 el yagi up 65' 80m vee 40m high dipole Writelog v10.54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6OWL Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 14,560 Some operating from home when not part of the W6YX multi-op. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 89,902 sure enjoyed the 15m opening. Managed to get good runs started on 15m, 20m, and 40m. Power line noise on 80m was "limiting". Missed QC. If the voice sounded unusual, that was N6TTO. He's getting back into HF. Thanks for all the QSOs! 73, K6TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 52,160 My apologies for some QLF posts. I really appreciated all the KL8C posts made in the CW SS, so tried to - give back - in this event. Unfortunately, the packet module in WL is still crapped, so each post required: 1. Switching to the DX Summit Page 2. Manually typing in my call, the call spotted, freq, sec ,etc. 3. Clicking the Submit button For some anal reason, I decided to keep copies of all my posts (forgetting I could get these via a database). So each time, I also had to click on the 25 recent spots, highlight the entry I posted, copy that into a Notepad file and save it before returning to WriteLog. "DUH!" Not very productive;-( Each time I worked an Alaska station, I wished I had gone back up there for the Phone SS vs. operating from this RF Hole. But if I didn't contribute at least 50K to the infamous contest-within-a-contest at hand, I'd feel guilty. Starting at 2100, I lasted about 50 minutes after 25 calls before working VY2ZM and 15 calls to work another rare mult. I was getting beat up pretty bad. Since this was not going to be an all-out effort, I turned everything off, ate half of my Panda Express dinner, some chocolate, and took a two hour nap. That was great! Things improved awhen I got back on and I actually started having some fun working some of the contest regulars, so put in more time (albeit still yearning to be signing KL8C again). My preference remains: CW - CW - CW, 'cuz it's like music vs. {end of soapbox}. 73 & Tnx for all the Q's and some mini-rag chews along the way... Rick, K6VVA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6YT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 200,160 This QTH continues to be challenging until the solar cycle comes back up. I consistenly got beat out by the all the locals in any pileup. 20 meter time got squeezed between 15 and 40 openings, hence the discrepancy. Dual K3s made this evebt markedly more bearable than previous years. The 1.8kHz filters are wonderful. The quality is so good they could be even narrower. Intelligibility is exceptional. The reduced operator fatigue when using this radio is impressive. I might even do it again next year, but only with these radios. The integrated 8-band TX equalizer is very handy for shaping any microphone to whatever response works best with one's voice. I used a Heil HC4 element but rolled off the low end even more and added a bit of boost in the high bands to complement my voice. Really sweet. Thanks for the QSOs and the courtesy I found throughout the weekend among participants. 73, Ed - W0YK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 10,100 Just couldn't get interested in this one, after 50 years of contests, just didn't feel like going for it..next weekend..ww test .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 132,320 Operated way more than I thought I would, but once an addict, always an addict without good intervention. Feel and sound like I've been smoking camel straights the last few hours. The phone is HARD! When is the FCC going to do away with the phone? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 9,888 Has just about an hour to play on Sunday, mostly to get accustomed to Win-Test. More than usual number of fills was needed for my check and section. At times it was pretty easy to tell who’s using lookup. 73, Denis – K7GK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 219,040 Sigh, I'm sure glad that one is over! Admitting that I "don't give very good fone", and don't care for it too much...... I have to admit that I had several hours of fun with the packet pileups and getting to talk to so many friends! Luckily, I didn't have so much equipment drama as the CW weekend ;-) There is still one nagging problem with the 75/80m inv vee that caused it to go numb on receive lots of times. Must be a sketchy connection somewhere in the feed line, or at the antenna feedpoint. Gotta go figure that one out. The inv "L" is useless on fone, can't match it with the tuner. The big problem for the weekend was a new power line noise source that showed up last week toward JA from here. It didn't cause much grief on the 15/20/40m beams because it was off the back/side quadrant. I could hear it with the beams, but on 20 & 40m, who cares! The band qrm was so much worse, it didn't really matter. On 75m it was a killer! Solid S9, cutting in and out most of Sat night. It finally went away around the time everyone disappeared for their ~8z breaks. On Sunday I had problems with the noise when I tried running on 15m. It was only S3. I could hear all the loud guys fine, but the weak guys were getting chewed up by it, so I didn't spend much time there, and just hung with a freq on 20m and battled the freq fights (including the slow scan tv guys that decended on me late Sunday). Now, Monday night....."what noise?" it's all gone, quiet as a graveyard, I must have just imagined it ;-) I overslept my big break and got back on Sunday morning with no more time left to take off, but it is a fone contest, so when I needed a pit stop I just took it (and enjoyed eating something and not having to listen to all the crap for a few minutes, several times). So, didn't get a full time effort in. This the best score I've ever made here from this station in an ~ full time effort in SS SSB, so no complaints. I knew it wouldn't be a big one, trying to hookup and hold a freq on 20 & 40 is only in my imagination with this stuff ;-) If it wasn't for the Club competition between my pals in the NCCC and others, I would never chose to do this ;-) It ended up being pretty much fun....in spite of the "oh @#$%'s". Thanks for all the enjoyable Q's with friends! You guys might convert me to a Fone Op one of these days ;-) 73!Kurt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 296,480 Nice to hear all the ops with '07 checks getting into the contest. It certainly made it more fun. K6LL and NI1N were way ahead Saturday night and I thought they were going to leave me in the dust. Sounds like K6LL would have if it weren't for the jammer. In hindsight, I should have planned to finish an hour early as my rate dropped like a stone. As I sat on 20m and battled the QRM all weekend, I kept thinking how fun this contest will be when 10m and 15m really start to open up. I've almost forgotten what it's like not to share the same 3 Khz of bandwidth with several phone operators. Thanks for the Qs. Happy Thanksgiving to all. 73 de Mitch, K7RL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 76,000 Lost the ALPHA 78 on 3rd Q of the contest. Spent first 6 1/2 hours repairing the amplifier, including driving 120 miles roundtrip to work for needed parts and supplies. Once repaired, the 78 was like a rock. Had my TS930SAT (PIEXX) all set to go with full computer control but could not find a mic in my junkbox that would drive it. Switched to my trusty IC-746 with good results. Loaded N1MM Logger 2 days before the contest. What an amazing evolution is contesting software! Thank You N1MM!! All of this while fighting a awful case of Sinusitus (Huge Headaches) which makes wearing headphones very painful and something I did not do. My goal was 500 Q's of which I can very close to. Getting a sweep here in SSB as well as CW earlier, was pure joy! Last section (SB) was found late Sunday on 40M giving out very low serial numbers. As like CW, 80M was king! I heard and worked the entire NA continent very well there. Anyways, time to get to bed... 73s and KB!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZSD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 178,560 I started the contest with one of the most gratifying QSOs in my 44 years of hamming. I was on the upper end of 20m ten minutes before the gun and found a clear frequency to start. I asked if the frequency was in use, and heard a very light station give his call, VY1EI. Of course I called him, I had to swing the beam due north for the QSO. He called me by name which was a surprise, and then the story. He told me that hearing my station was the reason he got his ham ticket. I astonishingly thanked him for the honor. Eric then related he had been an SWL, heard my station on 2 years ago during the CQWW SSB working Europeans, and was fascinated. He found out later it was ham radio and got his ham license last year. We chatted until the start, he was my first Q in the test and I moved on as he started working his pile up. I never heard Eric or Jay the rest of the contest. I decided to operate LP this year to have instant band switching without any amp tuning. I almost threw in the towel after the first two hours. I had spent a lot of time the day before configuring the Wintest DVK and thought I had it working just right. From the start I had problems with sound card hum and artifacts. Yes, I put in an isolation transformer but I guess it takes more than that. I think my audio suffered so I took time off and put the MFJ DVK inline and it worked like a champ. I really had wanted to use function keys to operate the DVK and record on the fly, but sound card issues will need to be ironed out. At the start I was unable to do anything on 20m but search and pounce, which is like watching paint dry. You listen to the long exchange, throw in your call, get beat out, and try again. Then listen to the other stations long report, then the fill, then beat out again. I really enjoy running but Low Power makes it really really hard to do. Finally as the East coast started to move to 40m, I could hold a frequency and run. Moving to 40m, with a pair of beams, I felt fairly loud and ran for a couple of hours. Then 80m, which was crowded and difficult from the far Northwest. The 80m stats from the East Coast and the South to Texas and New Mexico tell the story. Huge Q numbers for them both nights. I have two bobtail curtains at right angles on 80m and could work everything I heard, but with 100 watts running on a packed band was like sailing upwind in a gale. Sunday morning I had breakfast with my wife and got on about 7 am local and 20m was alive. I should have been there an hour earlier. I was able to hold 14.215 for two hours and had the best runs there and on 15m for many hours. I finished the sweep with QC that morning while running. That late afternoon it was back to 40m, and it was the old Sunday evening story, most stations had been worked or done for the weekend. I quit a couple of hours before the end, had a glass of wine, and got on for the last 20 minutes. Yes I had fun, but 20 hours of fun was all I could take. One good thing about no amp, there were no complaints about being too wide or splattering. It was a pleasure to work so many YLs, several youngsters, and new hams. I congratulated every 07 check and there were many. Again, we have the best operators in the world, they are polite, helpful, and humorous. Thanks to all for operating, see you all next year. Brad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 43,800 Condx were long on 40 & 80 and close-in Sections were hard to find. Never wked WPA which is only 60 miles away! 20 closed early on Saturday. Family trip only gave me a short time to operate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GU Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 15,402 Went 'U' class...but, only really looked at the cluster once during the contest before I started. Phone would be a lot more fun from a big station! Thanks for the QSOs! 73, --Ethan, K8GU/9. http://www.k8gu.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 83,776 Not much time between packing for the trip to PJ2T, raking leaves that finally started to fall, a pre-Thanksgiving dinner with my daughter, and some work issues that finally resulted in a Sunday evening trip in to work. Bands were very long, so I tried 160 several times and had some decent results each time. By far the highest 160 SSB total in an SS. Missed KH6, KL7, and VE8. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 243,200 Good runs most of the time. I need to figure out what to do when everyone moves up to 20 and 15. It is tough here midday Sunday. Lots of new ops and contesters. 40m was crowded and 80 had room. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 242,720 My best effort ever in this one. Probably my wisest pre-contest "fix up" was replacing the feedline to the 75m inverted vee which hangs on the tower with the apex at 90 ft. It was rather hastily installed as a "temporary" two years ago (I know). The "original" feedline consisted of two pieces of coax with a PL258 coupler in the middle. I replaced the feedline. I reset the support lines and tightened everything up and the wire played really well. I had the shack "peaked and tweaked" early Saturday morning, new TR log directory and DVP files were set up and ready so I took a shower at about 1pm local and a quick nap. Returned to the shack at about 20:30 UT ready to settle in and find a spot on 20. When I tapped the foot switch an obnoxious hum spewed forth in my TX monitor...and the mic transmit audio was non-existent. A quick check of connectors...NADA! DVP files were playing FB. At abt 20:57 I was about to come to the conclusion that the weekend could be much better spent watching football or attending to household chores. However, insanity prevailed and I decided to reboot the PC thinking that one of the relays on the DVP was sticking. Anybody ever seen this? That did the trick! The next big "Murphy moment" came when I went to 75m at about 00:30. RF was locking up the keyboard and it was very difficult to input anything while transmitting. I ran with it like that for about a half hour and decided something needed to be done. Took my first break at 01:00 to investigate. Found the 75m feedline was formed into a loop below the Six-Pack antenna ports about six inches away from the PC. I moved the coax several feet away and that solved the problem. Operating I couldn't seem to get a run going on 20m (not unusual from here). Enjoyed a nice 15m opening on Sunday afternoon. Probably should have spent a little time on 160, but 75 was so noisy on Saturday night (I remember commenting to someone that the noise level on 75 sounded like summertime) I just didn't think 160 would be worth a darn. Probably a mistake on my part this year. Best comments: During the above noted 75m computer problem one contact said "time to get out the pencil". Best smart-aleck comment: I was trying to pull a west coaster out of the noise, I think it was on 75. His section was Oregon. This was one of those "repeat it several times" deals. If he wasn't QRP he sounded like it. Finally I asked him "ORegon like the state?" Came a comment from the peanut gallery "no, Oregon county". Jeez, all this comedic talent shouldn't be lurking in the shadows on the ham bands, there's a writer's strike going on in Hollywood for heaven's sake. Highlights: Working a lot of checks of 05, 06 and 07. Finishing the sweep with VY1JA on 20m at around 1700 Sunday afternoon. I was making a feeble attempt at running on 20 and begging for NWT when someone QSYed through and told me J was operating up the band. I cruised up, found him and working him on the first call...in the middle of an unruly pileup. Thanks J! Late on Sunday, during doldrum time it was great to work lots of guys who were giving me serial numbers in the 10s and 20s, thanks guys! Was also great to work quite a few YLs and kids. Lowlight: I was running on 40m Sunday morning when a well known, usually high scoring, station in the southwest tuned up and started calling CQ about 700hz above me. I'm running 2 elements on 40 at 105ft with 1.2kw and the antenna pointed west. You should be ashamed of yourself OM. One other highlight: Really enjoy the new "wide open spaces" on 75m. I sat at about 3675 for more than 3 hours Saturday night and it was great. What was even more surprising was that on Sunday night I found a spot at about 3859 and ran for the last two hours of test without any "bubba factor" at all. Amazing! Was also great to hear the guys at KT0R. Thanks to everyone for a very enjoyable (?) weekend! 73, Mark, K9GX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9IUA Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,740 "Puttered" is the operative word for my QRP operation, spread out over about 3 hours on Saturday (for only 9 Qs) and 4 hours on Sunday (46 Qs). Thank you to all the ops that pulled me out!! Worked one other QRP station (KC5R, who I caught calling CQ on 20 meters). Was pleased to work Maritime (thanks VY2ZM) and Puerto Rico (thanks WP3R), both on Sunday afternoon 20 meters. I continue to challenge myself each year as QRP with mediocre equipment: Ten-Tec 556 Scout, hand mike, NA logging, but no voice keyer, and essentially a stealth antenna, a 66-ft inverted vee fed with ladder line and only up 25 ft at the peak. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9YC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 102,180 Saturday at home. 15 wasn't very strong, and died early. 20 wasn't a lot better, and was tough to crack with my high dipole, so went to 40 pretty early, where my high dipole played great. More of the same on 80 until bedtime. VY1JA was a nice treat on 40M with my morning coffee, then off to set up W6BX. 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA0CSW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,200 Another modest score, it was all "search and pounce." There were many big signals that never heard me. As always had a bunch of fun. Jim KAØCSW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1ARB Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 230,880 Nice quiet bands - I wish there were some sunspots! But there were lots of new hams with checks 05-07 that made up for the bottom of the cycle. 80m was the money band here; it seemed bottomless using nothing more than our magical dipole at 40 feet. Thanks to three days of effort from Lee, WB1ADR, and the heroic last minute arrival of Bruce, N1LN, we managed to get our first tower up and the tribander on top. This allowed up to make the same number of contacts that we've made for the last five years. What a great investment of my time and money! All the focus on the tower meant negleting the other antennas. This led to the 80m dipole dying early saturday night (fixed on the roof, in the dark), and the 40m wires never working until Sunday afternoon. Murphy also brought a power outage for an hour on Sunday morning. We found good rates until 10:00Z Sunday before our first break, and saved time off for Sunday afternoon. Took a couple of breaks Sunday afternoon, and we had our best two hours at the end until we ran out of operating time before 03:00. We've already started our plans for what improvements we can make to allow us to make the same score for yet another year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB0FHP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 51,636 This was much better results than last year. Last year I used a Gap Titan Vertical and my AL-80B - this year I used a simple 80M loop fed with 450 ohm ladder line. MUCH better results. It was amazing to do A/B tests and hear the signals come up on the loop by several S-Units and the noise go down - much better signal to noise ratio. I was pleased with the results of the loop. Only missed 2 sections - AK and NT. I heard the AK several times, but I just wasn't strong enough to get through the pile ups. 80M was strange - it was extremely long for most of the evening and mornings - at midnight I had not worked a single section in zones 1, 2 or 3. Very shortly afterwards, the band switched, and the 1,2 and 3s came rolling in. A nice contest - thank you to everyone for working me. KB0FHP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB4KBS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,876 It was a contest that really appealed to my inner-masochist. To work as hard as I did for 6.5 hours and to only have 57 contacts to show for it should be down-right depressing. My redemption comes from the fact that I did work 34 sections - including some new ones. I used my 100W TS-450SAT and a slinky antenna which was unfathomably better than the Mobile Hustler attached to a magnetic base on a file cabinet next to the rig. I could heard stations from all around the US and Canada finally, but being heard was still the tough nut. Bottom line: I had fun but I need a better antenna set up. I can only imagine what it would be like to operate at a "real" station. I'd probably be so delerious that I'd get laryngitis. Extra Point: Hiram Percy's Maxim struck again. Only during PH SS weekend would someone be so inconsiderate and schedule a wedding on a Sunday night. Thanks to all who worked me, especially those that took the extra effort to pull my puny signal out of the mud. To those of you who said, "too bad, so sad, try again later," just how much later? When I'm flush with mono-band beams? I'm trying just as hard or harder to reach my goal of 60 as you are to reach your goal of 1600. Next contest, lose the cavalier attitude or get better hearing aids. KB4KBS scottstraw@mindspring.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 175,560 My goodness 15 meters opened for two excellent hours Sunday and I was able to run over 135 stations at one time. 20 meters is the money band from Montana however, it was tight even at the very top of the band. This was my first flat out SSB contest; thank God for .wav files! I struggled on 80 and 40 until about midnight and suddenly I could run - surprise, surprise. Lots and lots of great, courteous ops. Thanks to Todd, WA7U for the loan of his Icom 756ProIII, a TH-7 and the trapped inverted V. Gene, KB7Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC0NOX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 26,496 First serious contest effort; with a very modest station. Thanks to my good friend, Steve, K0OU, the RARC Field Day "Supreme Commander" (#1 Class 2A), for his constant encouragement in all things amateur - but especially contesting! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 112,800 My ears are sore and my voice is pretty descent considering running QRP (thank you, voice keyer). I bettered my score and Qs from last year, so I have no complaints. I wonder if I could use a second rig running an amp that all it does is transmit "the frequency is in use" so that stations don't just jump all over me. Happened a bunch on 20. Bands here were much like last week. Still not a lot of west coast pouncers on 15, but I was hearing WI/MI on 15. 20 was a mad house sometimes, but I think every so often enough folks get fed up and leave the band, and then it becomes workable for QRP. Knowing when to punt is important. Mults came in funny this year. My last 5 mults were ME, AK, QC, MB, WCF. I got VY1JA early on, so I was getting worried when I went to bed still missing 12 mults! QC was hard to find, and the VE2 running the freq was using the "pile-up and call 5" method, so it made it kept me occupied for a bit. I managed to get some runs in the late afternoon on 20, and for most of it I kept the beam pointed North to try to scare up a VE4. Because of that, I worked 34 MN and 41 MI stations! Then VE4EAR called in (..and then I ran into him on 40 calling CQ later). My last section was WCF! I had to go hunting for WCF on 80 on Sunday and found W4LT at 0033 for the sweep. Just one of those places in the wrong proximity that sometime gives a QRPer grief....you just never know. Only managed one station for the following mults: WCF, LA, AK, NL, QC, MB, and NT. I heard several other LA's on, but none on 80 or 40 when they were short. I worked KN5O three miles north of me on 20 for the mult. Interestingly, the XYL was on her cell phone with my mother this weekend and she told me my mother could hear my voice on her end through the cell phone. I found out my mom never realized I changed my call (it's been 8 years), until she heard the voice and commented it wasn't the same call she heard on her phone back when I grew up (yeh, but mom I wasn't running the amp into my beam that was next to the phone line drop like I did back then)...ah the good old days... They must put 14 Mhz IFs in these NEC cheapo GSM phones for my 5 watts to bother it. Funny it never bothers our house wiring, TV, or home phones, but it gets into a digital cell phone. I worked 19 other Q stations in SSB (versus 63 in CW). Thanks guys for the contacts....Al ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD0S Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 300,640 In all my years of doing SS I have not seen band results like this, with 80m being such a dominant band from here in central SD, and 40m being very long by the time I got there both days. Usually the big Q numbers are on 20 and 40m, and 80 picks up 200 or so Q's. Anyhow, it was VERY interesting how things worked on 80m, I actually used the vertical to make more Q's than the dipole. Conditions were actually very good noise wise, and were very quiet Saturday, with Sunday having some more noise. I had two hours on 20m, with rates in the mid 140s, and just 1 hour on 40m above 100 Q's. 80m didn't break the 100 Q mark, but was consistently in the 80-90 Q range per hour, so not bad. The bands were very packed with signals as usual during the minimum, will be great to get some spots back to perk up the other bands and spread things out again. Congrats to George K5TR and WP3R and others for the big scores, thanks for the fun and Q's again, great to work the regulars and also the new guys! 73 God Bless. Todd WD0T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 209,920 Thanks as always to John Evans for letting me use his great new station! Ugh!!! I had to remind myself this is supposed to be fun - early Saturday night it wasn't. I had a pretty good first hour on 20 and then decided to try 80. What a disaster! The conditions were weird. I had a few hours where I just couldn't get ANYTHING to work - 80 or 40. After that, it was hard to keep going! I actually had to remind myself that this was supposed to be fun. I ended up about 200 QSO's short of last year's effort. Congratulation to NI1N for an amazing score and an unbelievable number of 80-meter QSO's. Clearly, the band was good. I think the only thing I did right was to finish the sweep. I hadn't heard a VY1, so I came off a break on Sunday afternoon and said "I'm going to tune 20 meters and find VY1JA." It took only five minutes to find the pileup and work him. :-) Then, I went back on break. That was actually a GOOD decision - maybe the only good decision I made all weekend. I didn't feel loud on 80 anywhere closer than STX or SJV. Boy, I felt loud on the longer stuff. I think the inverted vees at 90 feet are too high and the Lazy-H works only well when propogation is "right". Team/Club : Potomac Valley Radio Club BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults __________________________________________________ 80SSB 574 570 1140 32 40SSB 436 427 854 10 20SSB 297 290 580 38 15SSB 25 25 50 0 __________________________________________________ Totals 1332 1312 2624 80 Final Score = 209920 points. 2007 SS SSB - KD4D HOUR 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 21 0 0 95 0 95 95 22 50 0 17 10 77 172 23 8 25 0 0 33 205 0 36 16 0 0 52 257 1 66 5 0 0 71 328 2 10 48 0 0 58 386 3 24 41 0 0 65 451 4 20 37 0 0 57 508 5 60 9 0 0 69 577 6 54 16 0 0 70 647 7 13 34 0 0 47 694 8 30 22 0 0 52 746 9 20 2 0 0 22 768 10 0 0 0 0 0 768 11 0 0 0 0 0 768 12 35 0 0 0 35 803 13 50 23 0 0 73 876 14 2 50 4 0 56 932 15 0 37 8 0 45 977 16 0 1 22 2 25 1002 17 0 0 45 6 51 1053 18 0 0 11 6 17 1070 19 0 0 16 1 17 1087 20 0 0 19 0 19 1106 21 0 3 49 0 52 1158 22 3 14 4 0 21 1179 23 15 5 0 0 20 1199 0 16 7 0 0 23 1222 1 12 28 0 0 40 1262 2 46 4 0 0 50 1312 TOTAL 570 427 290 25 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 850 2007 ARRL November Sweepstakes KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP AR Section QSOs QSO pts. Mults. -------------------------------------------- 80m 24 48 16 40m 1 2 1 -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 25 50 17 Claimed score = 850 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 88,356 Had a good time. Discouraged after the first night, but things turned around on Sunday some. Nice runs on 40 Sunday afternoon. 40 and 80 were rough both nights. 20 was OK, but very noisy on Sunday afternoon, and very few stations moved down to 15, even though it was wide open and very quiet. First SS with some decent antennas for running SO2R. New tribander at 30 feet played well for stateside contacts. Missed WY, AK, QC, MB, SK and NT. Never heard any of them. Hope to see everyone further down the log. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF7CG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,340 Minimal station: FT847 with MFJ1798 @ 25 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5VK Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 182,240 Even though Murphy haunted us at the opening, we lost the first 45 minutes to a open relay contact on a new antenna switching box We had a blast ! Steve KG5VK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI9A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 128,480 Got off to great start, but lingering head cold knocked me out at 0600. New PRO3 is a dream to use, and the addition of the GAP Voyager for 40/80 was a tremendous gain over my 45' dipoles. Always seemed to have a real advantage over the dipoles to east and west coasts..sometimes by as much as 10db! Anything within 400 miles+/-, went to the dipoles. Only spent 16 hrs on, due to bad sore throat, and a 2 year old Grandson wanting to play... Happy T-day! 73-Chuck KI9A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 92,000 1ST Sweep in Years... Didn't get to play the hrs originally planned, but made the best of what I had. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4KL Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 71,680 Great time , except Murphy was playing with the antenna balum and amp causing problems. 73, de KN4KL ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN5O Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 220,000 Ran with a 45 year-old Collins S-Line (32S3 with 30S1 amp) and Mosley PRO67C3 @ 72 feet; a sloper at 90 feet for 80m. Last time I worked SS was 1975 and blew up 3 amplifiers in the process! It hasn't gotten any easier. The QRM was incredible. It was tough to hold a frequency. I wanted to get a clean sweep and I did, thanks to VY1JA. Exhausting, but I had fun.. Thanks to all who worked me for their patience. See you down the log.. 73, Ted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 160,000 22 dupes in the log. Last section was Utah (tnx NN7ZZ). This was Brian's (KD7RQU) first SS. Worked 6 Wyoming stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ8RP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,198 Nice Contest as always. Where was Canada QC hiding? Never could find them to complete the sweep. SDR 1000, Vertical and Loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 24,000 I contest to have fun...so I didn't do much contesting this time cuz it just wasn't any fun. Started work (vocation) at 1:30am Friday morning local time cuz I had the next week off and I still had lots that I wanted to get done. By the time 3pm local Friday rolled around, I was really dragging...and still in Manhattan with a long commute back home. Got on at the start and cudn't work anybody (or almost nobody). Figured it was no big deal and I could make it up later, if things improved, so went QRT for a bit. Got on somewhat later, still terrible from here. Went to bed at 0030z (really!) and woke up around 10z. So much for 6 hours off time. Bands were still crummy from here (super loud guys were CQing in my face). Decided to check email. Had a request from overseas to check out a "funny" log in the RTTY contest. Now THAT was a lot more fun (I love log-checking) and took another hour or so. Indeed, found some funny stuff in the log, but waiting for more info to flow in. Then, while on-line, I got a call from CT1BOH and we had a nice ~1 hour QSO (VoIP) about, of all things, LOG CHECKING (not related to the RTTY request, but I did mention it), plus some other stuff including, of course, CQWW CW next weekend. Again, this was a lot more pleasant than trying to do SS ssb qrp (at least from here). As for the contest, I have never had such a hard time having guys hear me. I still can't believe how many loud guys (like 40 over 9 loud) CQ'ed in my face; really depressing. And then, some guys clearly doubted that I was qrp cuz "you are so loud" or "wow, that is one big qrp signal." Go figure. Worked 7 other QRPers. Some specs NX9T sent me 85 at 2200z while I sent him #21 (ugh) N8IE sent me 143 at 1057z KC5R sent me 599 at 2128 N9KT sent me 568 at 0011 Nice scores guys! I heard reports of "guys down south" being QRP and having HUGE numbers. Can't wait to see who. This one was not any fun for me, so I stayed out of it. Just as well...more rest for CW next weekend. My goal in the last hour or two ended up being to have a nice "even" score. I think I did that. Of note, it is now snowing here in NNJ so it must be the perfect time to go outside adjust the antennas! de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 35,076 Spent a lot more time than intended. Got sucked in to trying to do a sweep. Missed that pesky EPa of all things! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT0R Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 215,360 As most of you read last week in my posting to CQ-Contest we lost Dave, KT0R, a great contester and a good friend to cancer in September. A group of us wanted to protect Dave's call sign in hopes one day one of his young sons would want it and we also wanted to make the call active in some of Dave's favorite contests. At the urging of Dave's wonderful wife we once again invaded the basement shack of KT0R. We wanted to do our best to honor Dave. We ran into a computer problem at 23:45 on Saturday, which knocked us off of prime run time while we fixed it for 40 minutes. Half the crew was new to SS at KT0R so they had a bit of a learning curve but, in the end we made a good showing for our first effort without the big guy. 40 meters went long very early Saturday and Sunday evening and 15 was a wasteland. Minnesota is truly in the black hole when the 160 meter Q count is better then the 15 Q count. The best part of the weekend was spending it with a great group of guys while we remembered Dave. We did our best to bring the contest mayhem to the house that Dave's family is so used to. Jim, KE0L, brought lots of pizza Saturday night to share with the whole house and Dave's wife Adrienne made us home made banana bread Sunday afternoon. How's that for a contest snack! One of things that impressed me the most was all the nice comments we got from many of you. Words of encouragement and condolences for the family were continuous. The contest community is one special group! 73, Greg K0OB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 11,550 Icom IC-756 Pro II with Force12 Flagpole (Vertical). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,536 Unfortunatly limited time on my favorite contest Had 3 hours to play. Stayed on 40 Mtr from a vertical. Rig: Yaesu Ft-100MP MV Antenna: Cushcraft R7 @ 30 ft Power 150W Software: Writelog V10.58 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7G Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 25,536 Closest I have been to a sweep since 92. only missed KY,MS, SFL & BC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 8,134 Part time effort mostly mid day Sunday. Thanks to all that pulled my QRP signal out of the QRM! 73, Eric KV1J operating portable in Maine ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SO Unlimited QRP Total Score = 6,728 Tried to get a sweep, 80 X 80, but got a headache instead. Now I remember why I like CW so much. Thanks for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 185,334 Well great activity this test. Having said that not such a gud time hr on Sunday. Couldn't buy a run to the NE on 20mtrs but could get calls from EU in a heartbeat. Got a little miffed at that and let it unravel me. 15mtrs was as good as it had been during the week which was nice but no rate to speak of. No NWT fer me this year. Waded thru 20mtrs mni times Sunday with no JOY! Even called test looking north oh well another yr. Guess I need to reveiw this effort with the op's planning committee that being "me,myself and I". Will be back for sure in hopes of having a joyfull Sunday. Oh had 76 sections on 40mtrs (Never had that happen before). Got all yr to figure out 20mtrs,so watch out next yr ya'll if I do . TNX to all for the q's, Tim KY5R Toonersville,AL in ACG country. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 36,000 Murphy struck big time at KI0F late Saturday night. That put an end to the multi we were going to do. So came home about 9:30am and ran from home for a few hours. Had a lot of fun. Used a Thinkpad that I resurrected. Being able to look down at the screen prevented the ache between the shoulders I would get looking straight ahead or slightly up at the big monitor for a few hours. Thanks for all the Qso's, and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. 73, Mike N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0GF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 114,392 Very nice contest from the north country. Operated from the University of North Dakota Club Station. Had a few new hams visit the operations and were very interested. Nancy, KC0YXB, is an up-and-coming contester and Iditarod racer! 20m was the powerhouse band for us. About 0000z Saturday morning 20m shut off for us like a light switch. We had very decent rates (>120/hour) for the first 3 hours of the contest. 40m and 80m did not hold well for us the first night with very meager results. Our 40/80 antenna is only a trap dipole placed over a metal roof (on top of the University Student Union) so I am sure the roof interferes a little. The low bands on Sunday did manage a little better. Sunday worked a little run of W6's on 15m - otherwise 20m was king. Seemed like 20m was packed as usual with the sunspots being so low -- the splatter and QRM was terrible for a good portion of our time on 20m. The sunspots are on the rise thankfully!!! We operated 3 blocks down the street from another ND station (W0GJ) but received no complaints from them about QRM from us. Still missed the elusive VE4 though. We were just too close to him on 20m and we never heard them on 40 or 80m. I will just have to wait for my "clean sweep" mug until next year! 73/DX - Ryan, N0OJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 226,880 40 was great as long as the sun was up, but soon after sunset it went so long that a station in the central/north pretty much was limited to calling the loud stations further south. 80 was great much of the contest period. My new 4 Square for 80 sure was helpful! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 16,986 Very part time effort. I never could work another CO station or WY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0QO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 215,360 This was my first contest and I had fantastic time. Many thank to all the stations I worked. And a very special thinks to Jim W0UR who allowed me to use his incredible station for the contest. 73, Ken, N0QO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0RU Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 32,092 First try from new station in Co. Need to improve on high-angle antennas for 80 to help with those close-in stations. Just a casual effort due to prior plans, but the results look promising for the future. The 15/10 meter tower lost a rotor, so had to go with it stuck at 60 degs, not a peep on 10 this year. 40/20 sounded very good to both coasts, missed several "easy" mults due to S/P. Rig--TT Orion@5W, ANTS: 80-Hytower, 40-2ele at 50ft, 20-3ele at 100ft, 15-5ele at 55ft. Thanks for all the reports and for the guys who had patience to hear me on 80M. 73, Robb N0RU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 242,880 First full-time SS Phone entry in many years. 40 was awful. 80 was awfully good. Never made a QSO on 160 in SS before this, and surprised to have more QSOs on 160 than 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 160,000 My SS-CW soapbox started with a list of why I didn't do as good as I should have. After reading many of the postings and the impact of Murphy on many failed or, at a minimum, IMPACTED operations I am pleased to report I have nothing to report in the Murphy department......well, at least during the contest! I was ready for SS-SSB on Sunday, November 11. I just got my new 20 meter tower on the air with a 204BA @ 104' and another 204BA @ 68' on a Tic Ring rotor. My 40 meter tower was also getting started with one 40 mtr yagi on-line at 68' on another Tic Ring. The SixPak was back on-line so SO2R was back. Both amps were tested, WriteLog was configured and tested, including WAV files. I WAS READY !!! Well, by Monday afternoon the low 20 mtr beam was no longer rotating. The rotor control indicated it was turning but the beam was frozen....at 90 degrees. There are not many stations to work at a heading of 90 degrees from my QTH in North Carolina except for NY4A. How many times could I work Jim (K4QPL) and Brad (AL4T)? That needed to be fixed. Not bad enough yet? On Wednesday morning all three of our computers locked up. Reboots generated the blue screen of death. At that point I figured my participation would be a bit impacted... well - OK, eliminated. I could simply climb the tower and move the beam to a more acceptable heading, but no computers?? No way was I even considering paper logging. The computer issue was a show stopper. What a difference a few days makes. By Friday morning all three computers were up and running. Seems our virus software (company not mentioned) was causing the problem. After removing it from all three systems and installing a different brand - FIXED ! ! ! Saturday morning my ground crew and I went to the antenna field, tools in hand. By the way, my ground crew is my wife - Laurie, N1YXU. [SIDE NOTE: Without her assistance the towers and antennas would not be up. Yes, we had help from PVRC and OCRA club members for which we are very grateful, but with just her help the two of us put up 285' of the 345' of tower.] By 10:30 the lower yagi was turning and I was off the tower. I was ready again!! My goal was simple. See how quickly I could reach the same score as I did in the CW contest. CW took me 20.5 hours to work 1000 Qs and a sweep. When I went to bed Sunday morning I was 1 mult away from a sweep and had about 610 Qs. I thought that was pretty good considering I had to take 2.5 hrs off between 7:00pm and 11:00pm for some mandatory phone call interruptions! About 1/2 hr after getting back at it on Sunday morning the sweep was in the log. I simple did a quick S/P on 40 and worked VO1TA while running on 75. Have I mentioned how great it is to have SO2R back?? Well, SSB took me 15.5 hours to reach the 1000 Q mark. Why set such a goal and not try to get as many Qs as possible? Well, the weather in NC on Sunday was supposed to be very nice. IT WAS! As all of my antennas are not built and/or up, weekends are still project time for me. I started building the third 204BA and also made the cables for the 15 mtr StackMatch and cable for the rotors for the 15 mtr tower. Priority items? I think so. How did everything work? Well, even with the new 40 mtr yagi and running 1500 watts I still felt like I was running QRP. As many others have already stated - 75 mtrs was the money band. Was I a 800 pound gorilla? Well, perhaps 600 lbs. Anyway, no matter what - it was fun while it lasted (for an SSB contest) and I hope my combined scores for the CW and SSB weekends help the overall PVRC club total. 73 for now, Bruce - N1LN (aka: NC4KW) abrillo Statistics (Version 06g) by K5KA Callsign: N1LN Category: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL HIGH MIXED Contest: ARRL-SS-SSB Operators: N1LN -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2100 0 0 0 48 29 0 77 77 7.7 2200 0 0 0 65 6 0 71 148 7.1 2300 0 32 16 0 0 0 48 196 4.8 0000 0 21 6 0 0 0 27 223 2.7 0100 0 60 0 0 0 0 60 283 6.0 0200 0 13 9 0 0 0 22 305 2.2 0300 0 1 20 0 0 0 21 326 2.1 0400 0 30 1 0 0 0 31 357 3.1 0500 0 114 0 0 0 0 114 471 11.4 0600 0 75 0 0 0 0 75 546 7.5 0700 0 13 46 0 0 0 59 605 5.9 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605 0.0 1200 0 74 3 0 0 0 77 682 7.7 1300 0 30 12 0 0 0 42 724 4.2 1400 0 0 6 32 0 0 38 762 3.8 1500 0 0 12 7 0 0 19 781 1.9 1600 0 0 0 15 4 0 19 800 1.9 1700 0 0 0 39 13 0 52 852 5.2 1800 0 0 0 9 0 0 9 861 0.9 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 861 0.0 2000 0 0 5 40 3 0 48 909 4.8 2100 0 20 0 5 0 0 25 934 2.5 2200 0 58 8 0 0 0 66 1000 6.6 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 0.0 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 0.0 0100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 0.0 0200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 541 144 260 55 0 1000 Gross QSO's=1000 Dupes=0 Net QSO's=1000 Unique callsigns worked = 1000 The best 60 minute rate was 120/hour from 0448 to 0547 The best 30 minute rate was 132/hour from 0453 to 0522 The best 10 minute rate was 138/hour from 0453 to 0502 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSO's/minute 2 times. 3 QSO's/minute 53 times. 2 QSO's/minute 204 times. 1 QSO's/minute 425 times. There were 95 bandchanges and 34 (3.4%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 14,040 Great fun, first ever SS phone. Where is the RTTY version of this contest? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 65,440 Just messing around from home, to get on and hand out a few Q's. I continue to be amazed at how well a couple simple vertical antennas work when placed over salt water. Interesting conditions - 80m stayed long and my own section was one of the last I needed! As always, it was great to see everyone on the air again! 73, Dave N2NL4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 38,148 Family commitments and SS officer in charge N2NC @ W6YI prevented our usual multi this year. Congrats to YI on the big score, with perennial leader K9NS right behind. Hope to be back next year. 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2PL Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 201,600 Our second team effort. Had a blast! Hope to see you in the next one. 73's John KD2RD, Paul N2PL, Scott NQ2F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,130 First contest in 7 years. Although a half hearted effort, enjoyed every minute of it. Need to find a computer logging program. What a pain to follow along on paper. Thanks for a great time. 73's Scott N2WF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3KHK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,168 Log uploaded to LoTW and eQSL. In my 5 hours of attempting to get runs started, I had no success. I guess low power into a 40’ G5RV does not give good run results. I did enjoy contacting the usual contesters. Problems: My MFJ tuner would not tune 160m, 80m and 40M; I could not use my Ameriton AL-811H liner for this contest. I also had a lot of RFI this weekend. I must resolve this very quickly. RIG: ICOM 756 PRO II Antenna: 160m G5RV @ 40’ Interface: MicroKEYER Logger: N1MM 73 ES CUL DE N3KHK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3OC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 216,160 Killed our rate early on by sitting on VY1JA's frequency 15 minutes before the contest start, only to have the W7/W0 iron curtain come up right away. Fortunate to work J not too much later. Like others, experienced strange conditions on 80m Saturday evening. Propagation was very long where we could barely copy W1s/W2s. As an alternate to the shortwave mess on 40m, moved over to 160m and felt good with the number of qsos on the top band. Seemed others had the same idea. Worked most of the W1/W2 sections Sunday morning on 40m. Last two needed were UT and SK which were obtained Sunday morning. Barry WR3Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3YIM Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 36,778 Had fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4FR Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 56,640 My first Clean Sweep. Thanks to everyone for being there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 92,800 WOW! WHAT A GREAT FUN WEEKEND...MADE 387 Qs ON 80 METERS AND NOT MANY ON THE OTHER BANDS. CONDITIONS WERE GREAT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 40 METERS WHICH WAS ALMOST A BUST HERE. I FINALLY GOT MY SWEEP WHEN I WAS TUNING ACROSS 20 METERS AND HRD A STATION WITH A FRENCH ACCENT ASKING IF ANYONE NEEDED QC. IT TURNED OUT TO BE VE2BJH.TX TO HIM, IT MADE MY DAY COMPLETE..I AM A 99% CW OPERATOR SO THIS WAS KINDA TRAMATIC FOR ME TRY AND COMPETE WITH THE ROCK CRUSHING SIGNALS ON THE BAND...KUDOS TO ALL THE QRP ENTRANTS FOR THERE EFFORTS AND SCORES..I HAD FUN RUNNING MY LITTLE PEANUT PARCHER..(QUOTE FM MY SK FRIEND NORMAN HURLEY 5AC). NICE MEETING OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES. 73s JERRY N4JF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 249,798 Two years ago, I made 1827 Qs and would have placed in the top ten for the first time ever, but I didn't send in my log. The last two years I haven't been able to duplicate that effort. I have a great deal of respect for the guys who make the top ten year after year. I had problems setting up this year and didn't get everything going until 20 minutes before the contest started. I could only rent a 45 foot lift and decided to put up two sections of tower to get the new 20 meter yagi up higher with the Cushcraft 40 meter yagi 10 feet above it. This setup was a lot more difficult to install than the typical set up of one antenna and a single section of tower in the basket of the lift. I also stayed on 20 meters too long trying to make it play like it usually does from here. It looks like I should have gone to 80 meters much earlier. The high point of the contest was working the guys at KT0R and paying tribute to Dave, KT0R. See ya'll next year. 73, Jay N4OX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 232,480 This one was about as good as it could get for those of us who don't have a "killer station." Thursday I put up a reflector (wire) for 40 and 80 meters making a 2el something that seemed to work well. 40m was weird and had a hard time finding an open spot which really didn't matter Saturday night as there was very few signals anyway. 80m was great and sounded more like 40 should have. 20m worked well as long as I stayed up high in the band, usually around 14.342. Looking at the band summary during the contest, it looked really strange to see more Q's on 80m than 40m and more Q's on 40m than 20m?? Looking at some of the posted scores, like Jerry, WB9Z - see the same thing. 15m was great with signals from 6,7 and 0's that about knocked me out of the chair. VO1TA was everywhere for NL and got Jay, VY1JA fairly early on Saturday. Last four mults were TN?? (77), PAC (78), SB (79) and sweep which took almost 15 minutes - W7DK (UT) on 15m as guess lots of others needed that one even tho he was 10db over 9. Good to hear so many CK's 06 and 07's on and never worked so many QRP stations before. Many from the west coast with goods signals on all bands. Life is still to short for QRP here but after getting beat up on 20m and moving a hundred times was beginning to feel that LP was not a very good idea either. But it was great fun even if someone did remind me that it was nothing more than a WAS contest....always great to hear ole friends to share a quick word other than the exchange. Good to hear Pat, N9RV from new QTH in MT. Thanks for all for the Q's. 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4RV Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 114,708 Rich, NN3W op'ed from the start until 0230z when he had to QRT and return home due to a family illness. Sunday morning, after working on home chores, I decided to spend some time using my call and started about 11 AM on Sunday.. Enjoyed working this test in a " relaxed " mode.. No equipment or antenna problems, just feeling my age, however.. Jack N4RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VA Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 28,512 73, Larry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 270,720 We surpassed our previous West Texas Section record of 259,820 set in 2002 (now to see if it survives the log checking!). Sunday afternoon on 20M was very impressive with a large number of stations still available to be worked. It was surprising that we did so poorly on 40M, but by the time we got there on Saturday night conditions were not too good. Fortunately, despite our only having a low inverted vee on 80M, conditions seemed great on that band. As always, thanks for all the fun and QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6BV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 289,120 As others have noted, 40 and 80 went "long" very early. That meant that East Coast signals were strong on both bands in California, but locals weren't very strong at all. 20 meters was total bedlam, again, with super-strong signals occupying every 1.5 kHz. Forget about 2.4 kHz spacing; 1.5 kHz was normal this weekend. The wonderful thing about the Orion receiver is that selectivity can be cranked down to 1.5 kHz and it's still possible to copy people without any problem. The signals on 15 meters were strong, but very sparse. Unfortunately, I don't think too many people realized 15 was wide open during the daylight hours. Here's my rate sheet for the contest. BREAKDOWN QSO/mults N6BV ARRL SWEEPSTAKES Single Operator HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 21 ..... ..... ..... 124/39 14/9 ..... 138/48 138/48 22 . . . 152/9 . . 152/9 290/57 23 . . . 97/4 . . 97/4 387/61 0 . . 73/6 36/4 . . 109/10 496/71 1 . . 86/3 . . . 86/3 582/74 2 . . 105/0 . . . 105/0 687/74 3 . . 74/0 . . . 74/0 761/74 4 . 1/0 70/1 . . . 71/1 832/75 5 ..... ..... 31/0 ..... ..... ..... 31/0 863/75 6 . 25/0 37/0 . . . 62/0 925/75 7 . 79/1 3/0 . . . 82/1 1007/76 8 . 38/0 7/0 . . . 45/0 1052/76 9 . . . . . . . 1052/76 10 . . . . . . . 1052/76 11 . . . . . . . 1052/76 12 . . . . . . . 1052/76 13 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 1052/76 14 . . . 66/1 . . 66/1 1118/77 15 . . . 28/0 44/1 . 72/1 1190/78 16 . . . 41/0 27/0 . 68/0 1258/78 17 . . . 81/1 . . 81/1 1339/79 18 . . . 70/0 . . 70/0 1409/79 19 . . . 27/0 40/1 . 67/1 1476/80 20 . . . 63/0 4/0 . 67/0 1543/80 21 ..... ..... ..... 41/0 17/0 ..... 58/0 1601/80 22 . . 10/0 33/0 . . 43/0 1644/80 23 . . 19/0 25/0 . . 44/0 1688/80 0 . . 60/0 . . . 60/0 1748/80 1 . . 40/0 . . . 40/0 1788/80 2 . 1/0 18/0 . . . 19/0 1807/80 DAY1 . 143/1 486/10 785/58 129/11 . . 1543/80 DAY2 . 1/0 147/0 99/0 17/0 . . 264/0 TOT ..... 144/1 633/10 884/58 146/11 ..... ..... 1807/80 Thanks again to my dear friend Ken, N6RO, for the hospitality and the use of his superstation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 101,824 Sunday afternoon drive at N3HBX (Thanks, again John!). Met my goal of 100K points for PVRC. Missed the close in mults in NJ, PA, and NY plus few Canadians. Thanks to the Q stations for having the ultimate patience to slug it out in the 20m QRM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 222,560 Many thanks to my station host Bob, N6TV. 73... -Dean - N6DE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6GK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 3,762 I only had 2 short hours to operate, but was great fun, as always! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 194,720 Another fun contest with minimal visits from Mr. Murphy. Unfortunately, at this point in the sunspot cycle, and with my antenna configuration, this is essentially a two band contest. I was able to muster a robust 21.5 hours in the operator's chair on this go-round. I was lucky enough to get a sweep again, but only one station in NL and NT was worked. The remainder of the multipliers were very well represented. The last multiplier worked was QC. Interestingly, I mentioned to a VE3 that I still needed VE2 and asked him (tongue in cheek) if he might "cross the border" for me to satisfy my multiplier need. Apparently, he posted my need on his local packet cluster and later in the contest a VE2 showed up asking if I still needed the VE2 section; I had already worked a VE2 by that point but I did log him as my second QC contact. If I hadn't made a previous VE2 QSO would I need to change my classification from (B) to (U)? (Question asked with tongue firmly implanted in cheek). My good friend AA6PW was not on the air for this one because of antenna/tower problems, K7JA was not participating seriously, and mercifully, Dan (N6MJ) joined the W6YI multi group in San Diego. This left the ORG section open for me to contend for the highest score in the ORG section. Thanks guys!! I appreciated every one of the Qs and I hope to hear you all again next year. Best regards, Arnie N6HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 156,000 Had N6ERD a newbie contest Op put in most of the 16.5 hours to get some more contest experience. I anchored the last 4 hours. VE2 was last mult needed and Dan N6ERD actually nailed most of the hard ones! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RNO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 22,400 K6RM and I both operated from N6IJ under our own calls. He officially had the station and so got band preference on Saturday. I used the N6IJ FT-990 with the FL-7000 amp. The FL-7000 has issues with protection kicking in quickly. I lost a lot of calls when the FL-7000 went into protection mode. It was especially hard on 40m and 80m. I eventually got some of the QSO's back but I am sure I frustrated a few operators (Sorry fellas). Saturday I was left with using only the wire antennae I had left setup from SSCW. The G5RV (which tuned OK on the FL-7000) and the 10m-15m-20m dipole from K9YC. I got up at 4am local and was back on the air 45 minutes latter. These early hours were a little slow. My rate was never high. I could not establish any run frequency as often my power was only 40w (according to the meter in-line with the radio and amp.). This was frustrating as I was looking forward to running. I had to resort to S&P and with limited power, I had to time it right to be on the right side of pile ups. I took several stabs at VY1JA and final got NWT. I really should not have spent that much time. I should have left earlier than I did and just come back as I eventually did. On Sunday I chased VVA around the spots. I was there ahead of him several times and he always got through before me. I worked VE6EX right after "The Locust" and got the next QSO number. I had tried three times before Rick showed up. He pops in once and gets the QSO. Overall, it was fun. I need more practice to be a better operator and I really need to get a decent amp and tuner so that I can run power in these phone contests. Even a working SB-220 would be a major improvement. As always, the story of this contest is on my site: http://www.n6rno.net It will be updated with the latest from this contest over the next several weeks as it takes me time to write down all my thoughts. '73 Rick "The Rhino" N6RNO (This tag works as several non NCCCers seem to have seen it and commented on the call during the contest) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 141,884 First qso at 1230Z - music gigs Saturday. Great run on 15m Sunday AM with the recently optimized 6/6/6 stack, while N6BV used the 20m 5/5/5/ stack. Operated in Dean's shadow Sunday afternoon on 15 and 80m. 2705 QSOs from the two stations this weekend at Radio Oakley. CU in CQWW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 30,056 This turned out to be a pretty good weekend, with better results than I expected. I worked nearly every station I could hear, with very few getting away. After chasing a Virgin Islands station for six hours, I finally worked him. Then two minutes later, I worked another one with no effort at all. I had a rate plan, but it was too optimistic. Each hour I slid a little farther behind. I had planned on 270 QSOs, but wound up with 221. When I was getting ready to pull the plug at 0100Z to go to my own birthday party, I had 220 Qs and 29,980 points. I thought, bummer, to come so close to 30K and miss it. Quickly found one new station I hadn't worked, and got him in the log. Finished with 30,056 points, just over the edge. The audio compression mod I put in my K2 seems to have worked well, as I had several compliments on the audio from a QRP station. I have two headsets, and this contest gave me a chance to try out both of them both under battle conditions. The newer one is made by Logitech for PC gamers, with over-the-ear pads and a noise- cancelling boom mic. My original headset is a Radio Shack dual earpiece unit, but with ear pads that are much too small for comfort. I hang it around my neck with the mic up by my lips and use my regular good headphones with the big pads. Both seem to have worked ok, but the Logitech got a little uncomfortable on the ears over time, so I traded off between them. For $19.95, I figured it was a cheap experiment. I added an external homebrew mic preamp to drive the compression circuit adequately, and the results seem worthwhile so far. My next step will be to add a footswitch, since I have been pressing a button on a small desktop box that houses the preamp. My usual WimpyWire antenna system did the job this time with no funny stuff. I'm glad the weather was dry, as the 450 ohm feeders change impedance when they are wet, and I have to rematch everything. It sure is handy having dipoles facing different directions. Throw a switch and Alaska is up by an S unit and a half, and the rest of the US is down by an S unit and a half. Well worth doing. With the noise problems I've been having, my rotating loop paid its way. Really made a big difference on 80 and 40m, so I could work SSB on those bands, even through the noise. Fortunately the noise comes from either North or South of me, so the loop was aimed right at the stations I wanted to hear. The two things I noticed most in this contest were so many ops saying, Please Copy xxx, and a lot of stations with very badly adjusted audio processing and lots of distortion. There were also some extremely clean signals that were a joy to listen to. All in all, I had a fun time. Hope to see you all in the next contest. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WS Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 4,636 Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP MkV Field - 100W Ant: Cushcraft X9 w/X940 @ 17m 1/4 wave sloper for 80m @ 12m S/W: N1MM Logger I got on just to give out a few points. I was amazed by the number of times I heard, "Santa Barbara up two" or "Thanks for the new section". I thought everyone would have already worked my neighbor, W6TK. 73, Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XG Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 85,200 This was my first big experience with K3 on SSB. It performed very well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AZ Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 24,160 IC-746Pro Multi-band Inv V TNX for all those that pulled out my signal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8HR Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 251,520 It was nice to have some new operators this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 65,600 I don’t know where to start with this event. It was fun at times but mostly frustrating. The Good: I got a sweep! Came down to Alaska Sunday afternoon. Found two of them on 20M with a huge pileup. Spent way to much time trying but finally caught KL7AA. The Bad: Every other moment. Hi hi Finished 85 Q’s down from last year. Last year I could drop somewhere on 40M call CQ and work 40-50 Q’s. This year I could not get a run going anywhere. Very frustrating when someone in MDC says I’m 40 over yet no one will answer my CQ. I’ve enjoyed a great run winning the GLD division in SSB Sweeps for the past four years, I doubt I’ll win it this year. 72, 73 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9RV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 112,970 Missed VE5. Have done very little SSB operating, discovered that I had serious RF in the audio. Almost quit, but discovered that on every band but 20 I could make things work by throttling back the RF output. Wow, the opening on 15 on Sunday was fun. Just using a 200 foot center fed here at about 50 feet. - Pat N9RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 129,440 The additional room on 75 meters was nice. No local line noise was even better. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NB7V Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 103,660 WOW its over! Lots of interuptions, company all weekend, my daughters birthday party. And a phone that wouldn't stop. Lots of 07 license dates. 20 was great, 80 also worked for me, 40- I found out when i went to 40 that I had a very high swr. I went out and checked my phased verticles and found out they were damaged by the 80mph wind gusts last monday uuugh! No 40 for me! thanks for the Qs 73 Dave NB7V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 33,180 Very limited operating time - missed a lot of prime time due to family and other prior (inescapable) commitments. Skip was very long on 40 and 80; in fact 40 was largely a lost cause. Missed several relatively common sections - some I never heard and some that just couldn't hear me! Thanks to everybody for the patience on the repeats and fills. Rig = Yaesu FT-897D at 5 watts output Antennas = Wilson SY-3 3 element tribander Yagi at 50 feet, dipole at 45 feet Heil headset and N3FJP software 73, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 74,796 First contest from new home. Didn't have enough time to get the beam up in time for the contest plus Murphy made me work on a broadcast transmitter most of Sunday. My new 80 and 40 meter wires work really well, but couldn't get a run started on 20. Hope to have the beam up in a couple of weeks if deer season doesn't get in the way ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG1I Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 45,600 Only having a G5RV I knew that my scvore would never be competetive so this year for CW and SSB, I decided to focus on sections. I had 76 of section in SSB and couldn't find MS, CO, ORG (which I got in the CW SS) but had no problem with HI or AK. NT is virtually never heard up this far north in N.E. I spent only Sunday from 5AM to 6PM half searching the bands and half using the packet cluster. One hyas to play the hand you're dealt and in this case the G5RV did pretty well. maybe when band condx get better, NT will come through. best refatds to all...73...Frank NG1I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI1N Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 276,800 Still just one radio, which really makes Sunday a grind. Through Sunday afternoon I thought I was set up to beat last year's score by 200 QSOs. But, the bands tanked and that was the end of that! The rate working east coast stations on the low 40m dipole Sunday afternoon was about double the rate of working west coast in the slugfest on 20. I just can't seem to get respect on 20. On the other hand, I feel like an 800 pound gorilla on 80. It was surprisingly easy to hold 3803 for 9 hours Saturday night. I guess the extra bandwidth really helps spread things out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ1F Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 221,600 Thank You to Dave K1TTT for letting me use his super station again this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4M Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 65,758 A little multi-op session with beginning contesters KI4PJB and KI4PJC. Intended to run an amp, but discovered while setting up the station, it wasn't working ... so Low Power it was! Lot's of S9 plus "alligators" who couldn't copy us - yet, when we did find a spot to run, we got "good signal" comments or guys way in the noise called ... go figure! At times, 15, 20, and 40 sounded like the California QSO Party! 15 seemed to be open, but not too many folks on to take advantage of it. Sunday we started watching packet to chase down the remaining multipliers, but the "packet pileups" were pretty bad. Worked 2 of the spotted stations back to back later (OR and AK), calling CQ before they were spotted again!! Still missed SB, ND, and QC (ND and QC had big piles). Still ... had fun, and that's what it's all about! Thanks to Mike, KI4KTP for use of the Red Cross station, KI4LNU. Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 40,176 Great fun for a part-time, mike-s hy, CW guy! Was 80 HOTor what?!!!! 73 de Greg NM2L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 124,020 First, thanks to N4RV for doing a lot of work to get the station ready. The place was a copper farm with wires everywhere. The station really played. Too bad I had to leave early. Got called by my wife (twice) around 0300z with contagious laringytis and if I didn't the kids to get it and ruin out trip to the Outer Banks, I had better get home. @%&@)(%&(*@!!! So, I had to pull the plug at my arranged nap time. Condx were great at first on 20 and I was running like mad. Decided to join the herd, skip 40 meters and go right to 80. Hello?!!? WTF! My first QSO was with a guy in Louisiana. That was around 6:00 p.m. Not. Good. Things only got worse when I found I was working KP4s, W0s in Colorado, 4 stations in North Dakota, and lots of STX. Ugh. Tried 40 and I felt like 40 was about as productive as 10 meters is. The skip finally shortened around 0300z and 80 became a zoo with activity. Hopefully next year I can ensure 24 hours in the cahir. Either that or a nanny is getting hired...... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 184,392 FT1000MP MkV, HF2500, 1.5 KW, TA-63M, 160M Dipole, First contest in the HP category and with one of the new beams Had a blast, didn’t catch too many of my locals but managed 78 sections…could have perhaps got a few more if I had used packet, but no internet connection during contest, seems my wildblue dish got moved and was out of alignment… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN5K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 235,578 This was my first single-op phone SS in about 15 years. Wasn’t really planning to operate the whole thing, but our club needed the points. Credit K5TA with the pep talk eMail that pulled me into the fray. And thanks to Dave, NN5K, for letting me use his station for the weekend. This would be a lot more fun with the two high bands. Slugging it out on 80 and 40 with low power is not much fun, and 20 meters was just brutal with wall-to-wall big signals from dawn till dusk. I had 130 Qs Sunday morning on 15 meters; signals were great from W1/2/3/4/8, but there just weren’t enough people on the band. Had a few 15-minute dead times while I tried to figure out why the radio wasn’t working right (only about 70 Watts on 20 meters most of Sunday), fixed the footswitch, or tried to tune the 80-meter vertical (SWR >5 above 3700), but pretty much kept my nose to the grindstone the rest of the time. Glad my time ran out about a half hour before the end of the contest, cuz it sure didn’t seem like I was going to work much else. Forty had gone very long already, and I was having no luck on 80. The good runs (there were a few) reminded me of how much fun this contest can be, but the bad times (many) made me wonder what I’d gotten myself into. That’s the usual psychology of these things. It’s easier to stick it out, though, when you’re operating away from home. Thanks for the Qs! It was good to hear so many familiar callsigns and voices, and encouraging to work so many checks of 06 and 07. -Bruce AA5B @ NN5K Tijeras, NM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 211,520 My best SS-SSB QSO numbers ever! Everything was tested in the Thursday night NCCC practices, and ready to go. I got a great start with the rate over 100 in the first hour. After that, it was long, hard SSB work. 20m was packed and everyone had QRM on both sides, and on top as well. 15m was a bit better than CW weekend thanks to some sunspots. We did better on 80m thanks to some more time spent there, and the moved and re-installed beverages helped me hear better. All the band decoders, filters and stubs worked great, letting us listen with the second radio on a second band to find sections, and later, find some unworked stations. I had great help from "the Hawaiians" KH6XT and KO7P (ex-AH6B), and local KG7CM who usually operates 10m. Last section was NL, and it seems traditional to wait until Sunday morning for it out here on the left coast. K6UFO Mark, for NN7SS. Equipment: Two Yaesu FT-1000MPs 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 Two TopTen Band decoders, two ICE-419 filters Coax stub filters for 80, 40, 20 Microham 2x6 antenna switch Writelog software QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 80 40 20 15 Total Cumm OffTime D1-2100Z - - 107/48 - 107/48 107/48 D1-2200Z - - 87/6 - 87/6 194/54 D1-2300Z - - 80/5 - 80/5 274/59 D2-0000Z --+-- 82/13 --+-- --+-- 82/13 356/72 D2-0100Z - 52/3 - - 52/3 408/75 D2-0200Z 3/0 26/1 - - 29/1 437/76 D2-0300Z 10/0 24/0 - - 34/0 471/76 D2-0400Z 23/0 5/0 - - 28/0 499/76 D2-0500Z 17/1 5/0 - - 22/1 521/77 D2-0600Z 9/1 11/0 - - 20/1 541/78 D2-0700Z 26/0 9/0 - - 35/0 576/78 D2-0800Z 12/1 5/0 --+-- --+-- 17/1 593/79 35 D2-0900Z - - - - 0/0 593/79 60 D2-1000Z - - - - 0/0 593/79 60 D2-1100Z - - - - 0/0 593/79 60 D2-1200Z - - - - 0/0 593/79 60 D2-1300Z - - - - 0/0 593/79 60 D2-1400Z - 8/0 17/1 - 25/1 618/80 19 D2-1500Z - 4/0 46/0 - 50/0 668/80 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 72/0 --+-- 72/0 740/80 D2-1700Z - - 66/0 8/0 74/0 814/80 D2-1800Z - - - 73/0 73/0 887/80 D2-1900Z - - 24/0 42/0 66/0 953/80 D2-2000Z - - 55/0 10/0 65/0 1018/80 D2-2100Z - - 82/0 - 82/0 1100/80 D2-2200Z - - 64/0 - 64/0 1164/80 D2-2300Z - - 55/0 - 55/0 1219/80 D3-0000Z --+-- 44/0 3/0 --+-- 47/0 1266/80 D3-0100Z 21/0 8/0 1/0 - 30/0 1296/80 D3-0200Z 22/0 4/0 - - 26/0 1322/80 Total: 143/3 287/17 759/60 133/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3D/W2 Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 37,536 Part time participation. Thanks to all who called me and answered my calls. Had a good time, fun to see real scores in getscores.org. 73's Andrei EW1AR-NP3D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX7TT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 19,936 Did not get to run very long as 0330 the next morning to go off to work is very early. But did have funn all in all.. Heard many stations but was very light. Did work a few backscatter which made it fun.. Next year hope to do better.. Ed NX7TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 81,472 Whewwwwwwwwwwwww....what IS the definition of "fun" anyway??? The main thing in my comments will be simply...THANK YOU to all who work so hard to hear us QRP signals out there in the noise. Your patience and skill is greatly appreciated. Thanks for not giving up on us! I had a good time but was glad when the time ran out. I missed 4 hours due to sleep and family but did get on for plenty of the fun. Thanks again. Happy Thanksgiving to all. 73, jeff nx9t www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 38,628 Couldn't buy a contact Saturday night, so I went QRT and hit the bands on Sunday morning, things got better! As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RN Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 10,656 As a CW operator I rarely work SSB, however I needed to fill in my WAS phone stations, so I decided to just work the packet cluster for all new sections(states). What did surprise me was I had fewer sections than if I had just worked normally, i.e. CQ'ing and S&P'ing. Lesson to be learned here. Can't say that 40m and 80m were very productive. Altogether a more relaxing and fun time than usual. Must work on my wave files though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 64,834 * FT-2000 + SB221 * N1MM Logger 7.10.12 * Tribander at 45' * 40M half-squares * 80M delta loop This was like two different contests here -- day one and day two. Ended Day One with just 60 Qs in the log and 40M and 80M not playing nicely at all from the far PNW. Have CW-band antennas on 80M-20M (yagi sufficiently covers 15M and 10M, but SWR is high in the 20M SSB segment) so I'm a little SWR-handicapped for SSB on the lower bands. Tuner helps, but still no hell. Working the high end of 20M just doesn't play well for me, so my sandbox was 14.150-200 and finding a spot to run was nigh on impossible at times. Got off to a great start S&P on 20M working a bunch of the toughie mults from here -- NWT, RI, VI, PR -- but had to go to 40M pretty early and that band was tough work. Decided on Sunday morning to give 15M a whirl. Called and lo! ended up running 110 stations. Propagation on 15M has been pretty tightly focused on W4/W5 lately, but last weekend and this weekend saw some good E-W propagation for a change. Went to 20M and spent a long time looking for a spot to run. I'm pretty timid about elbowing into a slot. Eventually found one and ran 127 stations at 96/hr -- very neat-o. Spent 10 minutes trying to work a VE2 pileup to no avail, then moved away and called CQ... another VE2 called in right away. Go figure. VY2ZM was a beacon on 14.150 or so for hours on end (well done and thanks for MAR!). Heard a VE6 on 80M but never caught up to him, so missed AB. Also missed CT and NL. Still, I never expected to find 77 mults in this one without telnet cluster and am quite happy with how things turned out. Was on for just 11 hours. If I had spent more time on the air -- and more time on 20M -- I'm sure the sweep would have been quite possible. Wonder if I'm the only one in the Pacific Northwest who thought 80M was junk on Sunday evening? Maybe the delta loop isn't working well. Had a fair amount of QRN and signals from beyond the Rockies were weak. Even W6 stations were not their usual loud selves. Figured N6RO would be slam-dunk, but Ken needed a few fills from me to make it work. W7WHY was one of the big signals on 80M and was the first of my OR mults -- I know others were begging for OR in the final hour. I think I have a lousy CK for SSB -- probably had CK fill requests from 30 per cent of callers. "82" doesn't punch out very well, I guess. DVK was set up but didn't use it even once for Qs, though I did throw out a handful of CQs with it. Was having too much fun just working folks. Will be back for more phone work next chance I get. Starting to get the hang of it and likin' it a little more. Thank God for CW, though. See many of you in CQWW CW. Look northwest for the VE7 mult, and be sure to listen out for teammates: Paul K1XM at 6V7D (Senegal running QRP!), Ed N1UR at 9M6AAC, Vitor PY2NY, and Greg W1KM. Glad to be on a N6ZZ memorial team and will give it all I have. http://lists.contesting.com/archives//cgi-bin/mesg.cgi?a=CQ-Contest&i=47337D14.1040202%40hp.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2DWA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,914 Equipment Description: Yaesu FT-101EE (power btw 20 and 50 watts), G5RV @ 10 feet. It was planned as full effort, as unlimited from VE3RM, but on Friday I got a bad could. Saturday morning I was feeling worse and my sore throat was very bad, I went to a clinic and the doctor told me: you need to stay in bed, get this antibiotic and please don't talk (I couldn't believe that..SS SSB weekend and I couldn't speak), I operate less than 10 minutes every two or three hours, only when I was leaving the bed to take my medicine or to go to the washroom. My old FT-101EE is in very bad shape and my signal wasn't very readable. I was very surpring because many people thanks me for a new mult and I was the clean sweep for at least two stations. See you in CQWWCW, I'm planning to be SO AB LP. 73, Claudio VE2DWA-VE3AP-LU7DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GLO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 35,100 Had a lot of fun and had some good chats. Bob, VE3GLO ICOM 746, Fan Dipole (20, 40, 80), Titan Vertical. 100 Watts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 71,000 I wasn't full time this year but still enjoyed it and had lots of fun as always. It is still one of my favorite contests. I never thought I would see the activity on 160 that I did but 80 went long real early in the evening here on Saturday - just before 2400z - which may explain it. I found propagation on 20 and 15 a bit disappointing but 40 and 80 made up for it. Working KH7X on 80 with the Delta Loop an hour after local sunrise was the highlight of the contest and the loop certainly proved its worth this weekend. It actually worked better than I had previuosly given it credit for. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 49,248 Very pleased to have my Son, VE3CWE helping with the operating. Trying out our new Opti-Beam Tribander OB16-3 which was superb! Please to receive many reports of "Big Signal" on 20 & 15. Easily broke the pileup on VY1JA. Only had a few hours to play in this one. Missed QC, MB, ND & NNY. 73, Paul VE3TA & David VE3CWE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,090 100% S&P. Not a big fan of phone contests but had some fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 83,622 By Saturday night I had only 80 Qs in the log due to very high noise levels on 40/80/160. It just wasn't worth the effort so I quit early. But Sunday morning most of the noise was gone and conditions were considerably better. Still only an average performance for me in this one also limited by the 12 hours total time. Missed WV, ND and NT. Heard VY1JA on 20 many times but was never able to break the pileup. Didn't even hear the other two sections. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 83,108 Just missed ND...again. Figured this year I would get them at least on 80 m. Not a chance, heard others calling them, but way too weak for the 150mile path . As always a lot fun. Noisey conditions on 80/40 Saturday night but Sunday was better. 20m was worse than during the CQ WW contest. Impossible to run with a dipole antenna. Huge signals from east and west coast and everywhere in between. S&P was the only way for me to get any q's. Last year had many more QSO on 20 and 15 but this year 40m was the money band. Had to take time off to watch The Winnipeg Blue Bombers destroy the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL's eastern final. Sorry to the VE3's aout there, I can understand why there weren't on the air Sunday :) Thanksfor the patience and the Q's. Ed VE4EAR 746Pro THP HL-1.5Kfx at 600Watts 130' Doublet for 80m & 20m Steppir Biggir vertical for 40m & 15m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5CPU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 140,000 Sweep! First time since 1999. Should have hit 1,000 Q's but didn't get the seat time I had hoped. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 102,068 Last year I did this contest QRP and vowed never again. This year I ran 100W and it felt just as bad as last year. It was like there was an invisible barrier which required high power to be heard. The contest started at 2PM local time Saturday afternoon. My idea was to work the big guns on Sunday and make some big runs early. So much for big ideas. With 20m being the only choice to start with, it instantly filled up and there were 4 or 5 high power stations on top of each other from one end of the band to the other. This meant S&P the entire first day - and mainly working the big guns. At exactly 4:40PM local, 20m just died and I switched to 40m. It wasn't much better. After an hour or so, I switched to 75m, where I got new mults in EMA, RI, NH, NNJ and ENY. It wasn't until around 1AM that I began hearing close-by stations in WWA and MT. Finally, I got my first OR at 2AM! This was my cue to quit for the night. I started back up around 8AM MST on Sunday and 20m was already hopping. In fact, I tuned the dial from 14180 to 14220 and couldn't make out a single station, as everything just sounded like mush. This made me want to quit all over again. And then I decided to try 15m and behold, it was open! I ran over 200+ stations for the next 2-3 hours and started feeling better. I was still missing ND, MB, QC and WVA. At 12:30PM I decided I better go back to 20m and search for the missing sections, at least QC and WVA. After 5 minutes I heard a pileup for a VE2 and managed to work him. I then went back to 15m a little while later and it had already started to die. I went back and did more S&P on 20m and just before it died I managed to get a call from WVA. After a short time on 40m, I managed to hear a VE4 working another guy - and he was loud. I had him QSY up a bit and managed to get him. I never did hear ND, so that was the one I missed. I ended up quitting an hour before the end, as 80m already seemed like it was on its way out. All I could hear were the stations I'd already worked. I'd like to thank W7RN for trying so hard to pull me through, before giving up. We worked later with ease. And I agree with K9GX when he commented that 80m sounded like summer propagation. Things were sure strange propagation-wise on all the bands, but I guess this is to be expected at the bottom of a cycle. I guess I had fun, but I'm also glad its over! It would be interesting to try this contest if everyone were limited to low power, but I know this will never happen. And who said ham radio is dying? I can imagine Yogi Berra saying something like, "I could talk to a bunch more people if there weren't so many guys on!" Again, thanks to all who pulled me through and see you in the next one. 73, Jerry VE6CNU Transmitter: FT-1000MP 100W Antennas: TH6DXX @ 40' for 15m/20m, inverted vee for 40m, shunt-fed tower 80m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 205,440 Hi All: Our second MULTI effort at VE6EX. At least as much fun as the SSCW event that was first. I don't think should complain about the prop HI. Considering the bottom of the cycle; look at the scores. 20 was wall to wall HI. How about those outstanding W1AW YL ops, and for that matter the whole group of yl ops has grown. A definate change for the better. Cheers and see you all in WWCW.. VE6EX was ts940s x2 into single 3-500 hb amp at ~400w. 2 el on 20 and slopers off the tower for 40 and 80 at 60'. TRLOG did the multi op desk work as ever, the best... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7FO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 52,000 As in CW test, put more effort into making the sweep than maximizing Qs. In CW test was very happy to have SD as #1 in the log. Imagine how I felt in this one to have VY1JA as #1. Tnx Jay. Thanks to all who make this so much fun. 73, Jim VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 111,650 VO1HE Single Operator All Band High Power Unassisted ARRL Section : NL Club/Team : East Coast Canada Contest Club Band QSOs Pts Sec 3.5 33 66 32 7 15 30 14 14 669 1338 31 21 8 16 0 Total 725 1450 77 Score : 111,650 Rig : FT-920 Amp: SB-220 Software: N1MM Logger V7.11.0 Antennas : 3 Element SteppIR 6M-40M and Coax Resonator 80M dipole Soapbox : This turned out pretty good. My beam was damaged just before the SS CW contest and I had to replace the driven element motor. I reinstalled the 6-20 motor so I could get on for the contest but it's hard to do all band when you don't have antennae for them. I received my replacement motor on Friday, which turned out to be a very nice day. 10C and overcast. After 6 hours I had the replacement motor back up and ready. I decided to crank the tower back up to be ready for the contest in case I didn't get the time to do it the next day. That turned out to be a decision that I may have lived to regret. I have an anemometer at the top of my tower and it registered 97kph early Saturday morning as the warm front moved through. Heavy rain came along for the ride. Luckily, by noon or so, the wind had died down so I was ready to go. I spent the first few hours poking around looking for multipliers. I managed to get 40 or so by early Saturday so I thought this would be a good time to get on 20 and start running. I could hear Europe booming in but not a lot of NA stations. I pointed west, found a fairly clear frequency and started running at around 1230UTC. I took my first break, and finished my breakfast, at 1735. According to the log, I had over an hour with more than 2 per minute. Not bad with this exchange. Missed VY1, KL7 and VE4. I heard a VE4 S&Ping on 20 but couldn't track him down. I heard the pileup for VY1JA but I guess they were a bit rowdy as he apparently just shut down or moved off somewhere. I found another frequency to run in the hopes that these guys would find me but no luck. Heard a KL7 but I think he was in Oregon. He faded out after I heard the callsign and I never managed to get him anyway. Anyway, I had fun. Thanks for the contacts and sorry to anyone who missed me. There were a few other VO1s on so NL shouldn't have been too hard to find. Even Rick K6VVA found me :) CU in CQWW CW, 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 12,800 Strictly S & P c'y'all cqww cw GLWCDR Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 109,200 Never intended to operate in this one, but found myself home alone and what the heck.Got a late start and took many long breaks but for the most part, condx were not bad.Knew VY2ZM was a beacon at the other end of the Island so maybe I should have gone LP.Just kidding!! At my age life is too short for QRP, to steal a phrase.Missed AK,NT,AB,QC and ME for heavens sake.One of these years would like to put in a full effort.Thought a sweep might be conceivable by mid Sunday, but,alas,it was not to be. Have to comment on signal from KH7X.20 over on my 40m wires.Wow! I thought he must have been operating portable on the lower 39th.Thanks for all the calls,had a couple of good runs but as others have commented,it was a jungle on 20.Pretty well had to shoehorn your way onto a frequency.Hope we got into your log.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT/M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,120 Enjoyed using my mobile in this Phone Sweepstakes. Operated from the Visitor Center located at the south end of Cheyenne, WY. The mobile got out okay on 15 and 20m but it didn't make much of a dent on 40m; definitely need a better 40m whip for the FT100D. - For those who want a change in SS, try operating mobile from a relatively rare section. Enjoyed a few pileups from those who didn't get a chance to work fellow GMCCer Alan KO7X! 73 Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LSD Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 14,040 Decided at 4PM on Sunday to get into contest and see how close I could come to a Sweep. Increased space on 75 will help these stateside SSB contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 184,960 I was not planning on a real serious effort. I had not done much to the shack to get ready for the contest. I was hoping to be at the Montana station but we are going on vacation the 20th to Mexico over Thanksgiving so I decided I needed to get some things done here before we left. I sat down a few minutes before the start and found a frequency. It took a while to get a decent rate as I had not really established it. Wow what a wild and FUN! start to the contest. 20 closed early and I was very reluctant to move to 40 so early but there was no choice. 40 was good to me but went long fairly early. Moved to 75 much early than I can ever imagine. I was thinking that there was no way the rate was going to hold until my planned off time. Finished the first night with 1104 qso's and 79 sections. I did not do any SO2R the first day/night. No need! I started back up fairly early hoping for a nice 40 or 80 meter opening. Hoping that the rate would be better than late Sunday. I Spent about 1/2 hour working SO2R on 40 and 80 and was starting to get things going. VY2 called me on 40m for the sweep so it was going to be a push for rate and new stations all day Sunday or so I hoped. My XYL walked into the shack, which is located next to the main house. It was around 5am local which was odd. She informed me that her mother had just passed away in the hospital. She was 81 and this was very unexpected. Obviously this ended my effort in the contest. I finished with 1156 and the sweep. I knew I was rocking big time as everyone was commenting on my big number. K5TR was about 80 ahead in B class and at the time I was up about 100 on K6LL. A couple of the Multi-ops had slightly bigger numbers so I was psyched! Some positives: This is the first real effort I have put in with this station. FT-2000 x 2 Microham MK2R+ SO2R controller Alpha 99/Acom 1000 Cushcraft XM240 @85ft SteppIR 4ele @72ft Inv V for 80 @ 65 ft DX Eng 4 sq rcv array that was working in a couple of directions. I was able to find and hold frequencies and never moved. I almost felt like I was in Montana. Some of the pileups were large. Maybe there were not many HP Colorado stations on this year? There were a number of times where the rate slowed and I contemplated band changes but chose to wait a bit longer and was always rewarded with some nice rate. Getting older does bring along some advantages! Hourly rates: QSOS 126 20m 127 113 142 40m 121 121 87 40/80/40 92 40/80 115 80m 75 27-24 minutes off at 0724 40 and 80 were continually changing. There were lulls in the runs and then the bands would just come back. The 4sq rcv array was great on the lower angle signals on 80. Moderately effective on 40 and not good at all (to be expected) on the high angle close in stations on 80. I really needed a few more antennas that I could point west or other directions. I am planning in stacking another 4 ele SteppIR on the tower but that will not happen until spring time. I had to turn the beam to the NW once and worked the station I was having trouble with and then Alaska called in for the next contact. I thought that the 2000's played very well. Only once did I have someone come in close and I finally got him to move. I know some people have reported that this radio craters in heavy qrm, big signal band conditions. I can't say that I have experienced that. I tend to rely on my ears and not all the fancy features. the Auto notch worked fine. I was constantly adjusting the pre amp as I utilized the rcv antennas. I need to work on a better solution for that. I have a K3 ordered and I will be curious to see how the two rigs compare. The MK2R+ worked great. I still need to spend a bunch of time in the saddle with SO2R working out the receive audio and the transmit focus. I need to figure out how to quickly put radio 1 or two into both my ears when weak stations call and how to move back to split. I worked maybe about 10 to 20 SO2R contacts. Having a 2nd rig to listen to other bands is very handy. All in all it was probably one of the best starts I can remember. Looks like K6LL did a great job again. I wish he and the other big guns in Unlimited could have duked it out till the end. I hope to see you all in the 160 contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0SD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 292,960 Thanks again to Ed and Edith for the use of the station, and for letting me break in the brand new radio room! And thanks to all of you for the contacts. Interesting conditions this time, had to rely on 80m for the bulk of the after dark qsos. 73, Joe W0DB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 40,964 Missed VE2, VE5, and ND. Interesting condx's at the bottom of the cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 190,080 Happy to put W1AW on the air. Look for more contest activity from W1AW in the future. Hats off to Katie W1KRB and Mary K1MMH for slugging it out with the best of them; contesting needs more YL ops! 73, Sean KX9X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UE Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 12,800 Thought I'd try something different- see how quickly I could get a clean sweep. Took almost 4 hours of operating to work all the 80 sections. Last 3 sections worked were WCF, AK, and MS. I thought the low bands were terrible- both 80 and 40 seemed to have gone "long" by 0300Z Sat night. 15 sounded pretty good today, with the West Coast strong for several hours. Thanks for the Qs. See you next week from K1TTT MM. Dennis W1UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1XX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 209,982 20 Meters shut down much earlier than last year here. From last year's log I had a good run on 20 from 2330 - 0030Z. This year I went back to 20 at that time to find the band essentially dead. So 80 and especially 40 had to try to pick up the slack. Thus, went for 3 1/2 hours shut-eye at 3:30AM local about 30 Qs down from last year. End result was the same 30 Qs down, so I never made up the difference. Got the usual "first RI" comments...which is always nice. Did very little S & P...so never heard NT, the only one I missed. Worked 10 to the 8th Idaho's...which I missed on CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2DZO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 25,960 Only funny story was some guy on 3810 on sunday night asking when the "damn" contest was over- when I told him 0300 he said... ready? "what the hell time is that?" Nothing like 80 meter phone. Henry W2DZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LHL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,320 Too many interruptions. Glad could get to KH7 on 40. 20 was a mess, 10 was MIA. No time to tune up vertical for phone section. Enjoyed every minute. Let's see what happens this coming weekend, CQWW. Have to lubricate the old Vibroplex. 100W, 4BTV, 40ft vert. for 40/80/160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3IDT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 216,760 Below are summaries and a few comments re the now (in)famous "Father (w3idt) / Daughter (k3mim) " ss ssb operation at W3LPL. W3IDT: BAND QSO QSO PTS SECTIONS 80 419 838 - 40 678 1356 - 20 254 508 - ----------------------------------- Totals 1351 2702 80 Score: 216,160 K3MIM: BAND QSO QSO PTS SECTIONS 80 493 986 - 40 629 1258 - 20 189 378 - ----------------------------------- Totals 1311 2622 80 Score: 209,760 Both Single Operator, High Power, Unassisted. Comments or HighLights and LowLights: 1. Once again, we thank Frank (w3lpl) for providing his station and creating the rather special environment (2 separate networks of four radios / computers each - though we never did use 15m), and his xyl Phyllis for letting us invade her home on what should be an "off weekend". 2. Slightly (30/40 Qs) below last year. However this year I (IDT) will inspect the Cabrillo files carefully (and not send in logs which were corrupted in conversion and processing as last year) so the final scores will be higher than last year. 3. We found what appears to be a bug in CT v10 (to which w3lpl recent switched from v9): The first time we switched bands the serial number fields went bonkers on both networks. While I (IDT) went to get Frank so we could find the cause and/or work-around, K3MIM calmly kept track of the next real serial number on her clipboard and just kept going. Work-around: SETSERIAL command in call field permits resetting the serial number field. So we used that each time we switched bands. Reminder to self: fix the bad serial numbers in both logs! 4. Both of us got to 79 sections pretty quickly. IDT missing BC (really!), MIM missing NL. In the middle of Sunday afternoon, a VE7 called IDT on 20 for the sweep, the next caller was a VE7, and the next caller was a VE7! In the last hour or two, we were going to finish up with MIM on 40 and IDT on 80 when IDT got called by a loud, casual VE1 on 80. So we switched bands, and lo and behold a VO1 calls MIM in the last hour for her sweep. 5. By 1800z or so we were both ahead of our last year's qso totals (IDT:1379 / MIM:1361). Expecting typically good results in the last couple of hours we took our respective naps Sunday afternoon. My (IDT) bad time calculations cost MIM about 40 minutes of operating time, and then the bottom seems to have dropped out of both 80 and 40 - our qso totals during the last three hours are well below last year's (the VO1 calling MIM was the only good thing about those last three hours). 6. Was nice to talk briefly with old and new friends, including recent visitors to this area (K9YC and K9LA/AE9YL). MIM had virtually none of the " K...3...M...I...M" stuttering (with the emphasis on the "I") as she had last year with her brand new call as this year she surely was in the database. 7. One real downer: Sunday afternoon some jerk starting hurling obscenities at MIM for being a contester and preventing him from having his regular bullshit session... so she moved a few Kcs and this idiot followed her and the profanities got worse. Someone stepped in and told him to "shut his mouth" and, being a good southern gentleman - by accent - reminded him that there is "a lady present". (Thank you good samaritan!). She then moved 100kc or so. (I don't usually use language as found in the preceding paragraph, but this guy seems to deserve it.) Bob, w3idt, and Miriam, k3mim -- w3idt@arrl.net k3mim@arrl.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3PP Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 208,960 Really strange condx on 80 as I was first spotted by RL3A but couldn't work SNJ. Station seemed to be working pretty well, and activity seemed way up. Had I been able to put the last 4 hours in, would have had a pretty decent score. I can remember the days when I had to be careful that I only operated 24 hours, Now after about 15, I am ready to throw the cans under a bus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 100,160 Auto replies gota go ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AAA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 222,400 Just prior to the contest, I attached various temporary antennas to the 110 foot tower that I installed in September. I took my transceiver out of the box, where it was stored for the last two and a half years, and placed it on a table in my bonus room. Luckily, it still worked. I ran the hardline, rotator cable and antenna relay wire through the window and on the ground to the tower, about 250 feet away. It had been three years since I operated this contest and well over two years since I was on the air from the United States, so I was very excited about participating in this event. As the contest grew nearer, I tested the station and discovered that the rotator didn’t turn. I then noticed that many of my cables lying on the ground were chewed by some critter and that the rotator wire was completely severed. I had used new wires, which I intended to use later in a more permanent installation, so I was definitely unhappy about this damage. Fortunately it was easy to temporarily splice them together. I finished my antenna work on Saturday morning, just before the contest. I had many rare western US and Canadian sections call me early in the contest on 20m. Before leaving 20m I turned the antenna toward the south and quickly found and worked Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Afterwards I switched to 40m and 80m and worked most of the closer sections. I also tuned for multipliers when I could and after 8 1/2 hours I had worked 79 of the 80 sections. I was only missing Quebec and I thought that would easily come later so I just concentrated on making a lot of contacts for the remainder of the evening. 80m was in fantastic shape and the new expanded phone segment made operating on this band pleasurable. My west Beverage antenna was working very well and I was now wishing that I had also set up one aiming north. On Sunday, 15m was open with many strong signals from the west coast, however I was never able to run on this band. I ran stations in the late morning on 20m with my beam pointing toward Quebec, but no one from that province called me. Around 1700z I switch to 40m and while looking for a clear frequency, I found VE2/K2HVN. He must have just turned on his radio and I was able to quickly work Quebec for the sweep. Of course, shortly later two more VE2 stations called me. I wish I had taken more off time during Sunday afternoon as 80m was again very hot at the end of the contest and I ran out of op time. Shortly after the contest I removed the temporary set up before the critters were able to do more cable chewing damage. Thanks for the QSOs. 73, John KK9A john@kk9a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ATL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 25,680 No better way to beat the Sunday blues than to start on Sunday afternoon. Where were all of the hotshot SO2R guys? Most of my contacts were with NRs as low as mine. If you tune, you may find some new contacts. I'm not S&Ping for you when I just start on Sunday afternoon. I'm having fun running! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP Total Score = 28,470 TS-440S, G5RV es R7000 Can hardly wait for my C3S... Tnx for the Qs, 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 80,730 This is my best score in Phone SS. Its also my best QSO total from my home station in any contest until this date. Given the conditions, this is about as good as it will get with my limited station. Very interesting conditions. Thanks to anybody that spotted me. (Do people still use the TUNING KNOB?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 101,100 I had way too much fun for a phone contest! I operated in "last few hours / new meat" mode on Sunday due to band gigs and travel. I highly recommend this type of operation. It's good for your sanity, your voice and I'm pretty sure it grows new hair and cures acne! Basically I fired up below some pig farmers on ~3827 so that they all congregated there to throw carriers, play music, and cuss and scream at me. This allowed a flanking maneuver up to a very clear 3830 when they weren't listening. The rate meter was between 150-220 for the last 4 hours of the contest. I think the new 80 meter antenna is working, but I need something for receive pretty badly. The QRN was high here. The band went long as well. It was easier to work W6 than VA and MDC. W4MYA was even down from his usual 50 over S9. I used my trusty old MFJ voice keyer. What are the cool kids using for voice keying with N1MM these days? I guess I should join the 21st century and look into some kind of computer generated stuff, but all the WAV file nightmares posted here make me rethink it. Maybe I can use my new 24 track digital recorder and make some cool CQ files with lots of reverb and effects! I hope everyone has a blessed Thanksgiving. America has its problems these days, but it's still the best deal going. We're fortunate that we have the freedom to play around in these silly contests... 73, Will AA4NC / W4MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 187,520 Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NF Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 189,440 This was the Shakedown Cruise for the station after being in storage for almost a year while the basement was being finished (our contractor works real slow). I was planning on doing SO2R with the new FT 2000 and the FT 1000MP with the Microham MK2R+. I started out on 20 Meters and had a good run n the first hour. I was going to start using the second radio when the rate started to slow down. I was using the SO2R box for my CQ message and that seemed to work fine. Sometime in the 5th hour of the contest the SO2R box went haywire. I lost my DVK message and could not record another. It was too late to try and figure out what went wrong (after about and hour or two of messing around with it) so I grabbed my old MFJ DVK off the shelf and plugged it in. The damage was done though. With rates of 26, 31 and 26 in the 6th - 8th hours there was no way to recover. So there is the excuse. - I did have fun though and the new Radio Shack with carpet, nice lighting and a comfortable chair were very welcome and made the contest very enjoyable. VY1JA was my last section for the Sweep and I used every filter that the FT 2000 had to be able to hear J durng the early afternoon period on 20 Meters on Sunday. There was someone operating real close in frequency and the associated splatter was tough to hear through. Thanks J for the QSO and the Sweep. Thanks to everyone for the Qs and I'll see you in the next one. 73, Jack W4NF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 80,320 First sweep in 53 years of ham radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,020 I almost pulled the plug on this contest because the bands were so terrible to start out. Then, like someone turned on a light switch, things started taking off. It was good to talk to many of my good friends like WX3B, W4MYA, N4PN (always a treat). I did not break 100K like I would have liked, but I beat last year's score and that is what counts. Contest moment.....Me running stations on 80 meters and K1AR calling me instead of the other way around!! Thanks to everyone for the Q's and being patient with me when the band conditions were so horrible. Now if we could just get some sunspots....... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,200 ICOM 756 PROIII, HEIL QUIET PHONE HEADSET, FORCE 12 C-4 AT 40 FEET, 80 M. DIPOLE AT 30 FEET. 8 HOURS 7 MINUTES Didn't do antenna homework and amp would not load in the 80 M. band. Turned off amp and went SOLP for the contest. Ran first 20 Q's with rig putting out about 10 watts on 80 M. Things went downhill from there. Never got the rhythm, even with a blazing 100 watts full power. Thanks to those who had the patience to work out the Q's with me. /Vic/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WTB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 40,606 I usually never work Sweepstakes ... due to limited time in November.... But had some free time this weekend for contesting .... and managed 9.7 hours of S&P....and had a blast !!! .... My contest goal, was working all 80 sections .... instead of making a bunch of Q's .... I missed the sweep by one section ...which was "NL" ( Newfoundland / Labrador ) .... I operated 6 hours on Saturday and 3.7 hours on Sunday ..... Tnx for the contacts and God Bless. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5CPT Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 50,880 My first real attempt with a directional antenna and an amp. Also my first Sweep. I am going to have to get a better chair for the shack! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5IF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 202,080 First time to ever work SS, what a blast! Tried to make it the whole time but ran out of CQ's. Signals on 20, 40 and 80 were great, with some decent runs. With all the "Big" signals on 20 I don't see how a LP station ever kept a frequency. Last few hours kept asking for an NT station and finally snagged one for the SWEEP ! Back next year after their is a voice keyer under the xmas tree ! 73 Glen W5IF Oklahoma ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 282,516 Station W5KFT: http://www.w5kft.org/ Beverages - none this weekend 80 - Sloping dipoles - NE, NW from 150', SE from 135' 40 - Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 150', rotatable Cushcraft 40-2CD @ 70', fixed NE 20 - Hy-Gain 204BA @ 157', rotatable Hy-Gain 204BA @ 105', fixed NE Hy-Gain 204BA @ 53', fixed NE 15 - Hy-Gain 155CA @ 135', rotatable Hy-Gain 155CA @ 90', fixed NE Hy-Gain 155CA @ 45', fixed NE Radio 1: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1500 Radio 2: Kenwood TS-850SAT, Ameritron AL-1200 Headset: Heil Proset DVK: W9XT Contest Card Software: TR Log 6.78 Other: Ameritron RCS-8V switches, ICE bandpass filters, Top Ten Devices Band Decoders, Top Ten Devices DXDoubler, CDE rotors Thanks to Bryan W5KFT for letting me operate from his station in the Sweepstakes again. This is the first year I've gone to bed on Saturday night with over 1000 QSOs. I had a really slow first hour on 20 meters before things began to pick up. I think I just got lucky on 40 meters and managed to get good frequencies that held up through the broadcasters' schedules. I had a fairly poor Sunday. Among other problems, something I ate disagreed with me and I had a couple of hours where I was on the verge of being suddenly sick. After about 1800 UTC, I was over it, but I never had good rate on Sunday anywhere on 20 meters. This is a personal best QSO total for me, but I never heard a station from Nl or Nt sections all weekend. HR 80 40 20 15 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ------ -------- -------- -------- ------ --------- ----- 21 --- --- 115/42 1/0 116/42 116/42 0.01M 22 --- --- 158/12 ---- 158/12 274/54 0.03M 23 --- 24/4 84/3 ---- 108/7 382/61 0.05M 0 --- 33/3 62/3 ---- 95/6 477/67 0.06M 1 --- 115/5 --- ---- 115/5 592/72 0.09M 2 --- 109/3 --- ---- 109/3 701/75 0.11M 3 --- 97/0 --- ---- 97/0 798/75 0.12M 4 --- 97/1 --- --- 97/1 895/76 0.14M 5 11/0 56/0 --- --- 67/0 962/76 0.15M 6 8/0 57/0 --- --- 65/0 1027/76 0.16M 7 8/0 39/0 --- --- 47/0 1074/76 0.16M 8 --- --- --- --- --- 1074/76 0.16M 9 --- --- --- --- --- 1074/76 0.16M 10 --- --- --- --- --- 1074/76 0.16M 11 --- --- --- --- --- 1074/76 0.16M 12 5/0 40/0 --- --- 45/0 1119/76 0.17M 13 --- 19/1 30/1 --- 49/2 1168/78 0.18M 14 --- --- 62/0 --- 62/0 1230/78 0.19M 15 --- 2/0 61/0 --- 63/0 1293/78 0.20M 16 --- --- 57/0 3/0 60/0 1353/78 0.21M 17 --- --- 62/0 2/0 64/0 1417/78 0.22M 18 --- --- 18/0 3/0 21/0 1438/78 0.22M 19 --- --- 63/0 1/0 64/0 1502/78 0.23M 20 --- --- 68/0 --- 68/0 1570/78 0.24M 21 --- 2/0 59/0 1/0 62/0 1632/78 0.25M 22 --- 2/0 71/0 --- 73/0 1705/78 0.27M 23 --- 18/0 24/0 --- 42/0 1747/78 0.27M 0 6/0 43/0 --- --- 49/0 1796/78 0.28M 1 7/0 9/0 --- --- 16/0 1812/78 0.28M TO 45/0 762/17 994/61 11/0 1812/78 Gross QSO's=1848 Dupes=36 Net QSO's=1812 Unique callsigns worked = 1812 The best 60 minute rate was 168/hour from 2214 to 2313 The best 30 minute rate was 182/hour from 2221 to 2250 The best 10 minute rate was 198/hour from 2231 to 2240 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSO's/minute 13 times. 3 QSO's/minute 141 times. 2 QSO's/minute 387 times. 1 QSO's/minute 563 times. There were 95 bandchanges and 41 (2.3%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 1 4 791 5 677 6 336 7 4 8 3 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- Va 0 3 33 69 0 0 105 5.7 Il 0 4 43 53 0 0 100 5.4 Mi 0 0 38 49 0 0 87 4.7 Oh 0 1 43 37 0 0 81 4.4 Mn 0 1 36 39 0 0 76 4.1 Nc 0 2 16 47 0 0 65 3.5 Mdc 0 3 27 32 0 0 62 3.4 Wi 0 0 25 34 1 0 60 3.2 WWa 0 0 9 38 2 0 49 2.7 Scv 0 0 15 33 1 0 49 2.7 Sv 0 1 13 26 0 0 40 2.2 Ep 0 1 13 26 0 0 40 2.2 In 0 1 18 20 0 0 39 2.1 Or 0 0 5 33 0 0 38 2.1 On 0 0 14 20 0 0 34 1.8 Tn 0 1 18 14 0 0 33 1.8 Ga 0 1 14 15 0 0 30 1.6 Org 0 1 18 10 0 0 29 1.6 WNy 0 1 17 10 0 0 28 1.5 NNj 0 1 9 17 0 0 27 1.5 Em 0 2 15 8 0 0 25 1.4 ENy 0 0 12 12 1 0 25 1.4 Ky 0 2 10 11 0 0 23 1.2 Ct 0 0 9 14 0 0 23 1.2 SNj 0 1 8 13 0 0 22 1.2 Sjv 0 0 9 13 0 0 22 1.2 NLi 0 1 8 13 0 0 22 1.2 Mo 0 3 13 6 0 0 22 1.2 WcF 0 0 10 11 0 0 21 1.1 WPa 0 0 8 13 0 0 21 1.1 Sc 0 0 9 12 0 0 21 1.1 Ia 0 0 15 6 0 0 21 1.1 Eb 0 0 5 14 1 0 20 1.1 SFl 0 0 6 14 0 0 20 1.1 Az 0 0 12 8 0 0 20 1.1 NFl 0 0 8 10 1 0 19 1.0 Id 0 0 6 12 0 0 18 1.0 Lax 0 0 9 9 0 0 18 1.0 Wv 0 0 8 9 0 0 17 0.9 Nv 0 0 8 9 0 0 17 0.9 Nh 0 0 8 9 0 0 17 0.9 Al 0 0 11 6 0 0 17 0.9 Ew 0 0 2 14 0 0 16 0.9 Co 0 3 11 2 0 0 16 0.9 Ne 0 0 7 8 0 0 15 0.8 Ut 0 0 8 6 0 0 14 0.8 Sdg 0 0 8 6 0 0 14 0.8 WMa 0 1 5 8 0 0 14 0.8 De 0 0 4 8 0 0 12 0.6 Vt 0 0 8 4 0 0 12 0.6 Mt 0 0 3 8 0 0 11 0.6 Sf 0 0 4 7 0 0 11 0.6 STx 0 0 5 6 0 0 11 0.6 Nm 0 1 6 3 0 0 10 0.5 Ri 0 1 3 6 0 0 10 0.5 Ab 0 0 3 6 0 0 9 0.5 Sb 0 0 4 5 0 0 9 0.5 Wy 0 0 5 3 0 0 8 0.4 Sd 0 0 4 4 0 0 8 0.4 Ar 0 2 6 0 0 0 8 0.4 Me 0 0 3 5 0 0 8 0.4 Nd 0 0 4 4 0 0 8 0.4 Ak 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0.4 Bc 0 1 1 4 1 0 7 0.4 Ok 0 2 5 0 0 0 7 0.4 NNy 0 0 4 2 0 0 6 0.3 La 0 0 4 0 1 0 5 0.3 Ks 0 0 3 1 0 0 4 0.2 Pac 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.2 Ms 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.2 Mb 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 Sk 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2 Vi 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 NTx 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 0.2 Mar 0 0 1 2 0 0 3 0.2 WTx 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.1 Qc 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.1 Pr 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 45 762 994 11 0 1812 Sweepstakes Checks Check QSOs Pct ---------------------- 00 26 1.4 01 24 1.3 02 31 1.7 03 29 1.6 04 20 1.1 05 38 2.1 06 46 2.5 07 36 2.0 08 0 0.0 09 1 0.1 10 0 0.0 11 0 0.0 12 2 0.1 13 1 0.1 14 0 0.0 15 0 0.0 16 2 0.1 17 0 0.0 18 0 0.0 19 2 0.1 20 1 0.1 21 1 0.1 22 1 0.1 23 0 0.0 24 1 0.1 25 0 0.0 26 0 0.0 27 1 0.1 28 0 0.0 29 1 0.1 30 1 0.1 31 1 0.1 32 2 0.1 33 1 0.1 34 2 0.1 35 1 0.1 36 1 0.1 37 0 0.0 38 3 0.2 39 1 0.1 40 2 0.1 41 2 0.1 42 0 0.0 43 0 0.0 44 1 0.1 45 0 0.0 46 1 0.1 47 4 0.2 48 6 0.3 49 3 0.2 50 4 0.2 51 12 0.7 52 20 1.1 53 25 1.4 54 37 2.0 55 30 1.7 56 27 1.5 57 41 2.3 58 51 2.8 59 51 2.8 60 26 1.4 61 43 2.4 62 47 2.6 63 49 2.7 64 38 2.1 65 37 2.0 66 26 1.4 67 27 1.5 68 41 2.3 69 38 2.1 70 35 1.9 71 28 1.5 72 25 1.4 73 21 1.2 74 27 1.5 75 35 1.9 76 61 3.4 77 59 3.3 78 50 2.8 79 37 2.0 80 18 1.0 81 16 0.9 82 25 1.4 83 19 1.0 84 9 0.5 85 7 0.4 86 19 1.0 87 20 1.1 88 20 1.1 89 25 1.4 90 22 1.2 91 54 3.0 92 36 2.0 93 30 1.7 94 35 1.9 95 30 1.7 96 24 1.3 97 22 1.2 98 22 1.2 99 15 0.8 Callareas Worked Area QSOs Pct ------------------ 0 179 9.9 1 141 7.8 2 164 9.1 3 187 10.3 4 275 15.2 5 56 3.1 6 221 12.2 7 191 10.5 8 193 10.7 9 205 11.3 Sweepstakes Precedents Precedent QSOs Pct ---------------------- A 935 51.6 B 412 22.7 Q 43 2.4 M 142 7.8 U 266 14.7 S 14 0.8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5UMS Class: School Club LP Total Score = 86,560 This was the first time for Ole Miss W5UMS to enter Phone SS. 80 sure was jumpin'! Lots of fun and looking forward to next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6BX Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 63,492 Started on 15, with pretty good results. 20 was tough to crack, even with this pretty nice beam and QTH, and didn't get much traction until dark and many had abandoned it for 40. 40 was mediocre, thanks to a low inverted V, and 80 was even worse, thanks to another low inverted V and an S8 noise level. As a refugee from 9-land, it's clear to me that one of the biggest mistakes west coast contesters make is not taking 80M antennas seriously, and putting too much faith in aluminum for 40M. 73, Jim K9YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6CQP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,624 A really difficult contest with only 100 watts and my "invisible" antennas! I hope conditions improve by this time next year. I never even heard several of the Canadian provinces or the Maritimes. 80 seemed to be especially difficult. I heard SF once, but could't work it. Same with SB. I was surprized I found RI and DE. The elusive RI completed my WAS from this mobile home QTH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6EB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 37,240 Low wires for antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ISO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 72,522 Missed NL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 48,000 It was good to get sweeps on both CW and SSB this year. I have a VY1 ritual that I go though every year...I usually hear VY1JA late Saturday afternoon on 20M, but I can't work him. My beam does not have a rotator and I just leave it heading east. So I go on the roof, hand turn the beam north, come back down and I usually get through to VY1 right away. This year I got a big payoff from my trip to the roof...while it was heading north, I worked all the north sections that I needed, AK, AB, BC, SK and then both VY1JA and VY1MB in back-to-back QSOs...Tks J and Bob for making my day! On Sunday, W5UMS answered my CQ on 20M...I recognized the call, because two years ago I just happened on the W5UMS Field Day station on the campus of Ole'Miss while visiting during the student orientation weekend with my son. I ended up guest operating the W5UMS Field Day station for about 30 QSOs. The W5UMS op remembered my visit to their FD station...nice way to bring back some good memories. 73, Jim, W6KC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6MVW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,550 50 min. of S&P. Why do I do this SSB stuff? Painful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6RQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 225,280 This was a Sunday-only effort. I spent most of the day parked at 14221.7 on 20 meters. A separate W6YX multi-op effort shared the station so I never went to 15 meters and they didn't get onto 20 on Sunday until I moved down to 40. The only mult that didn't call me was VY1 - I saw VY1JA in the bandmap and quickly called J and returned to my run frequency. Utah was the final mult worked. -Mike, N7MH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 320,800 Thanks to everyone for a fun weekend. It was great to hear so many first timers again this year. Bands were in pretty good shape with good runs on 15 most of the day. The station played fairly well and the noise level was low. Thanks to Jim for hosting the gang again this year. CU you all in CQWW CW from ZF1A. 73, John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 183,438 We missed NL. :-( The W6YX station supported a couple of guest ops for Single OP HP efforts, we deferred antenna and band selection to those Highly Motivated Operators during the contest, hence a lack of 20m QSOs. Many thanks to K6IF for opening the contest with stellar rates on 15m and 40m, he also snagged 69 of the 79 mults we gathered in the first four hours. Also not to go without mention the loan of his AL-12 Legal Limit Amplifier. The Beverages worked well on 80m, thanks to those that helped get them sorted out in time for the contest. QSO/Sec by hour and band Hour 80 40 20 15 Total Cumm OffTime D1-2100Z - - - 140/35 140/35 140/35 D1-2200Z - 3/2 - 79/5 82/7 222/42 D1-2300Z - 107/21 - - 107/21 329/63 D2-0000Z --+-- 96/6 5/0 --+-- 101/6 430/69 D2-0100Z 26/3 - 7/0 - 33/3 463/72 D2-0200Z 31/0 - - - 31/0 494/72 D2-0300Z 45/0 - - - 45/0 539/72 D2-0400Z 28/0 - - - 28/0 567/72 D2-0500Z - 22/0 - - 22/0 589/72 46 D2-0600Z - 71/1 - - 71/1 660/73 D2-0700Z - 44/1 - - 44/1 704/74 D2-0800Z 35/0 7/0 --+-- --+-- 42/0 746/74 D2-0900Z 20/2 - - - 20/2 766/76 31 D2-1000Z - - - - 0/0 766/76 60 D2-1100Z - - - - 0/0 766/76 60 D2-1200Z - - - - 0/0 766/76 60 D2-1300Z - - - - 0/0 766/76 60 D2-1400Z - 2/0 - - 2/0 768/76 50 D2-1500Z - 5/0 - 29/1 34/1 802/77 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 52/1 52/1 854/78 D2-1700Z - - - 51/0 51/0 905/78 D2-1800Z - - - 27/0 27/0 932/78 D2-1900Z - - - 38/0 38/0 970/78 D2-2000Z - - - 34/0 34/0 1004/78 D2-2100Z - - - 20/0 20/0 1024/78 D2-2200Z - 13/0 - 1/0 14/0 1038/78 D2-2300Z - 12/0 30/1 - 42/1 1080/79 D3-0000Z 4/0 --+-- 15/0 --+-- 19/0 1099/79 D3-0100Z 23/0 - - - 23/0 1122/79 D3-0200Z 1/0 38/0 - - 39/0 1161/79 Total: 213/5 420/31 57/1 471/42 73 de N6CCH aka Rebar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,040 Antennas were Hustler mobile whips. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7VJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 91,000 Great to hear 15 open up to the midwest and east coast. Sure lightened the 20M load. Appreciate the contacts from those whom I worked. Happy Holidays and 73, Andrew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 307,152 Missed NL section for the second time in the past three years. Could not maintain a high rate at the start of the contest due to my 20 meter cq’s going unanswered and heavy QRM requiring seemingly endless fills. By contrast Sunday conditions on 20 seemed much improved, especially propagation to the Northeastern US and VE. The phone band expansions on 40 and 75 seemed to have provide more elbow room and reduced QRM. 73 de Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 43,540 Man, my ears are still ringing. This SSB stuff drives me nuts :-) I have come to realize what kind of special talent it takes to run stations on SSB. I listen to some of these guys with Q counts over 2000 and am amazed! To me it is a lot easier to do this on CW. Saturday afternoon ar 3:30 local time I was working the east coast on 40. Forty meters sounded like 20 meters and I though it was going to be a good night. But the band went long and a lot of these stations just disappeared later in the evening. Same on 80. It was good early, but kinda petered out later on. Thanks for the Q's and see you in the CQWW CW nxet weekend. Hope everyone pigs out on turkey and pumpkin pie and has a great Thanksgiving. 73 Tom W7WHY Radio 1 TS-450SAT + SB-200 ~ 500 watts Radio 2 TS-450SAT 80 meter dipole, 40 meter vertical, 20 meter monobander, 15 meter dipole. N1MM Logger 7.11.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 91,324 Missed VE2 for a sweep ... and Murphy hit twice, had a feedline problem to fix in the middle of the night (dark and raining) grumble and RF in the DVK Audio line that I couldn't choke out. But had a great time and worked lots of familiar calls. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RJL Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 99,040 IC-736, Kenwood TL-922A, 80 dipole, 40 diploe, 3 element SteppIR at 33 feet, N3FJP loging software. Murphy hit the Ten-Tec tuner used on 80 so repatched 80 to MFJ tuner used for 40 and kept going. Was able to "run" on 40 & 80 but could not run on 20 as I did in the SS CW contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2BCK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 116,844 I'm using only a wire antenna but I got my amplifier back from Alpha so this contest was a lot easier than last weekends LP effort. Thanks to all who gave me points! Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 57,424 Another SS gone by the wayside. I found 40 and 80 to be very long Saturday night. I was to run Sunday night much better and had rates over 100+ at time. I worked the famous K0DEX/Calvin who is 13 years old and loves contesting and particularly CW contests. He is an aspiring young ham who will do well in the future. My goal for this contest was to make 400-500 Qs and came close to 400 but no cigar. I worked all of Saturday until 2am local. Then worked at the KT0R station on Sunday from 10am to 6pm. That was a lot of fun and a new experience for me to work a M/S station during SS. It is alway great to work from the KT0R station and would like to contine to work another one from there. 73 and thanks to all the stations that returned my call when I was running. Bob - WA2MNO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3SES Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,000 Working PAC on 80 was a big thrill for me I'll be glad to get back to CW next weekend ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4JM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,080 ARRL SWEEPSTAKES -- 2007 Call: WA4JM Category: Single Operator Power: QRP Band: Mono 40 Mode: SSB Section: WCF BAND QSO QSO PTS SECTIONS 160 0 0 - 80 0 0 - 40 21 42 - 20 14 28 - 15 9 18 - 10 0 0 - ----------------------------------- Totals 44 88 35 Score: 3,080 Power Output: 5 watts Hours of operation: <24 Equipment Description: Ten-Tec Argo V, MFJ-941B Tuner and a 135 foot flat-top at 30 feet. Club Affiliation: This is to certify that in this contest I have operated my transmitter within the limitations of my license and have observed fully the rules and regulations of the contest. Signature _________________________________ MAILING ADDRESS: JOHN MOUW WA4JM 36719 JACKSON AVE DADE CITY, FL 33525 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA8SDF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,680 Time was limited because I work weekends, so I operated mainly late evenings, or early mornings. 20 was pretty dead by the time I got on. And 40 eventually got tapped out Also a limited lot size prevents a decent 80m antenna. A G5RVjr@ 60' just fits, but doesn't tune too well on 75. It's better than a dummy load. Just barely! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB1GQR Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 248,640 Conditions don’t get any worse that this! I thought I had a rough time of it, but I have heard bellyaching about SS propagation from one of end of the land to the other. Going into this, I knew 20 meters would be a short timer, as it has been deteriorating quickly after 2300. Things started out OK on 20 meters with a reasonable hour. However, when I arrived on 80 meters, I found that my bread & butter, those hundred of stations in 1,2, and 3-land were wiped out by a 300 mile skip zone. Fortunately, the skip zone subsided later that evening and I was able to get some big hours going. West coast stations were quite strong on 80 meters, but noticed that their numbers were down considerably. After a mediocre first half, I was optimistic that Sunday would bring some big hours and big scores. It didn’t. The first hour on 20 meters on Sunday morning was pretty good. But it totally tanked after that. I had a clear frequency, people said I was strong, but all I could get were a few stations in bunches and then nothing for 5-7 minutes. I was positive that there was something wrong with the yagi, but I tried the backup and found the same results. I tried everything, but the rate continued to stay in the dumper. The situation was best summed up by someone on the cluster who commented, “trade beer for QSO’s!” By mid-afternoon, I gave up and retreated to 40 meters, a band I rarely do well on. Fortunately, I was able to put up some good numbers and undo the 20 meter disaster. By Sunday night, things were so bad that I tried 160 meters for a while, along with several others. I used to have no trouble breaking 1600 Q’s on phone and 1000 Q’s on CW in an off year. I haven’t reached those milestones in several years. I used to think that the keen competition we have had up here in the last few years has made Vermont an easy state to log and has cut down some of the pileups. Well, this year, some of the big scores were missing and Vermont was again semi-rare. And I still couldn’t break 1600! Time for a bigger antenna! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ZAB Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 116,800 Thanks to WX3B for pushing me to put up an 80M dipole. Even though it was only 25 feet off the ground at the center, it played really well. It was the first time I have ever operated on this band never having had the room to put antenna prior to this. 40 was very strong and my 402-cd is great out to the west coast. I was finally feeling comfortable running on 20 during prime time. The Steppir played really well out to 6 and 7 land and I had a serious pile up going when my neighbor called to tell me the RFI problem I and WX3B and N3KS thought we had solved was still a problem and I had to QSY to 80. I was hoping to break 1000 but if anything the contest made clear how much more I need to practice running and logging. And I owe WX3B dinner! W6OAT said he had never heard so many MDC stations. Good work all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,120 Saturday only effort. Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC4J Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 20,868 man what a contest worked Saturday night mainly and about 2 hours Sunday morning missed WPA AK PAC QC BC NT Heard but couldn't work all but WPA 73 de Brian WC4J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD5K Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 147,040 FT1000mp 100w TH7DX @ 50' 40m Dipole 80m Inv V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE9V Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 114,234 Wasn't to enthused about operating this one, so didn't turn on the radio until late Sunday morning for only a few hours, then the last hour of the contest. First time in a long time I didn't enter Unlimited and I didn't chase after any mults. Just CQ'd and let them come to me. Missed only VY1 surprisingly. The contest is pretty fun when you average 100 Qs/hr and don't have Sunday doldrums. :-) The extra room on 80M sure is nice. Too bad there isn't 150kc more room on 40M. Or 20M for that matter. 15M was a nice surprise, including some short skip. My third last mult was ME. Then 3 called in a row! My second last mult was MS and two called in a row!! Always a fun contest!! Chad WE9V http://www.we9v.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF3C Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 37,816 TS-850 + Harris RF103A @ 1kw Moseley Pro67C @ 60' Inverted Vee @ 58' Writelog Most interesting contact of the contest was with IK4SPB at about 0100z on 75m. He called to tell me I was 59+30 there. Must be something special about that inverted vee or that kw amplifier; not sure which though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 401,920 Thanks to WA3FET, NP4A and WP3R for all the support for 10 years, here at my home away from home. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT9U Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 152,960 Sounded like PVRC was out in force this weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW9R Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 107,200 That was one fun contest. It was a pleasure to work so many hams that have been in the hobby for over 50 years. Only 50 weeks till the next one... Pat WW9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: SO Unlimited HP Total Score = 218,244 Believe it or not, I actually ENJOYED a lot about this contest. As usual, highlights are the on-line rag chews with friends. I did sign "Bravo" as my precidence, however I was definitely assisted. My personal goal was 1,500 QSOs which I fell slightly short of - however I am pleased with my overall (best ever) single-op Sweepstakes effort. I borred a great idea from W3LPL, K3MIM and W3IDT this year and configured WX3B as two by three radio single-ops for 20/40/80. N3CA, Michael did a 5 hour blast as WY3P (The Carroll County Contesters Club Call) and cranked out 480 QSOs by 73 sections - simply amazing! I started the contest in my element - 20 meters. This is definitely the "800 pound gorilla" band at WX3B. Unfortuately for me, this band closes up shop awfully early these days. When I moved to 80 (early), I was measurably ahead of just about everyone, including my friends who would eventually whip me to a pulp! In hindsight, I should have stayed on 20 for at least another hour or two. Well I sat down on 75m getting ready to hit 1,000 QSOs by midnight; and unfortunately I discovered that my station was ill-equipped to deal with the GAP in propagation. Long skip was great, but all the bread/butter close-in stuff was GONE. Twas the weekend where phased verticals and beverages were needed. Congratulations to Tom, NI1N for a truly magical score on 75 meters and a GREAT overall effort. Tom does this with ONE RADIO! I ended up with about 800 Total QSOs Saturday night but I had to work like a DOG for those 75m QSOs. Eventually 75m did open locally, but not until way after midnight. Got a couple hours sleep and fired up on 40 for an immediate excellent run. N3CA joined me at about 8:45am Sunday and I gave up the 40m band to him and got on 20, which was a great strategy for team PVRC, but a horrible one for myself personally. 20m was a slug-fest of already worked guys, and while I enjoyed winning a bunch of frequency fights, I lost the rate war. Eventually Mike went to 20 and I took back 40 and my rate immediately improved, and so did my enjoyment of the contest. Went to 75 early again...great conditions..at first..however the bottom once again dropped out and all that was happening was long skip. Stole the N3KS/NI1N idea to run a few on 160 and that was good for a few rapid QSOs. Tried to catch Kam, N3KS at the end of the contest in clamied QSOs but just couldn't do it. What a great contest - and to be anywhere near K3MM's score...is something I'm pretty darn happy about. By the way, did anybody else besides me think it's interesting that the man in charge of the "Top Gun" sweepstakes mugs happens to be the #1 Top Gun himself? 73 & bring on some DX contests with simple exchanges! Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WY3P Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 70,800 Michael, N3CA was home from College and decided he wanted to play radio. I invited him to WX3B to do a Multi-Radio/Multi-Call sign event; he operated as WY3P (Caroll County Contesters) at my station (WX3B) for about 5 hours! Well I am pleased to say that Mike went from ICE COLD (no radio for over a year) to back in the chair, using the software, running a frequency like he never skipped a beat. Welcome back, Mike - GREAT JOB! Imagine what he would have done in 24 hours... 73, Jim Nitzberg WX3B on behalf of N3CA Index of Calls Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op HP Call: AA4V Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AA8LL Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: AA9DY Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: AB4GG Class: Single Op LP Call: AC0W Class: Single Op LP Call: AE6RR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AI2N Class: Single Op LP Call: AI4ME Class: Single Op LP Call: AI4WB Class: Single Op LP Call: AJ1M Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AJ3G Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AJ9C Class: Single Op LP Call: AL1G Class: Single Op HP Call: K0AD Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0FVF Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K0GAS Class: Single Op HP Call: K0HC Class: School Club HP Call: K0HW Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0KX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0OU Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K0PK Class: Single Op HP Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0RH Class: Single Op LP Call: K0RI Class: Single Op QRP Call: K0TG Class: Single Op LP Call: K0TO Class: Single Op HP Call: K0WHV Class: Single Op LP Call: K0XI Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K1BX Class: Single Op LP Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1HTV Class: Single Op LP Call: K1JB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K1PY Class: Single Op LP Call: K1RX Class: Single Op HP Call: K1RY Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K1VU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1ZW Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K2DBK Class: Single Op LP Call: K2NNY Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K2PS Class: Single Op HP Call: K2WK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3AN Class: Single Op LP Call: K3AU Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K3DNE Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3MIM Class: Single Op HP Call: K3MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3MZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K3RWN Class: Single Op LP Call: K3STX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3SV Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WI Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K3WW Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4BK Class: Single Op LP Call: K4CZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4EU Class: Single Op LP Call: K4FAU Class: School Club HP Call: K4HAL Class: Single Op LP Call: K4IU Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4KDJ Class: School Club HP Call: K4LY Class: Single Op LP Call: K4MIL Class: Single Op LP Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Call: K4RG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4SSU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4TMC Class: Single Op LP Call: K4TS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4WW Class: Single Op LP Call: K4WX Class: Single Op LP Call: K4XD Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K4ZGB Class: Single Op HP Call: K5AM Class: Single Op HP Call: K5ER Class: Single Op HP Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K5QQ Class: Single Op LP Call: K5RC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K5TA Class: Single Op HP Call: K5TR Class: Single Op HP Call: K5UV Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K5XR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K5YAA Class: Single Op LP Call: K6AK Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K6DBG Class: SO Unlimited QRP Call: K6GEP Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K6IDX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6JEB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6KO Class: Single Op HP Call: K6LA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6LL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6LRN Class: Single Op HP Call: K6MM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6NR Class: Single Op HP Call: K6NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6OWL Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K6QK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6RB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6RIM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6ST Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6TD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K6VVA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6YT Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K6ZM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7ABV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7BG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7GK Class: Single Op HP Call: K7NV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7RL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7UP Class: Single Op QRP Call: K7XC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K7ZSD Class: Single Op LP Call: K8AO Class: Single Op HP Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Call: K8GT Class: Single Op LP Call: K8GU Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Call: K9BGL Class: Single Op HP Call: K9CT Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: K9GX Class: Single Op HP Call: K9IUA Class: Single Op QRP Call: K9NS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K9YC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KA0CSW Class: Single Op LP Call: KA1ARB Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KA1CQR Class: Single Op LP Call: KA1VMG Class: Single Op QRP Call: KA8Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KB0FHP Class: Single Op LP Call: KB4KBS Class: Single Op LP Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KC0NOX Class: Single Op LP Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Call: KC5R Class: Single Op QRP Call: KC9IL Class: Single Op LP Call: KD0S Class: Single Op HP Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Call: KD5LNO Class: Single Op LP Call: KE1FO Class: Single Op HP Call: KE2DX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KF7CG Class: Single Op LP Call: KG5VK Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KH7Y Class: Single Op HP Call: KI6T Class: Single Op HP Call: KI9A Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KJ7UN Class: Single Op LP Call: KM2O Class: Single Op LP Call: KM9M Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KN4KL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KN5O Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KO7X Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KP2TM Class: Single Op HP Call: KQ8RP Class: Single Op LP Call: KR0B Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Call: KR4F Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KS0T Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: KS2G Class: Single Op LP Call: KT0R Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KT4PD Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KT4Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KT7G Class: Single Op HP Call: KU8E Class: Single Op HP Call: KV1J Class: Single Op QRP Call: KV8Q Class: SO Unlimited QRP Call: KY4F Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: KY5R Class: Single Op HP Call: N0BUI Class: Single Op LP Call: N0GF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N0IJ Class: Single Op HP Call: N0KE Class: Single Op QRP Call: N0NI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N0QO Class: Single Op HP Call: N0RU Class: Single Op QRP Call: N0UNL Class: School Club HP Call: N0UR Class: Single Op QRP Call: N1DD Class: Single Op LP Call: N1HRA Class: Single Op HP Call: N1LI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N1LN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N1MGO Class: Single Op HP Call: N1WR Class: Single Op HP Call: N2BZP Class: Single Op HP Call: N2NL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2NS Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Call: N2PL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N2SQW Class: Single Op HP Call: N2WF Class: Single Op LP Call: N3KHK Class: Single Op LP Call: N3KS Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N3OC Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N3SD Class: Single Op LP Call: N3UA Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N3YIM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N4FR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4GG Class: Single Op HP Call: N4JF Class: Single Op QRP Call: N4OX Class: Single Op HP Call: N4PN Class: Single Op LP Call: N4RV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N4VA Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op LP Call: N5DO Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N5WLA Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N6BV Class: Single Op HP Call: N6CK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6CY Class: Single Op HP Call: N6DA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6DE Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6GK Class: Single Op HP Call: N6HC Class: Single Op HP Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N6NF Class: Single Op HP Call: N6RNO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6RO Class: Single Op HP Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Call: N6WS Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N6XG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N6XI Class: Single Op HP Call: N7AZ Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: N7BF Class: Single Op HP Call: N7MAL Class: Single Op LP Call: N7MH Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N8AA Class: Single Op LP Call: N8HR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N8IE Class: Single Op QRP Call: N8TR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: N9FC Class: Single Op HP Call: N9RV Class: Single Op HP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op LP Call: NB7V Class: Single Op HP Call: ND0C Class: Single Op QRP Call: NF4A Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NG1I Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NI1N Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NJ1F Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: NJ4M Class: Multi-Op LP Call: NM2L Class: Single Op LP Call: NN3W Class: Single Op HP Call: NN4F Class: Single Op HP Call: NN5K Class: Single Op LP Call: NN7SS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: NP3D/W2 Class: Single Op LP Call: NQ4I Class: Multi-Op LP Call: NT0F Class: Single Op LP Call: NV4B Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: NX7TT Class: Single Op HP Call: NX9T Class: Single Op QRP Call: NY3A Class: Single Op HP Call: NY4A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA7AM Class: Single Op LP Call: VA7RN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op HP Call: VE2DWA Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3CR Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3CX Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3EY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3GLO Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3TA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VE3UTT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XAT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3XD Class: Single Op LP Call: VE4EAR Class: Single Op HP Call: VE5CPU Class: Single Op HP Call: VE5UF Class: Single Op HP Call: VE5ZX Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6CNU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6EX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VE6WQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VE7CC Class: Single Op HP Call: VE7FO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VE7KET Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1HE Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1MP Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: VO1TA Class: Single Op HP Call: VY2LI Class: Single Op HP Call: VY2ZM Class: Single Op HP Call: W0ETT/M Class: Single Op LP Call: W0LSD Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W0MU Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W0SD Class: Single Op HP Call: W0ZQ Class: Single Op LP Call: W1AW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W1BYH Class: Single Op LP Call: W1KQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W1NK Class: Single Op LP Call: W1UE Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W1XX Class: Single Op HP Call: W2DZO Class: Single Op LP Call: W2GDJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W2JU Class: Single Op LP Call: W2LHL Class: Single Op LP Call: W2TB Class: Single Op HP Call: W3FV Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3IDT Class: Single Op HP Call: W3KB Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W3LJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3LL Class: Single Op LP Call: W3PP Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W3TZ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4AAA Class: Single Op LP Call: W4ATL Class: Single Op HP Call: W4EE Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: W4GHD Class: Single Op HP Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4MR Class: Single Op HP Call: W4MYA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4NF Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4RK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W4TMN Class: Single Op LP Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op LP Call: W4WTB Class: Single Op HP Call: W5CPT Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W5IF Class: Single Op HP Call: W5KFT Class: Single Op HP Call: W5UMS Class: School Club LP Call: W5WW Class: Single Op HP Call: W5YAA Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6BX Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6CQP Class: Single Op LP Call: W6DSG Class: Single Op LP Call: W6EB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6EU Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6ISO Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6KC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6MVW Class: Single Op HP Call: W6OAT Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6RQ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6SC Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6TK Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W6YI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6YX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W7QN Class: Single Op LP Call: W7RN Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W7VJ Class: Single Op HP Call: W7WA Class: Single Op HP Call: W7WHY Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op LP Call: W7ZRC Class: Single Op LP Call: W8JI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W8MJ Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W8RJL Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: W8TM Class: Single Op LP Call: W9RE Class: Single Op HP Call: W9SZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W9YV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WA2BCK Class: Single Op HP Call: WA2JQK Class: Single Op HP Call: WA2MNO Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WA3SES Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4JM Class: Single Op QRP Call: WA6O Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WA7YAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: WA8SDF Class: Single Op LP Call: WB1DX Class: Single Op HP Call: WB1GQR Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WB2ZAB Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WB4MSG Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Call: WC4J Class: Multi-Op LP Call: WC6H Class: Single Op HP Call: WD5ACR Class: Single Op LP Call: WD5K Class: Single Op LP Call: WE9V Class: Single Op HP Call: WF3C Class: Single Op HP Call: WG4M Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: WK6I Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WM3T Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WP3R Class: Single Op HP Call: WT9U Class: Single Op HP Call: WV2ZOW Class: Single Op LP Call: WW9R Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WX3B Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: WX9U Class: Single Op LP Call: WY3P Class: Multi-Op HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K2NNY Call: K4TS Call: K5NA Call: K6AK Call: K6TD Call: K9NS Call: KA1ARB Call: KG5VK Call: KN4KL Call: KO7X Call: KR0B Call: KT0R Call: N0GF Call: N0NI Call: N1LI Call: N2PL Call: N3OC Call: N4FR Call: N5DO Call: N6KI Call: N8HR Call: NN7SS Call: NY4A Call: VE3TA Call: VE6EX Call: W1AW Call: W3LJ Call: W6ISO Call: W6YI Call: W6YX Call: W8JI Call: W9YV Call: WY3P Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K0FVF Call: K0XI Call: N5WLA Call: NJ4M Call: NQ4I Call: WC4J Class: School Club HP Call: K0HC Call: K4FAU Call: K4KDJ Call: N0UNL Class: School Club LP Call: W5UMS Class: Single Op HP Call: AA4LR Call: AL1G Call: K0GAS Call: K0PK Call: K0TO Call: K1RX Call: K2PS Call: K3MIM Call: K4BAI Call: K4RO Call: K4SSU Call: K4ZGB Call: K5AM Call: K5ER Call: K5TA Call: K5TR Call: K6KO Call: K6LA Call: K6LRN Call: K6NR Call: K7GK Call: K8AO Call: K8MR Call: K9BGL Call: K9GX Call: KD0S Call: KD4D Call: KE1FO Call: KH7Y Call: KI6T Call: KP2TM Call: KT7G Call: KU8E Call: KY5R Call: N0IJ Call: N0QO Call: N1HRA Call: N1MGO Call: N1WR Call: N2BZP Call: N2NT Call: N2SQW Call: N4GG Call: N4OX Call: N6BV Call: N6CY Call: N6GK Call: N6HC Call: N6NF Call: N6RO Call: N6XI Call: N7BF Call: N9FC Call: N9RV Call: NB7V Call: NN3W Call: NN4F Call: NN7ZZ Call: NX7TT Call: NY3A Call: VA7ST Call: VE3CR Call: VE4EAR Call: VE5CPU Call: VE5UF Call: VE7CC Call: VE7KET Call: VO1HE Call: VO1TA Call: VY2LI Call: VY2ZM Call: W0SD Call: W1XX Call: W2TB Call: W3IDT Call: W4ATL Call: W4GHD Call: W4MR Call: W4WTB Call: W5IF Call: W5KFT Call: W5WW Call: W6MVW Call: W7VJ Call: W7WA Call: W9RE Call: WA2BCK Call: WA2JQK Call: WB1DX Call: WB9Z Call: WC6H Call: WE9V Call: WF3C Call: WP3R Call: WT9U Class: Single Op LP Call: AB4GG Call: AC0W Call: AI2N Call: AI4ME Call: AI4WB Call: AJ9C Call: K0RC Call: K0RH Call: K0TG Call: K0WHV Call: K1BX Call: K1GU Call: K1HTV Call: K1PY Call: K1VU Call: K2DBK Call: K3AN Call: K3MZ Call: K3RWN Call: K3TD Call: K4BK Call: K4EU Call: K4HAL Call: K4LY Call: K4MIL Call: K4OD Call: K4TMC Call: K4WW Call: K4WX Call: K5QQ Call: K5YAA Call: K7ZSD Call: K8BL Call: K8GT Call: KA0CSW Call: KA1CQR Call: KA8Q Call: KB0FHP Call: KB4KBS Call: KB7Q Call: KC0NOX Call: KC4HW Call: KC9IL Call: KD5J Call: KD5LNO Call: KF7CG Call: KJ7UN Call: KM2O Call: KQ8RP Call: KS2G Call: KT4Q Call: N0BUI Call: N1DD Call: N2WF Call: N3KHK Call: N3SD Call: N4PN Call: N4ZZ Call: N7MAL Call: N8AA Call: NA4K Call: NM2L Call: NN5K Call: NP3D/W2 Call: NT0F Call: VA7AM Call: VE2DWA Call: VE3CX Call: VE3EY Call: VE3GLO Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3NE Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3RZ Call: VE3UTT Call: VE3XAT Call: VE3XD Call: VE5ZX Call: VE6CNU Call: W0ETT/M Call: W0ZQ Call: W1BYH Call: W1NK Call: W2DZO Call: W2JU Call: W2LHL Call: W3LL Call: W4AAA Call: W4KAZ Call: W4TMN Call: W4VIC Call: W6CQP Call: W6DSG Call: W7QN Call: W7ZR Call: W7ZRC Call: W8TM Call: W9SZ Call: WA3SES Call: WA7YAZ Call: WA8SDF Call: WB8JUI Call: WD5ACR Call: WD5K Call: WV2ZOW Call: WX9U Class: Single Op QRP Call: K0RI Call: K7UP Call: K9IUA Call: KA1VMG Call: KC5R Call: KR2Q Call: KV1J Call: N0KE Call: N0RU Call: N0UR Call: N4JF Call: N6WG Call: N8IE Call: ND0C Call: NX9T Call: VA3DF Call: WA4JM Class: SO Unlimited HP Call: AA4V Call: AE6RR Call: AJ1M Call: AJ3G Call: K0AD Call: K0HW Call: K0KX Call: K0OU Call: K1JB Call: K1ZW Call: K2WK Call: K3DNE Call: K3MM Call: K3STX Call: K3WI Call: K3WW Call: K4CZ Call: K4IU Call: K4RG Call: K4XD Call: K5RC Call: K5XR Call: K6IDX Call: K6JEB Call: K6LL Call: K6MM Call: K6NV Call: K6QK Call: K6RB Call: K6RIM Call: K6ST Call: K6VVA Call: K6YT Call: K6ZM Call: K7ABV Call: K7BG Call: K7NV Call: K7RL Call: K7XC Call: K9CT Call: K9YC Call: KE2DX Call: KI9A Call: KJ6RA Call: KM9M Call: KN5O Call: KR4F Call: KS0T Call: N1LN Call: N2NL Call: N2NS Call: N3KS Call: N3YIM Call: N4RV Call: N6CK Call: N6DA Call: N6DE Call: N6RNO Call: N6XG Call: N7MH Call: N8TR Call: NF4A Call: NG1I Call: NI1N Call: NJ1F Call: VA7RN Call: VE6WQ Call: VE7FO Call: VO1MP Call: W0MU Call: W1KQ Call: W1UE Call: W2GDJ Call: W3FV Call: W3PP Call: W3TZ Call: W4MYA Call: W4NF Call: W4RK Call: W5CPT Call: W5YAA Call: W6BX Call: W6EB Call: W6EU Call: W6KC Call: W6OAT Call: W6RQ Call: W6SC Call: W6TK Call: W7RN Call: W7WHY Call: W8MJ Call: W8RJL Call: WA2MNO Call: WA6O Call: WB1GQR Call: WB2ZAB Call: WB4MSG Call: WK6I Call: WM3T Call: WW9R Call: WX3B Class: SO Unlimited LP Call: AA8LL Call: AA9DY Call: K1RY Call: K3AU Call: K3SV Call: K5UV Call: K6GEP Call: K6OWL Call: K8GU Call: KT4PD Call: KY4F Call: N3UA Call: N4VA Call: N6WS Call: N7AZ Call: NV4B Call: W0LSD Call: W3KB Call: W4EE Call: WG4M Class: SO Unlimited QRP Call: K6DBG Call: KV8Q