WPX CW Soapbox built 6-11-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 161,952 Just a brief operation due to other commitments over the weekend, Great contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3V8SS Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 1,094,200 I STRAT ON 24.MAY ABOUT 18.00 BEFORE CONTEST MY RIG GO DOWN. BIG TNX TO HRANE YT1AD AND ZLATKO Z33AA FOR HELP AND I START IN THE CONTEST. MORE INFO NEXT DAYS ON WWW.MDXC.ORG/3V8SS I USE TS870 AND SLOOPER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 12,301,015 Great Contest and great activity !!! It is pleasant to set up a new record of Asia in SOAB HP category. Statistic by continents: EU 75%, NA 16%, AS 8%, OC 1%, AF 1%, SA 1%. Thanks to Gia 4L4WW for getting me use his great station again and also to his family for their hospitality. See you next year !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4M1T Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 3,029,922 Heavy problem whit the antena lost 5 of the best hours of operation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O4A Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 904,064 Biiiiig time fun :) Poor condx at first morning, excellent ears HC8N, ZW5W and others from SA/NA. Score is absolutely surprise for myself, and glad to know that Ocas (pronouncing OCH-AHS) proved itself as an amazing location for low band contests... Next year, SOSB80HP :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1ITU Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 146,228 First contest since NA Sprints from XE1/NV1P back in 1992! Great fun to be back, and to see so many old familiar callsigns still active. So much has changed in last 16 years. Invited my 9-, 12- and 13-year old sons to the shack to get them hooked into contesting as well :-) Thanks to all who recognized the 4U1ITU callsign, and apologies for all the repeats I requested - need more CW practice before the next one! 4U1ITU (op. Ken, NV1P) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 22,207,200 First and foremost, I'd like to thank John K4BAI, Guy N7ZG and Ismael XE1AY for joining me in Jamaica for this contest. They arrived with the enthusiasm and drive of a winning team and the results speak for themselves. While in Dayton the weekend prior to the contest, several people approached me, wished me good luck and informed me we were in good shape to break the North American record having John, K4BAI on our team. I've worked John hundreds of times over my 30 years in ham radio, but I have never seen him operate in person. One of the contesters in Dayton told me, "John's a machine...and the SCP is in his head!". The description was accurate. Guy and I quickly discovered that although we were about equally matched in CW contesting skill, neither of us were capable of competing with John. After a brief discussion between Guy, Ismael and myself, we quickly abandoned our operators schedule in lieu of simply putting John on the air on the most productive band at all times, unless he was tired. Did he get tired? Oh yeah, once he asked for a short break to take a nap. The strategy paid off, and everyone still had plenty of time in the chair. John spent the majority of his on air time accumulating those ever so important 6 point Q's from Europe on 40 meters. When 40 meters wasn't producing, we simply moved John to 20. The stacks remained on Europe most of the contest and the Steppir's, when not being used on 40 meters, were pointed at the US. The 80 meter band was a big disappointment. The band was relatively quiet with no storms in the vicinity, but we just weren't able to work that many stations, particularly in Europe where we usually do well. Having checked ZF2AM's score, it is apparent that the Caribbean suffered greatly on 80 meters. With 20 meters open round the clock, we never ventured to 160 which typically doesn't produce significant rate in this contest. 40 meters was once again our bread and butter band. With almost 2000 Q's at an average of 5.19 points per Q, we scored over 10,000 points on this band. There is no question, having a stack of full sized monobanders on 40 meters is a contesters dream. Putting the stack in the Caribbean at 850' ASL with a clear shot to every major DX location is the icing on the cake. If we win this contest, it is clearly due to our 40 meter advantage. We didn't produce as many Q's on 20 meters as expected, but the band was open well into the night giving us some Q's when 80 was dead. The 15 meter band exhibited the same symptoms as in the WPX SSB contest. It opened late and didn't produce the Q's that Europeans were experiencing. Fortunately, the stacks enabled us to focus what little openings we had on European Q's for an average of 2.61 points per Q, slightly higher than the 2.47 achieved on 20 meters. The 10 meter band was a real disappointment. Similar to ZF2AM and other Caribbean station, 10 meters never really opened anywhere. Interestingly enough, just a few hours ago (Monday evening) 10 meters opened to Europe and I was able to run SSB stations at over 300/hour for over an hour. While fun, the opening was a day late. Oh well, at least I know what to expect when 10 meters opens. Time will tell if we won the M2 category. I don't anticipate we will, but I am confident that we set yet another WPX record for North America. Notes: The Internet was down except for a short period Friday evening. It was interesting operating almost the entire contest the old fashioned way, S&P without packet. Perhaps we should all try this every now and again. It felt good! I believe North American DX stations suffered in this contest due to an unusually low participation of casual contesters whom were most likely enjoying the U.S. holiday (Labor Day) weekend. This, combined with the European E-SKIP openings, may be why European Q counts are significantly higher than ours. We worked everyone that called us. David ~ KY1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7J1AAI Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,045,320 Operated for 13 hours straight beginning at 5 PM local Saturday night (0800 zulu)and ending before 7 AM Sunday morning when Europe could no longer be worked. I do not operate WPX very often and am not so familiar with conditions at this time of the year but conditions were a lot better than I expected, both to North America and to Europe, and were just as good as in ARRL CW in February. Japan is roughly the same distance from the US and Europe and on 40 the band is open for about the same number of hours to each area. Shortly after the last West Coast station is worked (around midnight Japan time), European Russia starts coming in, so you keep pretty busy throughout the night. I think I had a similar number of EU 6-pointers as I did NA 6-pointers, possibly more. Not as many 1-pointers as I expected. Happily this should result in fewer QSLs, but it may not be such a good sign about the level of interest in contesting here in Japan. The first couple of hours were a little frustrating as I was both learning how to use the N1MM software and learning how to use the new K3. The K3 is wonderful. N1MM is amazing but anything that needs a 375 page manual could be considered to be a little overly complex, at least to this simple-minded sole. I think I still prefer NA. Thanks again to Shige Ohsawa JH1GTV for the use of his fine station. 73, Hal W1NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S7V Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 70,596 TS-850S Dipole @ 8m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7X0RY Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,893,540 like usually - qrn/qrm with local storm in saturday night - tnx for patience. Congrats OK3R for his fantastic signal, the strongest on the band! TS940S, PA OM2500HF (reduced pwr to 800W for TVI) and dipole five meters above the roof. 73! Frantisek 7X0RY/OK1DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A/VE3ZIK Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,793,528 Another nice contest! I had some small problem with my radio (originally I planned to be active on 40m) but thanks to Rolando 9A3MR I was active from Murter Is. (not counting for IOTA). RIG: TS930, 1.2 KW, antenna OB7-3 Tribander. I was active only 32 hours so results could be better. 4 KH6 stations came on CQ... I am claiming my score in SO20m(T/S)HP category (maybe for next year WA7BNM can add T/S category for single band too) :-). It was a great fun do make over 1600Q's with a small tribander antenna. This year I am giving points to new grounded Croatian Contest Club (CRO CC). See you in 2008. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1CMA Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 543,055 On Saturday two time 5h on the air. Nice propagation and activity. FT-920 + 1KW, PRO 67B (2el), N1MM logger. TU for everyone who answered on my call. Sorry for LFK :) Tom, 9A5TO P.S. "I agree that have read and understood the rules of the contest and agree to be bound by them, as well as all rules and regulations of my country which pertain to amateur radio." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1UN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,673,149 Decided to do the contest in the very last minute. 40 and 10m antennas fixed to 270 deg. Forced 13hour break for QRL not in the best time caused compromised 20m score. Anyway I had fun, and hats off to ha3ov,4o3a,ir4x,9a5w and others for impressive scores. 73 Dave 9A1UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A60A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 17,289,888 First, our congratulations to estonian team, ES9C. We have done our best, but that wasnt' enough. I believe, there were small differences in propagations, but in the end, it's fair that one time during the year stations from northern Europe probably have better propagations as the South. Unlike the SSB part, this time all five members of the team participated in the contest. Regardless of the result, the CW is always our first choice. In the SSB part there was few situation where some stations have not been able to accept that we sign 9A60A (six-zero) and not 9A6A or 9A6KA. The culmination was in the CW part and had resulted with record number of dupes , but at least we had a good rates;). Special story...busted spots - pile up's after every 9A6OA (Oscar, Alfa) spot (that call sign has never been issued). Eq: TS870, FT2000 (TS2000) + 3xPA Ant: 160/T-vert, 80 / 4 square vert., 40 / 4 el. beam, 20 / 6 el., 15/6el, 10 / 7 el. SW: N1MM Logger CU in the next ctest 9A7A/9A60A team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A6A Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 941,248 Location: Island - Hvar EU 016 RIG: TS 690S + PA 1 kW Ant: TX - 2x Inv V RX - NE, N, NW, SE beverages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,928,192 Station: Elecraft K3/100 and IC-PW1 (400W output) Force 12 C3-S at 12m 40m Inverted V at 12m HF2V with 32 x 33' radials Better condx than last year and my first serious contest with my K3. The K3 is a great radio and an improvement over the 756 Pro I that was being used previously from 9M2. The condx were very variable and by the end of Saturday I thought that it was going to be a washout. However Sunday was an enjoyable contesting day. 80m - no QSOs. I scanned the bands a few time but the static levels were too high. I did not install a RX antenna for this contest. 40m - my problem band. Neither the HF2V not the Inverted V were being heard well in EU. It was frustrating to hear 9V1YC working EU at great rates. Getting spotted on 40m is so important. 20m - not so good on Saturday but the band was very quiet on Sunday and I found a clear frequency high in the band and had a most enjoyable EU run. I worked many QRP stations and even a LY bicycle mobile station. It's not often that the band is quiet here and condx are stable. There was a fairly good over the pole opening to the East Coast of the USA but I wasn't being heard. K1LZ had a good signal (as usual) but couldn't hear me :-( P40L had a crushing signal and with K3s at both ends the QSO was easy :-) 15m - again poor on Saturday but better on Sunday. Not as good as usual. 10m - nice to hear EU again and also work England. It's been a long time since I last did that. With sporadic E in EU it was difficult to find a run frequency that was clear in EU. I should have made more of the openings on the band. An improvement over last years score but I need more aluminium. A 2-ele on 10/15/20 is not enough in low sunspot years. I especially need to look at improving my 40m signal. Thank you for all the QSOs and the log will be uploaded into LoTW next week. QSL is via G4ZFE, bureau or direct. 73 de Rich, 9M2CNC/G4ZFE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A73A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,853,655 The QARS bunch went to the beach for a hot weekend of fun on the radio. Condx seemed good, but the wx was hotter than the bands (45C). We took many breaks to resolve problems on this first beach expedition, but we had fun. One operator had to leave early due to an unexpected death in his family, and we had generator problems on Sunday, so we stopped with 12 hours to go. We had some help during the weekend from several novices who are working on getting their licenses. The antennas were wire verticals for 80-15 mounted near the water line plus a High Sierra mobile whip on a tripod stand for 10m. We plan to do this again when the wx is cooler with better preparation and applying the lessons learned this time! Cabrillo Statistics (Version 06g) by K5KA Contest: CQ-WPX-CW Callsign: A73A Category: MULTI-ONE ALL HIGH Operators: A71EM, A71BX, A71AN, K5GN -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 129 0 0 0 129 129 6.2 0100 0 0 70 0 0 0 70 199 3.4 0200 0 0 7 0 0 0 7 206 0.3 0300 0 0 4 30 0 0 34 240 1.6 0400 0 0 0 56 0 0 56 296 2.7 0500 0 0 0 64 0 0 64 360 3.1 0600 0 0 0 37 20 0 57 417 2.7 0700 0 0 0 0 122 0 122 539 5.8 0800 0 0 0 0 79 0 79 618 3.8 0900 0 0 0 10 41 0 51 669 2.4 1000 0 0 0 59 0 0 59 728 2.8 1100 0 0 0 70 0 0 70 798 3.4 1200 0 0 0 82 0 0 82 880 3.9 1300 0 0 0 61 0 0 61 941 2.9 1400 0 0 0 0 21 0 21 962 1.0 1500 0 0 0 40 9 0 49 1011 2.3 1600 0 0 0 79 0 0 79 1090 3.8 1700 0 0 0 42 0 0 42 1132 2.0 1800 0 0 0 26 0 0 26 1158 1.2 1900 0 5 0 62 0 0 67 1225 3.2 2000 0 8 53 13 0 0 74 1299 3.5 2100 0 0 97 0 0 0 97 1396 4.7 2200 0 25 48 0 0 0 73 1469 3.5 2300 0 8 32 18 0 0 58 1527 2.8 0000 0 0 96 0 0 0 96 1623 4.6 0100 0 26 3 0 0 0 29 1652 1.4 0200 0 0 37 18 0 0 55 1707 2.6 0300 0 0 0 28 0 0 28 1735 1.3 0400 0 0 0 0 16 0 16 1751 0.8 0500 0 0 0 0 41 51 92 1843 4.4 0600 0 0 0 0 42 20 62 1905 3.0 0700 0 0 0 1 39 8 48 1953 2.3 0800 0 0 0 0 69 0 69 2022 3.3 0900 0 0 0 21 0 0 21 2043 1.0 1000 0 0 0 1 15 17 33 2076 1.6 1100 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 2078 0.1 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2078 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 0 72 576 820 514 96 2078 Gross QSO's=2086 Dupes=8 Net QSO's=2078 Unique callsigns worked = 1680 The best 60 minute rate was 137/hour from 0026 to 0125 The best 30 minute rate was 142/hour from 0046 to 0115 The best 10 minute rate was 162/hour from 0003 to 0012 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSO's/minute 12 times. 3 QSO's/minute 138 times. 2 QSO's/minute 485 times. 1 QSO's/minute 646 times. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 11 4 424 5 895 6 719 7 12 8 10 9 4 10 2 11 1 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1368 2 bands 240 3 bands 58 4 bands 14 5 bands 0 6 bands 0 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 0 39 388 586 303 52 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 251,784 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (10m-40m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m-160m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 tuner running 100 watts Comments: Managed to piece some time on the air between honey-dos. Conditions seemed spectacularly bad. Although 10m and 15m opened, the distances were relatively short. 20m didn't open to europe until the mid-afternoon. Normally, we'd have an european opening on the morning around 1200z or so. Trans-equatorial propagation on 10m was non-existent Sunday. I don't believe I heard any africans other than D4C. Late Sunday afternoon, I managed a pretty good rate on 15m while beaming toward europe. Unfortunately for me, nearly all the stations were stateside. Curiously, when I rotated the beam across the US, the rate dropped, and turning back toward europe restored it. I expected to end up with about 100K, and was pleased to hang on through 250 K. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 19,108 Part time effort - scored by log calculator for 3840. My .log file uploaded to the CQ and LoTW robots ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB1HZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,105,772 What a contest! Condx were reminiscent of the good old days, especially on Saturday where 20m was open late into Europe with excellent rates. On Sunday mid-day it got slow, but then later in the afternoon, 20m opened nicely into Europe again. We managed to work 10 Euros on 10m in the 1400z hour on Saturday. In the 2200z hour on 15m on Saturday, we worked a handfull of Euros LP out over the Pacific. Overall, 10 and 15 were reasonably good with consistent Stateside runs at times. 80m was somewhat limited by the QRN where we had to listen on our transmit antenna. However, we did manage to pull through a few Euros in spite of the QRN. The AB1HZ call sign proved to be problematic on CW. A check of DX Summit now shows that we were spotted many times as AB1HZ. However, we were also spotted as A61HZ and AB1SZ. These faulty spots, of course, produced runs of dupes which was reminiscent of the J7(zero)J spots from two years ago as J7OJ! The SO1R equipment performed faultlessly. We used a new IC756Pro3 on loan from K8DSS. (It's DSP is improved over that of my Pro2.) The Acom 2000A never missed a hitch, and ran a consistent 1500 watts without complaining. (It auto tunes and band switches instantly with a "dit" from the transceiver, making frequent band changes easy.) The new 2el M2 40m yagi @75 ft. did its job, as did the old C31XR @60 ft. On 80m, we used an inv. vee. Unfortunately, we could not find our KD9SV 160/80 preamp that is buried somewhere in the rubble of the shack, so we could not use the K9AY rx loop on 80m. We have been having daily power interruptions, but none happened during the contest. Also, local noise got washed away in heavy thunderstorms earlier in the week and, as a result, the band noise was very low...what a relief! There were no storms or rain during the contest. Logging was done with Win-test, and keying/radio control with a MicroHam CW Keyer. Congrats to Dan, NE4AA (K1TO) and Jeff, K1ZM on their fine scores. It will be interesting to see who takes top honors in their shoot out. 73, Geo...K5KG aka AB1HZ PS. Tnx to W7SE, Trustee of the Dhahran ARC of America - HZ1AB - for the use of AB1HZ in the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,312,443 The new antennas worked great; the old operator not so well. I crashed and lost some good hours on 40m that I wanted to work but had fun overall anyway. Conditions on 20m seemed better the second afternoon ... stronger signals and fewer noise crashes. 40m seemed a bit better the first evening. ICOM 756Pro, Henry 2K-4, OptiBeam OB2-40 at 25m, Optibeam OB16-3 at 22m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,562 The best part of the weekend was working 3V8BB. Had to work this weekend but couldn't resist the WPX especially the CW. I had practiced using the "Morse Runner" application all week some portion of each day and am very please with the results of the contest considering I only operated 8 and a half hours. Hope to have more time with the contest next year. I recommend the Morse Runner to anyone wanting to improve thier CW contesting skills. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE Q's. Bob AD5VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE6RF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 24,192 Icom IC-756ProII, N1MM, microKeyer, inverted-vee doublet, AL -80a Planned to be a serious attempt, but communications support to the Summit Fire, and a stomach bug changed those plans in a hurry. None the less, I'm pleased with the results given the time I put into it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK1W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,402,058 Finally some good conditions for a contest! 40 was great. Even 80 was quiet and had good signals. 20 was 20. 15 was open to Europe for 10+ hours both days. No activity, but it was open. Even worked a few stations on 10m sporadic E. Almost forgot to even listen there. I intended to make 1000 QSOs and spend time working around the house. Instead, the good conditions got me hooked and kept sneaking back into the shack to operate. Meant to operate Saturday night, but fell asleep when I put my daughter to bed. I think I still caught most of the big hours. Ended up with way more score than I ever expected. 2272 QSOs in 22.5 hours. Amazing European activity in this contest. I kept finding guys with big numbers that I only heard the one time we worked! AK1W QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime 00Z --+-- --+-- 71/67 --+-- --+-- --+-- 71/67 71/67 20 01Z - - 112/83 - - - 112/83 183/150 02Z - 52/34 33/20 - - - 85/54 268/204 03Z 3/1 1/1 81/48 25/20 - - 110/70 378/274 04Z - - 102/52 - - - 102/52 480/326 05Z 1/0 27/10 6/5 14/5 - - 48/20 528/346 26 06Z - - - - - - 0/0 528/346 60 07Z - - - - - - 0/0 528/346 60 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 528/346 60 09Z - - - - - - 0/0 528/346 60 10Z - - - - - - 0/0 528/346 60 11Z - - 8/5 73/29 7/0 - 88/34 616/380 9 12Z - - - 28/14 57/21 - 85/35 701/415 13Z - - - 83/30 36/10 - 119/40 820/455 14Z - - - 15/7 61/12 - 76/19 896/474 20 15Z - - - - - - 0/0 896/474 60 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 10/4 --+-- --+-- 10/4 906/478 54 17Z - - - 61/17 34/7 - 95/24 1001/502 10 18Z - - - - - - 0/0 1001/502 60 19Z - - - 138/38 3/0 - 141/38 1142/540 2 20Z - - - 130/43 2/0 - 132/43 1274/583 21Z - - - 13/7 - - 13/7 1287/590 54 22Z - - - - - - 0/0 1287/590 60 23Z - - - - - - 0/0 1287/590 60 00Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1287/590 60 01Z - - - - - - 0/0 1287/590 60 02Z - - - - - - 0/0 1287/590 60 03Z - - - - - - 0/0 1287/590 60 04Z - 42/3 61/15 - - - 103/18 1390/608 3 05Z 1/0 7/0 93/25 - - - 101/25 1491/633 06Z - 7/2 75/21 1/1 - - 83/24 1574/657 07Z - - 3/0 2/0 - - 5/0 1579/657 54 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1579/657 60 09Z - - - 1/0 - - 1/0 1580/657 58 10Z - 8/0 5/0 65/16 3/0 - 81/16 1661/673 11Z - - - 98/32 10/3 - 108/35 1769/708 12Z - - - 77/24 4/1 - 81/25 1850/733 4 13Z - - - - - - 0/0 1850/733 60 14Z - - - 22/3 1/0 20/1 43/4 1893/737 27 15Z - - - 10/1 35/4 6/0 51/5 1944/742 22 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 1944/742 60 17Z - - - - - - 0/0 1944/742 60 18Z - - - 17/2 2/1 - 19/3 1963/745 46 19Z - - - 107/23 1/1 1/0 109/24 2072/769 20Z - - - 84/12 1/0 - 85/12 2157/781 21Z - - - 70/14 7/2 - 77/16 2234/797 12 22Z - - - - - - 0/0 2234/797 60 23Z - - 34/9 3/1 1/0 - 38/10 2272/807 5/1 144/50 684/3501147/343 265/62 27/1 By Continent 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 4 73 291 365 107 27 867 38.2 AS 0 1 8 81 1 0 91 4.0 EU 1 59 361 659 146 0 1226 54.0 AF 0 5 9 9 3 0 26 1.1 SA 0 4 9 25 8 0 46 2.0 OC 0 2 6 7 0 0 15 0.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 748,104 Fantastic conditions except for 80M. Great openings to Europe late into the evening and again Sunday morning. Strong signals heard everywhere. Had to quit early, but a very enjoyable contest and my best effort ever as SO1R. FT1000MP Mark V + 500 watts into F12 C3SS + G5RV. Thanks for all the Qs. 73, John K6MM (AK6M). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B4TB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,941,060 Always fun contest by CQ,thanks for BG4TBJ(our host) for his fine station and BG4TQX for the antenna assembling. Two men(me and Rene/DL2JRM) one transmitter.Nice to see the 10meter open for europe,Rene even worked dozens of JA's on 6meter(just for fun)! 20 becomes the money band for us,which opened all night.All in all,conditions still need to be improved,waiting for sunspots! Equipment: FT450, GO-2KW, Force 12 C19XR,LOOP. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1ENQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 136,116 My first CW contest. Well, i did 3 QSOs on SPDX CW hi hi. Anyway, my CW skills are not good but could managed to make 345 Qs. Icom 706 keyer had a few problems with RF leaks and sometimes blocked or had strange behaviour. Not bad for a first timer. Should exist the ONE antenna overlay category. Was nice to see that all bands were open. Thanks all, cuagn, 73 es mni dx! Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 26,113,555 After a successful CQ WW 160 m CW contest under the call sign CT9M we decided to participate in the CQ WPX CW contest from CT3 again. Our goal was to set a new world record. We succeeded to fulfill our goal and we broke the 2001 M/S world record by a significant piece. However, we have to wait for the results of the competition that achieved outstanding results as well. Congratulations to EF8M and P33W. We should find out shortly if we are the new world record holder. A big thanks goes also to Luis CT3EE, Jose CT3BD and the whole Madeira Contest Team for their help during the set ups – before and after the contest. They are really fantastic people and we are happy to have them as our friends. 73 and best DX de Tibi OM3RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CW5W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,800,000 The contest started bad because of a big storm friday night. After one hour needed to stop to disconect all in the station. Saturday morning returned in 20 mts to a very hard contest, condx very bad!!... 40 mts pay off for a nice QSO´s number in this band, first time ever with more QSO´s in 40 than in the high bands from here. See you next contest! QSL VIA WWW.QRZ.COM 73, Jorge, CX6VM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX7TT Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,180,621 Good to be back into the fray after not having a tower/beam for 7 years! Rig: K3 w/Acom 1000 and 3 ele Steppir @ 40ft; Force 12 Vertical Dipole on 40m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D4C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 13,237,360 73 Jurgis LY2CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB10 QRP Total Score = 148,896 What a great show! Never thought of making so many QSOs with just 5 W (FT-817) and a 3 ele Yagi @ 20 m heights on just 10 m during sunspot minimum. Thanks to the "Sporadic-E god" we had plenty of ES openings all over the northern hemisphere making double and triple hop QSOs possible (except Oceania all continents worked easily). Had a very enjoyable time although my CW (especially hearing) is not the very best. ;-)) CU in the next one again! 73, Olli - DH8BQA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1OJ Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 654,075 no ant for 160 and 15m FT-1000MP - GAP-Titan WT 3.16 - CAT with microHAM USB Interface II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,945,236 TS850, PA 750W, 3el tribander, dipoles at 25m Not quite serious this year. Great condx on 10/15m, working W5 on 21MHz after 01z (3am local time) was one of the highlights of this contest. SO1R. CBS indicates one possible SO2R QSO: That was OH8A who was a new mult and pretty loud on 14063kHz, working a lot of DLs, but just couldn't hear me. I almost lost faith in my station, when the right thought crossed my mind. A minute later he was in the log -- on 7031.5kHz. Oops. Cabrillo Statistics (Version 06f) by K5KA -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 0 82 0 0 82 82 4.1 0100 0 0 44 26 0 0 70 152 3.5 0200 0 11 80 0 0 0 91 243 4.5 0300 0 85 2 0 0 0 87 330 4.3 0400 0 0 84 0 0 0 84 414 4.2 0500 0 0 63 11 0 0 74 488 3.7 0600 0 0 0 50 38 0 88 576 4.4 0700 0 0 0 0 3 41 44 620 2.2 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 620 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 620 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 620 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 620 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 620 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 27 27 647 1.3 1400 0 0 0 0 0 89 89 736 4.4 1500 0 0 0 0 27 52 79 815 3.9 1600 0 0 0 0 102 0 102 917 5.1 1700 0 8 0 0 61 0 69 986 3.4 1800 0 1 78 0 0 1 80 1066 4.0 1900 0 0 0 40 4 36 80 1146 4.0 2000 0 0 0 90 0 0 90 1236 4.5 2100 0 0 0 82 0 0 82 1318 4.1 2200 0 0 0 63 0 0 63 1381 3.1 2300 0 41 0 22 0 0 63 1444 3.1 0000 20 36 0 0 0 0 56 1500 2.8 0100 1 0 31 0 4 0 36 1536 1.8 0200 0 7 48 0 0 0 55 1591 2.7 0300 2 37 0 0 2 0 41 1632 2.0 0400 0 0 0 46 5 0 51 1683 2.5 0500 0 0 36 18 0 5 59 1742 2.9 0600 0 0 46 0 0 17 63 1805 3.1 0700 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 1814 0.4 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1814 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1814 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1814 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1814 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1814 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 17 0 17 1831 0.8 1400 0 0 0 0 43 3 46 1877 2.3 1500 0 0 0 42 0 4 46 1923 2.3 1600 0 0 1 34 0 0 35 1958 1.7 1700 0 0 9 6 0 22 37 1995 1.8 1800 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1996 0.0 1900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1996 0.0 2000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1996 0.0 2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1996 0.0 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1996 0.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1996 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 23 226 523 612 306 306 2000 Gross QSO's=2011 Dupes=11 Net QSO's=2000 Unique callsigns worked = 1484 The best 60 minute rate was 106/hour from 1612 to 1711 The best 30 minute rate was 114/hour from 1614 to 1643 The best 10 minute rate was 150/hour from 1939 to 1948 There were 31 bandchanges and 1 (0.1%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ5QV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 260,208 Having just some meters of wire in the attic this was quite a lot of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ7LH Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,622,024 CONTEST : CQ-WPX-CW CATEGORY : MULTI-ONE ALL HIGH CALLSIGN : DJ7LH OPERATORS: Erich DJ7LH, Emir DL4CC, Suad DK6XZ EQUIPMENT: FT1000MP MkV + EXPERT 1KA Transistor PA ANTENNAS : 3L MOSLEY TRIBANDER @15M + 160WINDOM INV."V" @20M Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 1.8 68 128 45 3.5 160 330 30 7 262 655 82 14 767 1367 297 21 387 579 148 28 431 523 130 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 2075 3582 732 SCORE : 2622024 =================== This contest was fun event, dedicated to the Friendship... We are very thankful to Edeltraud, DJ7LH´s XYL, who helped Erich to build the portable station day prior to the contest ( erect tower, assemble antennas and so many more... ) and who hosted us on Saturday and Sunday, making final job on Monday as well. Highest respect to Erich, who is so strongly motivated for contesting, even having since longer time a serious health problem. We enjoyed - as everyone - opening at 10 m and the contest itself. The highlight was a W6 via LP, E21ejc and other DXs from NA/SA. Special thanks to everyone who contacted us. In the name and on behalf of the DJ7LH Team Suad, DK6XZ/E77XZ PS: Glad for success of ES9C. Tonno, you were heard everywhere and everytime with wonderful signal!! DR1A made as always extraordinary job. Congrats to both teams! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK3GI Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,902,175 Must be ultimate fun to operate SE5H. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,058,304 ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, 500W 5-ele-Fritzel beam, 2x24m dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 405,189 Another part time effort but good enough for gaining more experience in CW contesting. Thanks to all who called in. I stayed with CQ'ing most of the time and missed out a lot of mults therefore. Again Murphy showed up and presented a problem with the band switch for the low band vertical - no 160 this time. 73's Maik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 574,002 Good to see the activity on 10m! This was fun. Mostly S&P with a tribander vertical provisionally installed at the balcony of my house. 20mtrs of end feeded wire for 40m and 80m. The IC706 played well. Two birthday commitments on the weekend held me away from the best hours on 80 and 40. This causes in a lack of possible six-pointers and ended up in low QSO-point count. Tnx for all Q´s Frank, DL3EBX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,144,210 Since I do contests @ DF2PY murphy spared us a visit, so probably it was about time for him to show up big time. Lost the second radio solid state amp the first night after literally only a handful of Qs, only to be followed by the main radio amp on Saturday afternoon, forcing me to take an unplanned 7 hour break during prime running time. Realized, however, that contesting is not for Sissies, so got my act together and really tried to push as hard as I could from then on. Conditions sure were significantly improved over last year. I realize there was a lot of fun to be had on 10. However, I did only comb the band with the second radio (all 160 Qs were with the second radio, too) as there was simply not enough DX volume compared to 15 and 20. In addition I figured that I would work most EU prefixes which were prevalent there later during the night on 40 and 80 anyway. As has been said by others, 15 and 20 reminded me of those glorious days when there were plenty of sunspots. Sunday evening brought a great 20 meter opening to the US with lots of loud west coast signals, while on 15 exotic prefixes from central and south America were parked right next to each other. Finished the contest running on 40 and doing 80 meter S&P-ing with the second radio trying to push my score above the existing DL record. Failed to accomplish that (it might have been broken by some other DL fellow this year anyway) but came close and reached a new personal best. Bottom line: a fun weekend with lots of lessons learned. Tnx all for the Qs. Like always, mni tnx to Wolf & family for all the support and to my boys & XYL for letting me go over the weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 825,352 Multibanddipole, Spiderbeam TS850 - ZZ750 CAT with microHAM USB Interface N1MM-Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 222,733 Really surprising condx on the buttom of suncycle (150 qso more, than last year), made this contest again very enjoying. I was mostly calling, the rates were usually for LP. DX was rare, no VK/ZL, from far east only 1 JA + YB. B4TB was about 4 z very loud, but didn't copy me :-((((. Only Saturday the band opened acceptable to SA with stations from LU, CX, PY, YV + HC8. But EU and NA had their own 10-m-parties and coudn't come together. At midnight the signals from northern europe were very strong. At Sunday midnight the big surprise happened. Only 4 stations were to hear: EM9F, DR1A, OH0J (all worked before) and lonely calling NA4W. Never in the 2 days I could copy a station from NA and he got me with the first call. Thanks to all stations, worked me!!!! equipment: FT920 with 100 w A4S by Cushcraft @ 10m and FD4-windom-antenna logging-programm: UCX-Log 6.24 (tnx Ben for the excelent programm) 73s es hpe to cu in WAG-test in Oct. Ben - DL7BY PS: Why is under location no selection for Middle or Western Europe??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL8MBS Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 736,210 Trying to be the S&P "human skimmer" IS fun! With 5 Watts and lowwires that only have longings to become antennas some day I had to exploit the great EU-shortskip condx to the max - regardless how deep the point per qso-value dropped (1,7 at the end). DX? What DX? Not my wire´s league :-( Only 8 percent DX-qsos in the log with the majority UA9 and mediterranean. 17 of the 21 worked US-stations heard my signal on 40m. But it was really big fun to scan the bands on and on (two radios making it even more interesting). Having no other plan than to repeat at least last years 700 Q it was late sunday afternoon that I calculated a possible result for the first time. Ooooops. Quiet hope - but I couldn´t believe until two hours to the end that it turned out to be my first contest breaking the 1000-QSO-mark :-) Wish that running stations would keep to the practice of sending "test" at the end - otherwise anyone coming to the frequency and getting the single call only has to guess what is going on. With the established S&P-pratice not to call when the running station is unknown the omitting of "test" is time saving at the expense of S&P-stations. Best 73, Chris (www.dl8mbs.de) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,275,176 Nice condx on the high bands made this a fun weekend. Great to see 10m alive after months (years?) of no real DX openings. Our best WPX CW result since 4 years. CU in the next one. 73 de DQ4W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 25,652,796 Thanks for all contacts! Problem report: after the first four hours the central control box on 40m died, and the setup had to be completely rewired. Tracking down the problem took very long, and we lost one and a half hour of the best 40m US propagation. After that everything went smoothly till Sunday afternoon, when the rotator of the second single XM520 got stuck. The antenna was pointing to JA, which was just fine, and so it stayed there till the end. See you in the next contest! 73 Ben DL6FBL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,180,917 This years WPX brought a lot of changes in our setup and our antenna situation. Highlight was new 5 Element Vertical in direction NA which played perfectly. Nearly half of the qso-points have been reached with this antenna, especially in the 1st nights opening to NA. On Saturday morning we lost our 4 Element Tribander at the running station because of a fast changing SWR on 15 and 20m (Traps?). So we changed with the running station to the Mult Beam and the Mult-Station was restricted to 10m on the high bands; not a strong restriction with this opening on 10m ;-)) At the end it is a new team record and maybe a new German record in M/S? Thanks to all who worked us and all who supported us, especially our families ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR5L Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,648,981 We've been operating from the outdoor site of local DARC club L03. It was real fun setting up the antennas, operating the contest. The team was superb, weather and propagation were promising. Last but not least the never ending supply of homemade strawberry cake from the nearby farmer kept all OPs well and happy. Thanks to the guys of the local DARC club L03 for their hospitality and support. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DS5KJR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 207,014 .... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E73MMM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,134,600 BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG ----------------------------------- 160 30 0 17 63 2.10 80 227 0 103 553 2.44 40 858 1 225 2778 3.24 20 1664 4 475 3406 2.05 15 731 0 163 1095 1.50 10 771 1 157 995 1.29 ----------------------------------- TOTAL 4281 6 1140 8890 2.08 =================================== TOTAL SCORE : 10 134 600 Equipment: Station1 ICOM IC-756PRO-III Alpha 8100 Dell P-III 1GHz desktop + Win-Test v3.20.0 EZ Master Station2 ICOM-IC-756PRO Emtron DX-2b (TNX T98A) Dell Inspiron 640m laptop + Win-Test v3.20.0 Antennas: 160m - 24m shunt fed tower 80m - dipole at 24m 40m - 2el. Cushcraft XM-240 at 18m fixed to USA 20m - 4/4 el. YAGI at 25/13m 15m - 5/5 el. YAGI at 18/9m 10m - 5/5 el. YAGI at 21/12m 180m long NE/SW beverage 120m long NW beverage Just to make easier for you, this contest was operated by ex. T93M, T93Y and T97M from T93M's QTH near Sarajevo. It is still a mystery why Danny, T93M applied for E73MMM callsign :-) As everybody else, we were very happy to see 10 and 15m wide open. When you look at our points/QSO statistics of just 2.08 you can say that we spent too much time on those bands... Congrats to IR2C and OL3Z. We can now just hope we had better logging accuracy :-) 73's Boris E73TW (ex. T93Y) P.S. If you have worked EZ3MMM QSL goes to same manager as for BY1V and EI9C :-) E73MMM By band - All modes QSOs (without dupes) - By time !Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ------------------------------------------------------------- !00 ! ! 68 ! ! 123 ! ! ! 191 ! !01 ! 11 ! 19 ! 18 ! 77 ! ! ! 125 ! !02 ! ! ! 68 ! 30 ! ! ! 98 ! !03 ! ! 3 ! 125 ! 12 ! ! ! 140 ! !04 ! ! ! 104 ! ! 7 ! ! 111 ! !05 ! ! ! 92 ! 20 ! 7 ! ! 119 ! !06 ! ! ! 23 ! 75 ! 9 ! 4 ! 111 ! !07 ! ! ! ! 24 ! 6 ! 98 ! 128 ! !08 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 7 ! 134 ! 148 ! !09 ! ! ! ! 8 ! 9 ! 135 ! 152 ! !10 ! ! ! ! 2 ! 5 ! 122 ! 129 ! !11 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 117 ! 12 ! 136 ! !12 ! ! ! ! ! 102 ! 2 ! 104 ! !13 ! ! ! ! 3 ! 66 ! 1 ! 70 ! !14 ! ! ! ! 2 ! 90 ! 2 ! 94 ! !15 ! ! ! 2 ! 6 ! 68 ! 3 ! 79 ! !16 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 3 ! 68 ! 75 ! !17 ! ! ! 1 ! 5 ! 33 ! 39 ! 78 ! !18 ! ! ! ! 90 ! 5 ! 3 ! 98 ! !19 ! ! 2 ! 3 ! 86 ! ! 1 ! 92 ! !20 ! 4 ! 78 ! ! 5 ! ! ! 87 ! !21 ! ! 1 ! 4 ! 91 ! 4 ! ! 100 ! !22 ! ! 1 ! 3 ! 89 ! 1 ! ! 94 ! !23 ! 1 ! 2 ! 27 ! 34 ! ! ! 64 ! !00 ! ! ! 5 ! 73 ! ! ! 78 ! !01 ! 1 ! ! 47 ! 40 ! ! ! 88 ! !02 ! ! 28 ! 16 ! 15 ! ! ! 59 ! !03 ! 13 ! 24 ! 3 ! 14 ! ! ! 54 ! !04 ! ! ! 61 ! 1 ! 17 ! ! 79 ! !05 ! ! ! 52 ! 1 ! 5 ! ! 58 ! !06 ! ! ! 75 ! 2 ! 1 ! ! 78 ! !07 ! ! ! 63 ! 5 ! 1 ! ! 69 ! !08 ! ! ! 34 ! 45 ! ! ! 79 ! !09 ! ! ! ! 91 ! 1 ! ! 92 ! !10 ! ! ! ! 46 ! 30 ! ! 76 ! !11 ! ! ! ! ! 67 ! ! 67 ! !12 ! ! ! ! ! 9 ! 63 ! 72 ! !13 ! ! ! ! 5 ! ! 83 ! 88 ! !14 ! ! ! ! 20 ! 26 ! 1 ! 47 ! !15 ! ! ! 1 ! 29 ! 29 ! ! 59 ! !16 ! ! ! ! 81 ! ! ! 81 ! !17 ! ! ! 2 ! 52 ! ! ! 54 ! !18 ! ! ! 9 ! 46 ! 2 ! ! 57 ! !19 ! ! 1 ! ! 63 ! 3 ! ! 67 ! !20 ! ! ! ! 77 ! ! ! 77 ! !21 ! ! ! ! 77 ! 1 ! ! 78 ! !22 ! ! ! ! 48 ! ! ! 48 ! !23 ! ! ! 20 ! 33 ! ! ! 53 ! ------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 30 ! 227 ! 858 ! 1664 ! 731 ! 771 ! 4281 ! E73MMM - Continents By band - By mode QSOs (with dupes) !Band / Mode ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 CW ! 96.7% ! ! ! ! 3.3% ! ! ! 80 CW ! 89.0% ! 6.2% ! ! 0.9% ! 4.0% ! ! ! 40 CW ! 69.0% ! 27.7% ! 0.7% ! 0.6% ! 1.6% ! 0.3% ! ! 20 CW ! 47.7% ! 41.6% ! 0.8% ! 0.4% ! 8.5% ! 0.9% ! ! 15 CW ! 75.1% ! 10.1% ! 3.8% ! 1.8% ! 8.3% ! 0.8% ! ! 10 CW ! 85.5% ! 1.3% ! 0.5% ! 0.3% ! 12.4% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Worked prefixes 2E0 2E1 3V8 3Z0 3Z8 4K4 4K9 4L0 4L2 4L6 4M1 4O3 4O4 4O7 4U1 4X0 4X6 4Z4 4Z5 4Z8 5B4 5P5 5P7 5R8 6K2 6K5 6W1 6Y1 7J1 7K1 7Q7 7S0 7S3 7S5 7S7 7X0 7Z1 8S0 9A0 9A08 9A1 9A2 9A3 9A4 9A5 9A50 9A6 9A60 9A7 9A70 9A8 9A9 9K2 9M1 9M2 9M6 9V1 A62 A73 A92 AA1 AA3 AA4 AA5 AA6 AA7 AB0 AB1 AB2 AB3 AB4 AB7 AB8 AB9 AC4 AC5 AC7 AD0 AD4 AD5 AD6 AD8 AE1 AE2 AE4 AE7 AE8 AF4 AF6 AF8 AI2 AI3 AI4 AK1 AK3 AK6 AK9 AM1 AN1 AO1 AO5 AO7 B1 B3 B4 B5 B7 BA7 BD4 BD5 BD6 BG4 BT1 BU2 C4 CO8 CS2 CS9 CT1 CT3 CT9 CU30 CW5 CX7 CX9 D4 DA0 DA3 DC0 DC3 DC4 DC7 DC9 DD1 DD3 DD5 DD6 DF0 DF1 DF2 DF3 DF4 DF5 DF6 DF7 DF8 DF9 DG1 DG4 DG7 DG8 DH0 DH2 DH3 DH5 DH6 DH8 DH9 DJ0 DJ1 DJ2 DJ3 DJ4 DJ5 DJ6 DJ7 DJ8 DJ9 DK0 DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 DK7 DK8 DL0 DL1 DL2 DL3 DL4 DL5 DL6 DL7 DL8 DL9 DM2 DM3 DM5 DM50 DM9 DO1 DO2 DO4 DO5 DO9 DP3 DP4 DP50 DQ3 DQ4 DQ5 DQ6 DR0 DR1 DR2 DR4 DR5 DR6 DS5 DU1 E71 E72 E73 E76 E77 E78 EA1 EA2 EA3 EA4 EA5 EA6 EA7 EA8 EA9 EC1 EC5 EE2 EE5 EE7 EF1 EF3 EF8 EI2 EI4 EI5 EI7 EK6 EM9 ER1 ER2 ER3 ER5 ER7 ES1 ES4 ES5 ES6 ES9 EU1 EU2 EU3 EU4 EU6 EU8 EV1 EV2 EV6 EW1 EW2 EW3 EW4 EW6 EW7 EW8 EX2 EY8 F0 F1 F2 F4 F5 F6 F8 F9 FG1 FG5 FM5 G0 G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 G9 GB6 GD4 GI4 GM0 GM3 GM4 GM5 GM7 GS0 GW0 GW3 GW4 H7 HA0 HA1 HA2 HA3 HA4 HA5 HA6 HA7 HA8 HA800 HA805 HA808 HA9 HB10 HB2008 HB9 HC8 HD2 HG1 HG1848 HG2 HG3 HG4 HG5 HG6 HG7 HG8 HG80 HG805 HK3 HL2 HL3 HP1 HQ9 HS0 I0 I1 I2 I4 I5 I6 II1 II2 IK0 IK1 IK2 IK3 IK4 IK5 IK6 IK8 IN3 IO3 IQ1 IQ3 IQ4 IQ8 IR2 IR4 IS0 IT9 IU3 IU9 IV3 IW0 IW5 IZ1 IZ2 IZ3 IZ6 IZ7 IZ8 J28 J39 J45 J48 JA1 JA2 JA3 JA5 JA6 JA7 JA9 JE1 JE2 JE4 JE7 JF1 JF2 JF3 JG0 JG2 JG3 JG7 JH0 JH1 JH2 JH3 JH4 JH6 JH7 JI1 JI3 JJ1 JL1 JL3 JM1 JN2 JO1 JP1 JR3 JR4 JR5 JR7 JR9 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 KA1 KA3 KA5 KA9 KB1 KB2 KB3 KB4 KB8 KC1 KC2 KC4 KC5 KC6 KC7 KC9 KD2 KD4 KD5 KE1 KE3 KE4 KE5 KF2 KF6 KG4 KG5 KH2 KH6 KH7 KI2 KI3 KI4 KI8 KJ9 KK5 KK9 KL8 KM0 KM1 KM4 KM7 KO0 KO1 KO7 KP4 KQ3 KQ7 KR2 KR4 KR7 KS0 KS1 KS4 KT2 KT3 KT8 KT9 KU1 KU2 KU8 KV8 KW3 KW4 KX1 KX2 KY0 KZ4 KZ5 LA1 LA2 LA3 LA4 LA7 LA8 LA9 LN1 LN3 LN5 LN8 LN9 LO2 LQ0 LR4 LS1 LU1 LU3 LU7 LW3 LW5 LW6 LX0 LX1 LX4 LX7 LY1 LY2 LY3 LY4 LY5 LY600 LY7 LY8 LY9 LY999 LZ08 LZ1 LZ2 LZ3 LZ4 LZ5 LZ6 LZ7 LZ8 LZ9 M0 M1 M3 M4 M7 MD0 MJ0 MM0 MM3 MW0 N0 N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9 NA0 NA1 NA2 NA3 NA4 NC7 ND2 ND3 ND9 NE1 NE3 NE4 NE5 NE6 NE8 NF4 NF6 NF8 NG3 NG4 NH6 NI1 NI3 NI5 NI7 NJ1 NJ2 NJ3 NJ4 NJ5 NJ6 NK5 NM1 NM2 NM9 NN1 NN3 NN4 NN5 NO2 NO8 NP3 NP4 NQ1 NQ3 NQ4 NQ5 NQ7 NR4 NR5 NR7 NS1 NS2 NS3 NS8 NT0 NT2 NT4 NT5 NU2 NU8 NV1 NV5 NX2 NX5 NX6 NY1 NY3 NY4 NY6 NZ1 OE2 OE2008 OE3 OE6 OE7 OF3 OG0 OG1 OG2 OG6 OG7 OG8 OG9 OH0 OH1 OH2 OH3 OH4 OH5 OH6 OH7 OH8 OJ0 OK1 OK2 OK3 OK4 OK5 OK6 OK7 OL0 OL1 OL1908 OL3 OL4 OL6 OL7 OM0 OM1 OM2 OM3 OM4 OM5 OM6 OM7 OM8 ON3 ON4 ON5 ON6 ON7 OO7 OO9 OP0 OP1 OP4 OP5 OQ5 OR2 OT4 OV3 OY4 OZ1 OZ2 OZ4 OZ5 OZ6 OZ7 OZ8 P33 P4 P40 P41 P43 PA0 PA1 PA143 PA2 PA3 PA4 PA5 PA6 PA7 PA9 PB2 PD0 PD2 PD7 PD9 PE1 PE2 PE4 PG2 PG3 PG7 PI4 PJ2 PP5 PR7 PS2 PS7 PT1 PT2 PT4 PW2 PX2 PY1 PY2 PY3 PY7 PZ5 R3 R35 R90 RA0 RA1 RA2 RA3 RA4 RA6 RA9 RD3 RD4 RG3 RG9 RK0 RK1 RK3 RK4 RK6 RK9 RL3 RL6 RL9 RM3 RM9 RN1 RN2 RN3 RN4 RN6 RN9 RO9 RQ9 RS3 RT3 RT4 RT9 RU0 RU1 RU2 RU3 RU4 RU6 RU9 RV1 RV3 RV4 RV6 RV9 RW0 RW2 RW3 RW4 RW6 RW9 RX0 RX3 RX4 RX6 RX9 RZ1 RZ3 RZ4 RZ6 RZ9 S50 S51 S52 S53 S54 S55 S56 S57 S58 S59 SA0 SA1 SA5 SE2 SE5 SE6 SE7 SF0 SG5 SI5 SI89 SI9 SJ0 SJ4 SJ6 SK2 SM0 SM3 SM4 SM5 SM6 SM7 SN1 SN2 SN3 SN30 SN5 SN6 SN7 SN8 SN9 SO1 SO4 SO5 SO8 SO9 SP0 SP1 SP2 SP3 SP4 SP5 SP6 SP7 SP8 SP9 SQ1 SQ2 SQ3 SQ4 SQ5 SQ6 SQ7 SQ9 SV1 SV2 SV3 SV8 SX1 SY3 T95 T97 T98 T99 TA2 TA3 TC37 TF3 TI5 TI8 TK5 TM0 TM3 TM4 TM5 TM7 U3 UA0 UA1 UA2 UA3 UA4 UA6 UA9 UK8 UN2 UN4 UN6 UN7 UN8 UN9 UO70 UP0 UP1 UP4 UP6 UR0 UR2 UR3 UR4 UR5 UR6 UR7 UR8 UR9 US0 US1 US2 US3 US4 US5 US6 US7 US8 US9 UT0 UT1 UT2 UT3 UT4 UT5 UT6 UT7 UT8 UT9 UU0 UU1 UU2 UU4 UU5 UU6 UU7 UW0 UW1 UW4 UW5 UW8 UX0 UX1 UX2 UX3 UX4 UX5 UX6 UX7 UX8 UY0 UY2 UY5 UY7 UY8 UZ1 UZ2 UZ5 UZ8 V51 VA1 VA2 VA3 VA7 VB3 VC2 VE1 VE2 VE3 VE4 VE5 VE6 VE7 VE9 VK2 VK6 VK7 VO1 VO2 VP9 VR10 VR2 VU2 VY2 W0 W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 WA1 WA2 WA3 WA4 WA5 WA6 WA7 WA8 WB0 WB2 WB3 WB4 WB5 WB8 WB9 WC1 WC2 WC4 WC5 WC6 WC8 WD4 WD5 WD9 WE3 WF3 WF4 WI3 WI4 WI8 WJ9 WK1 WK2 WK5 WM3 WN1 WN2 WN9 WO3 WO4 WO6 WP3 WQ3 WQ5 WR3 WR4 WR7 WR9 WT4 WT5 WU3 WU4 WW2 WW4 WW5 WX0 WX3 WX5 WX6 WX9 WY0 WY8 WZ2 WZ4 XE1 XE2 XE3 XV9 XW1 YB0 YB9 YD1 YE1 YL1 YL2 YL2008 YL3 YL5 YL6 YL8 YL9 YO2 YO3 YO4 YO5 YO6 YO600 YO7 YO8 YO9 YQ5 YQ6 YQ9 YR1 YR2 YR5 YR7 YR8 YT0 YT1 YT2 YT3 YT4 YT5 YT6 YT7 YT8 YU0 YU1 YU2 YU3 YU5 YU7 YU8 YU9 YW4 Z33 Z35 ZC4 ZD8 ZF2 ZL1 ZL2 ZL3 ZL4 ZM1 ZM2 ZS0 ZS2 ZS6 ZS9 ZX5 ZY7 Powered by Win-Test 3.20.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E77DX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,949,780 Even we had some RFI problems between the stations and stayed 4 times without power(each time for 10-20 min) it was not possible to compete with ES9C. They must be in another contest as we were. We could just dream about 7970 QSO´s. My congratulation Tonno! It was pleasure to have new operator, Rade E74IW on our side which get back into contesting after many many years! Also thanks to rest of team to finish the contest and take care about closing the station after the contest because i need to left allready sonday afternoon. Now is time for antenna work.....i just hope to find enough time to setup everything as planed this summer! 73 es best dx de E77DX/OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,928,640 Thanks for all the QSOs. 73s, Nino EA7RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7TN Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 2,492,584 TS-2000 (90W) Spiderbeam 10-15-20 Inverted V dipoles 40-80 N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE5BM Class: SOSB40(R) HP Total Score = 2,157,170 A field day operation with a single inverted V at 12 m high, 1100 m asl. Too many storms :-((((( I made !!! 106 !!!! dupes (proportional to ES9C) and due to same problem. After contest I searched the cluster and I was spoted as EI7M, nobody is checking the call, directly put in log the spot and that is OK.... Results...... 106 dupes, what a messe. EE5 prefix was fine to running but in S&P H O R R I B L E, need to send cw at 15 WPM. Happy to log more than 1000 q. with a single inverted v and loosing 6 to 8 hours of operation for QSY of QTH. See you in next contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES1LBK/2 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 100 ;) Just for fun, some demo qso's for friends. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES4MM Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 163,584 Here: EQUIPMENT: ic-707 90 wtts ANT VERTICAL-10m Very good local CONDX in CQWPXCWC-2008 on TEN! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES9C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 19,600,260 wow. WOW! What just happened? Several times during the contest I found myself asking myself what year is it and where are we located. Constant great rates all through the contest, though mostly EU and average QSO point 1.92. high bands were fantastic. 15m and especially 10m numbers are simply unbelievable. And in addition to EU we had quite nice Eastern propagation on both bands also. 3 JAs on 10m - certainly least expected this year! And 20m was fabulous - open to US all through the night although not many callers. Ca 800 NA stations and 400 Asians there. We are most amazed to exceed even DR1A in QSO numbers on 20m and 10m. I am sure 9A60A and OM guys (and some others) also broke the current 17.2 mio EU record. Look forward to see their results. Also extreme highlight was that the station performed 100%. No malfunctions whatsoever although things got ready 00:02 UTC as always and we started a few minutes late. It was probably the most fluent and effective contest so far from my station and years of experimenting and building starts to pay off. Lowlight was 322 dupe contacts. We were spotted 7 times as EI9C and it always resulted in big gun pileups. Not many are listening those days:) I guess we could submit our log as EI9C and still get a very good score:) It was nice to have Timo, OH1NOA with us again after a while and also bulk of the best ES ops were present to take the most out of station and propagation. ES2DW was constantly cooking and overfeeding us. Have a nice summer es 73 Tonno ES5TV ES9C By band - By mode QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total! ------------------------------------------------ ! 00 ! ! 94 ! 116 ! 8 ! ! ! 218 ! ! 01 ! ! 82 ! 149 ! 9 ! ! ! 240 ! ! 02 ! ! 81 ! 148 ! 11 ! ! ! 240 ! ! 03 ! ! 20 ! 135 ! 70 ! ! ! 225 ! ! 04 ! ! 5 ! 94 ! 94 ! 4 ! ! 197 ! ! 05 ! ! ! 63 ! 118 ! 10 ! ! 191 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 11 ! 116 ! ! 98 ! 225 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 3 ! 102 ! 10 ! 115 ! 230 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 99 ! 13 ! 92 ! 204 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 105 ! 49 ! 45 ! 199 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 99 ! 92 ! 9 ! 200 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 136 ! 95 ! 9 ! 240 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 94 ! 72 ! 8 ! 174 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 105 ! 70 ! 8 ! 183 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 87 ! 20 ! 67 ! 174 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 14 ! 88 ! ! 85 ! 187 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 10 ! 94 ! 5 ! 94 ! 203 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! 91 ! 13 ! 109 ! 213 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 91 ! 44 ! 61 ! 196 ! ! 19 ! ! ! 14 ! 88 ! 113 ! 2 ! 217 ! ! 20 ! ! ! 53 ! 96 ! 4 ! 5 ! 158 ! ! 21 ! ! ! 68 ! 107 ! 6 ! 2 ! 183 ! ! 22 ! 10 ! 88 ! 10 ! 75 ! 1 ! ! 184 ! ! 23 ! 15 ! 80 ! ! 64 ! 4 ! ! 163 ! ! 00 ! 15 ! 1 ! 67 ! 76 ! ! ! 159 ! ! 01 ! 6 ! 12 ! 69 ! 49 ! ! ! 136 ! ! 02 ! ! 13 ! 41 ! 46 ! 4 ! ! 104 ! ! 03 ! ! 5 ! 19 ! 43 ! 23 ! 6 ! 96 ! ! 04 ! ! ! 10 ! 40 ! 37 ! 1 ! 88 ! ! 05 ! ! ! 26 ! 26 ! 46 ! 1 ! 99 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 61 ! 8 ! 78 ! ! 147 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 27 ! 5 ! 84 ! 48 ! 164 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 8 ! 102 ! 120 ! 230 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 11 ! 101 ! 105 ! 217 ! ! 10 ! ! ! 2 ! 8 ! 61 ! 78 ! 149 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 8 ! 71 ! 80 ! 159 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 5 ! 55 ! 55 ! 115 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 54 ! 37 ! 97 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 6 ! 61 ! 49 ! ! 116 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 6 ! 68 ! 21 ! 30 ! 125 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 29 ! 51 ! 3 ! 17 ! 100 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 49 ! 50 ! 1 ! 10 ! 110 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 52 ! 55 ! 1 ! 13 ! 121 ! ! 19 ! ! 36 ! 52 ! 26 ! 5 ! 7 ! 126 ! ! 20 ! ! 80 ! 39 ! 10 ! 2 ! ! 131 ! ! 21 ! 33 ! 62 ! 30 ! 4 ! ! ! 129 ! ! 22 ! 51 ! 51 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 116 ! ! 23 ! 38 ! 14 ! 33 ! 5 ! ! ! 90 ! ------------------------------------------------ ! ! 168 ! 724 !1506 !2730 !1423 !1417 !7968 ! ES9C - Continents By band - By mode QSOs (with dupes) ! Band / Mode ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 CW ! 97.0% ! ! ! 0.6% ! 2.4% ! ! ! 80 CW ! 89.8% ! 2.3% ! 1.8% ! 0.8% ! 4.7% ! 0.6% ! ! 40 CW ! 67.9% ! 20.9% ! 2.5% ! 0.8% ! 7.4% ! 0.5% ! ! 20 CW ! 54.8% ! 27.9% ! 1.7% ! 0.7% ! 13.4% ! 1.5% ! ! 15 CW ! 81.4% ! 2.8% ! 2.2% ! 1.5% ! 11.1% ! 0.9% ! ! 10 CW ! 91.4% ! 0.1% ! 1.0% ! 0.7% ! 6.8% ! 0.1% ! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Worked prefixes 2E0 2E1 3V8 3W9 3Z0 3Z8 4K0 4K9 4L0 4L2 4L6 4M1 4O3 4O4 4O8 4U1 4X0 4X6 4Z4 4Z5 5P5 5P7 5R8 6K2 6Y1 7J1 7K1 7K3 7N2 7Q7 7S3 7S5 7S7 7X0 7Z1 8P2 8P6 8S6 9A0 9A08 9A1 9A2 9A3 9A35 9A4 9A5 9A50 9A6 9A60 9A7 9A70 9A73 9A8 9A9 9K2 9M2 9M6 9V1 9W2 9Y4 A7 A73 A92 AA0 AA1 AA3 AA4 AA6 AA7 AA9 AB0 AB1 AB2 AB3 AB4 AB7 AB9 AC0 AC4 AC5 AC7 AD4 AD5 AD6 AD8 AE1 AE2 AE6 AF6 AG1 AH6 AH7 AI4 AI8 AJ1 AJ5 AK1 AK2 AK3 AK6 AL1 AM1 AN1 AN2 AO5 AO7 B1 B3 B4 B5 B7 BA6 BA7 BD1 BD4 BD5 BD6 BG1 BG4 BT1 BU2 BV1 BV4 BV7 C4 CO8 CP4 CS2 CS3 CS9 CT0 CT1 CT3 CT9 CU30 CW5 CX7 CX9 D4 DA0 DA3 DC0 DC3 DC4 DC7 DC9 DD1 DD2 DD3 DD4 DD5 DD6 DF0 DF1 DF2 DF3 DF4 DF5 DF6 DF7 DF8 DF9 DG1 DG2 DG3 DG4 DG7 DG8 DH0 DH2 DH3 DH5 DH6 DH7 DH8 DH9 DJ0 DJ1 DJ2 DJ3 DJ4 DJ5 DJ6 DJ7 DJ8 DJ9 DK0 DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 DK7 DK8 DK9 DL0 DL1 DL2 DL3 DL4 DL5 DL6 DL7 DL8 DL9 DM1 DM2 DM3 DM4 DM5 DM50 DM9 DO1 DO2 DO3 DO4 DO5 DO9 DP3 DP4 DP50 DQ3 DQ4 DQ5 DQ6 DR1 DR2 DR4 DR5 DR8 DS2 DS4 DS5 DX1 DX5 E20 E21 E71 E72 E73 E74 E76 E77 E78 EA1 EA2 EA3 EA4 EA5 EA6 EA7 EA8 EA9 EB5 EB7 EC1 EC5 EE2 EE5 EE7 EF1 EF3 EF8 EI2 EI4 EI5 EI7 EI9 EK6 EM9 ER1 ER2 ER3 ER5 ER7 ES1 ES2 ES4 ES5 ES6 ES7 EU1 EU2 EU3 EU4 EU6 EU7 EU8 EV1 EV2 EV6 EW1 EW2 EW3 EW4 EW6 EW7 EW8 EX2 EY8 F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F8 F9 FG1 FG5 FM5 FO5 G0 G2 G3 G4 G5 G6 G7 G8 G9 GD4 GI4 GM0 GM3 GM4 GM5 GM7 GS0 GW0 GW3 GW4 GX0 H7 HA0 HA1 HA2 HA3 HA4 HA5 HA6 HA7 HA8 HA800 HA801 HA805 HA808 HA9 HB10 HB2008 HB9 HC2 HC8 HD2 HG1 HG1848 HG2 HG3 HG4 HG5 HG6 HG7 HG8 HG80 HI5 HK3 HL2 HL3 HL5 HP1 HQ9 HS0 I0 I1 I2 I3 I4 I5 I6 I7 II1 IK0 IK1 IK2 IK3 IK4 IK5 IK6 IK7 IK8 IN3 IO2 IO3 IO4 IQ1 IQ3 IQ8 IR2 IR4 IS0 IT9 IU3 IU9 IV3 IW0 IW1 IW2 IW3 IW5 IZ0 IZ1 IZ2 IZ3 IZ4 IZ5 IZ7 IZ8 J28 J39 J45 J48 J49 JA0 JA1 JA2 JA3 JA4 JA5 JA6 JA7 JA9 JE1 JE2 JE4 JE7 JF0 JF1 JF2 JF3 JF4 JF9 JG0 JG1 JG2 JH0 JH1 JH2 JH3 JH4 JH6 JH7 JH8 JI1 JJ1 JJ6 JK1 JK2 JK8 JL1 JL2 JL3 JL4 JL8 JM1 JM3 JN1 JN2 JN3 JO1 JP1 JQ2 JQ6 JR0 JR1 JR3 JR4 JR5 JR6 JR7 JR9 K0 K1 K2 K3 K4 K5 K6 K7 K8 K9 KA1 KA4 KA5 KA6 KB1 KB2 KB3 KB4 KC1 KC5 KC6 KC7 KD2 KD4 KD5 KD8 KE0 KE1 KE3 KE4 KE6 KE7 KF5 KF6 KG1 KG2 KG4 KG5 KG6 KH2 KH6 KH7 KI2 KI4 KJ3 KK9 KL8 KM0 KM1 KM4 KM6 KM8 KN1 KN5 KN6 KO0 KO1 KO5 KO7 KP4 KQ3 KQ6 KQ7 KR0 KR2 KR4 KR5 KR7 KS0 KS1 KS4 KS7 KT2 KT3 KT7 KT8 KT9 KU1 KU2 KU8 KV0 KV7 KV8 KW3 KX1 KY0 KZ5 L55 LA1 LA2 LA3 LA4 LA6 LA7 LA8 LA9 LN1 LN3 LN5 LN8 LN9 LO2 LQ0 LR4 LU1 LU3 LU4 LU6 LU7 LW4 LW5 LX0 LX1 LX4 LX7 LY1 LY2 LY3 LY4 LY5 LY600 LY7 LY8 LY9 LY999 LZ08 LZ1 LZ2 LZ3 LZ4 LZ5 LZ6 LZ7 LZ8 LZ9 M0 M1 M3 M4 M6 M7 MD0 MJ0 MM0 MM3 MW0 MX0 N0 N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9 NA0 NA1 NA2 NA4 NA6 ND2 ND3 ND4 NE3 NE4 NE5 NE6 NE7 NE8 NE9 NF4 NF6 NF8 NG1 NG2 NG3 NG6 NG9 NH6 NI1 NI3 NI7 NJ1 NJ2 NJ3 NJ4 NJ6 NK0 NK5 NK6 NM1 NM2 NM7 NM9 NN2 NN3 NN4 NN5 NN6 NO2 NO5 NO6 NO8 NO9 NP3 NP4 NQ1 NQ2 NQ3 NQ4 NQ5 NQ7 NR4 NR5 NR7 NS1 NS2 NS9 NT0 NT2 NT5 NT6 NU4 NU7 NV1 NW4 NX2 NX5 NX6 NY3 NY4 NY6 NY9 NZ1 NZ5 OA4 OE1 OE2 OE2008 OE3 OE4 OE5 OE6 OE7 OE8 OE9 OF3 OG0 OG1 OG2 OG6 OG7 OG8 OG9 OH0 OH1 OH2 OH3 OH4 OH5 OH6 OH7 OH8 OJ0 OK1 OK2 OK3 OK4 OK5 OK6 OK7 OL0 OL1 OL1908 OL3 OL4 OL5 OL6 OL7 OL9 OM0 OM1 OM2 OM3 OM4 OM5 OM6 OM7 OM8 OM9 ON3 ON4 ON5 ON6 ON7 OO0 OO5 OO9 OP1 OP4 OP5 OP9 OQ4 OQ5 OR2 OS5 OT4 OV3 OY4 OZ1 OZ2 OZ4 OZ5 OZ6 OZ7 OZ8 P33 P4 P40 P43 PA0 PA1 PA143 PA2 PA3 PA4 PA5 PA6 PA7 PA8 PA9 PB2 PB4 PD0 PD2 PD7 PD9 PE1 PE2 PE4 PG2 PG3 PG7 PH7 PI4 PJ2 PP1 PP5 PQ4 PR2 PR7 PS2 PS7 PT1 PT2 PT4 PT8 PU2 PV8 PW2 PX2 PY1 PY2 PY3 PY4 R2 R3 R35 R90 RA0 RA1 RA3 RA4 RA6 RA9 RC4 RD3 RD4 RG3 RG9 RK0 RK1 RK2 RK3 RK4 RK6 RK9 RL3 RL6 RL9 RM3 RM9 RN1 RN2 RN3 RN4 RN6 RO9 RQ9 RS3 RT3 RT4 RT9 RU0 RU1 RU2 RU3 RU4 RU6 RU9 RV1 RV3 RV4 RV6 RV9 RW0 RW1 RW2 RW3 RW4 RW6 RW9 RX0 RX3 RX4 RX6 RX9 RZ0 RZ1 RZ3 RZ4 RZ6 RZ9 S50 S51 S52 S53 S54 S55 S56 S57 S58 S59 SA0 SA1 SA5 SE2 SE3 SE5 SE6 SF0 SF6 SG5 SI5 SI89 SI9 SJ0 SJ6 SK2 SL0 SM0 SM2 SM3 SM5 SM6 SM7 SN2 SN3 SN30 SN5 SN6 SN7 SN8 SN9 SO1 SO4 SO6 SO8 SO9 SP1 SP2 SP3 SP4 SP5 SP6 SP7 SP8 SP9 SQ1 SQ2 SQ3 SQ4 SQ5 SQ6 SQ7 SQ8 SQ9 SV1 SV2 SV3 SV7 SV9 SX1 SY3 T91 T92 T93 T94 T95 T97 T99 TA2 TA3 TC37 TF3 TI5 TI8 TK5 TM0 TM3 TM5 TM7 U3 UA0 UA1 UA2 UA3 UA4 UA6 UA9 UK8 UN2 UN4 UN5 UN6 UN7 UN8 UN9 UO70 UP0 UP1 UP4 UP6 UQ70 UR0 UR2 UR3 UR4 UR5 UR6 UR7 UR8 US0 US1 US2 US3 US4 US5 US6 US7 US8 US9 UT0 UT1 UT2 UT3 UT4 UT5 UT6 UT7 UT8 UT9 UU0 UU1 UU2 UU4 UU5 UU6 UU7 UV1 UV3 UV5 UW0 UW1 UW4 UW5 UW7 UW8 UX0 UX1 UX2 UX3 UX35 UX4 UX5 UX6 UX7 UX8 UY0 UY2 UY3 UY5 UY7 UY8 UZ1 UZ2 UZ5 UZ8 V51 V63 VA1 VA2 VA3 VA6 VA7 VB3 VC2 VE1 VE2 VE3 VE4 VE5 VE6 VE7 VE9 VK2 VK3 VK4 VK6 VK7 VK8 VO1 VO2 VP5 VP9 VQ9 VR10 VR2 VU2 VY1 VY2 W0 W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8 W9 WA1 WA2 WA3 WA4 WA5 WA6 WA7 WA8 WB1 WB4 WB6 WB8 WC1 WC2 WC5 WC6 WC8 WD0 WD4 WD8 WE3 WE9 WF3 WF6 WG0 WH6 WI4 WJ7 WJ9 WK1 WK2 WK5 WM3 WN1 WN2 WN9 WO3 WO4 WO6 WP3 WP4 WQ2 WQ5 WR3 WR4 WR7 WR9 WS7 WT4 WU3 WU4 WW2 WW3 WW4 WW5 WX0 WX3 WX5 WX6 WX9 WY0 WY6 WY8 WZ2 WZ4 XE1 XE2 XE3 XQ4 XV3 XV9 XW1 YB0 YB3 YB4 YB9 YC2 YD1 YE1 YL1 YL2 YL3 YL4 YL5 YL6 YL8 YL9 YO2 YO3 YO4 YO5 YO6 YO600 YO7 YO8 YO9 YP2 YP8 YQ5 YQ6 YQ9 YR1 YR2 YR5 YR7 YR8 YT0 YT1 YT2 YT3 YT4 YT5 YT6 YT7 YT8 YU0 YU1 YU2 YU3 YU5 YU7 YU8 YU9 YV1 YV4 YW4 YW7 Z32 Z33 Z35 Z36 ZC4 ZD7 ZD8 ZF2 ZL1 ZL2 ZL4 ZM0 ZM1 ZM2 ZP5 ZS0 ZS2 ZS5 ZS6 ZS9 ZX5 ZY7 Powered by Win-Test 3.20.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Total Score = 542,707 Powered by Win-Test 3.20.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6BEE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,444,094 I decided very late during the week to enter the contest, having not recovered from Dayton contesters' nights and jet lag ! Nothing worked as planned on Friday and so I arrived late at the station, had to set up the SO2R station and do the usual (and additional unpredicted) antenna work. I also had to cut part of the high grass under the antennas on saturday morning. The 5 el monobander on 15m is still stuck fixed to the US and I used a recently installed 3 el SteppIR at 12m for the other directions. Tiredness selected the best operating time for me, certainly not the best ones ! For sure I missed the now famous 15 and 10 m openings with USA. Fortunately, the thunderstorms forecast for all of the week end lasted only a couple of 10 minutes, with less than 10 mn of very noisy bands. All in all, a pleasant contest that could have been better with a fresher operator but not as bad as expected ! 73 and C U in IARU HF Jacques ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F9IE Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 2,518,356 Station: TRX: Ten-Tec Orion 2 Antennas: 3 elts SteppIR @ 22m (10-20m) 2 elts DXBeam Yagi @ 20m (40m) no 80/160m antennas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3RSD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 268,192 Very surprised to work so many stations on 15 and 10. Just a small effort using 100w to an inverted vee trapped dipole centre at 10 mtrs. Most enjoyable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,167,672 WPX-CW is a real fun contest. No need to worry about looking for the mults .... the mults just keep coming in with the QSOs. Plenty of activity across all the bands, with loads of short-skip on both 15m and 10m. Even the occasional bit of DX was to be found on these two high bands. Perhaps we are finally climbing out of the sun-spot minimum? At the other end of the spectrum 80m was end to end with activity. However 160m is still bit of a back-water in this contest. The low single-band serial numbers given out by the multi-multis on 160m revealed the relative paucity of Top Band activity. But nevertheless a handful of additional Prefix mults were to be found on 160m in the closing moments of CQ-WPX-CW-08. Operated from home QTH with ancient tri-bander at 60ft, and dipoles for 40m, 80m and 160m. 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 201,175 Great to find 10m open for such long periods. Whilst mostly short-skip sporadic-E, it was encouraging to work several UA9's and even more pleased to get called by three North Americans (K4SV and two VO1's) - not bad for 100w and hastily built 1/4 lambda vertical. Thanks for all the QSO's and to the contest sponsors. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4IIY Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 774,180 Managed to get a few hours on the radio. Fantastic to see 10m open. Ian G4IIY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,046,979 Thanks for the Qs everyone. Sorry for the endless NR? but the noise from S Europe was killing me. Station: Rig: FT 2000 Amp: Challenger 3 Logger: N1MM Antennas: 80m - Inverted L 40m - Vertical 20/15m - Windom Cheers, Terry G4MKP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G5W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,596,435 Good fun again, although conditions did not seem as good as I would have liked on LF. Other home commitments meant that I could not select the 36 hours of operating time, so the score reflects this. Thanks for all the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,311,563 Full story on g6pz.com: http://www.g6pz.com/2008/05/26/wpx-cw-2008-result/ Thanks for all the QSOs. CU in the next one. 73, G6PZ CG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: H7/K9GY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,784,590 Wow this contest had it all! Great condx, then stinko condx, then great condx again... Barking dogs, rain, thunder, loud am/fm radios from neighbors, wasps in the shack, roosters crowing at all hours...Geez almost feel like I'm in the jungle...I thought I had a lot of distractions back in Illinois, hah! The last 2-1/2 hours of the contest it was pouring rain outside. Maybe it was a sign to stay on 20m instead of going to 40m earlier like I had planned. Even operated the last hour with lightening...I am crazy or what! My apologies to UR5FEL as we lost power for a few minutes right when he was going to send my number...you're in the log but without a number....argh! Amazed to get my freq back on 20m after the brief outage (less than 5-10 minutes). Off times! Ah I think I'm starting to hate off times now. Maybe if I was able to get the off times right I might be ok with them. Seems like they never work out right for me. When NR4M gave #222 on 10m I thought geez did I miss a good opening on 10m somewhere? I thought I was fairly good about checking 10m...umm! Initial goal was 2,200 Qs. It looked good at the end of Day 1 when I had 1,320 Qs at 43 mins after 00z. So just needed another 880 during Day 2! Came just a tad short on Day 2. Score is close to my 2006 C6AYM effort. Thought I would be T/S entry but the 40m quad negates that. Friday afternoon was fun....We had a 6m opening to FL. Another fun time in Central America :-) FT-857d 3L Cushcraft tribander 2L 40m Quad 40/80 combo dipole WriteLog Best of health to all, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA3OV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,486,000 Thanks: HG6N guys to use the station as single op. George HA6ND for support George's wife, Marika for cookies And somebody up there to make 10/15M open! 73! Anti HA3OV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 197,408 Rig: IC-756(100W) Ant: Vertical(28m) Rx ant: 2x50m LW Nice contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 905,170 TS-870 (100 Watts) Multi Dipole 10/15/20 M Dipole 40 M Vertical Butternut HF-9VX Short dipole 160 M from Kelemen Better then last year with the same configuration Hope the beam will be up for the next one Thanks to all and 73's qro Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC8N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 11,541,588 Tremendous activity! Thanks for all the q's. 73, Steve K6AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG7T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,051,452 Tnx all call QSO My Rig:FTDX9000D + 1.5KW Ant 2X4 ele SteppIR Yagi up 40 and 21 meters Low Band V160HD Titanex Gp and K9AY RX antenna and + Dipole Vy 73! Tibi HA7TM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8K Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,471,050 RIG: IC-781+ SB-220 (700W) ANT: ECO 2EL BEAM, ECO 14AVT VERTICAL CLUSTER:NO SOFTWARE:SD by EI5DI (*****) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,637,664 fast end at 1439z on sunday, was big storm, with wind, but not problem in station. after 5 mins. mains voltage stooped. (20kv wire are breaking).at 2230z was ready, but was not strength of mind for start again.... setup: ts870+tl922, 4el quad(18mh),vertical(28mh)+two short beverages. thanks to all callers. 73... pali,ha8jv ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 20,331 Hi OM's.. Mant tnk FB qSO ..CU next contest..de HL5YI..CHAE 73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HP1WW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,915,648 FT1000MP, ALPHA 87A & verticals for 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10M Thunderstorms prohibited full 36 hour operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,734,800 -Great Es multi-hop condx on 10-15m. 40m was ufb as well the 1st night with lots of W6/7s S-9+10 on the meter! Saturday was better than Sunday to US/JA on both 10 and 15 and although 15mt was wide open with good sigs up to the West Coast there wasn't much activity. -Hot EU competition with several great ops at some of the best EU stns. Congrats to 4O3A, OM3BH@OM8A, 9A5W@9A1A, HA3OV@HG6N, S50A, YR7M(YO3JR). -2nd radio was barefoot (I'm getting lazy) and 80m ant must have a short somewhere. So sure there was room for improvements and it means the 8M mark would have been achievable. Rates were so good the 1st twelve hrs that my WPX CW 2006 score I used as target file into WT was usless in the early Sat. morning. I should have loaded CT8T WPX CW 2005 log.... :-) -Lots of fun and plenty of free space with no qrg fights. The only interesting case has been a well-known Central Eu Multi-Multi jumping in and cqing zero beat on 40m. At 1st I thought he had really narrow filters/roofings and some hi tech sig cancelling devices but when moved some 300hz away after a couple of mins I understood he wasn't able to steal the qrg ;-) -Lots of juicy mults called in: KH2/WX8C, 3D2A, 9M6XRO, 9V1PC, XW1A, XW1B, VR10XLN, VR2PX, KL8DX, NH6V, KH7B, KH7X, FO5RH (2 bands-1st time on 40m at 06.46z!!), HC2AD, OA4TT, 7Q7WW, HS0AC, E20YLM, 7Z1HL, lots of BYs, and many others I forgot. Log will be uploaded to Lotw otherwise you can Qsl to I4EAT either direct or through the buro. Matt.EYZ Few statistics below: OFF TIME Sat 11.16z - 15.01z Sun 03.47z - 12.02z IR4X - Continents All bands - All modes QSOs (with dupes) ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 53.2% ! 36.2% ! 1.5% ! 0.7% ! 7.7% ! 0.7% ! ------------------------------------------------------- IR4X By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! ! 3 ! 117 ! ! ! 120 ! ! 01 ! ! ! 35 ! 63 ! ! ! 98 ! ! 02 ! 11 ! ! 102 ! ! ! ! 113 ! ! 03 ! 3 ! ! 112 ! ! ! ! 115 ! ! 04 ! 1 ! ! 116 ! 4 ! ! ! 121 ! ! 05 ! ! ! 102 ! 7 ! ! ! 109 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 88 ! 12 ! ! ! 100 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 5 ! 87 ! 6 ! ! 98 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 33 ! 90 ! ! 123 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! ! 107 ! 3 ! 110 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! ! 109 ! 5 ! 114 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! ! 26 ! 3 ! 29 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! ! 87 ! 7 ! 94 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! ! 82 ! 6 ! 88 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! ! 78 ! 8 ! 86 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 17 ! 63 ! 1 ! 81 ! ! 19 ! ! ! 81 ! ! ! ! 81 ! ! 20 ! ! 2 ! 66 ! 9 ! ! ! 77 ! ! 21 ! ! 2 ! ! 107 ! ! ! 109 ! ! 22 ! ! 2 ! ! 97 ! ! ! 99 ! ! 23 ! ! ! 4 ! 95 ! ! ! 99 ! ! 00 ! ! ! 6 ! 88 ! ! ! 94 ! ! 01 ! ! ! 22 ! 38 ! ! ! 60 ! ! 02 ! 6 ! ! 58 ! ! ! ! 64 ! ! 03 ! 1 ! 3 ! 48 ! ! ! ! 52 ! ! 04 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 05 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 06 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! ! ! 87 ! 87 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! ! 2 ! 85 ! 87 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 9 ! 55 ! 64 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 78 ! 3 ! 14 ! 95 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 72 ! 9 ! ! 81 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 1 ! 66 ! 6 ! ! 73 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 8 ! 37 ! ! ! 45 ! ! 19 ! ! ! 4 ! 59 ! ! ! 63 ! ! 20 ! ! ! 2 ! 75 ! ! ! 77 ! ! 21 ! ! ! 13 ! 71 ! ! ! 84 ! ! 22 ! ! ! 2 ! 69 ! 2 ! ! 73 ! ! 23 ! ! ! 10 ! 58 ! ! ! 68 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 22 ! 9 ! 888 ! 1359 ! 679 ! 274 ! 3231 ! Contest : CQ World Wide WPX Contest Callsign : IR4X Mode : CW Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : Locator : JN54OL Operating time : 36h00 BAND QSO DUP PFX POINTS AVG ----------------------------------- 160 22 0 17 48 2.18 80 9 0 5 22 2.44 40 880 8 339 3409 3.87 20 1346 13 366 3044 2.26 15 672 7 203 1070 1.59 10 272 2 46 332 1.22 ----------------------------------- TOTAL 3201 30 976 7925 2.48 =================================== TOTAL SCORE : 7 734 800 Dupes are not included in QSO counts neither avg calculations Operators : Soapbox : Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IU9S Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 1,053,696 Excellent Es opening all saturday long: a lot of fun! My first day's target of 1000 Qs has been well achieved. The second leg, on sunday, it was a pity enough: less Es activity, lower signals, a lot of strong atmospheric noise and too much "F1" to run without answers :-( Several very interesting contacts with USA, often good signals but just few stations in the best periods. Best signals from RW2F and DR1A during both days long, just like local stations. Congrats to OH1RX@OH0J for his big number of Qs form EU! CUL on next one! "Joe", IT9BLB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA1YPA Class: M/M HP Total Score = 10,199 Work was very busy and all of our member were not able to participate in operation. Then, we are two persons' members and only checked equipment. hi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 235,438 Spent a little more time than I had planned but was having fun breaking in the new Mark V (including the Roofing Filter I picked up at Dayton). It played pretty well. Only downer was a TVI complaint from neighbor which I had to deal with. Storms in Minnesota on late Sunday afternoon pretty much shot things down. 73, Al, K0AD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0IO Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 1,592,285 Good time even with just an R-8 Vertical and 100 watts. Hope I don't have to go storm spotting tonight ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 739,758 I was happy to meet my goal of beating last year's score.(by 100k!) Not as many Qs this time but higher average points/QSO. Spending more time on 40 with a fair opening to EU on Friday night helped a lot.(tough going w/100 watts and a piece of wire!) The low bands were too noisy Saturday night so spent more time on 20 which, amazingly, seemed open to almost everywhere just before midnight. 15 was better than last year and even 10 showed signs of life with a bit of Es. Had a great time. Thanks to all for the Qs and see you in the next one! Setup: FT2000, TS940S, N1MM, Tribander/wires 73, Paul - K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 110,936 Put in an hour here and there over the weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RF Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 2,130,000 Decided to do this about 4 hours before the test. Glad I did. 73, Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 893,520 IC-7700 IC-PW1 C-19XR 160m Horiz Loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,698,926 More fun than I thought. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 231,594 First time I ever had an indoor antenna fall down. Jim Cain, K1TN/2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 398,762 Wow, even worked a few EU stns on 10m. Will wonders never cease. Used this as a test run for my new K3. Found a few problems with the setup but managed to make the needed adjustments. Very pleased with how well the radio operated. All I need now is some antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2WK Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 174,468 Rig: IC-756 Pro III Amp: Alpha 87a Antennas: Dipoles for 80,40,20 Limited operation due to holiday commitments. 73 de Walt - K2WK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 5,500,832 Part time, but got hooked by very good first 4 or 5 hours. Amazing how many folks go from Dayton weekend to WPXCW without missing a beat. THANKS to K1DG for N1LI Maine, on 15 meters for my last LOTW 6 band WAS state. Mentioned it at Dayton and Doug said CU on 15 Sunday when I worked him from NH on Saturday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 568,500 I only planned to participate for a few hours but relatively good propagation allowed me to reach my initial goal (200 Qs) much faster than expected. I reset the goal to 100,000 points and then to 250,000 points and then to 500 Qs and then to 500,000 points. Before I knew it, my "few hours" became 19+ hours...but I enjoyed (almost) every minute! The WPX contests are great for a "little pistol" station like mine as you can work some interesting DX yet still be able to spend some time "running" since you can work K/VE stations (albeit for only 1 point). The highlight was getting called by 7Q7WW (Malawi) during one of my 20m runs. Unfortunately, I was completely befuddled by the callsign when I first head it. About 3 repeats later, I added #217 to my DXCC totals. Later in the contest, while S&Ping, I added #218 by working A73A (Qatar). During 2007 (my first year operating in run-mode during major CW contests), my average run rate was 40-50/hour. This weekend, my average run rate was 66/hour and my slowest run was 53/hour. Almost 40% of my Qs were in runs with 10+ Qs. The K/VE callsigns have gotten easier to copy but many DX callsigns are still a challenge (e.g. 5P7Y, SE2T, HB0/G0RZJ). Although I still have a long way to go, I'm excited that my CW skills continue to improve. Thanks for the Qs... especially to all the ops who were patient during fill requests and/or were willing to QRS when they heard my keyer at 24-28 wpm. 73, Barry K4CZ Rig: Kenwood TS-930 w/ Piexx board, Ameritron AL-80B Antenna: Force 12 C-4 @ 50' for 40-10m; Marconi-T for 160-80m Software: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 77,571 FT-897D - 100 watts Antenna - 5BTV Hustler vertical ground mounted with no radials Some new countries such as 3V8BB in Tunisia, and Guam. Hope is a small glimmering electron away ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,431,064 What a blast! While I can't seem to work the amount of DX contacts necessary for a really competitive score from here, the WPX CW is still a whole lot of FUN to operate. The serial number requires the operator to work extra hard for each QSO, and operating skill is the very Kernel of Contesting . The sporadic E propagation, and almost endless supply of stations keeps things interesting on all bands. Packet pileups seem to be non-existent, at least to this knob-spinning Single Operator. Perhaps the best thing about the WPX is that a competent operator can make well over a thousand QSOs with a little effort. Highlights this year included: - Breaking 3 million for the first time in any contest from the K4RO station. - Working EUROPE on TEN METERS. - Fantastic Es both days on 15 meters. - An adrenaline-filled final hour, with simultaneous S&P and CQing everywhere like mad. Now, if I could just operate every hour like that! What was different from last year: - First hour 102 vs. 147 last year. First hour was my only hour over 100. This was more of a "slow and steady makes the QSOs" type of contest. - Better DX propagation in middle Tennessee. Reflected in my score. Problems encountered: - North East Beverage seemed totally in-effective the first night. Seemed to be bi-directional, at best. Saturday night I'd had enough, and tromped through the woods with a flashlight at midnight. Sure enough, one side of the ladder-line was broken at the feed point. I made a quick repair, and the antenna worked like gangbusters from then on. I sure wish I'd caught that problem before the contest started. It probably cost me a lot of QSOs, as the QRN on 80& 40 was very tough. - I still don't know the proper CW speed to run. I slowed the keyer down this year tp 30-32 WPM for most of the contest, and it seemed to attract more callers. Yet, most of the Big Guns called me at 35WPM+, and I don't know if that's just their S&P speed. I did crank up the keyer a bit when a "pileup" (3-4 stations) answered a CQ, but went back to 32 WPM when no one was answering my CQs. I'd appreciate any advice in this area. I think the biggest problem is that I am still not proficient enough on CW. - I tried to work as much DX as possible, but the high-rate Es contacts were too alluring. It was too enticing to crank up the QSO number and work the fast NA ops on the high bands. Congratulations to the guys who combine the big QSO numbers and DX points for the winning scores. Sometimes I think I just need more hardware to score better, but I know that's not the total truth. I can still score better, using the hardware I have installed. The guys at the top of this contest are some of the best operators around today. There is no top to the contesting mountain. There are simply different views from each successive height of achievement. Thanks for the QSOs! 73 -Kirk K4RO p.s. No skimmers, CW decoders, or second operators were used. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 149,604 It was not easy deciding to do a single-band effort, although based on mediocre conditions for a couple of the last major contests, I figured I wouldn't be missing too much. Naturally, as I tuned across 20M, 15M, and even 10M on Saturday, the bands were popping! But I had enough other commitments for the weekend that I knew I had to pick a target, and having read lots of comments saying that the best way to really get the feeling for a band is to do a single band contest, I decided to let it ride on 80. Why 80? Probably because it's the band I usually spend the least time on during most contests. I was able to get right into things as the starting gun fired at 0000Z Saturday, and a number of EU's were coming in pretty nicely. Unfortunately, after a quick success with TM5Y, it was 13 minutes before I could find another EU who heard me. Things got a little better after sunset at 0020, and I had a rather leisurely S&P through the band for the next couple of hours. My approach to the whole thing was more exploratory than frantic, as I knew I wasn't going to break any personal records -- and certainly no "real" ones! The majority of the contacts were Southern and Eastern EU, with the occasional G thrown in. I was surprised to see only 2 NA's in the first 80 minutes - I guess most NA stations who ran were on other bands. Then 6 NA stations in a row at 0218, and way more NA stations after 0300. I think that's when they started coming "down" from 40. In the spirit of getting the feeling for the band, it was very noticeable how conditions improved as the evening wore on. Overall QRN was not bad, but signals were stronger and copy was better towards midnight. I did about a 30 minute run at 0400 on 3544, then about 30 minutes of S&P, and then I "pounced" into bed. Must have been tired because I didn't get back to the dials until 1135, at which point I had exactly one Q before declaring the band spent! Kind of a funny feeling on a contest weekend to be done at 1135. It could grow on me... I did tune quickly through 40M and 20M -- man, even though 80M was in pretty decent shape QSB and QRN-wise, the quality of copy on 20M -- and later on 15M and 10M, was a huge difference. I had to ask for a lot of repeats on 80M (was that dah-dah-di-di-di or dah--di-di-di with hiding a dit?), and there were quite a few callers that were just below my noise level -- sorry folks! -- but the other bands sounded very clear by comparison. We had folks over for an early Memorial Day weekend picnic Saturday afternoon, so I didn't return to my SB80 effort until 9PM local. Pretty nice conditions again, very similar to the first night although I started running earlier, around 0200, and no surprise, the K and VE stations were coming out of the woodwork when I called CQ. My heading was nodding into the keyboard around midnight, and the Q rates were dwindling under 20, so in the name of "getting up early to see what I could hear then" I wimped out and went to bed. All-in-all, not a bad decision, as I got back on the bands at 1015 and after 25 minutes of S&P, settled into a nice slot at 3513 and enjoyed a nice run including a KH6 and a YN. I hung up the headphones at 1118, a few hundred points shy of 150K, but feeling a bit more familiar with 80M and enjoying the fact that I could get outside and get some yard work done and spend some time with the family on this holiday weekend. Thanks to all for the Q's and fun and see you in the next one! Gear: Icom 756pro2, THP HL-1.5KFX amp, Cobra Ultralight Sr. linear loaded doublet as an inverted V at 50 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 130,449 My second K3 arrived Thursday evening, so I hooked it up and everything worked great. This was my maiden contest voyage for the new radios! I sold my pair of Omni VIs in order to buy the K3s. So far, I'm not sure there is a clear-cut advantage with the K3. Likes: - The receive audio is very pleasant. - The receiver is quiet and I made some contacts with weak stations that I may not have been able to make with any other radio. - I have my headphone switching set up so that I can switch to just the active radio and utilize the audio effects. Pretty cool! The spatial effect helps with sorting out signals, you can pick out callsigns in a crowded passband even with the filters wide open! - The radio interfaces well, there was always a slight lag with my Omni Six on frequency display, mode changes, etc. with TR. The K3 updates quickly and the shift keys even work! - Good QSK. Dislikes: - Ergomnomics: After all the hype on K3 ergonomics, I am disappointed. Why the designers would waste a dual concentric control by putting sub controls on it is beyond me! IMHO, the bottom dual concentric (DC) control should be AF and RF gain, the dual concentric control above it should be PBT(shift) and width, on the inner and outer controls respectively. Replicate those controls for the sub on a separate stalk. The small knobs for shift and width are almost useless because they are small and the encoder interval is not granular enough to really make precise adjustments, IMHO. - AGC: My ears are still ringing from some very loud signals that the AGC apparently did not knock down to an acceptable level. With the Omni, I could monitor one transceiver with the other and the AGC made it sound like just any other signal on the band. I need to study the manual to see how to taylor the AGC to my liking. - In-band interference: I'm accustomed to doing same-band SO2R with the Omnis, in other words, call CQ on radio one and listening on the same band (usually >20kHz away) for S&P possibilites. Can't do that as well with the K3, quite a bit more hash on transmit. However, interference between individual bands is excellent, as good or maybe better than the Omni. - Display: Real hard to tell what options are selected. Things like NR and AGC selection are tiny! - A/B VFO Selection: K3 experts, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe it is possible to have VFO A set to transmit and receive on one band, and VFO B on another band. This was a "secret weapon" that I used to bypass the bandswitching on the Omni. I'd have two bands set up for each radio and just toggle between A and B VFOs to access them. Can't do that with the K3 and the up/down band switch is time consuming and ackward. - Another gripe regarding the up/down band buttons--it was almost instinctive for me to hold them down continuously to change multiple bands (say from 20m to 80M) If you do that, you'll change either the QSK setting or the VOX setting. Changing the VOX setting is fatal if you're trying to call someone, because the VOX must be on to key the radio. That happened to me, and it took me a while to figure it out. I generally like the radio, I think I still have very much to learn, but I see a lot of things that I feel could be improved. I'm putting a list together a list for Elecraft. The K3 ain't perfect, but it ain't bad! MTF Paul, K5AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5UV Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 839,244 This was First Attempt at High Power FT2000 AL80A Hustler 6BTV 73 and Thanks for the Q's Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,229 Unfortunately this score is 84% of last years score. I have yet to go through last years data. I think the difference however may just be conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 82,944 For my low power station with wires, condix were fair to poor. I had a goal to break 100,000 points, but I didn't make it. Seemed like propagation to South America and the Caribbean was difficult from here. I worked about 5 Europeans after working none last year. Good condix to the Pacific on 20m late into the evening. I think that is why my 20M total is higher and my 40 and 80M are less than last year. The big story was 10 and 15 meters that saved the contest. The short skip was fantastic. I was amazed at the propagation at times between Southern California and Northern California. Even had a good path to San Diego some of the time. So, I was able to fill in a few states for WAS on 10 and 15 meters. Still about 20 more to go for 5BWAS. I wish more of the VE7's would have been on 10 and 15. Maybe some were single band entries. Worked VE7UF on 5 bands. The most amazing contact was with D4C at 0400z on 20, which is the latest I've ever worked him at night. Also surprised the opening to Europe on 20 was about 2200z rather than the usual 0300z. Tnx to all the stations on Hawaii for their 3 pointers. Also love all the various Alaskan prefixes now. Again, I don't think I worked the old KL7 one. Calls to watch out for: NR4M and NR5M. Comparison to last year 2007 2008 -------------------------------- 80 63 29 40 120 76 20 100 118 15 28 62 10 1 29 Prefixes 166 162 -2.4% Points 571 512 -11.4% Score 94786 82944 -13.5% REGIONS 2007 2008 ----------------------------- Japan 13 5 Caribbean 9 3 South Amer. 14 11 Mexico 3 0 Software: N3FJP Logger Rig: FT-990 Ants: 80 meter sloping dipole at 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee at 50 feet 20 meter dipole at 20 feet facing NE 15 meter dipole at 25 feet 10 meter Ringo Ranger vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RIM Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 431,472 Fun part-time effort: nice to hear signals on the bands, for a change! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TA Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,073,260 Condx better than expected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 31,654 Small operating chunks. More concerned this weekend with the nasty local rural area fire going on a few miles away. Tnx for the Q's... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 457,930 Saturday - Europe opened late afternoon. Very little JA activity. Sunday: EUR opened in AM and again in late afternoon. Very limited JA participation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 858,419 Rig: FT1000MP/ Force 12 6BA/ Sloper/ N1MM Great to hear EU on 15! Overall decent condx, considering the cycle time. Missed more of our JA friends, however, for west coast mults...the radar sure tore things up particularly Sunday for Asia! Thanks for all the Q's, and the great time spent! 73 until the next one! John K7WP .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,037,042 SE5E had the call of the contest! Listening to them send it was like listening to music. Condx were both bad and good! Wish 40 meters was like that in November. Some nice East-West openings on 10. Only one continental African was worked (EA9EU). 20 meters was poor in the morning but great in the evening. Great contest...wish I could have put in more time. K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,390,515 Ten-Tec Orion II, Alpha 91B, 3 el SteppIR at 78' Varying conditions, from poor to quite good, at times, kept this from being just a "work one pointers" event. CU all in IARU, multiop-multimode with N7AP callsign! GL 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB(TS)(R) HP Total Score = 139,536 A few hours Saturday night and Sunday afternoon to provide some action for the guys who really cared about this one. It was 95% CQing, but I did not notice any good skimmer pileups. It was a good experiment in alternatives to meaningless 5NN signal reports. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,980,600 I just put the station together the day before. Only had one radio working. The bands were quite good. EU was available most anytime on 20m. The best condx were late afternoon and early evening both days. 15m and 10m had some openings. Nice occasional E prop to NA on 10m. 80m was too noisy here with qrn. Real happy to improve over last year's score in q's and mults. It was also nice to qso with hams that I just saw at Dayton. Time spent probably was not the best operating times. Life happens. My rotator for the yagi quit in the last four hours and is stuck on the north limit! Not many stations that way....thanks to those that dug me out of the mud. ICOM 7800, Alpha 87A and MonstIR at 90 feet...N1MM Logger and microKeyer 2R+ Thanks for the q's...73 Craig K9CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,460,720 Condx pretty good. Some QRN, but it was better than had been forecast. Thanks to all who qso'd nad I appreciate everyone's patience. Anumber of "frequency Fights" broke out, but all in all not bad. I had a good time and always enjoy seeing the call signs of many of my RTTY friends. 73 to all, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 672 Moving into a new house this weekend. Scrounged up a radio, paddles, and a chunk of wire to pass out a handful of QSOs during the last hour. 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9YC Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 1,130,415 First outing with new K3, and I like it a lot. Sure miss the second RX of the MP though, and hope the 2nd RX for the K3 arrives soon. K3 drives the Titan amp like it was born to it. Antennas are all wires. 160 and 80 were ready with good conditions, but operators were missing in action, especially on 160. KH0R was solid here for a while Sunday morning, but wasn't hearing me, and I didn't hear any other NA calling him. That didn't stop the Asians on 80 and 40, who gave me great runs on both bands Sunday overnight. 20 was also open late, 15 and 10 were both a lot better than in recent memory. Things do seem to be coming around. This is my second posting -- the first one didn't come through. 73, Jim K9YC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1ARB Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 109,760 My highest number of CW contest Q's ever! Thanks for your patience, though I'm still amazed at how many ops won't slow down for a fledging CW guy. Even after several repeats. When I get my beam unstuck from pointing SW, I hope to do even better! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 22,172 CQ WPX CW packed a lot ham radio fun this weekend. Friday night conditions really got me started in a positive direction despite lackluster propagation. Luckily both the A- and K-index moved downward throughout the game. And 20M reflected the bulk of my QSO total as well as 40M throughout the weekend. Oceania made a 'big' point difference Friday evening as those King Henry Sixs like KH7B, KH7X, KH6NF, NH6V, and KH6MB drove my FT100 s-meter deep into the blue. After sunset on 20M, the New Zealand contingent populated my log like, ZM1A and ZM2M. On the other hand, Australia followed and I scored my only VK QSO for the entire contest. I heard but did not work much of South America on 20M this year. Likewise the Carribean was shut down from my location. Heard the P40s battling it out but not enough punch in 50-watts through the east coast wall. Heard Asia late Saturday evening however I probably missed the brief JA-opening because of activity on forty. Forty meters pumped. Propagation numbers supported the long haul QSO and 40M lived up to its reputation. I worked several Central and South American stations on this band. Thank you gentlemen for the much needed '6' that drove my best ever score. Likewise, everyone in North America was loud and that was a pleasurable contesting experience while in the SP mode. Eight meters, on the other hand, surprised me producing only five contacts. The band, in my estimation, was not in great shape because of the noise. But The Locust, K6VVA, brought out a smile in the early morning hour on Sunday. Thanks Rick! The great solar engine put the kabosh on 15M but I managed at least 13 QSOs and thanks for those points from Oceania. N5RM was everywhere and it was fun working NX5M as well. I closed out the game on 20M and what an exceptional Sporadic E surprise going into the closing hours. Worked several of the NCCC team like W6OAT [a first for my contest log] and K9YC that was a big hoot as well. Overall, I'm exhausted and that's RadioSport at its best. 73, Scot KA3DRR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA6SGT Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 39,211 Great contest, good conditions, and a lot of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 36,507 Just noodling around with the new K3 and a few feet of wire off the RV while working in Yellowstone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 544,580 First low power effort in a long time. Used a quad at 40 feet and verticals on 40/80. Have many things to fix at the antenna farm! It was good to hear some EU on 15 Saturday but no real JA runs this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 30,294 Spectacular weather and mediocre conditions limited my operating time. Got off to a great start Friday night. 20M was open late into the evening. This was the highlight of the weekend. For the most part, the rest of the weekend was a bit of a struggle and I elected to spend my time enjoying the nicest weather of the year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,761,998 Wow - Europe on 10 meters! (We worked two Europeans and FO5RH. I never thought we'd have 288 QSO's on ten meters this year. The score is substantially better than last year. Thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting us use his station again, and Mark, NA3D, for letting us invade the farm! Saturday night on 40 was quiet and conditions seemed very good. The score is up about 4 million points from last year. See you in the next one! 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 20 323 584 740 432 272 2371 47.7 South America CW 0 15 25 41 44 13 138 2.8 Europe CW 0 244 679 984 316 1 2224 44.8 Asia CW 0 3 23 67 6 0 99 2.0 Africa CW 0 7 15 15 13 1 51 1.0 Oceania CW 0 4 36 28 10 5 83 1.7 HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 ..... ..... 92/72 134/96 ..... ..... 226/168 226/168 1 . 72/38 90/50 26/20 . . 188/108 414/276 2 . 90/33 104/40 . . . 194/73 608/349 3 . 82/29 59/31 . . . 141/60 749/409 4 . 57/13 52/16 . . . 109/29 858/438 5 4/0 42/13 59/24 . . . 105/37 963/475 6 1/0 21/8 49/21 . . . 71/29 1034/504 7 1/0 8/1 34/16 17/9 . . 60/26 1094/530 8 ..... 13/2 22/12 3/0 ..... ..... 38/14 1132/544 9 1/0 1/0 22/10 11/2 . . 35/12 1167/556 10 . . 27/9 47/12 . . 74/21 1241/577 11 . . 39/12 72/17 . . 111/29 1352/606 12 . . 12/0 70/20 24/8 . 106/28 1458/634 13 . . . 75/13 57/11 . 132/24 1590/658 14 . . . 55/11 85/9 . 140/20 1730/678 15 . . 2/0 58/12 50/7 . 110/19 1840/697 16 ..... ..... ..... 52/6 76/9 ..... 128/15 1968/712 17 . . . 54/8 51/8 . 105/16 2073/728 18 . . . 53/10 37/2 . 90/12 2163/740 19 . . . 83/16 34/4 . 117/20 2280/760 20 . . . 87/12 30/7 . 117/19 2397/779 21 . . . 103/22 64/9 . 167/31 2564/810 22 . . . 91/17 53/11 . 144/28 2708/838 23 . . 44/4 88/9 16/2 . 148/15 2856/853 0 ..... ..... 75/7 76/13 ..... ..... 151/20 3007/873 1 . 38/7 79/10 19/1 . . 136/18 3143/891 2 . 58/8 58/4 . . . 116/12 3259/903 3 . 42/3 58/3 . . . 100/6 3359/909 4 13/1 20/1 62/7 3/0 . . 98/9 3457/918 5 . 19/1 56/3 18/5 . . 93/9 3550/927 6 . 7/0 44/2 13/0 . . 64/2 3614/929 7 . . 23/2 30/4 . . 53/6 3667/935 8 ..... 10/1 16/4 15/0 ..... ..... 41/5 3708/940 9 . 8/3 16/8 7/1 1/0 . 32/12 3740/952 10 . . 15/2 24/4 10/1 . 49/7 3789/959 11 . . 23/2 43/6 5/0 . 71/8 3860/967 12 . . . 46/16 20/2 . 66/18 3926/985 13 . . . 33/14 30/3 . 63/173989/1002 14 . . . 20/3 37/3 26/1 83/7 4072/1009 15 . . . . 44/4 66/2 110/6 4182/1015 16 ..... ..... ..... ..... 38/2 69/8 107/104289/1025 17 . . . 12/2 30/2 48/4 90/8 4379/1033 18 . . . 46/8 . 38/0 84/8 4463/1041 19 . . . 58/11 5/0 25/1 88/124551/1053 20 . . 3/0 50/3 . 10/0 63/3 4614/1056 21 . . 26/2 53/9 . 1/0 80/114694/1067 22 . . 7/0 40/3 15/0 5/0 67/3 4761/1070 23 . . 51/4 51/12 . . 102/164863/1086 DAY1 7/0 386/137 707/317 1179/312 577/87 ..... ..... 2856/853 DAY2 13/1 202/24 612/60 657/115 235/17 288/16 . 2007/233 TOT 20/1 588/161 1319/377 1836/427 812/104 288/16 . 4863/1086 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4HXT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 134,310 Best ever CW effort. Still have alot to learn. Made some bad typing errors. Stupid stuff like KR70 instead of KR7O or W04O instead of WO4O. Sorry if I drove you guys nuts with dupes. I had trouble with NH6X and NH6V. I can't "Run" very well. Can't pull calls out real well yet, so back to simulator to keep working on it. Seems EZ on phone to me however. New radio (FT-950) is my new best friend. Wow, what a difference in what I can hear. New layers of stations. I'm not sure what to make of propagation. worked all kinds of OC stations on 20 at 2 in the morning, while I only worked a few EU stations. The opeinings on 10 were great and 15 was fun too at times. Had a few RF issues with computer interface, but I think I found the RF holes and got my chokes to filter it out. This was my first LP event at this QTH, having been QRP for the last year. Each new contest is a learning experience for me, and I have a blast while I learn. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,212 2008 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest KD5J AR Section Prefix Multipliers: AB9 HG8 K8 KK5 N5 NN5 VE3 W5 WN9 AC5 IK2 K9 KT2 N6 NR4 VE7 W8 WT5 AE4 K1 KD4 N0 NJ4 NS1 VP9 W9 WY0 DQ4 K3 KI4 N3 NK5 NT5 W0 WA1 ZF2 HC8 K4 KJ9 N4 NM5 VC2 W3 WC8 Total: 44 2008 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP AR Section -------------------------------------------- 80m 2 2 2 40m 28 39 21 20m 12 18 11 15m 4 4 3 10m 8 10 7 -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 54 73 44 Claimed score = 3212 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 284,592 New K3 was wonderful!!! The bands were not... Still had a lot of fun. Worked no JAs, but ZLs and VKs. Too bad that 15 and 10 were only so so. Regards Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4KY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 425,750 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ WPX Contest Log 2.5 CONTEST: CQ-WPX-CW CALLSIGN: KE4KY CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 425750 OPERATORS: KE4KY CLUB: Kentucky Contest Group NAME: T. G. Petri ADDRESS: Fisherville, KY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG0Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 68,138 Graduation parties, graduation trips to Disney, and other end of school stuff made this a very P/T effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 433,805 40m ground plane (2 radials at 10') worked very well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG5U Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 40,170 Only did part time this weekend. Too many other things going on these days. It seemed like conditions weren't too hot. But, there was some activity on 10m which was nice to see. And 15m had something going on most of the day Sunday. Sunday afternoon was good for picking off the Euro big boys on 20m, but I had only a few Carib's and and fewer SA's and nothing farther west than Hawaii. I used the time to try out N1MM logging software and try to get used to its way of doing SO2R. I think it and I came to some sort of understanding. We'll see how it works in the Thursday night NCCC Sprints. :-) As usual...fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7B Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,776,780 Condx not all that great first 24 hours, much better the second. The EU opening Saturday night was outstanding. Where were all the USA stations in this one, especially the second 24 hours? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ4IC Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 17,425 My goal was 100 Q's while learning N1MM and FT-950. Had a great time. Bob KJ4IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 319,056 Friday was rough with very limited operation due to our local 60 mph wind gusts. Operated on and off all weekend due to family commitments. Highlights: *Bands seemed much better than I had expected. *Lots of new callsigns worked and a few all time new ones for my DXCC. *What little I did operate on Friday was interrupted when we had a nice 6 meter opening! Lastly, several have me listed as KL7DX, which was not operating this weekend. Tried to correct those I could. Lots of activity and thanks for the Q's. Summer time in AK, so see ya in the fall! Phil KL8DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 20,925 Very short operating time available due to work and family committments. Was surprised by 3V8BB calling me on 20m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,155 I wish this contest didn't fall on a holiday weekend. The little time I spent in the WPX contest was a lot of fun, and sure brought back memories when my favorite band, 10 meters opened up today. 73 Scott Kenwood TS 450SAT G5RV @ 35 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y/M Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 10,350 Operated from the motel parking lot after bowling. Good conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,896,300 Nice band conditions Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. 20 was the workhorse with 40 coming in second. 15 showed signs of life but was all short skip. 10 was baron, not even the LU's were coming thru. Points per Q were down but number of Q's was good, making the score a bit lower. Had fun - nice contest. See everyone in Field Day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ7W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,060,675 Conditions were much better than we expected - 20 was open almost 24 hours a day and 40 was very productive the first night, we ended up with more points on 40 than 20 in spite of 300 fewer QSOs! Spending an hour out in the sticker-bushes Friday afternoon working on the 160 meter radials paid off with one JA QSO Sunday morning! I had bet Chuck that 160 would be more productive than 10, but I had to work at it! Thanks go to Chuck N7BV and Karen for their station and wonderful hospitality, Bob K6MBY (who was unable to join us) for systems support and Matt KQ7W (also unable to join us) for his magnetic callsign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 901,361 A little less time than last year and a little less score too. Previous rig: K2 Current rig: K3 (K2 still here too) I didn't get to play SO2R even though I had predicted that I would (last year's 3830 writeup). My 2nd K3 is still in the box (here) awaiting assembly. Ran out of time. Had fun running 4's on 10m (for a short time). de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,779,236 Orion II/Titan 425 TH-3/60 ft 40m dipole/55 ft 80m dipole/50 ft 160m shunt-fed tower Linear-loaded 40m "rotating" dipole was snagging the Pecan tree, so it is now fixed on the tower, but still played well. And, I can now rotate the TH-3! Propagation better than expected! Lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR7O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,511,665 First, many thanks to NCCC member Robert for the loan of his callsign. It's a really nice CW callsign to use in a WPX contest. My new Microtelecom "Perseus" Software Defined Radio (SDR) arrived from Italy just a few hours before the start of the contest, but I did NOT have any time to to make it work with CW Skimmer. The Perseus is not yet one of the SDRs that CW Skimmer officially supports. So, though it would have been nice to finally try CW Skimmer in a contest, without having a working SDR, there's really no good way to make use of it. So I used no automated CW decoding or spots of any kind during this contest. However, the new Perseus SDR *did* give me a very nice band scope with a beautiful waterfall display, something I have always wanted to have during a contest. I did not monitor the SDR audio, I just watched the SDR's waterfall display. Details follow. I was configuring cables and switches until just a few minutes before the start. Using the station bandpass filters and the transceiver's "RX IN/OUT" lines, I was able to "share" the main transmit antenna of either radio with the SDR receiver. The Perseus was hooked into the RX ANT line just as you would connect a separate outboard receiver: RX ANT Out ----> Power Splitter or T-connector To one side of the splitter connect the SDR. To the other side connect a cable that you loop back into the transceiver's "RX ANT In" line. Press the "RX ANT" button on the rig to activate the ports, and the two receivers are now sharing the same antenna. I added one more coax switch to select which radio would share the SDR. The T/R relay in the transceiver protects the SDR from the band it is sharing, and the station's bandpass filters protect the SDR from the other transmitter, on a different band. The waterfall display was quite hypnotizing to watch. Even the weakest signals showed up as faint lines in the display. The Perseus SDR is a serious receiver that doesn't seem to have any major overload or sensitivity problems. The included software works remarkably well. It was really fun to watch an entire band at once. The FlexRadio products are the only amateur transceivers I know of that have this type of waterfall display "band scope" built right in, thereby eliminating the need for a separate SDR. As for the contest itself, I mismanaged my off time, finding I just had to go to sleep when I really should have been operating. Maybe it was the hypnotic new display. :-) Congrats to NY6N (N6MJ) for another superior result. Activity levels in the US seemed remarkably good. I do wish conditions to Europe and Japan had been better from the West Coast USA in this one. KR7O - Continents All bands - All modes | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | ------------------------------------------------------- | 7.9% | 60.5% | 2.7% | 0.6% | 23.5% | 4.8% | ------------------------------------------------------- | Band / Mode | EU | NA | SA | AF | AS | OC | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 160 CW | | | | | | | | 80 CW | | 48.7% | 3.4% | | 41.9% | 6.0% | | 40 CW | 2.0% | 56.5% | 3.5% | 0.7% | 32.1% | 5.2% | | 20 CW | 14.5% | 60.0% | 0.7% | 0.7% | 19.7% | 4.5% | | 15 CW | | 78.9% | 8.6% | | 8.3% | 4.1% | | 10 CW | | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rig: FT-1000MP (2), Alpha 86, Alpha 87A SDR: Microtelecom Perseus (new) Ant: 5 el 10, 5 el 15, 5 el 20, 3 el 40, 1 el 80 (one tower, city lot) SO2R box: microHAM MK2R+ Software: Win-Test (wt_dev version 3.21) 73, Bob, N6TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 68,558 A lot of QRN from a near storm my Friday evening made 80/40 M difficult. No propagation on Saturday or Sunday morning to EU or most other DX. On my Saturday afternoon it opened up to EU and I was working them as fast as I could for about two hours. I still love CW and CW contesting, even though I do not hear the calls the first time as I did at one time. My thanks to the sponsors for the good contest and all the fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS8O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 181,192 Glad to see 15M open this time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT2Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,670,480 It was an interesting weekend. 10 and 15 meters seemed to be constantly changing going from good to poor conditions. Listening from Texas, it was hard to tell on either of these bands and accurately determine their status until you put out a few CQs to see who would answer. I worked one European on 10M and only 43 European stations on 15M. No JAs were worked on either band. 20 and 40 meters were the workhorse bands and when open, provided lots of QSOs. However both bands were noisy and there was a rolling QSB that forced me to ask for a lot of repeats and to hope they would answer during a QSB peak. If we kept at it, I could usually get the call and exchange. But it was sometimes slow going. Last year I had a nice run of JAs on 80M but that really didn't happen this year. I worked only 25 JAs and 2 Europeans this year on 80M. 160M was only worth a brief try and the QRN this late in the year made it almost impossible to work anything. Only W6NL and I connected there. I approached this contest the best that I could and think I got as much out of the operator (me), the station, and the SO2R setup that I am capable of. No excuses and I don't see how I could have done it any differently. Congrats to my buddy, N3BB (NT5C), who edged me out again. And congrats to N5DX (NN5J) for a terrific midwest final score. Thanks for all the QSOs folks. 73, Richard - K5NA aka KT2Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,979,009 73 Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 44,144 Force12 Flagpole (vertical) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT5E Class: SOSB40 QRP Total Score = 104,400 In preparation for a QRP field day I thought I would venture a 40m QRP entry. It was certainly good S&P practice with only a few isolated CQ runs. I used the K3 with N1MM for the first time. N1MM is a fantastic program and with the K3 both rig info and CW keying is done on the same serial line - very clean. I am still amazed at the blocking dynamic range of the K3. In a contest like WPX you really can "hear the difference". I worked a nice bit of DX from Colorado and I appreciate all the European ops that took the time to pull me out from all the loud stations. This is still one of my favorite contests. CU in ARRL Field Day as W0CQC Jay - KT5E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,264,466 Lots of QRN on 80, especially the first night. It was nice to work Europe on 15 again for a change. Also nice to work a few stations on 10. Lots of real deep QSB throughout the entire contest here. Thanks for all the QSO's & I'll see you all next year. Rig: Ten Tec Jupiter @ 100 watts Antenna: 102' G5RC @ 45' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5D Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,736,434 Great fun and surprising decent conditions. I got off to the fastest start ever in a WPX contest. My first 2 hours on 20 were 131 and 123. Hour 3 was 97 and then the rate got to the usual pattern. Worked an 9A,OM, I,and S5 on 10m. Where were the other guys? The 9A was loud and heard running stations for over 2 hours. Seemed 15 didn't quite live up to expectations, or maybe I was on 10 when it peaked. Conditions on 20 to EU were fantastic during my late afternoon (16Z to 00Z). I haven't put this many hours in the WPX in the past and the lack of sleep was quite evident on Saturday afternoon/evening. Sorry for the QLF moments. Highlight was hitting 1000 Qs on 20. Thanks to all for the Qs and very enjoyable weekend. I'm glad today (Monday) is a holiday to catch up on rest before returning to work. 73, Art Orion II + Acom 2000A Force 12 XR5 @ 60ft. 40m dipole @ 50 ft. Half Slopers on 80 & 160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,895,964 WOW, what a blast...Great contest, with a lot of wpx out there. How it could be that we had these great openings on 15/20m with SFI at 68 and K index at 3-4 here ?? Together with the super sporadic E condx on 10m (even worked PY/LU) on 10m... :))) Finally able to work 20m without fighting about qrgs - due to the fact that this NOT was the only workable band. Still some seem to beleive that they own the band. Shame on you....attempting to mention spesific callsigns.... :( Welcome to LA6UH in the LN3Z team - great preformance John. We are claiming new norweigian record M/S in this contest !!!!! 73 Paul LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN5O Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,972,958 Hi congrats to all who made a great contest! Nice to work so many station.... and wow what a great propagation! it was a little bit bad prepartion with low band antennas and we had rain 2 days before the contest... as stubborn as I am , I did climbed the three during the rain and thunder to get up a inv-vee to a new support! But when I am finish I saw the K index went up! Aurora is a bad thing !! This contest was a special contest for me, since I lost my grandfather earlier this week. He build up this old farm which is the QTH of LN5O more than 60 years ago. So this contest was my tribute to him, and maybe thats why I also got a personal record :) Contest was great with its "MAGIC" conds, even JA and USA middle of nigth at 01 UTC on 15 meter band ! I heard and also had lot of strange QRG figth with some stations which "believe" they are the owner a excact QRG for the whole contest...That is a bad attitude that is becoming worse and worse for every year! I mean if you have a big station with lot of power you dont need to stop a stations good rate after you first work him and then steal his QRG :P 73 LA6FJA Stein Roar aka RAG www.la6fja.eu LN5O www.la6fja.eu/rcc -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 42 30 0 0 0 72 72 3.8 0100 3 29 42 0 0 0 74 146 3.9 0200 0 7 33 0 0 0 40 186 2.1 0300 0 6 80 0 0 0 86 272 4.6 0400 0 5 6 25 3 5 44 316 2.3 0500 0 0 0 31 18 0 49 365 2.6 0600 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 368 0.2 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 368 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 368 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 368 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 368 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 368 0.0 1200 0 0 0 8 3 0 11 379 0.6 1300 0 0 0 67 2 0 69 448 3.7 1400 0 0 0 81 0 0 81 529 4.3 1500 0 0 0 14 7 35 56 585 3.0 1600 0 1 2 0 0 85 88 673 4.7 1700 0 0 9 0 2 41 52 725 2.8 1800 0 0 5 50 3 0 58 783 3.1 1900 0 1 38 0 0 0 39 822 2.1 2000 0 4 66 0 0 0 70 892 3.7 2100 0 6 45 0 0 0 51 943 2.7 2200 0 1 56 0 0 0 57 1000 3.0 2300 0 5 31 21 0 0 57 1057 3.0 0000 0 2 0 34 1 0 37 1094 2.0 0100 0 0 0 35 0 0 35 1129 1.9 0200 0 3 24 2 0 0 29 1158 1.5 0300 0 1 23 8 2 0 34 1192 1.8 0400 0 0 7 23 0 6 36 1228 1.9 0500 0 0 3 0 10 5 18 1246 1.0 0600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1246 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 16 0 16 1262 0.9 1400 0 0 0 13 26 3 42 1304 2.2 1500 0 0 1 77 0 0 78 1382 4.2 1600 0 0 0 53 0 0 53 1435 2.8 1700 0 0 0 77 0 0 77 1512 4.1 1800 0 0 0 90 0 0 90 1602 4.8 1900 0 0 0 76 0 0 76 1678 4.1 2000 0 0 1 69 0 0 70 1748 3.7 2100 2 4 0 35 0 0 41 1789 2.2 2200 0 27 0 10 7 0 44 1833 2.3 2300 2 2 15 5 5 0 29 1862 1.5 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 7 146 517 907 105 180 1862 Gross QSO's=1875 Dupes=13 Net QSO's=1862 Unique callsigns worked = 1548 The best 60 minute rate was 93/hour from 1818 to 1917 The best 30 minute rate was 104/hour from 1435 to 1504 The best 10 minute rate was 126/hour from 1626 to 1635 The best 1 minute rates were: 3 QSO's/minute 68 times. 2 QSO's/minute 385 times. 1 QSO's/minute 888 times. There were 197 bandchanges and 73 (3.9%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR4E Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 5,640,792 Deep heart thanks to Jorge LW4EU and Ana for their support and hospitality. Had a great time with them and LU4DX who visited us on Saturday. The KLM 40M-4 was repaired on Friday. Everything went smooth. Missed the 10 M opening on Saturday and 10 never openened on Sunday :-( I'll post a long write up this in the next few days in my blog. Rig: FT1000MP + MFJ external DSP Amp: Acom 2000A Antenas: KLM 40M-4, JVP 6 el Tribander yagi. QSL via LW4EU at QRZ.com Vy 73. Martin, LU5DX www.5bits.net/lu5dx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,497,808 A few days before the WPX-CW contest, another RRDXA team found the way to Luxembourg to run the contest at LX7I. Thanks to Philippe, a lot of pre-work was done when we arrived at his station. Although we could only set up 4 stations, we decided to go for M/M to maxmize fun as well as our club score. During the contest, we kept 3-4 stations on air most of the time. 10 Meter was the big surprise especially on saturday with nice openings within EU and a few stations from Asia. This was another nice event not only due to the contest. We made new friends with which we did not operate before. This makes contesting a unique community. Station1 (15m and 80m): * IC756 Pro III + Ameritron 1200 * 80m: 4-Suqare * 15: 4-El.Mono band Beam Station2 (20m): * Elecraft K2 + TL922 * 4 el Monoband Beam * 5 el Monoband Beam Station3 (40m): * TS570D (horrible RX!) + Emtron DX-2 * 2el Monoband Beam Station4 (10m + 160m): * IC 735 + Expert 1KW (my new one :-) * 160m: Dipole * 10: 5 el. Monoband Beam Logging Software: * N1MM Logger Version 7.12.25 The equipment wen't well except the Acom2000 (20m) which went offline after one hour with error message "ARC Fault". Fortunately we had an older TL922 for spare which worked fine until the end (ok, ok, it's not coparable to a DR1A-like equipment...). Of course we had to deal with interference between the stations but overall to an acceptable degree, esspecially we had amlost no preparation time. The station was put together on Friday, including the set up of the 5 el. Monomand Beam for 20m. Thanks again to Phillipe, LX2A who buildt this nice station and hosted our operation. Sure you'll hear more from LX7I during the contest period. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 286,572 K3 + PA, 3 dipoles from 80m tower + 3 Beverages (2 of them for last 6 hours only - one was eaten by cows, other - forgot to connect grounding wire after fixing few other damages). DX - 13 AS + 3 NA + 1 AF. Arunas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY4U Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 907,852 Was not expecting to beat any record, so decided to go Assisted. Worked well during rather monotonous 80 meter operation, watching exceptional Sporadic-E openings both days up to 2m on cluster was kinda entertainment...80m highlights - HS0ZEE, XV9DT, D4C, YE1ZAT, quite a number of Carribeans and South Americans - all in all enjoyed it fully, despite massive thunderstorms QRN from east on saturday and short darkness hours here in northern EU. Thanks to all who called! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY600W Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,556,888 Can't fix YAGI rotator till contest. So missed USA opening's. Anyway was nice to be only one with this prefix. BIG GUN's come to my CQ CALL :) See You next contest! 73 Sam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY7Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 74,000 Part time operation this year. 73! Andy LY2TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY8O Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,920,668 Simply forgot what does it mean 20 meters open for 24 hours. Storm somehere over UA3 land coused huge noice level from the East on Saturday with some decresing durin Sunday. As a result - worked only 91 JA stations this time... Great conditions to NA - 658 QSO with USA, that is all time best for me (except ARRL of course). 96 dupes .... Never ever have such a number of duplicate QSOs. No idea why. Problems with CW, paper logs, operation just for fun,...? Actualy not so big problem for me, but on the other hand it took lets say brand hour from 36 available for single op.... Overall - great contest. Still under impression. My biggest thanks to Petras LY1PM for this wonderful possition and great setup. Equipment: IC-756PRO3, 1KW, 3 x 5 el. on 49m rotary mast, 3 x KT34XA on 42m rotary mast. Software - WinTest. Thanks to everyone for a superb weekend and till next time! 73, Remi LY8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ08KM Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,728,519 TS850SAT 100W 2ele 3band quad , Vertical 80/40 Congrats to all that copied LZ08KM call correctly. It is hard job with my 100w and simple antennas. Suffered from big thunderstorms all the saturday,especially at late afternoon. Was glad to provide a unique multiplier to all. Many thanks to BFRA for that. More info at qrz.com 73 de Nasko,LZ3YY ( LZ9R ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ5A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,776,160 It was nice to go back home and operate a major contest full time. For 48 hours we never ran out of stations to work. I would strongly recommend to anyone arguing that contesting or CW is on decline to do at least one contest from Europe. It was even nicer to meet a lot of old and new friends, drink industrial amounts of "water that burns" and of course to team up with my long time partner LZ3FN. LZ2LDS came all the way from Belgium to join us and vacuum the low bands. LZ4RR not only let us thrash his house and station but made everything possible to make us feel like home. Although we are not going to make top 3 EU, we are extremely pleased with the score. 2M more than I predicted and 2M less than 3FN wanted :) Murphy stayed away for most of the time, his occasional visits just gave us something to bitch about among ourselves. Thanks to LZ1ZF, LZ1ZD, LZ2JR, LZ2SX and LZ5VK for all the help and encouragement. Congratulations to all of our competitors in M/S category ! It would've been nice if we could watch each other's progress on W1VE Scoreboard. This time we ran short of time with our setup but next time we'll be there. 73 and cu on CW in IARU from K3CR ! Alex LZ4AX Station setup: Antennas 160, 80: Titanex V160 HD, Inverted V 40: 2 x W6NL modified Cushcraft XM-240 20,15,10: 2 x Skyhawk tribanders 2 two-wire 160m long beverages - NE/SW and NW/SE Rigs: 2 x ICOM IC-7800 2 x Hamation bandpass filters 2 x ACOM 2000A N1MM Logger v. 7.12.25 Continent statistics: 1.8 3.5 7 14 21 28 All EU 7 147 639 913 532 552 2790 NA 0 7 353 430 28 0 818 SA 0 0 11 15 19 1 46 AS 0 8 52 173 78 49 360 AF 0 5 9 10 7 5 36 OC 0 0 11 15 6 1 33 BAND QSO PFX PTS PTS/QSO 160 7 7 18 2.57 80 167 114 424 2.54 40 1075 384 3919 3.65 20 1557 339 2873 1.85 15 670 125 960 1.43 10 608 126 734 1.21 -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 63 113 0 0 0 176 4.3 0100 0 32 104 0 0 0 136 3.3 0200 0 15 106 0 0 0 121 2.9 0300 0 0 105 19 0 0 124 3.0 0400 0 0 75 29 0 0 104 2.5 0500 0 0 24 83 0 0 107 2.6 0600 0 0 7 48 60 0 115 2.8 0700 0 0 0 0 68 51 119 2.9 0800 0 0 0 13 8 105 126 3.1 0900 0 0 0 1 34 27 62 1.5 1000 0 0 0 8 0 113 121 2.9 1100 0 0 0 62 0 48 110 2.7 1200 0 0 0 90 0 1 91 2.2 1300 0 0 1 73 4 0 78 1.9 1400 0 0 1 78 0 1 80 1.9 1500 0 0 18 45 0 0 63 1.5 1600 0 0 18 62 0 0 80 1.9 1700 0 0 40 31 0 0 71 1.7 1800 0 0 1 98 4 0 103 2.5 1900 0 0 0 115 9 0 124 3.0 2000 4 1 2 110 0 0 117 2.9 2100 2 0 2 92 0 0 96 2.3 2200 0 0 0 72 0 0 72 1.8 2300 0 0 49 12 0 0 61 1.5 0000 0 0 64 0 0 0 64 1.6 0100 0 18 53 0 0 0 71 1.7 0200 0 0 46 7 0 0 53 1.3 0300 0 0 33 10 0 0 43 1.0 0400 0 0 55 0 0 0 55 1.3 0500 0 0 49 1 0 0 50 1.2 0600 0 0 3 51 0 0 54 1.3 0700 0 0 0 19 47 5 71 1.7 0800 0 0 0 0 46 34 80 1.9 0900 0 0 0 1 81 1 83 2.0 1000 0 0 0 0 26 45 71 1.7 1100 0 0 0 2 0 79 81 2.0 1200 0 0 0 1 0 72 73 1.8 1300 0 0 0 21 31 19 71 1.7 1400 0 0 0 9 71 0 80 1.9 1500 0 0 0 25 42 0 67 1.6 1600 0 0 0 2 71 7 80 1.9 1700 0 0 12 19 33 0 64 1.6 1800 0 7 16 2 35 0 60 1.5 1900 0 16 3 72 0 0 91 2.2 2000 0 1 1 74 0 0 76 1.9 2100 1 0 12 62 0 0 75 1.8 2200 0 14 8 38 0 0 61 1.5 2300 0 0 53 0 0 0 53 1.3 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 7 167 1075 1557 670 608 4084 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 6,262,872 The good thing is 10m is getting alive again! Worked few JA's and Far East. Local thunderstorm did low bands little bit more difficult to operate with lots of repeats even from strong EU stns. Thanks to all friends who worked with me! 73, Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9W Class: M/M HP Total Score = 20,914,100 We have started M/M contest activity from LZ9W back in 2003, but such thing has never happened to us till WPX CW 2008. We have had power cut once in CQWW which lasted about 20 min. However, this time local power company has turned LZ9W during 2008 WPX CW into a disco club :-(. After first few hours there was one power cut of 20 min followed within next two hours by another two 20 min black out periods. Little bit later during most productive hours on 80 and 40m there was 1 hour long power cut. After this one, N1MM logging software crashed totally and it took us about 40 min to get all PCs working properly again. Other problems experienced with N1MM software in M/M use on CW is another separate story :-(. Electricity returned and we decided to continue operating in spite of lost two hours. On Saturday afternoon during most productive hours on 15 and 10m power supply company shutted down the electrictity two more times, so lost operating time reached totally about 5.5 - 6 hours.After a last black out period we almost quit the contest, but finally decided to go for it and there were no problems with electricity supply till the end. Conditions on high bands were very good and we have been able finally to make a score very close to our European record set in 2006. We even made more QSOs than in 2006 while operating only 42 hours out of 48. So, beside power cut problems and N1MM software "getting wild" at times all the rest went smoothly - Hi. Now time for hard work to put up new towers and new antennas during next months has come. Two new towers and stacks for 15 and 10 are to be installed in July-August. See you all again in CQWW SSB in October. 73, de Wally LZ2CJ on behalf of LZ9W Contest Team members ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M0ITY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,243,398 RADIOS: FT1000-D ANTENNAS: 402CD@100ft 1st Night, TH5@100FT, 5el-10m@35ft,Vertical 402CD failed after 1st night so quickly "bodged" single Vertical on 40m, very suprised with it's performance!! 10m - wow! great fun. Thought earlier on focusing there and expected good prop.but it overwelmed my expectations, 1st day few VE's and NA, 2nd day VU2PTT on CQ.I thought I'm a sleep and dreaming as could not find QRG on 10m hihi. 40m generally ok, QRN high and limited antns.space to go further. I am generally not CW op and couldn't make QSO 2 years ago so I hope to improve,sri for my rusty CW skills. Thanks to all for points. Thanks Bob,Andy,Stavros Andrew and G0KPW for use of station and testing setup. 73 All and CU. TU all M6T/KPW team for support. Jiri ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M0ITY Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Total Score = 50,728 GREAT Es OPENINGS. THANKS FOR POINTS. THANKS TO BOB AND TEAM FOR SUPPORT. SHOULD HAVE STICK TO 10 ONLY HIHI. JIRI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M0ITY Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 666,998 JUST PLAYING. THANKS TO BOB AND G0KPW/M6T TEAM FOR SUPPORT. SORRY FOR MY CW...RUSTY. 2ND HALF ONLY SINGLE VERTICAL. 2ND HARM FM 80. GREAT FUN ANYWAY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 4,587,369 Wow, lots of fun, good 10m and 15m openings, and 20m open to North America until long past the time to switch to 40/80. Spent a day working out strategy, switching times, etc based on last year's result, and can see both the improvement and what more needs to be done! After conditions making 10m completely unavailable here for many contests, what nice surprises to be called on 10m by EX2, VU2, HS0, 4K9, several PYs, LUs, and two CXs. Also a thrill to be called by VP8NO on 40m in the last hour of the contest. Perplexing, though, to be called by someone (no callsign given) to demand I QSY because I am causing QRM to him, after running on the same frequency for an hour. When I asked his callsign, he just started sending IDIOT over and over, QRMing my QSOs. Ah, the heat of competition. Thanks to all who called, and the encouragement and hellos from friends. Congratulations to the UK high scorers - Don G3BJ, Nigel G3TXF, and others(?) - the contest was fun but hard work, too! See you in IOTA/IARU! 73, Bob MD0CCE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 507,276 Due to a few family activities on the holiday weekend time was limited, but I did manage to spend a few hours. Conditions were much better than expected. Saturday afternoon I thought I would try 15 meters and work a few South Americans but then I heard Europeans calling CQ so I turned the top beam to 45deg. Some of the signals were above S9. Sunday was about the same. Twenty opened to Europe about 10:45 UTC both Saturday and Sunday morning giving me some time to get a few good runs in before the obligations took over. Sunday I was working EU on 1 beam and working JAs on another one. Great to have the antennas about finished. I was also surprised to work into India, Philippines, and China. Never made it to 10 meters but from reading a few reports I should have tried it. Would have liked to try the new beams. Oh well, next time. The bands are coming back!!! 73, Bruce - N1LN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 100,980 Band conditions were fair to good, had lots of fun! Worked lots of RTTY regulars, hope to see you all in the next RTTY contest! Gordon - N1MGO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 413,292 Just playin' around, mostly S&P. FT1000MP, Drake L7, TH6DXX, 40m slopers, 80m sloping wire vertical, 160m Inverted L, Microkeyer, N1MM. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2RJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,548,177 Still need to get low band antennas up. :) However, not a terribly bad result, all taken into account. I decided I'd put in a somewhat serious effort this year. I also made a few minor station improvements (rotor control box, different SWR/power meter) plus re-arrangement for ergonomics. I think the ergonomics made the biggest difference, plus the rotor's ability to do accurate point and shoot. My antenna is still broken (needs reflector replaced) but still works great. There were so many times I could have used the 180 button though, so I will have to get that fixed ASAP. Condx were great (IMO). 15 and even 10 were open and I made a few Q's on them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,563,822 "Once again into the breach..." That was one of the more deviant contests I've been in. Conditions were all over the place, from piss poor to outstanding. Turn the gain all the way up to make a go at a QSO and then literally getting blown from the chair, what fun eh?! It was great to have a decent opening on 10 to EU and then have sporadic opening in the Americas. 15 was nice as well and was surprised to catch ZD8RH way up the band during a sweep. 20 started out rough, could not get anything going, was lucky to string 3 Qs together for a "run". That changed Saturday night with a nice over the pole opening (most of Saturday seemed to be over the pole here) and finally Sunday afternoon I was able to run. 40 was the meat band with the most points and multipliers. YO3FRI gets the "best ears" award for sticking it out during a tough spell. It was nice to catch A73A and A61HZ on 20 with 4Z4DX rounding out the mideast. Didn't have much luck working many of the low power EU folks this time, thanks to all for the effort. Antennas included a inverted delta on 40 top @ 15M, 72' Tee did double duty on 80/160 and the 4 element Steppir handled the high bands. Running the new K3 this time. As always it was nice to work so many "ol' hands" and many newbies, nice contest and great ops! 73, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,014,580 Enjoyed operating with my son-in-law, Jim, W4TMO. Great to catch Eu opening on 10M. Super bunch of CW operators in this contest...enjoyed every moment of it! This was the best score ever (in WPX) from this station. 73, Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 359,346 Limited Part Time Effort, mixed HP and LP, all S&P I noticed several requests for repeats of NR when using computer sent exchange. Almost NO requests for repeats when hand sent (with slight pause between numbers). Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 206,790 Lots of weekend commitments, but still managed to sit in the chair for a few hours. Great fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4UC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 38,592 Too much company in town, this was the best 4 hours of the weekend! Will try again next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,110,200 Rotor out on big tower with antennas pointed northwest not a good direction from Tennessee. So decided to see how much fun I could have with a 3el tribander at 65 feet and 40 meter inverted vee hanging on side of the second tower that I could rotate. Was having so much fun would have put in more time, but just to weak from a sinus infection. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,388,565 Thanks to James, K5FD, for the use of his shack and antennas. I used my portable rig, an FT-897D, in lieu of my normal FT-1000MPs. I purchased some additional filters for the FT-897D from Inrad and that helped the rig a lot. The lack of roofing filters was noticeable, however. Even though I know it is psychological, the small size of the FT-897D makes me think it can't possibly work as well as a larger rig! So I am impressed with how well it does work. It's the same objection I have to SDRs -- in my mind a rig has to have a tuning knob, not a mouse! I think this contest is the perfect length. I am tired when it is over, but get enough sleep to not be totally wiped out, unlike my attempts at operating 48 hours (or as close as I can come to 48 hours). Thanks again for all the fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5RM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,871,324 Many thanks to Russ, WA5Y, and Dan, K7IA, for joining me (N2IC) in WPX CW. They are excellent operators, and we are building a great team for future contest operations ! We had a much better experience this year, with no WX-forced, unscheduled, off-times (We lost 12 hours last year to local thunderstorms). The station and software worked great, with only a few minor issues that were easily resolved. Considering there were no sunspots and this is late May, conditions were about as good as one should expect from southwestern New Mexico. The intense sporadic E was good for lots of 1-point USA QSO's on 10 and 15 meters, but blanketed 20 meters with very short skip and high absorption when it should have been open for DX. The decent EU propagation we had on 20 from 21Z-00Z was accompanied by very strong static crashes from the tornadic thunderstorms 1-hop away in Kansas and Oklahoma. With high QRN levels in the early evening, 40 meters to EU was strictly S&P, but at least there are a lot of loud Europeans making it over the static crashes. From out here, we hope for good JA propagation and activity to make up for the 3 and 6 pointers we don't work from Europe. Unfortunately, 10 and 15 meters didn't open, and 20 meters was poor. However, 40 and 80 were both quite good to JA, with low QRN and fair JA activity. Thanks for all the QSO's ! Radios: TS-950SDX (2) Antennas: 80 meter dipole @ 100', 4 el M2 40 @ 110', 5 el 20 @ 60', 5 el 15 @ 30', KT-36XA @ 75', Beverages NE, SE, NW. Hilltop QTH. Software: N1MM Logger Continent stats: NA: 65.9 % (59.0 % USA) EU: 12.7 % AS: 15.5 % (12.0 % JA) SA: 2.7 % AF: 0.7 % OC: 2.5 % -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 6 103 19 0 128 128 4.3 0100 0 0 30 123 0 0 153 281 5.1 0200 0 0 38 84 0 0 122 403 4.1 0300 0 0 31 63 0 0 94 497 3.1 0400 0 0 55 54 0 0 109 606 3.6 0500 0 0 13 50 0 0 63 669 2.1 0600 0 0 71 14 0 0 85 754 2.8 0700 0 3 40 13 0 0 56 810 1.9 0800 0 0 66 0 0 0 66 876 2.2 0900 0 0 59 0 0 0 59 935 2.0 1000 0 0 67 0 0 0 67 1002 2.2 1100 0 21 40 0 0 0 61 1063 2.0 1200 0 9 44 13 0 0 66 1129 2.2 1300 0 0 38 22 0 0 60 1189 2.0 1400 0 0 2 5 50 0 57 1246 1.9 1500 0 0 0 3 84 0 87 1333 2.9 1600 0 0 0 0 49 14 63 1396 2.1 1700 0 0 0 23 57 0 80 1476 2.7 1800 0 0 0 3 56 30 89 1565 3.0 1900 0 0 0 12 43 11 66 1631 2.2 2000 0 0 0 49 19 1 69 1700 2.3 2100 0 0 0 43 0 0 43 1743 1.4 2200 0 0 0 51 0 0 51 1794 1.7 2300 0 0 1 74 0 0 75 1869 2.5 0000 0 0 0 59 0 0 59 1928 2.0 0100 0 0 4 50 1 0 55 1983 1.8 0200 0 0 4 43 0 0 47 2030 1.6 0300 0 2 5 35 0 0 42 2072 1.4 0400 0 38 13 2 0 0 53 2125 1.8 0500 0 29 7 0 0 0 36 2161 1.2 0600 0 10 27 1 0 0 38 2199 1.3 0700 0 6 8 6 0 0 20 2219 0.7 0800 0 2 40 0 0 0 42 2261 1.4 0900 0 0 39 0 0 0 39 2300 1.3 1000 0 43 4 0 0 0 47 2347 1.6 1100 0 18 27 2 0 0 47 2394 1.6 1200 0 0 42 9 0 0 51 2445 1.7 1300 0 0 10 34 0 0 44 2489 1.5 1400 0 0 0 20 18 12 50 2539 1.7 1500 0 0 0 47 0 2 49 2588 1.6 1600 0 0 0 27 18 0 45 2633 1.5 1700 0 0 0 35 29 0 64 2697 2.1 1800 0 0 0 9 17 36 62 2759 2.1 1900 0 0 0 4 41 0 45 2804 1.5 2000 0 0 0 15 15 0 30 2834 1.0 2100 0 0 0 31 0 0 31 2865 1.0 2200 0 0 0 15 11 0 26 2891 0.9 2300 0 0 0 49 0 0 49 2940 1.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5UM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 24,378 Operated portable from ex-wife's QTH. She is out of town and I was hanging out with the kids. Used my trusty IC706MK2G, with coax running out the front door to my van in the driveway, with hamstick atop. I invested in a laptop a few months ago (runs Windows Vista) and it worked just great running N1MM software and driving a Microham USB Interface II for rig control and keying. I had only my 20 and 40 meter hamsticks with me. Judging by the reports, I should have brought the 15M stick too...oh well. Was surprised to be able to work EU on 40 with the low crummy antenna. Conditions seemed to be pretty good and hopefully will do nothing but improve. 73, Al N5UM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 64,014 Definitely a bottom of the cycle performance. Score less than half my 2005 score. Had fun, but couldn't put in the full hours, as had to take care of sick family member through the weekend. Was still delighted with a small EU opening on Sunday morning. Saturday morning had nothing going towards EU, so let myself sleep in Sunday morning. Wrong decision :-) If I had been up as early as I could have been, I would have topped 300 QSOs easily. Oh well, through such things is experience gained. Ejoyed using my new K3 in battle for the first time. Still a lot to learn, but it's a keeper. Worked very smoothly with TR-LOG. It is said that any antenna you can keep up is too small. This outing definitely proved that mine are too small :-) Thanks for the Qs, especially to the DX stations that dug in and pulled me through. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 380,046 Rigs: Elecraft K2 and K3 Antennas: F12 5BA, C3S, EF-240/230; 80m delta loop First contest using my new K3. Side by side comparison with the K2 shows that is it is less fatiguing to listen to in long operating sessions. Still on the steep part of the learning curve in optimizing the K3 parameter set, so the few personal annoyances that showed up will be fixed soon (sidetone clicks and agc quirks). I haven't change the firmware from the version (MCU 1.78 and DSP 1.58) that it was shipped with so Elecraft may have addressed both issues by now. The strong signal handling capability and ease of operation of the K3 are very impressive. The overall gain distribution in the receiver is better than that of the K2: No external or internal preamp is required for a K9AY receiving loop on 80 meters to dig weak signals out of the noise (which I couldn't work with 5 watts ;>). Band conditions varied from good to terrible. High noise levels from nearby thunderstorms on Friday evening made 20 and 40 challenging to say the least. Had to leave the crankup at 52' until 1800Z the first day due to predicted thunderstorms, which never showed up. Still was able to work some of the louder European stations though. the second day was much better on both bands. In addition a good sporadic-E opening on 10 meters on the second day allowed a 2 hour run that produced a lot of 1 point Qs that weren't there last year. As a result this year was the first time since 1995 that my points per Q ratio was under 2.0 for this contest: 1.97 . Maybe next year we'll have some solar flux and DX! 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 20,223 For the second year in a row, I got ill just before the contest. This time, recovery wasn't as good and then my wife caught it which puts a damper on things as well. Add the lure of sunshine outside (it's been a lousy Spring in the Pacific NW) and that's where I spent most of the weekend. Though weak, the thrill of digging in the dirt far exceeded the grind of trying to call stations in Europe that just couldn't hear me. I did make a few valiant attempts to get excited by the test but band conditions didn't seem to be there when I tried. I've read comments that things were up and down. Maybe I just hit all the downs. :>) Certainly, things gotta be better in 2009 right? If we still have a blank sun by then, we're all in deep poop. I know this will be faint memory in August, but those nice tomato's I just planted won't. :>) (and you can't get sick the same week three years in a row, can you?) rock on dink, n7wa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,167,750 A bit better than last year. Deep QSB made copy difficult at times. Asked for lots of repeats. Thanks to those that were patient, especially on Sunday afteroon on 20 when the band was really crowded. Nice to have 6 bands open (somewhat). Was surprised to hear 10 open to EU (skewed path over AF) on Saturday. It appeared to be open to both coasts much of the time from Ohio. Missed most of the first night (drove 12 hrs to get home). Made it on for 2 hrs and then crashed. I expect that was the best night. Quite a few Q's on the second radio. Run rates were pretty good late in the day. Morning to mid afternoon were slow. 20 and 40 were the money bands (as usual). Did work a handfull of JA's on 20 Sunday morning + XW1A and JH4UYB on 40 a couple of hours after the sun was up. Nothing else from Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 92,518 Not one of the big guys like NT5C (S9+40 on all bands here in Michigan) But gave it a shot. Scored this with LogChecker for PC, first time.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA0CW Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 407,330 It was nice to have some E skip for some US QSOs on 10 and 15 as there wasn't much DX on either band. There was a nice 20M opening to Europe late Sunday afternoon and QRP felt like a KW. I lost my main antenna, a TH6, when the tower failed in an wind storm 3 days earlier and is now horizontal and the antenna is toast. I used my old TA33 for the main antenna that had been the the 2nd tribander or mult antenna. It will be nicer when the new NA0CW call is in the data base! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 120,650 Hard to stay in the shack with wx as nice as it's been this weekend around Atlanta. I was however, able to sneak in a few hours in between a lot of yard work and cycling this weekend. Neat to have E77DX give me a call. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 623,364 Part time since I was on call all weekend, to support the plant startup from a forced outage. A lot of activity each time I returned to the radio kept it interesting. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE1RD Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 93,670 This was my first effort in WPX CW and I had a ball. Openings on 15 and 10m made it interesting. My QRP signal and G5RV made it to Hawaii for the first time in years. Perhaps we've finally turned the corner! My code skills are still lame... and ops sure go fast! I'm a little horrified to think what my error rate will be. No matter. I'll keep practicing and look to improve my score next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE4AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,154,361 + Score is up about a million points from last year's claimed score. Looking at the numbers, it's hard to say why. A few more prefixes, a few more 6-pointers, but nothing obvious. Comments about condx are very mixed. Some think they were better than last year, while others think they were dreadful. My impression is that they were slightly better. Activity levels might also be up somewhat. + Nice to see activity from K1ZM who is chasing WRTC qualifying points. Based on the radio-sport.net comment that Jeff was "handing out serial numbers over three thousand late in the contest", I suspect that Jeff will be the USA winner this time. Congrats to Jeff for successfully trying a new contest for him, one that requires a much different strategy than the traditional winter-time DX contests. Jeff was running European stations on the low end of both 80 and 15 that were inaudible down here. Also, congrats to N3KS for his excellent SOABHP WM3T score. + Worked the 2nd rig real hard again this year for probably ~300 QSOs. There were some stretches when there wasn't much on another band and I did manage to listen a bit on the same band with some success. + Got off to a quicker start than last year. But serial number exchanges slow down the rate and make a few QSOs impossible that would otherwise be logged as a valid contact. + Actually ran for a bit on 15. Usually, the "fringe bands" (anything but 40 & 20 for me in WPX!) are not worth the time. + Signals from Scandinavia and UA9/0 were solid. VY1EI was also doing well from way up north. + I've seen 3830 posts for 80 Meter operations from 7X0RY for years, but I actually heard and worked him this time, right at his SR. + Heard 4L0A for the first time late in the contest and we exchanged serial #s well over 3000 to each other. K5ZD commented about this same phenomenon. + Skimmer-free operation here (to go with the sunspot-free weekend). It will be interesting to see how Skimmer users perceive and describe the impact of their potentially powerful tool, and how contest sponsors handle this topic. + Thunderstorm activity stayed far enough away from here. The forecast all week was for storms during the contest and many others here in Florida were affected by them. Summertime contests are always at risk here in Florida. At least in WPX, there is a chance of altering the off-time strategy. + CQ WPX allows the entire FCG to compete as one club and not worry about club circles that include lots of water. We are very grateful for that. Good showing by the FCG again this year. - The "NE" part of NE4AA comes too fast for many. I often get either deer-in-the-headlights silence or a simple "?". This also has the unfortunate consequence of leading to more dupes than typical. - More equipment issues cropped up than I've ever experienced. They were all minor enough to cause short delays and minimal score impact. - Seemed like I asked for more repeats of numbers than normal. Was that due to condx/QSB, or just operator failure? ;<) - Missed whatever small 10-Meter opening there was to Europe. NF4A and KD4D both mention working some, and OK4RQ mentions working W/VE. - Still can't figure out when JA is available on 20 Meters. Worked a few late each night, but I see that a few JAs spotted K1LZ, including one QRPer, just after East Coast SR. - 8361 CQs. Thanks for the QSOs and hope to work everyone again during the IARU HF Championship in July. 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 193,456 Still new to contesting, but was planning to be a little more serious and a little less casual for my 2nd WPX CW. Unfortunately, I came down with a bad head cold Friday which messed me up and I lost a lot of time Saturday. Tough to figure out the right amount of medication to keep the op operable without getting so dopey that I'd fall asleep -- came to with my head on the keyboard more than once. Still had a lot of fun and enjoyed the activity on 15 -- forgot to even check 10. Practically all S&P. Motorola FT-1000MP Mark-V Field Spiderbeam on 10M portable mast 80M OCF dipole for 40/80 Logikey K5 Keyer & Schurr Profi II N1MM logger (first time) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,554,110 Lost 1.5 hours on Sunday afternoon due to lighting and rain static. Glad to have 3 digit QSO numbers on 10 meters for a change!! Even worked EU on 10 on Sunday morning and several YB stns on 15 Saturday night. Bands are improving in my opinion. Apologize for repeats...severe head cold (caught it in Dayton). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 152,342 I had planned on doing a quasi serious attempt this weekend. And for me, that would be 24 to 30 hours in the chair. As it turned out, my sister and I spent all day Saturday pressure washing and cleaning our Mom's deck. Sunday was just too nice a day to spend behind the radio and I took advantage of the pleasant weather to do some work outside. So the bottom line was about 10 hours of op time. However, this was by far my best score in this contest due mostly to vastly improved antennas. Lot's of good ops and ears out there in contest land. Thanks for the Q's and hope to see you in IARU 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NH6V Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,955,230 A great weekend despite way too many dupes. Our longest run of dupes was 4, the most from one station was 3 on 15 meters. Great 20 meter Eu opening Sat nite and 10 meters had a nice opening on Sunday with few takers. Conditions can only get better. We'll see you all in the CQWW CW Contest. Aloha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4I Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,158,065 36 hours lacking 6 minutes, a little better than last year in QSOs and points. No JA station heard. Maybe they were on when I slept and that wasn't very long. HI. I'm glad for the 36 hour time limit, too much for a 77 year om. 73 Bill K4LTA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 672,117 Sunspots! Who needs sunspots when we have Es propagation like this. Even with S7 noise toward europe, I still managed over 180 european calls in the log. Also worked 9K2HN, 4L0A, and 5 JA's in Asia. Snagged YD1HUH and more VK6's in one hour than I usually work all year. What a blast! Neal, K4EA (NJ4U) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK5Q Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,863,098 Antennas : 2 el 40 @ 140'. 5 el 20 @ 130', 5 el 15 @ 110', 5 el 10 @ 110', 3 el 80 delta @ 110', shunt fed 130' 160, single NE beverage This was a last minute portable operation from W5SJS' Brenham, Texas farm. Primary objective was to find out how the Elecraft K3s played together and prioritize station deficiencies for later operations. Result: Very pleased with the K3's ability to sit next to strong signals and pull out weak ones. W5ASP put it, "Like walking a grassy green clear path where the woods were once overgrown with weeds and vines". The K3s (and ICE Bandpass filters) allowed us NO interference between rigs except if we were at a second harmonic, i.e. 7020 and 14040. Even then, the 20M station could get within 10 Khz of the second harmonic with no ill effect. We also tried out a new 3 element NE delta loop on 80 and shunt fed tower on 160. Not much activity there to really test it out though. We put up one NE beverage and found it helped on 80 for some Europeans, but we were on 80 too late to give the beverage a good test. We also had bad QRN from storms passing. Apologies to F6BEE on 80M (after his sunrise) who sent his number MANY times in order to get it through. Je suis desolate. W5ASP and I look forward to improving this station for future operations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NK6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 163,564 I doubled my operating time and sore from last year. One goal accomplished. Need to put up a decent antenna for 80 this summer. Rig used was a FT2000. Low power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 125,396 If I only had time to do more! This was great fun and on my birthday too! Unfortunately, sometimes life comes at you fast and this was one of those times. Family commitments to precedent on this one. See you all next year! 73 de Greg NM2L, Sugar Hill, GA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM7D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,137,850 Operated from the N7JW remote site in Utah Desert. Trial run from the site and will be back again! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 58,682 playing around prior to beach weekend vacation... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4GG Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 137,708 Commitments before HR - things are backwards again... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN5J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,958,883 This contest was made possible for me by 3 guys that are integral cogs in our contesting efforts. During my contest check up I found that the DX Doubler wasn't working. Thanks to Ken, K5KA I had one setup and working at my QTH within 48 hours. Bill, N5RR helped out with several technical issues before the contest on very short notice. And of course K5GO who took a day "off" (or was it the last two years) to get the DX Doubler for me. There were few higlights to write about, but two stick out in my mind. Highlight number one: A great run of Europe on 14.001 from 2000-0000 with an average of at least 100 per hour during the 4 hours, with very few 1 pointers calling in throughout that time. The run was capped off with a call from VU2PTT!! This would turn out to be my only substantial run to Europe on 20 meters. The signals were strong, with no QSB. 20 used to be our weakest band and it may be our strongest now with the new 8/8 stack (114' booms). Highlight number two: An amazing breakfast prepared by my dad Sunday morning. Eggs, bacon, and toast, EXCELLENT. Two storms passed through that really hurt my score. The first one occurred during the entire opening to JA on 40 meters Saturday morning. I only worked a handful and it was all S & P. Too noisy to even try to run them. This lasted throughout the morning and the bands didn't quiet down until around noon local time. The second storm came through Sunday afternoon. I had hoped to end the contest with another big run of Europe on 20 like on Saturday. My apologies to all that called me during this time. I could hear many stations buzzing under all of the QRN. I think another million points could have been possible with optimum weather conditions. The bands were quiet when the two fronts weren't passing through. The WRTC competition is very exciting in the W5/W0 region. However, like most everything else in this game the playing field still isn't level with big time differences in propogation, even between Arkansas and Texas. Arkansas seems to be better to Europe, and Texas may have an advantage to Asia. Congratulations to N3BB, K5NA, and K5PI on great scores from their part of the country. We're anxiously waiting to hear KU1CW's score. 73, Kevin, N5DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ3X Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 214,896 Hours on: 18.5 hours Tough going with 100w and wires, but still fun. See you next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,399,513 What was originally going to be a first trial for the new 20M stack turned out to be a good exercise for the single 8 el. and a 204 BA in a SO2R configuration. The band was in decent shape for almost the whole contest but during the European daylight hours, rates diminished severely due to high absorption. It was great to hear the band open over the north pole into UA9/UA0 in the evenings once again. Propagation favored northern and eastern Europe with relatively few strong signals out western Europe. While listening on the 204 BA, I found K3ZO working the far east on Sunday morning. Fred seems to be a bellweather for this propagation and after swinging the antenna over to JA, was rewarded with a number of BY's, JA's and XW1A. Rates were low so unfortunately I couldn't persist as long as I would have liked. It was a pleasant weekend with three single band efforts being made from NQ4I's station - W4KZ 15M (NQ4I), NQ4I 20M (VE7ZO) and WI4R (N6GQ) Thanks to Rick and his family for being great hosts once again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,407,135 For the second time we had the pleasure of hosting an op from another country in WPX CW. This year Nodir EY8MM was attending training in the US, so he made it to Dayton and did the contest with us. Who'd have thought we'd be working Eur on all six bands with over a hundred Qs on 160 and over 300 on 10M. Who needs spots! We have lots of antenna work to do yet, but what has been completed sure is paying off. Many thanks to NR4M for hosting our motley crew! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR7DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 364,560 Fun weekend, had rain both days so no better place to play then the radio room..nice to work a few on 10 meters, remember that band?? hi..nice openings to Europe until late hours on 20 so that was a nice extra...I did mostly S and P, but had a few runs ..still enjoy the cw best after 50 years of it...good time as usual... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS1S Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 1,679,365 Sunday morning I had surprise calls from 9M6XRO, KH2/WX8C and WH0S all with huge S9+ signals on 40M. Also GI3OQR 40M LP. He was the only station heard LP from EU around 0800Z. Good PAC and AS opening Sunday morning. Thanks for all the Q's! 73, NS1S - Op. Ralph K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 334,880 My weekend wasn't going to offer much time in front of the rig, so I decided Saturday morning that I would just limit myself to 40 meters the rest of the way and that worked out fine. Conditions must have been better than earlier major contests of this year, because I ran Europe for 90 minutes on Saturday night with a 40 meter dipole. Lots of deep zone 15 stuff, so that was very nice. Thanks to everyone who stopped by with a new mult. Some day I will get NS3! I did get NS1, NS2 and NS9, so I'm getting closer... Send in any photos and stories about WPX CW and other contests for my contest news web site at http://www.radio-sport.net to ns3t at arrl dot net 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net Your home for ham radio contest news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT5C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,759,236 What a contest! In addition to the usual competitive nature of these things, it was clear from scuttle-butt at Dayton that all the folks in the W5-W0 WRTC region who are trying for good WRTC qualifying scores would be on (with the exception of N2IC (who simply wins almost every contest he enters-it makes qualifying easy! :-) ), so I entered this knowing that K5NA, KU1CW, and N5DX all would be taking this seriously. Also, local stalwart K5PI was doing a serious effort from the W5KFT ranch station, and there were good local bragging rights on the line with Robert, Richard, and myself. My wife had scheduled a trip to see our daughter and her family for a special occasion, so I was batching it for the week. I was really unassisted in every sense of the word, and even had to take off a few minutes each morning to feed our kitty cats and water some plants outside. I also had to "stock" the shelves with frozen dinners for the microwave and have snack bars and drinks, as there was one else here at all. The weather reports were the best possible for us, as the usual Memorial Day storm stalled over W7 and W0 (too bad about the bad problems to our north). I hope that N5DX and KU1CW didn't have problems from the storms, but it was a break for us here, and I planned my off-time strictly around the breaks when there would be no propagation to Europe and/or Japan. That strategy worked out perfectly, and I took breaks in the middle of the night after EU faded out on forty meters and before the band opened to Japan. In the WPX contest, six pointers rule! In the middle of the day, after absorption kills off twenty meters, and with no openings of any real sort to EU on fifteen meters, I took off from about noon local time until three or four PM when twenty meters picked up again, and there was a small possibility of fifteen opening to Japan (this didn't happen here). This off time plan worked out well, and I got some rest and never did feel really tired and lost concentration. I set up TR to look at points, not QSO totals, on the rate meter, an idea I got from K5TR after the WPX SSB contest. That's a great idea, and it kept me from freaking out with the lower QSO rates on forty meters, as those six pointers kept the points rate high. I could tell that K5NA and N5DX and K5PI were well ahead of me on QSO totals and could only hope that the six pointers I was grinding out on forty meters was keeping me in the game. I would think that N5DX did very well and I expect a huge score. I managed to end up about the same on points locally with K5NA, and managed a slight lead on K5PI. All in all, my station strength is better on forty than on twenty, so that was my plan and I am sticking to it! On the first day, I had the following band QSO totals for the first openings to EU and JA. These take place on Friday night to EU and on Saturday morning to JA. I concentrated on forty meters for the six pointers, going to twenty meters only when necessary: 00Z-05Z (Europe propagation) 40 meters 392 Qs, 20 meters 30 Qs, 15 meters 20 Qs 06-08Z sleep break 09-12Z (Japan/Oceania propagation) 40 meters 221 Qs 20 metes 33 Qs, 15 meters, zero Qs So after the first round of openings to EU and JA, I had focused on forty meters. The somewhat amazing results, in my quest for the elusive six point DX QSOs were: 40 meters 623, 20 meters 66, 15 meters 20! I spent the non EU and non JA propagation periods running US and VE stations to get the prefixes, even though the US all are one pointers. The activity was good, with good prefixes on the bands. That makes the WPX contest interesting. The second day's EU and JA propagation totals were: 02-06Z (EU) 40 meters 235 QSOs, 20 meters 45 QSOs, 15 meters zero. Sleep break: 0630-0930Z 09-13Z (JA) 40 meters 179 QSOs, 20 meters 43 QSOs, 15 meters zero. The summary for "day two" of the openings to EU and JA for me were: 40 meters 414 QSOs, 20 meters 88 QSOs. Wow! Is this a 40 meter contest for me or what! Some very brief comments about conditions: The quiet conditions both weather-wise and magnetics wise resulted in the best conditions I have ever experienced on 40 meters. I was able to run EU, really really difficult from here even with good antennas. The conditions were absolutely quiet, and the S meter dropped to zero when no one was calling. It was a wonderful experience. Also, there were some very brief polar openings, but not strong enough with the low solar flux numbers to do much good, on twenty meters to EU around 0530 on 5/24. As K1TO mentioned in his 3830 report, copying the serial number was hard at times, with many many requests for repeats, and five or ten stations not making it in as contacts when I finally gave up. Sorry. The conditions Sunday afternoon and early evening were really difficult for me. Forty meters was too noisy to use, and twenty meters was tough for me. I would be on fifteen meters, trying to eke out some spotty openings to one pointer stations, and SO2Ring on twenty trying to find someone to work, and would come across NN5J (N5DX) and KT2Z (K5NA) running stations on twenty. I would get excited and find an open frequency and try it on twenty but never could get anything going. Some EU stations called, and they were quite readable, but always there was a buzz of stations trying, but they never made through the S7 noise levels. I just could never get enough gain from my antenna system to work this second and third level from central Texas. It was frustrating, as my friendly competitors were one to two hundred QSO numbers ahead of me, and I just sat there for the last two to three hours a kept plugging away, feeling like a ninety pound weakling. I've got to get more gain on twenty meters, and plan to add a middle twenty meter yagi to the stack, fixed on good old Europe. Hopefully that will help some. The rate numbers are included below for detail. But the strategy is outlined above. Hopefully it will be interesting and will help others. The WRTC region competition is interesting, as we have an entirely different contest here than the east coast. There is no sense of competing with them, so it's intense to compete with ourselves, which is what the WRTC qualifying brings out. Congratulations to the wonderful scores everywhere. The CW WPX is indeed a celebration to great ham radio in general and wonderful CW skills all over the world. Yeah! Thanks again to John Warren, the real NT5C, a classy ex-Brit gentleman, who graciously allows me to use his otherwise SSB-only call sign for this contest. Jim George N3BB NT5C WPX CW 2008 rate HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 0 0 0 47 15 0 0 62 62 1 0 0 54 0 20 0 74 136 2 0 0 92 0 0 0 92 228 3 0 0 79 6 0 0 85 313 4 0 7 70 0 0 0 77 390 5 0 0 50 9 0 0 59 449 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 449 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 449 8 0 5 13 0 0 0 18 467 9 0 6 62 0 0 0 68 535 10 0 2 63 0 0 0 65 600 11 0 10 66 0 0 0 76 676 12 0 0 30 33 0 0 63 739 13 0 0 0 60 19 0 79 818 14 1 1 1 30 63 1 97 915 15 0 0 0 14 65 13 92 1007 16 0 0 0 12 63 21 96 1103 17 0 0 0 2 7 0 9 1112 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1112 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1112 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1112 21 0 0 0 78 3 0 81 1193 22 0 0 0 75 9 0 84 1277 23 0 0 0 95 4 0 99 1376 0 0 0 8 93 0 0 101 1477 1 0 0 8 78 0 0 86 1563 2 0 0 22 45 0 0 67 1630 3 0 0 72 0 0 0 72 1702 4 0 0 54 0 0 0 54 1756 5 0 3 64 0 0 0 67 1823 6 0 3 23 0 0 0 26 1849 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1849 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1849 9 0 9 28 0 0 0 37 1886 10 0 11 48 0 0 0 59 1945 11 0 5 53 0 0 0 58 2003 12 0 1 14 24 0 0 39 2042 13 0 0 36 19 0 0 55 2097 14 0 0 1 50 12 0 63 2160 15 0 0 0 39 36 0 75 2235 16 0 0 0 12 0 0 12 2247 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2247 18 0 0 0 45 13 0 58 2305 19 0 0 0 26 36 0 62 2367 20 0 0 0 29 28 0 57 2424 21 0 0 0 52 1 0 53 2477 22 0 0 0 32 6 0 38 2515 23 0 0 0 20 29 0 49 2564 TOTAL 1 63 1058 993 414 35 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NV1N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,704,525 Another fun WPX contest. Conditions were "okay". Not good, but not as bad as last year in my opinion. Lots of activity. Great ops. See you in IARU. 73 Ed N1UR/NV1N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,587,756 ? QRL ? Seems many people did not bother to ask before cqing. A couple of others were dialing down the vfo while transmitting; parking on the frequency we were using. Interesting conditions this year, especially on 15m. Nice to have K5NZ come over and operate for a couple of hours even after telling me Friday morning he was going to stay home. Mike, did you remember to stop and pick up those groceries that you promised the xyl? Dennis, NT5TU was able to come help us out for a few hours the first night. Jack, N5DUW put in a lot of chair time despite having to leave at 1630 Sunday to make a 16 hour drive to Albuquerque. K5GQ had to depart early Sunday as well and NX5M had to leave for about 3 hours Sunday afternoon for a family event out of town. NO5W departed early as well. The only two true full-timers this time were N5XJ and KU5B. Despite all the departures and conflicts we were still able to pretty much keep both stations on the air the whole 48 hours. As a matter of fact, NX5M and KU5B both had a little time operating SO2R to keep the flow of things going. Thanks for the q's and the patience through all of the qrm on 20 and 40 and the qrn on 80. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,502,178 Great condx ! 73, Howie N4AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY6N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,572,768 Thanks again to Jim, W6YI for the use of his excellent station. I lucked out with the weather. It was raining on Thursday and Friday before the contest, and that really quieted down the power lines. There was no noise at all on Friday or Saturday, but it started to come back on Sunday as things started to dry out. Conditions seemed to be a little better than last year. We had a decent 40m opening to EU on Friday night, and I managed to work about 35 of them on the 2nd radio. 20m was the money band as usual. It was open the entire contest, with good rates to JA all night long. Condx to EU were just mediocre, with no real runs in that direction. 15m was interesting. I never had a good JA run, but it was open from 21z til 09z both days. No matter what time of night it was, JA3YBK was in there with a solid signal. I also worked 9M6YBG and E21YDP around 1am local time, along with several JA's. I worked 6 EU on sunday morning shortly after sunrise, and that was it for EU. 10m was open both days to the US, but not much DX heard. Congrats to all the big scores out there. It was great to hear so many guys making a serious effort in this contest this year. 73, Dan N6MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2008S Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,261,654 nice to give out thsi special callsign ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG5B Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 51,937 TESTING SO2R, FILTER BOXES BY OH6MF , BUILDING CABLES BETWEEN BOXES AND NICROBAND DECODERS AND MOWING LAWN FIRST TIME THIS SPRING AND WATCHING AT FORMULA1 ETC. NOW I WAS ABLE TO HEAR WEAK STATIONS ON UPPER BANDS WHEN CALLING CQ ON LOWER BANDS. SOME STUBS ARE STILL NEEDED. GOOD SUMMER TO ALL! TAPANI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG6A Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 3,500,000 The original plan was to enter the contest in M/S-category but due to a few last minute cancellations we had not enough operators for that contest category. Therefore Jukka OH6LI and I decided to go for a single band operations instead. I chose 40M which I have never worked as a single band with a "serious" contest setup. Last time I have been in CQ WPX CW on SOSB 40M in early 1980's with low power and dipole. I set my goal to challenge the old OH record of WPX CW SOSB 40M HP that is around 1.5 Mpoints i.e. 1000 QSOs and 500 multipliers. It seemed reasonable as we have reached that level earlier even in M/2 -category. The beginning of the contest was just fun. The QSO rate was close to 100 Qs/h several hours which gave me high hopes for making a new OH record. Also the high number of DXes among the QSOs was positive sign. What worried me most was the modest signal strength of the North Americans which indicated some minor geomagnetic disturbance. Luckily the condx didn't get too bad during the contest eventhough the K-index was going up and down throughout the weekend. Thanks to good attendance on 40M, moderate conditions and the great setup at OH4A it took only 24 hours (minus 6 hours off time) to reach the old OH record. During the second 24 hours (18 hours operating time) I managed to pull around 2 million points gap to old OH record making the raw score of 3.5 million point. Thanks for Jukka OH6LI and Merja for your hospitality and an opportunity to use the great station once again! Thanks to everyone who worked OG6A! QSL sure via buro Equipment: Yaesu FT-1000MP with mods Amplifier/1.5 kW 2 over 2 el full size yagis at 44 m / 24 m Shortened 2 el yagi at 20 m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG7X Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Total Score = 168,182 Nice condx on 10 meters! I had too many family commitments in order to have a possiblity to serious efford. I worked some short periods time to time (mostly early morning or later in the evenings). EU was the major audience but some good dx cathes though: HC8 came late Saturday with good signal, few station from SEA as well. Thanks for the qsos! 73, Mikko OG7X / OH4XX http://oh4xx.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH0J Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 1,230,740 Surprisingly good condx under the aurora belt and nice attendance in the contest. Lots of "001s" during late Sunday helped to "kill the time" when rate went below 60/h. I wkd all that I could possibly hear (excl. NR4M - sorry Steve!). CUL! de Jouko OH1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH6AC Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Total Score = 279,792 Equipment: Kenwood TS-850 SAT, 1kW PA, ant. 4-el. monobander @39m, WinTest logging software. QSL via LoTW or by email request. Thanks for the QSO:s / 73 Jyrki OH6CS http://www.oh6ac.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8GZN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 114,912 Nice contest+propagation, lots of stations. Managed to break own personal contest record and got couple new dxcc's. Thanks for q+multi! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB15 QRP Total Score = 42,480 Good CONDX for QRP, but only Europe. Transceiver TS120V, Ant LW 27mtrs and delta loop. Tks for nice contest. Karel OK1AIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1JOC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,291,000 IC7000,pwr 50watts ant zepp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3R Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,459,090 I would like to thank everybody for the contact. My congratulations to TM5Y and OL4W for their great effort. See you all next year again. 73´s Miro / OK3R(OK1DVM) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK4RQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,628,842 Thank for QSOs / on 10 m WKD with W, VE .... !! / Rig: FT1000MP + kW See on IARU HF .... 73 Pavel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 5,874,120 Even few hours before the contest I was not sure if to go 40m or all bands. I never did WPX on 40m on CW, I also felt that Eu record is within reach, so I decided to give it a try. I was not very happy with this decision, while strugling to make 15 Q/hour during the day.... The nights were not so bad, but the propagation to USA was sort of "short", only few west-costers made it through. Number of JAs is smaller and smaller each year and most were very weak this year, BYs are rising but still a few. On the end I have the claimed score 1 mil pts more than EU record so I hope that after the "dust settles" it will be still over. But wonder what has the competion..... One remark - clicks. There are stations who are very loud and you can be 250Hz from them and work, there are others who are not so loud but you can not be 1 kHz from them. I made a few remarks and checked "known" data and most "resolved" cases were users of FT1000MP. SHAME on them - and of course YAESU - why they can't make a simple mod described by many ?!?!. Or is it a strategy how to keep clear frequency ???? Than even bigger SHAME on them. First try with WIN-TEST after few years with N1MM. There are things which I like, but there are others I like with N1MM..... Thanks for a QSO and hope to hear you again in next contest. ANT: 2x5Y - 24m boom full size @52/26m - bottom fix to USA. 3el.Deltaloop @ 42m fixed to JA dipole @ 4m. RIG IC756PROIII + PPA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,061,382 Thanks to all for contact. Due to long company event on Friday evening I have started the contest with 10 hours delay. It was too late to compete friends like Peter OL6P :-). So I had decided to learn and improve SO2R skills. Nice to enjoy opening on 10m band and pile-up to US on 20 on Sunday night with LP. 73! Tom OK6Y/OK2PTZ ok2ptz@seznam.cz http://ok6y.blogspot.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4W Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,437,066 Thank OK2RZ for hospitality. Really good antenna system. My first HP contest, but I think, that QRP category is better HI :] 4El Yagi to USA Delta Inv Vee Vertical 10 Beverages FT1000MKV 1.5 KW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 13,321,342 Absolutely another contest. Probably achived official Czech Multi-Multi record only with M/2 !!! Who could expect total opening on 10m ? Neither We. But "for sure" prepared second antenna to 10m band, personally called East worker :-)) It was maybe 5 years ago when we last worked some JA or NA contact on 10m. Thanks to massive Es and multi-hop propagation from EU region wasnt problem to do real DXes on this band. Also 20m opennings to NA were absolutely out of standard time window. After several years again never-ending NA pile-up on 20. Usually through the night when we are on 80m in standard situation. We are satisfied with our absolutely the best score. Workplace 1(80/15): FT1000MP PPAs 2x3-500Z PPA RE400 to second direction. Ant 80m: dipole at 24m and K9AY loops (+BPF and LNA) Ant 15m: 6el at 25m, 5el at 15m, 3el in vertical polarization at 15m, 1/4wl vertical with elevated radials at 7m Workplace 2(40/10m): FT1000MP PPAs Alpha 91b and AL800HX Ant 40m: 4el at 23m, 1/4wl vertical on the ground. Ant 10m: 5el at 14m, 6el at 24m Workplace 3(20m) FT1000MP PPAs homemade 2xSRS457 and 2xRE400, Ant 20m: 5el at 20m, 2el at 18m, crossed dipoles with circular polarization at 7m Workplace 4(160m): FT1000MP PPA R140(GU43b) Ant 160m: 1/4wl sloper and K9AY loops (+BPF and LNA) Software: Win-Test 3.17 Thanks to all who called and next to see you in IARU HFC ... GL de Milan, OK1VWK on behalf of OL7R team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM0M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 16,035,012 Limited MM setup with fantastic “hamfest” spirit made this contest memorable. Lack of equipment and antennas were replaced with delicious food and cooking service by OM8QA/OM8YL. High activity and nice E layer openings on 10+15m were totally unexpected. 30 Usa + 31 Ja on 10m.as well as 105 Usa + 93 Ja on 15m proof the nice CONDX. A special thanks goes to Yogi OM4KW who was the headhunter for this event. VY 73 DX OM8AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM2VL Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Total Score = 51,142 Excellent propagation on 10m - at 22Z band still open. I was very busy and will be able QRV only 10 hours. Thanks for the nice contacts. My working condx: FT1000MP - 50W 83m long delta loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7CW Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 4,631,670 FT1000 + OM POWER 1.5KW 14/21/28 M2 KT-36 XA 1.8 INV.VEE, 3.5 INV.VEE, 7 INV.VEE + beverages 73 Slavo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 12,023,168 Great contest as always. Looks like the new expensive coaxial cable for our 3x 6el 15m stack paid off and helped us to break EU M/S record. We had a lot of fun and tks everyone who called in. CU in next contest. OM7M team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 557,500 Dear Contesters This was a good one, fb condx on higher bands. Let's hope ..... At first I did not remark the good condx above 20m. But after a while on 20m, I say to myself where are all the stations ? They where playing on 15 and 10m. I could make nice runs with my low power and not being forced to qsy ! I did not worked rares ones but the rates where good. With thanks for the qso s. DIRK ON4CT eq : mark V at 100w, no cluster, X7 and inv v at 24m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP1A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 276,570 Only doing the job in parts, between all other things. I'ts a plesant contest after all. Condix on 10 and 15 was a gift from heaven, hi... 73, folks de OP1A (ON6UQ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP4K Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,722,640 My very 1st serious effort in this contest as SOSB 20m N1MM Logger * FT-2000 + Acom 1 kW * Optibeam OB18-6 at 50m/170ft 4 ele. on 20 m Prop very low at contest opening SFI = 68 A = 10 K = 2 going worse during the contest Sunday SFI = 69 A = 18 K = 1 Band open late at contest opening till 01.00Z (03.00am locally). Decided to go to bed and started at 07.00z (09.00am locally). Worked the 1st W at 12.49z. Very late opening to US at 21.15z non stop till 00.00z. Went to sleep and started Sunday at 07.10z. Band was very poor, no JA's heard but were spotted. Worked EU only. At 14.00z opening to the Far East with BA's, JA's calling. Surprised when was called by 9M6XRO, BV7FC, VU2PTT, BX4AQ, KH2/WX8C and later by ZM2M. Worked just a few W's at 17.30z. Then band dead to the West. Later at 20.39z W's came back alive till 22.10z when I decided to QRT due to fatigue and building QRM. Last hour spent on chasing mutls. All in all enjoyed this super effort and am lucky with the calls logged but am sorry for those I missed or had to ask agn, agn. 73 de Joe. CU all in another contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 217,322 I made a dozen QSO on 20m and 40m but I excluded these from the 10m score. I will submit the full log for cross checking purposes. Read more on http://on5zo.spaces.live.com/ 73 de Franki ON5ZO = OQ5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OR2A Class: SOSB10 LP Total Score = 119,762 Yaesu FT 1000 MP 100 watts 5 ele Tri-bander ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OV3X Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,307,250 Seems like most of You had a good weekend. This was absolutely a great weekend. Most relaxing weekend ever and enjoyed it a lot. Used my old IC-775DSP, TH3MK4 at 11 meters, a Carolina Windom 80 at 11 meters and an inverted L-antenna (W9INN sloper) with 2 elevated radials. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ5WQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,800 Surprised to hear 10m open sunday morning. I had only time from sunday morning for contesting Worked S&P all time. A new logprogram took some time to get working properly. Rig: IC735, 75W output to a Butternut HF6 and a quarterwave L-ant form 160m 73 Peter OZ5WQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7BQ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 350,198 It was a surprise to find 10 and 15 Meters open to South and Eastern Europe most of the day time, but it is harder to earn multipliers and QSO points on these bands without DX stations. 80 Meters was a disappointment, but propably just the summer conditions. 40 and 20 Meters were best for QRP operation and nice to find 20 meters open to W in the night. 85% of the QSOs were S&P, which seems to be the way to go as a QRPer. In all, a much better result than expected at a sun spot minimum. 73 cu agn OZ7BQ Hans Jørgen (Joe) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P33W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 23,254,596 Another contest without US openings. Anyway, enjoyed it very much and especially 10m. Congrats to CT9M and 3V8BB guys. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40L Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 19,340,360 The southern Caribbean was not necessarily the place to be for this one. The high bands were disappointing much of both days the bands opening far later than usual and with heavy QSB and ESP level signals much of the time. Our apologies to those we had difficulty copying. The challenges of light signals with heavy QSB were compounded by noisy band conditions and ongoing issues with inter-station interference. Thanks to all who stuck with us! We had a terrific start for the first five or six hours (300 Qs the first hour), but for much of the remainder of the contest our hourly rates with two radios were below our single radio rates from the prior year due to the combination of the poor conditions and low activity levels out of North America. We embarked on this operation with a number of goals in mind: 1) To complete finishing work on the installation of the towers and antennas started in February (the new antennas generally played very well; the one disappointment was the arcing problems we experienced with our new Sigma 80 dipole that pretty much knocked us off of 80 meters, except for an hour or so at low power on the second night, costing us a fair number 6 point Qs); 2) To try out and gain experience with the Win-Test logging software (excellent, with particularly powerful features for a multi-op station); 3) To try out and gain experience with the new Elecraft K-3 radios (excellent receivers); and 4) To force ourselves to work on the inter-station interference issues (hence, the choice of the multi-two category) that have plagued the station despite two levels of band pass filters and coax stubs (new more remote beverages installed before the contest were a huge success (40 meters receive was almost exclusively with the new beverages); but the other problems continue more or less). All in all, we feel we made lots of progress on most of our goals and in all events we had lots of fun! Congratulations to the 6Y1V and ES9C teams on their great results, as well as to the several excellent multi-single efforts. There were many hours we could hear the new 6Y1V station with its high stacks running European stations that we could not hear, especially on the high bands. As in the past, we greated enjoyed the hospitality of the local ham friends on the island. We had a great time visiting with many of them both before and after the contest, including Jean-Pierre and his wife Christine (P43A and P43C), Joop (P43JB) and Lissandro (P43L) and his wife Lissette. As always, thanks for all the QSOs! 73, John (W6LD/P40L), Andy (AE6Y/P49Y), Ed (W0YK/P49X), and Denny (KX7M) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 815,575 Only goal here was to make more QSO's than last year (679 in 2007). Started serious contesting 2 years ago with the challenge to use LP/dipoles only. First time I made more than 1000 QSO's with below set up. What a feast on 10 (15) but 20 in particular which was "open" to US till early morning. Best moment wkg B4TB on 20m Sunday evening high in the band. Cu in 2009 Wkg condx: Ten Tec Orion II 100W inv. vee 10m up fer all bands (except 160) 2x10m dipole 10m up fer US (20m) 2x9 m dipole 4m up fer EU (40m) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA6Z Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,726,784 Only run 40, 20 and 15m. Good contest, will be there again next year. 73 Crew PA6Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,726,800 Rig: Yaesu FT-2000, 100 W Cushcraft R7 vertical @16m high G5RV dipole 2x 16m, feeding point @15m high http://www.pg7v.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,962,657 This was my fifth consecutive year of running the CW WPX contest from PJ2T. I arrived Tuesday about 2100 local after an all day trip from Madison. After unloading the car and a quick beer, I fired up the station and ran into my first problem. I couldn't get the computer to key the radio at the main run station, radio 1. After fiddling around for a couple of hours I decided I was too tired to properly troubleshoot the problem, and went to bed. The next morning I started over and still couldn't get it to key. I fired up station 2 and all worked well there. Some switching around of equipment convinced me it wasn't a hardware problem, but I still couldn't get it to work. I operated a while on station 2, then with some on the air help from K8ND, and email help from K8ND and W8TK worked on it some more. Finally I gave up and operated from station 2 the rest of the day. The next morning after a good night's sleep and some coffee I started over from scratch and solved it in less than an hour. The cause, basically operator error, and not approaching the problem in a logical fashion. The rest of the pre contest time was spent doing some operating, mainly on 40, 30, and 17 meters, going downtown, going to the beach and having a few beers. There have been some recent problems at PJ2T with local noise generated at two transformer poles. At times it has been S9 on some bands. When I got there it was S5 on most bands, and as the days went along it abated to about S1-2 by the start of the contest. I elected to start on 40 meters. My strategy this year was to maximize 40 meter 6 point QSOs at the expense of higher rate on the high bands, patricularly at the transition period around local sunset. I figure a rate of 100 6 pointers on 40 beats 150 3 pointers on 15 or 20, and the mults would come with time. I started low in the band but could not get a good rate going, I changed frequencies 4 times in the first 30 minutes, and finally settled in at 7053 for the next 6 hours. Forty was very crowded as anticipated, and the noise was a problem, but with a seemingly right combination of filtering, some DSP for the noise, and 6 dB of attenuation to cut the chop, I was able to hang onto the frequency. The rates were 100/hr the first 5 hours, and then began to drop as anticipated. At 0630 I took a short break to make coffee, and then ran lower in the band until 1130, an hour after local sunrise,with about 870 QSOs, mostly 6 pointers, in the log. The band was still open to the US and JA, but I needed a break. I slept about 2 hours, had a little breakfast, and then got on 20. The band was just starting to heat up to Europe when the power failed at 1610. After about 30 minutes I decided to start the generator, but the instructions for hooking into the power system of the station were nowhere to be found, and I wasn't about to wing it. I couldn't nap because I had just had a cup of coffee, so when the power came back on after almost 2 hours, it was basically a wasted 2 hour unplanned break during some prime run time. When it came on I ran Europe for a bit, then went to 15 which was open to Europe, but mainly to the US with good rates. Then it was back to 20 for an hour, and then on to 40 for some more 6 pointers just after sunset. I stayed on 40 until about 0630 when I just had to quit. I'm not one who can stay in the chair for 48 hours, or even 36 hours without a break. I had a headache and needed sleep, even though I was still working a few western Europeans on 40. After a shower I set the alarm for 5 hours of sleep, and felt a lot better after I got up. Then it was back to 20 for some reasonable rate on Sunday morning. The noise problem began to get worse Sunday on all bands, and on 20 particularly in the direction of the US. There seemed to be 2 sources on 20, one the pole near the Sunset Waters Resort in the US direction, and secondly a seeming mechanical source which turned on and off every 20 minutes or so. When both of these were going it was nearly impossible to work anyone with the US beam. So I mainly used the European beam, because the noise was much better, but this cost me some QSOs with weaker US stations. Fifteen finally opened by mid afternoon, but rates were lower, and there was severe noise toward Europe on 15. For several hours I'd spend 20 or so minutes on 15 and when the rate dropped go back to 20. I finally spent the last two and one half hours of the contest on 14042. I decided to stay on 20 rather than go to 40 at the end because the rate was probably better and I was picking up a lot of multipliers, and figured I'd get more mults on 20 rather than 40 with the higher rate. With about 6 hours to go it became apparent I had at least a shot at 10 million points, rarefied heights for this operator. As it turned out 3 more mults, or about 16 QSOs without any mults would have given me that. I left a few minutes of operating time on the table (about 14) when I took too long a second break. It's my own fault. Bummer. Even so this is my best score ever in any contest. Even with the power and noise problems it was fun, particularly the last couple of hours chasing 10M. PJ2T isn't really set up for single operator contesting except as basic vanilla SO1R. There were certainly times I could have used a second radio, particularly on Sunday afternoon, but I'm not about to start recabling radios unless W0CG does it himself, plus there's no SO2R box there. Thanks everyone for all the QSOs and the patience of folks giving me serial numbers and calls over and over through the noise, particularly on day 2. PJ2T (Op:WI9WI) SO AB HP SO1R No packet, no skimmer, no second radio. Thanks to Geoff, W0CG/PJ2DX, and Cindy for the use of the wonderful house, and to the CCC for the use of the station and their support. 73 Jim WI9WI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP5EG Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Total Score = 249,745 Has been nice to operate again from PP5JR fb station. This time I played on 80 meters SOSB (A), and AI6V (ZX5J) on 15, PP5KR (Lucas) on 10 and PY1KM (PT1T) on 20. Nice folks, propagation very poor, but friend relationship FANTASTIC. Thanks Sergio PP5JR to allow me to work his 80 meters station. 73 Oms PY5EG (PP5EG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR2F Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 65,670 Rig: TS-450S - 500w Ant: Inverted V @ 10m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,386,492 I think down here conditions were somewhat worse than last year, and so is the score. However, 10 was open but there were no stations, or at least it was more productive to stay on 15. Had 200 less contacts on 40 this year than last year, which hurt score a bit. I arrived back to Sao Paulo on Wednesday before the contest and had to stop in emergency room due to stomach bug probably caught in Cairo earlier on the week. Due to lack of time for preparation and testing everything before the contest I had multiple problems with FT-2000 radio control, Winkey and N1MM program, resulting many restarts of the radio and/or N1MM program, that is why I suddenly dissapeared from the band so many times... Congratulations to both CW5W and PW2D for great scores from this part of the world. And BIG thanks again to my brother PY5EG/PY2OMS for the use of his fine contest station, it is always so easy to operate from there, and only 3 hours drive from Sao Paulo city. This was probably my last contest from Brazil when I have been living here past 6+ years, and we are looking forward to move back to US (California) in couple months. There are number of great contest stations here and more seem to be coming up. We have very active contesting community here and it has been priviledge to operate from such great stations as ZW5B, PS2T and ZX5J over here. Only regret I have is that there was not more time for this fun, especially during my earlier years here. But I hope to be able to come back often ! Next on the air activity will be from PJ2X in IARU if everything goes according to schedule and I'm planning to operate CQ WW DX this year from SU and C9, but not sure yet in which order. 73 and CU de Marko N5ZO/PY2ZZO/OH6DO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PT1T Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 4,432,000 Thanks to Sergio, PP5JR for letting me use his fantastic station (ZX5J). I had the great pleasure and honour of sharing the station with my great friend Carl, AI6V, who operated SOSB 15m, and PP5KR who was on 10m. I miscalculated the rest period, which cost me one hour. Thanks to all who called PT1T, the first time I use this call. Marcelo, PY1KN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PW2D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,203,190 Thanks again PY2DM/Mamiro for hosting me. Thomas PY2ZXU, SM0CXU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,505,425 First contest as high power all band..... Really an amazing experience.. and very different..because generally i always operate as low power or QRP. really the kilowatts arrived on my life and never more will go out here!!! hehehehehehe. Amazing opens on 10 meters to Europe on 1st day... Thank you Wal for give me the opportunity on use your equipment! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1KS Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 6,600 Hi all, Well, watta test! hihihihi... This time only check-log. I had no good antenna to be a competitive one this time, just a inverted V to 30m, but the will to be in contest was bigger! I gone out side and cut my 30m dipole to 20m just one hour before contest begins. I have had to turn my Computer off because his power supply was generating a lot of QRM, and used my new keyer. I got a S5 QRM on 20m, but the amazing thing was my reception on 40m and 80m, yeah!!! 40m and 80m With a 20m inverted-V just a 15 feet high and stuck on wall, and his legs to 6 feet from the ground. I could heard a lot of European stations on 80m as well as American and a Hawaii, I got impressed. Also Japaneses on 40m. Just using piece of crap antenna stuck on my wall. I am away from HAM radio around 5 years already, because some personal things, and this time I am backing in, and next week I will lifting my beam antennas and the tower up (I hope so). Well, I'm too excited! I Can't wait to be on the next contest. Cya in the next one! PY1KS - Alex (Future PY2***) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,368,508 My worst "last hour" ever !! And worst than last year, QSO numbers speaking! Anyway, working low power under this bad conditions is a challenge and improve my performance for the future. I recover old BPF-600 Dunestar for second radio and finally "SO2R" works better here for the first time... More than 5% done at second radio... Hope to find a lot of you at Friedrichshafen next month... 2 x FT1000 MK-V Field, Microham Band Decoders and MK2R+, N1MM loggind. Bye bye... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RD4WA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,808,132 Good luck to All! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,500,000 QSL via W3HNK. 73, Max ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU3VD Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 521,885 73! Alexey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,372,089 Despite of long years of contesting radio waves can surprise us anytime. Friday bands was almost dead but abruption of activity convinced us that CW is not dead. CU next one, 73, Tine Brajnik S50A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50K Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,435,642 Planning mistake leaded to start at 3.30 instead of 00z. Opening hours of the end were left - the working Monday is too close. Thanks for all the calls and replies. The bright side: always some new things are learnt, this time ZL was worked very early in the morning, long pass. Was the first time this way. KH2 with extremely good signal, asked 5 or more times to be convinced. A number of XE stations were very strong, usually are very tiny. US and JA opened more or less all day, but not lots of activity. The down side: It happened many times in this ctest that somebody just starts with CQ on same freq without question and then face calls CQ without any reply. In a number of cases a short appeal is understood, some cases trigger unpolite responses. In at least 5 times freq was just left. Also this time operation of S50K was possible owing to the great graciousness of Strel family that lives on the tophill. ... and to understanding of complete my family. 73s de Marko, S50K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52ZW Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Total Score = 2,881,967 RIG:TS 950 SDX + GS35B + N1MM CONTEST LOGGER ANT:4 EL YAGI @ 20m Tnx for all qso! Fredi S52ZW,9A2ZW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 3,067,740 Ant: 2x g5rv @23m Pwr: 1,2 kw Rig: ic-737 73 de S53F Vinko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53MM Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 4,913,190 Ant: 4el 3-banderand and two Inv. V's First time entered AB category. Result is promising. Matija/S53MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53O Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,221,152 ant 4xhalf slooper,rx ts850s+pa1.5kw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54A Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 1,754,080 Thanks to all who heard me and gived me a point. A lot of times was covered by HP sigs and banished from mine frequency. 73 & dxxx Ivo S54A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54O Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 671,328 TS850 HMPA 3el ECO + wires @15m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 1,663,125 Started on Sat. morning, blew homemade amp transistor bias after one hour, continued barefoot with FT1K. Enough CW power for EU short skip. Nice to play on six bands with occassional DX. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56M Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 4,693,087 Usual Friday morning before the contest: I had to put two quads on the towers. And so on. Next: it was interesting stay foot during second night of the contest then...too tired and sleepy. But nice TEST. Thanks to all of you for company and congrats to OK1RI for A1 result. RIG: FT1000MP + AL1500; ANT: 2 el quad at 20 m high tower, fixed to East; 2 el quad at 18 m high tower. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,800,000 RX/TX: FT-1000MKV, PA 1500W ANT: 5/5 (31m/17m-fixed to NA) RX ANT: 2.el.loop @ 12m for EU Very nice openings to west coast in NA (almost every call new MPL). Nice signals from pacific area and alaska (I wish them in CQWW). I did big mistake to take off in suterday from 20:00 to 22:00. TNX to every one who call me and we will be in touch in next contest (CQWW). 73, Ivo, S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 647,900 Finnaly! USA and JA was not a dream anymore. It is stil way down from THE opening, but it is soooo nice, when you been called by unexpected JA caller. E-Sporadic was fantastic. Where are more station from G/PA/ON/DL/SM/OH/LA on CW? Is CW real dead? There was hours and hours of chance to work them, beacons singing strong music, but that's all. This time, firt day especially, we have HUGE QRM from Russian or Ukrainian TAXI intruders. Is it realy so difficult to get rid of them in this countries? It is not one, two or three signals. It is complete CHAOS comming from N/E direction, covering whole CW portion of the band. Sunday was much better, they escape higher, over 28070. Do we have to start the war with them, or there is some authorities to do that for us. I am not sure. Guys fire up amps! 73, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 4,068,015 FT-2000 kW KT34XA 40m-vert. 80&160m-dip. Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 73 Marko S51DS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59KW Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 2,148,992 ft100mp x7 @ 12m inv vee's for 40&80m writelog 9 I had fun but anyway I would rather had some more power, maybe next time. Working from ome has other advantages for example you can watch some film and sport event on tv or browse the web. Thanks to all for answer and see you soon again. Marko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SE5E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,000,522 Great contest with suprising condx! Very nice after a loooong period of sunspot minimum. I had too much to prepare and didn't get any sleep prior the contest start. I was modifying my homebrew SO2R-box and WinKeyer to get audioswitchining working together with WinTest. Half an hour before start it finally worked! The scenario thing in WinTest worked UFB with this simple type of hardware. Thanks to everyone who copied my 10 dits! Ingo SM5AJV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM3C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,300,952 After 30 years running only qrp 5 watts, I tried LP 100 watts, realising maybe life is too short for ONLY qrp. Now age soon 63. I have to admit it was fun. On the high bands the difference was not high except for much easier to take and keep a cq-frequency. But on 40 and 80 life was really much more convenient, nobody had to ask for the call and report several times. It was almost too easy but sure I will be in for at least LP in the next contest. Rig: Kenwood TS-570D, 100 w Antennas: Force 12 C3 beam, Inv. vee 2x20 20 m, Horizontal loop 130 m. Using this rig was also a tribute to my father who died last year, age 91. He was an SWL SM0-7032 and used this rig for listening. Now I proved that it could be used as a tx as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6CNN Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 2,927,740 I started the contest on 80m thinking of a single band effort only. But I just could not resist a few QSOs on 10m. Then I tried 15m and got busy. So my plan to spend a few hours in a single band effort developed into an almost full time all band effort. Great fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6EQO Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 788,673 Rig: Elecraft K2 at 5 watts Ant: Butternut HF6V vertical End-Fed Half-Wave Dipole for the 80 meter band Both antennas 23 meters over ground Web: http://hem.bredband.net/b101180/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 371,880 IC-756 A4S, GAP Titan, sloper MicroKeyer Writelog all qso´s S&P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN30J Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 91,000 Hi, TRX - FT101ZD, antenna delta horizontal - up 10 m, N1MM - software 73 de Janusz "Jan" sn5j/sp5jxk http://www.sp5psl.pzk.org.pl/sn30j/sn30j.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN3A Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 1,382,444 Many thanks to Jurek SP3GEM and Teresa SP3GUA for their great hospitality and support. Apart from the normal band QRM there was the additional QRM coming from Andrzej SP8NR who slept and snored in the shack. Thanks to all stations for the QSOs and the fun contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN3C Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 374,387 eq. old ic765 100w but new one antenna build by me few houers bfor test 5 el. monoband full size yagi for 14 mc 12mtr up *for now i plan 25 (FInaly). that was i fine time thanks to all and see you next time 73.... henry sp3asn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP4Z Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 3,131,228 Despite massive E opened 10m and 15m, 40m band was very good and crowed: two nights for NA (not for West Coast) were quite busy. On Saturday evening QRN crashes were strong slowing JA rate. 5 hours lost somewhere in relaxing and family duties. CW is really fun! IC7000 + PA on GU43B, 3el yagi full size on 30mh, Packet assisted With DX cluster I think I have 100 mults more. See you next Contest 73 Wes SP4Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6A Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 200,000 Hi everyone , thanks for the points! Wkd mainly Europ , having poor antennas ( inv L and one short Baveridge) not too many chance for Dx,s, any way one station from each continent is in the log. Due to sporadic E low activity on top band. Best 73 de Zibi SP6A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP8IMG Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Total Score = 2,580,400 RIG: FT-1000D ANT: 6 el. YAGI only at 15m high ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ3RX Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,025,944 Icom 746 100w Ant Inv Vee for 10/15/20m and 40m dipol. Thanks for all qso's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ4MP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,282,602 Unfortunately I haven't antena for 15M and 10M and just wires for low bands. Any way I enjoyed the contest TNX for all QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SY3M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,250,462 Band QSOs Pts WPX 1.8 32 71 7 3.5 271 697 88 7 918 2722 365 14 876 1472 221 21 726 912 95 28 300 384 63 Total 3123 6258 839 TRX: K3 + TT Titan, pro2 + AL1500 ANT: 2el SteppIR @9m, Ground-mounted vertical Half-Moxon (40m), 16m ground mounted vertical (80/160), K9AY RX-loop and 120m beverage to JA. MSC: N1MM, Microkeyers, laptops, ICE filters, 700m of wire, 250m of coaxial, 200m of rope and a lot of enthusiasm and energy to setup/dismantle all this !!! My initial personnal plan was to go back to CN with some ambitions in the SOAB category, but for some obscur administrative reason the licence never arrived. On his side, Nico had already planned a trip to his home country... I could not miss such an opportunity to go back to wonderful Greece, so we quickly improvised something to be on the air; not to be competitive, but to take part, which is the most important as says the Olympic games chart! (another famous Greek/French joint venture !) Among the difficulties to setup a all-bands M/S station from scratch in a remote location, the first one was to rehabilitate a house, unnocupied by humans for some 20 years (adopted by rats and mices and invaded by wild vegetation); It took a few days to make the house usable, but we managed it... The cohabitation with the dense rats population was not always easy, but they finaly accepted to free-up some space for us (must say that we had to insist a bit, using some powerful unfair arguments... the main problem for me with the Greek rats, being that that they understand only Greek and they start working at sunset until sunrise...). Waiting for Nico to complete some "non-ham" obligations and beside some 6m and peri-contest activity (about 800 Q's as SV3/F6IRF ), I started by installing my 16m multiband portable HB vertical, tested the week before in britanny. After a few tests on the air, I started to think about some more efficient solution for 40m, which is key band in this contest. We needed something simple, that we could setup quickly with the hardware we had (2 fiber 10m telescopic masts), so after a few simulation sessions we decided to go for a vertical "half-moxon" mainly for his broad horizontal pattern (a description will be published later on my blog). Must say that the results overtook my expectations, the difference with the vertical being obvious right from the first listening tests. It was confirmed during the contest, as we did not get any problem to break the pile-ups and get DX stations to call us. Obviously the weak band has been 20 meters, due to the low height and limited gain of the antenna, but we could not do better for this time... 10m provided some nice openings, including to JA (most probably multi-hop E's) and 15m a nice combination of E's and F2 propagation. At the end we are just short of multipliers to be "almost competitive"- we had initialy planned DX-cluster through a VHF packet-link to Kalamata, but the distance and terrain profile between Kalamata and Pilos area did not allow it to work. We obviously also missed a second antenna on the high bands - but we did no expect them to be so productive and to say the truth we ended up short of time and energy (the temperature on those days did not help) ! - Anyway, in may still be a new Greek M/S record... I really enjoyed those 2 weeks in this still preserved paradisiac wild area... unfortunately not for long, as in many other places, the "beton" is about to win (a large touristic ressort is already in construction, a Motorway is scheduled and the promoters all around). A special mention to the Greek local people for their "way of life", sometime a bit annoying for a stranger, but so nice at the end ! 73's from Sunny Greece - Pat PS: More to follow soon on http://f6irf.blogspot.com/ including a video ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2RC Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 277,732 Hello all! This was a last one for 160 low power grand slam:) Conditions was poor as usual in summer season.QRN was terrible.But I have 277.732 points claimed(Current record was 190.000).I lost many stations in QRN and QSB,SRI. Antenna:İnverted L with 16 radials,and low half wave dipole. TX with TS 870 and 100 W. No receiver and receiving antenna. CU on IOTA 2008. 73! TA2RC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3CW Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 375,870 Nice to be able to put in a few hours in this great contest. CU in the IARU contest, come july. Siggi TF3CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM5Y Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 2,075,904 No so much operator this year for make a M/S at F6KHM, we decided to make two monobands TM7XX on 20 and TM5Y on 80. First time for me that I make a contest on 80m at this period. Lots of QSB but some nice DX contact during the contest (XV,HS0,ZL,VK...). Thanks all for QSO and a thanks to F5TTU for logistic as usual. Equipment : TS 870S + PA Slopper and dipole 3 beverages + 2 k9ay 73's from F8DBF Sebastien. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UN4L Class: SOSB80 HP Total Score = 993,630 FT990+ 1KW+ 6 EL VERT DIPOLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UR3IQO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,223,836 First time HP in WPX (not really HP, but much more than my usual 20W). The conditions on 10/15/20m were amazing, the 80/40m were very bad due to local thunderstorms and lots of QRN. There we too litle JA's and almost no Africa/VK/ZL. I was surprised with the azimuth of incoming signals from West Europe (300-20deg, instead of usual 250-320deg). Nice weeked - lots of fun! Thanks for all who called or answered me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT1IA Class: SOSB10 HP Total Score = 811,832 RIG: TS-870, IC-746, PA 1kW. ANTs: 7el (rot.) - @40m; 3el (rot.), 2el (switch.N-S) , 1el D.loop (W-E) - @30m. 73 Vladimir UT1IA http://www.qsl.net/ut1ia ---------------------------- "Contesting is fun !" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU7J Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,284,335 Congrats to HA3OV, 4O3A, RL3A (op RV3BA)! Thanks to all, who calling and answer me. 73! Jim UU1AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY7C Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Total Score = 813,514 Only about 21 hours in the air this weekend. Tnx to all for QSO's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ5UA Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 867,564 Thanks all ! Antena-dipol to NA and Delta Loop to Japan Equipment-Kenwood Ts-450 100wat http://www.qsl.net/uz5ua/ icq 219244526 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 914,625 Gettin' better and better. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ASUqX3sUiE Tnx for the Q's and see you at RAC Canada day! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2WDQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,101,761 Yaesu FT-1000, Ameritron Al-80B 750 watts ANT: 2 el. MQ-26, Inverted L I have improved my last years results up to 1.5 times. (2006 and 2007 was around 1,200 QSOs and the score of 2M ). I hope to keep my 1st place in Canada in category SOAB-HP/TB-wires as it was in 2006/2007. All targets I made (1,5K QSOs 3M/score 600/mults) have been reached. That was a real fair! 20 and 40 meters were opened all 48 hours, 80 meters was not bad but noisy. Even 10 meters was opened! What was a joy! That's why we all are Contesters! When I was CQ during daytime on 40m 4K, 9K, 4L and all EU were calling. That was fantastic! CU in next Contest! 73! Victor VA2WDQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 696,164 Missed this contest last year, so I set a goal of exceeding my score from 2006. Figured that would be a challenge considering that we are now at the bottom of the sunspot cycle(?). I installed a new 40 m. antenna last summer but, for a variety of reasons, never had the opportunity to assess its performance during a major dx contest - so this would be an excellent opportunity to check see how it played. Have to say that the results on 40 m. with the new antenna were very gratifying as I had no problem working lots of European stations with 5 W. As the contest progressed, I began to doubt that I would beat my old score as I was behind on both mults and qsos, however; I kept digging and by 0800Z Sunday I was ahead on qsos but still way behind on mults. Sunday was spent looking for opportunities and with 1 hour of operating time left I was even on qsos but still behind on mults and total score - took my last off time and went back to the radio knowing I had my work cut out. The last hour was tremendous, my Elecraft K2 developed a real KW attitude and I was working anyone, anywhere in Europe with absolutely no problem. The log shows a string of mults and qsos that blows my mind! This was the last major contest for the K2 as I expect delivery of a new K3 within the next few weeks and I have to say the little radio really went out on a high note. Bottom line - beat the old score, achieved my goals and had a great time! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7KOJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 407,602 Quite tough conditions. Thanks for picking me up. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,697,892 * N1MM Logger * FT-2000 + SB221 (SO1R Unassisted) * 40M half-square for U.S./JA * 40M 2-element raised vertical array for EU * 80M 2-element raised vertical array * 3 ele. tribander at 45' Band QSOs Pts WPX Pts/Q 3.5 73 283 5 3.88 7 384 1560 115 4.06 14 604 1381 347 2.29 21 110 227 25 2.06 Total 1171 3451 492 2.95 Year QSO WPX Score (claimed) ========================================= 2008 1171 492 1,697,892 HP 2007 948 409 1,135,384 HP(Assisted) 2006 941 515 1,445,605 LP 2005 694 378 712,908 LP 2004 -- -- -- 2003 412 233 269,348 (VE7ASK) 2002 63 45 9,000 Opening prop stats: SFI = 68 A = 10 K = 2 Poor conditions overall, compounded on the high bands by man-made noise. It was supposed to rain all weekend, and I was looking forward to the absence of power line noise. It didn't rain until after the end at 0000z Sunday evening (steady rain since then), so I suffered from severe BC Hydro "we ain't never gonna fix it" line noise all weekend on 20M. Opened on 20M for the first 2.5 hours, working mostly U.S. and South America. The slow first hour was disappointing, but rates in the first nine hours were consistently better than last year: Hour '07 '08 ===== == == 0000z 83 54 0100z 62 64 0200z 45 60 0300z 51 67 (peak rate all weekend) 0400z 43 56 0500z 46 2 0600z 35 60 0700z 25 38 0800z 10 33 JAs were far better than last year -- Friday night worked 16 JAs from 0730z to 0840z on 20M, then switched to 40M and worked another 24 through 1130z. The 40M half-square worked well in both U.S. and JA directions. Was about to quit for Friday night at 2:37 a.m. (0937z) with 308,000 and 451 Qs/226 mults. Then found a bunch of activity from Asia on 40M and didn't stop until 4:41 a.m. (1141z) with 427,823 and 523 Qs/253 mults. Passed last year's score at 10:40 p.m. (0540z) Saturday night with 937 Qs and 409 mults (same as last year). 80M was weak and noise on Friday night, but VERY good in North America on Saturday night -- perhaps the best I've heard it since putting up the two-element 80M vertical array. No Europe but good signals from everywhere else -- PY, LU, KH6. Even had ZM2M call me off the back and I almost forgot to switch the beam to point west. When I did, he came way up. Could have worked high rate on 80M but not many guys were on after Pacific-coast dark. Unlike the previous morning, by early Sunday morning 40M and 80M were pretty dead. Neither band had workable signals on it. Went to bed at 0800z (1 a.m. local) to burn up the final 3.6 hours' off-time. Intended to be back on at 5 a.m. 1500z for a 40M JA run. Instead, I slept till 8:40 a.m. (still, that's an hour earlier than I got on Sunday morning last year). On Sunday, I could not get an answer by CQing to Europe with a KW into the tribander, though S&P passes were modestly productive. Eu ops were not combing the band, I guess. Only the usual nuclear-powered or mega-antenna signals were strong and solid here in British Columbia, so conditions just weren't good. Spent most of the final hour trying for a little bit of rate to U.S., but closing in on 600 Qs on 20M meant new ones were pretty thin. In the final five minutes, I turned the beam back to Europe and signals were strong and crisp for the first time all weekend (EI2CN was like he was across the valley from me). Wish I'd spent all of that 2300z hour pointed over the pole. Lowlights: Fell prey to plenty of frequency hijackings -- hyper-kilowatt stations burning holes in the aurora with nary a "QRL?" Worked Kuwait for the first time. Good signal here, but with QSB he could hardly hear me. About 10 fills needed, and I think he busted the last digit of my number anyway and I couldn't get back to him through the pileup. At least that doesn't hurt DXCC credit, but that mult would have been great on both ends. Highlights: 9M6XRO, 3D2A, FO5RH (big sig) and VK6 calling me on 40M. Now I know the half-square is working. The verticals for Europe only snagged M7A and S56M, around 0400z on Saturday evening, though stupidly I didn't go to the array very often to look over the pole because I was finding lots of easy 6-pointers in the Pacific. Worked 72 DXCC entities. Mults up nicely (492 vs. 409) over last year, but still too far down from 515 at low power in 2006. Made 110 Qs on 15M this year. It was hard work at times, but far better than 56 Qs last year. Saturday I ran most of my 15M total in a handful of decent runs from 1740z to 2150z. Sunday 15M was open from 1730z to 2000z with great S9+ signals from W1 through W6, but just not many on the band. Could only ever find five or six stations at a time, and had to go back to the rat-race on 20M. Posted to livescores.org, and once the board was up (it wasn't at the start) had fun watching scores grow in the SO HP category. Those boys at the top of the list sure know how to work a radio. Did a spot search this evening and saw that I was spotted a couple dozen times during the weekend. I felt the brief boost many times as I'd call and call with nothing, then a flurry of action for five minutes or so. Thanks to all who spotted me! Had a laugh when I saw KN3A's spot which included "Go Pens," apparently posted just before they dropped the puck in Game 1 of the NHL Stanley Cup final Saturday night. Sorry about the loss on Saturday. Maybe Monday is the night for Sid and the gang. I'm rooting for the amazing young gun Penguins over the greybeard Wings, but as with old-dog contesters, all that experience will certainly have an impact on the scoreboard, hi. Ended with SFI = 68 A = 7 K = 1 (better than it started, but still bottom of the barrel). Had a very great time, even in the doldrums of the 40M wee hours and 20M mid-day. Thanks to everyone, especially the WPX volunteers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,206,412 Same setup than last year, a bit better propagation, a bit better score. Thanks to all the callers for the qso's. 73 de Gilles VE2TZT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,478,860 Good fun... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 174,051 JUST TO TAKE MY PAIN AWAY FOR A FEW HOURS...WITH AN ICE PACK AND PAIN KILLERS ! CU WHEN I GET BACK ON MY FEET... 73' PHIL VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 305,028 Set up a full sized vertical, and the was the primary antenna, along with an inverted vee at 64 feet. Was surprized how well the vertical worked. Looks like its time to add a few more... Just a part time effort, but was interesting to see how 40 worked at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Thanks for all the QSO's, and hope to see you all again on Field Day! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ/VP9 Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 6,278,727 Radio(s): FT1000 (@100 w), FT920 (spare) Antennas: A4S, 40 m dipole, G5RV and Inv. L for 160 RigExpert USB interface for CAT, PTT & CW and Dell Laptop N1MM Logging Program Well, if there are some places on the Earth which may be called a Paradise, then Bermuda is definitely one of them. The streets are super clean and beaches are the best I’ve seen in my life… And looks like for the WPX CW it was the right place, where I appeared to show at the right time (considering band conditions)! I have never been to VP9 before and I was very happy to have an opportunity to combine business trip and pleasure, being able to operate yet another Contest from a DX Location. Mr. Ed Kelly, VP9GE offers nice apartments and station for rent, details may be found on www.vp9ge.com .The station and antennas look quite modest at first sight, but boy – was I mistaken about it! When I first started operating on Thursday night before the Contest using just bare radio and A4S tribander I was amazed by signal reports from the EU and Eastern U.S. – mostly “59” or “59 Plus”. All antennas are quite low above “ground” level, but probably the most important thing is that ground is very poor on Bermuda (mostly rock) and Ed lives on a top of the hill… Ed provided two radios – FT1000 and FT920, I just had to bring my RigExpert USB interface for CAT, PTT and CW keying and my Dell laptop. I intended to use my SO2R box, but unfortunately at that moment the R6000 vertical was not available (broken) which made SO2R operation impossible. I was quite busy on Thursday and most of the day on Friday so didn’t have a chance to play much on the bands before the Contest. However, when I started on 20, the pil-up was real good and I ended up with 146 Q’s in the first hour – my best hour in this contest. Most of my contact were U.S. East Coast though. 40 and 20 were open all night, and made few 80 m Q’s (even into EU!) with 1 contact on 160 (I guess Brian VE3MGY appreciated the rare VP9 mulitplier that called him on top band!). 40 meter band was amazing! I had a feeling that I was real LOUD at times… But honestly, I always had to pick my run frequencies higher the band to avoid QRM from big guns fighting for the band edge… I worked my last EU on 40 m around 06:30 UTC before making my first brake for short nap. One little secret, which is not so secret for those who live in North America outside U.S., is to work a lot of 80 and especially 40 m Q’s for double points. You get double points for each European on low bands, but in addition to that you get 4 points for each U.S. station worked, which makes it more than if you would work EU on high bands! For years, while operating LP from home, my strategy was to work as many U.S. stations on 40 m in the morning as possible, which sometimes brings you not only double points, but also rare U.S. prefixes (multipliers). The big guns are fighting on 20 for the good run frequency in order to work EU and you just keep collecting your double points… :-) Anyway, sooner or later you still have to go back to 20 meters and that’s where problem begins… I could not establish run frequency up until probably 1600 UTC, unless I pointed my beam to the U.S. which immediately resulted in the pile-up from East Coast. I believe VP9 is ideal QTH for the ARRL – I was able to work U.S. with no problems on all 6 bands… Anyway, my rate sucked quite a bit in the morning hours varying from 92/hr. (best) to 36/hr. (worst). I believe in the desire of getting double points on 40 I missed a 20 m opening to JA, but the good news was that 15 suddenly opened to EU. I was making some EU contacts on 15 when Mr. Murphy decided that everything was probably going to good for me and sent a local guy in the truck down the street to hit the pole and the power disappeared right when I was trying to copy exchange (sorry, OE5CWL!). That was my 2nd (not planned) brake. Fortunately Ed was able to run emergency generator and after an hour and a half I was back in business and even managed to catch the remains of sporadic opening to EU on 10 meters. Then again, 20 meters in the late afternoon and later in the evening 40 meters were great with reasonably good rates of 100+/hr. I started to feel that I’m falling asleep at the keyboard and took my last 6 hour break around 0500 UTC. Sunday was pretty much the same – trying to stay on 40 for as long as possible to work 4-pointers, then struggling on 20 and 15, except this time 15 meters produced almost no Europe. 10 was reasonably good, but again – to Stateside only. Again I was surprised how sharp was A4S on 10 meters. I decided to call CQ for a couple of minutes towards EU and turned antenna to NE. After few CQs I decided to pint back to the U.S. and when I turned my beam back to my surprised there was a K8 calling CQ TEST on my frequency. Needless to say that we absolutely did not hear each other… I stayed on each band for about 15-20 minutes in order to maintain some rate until late afternoon when 20 started booming again into Europe. Many times when I was trying to copy serial number from a weak European, some big gun would suddenly appear on my frequency and start calling CQ TEST without any warning… :-( Last couple of hours were really good on 20 and 40 with both EU and NA in the LOG. I finished with a bit less than 2600 QSO, which was an unexpected surprise for me. Thanks again to Ed, VP9GE, for providing a station for this operation and to everybody who called for all the contacts. Looking forward to work you all again. Special thanks to Paul, VE3TA for his help and support. 73 Yuri VE3DZ / VP9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,270,116 Many thanks to Don for being a great host. It was more fun than last year. There was less interference between the radios and the score is a bit better. I have never made that many QSOs on the second radio and in my case that was a major improvement. On the negative side, I was not focused enough - asked too many times for repeats. Thanks to all who were patient with me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 30,672 QRN levels rose from S3 at the start Friday night to S7 around 0700z due to storms systems in the Mid Western states. Saturday night QRN was much better and never rose above S4. Decent opening to the West coast Sunday morning and even worked an EU station at their sunrise with decent copy. Overall the band wasn't in that bad of shape for this time of the year. As usual activity was down on 160 as it is every year in the WPX CW as compared to the WPX SSB. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 874,872 Good 40m condx. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB160 LP Total Score = 22,387 There appeared to be just four of us (in Eastern North America at least): VE3MGY, N3UA, NR4M and me, who were crazy enough to enter the single band 160 category. It was a challenge, and a lot of time was spent CQing into an empty band. But I did achieve a personal best score in this category. Conditions were not very good most of the time and I only worked one EU station (G4AMT). Station: Drake TR7 100 watts Inverted L One Beverage and one pennant TR Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3WDM Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 29,294 My head was just not in this one...To start did not realize logger was logging in wrong contest (Volta) until 25 qso's logged. Had to stop and re log all contacts. Then for some reason 20 went dead as did 40 after about 15 mins of up and down the band real slow looking for contacts did I find somehow I switched over to my dummy load!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then to top it off spotted BY1V turns out my code skill were in the toilet too.... it was 6Y1V. Sorry to those who though China was booming in....:)But overall had a great time and looking forward to next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 38,720 Really just a part time effort. Spent a couple hours here and there throughout the weekend trying to hand out the VE4 prefix. Too busy with tower foundation work :) Conditions seemed reasonable compared to recent contests. Even made 2 10m QSOs, one in GA and one in TX. Not sure but they may have been E's propagation. 15m opened to the NE and SE USA with nothing heard from SA. To my surprise 20m was open almost around the clock. EU and VK both rx around 0700 Sunday morning. Just temporary wire antennas so no big signal on the low band. My best DX was Hawaii on 80m with 35 watts. With the low antenna and 500W on 80m, my smoke detector gets trigger and the rest of thesleeping family tends to frown on this at 2AM 73 All Ed VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 835,620 Wow - I'm exhausted! I've never put so many hours into a contest before. But the time paid off as I shattered last year's effot by about 150,000 points. The band condx were probably the strangest I've ever heard (in my 3 years of contesting). Normally, in the winter, we can hear the European stations coming through about an hour or two before we can actually work them. This time it took maybe 3 or 4 hours before I could get through. But once the gates opened, I was able to make quite a few good contacts. The bigger question was where was the rest of the world? I only worked 4 African countries, 4 Asian countries, 5 from Oceania and 8 SA countries. I worked a total of 29 countries in Europe. Not bad for 100W and a TH6 at 40' - given where we are in the solar cycle. I was expecting much poorer conditions, but was glad to see that the contest made it's own propagation. 10m even opened up pretty good on Saturday afternoon, which is saying something from this latitude. I even worked Argentina - LU1HN - which is pretty amazing for Sporadic E (if indeed it is). I also managed to work 5 stations (WX5S, NF6A, N5RM, AND KF6T) on 10m through 80m (thanks guys!). Thanks again to all those who struggled to pull my weak signal through the noise. I hope that next year is even better and I'm going to try for the million points. From this "black hole" it seems like quite a challenge. 73, Jerry, VE6CNU Rig: Yaesu FT-1000MP Ant: TH6DXX @ 40', Inv Vee 40/80, Shunt-fed tower 80m Software: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7GL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,675,015 Condx not great but it was fun. Station info: http://ve7gl.reboot.bc.ca ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7KS Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 189,945 Of course my 20/15 rotor blew a fuse just as the starting time rolled around. Time will tell if it was Murphy who dun it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 8,244,944 Great contest and great fun. Thank you CQ magazine and the WPX team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7UF Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,119,720 Nice to have Phil, VE7YBH, join us this year. Also nice to get a little taste of better high band conditions to come. 20M was open during most of the contest. The 20M conditions reminded me of the simular conditions during the 1997 AA contest, exactly one cycle ago. 80M was very poor and noisy the first night. Otherwise conditions were about the same as last year. I hope to have tower #4, a new-old 150 foot Rohn 45, installed before the end of this summer. The team was in good spirts at the end of the contest, which lead to consuming more spirts through all of Sunday night. We had a good time. Thanks to all that called. Duane, VE7UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7XF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,667,160 Somebody cut my coax on Sunday morning, but the SWR still looked good! Man, how low can we go? Haven't we asked this every contest for the last two years? I dread another 'Maunder Minimum' - I might not last for another cycle. I'm astounded how weak some calling NA stations were - they seemed to hear me well, but I required a number of 'overs' to get their exchange. We used to speculate about 'one-way skip' back in the '50s - maybe it really exists. Looks like I've permanently migrated to the HP division - there's something satisfying about getting a reply on the first call :-) 2/3 S&P (my favourite, I love the hunt), 1/3 running. I kept feeling VA7ST breathing down my neck - looks like he passed me :-( FT-1000mp, Acom 1000 (man, do I love this amp!) 3 el Steppir @ 64', 40m rotary dipole @ 72', wires for 80/160 (city lot) Not enough sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 327,500 Man, it was good to hear stuff on 10M again! 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 391,866 Conditions seemed pretty good from here, did a bit of S & P and some Cq'in both days. Fun contest. See Y'all Next one GLWCDR Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP5E Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 354,024 429 QSOs, 1341 Points, 264 Multipliers = 354024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,320,299 Rig: Icom 746 Pro + SB-200 Amp = 400 W Ant: Force 12 C3S Tri-bander @ 60', full-size 40m wire vertical with 1 elevated radial Log: N1MMLogger + Winkey USB WOW, what a contest! Just recovering from a bad flu and heavy doses of antibiotics after last week's Bangalore Marathon run in which I participated. My 80m antenna could not go up due to the illness. Therefore, reduced my goals to: 1. Occupy the chair without dozing for 36 hours of the contest - DONE 2. Make at least 1 Million points - DONE 3. Shoot for 1000 QSOs - MISSED by 33 QSOs DAY 1 of the contest was pretty bad. Expected to have 800+ QSOs but ended up with only around 500. 15m which was supposed to be the money band never took off, despite repeated attempts at starting a run there. I certainly wasted a lot of time trying to call CQ there. In fact, most of my time was spent on 15m for only 167 QSOs. It was like banging my head against a brick wall :0) Band Time Qs 40m 24% 96 20m 23% 554 15m 42% 166 10m 11% 151 All bands had weak and watery signals on Day 1, which was not expected. 10M opened between 0700-0900z to EU with good signals. 15m never real had much life and even the JAs were missing. In WPX SSB, the strategy of running JAs for prefixes worked, but not this time. Towards nightfall, 20m was staying alive with loud EU & US signals, well past the usual 1600z shutdown in this part of the world. Around 20z, over 30 US stations were worked and EU was also available. DAY 2 was pretty good with 10m open through the day to EU from my morning to night, around 0400-1400z. WOW! This sounds like the old days and the sunspots are certainly coming back with big signals out of EU. 15m never took off on Day 2 as well and failed to live up to expectations of the experience of other recent contests. 20m always gave a stream of QSOs but never at a rate greater than 70/hr. This was aggravated with most of EU pointing their beams to USA, and I was always fighting to get in through the back of the beam for many stations I called. 40m was a bit noisy and I was not in a real frame of mind to fight the QRN. A station improvement is planned in terms of a low noise receiving loop as the vertical is certainly noisy on receive. HIGHLIGHT: Finally worked California, USA after many years! The stations worked in quick succession around 1430z were K6TA, WO6T and W6FI with my beam on the Short path to the East coast. LOWLIGHT: As many noted, I needed many more repeats than usual this year with deep QSB & QRN. This seems to have been feature for many stations in this contest. Am I growing old at 43 or wa it just conditions? Less time was spent on S&P which used to be my bread & butter in the LP category. In the HP category, I wanted to see how much of an improvement the amp and tribander were compared to the past 20+ years on LP with wires :) I think I can do better. And of course, occasionally fell into the DXing trap - finally worked OJ0J of all places, on 10m :) Ended the contest with a nice QSO with John K6AM @ ZF2AM. It was fun! Thanks for all the QSOs and hope to see you all in IARU. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT (ex-AF6DV) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 470,162 Excuses: Uh lessee, Friday night I got tired. Saturday morning I got bored and fixed the SB-220 and switched categories. Saturday evening "Hockey Night in Canada" Sunday morning ... uh..oh 6M opened to EU. Sunday afternoon..company arrived (VY2CD) I'll try harder next year 73, -Robby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,610,524 The ice storms broke virtually every antenna this past winter. Unfortunately, the WX didn't cooperate the week before the contest when things were supposed to be fixed. The 40m yagi was pointed due North without a rotator, and EU is at 60 degrees from PEI. Only the lower 20m & 15m 4 element yagis were working, and the 20m yagi is fixed at 30 degrees. And the afternoon of the contest, those antennas seemed to stop working and then start working again. Never had a problem during the contest though. But just before the contest the PRO III's RX broke. And during the contest, both 87As acted up. I had to flip one out of fault mode every 2 or 3 transmissions, and the other just powered off every few minutes. During my first break I substituted in the backup 91b. The rate was never particularly high, but they just kept coming. Sunday near the end of the contest on 20m was great with a lot of low number new mults. Despite the lack of the big antennas, high in the sky, I had more fun than I anticipated. 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 401,265 Too many weekend activities to put in full time, but enjoyed what on-the-air time I did have. Especially appreciated the 10 and 15 meter openings on both Saturday and Sunday. Storms made 80 and 160 basically unusable, but at least the storms didn't get close enough to shut me down this year. Thanks for the Qs! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 493,368 Lots of activity and good band condx especially 20, 15, AND 10 mtrs. Worked more on 10 than on 15m - I think everyone is ready for 10m to come back! Eu openings on both Sat and Sun during the afternoon and evening here. 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: IC756pro3 with 100w to hf yagis and 80/160m verticals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 190,476 Thanks for all the Qs. Bands weren't good but we made the best of it with the chair time we had. I managed to double last years score and didn't seem to work as hard doing it. Maybe I'm learning. Thanks to the N1MM crew who keep the program going and getting better. 73 de W0PC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 114,492 Had a ball. With 10 & 15 open it made a difference. I did mostly a casual S&P operation, but had fun. Had some good runs on 10 meters. Thanks to all who made a contact with me, and for their patience when QRM & QSB prevailed. We managed to "Git 'er done." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0UA Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 1,501,275 Opted to try this from home with a single radio, C3SS tribander at 54 feet & 1/2 wave sloping dipole on 40M. I'm surely thankful that we can work other "w's," or I would've had about half the QSO-total with my high-angle antennas. 15 and 10 were open via e-skip both days, not much DX, but strong signals from all directions & enjoyable QSO-rates. Signals from EU on 20M Sunday were the loudest I've heard out here for YEARS. (I wish more of them could've heard me) This is a real free-for-all with everyone able to work everyone else & it doesn't get much better than that! Special thanks to NF1A and NU2M for making my last 2 QSO's both multipliers! And thanks to the JA's & EU's on 40 who heard me & worked-through my struggles to hear them... 73, Geo, W0UA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 593,733 For a 1/4-effort, this was more fun that I expected. The holiday weekend weather was just too nice to get real serious about playing radio, but there was definitely propagation available. Heck, it was a blast! George W1EBI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 609,444 Happy to see 15 open and even 10, although most on 10 were short skip. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 348,957 Just five short months until CQWW-SSB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2TB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 274,164 Lot's of great ops. A pleasure. Mike W2TB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 442,611 TS-440S C3S es G5RV Tnx for the Q's 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,343 Only squeezed in a couple of hours operating. It has been a long time since I was able to work Europe and California at the same time of day. Saturday evening the CA stations were loud, and the Europeans still able to hear me too. I wish I had more time available to operate this one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KZ Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 803,274 Well, this weekend was to test out all the antenna work I performed after the Dayton Hamfest...I re-installed 7 yagis, 20m and 15m to improve the figure of merit on those bands...result was a new 3 Hi stack for 15m..top antenna at 155 ft, middle antenna at 105 ft and bottom antenna at 55 ft...all 8 element designs..and it really played well!! I was amazed at the conditions..with a Solar Flux Number of only 69, and the propagation was un-believable! I worked 3V8BB at 0930Z (thats an hour and half before my sunrise, and during his EU run!! And EU stations called in way into the afternoon at my qth, something that only happens during a much higher sunspot number! Did not hear or work a JA....bummer! I took 3 hours off on Sat afternoon for a family cook out....and got to bed early each night...can't wait till those sunspots return...see everybody in CQWW SSB and CW this fall...de Rick NQ4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 54,900 Just couldn't get into this one, for whatever reason. I got in a few hours on Sunday. Ten meters was a surprise, late in afternoon on Sunday I picked up a lot of US/Canadian station on E Skip and some close in club members on ground wave. Even managed a German DR1A. Wonder what he is using? He is the only EU I've heard in a while. Fifteen was decent on Sunday with skip into the Pacific and E Skip. Strange that neigher ten or 15 had much Caribean, except for John/K4BAI in Jamica. Nice sigs btw. Perhaps things are getting better, but with the SFI on Saturday at 68 10 2 it was noticable worse than Sunday at 68 8 2. Oh well. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 236,662 Rig: Ten Tec Omni VII - 100W Antenna: CF zepp 53M long up 17M Only had a few hours to play due to family matters. Propagation was good with nice openings on 15 and 10m. Thanks for the Q's. CU next year in WPX CW. 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4XO Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 268,074 Very fun cw contest. S&P part time effort in between family commitments. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5CT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 234,025 I don't know how this happened. I didn't mean to spend that much time in the contest. I can stop anytime I want. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GAI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 65,508 Search and pounce only. Had very little time to get on. Bands seemed poor all the way around. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5GZ Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Total Score = 70,238 Fun ??? ......U BET 'CHA !!!!!!!!!!!!! gz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOSB40 LP Total Score = 155,705 Rig: TS-530S Ant: Vertical, Hustler 4BTV Log: N1MM Could not commit for an all band effort. Band condx were rather average. Loud signals from Asia peaking after sunrise on Saturday. Many BY stations (great activity, well done!) but could not get through to all I heard. Second night was quieter, better signals from South America than during first night but Oceania and South East Asia were not as loud. No EU heard. Within NA in general, a lot of QSB so could not copy exchange on first go on many occasions. Thanks for the contacts, Sergey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6KY Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 95,956 S&P Only...Busy weekend so only had time to stop by the radio from time to time.. IC-756PROII @ 100 W Gap Ground Mounted Challenger 73, Art W6KY www.w6ky.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 41,623 Literally a few minutes here and there between "chores". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 60,298 Omni VI+, AL-1200, 80 meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, TRLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7DRA Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 1,943 i thought work would not allow me to enter but i got lucky. first night prop was really poor. seecond night i was called by statons i could not work the first night. really surprised to have two JAs (the only ones i heard) answer my CQ. the usual rig: ARC5 VFO with an 833a final at 400 watts, NC183 receiver with a BC453 Q5er. TX antenna, inverted L; RX antennas, two beverages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 179,760 Antennas used were Hustler Mobile.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,542,250 Nice surprise making over 300 QSO's on 10M. All-star cast included I2UIY, 2008 Contest Hall of Famer and N0AX, Ham of the Year on their return trip from Dayton. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7VJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,794,346 Wonderful to hear so much Europe, though surprized about the lack of JA from up here. Good consistent conditions throughout the contest, though better on Saturday on 15. Great team of WL7E who returns to the bands from the KL7Y multi days, AA7CQ, our low band guru, and K0PJ who joins us from Wisconsin to learn how challenging Pacific Northwest propagation can be. Thanks to all who we worked. 73, Andrew, W7VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 25,080 This operation was done from the camper out in the campground. Hated to miss this contest as it is one of my favorites, so took the radio and antenna, and snuck into the trailer when nobody was looking and made some contacts. Used the TS-450SAT and a 100' zepp fed with 300 ohm TV ribbon. It was only about 20 feet high, but worked pretty good for a compromise antenna. Sorry if I called you for a dupe, but was doing this all on paper. Forgot how hard it is to keep a dupe sheet without having a computer handy. No packet, no spots and no Skimmer. Seems like 20 meters was in very good shape Friday night as I was able to work a bunch of DX. Even 10 and 15 opened up for a while. All in all it was a fun weekend, combining camping and contesting!! 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,700 Tried out my newly completed K3. Very impressive!!! Antenna was just an R5 (which the K3 antenna tuner even managed to load on 40). 73, Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AV Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 3,353,952 Conditions were interesting to say the least! Twenty was punk during normally prime run times due to the high absorption here in Ohio, but the band picked up nicely between 1800 and 2300Z. Forty was a bit noisy here but I managed a lot of QSO's and mults on the band. Eighty was also a surprise. It yielded quite a few EU stations when I called CQ. This contest is going to be a lot more fun when the sun spots return!!! Most confusing call in the contest, at least for me, was SE5E. Also had a good laugh with VE1OP when we worked and I sent him serial number 666. As I told him it was just a serial number and not a reflection on him personally!!!! I had a couple incidents with Murphy during the contest as well. Lost a power supply in one of my 930's and had another one that went flaky during the contest, both of which were on 20 meters. Thank goodness for having a few spares around. Swapping radios took only a couple minutes of my time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8CAM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 35,334 I would have had more contacts if so many stations did not turn up their keyers up to 5,000 words per minute. I think a lot of us less skilled with CW missed out. As a beginner I thought the contest was fun, and I am looking forward to the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 3,334,392 Always like to work the WPX contest. Conditions seem a whole lot better this year. 40 meter beam still needs repair so was not able to use. Still was able to work a number of stations on a dipole. Lost the rotor on the main beam on 20 meters with 3 hours to go. Stuck in the Southern direction. Still had fun and better my score from last year. Ken W8MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,633,009 Unexpected good conditions on all bands. One year I've got to get one of those sought after 2x1 calls for this one. Still getting over a bad cough/cold that I got at Dayton so a CW contest was nice. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9WI Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 1,149,405 Fun, as always... Had to take 3 hours unscheduled offtime Sunday afternoon when the air conditioning failed at work & took two computers with it... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 738,344 Wow 20 was a pleasant surprise. Even had a BY station answer my cq. Started to lose interest late Sunday afternoon. Many excellent ops there. 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA3KYY Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 197,687 The Elecraft K3 was a joy to use during the contest. Very low noise and when conditions got crowded narrowing the filters down to 250Hz made the desired station stand right out. I only wish I had been able to spend more time in the contest. 73, Mike WA3KYY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4PXP Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 4,500 This was a real laid back effort. I chased DX spots from Asia only for most of the test. Worked 3 BT, BD stations on 40. Another highlight was working 9M6XRO on two bands. Also a big thanks goes out to 9M2CNC working hard to hear me late in the opening on 40. I would love to know the antenna and power level from RK0LWW they were amazing on 40 about 40 over 9. And finally XW1A on Sunday morning had a very solid signal on 14065. Stations heard but not worked included 9V1YC and DX1DBT on 40, The wire up 25' was not enough. One spot that I could hear but not copy and work was XU7PN on 7038 RTTY. Thanks to Keith W7DXX for the use of the internet controlled rig in New Mexico. Jim WA4PXP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4UAZ Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 778,083 Busy weekend with family activities on Saturday. My 9-month old grandson is almost at the point where I'm going to introduce him to all the knobs on my radio and my vibroplex paddle and evaluate his excitement for CW. I figure he will be ready for this when CQ WW CW comes around in the fall.... Operated from home using my original callsign ((well, actually, my original callsign was WN4UAZ))on Friday night, Saturday morning and night. It was very nostalgic and fun to use WA4UAZ in this one. The 1 million point mark was doable if I had more time. On Sunday I joined the guys at NR4M and operated from there all day. With no solar activity and prop numbers near all-time lows, it's amazing band conditions were as good as we experienced this weekend. Thanks for all the Q's. 73.....//Steve K4EU ((WA4UAZ)) FT-1000/Field QRO HF-2500DX T8 LP for 10/15/20 40m Inverted Vee 80m Inverted Vee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6L Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 198,324 GOOD NEWS: I had plenty of time to prepare for the contest. I created band plans, tweaked Writelog, and even took a nap on Friday afternoon. BAD NEWS: Everything quickly went to hell in a hand basket. First, my microKeyer stopped working. I switched to an external keyer, but it was awkward and I was losing track of serial numbers. So I ended up tearing everything apart and using a direct serial cable to the K3. That worked great but I lost a lot of time. Then the rotator only rotated in one direction. Within no time, I managed to have the antenna completely clockwise. As you can imagine, that limits its usefulness. It turns out that while moving the desk to fix the keyer problem, I had stressed the connector on the controller. It was 5 minutes to fix, but 30 minutes to find the problem. GOOD NEWS: The K3 performed magnificently in its first contest. The 400 Hz filter turned any signal into an easy copy. I set the DSP bandwidth to about 1200 Hz while searching, and then twisted the dial down to around 400 Hz when pouncing. Immediately, it was the only signal on the band – sweet! BAD NEWS: Doesn’t anyone know how to zero beat a signal anymore? While running, I had to remember to open the bandwidth up to about 2000 Hz. If I forgot and left it at 1200 Hz, I would miss calls or just barely hear them above the threshold. Good filters work both ways. GOOD NEWS: There was a great opening to Europe on Saturday afternoon, and a decent one on Sunday. I had a nice run on 10 meters on Sunday with about 50 contacts. BAD NEWS: Where was Japan? They have a gazillion prefixes and I have about 10 JA’s in the log. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,653,248 Many thanks to Ken, N6RO, for his excellent station. Congrats to NY6N (N6MJ) and KR7O (N6TV) for outstanding results! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA7NWL Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 41,325 The last CQ WW WPX CW I entered was in ... let me think .... well, a long, long time ago. Thanks to my friend Richard, N7NT, for the appropriate prodding to enter into this one. It was a BLAST! Didn't score a lot, but with a fairly relaxed approach I'm very happy with this baseline to work from. It was very interesting to observe propogation changes. Station is basic - ICOM IC-7000, wire dipole at 20 feet and my 30-year old Vibrokeyer - hey, the electrons were able to escape, so they, too must be happy. My sincerest appologies to those who were blessed in receiving my sometimes rusty and sloppy code. Thanks for hanging in there - it will be better next time. Thanks to CQ for all of their contests. 73, John, WA7NWL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA8REI Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 111,502 QRP 5 watts to a Hustler vertical ground mounted; 80 m dipole. Condx the pits except at grayline. Eeked out Hawaii, Isle Of Man, and a few others. A big THANK YOU to all stns who took the time to complete an exchange. They were the ones who knew how to use their receivers and the RF gain control, filters, DSP in them, and had 1000 to 2000+ QSOs. Some 40-over-9 stns wouldn't listen: they'd pause 1 second and hit the CQ TEST button again. This is a great contest because of so much participation regardless of condx. Better times are coming....C U nxt yr! --Ken, WA8REI, Freeland, MI USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 455,058 Due in part to high gas prices, I cancelled my annual pilgrimage to the Indy 500. Not a problem though, as I was able to do some contesting and chores around the house. It was not a good time to have my beam down due to rotor failure. An all band "fan vertical" was quickly assembled Friday evening after work. It played fairly well considering it was mounted at ground level. Good enough for some S&P QSOs. 10 meters is showing signs of life. Every time I checked, there was some activity. It's amazing what a contest will do for a "dead" band. As others have noted, conditions were bizarre to say the least. Propagation was up and down. Signals were S9 one minute, and then totally gone a few seconds later, usually when I transmitted my exchange. Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73- Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,546,344 Antennas: 160M - trapped vee @90', trapped vee @65' 80M - delta loop @75', trapped vee @90', trapped vee @65' 40M - Cal-Av 2D-40A @110', 4-square 20M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 4-el @72' 15M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 5-el @50' 10M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50' Tower#1: Cal-AV 2D-40A, 4-el SteppIRs, 160/80 trapped vee 770-MDP: Force-12 EF-420 AB-577 #1: Force-12 EF-515 AB-577 #2: Force-12 C3E Delta loop and trapped vee hung from trees 580' beverage aimed 20-degrees Equipment: Elecraft K3 + Alpha 87A, Ten-Tec Orion + Acom 2000A, Writelog, W5XD+ keyer/switcher, homebrew Windows antenna switching/tuning software ("AntennaMaster"), Hamation Relay Drivers, TopTen and KK1L SO2R switches, Green Heron and Hy-Gain rotor controllers, microHam Stack Switch and StackMax Thought I'd better post this so I can luxuriate in second place before K1ZM pushes me down. Jeff had higher serial numbers than me every time I heard him. So did K1LZ, though I don't know if Krassy was SO or multi this time. Could be other higher SO scores, too -- you never know who is running in what category in this contest. Looks like I just barely edged out NY4A, so that one will comes down to UBNs. Congrats to Dan (NE1AA, aka K1TO) for another fine job, and to Jeff whether he beat Dan or not. I was actually happy to see Dan's score, because he "only" beat me by 600K points instead of the usual 2 million! (CQ said he "crushed" me one year.) This is the highest WPX CW score I've posted from my home station since I've been a serious participant (not quite 10 years.) My improvement had a little to do with conditions, and a lot to do with new antennas. I didn't have the SteppIR stack last year (only the one at 96'), and now have a better 40m beam (see contest preparation below.) Things went so well for me that I thought Dan or Jeff would break K5ZD's record this year. But unless Jeff pulled it off, I guess that's not going to be possible until 15 meters comes back. I came pretty close in 2006 from KT1V, but it's going to take a better op than I am to set a new record. I think the record is destined to fall because there seem to be more and more stations with rare or unique prefixes every year. It won't be long before someone breaks the 1000 mult barrier in SOAB HP. The Contest As Dan said, the opinions on propagation are mixed. NV1N (N1UR) said he thought the conditions were only a little better than last year. Others said they were great. I thought they were somewhat mixed, but mostly much better. I started out with four straight 100+ hours on 40m, so I'd say propagation on that band was quite good (and so was my new antenna.) I was amazed to hear 20m open to Europe after 0500z, a sunrise opening I haven't heard for years. Couldn't quite run EU (maybe nobody there noticed the band was open to the US), but was able to pick off quite a few mults and extra Qs while running 40. I was really blown away when HL2AEJ called me on 20m at 0800z! This was followed by a string of JAs, some Russians, and VK6HD. The best was B7P, worked at 0825z. Wow. It reminded me of 15m opening to EU at 3 AM local during the last sunspot peak. Had to tear myself away from the radio to take my first break, from 0830z-1130z. The rate was pretty low, but I was still picking up Asian mults. In retrospect, I should have operated straight through and taken a break Sunday morning after 20m petered out. Of course, I had no way of knowing that would happen, and thought propagation was going to improve instead of the opposite. Besides, I was feeling quite tired and wanted to be fresh for the morning run on 20. I can't be sure, but I think 20 opened early Saturday morning. Starting at 1120z, I had about 70 Qs in 40 minutes, probably indicating that the band had opened earlier. Yet another reason I should have operated straight through the night. After 1200z, the rate on 20 plunged and was pretty poor until about 1300z, when I finally had a 100+ hour (thanks to some 15m Qs on the second radio.) I jumped over to 15m during the 1400z hour, for my first EU run on 15m in two years. It was only 63 Qs, but I was thrilled to see 15 finally open to someplace besides South. Split the 1500z hour between 15 and 20, then went back to 20 for part of the 1600z hour. Took my second break from 1630z-1830z. When I got back on, the rate was high again, so that break probably should have been 1600z-1700z or even 1500z-1700z. The band really picked up at 1900z, and stayed good through the 2200z hour. I moved down to 40 at about 2230z, and had very decent rate for about six and a half hours. Tried a little running on 80m at the beginning of the 0500z hour, but that's sort of a trap (or a sucker-punch, as NN1N once told me.) There was no 20m sunrise opening the second night, so I packed it in and took break #3 from 0530z-1045z. 20 was pretty active when I got back on, so once again it's possible I should have started a little earlier. It's so tough to tell in WPX. You don't want to start too early and waste potential break time CQing into a dead band. The rate on 20 was steady all morning, but rather low. Not unusual for the second day of WPX, but there were no big hours and the band declined precipitously from 1300z on. 15 didn't open to EU like it did on the first day, so I had to be content with second radio S&P for mults and Qs. Picked up a few more Qs CQing 15 during the 1600z hour, but did mostly S&P My final break was 1700z-1900z. Once again, I probably would have been a little better off taking 1600z-1800z, but might have missed those 15m Qs. The rate was good when I got back on 20 at 1900z, and I suspect it had been good from 1800z on. It stayed good until 2200z, when I took a chance and went down to 40. Good decision -- the band was wide open and I was able to run EU easily. That's pretty early for 40 in the summertime here, but I think either conditions were particularly favorable or my new 40m antenna plays really well (or both.) Wrapped up the contest running 40 and S&Ping 20 on the second radio. I have to say the end of the contest is one of my favorite parts. Seems like everyone gets in a hurry and the new mults start flying. I guess the sprint to the finish is when my competitive juices really get flowing. One thing I love about WPX is that if you have a good first night, the score gets high quite early, and it's really fun to watch it get higher and higher as you pile on new mults and 6-pointers. It took less and less time to push the score up by 100K, 200K and 500K. By the end of the contest, a new mult is worth 10K-15K points. That makes the last 2-3 hours really fun. I fell slightly short of where I thought I would end up, considering my halfway score of 3.5 million. K5ZD says you double the score and add 10% (not sure if that applies to WPX, or only to WW.) I had 3.5 million, so should have ended up at 7.7 million instead of 7.5 million. Pretty close, though. Would have liked to break the 8 million barrier, but it's going to take 15 meters opening to EU for that. All in all, a great contest, and lots of fun. As usual, I had some pretty tough moments the first day, when I felt very tired. Might have been fallout from so much preparation work (see below.) But also as usual, my spirits picked up considerably the second day and I felt great in the home stretch. This has become my pattern, and I've got to find a way to feel as good on the first day as I do on the second. I would imagine for most people it's the other way around. My theory is that most contests are won on the first day, so I think it's best to be in peak form early. As usual, I had a high pts/QSO ratio: 3.28. Got that by pounding EU. That's how I've been able to do pretty well in this contest, despite somewhat lower Qs and mults than others. I always wonder if I'm making a strategic error tying to work EU, EU, EU instead of turning the beams and working USA for prefixes. N1UR (NV1N) and I have a running debate about that. He deliberately runs USA when the EU rate drops on the low bands, while I just keep running those 6-pointers. He's low power, which is probably why he needs to run USA. The EU strategy worked for me in '06 from KT1V, but his big antennas were key, too. I recall never turning the beams off EU and working US off the back of the beams. That's generally what I do from home, too. This year I only turned the beams West a couple of times, and not for long. Never had any USA runs. Maybe one of these years I'll try that. As for operating quality, for some reason this contest produced a little less frustration than past contests. I had fewer dupes, and most people sent fills only once, unless I requested more. Seemed like very few ops unnecessarily repeated my call when giving the exchange. There were the usual terrible fists and chirpy radios, but it seemed like fewer than usual. I didn't have anyone camp on my frequency calling some other station for a scheduled QSO, nor did I get the usual guy who just can't understand what I'm doing and wants to get into a QSO ("WX HR CLOUDY…") Sure, a number of people just plopped down on my frequency without asking QRL?, but fewer than usual. Only had to chase people off a few times. Actually, I had quite a few more ask QRL? than in past contests. Could it be that overall operating quality is improving? Hope so. Contest Preparation A lot of preparation work was necessary this year. Beginning in April, the first task was to build a master patch panel in the basement so I can quickly disconnect every wire entering the house from the towers. Last August we took a big lightning hit that caused $10,000 worth of damage, mostly to my station equipment but also to some stereo stuff. Although I have an extensive ground and lightning suppression system, some delicate semiconductors were connected to the tower at the time, and the suppressors couldn’t save them. Also, they provided a path via RS-232 through the computer (killed) to quite a few other devices. I resolved not to let this happen again, hence the patch panel. I had already relocated both autotune amps and much of my switching equipment to the basement, and had a closet built around it, so it was a pretty simple matter to locate the patch panel there. I also added disconnects for the satellite TV dish, phone lines and even a couple of AC disconnect panels to completely cut off the shack. This project took much longer than I expected, with something like 40 cables and 80 connectors to prepare. It's all done now. The second task was to replace the 40-2CD at 110'. Over the winter, the antenna had developed intermittent high SWR. At first, it could be corrected with a little shot of high power. The high SWR would come back in a few hours, or sometimes even in a few minutes. I was able to "burn off" whatever it was during ARRL DX CW and got through the whole contest, but not long after the problem got worse and worse. It took more and more power to burn through whatever it was, and the time between failures got shorter and shorter. Eventually, full power wouldn't break through and the antenna became unusable. Some speculated that it was a bad relay, bad lightning suppressor, bad feedline, bad connector, bad balun, or possibly a bad tubing joint. My own theory was that some gunk somehow formed inside the driven element insulator between the feedline connection screws. It seemed like cold weather played a part. I had a feeling the gunk would freeze, then melt when I hit it with high power. When winter finally melted away, I verified that the problem had nothing to do with the switches, relays and lightning suppressors. I found that the coax past the DC-blocking capacitors showed about 12 megohms of continuity between the center conductor and shield when it should be an open circuit between the two halves of the driven element. I climbed the tower and verified that the feedline to the rotor loop connection point was good. I clipped off the connector on the rotor loop, but the megohm-level continuity persisted. I cut as much feedline off the rotor loop as I could reach, but still no help. That meant it was a part of the feedline I couldn't reach, or a bad balun, or something wrong with the driven element insulator. It also meant the antenna had to come down. I'm sure I could have fixed the antenna, but given the work involved to take it down and raise it again, I started considering a replacement. The 40-2CD is a venerable antenna, and a heck of a lot better than my 40m 4-square on transmit, but it has some shortcomings. The one I own was #3 off the CushCraft production line (according to the original owner, K1KI), and had not been reinforced. Tom replaced the traps and capacitive hats, and I replaced all the hardware with stainless. After a year or two on my tubular crankup tower, the elements had started to droop quite a bit. so before moving it to the top of the 110' Rohn 55 tower, I replaced the center sections of both elements and inserted smaller tubing inside those sections for reinforcement. This may have proven to be the antenna's downfall. Read on. Anyway, a big windstorm did some damage to the 40-2CD last year: the outer boom sections turned, which made the elements cockeyed and one of the support struts came off the boom. With difficulty, I was able to fix those problems on the tower without taking the antenna down, but wasn't happy about the boom hose clamps failing to hold. In general, I felt the antenna construction wasn't robust enough for our New England weather (others may disagree.) Performance-wise, the 40-2CD is a good antenna, but the F/B is pretty poor. I almost never had to turn it away from Europe, with US stations being easy to work off the back. In many respects, the antenna plays more like a dipole than a yagi. I'm sure some of that has to do with the non-optimal height: previously, I had the 40-2CD at about 70 feet, which produces a cleaner pattern than 110'. At non-optimal heights, the secondary lobe is almost straight up, and tends to mess up the F/B on high-angle signals (just the signals you want to attenuate in a contest.) It's also a noisy antenna. Used to use my Beverage to listen on 40, but a different transformer made it not work on that band. I was thinking about to rewiring my switching system so I could use the 4-square on receive. My contest scores have been respectable on 40, but my numbers were still consistently lower than the top SO stations after I moved the 40-2CD to the new tower. Bottom line, I never felt quite satisfied with the antenna. An interesting alternative to the 40-2CD is a W6NL's Moxon modification to the XM-240. The gain is better, the F/B is comparable to a full-size yagi, and the bandwidth easily covers all of 40m. Unfortunately, the mod is only available for the beefier XM-240; no one has worked out the sizes needed for the 40-2CD yet. Undoubtedly, mine would have required reinforcement prior to modification. With unknown mod requirements and probable reinforcement, I thought it would be tough to get the project done by WPX CW, even if I bought a new XM-240 ($1000) and modified it. Also, I had some concern about being able to tram the odd-shaped elements past the various obstructions on my tower. Finally, the performance figures looked good, but I noted that the F/B varied considerably across the band, dropping as low as 15 dB at the bottom. When I designed the new tower, I contemplated someday putting up a larger 40m antenna. As most of you know, beyond the short-forty class the cost and engineering factors become rather daunting. My favorite 40m antenna has been KT1V's full-size M2 3-el yagi at 140'. That proved to be a winner for me in '06. But it's 26 sq ft and 350 lbs. A 4-el OWA would be a similar choice. My tower can take that kind of load, but I'd probably have to replace the top bracket with a star guy and probably go up a size for the top guys. Heck, with that much work I'd probably opt to extend the tower another 30 feet to put the 40m beam at the more optimal 140' height. There's no way I'd attempt to raise a monster antenna like that by myself, so add a lot of money to have a professional rigger do it. Maybe I'll do it someday, but not unless I can convince myself it's the only way to win. The linear-loaded 3-el and 4-el antennas are another choice, but some have questioned the performance of certain models, and I'm just not comfortable with the potential maintenance issues of linear loading wires in New England (K1TTT has some nice pictures of ice damage that required his 4-el to come down.) To me, the best compromise I've seen between size and performance (of antennas, I mean :-) is the Cal-Av 2D-40A. I helped build one at NT1Y back in 2003, and Bill's 2-stack at 140'/70' helped W4PA dominate the band in his 2003 CQ WW WPX SOAB HP USA win. I was impressed with the design of the antenna, and its beefy construction. It's not a yagi. It's a closely-spaced, dual-driven 2-element array with full-size elements (66 and 70 feet.) The boom is only 16 feet, but the gain is over 2 dB better than a 40-2CD. The F/B is 20 dB or better across the band. It's not the broadest antenna, with 2:1 points of about 150-200 KHz, but that's more than adequate for my needs, operating mostly CW from home. The two hairpin matching sections are adjustable from the tower, and the feedpoint can be reached as well (how many antennas can we say that about?) The construction is excellent: the boom is 3" in diameter and does not require a support. The center tubing of the elements begins at 3" diameter, so the full-size elements don't require supports either. Simple and rugged, perfect for New England. I knew NT1Y had acquired a couple of 40m OWAs, and asked if he'd sell me one of his Cal-Av antennas (one was still in the air, the other on the ground.) Bill and I struck a deal, and W1ECT and I drove up to Bill's farm 40 minutes north of here to get the antenna. We were able to disassemble it much more easily than expected (the elements are riveted), with only one u-bolt being so badly galled we had to break it. They all galled to some extent, so I had to us a tap and die to rehab almost all u-bolts. I used anti-seize on all of them prior to reassembly. Bill didn't have the boom-to-mast plates, probably because he had special mounts made for his rotating Big Bertha tower. Also, the rivets aren't your typical hardware store variety. Long story short, I was able to acquire replacement parts from Cal-Av and got the antenna rebuilt about two weeks before WPX. I had been using a Tailtwister to turn the 40-2CD, but after much thought decided it was asking for trouble to use that rotor with the Cal-Av. I had little doubt the brake wedge would be ground to bits eventually. So, up went an Orion OR2800PX. Fine rotor, especially with the Green Heron controller. Tramming was another story, which I'll probably tell on Tower Talk at some point. The 2D-40A is by far the largest antenna I've handled on the tower. Things went well, thanks to an improved tiller system, but I certainly did my share of worrying. Also spent about 20 hours on the tower. The antenna was up a week before WPX. I don't have to tell serious contesters how stressful and exhausting a major project like that can be just before a contest. I'll need more time with it, but so far the antenna is living up to expectations. Comparing the gain with my 4-square, the 2D-40A appears to be half an S-unit or more louder than the 40-2CD, and the F/B is 20+ dB across the band. It's about as quiet as the 4-square, which is a real pleasure. I'm sure that will help when it snows during WW or ARRL. I need to use it in a few more contests to be sure, but I felt pretty loud on 40m this weekend. Maybe not quite as dominant as I was with KT1V's full-size 3-el, but I never felt the kind of struggle to copy that I did with the 40-2CD. I also worked over 300 Qs more on 40 than last year, which is perhaps some indication of an improved antenna. Oh yeah. What was wrong with the 40-2CD? When I got it on the ground, the continuity between the elements had increased to 77 megohms. I removed the feedline and balun, and verified that they were OK. It had to be something inside the insulator. By the time I got the driven element into the garage, it was over 100 megohms. I managed to pull the tubing out of the insulator and found that there was a wavy thick line of black gunk between the two screws used to attach the feedline. It was only on the very bottom part of the insulator, suggesting that water had seeped into the insulator and pooled between the screws. I think the water may have mixed with aluminum oxide powder, which was evident at the ends of the tubing, or NoAlox, which I had used when slipping in the inner reinforcement tubing. In looking at the tubing, I remembered that I had gotten it gratis from a club member. The ends were cross-cut, and there were numerous holes drilled along the length. That's probably how the water penetrated the insulator. Either that, or it managed to get under the screw heads and washers on the top side of the insulator. BTW, I found a loose hose clamp at one of the DE joints too. I was able to simply pull the tubing out. Guess part of that element would have ended up on the ground eventually. Other station prep included building a K3 Kit a few weeks before WPX (it was a busy month of May.) I have to use it in a few more contests to be sure, but right now I'm thinking the K3 is the best contest radio I've used. The receiver is every bit as good as or better than the Orion, without the annoying glitches and shortcomings. The user interface is a lot more intuitive. Elecraft's support is nothing short of amazing. No question the small package will make this the DXpedition radio of choice, but it may turn out to be "the" radio for domestic contesting as well. Thanks for all the QSOs, and hope to see you again next year. 73, Dick WC1M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC5T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,991,396 Conditions were much better than I expected. It was tempting to play on 10M, but I had to resist the urge. In Texas, the 10M openings were long broad (W4, W8, W9, and W6), but the rate just wasn't there. Congrats to N3BB (as NT5C) who gutted it out running on 40 and racked up lots more 6-pointers to win our local shoot-out. Congrats also to K5NA (as KT2Z) for finding an EU run or two that I missed to pass me on mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 1,146,752 Conditions seemed to be better that they have been lately - even worked a few Europeans on 10 Meters for a change! Couldn't seem to get any sustainable runs going on Sunday. Worked folks with low numbers on 10 Meters, so thanks to them for checking the band and finding some activity. Could tell when I got spotted on packet ... had a brief flurry of activity. Also got spotted late on 20 Meters, and worked several 4 digit stations that I hadn't heard all weekend! Even managed to squeeze in watching the Hockey Game, Indy 500, and the Phoenix landing on Mars! All in all, a pretty decent weekend. Ron, WD4AHZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,341,450 We decided to operate in the Multi-One class due to schedule conflicts related to the holiday weekend. Fortunately, we were able to develop an operator schedule that covered the hours, accommodated the conflicts and kept the run seat filled. We were very pleased to have John, K3TEJ and Dave, N3RD join the team. (This set a new record of four John's operating at WE3C at one time. It made for interesting communications!) 40M was very productive for us most of the contest. Signals were strong and there was good activity. We made a move to run there for the last 1.5 hours that proved to be good. 20M was disappointing both mornings with very slow runs. Based on the postings it looks like a lot of the EU activity had moved to 15M & 10M. Later in the day the rates were better. We were surprised at the early morning Asia openings direct path. Late afternoon JA runs never appeared. 80M was mostly a multiplier band. We had a good run second night. 15M opened to EU Saturday morning and we ran for about 2 hours. Sunday it never opened enough to move there to run. We worked JA both afternoons. 10M it was great to hear and work a little EU. Most of the stations heard were mults we worked on other bands. It was surprising that there was very little North/South activity. 160M never opened enough to consider running there. A few new mults were heard (TA, RN6), but they disappeared before we could call. Multipliers were plentiful, we missed some, but got lucky and found most again before the end. Q's By Points: Six 804 Four 83 Three 1150 Two 72 One 1099 Zero 1 Total 3209 Congratulations to our team for the outstanding results with our first ever M/S entry! Thank you to the sponsors, all the callers and the great competition. The WE3C Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 96,579 Always a great contest. I only got in a little over 6 hours but I had a ball. It's nice to be in the WPX contest when you are the only "WF4" station. I had at least one run of over 90 Q's per hour and an average around 60 per hour for the entire time I operated . I'll try to do more next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI4R Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 2,377,648 First, a big thanks to Rick, NQ4I, for allowing me to use his fantastic station! What a great station! This was my second contest with the my new K3, starting to get a handle on it and really liking it. Station used: Rig: Elecraft K3 Amp: Henry 3K Antennas: 3 over 3 (fullsize) at 155'/85' Conditions were ok, some heavy QRN the first night but that settled as the weekend progressed. Some excellent signals from Europe in the middle of the day (localtime) and some great greyline QSOs, too! Thanks to everyone for their QSOs, see you in the next one... Jeff (N6GQ), WI4R op @ NQ4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,078,738 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WN2O Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,989,883 Equipment: IC756PROIII, AL-1200 Antenna: Fan dipole 40/20/10 @35' Yes, thats right just a single fan dipole. More on that later. First though, I would like to thank Helmut DF7VS an Paul N4PN for donating the new plaques for the "TS" category. It is a lot of fun being able to compete with stations using similar setups. This year (so far from looking at 3830)it looks like the UBN's will determine the final standings. Congrats to WT4PF (N4PN), KZ5D, and N1WR for great scores. As some of you know, I use all wire antenna's supported by trees. Besides the 40/20/10 meter fan dipole, I used to have a fan dipole for 80/15 @40' and a 2el sloping wire yagi for 20/15/10 with the top at about 35'. A few weeks ago I had to take down the tree that supported the yagi and one end of the 80/15 dipole. I had intended to put the 80/15 back up in a different tree until it accidently came in contact with the chainsaw. Argh! It has to be rebuilt and I could not get it done in time for the contest. Leading up to the contest I had planned on just going single band 40 with the one antenna I had left. That is until I turned the radio on a half hour before the contest and heard how quiet the low bands were and how strong the signals from EU were on 80/40/20. The contest adrenaline started pumping. I knew I could load the 40/20/10 easily on 15 with the Xmatch, but could I get it to load on 80 and would anyone hear me? A quick check and I could get it to load. I only used about 800W on that band just to be safe. All band fun here I come! As K5ZD says, "There's no meters like ten meters" Well in WPX CW when the band is quiet and there is no thunderstorms for miles, "There's no meters like forty meters" Being able to hear and work the weak ones that are usually covered up with static crashes on 40 really paid off. I even worked about 20 EU/AF on 80 with that non-resonant antenna. I could have worked many more if I had the full size dipole up as the band was in terrific shape for this time of year. All in all this contest turned out to be a lot of fun. Even had time to take my son to his little league baseball game Saturday morning. Thanks for all the QSO's. CU in the RSGB IOTA TEST from NA-026 hopefully with some new antenna's. 73, Mike, N2GC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,233,728 Forfeited at least six hours of contacts by playing several tennis matches during this event. Haven't figured out how to enjoy both activities simultaneously. :-) Happy to have Memorial Day to rest and recouperate. 73 RiC wo4o ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WP3C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,117,230 Hi everybody I have fun in the contest but 10M and 15M were terrible bands and i had problems with the software but i enjoy it. 73' http://www.wp3c.qth.com Att Alfredo Velez WP3C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR3Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Total Score = 4,121,110 Thanks again to Brian N3OC for use of his station. I mistakenly took WPX Phone approach (and March propagation) and spent a bit too much time on 80M instead of 40M. 20M was my money band for sure. Felt good working the few JAs that I did, as well as DX and XW. Operating SO this time I decided to not overdo it so I put in 1 hour less than the max 36 hours for SO. Congrats to all the fine scores. Nice to hear all the new prefixes out there this time, such as E77 and the EEx stations). 73 till WPX next year, Barry WR3Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WR7HE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,201,682 Left coast is just tough. Lots of stuff on 15 that I couldn't work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WT4PF Class: SOAB(TS) HP Total Score = 2,975,745 Another one in the book...this is a great contest even with a small station. Only worked three stns on all six bands - NR4M, NX5M, and KD4D... Lots of noise on 160 and 80. 40m was about what I expected with a dipole. 20 was also about what I expected but 10 and 15 meters were both nice surprises.. Score up over last year by 300,000 points - more Q's and prefixs. Bad planning for off time and ended up with a half hour, so had to quit with an hour to go on Sunday evening. Goal was 3M, but fell a little short. Thanks to Dave, KB4ET for the use of the club call... 73, Paul, N4PN FT1000MP/AL1200 TH-5 @ 70' Alpha-Delta 40/80 Inverted vee - 160m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WU3A Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 671,813 I was quite tired after transatlantic flight, so I wanted to skip the contest altogether. However, in about an hour from the beginning I discovered some scattered propagation on 15 -- and decided to spend a few minutes. Then next morning, with jet lag, I awake quite early, and once again switched on the radio just for the fun of it... Ended up pondering brass (a.k.a. computer keyboard).... for 20 more hours during the weekend. In and out, many calls to family and friends (I spent on skype almost as much time as on the air). Now I know what does English term "went south" mean -- it's all about propagation. Even these miserable patches of ionized air decided not to support YCCC -- so I heard our friends from GA, FL and TX working stations I could not hear... Anyway, it's bottom of the cycle -- but New England bottom is lower than other's, hi-hi. In any case, a few points for YCCC, and 725 multipliers for my friends all over the globe (as far as I know, there were no other WU3 in the contest). Gene W3UA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW2DX Class: SO(A)AB LP Total Score = 375,648 Had fun running around the bands. Nice to see some early AM openings on 20 into JA/VK. K3 performed as expected ;) 73! de Lee WW2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW5X Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,223,656 Tribander and wires! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,944,120 The WPX CW is a unique contest, propagation wise. Since the SSB version is in March, it is the only major contest that occurs during the annual peak in nightpath MUF's. At the peak of the solar cycle it is the only contest where we can enjoy 24 hour propagation on 15 – running, for example, EU and JA simultaneously. At sunspot minimum, it is the only time that 20 stays open well after sunset – open over the pole. As I especially love polar runs, I typically start this contest with a big run on 20. Something else we can count on at this time of year is a high noise level on 40 (Oops!). Actually, the noise level was high. But it was mostly within the shack, which is cooled by a very loud window unit. This didn't bother me at first, as my pileup was also loud. In the initial hours, most callers are stateside 1 pointer's, and I try to get them in the log as quickly as I can in order to get to the layer of DX callers that lies beneath. I noticed an all time personal high rate spike (per 10 QSO's) of 271/hr, but this was bittersweet because my previous high of 255 was during a CQWW on weak EU's. When I finally worked the pileup down to the weak DX callers, I couldn't copy them well. I got up and turned off the A/C, and also the loud box fan to my rear, leaving only the amplifier blower noise. I also wrapped a bandana around my forehead to keep the sweat out of my eyes. This is the way I did the rest of the contest. It felt like Field Day. Now the bands were quiet, like a winter's night. 40 sounded like 20, and (unlike a winter's contest) was wide open to Europe. As I have been dogged by thunderstorm activity in every contest over the past year, this was welcome. I finally started running on 40 at 0449z, and as “fresh meat” the rate didn't drop below 80 until 0700z where I took a 2 hour break before the JA run. As I expected the high bands to open slowly, I kept running on 40 until 1325z. I should have done that both mornings. 20 and 15 had good rate during the day, with gradually improving DX signals. 10 was open both days, but I only went to it as a run band when I couldn't find rate elsewhere. 15 was mostly 1 pointer's also. I returned from an afternoon break to find 20 wide open, for what turned out to be the only really good opening to EU – and it was brief. The bands were noisier the 2nd night, so I again stayed on 20 late – copying numbers from JA's through the static crashes. On Sunday, I had lots of off time to take. The remaining op time was allocated during the expected DX peaks, which weren't as good as the day before. Sunday was a disappointment. There were glitches (excuses) – one that has been biting me for several contests, which I used to think was a software bug. The callsign and QSO information on Radio-A disappears while I am in QSO, often requiring that I ask the station for repeats of everything after I have sent his call correctly. Sometimes they are gone, and always they are confused. This happens about 4-6 times per hour, but about 5 times during the contest the transceiver frequency additionally jumped over 100 Khz and the amp tripped out. The software even logged one QSO to a frequency in the Citizens Band. Bug? No: Maybe some RFI is getting into the CI/V doodad for the Icom and its frequency is being misread or set. It is normal for the software to clear the QSO info when the frequency changes. This is the current theory. Also, Radio-B is throwing out a lot of phase noise, which gets into Radio-A when the latter on the higher band. As there are rumors we may change radios again, these problems could all go away soon. My hat's off to the local competition. N3BB was right in watching points/hr in his software. I once had this, and more, in the homebrew software I used from 1981 thru '93. Originally written for CP/M, it displayed a screen full of statistics, needed mults, and little else. There was a prompt line along the bottom for the entry of QSO info in any order into a single field, which was parsed nearly identically to the method used for the SS exchange in TR years later. For statistics I tracked the time spent on each band, and was therefore able to compute points/hr and mults/hr on each band for a formula that displayed, in real time, the relative score value of each band's activity as a number above or below 1.00. Mults/hr were assumed to taper off exponentially. This display told me what bands to give priority to in any particular context, and I still miss it. To this day, I still believe I was the first to log, dupe, breakdown calls into country and continent; determine QSO points, and compute score and rate – all in real time at competitive rates (ARRL CW 1981). The data entry was very smooth. My software did NOT do SO2R, multi-op, packet or even send CW. During those years, all my sending was with the Brown Bros. paddle – no memory, not even for CQ's. Roy -- AD5Q As always, the opportunity to use the WX0B station is very appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX5S Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,922,695 After missing more than half of the first 14 hours including prime time on 40 to JA this ended up being more of a fun than serious contest for us. The station was manned by a single operator for about 20 of the 41 hours we were on the air. 10 meters seemed to be open to the US and Canada for much of the daytime both days but tuning across the band I'd only hear the same 6 or 7 stations CQing. Only 2 Caribbean stations were worked on 10 - P43JB and J39BS had nice signals in the 1900 and 2000Z hours on Saturday. A few times I heard stations answering someone else on my CQ frequency on 10 so I'd move a bit. I had N9AUG and N9AG call at the same time and struggled to copy N9AUG's number while N9AG kept sending a call correction. We only worked 1 EU on 15, EE2W. JA runs on 15 were not great, but the band was open late and we worked several JAs, YB and VK6 after midnight local. We could never get much of a run going to EU on 20 at any time. We could either CQ and work mostly 1 point Q's or S&P at a slower rate and work 3-pointers. JA runs peaked at much higher rates. There were several loud EU stations on 20 that we never were able to work - either they had a pileup of other EUs or they just kept CQing when we called. 40 was good to JA on the second night, probably since we missed most of the opening the first night. We worked a small number of EU stations on 40 the second evening. All of our 80 meter contacts were on the second day. We didn't even try 160. Congrats to all on their high scores. It was nice that band conditions were much better than the propagation predictions. 73, -Mike, N7MH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX9U Class: SOSB40 HP Total Score = 592,326 Rig: TS-2000 + borrowed FL-2100 - 500w Ants: dipole @ 35', inv vee @ 90', 1/2 sloper Plagued by high QRN all weekend....sorry for all the missed calls! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XW1A Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 1,469,424 80% raining time in Laos ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB0DPO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 382,016 a long "CQ TEST" call always no taker,so mostly use the S&P technique,I knew sunday is a good time ,due family commitment,so only participated until sunday morning,bands condition is not bad, 10meter is open to JA one hour the contest just begun,,at 05zulu open to BA and KH6, 80m had loud signal from BTØOJ ,DR1A,SN3A,UA9UZZ, 20m is better then 15m,Glad to heard on 40m,not SSB QRM during sunset to late night, anyway realy enjoy and fun to heard and worked DX on the contest ,running lest then 100watts into logperiodic and a dipole antenna,a GHD telegraph key & the N1MM logger software.73's Dudy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,871,680 73 & TNX to all for QSOs, will meet in IARU HF! Gunar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YQ5Q Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Total Score = 973,617 TS-870S rig and Viking700 antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YR5O Class: SOSB80 LP Total Score = 523,800 Nice Contest! Same time big QRN!!!!!! Thanks all callers; Great DX QSO as well on 80m! See You next Year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT0Z Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 1,418,562 73`s Milan YU1ZZ - YT0Z (ex YZ0Z) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT1TA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 309,673 Rig : IC-746 Antennas : FD4 Soapbox : 100W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT1V Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Total Score = 78,440 IC-745 + Dipole I borrowed laptop for this contest but it broked down on saturday so I ended contest very early :( Still, very enjoyable time ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,154,864 HI , Nice Contest . VY good propagation on high bands. Thanks to : Goran YT7AW , Boza YT6TT , Vlada YT1BX , Miro YU2A , YL Julia YU8YL , Deki YT2EA , Nenad YT3AAW , Braca YU2EA . Congatulation for OL3Z score . 73 and all the best from Serbia . Marko Zivkovic YT2T ex.4N1JA . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT6T Class: SOSB160 HP Total Score = 254,925 drake tr7 +l7 1/4 wl gp + 5 beverage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT8A Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 3,172,848 First of all I'd like to thank you to RADE-YU1KK for giving me his location and the hospitality. Put almost the same score like last year, but this time there were not QRN. Station equipment: Kenwood TS-870s+ TL-922 abt 800w, 4-el.Quad up 30m. Thanks to all who gave me the point and see you in the next contest. 73 Dusan Ceha-Dule YU1EA & YT8A Fox Contest club Serbia Beograd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU7BH Class: SOSB40(R) HP Total Score = 1,300,000 Due the lack of time I can operate only 14 hours. My new 4 sq verticals with Comtek ACB4 make a great job for me. Sorry for few Us's which I did not understand their call sign's , but time to time in Europe qrm was very bad. I did more than 200 usa and 50 Ja's. Equipment: ft2000, wonderful OMpower amplifier, 4 sq vertical's, n1mm loger. Thank you my son Stefan (age 15) who made 3G EDGE Internet in the field cation, and I have cluster. Also, thank's vk1aa, my brother for moral support. Qsl for all qso's are sure via buro. It was great fun again. Branislav Hacko, yu7bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU8A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,908,836 Milan,YU8A (ex YU1NW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB20 LP Total Score = 582,657 THANKS TO ALL WHO CONTACTED MY STATION, A GREAT AND FUNNY EXPERIENCE. MY SETUP: ICOM 746 PRO, 100 WATTS, 3 ELEMENTS YAGUI TRIBAND ANTENNA. SEE YOU IN THE NEXT... YV1FM FRANCO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YW4D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,397,627 Ugly prop and 6 hours of rain saturday morning but fun anyway. I'm gratefully with the Venezuelan DX Club (YV5AMH) for the contest site & the "black donkey" (Alpha amp) and YV5JBI for keeping me alive with food and drinks (out of being my alarm clock). Thanks to all who called and many times had patience until QSO was complete due local QRN !!. QSL ok via LOTW, EA7JX or Bureau Paul YV1DIG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YW7A Class: SOAB(TS) LP Total Score = 93,480 RIG: ICOM 735 ANT: G5RV MONSTER LOOGER: SD 14.02 Propagation in 160 very Bad, two QSO after the long wait Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The band of 80 a little better. In 40 well. Thanks to all the friends that I contacted Vic ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB20 HP Total Score = 4,562,290 SO1R Antenna:- C/Craft A3S @ 50Ft Rig:- Icom-756 Pro3 Amp:- Acom-1000 Soft:- CT V10.03 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's. I started off with the intention of cracking 3K Q's 800+ Prefixes and 7M + points. I failed in all three, ah well better luck next year ! Condx were pretty poor thruout the daylight hours, but improved as evening came. I knew they were bad when K1LZ,WE3C and UT7L jumped on my run freq and proceeded to wipe me out, so I guess that they couldn't hear me and I had only been on the freq for 10 hours. My best hour was 105 with only one other hour over 100. In last years CQWW CW I had 13 hours with over 100 + Q's on the same band. Gripes. Some deliberate QRM on and off thruout the contest. The guys who keep on sending imi imi just after you have put out a CQ call and are trying to listen to a respondent. Dupes, I had 63 this year, logged them all of course. NEVER EVER SEND QSO B4 !!! All in all an enjoyable contest as usual and I am looking forward to the next one. 73 Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZF2AM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,750,176 Just about the worst condx ever from ZF. 10 was non-existant and 15 just peeked open for a short time into EU. Staeside was hit and miss. I only heard half the QSO in most cases as I tuned around. 40 had plenty of action and wall to wall loud signals from EU. The station worked very well with virtually no problems during the contest. The new 80 M yagi played nicely into EU considering the time of year. Had plenty of Q's, but so many of them only worth 2/4 points. It's discouraging to say the least. As always, thanks to Andrew for the hospitality and to all of you for the wierd prefixes (WPX). CU all from PJ4E in October and back here in November. Send your cards to K6AM at QRZ.com or the W6 Buro or use LOTW. 73 John, ZF2AM/K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZL2IFB Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Total Score = 615,000 Casual 40m single band entry this year as I'm about to move home (hopefully) so most antennas are packed away or in disrepair. Looking forward to contesting from a new and much better (read 'not deep in a valley') ZL QTH soon. Well done to all those who heard me in this weekend, especially those patient souls who took many many repeats from me :-) Rasperries to those who didn't especially those of you with S9+ sigs who I spotted on the cluster (if I spotted you but didn't work you, you missed a QSO and perhaps a mult. I only spotted AFTER I'd either worked someone successfully or called several times then gave up). The EU QRM on 40m evidently makes it extremely difficult for legal-limit ZLs to be heard in EU. Whatever happened to the idea of a DX window? I 'upgraded' to N1MM v8 during the contest, perhaps not the most sensible idea. Thereafter, I could no longer swap VFOs using ctrl-arrow but the rest evidently worked as before. I was hoping to have a go at the real-time online score update function but if it's there, I still haven't found it. Ho hum. QSLs 100% via LoTW and buro/direct with pleasure, on demand. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS0HQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,625,364 ZS0HQ is the contest call of the South African Radio League. I thought I would use it to add another mult to the pot. This is a tough contest from southern Africa: trans-equatorial propagation is poor in our winter, there are very few African stations to work (I heard ten), and the WPX format takes away the advantage of being a less common country. Mostly S&P with a few short runs. I really enjoyed using the getscores.org live scoreboard for the first time, despite some teething problems. I worked Europe, Asia and North and South America. I think Australia must have sunk: I didn't hear a single VK or ZL despite turning my beam in that direction from time to time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB15 HP Total Score = 3,264,822 Was hoping for better prop but you take what you get. Please excuse the amount of repeats I asked for as the pain med I was taking for my back(motorcycle=1; carl=0)probably kept me a level shy of clear-minded. Thanks to all for the Qs and cu next test! Thanks to Sergio for another GREAT VISIT. 73 Carl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZY7C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 12,044,240 On the first night we faced the worst conditions from out station. Dispate slow log buildup on the low bands, after sunrise, 20m and 15m rewarded us with great conditions. So the waves found our antennas and all got back to (almost) normal. We failed to hit our primary target (15 millions), but given the conditions on the first 10 hours, we end up with little over 12 millions. Thank you all for all QSOs. Best 73 ZY7C Team (PT7AA, PT7CG, PT7WA, PT7ZAA, PY7XC, PY7ZY, PY8AZT) Index of Calls Call: 2E0CVN Class: SOAB LP Call: 3V8SS Class: SOSB80 LP Call: 4L0A Class: SOAB HP Call: 4M1T Class: SOSB40 HP Call: 4O3A Class: SOAB HP Call: 4O4A Class: SOSB80 LP Call: 4U1ITU Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 4X6UU Class: SOSB10 LP Call: 6Y1V Class: M/2 HP Call: 7J1AAI Class: SOSB40 HP Call: 7S7V Class: SOSB40 LP Call: 7X0RY Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 9A/VE3ZIK Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 9A1CMA Class: SOSB40 HP Call: 9A1UN Class: SOAB HP Call: 9A4W Class: SOSB10 HP Call: 9A50KDE Class: M/S HP Call: 9A5W Class: SOAB HP Call: 9A60A Class: M/2 HP Call: 9A6A Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: A73A Class: M/S HP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB HP Call: AA4FU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA4LR Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA9D Class: SOAB LP Call: AB1HZ Class: SOAB HP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Call: AB7E Class: SOAB HP Call: AB9H Class: SOSB40 HP Call: AC0W Class: SOAB LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: AD5VJ Class: SOAB LP Call: AE6RF Class: SOAB HP Call: AF6T Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: AI2N Class: SOAB LP Call: AK1W Class: SOAB HP Call: AK6M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AL1G Class: SOAB HP Call: B4TB Class: M/S HP Call: CT1ENQ Class: SOAB LP Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOSB20 HP Call: CT9M Class: M/S HP Call: CW5W Class: SOAB HP Call: CX7TT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB HP Call: D4C Class: SOAB HP Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB10 QRP Call: DJ1OJ Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: DJ2RG Class: SOAB HP Call: DJ5QV Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ7LH Class: M/S HP Call: DK3GI Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Call: DL1CW Class: SOSB40 LP Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB HP Call: DL3EBX Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: DL4SDW Class: SOAB LP Call: DL6KVA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: DL7BY Class: SOSB10 LP Call: DL8MBS Class: SOAB QRP Call: DO4DXA Class: SOSB10 LP Call: DO9ST Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Call: DQ5A Class: SOAB HP Call: DQ6E Class: SOAB LP Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Call: DR5L Class: M/S HP Call: DS5KJR Class: SOAB LP Call: E21YDP Class: SOSB15 LP Call: E73MMM Class: M/S HP Call: E77AA Class: SOSB10 HP Call: E77DX Class: M/2 HP Call: EA3FP Class: M/2 HP Call: EA7RM Class: SOAB LP Call: EA7TN Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: EE2W Class: M/S HP Call: EE5BM Class: SOSB40(R) HP Call: EF8M Class: M/S HP Call: EM9F Class: SOSB10 HP Call: ES1GF Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Call: ES1LBK/2 Class: SOAB LP Call: ES4MM Class: SOSB10 LP Call: ES9C Class: M/2 HP Call: F5IN Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SO(A)AB QRP Call: F6BEE Class: SOAB HP Call: F9IE Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: G3RSD Class: SOAB LP Call: G3TXF Class: SOAB HP Call: G3WW Class: SOSB10 LP Call: G4IIY Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB HP Call: G5W Class: SOAB HP Call: G6PZ Class: M/2 HP Call: H7/K9GY Class: SOAB LP Call: HA3OV Class: SOAB HP Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB160 LP Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Call: HC8N Class: SOAB HP Call: HG6EU Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: HG6V Class: SOSB80 LP Call: HG7T Class: SOAB HP Call: HG8K Class: SOSB40 HP Call: HG8R Class: SOAB HP Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Call: HP1WW Class: SOAB HP Call: II1H Class: M/S HP Call: IO3J Class: SOSB40 HP Call: IR2C Class: M/S HP Call: IR4X Class: SOAB HP Call: IU3X Class: SOSB15 HP Call: IU9S Class: SOSB10 HP Call: IW0GXY Class: SOSB15 LP Call: J39BS Class: SOAB LP Call: JA1YPA Class: M/M HP Call: JF1SQC Class: SOSB20 HP Call: K0AD Class: SOAB LP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0HW Class: SOAB LP Call: K0IO Class: SOSB20 LP Call: K0KX Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K0PK Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: K0RC Class: SOAB HP Call: K0RF Class: SOSB40 HP Call: K0RI Class: SOAB HP Call: K0WHV Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: K1GU Class: SOAB HP Call: K1HT Class: SOAB LP Call: K1TN Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: K2PLF Class: SOAB HP Call: K2PS Class: SOAB HP Call: K2QMF Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K2SX Class: SOAB HP Call: K2WK Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K3IU Class: SOAB LP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB HP Call: K3WW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K4CZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K4FTO Class: SOAB LP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB HP Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4XD Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: K5AF Class: SOAB LP Call: K5KA Class: SOAB HP Call: K5UV Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Call: K6GEP Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: K6LRN Class: SOAB HP Call: K6NA Class: SOSB40 HP Call: K6RIM Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6RM Class: SOAB LP Call: K6TA Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB HP Call: K7EG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K7WP Class: SOAB LP Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Call: K8IA Class: SOSB20 HP Call: K8MR Class: SOAB(TS)(R) HP Call: K9CC Class: SOAB HP Call: K9CT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: K9MUG Class: SOAB HP Call: K9NW Class: SOAB LP Call: K9YC Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KA1ARB Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KA3DRR Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KA6NGR Class: SOAB LP Call: KA6SGT Class: SOAB QRP Call: KB7Q Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KC7V Class: SOAB LP Call: KD2HE Class: M/S HP Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB QRP Call: KD4D Class: M/2 HP Call: KD4HXT Class: SOAB LP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Call: KE3D Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: KE4KY Class: SOAB LP Call: KF6T Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: KG0Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB HP Call: KG5U Class: SOAB QRP Call: KG6DX Class: SOSB80 HP Call: KH6MB Class: SOAB LP Call: KH7B Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KJ4IC Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KJ9A Class: SOSB20 LP Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: KM4M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KM9M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Call: KN4Y/M Class: SOSB40 LP Call: KO0U Class: SOAB HP Call: KO1H Class: SOAB QRP Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KQ7W Class: M/2 HP Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Call: KR4F Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: KR7O Class: SOAB HP Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Call: KS1Y Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: KS8O Class: SOAB LP Call: KT2Z Class: SOAB HP Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Call: KT5E Class: SOSB40 QRP Call: KU1CW Class: SOAB HP Call: KU8E Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: KV7DX Class: SOSB20 HP Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Call: KY0W Class: SOAB HP Call: KZ5D Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: LA2AB Class: SOSB40 HP Call: LA3S Class: SOAB LP Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Call: LN5O Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: LN9Z Class: SOSB160 HP Call: LO2F Class: SOAB HP Call: LR4E Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: LX7I Class: M/M HP Call: LY2GW Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB160 HP Call: LY4U Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: LY600W Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: LY7Z Class: SOAB HP Call: LY8O Class: SOSB20 HP Call: LZ08KM Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: LZ1FH Class: SOSB20 LP Call: LZ5A Class: M/S HP Call: LZ8A Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: LZ9W Class: M/M HP Call: M0ITY Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: M0ITY Class: SOAB HP Call: M0ITY Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: MD0CCE Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: MJ0LON Class: SOAB HP Call: N1LN Class: SOAB HP Call: N1MGO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N1WR Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: N2CU Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2NS Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N2RJ Class: SOAB HP Call: N2WN Class: SOAB LP Call: N3BM Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: N3UA Class: SOSB160 HP Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Call: N4KG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N4LF Class: SOAB LP Call: N4NM Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N4UC Class: SOAB LP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: N5DO Class: SOAB LP Call: N5RM Class: M/S HP Call: N5UM Class: SOAB HP Call: N6NF Class: SOAB LP Call: N6QQ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7BF Class: SOAB HP Call: N7CW Class: SOAB HP Call: N7IR Class: SOAB QRP Call: N7MAL Class: SOSB40 LP Call: N7NT Class: SOAB LP Call: N7RK Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: N7WA Class: SOSB20 LP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB HP Call: N9FC Class: SOAB HP Call: N9XX Class: SOAB LP Call: NA0CW Class: SOAB QRP Call: NA4BW Class: SOAB QRP Call: NA4K Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: ND2T Class: M/S HP Call: NE1QP/4 Class: SOSB20 HP Call: NE1RD Class: SOAB QRP Call: NE4AA Class: SOAB HP Call: NE7D Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: NF4A Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Call: NH6V Class: M/2 HP Call: NJ4I Class: SOAB HP Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB15 HP Call: NK5Q Class: M/S HP Call: NK6A Class: SOAB LP Call: NM2L Class: SOAB LP Call: NM7D Class: M/S HP Call: NN2NN Class: SOAB LP Call: NN3W Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: NN4FL Class: SOAB LP Call: NN4GG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NN4N Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: NN5J Class: SOAB HP Call: NN5P Class: SOSB10 HP Call: NN7ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: NO2R Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NQ3X Class: SOAB LP Call: NQ4I Class: SOSB20 HP Call: NQ5D Class: SOAB HP Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Call: NR7DX Class: SOAB HP Call: NS1S Class: SOSB40 HP Call: NS3T Class: SOSB40 LP Call: NT5C Class: SOAB HP Call: NV1N Class: SOAB LP Call: NX5M Class: M/2 HP Call: NX6T Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: NY3A Class: SOAB HP Call: NY4A Class: SOAB HP Call: NY6N Class: SOAB HP Call: OE2008S Class: SOSB20 HP Call: OG5B Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: OG6A Class: SOSB40 HP Call: OG7X Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: OH0J Class: SOSB10 HP Call: OH6AC Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: OH6M Class: M/S HP Call: OH6MW Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: OH8GZN Class: SOAB LP Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: OK1JOC Class: SOAB LP Call: OK1UG Class: SOSB40 LP Call: OK3R Class: SOSB80 HP Call: OK4RQ Class: SOAB HP Call: OK5R Class: SOSB40 HP Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Call: OK7CM Class: SOAB QRP Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP Call: OL4W Class: SOSB80 HP Call: OL7C Class: M/S HP Call: OL7R Class: M/2 HP Call: OM0M Class: M/M HP Call: OM2VL Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Call: OM3BH Class: SOAB HP Call: OM4EA Class: SOSB20 LP Call: OM7CW Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: OM7M Class: M/S HP Call: OM8AG Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: OO9O Class: SOAB LP Call: OP1A Class: SOAB LP Call: OP4A Class: SOAB QRP Call: OP4K Class: SOSB20 HP Call: OQ5M Class: SOSB10 HP Call: OR2A Class: SOSB10 LP Call: OV3X Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: OZ5WQ Class: SOAB LP Call: OZ7BQ Class: SOAB QRP Call: P33W Class: M/S HP Call: P40L Class: M/2 HP Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Call: PA6Z Class: M/M HP Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Call: PJ2T Class: SOAB HP Call: PP5BZ Class: SOSB40 LP Call: PP5EG Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: PR2F Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: PS2T Class: SOAB HP Call: PT1T Class: SOSB20 HP Call: PT4C Class: SOSB15 LP Call: PU5ATX Class: SOSB40 LP Call: PW2D Class: SOAB HP Call: PY1DX Class: SOAB HP Call: PY1KS Class: SOSB20 LP Call: PY2IQ Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB LP Call: R2MWO Class: SOSB20 HP Call: RA3CM Class: SOAB HP Call: RD4WA Class: SOAB HP Call: RK3DZB Class: M/S HP Call: RL3A Class: SOAB HP Call: RS3A Class: SOAB HP Call: RU3VD Class: SOSB20 LP Call: RW2F Class: SOSB10 HP Call: S50A Class: SOAB HP Call: S50B Class: SOSB20 LP Call: S50DX Class: SOSB10 LP Call: S50K Class: SOSB20 HP Call: S51F Class: SOAB LP Call: S51FB Class: SOSB15 HP Call: S52OP Class: SOAB HP Call: S52ZW Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: S53F Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: S53MM Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: S53O Class: SOSB80 HP Call: S54A Class: SOSB40 LP Call: S54O Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: S56A Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: S56M Class: SOSB40 HP Call: S57AL Class: SOSB20 HP Call: S57DX Class: SOSB20 HP Call: S57S Class: SOSB10 HP Call: S57U Class: SOSB20 LP Call: S58P Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: S59KW Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: SE5E Class: SOAB HP Call: SM3C Class: SOAB LP Call: SM6CNN Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: SM6EQO Class: SOAB QRP Call: SM7ATL Class: SOSB10 LP Call: SM7BJW Class: SOAB LP Call: SN30J Class: SOSB160 LP Call: SN3A Class: SOSB80 HP Call: SN3C Class: SOSB20 LP Call: SN3X Class: SOSB20 HP Call: SN7Q Class: SOSB160 HP Call: SN8R Class: SOSB15 HP Call: SN9Z Class: SOSB10 HP Call: SO9Q Class: M/S HP Call: SP1NY Class: SOSB80 HP Call: SP2LNW Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: SP3GTS Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: SP4Z Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: SP5EOT Class: SOAB HP Call: SP6A Class: SOSB160 HP Call: SP6OJE Class: SOSB40 LP Call: SP8AJK Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: SP8IMG Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: SQ3RX Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: SQ4MP Class: SOAB HP Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB20 LP Call: SY3M Class: M/S HP Call: TA2RC Class: SOSB160 LP Call: TF3CW Class: SOSB20 HP Call: TM0R Class: M/S HP Call: TM5W Class: M/S HP Call: TM5Y Class: SOSB80 HP Call: UN4L Class: SOSB80 HP Call: UN6LN Class: SOSB10 LP Call: UP0L Class: SOAB HP Call: UP4L Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: UR3IQO Class: SOAB HP Call: UT1IA Class: SOSB10 HP Call: UU7J Class: SOAB HP Call: UW1M Class: SOSB10 HP Call: UY5ZZ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: UY7C Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: UZ2M Class: M/S HP Call: UZ5UA Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Call: VA2WDQ Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3RJ Class: SOSB15 LP Call: VA7KOJ Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7RN Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Call: VC2M Class: SOAB HP Call: VE1DT Class: SOAB HP Call: VE1NB Class: SOAB LP Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2FU Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VE3CR Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: VE3CX Class: SOSB40 HP Call: VE3DZ/VP9 Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE3EJ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3FH Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3FJ Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VE3JM Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3KF Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB160 LP Call: VE3NE Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: VE3OBU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3OSZ Class: SOSB160 LP Call: VE3UTT Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: VE3WDM Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOSB20 LP Call: VE3XD Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: VE6CNU Class: SOAB LP Call: VE7FE Class: SOAB HP Call: VE7GL Class: M/S HP Call: VE7KS Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Call: VE7UF Class: M/M HP Call: VE7XF Class: SOAB HP Call: VK6DXI Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1HE Class: SOAB HP Call: VO1MP Class: SOSB40 HP Call: VP5E Class: SOAB QRP Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB HP Call: VY2TT Class: SOAB HP Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Call: W0UA Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: W1BYH Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: W1CU Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Call: W1TO Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: W2CDO Class: SOAB HP Call: W2IRT Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: W2JU Class: SOAB LP Call: W2TB Class: SOAB HP Call: W2WG Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W3CP Class: SOAB LP Call: W3KL Class: SOAB LP Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP Call: W3YY Class: SOSB40 HP Call: W4EE Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Call: W4KZ Class: SOSB15 HP Call: W4NBS Class: SOAB LP Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: W4NZ Class: SOAB HP Call: W4PM Class: SOAB LP Call: W4XO Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W4ZE Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W5CT Class: SOAB LP Call: W5GAI Class: SOAB LP Call: W5GZ Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: W5VX Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W5WMU Class: SOAB HP Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOSB40 LP Call: W6JYT/7 Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W6KY Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W6NF Class: SOAB LP Call: W6OAT Class: SOAB HP Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Call: W6TK Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: W7DRA Class: SOSB160 HP Call: W7OM Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W7QN Class: SOAB LP Call: W7RN Class: M/2 HP Call: W7VJ Class: M/S HP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB LP Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W7ZR Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: W8AV Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W8CAM Class: SOAB HP Call: W8MJ Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: W9RE Class: SOAB HP Call: W9WI Class: SOSB20 HP Call: WA1FCN Class: SOSB20 LP Call: WA2MCR Class: SOAB LP Call: WA3KYY Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: WA4PXP Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WA4UAZ Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: WA6BOB Class: SOAB LP Call: WA6L Class: SOAB LP Call: WA6O Class: SOAB HP Call: WA7NWL Class: SOSB20 LP Call: WA8REI Class: SOAB QRP Call: WB8JUI Class: SOAB LP Call: WC1M Class: SOAB HP Call: WC5T Class: SOAB HP Call: WC6H Class: SOSB20 HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: WE3C Class: M/S HP Call: WF4W Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WG4M Class: SOAB LP Call: WH2D Class: SOAB LP Call: WI4R Class: SOSB40 HP Call: WJ9B Class: SOAB LP Call: WM3T Class: SOAB HP Call: WN2O Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: WN6K Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: WO4O Class: SOAB HP Call: WP3C Class: SOAB LP Call: WR3Z Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: WR7HE Class: SOAB HP Call: WT4PF Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: WT6K Class: SOAB LP Call: WU3A Class: SOSB15 HP Call: WW2DX Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: WW5X Class: M/S HP Call: WX0B Class: SOAB HP Call: WX5S Class: M/2 HP Call: WX9U Class: SOSB40 HP Call: WY8DX Class: SOAB LP Call: XW1A Class: SOSB20 LP Call: YB0DPO Class: SOAB LP Call: YL3FT Class: SOSB80 HP Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Call: YL8M Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: YO5KAD Class: M/S HP Call: YQ5Q Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: YQ6A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: YR1C Class: M/S HP Call: YR5O Class: SOSB80 LP Call: YR7M Class: SOAB HP Call: YT0A Class: M/S HP Call: YT0Z Class: SOSB15 HP Call: YT1TA Class: SOAB LP Call: YT1V Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: YT2B Class: SOSB15(R) QRP Call: YT2T Class: M/S HP Call: YT2U Class: SOAB LP Call: YT3M Class: SOAB HP Call: YT4A Class: SOSB160 LP Call: YT5A Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: YT6T Class: SOSB160 HP Call: YT8A Class: SOSB20 HP Call: YU0A Class: SOSB80 LP Call: YU1LA Class: SOAB HP Call: YU1YV Class: SOSB10 LP Call: YU7BH Class: SOSB40(R) HP Call: YU8A Class: SOAB LP Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB20 LP Call: YW4D Class: SOAB HP Call: YW7A Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: Z35X Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB20 HP Call: ZF2AM Class: SOAB HP Call: ZL2IFB Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: ZM1A Class: M/S HP Call: ZS0HQ Class: SOAB LP Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB15 HP Call: ZY7C Class: M/S HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: 6Y1V Call: 9A60A Call: DQ4W Call: E77DX Call: EA3FP Call: ES9C Call: G6PZ Call: KD4D Call: KQ7W Call: NH6V Call: NX5M Call: OL7R Call: P40L Call: VE7SV Call: W7RN Call: WX5S Class: M/M HP Call: DR1A Call: JA1YPA Call: LX7I Call: LZ9W Call: NR4M Call: OM0M Call: PA6Z Call: VE7UF Class: M/S HP Call: 9A50KDE Call: A73A Call: B4TB Call: CT9M Call: DJ7LH Call: DR4A Call: DR5L Call: E73MMM Call: EE2W Call: EF8M Call: II1H Call: IR2C Call: KD2HE Call: KT3Y Call: LN3Z Call: LZ5A Call: N4CW Call: N5RM Call: ND2T Call: NK5Q Call: NM7D Call: OH6M Call: OL3Z Call: OL7C Call: OM7M Call: P33W Call: RK3DZB Call: SO9Q Call: SY3M Call: TM0R Call: TM5W Call: UZ2M Call: VE7GL Call: W3LJ Call: W7VJ Call: WE3C Call: WW5X Call: YO5KAD Call: YR1C Call: YT0A Call: YT2T Call: ZM1A Call: ZY7C Class: SO(A)AB HP Call: AK6M Call: CX7TT Call: DK3GI Call: DL6KVA Call: G4IIY Call: K0KX Call: K2QMF Call: K2WK Call: K3WW Call: K4CZ Call: K5UV Call: K6RIM Call: K6TA Call: K7EG Call: K9CT Call: K9YC Call: KA1ARB Call: KG0Z Call: KM4M Call: KM9M Call: LN5O Call: LR4E Call: N1MGO Call: N2CU Call: N2NS Call: N4KG Call: N4NM Call: N6QQ Call: N7RK Call: NN4GG Call: NO2R Call: NX6T Call: OG5B Call: S54O Call: SM6CNN Call: SP2LNW Call: UY5ZZ Call: VE3UTT Call: W2WG Call: W4XO Call: W4ZE Call: W5VX Call: W8AV Call: W8MJ Call: WA4PXP Call: WF4W Call: WR3Z Call: YL8M Call: YQ6A Call: YT5A Class: SO(A)AB LP Call: AF6T Call: DJ1OJ Call: DO9ST Call: F9IE Call: K6GEP Call: KA3DRR Call: KJ4IC Call: KS1Y Call: N3BM Call: S56A Call: VE3WDM Call: VE3XD Call: W4EE Call: W6JYT/7 Call: W6KY Call: W7OM Call: W7ZR Call: WA3KYY Call: WW2DX Class: SO(A)AB QRP Call: F5UKL/QRP Class: SO(A)AB(TS) HP Call: KR4F Call: NF4A Call: OH6MW Call: S58P Call: UY7C Call: W1BYH Call: W1CU Call: Z35X Class: SO(A)AB(TS) LP Call: SQ3RX Class: SO(A)SB10 HP Call: F5IN Call: M0ITY Call: OG7X Call: OH6AC Call: OM8AG Class: SO(A)SB10 LP Call: ES1GF Call: OM2VL Class: SO(A)SB20 HP Call: NN4N Call: S52ZW Call: SP8IMG Class: SO(A)SB20 LP Call: W5GZ Call: YQ5Q Call: YT1V Class: SO(A)SB40 HP Call: M0ITY Call: PR2F Call: PY2IQ Call: S53F Call: SP4Z Call: VE7KS Call: W2IRT Call: ZL2IFB Class: SO(A)SB80 HP Call: K4XD Call: LY4U Call: PP5EG Class: SOAB HP Call: 4L0A Call: 4O3A Call: 9A1UN Call: 9A5W Call: AA3B Call: AB1HZ Call: AB7E Call: AE6RF Call: AK1W Call: AL1G Call: CW5W Call: CX9AU Call: D4C Call: DJ2RG Call: DK8EY Call: DL2AA Call: DL3YM Call: DQ5A Call: F6BEE Call: G3TXF Call: G4MKP Call: G5W Call: HA3OV Call: HC8N Call: HG7T Call: HG8R Call: HP1WW Call: IR4X Call: K0FX Call: K0RC Call: K0RI Call: K1GU Call: K2PLF Call: K2PS Call: K2SX Call: K3WI Call: K4HAL Call: K4RO Call: K5KA Call: K6LRN Call: K6VVA Call: K8GL Call: K9CC Call: K9MUG Call: KG4CUY Call: KO0U Call: KO7X Call: KR7O Call: KT2Z Call: KU1CW Call: KY0W Call: LO2F Call: LY7Z Call: M0ITY Call: MJ0LON Call: N1LN Call: N2RJ Call: N5UM Call: N7BF Call: N7CW Call: N8BJQ Call: N8NOE Call: N9FC Call: NE4AA Call: NJ4I Call: NN5J Call: NN7ZZ Call: NQ5D Call: NR7DX Call: NT5C Call: NY3A Call: NY4A Call: NY6N Call: OK4RQ Call: OM3BH Call: PJ2T Call: PS2T Call: PW2D Call: PY1DX Call: RA3CM Call: RD4WA Call: RL3A Call: RS3A Call: S50A Call: S52OP Call: SE5E Call: SP5EOT Call: SQ4MP Call: UP0L Call: UR3IQO Call: UU7J Call: VA2WDQ Call: VA7ST Call: VC2M Call: VE1DT Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3JM Call: VE7FE Call: VE7XF Call: VK6DXI Call: VO1HE Call: VY2SS Call: VY2TT Call: W0BH Call: W1EBI Call: W2CDO Call: W2TB Call: W4NZ Call: W5WMU Call: W6OAT Call: W6SX Call: W8CAM Call: W9RE Call: WA6O Call: WC1M Call: WC5T Call: WM3T Call: WO4O Call: WR7HE Call: WX0B Call: YL6W Call: YR7M Call: YT3M Call: YU1LA Call: YW4D Call: ZF2AM Class: SOAB LP Call: 2E0CVN Call: AA4FU Call: AA5VU Call: AA9D Call: AB4GG Call: AC0W Call: AD5VJ Call: AI2N Call: CT1ENQ Call: DJ5QV Call: DL4SDW Call: DQ6E Call: DS5KJR Call: EA7RM Call: ES1LBK/2 Call: G3RSD Call: H7/K9GY Call: HB9ARF Call: HL5YI Call: J39BS Call: K0AD Call: K0HW Call: K1HT Call: K3IU Call: K4FTO Call: K4OD Call: K5AF Call: K6CSL Call: K6RM Call: K7WP Call: K9NW Call: KA6NGR Call: KC7V Call: KD4HXT Call: KD5J Call: KE4KY Call: KH6MB Call: KN3A Call: KS0M Call: KS8O Call: KT4PD Call: KV8Q Call: LA3S Call: N2WN Call: N4LF Call: N4UC Call: N5DO Call: N6NF Call: N7NT Call: N9XX Call: NG7Z Call: NK6A Call: NM2L Call: NN2NN Call: NN4FL Call: NQ3X Call: NV1N Call: OH8GZN Call: OK1JOC Call: OK6Y Call: OO9O Call: OP1A Call: OZ5WQ Call: PA3ARM Call: PG7V Call: PY2NY Call: S51F Call: SM3C Call: SM7BJW Call: VA2SG Call: VA3EC Call: VA7KOJ Call: VA7RN Call: VE1NB Call: VE1OP Call: VE3FH Call: VE3OBU Call: VE6CNU Call: W0ETT Call: W0PC Call: W0RAA Call: W2JU Call: W3CP Call: W3KL Call: W4KAZ Call: W4NBS Call: W4PM Call: W5CT Call: W5GAI Call: W6NF Call: W7QN Call: W7WHY Call: W7YAQ Call: WA2MCR Call: WA6BOB Call: WA6L Call: WB8JUI Call: WG4M Call: WH2D Call: WJ9B Call: WP3C Call: WT6K Call: WY8DX Call: YB0DPO Call: YT1TA Call: YT2U Call: YU8A Call: ZS0HQ Class: SOAB QRP Call: DL8MBS Call: KA6SGT Call: KD2MX Call: KG5U Call: KO1H Call: KR2Q Call: N6WG Call: N7IR Call: NA0CW Call: NA4BW Call: NE1RD Call: OK7CM Call: OP4A Call: OZ7BQ Call: SM6EQO Call: VA3DF Call: VP5E Call: WA8REI Class: SOAB(TS) HP Call: 9M2CNC Call: AD4EB Call: DJ1YFK Call: DL4ME Call: KE3D Call: KF6T Call: KL8DX Call: KU8E Call: KZ5D Call: LZ8A Call: MD0CCE Call: N1WR Call: N4ZZ Call: OM7CW Call: S53MM Call: S59ABC Call: SP3GTS Call: UP4L Call: VE3CR Call: VE4EAR Call: VU2PTT Call: W0UA Call: W4NTI Call: W6TK Call: WA4UAZ Call: WN2O Call: WT4PF Class: SOAB(TS) LP Call: AA4LR Call: DL3EBX Call: EA7TN Call: K0PK Call: K0WHV Call: K1TN Call: LY600W Call: LZ08KM Call: NA4K Call: NE7D Call: NN3W Call: ON4CT Call: OV3X Call: S59KW Call: SP8AJK Call: VE3DZ/VP9 Call: VE3KF Call: VE3NE Call: W1TO Call: WD4AHZ Call: WN6K Call: YW7A Class: SOAB(TS)(R) HP Call: K8MR Class: SOSB10 HP Call: 9A4W Call: E77AA Call: EM9F Call: IU9S Call: NN5P Call: OH0J Call: OQ5M Call: RW2F Call: S57S Call: SN9Z Call: UT1IA Call: UW1M Class: SOSB10 LP Call: 4X6UU Call: DL7BY Call: DO4DXA Call: ES4MM Call: G3WW Call: OR2A Call: S50DX Call: SM7ATL Call: UN6LN Call: YU1YV Class: SOSB10 QRP Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB15 HP Call: IU3X Call: NJ4U Call: S51FB Call: SN8R Call: W4KZ Call: WU3A Call: YT0Z Call: ZX5J Class: SOSB15 LP Call: E21YDP Call: IW0GXY Call: PT4C Call: VA3RJ Class: SOSB15 QRP Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB15(R) QRP Call: YT2B Class: SOSB160 HP Call: LN9Z Call: LY2IJ Call: N3UA Call: SN7Q Call: SP6A Call: W7DRA Call: YT6T Class: SOSB160 LP Call: HA8BE Call: SN30J Call: TA2RC Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3OSZ Call: YT4A Class: SOSB20 HP Call: 9A/VE3ZIK Call: CT1JLZ Call: JF1SQC Call: K8IA Call: KH7B Call: KV7DX Call: LY8O Call: NE1QP/4 Call: NQ4I Call: OE2008S Call: OP4K Call: PT1T Call: R2MWO Call: S50K Call: S57AL Call: S57DX Call: SN3X Call: TF3CW Call: W9WI Call: WC6H Call: YT8A Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB20 LP Call: 4U1ITU Call: K0IO Call: KB7Q Call: KJ9A Call: LZ1FH Call: N7WA Call: OM4EA Call: PY1KS Call: RU3VD Call: S50B Call: S57U Call: SN3C Call: SV1BJW Call: UZ5UA Call: VE2FU Call: VE3FJ Call: VE3XAT Call: WA1FCN Call: WA7NWL Call: XW1A Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB20 QRP Call: HG6EU Class: SOSB40 HP Call: 4M1T Call: 7J1AAI Call: 9A1CMA Call: AB9H Call: HG8K Call: IO3J Call: K0RF Call: K6NA Call: LA2AB Call: NS1S Call: OG6A Call: OK5R Call: S56M Call: VE3CX Call: VO1MP Call: W3YY Call: WI4R Call: WX9U Class: SOSB40 LP Call: 7S7V Call: DL1CW Call: KN4Y/M Call: N7MAL Call: NS3T Call: OK1UG Call: PP5BZ Call: PU5ATX Call: S54A Call: SP6OJE Call: W6/VK2IMM Class: SOSB40 QRP Call: KT5E Class: SOSB40(R) HP Call: EE5BM Call: YU7BH Class: SOSB80 HP Call: 7X0RY Call: 9A6A Call: KG6DX Call: OK3R Call: OL4W Call: S53O Call: SN3A Call: SP1NY Call: TM5Y Call: UN4L Call: YL3FT Class: SOSB80 LP Call: 3V8SS Call: 4O4A Call: HG6V Call: YR5O Call: YU0A Class: SOSB80 QRP Call: LY2GW