RTTY WPX Soapbox built 3-14-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5C5W Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,393,312 Good condtion in the first day on low bands helped for the score. Thanks to all participants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A35RKP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,325 Kenwood TS-440S, 100W Inv. V dipole 80/40m, 2el quad 20/15/10m Writelog + MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 660,800 First RTTY contest that I had SO2R capability. Lots of fun! Had to quit early due to work related travel on Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,069,208 It's been 3 years since I was able to put in a serious effort. In the meantime, I re-designed the station layout and did some work on the antenna farm. The goal this year was to beat my previous score (isn't that everyone's goal?) and figure out if my station was ergonomic enough or needed further improvements. On both counts it was a BIG success !!! On Saturday afternoon, I experienced a terrible noise source that seemed to wipe out signals on all bands. It turns out my neighbor has a new (illegal) CB amplifier that must put out 10 KW !!! Luckily the interference only lasted about 10 minutes, but sure seemed like an eternity. We'll need to come to an 'understanding' during the next RTTY contest. I was thrilled to see the amount of activity on the bands. Many were familiar callsigns, along with a multitude of new ones as well. Thank you for all the Q's. I don't have a BIG GUN station, nor am I a Little Pistol... more like a sawed off shotgun. However, I was able to work 7Z1SJ, E21YDP & 4U1UN on 20 meters through massive pile-ups. Looking forward to more RTTY activity in the upcoming year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,125,578 Seemed like a very long contest even when I finished at 1700Z Sunday. I set some lofty goals; some I achieved; some I did not. I was hoping for 2000 QSO's but that didn't happen. I was looking for over 500 multipliers and 4000 QSO points. Was happy to see the mult total going so high. It's funny I didn't set a goal to break the USA LP record, which I did handily. This is a personal best score, best point total and best prefix total for me. I used a different strategy for this contest and it mostly worked but I didn't think 15 would open. Who knew it would be good both days? Best contact was VK6HD calling me on 80 meters Sunday morning. There were too many highlights to mention. The biggest lowlight was the number of stations that did not have my call correctly and I could get back through to them to make sure it was right. So I guess my score will be somewhat lower. Thanks to CQ for putting on a great contest. The propagation was the best I've seen for a RTTY contest in a LONG time even though the numbers were down. Thanks to everyone for the contacts for making this my best WPX ever! 73, Don AA5AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD0K/5 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 15,600 Minimal participation due to other demands on time (chopped down two trees and mowed an acre of grass). However, had a good time. I discovered rf in the shack on 80m which limited me to a single QSO as I was getting uncommanded shifts in mode. 40m was rough from here, but 20m worked out pretty good given the limited time. Two dupes (due to me pressing the xmit key a bit too soon), and at least three busted callsigns out there somewhere as some operators left the /5 off my call. I only uploaded AD0K/5 to LOTW so those who logged AD0K will not see them...sorry. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AE5AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,741,948 After last years record blowing effort in WPX SOSB 40 Meter, I figured that it would stand for a while. My only goal this year was to meet or beat it. Well I did beat last years totals and even had 159 more Q's. I was amazed as the Q's kept coming in. The last hour 2300 to 2359z on Sunday produced 11 new mults. I kept saying to myself 'I can't believe this'. The morning opening to Asia was good both days. I had 84 QSO's this year, double that of last year. EU was good at all times about the same as last year. Propagation was good and the band was quiet hear, which always helps. The only thing I noticed was some rapid QSB both in the evenings with EU and in the mornings with Asia and Pacific. All in all the excitement of the great conditions kept this old man in the chair almost all night both nights. I think the most fun is late in the contest when you work a 6 point QSO that is a multiplier and your score jumps some 6000 points. Thanks to all for the QSO's especially those that hung in there when I asked for repeats of your report. Thanks to CQ for a great contest. 73, Earl N5ZM aka (AE5AA) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AF6T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 382,878 This 'test will be more interesting when 15m and 10m are fully back. TNX for all the QSOs. 73, K6TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AH8DX/NO1 Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 28,416 Elecraft K2 (5 Watts) Butternut HF6V Vertical Writelog 10.61 MMTTY That was fun! Running 5 watts from my K2 all weekend long. Called guys forever but realized that if I waited for propagation to peak their signal; then sent my call, I was able to make the qso. My best DX was Ed, P49X. I sent my call about fifteen times before I snagged him. I also had some JA's in the log. I would like to use a real antenna with some gain to see how I really could do. The K2 rules! Craig, AH8DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ1I Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,423,950 Despite the hardware challenges, a great time! The week before, the ice finally took out the 40M beam at 180ft. For the contest, I had a 40M beam at 70ft fixed on Europe, or a 4-square. On each band, at least one antenna wouldn't rotate due to the severe icing condition. For several hours on Sunday, I couldn't rx using the top antennas in the stack due to S9+ snow static. Despite these limitations, the K1TTT station sure works! Got off to slow start. While being another S-unit or two into Europe on 40M might have helped, I just couldn't seem to get a run going on either 40 or 80M. At the end of the first 7 hours, I was 250 QSOs behind K3MM, but it wasn't for want of trying. I took my first off time at 0700Z, as the rate started to ebb on the low bands and I needed to have a little sleep for the morning runs. Started up at 1130Z, and 20M wasn't quite open, but I ran both 20 & 40M until I switched up to 15M at 1300Z. Europe was workable on 15M, although there was little rate, but it was fine for the second radio. I stayed on those bands until my second off time from 1900-2100Z. When I got back, I switched to 20 & 40M again, and got a reasonable JA opening on 20M. Those 40 JAs were the only JAs worked the entire weekend. At 0100Z, I switched to 40/80, and stayed there until my third off time 0100-0400Z. I was back on from 0400-0530Z, working 40/80, then more off time until 1200Z when I again started up on 20/40M. 20M was terrible Sunday morning; the European signals, even the Gs and Is, were very watery. I knew the K was up to 4, then 5, but after I switched to 20/15 at 1500Z there was no other place to go. 15M was also open to Europe, but the signals to run well just weren't there. I then took my last off time at 1815-1945Z, then ran 20/40 to 2300 and 40/80 to the contest end. Best Hours: Sat QSOs: 1700Z, 104 QSOs Sat QSO Pts: 2200Z, 326 QSO Pts Sun QSOs: 1600Z, 76 QSOs Sun QSO Pts: 2200Z, 203 QSO Pts I was pleased to beat last year's score, crack 700 mults, and crack 2000 QSOs. Great scores by at least P49X, K3MM, UA9CLB, K4GMH, and probably a few others. Its nice to be in such company. A special thanks to Dave K1TTT for the use of his great station. And, as always, thanks for the Qs. Dennis W1UE/AJ1I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AJ9C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,870,248 Thanks to all who worked us this weekend. Harry DM5TI was the organizing force to get us all together this weekend. Used a RTTY program that the BCC uses. A couple of quirks but overall was better than other programs I have used. Murphy visited once Sunday morning when a coax went bad. It was nice to have to go out in the 4 (-15c)degree wx with the 45mph wind to change it out. That will wake you up quicker than any expresso!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK0A Class: SOSB(R)/20 LP Total Score = 355,300 Good conditions on Saturday, but Sunday sucked. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK6M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 162,325 50% effort due to Grandpa babysitting duties both days. Always an enjoyable contest. Thanks for the Qs. 73, John K6MM. FT-1000MP Mark V 250-300 watts w/AL-811H + F12C3SS + G5RV + N1MM w/MMTTY Software. No hiccups. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3EE Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 2,230,752 It was funny to participate in the low Band. Thanks to all the stations who came to my frequency Thanks to all the stations who spotted me on the cluster network Hope to meet you soon in another contest, or in normal operation Station: Radio: 1 x ICOM 756 PRO II Amplifier: OM Power 3500HF Antenna: TX antenna - Wire Vertical with 2 elevated Radials RX Antenna - Beveragge 1 US/1 EU Many thanks to all Congratulations to the fine score of OK3R (OK1DVM), really great. Best regards Luis - CT3EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3KY Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 4,111,594 THANKYOU FOR ALL THE MULTIPLIERS AND CONTACTS HOPE WORK YOU IN NEXT CONTEST ICOM : 756PROII KAM AMERITRON : AL1500 2 ELE.ANTENNAS FOR 40M ONE FIXED TO US. ONE FIXED TO EUROPE MANY THANKS TO ALL BEST 73 TILL NEXT CONTEST JOSE GONCALVES - CT3KY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D4C Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,951,300 Tnx all for QSO! Will be back in September! 73, Yuris/YL7A/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DD5FZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,498,856 My first ever shortwave RTTY operation and my VHF RTTY experience is a couple decades old, i.e. before the days of packet radio. I must say I am very happy how easily the Elecraft K3 could be set up for digital modes and how well it worked. Especially as an almost absolute beginner in this mode, there were no serious hick ups, not one. Elecraft K3 Tokyo HyPower HL-2KFX (ca. 500W in RTTY) 80/40m: Dipole 20/15/10m: FB-33 WinTest & MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 512,322 ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, Toshiba Tecra M4, N1MM Antennas : 5-ele tribander, dipole 2x20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2MWB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,091,088 DD1MAT Niko, DL2MWB Wolf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,865,738 The probagation was very good, much better than the last contests since a long time. I had a lot of fun. Many thanks to all who called me. 73 de Walter, DL4RCK, DL4R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM4FDM Class: SOSB(R)/20 HP Total Score = 933,340 Hard going on Sunday when the K Index rose. I think there was less activity that in previous years. Thanks to CQ for another good Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM4KLN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 159,750 50w to 40m mobile whip / 20m mobile whip Thanks to all who pulled me out of the noise.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,163,988 EXCELLENT! Thanks to all for the fun, and a few new band-slots too. Nice to work NP3U on all 5 bands, including my only 10m contact. My log is now on LoTW, but paper cards are always welcome. Vy best 73 Phil GU0SUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW4SKA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 2,248,428 Very high participation and some good DX on 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA7TM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,134,705 My rig FTDX9000D and 4 ele SteppIR Yagi up 40m My software MixW 2.12 Verry good propagacion good contest Vy 73 Tibi HA7TM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,324,680 Rig: IC-756 Ant: Vertical (28m), 8el. Log.Per. Rx ant: 2x50m LW Ucxlog 6.14 Nice contest! Tnx! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,712,326 THANKS GOD, GUYS AND CQ FOR THIS VERY NICE CONTEST... A week before the contest my main rig broke ( FT2000) and my back up radio a FT450 is not enought so I call Tino (HI3CCP) and he send me a FT1000 MP field so I installed and tested as I did in the past. Is a pity or even can do not understant some very rare or wild contester behavior I called for more than 20 minutes and ???? he refused to work me and I just moved 1 khzs UP to call and he came right away to complain ab his freq. BUT give me a break he is another multiplier as I am.... I'm very happy with my claimed score more than 100 multipliers and almost 1.5 million points more than last year . I must apologies for all the calls imcomplete on 80 but the power line noise were 15 dbs over S9 in both days at least could work some with my ewe antenna. Hope to share more contest in the future and my congratulations goes to MR. RTTY P49X you are the man... Congrats ... My Ja pile came 2 minutes after the contest ends so I'm sorry too late for a qso. Next time better time should be... God bless and CU in next pile SSB or RTTY and again Constantino HI3CCP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 174,580 ICOM 765 MOSLEY TA 53 G5RV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,616 Hi Gus's Mny tks FB QSO, Cu next conest, AM ONLY BAREFOOT,, de hl5yi chae, G,L 73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 289,174 participated just for fun after work and decided very soon to enter only the 40m contacts because the propagation was not too exciting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1DFH Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 567,270 Tanks for QSO, 73" de IK1DFH Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ1LBG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,808,448 Very good contest and very good condition on all bands... The are more DXs that in the last CQ WW RTTY contest I've worked 2 new one (XW1B and 4U1UN) and many new band and mode... Thanks to PZ5RA JH4UYB for the 80 m QSOs and to KG4SS and V31GW for the 40 m QSOs... The only station worked on 5 band was NP3U. See you in the SSB WPX. Filippo IZ1LBG Equipment IC 756 Pro III Challenger III MixW Antenna 80 m dipol 40 m dipol 4 el yagi for 20 m 4 el yagi for 15 m 4 el yagi for 10 m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ8JFL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 136,920 i am a begineer, i hope all is ok. 73' all the best ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J39BS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,705,440 Got run of Calling Freq at least 7 times. Wish I had a KILOWATT hi. Thanks to all who called in. Thanks for a nice contest. J39BS - Derek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,652,331 What a blast! It was great to finally be able to spend the whole weekend on this one. In the past couple years it was always something coming up to interfere with plans. This year everything was in phase work-wise, etc. I had some great rates and things were clicking along nicely. It would have been fun to operate more than the 30 hours SO's can operate. At least it ended on a high note with two new mults in the log right at the end. I was surprised to see some signals on 10 around 2100Z Saturday. I think the band was probably open to more than just SA as I found N4IG on there with a nice signal along with the SA stations on 10. To bad more did not try. But then 15 was not all that great in the northern latitudes either. Saturday evening when I finished operating for the day (I had to same some of my 30 hours for the next day) I looked at Email and saw a note about the Live Scores website. So I looked into installing that in my laptop I was using Writelog on and it was so easy! So I sent my scores up to that Sunday. When I have the chance, I will do that again. I was using my laptop with a Sprint card so I had Internet access, otherwise The Farm can only use dialup. I have seen 40 in better shape in the past, signals were really shaky the 2nd day, but it could not have been all bad. It was my 2nd best band QSO wise and best band for points. 40 had the fewest prefixes of the top 3 active bands. You get more points for QSO's on 80/40. Band Prefixes 80 142 40 136 20 201 15 8 10 2 I was disappointed that I could not get anything going rate wise on 80 the 2nd evening. Man it was COLD out there this weekend. Temps in the -teens tons of wind whipping around and wind chill temps around -35. Whew! I went out to the car to get something and just about froze my eyeballs! It gets breezy on the hill! Thanks to Paul and Mary for the use of the station and their hospitality. I was happy that we did most of the Single OP setup while I was out for the CQ 160 contest. It is no small task to make a MultiOp station a single OP station. Will be back out for ARRL DX CW next weekend. 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0WA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 533,662 40 meters was really good in Kansas. This was a fun contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,225,824 73`s kg6kzk & ke5khs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 143,234 I have to get MMTTY working with my RigExpert-SD, using MixW just doesn't cut it. It was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,013,979 Thanks again to John, N3HBX, for the use of his world-class station! I had some technical glitches over the weekend, such as a bad rotator on one of the towers, disappearing AFSK mod on one of the radios, and intermittent TX power on 15, but was able to work through most of them and nothing really hurt the score very much. The low bands were in very good shape. No RX antennas needed. It seems that this contest more and more is about time management. There is no longer a shortage of stations to work. It's more about making the right choices for off time. Of course, it takes a bit of guess work and luck to forecast band conditions, which always makes it a bit more entertaining. HamCap wont tell you that there is going to be a severe magnetic disturbance on Sunday, shooting the K index to 5 and destroying the few hours of EU bliss on 15 meters we got teased with on Saturday! Luckily, 20 did open eventually, although very weak for a couple of hours. 15 was the pits...barely opening to SW EU. Interestingly, on 20 the polar flutter coming in from the northern latitudes of EU was incredible. I did very little strategizing going into this weekend, but kept with my basic guidelines and put in a better showing this year than last. The QSO total was marginally better, but the real difference was my use of the lowbands to rack up those double point QSO's. I'm guessing I could have done even a bit better than I did, but compared to last year, I got rid of some real slacker periods in the afternoons on the high bands. This year, when the EU runs started fading in the early afternoon and the US guys started calling en mass, I knew it was time to take a break. I did decide to bail out early again, finishing up at about 1830Z on Sunday. In summmary, lowband totals way up, high bands totals down slightly from last year's record breaking 5.5 million score. Just broke into 7 mil on the last couple QSO's, so it'll probably fall a bit short of that mark after the cleanup. Didnt really keep track of who was going to be on, but heard some really big numbers from K4GMH and AO8A, so it'll be interesting to see the breakdowns. Mike was ahead of me by about 150 QSOs going into Saturday night. Then on Sunday he was down by 100 or so most of the day. It's such a tease cause you never know how much time anyone has taken off, etc. 73, Ty K3MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,824,160 Thanks to the sponsors for a great contest event, and to all the worldwide hams who made it fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 24,219 K3 was again fun to use. Set up with mediocre sound card. I casually operated and had some fun. Glad to get some digital DX QSOs. :) PK (Paul - K3MZ K2 #3135 K3 #84) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PH Class: M/S HP Total Score = 33,120 Well, SOMEBODY has to have the lowest score! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3RWN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 261,144 Spent most of Sunday praying the power would stay on. We had 40 - 50 mph winds most of the day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,448 Inverted L 30'H x 75'L A couple of hours of fun! 73, Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,481,190 That was FUN! Even had a nice East Coast USA to Europe opening on 15 both days, with Sat. being the better day. Eighty and 40 were reasonably quite both nights with the first night being noisier than the second. Twenty was 20 with a lot of signals from 14140 to 14060 KHz which is the furthest I was able to find stations to work. A big thank you to the official log checking personnel who will be sifting through all the submisions. They will have a lot to do as there was very good activity throughout the time I was operating. Got RF getting into the computer. Was able to reduce it a bit with snap-on ferrite. Thanks to all who had to ask for a fill on the number, etc. The transmission would start, but sometimes the transmitter would un-key during the transmission. Got to do something with the rats' nest of cables in back of the operating desk. Again, thanks to all who were kind enough to work me. All the QSOs are appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,093 FT-897D @ 100 Watts to Dipole at 65 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 246,806 I had a ball doing this one full time last year, but I have some other priorities this year which will limit my operating a bit. Sounded like pretty good participation, though possibly down a bit from last year. It might just be the difference in perception though. Remember that in contesting, it's everyone against the clock. Sending lots of extra information during each QSO hurts everyone. It slows down you, the op you're working, and the ops waiting to make the next QSO. Unlike some other forms of operating, being quick and efficient is actually more "polite" in contest operating. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 39,600 After processing 8 pounds of, mostly unsolicited, duplicate band/mode, bureau cards, I just didn't have much interest. I just wanted to see how many contacts, would be necessary to get 100 different prefixes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(R) HP Total Score = 460,152 My first SO2R experience! Funny part is that I didn't add any hardware, just reconfigured what I had and I got "baby SO2R" up and running. I have an Icom 756PII as my main rig, and a Yaesu FT-857D as the backup. They were both already interfaced to my PC using Donner Digital Interfaces (not as well known as most of the interface co's, but they do the trick at a fraction of the cost). The Donners also handle sound card interfacing, and I have two sound cards in the PC. I had tried rigging up both radios to one card with some Y cables and adapter plugs, but couldn't get that working. Went back to having each radio on a separate card, fiddled with settings, and as usually happens with computers, "all of a sudden it just worked." I did need the FT-857D to be in "Digital" mode, whereas the Icom wants to be in LSB mode for my AFSK RTTY driven by MMTTY and the sound cards. Once I got it all going, WriteLog did the heavy lifting and let me switch radios with ease. After the contest I played around with trying to get it working with CW, but so far can't find anything in WriteLog to tell my WinKeyer USB to key radio A vs. radio B. It just merrily keys both radios, which probably won't make any friends for me in ham radio contest land. So the ARRL DX CW may be SO1R. Too bad to get this close and then be looking at a big price jump to get SO2R for CW and SSB. Maybe I could use what I have for RTTY and get a DX Doubler for CW and SSB. Although my friend Aubrey tells me he used FSK with his Icom ProIII in this test and got much better results with the RTTY filters on receive. Near as I can tell that bumps be up to a more than half kilodollar of interfaces and cables. I know, a mere drop in ye olde ham radio expense bucket... SH5 (thanks for the tip, Barry!) tells me I made 10.48% of my Q's on the second radio. Funny, feels like I put 60% of my effort into operating it. And I think SO2R RTTY must be the easiest mode for SO2R -- my brain was only taxed with clicking the right windows and buttons at the right times, and remembering to turn the tuning dial on the radio I was receiving on, not transmitting... easier sounding than it is to do! I didn't get in until late Friday night so missed the first couple hours of the test (this business travel is cutting into my contesting time). I started with S&P on 40M and was pleased with OA4O as my first Q, a new band-slot for me as well. After only 11 kHz of S&P I decided to try and get the second radio going, and surprisingly it only took half an hour. It was hooked up to a simple Marconi L with 4 radials and an Alpha Delta Pathfinder autotuner that I bought when I got my ticket (and before I realized there were better tuners out there for the money). I set this antenna up a couple years ago for SWBC listening (minus the radials at the start). It actually performed pretty decently, much to my surprise. I didn't feel like going out in the dark and reconfiguring my antennas to put a "real" antenna on the second radio, so this was my configuration until Saturday daylight struck. I kept the main radio on 40M and used the second on 80M. Given the rather minimial antenna, I was a bit surprised to work DL's and I's in the first 15 minutes. An even bigger surprise was D4C on the second radio at 0546. I sacked out at 0645 and was back at 1215. Had a brief run on 40M, some more S&P on 80M and 40M, and then hit 20M at 1330. At 1400 I took a break and went out to the yard to move the second radio coax to my larger K1JEK Cobra Ultralight multiband dublet, which is still pretty close to the other antennas, but furthest away in my half-acre backyard. If I used the Yaesu on 15M it generated hash that wiped out 20M on the Icom, but I could work OK with the Icom on 15M and the FT-857D on 20M. Go figure. I see stubs in my future... One nice thing about SO2R (here comes Mr. Obvious), I didn't have to make as many decisions about which band to operate -- at any given time I could be on the two best performing bands for that hour. Hadn't really thought about that angle. It is a lot of extra hoopla for 10 - 15% more Q's, but as others have said, it does keep the mind from idling. I see from my log that I didn't really work both radios all the time -- I'm sure I would have racked up more Q's if I had. I would start S&P'ing with the Icom when the runs cooled off, and once I did that I didn't do much with the second radio. I suspect a discipline of just keeping one radio CQ'ing would help. I still am having trouble sticking to that, even though intellectually it makes more sense. The rates are almost always better when I CQ, but it doesn't "feel" as fast when you're sitting there for minutes with nothing happening. As my contesting skills have evolved (as in "I'm now in the prehistoric era, having evolved from the birth of the universe"), I am paying more attention to rate, and actually noticed this time what I'm sure everyone else knows clearly -- RTTY rates are lower than CW or SSB. Even with two radios, I was hard pressed to get above 35/hr rates much of the time. Only had a few bursts of 80+ and that was not sustained. Seems like when you're S&P'ing, it takes longer to "get your turn." Maybe it's because with CW, it's a little easier to pick one call out of the mess. With RTTY, it's up to the decoders. And it seemed to me that in this contest, especially on 20M and 40M, there was more garbled RTTY than I've seen in a while. Maybe the Icom RTTY filters + FSK is the answer. I was able to keep at it until 2200, when the social obligation clock struck again, keeping me away from the dials until 0515. Missed some prime operating time there. I put in about an hour and then had to knock off until the next morning. Got a late start at 1249, had a longish run on 40M and then bounced up to 20M at 1330. I kept hoping for a big EU run but never was able to sustain more than 20 Q's in a row before things tapped out. At 1640 I was pleasantly surprised to have two ZS stations call me on 15M in a row. The other nice surprise was a ZL calling me on 20M at 2025. Things like that really give me a boost -- especially when you're wondering if you're getting out. The last hour was one of the strongest, with 47 Q's on 40M to wrap things up. Funny how the first and last hours tend to bring everyone out of the woodwork. I always like that sudden calm on the bands when the clock strikes the end of the contest. Where'd everybody go?! Minor SO2R oddity -- this makes sense but I hadn't anticipated it -- as soon as you put a callsign into the second radio box in WriteLog, the serial number jumps. If you don't succeed in making that QSO, that serial number is "lost." By the end of the contest, I had 600 Q's but was handing out number 781. I sure don't remember losing that many Q's, but the number was staring me in the face. Fortunately the score box in WriteLog shows you the real number of Q's completed, but it was a source of cognitive dissonance -- handing out serial number 500 felt like a milestone, but then seeing I was really still a hundred Q's short of 500 felt like a letdown! Speaking of Q's, thanks everyone for the contacts and a lot of fun. See you next week in ARRL DX. 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 112,530 Band conditions started bad and got worse as the weekend wore on. I seemed to run out of stations to work on the bands. No comparison to the spectacular condix for RTTY Roundup. But, I still made 50 more QSO's than last year. And it is always good to work some new ones on RTTY: V31, KG4 and PZ5. All those were worked in the first 6 hours. The one that got away: YN2S Always good to see new callsigns on RTTY, like KV7DX. Lots of new 2x3's with KF and KG prefixes. One new one cracked me up. We were in a hopeless pileup for some DX station, and some 2X3 was sending phonetics for their call!! Like: KF4XYZ KILO FOXTROT FOUR XRAY YANKEE ZULU KF4XYZ Just when I thought I mastered the N1MM/MMTTY combo, I really fumble fingered a lot this time. I apologize to everyone I sent 000 to. Embarrassing. Amazing how many prefixes there are in Alaska now. I finally worked the plain vanilla KL7 on Sunday afternoon (KL7RA). And kudos to all the VE7's! Great participation up there! Lets hope for better condix in September for CQ WW RTTY. Rig: FT-990 100W Ants: 80 meter sloping dipole from 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee up 50 feet 20 meter dipole up 20 feet 15 meter dipole up 25 feet Software: N1MM + MMTTY - All problems were user error ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MBY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 81,249 Antenna about half height (30 feet) due to 50 MPH winds. Enjoyed the 10 hours I was able to spend doing mostly S&P. Weak opening to EU Saturday morning. Long runs calling CQ to JA Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Disappointed to have missed the BD4 Sunday afternoon (our time) on 20m. Till next year... 73, Bob K6MBY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 291,040 Weak EU openings to west coast. Asia and N/S paths were ok Had to pile on the NA Q's to make the score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 574,922 Conditions to Europe up this far north were very spotty, and poor especially on Sunday morning. The QSB was horrendous, and at times surrealistic. At times, there were no signals at all showing on the display! I got that sinking feeling more than once that something on my end had failed, especially with the band noise being so incredibly low. However, owing to the ever increasing RTTY activity, I was able to work 63 unique Countries in my 28 hours on air time with my LP station. The SDR spectrum scope really makes a huge difference on S&P, which I did a lot of in this contest. On 15 meters, where there were never more than 3 or 4 signals, I was able to see them and pounce accordingly. Only 1 or 2 countries were worked on my CQ's. Still, I had a wonderful time. Thanks to all of the NA stations that came back to my CQ's with my rather mundane K7 call sign prefix. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 224,675 Started out with the intention to just make a few Q's and soon I was having so much fun that I kept my but in the chair most of the contest. Used my IC-746 with AFSK keying driving an old ALPHA 78 workhorse to a 600W out. Antennas include: 2 ele tribander at 20', 80/40/10M fan Inv Vee at 30', 20M Inv Vee at 32', R5 Vert at 15', and 160M Inl L at 35'. Several times I was able to hold my own and run rate for a while. The EURO's were much better Sat AM than Sunday. 10M made a appearance Sunday afternoon with some loud signals from SA. QSL 100% via LOTW! 73s and GL from Nevada de Tim - K7XC - DM09nm... sk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 503,084 Rig: FT1000MP + ALS600 400 watts Antennas: 204-foot G5RV, 3 element quad, 130-foot sloper Software: WriteLog 10.58d ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 220,920 Not bad for 100 watts and a homemade double Zepp inverted "V" with the apex of the V at 25 feet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 12,172 Just running the station through it's paces prior to ARRL DX contests. Nothing spectacular. Got the RTTY setup running again after the latest radio moves. All worked as expected once a few cables that had not been replaced were re-connected. Hope to see everyone in ARRL DX contests. 73 de Al, KE1FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE4KWE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 766,404 Mostest I've ever done in one contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF4QQY Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,662,420 Part time M/M with either one, two or three ops! Three power outages due to high winds. Other than that it was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF6RY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 18,531 Got on for a few hours to give out the rare KF6 prefix. Thanks for all the contacts. Dave / W6ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,514 Finally had a day on Friday to get my 40M storm damaged yagi off the tower and do a temporary fix on the 4 element SteppIR, it's now is a 3 element since one of the fiberglass elements on the director failed under heavy snow load. Have to wait for Spring to effect repairs on it and restore the 40M beam. I didn't plan on operating so only had limited time this weekend. Hope to see you all in the next RTTY contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK5OQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,411,124 Best single band effort. 73 charles/kk5oq ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 253,704 Thanks for the QSO's and sorry to those I missed. Friday afternoon and Saturday was standing room only on 20 meters. Wall to wall from 14.065 to above 14.130! Sunday was another story. Propagation gave way to a very nice display of the Aurora here in the interior of Alaska. Temps dipped down to around -40f over the weekend but the shack was sure nice and warm! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 45,621 Part time effort again. Been sick since New Years, started with flu, then pneumonia, and now who knows, bronchitis? From what I heard, seems like the bands were decent but not as good as in some years past for the WPX. Was nice to hear a couple of stations on 10 meters. Was nice hearing Hawaii on 40 meters on Saturday night sounding like locals. Thanks for all who took the time to work my station. 73 Scott Kenwood TS 450SAT 75 Watts G5RV @ 35 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO1H Class: SOAB(R) LP Total Score = 5,895 What can I say, 1 hour with Broncial Pneumonia. This is what I came up with. CU all next weekend on CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 190,820 I nearly fell off the chair when 7Z1SJ called me Saturday morning on 20. Conditions on Sunday did not seem nearly as good. Managed to work a couple of Europeans on 15M - first QSOs with EU on 15 in a couple years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,120 Some enjoyable moments but lots of RFI and equipment problems, and conditions seemed poor as well. I had at least 3 backup plans working at once. A little Africa but no Europe this time, with only a few Caribbean and South American stations heard. 15m signals got very loud in the last hour or two Sunday but almost nobody was there. FT-1000MP at 50 watts A3 at 20feet Butternut vertical John kq6es ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 157,990 Rig: IC-757ProIII Pwr: 100W Ant: - homebrew remotely switched 20m doublets in triangle configuration at 30ft - 40m doublet at 32ft - 40m vertical doublet - 80m inverted-V at 55ft I only dabbled in this contest for a few hours here and there between other activities. The bands were in poor shape and had the most fun on 40 and 80m. It's time to add 160m to these RTTY contests! It was nice to work K3IXD, a local, as DX on ZF (ZF2XD). Thanks to all the folks who set up on dx locations giving us some interesting stuff to work! 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,246,185 Family obligations killed three hours of prime low-band time Friday night. DX on low bands not as good Sat night. Coax or connectors to 40m rotating dipole failed about 3 hrs before end of contest -- bummer! I suspect the hardline to RG-13 junction at the top of the tower -- sigh. But, it was a blast! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 715,530 First off I have to thank Brad and Ruth for allowing me to disrupt their weekend to allow me to attend to this foolishness. Kidding aside the hospitality was off the scale and Ruth kept me in the chair as always. I cannot thank them enough. This contest started out as the proverbial ethnic fire drill. Never, Never, Ever decided to change equipment, software and set-ups prior to the contest. I decided to install, with Brad's blessing and assistance, the MK2R+ controller to allow for SO2R. Next we moved my K3 to be the second radio at the first SO2r Position. Next I decided to switch from WriteLog to Win-Test as the contest logging software. Brad uses Win-Test for all the Multi and single op operations. Lastly we installed the K3XVR boards in the K3. The K3XVR installion went fine. This was to allow used of the receive only antenna position on the board and the switchable beverage arrays at the station. The positioning of the MK2R+ and radio position switch-out went ok just took time to move things around. Next time I will get the extra long cable assemplies from MicroHam! Win-Test was already installed, just had to install a second full copy of MMTTY to allow the use of SO2R with Win-Test. Then the fun started, It took many hours to get the MicroHam router and Win-Test configurations (software) to work together. The biggest thing was assign an virual com port to the control item box in the router set-up and the discovery that you (in Win-Test) don't need to define the FSK com port in its configuration menu. This took,with all the possible permutations of the variables, almost 6 hours of trial. When it worked it was an incredible DOH! event. I finally started the test at 0700 utc (11:00pm local). My contest focus was shot. I then switched gears and just focused on becoming used to operating the new equipment in SO2R, as all my previous SO2R operations were with Write-Log/MMTTY and direct serial port to radio connections for control, fsk and ptt. I can say without reservations that this system (MK2R+/Win-Test) is the best I have used to date. No problems at all. Focus shifts when you want it to and expect it to. Even manual dualing CQ's without a hitch. Headphone switching the full meal deal. It is a winner. The K3 is an awesome radio with a super receiver and worked without a hitch and stayed cool. The Mark V also worked well as it always has. I did notice a lot of distorted signals which were obviously over driven ASFK signals. Use FSK if you can please. The propagation sucked. Only a small European opening on Saturday morning. JA's were lacking in numbers but helped me out on 40 and 80 when I first got started. The test as last year, from here, was mostly a NA contest. It was fun non the less and I'll see you next RTTY test. Thanks to all for the contacts. Ciao and 73 Hank / KR7X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS1Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,209,472 ICOM 756 PRO 2/746 PRO 80M DIPOLE AND VERTICAL 40M YAGI AND LOW DIPOLE 20M 5L YAGI 15M 4L AND 6L YAGI BEVERAGES FOR 80/40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KS7S Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 153,076 IC-746PRO/AL-811@150W, microKEYER, N1MM/MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1I Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,352,796 We worked NP3U on all 5 bands, thanks to whoever was manning the contest station there!! That is the first DX 5 band contact I have had in a contest for a couple of years, maybe a sign of propagation improving finally!! Equipment/software worked flawless IC-756Pro2, Ameritron AL-80 amp (500 watts), wire dipoles in the trees WriteLog with mmtty Thanks to Andrei-NP3D for putting YS on the air during the contest, managed to get him on 4 bands, a new one for us. I saw a lot of new calls, and lots of regulars, overall a fun contest with great activity, with very noisy low bands friday night, much better on Saturday and Sunday! Thanks Gordon, N1MGO for use of your station. Thanks Pauline, KB1JXJ for the great home cooking de Charlie KT1I. Operators- KT1I, N1MGO Station - N1MGO Assisting - KB1JXJ - food, keeping us warm, cheering us on! Gordon - N1MGO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,508 Got on for a little while after returning from LA QSO Party and then Sunday morning for a short stint to give out KU5. Gave up after a KH6 took my run freq...funny when I called him he came back straight away! Colin KU5B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV7DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 113,190 That was a great contest. Two days before it started I downloaded the MTTY software to see if I could figure out how to make it work. I worked a few people Thursday night which after 38 years of hamming, were my first TTY qsos, ever. I couldnt figure out how to let MTTY log the contest since serial numbers were needed so I used my faithful NA running the CW version of WPX next to the laptop running MTTY. This meant hand logging as I tried to call CQ and type in reports/serial numbers manually. A few mistakes were made but I think it worked. It looks like I am hooked on TTY, especially with the lousy conditions & plain old boredom with SSB/CW. Cant wait to do it again. Thanks to all for the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY4F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,093,300 First, I would like to give a big "thank you" to my old pal, Doug Haft, for the use of his call for this contest. I had hoped we could do this contest as a multi-op, but unfortunately Doug wasn't able to make it down this weekend. Man, working WPX with the KY4F call sign was much more interesting than it would have been using K4TD. The WPX always brings out plenty of intersting call signs and this one was no exception. :-) I am relatively new to RTTY, and I still have plenty to learn about setting up MMTTY properly. I had lots of difficulty getting it to decode the audio. It was very frustrating to watch MMTTY fail to decode signals that were perfectly audible to me. In fact, I thought on more than one occasion that if this had been a CW contest I would have already had the station worked and in the log; instead, I was stuck waiting on the software to tell me what I needed to know... :-( I would be interested in hearing about any alternatives to MMTTY (if such things exist). Although packed, the money band for me was 40 meters. The signals out of Europe were very good on both evenings. I have heard others say that 15 meters was good on Saturday morning, but I didn't get to experience that here. I did work some 15 meter EU on Sunday morning, but I had to beam toward Africa to do it. I tried beaming direct to EU but never did have any success that way. And before N4OX tries to distort this, I can look out the window and see which way the antennas are pointed... :-) The biggest high of the contest was feeling like DX due to the KY4 prefix. The biggest low was the brief Sunday morning power failure that robbed me of two multipliers and caused me to lose a clear, productive run frequency. I have my computers, monitors and station 12V power supply on an UPS so they stayed with me, but the 87a amp isn't on an UPS device (yet). During the 87a three minute warm-up time, I was not able to prevent a poacher from stealing my frequency (you and I both know who you are...). See you in the NAQP RTTY as K4TD. Hopefully KY4F will be here so we can run it as a multi-op. 73, Rick K4TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 92,106 Very limited operation this time. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 2,055,900 Thanks to all friends who worked with me. 73 and CUAGN! Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,435,014 TS850 100W ,A3s 3ele yagi + 1/2 slopers Excellent activity: 14055-14141 was full with RTTY !! Windy weather and high QRN at the end.Target was 1000 Q - done. Home station performed without any problems 73 de Nasko,LZ9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9W Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 2,086,986 Antenna: 6 elem., OWA Monoband Yagi, Dipole NW Amp: LZ9W monoband 2xGU74 Rig: FT 1000 MKV Field + Microham MKII Software: Writelog + MMTTY Thanks to all concerned in running the contest and to everyone for the Q's Condx was a good on Saturday the band closing around 2130Z, picked up a bit on Sunday and the band stayed open until 1830Z. Best hour was 80 QSO. 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 0 0 756 0 0 756 54.8 AS 0 0 182 0 0 182 13.2 NA 0 0 424 0 0 424 30.7 AF 0 0 6 0 0 6 0.4 SA 0 0 9 0 0 9 0.7 OC 0 0 3 0 0 3 0.2 I lost a lot of multilplier from AF and AS in afternoon both days because still missing the rotor for 6el OWA Yagi ,after hard winter season and I had possible to turn it only 4 times during a contest :( I hope that we will solve soon this problem with best rotor system . Thanks to all friends who worked with me. 73 Andy LZ2HM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MW0CRI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 336,311 Great contest as ever and great condtions!!,just ashame i did'nt have more time. work and family and to top it off a power cut on sunday afternoon for 5 hrs grrr! when it did come back the enthuiasm had disappeard did a little on 80 and 40 but i can only run about 30 watts on both bands due to tvi. highlight was working a ao station for a new one on rtty. many thanks to all for answering and replying. the log is now up on lotw if anyone needs me so see yo all in the vp6dx pile ups. 73 from a very sunny wales david mw0cri diolch am fawr (thank you) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0OJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 33,872 Conditions from here on Sunday morning were abhorrent - had to make sure elk didn't go through the radials on my vertical! Had a great time! Good to work a few fellow GMCC'ers and John, WA0LPV from my old stomping grounds in MN. Look forward to the next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1SV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,194 Just played aronud for about an hour once I figured out how to setup N1MM logger. Managed to finish my RTTY DXCC along the way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 461,168 Saturday conditions were much better than Sunday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2QT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,651,724 Did better than last year's HP SO1R attempt. Did lose a radio Saturday night which demoralized me enough to quit early and probably impacted my score. Hooked the spare radio up Sunday morning and charged on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,860,924 High winds, freezing cold WX, computer problems (software)?. To old and tried for the two of us. We planned on doing 40 hours but that didn't work out. Thanks for all the Q's. Wayne and Bruce ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 517,454 Using FSK and the Twin Peak Filter on the Pro3 vs AFSK and the standard filters is definitely better. I was surprised that I worked more stations on 20 than 40 and 80 since the SuperLoop80 is very good on both of those bands and is only a piece of wire on 20. My wires are OK but a tower and yagi would have been very nice. Maybe in my next life. I spent some time running on 80 with the inverted L and using the UWE that I hastily put up last week. It heard surprising well compared to the delta loop and I did A/B comparisons every chance I got. Considering that all my antennas are wire and I only ran 400 watts I'm happy with my totals. I ran the first 30 minutes at 150 watts but wasn't getting out. Once I switched the amp on things got much better. I managed to get 21 hours of operating time in but it seemed much longer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3CHX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 250,470 Icom IC-746 to 160-10 Mtr G5RV Inverted Vee @ 55ft apex to 20 ft at ends. Happy to see more 15 meter activity and even a 10 meter contact with CX3CCC tried calling CQ on ten myself but found no takers! Hopefully getting my beam up this summer will improve my Q's. I did double last years score so I'm improving! I need to work out my sleep time as I overslept and missed some good 20 mtr time on saturaday afternoon! All in all I am happy with the performance using only LP and a dipole! 73's and thanks for the contacts and Fun! N3CHX Ron! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ME Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,212 Time was limited due to family activities, but enjoyed the time available. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,039,572 Best performance from this station on RTTY ever! Jim (W4TMO) had his first exposure to RTTY contests and loved the experience; he's eager to get an interface and get his own station operating in that mode! It was great seeing old friends (that I often run into in CW contests) in this mode. Lots of fun. 73, Bert, N4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 407,313 My primary focus was on working New DXCC Countries and/or New Band Countries on RTTY. Two all-time New Ones were worked along with many new Band Countries. Since my Logging Program (NA) does not support WPX RTTY, I logged in the CQ WW RTTY format which tracked Zones and Countries and served my purpose nicely. Logging was done on my Laptop. I ran MMTTY and Packet on my Main Computer. Since the logging program was NOT linked to MMTTY, I simply sent the same serial number to everyone to avoid the complication of having to type out each report individually. Sorry about that. All QSO's were made by Search and Pounce (or ancient technology of Spot and Dial). I know, it's Way Past Time to incorporate N1MM into my system. Special Thanks to K4TD for converting my Log File into WPX format to determine my points and prefix totals and compute the final score. Tom N4KG in North Alabama Band QSO ZONE DXCC 80 66 12 24 40 134 18 50 20 200 18 60 15 60 18 37 10 3 1 2 --------------------- Total 463 67 173 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 169,012 Radio: FT-1000MP MkV Field, AL-1200 Ant: CC X-9 w/X-940 @ 17m, 80m half sloper @ 12m Log: N1MM v7.12.11 Club: Southern California Contest Club I just got on to give out a few Q's, and make sure I still know how to operate RTTY. 73, Bill N6WS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 158,796 Just playing around, trying to learn about RTTY and find glitches in station and software setup. Found 'em, now need to understand and then fix 'em! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,383,200 Low bands on Friday night were great. Lots of 6 pointers on 40 & 80. Saturday was good into EU. Saturday night and Sunday were terrible with high winds (40 - 50 mph). Amp reset a few times when the wind blew the the C-3 elements around. Only 2 Q's on 10 - band was open. NP3U and N1KVF were really. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 11,356 This is the First time I let Software do my Scoring.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8PUG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,964 Due to weather conditions (blizzard) was unable to tune dipole for 20 meters. Thanks to all who worked me in the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8TDL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 837,216 1 radio ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9TF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,988 Just played a little off and on today trying to fill in some rtty dxcc. Mostly 20m, but a few on 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 219,474 Very bad noise on first day, better on second day but propagation was down. Sorry to all who called that I could not copy. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 232,140 Part time effort, mainly after dark apart from Sun Afternoon. Got a few good runs going even for my LP station... nice to see 15 open up to eu, even if only briefly here. Heard the JA's on 20m at dusk here...but no JA's running that I could see. Paul - NN4F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP3U Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,877,335 Many Thanks to Carlos (WP4U) for his hospitality. I can only imagine what this contest is going to be like when we finally get some sunspots and some real 10 meter openings. Thanks to all of the 5 banders hope to work more of you next year. Rick KI1G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NV2G Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 41,208 Was hoping to put in more time, but it looks like our 3rd big windstorm in 3 weeks destroyed the top of by 80m GP. Condx seemed very good despite high local noise levels. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 257,656 With all of the family activities I was able to operate for just over 12 hours. The station is all new since major lighting strike in October 2007. Operating LP was very fun and will look forward to the return of my Alpha. Rig is FT-2000D running 100 Watts. Antenna for 40/80 is Fritzel and 20 is 7 Element Tribander. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2GEN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,014,288 Most of the QSO's with S/P, sometime it's hard if u are a small pistol with LowPower. Vy poor Probs. on 15M and no QSO on 10M!! But it's not bad for 22 Hours! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG6G Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 246,312 The propagation went up and down all weekend here at 63 degrees North! Yet, the mental goal of 400 Qs was reached. The reported numbers, as calculated by MixW, also include all the dupes. The path to North America from Scandinavia opened at 20-ish UTC as usual, but it was, as always, a major struggle to get any attention Still managed to work some 10 Ws on Saturday. Thanks for the QSOs! 73 Jari OH6BG/OG6G ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG8X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,908,207 We we're running this contest from great arkala station. Propagation was very nice for friday and saturday and aurora was not so big issue as always. Thank you for all Q's and multi's, CU in next contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,874,896 Radio A JST-245 + JRL-2000FH MosFet Radio B IC-7000 + THP 1.5KFX MosFet Tower #1 Cushcraft X9 & XM240 @ 24M Tower #2 Fritzel FB-53 @ 18M Thanks for the Qsos / vy 73 www.qsl.net/oh2bp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH9GIT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 140,067 Thank You boys! See You next time. de oh9git ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,836,070 Tnx fer QSOs, 73 Jarda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,164,722 ok2zc.nagano.cz full time SO2R...180qso on 2nd best hour 66qso 151x USA 19x JA 85 DXCC nice run USA on 20m some nice dx on 15m tnx for nice qso TI9KK, KL8DX, NL7V, XE2WWW, KG4SS good condx on low band tnx for nice test 73 Ludek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3R Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 2,249,270 My 1st RTTY WPX Contest. The conditions were best the 1st night, the good conditions on higher bands cleared 80m from the AB participants. The goals ( 1k QSOs nad 0,5k mults ) were achieved. Thanks to everybody for contacts. 73's Miro OK3R ( OK1DVM ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK4RQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,232,916 Thanks for QSOs 73 Pavel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ4B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 303,530 Running emergency station, because normal antennes are temporarely out. But I wanted to bring the OQ4 prefix on the air anyhow because it was possible the only such prefix. Setup: FT1000 MkV + HA1YA amp running @ 350 W, G5RV emergency wire, N1MM Hope to be QRV for WPX SSB with normal station HI 73' OQ4B op. Wim ON4BHQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OY3JE Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,981,980 Hi, The conditions where bad duo to strong Aurora. But great contest, my last WPX RTTY contest was in 98! TNX all for great contest. Jan, OY3JE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,811,236 Tnx to KK9A (P40A) for his 5 Star antenna system. First time in Aruba. I will be back! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,453,296 At the end, this claimed score is less than 1.5% lower than last year. The numeric details are also very close. But, the journey was quite different. First of all, my sincere thanks to the hundreds of stations who worked P49X this weekend. You make the contest an exhillarating experience on this end! It's too bad we all can't know what its like first hand. I began the contest with one Alpha crippled and only able to run 500 watts. I kept it on 80 and 15, although I agrued with myself about whether the lower power should be there or on the money bands of 40 and 20. Who knows? My band breakdown numbers are very close to last year with the largest difference being 100 less QSOs on 15. But, that can be explained by propagation and subsequent activity level on that band. I suspect the main disadvantage of 500 vs. 1500 watts was psychological, but I was well aware of that factor and tried hard to minimize it. As N6BV says, no matter what your station actual capability, you're only as loud as you "think" you are. For the first time ever, I had catastropic computer problems during the contest. Just one hour in, the 40 meter computer froze completly. This required a hard reset that not only wastes a few minutes, but causes the loss of the carefully developed run frequency on that side. And, trying to maintain a presence on 80 while renewing the software on the failed computer was challenging and distracting. It "helped" that at 01z, 80 was not doing much from here so it didn't need 100% of my attention. Although I got the computer back the network wasn't quite right for some reason and I ran the next eight hours with the two logs unsync'd. Compounding this issue was the 74 practice QSOs that must have not gotten erased from one of the backup files on one of the three computers ... they integrated into the contest log, inflating the totals and giving me a few non-real dupes for those I had worked on the same band during the practice Thursday night. Not a big deal, all of this, as I straightened it all out at my 09-13z break. For the first few hours Saturday morning, then, the computers and network seemed solid as it usually is. But, once again, right in the middle of the peak rate mid-day, the same computer (20 meters this time) got confused and WriteLog's networking failed. So, I went the rest of the day until my 19z hour-long break to reset everything again. Fortunately, for the rest of the contest, the computers and network remained solid. So, after my three-hour sleep break early Sunday morning (09-14z), I start getting the radios and amps moved from 80/40 to 20/15 and discover the 20-meter Yagi is fatally bad. The VSWR is infinite, although it seemed to work OK on receive. Luckily we have a C31 tri-bander on once side of the station, but in this case the wrong side, so I did a bit of rewiring to "move" it to the 20 side where I wanted to run 20 meters (due to the amplifier problem). That's most of the whining part of the event. The operating part was a lot of fun as always. Despite my initial rate being ruined by the computer problem, I rallied on the low bands and actually wound up ahead a bit compared to last year when I took my first break nine hours in. However, Saturday's rates on 20 and 15 were lower and I fell behind. This was discouraging, but every year can't always be as good or better than the prior years. By Sunday morning's break, with only 2-1/2 hours of operating time left, I was down by 200 QSOs and several hundred points. The mults seemed be in about the same place. Last year, Sunday was relatively much slower that Saturday on 20 and 15, so I was expecting to end up significantly behind last year. Then, 20 and 15 from 1430-1700z Sunday exploded with rate. Both bands had instant pile-ups (thanks, Packet!) that didn't let up. It was hard to let go with my contest clock rolled over to 30 hours. This last ditch spurt got me to only 58 QSOs behind last year and only 165K points lower. Incredibly, the mults are down by two out of 744, dead on the predictable trendline of QSOs-per-prefix. Sunday's rate was the highest (QSO) rate across both years. Of course, by far the highes point rate is during the first six hours on 80 and 40. But, this Sunday's experience makes me wonder what 80 and 40 will be like at the end of the 48-hour contest period and whether I should have put my last 2.5 hours there instead. After I finish breakfast (it's 2pm now in Aruba), P43A and I start removing antennas and tower sections in preparation for a complete station rebuild when AE6Y, W6LD and N6BT arrive on Wednesday. No rest for contest addicts! Once again, many thanks to station owners Andy, AE6Y, and John, W6LD, for sharing their wonderful "cottage" with me. And, of course, all the contest participants, especially the more casual ones who make contesting the great sport that it is for us more serious types. 73, Ed - P49X (W0YK) 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % NA 329 643 487 351 0 1810 59.2 EU 173 442 354 161 0 1130 37.0 AS 4 33 11 0 0 48 1.6 SA 5 14 10 16 0 45 1.5 AF 3 6 2 0 0 11 0.4 OC 2 9 2 1 0 14 0.5 QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z 8/6 77/64 --+-- --+-- --+-- 85/70 85/70 D1-0100Z 32/11 95/59 - - - 127/70 212/140 D1-0200Z 34/11 76/32 - - - 110/43 322/183 D1-0300Z 42/20 95/50 - - - 137/70 459/253 D1-0400Z 45/17 86/33 - - - 131/50 590/303 D1-0500Z 50/13 67/21 - - - 117/34 707/337 D1-0600Z 56/17 68/28 - - - 124/45 831/382 D1-0700Z 32/2 54/16 - - - 86/18 917/400 D1-0800Z 28/8 28/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 56/14 973/414 10 D1-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 973/414 60 D1-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 973/414 60 D1-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 973/414 60 D1-1200Z - - 9/2 7/1 - 16/3 989/417 50 D1-1300Z - - 69/15 33/1 - 102/16 1091/433 D1-1400Z - - 81/16 57/5 - 138/21 1229/454 D1-1500Z - - 83/19 72/7 - 155/26 1384/480 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- 84/7 59/11 --+-- 143/18 1527/498 D1-1700Z - - 69/13 17/2 - 86/15 1613/513 D1-1800Z - - 70/11 53/6 - 123/17 1736/530 D1-1900Z - - 60/8 60/8 - 120/16 1856/546 12 D1-2000Z - - - - - 0/0 1856/546 60 D1-2100Z - 21/4 50/10 - - 71/14 1927/560 D1-2200Z - 28/7 47/8 - - 75/15 2002/575 D1-2300Z - 32/6 53/15 - - 85/21 2087/596 D2-0000Z 12/6 37/7 25/5 --+-- --+-- 74/18 2161/614 D2-0100Z 16/3 76/14 - - - 92/17 2253/631 D2-0200Z 19/3 48/10 - - - 67/13 2320/644 D2-0300Z 16/1 53/7 - - - 69/8 2389/652 D2-0400Z 28/2 53/12 - - - 81/14 2470/666 D2-0500Z 38/0 45/8 - - - 83/8 2553/674 D2-0600Z 28/4 40/8 - - - 68/12 2621/686 D2-0700Z 26/2 39/7 - - - 65/9 2686/695 D2-0800Z 6/0 29/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 35/7 2721/702 13 D2-0900Z - - - - - 0/0 2721/702 60 D2-1000Z - - - - - 0/0 2721/702 60 D2-1100Z - - - - - 0/0 2721/702 60 D2-1200Z - - - - - 0/0 2721/702 60 D2-1300Z - - - - - 0/0 2721/702 60 D2-1400Z - - 26/2 21/5 - 47/7 2768/709 36 D2-1500Z - - 71/8 70/9 - 141/17 2909/726 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- 68/8 80/8 --+-- 148/16 3057/742 D2-1700Z - - 1/0 - - 1/0 3058/742 Total: 516/1261147/406 866/147 529/63 0/0 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 4J 2 2 4X 2 1 3 7X 1 1 9A 1 4 6 11 CM 2 1 3 CN 2 2 CT 2 1 3 CT3 1 2 3 D4 1 1 DL 33 77 75 38 223 E7 2 2 EA 4 19 11 7 41 EA6 1 1 EA8 1 1 2 4 ER 1 1 EU 1 4 4 9 F 14 23 15 9 61 FM 1 1 G 11 17 27 7 62 GI 1 2 2 5 GM 3 2 5 1 11 GU 1 1 1 3 GW 1 2 1 2 6 HA 4 8 9 5 26 HB 1 4 2 3 10 HC 1 1 HI 1 1 2 HK 1 1 1 3 HR 1 1 I 14 30 30 32 106 J3 1 1 J6 1 1 JA 11 5 16 K 292 573 428 307 1600 KG4 1 1 1 1 4 KH6 1 4 1 1 7 KL 2 1 3 KP4 2 1 1 4 LA 6 6 LU 2 3 3 8 LX 1 1 1 3 LY 2 1 2 1 6 LZ 2 4 2 1 9 OA 1 1 2 OE 1 5 2 8 OH 6 9 13 4 32 OK 11 25 16 5 57 OM 1 9 3 4 17 ON 4 3 9 5 21 OY 1 1 OZ 1 1 1 4 7 P4 2 2 1 2 7 PA 1 9 9 5 24 PY 1 4 5 9 19 S5 4 12 7 4 27 SM 7 8 9 3 27 SP 11 28 22 3 64 SV 1 10 2 2 15 TA1 1 1 TF 1 1 TI 1 1 2 TI9 1 1 TK 1 1 UA 10 62 33 2 107 UA2 1 1 UA9 4 13 5 22 UK 2 2 UN 2 2 UR 11 35 13 5 64 V3 1 1 1 1 4 VE 26 50 46 32 154 VK 1 1 VU 1 1 XE 2 8 7 8 25 YB 1 1 YL 6 6 4 16 YN 1 1 YO 1 7 5 2 15 YU 3 7 3 2 15 YV 1 4 5 Z3 1 2 1 4 ZF 1 1 1 3 ZL 1 4 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1NB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,050 first attempt on rtty contest TS830S N1MM and MMTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1NX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 121,680 FT920 - 100w Vertical 10/15/20 meters - R5 2El. 40 meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1ZV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 34,000 THIS IS MY FIRST RTTY CONTEST, I LIKE IT! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 689,610 Nice opening on 20 at last hour of the contest. I don´t remember doing so good before, using Single Band Low Power, at this contest. Was nice to meet a lot of good friends, and feel what can be done for ARRL CW next weekend... FT1000 mkV Field, 100w, KT34XA @22m, N1MM + MMTTY with MK2R+. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53M Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 157,472 Unfortunately my effort in this contest ended faster than expected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54O Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 865,215 Made first RTTY QSOs in 33 years of my hamradio activity. RIG: IC756 + HM PA 80m: dipol 40m: delta loop 20-10m: 3el ECO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,306,880 Good condx at the start! USA and JA on 15 m, NP3U even on 10 m on Sunday. Lot of new callsigns with exotic prefixes. Some noisy TX with bad cliks. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56G Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 2,201 Just couple of hours for setup and software testing ... thanks for all good OPs that managed to decode me! 73 de tom*/s56g ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AJ Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 354,270 TRX IC 756PRO II 80W ANT Morgain 40/80m vy 73,s de Janez S57AJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 444,822 Just part time job! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,566,068 Team: Danny, T93M; Boris, T93Y; Kula, T94KC and Edin, T97M CQ Station: ICOM IC-756PRO-III Alpha 8100 Dell P-III 1GHz desktop + Win-Test v3.19.0 EZ Master Monitoring Station: ICOM-IC-756PRO JRC JRL-2000 Dell Inspiron 640m laptop + Win-Test v3.19.0 Antennas: 80m - dipole at 24m 40m - 2el. Cushcraft XM-240 at 18m fixed to USA + 1/4 wave vertical 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 Beverage antennas made a great difference on Low Bands. All 1379 80m and 40m QSO's were made using beverages for receive. CQ WPX RTTY Contest would be even more interesting in MS category with standard (10 minute or 6 band changes per full hour) MS rule adopted. As both CQ and MULT station at T93M are at the same desk we can easily manage the proper serial numbers :-) T93M via DJ2MX or K2PF. 73's Boris T93Y (aka TOEY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2OFL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,550,092 Great contest. Used 500W, 2 element Yagi, N1MM+MMTTY. Need 4 hours for the full 30H contest to complete the log with a better score... Hope to do it next WW RTTY. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY7C Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 501,568 Small 80m activity, only last night was a bit better with many PA, G's joined the contest. Many USA stns heard but only few answered. Tnx all for QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ7HO Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 987 Small activity on 10m yet. Tnx LU1HF for nice QSO and prefix on 10M. 73, Andrei (UZ7HO) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31TB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,317,099 Some issues with N1MM losing the number randomly with a band change. Local power failure for about 4 hrs. sand flies had lunch on us had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2UP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,954,204 Had a very good time but the rest ahead will be much appreciated and needed in other words I'm dead tired!! Numerous repeats necessary (qrm) and a few B4 still in there...This was a fun weekend and conditions were pretty good especially saturday. Should have planned to end it a lot sooner than I did. Got tossed around a few times and had to move from my calling frequency, always very frustrating but when you're the little guy you just go ahead and MOVE. Watch out the amps will be on for Bartg and I won't shy away that easily then!!! hihi Thanks all for the fun and will look for you again next time. Fabi va2up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,837,280 SO1R - SO1R - SO1R - SO1R Friday evening/night really was tough.... Maximum power was 500 watts output... ( city lot - neighbours ) No low band beverages, just line noise etc etc Condx better on Saturday and Sunday... Planned on 30 hours, but other duties called.... FT1000MP - Alpha 76A 4 ele SteppIR at 72' 2 ele 40 mtr 4O2BA Hygain at 82' 80 Mtr Inv V ( dummy load ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7RN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 836,910 See VE7UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 470,850 N1MM Logger + MMTTY FT2000 + SB221 3 ele. CL33 @ 45' 40M half-squares (one E-W, one N-S) 80M delta loop Score history: Year Qs WPX Score ------------------------- 2008 612 258 470,850 21.0 hrs HP 2007 972 420 1,154,160 28.5 hrs HP 2006 702 284 578,792 28.2 hrs 2005 584 264 422,664 2004 225 114 67,009 2003 344 149 147,212 Space Wx was the determining factor this year. Started out with not-so-bad conditions ( SFI=71 A=4 K=1) but two G1-level events seemed to wipe out the bands for many hours both days, including most of Sunday. Contest ended with SFI=73 A=19 K=3. Needless to say, it was not a good contest weekend. This really is a black hole for RF. At one point, during one of the blackout periods, I tried calling a needed W4 more than 10 times over five minutes to see if I would ever get through. I didn't. He was S9+, and answered VE6s, W7s in WA, even a VE7 from south of here, but couldn't hear my KW. Awesome. The only EU opening on 20M here was around 11 p.m. local, when EU and AS Russia opened with raspy signals. Managed to snag a few WPX there, but hoped for much better on Sat. and Sun. mornings. Saturday morning the opening was almost nonexistant, producing only single Qs with 9A2, EA3, OH, GM and I. Sunday didn't provide any workable EU signals here. So much for hopes of a half-respectable mult count. Pointed to JA a few times Fri. and Sat. early evenings and worked a trickle but nothing compared to what was once a mighty river of JA stations. Sure miss that easy-to-work honeypot of mults -- the only beneficial attribute that deep-woods British Columbia offers for contesting. I could have worked the full 30 hours in this one, but with the bottom of the cycle here and solar storms (aren't we supposed to get a free pass from storms at solarmin?), for hours at a time there just weren't any stations to work. So instead I napped, read, watched a couple movies. Mostly I napped :) Saw lots of spots for 15M but I don't know where you guys were finding the stations. Sure weren't any there most of the times I was there. Worked 16 total. Should have gone to 40M earlier in the evenings. Even when I did go there, the 40M half-squares seemed ineffective even with nearly a kilowatt into them at times. West <-- East one-way propagation only, until quite late in the evening. Picked away at 40M and 80M, beating last year's Q total on 40M but down 11 mults. Didn't come close on Qs or mults on 80M. Tale of the tape really shows on 20M, though. 20M comparison: Qs Points Mults --- ------ ----- 2007 563 1,346 273 2008 323 690 150 The right-angle 80M delta loop has performed poorly for several consecutive contests now, which will likely be its undoing (heh, look at me threaten an antenna to do better next time. Desperate times call for... you know. ARRL DX CW is next weekend, after all). It's fed 1/4-wave from the apex for vertical radiation, and perhaps that low-angle choice explains its dog-like action domestically but will work in my favor for the DX test. Sure didn't hear much of anything this weekend. Worked a few VE7s again -- VE7CC, VE7CF, VE7CUS, VE7UF, VA7RN, and saw VA7KOJ and VE7KS on the spots, so the gang was out in force to make the mults easy to get. Overall, a lousy outing in one of the great RTTY contests. Be back for more any time, hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2AXO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 844,118 CGQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 184,140 Again Murphy found my pager number... RIG FT-1000MP MKV Field, 300W ANT A3S, G5RV INTERFACE MicroKeyer II, MIXW 2.18 73' cu next time Phil VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3AP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,791,450 Station #1: Yaesu FT-1000MP, H-B Amplifier 1Kw, PK-232, PC Pentium 233 MHz Station#2: Kenwood TS-940, Alpha 87A, PK-232, PC Pentium 150 MHz Antennas: Bencher Skyhawk (Fixed to EU), TH-5, 402CD, dipole for 80 meter Comments: THANKS to Don VE3RM to be a great host and very helpful. It was planned as full effort SO2R, but Murphy visited the station last week and before the contest starts, we lost the beverage and the Skyhawk's rotor was stuck, leave me with only one rotary beam, a TH5 good for SSB band, not the best for RTTY. I tried SO2R AB HP for second time in RTTY, but using old setup: 2 PK-232, 2 Pentium I PC running DOS 6.2 (only one monitor and only one keyboard using a switch between the PCs) and WF1B, not cluster, my only target was having fun. I'd started two hours later, because I couldn't configure WF1B for 2 radios, it was was a little challenging and I had had several PC's reset because RF inside shack using the TH5 with high SWR. I spent the first day trying to work as many stations as possible, always running in the band with highest rates and only made 20 QSOs in 2nd radio. The second day I've tried to maximize my score and I was running EU for 6 straight hours in same frequency in 20 meter, but I was starting to having calls from near stations as W8 and W9 with very strong signal (sporadic E I was guessing), move the 2nd radio to 15 meter (It was S&P in 40 all day) and I was hearing some stations, I made a mistake and move the running to 15 meter, drop the rate, trying to get mults, move to 10 meter, work two more mults in 10, back to 15 but suddenly Murphy came for another visit and the TH5 died. I could believe my only rotary tribander was lost, therefore I move again to 20 and start running US (not more EU) with the beam looking to EU, as it was difficult, I've move to 40, but after one hour of a good running, the 40 meter beam stop to work, I got desperate, but Don make some test and he found, the 40 meter tuner was dead, remove the tuner, reduce the power and keeping running USA, at 20 GMT I've made the biggest mistake of the weekend, I made a bad calculation of operation time (WF1B doesn't show operation time) and stopped after almost 29 hours of operation, one hour earlier. I figured it that, last night, meanwhile I was sleeping in the bed (post contest nightmare). I made less than 100 QSOs in the second radio, I need a big improvement in SO2R operation. Working my first JA ever in 40 from VE3, having D2NX calling me in two bands and 2 different HZ1 was great also. Sorry for all the stations I couldn't copy in 80, but without the beverages, it is very hard copying the weakest signals between the noise I'm planning to be again at VE3RM for CQ 160 SSB. (with the beverages working again) 73, Claudio VE3AP-VE2DWA-LU7DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 408,576 Sunday was a waste. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FRX Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 172,038 First serious effort in this contest. What a blast. But, the TS-950SDX was on the fritz, so I had tuse my old trust TS-140S, with no SSB filters! Mad for frustrating running as anyone nearby would wipe out my receive. Lots of "AGN AGN ???". Managed a few Europeans, but nothing from SA or PAC or JA. Great conditions Friday night, but the pits on Saturday, during 80km/hr -25°C winter storm! No antenna for 20m and too much noise on 40m, so went with SOSP/80 entry and freed up my days for keeping the wood stove going! Ran 50 watts to keep the rig happy and used a 90ft longwire at 30ft for antenna. Also use Rigblaster pro and N1MM with MMTTY software. Worked great. Thanks for all the QSOs. QSL 100% by LOTW and eQSL. 73, Jeff VE3FRX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 63,000 Finally figured out how to run RTTY in the last hour of the contest. Was mostly all keyboard before that. Point and Click...man, much faster. Cant wait for nxt RTTY event. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,707,998 Friday night was poor here, only 189 Qs in 5.5 hours. Saturday and Sunday were not bad. Only JAs and VKs worked were on 40m!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD/W4 Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,829,370 I had been looking for a new location to operate as doing the hamstick thing with a battery powered rig from the car was getting to be a bit old. So Ron KP2N offered me the use of the St. Petersburg ARC (SPARC) club station W4GAC for the weekend. In addition several club members offered their services to operate and get more experience with RTTY contesting.So we launched a M/S HP effort. Only one significant glitch appeared at the beginning of the contest when the mult station computer crashed and could not be revived. This resulted in us using only the run station which doubled as a mult station during the slower times. As running was quite successful I don't think we lost out too much given the restrictions in the rules for band changes on the mult station. In all a successful venture especially as some of the ops had prior commitments at the Orlando hamfest which affected most of Saturday. A special thanks to Ron KP2N, Bernie KP2W, Pete KB9LXM, Bob N2ESP and Don VE3XD who all took part in the event. Thanks too to the SPARC club who generously gave of their station for the weekend. 73, Don VE3XD/W4 Station: Yaesu Mark V Field, AL-811H at 500 watts Tennadyne T-8 Log Periodic at 65', homebrew vertical for 40m, dipoles for 40/80 Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 305,325 Well that was interesting!!! Because of plenty of other time commitments, I was in and out for much of the contest, missing the first evening almost entirely and the EU opening if any, on Saturday. Condition were terrible on 80 and 40 for the first 14 hours of the contest. Saturday afternoon saw 15m open to North and South AF as well as the Caribbean and SA. No 10m of course. 20m was just so-so and I could hear other NA stations working EU or AS and I could not hear a peep of the DX. To make matters worse, we winds of 70-80 km for much of the first 30 hours. My elevated radials took a beating and may need repair as soon as it warms up. I will have to assess the damage. 70km winds and -35 degrees temps, what a great weekend to stay inside! Normally I have an opening to JA and ZL on 40m around 1200Z. Hit the radio at 1100z both mornings and no such luck, plenty of JA's being worked by west coast and southern stations, nothing here. :( On Sunday morning, despite no south pacific opening on 40m, 20m seem to open normally with the Carribean and Mexico coming in first. Then all of sudden at about 15:00z it was like someone inserted a 30 dB attenuator in the antenna line. All 20m signals to the north, east and SE dropped sharply. Signals due south seemed unaffected. This knocked out any EU opening. Just as suddenly a few northern EU signals (OH,OX) appeared for a few moments around 18:00. Summing it up, horrible propagation, strong winds blowing the dipole and vertical around, typical winter contesting from VE4 land. Thanks for the patience and repeats, hope VE4 made it into your logs. Ed VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5CPU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 102,304 Managed only about 9.5 hours on and off over the weekend. Most interesting contacts was JA long path when the A Index was at 15 and the rate was almost non-existent. Sound like propagation was much better further south, it sucked from SK. Thanks to all those who dropped by to exchange QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7CC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 556,698 First time ever on RTTY from home station! It was a last minute decision. I was only going to make a few contacts, but it was too much fun to quit. Next project is to figure out how all the sofware works. Worked 4 times as many Europeans on 40 compared to 20. Worked 1 on 20 (OH6R) and 4 on 40.(too many to list) FT1000D TL922 N1MM 80m 4 square, 40m 2 ele yagi at 105 ft, 20m 5 ele mono yagi at 100 ft. 2x 480 ft beverages. (reverseable) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7UF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,003,304 The VE7UF station facilities were split between 2 stations using 2 calls, VE7UF & VA7RN again this year. We do this in the interest of reducing operator boredom in low activity contests. The 2 stations don't spot or work each other. Compaired to the CW contests the RTTY contests seem to me to be kind of "beer league", and we did comsume some during the contest. Extremely poor EU openings and very few JAs. This is getting to be a disappointingly usual story. Otherwise, the activity was better than expected. Our operator average age is about 70 years so we were a sleepy looking bunch when it was all over. The VA7RN station score is 835,910 points. Our thanks to all that called. Duane Sandmeyer VE7UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 567,270 With the QRN... Not much fun. Mostly S&P this time. Hopefully I was a mult for a few. Have to tell you, I was impressed with the YN2 - H7 operation. Seemed like within 10 minutes after the contest - I had matches on LOTW from these guys. A "Way to Go" award to them. Thanks all... 73 Andy (VE9DX) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,472,692 Strange conditions on 20M,crippled antennas and dying amp,made for an interesting weekend.Lots of fun but my eyes are tired of staring at that monitor.Snow continues to pile up here, so badly needed antenna work is going to be late coming this spring.Thanks to the organizers (CQ) and for all the Q's.Hope we got into your log.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,673,250 Biggest surprise in a RTTY contest: K1LZ and VE3EJ. Putting your toe in the water guys? Welcome to senior's contesting! Wanted to beat my 2007 score. Did. Thanks to those who helped. 73, -Robby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 23,064 Got on for a few hours to work DX and hand out points. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LSD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,313,322 What was going to be a M/2 had to be a M/S as the second computers (laptop) battery failed and would not allow use of the computer with external power. Still no real conditions on 15. Had a good EU opening on 20 on Sunday. Lots of fun and thanks to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 105,570 Had fun once again. This year more than doubled my score from last year in Qs and points. Thanks for all the Qs... look for you on the next one. Maybe I'll run High Power for a change. 73 de W0PC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 140,382 When I started out, I was beginning to wonder if my radio was getting out. No responses at all. But, things finally came to life and I did better than I had anticipated I would, but not as good as I would have liked to do. My new FT-950 performed better than I had hoped, and the roofing filtes made a huge difference over the FT-920. Thanks to all who gave me a contact. Looking forward to the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0TUP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 44,004 Had fun already waiting for next year... Picked up a couple of new states and some new countries. Thanks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CDX Class: SOAB(R) LP Total Score = 243,756 ok... It's time for a good Yagi. HEXBEAM here I come ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UJ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 76,884 Complete remote control. My summertime shack is behind my detached garage. During the wintry WX here, it is seldom used- and really cold. I tried to get a simple setup in the house for listening, at least. Here is how the simple setup has evolved; 3 Windows Computers, 2 XP Laptops each w/ embedded wireless LAN, 1 win2k server. 2 Linksys Wireless Routers. 1 Laptop, the command Center with VNC, on a 12" display, to Laptop #2; Laptop 2 N1MM Logger/MMTTY engine for keying radio, has one on-board serial port directly to Icom 756 Pro II- CI-V. LP-100 Virtual Control Panel for Wattmeter. 2 Ports connected through Ethernet to serial server connected directly to on-board ethernet port. 1 port for PTT and true FSK, 1 port Has Winkey (Unused on RTTY) 2 more ports connected to Computer #3 located in winter shack (Spider Node, APRS server/WX Station). 1 port for LP-100 Vector Wattmeter and 1 port (PTT) for keying the amplifier. The winter shack and house network are connected through a Linksys (DD-WRT) wireless network. Radio Icom 756 Pro-II RigBlaster Plus 75' coax AL-80b Amplifier LP-100 Wattmeter with SWR protection for AMP 75' Coax to R-5 Vertical I called CQ most of the time although no true run rates developed. I selected the Vertical to reduce potential RFI problems, and I thought up the amplifier keying at about 2000z Sunday, with no one answering CQ's I made most contacts with 50w. then with about 350 watts. I did not notice any keying delays or hot switching, but I would like to incorporate switching the amp in a bit earlier and out a bit later for safety's sake. My goal was 200 QSOs, but the service pager went off that occupied the last hour. Now I have to go outside in the cold to shut the AMP off. More serial ports for switching power/antennas/bands?!? 73's Thanks for the QSO's, this was fun, and warm! Jason W1UJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2NRA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 305,928 The biggest kick I got from this contests was working TI9KK on 40 meters after calling for a whole minute, (actually 61 seconds in my printout). I am not bragging. If you saw how bad my antennas are you'd say impossible. The most amazing part of this was when I tuned to the TI9KK's frequency no one was long calling. No one was tailending. Everyone, at least for the few minutes I was on frequency, was courtious and patient. I don't think I've ever seen that before. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2RTY Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 531,632 Four less QSO's than last year. Must be getting old! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,664,852 A little better score than last year. Conditions were great at the start. I knew from prop forcasts that Sunday was going to be slow and it was. However, family obligations required Sunday operation to reach 30 hours. My 100W barely made it over the pond on Sunday morning. The low bands were excellent on Friday and Saturday nights. It was fun watching Live Scores even though I could not keep up with Jose N1BAA using KS1Y. N1MM + MMTTY, IC706 and MonstIR worked well. No Power failures during the 50+ MPH wind gusts on Sunday. Thanks to XYL who agreed to cut our warm weather vacation short for this contest. Thanks for all the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HOD Class: M/S LP Total Score = 182,104 Very good contest! Our first time as a new club to enter a contest together. The R8 performed flawless. W4HOD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 128,248 Limited time but lots of fun with great turnaout. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UEF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 275,400 My time was limited. But had lots of fun. Glad to work many new calls. Thanks to contest sponsors and thanks for all participants. ue Rick W4UEF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4UK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 259,884 Wire dipoles only ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4ZE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,246,720 This contest war really FUN. I hit my 30 hour mark at 1817z and had a really good run going on 15M. Speaking of 15M, what a pleasure to see Cycle 24 starting up and to have such good conditions on 20/15 for a change. I tried my hnad at SO2R but the second radio is on a Carolina Windom 80 with no amp and just an old IC-706 so it left some to be desired as compared to the IC756PRO3, PW-1 and beam. All that I have for filtering is a couple of ¼ wave stubs. Pretty poor setup. Needless to say, I did not do much SO2Ring. I was able to achieve an all time QSO and score for me in any contest. I am pleased. Thank you to all this worked me and the ones that spotted me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5AP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 186,760 10.75 HOURS FUN CONTEST THANKS TO THE CQ ORGANIZERS NICE 10M OPENING TO S.AMERICA SUNDAY OPERATED LP ON SUNDAY WITH ONLY SLIGHTLY LOWER RATES THAN HP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 67,983 Omni VI+, AL-1200, 80 meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, MMTTY & N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7NNN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 206,358 Great FB contest as usual. Kinda dead out here west on Sunday. Pretty happy with Hex beam at 30', dipole and 55 watts. Boy, some unusual Japanese calls this time around. Thought I was copying jibberish and turned out to be real calls hihi. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 17,976 With a bad case of the flu here, decided to get on and see if I couldn't work at least 100 Q's. Did it with about 1 minute to spare. Hated to miss this one as this is by far one of my favorites, but got sick with the flu bug Thursday and just not up to it. 73 Tom W7WHY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 16,660 Checked out RTTY gear. Quitting early to pack up for T32. See you from there Feb 12-26. 73, Bob W7YAQ / T32YA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9KB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 431,858 First WPX Test ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA2MNO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 221,665 Friday and Saturday evening were great for DX on 40M. The cold here in MN didn't affect the noise on the bands this weekend like it did during NAQP CW.Overall, it was a good time and I hope the new DX use LoTW for this contest. 73 - Bob WA2MNO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4MSG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 290,904 LIMITED OP TIME BUT GREAT CONTEST THNAKS FOR THE CONTACTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4YDL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 841,115 I was able to participate 25 hours in this one with my other obligations intervening. I decided to try this at low power and see if I could hit a 1000 QSO’s. Well I just couldn’t quite do it. Endless pages of unanswered CQ’s. After awhile I didn’t know where to point the beams. I must have missed the 15M opening – it didn’t happen here. 40 meters was the money band and it was always giving. 20 meters did not produce the big EU runs of last year and where was Japan ? Only 3 Q’s with them. It was nice to have a ZL in the log and I did snag 4U1UN. All in all, a lot of fun. 73, Jamie WB4YDL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB6BFG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 99,528 Plenty of fun. Hoped to break a 100k but the darned computer wouldn't cooperate... Anyone have issues MicroHam/WriteLog/Crashing??? 73 de WB6BFG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC4J Class: M/S LP Total Score = 89,280 brief effort Friday night Saturday morning ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 104,481 Just played around and gave out my rare prefix. Enjoyed it as always. 73, all de WF4W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WK4Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,017,336 Murphy was present all weekend. But managed to keep things on the air. I would like to thank all of you who spotted me so many times, it really helped. Thank you to Chris, K4ADU, and Bruce, WD4LBR who participated at my station, and helped to make a difference. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WM6A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 401,700 Rig : FT100MP, ALPHA 91B, N1MM LOGGER Antennas : FORCE12 - 1EL 80, 2EL 40, 5EL 20, 5EL 15, 4EL 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WW4LL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,870,094 Had some software issues to work thru that were setup errors on our part and we should have known better. Lost an amp 45 mins before start of contest, had a failure of the 10 meter antenna, lost the PA on the 20 meter station during the contest and rotor control failed on the SA tower. Thank God for W8JI who is an amazing technician and friend. He diagnosed and repaired the amp in 40 mins with 5 mins to spare before the start of the contest and made repairs to all of the other failures which minimized the downside of those failures. Thank you very much Tom! Signals great from EU Sat as we started working EUs at 2:50 pm EST on 40 meters. Slower start Sun in that direction. Pleasantly surprised with 15 meter openings. Had a great time with our group of friends for this outing and once again, always a great time with Charlie, KI5XP in the group. All of the ops did a great job! Thanks to everyone that worked us! See ya'll in Dayton. 73'.....Fred WW4LL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX5S Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,035,904 We had a great time at W6YX (Stanford U) - WX5S @W6YX again this year. The weather was great, not like last year, when we had rain and lots of rain QSB on the beams making it a challenge to get good copy. Rebar, N6CCH, formerly KI6CCH returned again this year from his intro last year to anchor our team of seven operators with a 36 hour run, followed by a 5 hour nap and then closed the contest with another 7 hours at the transceiver. Risto W6RK and Rebar N6CCH opened the contest on Friday afternoon, local time, with a couple of misfires, as the wrong contest was loaded from the pre-event setup earlier in the week. This caused us to miss a few QSOs in the beginning and hand out some strange exchanges. Sorry if you were the recipient of one of those. Lesson learned and will not be replicated. This is good reason for the practice sessions, as we would have recognized the issue sooner and made the necessary change before the start of the contest, not during it. Tom ND2T brought some much needed support during the open of 20m early Saturday Morning, local time while we migrated off 80m and 40m and onto 20m and 15m. Dean N6DE and Matt WX5S provided operational assistance through the evening of Saturday with Risto W6RK and Dave AA6XV following into the evening. Mork K6UFO helped us close out the contest on Sunday with AA6XV and N6CCH. We ended the contest with no Internet service and thus had to rely on traditional S&P techniques for the last 17 hours of the event. This year we were still unable to work many stations in EU, but did manage to offset that with 19% of our contacts from Asia. Our QSO count 2272 was up from 1692 our effort last year, mostly in part to having access to all the necessary antenna and proper maintenance of the radios and amplifiers. Prefixes worked 536 were up a bit as compared to our previous year count of 528. We squeezed in a few exchanges on 10m after agreeing to QSY with W6OAT to 10m. Thanks Rusty, we may not have picked those up had you not made that suggestion!!  Thanks to all for the QSOs and spots. QSO/Pref by hour and band Hour 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 78/50 34/17 --+-- 112/67 112/67 D1-0100Z - 32/23 58/23 10/3 - 100/49 212/116 D1-0200Z 27/6 67/37 13/5 - - 107/48 319/164 D1-0300Z 38/4 43/17 - - - 81/21 400/185 D1-0400Z 53/19 25/13 - - - 78/32 478/217 D1-0500Z 37/11 23/5 - - - 60/16 538/233 D1-0600Z 12/4 25/12 - - - 37/16 575/249 D1-0700Z 11/1 27/8 - - - 38/9 613/258 D1-0800Z 23/3 30/5 --+-- --+-- --+-- 53/8 666/266 D1-0900Z 14/4 32/6 - - - 46/10 712/276 D1-1000Z 1/0 24/6 - - - 25/6 737/282 D1-1100Z 10/7 23/4 - - - 33/11 770/293 D1-1200Z 19/5 33/7 - - - 52/12 822/305 D1-1300Z 9/3 31/3 - - - 40/6 862/311 D1-1400Z 2/0 30/6 8/1 - - 40/7 902/318 D1-1500Z - 9/4 19/2 - - 28/6 930/324 D1-1600Z --+-- 1/0 24/13 3/2 --+-- 28/15 958/339 D1-1700Z - - 33/22 26/6 - 59/28 1017/367 D1-1800Z - - 38/13 21/2 - 59/15 1076/382 D1-1900Z - - 60/11 37/7 - 97/18 1173/400 D1-2000Z - - 70/12 36/5 - 106/17 1279/417 D1-2100Z - - 17/4 17/5 - 34/9 1313/426 D1-2200Z - - 68/12 6/2 - 74/14 1387/440 D1-2300Z - 1/0 49/2 - - 50/2 1437/442 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 35/7 --+-- --+-- 35/7 1472/449 6 D2-0100Z - - - - - 0/0 1472/449 60 D2-0200Z - 10/3 3/0 - - 13/3 1485/452 41 D2-0300Z 20/0 35/4 - - - 55/4 1540/456 D2-0400Z 7/0 49/3 - - - 56/3 1596/459 D2-0500Z 13/1 39/4 - - - 52/5 1648/464 D2-0600Z 18/1 17/2 - - - 35/3 1683/467 D2-0700Z 12/0 17/2 - - - 29/2 1712/469 D2-0800Z 9/1 18/4 --+-- --+-- --+-- 27/5 1739/474 D2-0900Z 6/1 16/3 - - - 22/4 1761/478 D2-1000Z 7/1 16/2 - - - 23/3 1784/481 D2-1100Z 4/0 22/0 - - - 26/0 1810/481 D2-1200Z 23/0 29/2 - - - 52/2 1862/483 D2-1300Z 12/3 13/0 - - - 25/3 1887/486 D2-1400Z - 16/1 7/0 - - 23/1 1910/487 D2-1500Z - 12/2 7/4 1/0 - 20/6 1930/493 D2-1600Z --+-- 1/0 23/10 3/0 --+-- 27/10 1957/503 D2-1700Z - - 24/9 11/2 - 35/11 1992/514 D2-1800Z - - 25/2 15/2 - 40/4 2032/518 D2-1900Z - - 30/3 15/2 - 45/5 2077/523 D2-2000Z - - 49/2 4/0 10/1 63/3 2140/526 D2-2100Z - - 45/3 - 14/0 59/3 2199/529 D2-2200Z - - 22/2 7/2 - 29/4 2228/533 D2-2300Z - 10/0 32/2 2/1 - 44/3 2272/536 Total: 387/75 776/188 837/214 248/58 24/1 Contacts by region and band: 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % AS 11 231 157 34 0 433 19.1 NA 365 506 564 177 12 1624 71.5 OC 5 14 11 9 1 40 1.8 AF 2 6 4 3 0 15 0.7 EU 0 10 83 5 0 98 4.3 SA 4 9 16 20 11 60 2.6 Mults worked: 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total 4X 1 1 6W 1 1 9A 3 3 9M2 1 1 2 9M6 1 1 9V 1 1 2 BV 2 2 BY 5 4 9 C9 1 1 CM 2 2 1 5 CN 1 1 CT3 1 1 1 1 4 CX 1 2 1 4 D4 1 1 2 DL 2 14 1 17 DU 1 4 1 6 E7 1 1 EA 1 7 2 10 EA8 1 2 1 4 F 4 4 FG 1 1 2 FM 1 1 1 3 G 4 4 GM 2 2 HA 3 1 4 HB 1 1 HI 1 1 1 1 4 HK 1 1 2 HL 20 10 30 HP 1 1 HR 1 1 1 3 HS 1 1 I 8 8 J3 1 1 2 JA 11 191 130 30 362 K 311 437 483 153 10 1394 KG4 1 1 2 KH6 2 5 3 4 1 15 KL 3 4 6 13 KP4 1 1 2 1 5 LA 1 1 LU 1 4 7 7 19 LZ 2 2 OA 1 1 1 1 4 OE 1 1 OH 1 4 1 6 OK 3 3 OM 1 2 3 ON 2 2 P4 2 2 1 2 7 PA 1 1 PY 4 4 6 3 17 PZ 1 1 S5 1 1 SM 1 2 3 SP 7 7 SV 2 2 SV9 1 1 TG 1 1 TI 1 1 2 UA 2 1 3 UA9 8 9 3 20 UR 3 3 V3 1 1 1 2 5 VE 45 48 57 6 156 VK 2 5 1 8 VR 2 2 XE 1 6 5 5 1 18 XW 1 1 2 YB 2 3 1 6 YL 1 1 YN 1 1 1 1 4 YO 1 1 YU 1 1 YV 1 4 1 6 Z3 1 1 2 ZF 1 1 1 1 4 ZL 1 3 4 ZS 1 1 2 73, de N6CCH aka Rebar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB2ECG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,882 Only joining on a half periode; but stil got the fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YB4IR Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 205,170 I use TS50S, Antenna TH6DXX (6 ELEMENTS 3 BANDER 20M, 15M, 10M) with the heigh 20M from the ground, For QSO I use MixW 2.18 (demo)and for score report I use N1MM logger(import ADIF data from MixW to N1MM), HOMEBREW INTERFACE, DESKNOTE PIII. The propagation to EU, AF, NA, SA, OC is very bad and little bit open (sometime very QSB)about 1 hour (13.00 UTC - 14.00 UTC), but in AS, the propagation is very open and I have many QSO and prefix score from JA land. In this even I play in single band (20M) with my consider that 20M band is posible for me to have many scores and to be come the winner in OC and YB land. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,308,806 First serious RTTY attempt, have to learn and learn... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YN2S Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,244,513 Thanks to Octavio YN2N for his great hospitality! Used one Radio - my trusty TS-570DG with Octavio's SB-200 amplifier. Power output was mesaured by Bird wattmeter and was 270 watts. Did not use DX Cluster, just forgot that rules allowed to do so. As a result, missed lots of multipliers. Antennas: A3S at 60 ft for 15 and 20 meters, Inverted Vees for 40 and 80 meters. Once I lost power at night time. Had to use generator and worked two hours with low power - 100 watts, made 16 Q's on 80 meters. Was surprised when VK6HD called me on 80 meters just in 5 minutes after restoring the power. Thanks Mike! In general, 20 and 40 meters were most busiest bands during the Contest. Using less than 300 watts, no surprise that 80 meters score was low. If you have 1.5 kilowatts, then you can run 80 meters and make some 500 Q's or so on that band during the Contest. With 100 watts, I dont believe in it. Not possible. Almost same picture on 40 meters - no power, no magic. We are all adult here. Octavio's QTH is very quiet regarding QRM, his house is located some 20 kilometers off Granada and has no industrial intereferences, which is a big Plus. And it was nice to come from frozen New York back to summer, hi. I would love to visit YN2N place again, sometime. Nice country, nice people there. Log was uploaded into LoTW right after the Contest. Thanks to all who called me and answered my calls. Personally, it was my highest number of QSO's made during RTTY Contest using just one radio. 73's Andrei NP3D - YN2S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,146,470 I have been busy this week-end, but still enjoyed the WPX RTTY crowd. The score is lower than last year, but overall I am happy with the result. 73, Alex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT0A Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 2,192,150 Thanks to all who answer to my call... See You next year. Greetings form YU1EXY Nikola YT2WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,854,360 Nice Contest !!! RX/TX Kenwood ts-930s and ts-850s Power : 80-120 W Antennas : 80m Dipole @ 20m 40m Inv V @ 20m 20m 5el. Beam @ 30m 15m 4el. QQUAD @ 15m 10m 6el. Beam @ 15 m Thanks for all , and cu in ARRL CW contest . 73 de Marko YT2T ex. 4N1JA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 89,544 73 de Miro YU2A ex.YU1BX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 971,808 Equipament FT-2000 MICROHAM MICROKEYER II AND DIPOLE ANTENNA. 73 YV1RDX Julio Rivero ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,727,404 SO1R Antenna:- C/Craft A3S @ 50ft Amp:- Acom-1000 Rig:- IC-756 Pro3 Software:- WF1B 5.02 ish Thanks to all concerned in running the contest and to everyone for the Q's Condx were not too good on Saturday with the band closing around 1630Z, picked up a bit on Sunday and the band stayed open until 1830Z. Best hour was 69. Gripes. I was subjected to a lot of jamming throughout the contest, firstly with just a single carrier and then later with a load of gibberish in RTTY mode, did anyone else suffer from this ? Packet transmissions were also a problem, I would be happily CQ'ing on a nice clear freq for ages then up would come a packet station which wiped me out. Are packet stations exempt from QRL'ing !!! or do they own some freqs ? If I call you you are not in my log. I tried to make a Q with JF1RYU at least 6 times, he persisted in sending ''QSO B4'' I even sent him a msg saying that he was not in my log - to no avail, so JF1RYU is NIL. My philosophy is to work everything dupe or not !! 73 and hope to cu in the next one, Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZF2XD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 445,485 Many stations do not start their macros with {ENTER} and end them with a space. Also some ran the RST and serial number together, please separate with a space. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZM2B Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 853,740 Good stuff - There seemed to be more stations active than I can ever recall in a rtty contest. So despite the low SFI, my contact total was my highest ever in a RTTY contest. Bad stuff - from ZL most of my contacts are 4, 5 or 6 hops, this means many RTTY signals get distorted. I sure wish everyone would send the exchange 3 times, instead of x2 that seems to be the norm these days. About 60 per cent of received exchanges were x2 which will be fine for most 1, 2 or 3 hop contacts. My agn pse rate was extremly high. 73, Frank ZL2BR Index of Calls Call: 3Z10UM Class: SOAB LP Call: 4M5RY Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: 4U1WB Class: SOAB HP Call: 4X2Z Class: SOAB LP Call: 5C5W Class: SOAB LP Call: 7X0RY Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 9A2DQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 9A35RKP Class: SOAB LP Call: AA3B Class: SOAB HP Call: AA4U Class: SOAB LP Call: AA5AU Class: SOAB LP Call: AA5VU Class: SOAB HP Call: AB4GG Class: SOAB LP Call: AD0K/5 Class: SOAB LP Call: AD4EB Class: SOAB HP Call: AE5AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: AF6T Class: SOAB HP Call: AH6OZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: AH8DX/NO1 Class: SOAB QRP Call: AI4G Class: SOAB LP Call: AJ1I Class: SOAB HP Call: AJ9C Class: M/S HP Call: AK0A Class: SOSB(R)/20 LP Call: AK6M Class: SOAB HP Call: AL1G Class: M/S HP Call: CT3EE Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: CT3KY Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: D4C Class: SOAB HP Call: DD5FZ Class: SOAB HP Call: DF4WC Class: SOAB HP Call: DJ3IW Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: DJ6JH Class: SOAB LP Call: DJ6QT Class: SOAB HP Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Call: DL1ZBO Class: SOAB LP Call: DL2MWB Class: M/S HP Call: DL3BBY Class: SOAB LP Call: DL3TD Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4ME Class: SOAB HP Call: DL4R Class: SOAB HP Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB LP Call: DP5X Class: SOAB LP Call: DS5ANY Class: SOAB LP Call: EA1CJ Class: SOAB HP Call: EA4WC Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: EA5DKU Class: SOAB HP Call: ES4RD Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: F5CQ Class: SOAB HP Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB HP Call: GM4FDM Class: SOSB(R)/20 HP Call: GM4KLN Class: SOAB LP Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB LP Call: GW4SKA Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: HA6IAM Class: SOAB LP Call: HA7TM Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: HA8BE Class: SOAB LP Call: HG4I Class: SOAB HP Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Call: HK6P Class: SOAB LP Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: HZ1PS Class: SOAB LP Call: I4IKW Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: IK1DFH Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: IV3HAX Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IW1PNJ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: IZ1LBG Class: SOAB HP Call: IZ8JFL Class: SOAB LP Call: J39BS Class: SOAB LP Call: K0AD Class: SOAB HP Call: K0FX Class: SOAB HP Call: K0TG Class: SOAB HP Call: K0WA Class: SOAB HP Call: K1GU Class: SOAB LP Call: K1LZ Class: M/S HP Call: K1ZW Class: SOAB LP Call: K3FH Class: SOAB LP Call: K3IU Class: SOAB LP Call: K3MM Class: SOAB HP Call: K3MQ Class: SOAB HP Call: K3MZ Class: SOAB LP Call: K3PH Class: M/S HP Call: K3PP Class: SOAB LP Call: K3RWN Class: SOAB LP Call: K3TD Class: SOAB LP Call: K3WI Class: SOAB HP Call: K3WW Class: SOAB HP Call: K4CZ Class: SOAB HP Call: K4GM Class: SOAB LP Call: K4GMH Class: SOAB HP Call: K4HAL Class: SOAB LP Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Call: K4WW Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(R) HP Call: K6DEX Class: SOAB LP Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB LP Call: K6MBY Class: SOAB HP Call: K6XT Class: M/S HP Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Call: K7RE Class: SOAB LP Call: K7XC Class: SOAB HP Call: K8AJS Class: SOAB HP Call: KA2D Class: SOAB HP Call: KA4OTB Class: SOAB LP Call: KA4RRU Class: M/M HP Call: KA5EYH Class: SOAB LP Call: KB3LIX Class: SOAB LP Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Call: KD5LNO Class: SOAB LP Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB HP Call: KE4KWE Class: SOAB LP Call: KF4QQY Class: M/M HP Call: KF6RY Class: SOAB LP Call: KG4SS Class: SOAB LP Call: KH6GMP Class: SOAB HP Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB LP Call: KK5OQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: KK8MM Class: SOAB LP Call: KL8DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KN3A Class: SOAB LP Call: KN4Q Class: SOAB LP Call: KO1H Class: SOAB(R) LP Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KQ6ES Class: SOAB LP Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB LP Call: KR4F Class: SOAB HP Call: KR7X Class: SOAB HP Call: KS0M Class: SOAB LP Call: KS0T Class: SOAB LP Call: KS1Y Class: SOAB LP Call: KS7S Class: SOAB LP Call: KT1I Class: M/S HP Call: KU5B Class: SOAB LP Call: KV7DX Class: SOAB HP Call: KW7N Class: SOAB LP Call: KY4F Class: SOAB HP Call: KY5R Class: SOAB LP Call: KZ5AM Class: SOAB HP Call: KZ7X Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: LT0H Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: LU4DX Class: SOAB HP Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: LY6A Class: SOAB LP Call: LZ8A Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB LP Call: LZ9W Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: MW0CRI Class: SOAB LP Call: N0NI Class: M/M HP Call: N0OJ Class: SOAB LP Call: N1SV Class: SOAB HP Call: N1SXL Class: SOAB LP Call: N2FF Class: SOAB LP Call: N2KI Class: SOAB LP Call: N2QT Class: SOAB LP Call: N2SQW Class: SOAB HP Call: N2WK Class: M/2 HP Call: N3BM Class: SOAB HP Call: N3CHX Class: SOAB LP Call: N3KHK Class: SOAB LP Call: N3ME Class: SOAB LP Call: N4CW Class: M/S HP Call: N4KG Class: M/S HP Call: N4VZ Class: SOAB LP Call: N4ZZ Class: SOAB HP Call: N5DD Class: SOAB HP Call: N5UWY Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Call: N6OJ Class: SOAB LP Call: N6PC Class: SOAB LP Call: N6QQ Class: M/S HP Call: N6WS Class: SOAB HP Call: N6XI Class: SOAB HP Call: N7BF Class: SOAB HP Call: N8BJQ Class: SOAB HP Call: N8NOE Class: SOAB HP Call: N8PUG Class: SOAB LP Call: N8TDL Class: SOAB HP Call: N9TF Class: SOAB LP Call: NA2M Class: SOAB HP Call: NC7J Class: SOAB HP Call: ND4X Class: SOAB LP Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Call: NJ4U Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: NN4F Class: SOAB LP Call: NO9C Class: SOAB LP Call: NP3U Class: M/2 HP Call: NT0F Class: SOAB LP Call: NV2G Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: NX5O Class: SOAB LP Call: OE2GEN Class: SOAB LP Call: OE9R Class: M/S HP Call: OG6G Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: OG8X Class: M/2 HP Call: OH2BP Class: SOAB HP Call: OH9GIT Class: SOAB LP Call: OK1FPS Class: SOAB LP Call: OK2SFP Class: SOAB HP Call: OK3C Class: SOAB LP Call: OK3R Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: OK4RQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: OM3KWZ Class: M/S LP Call: OM7YL Class: SOAB(R) LP Call: OQ4B Class: SOAB HP Call: OV1A Class: SOAB HP Call: OY3JE Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: P40R Class: SOAB LP Call: P49X Class: SOAB HP Call: PY1NB Class: SOAB LP Call: PY1NX Class: SOAB LP Call: PY1ZV Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2BRZ Class: SOAB LP Call: PY2NY Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: PY2ZY Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: RA3CM Class: SOAB HP Call: RA9CB Class: SOAB LP Call: RK3DZB Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: RK3MWI Class: M/S HP Call: RK4WWF Class: M/S HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: RV3FF Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: RV9CBW Class: SOAB LP Call: RZ3ATE Class: SOAB LP Call: S53F Class: SOAB LP Call: S53M Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: S54O Class: SOAB HP Call: S56A Class: M/S HP Call: S56G Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: S57AJ Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Call: S58P Class: SOAB LP Call: SN7Q Class: SOAB HP Call: SP9H Class: SOAB LP Call: SP9LJD Class: SOAB HP Call: SQ9UM Class: SOAB LP Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: T93M Class: M/S HP Call: TM2OFL Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: UA9CLB Class: SOAB HP Call: UW2M Class: SOAB HP Call: UY7C Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: UZ7HO Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: V31TB Class: M/S HP Call: VA2UP Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3EC Class: SOAB LP Call: VA3PC Class: SOAB HP Call: VA3WR Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7AM Class: SOAB LP Call: VA7RN Class: M/S HP Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Call: VE2AXO Class: SOAB LP Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB HP Call: VE2RYY Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: VE3AP Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3DZ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3EJ Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3FH Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3FRX Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: VE3GSI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3JI Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3NZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3RZ Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB HP Call: VE3XAT Class: SOAB LP Call: VE3XD/W4 Class: M/S HP Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB LP Call: VE5CPU Class: SOAB HP Call: VE7CC Class: SOAB HP Call: VE7CF Class: SOAB HP Call: VE7KS Class: SOAB HP Call: VE7UF Class: M/S HP Call: VE9DX Class: SOAB LP Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB LP Call: VO1TA Class: SOAB HP Call: VY2LI Class: SOAB HP Call: VY2SS Class: SOAB LP Call: W0LM Class: M/S HP Call: W0LSD Class: M/S HP Call: W0PC Class: SOAB LP Call: W0PR Class: SOAB HP Call: W0RAA Class: SOAB LP Call: W0TUP Class: SOAB LP Call: W1BYH Class: SOAB HP Call: W1CDX Class: SOAB(R) LP Call: W1EQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB HP Call: W1TO Class: SOAB HP Call: W1UJ Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W1ZK Class: SOAB HP Call: W2NRA Class: SOAB HP Call: W2RTY Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: W3DQN Class: SOAB LP Call: W3FV Class: SOAB HP Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Call: W3MF Class: SOAB HP Call: W4BCG Class: SOAB HP Call: W4GHD Class: SOAB HP Call: W4HOD Class: M/S LP Call: W4LC Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: W4NZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W4PK Class: SOAB HP Call: W4RK Class: SOAB HP Call: W4UEF Class: SOAB LP Call: W4UK Class: SOAB LP Call: W4ZE Class: SOAB HP Call: W5AP Class: SOAB HP Call: W6FFH Class: SOAB LP Call: W6OAT Class: SOAB HP Call: W6SX Class: SOAB HP Call: W7NNN Class: SOAB LP Call: W7TMT Class: SOAB LP Call: W7WHY Class: SOAB HP Call: W7YAQ Class: SOAB LP Call: W7ZR Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: W9KB Class: SOAB HP Call: W9SE Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: WA2ETU Class: SOAB HP Call: WA2MNO Class: SOAB HP Call: WA4OSD Class: SOAB LP Call: WA5ZUP Class: SOAB HP Call: WA6BOB Class: SOAB LP Call: WA7SHP Class: SOAB LP Call: WB0BLV Class: SOAB LP Call: WB2OQQ Class: SOAB LP Call: WB2RHM Class: SOAB LP Call: WB4MSG Class: SOAB LP Call: WB4YDL Class: SOAB LP Call: WB6BFG Class: SOAB LP Call: WC4J Class: M/S LP Call: WF4W Class: SOAB HP Call: WK4Y Class: M/S HP Call: WM6A Class: SOAB HP Call: WS0Z Class: SOAB LP Call: WW4LL Class: M/M HP Call: WX4TM Class: SOAB HP Call: WX5S Class: M/2 HP Call: XE1GRR Class: SOAB LP Call: XE2RC Class: SOAB LP Call: XE2RV Class: SOAB LP Call: XE3RBA Class: SOAB LP Call: YB2ECG Class: SOAB LP Call: YB4IR Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YL6W Class: SOAB HP Call: YN2S Class: SOAB HP Call: YO5BYV Class: SOAB LP Call: YO9HP Class: SOAB HP Call: YR0WL Class: SOAB LP Call: YT0A Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: YT2T Class: SOAB LP Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: YV1FM Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: YV1RDX Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: YY1JGT Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: Z33F Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: ZF2XD Class: SOAB LP Call: ZM2B Class: SOAB HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: M/2 HP Call: N2WK Call: NP3U Call: OG8X Call: WX5S Class: M/M HP Call: KA4RRU Call: KF4QQY Call: N0NI Call: WW4LL Class: M/S HP Call: AJ9C Call: AL1G Call: DL2MWB Call: K1LZ Call: K3PH Call: K6XT Call: KT1I Call: N4CW Call: N4KG Call: N6QQ Call: OE9R Call: RK3MWI Call: RK4WWF Call: RL3A Call: S56A Call: T93M Call: V31TB Call: VA7RN Call: VE3XD/W4 Call: VE7UF Call: W0LM Call: W0LSD Call: WK4Y Class: M/S LP Call: OM3KWZ Call: W4HOD Call: WC4J Class: SOAB HP Call: 4U1WB Call: AA3B Call: AA5VU Call: AD4EB Call: AF6T Call: AJ1I Call: AK6M Call: D4C Call: DD5FZ Call: DF4WC Call: DJ6QT Call: DK8EY Call: DL3TD Call: DL4ME Call: DL4R Call: EA1CJ Call: EA5DKU Call: F5CQ Call: F8CRS Call: HG4I Call: IZ1LBG Call: K0AD Call: K0FX Call: K0TG Call: K0WA Call: K3MM Call: K3MQ Call: K3WI Call: K3WW Call: K4CZ Call: K4GMH Call: K4RO Call: K6MBY Call: K7EG Call: K7XC Call: K8AJS Call: KA2D Call: KE1FO Call: KH6GMP Call: KL8DX Call: KO7X Call: KR4F Call: KR7X Call: KV7DX Call: KY4F Call: KZ5AM Call: LU4DX Call: N1SV Call: N2SQW Call: N3BM Call: N4ZZ Call: N5DD Call: N6CK Call: N6WS Call: N6XI Call: N7BF Call: N8BJQ Call: N8NOE Call: N8TDL Call: NA2M Call: NC7J Call: OH2BP Call: OK2SFP Call: OQ4B Call: OV1A Call: P49X Call: RA3CM Call: S54O Call: SN7Q Call: SP9LJD Call: UA9CLB Call: UW2M Call: VA3DX Call: VA3PC Call: VA7ST Call: VE2FU Call: VE3AP Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3UTT Call: VE5CPU Call: VE7CC Call: VE7CF Call: VE7KS Call: VO1TA Call: VY2LI Call: W0PR Call: W1BYH Call: W1EQ Call: W1KQ Call: W1TO Call: W1ZK Call: W2NRA Call: W3FV Call: W3MF Call: W4BCG Call: W4GHD Call: W4PK Call: W4RK Call: W4ZE Call: W5AP Call: W6OAT Call: W6SX Call: W7WHY Call: W9KB Call: WA2ETU Call: WA2MNO Call: WA5ZUP Call: WF4W Call: WM6A Call: WX4TM Call: YL6W Call: YN2S Call: YO9HP Call: ZM2B Class: SOAB LP Call: 3Z10UM Call: 4X2Z Call: 5C5W Call: 9A35RKP Call: AA4U Call: AA5AU Call: AB4GG Call: AD0K/5 Call: AI4G Call: DJ6JH Call: DL1ZBO Call: DL3BBY Call: DO9ST Call: DP5X Call: DS5ANY Call: GM4KLN Call: GU0SUP Call: HA6IAM Call: HA8BE Call: HI3T Call: HK6P Call: HL5YI Call: HZ1PS Call: IZ8JFL Call: J39BS Call: K1GU Call: K1ZW Call: K3FH Call: K3IU Call: K3MZ Call: K3PP Call: K3RWN Call: K3TD Call: K4GM Call: K4HAL Call: K4OD Call: K6DEX Call: K6GEP Call: K7RE Call: KA4OTB Call: KA5EYH Call: KB3LIX Call: KD5J Call: KD5LNO Call: KE4KWE Call: KF6RY Call: KG4SS Call: KJ6RA Call: KK8MM Call: KN3A Call: KN4Q Call: KQ6ES Call: KR1ST Call: KS0M Call: KS0T Call: KS1Y Call: KS7S Call: KU5B Call: KW7N Call: KY5R Call: LY6A Call: LZ9R Call: MW0CRI Call: N0OJ Call: N1SXL Call: N2FF Call: N2KI Call: N2QT Call: N3CHX Call: N3KHK Call: N3ME Call: N4VZ Call: N6OJ Call: N6PC Call: N8PUG Call: N9TF Call: ND4X Call: NG7Z Call: NN4F Call: NO9C Call: NT0F Call: NX5O Call: OE2GEN Call: OH9GIT Call: OK1FPS Call: OK3C Call: P40R Call: PY1NB Call: PY1NX Call: PY1ZV Call: PY2BRZ Call: RA9CB Call: RV9CBW Call: RZ3ATE Call: S53F Call: S57U Call: S58P Call: SP9H Call: SQ9UM Call: VA2UP Call: VA3EC Call: VA3WR Call: VA7AM Call: VE2AXO Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3FH Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3JI Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3RZ Call: VE3XAT Call: VE4EAR Call: VE9DX Call: VO1KVT Call: VY2SS Call: W0PC Call: W0RAA Call: W0TUP Call: W3DQN Call: W3LL Call: W4UEF Call: W4UK Call: W6FFH Call: W7NNN Call: W7TMT Call: W7YAQ Call: WA4OSD Call: WA6BOB Call: WA7SHP Call: WB0BLV Call: WB2OQQ Call: WB2RHM Call: WB4MSG Call: WB4YDL Call: WB6BFG Call: WS0Z Call: XE1GRR Call: XE2RC Call: XE2RV Call: XE3RBA Call: YB2ECG Call: YO5BYV Call: YR0WL Call: YT2T Call: ZF2XD Class: SOAB QRP Call: AH8DX/NO1 Class: SOAB(R) HP Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(R) LP Call: KO1H Call: OM7YL Call: W1CDX Class: SOSB(R)/20 HP Call: GM4FDM Class: SOSB(R)/20 LP Call: AK0A Class: SOSB/10 LP Call: UZ7HO Class: SOSB/15 HP Call: NJ4U Call: OG6G Call: YU2A Class: SOSB/15 LP Call: YY1JGT Class: SOSB/20 HP Call: 9A2DQ Call: ES4RD Call: HA7TM Call: I4IKW Call: KK5OQ Call: KZ7X Call: LT0H Call: LZ8A Call: LZ9W Call: OK4RQ Call: RK3DZB Call: RV3FF Call: TM2OFL Call: VE2RYY Call: W4NZ Call: W7ZR Call: YV1RDX Call: ZC4LI Class: SOSB/20 LP Call: N5UWY Call: PY2NY Call: S56G Call: SV1BJW Call: W4LC Call: YB4IR Call: YV1FM Call: Z33F Class: SOSB/40 HP Call: 4M5RY Call: AE5AA Call: AH6OZ Call: CT3KY Call: GW4SKA Call: IV3HAX Call: IW1PNJ Call: OY3JE Call: S53M Call: VE3NZ Call: W1UJ Call: W2RTY Call: W9SE Call: YT0A Class: SOSB/40 LP Call: EA4WC Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 QRP Call: PY2ZY Class: SOSB/80 HP Call: 7X0RY Call: CT3EE Call: DJ3IW Call: LY2IJ Call: OK3R Call: UY7C Class: SOSB/80 LP Call: IK1DFH Call: K4WW Call: NV2G Call: S57AJ Call: VE3FRX