CQ160 CW Soapbox built 2-26-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W3W Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 107,600 It was our second CQ160M Contest from Vietnam. We move from Hanoi and choose place about 40km south from town. Middle of rice fields. We have had a fun, could weather and 150 QSOs more than last year. You can see more on www.ok1jr.com in end of this week. Using FT10000MKV, Alpha 91B, N1MM Logger, the DX Cluster, and full radio control via Microham Keyer. Transmitting to L-antenna and receiving with Active Antenna made by Eddy, XV1X. Thanks for calling us and we hope to hear you soon. 73s Stan, 3W9R and Eddy, XV1X 3W3W Contest Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L2M Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 409,626 FT-1000D and simple INV.V amtenna competed 8 hrs before contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,700,595 I was predicted to make 1,3M points, with some luck, having on mind new horizontal dipole @ 30m and nice terrain profile to JA and USA. As expected, few EUs were much louder in USA, but RX antennas on location worked great and make us competetive. I guess that many EU big guns did better than old ON4UN’s record. Propagations were good, much better first night. Thanks to all for calling us HARDWARE TX antenna – dipole @ 30m RX antennas – beverages NW, NE, East Rig FT1kMarkV + OM Power AMP CU in ARRL Ranko – 4O3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6M0V Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 27,069 BDXC(Busan DX ClUb) team in 2008 160m contest. Using MA-160V G,P, FL-7000, and FT-1000. Many tks FB QSO, QSL 100% VIA BURO..OR DIRECT. (QSL ADDRESS :WWW.QRZ.COM (Busan DX Club P.O.Box 872 Busan 600-608 KOREA ) (BDXC TEAM OP : DS5ACV,DS5DNO, DS5AAQ, DS5KJR, 6K6AYC, 6K5AQY, DS5ANY, DS5QLJ 6K5AQY, DS5BRE, HL5BMX. AND HL5YI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S7V Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,001 TS-850S/AT Antenna: "Sirotica" @5m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7X0RY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 511,200 During all weekend QRM S7, and sometime pulse QRM S9+40dB....grrr... So, SRI ON6AB, AND VY TNX G3ZAS !!! 73! Frantisek ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A2AA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,435,000 Using lighthouse with 3 sloping dipoles and 2 beevrages of about 300m (1000 ft) made band like 20m. Will be hard to switch home station to top band:-) 73, Tine Brajnik S50A for SCC team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A50KDE Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 443,016 EQUIPMENT: FT-1000MP MV + PA 600W ANTENA'S: I.VEE (top @30m) + NW 200m beverage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 599,625 A fun contest as always. Worked 11 JA and and RW0 on second morning, most after sunrise. 06z the first night was best hour to Europe. 935 two-pointers 89 five-pointers 256 ten-pointers Orion I and FT1000MP transceivers in SO2R configuration with N1MM logger and DX Doubler controller. Alpha 89 amp. Parasitic vertical array for TX -- 4-el to Europe, 3-el to SE, SW and NW. Also Inverted Vee at 95 feet. Multiple phased Beverage arrays for receiving. First contest using DX Engineering NCC-1 phasing box and found it useful for putting pairs of Beverages in combination. Thanks to ZL2IFB for hanging in till I could pull his call out. It must have been about 10 minutes -- till I finally tried the vertical array and he popped out of the noise. I have to remember that can be a good RX antenna too. Mults heard that got away: TA2, 9H1, HB9, VE5 and others. Station details at www.aa1k.us. Breakdown stats: Date Hour Total 1 Running Total 2008-01-26 0 104 104 104 2008-01-26 1 137 137 241 2008-01-26 2 89 89 330 2008-01-26 3 43 43 373 2008-01-26 4 41 41 414 2008-01-26 5 50 50 464 2008-01-26 6 100 100 564 2008-01-26 7 54 54 618 2008-01-26 8 73 73 691 2008-01-26 9 27 27 718 2008-01-26 10 27 27 745 2008-01-26 11 23 23 768 2008-01-26 12 29 29 797 2008-01-26 13 2 2 799 2008-01-26 22 21 21 820 2008-01-26 23 19 19 839 2008-01-27 0 18 18 857 2008-01-27 1 49 49 906 2008-01-27 2 39 39 945 2008-01-27 3 44 44 989 2008-01-27 4 21 21 1010 2008-01-27 5 26 26 1036 2008-01-27 6 36 36 1072 2008-01-27 7 26 26 1098 2008-01-27 8 30 30 1128 2008-01-27 9 18 18 1146 2008-01-27 10 18 18 1164 2008-01-27 11 25 25 1189 2008-01-27 12 32 32 1221 2008-01-27 21 13 13 1234 2008-01-27 22 22 22 1256 2008-01-27 23 24 24 1280 Total All Hours 1280 1280 CountryPrefix Total 2 5 10 4O 1 1 5B 2 2 9A 4 4 C6 2 2 CE 1 1 CN 1 1 CT 2 2 CT3 2 2 CU 2 2 CX 1 1 DL 41 41 E7 1 1 EA 7 7 EA6 1 1 EA8 1 1 EI 4 4 EL 1 1 ER 1 1 ES 2 2 EU 1 1 F 4 4 FM 1 1 G 16 16 GD 1 1 GM 6 6 GW 3 3 HA 10 10 HK 3 3 HP 1 1 HR 1 1 I 4 4 JA 11 11 K 935 935 KH6 2 2 KH8 1 1 KP2 1 1 KP4 1 1 LA 3 3 LX 1 1 LY 5 5 LZ 1 1 OE 2 2 OH 8 8 OH0 1 1 OK 21 21 OM 7 7 ON 3 3 OZ 2 2 P4 1 1 PA 9 9 S5 16 16 SM 6 6 SP 9 9 SV 1 1 TF 1 1 UA 4 4 UA2 2 2 UA9 1 1 UR 7 7 V3 1 1 VE 78 78 VP9 1 1 XE 1 1 YL 3 3 YU 3 3 YV 1 1 ZF 1 1 ZL 1 1 Total 1280 935 89 256 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,515 Antenna: Shunt-fed 15m tall tower Equipment: K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 90 watts Comments: Not really a full-time effort, but I had a lot of fun. operated a good bit Friday night, but Saturday I had to pull the plug after a couple of hours early. Got on both mornings as well, and an hour Sunday evening just before the end. Worked 45 states, missing AK, ME, ND, NE, and WY. Not sure what happened with the ME, NE and WY. I did near an NE station work someone else. Haven't worked ND on 160m since WB0O left for AZ, and I have NEVER heard an AK station on 160m. Heard several strong europeans on both evenings -- however, they appeared to be completely deaf. Calling CQ over and over, completely oblivious to all the stateside stations calling. Only managed a few DX stations: C6A, CM, KH6, XE, VP9, ZF. I did hear a JA calling CQ on Sunday morning. He wasn't quite loud enough for me to pick out the call out of the noise, and when someone else found him, all the callers covered him up. Managed a few good runs Friday and Saturday evening. Rate meter almost hit 200 a couple of times. Perhaps the most fun of 160m contests is running stations. Not bad for 90 watts and a short vertical. Dedicating this effort to the SEDXC celebrating 50 years as a club. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 391,664 This one is always fun...excellent conditions at the beach. CU from KH6 for the ARRL CW and Phone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA5VU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 624 18 QSOs = 39 QSO Points x 16 Multis = 624 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 22,231 Ladder fed dipole @ 50ft. IC756ProII/Dentron DTR2000L Amp died 3 hrs into the contest. Thanks to all for a fun contest. 73 Darrell AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC4JI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,147 Very Part Time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC6DD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 261,464 Equipment: FT1000MP, ACOM2000 Inverted L (approx 60' vertical section, rest sloping) RX 4 square (second night) The plan: Operate the CQ160 contest from the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, using a trailer mounted tilt-up vertical, set up on the waters edge for transmiting, and a rx 4 square located 1000' away for receive. Have the station completely set up at the site office on Thursday, and show up on Friday to flip the switch to operate. The reality on Contest day: It is early Friday morning after a sleeples night involving two little ones. I am still welding on the trailer antenna supports in my driveway, with light rain falling, getting a nip here and there from the welder, and the weather is getting worse. It's been stormy all week long, and I have not been able to get much done in getting prepared. I check the NOOA site which forecasts 30-40 knot winds, with 50 knot gusts, and a few inches of rain at the contest site. It looks bad. I drive out there anyway, I figure I can always turn around and go back home. At the site there is no way to erect my vertical antenna, in fact I get worried the wind will blow my trailer away. At 12:30 local time, 3.5 hours before the Contest starts I am still sitting in my truck thinking that after not doing much for the ARRL test and SP, this 160 contest season was just not meant to be. From here on it is a long story involving some questionable decisions, equipment problems, and the worst weather I ever experienced in doing a portable contest. I am writing this from home, where I have been drinking hot soup for two days trying to recuperate. On Sunday morning after I turned off the station I was certain I will get a pneumonia, and promised myself that will never attempt anything like this again. That turned out to be short lived, as after I caught a couple hours of sleep I already made arrangements with the site manager for next time. I am not going to get long winded here, but if someone is in a reading mode and wants to see some pictures please go here: www.ac6dd.com/Portable/2008_cq_160_cw.htm The band conditions to Europe were superb, and one can only think "what if " the weather was different and was able to do a good setup. I was a bit dissapointed in the JA total. My highest ever was 134 worked, and did not even come close to that number, working some 50 less. But the country total is something I did not even think was possible from here. COUNTRIES WORKED: 9A, CT, EI, G, OZ, EA, I, SP, OM, 4O, ON, DL, HA, CT3, CN, CE, HR, KP2, P4, TI, FM, KP4, PY, CU, CX, XE, V3, HK, ZF, C6, KH6, KL, VP9, ZL, VK, BV, HL, UA9, JA, KH2 DX STATIONS CALLING CQ WHICH WERE HEARD VERY WELL BUT I COULD NOT GET THEIR ATTENTION: DL8SCG DL3ARM IK1YDB 9A2AJ 1813.80 9A7A 18.10 DL1AUZ 21.10 RU0A 15.48 *! 9N7JO 40.00 Big signal, only working Asia. I called him many many times, I heard no US calling him at all. * B1Z 22.70 * SM0MDG 20.52 *! S59A *! YU1LA 25.16 Steady signal for hours, I called many times, no RX. OR2T 30.30 SK7DX 30.83 HG3DX Would not make a QSO, kept telling me QSO B4. I worked HG8DX earlier. I am not sure what the story is here. Maybe worked two HG*DX in one shot? IK4MGP 31.60 OM7M 32.33 S51TA 34.50 Big signal for a short time at our sunset, and big pile, only working strong east coast callers. DR1A 34.52 Good steady signal on both days, I called many times in vain, got a few AGN, but that was it. *! UA2FW 73.90 Weak, but steady for a while * GW3JXN 45.08 * 3W3W 13.00, 16.00 Auto CQ with 1 second listening time, called many many times. By the time I can get "A" sent he CQ's again. Many calling for nothing, never heard him working a US station. I also heard N6RO calling him in vain. Last year N6RO, K6NA and I were able to work him from the USA. I doubt he worked any USA this year. UA9UZZ Good signal both days DS4EOI 24.00 Good signal UA9PC 30.20 Good signal both days This is what I can read from my notes. * Would have been a new Multiplier ! Would have been a new one on 160 73, Niko - AC6DD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4MI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,040 Lots of fun! More skill and I could have done better. Conditions were good, and new radio helped. Wire over old oak tree could have been better. Thanks for all your patience with my new fist. 73, CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ANM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 453,573 Equipment problems Friday night created poor rate despite excellent conditions to EU. Constructed an Inverted-L near the beach. Rate improved but lost AC power during storm Saturday evening. JA's must have heard us and asked us to QSY below 1825, but we could not find any clear frequency. Did not find any Labrador, Manitoba or Saskatchewan. Best DX was Hawaii and Chile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE1NB Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,764 CQ160CW Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-01-24 CallSign Used : VE1NB Operator(s) : VE1NB Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : 160M Power : LOW Mode : CW Default Exchange : NS Gridsquare : FN84GO Name : Bruce Wade Address : 1610 Cow Bay Road City/State/Zip : Eastern Passage NS B3G 1L1 Country : Canada ARRL Section : MAR Club/Team : Maritime Contest Club Software : N1MM Logger V7.12.7 Band QSOs Pts Sta Cty 1.8 100 542 27 15 Total 100 542 27 15 Score : 22,764 Rig : Yaesu FT1000mp Antennas : 1/4 wavelength wire in an L shape, 15 feet above ground Soapbox : The goal was work 100 stations I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations established for amateur radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. I agree to be bound by the decisions of the Contest Committee. Date : 2008-01-27 Signature : bruce Wade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 2,480,598 Good condx the first night ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1JLZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,024,828 Longing gain victory over reason. It's idea race on 160 m only with 24 m Vertical without Rx ant. Thank all what me long and patiently called. 73! Jiri,OK1RF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT9M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 2,370,200 We would like to express our thanks to all members of the Madeira team CT9M especially to CT3EE and CT3BD for their technical support and enabling our participation in the CQ WW 160 m contest from Madeira Island. The CQ WW 160 m DX contest is increasingly popular every year and the activity of the stations also increases. Unfortunately, the width of the band stays the same so additional patience is also needed. Next to the European “big guns” it is very hard to achieve good results from this part of our planet. We have been expecting to pick up North American stations at earlier hours as in Central Europe. However, after 4 days of activity our experience was the same as in Central Europe and American stations opened up and closed up at the same hours. We started the contest on the beginning of the band but after about 2 hours we were forced to leave the frequency and look for a new place at the end the band. In the first day we made 300 QSO in the US incl. KH6, VK and JA. In the evening and the night of the second day the conditions worsened and there was a very strong QRN in the band. This caused us big problems with accepting calls. Little pistol stations from Europe were coming through only on the level of signal noise and they had to repeat their calls several times. We would like to additionally apologize to them for this. We began the Sunday night in the 1810-1825 segments to give a possibility to JA stations. After a short time we rather switched to a quieter place where were getting European QSOs. Towards the end of the contest some multipliers appeared but we had no chance to pass through European big guns from our position. So we opted for making simple QSOs. Thanks to everybody who called us and to the CT9M team from Madeira. Rasto OM3BH DL-197 EA-24 F-22 G-60 HA-34 I-36 USA-520 OH-27 OK-100 OM-29 PA-31 SM-26 SP-53 S5-38 UA-123 UA9-32 UR-54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D2NX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 525 I installed horizontal Inverted-L at 6m height on Saturday afternoon, grounding the earth to the metal roof panel. With only 100w not many stations heard me calling but managed to work 8 stations (7 EU, 1 Africa (CT3)). The best QSO was with GM3POI who came up very short period of time and copie my weak signal with just one call. Many stations heard me as N2NX or N2DX. I will try 160m for the next few weeks on 1823KHz QSX 1825KHz. Hope I can work some more stations before I take the antenna down again. Koji D2NX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DA0BCC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 645,876 Still room for improvement at our TX-antennas. Congrats to our competitors DK1O and DR1A for their superb scores! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 152,582 TS-850, TL922, 42m Sloper @ 25m OP time: 00z-07z, 23:30z-06z Very high local noise level. Could work what I heard, but that wasn't too much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 158,348 A very nice contest, I could beat my last years score quite easy this time. Very good sigs from the US this year but I could only get 22 of them with my 100W, heard quite more but they couldnt fish my sig out of the QRM. See a pic of my antenna on my webpage at www.dj8og.de.vu its already dismantled again. Thanks for all who heard my faint sigs, cu next time again, Vy73 de Matt - DJ8OG - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ9KM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 525,400 vy gd condx first night witzh high QSO rates, rather normal to bad in the second night and not so much new stations in the 3rd night; we worked this contest mainly to test and improve our RX-antennas and found by the way a very bad power supply of a notebook. Over all it was a lot of fun. 73 de Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ9VA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 368,466 CQ WW DX Contest 160m CW 2008 Result overview of DJ9VA Good Invalid Dupe Deleted Band QSOs QSOs QSOs QSOs Mul1 Mul2 Pts 160m 767 0 0 0 31 62 3962 all 767 0 0 0 31 62 3962 Final result = 3962 * (31 + 62) = 368.466 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK1O Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,148,000 Great weekend on Topband! We did a good run into North America in the first 7 hours with in total 700 QSOs (250 NA, 49 States/Provinces), later condx went down a bit. Otherwise the usual struggle to catch the multipliers, always cutting thru a lot of deaf crocodiles, and the usual European click and chirp championships, of course. A special Thank You goes to Hannes DK1NO - giving us the opportunity to use his excellent station, and to Stefan DK1MM handling the organization of this event. Congratulations also to DL6FBL and DL3DXX for their big effort at DR1A. They came close, but hopefully the new German record will finally belong to us. cu in SSB again ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 73.7% ! 21.8% ! 0.1% ! 0.5% ! 3.8% ! ! ------------------------------------------------------- Top Ten: 1. K 321 2. DL 287 3. OK 110 4. UA 108 5. UR 66 6. SP 62 7. G 58 8. S5 50 9. UA9/0 46 10. HA 43 TRX: FT-2000, FT-1000MP, Alpha-99 ANT: Phased Tower Array with tons of copper in the ground, 3x Beverages (abt. 200m, each bi-directional switchable) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK5OS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 73,152 Only S&P with TS-850, ZZ-750, Dipol@21m, missing Vertical 73 de Olaf Contest : CQ World Wide 160-meter Contest Callsign : DK5OS Mode : CW Category : Multi Operator - Single Transmitter (MS) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 160 m Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : DL Locator : JO31MP Operating time : 11h53 BAND QSO DUP DXC S/P POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 318 3 48 0 1524 4.79 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 318 3 48 0 1524 4.79 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 73 152 Duplikate werden nicht mitgezählt und sind nicht in den Schnittberechnungen enthalten Operators : DK5OS + PACKET Soapbox : Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK6XZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 113,322 CONTEST : CQ-160-CW CATEGORY : SINGLE-OP 160M LOW CALLSIGN : DK6XZ E-MAIL : dk6xz@t-online.de NAME : Suad Zukic ADDRESS : Gymnasiumstr. 104 75175 Pforzheim Germany Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 1.8 515 2222 50 + 1 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 515 2222 50 + 1 SCORE : 113322 =================== Remarks: ======== Hello there! I was hearing/reading much about "Top-Band" lately, but do not remember to have ever worked there very much myself. Even 20 years back, I remember, we found 160 m only important for multipliers in multi-operator efforts of 4N4C/YU4EZC. Yes, it was my first CQ WW 160 m contest! As I re-activated just couple of months ago, I was very keen to taste it - but previous planes changed: I was not able to work from the station intended. So I tryed to hear in a bit from my home... Great surprise, as I somehow brought my 6,8 m Al-whip with 15 m sloping wire ( vertical Windom ) into resonance, only with the built -in tuner of the FT-1000 MP. Fine, some of the stations were even able to hear me ... I started to work on 160 m, two days before. First night was making great fun. I was able to exchange reports with 86 stations, hearing some VE/W stations even very strong. On the other hand, I was disappointed making other guys problems to copy me trough my obviously very weak signal. Thus I had my fun, as every EU-QSO logged produced satisfaction like being a DX one... As the first night made reason to stay awaiken the whole time, I was encuraged to try something else: so, next day went to the shop and bought some 40 m wire! There is a location with power supply, on the hill-top, just few 100 m away from my home in downtown. Short after first band-openings antenna was up on the new location... Well, belive me, I was screeming from happyness: suddenly, i was heard by everyone I was hearing myself. Small action paid of... The antenna ( dipole ) "lays" just few meters above ground, but EU-sigs are enormous comparing to the night before. Next 15 hours fruited with following 365 QSOs... 7X, TA, CU, CT9, CN2 logged. The Highlight - VY2ZM ( K1ZM ): ------------------------------- Jeff, thank you for your Super-Station and congratulations on your antenna-system. You was the only NA able to hear my 100W. Sunnday morning I was already laughing: unexpected, I scored some 100.000 pts. Even a certificate could be hoped... Last contest night did not bring much, but some 65 Qs still made me happy and 2,5 hours before the end of the contest I was climbing the tries and poles to remove the wires, as it is a scool area I used ( thanks to the friends from my local club ) - the place should be cleared from any antenna-rests before the kids come to learn something. 25% of the total QSOs were DL followed by 13% OK. S5-6%, SP-5,6%, R3-5,2%, HA-4,1%... With that low dipole I was not able even to hear any DX. Congratulations to 4O3A and T93J stuffs for very fine job done. Thanks to "CQ Amateur Radio" for the organization and all of you who was able to contact me. Will see you soon in one of the coming contests... 73´s Suad, DK6XZ Equipment used: --------------- TRX: YAESU FT-1000 MP ( 100 W ) + KENT PADDLE + HEIL HC-4 HEADSET ANT: VERTICAL WINDOM ( 22 m ), DXSR VFD-4 ( 9-BANDER ) FED @18 m ANT2: 1/2 DIPOLE FED @9 M AGL - BOTH ENDS OF DP @3 m AGL PC: TOSHIBA SATELLITE PIII 1GHZ - UCXLOG 6.20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,864 ICOM IC-7400/746pro, N1MM, Toshiba Tecra M4, dipole 2x20m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1ELY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 153,330 Big fun, operated the first two nights. Much Running, as S&P was too confusing at times when there are 3 stations within 270Hz filter bandwidth. Many times, the wrong station would answer (giving a deserved "B4"). Running was much nicer as long as i could hold a QRG. Not much DX (28 Qs). 150 DL, 77 OK, ... Antenna: FD4 full size dipole for 160m, S9+ noise in the city ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 10,881 First participation in this contest and it is great once you know what to do. I did S&P most of the time as I was running low power. Called CQ a few times and worked almost anybody in OK and OM. This event helped to gain more experience in how to handle a CW contest - a fun thing! Thanks to N3UA who was the only NA I worked and who took the time to pull me out of the noise. More to come... Maik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 108,295 Doing the CQWW-160 low power from a city lot is a real challenge! Building an inverted L for the contest took much longer than planned, as I had massive interaction with my 40 meter wire vertical which uses the same support. I ended up with a construction similar to the bizarre set-up I used during the Stew-Perry: 15m vertical and a zig- zag horizontal wire sloping from 15 to 3 meters height, covering all directions from South-West via East to North. Finished the antenna shortly before the contest while fiddling about wires in the dark black night … Happy to work 11 NA on Saturday morning although the antenna is completely blocked by the house in that direction. If I am in your log you have proof that your RX-capabilities are excellent, hi. I felt condx were much worse on Saturday night and early Sunday. No US at all and it was surely frustrating not even being heard by close in Europeans. Topband is always good for some surprises, though, and I was delighted to work UP0L right at his sunrise and to crush through the pile on 7X0RY shortly before the sun went up at my location. Thanks all who tried to hear me – I appreciated DX responding with a ?, indicating that they heard something at least even if they could not pull me trough. Sure enough, I had fun! Tnx all for a great experience. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4MCF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 240,779 Only a part-time participation (7 hours at the beginning of the contest an 6 hours at the end). Anyway it was a lot of fun - tnx to all callers - su next year - vy 73 de Tom, DL4MCF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,121,920 Two FT-1000 + PA in a Lock-Out-Circuit; Dipole @ 30m + Wire-Inverted-L along a 18m Spiderbeam Pole plus a piece of wire sloping down... We really have to put in some work and improve this for the next season... ;-) This was the last Topband exercise for DL3DXX + DL6FBL before leaving for VP6DX Ducie Island DXpedition next Sunday. See you all from there, 73 Ben DL6FBL http://www.dr1a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA2EA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 351,260 GREEAT WEKEEND....!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5BM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 455,760 A nice and fun weekend with field day style station. Setup: TX: 26 mh mast vertical, erected with only two persons. WAW RX: 220 M. beverage plus K9AY array. A nice and low noise qth, really no necesary RXing antennas. Rig: Icom 765 plus AL-1500 People is crazy with cluster spots. Countries listened and no worked: VR2,JA,PY,FM,IT,C6,3W,9M4 Thanks for calling me. Juan, EA5BM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI6IZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 627,402 TX antenna: Inv L Rx antennas: 2x reversible beverages Radio: Elecraft K3 Amp: Acom 1000 The k3 played really well, my E/W bev needs attention, I think it's broken someplace as there was nearly no F/B ratio. Conditions seemed to be pretty good, with the exception of polar path to the west coast of the states, KL7 & KH6. Heard quite a few JA's on Sunday evening but could not get though the rest of Europe to them. The K3 played very well indeed. On occasions with the K3's superb narrow filters and excellent close in dynamic range the limiting factor on RX was Keyclicks. There are quite a number of big contest stations with severe keyclicks, Both the causes for these and the cures are well known, please check your radios for Transmitted keyclicks and if there's a problem take appropriate action. see : http://www.w8ji.com/keyclicks.htm Excessive ALC action is another common cause 73's Brendan EI6IZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6DO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 156,988 Limited operation, but very good condition both nights, heard much more than worked. Also inverted L doesn't work well as no space for good radial system. Station: Icom IC756 HM amplifier w GU43 Inverted L w folded radials Thanks for the Q's and cul in next contest 73 Neil ES6DO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES9C Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,193,724 Target was 1 mio points but conditions were better than expected. Still a big struggle to work US but after all abt 150 NA logged, also 150 AS, out of which ca 70 JA. Our full size 4 Square played great, even little too great as it needs a lot of turning to copy guys calling from other directions. I am not using beverages as 4 Square almost always beats them. Counting all the mults that we heard but missed it might have been possible to work some 90-95 countries and a few more states. Congratulations to CU8A and 4O3A for outstanding scores in their own league. We seem to have a great battle in the 1.2mio points league with many other stations! Also congratulations to those great Single Ops making over 80 countries without packet. I know I would never be able to do that but would love to learn the tricks if someone would be willing to arrange courses. Wouldn't you - the human operators with 65-70 countries - love to learn the secrets as well? 73 ES5TV ES9C - Continents By band - CW QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 78.0% ! 10.9% ! 0.2% ! 0.5% ! 10.2% ! 0.2% ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ES9C By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ---------------------------- ! 00 ! 112 ! 112 ! ! 01 ! 117 ! 117 ! ! 02 ! 94 ! 94 ! ! 03 ! 54 ! 54 ! ! 04 ! 67 ! 67 ! ! 05 ! 66 ! 66 ! ! 06 ! 44 ! 44 ! ! 07 ! 65 ! 65 ! ! 08 ! 10 ! 10 ! ! 09 ! 5 ! 5 ! ! 10 ! 12 ! 12 ! ! 11 ! 9 ! 9 ! ! 12 ! 25 ! 25 ! ! 13 ! 32 ! 32 ! ! 14 ! 43 ! 43 ! ! 15 ! 43 ! 43 ! ! 16 ! 42 ! 42 ! ! 17 ! 37 ! 37 ! ! 18 ! 41 ! 41 ! ! 19 ! 52 ! 52 ! ! 20 ! 40 ! 40 ! ! 21 ! 40 ! 40 ! ! 22 ! 53 ! 53 ! ! 23 ! 35 ! 35 ! ! 00 ! 40 ! 40 ! ! 01 ! 48 ! 48 ! ! 02 ! 36 ! 36 ! ! 03 ! 39 ! 39 ! ! 04 ! 37 ! 37 ! ! 05 ! 39 ! 39 ! ! 06 ! 22 ! 22 ! ! 07 ! 7 ! 7 ! ! 08 ! 4 ! 4 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 10 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 13 ! 17 ! 17 ! ! 14 ! 23 ! 23 ! ! 15 ! 10 ! 10 ! ! 16 ! 17 ! 17 ! ! 17 ! 23 ! 23 ! ! 18 ! 34 ! 34 ! ! 19 ! 30 ! 30 ! ! 20 ! 24 ! 24 ! ! 21 ! 39 ! 39 ! ! 22 ! 21 ! 21 ! ! 23 ! 13 ! 13 ! ---------------------------- ! ! 1662 ! 1662 ! Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 355,446 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6FYA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 506,472 I was as multi-op, second op was the cluster ! Lot of fun, as usual on top band. K9AY has stop to work last evening. On strike ? Hopefully, I have also two beverages. The result is quite the same than two years ago, that time I had a dipole, this year a shunt feed. First night was not great with US/VE. Better the second one. I met OK, MO, MT, CA, MS and ZL sunday morning. I did not heard any JA because of eastern noice. Well, I will try to be better next time ! Thanks to all of you for contacts. CU Soon. Jean-Paul-F6FYA/TM4Q./. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 400 HI, just a few minutes to gives points to biggests signals. 73's david F8CRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 319,384 Rig: IC-756 (100W) Ant: Vertical(28m) Rx ant:2x50m LW Nice contest! 73&DX from Bela ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8JV Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 915,865 station setup ts870+pa, vertical 36mh, 6 pieces beverages, statistics: 196 NA, 48 JA(second evening 46)and many good dx(3W,9M4,9M2,EL, P4,C6,FM,etc..). Its was nice contest and thanks for all callers. see you on arrl cw 73 pali ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9CT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 138,970 No chance to come up with a full effort, nevertheless we enjoyed this one night in the contest ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG7T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 196,838 My Rig FTDX-9000D Ant:Titanex V160HD and K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 427,728 Rig:IC-781 + 800W Ant:inv.vee dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 53,704 Not so bad for 100w and a windom antenna for 80 M!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK3SSJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 4,539 RTX JRC 135 ANT 80M LONGWIRE QARTEST.LOG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK4XCL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 235,998 Radio: YAESU FT-1000MP Tx ant: VERTICAL 42m (balloon helium) INVERTED L 42m (15m vertical + 27m horizontal) Rx ant: BOG 220m NW-SE BOG 180m N - S EWE 27m 6mh NE LOW DIPOLE W - E My best record in cq 160m cw ! Nice prop. for US during saturday morning. I appreciate very much LOW DIPOLE to receive (my first time). As usual, really vy funny. MNI TKS to all, and CU next year. GL de IK4XCL Roberto ...one of IO4T ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AV Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 24,138 Great conditions the first night allowed me to hear and work some DX. Low power into 40 meter beam. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 16,356 Only on for a while Saturday evening - running the 756pro3 and Alpha374A to an inv L(up 65' out 65') and no recieve antennas. Loaded up to about 700W and wifey pooh came down and said the dining room lights were blinking on and off - so I turned it down to about 500W and that seemed to cure the problem. Heard a couple of European but didn't work any. Only DX was KP2 and C6A. But it made for an entertaining couple of hours. All S&P. Thanks for the Q's. 73 de K0OU Steve in MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 69,660 In spite of conditions not seeming quite as good as last year from this QTH, I managed to improve my score by a little better than 10% over my 2007 effort. The 2007 CQ160-CW was my last "paper log" contest, so I'm sure computer logging helped. A loop RX antenna and second radio also made a difference. The first 300 Qs were easy and I thought making my goal of 500 Qs was a cinch, but I had to work like a dog for the last 200! Almost made WAS again but didn't hear KL7. Worked CE,CU,KH6,VP9,XE and R3 m/m. There was a fair opening to EU both nights but they weren't hearing my QRP sig. Thanks to all the ops who did the "heavy lifting" in pulling my signal from the noise. You're the ones who make QRP worthwhile! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 39,856 I always enjoy the 160m CW contests. Even as a low power station I can usually find a spot to call my own and run stations. I did get chased off frequency by a HP East Coast station that insisted on slowly drifting down frequency to run me off. It work for him. A couple of weeks ago "something" in my area was creating +60 dB line noise that erased any hope of hearing stations on 160 or 80 meters. Fortunately, whatever it was must have fried up and fallen to the ground. That noise was finally gone. I have never heard so many European stations on 160m. I had to check my radio to make sure I wasn't listening to 80 meters! For TX I use a low, full size 160m inverted vee with the apex at 70 feet. As you know, that configuration is not known as a great DX antenna. I also have a 450 foot Beverage pointing at EU. This time the Beverage antenna didn't provide any advantage in reception. The signals were really strong. My remaining problem was running in Low Power class I couldn't be heard through all the pile ups. Although I was hearing plenty of EU I couldn't work many of them. I did got lucky and worked 3 DX stations: CT9M, CU8A, and KH6LC. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 440,610 Great conditions the first night with 50 Europeans. The second night was poor with only 4 more EU in the log. JAs were poor with a total of 46 although some were quite strong. It was fun to have W0UA and W1XE over for the test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 59,598 Best Eu conditions I have ever heard from Co. Glad I didnt go to Denver this weekend..LOT same old song. See ya in Sprints. PTL bill UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XI Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 49 Almost WAS50 #4 on 160 QRP! First time ARRL94 (39 hours), second time ARRL06 (12 hours), third time ARRL07 (8 hours) and ALMOST #4 but 49 in six hours not bad! Does anyone in ND know how to RUN??? KH6LC ... Thanks for hanging in there with me ... QSB took both of us down. Thanks Wayne for WY! ... thot that one was gone too. ... 73 k0xi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 163,344 Friday night conditions were a lot better to Europe. I heard quite a bit more than could hear me. Maybe it was my K3 that was hearing so well! Thanks for all the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 100,800 Decided at the last moment to turn the amplifier off and go low power. A humbling experience but fun when I got through. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 553,758 The 2008 CQ World Wide 160 Meter Contest started with the awful discovery of S5 power line noise on the S and SE (150 degrees) Beverages. Fortunately, the noise was not particularly audible in any of the other directions. But the noise affected the phased array receiving system. While dropping my child at her grandparents for the weekend, I drove past some utility work that was taking place about a mile from my QTH. I tuned the car radio to a relatively empty frequency (1630 kHz, SWACO Radio, all trash, all the time). The noise started rising as I approached the work area and peaked adjacent to a pole with temporary rigging. Since the contest started in only an hour, I didn't perceive any opportunity to affect the situation (like crashing the car into the pole). During the contest, I intended to test the refinements I recently added to the Steerable Phased Array receiving system ("phased array" for short). See k1lt.com for prior soapboxes about the development of this system. Since the Stew Perry test, I improved the sensitivity by replacing the op-amps in the "front-ends" with lower noise devices, decreased the latency by numerous computer configuration changes (process and interrupt priority, etc.), and added a headphone audio switch box to conveniently route audio (no more mousing). I tried to add automatic IQ balancing, but that still doesn't work correctly. During the CQ 160, I did not notice any interference from image signals, even though contest activity spans both halves of the 96 kHz of spectrum the SDR presents. (I set the center frequency to 1855 kHz, which means signals above 1855 might image into the range below 1855.) The configuration that seems to work most conveniently is to use the Beverages and main radio for the anticipated "most difficult" direction (usually east toward Europe) and use the steerable system for western directions. Then, when running, I can listen in two directions simultameously, and usually all callers are audible. The problem is that a caller from the west who is off frequency requires that I grab the mouse and tweak the SDR passband, while a caller from the east who is off frequency requires that I mess with the RIT control on the main radio. Although receiving requires more manual effort, I don't miss callers who happen to be coming from the wrong direction. The first night, conditions were good. However, the power line noise that affected the S and SE Beverages also wiped out all but NE and SW on the phased array. So, I tried to use the phased array for Europe, and the Beverages for other directions while operating 2-receiver mode. However, the lack of the equivalent of RIT on the SDR receiver made it difficult to using tuning as a signal discovery process. After a while, I reverted to traditional single radio operation. Sometime after sunrise Saturday morning, the noise went away. The second night, I thought conditions were better, perhaps even superb. I was able to run Europeans during my sunset, and again during their sunrise. Greg, NZ8R, came over Saturday evening. He deferred to my experience with 160 DX contesting during European sunrise, but he did take the controls during the 0800-1100Z slow time while I napped. Then, being of sound mind in the sunrise time frame, I was able to run JAs for the second time ever, if you can call 5 JAs a run. (The first time was a run of 2 JAs, last year). While I was napping, Greg insists that he worked RV6CC at 1013Z, which seems unlikely to me. However, I can't figure out any way a mis-copy would result in that callsign. For now, the contact remains in my log, although I might delete it before submitting the log to the CQ scoring committee. We need a way of marking questionable contacts so that the scoring committee can either delete or award them without a penalty, or at least use them for credit for the other station. Greg liked the phased array second receiver as well. He would like to see a mechanism of setting the transmitter frequency via SDR-Shell. That would make the steerable receiving system into an excellent spotting and multiplier hunt radio. Of course, he doesn't know that the SDR guys intend for their software to work as a transceiver with the approriate converter and power amplifier. The array performance seems to have reached a level where other factors that accompany the SDR receiving system become significant. For example, SDR-Shell needs an "incremental tuning" control, so that the receive frequency can temporarily be adjusted for a caller that is off frequency. Also, the filters built into SDR-core are not as sharp as the filters in my IC765. That is, the filter skirts are wider, even though the filter can otherwise be made very narrow (down to 10 Hz). Theoretically, an 8 element broadside/end-fire combination (about 15 db peak to average directivity) should significantly out-perform my Beverages (around 12 db directivity at best), but I still don't hear it. Sometimes, the array can beat the Beverages, and sometimes it can't. The phased array continues to improve, but I'm not ready to start rolling up my Beverages. Besides, one can never have too many receive antennas (switching and searching not-withstanding). Breakdown summary: UTC 160 rate total 00Z 80 80 80 01Z 87 87 167 02Z 94 94 261 03Z 63 63 324 04Z 46 46 370 05Z 45 45 415 06Z 74 74 489 07Z 53 53 542 08Z 27 27 569 09Z 12 12 581 10Z 0 0 581 11Z 46 46 627 12Z 33 33 660 13Z 0 0 660 14Z 0 0 660 15Z 0 0 660 16Z 2 2 662 17Z 0 0 662 18Z 12 12 674 19Z 21 21 695 20Z 32 32 727 21Z 44 44 771 22Z 45 45 816 23Z 21 21 837 00Z 38 38 875 01Z 61 61 936 02Z 23 23 959 03Z 65 65 1024 04Z 40 40 1064 05Z 28 28 1092 06Z 29 29 1121 07Z 19 19 1140 08Z 16 16 1156 09Z 12 12 1168 10Z 10 10 1178 11Z 22 22 1200 12Z 22 22 1222 13Z 16 16 1238 14Z 21 21 1259 15Z 6 6 1265 16Z 0 0 1265 17Z 0 0 1265 18Z 0 0 1265 19Z 12 12 1277 20Z 18 18 1295 21Z 19 19 1314 22Z 11 11 1325 23Z 25 25 1350 2 point QSOs: 1057 5 point QSOs: 101 10 point QSOs: 192 DX: 4O, 5B, (5) 9A, (2) C6, CE, CN, CT, CT3, (2) CU, (2) CX, (40) DL, (2) E7, (7) EA, EA6, EA8, (3) EI, EL, ER, ES, (2) F, (8) G, GD, (2) GM, GW, (8) HA, HB, (2) HK, HP, HR, (5) I, (5) JA, KH6, (2) KP2, KP4, (3) LA, LX, (4) LY, (2) OE, (5) OH, OH0, (18) OK, (6) OM, (3) ON, OZ, P4, (7) PA, PY, (13) S5, SM, (6) SP, (2) SV, TF, TI, (4) UA, (2) UA2, (5) UR, V3, VP9, (3) XE, (2) YL, (2) YO, (3) YU, YV, and ZF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,560 Congrats to everybody who heard my 66-foot end fed wire, 15 feet above ground, and 100 watts. Worked CU8A and VP9I. Heard many more that I couldn't work. Jim Cain Atlantic City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 472,995 Didn't lose too much sleep -- went to bed at European sunrise both nights. Really enjoyed the conditions to EU the first night! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 77,964 Great conditions. Wish I had more time to spend... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2WK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 166,415 Rig : IC-765 Pro III; Alpha 87A -1.5 Kw out. Antenna : 1/4 wave Inverted-L, 2 tuned elevated radials, no RX antennas yet. Soapbox : 7 hours on, part time effort. On Friday afternoon ran 1000' of coax (500' antenna & 500' feedline) thru the woods as a sereptitious BOG/Snake beverage. After all that, no woiky-woiky. Used Xmit antenna for RX, hence the very low country count. By 1 AM Saturday & Sunday, sleep got the better of me. All in all, I had a Great time. Nice to hook up with old friends. 73 de K2WK/4 - Gordonsville, VA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2YR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 188,195 Antennas: 2 inverted L's, half wave spacing w/ 8 elevated radials on each, phased with PVS-2 Comtek array switch, 3 directions: E&W,N,S. 720 ft Beverage towards Europe. Next year, more Beverages, and more chair time! First contest w/ Beverage, so thanks for your patience if I didn't hear you off the back right away. Got to keep the rcv switch and the array switch going! Rig: FT-990 (now retiring the 990, just got a 1000MP this week) ICE Pre-amp. Alpha linear. 73 -Carl, K2YR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3JT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 217,701 Awesome conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 134,850 A very fun contest, and thanks to the sponsors. This was my first attempt at CQing & running in CW - at 20 wpm. Many thanks to the ops who answered my call and especially for their patience. It also was my first time using GetScores.org. This REALLY added a lot to the fun of the contest. I was always reluctant to have my measely score posted, but there were a whole bunch of us with measely scores, and the real-time competiton was great. It probably kept me in the chair several hours longer than I planned. Unless you are a paranoid Top Gun station, you really should try GetScores. Now to get ready for the MOTHER of all state qso parties - the Delaware QSOP next weekend. Give me a call (QRS pse). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,498 Conditions were good for the low long wires. Did not get very far, but did have fun. K3 behaved well and was fun to use. :) PK (Paul - K3MZ K2 #3135 K3 #84) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 3,696 Imagine that! A 75m dipole about 12 ft in the air actually makes a few QSOs on 160 with my trusty old tuner! It ain't pretty, but it let me have a little fun over the weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 113,544 Conditions into Europe seemed great the first night, but the QRN was pretty bad. On the second night, I barely heard any Europeans at all, and the QRN was down. Go figure!?!?! paul TS-850S with AL-811 amp, about 400 watts Inverted L, about 70 feet vertical, with about 20 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,061 Antenna: Inverted L 30'H x 75'L Part time S&P - lots of fun, but not much time to operate due to honey do list. Somehow missed close by LA and MS - never heard them. 73, Tad, K3TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 560,371 Enjoyed the scoreboard..still need a guest op or 2 to make Multi op more productive. Just packet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 110,755 FT1000MP, Alpha 78, 1 KW output, "t" vertical. Best conditions I ever heard on 160 in a contest. Was out of town Friday night, attended a wedding Saturday night, Sunday School and churcn Sunday morning, and a tennis match Sunday afternoon. Got in just over 7 hours between 11 PM and 4 AM the second night, about 45 minutes Sunday morning, and about 90 minutes at the end. Thanks for the QSOs. Congratulations to Southeastern DX Club upon celebrating this year its 50th anniversary of founding. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,488 Rig: Yaesu FT 897D MFJ-969 Tuner Ant: Inverted Vee (I added 65 ft extentions to my inverted vee to tune 160) This was my first time on 160 meters. I discovered three shortcomings during this contest; Antenna, power and sleep. I had a great time. Thanks to all those who took the time to dig me out of the noise. See you next year. Jim, K4BK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 53,460 Missed most of the first night. Conditions seemed good. Preserving my "amateur" status. Thanks for the contacts. TS-570DG, AL-811H - 400 watts, Inverted L, few short radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DLI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 57,723 Saturday night had very good sigs from Europe. Worked limited number of hours due to other commitments. First ever CW contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 40,698 -- Tennessee QSO Party 9 September 2008 www.tnqp.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,398 Rig: FT-897D Antenna: EWWBS Dipole Missed RI, ID, WY, and ND and all but 2 of the Canadian provinces. Couldn't hear anything but VE3 and VE2 stations up there. Worked N4PN, K4BK, KU8E and a slew of others but somehow missed John, K4BAI. A bunch of SECC members raised their heads for this one! All in all..... I loved every minute of it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 32,922 Not much operating time this weekend. Too bad, as conditions to Europe were simply fantastic during the short period I operated. Looks like a record-setting weekend for the CQ160 CW. Glad to hear all of the great reports from areas that don't often experience decent 160m propagation. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4TD Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 453,629 Thanks for all the QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 91,910 By far my best effort. My fitst goal was to exceed last years effort. That was accomplished at 0132, Saturday night. The next goal was 500 contacts. That was accomplished at 2220, Sunday afternoon. I would have liked to have made 100K points, but that was not to be. More time in the chair, and the space for a good receive antenna, would have "done the trick"! I'm not accustomed to being called, by DX stations, on 160, so it was quite a pleasant surprise being called by SP, PA, DL, EI, CT9, CU2, and CU8. Last contact was with 9A2AA, which was also the last multiplier. Thanks to all for the contacts, and I can honestly say: "with few exceptions, the courtesy, while remaining competitive, very closely resembles RTTY operators"! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 94,958 My belated 3830 report for CQ WW 160. I love 160M, and it's nice to see 29 countries in two days -- it took me about 6 months to get my first 29 on top band! Lots of family stuff going on limited my operating time, but I enjoyed every minute. As many commented, the conditions to EU rocked! Unfortunately I only got to enjoy the first night's, as I was out with family the second evening. But what a nice combination of low QRN and great propagation. I heard a couple of JA's but didn't work any, but a few days later on 2/2 I managed my first JA on 160M at local sunrise here. Quite the thrill!! Thanks all for the Q's. 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 78,926 Conditions don't get much better than they were Friday night. Heard several Eu. A pleasure to have it coincide with a contest weekend ...for a change! Missed NL LB YT Mb Thanks to all who came by. 73, Dick k4xu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,850 Great conditions, heard many JAs on sunday morning, just none of them calling CQ! For a very part-time effort, I was happy to pick up a couple of new ones. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 12,684 Between other activities, had 3 short periods to play. I'm not much of a CW op, and only had LP (amp needs tubes), so it was all S&P. Still lots of fun on top band. See ya'll next contest! 73, Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5EWJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 42,036 What a great way to try out a new inverted L that I installed in the 42 F rain on Friday. The fact that the field was standing in water didn't hurt a bit. Conditions seemed good, the noise fairly low. I sure would have liked to work all 50 states in this one, but I missed Alaska, Wyoming and North Dakota. (also DC). I finally worked Idaho in this one (Thanks KG7H). I have been trying to complete WAS on 160 since I finished the 5 Band WAS in 1976 and Idaho kept eluding me. I do love the TOP BAND!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 548,926 Thanks to Doug and Marlene again for allowing me to operate at their fine station and for the great hospitality. Conditions were good but could not create any excitement in Europe with the CQ approach. Worked 126 Europeans and probably called 100 of them without every hearing a France station. Missed about 4 multipliers that I heard, but am very pleased with my best effort and score in this contest. Used FT-1000MP and Al-1500 to quarter wave vertical and several beverages. Thanks for all the contacts. Will load the log to LOTW in the next few days. 73 and look forward to working all this DX again in the ARRL DX Contest. Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5HP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 69,552 Beautiful quiet conditions Friday night. Not quite as good Saturday. Many stations acitve. A lot of fun for a single band contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 43,450 Best condx I've ever heard from Oklahoma to Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 169,344 Conditions were very good. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 64,285 Only one night here. Condx sounded great, got tired and went to bed b4 EU sunrise but still picked up some nice mults. Back on for my sunrise and worked handfull of JA's and a KL7. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 266,628 3 hours late Friday night. 3 hours in mid Sat evening. 1 hour Sunday morning. 1.5 hours on Sunday evening. Fantastic European signals. Especially from CU2A, CU8A, and CT1JLZ. My best run was up around 1882 Khz! Working Europe and USA. Great to see so much activity to go with the good conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 2,670 This was my 1st CW outing with my new FT-450. Wow!I couldn't believe I was on 160. What a difference from my IC-707. I exceeded last years score and distance including HI and PEI. Thanks to all who answered my call, especially those who took extra patience with my probably poor signal, considering my only antenna for this is my stealth 40M Delta Loop, which is about 1/8th wave on 160. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 9,554 This is my second CQ 160 CW contest. Last year I got hooked using an 80 meter dipole and made 44 QSOs. This year I put up a very reclined, collapsed inverted vee up with the apex at 50 feet. I haven't been on 160 much, but I think that was what you call excellent conditions. Much better than during the Stew Perry event. I worked a lot of states for WAS. Not many of them on LOTW, though 8-(. New Hampshire is my farthest now. I couldn't work any DX except XE and KH6. Heard the C6A, TI, KL7 & P43. Used the N3FJP software, and it worked fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 11,726 Good propagation conditions, but not much time this weekend. Homemade helically wound vertical worked well. 73, John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 31,845 Short spurts on and off during the event. I had never heard S9 signals from the East Coast on 160m here before until the wee hours Saturday morning. Incredible. Wish I would have been in Alaska for this one! Murphy caused my AL-80B output to drop slowly to 250w so not sure what's up with that since the tube is only 2 months old. Checked the HV readings and no problem there. Hooked my TXRX up to another AL-80B and that worked fine. QLF Department (and apologies to RW0CWA). I thought it was W0CWA who kept sending 'RA' as I kept asking for a QTH/State repeat. Finally, I heard the 'R' at the beginning of the call and then things made sense. There were some pretty Monster signals on 160m this weekend, with undoubtedly many hefty power company bills coming soon. 73 & Tnx for the Q's... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 125,248 Is this a forum for excuses? Okay, I had the sinus infection from H E triple L so wasn't able to give 'er my best shot. Even if I had been feeling better I was away at my daughter's high school basketball for several hours last night. Seemed like condx were about the best I have seen even though I wasn't around for a large part of the time. I'm sure many records fell. I had all states but Kansas so when I got home this afternoon I thought I'd go get on for the last hour. Thanks W0EB for the last one. He said I was his last one also so we had a chuckle. Then, S&Ping found W0BH for another KS. Congrats to the diehards!! Matt--K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7JJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 12,426 QTH: Champoeg State Park, Marion County, Oregon. Rig: IC-7000 to ALS-500M, 400 Watts. Antenna: Hustler 4BTV trap vertical with 110 foot wire bolted to top and running horizontal to a tree. 25 feet to 10 feet high! Oh well! I did not hear W1, W2, worked one W3. I am a full time RV'er and do what I can! HI! Thanks to all who heard me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7OA Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 113,387 Did a lot better then last year tryed to work DL, I but they could not here us with 100 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7OX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 159,621 Used Packet in hopes of finding the two remaing countries I need for DXCC from WA. With 103 worked and 98 confirmed just can not seem to pick up the two remaing countries out of Europe with "Green Stamps" or IRC's. Speaking of Europe I have never heard some many Europeans coming through all the contest QRM. Signals very loud and heard SM5CEU at 0236Z and all the others followed. Nothing new heard or worked for my DXCC and spent to much time chasing spots and trying to work the Europeans through the East Coast wall. I would love to work this contest from New England, what a blast that would be. Nice to work familar calls and friends but the Q count was down from last year and the ARRL test. However, great fun and looking forward to next year. Thanks for the Q's and HNY to all. 73 Gary K7OX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RAT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 293,174 Just beat last year's score by a few QSOs. Excellent conditions to the east coast the first night. Felt like we were in the black hole for Europe however - only working ON4UN and GM3POI. Worked 90 JAs - but many of them were stronger on a different beverage than the one you would expect. Radio: K3 + Viewstart PT2500A (pair 3-500z) + TS850 Spotting RX Spotting receiver used a RX loop about 700 feet away from the TX antennas - with the null pointed at them. New parasitic reflector/director was seldom used since we didn't have an opening over the pole. Had about 3" of snow come down the second morning. Many thanks for the QSOs. Activity seemed really good the first night. Second night was pretty painful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 117,292 Great conditions. I worked many new ones. Amazingly, I never heard a SD station, so missed that multiplier, but got the rest, all but DC and the rare VE Provinces. Put in about 18 hours. Noticed many stations replied way off frequncy. In a well attended contest like this one, many use very tight filters, a word to the wise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7TJR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 237,492 I have never before heard so many DX stations on during the contests. Wish I could have worked all that I heard. Two new countries in the log, one each from 9A and CN. Noise was very low except for the clix and phase noises of a few. Only had one frequency fight where somebody called me a Joker for being on the same freq for several hours? This contest had the longest runs on a single freq. ever from here. Very good conditions to JA with 106 in the log. Only a hand full from VK/ZL and one station I just could not pull out from there but they gave it their best shot anyway. This contesting has more lasting bodily effects every year I age! Thanks for all the signals sent to Oregon. I am very glad the noisy snow held off till the morning after! Hmm, maybe I could use just a few more RX antennas. Lee K7TJR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 120,120 Rig: K2, Alpha 76A, Sloper Great time with great condx! Low country total is truly motivating me to get that RX ant up! First real contest try with the new 160 antenna. Other obligations limited some critical operating times. Thanks for all the Q's, "160 courtesy", and an all around great time! 73 from AZ, John K7WP .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 75,740 Score : 75,740 Rig : IC-746, Alpha 78 @ 700W Output. Antennas : 175' Long, 35' High, Inv L. No Separate Rcv Ant Soapbox: Absolutely Increadible Conditions! I forgot about the contest until Saturday Morning. Worked just under 100 Q's and went off to do other things. Was still hearing stations 2 hours after Sunrise. Checked the band for locals around 2PM and found weak but workable signals all the way to the East Coast / Carribean! Once the sun set, the band was like 20 meters! I completed 160M WAC in 3 hours! This was one for the record books! A personal best on 160M in a contest!! The only state I missed was North Dakota, brings back memories of SS... Using N1MM Logger, the DX Cluster, and full radio control is the only way to go. I'll never look back! THANK YOU N1MM!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 161,268 Rig: FT1000MP + ALS-600 500 watts Ant: Helically-wound vertical, 204-foot G5RV Software: WriteLog 10.58e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 142,760 Good condx and lots of activity!! Station: IC-756P3 and Inverted L 25M V and 15M H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8FC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 309,366 Thanks to the crew here Dick K9BWI Terry K7TD and Tom W0GG , we had a great time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 32,900 The first time on 160 this contest season. The radials never did get down, but still some fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8KS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 519,600 To our best recollection, DX conditions were noticeably better than in past CQ WW 160M CW contests. Noise levels were down considerably and signals from EU, SA, and Japan were quite strong. It was fun running DX from the other end of the pileups for a change. It was frustrating, though, that a few DX stations that we heard so loudly on our Beverages could not hear us until later into the night. Hopefully, it was because we had better ears, but who knows? Maybe we were puny, hi. It was certainly a lot of fun for our crew of seven ops. Also, thanks to everyonefor all the K8KS cluster spots.... Kaz, K8KS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 119,028 A serious effort was, with some effort, averted. Most of my operating time was spent in S&P with a couple of runs. Precip static from snow marred my Saturday night operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 105,460 I was planning to operate Friday night with my own call, but when I finished up Saturday morning with 85K, I decided to spend the extra hour or so to make it to 100K, which I don't think I had ever done before in a 160 test. Can I claim the PJ2 multiplier? Had dinner Saturday night with W0CG/PJ2DX/PJ2T and W8WTS, who had planned to be at PJ2T this weekend (with K8ND) until a major work project intervened. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9AY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 326,028 Good to hear many friends on the air! Got my winter-damaged antenna farm sorta working and had some fun. Needed to get a few other things done, so no 30-hour effort. Got all 50 states, but no DC. Decent DX total from the Upper Midwest, but heard a lot more -- would have been nice to get them into the log. I expect to see some BIG scores with these condx! 73, Gary K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,968 Only 28% of QSOs were via CQ runs. Wasted a lot of time in S&P mode. Worked a CWAS (contiguous "WAS"), but missed working all 50 states by never hearing KL7. Wasted a lot of time tuning for a KL7 station. Missed DC -- heard W3DQ only once, but not able to catch him before he moved on. Heard loads of DX, but my low power station, with mediocre "160" antennas, could just not get through to most of the DX heard. The small receiving antennae seemed to work rather well this time, but my "160" ERP is another issue. Very frustrating. :) Need to do more work on the "160" antennas this year and may also have to finally give in to running an amplifier once in a while. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 193,000 Great conditions, great fun! Thanks to all for the QSO's. 73, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 138,320 Back out in the desert on the AZ/CA border flying the balloon vertical over 32 radials of fine #17 fence wire from my RV. What a great DX-fest! Actually the best conditions I've ever heard. Often hearing Europe loudly and at the same time listening to KH6LC run. Rain static slowed things down a bit toward the end, who would have thought this parched piece of BLM heaven would get a soaker?! Best DX CN2R and ZL2IFB. 73, Gene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 775,161 That was fun! We enjoyed a pretty good EU opening on the first night putting nearly 200 stations into the log. We had short bursts of EU callers on the second night and could never really get a good run going. The highlight of the contest was KM3T logging the first JA ever worked on 160 from the KC1XX station. Thanks for all the contacts. Also, a big thank you to the Strelow family for opening their home again this weekend so we could have as much fun as we did! -73 Stations 1 & 2: TT Orions interlocked with Ameritron AL-1200 Station 3: TT Orion RX-only spotting station Antennas: TX Array: 3 element inline array RX: 4 two-wire Beverages, NE or SW endfire RX vertical array 160 percent North America 1215 78.1 South America 8 0.5 Europe 316 20.3 Asia 7 0.4 Africa 5 0.3 Oceania 5 0.3 HOUR 160 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 121/34 121/34 121/34 1 115/11 115/11 236/45 2 106/13 106/13 342/58 3 72/22 72/22 414/80 4 78/9 78/9 492/89 5 99/11 99/11 591/100 6 89/5 89/5 680/105 7 50/4 50/4 730/109 8 75/2 75/2 805/111 9 34/1 34/1 839/112 10 24/0 24/0 863/112 11 29/0 29/0 892/112 12 14/0 14/0 906/112 13 15/0 15/0 921/112 14 12/0 12/0 933/112 15 13/0 13/0 946/112 16 3/0 3/0 949/112 17 1/0 1/0 950/112 18 7/0 7/0 957/112 19 8/0 8/0 965/112 20 23/0 23/0 988/112 21 22/0 22/0 1010/112 22 41/2 41/2 1051/114 23 35/1 35/1 1086/115 0 32/1 32/1 1118/116 1 32/1 32/1 1150/117 2 40/1 40/1 1190/118 3 43/0 43/0 1233/118 4 28/0 28/0 1261/118 5 37/1 37/1 1298/119 6 19/0 19/0 1317/119 7 30/1 30/1 1347/120 8 16/3 16/3 1363/123 9 14/0 14/0 1377/123 10 9/0 9/0 1386/123 11 15/2 15/2 1401/125 12 8/0 8/0 1409/125 13 10/0 10/0 1419/125 14 14/0 14/0 1433/125 15 5/0 5/0 1438/125 16 3/0 3/0 1441/125 17 3/0 3/0 1444/125 18 6/0 6/0 1450/125 19 13/0 13/0 1463/125 20 9/0 9/0 1472/125 21 8/0 8/0 1480/125 22 17/1 17/1 1497/126 23 21/3 21/3 1518/129 DAY1 1086/115 ..... 1086/115 DAY2 432/14 . 432/14 TOT 1518/129 . 1518/129 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX CQ 160 METER CONTEST Multi Single 27 Jan 2008 2359z PRFX 160 4L 1 4O 1 5B 2 7X 1 9A 6 A6 1 C6 2 CE 1 CM 1 CN 1 CT 2 CT3 1 CU 2 CX 1 DL 54 E7 1 EA 7 EA6 1 EA8 2 EI 5 ER 1 ES 3 EU 1 F 5 G 28 GD 1 GI 1 GM 4 GW 6 HA 14 HB 1 HK 2 HP 1 HR 2 I 9 JA 2 KH6 3 KP2 2 KP4 1 LA 4 LX 1 LY 5 LZ 3 OE 2 OH 9 OH0 1 OK 29 OM 8 ON 4 OZ 1 P4 1 PA 12 PJ7 1 PY 1 S5 19 SM 11 SP 11 SV 2 TF 1 UA 11 UA2 2 UA9 1 UR 16 V3 1 VP9 1 XE 3 YL 2 YO 1 YU 8 YV 2 ZF 1 ZL 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4D Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 378,566 OUR BEST OUTING YET IN THE CQ-160-CW DESPITE LOSSING THE ORION II AND ABILITY TO POINT AND SHOOT ON SATURDAY MORNING ---MOST PLESANT SURPRISE WAS A SATURDAY EVENING CALL FROM VQ9T---THANKS TO A LATE SUNDAY CALL FROM W3DQ WITH DC, MISSED ONLY WY IN LOWER 48 --- 50 DXCC ENTITIES WAS ALSO A NEW STATION RECORD --- OUR THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO GAVE US A CALL ---LOOKING FORWARD TO 2009. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,536 My first time to use N1MM and it worked pretty good. I was just fiddling around with it... Not really much of a station here, running 100w and a dipole at 65'. Thanks to everyone for the contact.. Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2RD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 115,218 Thanks to everyone for the contacts! This was my first 160 m test & hope everyone had as much fun as I did ! >Antenna: Full Wave Loop/Max. Ht. 70 Feet >Rig: FT-1000MP Mark-V Field >Low Power-150w See You Next Year! 73's John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 457,632 I don't think I'll ever figure this contest out! :-) Thanks to John Evans, N3HBX, for letting me use his station again. I only "killed" one amplifier. I worked not one but TWO JA's - my first on 160. Great fun as always. Missed KL7 - I've never worked Alaska on 160, VE4, LB, NT, and the Yukon. 2008 CQ 160 CW KD4D HOUR 160CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ----- ----- 0 111 111 111 1 85 85 196 2 60 60 256 3 29 29 285 4 55 55 340 5 66 66 406 6 73 73 479 7 60 60 539 8 42 42 581 9 23 23 604 10 35 35 639 11 23 23 662 12 31 31 693 13 0 0 693 14 0 0 693 15 0 0 693 16 0 0 693 17 0 0 693 18 0 0 693 19 0 0 693 20 0 0 693 21 7 7 700 22 38 38 738 23 36 36 774 0 36 36 810 1 38 38 848 2 44 44 892 3 33 33 925 4 31 31 956 5 32 32 988 6 23 23 1011 7 21 21 1032 8 29 29 1061 9 18 18 1079 10 12 12 1091 11 20 20 1111 12 1 1 1112 13 0 0 1112 14 0 0 1112 15 0 0 1112 16 0 0 1112 17 0 0 1112 18 0 0 1112 19 0 0 1112 20 0 0 1112 21 15 15 1127 22 33 33 1160 23 41 41 1201 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 13,243 2008 CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP QTH = AR QSOs QSO pts. Mults. -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 145 323 41 Claimed score = 13243 2008 CQ WW 160-Meter DX Contest KD5J Section = AR Multipliers: 160m WV SD MI MT WA UT IL OH TN TX MN AR FL AL OK CO MO GA IN NY ON WI SC NC KS DE KY MS VA MD CT NJ NH LA PA NM IA QC AZ XE BC Total: 41 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 68,800 I used this contest to boost my meager count of 160m countries, and it certainly did - doubled it. I felt bad about using spots until those countries started rolling in. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG7H Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 130,498 Once agina a heavy snow storm hit during the contest, I had sagging radials and beverages as dawn arrived, but that goes with north Idaho. Had a good but brief opening to eu - worked G, 9A and CU all within a few minutes. Many JAs in morning but no VK/ZL or other pac than KH6. All states plus DC; no VE4. First night was great. 73 to all de Craig KG7H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 726,602 Great conditions, especially the first night. Thanks to all who worked us. Learned that a poor beverage is still better than no beverage at all. Where were the Carib, SA, VK & ZL stations? Station: FT-1000D (2) Emtron amp Shunt-fed tower on transmit Beverages for receive Sorry, no Hawaiian rooster sounds on CW. CU in the ARRL DX CW. 73 & Aloha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ0G Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 100,782 LOOKS LIKE THE POSSESSION OF LING BEVERAGES TO EUROPE WAS KEY TO SUCESS THIS TIME. INTERESTING CONDITIONS AND WE ENJOYED IT NEVER THE LESS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7Z Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 36,729 Fellow Contest Freqs, Here is our log and break down. This was our first use of the new antenna. A gamma fed 125' tower with a gin pole on the top. The gamma cap only would get the swr down to 2:1 so we used a tuner in the shack to keep the tubes happy. I wasn't impressed with the band conditions. The band was full of stations but most were weak. And with a zero noise level it is frustrating to hear them and they not hear us.More radials, more radials...and then some more radials will be added this spring. And feeding of the other 125' tower ( it looks hungry! ) Thanks to Randy for al the time he spent and all the KL7's that called us. It was a blast! N5XZ we missed you Man! LOL 73 Frank and Randy QSO/Sec+Dx by hour and band Hour 160 Total Cumm OffTime D1-0200Z 7/4 7/4 7/4 4 D1-0300Z - 0/0 7/4 60 D1-0400Z - 0/0 7/4 60 D1-0500Z - 0/0 7/4 60 D1-0600Z 14/7 14/7 21/11 3 D1-0700Z 36/7 36/7 57/18 D1-0800Z 28/6 28/6 85/24 D1-0900Z 2/0 2/0 87/24 56 D1-1000Z 12/3 12/3 99/27 6 D1-1100Z 5/0 5/0 104/27 43 D1-1200Z 7/1 7/1 111/28 D1-1300Z 9/1 9/1 120/29 3 D1-1400Z - 0/0 120/29 60 D1-1500Z 25/0 25/0 145/29 9 D1-1600Z 3/0 3/0 148/29 50 D1-1700Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-1800Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-1900Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2000Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2100Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2200Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D1-2300Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D2-0000Z --+-- 0/0 148/29 60 D2-0100Z - 0/0 148/29 60 D2-0200Z 2/0 2/0 150/29 22 D2-0300Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0400Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0500Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0600Z - 0/0 150/29 60 D2-0700Z 8/1 8/1 158/30 5 D2-0800Z 3/0 3/0 161/30 42 D2-0900Z 5/0 5/0 166/30 41 D2-1000Z 2/1 2/1 168/31 44 D2-1100Z 6/0 6/0 174/31 D2-1200Z 1/0 1/0 175/31 35 D2-1300Z 12/1 12/1 187/32 43 D2-1400Z 6/1 6/1 193/33 D2-1500Z 13/0 13/0 206/33 Total: 206/33 160 Total % NA 184 184 89.3 OC 1 1 0.5 AS 15 15 7.3 SA 1 1 0.5 EU 5 5 2.4 160 Total ES 1 1 JA 12 12 K 160 160 KH6 1 1 KL 9 9 OH 2 2 UA 2 2 UA9 3 3 VE 13 13 XE 2 2 YV 1 1 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 ARRL-SECTION: AK CALLSIGN: KL7Z CATEGORY: MULTI-ONE 160M HIGH CLAIMED-SCORE: 36729 CLUB: Alaska DX Club, CONTEST: CQ-160-CW CREATED-BY: WriteLog V10.63H NAME: FRANK HURLBUT ADDRESS: 2003 ROOSEVELT DR. ADDRESS: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA 99517 OPERATORS: KL7FH KL7Z SOAPBOX: What a blast! Heard the 3W3W beacon. Thanks everyone SOAPBOX: who worked us. END-OF-LOG: Rig FT-100 MKV Field Amp Drake L-7 Ant 1/4 vert tuner Drake MN-2700 Vodka and Sprite Zero Porthouse steaks for dinner with the works. Makers Mark Bourbon for dessert.. 73 Frank KL7FH Randy KL7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KM9M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 6,931 Really need some rcv antennas... Sri for all the fill requests and missing the ones that called and I just couldn't pull out... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 30,680 Band conditions were nice on Friday night, unfortunately I had to work Saturday so apparently missed some good Europe opportunities. My G5RV is only allowed to be out during winter months because of antenna restrictions, so this year I did it slightly different, and what a difference it made. I worked The Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Slovak Republic, Azores, Bahamas, Bermuda and Virgin Islands. Thanks to everyone with the good ears out there. 73 Scott KN3A Kenwood TS 450SAT @ 75 watts G5RV @ 30 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 19,106 It was fun doing what I did to get what I got. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 35,626 I sort of made this into a Sprint contest, only putting in just over 10 hours. I had a great time! Worked my first ever California (N6AA followed by AC6DD), Washington (WA7LT), Oregon (RAT), AZ (N7DD), and NM (N5IA) using QRP on 160m; and I've been qrp on 160 a looooong time! Rig: Elecraft K2/qrp only version (1st K3 is in transit, should be here Jan 30; 2nd one to ship later, ordered Nov 21, 2007) Antenna: 1/2 wave horizontal wire with center at 44 feet and ends at six (6) feet. I like the description that KU2M gave it: "A clothes line." Perfect! Best "10 QSO rate" was 169.8 per hour, while calling CQ. Too bad it only lasted 10 qso's. LOL de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 177,025 Elected to go withoug packet assuming mostly CQing to stateside. Instead, spent most of time S&P to Europe. WONDERFUL cndx to Europe. Should have used packet! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 666,666 Haven't been able to do this contest, even semi-seriously, for 3 years. It's one of my favorites, along with ARRL DX CW and CQWW CW. Wasn't TOO serious. Slept a couple hours the second night. Didn't mess with any daytime operation even though I could have added maybe 75-100 QSOs by starting a couple hours before sunset Sat and Sun night, took breaks to make coffee and get food. Didn't sleep during the day much, played with kids instead, which doesn't help. Basically made merry and had fun, and very happy with my score too. First night became good to EU - started with weaker stations 50 miles south as well as the midwest kicking my butt. 2nd night was mediocre, very mediocre, to EU, although late sunrise was good. I can honestly say I doubt anyone had more fun than I did this weekend! Hope you all had lots of fun too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 535,150 73 Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU1CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 506,732 Missed JA's big time-did not hear them first night and took a nap on the second night... Otherwise pretty good contest with minor mistakes made and good result for the 0-land-looks like new W0 record. Thanks for the Q's. 73. Alex KU1CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 179,211 Icom 756PRO , AL811H - 500 watts , Inverted L with four 130ft radials Just put my 160 meter Inverted L back up this week. Just had two 130 ft radials up at the start but added two more on Saturday. Condx were good to EU on both nights although they were probably better on Saturday. I screwed up when I laid down for a short catnap(?) around 0530Z on Sunday morning and didn't wake up until after sunrise. That caused me to miss the end of the EU opening (darn !!) Both KH6's I worked - KH6LC and KH6AT were very strong here in GA. Probably the loudest I have ever heard KH6 on 160. Most interesting QSO was working CM3GW at 1312Z when it was daylight at both of our locations. 73, Jeff KU8E Multiplers : NA - C6,CO,FM,KP2,V3,VP9,XE SA - CE,CX,HK,P4 AF - CN,CT3,EA8 EU- 4O,9A,CT,CU,DL,EA,EI,GM,HA,I,LA,LX,OH,OK,OM,ON,PA,S5,SM,SP,SV,T9, UA,UA2,UR Missed - ND,MT,LB,MB,NB,NF,NU,NWT,SK,YT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV0Q Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 423,920 The conditions were the best I ever experienced from Colorado on 160m during a contest. I regularly had Europeans coming back to my cqs which rarely happens out west. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7L Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 3,942 This time I decided to get up early rather than staying up late, and enjoyed the "quiet hour" at 4 a.m. local and managed to get some new mults to hear my QRP signal. Thanks for your patience! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 158,655 Well whats a phone op to do? CQ 160 SSB a month away. I got taken up in the wave of Top Band activity on the "Morse mode" which was generated buy a lot of proposed activity in the ACG. Just cudn't sit on the sidelies so I put in a part time effort in an attempt to catch a few new countries(6ea)and hand out the rare(naught) AL mult. Started 2hrs after kickoff to a great souding band that went sour to EU shortly after. Saturday night not spectacular but fairly consistent and predictable. Daytime activity good hr in the "Heart of DIxie" also with K8KS the beacon of the daylight. EQPT - Ten-Tec "O" machine/Alpha 78/ 2ea Bi-dir beverages(650')/ inverted -vee 75'/ Top loaded Vert w/32 1/4 rads. Ant impovement program still in the works. TNX to ya'll fer QSO's, Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY7M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 326,417 Great condx to EU and Asia on Friday night were not duplicated on Saturday night. FT2000D Emtron Amp Full Size 1/4 Wave vertical DX Engineering 4 Square RX Ant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 829,571 Had a good time in a crowded band. There is no such thing as a free frequency, but "dont worry - be happy !" Cya in the next one. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 860,265 Thanks for a wonderfull contest. Great fun! Missed some multipliers again to be among top-10 but worked more QSO and more DX than last year! Frustrated to hear so many great DX but was not able to work them. Our north-west beverage worked great! It was really hard to stay awake the second night. Thanks to all that called! 73 de Lech LA7MFA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 226,982 RX/TX antenna - dipole, PA 500W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 791,452 Little more than 50% time operation only this time. Conditions were great. NA statations had fluttering signals and were skewed south most of time, HK1 was skewed south. 220 USA + 17 VE. 66 JAs (per 100 minutes). Best runs: 04:43-05.42 51 USA + 4 VE + UA9 + FM + 35 EU 20:22-21:21 52 JA + UA9/0 + 58 EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 150,423 TS850SAT 100W Two Inv.vees ( very low ) Saturday morning were the Best NA conditions as I remember.About 30 US/VE stations were heard well over the EU noise. Eight of them were into the log! Congrats for great ears to (chronologically) :KT1V,KC1XX,K1TTT,VY2ZM,N2NT,K3ZM,W3BGN,K1LZ . 73 de Nasko,LZ9R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M2D Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,180,718 Wow that was fun. Again beat my previous best score. What a set of great operators on 160. Considering the numbers active its a tribute to the tenacity of them in keeping the qso,s flowing. Must again thank John G3LZQ for allowing me to operate his fine station. Thanks to all the lil pistols for joining in the fun and mayhem. I hope they return next year. I do so enjoy reading the Comments on the Highs and Lows experienced. Apart from a small Amp glitch towards the end of the contest all went extremely smoothly. Tried some SO2V but no time to search between quick CQ,s. If you leave more than a 3 second gap you loose the freq.Its that competitive. Rig: Orion II + MicroHam SO2R Interface Unit. Alpha 87A amplifier. Antenna: 28Mtr Top loaded Vertical over Km of radials. Various antennas for RX. Band Condx Very good on first night with good steady USA opening. Second Night was not so good propogation to the USA Although another late burst in the last hour again helped the score along. See you all next time. Thanks for the fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 146,965 WOW! I've never heard or worked so many Europeans on 160 in or out of a contest from Colorado! 28 Europe QSOs (The first night was the best with 18) in the log including a few new ones. Also 18 JAs, UA0, CE, HK, KH6, KL7, CN, EA8 and CT3. I got all US multipliers but a real shortage of VE with only 5 of 9. I even missed the closest two, VE4 and VE5. With less than an hour to go I still needed KL7. I was running in the JA sub band and suddenly noticed someone had moved in about 150 Hz above me but they were not real strong. Tuning up with the RIT to see who it was and KL7Z was CQing. I worked him for WAS in the contest and moved my run freq down another 500+ Hz so others could have a shot at KL7. I also managed WAC and a personal best contest DXCC for 160 of 33 (counting US and VE). Another interesting QSO was WA6CDR/MM Region III on the way to Ducie. Rig here Icom 756PROIII, Dentron Cliperton L 800w feeding 2 1/4 wave slopers thru a WX0B Stackmatch with two beverage RX antennas. QTH in the sticks of Western Colorado South of Silt. Phil N0KE DM69em ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0RU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 53,199 Worked 8 new countries, missed several states for WAS. Condx on Fri were very good, did not see repeat on Sat/Sun. Just 10 hr effort and 100% S/P. Made 90% of Q's at low power even though entered as HP. Lost SE beverage on Sat night due to wildlife, really needed that for Caribbean stations. High winds raised the noise level, but remaining bevs seemed to play well. 100ft shunt-fed tower really gets out well. Thanks to all. Robb NØRU Woodland Park, CO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 494,043 Definitely a CQ160 test “for the ages” with overall quite good conditions and low noise here, although there was a fair amount of QSB at times. I’ve been severely hampered the past two years by an adjacent housing development to my NE with 5 year-old high pressure street lights that began to all fail at once. Somehow, mercifully, the noise abated (repairs?) recently and I can hear again. I began the contest Friday night and initially decided to make this a very casual effort - the “déjà vu all over again” frustration of USA run stations right on top of EU run stations. But later that evening, I got drawn in by the outstanding conditions and gave it a go. My total time of 17 hours reveals not much chair time on Saturday night however. Conditions to Europe were much improved late Friday night (local) 0300-0700Z as compared to earlier Friday or Saturday/Sunday. I worked 135 ten pointers Fri night/Sat morning, 54 on Sat night/Sun morning and 17 on Sun eve to finish off the contest. There was deep qsb on the EU signals Sunday eve which made it a bit tricky. Albany NY to Japan is a very difficult path on topband, and this season has been particularly challenging with only a few QSOs in the log. Sunday morning was certainly one of the highlights of all my contesting endeavors to be called by seven JA’s (worked six) and end the morning by calling/working another one after sunrise here. I’ll have a soundclip of the JA QSOs up on my n1eu.com Web site later today. What else made the JA QSOs challenging was having my run freq encroached on by pronounced key clickers. Yes, the cw bands are getting cleaned up, but the improvements have plateau’d and there are still many prominent topband signals that are wide with clicks and/or spurs. Other than its subreceiver that folds quickly under pressure, the Orion acquitted itself quite well. Having dual receivers and the ability to listen in two Beverage directions simultaneously is a huge advantage when trying to listen selectively for European (or Japanese) 10-pointers . Thanks for all the q's and apologies to callers I couldn't pull out. 73, Barry N1EU Equipment: inverted L, elevated radials Beverage rx ants NE, SE, SW, NW (one wavelength) Ten-Tec Orion Acom 2000A N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 133,250 Lot's of fun as usual. I had to work Saturday so I missed the good conditions to europe on Friday night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 534,690 What a great time!! CQ-WW 160 CW is one of my favorite events and I thought it would be one more year before I could participate from the new QTH. However, after spending some time listening to the ARRL 160 CW on my 40 or 80 mtr dipoles, I decided to put up something to give it a try. As the new antenna farm is still under construction, with 160 antennas being the last to go up, the decision was focused at what I could do quickly. The result was an Inverted-V for TX and a couple of short beverages at compromise compass headings for RX. My wife (Laurie – N1YXU) again offered her support as ground crew so the I-V and beverages were quickly completed. Next was to do some recruiting to be able to enter as a Multi-Op with another operator. The first person I thought of was Jack (W0UCE). Thanks Jack for being willing to give it a try. Due to the temporary compromise antennas we agreed to focus on FUN – not necessarily to be competitive. As it turned out, we did much better than we thought. Yes, the conditions were really in our favor. Based on our end score we knew there would be some HUGE scores turned in from the big stations. The numbers already posted on 3830 support our opinion. We started off great. I opened up with rates for the first hour peaking at 198 with an actual total of 165 Qs. Jack then took over for hour 2 while I ate dinner The activity kept up and delivered a fun 145 hour for Jack. After that, as expected, the rates went down but those first two hours easily delivered on our original goal of having fun. Having achieved goal 1 we decided to see just how good could we do. Overall Summary: The inverted-V did better than we thought. However, were able to hear at least 10 countries that we could not work. Additionally, the 10 point Q count was probably down even though we were able to put 165 in the log. What happened to VE4, VE5? No VK, ZL or KL7. Probably directly related to our antennas. Pleasantly surprised to be able to hear and work (2) JAs. Thought we were not going to work DC, but eventually we found 1 with S/P and another called us Sunday evening. Best of all – Jack agreed to come back next year! We are both anxious to try it again with the completed 160 TX and RX antennas. Equipment: FT1000MP / AL1500 / WriteLog / Inverted-V at 100’ / ENE and WNW short beverages. 73, Bruce – N1LN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2BA Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 204,630 OK, that was pretty much fun except that I kind of wish I hadn't used packet. I'm running low power with a dipole at 45 foot (at the highest point) wrapped around a bunch of trees on a lot that measures about 65 by 150 foot! I feel like packet only suggested a few multipliers that I didn't stumble across on my own and mostly I couldn't work them if they were weak, had any sort of pileup or were more than about 4,000 miles away. I've got a better station at a cabin in the country but it is a long way away, cold and lonely. It sure is nicer to have meals with the family and sleep in my own bed, even if it is mid-day. See you next year. Brooke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 283,400 Sunday night was fantastic to Europe. Best conditions in quite a while. FT1000MP, Drake L7, 46' Inverted L, K9AY loops, N1MM. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,673 All contacts were made on an indoor antenna (a 40m dipole in the attic/loft fed as a Marconi). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 202,600 Part time effort. Very good condx Friday nite to EU, very weak Saturday night. Missed ID, NE, Ve4, Ve5, and of course KL7. Still lots of work needed on 160m. Thanks for the qso's Carol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 696,240 Best conditions ever heard, but strange. Friday night was bad early to EU then 05z the band opened wide. Saturday night poor to EU all night in the NE, but the south and west USA seemed to be working EU OK. Then before sunrise had my first ever JA "run" of 8 stations :). Nice mini run to EU at the end of the contest. All in all, best score ever by far. 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 232,155 Part time effort, other stuff to do including a RTTY test. Mostly S&P with 3 shorts runs. 73, Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 143,290 Was only able to put in a serious effort Friday night, but what a night it was. DX conditions were outstanding and the band was very quiet (compared to TBDC noise conditions) Looks like my friends all put in outstanding scores, congrats to all AND welcome to the new folks, lotsa new calls heard. CU in the next one! 73, Julius n2wn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3GJ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 99,675 Started off as a casual S&P effort but condx were good and I ended up putting in more time than I expected. Vy strong sigs from Eu and I was able to work a few but most couldn't hear my 100w sig. Although I did work a few new ones so that was nice. Quite a race at the finish when it looked like I could crack the 100k mark, but came up a few Q's short. Good to hear everyone and it was nice work a lot of friends. Equipment: IC-756 Pro III at 100w Inv L for TX/RX 50 feet up the tower and 70+ feet out to the top of a pine tree with 10 radials on the ground 73! Geo N3GJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3UA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 593,989 Would like to thank Bob W4DR for having me at his home for the contest.Really enjoyed his excellent 160m setup. Sejo , N3UA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 60,384 Band quiet all weekend. Best score ever. Great first night as others mentioned. 73 de Moe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 256,858 I was delighted to hear all the great DX on the band; I only failed to work a few that I heard. Nothing fancy here, just an inverted vee with apex at 90 feet, and no low-noise receiving antennas. Rig is an MP (all filtered up) and and Acom-1000, so no max power here! I don't have the stamina to last thru the wee hours, so I probably missed a lot of good DX... But it's always fun running into old friends. Thanks. Bert, N4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GN Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 58,320 Had packet on in the office and noticed there seemed to be a lot of DX spots on 160, including a couple that would be new countries for me, so I decided to jump in an make a few Qs. Guess that puts me in the multi-op category. I did one quick S&P sweep on Saturday night, then picked a spot and ran a 153 hour and went to bed. Did a little more S&P in the last hour. Band sounded pretty good to me. K4WW (practically line-of-sight) was definitely the loudest guy on the band. :-) 73 de N4GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 74,277 WOW! WHAT SUPER CONDX. ONLY OPERATED 6 HRS. IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. 73s JERRY N4JF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 181,812 Fairly Good Conditions with Low Noise contributed to good propagation to NA, SA, Europe and North Africa both nights. Friday Night seemed to peak from 0100 to 0400Z for DX, then dropped off. Beverage only needed once or twice Friday night. Saturday Night was good for DX from 2300 to 0200, then dropped off some, followed by a Before SunRise Peak in Europe. Signals not as strong Saturday night except for later (pre-sunrise) peak from Europe. Beverage used more Saturday night. Missed N.Dak. VE4,5,8 VO2 VY1 (and KL7) NA = C6 FM HR KP2 V3 VP9 XE ZF SA = CE CX HK P4 EU = 4O 9A CT CU DL EA EA6 EI ES F G GD GM GW HA I LA LX LY OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SM SP SV T9 TF UA UR YL YU AF = CN CT3 EA8 AS = C4 (=5B) OC = KH6 Only One Hour of Run Time with the rest spent in S&P mode and chasing Packet Spots for Multipliers. Took LOTS of Breaks of 20 to 40 minutes Saturday night. Slept in Both Mornings so NO Pacific / JA (except KH6 after midnight). Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 357,198 Amazing what some wire in a pine tree and on the ground can do. Still can't get the Beverage working like it should and used the inverted L for TX and RX. Power should say medium power as used an AL-811H at 500 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 480,975 Strange condx but good strange...never have heard 160 so good both nights of a contest ever. Signals were outstanding....best dx was RU9TO, some JA's and TF3CW (which is always difficult from here). Longest call - but signal was strong - so no problem - 9A50KDE (24 dots/dashes). Sure the most 10 pointers from this location with only an inverted vee... 66 - 10pointers first night and 103 second night.... See that SV2AVP/A was spotted this evening....sure could never have broken the EU wall with that one...but would have been nice as that's my last country in Europe on 160... Thanks for all the calls....for a change, could pull almost everyone out. 73, Paul, N4PN FT1000MP/(Started with Titan 425 Amp but it crapped out early Friday evening and went to old standby, AL-1200.... Inverted Vee - apex in a pine tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 79,458 Nice opening to Europe & Africa Friday evening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 101,970 Just got on to look for new band countries. Fabulous conditions. By far the most DX I have ever worked on 160 in a contest. Only states missed were AK and ND - heard neither. "Ran" only for a short while Sunday morning - the rest was all S&P. Equipment: Tentec Orion 100 watts TX and sometimes RX Antenna: 42m tower with elevated radials RX Antenna: 160m long beverage NE QSOs MADE IN EACH COUNTRY CQ160 CW 2008 - N5AW Prefix 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ------ --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- 4O 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 9A 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 C6 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CE 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CN 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CT 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 CT3 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 CU 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 CX 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 DL 4 - - - - - 4 1.87 EA 4 - - - - - 4 1.87 EA6 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 EA8 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 EI 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 F 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 G 4 - - - - - 4 1.87 GD 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 GM 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 GW 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 HA 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 HK 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 I 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 JA 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 K 125 - - - - - 125 58.41 KH6 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 KP2 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 LA 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 LX 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 LY 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 OH 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 OH0 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 OM 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 ON 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 OZ 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 PA 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 S5 3 - - - - - 3 1.40 SP 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 SV 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 UA 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 UA2 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 V3 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 VE 14 - - - - - 14 6.54 VP9 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 XE 2 - - - - - 2 0.93 YL 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 YU 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 ZF 1 - - - - - 1 0.47 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5IA Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 487,200 Quite and outing. WA6CDR couldn't come: He's on the Braveheart headed for VP6DX; WA5Y had business on the left coast; NI5L had a rifle match; so K7IA was recruited to the group for his first outing in a TopBand multi-op. Together with N2IC and W7MCO the team was complete. There were great conditions both nights with the exception to the Pacific the 2nd morning. 68 Ja's the first night and only 11 the 2nd night. No other PAC area stations on night 2. We left about 8 mults on the table; all heard well but not worked. Gotta get some more TX antenna somehow. We had 50 less Q's than last year but 11 more mults. This is our best score ever. The real highlight of the contest was working WA6CDR maritime mobile in region 3 near the International Date Line. He is on the Braveheart as it cruises from ZL land to Mangareva in French Polynesia. Overall Q count Stats: K, W = 1005 VE = 64 DX = 197 Short Q count per Mult breakdown report: CA = 124 JA = 79 TX = 55 WA = 51 OH = 43 Continental Mult breakdown EU = 33 NA = 11, + K&VE states & Provinces SA = 5 AF = 3 OC = 4 AS = JA + 1 Equipment: FT-1000 MPs Alpha 99 1/4 WL Groundplane Beverage farm A short report this time around as there is still a bundle of things I have to do and get ready for the DXped of a lifetime. A week from right now I will be two hours out of Papeete, Tahiti on the flight from LAX. The VP6DX team boards the Braveheart in Mangareva on Tuesday, February 5th. From there it is 72 hours of cruise time to Ducie. We anticipate off loading to the island the morning of the 9th. Three days are allocated to install the entire operation and bring all 7 stations on the air near simultaneously around sundown local time on Monday, Feb. 11th (~0500Z 12 Feb). Let's all hope it goes as planned with weather being the most uncertain element. So, look for us on TopBand and all others from Ducie Island, VP6DX. We will operate in the CQ 160 SSB contest. Thanks for the Q's in this one and an apology to those we couldn't pull out. 73 de Milt, N5IA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 84,630 In spite of S-9 line noise the first night, worked CU2, CU8, and CT1. Didn't get on the air until 07:30 the second night, but when I did, the band was incredibly quiet. Added EI, EA, G, and GM, which alone are probably more Europeans than I've ever worked on 160 from California in total. East coast USA stations were loud and astonishingly easy to copy. Even worked one JA station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 70,216 Still fighting AM BC Interference to main TX antenna forcing me to use only a 6 ft loop to RX. Hope to resolve BCI before next 160 contest ! Though I could not copy a the ZL4, I saw him spot me around 0900Z early Sunday morning and traded some e-mail AFTER the contest and found out I was a true 579 report in New Zealand ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 220,809 Original plan was a full bore single op effort, but the weather did not cooperate. Rain static on all antennas started as the contest began, so I watched tennis on TV until the rain stopped. Got on late (0330Z) in the best EU opening I've ever heard from CA, logging 11 EU including 9A, CT, DL, EA, G, OM, ON, SP, CN, CU. Rain started again, so watched hockey on TV until about 06Z, worked US for 1.5 hours, went to bed with 3 hours total time. Got on early Saturday morning for the last 3 hours before sunrise; logged 55 JAs and 15 other Asians incl. BY, HL, UA9, VR, JT. Ended first day with 300Q/52M/18C, with 6 hours on. Saturday night featured intermittent rain all night until about 10Z Sunday AM. Whenever the precip static went below S7 I got on in spurts and connected to packet to go for mults. Condx, even with no noise, were not as good as Friday night, only heard a few EU that I already worked. But picked up 5 more mults (missed Nt, Yt, NS, Lb, Mb) and 14 more countries. So the revised goal of a personal best in country mults was met. Can't complain too much about the rain; it was not there for the 2007 ARRL 160 and Stew Perry, and I did fairly well in those events. I plan to build a receiving loop with umbrella for rainy days before next 160m season! Continent List 2008 CQWW CW N6RO 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 538 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 538 VE calls = 46 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46 N.A. calls = 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 S.A. calls = 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 Euro calls = 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 Afrc calls = 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Asia calls = 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 JA calls = 74 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 Ocen calls = 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Unknowns = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total calls = 709 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 709 Stuff: FT1000mp, Alpha 76; wire 4 Square array for TX, 600' E-W reversible bev., 480' NE-SW bev., 600' JA bev.; TRlog, VE7CC cluster, one bottle of Sake. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 23,908 This was a bit more fun that the ARRL 160, as conditions were much quieter this time. Possibly due to the rain over this weekend. In spite of conditions, I just managed a new personal best by a slim 344 points. This beats my 2005 score and raises the bar by a little bit. I had hoped to at least equal my previous best, but there were so many stations missing that I have worked in the past. Also, while relatively quiet, conditions still weren't that great. Never heard Alaska or anything in the Caribbean. The highlight for me was breaking a pileup on RW0CWA and getting the QSO with my 5w. Got him on my third call. Almost makes up for missing KL7. I'm forcing myself to CQ more, even when it seems counter- productive. When I've worked every CQing station I can hear, there's nothing left for me to do but CQ too. Got several new mults that way, so I'm getting more comfortable with the idea. Hope to see a good turnout for the CQ WW DX SSB coming up. Thanks for all the QSOs. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7DD Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 518,760 This year I was joined by two of the worlds best CW contest operators. Tom, W8TK and Mike, KC7V. I really learned alot from these guys. My pleasure to have them operate at my station. The first night was normal with hardly any US pileups. Called CQ for almost every contact. The second night was fantastic! One of the best openings to Europe that I have ever heard. It went on for hours with European stations louder than most American stations. Interesting stats, Europe=103 Asia =72 Never believed that we could work 62 countries in any 160 meter contest. A once in a life time experience. Many JA's calling but local noise on the JA beverage covered them up. Thank you for calling and sorry that we couldn't copy you. Station: Icom IC-7800 Henry 3K Ultra TX antenna is a Half Wave sloper RX beverage 700 ft NE and 700 feet SW, 300 ft beverage to JA Thanks for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 55,693 Didn't feel like doing an all out, all night effort this year so just got on part time each night to practice running (I need the practice!) and look for new band countries. Got some good runs going but no new countries worked. Wasn't a good time to be chasing new ones with low power I guess. Lots of loud signals from both coasts on Friday night and lots of fun running. See you in the ARRL DX CW. Rig : Elecraft K2/100 Antennas : Shunt-fed, top-loaded tower; K9AY loop array 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ON Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 38,350 Condo station: Rig: K2/100 TX antenna: inverted-L, vertical run 30' RX antenna: indoor coax loop What fun, and what a discovery -- coax receive loops work! Everything I could hear with the inverted-L I could hear with the loop, plus more. Whether it was JT1CO (heard, not worked), EU, AF, SA, JA's, or close-in W6's, the loop performed superbly. Furthermore, intermittent line noise no longer kept me from working weak stations during runs. Receiving via the quiet loop was much more pleasant and easy on the ears than listening on the inverted-L. For my fellow condo communicators: no room for superior receive antennas (Beverages, K9AY's, flags, etc.)? Try a loop, even indoors if necessary. Another contest highlight was spending time with a non-contester, W6JYT, from just up the street. He helped me erect the inverted-L Saturday night, and after watching me make some QSO's and marveling at the performance of the receive loop, we went back to his place to scout out Topband possibilities in his backyard. Time missed in the contest was made up by his technical knowledge -- he's already solved my 40m RFI problem and improved my 160/80m feedpoints. DX multipliers: I like finding my own mults in contests, but once Europeans started coming through Friday night packet was turned on. WAC was completed with a CU8A QSO, but I missed the other Europeans. Most frustrating was calling a lonely French station without success. More radials and a higher inverted-L will get me there. W/VE mults: missed RI and a weekend WAS, and never heard DC. Worked an S & P ND station by jumping up to a clear spot and briefly CQing after hearing him work a station. He found me within a minute. Never heard him again. It was nice working several VE2's, and was every Topband op in VE6-land active? Lots of AB QSO's in the log. Thanks for the QSO's, and nice hearing so many familiar callsigns. 73, John, N7ON ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 36,720 Fun contest despite constant S9 noise level at this QTH. Need to build a receiving antenna for next year. Started on 160 meters in 1968 in California when we were limited to 200 watts from 1975-2000 kHz. It was a big deal to work the east coast back than. It's so great to hear so much activity stateside and from so many countries! Equipment: FT-1000MP TL-922 66 ft base loaded vertical for transmit and receive ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 104,090 Nice conditions this year. We did about 150 more Q's this year and almost doubled the country total as well. Last years score was around 64,000 points. Dink says that this years score will be tough to beat in future years. Dink extended his eastward pointing beverage by a few hundred feet this year and it worked FB. DX worked included CN2R, CU2A, CU8A, CE1/K7CA. We heard S51TA, HA8DX and other EU's but they could not hear us. Working EU is tough even under the best of circumstances from the PAC NW. I had to teach Sunday school so I left Dink to finish off the contest at midnight Sat. The second day is always a grind in this one, but he put another 100+ Q's in the log. CU in the ARRL DX as SOAB from my QTH. 73 - Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 224,652 Much better conditions than I expected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8IE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,104 Only had a couple of hours to play. 73 Dan, N8IE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 165,822 I'm not a night owl and was pretty drained as ususal Friday night, so no serious effort in this one as usual. On top of that, there were mobiles galore on Saturday during the day to feed my county hunting hunger, so I was more ready for a break than action around 2110Z Saturday. The noise level was really low throughout and there seemed to be more activity than ever from W/VE. Whenever I showed up, there were a good number of stations to run, but the runs slowed down after a while. Both evenings, 1800-1845 kHz were jam packed, even well before sunset. No rare DX was worked and some of the Eu ops obviously are not good listeners for weak DX signals; the QRM level must be equally as bad over there. I got beaten out in many Eu pile-ups even by an OR station once. My half sloper lays out a pretty good signal into the USA and is good enough to work most of the DX that shows up, but not up to some of the competition. Condx were not nearly as good to northern EU and Russia at least up until 03Z than many other nights this winter. I didn't hear anything from UR, LY, YL, OH and the only Russian worked was RU1A. LN8W was but a whisper, but with good ears. The DX window was polluted with W/VE calling CQ in the morning and no DX to the west was worked except KH6 despite several checks. It was amazing how early the band opened in the evening and how late it closed in the morning. Sunrise is about 1220Z and I worked K7RAT OR at 1307Z, N7DD AZ at 1308, and K8FC CO at 1336Z. The domestic mults did not come easily and I almost missed ME and VE9 both worked Sunday evening. Never heard VE4/5, MT, ND, DC and worked only one KS Sunday AM. Despite the half-hearted effort, my score was probably my 2nd best ever. I'll try harder next year. Thanks for the Q's and spots. I worked lots of fellow PVRC'ers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8UM Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 139,293 My wife had major back surgery in October. So after the Sept VHF Test I never pulled the FT-1000MP Mk V power supply out of the VHF Rovermobile so I had to operate from the drivers seat of the van (the PS is buried in the operating console…). I had one remaining 80 meter vertical standing from the old 80 m 4 square so I dropped it at Christmas with the help of the two adult boys home for the holidays and refurbished it. An old Airdux base loading coil made it resonant on 160. Conditions were about as good as they get here in East Tennessee. I think I consciously noted 4 static crashes during the weekend. I am too old to stay up all night and was surprised at the rate I was able to keep. This contest was dedicated to a lifelong friend, Earl Cunningham, K6SE. Earl and I started in Detroit when he was W8DGP and I was in high school. He drove me to the Catalpa Club meetings in Birmingham in his Red Dodge convertible (1964?). Later we both ended up at NASA in Clear Lake City, TX and I operated from his house (W5RTQ?). Still later, I could always count on him as KL7FRY to hear my little signal on 80 and 160. In the late 70’s I operated from his home in the Antelope Valley near Palmdale. I remember one Sunday morning after the CQ WW 160 SSB he took me into the Rockwell plant and we walked thru the Challenger airframe, still under construction. As others have remembered over the last year, Earl will be missed but always remembered. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9TF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 33,284 Always a lot of fun to see what I can do on 160 CW with antenna challenged station. Great to hear and work a lot of familier calls. I missed a good portion of Friday night, so don't know how good EU was then. But I could not believe the strong signals Saturday night. I don't usually hear EU that well, or much at all with my low antennas. As strong as they were though, my 100 watts and 35 foot high short dipole could not break through all the big signals from the states. Biggest signal heard was OM7M. With attenuater on and the preamp off on the TS-2000, OM7M was S9! Tried for a good 20 minutes, but no go. Missed ND,MT,AK, and ME for WAS. Worked five Canadian Provences, ON, PEI, AB, BC, and QC. Lots of ON's worked. Also worked lots of TN, and VA. DX worked was KH6LC, XE, and C6A. I am always amazed at how well KH6LC hears the weak low power stations. I've never had to repeat! Lots of SMCers in the log this year. Lots of good signals out there this contest. Rig: TS-2000 Antennas: Alpha Delta DX-LB at 35' broad side NW/SE radiating straight up! Alpha Delta DX-B at 35' sloping to 4' above ground aimed at 60 degrees, most likely radiating straight up. 73 Gene N9TF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 74,100 Rig: FT-1000MP - Ten-Tec Titan 900W Ant: Inverted "L" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 162,431 Good conditions and good operators made this fun. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 20,022 My first CQ 160 -- just got on 160 for the first time last year. By shorting the ladderline from my 80M OCF dipole I was able to match it across the band. Still a compromise, but it got me on the air. Modest score, but something to shoot at next year. Motorola Mark-V Field, K5 Logikey Keyer and N3FJP software. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,578 Not much to comment on. Don't have a decent RX antenna so was limited in what I could hear. Very noisy QTH. Mostly S&P since I couldn't hear very well. Gotta make a good RX antenna this summer. 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ8J Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,912 Equipment: Alinco DX-77T LDG AT-11MP Automatic Antenna tuner, MFJ-969 Antenna tuner 100' "doublet", off-center fed with ladder-line We really don't have the antennas to do 160 well here at Bedsprings Brigade Manor, but I figured I'd give it a stab. As a matter of fact, I seemed to be unhearable in the normal antenna configuration. I ended up pulling the old trick of tying both sides of the ladder-line together and treating it as a random wire. It at least got me out domestically. I heard no DX, I just heard other people working them. The rest of the weekend was pretty full, so I was only able to get on Friday evening. It's still more QSOs than I've made in previous years's CQ 160 contests. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 62,040 Very part time effort. In the immortal words of Captain Kirk: "I need more power!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 671,744 We had a great time at the Goat Farm. Put four 550ft two directional beverages up in the late fall. Used 100ft vertical wire with tee top fed against 45 quarter wave radials for transmit. Rig - Orion II/1500W. Interesting condx. Didn't hear much from the Pacific. KH6 and couple of ZLs. Didn't hear or see any VKs spotted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 55,242 Just a little search and pounce time and about a 20 minute run to test out the new and almost completed RX system. Spent part of my time just listening to Europeans running Europeans. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 11,911 Limited time outing...but always fun to play on 160m! Conditions sounded excellent! 73, jeff nx9t www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NZ1U Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 68,608 Limited operating during our 11th Annual Christmas Party. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 1,106 more than 1100 QSO were big fun on 160m, hearing midwest and westcoast as well as many multis like 3W3W, HK, etc. and not getting them was a bit frustrating winterstorm during the contst did not damage any antennas, so abviously they were to small.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2XX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 147,168 What a fun weekend. I was there for about 12 hours but enjoyed every minute of it. I am currently using just a temporary dipole for 160 meters that I put up twice a year - during CQWW CW and CQ 160 CW. It is only about 6 meters above the ground, but seems to work quite well anyway. The surroundings of my QTH are about 20 meters below in most directions so that must help. The propagation seemed to be quite ok too. The highlight of the contest was being called by K1LT during Saturday night. I was more prepared to S&P stateside stations but K1LT made a nice exception to that. He must hear very well. Nice to work CU2A, EF8M, CN2R and TF4M too. Thank you all for QSOs. Equipment: ICOM 756 Pro III AL-80A amplifier Dipole @6 meters 73 de Kari, OH2XX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 589,000 There simply were too big and thick pileups - our signal simply was not really competitive when compared with some other Finnish stations' signals. Whatever - we had a Fun Weekend! Thanks for another Contest! CU in 2009. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4AB Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 377,920 Couple of years ago we activated our club callsign in CQ 160 contest and it was time to do it again. Our goal was to have great fun and make a new club record. Five dedicated operators were available, some first timers with N1MM logging software. They got used to it quickly. This time we used OH4MFA/OH4KZM's station. Parasitic vertical array and half wave dipole were used for transmitting and few Beverage antennas for receiving. Rig was Elecraft K2/100 with Yaesu FT-920 as backup and amplifier for each TX antenna. W7IUV preamp for RX. Conditions were good. We got many more North American multipliers than before. Many UA9, few JA and Africa in log. VK or SA was not heard. Band was very busy, but sometimes we manage to find CQ frequency. In the beginning we did more search&pouncing that produced quite many multipliers. Ham shack temperature was around 27 C most of weekend, but sauna was hotter. Congrats to other OH stations for great scores. We need to do some more practice and antenna work to make race tighter. Thank you for all who answered our CQ and to those who heard us calling. We are sorry, if we missed someone who tried to call us. We heard some nice DX, but we could not get through. It was very nice weekend and we almost doubled our club record. See you in CQ 160 SSB! 73 de OH4AB contest team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4XX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 106,320 I spent an hour and half on friday evening to set up three 160m half slopers just to see how well they would work on 160 in hectic contest action. Before CQWW CW I got only one sloper connected and it was not really good performer so I had some doubts. My tower upper guy wires (@34m) are tuned for 160 so I just needed to connect feedline between guywire and switch box. Furtunately the WX was OK so I was able to climb to tower. At 15Z its getting dark in OH but I used LED spot light after the sun set.. After safely landing first measurement were promising and SWR curve seemed to be good in all segments of 160. More promising was to see the noticeable difference between three directions (EU,NA, JA) All direction got better even the switch box is not equipped with right type of relays. before the contest I was able to break VR2MY pile up easily so it kind forced to check the band during the test. I spent couple of hours of S&P as well tried some runs to see how my set up works. Some notes; band was packed with huge signals so had to use 250 hz filters most of the time. W8JI, JA3YBK had loud signals. EU signals were most of the time 599++. Some DX station pileups were nerve wrecking experience due some stations just kept calling and calling endlessly. I left few pileups because of that, I just could not stand it. Well, I guess I need to get use to it if i'm going to be at 160.. :D Thanks for the QSOs and cu in next ones. 73 Mikko OH4XX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH5Z Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 403,665 Nice conditions but had to stop on Sunday morning to celibrate the 40th anniversary of my engagement. Saturday evening was difficult because all stations packed to the Japanese band, 1812 - 1825. I only managed to work 2 Ja's. But it was a BIG fun anyway. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 482,220 Nice contest.I was preparing 3 beverages and finished it one hour before contest. So than I was very sleeppy. But beverages dit great job. Sorry EU station making long calls and disturbance weak dx stations. Many stations used rule - If I didnt made QSO, nobody did. Second night I didnt keep my eyes open and go to bed for couple of hours. I am looking forward next contest. Vlada OK1CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 74,000 TS2000 ant. delta loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1FFU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 655,095 http://ol5q.nagano.cz/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1IW Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 127,224 Rig: K2, Inverted V @ 25m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 619,140 TCVR FT1000 MP + PA ant.27m VA 2x 164 m beverage RX ant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5W Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,097,878 Beside (unfortunately) usual bad behaviour of many European stations we also faced some technical problems like destroyed HV transformer in the power amplifier or antenna switch malfunction. As a bonus there was a windstorm for the whole weekend in our contest QTH in the Ore Mountains. The strong wind repeatedly damaged our receiving antennas and it wasn’t pleasant work for Jirka OK1AEZ and Franta OK1AAU to go out and repair beverages in this beastly weather. Nevertheless the 2008 CQ 160m was a great contest. There was a good opening to North America (including the U.S. West Coast) during the Saturday early morning and we broke a million points barrier for the first time in our club history. Thanks to everybody who gave us a call and congrats to winners! See you next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL0A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 813,519 My first contest in HP category. The original goal was to use the event to test and compare several radios but when condx were found so good I decided to take it seriously and operated full time. RIG Orion II, FT2000 and FT950 with OM2500 PA, ANT 27m vertical with 450 radials plus Inverted V in 36m height plus 11 beverages in all main DX directions. Great fun and lifetime 160m experience, never heard so many DX. My thanks go to Jiri OK2RZ for letting me use his great contest QTH with FB antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL0W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 683,806 Nice contest as always. Two targets - to break last year score and to beat OL7R, both successfully fulfilled. Path to NA seemed to be better first night, but US openning during the last hour of the contest was great - probably strongest signals from NA from whole weekend. Thanks for QSOs and see you next time. Rig: FT1000MP + PA, ant Inv L + K9AY Zdenek OK1DSZ/OL0W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 173,458 Thanks all for QSOs. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 443,309 We (me and Vendy) desided to try some effort in "160m EU ZOO" contest after several years without our serious participation. I have to say: "Yes it was fine, but ..." How many EUs have solid equipment for make contacts with JAs on 160 every day ? How many EUs really heard any signal form JA on the frequency ? And how many of us still calling without chance after each DX cluster spot ? In the fact, lot of EUs are increasing backround noise level only. Continous EU ZOO calling JA stn. No chance lsn RST+DXCC from oposite station for anybody. No chance listen anything trough S9+40dB EU wall. Only continous "white noise". I could tell only Yes, there is some weak station, maybe JA ? Propably, because DXCluster says it or high "white noise" activity is monitored on the frequency. Anyway we had fine weekend. Vendy started first night with poor TRX (FT920) and Inv.V at 24m and Inv.L instaled btw 2 towers for 20 ad 40m band. After first 12h contest period was 450 contats in our log and 12 US/VE multipliers (20 real US/VE contats). We desided to try maximum for better score. TRX has been changed to my FT1000MP. Trough day-light period we tried make better antenna with low radiation angle than our real Inv.L. After some no good experiments with Bobtail Curtain won sloper design. For the second night window we prepared and installed 1/4wl sloped wire with only one tuned ground element. Maximum radiation to West. It was good strategy. We monitored solid directivity to West. After second night window we had over 800 contats in log. 29 US/VE mults and lot of DL, ON, PA, G etc. Real number of worked US/VE stations was 90. Our little satisfaction for first night. For the last night window was changed our sloped wire to max radiation to North-East. We expected better UA9 or JA response for our CQ TEST. First minutes after the grey-line cut trough our country we have given definite answer. First UA9 spotting our QRG came a few minutes after. It was UA9MA. After of several next contacts finished little pileup from Asiatic Russia. We desided to finish also our participation in the contest. Last contact was made Sunday afternoon in 17:27 UTC. Our contest friend Zdenek OK1DSZ said me after contest that for last 2 hours were nice conditions to make US stations. Better than previous night windows. Unfortunately we have been sitting at home in this time. Thanks to all EUs who called on JA frequency no more than 2x without answer. And special thanks to all who are little bit listening before start their TX on the spoted frequency. 73 de Milan, OK1VWK on behalf of OL7R team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM0M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 935,862 Wow what a weekend. Our best score ever in CQ WW 160.The fact that our QTH is limited by space makes the result more important. We are running in special category: “NO BEVERAGE” How many US we were not able to decode ????? TNX for your patience. USA opening first night seems to be more dominant for us .We had the feeling that you are operating 20m in poor codx …………. The operation in JA segment is full of pain even with 250Hz filters. (We paid too much for 36 JA qsos) Last four hours gained 10 mults so the message is clear: never-ever give up too early 9M2;4S7;YC0;V31;A61;9K2;HV;VO1……… Last 4 hours I am suffered from heavy static due to heavy snow storm, and S-meter stand on S9+20 (QRN). Congrats to OM7M; OM8A; OM5M for theirs superb scores. RIG: FT1000MP+OM POWER 2KW Microham- microkeyer I I Wintest 3.19 ANT TX : 2 el parasitic vertical array (shunt feed tower + reflector/director) RX ANT: mini 4SQ Rx system in 1/16 wavelength spacing + cascade of IK4AUY LNAs…….. VY 73 DX Bela OM8AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 659,246 Ant. INV VEE 27m, FT1000 + OM POWER 2000W, Beverage JA, USA. Last night strong wind destroy my beverages, but it was nice contest. Thanks to all the DX stations who were patient trying to get through the very heavy QRM and apologies everyone, which I can't decode, mainly lot of many JA last night. Thanks to all for nice QSO. 73 Slavo, OM7CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,656,625 Best Score ever from the middle of EU. Its really tough to compete with Big gun EUs like 4O & CU. BTW Is Azores Isl. still in Europe??? :-) Indeed congrats goes to them and 4O3A made new European Multi-op. record. Great Job guys!! The first night was rather good with about 160 USA calls in the log and 46 US/VE mults. Saturday evening we ignored an overcrowded JA's window and prefered to stay outside the JAs segment (1810-1825). It was easier to work 2 EUs on the clear freq then to hunt weak Japanese. So after the first day there was only a single JA in the log. Second night was much thrill. First USA was in the log shortly after 22Z. We were on 1832.4 and it was very hard to keep this frequency. Around 01Z the show began. MiddleWest&West coast started to call up with very impressive signals. Sometimes it sounded like on 20m and some signals were really really LOUD. Sunday morning showed another 260 USA/VE and 55 US/VE mults in the log. The last missing state was DC. Thanks to Eric W3DQ we completed our 160m WAS during the contest. Station Equipments: FT1000MP Mark V with OM-POWER 2xHALF Sloper, Vertical 6 Beverages Brief statistics: NA 466 SA 7 AF 10 EU 1061 AS 155 OC 3 TOTAL 1702 Anyway We had a great time during the weekend and thanks all for calling us. 73! Lubo OM5ZW on behalf OM7M crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP5T Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 292,230 RIG : FT 1000 MP Mk V ANT TX : Inverted L ANT RX : 2 separate K9AY loops Thanks to all for calling or answering . Best 73 de Jim - ON5UM/OP5T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OR2T Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,022,580 Hi Gents, This year i invited Marc ON6CC and Luc ON4IA, both excellent CW operators and keen contesters, to assist me trying to improve my previous scores for this contest. It took about four days of hard work and trouble shooting to have the station ready for the big battle. The hard work was spent on putting up additional beverages, laying down radials, putting up a Titanex vertical, and lots of other hardware changes to the original station. The hard work payed off.Everything worked superb! The only thing we could not foreseen was good propagation..... The first night Marc started running with high rates and worked the US West Coast ( at least 3 Q's with CA !) and lots of other good stuff. Half way trough the night i took over from Marc and by daybreak we had about 600 Q's ,35 states/prov and 42 DXCC's in the log. The second night the band seemed somewhat noisier and with less good conditions than what we hoped for. Luc was at the keys the second night and got some good comments via cluster spots about our hearing ability, especially the 300 meter beverage to North America seemed to play very well. Our final score was better than we could have hoped for. Before the contest we had set ourself a goal and after the contest we could only smile because we did much better. I'm impressed to see the huge scores from our competitors in Europe! I guess it was just a dream about 10 our 15 years ago. There are a lot of Big Gun Top Band stations around, imho the new set records will some day be broken again. But it sure will be a huge task. Congratulations to all stations and cu all again next year. Vy 73' de OR2T @ ON4ATW Theo. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7BQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 105,264 First time participation in the CQ 160-meter contest. Very good fun. Due to high winds I could not keep my 8 meters high toploaded vertical tuned, so had to string a 20 meters long inverted L up instead. Impressed by the number if EU stations on. The band was really crowded at times. Rig IC 746 and K2 for QRP, which I used for approximately 30 pct of the QSOs. Will try again next year. 73 de OZ7BQ, Joe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7TTT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 22,638 Used IC735, 50W output to a L- ant. with the first 10m nearly vertical. Condx vere best Saturday morning. On Sunday morning there came an attenuation of propagations together with the sunrise. Sunday evening was, as usually, spoiled by the big CQ- guns, just making big noise, but no Q's. Cu next year, 73 Peter OZ5WQ/ OZ7TTT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7YY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,100,455 It would be much nicer to join the contest if we could get rid of the clicking stations mostly from eastern europe. Many stations were more then 10 kHz wide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA1TT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 357,504 A nice way to test the 160m station. Especial teh new bevarges and the inverted L worked just fine. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PC5M Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 621,000 Nice condx first night, much poorer second night. We lost our PA during the second night so score stalled considerable... Managed to work 200 us/ve station, very nice ! Thanks to all called and cu next year. TX: FT1000mp + GU43 PA, 120 feet vertical RX: Beverage , k9ay loop, dipole pa3auc, pa3bpl, pa3clh, pa3cqe, pa3dsb, pe1itr, pc5m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PI4COM Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 780,670 We finally made some serious improvements of our radials below the 42m vertical and all hard work turned out to be a succes. For the first time in years the vertical showed to be in good shape and a very good addition to the dipole. The hours on Friday were also well spent on repairing our beverages. Although limited in length 3 off them worked very well. We still do not understand why the VE/W beverage did simply not work as expected. We had fun and satisfied with the result. The band loked like 40SSB in CQWWSSB contest. Overcrowded but that is part of the fun (yes, frustration and unbelief can be fun...) Cu in the PACC contest next weekend.... 73 Alex PA1AW / Ronald PA3EWP @ PI4COM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2ZXU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 46,116 Totally missed first nite. Not possible to put up and test new antenna as planned but the sloping dipole with apex @ 35m is doing a fine job. Thanks for the QSOs! Thomas, PY2ZXU/SM0CXU/HZ1EX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 876,000 QSOs MADE IN EACH COUNTRY cqww160cw Prefix 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ------ --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- 3W 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 4L 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 4S 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 4X 4 - - - - - 4 0.29 5B 3 - - - - - 3 0.22 7X 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 9A 21 - - - - - 21 1.55 9H 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 9K 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 9M2 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 9N 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 A6 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 BY 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 C6 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 CN 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 CT 3 - - - - - 3 0.22 CT3 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 CU 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 DL 196 - - - - - 196 14.42 DU 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 EA 11 - - - - - 11 0.81 EA6 3 - - - - - 3 0.22 EA8 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 EA9 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 EI 6 - - - - - 6 0.44 EL 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 ER 6 - - - - - 6 0.44 ES 7 - - - - - 7 0.52 EU 13 - - - - - 13 0.96 F 10 - - - - - 10 0.74 FM 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 G 36 - - - - - 36 2.65 GD 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 GM 6 - - - - - 6 0.44 GW 5 - - - - - 5 0.37 HA 38 - - - - - 38 2.80 HB 14 - - - - - 14 1.03 I 24 - - - - - 24 1.77 IS 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 JA 41 - - - - - 41 3.02 JT 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 K 118 - - - - - 118 8.68 KH6 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 KP2 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 KP4 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 LA 10 - - - - - 10 0.74 LX 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 LY 24 - - - - - 24 1.77 LZ 10 - - - - - 10 0.74 OE 5 - - - - - 5 0.37 QSOs MADE IN EACH COUNTRY cqww160cw Prefix 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Percent ------ --- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ------- OH 25 - - - - - 25 1.84 OH0 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 OK 97 - - - - - 97 7.14 OM 25 - - - - - 25 1.84 ON 6 - - - - - 6 0.44 OZ 7 - - - - - 7 0.52 PA 24 - - - - - 24 1.77 S5 42 - - - - - 42 3.09 SM 31 - - - - - 31 2.28 SP 59 - - - - - 59 4.34 SV 6 - - - - - 6 0.44 T9 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 TA 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 TF 2 - - - - - 2 0.15 TI 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 UA 148 - - - - - 148 10.89 UA2 4 - - - - - 4 0.29 UA9 65 - - - - - 65 4.78 UN 4 - - - - - 4 0.29 UR 89 - - - - - 89 6.55 VE 12 - - - - - 12 0.88 VK 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 VQ9 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 VR 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 YL 14 - - - - - 14 1.03 YO 26 - - - - - 26 1.91 YU 12 - - - - - 12 0.88 Z7 3 - - - - - 3 0.22 ZC4 1 - - - - - 1 0.07 QSOs MADE IN EACH State/Prov 1. Fl 17 2. Va 10 3. Ga 9 4. Nc 8 5. Tx 7 6. On 6 7. Pa 6 8. Nj 5 9. Il 5 10. Al 5 11. Nh 5 12. Oh 5 13. Ma 5 14. Ny 4 15. Ct 4 16. Tn 3 17. Md 3 18. Nf 2 19. La 2 20. Pe 1 21. Ns 1 22. Mn 1 23. Ky 1 24. Ar 1 25. Mo 1 26. Ri 1 27. Ok 1 28. Nm 1 29. In 1 30. Nb 1 31. Me 1 32. Qc 1 33. Sc 1 34. Mi 1 35. Ca 1 36. Az 1 37. Wi 1 38. De 1 Tnx 73's Yury RL3FT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RN9AA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 382,752 First time took part in past CQ WW CW 160m Very good contest! TRX ICOM IC-775dx2 PA ICOM IC-PW1 (1kw) Before the test has made new antennas: Two "Flags" (57m): on west and east directions with tower 40 meters high with 4x80m rasdials under west flag and the same under the east flag It's good to work with my new one's on TOP!! Thanks to W8JI, N3UA, VY2ZM for patience for my call! And multiplayer! I heard but have not answered many station with realy good signal such as: KV4FZ, KC1XX, K1KI, VE3EJ!! Thanks everyone who heard me! RN9AA Losev Slava ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU1A Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 992,200 as alsways, end of contest was increase condx to USA -last 40 min. Alex UA1ARX was alone 32 hours. it's our the best claimed result in CQ WW 160 CW. RU1A - Continents 160 - CW QSO (with dupes) ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 73.8% ! 16.1% ! 0.1% ! 0.4% ! 9.4% ! 0.1% ! ------------------------------------------------------- USA - 201 QSO JA - 43 DL - 185 UA3 - 145 FT1000 MARKV 3 el wire yagi - 48 mtrs (157 ft.) boom 65 (213 ft.) mtrs up. FIXED USA/VU www.ru1a.ru bvs: 2* 330 mtrs USA 330 mtrs JA 300 mtrs EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU3VD Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 133,080 Radio: Icom IC-7000 Ant: 18m Vertical w 20 radials 1/8 lw 73! Alexey RU3VD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 673,680 Very good scores by a number of people, congratulations. In olimpic spirit, the score here is adequate to antenna farm involved. Antenna: tower feed (vertical 35 m), cca 15 radials-burried Rig: Icom and Harris 73s de Marko, S50K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51F Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 266,179 IC-781, INV-L (20m vert.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51NZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 277,863 A lot of technical problems first night, so I must do it with 100w. At the evening I continue with 500w, and it was better. Thank's to all friends for help and to my host Vinko, who let me do this from his farm. Thank you for the qso's and see you in the next ctest. 73' es gl, Huby-s51nz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51TA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,088,850 ANT: Full size vertical at(in) sea. RX: Vertical + 1 bev (USA only) 73 Ted, s51ta ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52AW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 703,061 Tx ant: inv vee 65m up Rx ant: 3x beverages Rig: ft-1000 mp mark V + PA (with tehnical problem) 73 de S52AW team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52OT Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 291,688 FT1000MP @ 100W, inv V @ 18m, no RX antenna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53MM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 602,200 Just wanted to know how much can be done with simple inv.Vee antenna at 32m. QSO of weekend was D2NX. Tnx Koji. Matija/S53MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54O Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 400,764 RIGs: IC756 TS850 HM PA ANTs: invV + invL @12m + open end bev. 180m to SE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 188,496 Saturday night bad. BCI at 1836 kHz so missed TF. Assisted with ON4KST chat. Minor tech problems with arcing trap solved at 10 PM on the flat roof. Few BARTG RTTY points given. Dull it isn't in retirement :-) 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 658,924 MY PERSONAL BEST EVER. IT WAS HARD EVEN WITH 250 HZ FILTER... SOME STATISTICS: DL - 215 K - 109 OK - 100 UA - 94 UR - 60 -------- JA - 10 UA9 - 32 MARK V + PA SLOPERS SEE YOU ALL IN SSB PART! 73 DE SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 597,210 My second best ever score, but some guys done much-much better.My congratulations ! Maybe the trees around my loop "eat" the RF. Who knows - I enjoyed. Two new DXCC - also not bad. Thanks for all calls ! USA 99 VE 10 NA 2 SA 1 EU 868 AF 7 AS 45 JA 1 Mark V + PA Loop@40m GL & 73 Bojan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57Q Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 403,788 My record in CQ 160 CW ctest. Nice propagation, a lot of QRM in EU zoo. Equipment : FT1KMP + PA Ant : dipole@17 m, beverage 320 m to USA best 73 to all, de Tone - S57Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 54,548 Trx: IC-775dsp + OM-power Ant: InvVee dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK7DX Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,171,932 Tnx to all great operators on 160! We had a lot of fun during the weekend and made a new record from SM7BCX. No problems with antennas or other gear, We worked with N1MM for the first time and the program worked very well. See you all next year and thanks for all the fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM5MX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 32,452 Rig: Kenwood TS-850SAT, 100 watts Ant: 8.5 mh vertical with some toploading Log: TR4W v3.30 My T-vertical for Top Band collapsed in a recent storm, so I was just about to signal W.O. in this year´s CQWW 160. But, somehow, you cannot just ignore a contest like this one, rain or shine. So on Saturday, I put together a make-shift wire vertical, only 8.5 meters high with some top loading and jumped into the game on Sunday afternoon. And this I do not regret. CQWW 160 is certainly a great contest! Lots of activity, good conds. 73, Rolf SM5MX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6WET Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 110,522 Hello! My home yard is less then 480m² hence putting up something decent on 160m is a impossibility. Therefor I try to work the main contests at the summer cabin in the woods. This was a portable operation where lots of time had to be spent on putting pieces of wood in the small fire stove, cutting wood, chopping wood and carrying wood. Even though the Swedish winter is not like it usually is the uninsolatied cabin presented +1,8°c at arrival while it was still 4°c outside so it was important keeping the fire going. My main purpose of the contest was for me not to gain the best score and win, how could I with so many great operators and super stations. No, it is simply to get some new topband countries in the log. I guess you super contesters do need us DXer contesters. Anyhow, even though conditions seemed to be quite poor I was still lucky. Now, to the antenna: Imagine a 22m high pine tree, put a string over the top with about lotsa tries with a wishing rod, pull up a ¼-wave wire vertical over the top and let the remaining top part of the antenna slid over the tree top and slant some 45° downwards another direction untill the bottom of the wire is barely over the ground. Solder a PL-259 female to the bottom of the wire and attach some 25 radials of lengths of 10-60m to the ground and you have what I used this weekend. Considering I was never running but just search and pounceing I think I did quite well with 255Qs and 60 countries (including W and VE). DX Results: Testing the antenna on Friday night prior the contest I found a 5H1 station with a massive pile-up. 2 calls and he gave me my #83 on top band. Into the contest I worked my #84, what I surprise I did not know that I did'nt have CT on topband. 7X was worked as my #85. Then 9N was worked as my #86. Easy to get through but Stig also has very good ears. C6 was worked as #87 followed by TF #88 half hour later and then ZF #89 only 5 minutes later. Finally CX #90 was worked after only 7 more minutes. Ofcource I did work several countries that I dont yet have cards for and you never know untill you have the card in the hand. Finally a small note on some heard but not worked: HL, 3W, XW, HK, PY, CE, TI, ZS among some. Spent alot of time calling HK1X and 5K3T but they were too far up the band so my antenna was not that effective that far up so I failed getting through. They were CQing alot but one can imagine the noise they have to suffer down there, I would still consider them quite loud. Another 2 stations I was calling alot but never got was CE1/K7CA and TI4CF. Unfortunatly they were even though quite loud QRMed by some of the larger european contest stations (clubs) that went CQ right on top. Even though these EU stations were told a number of times to QSY because of "this and that" station allready having the frequency they did not move. I guess in contests this is common but in 2 cases I heard the EU station first calling the more rare multiplier and after working him start to CQ on top. For me this is bad behavior and a way of cheating because they deliberatly causes great difficulty for the competition to work the multiplier. I did have 1 bobwire beverage going about 120m E/W but damp grounded it too much on it's support to make it work any good. It was quiet but I heard all EU on it as well. Rest of the setup: FT-920, Ten-Tec Titan425, Microham DB9-Y USB interface for keying, Writelog and a DB0SUE-7 connection to the cluster. 73 de Magnus SM6WET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM7VZX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 1,800 TS-850S/AT Antenna "Sirotica" @5m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN1I Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 220,456 We had a great fun. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP1NY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 120,528 High wind up to 130 km/h (80 mph) forced me to lower my 160m antennas down which i have tied to hazer with beams. Anway had a great fun during 7 hours. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2LNW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 309,986 Rig: TS-930S Piexx, PA 500W out, inverted vee (no new MA160V due to heavy winds...) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP3LWP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 59,350 TRX ic718 ant LW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP4Z Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 163,940 Thanks for Contest QRV just for fun and to work New DXCC on 160 but NIL o:( No QSO on XE1RCS, CW0TOP, ZF2BJ even called In Poland, there we had an Orkan Saturday/Sunday w hich damaged many SP hams owner's antennas In gusts wind was over 100km/h. One man was killed on the road. My antennas are OK - because I am far on the East of Poland The strong winds usually slow down on my QTH. See you next Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ1K Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 87,397 Only half a contest with my operation, to srong wind was responsible for brake down my Inverted L antenna in second night of contest.It wasn`t possible to put it up again between my support trees.I missed a lot of QSO`s and I`m not so happy with my total score. TRX-IC746PRO PA-500watts Ant-Inverted L + RX two beverages Regards Bart SQ1K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SZ6P Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 616,764 Rig : ICOM IC-7400 PLUS 500W AMPLIFIER Antennas : TX/RX λ/4 FOLDED MARKONI HOME MADE FROM OPEN LINE 450 OHM WHICH WAS STACKED ASIDE OF SPIDERBEAMS 18 METER FIBERGLASS POLE 21 METERS HIGH+19METERS HORIZONTAL. SIX ISOLATED COPPER WIRES, 41,5 m EACH,USED FOR COUNTERPOISE. FOR RX ALSO A PAIR OF BEVERAGE ANTENNAS 200 METERS EACH, IN DIRECTIONS USA AND JAPAN. I HAD GREAT ASSISTANCE IN BUILDING THE ANTENNA SYSTEM FROM THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF SZ6P CLUB SV1HA SV6CZQ SV6BAT SV6CZR. CONDIX DURING SAT TILL SUN MORNING WERE GOOD ENOUGH WITH QRM BUT SUN AFTERNOON TILL THE END OF THE CONTEST WERE VERY POOR WITH HAEVY QRM. CU NEXT YEAR 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93J Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,350,630 Our main plan was to travel to T9 together with Mario DJ2MX and Chris DL1MGB from Vienna, but unfortunately Mario got the flu and Chris didn’t want to travel alone from DL to OE. We arrived in T9 on Friday early morning alone and after few hours of sleep went to the QTH to prepare the beverages and the station setup (tnx to T90R for help). Because of some technical problems it was not possible to set up the station as we wanted and in comparison to our plans our setup at the end became very simple. (unfortunately technical problems produced by human failure killed RX of one FT2K and Acom switch) FT-1000MP + AMP + INV V @ 50m FT-2000 as second RX RX Antennas: K9AY loop in 4 directions beverage 200m to south west (SA) beverage 250m to south (AF) beverage 220m to south east (Indian ocean and middle east) beverage 150m to north east (AS-JA´s) 2 phased beverages 150m to north west (NA) (all beverages are about 2,5 m high with two 10-20m long radials on each end) Switching between so many beverages is still not quick enough and during the 48 hours it’s hard work so we need to improve that. The contest was very interesting with much activity and great condx. We made some tactical mistakes and our choice of freq wasn’t the best at any given time. Also since we lost 2 OP’s our time plan was not anymore good enough and our station was not all 48 hours on the air because some OP´s didn’t have time to be there during the whole contest. The first NA station (W5KU from TX) was worked at 03:13 UTC Saturday morning, right after that we worked even a few west coast stations with excellent signals and at the end of the first night we logged "only" 108 NA stations (33 S/P). In comparison with others this was not good enough. Also many fights to try keep the freq clear resulted in low rates or at least not so high rates as expected. First day we worked only 4 JA´s. Second night produced about 150 NA stations and most of them were worked between 01:20 till 04:00 UTC after that time, the band was not anymore in good shape. Second day produced 48 JA´s, there were many more but it was very hard to pick up weak JA signals trough QRM and JA pile up! We missed many mults we heard (like TI,VP9,6W,ZF2,JT,CX,LU,...) some of them where very busy with NA pile ups and some of them called CQ in our faces without any reaction to our calls! At the end of the contest it took us about 25 min to work VO1TA who was S7 on our RX antenna (hardest QSOs for new mult). Many other US didn't react to our calls, same with CW0TOP who was at his sunset S6 on our side! It looks like we need a better TX antenna... Our QSO Statistics: EU 1310 NA 268 AS 111 SA 8 AF 8 OC 1 Our congratulations go to Ranko 4O3A and his team on their superb result, they really exploited the advantage of 4O call sign and did an excellent job!!! 73 es best dx de T93J/OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3CW Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 94,941 Really enjoyed the contest. Propagation was up-and-down, as is usual here at 64° North. Inv. L seemd to play well. 73´s Siggi TF3CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF4M Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 60,700 My first time in the contest and a great learning experience. Many fine signals on the band, but I had great trouble being heard even by the strongest stations. I heard many JA stations, but they never heard me calling. K1TTT picked me up on the first call though, he must have a beverage pointed to TF! It is painfully clear that my reception far outperforms my tx signal. I plan to build new TX antennas closer to the sea. My tx antenna is 500 meters inland situated in a valley so it is shielded by mountains in several directions. I have a very quiet location and I can hear extremely weak signals with perfect copy even though they are not workable. Sunday had a massive storm and my open wire feeders kept shorting out so did not get back on until late afternoon again. TX: FT1000mp MkV + Emtron DX-3 at 1KW, YCCC Double L fed with 800 meters (2,400 feet) of open wire feeders. RX: reversible Beverage to JA , 'dipole' with 100meter legs lying on the ground. Thor, TF4M www.tf4m.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA2FW Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,051,992 Antennas used: TX@RX - 4 square fullsize, Inverted L, Low Dipole. RX - 8 beverages. Unfortunately we got high noise from USA direction, I think we missed some NA station calling. The reports on our signals are welcome. Thanks! Igor UA2FZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9BA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 385,000 Antenna: Vertical 27 mh; Rig: 500 W. I wish I had more time to operate! Being called by TI4CF is an ALL TIME MIRACLE for me (my 1st ever cq zone 7 qso on TB). TOP BAND yet to be explored and discovered. For instance,I just couldn't explain how in the world it is possible for the loud (i.e. well equipped)Europeans not to hear DX's like CW0TOP, P43JB, PY's, EL2DX when those were calling the EU stns. W8JI and WE3C are the winners for biggest signals and good RX this time. Herb KV4FZ is as usual having a lot of problems with RX (no qso after dozens of attempts). Was Jeff VY2ZM LP this contest? (no qso). FM5BH must know his signal is at least 6 -10 dB louder than that of Herb's but VY POOR RX. TNX ALL for QSO's! CU in NEXT ONE. 73's & GL, Willy UA9BA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU4JMG Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 909,575 First morning wasted an hour calling XE1RCS ,when they worked mostly NA, second night I was called by XE1RCS and have understood, that make a fault first night calling XE1RCS for such a long time. Was called by such DX as: 6M0V, 9M4DXX, A61Q, EK6TA, VQ9JC, VR2PX, VR2MY, XE1RCS. Also have worked such DX as: 3W3W, 4L2M, 7X0RY, 9K2MU, 9N7JO, C6AGU, CE1/K7CA, CN2R, CT9M, EF8M, EA9EU, FM5BH, HK1X, HQ9R, 6K2ABX, HV50VR, JT1CO, KH6LC, KV4FZ, P43JB, TF3CW, TI4CF, ZC4LI, ZF2BJ. In two hours till the end of the contest, when cndx to NA was great, my amplifier has broken and two last hours I worked only on FT1000D looking for stations all over the band. Heard two new states, but couldn't work them, because of the power. Heard, but didn't work: CW0TOP, XW1B, B1Z. Thanks to all for the qsos and great contest !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ5UA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 107,207 It was not possible to fulfil well in the test had problems with health. It was not possible to beat last year's result. Very bad result... ts-450s 100 watt, antena 1 sloper. Soft N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 48,636 An excellent excuse to stay up late on Saturday night. Lots of fun! As usual, it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 474,695 My amplifier died early into the contest , so went with the FT2000D and its 200 watts output. Very surpised how well it did. Some folks out there have good ears ! Especially the europeans that worked me. Best DX was EL2DX calling me when I was down around 1811.0 Saturday evening. My score is fairly close , as my old CT program counted 4O3A as a YU not Montenegro. Thanks to W7LR who honoured my request to qsy up 3 , during his calling in a pileup on ZF2BJ . He gave me my last state ( Montanna ) , altho I never did hear any DC stations. Also missed VE4 and heard VE5UF .. nil from VO2 VY1 VY0 VE8 Thanks to VO1TA for being qrv , as well VO1MP who I only heard once. Again to Andy VE9DX for the much needed mult as well. Conditions were very good , quiet and manners seemed to hold up . I gave up on the ZF2BJ pile tho.. just everyone calling continuously. Had my sleep both nights from 1 am to 6 am , so I could have done better. Thanks to all the VE3 Contest Club Ontario members for the big turnout ..... SO1R in the middle of the city , with all the hydo,cable and telephone cables in view. No RX ant's only the Inv L . Glenn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3EC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 56,166 Heard several Europeans but 100W just not enough. Thanks for backing off the power when I was calling Peter, most appreciated. Thanks for the Q's. I think I worked almost all CCO. Cheers, Harry VA3EC 756Pro, VA3GRL modified Butternut with 160 Kit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 14,364 K2, 5W, 1/4-wave wire at 12'. Conditions were not quite as good as last year for QRP from here, but pretty good anyway. Thanks for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 55,762 * FT2000 and 160M interved-L Sure have to stay up late out here in BC to work east of the Mississippi. First night was OK after 11 p.m. local, but the second night served up only a handful of new stations, despite popping in to check every hour until 1 a.m. or so. Worked a couple of northwest stations during daylight Sunday. Only DX was C6, KL7, KH6, XE and KP2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2CWT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 43,757 Limited time, and limited hardware, no CAT, (Microkeyer II stuck in the mail). Getting use to new radio with no CW filters... Was great to hear so many loud station from EU... but not the right ant. RIG: FT-1000MP MKV Field, CW paddle, 300W ANT: G5RV Software: WIN-TEST 3.19 Logging 73' GL op: Phil VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2DWA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 25,578 All reports sent were 599 QC, unless otherwise noted. Equipment Description: Kenwood TS-930 Horizontal vee (center @ 8 feet and far ends lying on the snow) Comments, I'm was planning operate all the weekend with my buddies @ VE2OJ, but last moment changes, keep me at home on Friday night, btw Friday evening instead the temperature of -27 C, I went outside and I've installed a very low horizontal vee and have some fun before my trip to the montain. The band was amazing. I couldn't believe working EU with my small setup and having a QSO with George N3GJ my band-mate @ K3LR was great also. I want to THANKS to VE3EJ and K3LR, without their help and generosity I won't be in the air from home. I can't wait for CQ 160 SSB.. I'm planning to be as VE3AP from VE3RM again.. See you in ARRL DX CW, I'll be SO 160 meter again. 73, Claudio VE2DWA-VE3AP-LU7DW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2TZT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 869,652 A weekend of fun with exceptional conditions and many openings with Europe. The must of the must was a call from RA0ALM in zone 18 through the pole at the beginning of the night, the signal was easy to read without any flutter on my north 80m long beverage. Everything would had been perfect if the heavier cold for years had not decided to fall on me Friday morning, then, I was not able to end the second night. Perhaps some multipliers(NE,WY,VE5,ZL)had been lost there. By the way, thank to W3DQ for his activation of DC. Thank to every participant for this big Top Band fete. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 196,612 Band was just AMAZING! Managed to work all states with the exception of Alaska, as well as several Europeans. From close to the centre of Canada, this is just wonderful. Thanks for all the QSOs. Antenna was an inverted L.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 882,861 Thanks again to Paul, VE3SY for letting me use his station. Equipment: FT1000MP + Alpha 87a. Antennas: Dipole at 80 feet, 1000' beverage to EU. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EY Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 920,465 The conditions were fabulous. The noise was low from here and the weather was cooperative. My customary thank-you goes to my friends: VE3FF, VA3VEF, VE3EK (ex VE3NWA) and VE3OUV who had spent days of their personal time throughout summer and fall season helping out with the Antenna work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 72,152 The Delta-4 antenna switch that I bought new in December 2004 short-circuited at 1AM local the first night while running low power into an antenna with 1.7:1 VSWR, you make your own conclusions about the quality of this product. What I really regret is that I bought two of these. So I quit for the night and spend over an hour rewiring everything the next morning. Split my time between the CQ160 and BARTG Sprint, I really wish these contests were on different weekends. TS-940S Inverted L (it needs more radials) Beverage N1MM Logger V7.12.6 73, Julio VE3FH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FRX Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 81,162 Had to set up a temporary shack in an upstairs bedroom, so grounding was a problem and RF sent my old TS-140s into oscillation when computer keying with more than 10 watts was used. So switched to QRP class and what a blast! Great conditions and with 5 watts, I was heard with only one call, usually. Temp antenna was 90ft longwire to the bedroom window and into a tree at about 30 ft high. Ground rod beneath the window has 5 160m radials attached. Problem with RF and the CAT with the TS-950SDX, so went with the TS-140, my first rig from 1989. With the narrow filter and the IF shift control, it wasn't too painful. New QTH is acreage near Bayfield, ON is on the top of a hill about 3 mile east of Lake Huron, which I can see from the shack. This really helped my antenna. Also have very low noise level, but with snow storm it was higher than normal (S3). Did all Search and Pounce as I didn't expect anyone to hear me with first QRP effort. Really opened my eyes to the possibilities as I worked VP9I with one call (no QRM) and got into the west coast, XE, ZF2 and C6. Heard lost of EU, but no QRP contacts. And whats with the NA stations calling CQ in the DX window! Not talking newbies here. Lots of stations forgetting about QRL? before jumping on top of DX. Nasty. Pulled consecutive 7-7 all nighters so its off the bed. Thanks for all the QSOs and thanks to CQ for sponsoring a great contest. 73 Jeff, VE3FRX (ex VE6GJ, VE6RCI, VE3RCI) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 74,066 WOW! Worked 9 countries (okay a couple are tentative) including several Europeans and Hawaii with a 60' single-wire sloper at lake level in suburban Oakville. Amazing. Very happy to have a modified SB-220 which bangs out 600 watts on 160. Had the worst time working close in states like NY and NJ. Heard and worked lots of CCO members. Hope I wasn't the guy with the key clicks (as reported by VA3DX) and, if so, Glen let me know :) By the way, VE3EJ who has to be 25 or 30 kms away on the escarpment could raise my overall noise floor when he switched his 160-meter array in my direction while pinning my S-meter. To quote the kids: Impressive! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3JM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 751,184 This was my first serious effort in this contest and it was fun doing it. The main goal was to make 1200 QSOs and 50 countries and I am pleased that I just made it. The plan was to install a reversible Beverage at Don's, using the termination boxes and twin lead from Chris VE3FU. The transmission line was supposed to be 500' long, but it turned out that the total length was just 300-350'. There were some issues with the termination box. Since there was no time to look at it, in the end I just made a unidirectional Beverage by replacing the boxes with a resistor and transformer. I guess the antenna worked fine, but I wish it was longer. Often I didn't hear loud state side stations at all if I was using Beverage. The transmitting antenna used is a 60' high vertical with short T wires at the top, coil at the base and just a few radials. Although the antenna is not bad, I noticed that I was not too loud in the pile-ups and later that I was not spotted too many times by Europeans. Hope I will find some free time this summer to work on improving the antenna efficiency. I would extend the wire at the top, get rid of the coil and put at least 30 radials. Currently steel wire is used for radials. Again, many thanks to Don for letting me operate from his station. It is always fun to spend time there and hear interesting stories from Don from the times when he was a transmission engineer at CBC. Equipment: Mark-V Field, AL-1200, 60' high vertical and single 300' long Beverage towards Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3KZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 75,192 Just a few hours to help the CCO Club score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 303,576 Excellent condx and very little QRN. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 375,155 Great condx! Best signals from EU at my place: YT0A, SK7DX, HG3DX, SV3RF CU in SSB 73, Lali, VE3NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OBU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,306 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: SD V13.36 and SDCHECK V13.36 CONTEST: CQ-160-CW CALLSIGN: VE3OBU CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 160M LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 27306 NAME: Bert Almemo ADDRESS: 54 Rodda Blvd. ADDRESS: Scarborough, Ontario CLUB: Contest Club OntRIO OPERATORS: VE3OBU X-RADIOS: IC-765 X-ANTENNAS: Windom X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: Valid QSOs: 141 0 0 0 0 0 141 X-SUMMARY: Mults: 41 0 0 0 0 0 41 X-SUMMARY: Points: 666 0 0 0 0 0 666 X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: I declare that this station was operated strictly in X-SUMMARY: accordance with the rules and spirit of the contest, X-SUMMARY: and within the conditions of my licence. My report X-SUMMARY: is correct and true to the best of my knowledge. X-SUMMARY: I agree that the decision of the contest organisers X-SUMMARY: shall be final in all cases of dispute. I agree to X-SUMMARY: this data being stored, analysed and cross-checked X-SUMMARY: by computer. X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3OSZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,690 Only did S & P this year. Conditions were pretty good. Drake TR7 @ 100 watts HB autotuner Inverted L Beverage TR Log ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3QAA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 448,330 Excellent condition the entire weekend, with DX over the whole band. The DX window seemed to be used for NA to NA and EU to EU contacts for much of the time. I learned that I made a mistake in spending too much time searching, and occasionally pouncing, when I should have spent several hours more hammering out boring CQ's. I lost several hours of prime operating time due to a family commitment that I allowed to slip onto the calendar ahead of the obviously more important DX contest. Oh well, at least I'll continue to be fed. Bert, VE3QAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 60,490 Was glad to get to play with the narrow digital filters. Never would have been able to pull out some of the sigs on the old 680. There were a lot of signals I could not hear... but that is due to the sagging loop antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 243,756 Rig: K2/100 Ant: 3/8 wave inverted L, 30 feet up and 160 feet out. S/W: N1MM Great fun. Only arrived back late Friday night from business trip to Denver, so I was not too prepared. Spent Saturday putting down more radials. Need to get amp, heard lots and lots of Eu stations but they couldn't hear me. Nice to work many VE3 stations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 332,605 My first CQ 160m contest great fun in great conditions. Antenna Inverted "L" @ 70ft. with 2 elevated radials and no receiving antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6CNU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 15,742 I only got to work a short time on this contest. The conditions actually seemed fairly good, as there were quite a lot of activity. Unfortunately, my 40' shunt-fed tower and 100W from my FT-1000MP are not exactly "loud". And having S9 noise is pretty tough too. The biggest problem was not being able to hear very well, so I occasionally ended up running on top of other stations and not sure if others were calling me or them. It would be easier if the exchange had to include their call as well (as some contests require). My main interest was in working more states to try for my WAS on 160m. I think I picked up about 10 new ones. Thanks to all those who took time to listen for me and hope to see you in the next one. 73, Jerry VE6CNU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 71,500 Hi All: Well that was generally good condx off and on as is usual for 160. Just a part-timer mixed with family comittments. When the condx were hot contacts were made with the all important tuner had me at 10w out HI. (When I forget to tune....) Tnx for the calls and contest fun. I had the usual s9+ noise as normal doing 160 from the city lot. VE6EX was: TS 940s into shunt fed tower/radials. Killer VE6EX HB tuner (lotsa tuning in a 160 contest HI). TRLOG, the best; all DOS in a 160mhz pentium 1 stand alone. Lotsa hand cw. Tnx es 73s to all Dan VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6SV Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 207,860 North America CT MA ME NH RI VT NY NJ DE MD PA AL FL GA KY NC SC TN VA AR LA MS NM OK TX CA AZ ID MT NV OR UT WA WY MI OH WV IL IN WI CO IA KS MN MO ND NE SD NS PE QC ON SK AB BC DX C6 CE CN CT3 CU CX EA FM HK HR JA KH6 KL KP2 KP4 OM UA9 V3 VP9 XE ZF STATION: FT-1000MP MkV c/w all filters and mods,2KW PA 90 foot insulated tower c/w 40 1/4w radials 800 ft beverages, 4-Sq RX Array 73, Max VE6RST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7CC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 309,015 Conditions were so good Friday for a while I forgot I was in a contest and spent too much time trying to work some new countries! Did work 9A and GD for new ones but many others got away. I have never heard so many Europeans in a 160 meter contest. I think I need a better antenna than a quarter wave sloper for Tx if I want to work many of them. Tx Ant: 2x quarter wave slopers from 90 ft, no radials. (east or west) Rx Ant: 2x 480ft 2 wire beverages. 90/270 deg, 30/210 deg Tx: FT1000D, TL922 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SL Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 58,158 As in the Stew Perry, conditions were 'interesting'once again. My second contact, shortly after the official start, was N2YB in NY. Several other easteners made it into the log before local sunset...most unusual for the west coast! Several Europeans were heard on Friday night but unfortunately none were able to hear my low power. As in the SP, the east coast was much louder than the midwest, which is always nice to hear. I had a ton of fun and still managed to hit the sack by 2300 both nights. "Best ears/worst ears" : VY2ZM/N4BP Steve / VE7SL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7UF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 168,102 I couldn't spend more than 13 hours on this one. Conditions were good, but not as good as they were for ARRL version last December. Glad to add CU & CT9 to the 160M country collection. Ever since I changed the apex angle of my 125 ft high single inverted Vee antenna from 130 degrees to 90 degrees I have done much better to the east but much worse to JA, only worked 5 JAs. Hopefully by next year I'll have my newly purchased 170 ft rohn 45 installed with better antennas for all bands. I used packet this time. Thanks to all that called. Duane VE7UF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 82,293 All S&P with a focus on 10 pointers. 53% 10 pointers Psed to work many familiar NA calls as well. Fabulous signals from CT9M, CU2A, CU8A, CN2R GM3POI, M2D, MD4K, throughout the whole period. Friday night was a bust due to blizzard and high winds....tower cranked down part way same as last year .... bottom of Inv L coiled in a snow bank ! Log up on LotW and eQSL. FT1000MP (1998) N1mm + microKeyer Al-811H Ugly "L" Coax Loop + MFJ 1025 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 123,687 Conditions on 160 about as Good as I have ever heard them, in fact was copying several Europeans over 2 and 1/2 hours before Dark. Would have liked to be able to spend more time CQ'in , however family matters prevented it . Lots of familiar calls with Big signals. Interesting thing about hearing Europe in daylight...... was the fact that I also was able to copy some East Coast Stations in an all daylight path . Dont exactly know why but my location is usually extremely quiet before dark. Mainly S&P but did CQ for about an hour on Saturday nite. ALways good fun on this band ..... running : Yaesu ft 1000mp with Inrad filtering Alpha 87a Shunt fed Tower Beverage wires still in the shed hi ! C'Y'all Next One GLWCDR 73 Gus VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9I Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 389,136 849 Q's without the dupes, one station worked me 3 times. My best score from Bermuda in CQ160, not many problems but sure was hard to hold a frequency. Worked all states except KL7, NT0V in North Dakota called with on 7 minutes to go!! Thanks everyone for the contacts. Please QSL VP9I via N1HRA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2SS Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,670 I'll bet Jeff is breathing a sigh of relief! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,632,512 Wow! What an experience...160 will never be the same from home! Topband sounded better at 2 PM local from PEI than it ever has from NC in the best of conditions! North America CW 995 54.3 South America CW 3 0.2 Europe CW 811 44.3 Asia CW 12 0.7 Africa CW 8 0.4 Oceania CW 1 0.1 Many good mults were heard but got away (VQ9, A6, 9K2, YV, P4, PY, ZL, etc) but the best thrill was working JA8ISU Sunday morning for the first time ever by VY2ZM in a contest (although Jeff has worked many JAs outside of contests). It took me awhile to learn that Jeff's best antennas were often his transmit antenna (a 2X2 array of full size verticals that can be switched in 6 combinations...some with multiple simultaneous directions). His best RX antenna is one he calls the 6-pack...a 3X2 combination of small verticals with binomial feed...which has about 40 dB F/B in the NE/SW directions. NA stations literally disappear when this is beamed NE toward Europe! One interesting note about power line noise. We were being plagued by a power leak which we identified and reported to the local power company. They didn't get it fixed in time for the contest so they just turned off that section of power line (that particular service was unused in the winter}! Below is a link to some photos...including one of the small 6-pack verticals. Note the balmy weather (-14C and often a 30+ kph wind) and Jeff's snowmobile taxi: http://tinyurl.com/2n2aqc Thanks again to Jeff for a fantastic experience! 73, Bill W4ZV Countries with 10 or more QSOs: 9A 12 DL 174 F 12 G 55 HA 25 HB 16 I 32 LY 18 OH 23 OK 72 OM 22 PA 21 S5 26 SM 27 SP 41 UA 64 UR 34 YU 11 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 462,341 Great conditions! We had a blast and DX was great too! A new record for us at W0AIH too. Last year was good at 1100+ QSO's and 46 countries and we blew that away! Maybe there will be one more season of good condx on the low bands before the cycle starts ramping up again?? We have WAS but missed: LAB, MB, NWT, YT, NU. DX Worked: 4O, 9A, C6, CE, CM, CN, CT, CT3, CU, CX, DL, E7, EA, EA6, EA8, EI, E, EU, F, FM, G, GD, GM, HA, HK, HP, HR, I, JA, KH6, KL, KP2, KP4, LA, LX, LY, LZ,OE, OH, OH0, OK, OM, ON, OZ, P4, PA, PY, S5, SM, SP, SV, TF, UA, UA2, UA9, UR, V3, VP9, XE, YU, YV, ZF, ZL I was running stations the 2nd day and about 0030Z and EU opened up. In a few minutes I had 8 stations in the log and no US mixed in there. I had never seen that on 160. Probably happens out east all the time, but not in the Midwest. The signals were easily copyable too. 1000 foot beverages help, but no noise or QSB, etc. As for DX overall, we had 113 10 pointers in the log Thanks to Paul for letting us play with his wonderful hardware! http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ 73, John K0TG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 114,112 Excellent North America conditions on Friday night .. started late and missed some good rate I suspect. Saturday night was hard work with many very light signals and lots of repeats. Limited DX as always from Kansas, but for an hour on Friday evening, I could hear both sides (just barely) of all the fun the east coast stations were having. Overall, worked all states but AK (and DC). Worked BC AB SK ON QC PEI in Canada, and OM XE KH6 DL C6 KP2 CT CE CU ZF as DX. Also worked one /MM in Region 3. Thanks to all for the Qs! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 61,202 Nice quiet condx Friday night helping 5 EU and 3 AF stations to hear my 200w and shunt fed tower/vertical. Vy glad to work a number of new ones! 73 Ken, W0ETT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0GJ Class: Single Op QRP Total Score = 83,097 It is amazing what 5 watts can and cannot do on the magic band! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0MU Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 32,436 Not much time for this one. Had a great 2 hour run on Friday. Was very surprised to have a number of europeans and DX call in. 4 sq still acting up. Found a bad cable and a broken control wire. Started to work like a 4 sq on Saturday night. Conditions seemed to be quite a bit less on Saturday. Could never much of anything going. Never head any EU although I got to the shack quite late. Big pileups on C6 and close in DX that I could not get through to. Felt loud Friday and not so much on Saturday even after adding 10 more radials. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0PC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 27,881 Lots of fun once again. Wish I could of put more chair time in. Thanks for all the Qs. Look for all of you in the next one. Please upload your logs to Logbook of the World. 73 de W0PC (Rick) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0YK Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 28,416 Very quiet conditions here. So much so, that many stations kept CQing in response to my calls. Lots of Europeans heard with good signals, but none worked in the limited time I was on. 73, Ed - W0YK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 31,616 100% S&P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1TO Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 43,656 Part time from home when not at K1TTT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1UE Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 684,618 I knew this was going to be a long weekend. When W1FJ, Al, and I arrived at the station about 2000Z Friday, we found both Orions in the SO2R positions not working, so we had to disconnect radios and put another Orion into the operating position. Before the contest started, we were down to one radio and part of our game plan was out the window. We were also plagued with computer software problems all weekend that we created by trying to put a network together; the main computer started operating slower and slower, until it took 4-5 seconds from the time that one pressed F1 and the CQ actually began. We finally stopped for almost one hour (2300Z Sat) to fix the problems and had no further trouble with it. Great run to Europe the first night in the 0400-0700Z time. Put over 210 Euros in the log. Second night, we could never get much of a run going; Europeans were weaker with heavy QSB, and we were consistently getting beat out by the Midwest US stations. When the contest was over, I tried to drive home but was turned back by the blizzard outside. There was a good 6" of snow with visibility greatly reduced by the blowing and drifting snow, and none of the roads had been plowed, so I stayed a third night at the station and left for home Monday morning. All in all, great fun. Thanks to Greg W1KM for the use of his great station, and to everyone for the constant repeats. Dennis W1UE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2GD Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 819,667 The station is located on a salt marsh adjacent to Barnegat Bay, about 20 miles north of Atlantic City, NJ. We install the TX antennas in the fall and dismantle them come spring each year. A 300 foot tall tower in the marsh supports our primary gain TX antenna (2 el, 6db gain array). The site is isolated and fortunately for us has been electrically quiet for the past year. A proven set of beverage antennas makes it possible to hear well in all directions. Our team is experienced and has been operating together for 20+ years. STATION DESCRIPTION: Run Position - IC756ProIII, Alpha 99, IC746 slave receiver Multiplier Position – FT-2000 + MTU-160, AL 1200 TX ANTENNAS: 3 element Vertical Wire Array firing NE/WSW/Omni, apex at 185' surrounded by a tidal salt marsh for a minimum of 550 feet. Vertical Dipole (60’ vertical) on edge of salt marsh RX ANTENNAS: Phased pair of 935' beverages Northeast/EU 560' unterminated beverages Southwest, South, and East 560' staggered 2 element beverages West (terminated) and NW/SW (unterminated) WEEKEND SNIPPETS The weather cooperated nicely this year. Upon arrival Friday morning conditions were cold and there was an inch snow on the ground, but no wind to speak of. With no major storms on the weather map, the band was exceptionally QRN free all weekend. Five of us were on site to set up the station. This takes a few hours, to connect and test 3 radios, 2 amps, 3 computers, interfaces, power supplies, contest software, the maze of wires is formidable. Once again we were pleasantly surprised to find all of our antennas mostly intact upon arrival, even after numerous big windstorms that have occurred since the Stew Perry contest last month. Not having to make major antenna repairs saved time and reduced the fatigue factor. The most critical antennas (both TX antennas and the NE beverage) were tested first. Its always a kick to hear WBZ on 1030 in Boston over 250 miles away on the NE beverage at high noon local time coming in S9+20, and then switch to the west beverage and observe their signal nearly disappear. Did someone say a cone of silence? Pre-contest testing revealed the T/R relay in our aging AL-1200 wasn’t keeping up with the FT-2000 which along with the optional MTU-160 accessory filter unit was being tried for the first time in the mult station position. Changing some delay settings on the XCVR helped greatly, but as a backup we installed a foot switch in the PPT line. During the contest this turned out to be an asset, since the foot switch allowed the mult station op to override the lockout box and immediately call stations. So if you noticed our run station suddenly disappear or a long pause before responding this was probably the reason. We had a few semi-anxious moments Friday afternoon. Away from the marsh the station site is heavily wooded. Dan, W2NO, went out to walk the west beverage. When he got to the end of the antenna about 1000 feet from the building, apparently he decided to take a short cut to get back. Unfortunately Dan hadn’t kept adequate track of his ‘bearings’ and ended up lost in the woods for about 20 minutes, ultimately walking out about a mile away. Of course we all had a great laugh at Dan’s expense, but plan to make sure he is GPS equipped when travelling in the woods next year. A number of EU stations were worked before our local sunset. Unfortunately what sounded like good conditions didn’t hold up very well when the event started 2 hours later. With a DSL connection available, we decided to stream our score live. It was fun watching the updates and the other scores, until our DSL connection failed mid-day on Saturday. More on this later. Started the contest CQing on 1811 and essentially stayed put on or near the same frequency the entire night. First hour rate was our second best start ever, 142 QSOs with 11 ten pointers. Conditions to EU seemed only fair at the start, and would steadily decline over the next few hours. It was obvious watching the callouts the stations to our west and south were enjoying terrific conditions to EU. It was just one of those weekends were the NE USA had strange conditions, weird signal arrival angles, etc. At times we thought the west beverage was broken, especially when W9s and W0s were loudest on the N/S beverage. But the pendulum swung back in our direction with a vengeance about 0430 and it was off to the races. The EU pileup was huge and undisciplined, requiring numerous repeats. Over then next few hours the rate hovered around 100, and most of the callers were from EU. This was clearly the defining point of the contest for us, when we either made it big or would have to make up excuses later. The great EU run pumped up the score by nearly 200K, and we ended the first night with 242 ten pointers (compared to 114 in 2006). After EU sunrise, the rate dropped, but our spirits were buoyed when 7X0RY and YV1DIG called in for new mults. The Saturday morning sunrise opening was unfortunately a non-event, we didn’t hear any VK, ZL, KL7 or JAs. At breakfast we discussed the strange conditions and how the West beverage didn’t seem to be working normally. We decided to run some tests using reference BC stations and decide what changes to make. Otherwise the hardware situation was completely under control. Several South Jersey DXA operators keep the station on the air all day Saturday. It’s a slow grind but over 100 daylight contacts make it into the log over the course of the weekend. About noon local time we lost our DSL connection. Calls to the service provider were for naught. Fortunately we had a TNC and 2M radio in storage. K2SG set up a DX Spider node at his home QTH about a mile away, and within an hour we had packet spots flowing again. We did some tests on the staggered beverages and determined the matching network used had a 5 db insertion loss. Decided to use a single beverage and compare performance. Small risk, potential high reward. Worked our first EU right at sunset but we were disappointed no sustained opening to EU developed at anytime during the second night. So we made an extra effort chasing new mults, which helped keep the interest level high. The pileup on TF3CW was particularly memorable. Once again after EU sunrise the action slows down, and we work mostly W’s with the occasional mult calling in, including VO2FF in LB and W3DQ in DC (TNX). Much to our surprise near sunrise we had a run of ten JA stations this year, which is 8 more JA stations than we’ve worked in the last ten years combined! And to top it off a VE5 called in nearly 30 minutes after sunrise. You just never know what will happen on Top Band. At breakfast we review the weekend’s events and document the station improvements that should be considered for next season. Throughout Sunday, members of the SJDXA continue to keep things rolling, adding many more daylight QSOs, including several five pointers. Conditions to EU the last two hours are quite good, and we added an additional 20 ten pointers to bring the score within 10K of our 2007 effort. At the final bell, we have 31 fewer QSOs and 5 fewer 10 pointers compared to 2007, and about the same score as the past two years. No complaints, we did the best we could and had a great time working together as a team. Congratulations to the teams at KC1XX and W1UE(@W1KM) for their great scores and keeping the competitive heat turned up all weekend. And to the W8JI team, we applaud your score - a tremendous achievement. Maybe next year all of the competitive M/S entries will be posting on the W1VE scoreboard in real-time. Our log will been loaded on the ARRL LOTW system during the coming week. Special thanks go to the owners of WYRS-FM for allowing us to use and enjoy this wonder radio facility, and also to members of the SJDXA for their continuing support with station construction and maintenance. Be sure to look for the SJDXA entry in CQ160 PH next month. Their call will be N2CW. 73, John, W2GD - for the entire 160 TEAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 28,362 Family commitments and not-feeling-well both limited my participation this weekend. As I'm still chasing new ones on 160, I decided to enter as a Multi-op in order to make use of the cluster for any new band-countries, and in that respect I was successful; I managed to snag two new ones (LX7I and T93J). In fact, I never did use the cluster for making stateside Q's but so it goes, I guess. The band was wide open to Europe on Friday night, but virtually nothing from across the pond was coming in on Saturday. I had a couple of decent stateside runs going on Saturday night (thanks to other FRCers for working me) and I did have fun in the limited time I was able to be on. Hopefully next year I'll be in better shape for all three topband contests. 160 is very clearly shaping up to be my favourite band. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2TB Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 70,380 Inv L @ 45' Pro3 Emtron DX2sp N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2VJN Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 294,952 Friday night was very good here in the PNW. I was able to work 12 or 14 Euros right after sundown. The JA run was also very good with the first worked before the sun went down in JA. 105 JAs worked the first night. The second night was totally different. No Euros were worked and only 8 JAs. I can only dream about what the score would have been. FT 1000 with roofing filter mod, Alpha 91B and four half wave slopers around a 150' tower. I've use N1MM logger for two contests now and it works great. George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3BP Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 106,536 Missed not hearing K9DX and high big signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3CP Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 23,850 CREDITED TO PVRC SINCE I HAVE BEEN TOLD THERE IS RO AREA BOUNDARY FOR CQ160. THIS WILL BE MY FIRST CONTRIBUTION SINCE 2003! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3DQ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 68,544 Cobbled together the station after a long layoff and re-hung the inv-l that came down during big winds over the past month. Living in a noisy environment doesn't help. Apologies for a lead fist and deaf ears! Lots to do before the ARRL DX and CQ 160 SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TS Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 355,005 Comments: TX Ant: 1/8 wave wire Tee - with 70 x 70foot long radials (My 60 foot high 80/40M fan dipole with the feeder shorted). RX Ant: 2 x 300 foot long NE/SW and SE/NW reversable short beverages. (The best I can do with the neighbors help on an "in town" 150 x 200 foot lot). Homebrew small RX 4 square. (Which still needs work). Rig: Ten-Tec Orion + 2 x 3-500Z at 1300 watts output Logger: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3TUA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 6,214 This band is always tough for me due to space limitations. I loaded up the 40m dipole and jumped into the fray. Without the trusty AL-80A amplifier I couldn't be heard. Goal was to reach 100 QSO's and then call it quits. Operating was a blast and maybe I will see a few new states added to my LOTW account soon. Go FRC! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3UA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 197,085 Part time effort... A couple of hours here, a couple of hours there... Too many other things to do. Condx were pretty good to EU. Missed AK, ID, ND, NE, but worked two WY stations (usually I always miss WY). Power line noise is killing me, even on 160... PSNH still can't locate the source. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3USA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 41,004 This was my day two operation, Saturday night and early Sunday. Either conditions were down from Friday night, or a light snow had created a lot of power line noise that was not there the first night. Or both. A combination of fresh meat status and a packet spot make for a good imitation of being rare DX. At one point I had the 10 qso timer over 300/hr. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3YY Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 132,678 I didn't have plans to operate this contest, but got on late Friday night and had so much fun that I came back for a little more on Saturday and Sunday. There were times when the band was simultaneously open to both EU and the US West Coast. It was fun to be simultaneously getting calls from both those areas during a run. 73 - Bob, W3YY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 126,291 I was unable to erect my beverages and inverted-L this year due to a house building project. All Q's were via S&P. I called, but couldn't work an additional 23 mults (8 W/VE & 15 DX). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 60,352 Many thanks to all for the Q's.. Really a fun contest many great signals from Europe.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4HZ Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 230,100 Great fun! We lost 2 amps early in the contest & had to settle for running barefoot, but Puck/W4PM & Roy/WK4Y did a great job of working around the equipment issues. Rumor is that Nancy's(KA3CCE)waffles gave them extra GO power!!! 73, Jonathan W4HZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4IX Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 235,396 Tuff going with low power and a inv. L @ 40 feet, spent alot of time repeating info for europeans, also hard to find a new run freq after leaving one for S&Ping...had a blast anyway. Had TA3D and RU1A on the same freq. saturday nite, called TA3D, hrd someone come back, it was RU1A, a dupe as I had worked him earlier, never did get the TA, OH WELL!! one day I will have computer keying and even a radio with separate rcv input for the beverage(s) so i can free up my hands some from all the manual switching. 73's and thanks fer the Q's....John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,039 No fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NF Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 465,075 That was a lot of fun. I was so tired on both Saturday and Sunday morning at about 3AM that I had to go to sleep. I'll remember to take a nap before the contest next year and sleep a little more during the day on Saturday. Highlight was running EU stations on Friday night/Staurday morning. A breakdown of the Qs was 930 W/K, 77 VE and 177 DX stations with DLs leading the way with 28 Qs, followed closely by the OKs (21 Qs) then S5s with 12 Qs. I used the DX Engineering Reversible Beverages (NE/SW and NW/SE) for all receiving. The beverages are 500' long. The TX antenna is an Inverted L with 70' vertical, and 40 radials. Rig is FT 2000 and amp is Alpha 99. Thanks for the Qs and 73, Jack W4NF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 61,614 Was it just me or were the conditions good this weekend? All I managed to get done was to run some coax to the 160 antenna, and hook it up. I moved the shack into the house a few months ago and had to extend the coax. SWR was great as-is, so I just fired up and off I went. I tried a seperate RX antenna, just a OCF 80m. Seemed to help on some stations. Mainly just dropped my noise.. hi. I worked Europe much easier this year. Again probably just conditions. Activity was up and the Alabama crowd was WELL REPRESENTED. Thanks to K4AB in ALABAMA for my last QSO. I noticed the chirpy Cuban (CM3GW) was calling CQ Contest after it all ended. Guy needs to put down the Rum and hook up his receiver...hi He didn't work anyone that I could tell. Oh well. Enjoyed this one quite a lot, especially now that my Power Line Racket is way reduced. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 40,480 Rig: Ten Tec OMNI VII, Ameritron ALS-600 Antenna: Inverted L over a very limited ground radial system I spent the first night and part of the second helping with a multi-op effort at W4HZ. Arriving home at 10:30 PM EST Saturday night I fired up the home rig. Since I only had a few hours I mainly called CQ and paid no attention to looking for multipliers and DX. Being "fresh meat" the second night I had some great runs. Thanks for the Q's. CU in the next contest. 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SAA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 223,304 Orion / Centurion / inv-L Good to have so much activity and strong dx. Heard Japan a good 559 here in SFL for the first time on 160m. He was working the HK1 station, so no chance for a qso.... It was fun. tnx qso's! 73 Joe W4SAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 297,996 WOW! This had to be the best condx in a long time. Wall to wall Europeans. Worked three new countries-CW0TOP, TF3CW and T93J. Over 100 Europeans logged! The only thing I would suggest is that when stations began to call CQ, please ask if the freq is busy! Any way I had a lot of fun. This is my best effort ever. My rig:OMNI VI + . AL-811H-700Watts out. ANT- Inverted "L" @ 70 feet. Stealth 450 foot beverage to the east runs across the street on the ground, then up along a hedge for 430 feet to the east @6 feet high. After europe drops out I go outside and run it to the west right on the ground . Boy what it is like living in downtown Ocala. CU in the SSB Test Mark W4SVO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 6,496 IC-706 MK IIG (WHAT cw filter!! Ha!), random wire 15 feet high, N3FJP software Thanks for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4XO Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 14,391 A fun contest... A part time effort Saturday night. I don't have a 160 M antenna, so I jumpered two 60 ft wire sections to my 80 m inverted-v to make a 160 m antenna. I could participate in the contest with a OK compromise antenna. Overall, I enjoyed the contest. I was surprized to work CU2A in the Azores. Worked 36 sections. Missed W6, a few W7's & W0's, and logged only VE'2 & VE3's. Tks for the Q's. Lex ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5JR Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 116,730 Icom 756 Pro II, AL-80B, Inverted L in the trees Best personal results yet most operation was on Friday/Saturday night. EU was everywhere, but better the second night. I need a real receiving antenna to attenuate the US stations and hear the EU/AF better. Missed WY ND and AK for a weekend WAS. See everyone next year! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5MPC Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 100,667 This was my first year operating the 160 CW contest. Had an absolute blast! Conditions were great and there were good openings to EU and JA. Station : Kenwood TS 2000X Amb : AL80B Antenna : Inverted L at about 25' Software : N3FJP Looking forward to next year! Mike W5MPC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5MX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 520,920 My first contest using a second radio. Sure helps with mults and SP. Will need some more practice to get proficient. Put up an 1100' beverage for ene-wsw Friday after returning home from business trip in Illinois. Sure helped a lot on rx most of the time. Sometimes the tx loops worked better, varied. Great contest, lotsa fun. I hear reports from East coast it was great Friday night not so good Sat, opposite for West coast... It was kind of the middle here. Good condx both nights, but not the best I have ever heard although it certainly ranked up there. Thanks to all for the Q's. 73's Bryan W5MX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6NF Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 24,304 Fine contest. Late start Friday due to work but conditions were excellent. Heard EU's I'd never heard before and got my 1st EU QSO plus 4 new countries. Sunday morning was not as good as Saturday with much more noise but there was a ton of fresh meat and I found 7 previously unworked states/provinces. Where were all the VE's? Worked only 5 of 14 VE mults! Looking forward to the CQ 160 SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SJ Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 25,380 Still missing 4 New England States for WAS on 160 but picked up several new countries, which was fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 7,776 Omni VI+, AL-1200, 80 meter dipole at 46 feet with MB-V-A, TRLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6XI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 169,167 A new receiving antenna made a big difference. Conditions were exceptional into AZ. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 13,880 Got on for a few hours second night. Used a small ground mounted receiving loop and 20db receive preamp. Transmit antenna is 50' x 75' inverted L into a wet oak tree with single 125' counterpoise. Seemed like I could hear better than I was being heard, so I fired up the amp (500W) which seemed to help. Worked CU8A and CU2A, yes they are big contest stations, but first ever EU and best DX from my little pistol station! Thanks to all for the contacts. 73 / Dave W6ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7GKF Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 100,310 Great conditions Friday night, except no Europe. As usual VE4 was a no-show. Also could use some activity from some of the "rare" northern Prov. multipliers. Down-under was absent. Special thanks to W3DQ for D.C. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 7,705 Used a 160 meter mobile whip for the antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RH Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 125,356 Wow! Another year, another CQ160 contest and a good one it was. This year I arrived early and was fairly well rested. The station checked out fine Thursday with a complete visual inspection of all cables, antenna array, followed by the on the air base line measurements and contacts in the evening hours. Late Thursday and early Friday brought about 4 inches of new snow. Just thirty minutes before contest start I discovered the array was not switching. I spent the next 2 hours finding and repairing the cable break buried somewhere in the snow. The cable was completely severed by some ranch critter over night. Back in the operating position both cold and wet Friday in darkness let the contest begin for me almost 2 hours late. Friday night EU was like 20 M very strong but difficult to break pileups with 100W. I'm sure local QRN and QRM on other end was a factor. With heavy rain falling and rapidly warming temperatures I no choice but to shut down and head out of the remote ranch site 2 hours before contest end for fear of getting stuck in the Arizona Clay. Even then it took me an hour in my 4X4 to go the 12 miles back to paved RT66. All things prove that in contesting, planning and timing is crucial. Well enough said remote operations are like soap operas. Can hardly wait till next year! 73 all and good contesting! Bob, W7RH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7SNH Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 143,190 It was great to try this one as a Multi -- W7SNH joined me for this one. It was his first time using N1MM, or *ANY* electronic logging. If you heard anything amiss with wrong messages being sent, etc. it was him for sure. Really. (Yeah, right!) I think this was a good 'trainer' on the nature of 160m for him -- On the first night, the conditions from the PNW to EU and Carribean were almost magical. I had to explain a bunch of times that it's not usually that easy to HEAR EU during a contest, let alone work any (they seemed to be coming in more easterly than northerly). We worked a handful there, then some South American stations (Op1: "Did you work the 5K?" Op2: "You mean the HK." Op1: "He was 5K when I worked him"). JA's started pounding in (worked a bunch), then we heard 3W3W (Check out the audio on http://www.n9adg.com/audio/3W3W.mp3), some whispers of VR2 and 6M, but no Q. The second night was completely different. Snow squalls, high noise levels, lack of 'new stations' to work, etc. He had a more realistic picture after THAT experience. Those 8 rate hours are character building for sure. I think two teams of two each for a multi might be ideal -- one person to run, one to coordinate mults and 'enforce' goals, with the ability to mix it up. Folks might even get to sleep a little. Sounds like something to put together for next year. Things we could have done better include: Not completely stopping for dinner (long story) on Saturday night; Having (at least) one more op; More beverage directions, more radials. If not more ops, then maybe just more liquid beverages. It was great to hear a bunch of Pacific NW Ops 'stop by' for a Q; Also, Joe, W7QN (see his 3830 posting) is modest beyond belief -- He's in retirement housing, on the 10th floor, using a mobile antenna on his balcony, and RUNNING on 160m. You have to admire that spirit and drive. I can only wonder what the 'real stories' of 160m are that the other 3830 writeups only hint at -- 160m is all about making whatever you have work, and hoping that nature will favor you. Also, sitting with someone and 'explaining' various things during the contest, I realize that over the last five years (my first 160m Q was 03/29/03) that even though I haven't met many 160m folks in person, I know them through 160m. Hearing only the last two letters of a call going down the band during S&P, using the speed, and loudness of the signal, I can guess with alarming accuracy the letters I've missed. Recognizing those guys with the state-abbreviation call that aren't in that state. Who to look for when I need RI or DC, or even NFL. Muttering "There's George", or "Wonder if Tree's going to get them", or "always good to work Jerry". I must be a little nuts to be doing this (my wife certainly thinks so). Thanks for 'being' 160m. Thanks for the contacts, and thanks for your "gentleman's band" courtesy. Brian N9ADG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 3,213 Just some S&P in this one in between runs in the BARTG contest. Not much use in trying to CQ as it doesn't take long before someone runs my peanut whistle station off the frequency. Noise was really down and I was hearing station on the east coast but they weren't hearing me. It was a quiet as I have heard it for a long time. Next year there will be an amp for 160! 73 and thanks for the Q's. Tom W7WHY TS-450SAT-inverte L antenna. N1MM Logger 7.12.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AV Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 207,072 Planned for an all out effort this year. However, a dinner engagement and a horrible viral sinus infection limited operation on the second night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 336,105 Had plans to stay in the chair both nights but a sore throat and cold conspired to make me sleep both nights. Lots of fun and had more 10 pointers than ever (98) Dan W8CAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8FD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 2,919 A quick appearance Sunday afternoon to make some qsos available to those who had survived the first 46 hours. As I said in my W3USA comments, the combination of being new and a being spotted sure can generate a nice high rate experience. Thanks to CQ for not sharing ARRL's phobia about using more than one callsign during the contest. I trust none of the people I worked 2 or 3 times minded either. Again, some light snow led to a lot of power line noise, so after working the big guns I did feel like an alligator when the weaker stations were trying to call in. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8JI Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 1,125,400 Everyone had lots of fun and that is what is most important. We had a great team. Very few problems despite having prototype keying multiplexers and lockouts for the multiplier station that were plugged in just minutes before the contest. With a few changes the microprocessor controlled lockouts and keying delay system will be perfect. Deeply regretted not having the new K3 that has been on order, but I hope to have one or two before next year's contest. A stereo main receiver that is CAT controlled is a must for next year even if we have to build our own. Thanks to all the DX stations who were patient and kept trying to get through the very heavy QRM. Many times, despite being on a run frequency for hours, stateside stations would appear. This often happened during runs of Europeans because if we listened for more than 20 seconds someone local would start to CQ. Most of us understand this is part of contesting, and things like that will happen. We really thank the Europe who were patient enough to keep trying. Highlight of the contest was being several DX stations very first USA contact ever. This is the very best part of Ham radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8RJL Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 59,040 Part time effort. Severe S7-S9 noise 24/7 from next door neighbor in portion of band so ran temporary 300 foot B.O.G. toward EU which helped considerably. TX was IC-736 & TL-922A to inverted L 60 vertical and 65' horizontal with about 12 radials. RX inverted L or B.O.G. depending on portion of band and direction. Had a good time and hope to be better prepared and keep my butt in the chair more hours next year. 73, Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9AZ Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 400,512 Great fun. Thanks to all for the contacts. Propagation pretty good. Noise on West & SouthWest Beverages Saturday night hurt a bit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W9RE Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 481,719 Band was better then last year for me. I favored keeping a running frequency and now obviously I realize that was a huge mistake. I had 89-VE's, 13-Central American and other NA Q's, 3 Pacific, 9 South American, 6 African, and 120 European Q's. (102-5 pointers, 138-10 pointers and 1176-2 pointers) Out of the 10 pointers 90 called me and 45 were via 'S and P'. First night I worked 33 Europeans and 87 the second night. 0 Asia !! Congrats to the top scorers out there, you can hear and know how to run the band. This was the first time I have put a full effort in to this contest in about 20 years and now I know why. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 142,722 Sure glad I made those improvements to 160 antenna system. Nice to work 4 new 160 countries. Glad I was there . hi hi. 73 BoB WA1FCN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA4DOU Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 137,780 Conditions were pretty good! Low noise, plenty of signals, lots of dx. I hope everyone had a great time. Thanks for the q's and hope to see everyone next time. Rig: FT-897D @ 99 watts out Antenna: 42 ft. top loaded vertical over 40 1/8th wave radials Logging Program: NA (running in DOS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6L Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 5,940 I decided a couple of months ago that this would be my first 160M contest, so of course I waited until Saturday morning to put up an antenna. I spent the entire day at it. That included low-crawling through 150' of California scrub with the end of the new coax clenched in my teeth (so it seemed), digging a short trench to get the cable to my house, building and installing the coax balun, and stringing the antenna. It is a coil-loaded sloper coming off the top of my tower. Everything tested fine, so at 0400Z I got started. Soon I realized that I was missing the one most important thing you need for a 160M contest -- rest. My juvenile brain had written a check that my senior-citizen body couldn't cash. I spent 2-1/2 hours in the chair, at which point CW stopped making sense. When I heard the dreaded "QSO B4," I knew it was time to go to bed. I got up early and worked another 1-1/2 hours, but I had missed the most productive hours. But it was sure a lot of fun while it lasted! My little K2 sure is a great little CW machine. With the filters cranked down, there was no more noise than you would find during a typical day on 20M. There were plenty of stations to work and I had a great time. Best of all, I now have the antenna up and ready, so next time will be better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 134,757 Ran out of gas both Fr. and Sa. evenings : couldn't get my sleep patterns adjusted during the week. Stumbled right off the bat - MK keyer wouldn't work and log program read frequency as 80M: there's always something! A couple of reboots and everything went fine after that. Conditions were pretty good Fri., a little less so Sat.. The main thing is that the local noise did not rear it's ugly head at all, a rare event being sandwiched between HV power lines. 81 DX Q's is some sort of record for a TB contest here. Would've been a great time had I been able to stay awake. Somehow, every HG station that I worked (except one) told me I was a dupe, but they weren't in my log - could I really have been that zoned out, or, what?? I don't get it - a mystery to me. Missed some obvious Western mults. too. Thanks to all... Paul WB2ABD T-T O2 Inv Vee @ 60 ft 700w N1MM + MK NE + W bevs, K9AY loops ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB3JKQ Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 8,288 CQ160CW 2008 All Bands Both modes WB3JKQ Bahamas C6ANM United States AE8M K4VEE KG4W N3VM W0MV W8FJ AF4OX K5CM KT8Y N4BP W1IBQ W8GP AJ3G K5G0 KU1CW N4CW W2GD W8JI K0DEY K5RX KU8E N4GN W2LK W8RJL K0HA K8CC KV0Q N4IR W2VJN W9AE K0LIR K8JQ KW2J N4OX W2XL W9AZ K0TV K8MR KY7M N4PN W3GH W9IU K1DG K9AY N0ELJ N4ZZ W3TDF WA1FCN K1LT K9DU N0NI N5KA W3TS WA2MNO K2FV K9MMS N1EV N7BD W4MYA WA8WV K2ONP K9WWT N1LN N8ET W4NF WC5L K3WW KA9EKJ N2NT NR4M W4RM WJ9B K3ZM KB2I N2WN NZ9R W4SVO K4LTA KC1XX N3AM W0AIS W5MX K4OB KC4B N3KS W0AWS W5VN K4QPL KF6T N3UA W0MR W6PU Canada VA3NR VE2OJ VE2TZT VE3CUI VE3EJ VE3JM Mexico XE1RCS Number of different countries listed = 4. Number of callsigns = 100. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 135,128 I had a blast watching the W1VE live contest scores as I worked the contest. K3MQ and I had a photo finish, reminiscent of past horse races with K0RC. It definitely adds another dimension to contesting. Nice to see quite a few new calls in the log along with all the regulars. Thanks to all for the QSOs. 73 - Rick WB8JUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 528,570 At times some of the best conditions I have ever experienced in this contest... other times there was no DX heard. Quick break down NA 1036 EU 145 SA 9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WE3C Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 753,512 A lot of firsts: First Multi-op CQ 160M CW at WE3C First full 48 hour effort (Iron man Barry, W3FV, did the daylight operating along with a lot of pacing!) First time using new 320 deg. JA beverage First time using new 160 deg. South beverage (new location, hears very well through TX signal) First EU pile-up lasting over 2 hours Saturday EU SR First JA Saturday (first ever 160M contest JA logged was in 2007 ARRL 160M) First JA run on Sunday gave us 8 total JA's - Amazing!!! - Super job Russ & John!! First time score up with the Big Dog pack (the Top Dog has set the upper bar high - we have a long way to go!) Some seconds and more: Poor start again - had a difficult time with QRM Ran the Live Scoreboard which was super fun Missed many callers - we are working on this, getting better, but much more to do...thanks to those who tried Thanks to all, it was an exciting contest... The WE3C Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 29,328 Another fun one. Missed a lot of the contest due to the NHL All Star weekend festivities and game. I used one DX Engineering active antenna the first night and got the second one connected the second night. I still need to play with them and learn them some more but so far I am very impressed. I worked all of the DX stations (including Europe) while using only them for receiving. 73 all and thanks for your patience in pulling my weak signals out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 62,172 Skipped the first night to go to the Wisconsin-Minnesota hockey game. Drove the 250 miles to the cabin Saturday AM. Spent an hour troubleshooting a jumper problem in the antenna system. Finally got on the air about 0000Z. Excellent conditions to Europe Sat nite. Heard a number of Europeans I couldn't work. 14 10 pt QSOs. DX- DL, EI, OM, YT, S5, CT9, LY, OZ, I, GM, CU2, XE and JA. Heard at least 10 other mults. Strangely the usual Caribbean/SA stations weren't heard at least while I was on. Other than XE, I only heard TI, CX and a KP2 and they were all S&P. Several other loud JAs CQed in my face Sunday morning. Lotsa fun 73 Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 384,443 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WQ2N Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 6,390 I got A new one, XE1RCS. Almost had KH6LC, but a station jumped right on top of him. I could not stay up at the times it was best for EU. I decided to finally get on late sunday night and work some. I got on around 6:30ish and worked 66 in 30 minutes till the end of the test. I did sped of the pace once I got spotted and it was fun. Would have liked to get on more, but I was exhausted from exams this past week. It was fun with the live scores (which I recommend) and seeing how everybody was doing. Congrats to WE3C and W2GD for outstanding scores and everyone else who participated. Looks like next contest is the ARRL DX CW, which will be lots of fun as I have no school the Friday before and the Monday after so can put a full effort in hopefully. 73's Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WX3B Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 29,751 Good practice for the upcoming ARRL DX CW contest! 73, Jim WX3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WZ8P Class: Multi-Op LP Total Score = 39,380 I do not see a Class: Single Operator with Packet. So I will post Multi-Op. This is my very first 160 meter Contest and my very first QSO was with W8JI. TNX 73, Everett ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: XE1RCS Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 723,600 After 11 years of SSB participation we tried CW for the first time and love it. We sure need to thank our President and master coordinator Arny XE1ME and Jorgito XE1YJY who also helped on the logistics as well of the Mazutti family who year after year give us asylum at the “La Purisima” ranch in Zumpango, north of Mexico City and feed us with “quesadillas” with cheese made with milk from the ranch. Also thanks to our chief engineer Jesus XE1JG who this year made a Beverage among Beverages with our un-phased double 420 meter RX antenna to Europe, it was the best antenna that we have had and of course the numbers of stations from Europe increase dramatically. The rest of the Beverages worked great but this one surprised us all. Special mention to our secret weapon Masa San, XE1MM, who give us a lesson of discipline and hard work while contesting… but well, what can you expect! He is a JA!!! :-) Thanks as well to our two experienced CW ops Bill XE1ZW and Pedro XE1YZY who where hooked on contesting and now are part of the team. Also on the team it was me, Ramon, XE1KK Conditions were good both nights, noise was low and everything worked as expected. Our call was busted several times and each of those the same stations create dupes on our log. Amazing! Some stations comment that our signal was not as strong as other years; it could be because our maximum power was 800 watts to a ¼ wave vertical but most of the time we were close to 500 watts. This is something we need to work on. We worked many old friends and log several new ones for our top band DXCC count. Bill XE1ZW made a video and Joaquin XE1YJS edit it. Even that it’s in Spanish you may want to take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10K7BWZ5NCc CU next year con CW and in a month on SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT9X Class: Multi-Op HP Total Score = 561,339 CU in the next contest. 73`s Milan YU1ZZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1EA Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 271,650 Unfortunatelly no comments! 73 CU Dule Yu1EA/YT8A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YU1LA Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 1,049,536 Rig used was IC756pro3, TL922, vertical antenna.Rx antenna is a wire loop... Very sorry for all that DX stations which was imposiblle to copy due to a missing beverage antenna...I have to contact W8JI...Hope that next year my RX system will be better.Also, if I try to listen for more than a 10-20 seconds on the freq, there is always EU caller start CQ on the same freq, hi... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YW7A Class: Single Op LP Total Score = 16,860 RIG: ICOM 735/old TS530s ANT: L INVERTED POWER: 100 W GRID: FK81ab Thanks to everyone who copied my HAM station. The day began earlier problems with the inverted L antenna and full competition, the transceiver also, I had to install another. It will be for the next year. VIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op HP Total Score = 193,600 SO1R Antenna:- Titanex 160HD Amp:- Acom-1000 Rig:- IC-756 PRO3 Software:- CT10.03 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's I went over to the BARTG at 1200Z hoping to do the 24 hours in that contest and then put in a bit more time in the 160 on Sunday evening but the flu bug got to me and I had to quit both contests on Saturday evening. Ah well better luck next year. Pity that the contests clash though. 73 Steve. Index of Calls Call: 3W3W Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 4L2M Class: Single Op LP Call: 4O3A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 6M0V Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 7S7V Class: Single Op LP Call: 7X0RY Class: Single Op HP Call: 9A2AA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 9A50KDE Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AA1K Class: Single Op HP Call: AA3B Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AA4LR Class: Single Op LP Call: AA4V Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AA5VU Class: Single Op LP Call: AA8LL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AA9DY Class: Multi-Op LP Call: AB2E Class: Single Op HP Call: AB5MM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AC0W Class: Single Op LP Call: AC4JI Class: Single Op LP Call: AC6DD Class: Single Op HP Call: AE8M Class: Single Op LP Call: AI2N Class: Single Op LP Call: AI4MI Class: Single Op LP Call: AJ1M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: AJ3G Class: Single Op HP Call: C4M Class: Single Op HP Call: C6ANM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: CE1/K7CA Class: Single Op HP Call: CE1NB Class: Single Op LP Call: CN2R Class: Single Op HP Call: CT1JLZ Class: Single Op HP Call: CT9M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: CU8A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: CW0TOP Class: Multi-Op HP Call: D2NX Class: Single Op LP Call: DA0BCC Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DJ1YFK Class: Single Op HP Call: DJ6QT Class: Single Op HP Call: DJ6TK Class: Single Op HP Call: DJ8OG Class: Single Op LP Call: DJ9KM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DJ9VA Class: Single Op LP Call: DK1O Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DK5OS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DK6XZ Class: Single Op LP Call: DK8EY Class: Single Op LP Call: DL1AUZ Class: Single Op HP Call: DL1ELY Class: Single Op HP Call: DL2AA Class: Single Op LP Call: DL3EBX Class: Single Op LP Call: DL3YM Class: Single Op LP Call: DL4MCF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DL4ME Class: Single Op HP Call: DL8SCG Class: Single Op HP Call: DL9YAJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: DO9ST Class: Single Op LP Call: DQ4Q Class: Single Op HP Call: DR1A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: EA2EA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: EA5BM Class: Single Op HP Call: EA5KV Class: Single Op LP Call: EI6IZ Class: Single Op HP Call: ES5QX Class: Single Op HP Call: ES6DO Class: Single Op HP Call: ES9C Class: Multi-Op HP Call: F5IN Class: Single Op HP Call: F6FYA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: F8CRS Class: Single Op LP Call: G3WPH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: HA6IAM Class: Single Op QRP Call: HA6NL Class: Single Op LP Call: HA8BE Class: Single Op LP Call: HA8JV Class: Single Op HP Call: HB9CQL Class: Single Op HP Call: HB9CT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: HG7T Class: Single Op HP Call: HG8DX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: HG8K Class: Single Op HP Call: I2WIJ Class: Single Op LP Call: I4EWH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: IK3SSJ Class: Single Op LP Call: IK4XCL Class: Single Op LP Call: K0AV Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K0KX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0OU Class: Single Op HP Call: K0PK Class: Single Op QRP Call: K0RC Class: Single Op LP Call: K0RF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0TI Class: Single Op LP Call: K0TV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K0UK Class: Single Op HP Call: K0XI Class: Single Op QRP Call: K1BV Class: Single Op LP Call: K1EP Class: Single Op LP Call: K1GU Class: Single Op LP Call: K1JB Class: Single Op HP Call: K1JT Class: Single Op LP Call: K1KI Class: Single Op HP Call: K1LT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K1LZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K1PX Class: Single Op LP Call: K1TN Class: Single Op LP Call: K1TTT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K1ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K2DB Class: Single Op LP Call: K2NNY Class: Single Op HP Call: K2PS Class: Single Op HP Call: K2QMF Class: Single Op HP Call: K2TTT Class: Single Op HP Call: K2WK Class: Single Op HP Call: K2XA Class: Single Op LP Call: K2YR Class: Single Op HP Call: K3CR Class: Single Op HP Call: K3IU Class: Single Op LP Call: K3JT Class: Single Op HP Call: K3MQ Class: Single Op HP Call: K3MZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K3NL Class: Single Op LP Call: K3PP Class: Single Op LP Call: K3STX Class: Single Op HP Call: K3TD Class: Single Op LP Call: K3WI Class: Single Op HP Call: K3WW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K3ZM Class: Single Op HP Call: K4AB Class: Single Op HP Call: K4BAI Class: Single Op HP Call: K4BK Class: Single Op LP Call: K4BP Class: Single Op LP Call: K4CZ Class: Single Op LP Call: K4DJ Class: Single Op HP Call: K4DLI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4EU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4IU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4JAF Class: Single Op LP Call: K4KO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4OD Class: Single Op LP Call: K4RO Class: Single Op HP Call: K4SAV Class: Single Op HP Call: K4TD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4WW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K4XD Class: Single Op HP Call: K4XU Class: Single Op HP Call: K4ZGB Class: Single Op HP Call: K5AF Class: Single Op LP Call: K5ER Class: Single Op LP Call: K5EWJ Class: Single Op LP Call: K5GO Class: Single Op HP Call: K5HP Class: Single Op HP Call: K5KA Class: Single Op LP Call: K5NA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K5NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: K5ZD Class: Single Op HP Call: K6CSL Class: Single Op LP Call: K6GEP Class: Single Op LP Call: K6MM Class: Single Op LP Call: K6NA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6NR Class: Single Op HP Call: K6VVA Class: Single Op HP Call: K6XT Class: Single Op HP Call: K7BG Class: Single Op HP Call: K7JJ Class: Single Op HP Call: K7OA Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K7OX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K7RAT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K7RE Class: Single Op LP Call: K7TJR Class: Single Op HP Call: K7WP Class: Single Op HP Call: K7XC Class: Single Op HP Call: K8AJS Class: Single Op HP Call: K8BL Class: Single Op LP Call: K8FC Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K8GT Class: Multi-Op LP Call: K8IR Class: Single Op HP Call: K8KS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: K8MN Class: Single Op HP Call: K8MR Class: Single Op HP Call: K9AY Class: Single Op HP Call: K9MMS Class: Single Op LP Call: K9MUG Class: Single Op HP Call: K9OM Class: Single Op HP Call: K9OR Class: Single Op LP Call: KB7Q Class: Single Op LP Call: KC1XX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KC4D Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KC4HW Class: Single Op LP Call: KD2MX Class: Single Op LP Call: KD2RD Class: Single Op LP Call: KD4D Class: Single Op HP Call: KD5J Class: Single Op LP Call: KG4CUY Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KG7H Class: Single Op HP Call: KH6LC Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KJ0G Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KL7Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KM9M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KN3A Class: Single Op LP Call: KN4Y Class: Single Op LP Call: KR2Q Class: Single Op QRP Call: KR4F Class: Single Op HP Call: KS0T Class: Single Op LP Call: KT1V Class: Single Op HP Call: KT3Y Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KU1CW Class: Single Op HP Call: KU8E Class: Single Op HP Call: KV0Q Class: Single Op HP Call: KX7L Class: Single Op QRP Call: KY5R Class: Multi-Op HP Call: KY7M Class: Single Op HP Call: LA3MHA Class: Single Op HP Call: LN3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: LN8W Class: Single Op HP Call: LX7I Class: Single Op HP Call: LY2IC Class: Single Op HP Call: LY2IJ Class: Single Op HP Call: LZ9R Class: Single Op LP Call: LZ9W Class: Multi-Op HP Call: M2D Class: Single Op HP Call: N0KE Class: Single Op HP Call: N0NI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N0RU Class: Single Op HP Call: N1BAA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N1EU Class: Single Op HP Call: N1IX Class: Single Op LP Call: N1LN Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N1SZ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N1WR Class: Single Op LP Call: N2BA Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N2BZP Class: Single Op HP Call: N2CU Class: Single Op HP Call: N2MH Class: Single Op LP Call: N2MM Class: Single Op HP Call: N2NI Class: Single Op HP Call: N2NS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N2NT Class: Single Op HP Call: N2SQW Class: Single Op LP Call: N2WK Class: Single Op HP Call: N2WN Class: Single Op LP Call: N3BM Class: Single Op LP Call: N3GJ Class: Single Op LP Call: N3KS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N3SD Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N3UA Class: Single Op HP Call: N3ZA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4CW Class: Single Op HP Call: N4DW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4EK Class: Single Op LP Call: N4GN Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4JF Class: Single Op LP Call: N4KG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4NM Class: Single Op LP Call: N4OX Class: Single Op HP Call: N4PN Class: Single Op HP Call: N4PSE Class: Single Op HP Call: N4VV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N4ZZ Class: Single Op HP Call: N5AW Class: Single Op LP Call: N5IA Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N5UL Class: Single Op HP Call: N6AA Class: Single Op HP Call: N6KI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N6NF Class: Single Op HP Call: N6PC Class: Single Op LP Call: N6RO Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N6WG Class: Single Op QRP Call: N7BF Class: Single Op HP Call: N7DD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N7IR Class: Single Op LP Call: N7MAL Class: Single Op QRP Call: N7NG Class: Single Op HP Call: N7ON Class: Multi-Op LP Call: N7RK Class: Single Op HP Call: N7ZG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N8BJQ Class: Single Op HP Call: N8IE Class: Single Op LP Call: N8II Class: Single Op HP Call: N8LJ Class: Single Op LP Call: N8TR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: N8UM Class: Single Op LP Call: N9FC Class: Single Op HP Call: N9TF Class: Single Op LP Call: NA2M Class: Single Op HP Call: NA3M Class: Single Op HP Call: NA4K Class: Single Op HP Call: NE7D Class: Single Op LP Call: NF8M Class: Single Op LP Call: NG7Z Class: Single Op LP Call: NJ8J Class: Single Op LP Call: NN3W Class: Single Op LP Call: NR4M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NT4D Class: Single Op HP Call: NX5M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: NX9T Class: Single Op HP Call: NY4A Class: Single Op HP Call: NZ1U Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OE2S Class: Multi-Op LP Call: OE3KAB Class: Single Op LP Call: OH2PM Class: Single Op HP Call: OH2XX Class: Single Op HP Call: OH4A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OH4AB Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OH4XX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OH5Z Class: Single Op HP Call: OH6M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OK1CW Class: Single Op HP Call: OK1DO Class: Single Op HP Call: OK1FC Class: Single Op LP Call: OK1FFU Class: Single Op HP Call: OK1IW Class: Single Op QRP Call: OK1MQ Class: Single Op HP Call: OK2W Class: Single Op HP Call: OK5W Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OK7CM Class: Single Op QRP Call: OL0A Class: Single Op HP Call: OL0W Class: Single Op HP Call: OL1F Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OL3Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OL4W Class: Single Op QRP Call: OL6P Class: Single Op LP Call: OL7R Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OM0M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OM7CW Class: Single Op HP Call: OM7M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OM8A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OP5T Class: Single Op LP Call: OR2T Class: Multi-Op HP Call: OZ7BQ Class: Single Op LP Call: OZ7TTT Class: Single Op LP Call: OZ7YY Class: Single Op HP Call: PA1TT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: PC5M Class: Multi-Op HP Call: PI4COM Class: Multi-Op HP Call: PI4TUE Class: Multi-Op HP Call: PY2ZXU Class: Single Op HP Call: RA3CM Class: Single Op HP Call: RL3A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: RN9AA Class: Single Op HP Call: RU1A Class: Multi-Op HP Call: RU3VD Class: Single Op LP Call: RW2F Class: Multi-Op HP Call: S50K Class: Single Op HP Call: S51F Class: Single Op LP Call: S51NM Class: Single Op LP Call: S51NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: S51TA Class: Single Op HP Call: S52AW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: S52OP Class: Single Op HP Call: S52OT Class: Single Op LP Call: S52ZW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: S53MM Class: Single Op HP Call: S53O Class: Single Op HP Call: S54O Class: Multi-Op HP Call: S56A Class: Single Op HP Call: S57DX Class: Single Op HP Call: S57M Class: Single Op HP Call: S57Q Class: Single Op HP Call: S57U Class: Single Op LP Call: S58P Class: Single Op LP Call: S58Q Class: Single Op HP Call: S59W Class: Single Op HP Call: SK7DX Class: Multi-Op HP Call: SM5D Class: Single Op HP Call: SM5MX Class: Single Op LP Call: SM6WET Class: Single Op HP Call: SM7VZX Class: Single Op LP Call: SN1I Class: Multi-Op HP Call: SN5J Class: Single Op LP Call: SN7Q Class: Single Op HP Call: SN8F Class: Single Op LP Call: SN9Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: SP1NY Class: Single Op HP Call: SP2LNW Class: Single Op HP Call: SP3LWP Class: Single Op LP Call: SP4Z Class: Multi-Op HP Call: SP5WA Class: Single Op HP Call: SP5XOV Class: Single Op LP Call: SP6T Class: Single Op HP Call: SP8AJK Class: Single Op LP Call: SQ1K Class: Single Op HP Call: SQ5M Class: Single Op LP Call: SZ6P Class: Single Op HP Call: T93J Class: Multi-Op HP Call: TF3CW Class: Single Op HP Call: TF4M Class: Single Op HP Call: UA2FW Class: Multi-Op HP Call: UA3TT Class: Single Op HP Call: UA6LFQ Class: Single Op LP Call: UA9BA Class: Single Op HP Call: UP0L Class: Multi-Op HP Call: UR4LRG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: UU4JMG Class: Multi-Op HP Call: UZ5UA Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3DF Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3DX Class: Single Op HP Call: VA3EC Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3RKM Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA3YP Class: Single Op LP Call: VA3YT Class: Single Op QRP Call: VA7ST Class: Single Op LP Call: VE2CWT Class: Single Op HP Call: VE2DWA Class: Single Op HP Call: VE2TZT Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3CR Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3CX Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3DZ Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3EJ Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3EY Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3FH Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3FRX Class: Single Op QRP Call: VE3FU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3HG Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3JI Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3JM Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3KF Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3KZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3MGY Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3NE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3OBU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3OSZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3QAA Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3RCN Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3RER Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3RZ Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3TW Class: Single Op LP Call: VE3UTT Class: Single Op HP Call: VE3XAT Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6CNU Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6EX Class: Single Op LP Call: VE6SV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VE7CC Class: Single Op HP Call: VE7FE Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7NS Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7SL Class: Single Op LP Call: VE7UF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: VO1HP Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1MP Class: Single Op HP Call: VO1TA Class: Single Op HP Call: VP9I Class: Single Op LP Call: VY2SS Class: Single Op LP Call: VY2ZM Class: Single Op HP Call: W0AIH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W0BH Class: Single Op HP Call: W0ETT Class: Single Op HP Call: W0GJ Class: Single Op QRP Call: W0MU Class: Single Op HP Call: W0PC Class: Single Op LP Call: W0PR Class: Single Op HP Call: W0YK Class: Single Op HP Call: W1BYH Class: Single Op HP Call: W1CSM Class: Single Op HP Call: W1KQ Class: Single Op HP Call: W1TO Class: Single Op HP Call: W1UE Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W2GD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W2IRT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W2NO Class: Single Op HP Call: W2NRA Class: Single Op HP Call: W2OO Class: Single Op HP Call: W2TB Class: Single Op HP Call: W2VJN Class: Single Op HP Call: W2WG Class: Single Op HP Call: W2XL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3BP Class: Single Op HP Call: W3CP Class: Single Op LP Call: W3DQ Class: Single Op HP Call: W3GH Class: Single Op HP Call: W3TS Class: Single Op HP Call: W3TUA Class: Single Op HP Call: W3UA Class: Single Op HP Call: W3UL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W3USA Class: Single Op HP Call: W3YY Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W4AA Class: Single Op LP Call: W4AU Class: Single Op HP Call: W4BW Class: Single Op LP Call: W4HJ Class: Single Op HP Call: W4HZ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W4IX Class: Single Op LP Call: W4KAZ Class: Single Op LP Call: W4MYA Class: Single Op HP Call: W4NF Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W4NTI Class: Single Op HP Call: W4NZ Class: Single Op HP Call: W4PM Class: Single Op HP Call: W4QO Class: Single Op QRP Call: W4SAA Class: Single Op HP Call: W4SVO Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W4VIC Class: Single Op LP Call: W4XO Class: Single Op LP Call: W5JR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W5MPC Class: Single Op HP Call: W5MX Class: Single Op HP Call: W5TM Class: Single Op HP Call: W6NF Class: Single Op LP Call: W6OAT Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6SJ Class: Single Op HP Call: W6SR Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W6SX Class: Single Op HP Call: W6XI Class: Single Op HP Call: W6ZL Class: Single Op HP Call: W7GKF Class: Single Op HP Call: W7LD Class: Single Op LP Call: W7QN Class: Single Op LP Call: W7RH Class: Single Op LP Call: W7SNH Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W7TMT Class: Single Op LP Call: W7WHY Class: Multi-Op LP Call: W7ZR Class: Single Op HP Call: W8AV Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W8CAR Class: Single Op HP Call: W8FD Class: Single Op HP Call: W8FJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W8JI Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W8MJ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W8RJL Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W9AZ Class: Multi-Op HP Call: W9RE Class: Single Op HP Call: W9SE Class: Single Op HP Call: WA1FCN Class: Single Op LP Call: WA2MNO Class: Single Op HP Call: WA4DOU Class: Single Op LP Call: WA4OSD Class: Single Op LP Call: WA6BOB Class: Single Op HP Call: WA6L Class: Single Op LP Call: WB2ABD Class: Single Op HP Call: WB3JKQ Class: Single Op LP Call: WB4MSG Class: Single Op LP Call: WB8JUI Class: Single Op LP Call: WB9Z Class: Single Op HP Call: WE3C Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WF4W Class: Single Op HP Call: WG4M Class: Single Op LP Call: WI9WI Class: Single Op HP Call: WJ9B Class: Single Op HP Call: WQ2N Class: Single Op HP Call: WS1L Class: Single Op LP Call: WX3B Class: Multi-Op HP Call: WZ8P Class: Multi-Op LP Call: XE1RCS Class: Multi-Op HP Call: YL0A Class: Single Op HP Call: YL3FT Class: Single Op LP Call: YO5KAD Class: Multi-Op HP Call: YT9X Class: Multi-Op HP Call: YU1EA Class: Single Op LP Call: YU1LA Class: Single Op HP Call: YW7A Class: Single Op LP Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: Multi-Op HP Call: 3W3W Call: 4O3A Call: 6M0V Call: 9A2AA Call: 9A50KDE Call: AA3B Call: AA4V Call: AA8LL Call: AB5MM Call: AJ1M Call: C6ANM Call: CT9M Call: CU8A Call: CW0TOP Call: DA0BCC Call: DJ9KM Call: DK1O Call: DK5OS Call: DL4MCF Call: DL9YAJ Call: DR1A Call: EA2EA Call: ES9C Call: F6FYA Call: G3WPH Call: HB9CT Call: HG8DX Call: I4EWH Call: K0KX Call: K0RF Call: K0TV Call: K1LT Call: K1TTT Call: K3WW Call: K4DLI Call: K4TD Call: K4WW Call: K5NA Call: K7OX Call: K7RAT Call: K8FC Call: K8KS Call: KC1XX Call: KC4D Call: KG4CUY Call: KH6LC Call: KJ0G Call: KL7Z Call: KM9M Call: KT3Y Call: KY5R Call: LN3Z Call: LZ9W Call: N0NI Call: N1BAA Call: N1LN Call: N1SZ Call: N2NS Call: N3KS Call: N3ZA Call: N4DW Call: N4GN Call: N4KG Call: N4VV Call: N5IA Call: N6KI Call: N6RO Call: N7DD Call: N7ZG Call: N8TR Call: NR4M Call: NX5M Call: NZ1U Call: OH4A Call: OH4AB Call: OH4XX Call: OH6M Call: OK5W Call: OL1F Call: OL3Z Call: OL7R Call: OM0M Call: OM7M Call: OM8A Call: OR2T Call: PA1TT Call: PC5M Call: PI4COM Call: PI4TUE Call: RL3A Call: RU1A Call: RW2F Call: S52AW Call: S52ZW Call: S54O Call: SK7DX Call: SN1I Call: SN9Z Call: SP4Z Call: T93J Call: UA2FW Call: UP0L Call: UR4LRG Call: UU4JMG Call: VE6SV Call: VE7UF Call: W0AIH Call: W1UE Call: W2GD Call: W2IRT Call: W2XL Call: W3UL Call: W3YY Call: W4HZ Call: W4NF Call: W4SVO Call: W5JR Call: W6OAT Call: W6SR Call: W7SNH Call: W8AV Call: W8FJ Call: W8JI Call: W8MJ Call: W8RJL Call: W9AZ Call: WE3C Call: WX3B Call: XE1RCS Call: YO5KAD Call: YT9X Class: Multi-Op LP Call: AA9DY Call: K0AV Call: K7OA Call: K8GT Call: N2BA Call: N3SD Call: N7ON Call: OE2S Call: W7WHY Call: WZ8P Class: Single Op HP Call: 7X0RY Call: AA1K Call: AB2E Call: AC6DD Call: AJ3G Call: C4M Call: CE1/K7CA Call: CN2R Call: CT1JLZ Call: DJ1YFK Call: DJ6QT Call: DJ6TK Call: DL1AUZ Call: DL1ELY Call: DL4ME Call: DL8SCG Call: DQ4Q Call: EA5BM Call: EI6IZ Call: ES5QX Call: ES6DO Call: F5IN Call: HA8JV Call: HB9CQL Call: HG7T Call: HG8K Call: K0OU Call: K0UK Call: K1JB Call: K1KI Call: K1LZ Call: K1ZZ Call: K2NNY Call: K2PS Call: K2QMF Call: K2TTT Call: K2WK Call: K2YR Call: K3CR Call: K3JT Call: K3MQ Call: K3STX Call: K3WI Call: K3ZM Call: K4AB Call: K4BAI Call: K4DJ Call: K4EU Call: K4IU Call: K4KO Call: K4RO Call: K4SAV Call: K4XD Call: K4XU Call: K4ZGB Call: K5GO Call: K5HP Call: K5NZ Call: K5ZD Call: K6NA Call: K6NR Call: K6VVA Call: K6XT Call: K7BG Call: K7JJ Call: K7TJR Call: K7WP Call: K7XC Call: K8AJS Call: K8IR Call: K8MN Call: K8MR Call: K9AY Call: K9MUG Call: K9OM Call: KD4D Call: KG7H Call: KR4F Call: KT1V Call: KU1CW Call: KU8E Call: KV0Q Call: KY7M Call: LA3MHA Call: LN8W Call: LX7I Call: LY2IC Call: LY2IJ Call: M2D Call: N0KE Call: N0RU Call: N1EU Call: N2BZP Call: N2CU Call: N2MM Call: N2NI Call: N2NT Call: N2WK Call: N3UA Call: N4CW Call: N4OX Call: N4PN Call: N4PSE Call: N4ZZ Call: N5UL Call: N6AA Call: N6NF Call: N7BF Call: N7NG Call: N7RK Call: N8BJQ Call: N8II Call: N9FC Call: NA2M Call: NA3M Call: NA4K Call: NT4D Call: NX9T Call: NY4A Call: OH2PM Call: OH2XX Call: OH5Z Call: OK1CW Call: OK1DO Call: OK1FFU Call: OK1MQ Call: OK2W Call: OL0A Call: OL0W Call: OM7CW Call: OZ7YY Call: PY2ZXU Call: RA3CM Call: RN9AA Call: S50K Call: S51NZ Call: S51TA Call: S52OP Call: S53MM Call: S53O Call: S56A Call: S57DX Call: S57M Call: S57Q Call: S58Q Call: S59W Call: SM5D Call: SM6WET Call: SN7Q Call: SP1NY Call: SP2LNW Call: SP5WA Call: SP6T Call: SQ1K Call: SZ6P Call: TF3CW Call: TF4M Call: UA3TT Call: UA9BA Call: VA3DX Call: VE2CWT Call: VE2DWA Call: VE2TZT Call: VE3CR Call: VE3CX Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3EJ Call: VE3EY Call: VE3HG Call: VE3JM Call: VE3QAA Call: VE3RER Call: VE3UTT Call: VE7CC Call: VO1HP Call: VO1MP Call: VO1TA Call: VY2ZM Call: W0BH Call: W0ETT Call: W0MU Call: W0PR Call: W0YK Call: W1BYH Call: W1CSM Call: W1KQ Call: W1TO Call: W2NO Call: W2NRA Call: W2OO Call: W2TB Call: W2VJN Call: W2WG Call: W3BP Call: W3DQ Call: W3GH Call: W3TS Call: W3TUA Call: W3UA Call: W3USA Call: W4AU Call: W4HJ Call: W4MYA Call: W4NTI Call: W4NZ Call: W4PM Call: W4SAA Call: W5MPC Call: W5MX Call: W5TM Call: W6SJ Call: W6SX Call: W6XI Call: W6ZL Call: W7GKF Call: W7ZR Call: W8CAR Call: W8FD Call: W9RE Call: W9SE Call: WA2MNO Call: WA6BOB Call: WB2ABD Call: WB9Z Call: WF4W Call: WI9WI Call: WJ9B Call: WQ2N Call: YL0A Call: YU1LA Call: ZC4LI Class: Single Op LP Call: 4L2M Call: 7S7V Call: AA4LR Call: AA5VU Call: AC0W Call: AC4JI Call: AE8M Call: AI2N Call: AI4MI Call: CE1NB Call: D2NX Call: DJ8OG Call: DJ9VA Call: DK6XZ Call: DK8EY Call: DL2AA Call: DL3EBX Call: DL3YM Call: DO9ST Call: EA5KV Call: F8CRS Call: HA6NL Call: HA8BE Call: I2WIJ Call: IK3SSJ Call: IK4XCL Call: K0RC Call: K0TI Call: K1BV Call: K1EP Call: K1GU Call: K1JT Call: K1PX Call: K1TN Call: K2DB Call: K2XA Call: K3IU Call: K3MZ Call: K3NL Call: K3PP Call: K3TD Call: K4BK Call: K4BP Call: K4CZ Call: K4JAF Call: K4OD Call: K5AF Call: K5ER Call: K5EWJ Call: K5KA Call: K6CSL Call: K6GEP Call: K6MM Call: K7RE Call: K8BL Call: K9MMS Call: K9OR Call: KB7Q Call: KC4HW Call: KD2MX Call: KD2RD Call: KD5J Call: KN3A Call: KN4Y Call: KS0T Call: LZ9R Call: N1IX Call: N1WR Call: N2MH Call: N2SQW Call: N2WN Call: N3BM Call: N3GJ Call: N4EK Call: N4JF Call: N4NM Call: N5AW Call: N6PC Call: N7IR Call: N8IE Call: N8LJ Call: N8UM Call: N9TF Call: NE7D Call: NF8M Call: NG7Z Call: NJ8J Call: NN3W Call: OE3KAB Call: OK1FC Call: OL6P Call: OP5T Call: OZ7BQ Call: OZ7TTT Call: RU3VD Call: S51F Call: S51NM Call: S52OT Call: S57U Call: S58P Call: SM5MX Call: SM7VZX Call: SN5J Call: SN8F Call: SP3LWP Call: SP5XOV Call: SP8AJK Call: SQ5M Call: UA6LFQ Call: UZ5UA Call: VA3EC Call: VA3YP Call: VA7ST Call: VE3FH Call: VE3FU Call: VE3JI Call: VE3KF Call: VE3KZ Call: VE3MGY Call: VE3NE Call: VE3OBU Call: VE3OSZ Call: VE3RCN Call: VE3RZ Call: VE3TW Call: VE3XAT Call: VE6CNU Call: VE6EX Call: VE7FE Call: VE7NS Call: VE7SL Call: VP9I Call: VY2SS Call: W0PC Call: W3CP Call: W4AA Call: W4BW Call: W4IX Call: W4KAZ Call: W4VIC Call: W4XO Call: W6NF Call: W7LD Call: W7QN Call: W7RH Call: W7TMT Call: WA1FCN Call: WA4DOU Call: WA4OSD Call: WA6L Call: WB3JKQ Call: WB4MSG Call: WB8JUI Call: WG4M Call: WS1L Call: YL3FT Call: YU1EA Call: YW7A Class: Single Op QRP Call: HA6IAM Call: K0PK Call: K0XI Call: KR2Q Call: KX7L Call: N6WG Call: N7MAL Call: OK1IW Call: OK7CM Call: OL4W Call: VA3DF Call: VA3RKM Call: VA3YT Call: VE3FRX Call: W0GJ Call: W4QO