CQWW CW Soapbox built 1-15-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3DA0ZO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,249,916 Thanks for Daniel ZS6JR for offering his Swaziland station for my use and making it possible to operate from zone 38. I felt quite (too) rare for contesting as Swaziland has not much activity on CW, and ended up working lot of split 1-2 kHz up high on the band. As I don't have home station and don't operate CW more than couple times a year I clearly had difficulties on handling pile-ups. I also experimented again on doing whole 48 hrs as Single Op, something I think I have not done in past 10 years. Especially both mornings my mind was wondering why I was doing what I was doing... I think it would actually have been more productive to sleep couple hrs. We worked hard during the week before the contest to make it possible to switch GP remotely between 160 and 80 m bands and had to improvise for that and we found 50 kW switching relay from local radio station. But at the end the switching capability did not do much as 160 was very poor during the contest. I made many more QSOs at that band on Friday morning sunrise before the contest. Also 80 was better during the week before the contest. I was lucky during the contest as only had 2 very short power outages that lasted as long as I got generator going. During the week before the contest we had multi hour power outages every day. And when we had power the 220 V pover was actually something less and went as low as 165 V at times... Station set-up: FT-1000MP + Alpha 78 80/160 GP with K9AY loop 40 Four-square around the tower 20/15/10 A4S trap beam It was slot of fun and see you next year from some new zone. This one was 11th for me. QSL via OH buro or direct via OH0XX Panama address. Marko N5ZO/OH6DO/PY2ZZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3G1X Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 572,011 Great Contest!! I enjoyed it very much, my score is a new 40 mts CW record in Chile. I hope next year to be monoband again. Thanks to all that called me and were logged and who I did not copied, my apologies, last day evening I had a strong QRN See you next year Nick, XQ1IDM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3W3W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,075,410 Thanks to everybody to call us and for patience, because we didnt leave town for CQ WW DX CW Contest and we fight a losing battle with industrial city noise, specially on 80/40m. Sorry we havent antenna for TOP BAND and 10m were very poor. So, thanks anyway and see you seriously in CQ WW DX CW 160m 2008. 73s Stan/3W9R and Eddy/XV1X Running: FT1000MPMKVField + FT100D with Alpha 91B Antennas: Multi-band dipoles Notebooks with N1MM Logger + Microham interface ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3X5A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 39,201,852 80 & 160 totals way up due to a sea location. 10m down from 2006. This trip included a long two day drive from Bamako, Mali to Conakry, Guinee and four long work days in the heat and humidity to be ready in time for the contest. We'll be back as 3X5A in 2008. The Voodudes, AA7A, G3SXW, G4BWP, G4IRN, GM3YTS, K4UEE, KC7V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,051,472 I'm very thankful to Gia 4L4WW for getting me use his great station and also to Misha 4L4CR for helping me with all the equipment. Have used MK2R+ and Wintest software for SO2R for the first time and want to say that it works really great. Before have worked as SO2R in N6TR and N1MM with DXdoubler. It goes without saying, that MK2R+ is better. Have used FT-1000D and FT-2000. I'm very grateful to Gia's family for hospitality. Some words about Georgia: it is country with great history and culture and wonderful nature and people. All the best to all and see you again in contests. More information about the station you can find at www.4l4ww.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L2M Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 197,730 During Contest period Unfortunately, was broken my power genertaor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L8A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,110,860 RIG: Yaesu FT-2000, ACOM-2000, Optibeam OB-17/4 (40-20-15-10)Beam, 80m - Dipole. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,201,320 Finally I had good weather during almost all weekend and better conditions than in SSB part. Station works fine and some improvements I did meantime. Now I can say that station is ready for serious approach, and at spring time I am planning to proceed with final stage - with third rotary tower and some additional antennas on it. Final station upgrade will give possibility to break some EU score margins, hopefully. Truly congratulation to Ben, DL6FBL on amazing QSOs total. He called me on 40M and asked to QSY on 80M, when I noticed that someone serious is behind. Really fascinating. I guess that Toni did better from CU2A? Many thanks to all who called me and you can confirm contacts on LoTW. 73 Ranko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,881,438 FT890 + FL2100z 20-10m: KLM-LPA @ 10m 80/40m: dipole @ 12m My first time operating a contest at the 5I3A-club & Murphy was not interested in me: No powercut, no noise, no nothing... First day I had a great run on 15m to EU & NA, 5 hours in a row with a average rate over 150/h. Second day improved conditions on 80/40m, but 15m was almost dead. Probably I missed an opening on early sunday on 10m. Date Total 3_5 7 14 21 28 2007-11-24 1747 48 46 413 1221 19 2007-11-25 1043 25 166 696 154 2 Total 2790 73 212 1109 1375 21 Nice surprises with KH7B on 80m and ZM3A on 40m almost 2hours after SR. I assume, not much more can be expected with the current setup. I am always jealous eying at the big 40m-scores of many others. Guess, a fixed wire-beam pointing north could be a first solution to this general problem. Had a nice time with you all, guys. Thanks a lot! Mike 5H3EE/DL4SM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5Q2T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 12,298 Now when Denmark has opened up for the use of new prefixes, I have decided to get one of those. My new call sign to be used in contests is 5Q2T. On the DX-cluster I could see, that 5Q2 have not been much on air in CW mode. It was amazing how many stations that did not get 5Q2T in the first hit. I guess that most of the stations that I called typed HQ2T in stead of 5Q2T. I could hear it when I sent zone 14 (Denmark) in stead of zone 15 (Hungary). Sometimes it was much queried on the frequency just after my report. I have decided only to work on a single band, cause to the bad conditions for us in the northern part of Europe. 20 M was a good band, where I could use a 3 element Fritsel FB33. My own shack is being rebuilt so I have moved my rig to the QTH of OZ2JBC / 5Q2J close to me. To put equipment from different locations together is always quite a challenge. After I have tried 2 USB to Com port adapters, 1 laptop and 1 stationary PC and 2 homemade CAT cables with CW-plug, I succeeded to send CW from the PC to the station. During the contest the laptop not always decided to transmit the correct CW. I guess that the laptop did get interference from the power amplifier. Sorry for anyone who get some unreadable Morse code during the contest. During the contest the conditions where not well but fair. There were no conditions to Asia on Saturday, but a little opening on Sunday. I tried to call Sunday beaming Asia, but without much luck. I called myself a few times during the contest, and I could work 1 – 2 QSO’s per minute. I got a mini pile-up just after the times I was put on the cluster. Thanks to all who worked me in my speed or higher. I will try to improve my CW-speed during the next years. QSL is via OZ0J, hope to meet you again in the 160 M DX-contest in January. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6V7D Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 2,702,672 Station: Elecraft K2, Titanex vertical 160-40, 3 element monoband yagis 20-10. See http://www.le-calao.com for details. When I finish typing this I need to pack for the trip home. I hate packing more than I hate writing so I'll ramble a bit. Maybe this wasn't the best year to try QRP. But I operated low power last year and wanted to do something different. High power wasn't an option and single-band means less chair time so I decided to go after the African QRP record. I really didn't know what to expect. I thought I'd run a bit on the high bands and spend most of the contest S&P. This turned out to be wrong. S&P was much more difficult than I expected (and I should have known better). The smart stations just called CQ in my face. The less smart stations would send a question mark, which began a half-dozen transmissions while they worked through BV7D, SV7D, UV7D, 647D, and a bunch of less common choices. Eventually most got it, some just gave up. The Titanex vertical with 5 watts was just not enough on 80 and 160, and even on 40 Europe was difficult. I never worked the US on 160 - I called KC1XX, W3LPL, K3LR, NQ4I, K1LT, KT1V, VY2ZM, and a few others, but nobody heard me. On 80 I called just about every European that called CQ and most never heard me. On the other hand KH6 on 80 was easy. On 40 I was able to get a run going early in the contest but could not repeat it later. 20 was OK but the competition was tough. I think I had my best hour there. 15 was the money band, with almost half of my QSOs. I was pleasantly surprised. Last year 15 was noisy and I spent more time on 20 and 10. This year 15 was quiet and productive. 10 was disappointing. Last year with low power I had over 900 QSOs there. This year it just didn't open well. I had one run Sunday. Thanks to everyone who heard my weak signal, and especially to Francois, 6W7RV for his help. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1RW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,870,776 10 and 160 m conditions much below last year's. A low dipole on 160 is not good to be heard in crowded European 160m. I had to use some split on 80m as Eu or US callers were certainly louder than me. Again an excellent contest. Thank you to all who called, often too many at the same time and on exactly same freq !. I'm lucky to have great hosts such as Daniel 6W7RP and Murielle 6W7RX. A big Thank You to them. 73 de Jacques, F6BEE / 6W1RW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1SJ Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 967,542 RIG: IC-756ProIII ANT: 2 x Dipole @ 75ft (one set for EU/JA/SA, and other for USA/AS) Great conditions on 40m band from West Africa. Unfortunately had a 2hrs power cut on second evening (at the peak of EU/JA opening), otherwise the score would be just over one milion. 73! Jovica 6W1SJ (T98A) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,522,940 What can I say, that was a blast! First, I would like to give a special thank you to Tony (W4OI/HK1AR) for his many hours on the towers making repairs. Finally, the 40 meter stack works! I would also like to thank my two Finnish friends for coming all the way to Jamaica and joining the team. My QSL manager, Kari (OH3RB), an excellent CW op, along with his friend Veikko (OH1NT), provided countless hours of their vacation time getting the station ready. Veikko came only to provide technical assistance and did not operate. His help is most appreciated! The bands didn't seem to be in too good of shape, particularly 10 meters, which never really opened to Europe. How we managed 23 countries and 13 zones is beyond me, but I am happy. Forty meters was the real treat. We worked stations around the world during their daylight hours and even worked some during our daylight hours. The band seemed to be open around the clock from this location. Signals were outstanding! Thank you to everyone who found our single run station and put us in your log. For those that weren't able to work us on all 6 bands, I apologize, it was difficult to be motivated to run on 80 or 160 when 40 offered non stop action. 73, David ~ KY1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S2E Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,920,680 Conditions quite disturbed, but favoured NA on 20m in the evenings. Only 13 JA in the log, most of them via long path on 40m. TNX QSOs 73 Rainer SM2DMU Kurt SE2T Per SM2LIY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7S7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,568 Kenwood TS-850S/AT Ant: Wire in the dark @4m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 7X0RY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,394,765 SRI, not enought time for serious entry. ....(QRL busy) but I had a SUPER pile-ups!!! max rate was 541!!!N1MM told me it... of course with US guys - short calls and super ops !!! TNX. Frantisek, 7X0RY/OK1DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,883,885 Station logistics and holiday travel plans precluded a maximum effort. Combining CQWW with Thanksgiving family commitments makes this contest a less than optimal situation. However, after a successful effort on SSB, a low pressure weekend was just fine. Having to return the cottage I use back to the owners this weekend, I had to relocate the station to a small exterior room and clear out the house. I traveled from New York to Barbados on Monday morning to do all the normal precontest set up (160 Inverted L, 80 mter wire array, and receive 4 square), plus reroute/extend 10 cables to the new operating position. Although I got all of these done by myself, it was a hasty process and there was limited time for checkout before I left on Wednesday to return to New York for Thanksgiving. On Friday, my wife Kathleen, son Alex, and I returned to Barbados, arriving mid afternoon. After a brief station checkout, I went to the new apartment to get some rest. Despite the intent of having a low key effort, I still operated the full 48, although the last 5 hours were a struggle after 4, 4-hour+ flights in less than a week. The station performed well but I had a whole set of new RFI problems to solve, especially on 160. I also lost the 160 antenna the second night when the ground anchor pulled out, lifting the entire antenna off the ground and tangling the radials with the driven element. The other issue was the new station layout. With my back by the door, I was in the path of direct sunlight in the morning and heavy rain most of the weekend. The alternative to getting soaked was to close the doors, which made the room hot and stuffy. I ended up getting soaked and having a hot room. All of those items aside, outside of limited vigor for multiplier hunting, the RFI, rain, and fatigue issues probably only modestly impacted my score and my hat is off to W2GD and N2NT on great efforts. The good news is that the operations in Barbados can continue, albeit with a number of problems to solve. Best clock hour was 16Z at 247 (including 2 Q's on the second radio) Thanks to everybody for the Q's and the moves. Thanks to the CQWW committee for this great event. Thanks to my wife Kathleen for all of her support. QSL via NN1N or LOTW 73 Tom W2SC 10 5L @ 100', TH6, TH7 15 TH6, TH7 both at 50' 20 TH6, TH7 both at 50' 40 3L @ 90' 80 2L wire array, Inverted V @ 50 feet 160 Inverted L with 4 raised radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,401,300 Another great weekend with lot of fun. Condx were bad on the upper bands, 10m almost completly closed, 15m very short openings with NA and 20m was closing pretty early. 40&80m were quite good and 160m was excellent. We made about 100 north american contacts on that band (missed N7DD for zone 3 mult, as he didnt hear us). Of total 5747 qsos 2021 qsos are north america. Total number of 3 pointers is 2874 or 50% of the total nr. Thanks again for nice competition in M/S class. Congrats both of the teams that beat us this time OM8A with 11m pts and 9A7A with a great score of 11.5M pts. Seems we still have to improve mults hunting on CW as we never do as good as in ssb part of the game. Tnx for all stns who logged us and we apologize to the ones we didnt hear but qrm in EU is high. Used FT1000mp's and Alpha 86 + homemade amp with single GU43 Antennas are 4el 40m, 5el 20m, 6el 15m, 6el 10m owa yagis, 80m vertical and 160m inv L with 30m high vertical part. We love this game! cu in the next one 73 Dave 9A1UN www.9a1p.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 161,955 Kenwood TS-940S / 100W Inv.V 80/40 / 2el quad 20/15/10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7T Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,313,641 Mostly s&p with some occasional runs on 160/80/40. First time on with new Titanex V160HD vertical which performed very well with low power especially on 160 meters. Good mult score, but should have done better with more running, but with 10&15 poor as they were no chance for more running with low power. DX cluster spots made chaos on any rare mult. Thanks for all QSOs and see you all in 9ACW Contest on 15/16 December, Zlatko, 9A2EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5XA Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 518,490 K2/100, Moxon wire beam at 60ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5ZS Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 31,680 Hi, Thanks for patients with me. Lots QRM from local mine and noisy vertical antenna. If I had the skills, could easily pulled in +_ 1000 > Qso on 40M. Everyone agrees this was an excelent opening on 40M. Congratulation to my other buddies in 9G on their score: G3AXQ SOSB15 LP & DL1CW SOSB20M LP. Till next time. Emil 9G5ZS / ZS6EGB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9G5ZZ Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 579,272 Horrible condx during first night. Real first run started on 15:00 UTC on Saturday! Not comparable with what I remember from 2003, with exact the same setup. However, it was fun to meet my team mates on both continents. 73, de Arno ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9H1XT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 150,150 Again failed to erect the main antennae in time for the contest so I worked with Vlad's Hatted vertical on the lower bands and a G5RV for the midday bands at the time available between work and building the new 10meter antenna. Even the mustang tribander decided to go on strike. But of course we must sign the 9h presence. Great kick nevertheless. Someday we will give it a serious try. John 9h1xt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,839,530 A BIG BIG THANK YOU to Hamad and family for a wonderful experience. My new favorite location! SO1R. 73 KL2A/9K2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,556,840 Station (SO1R): IC-756 Pro and SPE Expert 1K (half power mode - 400W) 40/80 - Butternut HF2V at ground level with 30 x 33' radials 20/15/10 - Force 12 C3-S at 12m Lower score than last year - more QSOs but less mults and less 3-pointers. In bad conditions I realise that a beam at 12m doesn't cut the mustard. Highlights - 3X5A answering my CQs on two bands for my only QSOs with them. Thank you! - 599 strength Carribean stations on 40m after sunrise for 30 minutes. I spent more time listening after the QSO than I should have done but this is a nearly 11000 miles path from 9M2. Lowlights - Packet pileups. Not much fun for both sides. I get deluged by non-stop calling M/M stations and they get frustrated by me. However, on the plus side it does result in a stream of stations once the M/Ms have been worked. If only people scanned the bands for mults instead of using the cluster all of the time. - Split operations in contests. Surely this is not in the spirit of the contest? I was affected twice on 40m and ended up in the midst of split operations. On such a small band this is crazy. 160m I spent one day getting sunburnt trying to tune a 160m Inverted L. I failed as the antenna was too low. However, I used the antenna as an end-fed for RX on 80m and it allowed me to hear stations I couldn't hear on the vertical. I am now a believer in LF receiving antennas :-) 80m Thanks to my mini-beverage the static was bearable and I heard a lot more than I usually do on this band. I was even able to run for a short while which was great fun. The switching from TX to RX antennas was manual as I was worried about using the 756's RX antenna input as the RX antenna passed within 1 metre of the vertical TX antenna. To be fixed next year.... 40m Could do better. I was happy with the DX-ing ability of the Butternut but more is needed to break through the Eu wall and establish a run frequency. 20m Wall to wall CW from 14.000 to beyond 14.120 MHz. Who says CW is dead? Sadly very little East Coast US and Carribean but more heard from South America this year. 15m The first day's opening to EU was spoilt by another 9M2's poor TX signal that prevented me from hearing any weak stations when they transmitted. The second day was OK and I was happy to work so many EU stations at solar minimum. 10m Not much from here. Others - notably HS0ZAR and VK9AA - were working stuff I just couldn't hear. Good activity from S.E Asia. At least 3 other 9M2 stations were active (9M50MB is in 9M2 and not 9M6/8). However, this pales in comparison to the large number of HS stations that I heard and worked. Two XW stations were QRV as well with Khun Champ, E21EIC going great guns as XW1A whenever I passed by him. Also a pleasure to hear Fred, K3ZO contesting from HS0ZAR. Indeed, good to listen and learn from his contesting style. Logs will be uploaded to LoTW in 2 weeks when I am back in the UK. Next year the main upgrade will be an Elecraft K3. My K3 order placed on May 1st is being shipped this week. Hurrah! Thank you for the QSOs. 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M6AAC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 735,405 Sometimes things don’t go according to plan…. I am in Asia on business over the CQ WW CW weekend and decided to operate from 9M6AAC in Sabah, E Malaysia. This would not only be a great opportunity to DX Contest but also a chance to try out some of the equipment and antennas I will be using for the N1UR Spratly DXpedition coming up in March of next year. The plan was to try and beat fellow YCCC club member K1XM’s SOABLP Oceania record that he set as H44MX in the late 1990s of approximately 2.8 Million. Well, that was the plan any way. There is full write-up on my blog page at http://www.n1urspratly.com/ It includes the discussion of how the contest actually turned into more of Spratly dry run for me and interesting propagation observations. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9Y4AA Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,806,779 Great to return to Trinidad and Tobago for my 3rd straight year. And many thanks to my kind host, Andy 9Y4W and to our friend Chris 9Y4D for his timely assistance, too. Wonderful of Chris to fly over to Tobago the day before the contest for a hand-shake and a couple of CARIB 807's. Goals this year were modest. See if I could hold together for another CQ WW CW, and take a shot at the 40 meter South America record set by my friend OH0XX from YV5A a dozen years ago. Both seem to have been accomplished. Definitely heartening to know that some goals can still be reached by very senior citizens. In my 50+ running of CQ WW, I dedicated this operation to our good friend Phil Goetz N6ZZ, and also to the memories of two other contesting friends recently lost to us: Jim Maxwell W6CF (my QSL Manager for all of my pre-1992 operations from ZD8Z, 9Y4AA, VR1W/KB6DA, etc) and Hillar Raamat N6HR (ex-ZD8HR, etc) who played such an important role in getting me on the road for so many CQ WW's, starting in 1967. Thanks to the many who called, especially finding me often running so high up the 40M band. Very pleasant surprise to be called by D2NX for my only Zone 36, and thanks to TF4M for giving me Zone 40 with 23 minutes to go. Conditions were great, and cannot ever remember 40 sounding like 10. Rig: FT1000MP MK V ALPHA 87A Antenna: 2 element rotary. Software: TRLOG Congratulations to the excellent A/B scores from John P40W, Andy V47NT, Tom 8P5A and so many other outstanding operators. Sorry I was not able to QSY to the other bands for the mult; all can take solace in knowing I QSYed for no one, deciding to treat everyone fairly and equally badly. I must say I was surprised that most of the big gun multi's didn't ask me to move. And many thanks to wife Marilyn and daughter Kristen that helped lug all the radio stuff to the Caribbean and back. Expecting to return to T&T for 2008. See you all then. 73 Jim Neiger N6TJ, 9Y4AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A71EM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,302,200 This contest as always was both a challenge and loads of fun. Juma, A71EM, is a great host and a great operator. So is Ali, A71BX. Thanks to both of them for inviting me to join with them in putting A7 in a bunch of logs. Local line noise and the buzz from wide-screen TV's is a major problem for Juma on 80 and 160. We made improvements to the single short beverage that helped bring the noise levels down a few more dB, but still not enough for really good reception. If you made it into our log on those bands you can call your signal very good! On the other bands, when they are open to Europe (and especially when open to Europe and USA) they really rock. 10m was not as good as it was during SSB (no surprise there) but did open up enough to work a few of the deserving. Six band QSOs: P3F, 9K2HN, LZ9W, OM8A, T93J, A45XR, IR4X We traded frequently between operators sitting at the run chair. Our best hour was on 40m across sunrise the first day, with the rate meter hovering above 200. This was total fun! The slowest hours were when it ws hard to find a hole in the band in which to CQ, or when we got into DXing, chasing some big pileups we couldn't break, or especially when Juma would bring in a steaming tray of local delicacies -- the radios were ignored as we tackled mountains of good food! All the best to all of you in 2008! Dave K5GN, A7/M0FGA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,218,890 Plans for SO2R were scrapped Friday afternoon when TX problems developed in the second radio and its backup, as well as in the SO2R switching box. Sure missed the chance to chase stations during runs -- conditions were ideal for that. The 40-meter 4-1000 amp came on with the rest when I turned them on midday Friday, but when I came back later to do final checks it was dead. So I switched the Alpha between 40/15. Nice to work a string of JA/VK/E5 stations two hours before sunrise on Saturday on 160, but the most exciting QSO was at 1405z on Sunday when XW1A answered by CQ on 15 meters. I wasn't expecting that one the way conditions have been! Ignored 15 meters until late in the say on Saturday, and was surprised to find some Eu stations still coming through. Station: FT-1000MP with Inrad IF filters, roofing filter. 4-1000 monoband grounded-grid amp on 160 meters Pair 3-500 all-band GG amp dedicated to 80 meters Alpha 89 dedicated to 40/15 meters 4-1000 all-band GG amp dedicated to 20 meters 4-1000 monoband GG amp for 10 meters N1MM logging software Antennas: 160 -- Parasitic vertical array; 4-el to Eu, 3-el to SE/SW/NW, 600 radials 80 -- Single 1/4 wave vertical, 30 radials 40 -- HyGain 3-el Explorer @ 100 ft. 20 -- HyGain 204BA 3-stack @ 98/65/35 ft. Bottom two fixed on Europe. 15 -- Wilson 415M 2-stack @ 98/65 ft. Bottom fixed on Europe. 10 -- HyGain 105CA (W3XU redesign) @ 100 ft. Fifteen Beverages received antennas or Beverage phased pairs for RX on 160/80/40. More on station at www.aa1k.us. AA1K Max Rates: 2007-11-24 1429Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by AA1K 2007-11-25 1343Z - 3.1 per minute (10 minute(s)), 186 per hour by AA1K 2007-11-24 1508Z - 2.5 per minute (60 minute(s)), 149 per hour by AA1K Hour Total 1_8 3_5 7 14 21 28 Running Total 0 60 60 60 1 56 56 116 2 32 13 19 148 3 39 39 187 4 50 12 34 4 237 5 30 30 267 6 26 26 293 7 64 4 60 357 8 31 23 8 388 9 20 4 16 408 10 22 6 16 430 11 45 13 4 28 475 12 119 119 594 13 137 137 731 14 143 143 874 15 118 118 992 16 93 93 1085 17 88 88 1173 18 61 5 56 1234 19 32 17 13 2 1266 20 45 32 13 1311 21 72 66 6 1383 22 89 89 1472 23 36 9 27 1508 0 45 4 33 8 1553 1 23 23 1576 2 21 7 12 2 1597 3 20 3 17 1617 4 65 65 1682 5 38 3 35 1720 6 36 5 17 14 1756 7 35 14 21 1791 8 3 3 1794 9 10 4 6 1804 10 8 1 3 4 1812 11 23 23 1835 12 95 95 1930 13 128 4 124 2058 14 98 97 1 2156 15 66 66 2222 16 22 4 18 2244 17 93 93 2337 18 34 29 5 2371 19 25 18 7 2396 20 31 31 2427 21 41 40 1 2468 22 29 29 2497 23 34 3 27 4 2531 Total All Hours 2531 145 453 481 1056 369 27 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4LR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 258,826 Antennas: Cushcraft A3S/A743 at 15m (40-10m) Shunt-fed 15m tower (80m) Equipment: Elecraft K2/100 w/ KAT100 running 100 watts Comments: I didn't expect to operate this contest at all. Family was supposed to travel to my father's place for Thanksgiving. However, my eldest daughter managed to contract a very serious GI infection and wasn't fit to travel 12 hours in a car. So, we made do with Thanksgiving at home. Off and on Saturday and Sunday, I managed 20 hours of operating. The 1/4 million points is a personal best from the home QTH in this contest. Worked virtually all S&P. The one time I managed to CQ, I was called by a KH6 portable W7. (Drat!) That one was a mult for me, so I can't complain. Although conditions weren't anything to scream about (10m never seemed to open at all. The only station I heard there was NQ4i CQing endlessly on several occasions), there was plenty of good DX to work. Europe was there in force, and I was surprised at the number of africans as well. I worked four different stations from 6W alone. And high marks for the op at 3X5A. He was managing an enormous pileup all the time, but I somehow got through on three different bands. Breaking big pileups with 100 watts and a big of skillful calling makes for some satisfying operating. The only problem were the stations who didn't identify very often. I think many stations have gotten too dependent on spotting networks to do their identifying for them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4V Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,369,762 Operated off and on for 18 hours, mostly S&P with a few CQs. There seemed to be better conditions early in the contest, especially on the low bands. Thanks to all for the contacts and a very enjoyable week-end. Set-up here is FT1000D, Alpha 87A, 3 el SteppIR @ 60 feet, 40M full size vertical and Titanex vertical on 80M and 160M. The Titanex vertical is mounted on the end of a 150 foot long pier over salt water with 2 tuned elevated radials per band over the water. I built two new pennants using mix 77 toroids for the transformer and common-mode choke. Both did a very nice job for receiving. The 250 Hz crystal filters in the '1000D sure came in handy...the bands were packed. CU you all from KH6 for the ARRL DX CW and Phone in '08. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 200,960 Antennas: 160-15M :160M halfwave dipole fed w/ladder line @50ft. 80M: Inverted-L Murphy struck bigtime. Saturday morning, the laptop harddrive crashed. All QSOs up to that point were lost, not to mention everything else I had on there. Turns out to be a mechanical hardware failure and the data is not recoverable (except perhaps by an expensive service). Luckily I had backed up the disk about a week before, so my other data is OK. Continued the contest using another laptop. Tried to take time to work everyone on the low bands again on Sat night, but I'm sure there will be a few I did not work again....my apologies. Some refused to log me, citing "QSO B4", oh well, I tried. The new ladder-fed 160 dipole worked well on the other bands, so is a great antenna until I get the permits to put a tower or 2. 73 and thanks to all for a great contest, Darrell AB2E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 146,048 Got sick with the flu the day before the contest and just played S&P between naps throughout the weekend. My new tower and antennas have arrived but are still on the ground, so I just limped along with low power and Inverted-V's for one more year. Low band conditions were pretty good, but I wasn't impressed with 20m or 15m most of the time. 73, Dave AB7E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 13,320 Had fun as usual. N1MM free contest software made this a really enjoyable time this year. I did not have allot of time to spend because of work obligations and family visiting from Austin. Thanks to all for the contacts. All contacts were made from my FT1000MP MKV (100W) into my modified Butternut 3band Vertical from the 70's. A few important (rare) contacts for me were patient due to QSB and it was much appreciated. QSL via LotW or bureau as usual. tnx fer a great time Bob AD5VJ http://www.ad5vj.com/ --- --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 129,506 AD6ZJ Single opp high power with packet assistance, all S&P. I'm not much of a CW opp (yet) so my goals for this contest were to better last years score of 13,013, get enough new DX to complete my CW DXCC award (only need 7 more) and to pick up a few missing zones for the mixed WAZ. I beat last years score (and then some), picked up over 30 new CW DX entities but I was unable to work those two elusive zones (22 and 34). I ran about a KW on 80, 40 and 15, about 400W on 20 and barefoot on 160 and 10. I had to cut down my power on 20M as I still haven't moved the tribander and it is about a wavelength away from the rig. A KW on 20M = RF in the audio and the USB keyboard to hang. Maybe I will get it moved this season. On both 160 and 10 I could work all I could copy with 100W but I didn't copy much. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AO3T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 705,588 This year I was again in the portable qth located in Ebro’s river delta, and after working so well last year in 80m I wanted to see what can be done in 40 from there, having as a refererence what I did in the 2005 contest from my home qth (abt 600Kpoints). As a portable station it was not possible to have a big yagi and enough high to be useful with the very good ground there. So I decided to give the chance to vertical dipoles slopped from a 20 meter mast. Arrived to the qth on Thursday and started to install the antennas. It was a windy day and had to keep the mast up to 15 meters only. It was much lower than the expected 22 meters and dipoles would be too horizontal, but had no chance to install it higher. On Friday installed the dipoles and arranged all the station. The results were better than I expected, with more qsos and mults than 2 years ago with my c4sxl @ 30 m., abt 100kpoints more and 500Q more. During the contest I found conditions were poor than in 2005. First night quite poor running to usa, big fading, better second night, and maybe best condx last hours of the contest. To JA very poor all the contest. Worked a couple dozens, when I did 150 two years ago. Was first time using a 2x1 callsign, AO3T, much easier than my own callsign. I will prepare a new qsl card to confirm the contacts. Some conclusions: a)Install receiving antennas for 40m. I think some beverages would have helped a lot to have less noise from the vertical dipoles and hearing weaker stations. b)The 756proII it’s not good for this band overcrowded with so big signals, so will look for a K3 for next year contest. c)I need more time to rest before the contest than some years ago. I’m 45 old, and working hard 2 days before the contest its not a good idea. I was very tired last evening, and my ears and hands were not working fine. d)I need to find an antenna able to hear Asia/Oceania stations through the EU mass of stations calling them, any idea ?, some times was impossible to hear who was there (the EU stations calling and calling without listening also helps). Last, thanks to my father, EA3LL, who helped me to install the antennas and gave me logistic help during the contest. See u next year Josep EA3AKY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B3C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,809,017 80/160 GP(20M) 40M 3 ele 20M 4 ele 15M 5 ele 10M 5 ele 500W IC 756PRO3 TNX QSO with us and we will try better next time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 18,746,208 Visit us on Web: http://www.c-4-n.com/ With the best regards, Sandy RW4WR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6AQQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,330,800 Some technical problems with AC/DC supply were tough to overcome. Mini-beam on 20/15 really helped--pointed NE in the day and NW in the evening. Couldn't work strong EUs on 160 with only 100w and trapped dipole. Thanks to all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ARR Class: SOSB/160 QRP Total Score = 138,768 Contratulations to Tom, N6BT who smashed the World QRP 160m record. I suggested to Tom that he go QRP, as conditions were good, and I had set the 160m QRP record in 2003 and knew the right strategy. He done good. He passed the world record after 5 1/2 hours! We had a great QTH on Eleuthera, Bahamas. We had a great water shot to USA, EU, AF, and the northern Pacific and JA. The QTH was super quiet, and the new 55' top loaded antenna was a killer. The antenna was on a bluff overlooking the ocean, about 20m back from the surf. No beverages were used, they weren't needed. Tom wants to thank all those who heard and worked him. Special thanks to all the mults who called in from around the world, and the amazing QRP QSO with VK6HD. Mike, you have great ears! We didnt get set up on 160 until late due to bad WX. Sorry to all the JA's who we promised to get on and work them before the contest. Luckily, we got on the morning after the contest and worked 6 JA's with 100w. That's a tough one from C6. 73, Kenny K2KW (for N6BT) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6ATA Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 1,226,554 Another Team Vertical operation with C6ARR/N6BT and C6AKX/KE7X. I decided to try and beat the 40m LP World Record I set last year from the same location. If my UBN is OK, I might squeek out a few more points for a slightly higher world record. I thought I had the strategy down to add another 200-300 QSOs and another 10-15 mults as compared to last year's record. But my implementation and poor frequency choice set me back. But the 244 1st clock hour rate was fun, but nearly all USA. The antenna was a 2 ele 20' high top loaded vertical on the beach aimed at EU. I also had another 2 ele full size 2 ele parasitic array on US/JA (also on the beach), but it was never really better than the EU antenna in all directions, so I didn't use it. One of the toughest QSOs was with 4U1ITU, who I worked at 11:50Z! Many thanks for all the QSOs and all my friends who called in from around the world. We stayed on Eleuthera Island, and it's a wonderful place to visit. Your YL/XYL will love it too. 73, Kenny K2KW - C6ATA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,679,136 Once again, my special thanks to CE4CT. I worked with N1MM program, and It was great chasing multipliers and comfortable during the contest, the only problem was 10m opening, Europeans Stations are not in my 10m,anyway, It was great to find OM´S. 73 ES CUL XQ4CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2AW Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 1,363,054 First day 2360/36/124 Second day - 10.10-17.50 gmt - NO QSO...no power and no back up generator Shit happens... The result should be 3900-4000/38/145 = 2.0 mln. points Thanks Jim CN2R (W7EJ) for letting me use this station...some hours 200+... It was long way travel from Far East (UA0L) 73! Andrey RV1AW/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2FB Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 1,648,080 CN2FB Statistics CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 0 1050 0 0 0 0 1050 30.4 South America CW 0 29 0 0 0 0 29 0.8 Europe CW 0 2112 0 0 0 0 2112 61.1 Asia CW 0 208 0 0 0 0 208 6.0 Africa CW 0 31 0 0 0 0 31 0.9 Oceania CW 0 26 0 0 0 0 26 0.8 K 934 DL 363 UA 304 UR 166 G's 141 OK 121 I 115 SP 101 UA9 96 VE 82 F 73 EA 72 HA 68 OH 60 S5 49 SM 47 PA 46 YU 39 YO 33 HB 31 OM 30 9A 26 LY 26 ON 26 LA 25 OZ 23 YL 18 LZ 17 PY 12 UN 12 ZL 10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2FF Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 648,810 Some statistic: TIME ON: 30h50' TIME OFF:17h10' TIME ON CQ: 20h48'(67.5%) QSO:1543(95.6%) COUNTRIES:80(74.1%) TIME ON S&P: 10h02'(32.5%) QSO: 71(4.4%) COUNTRIES:28(25.9%) Missed calls: FM5BH, HS0AC, XE2EJ, XE2QQ, CM6xxx. Missed zones: 06, 26. Can't break EU pileup on FM5BH. No problem with others Carribian except CM6, who call CQ and don't hear me :-( The only one Oceania station - VK6HD but 42-JAs! Total: EU-979qso(59.4%) NA-542qso(32.9%) AS-94qso(5.7%) AF-17qso(1%) SA-16qso(1%) OC-1qso(0.1%) USA-483qso(29%) DL-187qso(11%) UA3-102qso(6%) G-68 OK-68 SP-52 UR-52 OH-43 JA-42 UA9-36 F-35 VE-35 SM-33 S5-31 I-30 EA-25 OM-23 PA-22 HA-17 OZ-15 YO-14 ... From a close thunder-storm the column a supporting elevated radial has lighted up :-) 73 and CU again de Vlad UA2FF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,403,153 First time from CN3A in a cqww cw, I will never forget this one!!! Thanks for the contacts! Single op 2 radio is amazing, during the contest the wx was very bad, big thunderstorm a lot of noise, and I lost the power electricity for 21 hours... but this time I was lucky the generator works well so I don't miss the contest. Two days before the contest I lost also the TH7DXX due to a big wind storm. But not execuses, I have a lot of things still to learn... so next year I will be back for sure at CN3A during CQWW CW! Congratulations to all the guys especially W2GD,N2NT,CT1BOH,W2SC,A45XR,KL2A, YT1AD,VK9AA,VY2ZM,F6BEE,OH2UA,CN2R,D4C. It's very hard to manage, travel and put a station on air from a distant locations. Thank you very much to SV8CS my very good friend Spiros, he help me a lot to prepare the 80m verticals, he was active on eme in 2m and 6m and he did the first qso USA - MOROCCO on 6m Eme. Thank you to Said CN8WW for the usual outstanding support! Special thanks also to Matteo IK2SGC, Ahmed CN8WK and ARRAM. 73 Stefano IK2QEI, CN3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT3NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,215,282 The contest was over for me Saturday, at exactly 18:45, when a big storm, shut down the electrical power on the eastern side of Madeira. Unfortunately when about 30 minutes later, power was restored, CQ9K QTH up the mountain (750 meters ASL) remained in the dark. An electrical company emergency crew went to the QTH, and quickly located the posts where the cables were damaged by the wind, but because of the strength of the wind, they just refused to climb them and fix it. I could not persuade them to climb the posts under 90km gust winds and heavy rain... It wasn't until Sunday afternoon, when the winds calmed a bit, and everything was fixed. By then I dind't even had the motivation to listen to the bands. I packed things up and went on a tour around the islands wth the guys. As my lovely wife Lara says the (bad) thing about contests, in there is always a next one... Special thanks to Madeira Team (CT3BD, CT3DL, CT3DZ, CT3EE, CT3EN, CT3IA, CT3KU, CT3KY), for letting me use CQ9K QTH, and particularly CT3BD, who endured very difficult weather conditions to assemble the station with me the days before. You can check here how the station set-up looked like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9NzXcrOhw 73 José Nunes CT1BOH / CT3NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT6A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 5,314,680 Comparing propagation with last year I would say Low Band were awsome and higher bands were not as good but not bad, of course a lot of work was done on the low band antenas and this year I had Beverage for RX which worked absolutelly gorgeously. Very good runs to USA on all bands except 160 & 10m. 42% NA 51% EU Only opening on 10m was sunday morning, I heard WE3C on 10m and PZ5X couldnt hear me :P Everything worked perfectly, WIN-TEST never Fails and SO2R Rocks (CT1BOH WX0B box ;) ) CU next one 73's Filipe Lopes CT1ILT aka CT6A 6Y3T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT8T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,041,287 Very similar condx than last year on 20m. A bit more qsos and multipliers, a bit less US worked. Band was open 0600-1900z on both days with sporadic short opening later in the evenings - the nights were long and quiet. Maybe the highlight was my last qso: 2227z E51A was super loud while calling CQ with no takers. Missed zones 19 (again, short path it is difficult and no luck with long path) and 36 (never heard D2 or ZD7). This was my 7th CQWWCW and 8th contest operation from CT8T. Thanks again to my great support team: Teresa/CT1YQM, Santos/CT1DVV, Tony/CT1ESV, Andre, Carla + others. 73, Timo OH1NOA Cont. 2006 2007 No.Am 1228 1178 So.Am 63 62 Eu 1592 1782 Asia 183 222 Af 33 35 Oc 22 24 Last year's claimed score: 2964/36/132 = 985,320 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,824,050 What a contest it was! A great battle of European SOAB stations this year. Congratulations to DL6FBL (@SV9CVY), YT6A (@4O3A) and many others for very nice scores under difficult conditions. It seems that propagation was not that favorable to Azores this year, both on SSB- and CW –leg. 10 meters remained closed and I couldn’t get advantage of long NA runs on 15 or 20 either. I knew that I had to pay attention to work all those European multipliers on as many bands as possible because there was no way to get to Asia this time. So I did concentrate on “easy ones” instead of chasing 9M2s’, BYs’ and many other hard-to-work multipliers and asked a lot of QSYs’ even from quite common stations that I saw I was missing on some other band. That cost me some Qs’, but I was counting that I have to do it to stay in the game because rates were so low most of the time. I guess that mainly because of bad conditions, other Europeans were playing together and for me it was quite hard to be in the game from the one end of Europe. Especially on low bands, were I was calling many European stations without even having a question mark back. Something about top band propagation tells that I worked only one PY (PY2WC) on 160m and got P40W as a double multiplier there just 15 minutes before the end of the contest (just to mention that both were QSYs’ from 80 meters). This time it was the worst conditions I’ve ever had from Azores. 20 meters closed about 3 hours earlier than last year and overall I had 11 hours of QSO –rate less than 100 Qs’. 2nd night I had huge difficulties to stay on chair when rates dropped to 60Q’s/hour or so. It was a loooong night. Fortunately at the end I’m more than happy to claim just a little bigger score than my worst competitors under difficult conditions. But guys are getting so close that maybe we have to upgrade our setup for next season... As always, big thanks to my great host family, CU2CE & CU2YL and to entire CU2A team! Let you fingers talk! 73 de Toni, OH2UA www.cu2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D2NX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,664,476 Rig: IC756pro (100W) Ant: Cushcraft R7 Vertical (stood directly on the ground) Software: N1MM Meal: Authentic Japanese 4 times a day It was my second attempt after YJ0NX in the late 80’s to participate in a contest with a single multiband vertical. It was, however, only with 100W this time. Largely different from the ones I did in the past, like 3DA0NX and JY9NX, I found it very difficult with this system to let the callers turn their beam to South. Many people first heard me as D2DX, N2NX, ND2NX, DJ2NX, etc., and as a result, S&P was particularly very very tough. I heard so many double mults such as 6, 7, 22, 24, and 29, but it was in vain. I would have rather call CQ hundred times to make someone aware and that was indeed much more effective to increase both QSOs and Mults. Initially, I set my goal with 2,000 Q’s and over 2 million points. But it was a bit too ambitious. The first day condex on 15 and 20 were plausible and I thought it would have gone more than 2,500 Q’s, if that condex continued. Well, the second day opening was much shorter and it did not bring me up to the goal. But I had a lot of fun. Particularly, 10m opening was interesting. I heard V51AS “running” U.S. on the second day while I heard only some. But it was nice to work them under such a poor condition. Other surprising thing was that I heard JA’s on 40m extremely loud at 8 a.m. their time, which was the time often considered to be too late. Their signals were much louder than any other EUs and Ws. After all, I reaffirmed that contesting is interesting. I hope I was able to make some of the guys excited a rare Zone 36. QSL route is JH7FQK. 73, Koji D2NX ex. JM1CAX, JI2UUS, K0JI, JY9NX, 3DA0NX, 3DA5A, YJ0NX, VK9NX, VK2FCA, ZS6CAX, S514U and OJ4S and others. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: D4C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 26,800,000 First try from Monteverde and has been a great experience never lived in the past. The team worked as an experienced team before, during and after the contest even if 50% of it was composed by newcomers. More details will be pubblished on www.d4c.cc with pictures of this opearation. Congratulations to our competitors and thanks to all whom called us. CU next time! D4C team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,517,690 It was fun but we hope there will be some sunspots in 2008! Congrats to LZ9W team for their super score! 73 Lothar, DL3TD/DF0HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF3KV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 514,944 Used 100% S&P with CwGet for verification (still improving listening capability) 73 Peter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9CY Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 14,490 First time after years I made so many QSOs... This contest was a new experience with the monoband 40m dipole. Only a few stations came back on CQ calls. Others - in DX - returned easily. Sometimes I even had no chance getting stations that came with a big signal. Those were the moments, where I missed a PA. I heard a lot of DX, but this was unrechable for me at all. In this contest I used my new software WIN-TEST for the first time which worked like a charm... I had great fun throughout the 5-1/2 hours I was on altogether. ... and CW IS NOT DEAD AT ALL !!! Christoph DF9CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF9OX Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 369,920 Cndx not that fine like 2006, quite normal here this year. Heard 2 more zones, and 21 more countries. Some 100Hz Split would be fine for the rare multis. EU-QRM was heavy in spite of using beverages and sharp filters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH3RB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 85,500 The contest was great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH6JL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 344,250 bad condx during whole weekend, it was a hard fight to work dx wid only 100 watts from my IC-746. i hung up just for fun a endfeed wire for 80 mtr and it was my bonus-maschine. next cqww i will try to have a better one and i can hopefully work than 40 & 160 also (for EU-traffic) when i find enough space for a gd antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,877,800 FT2000, ACOM 2000A; TT Orion, Expert 1k Optibeam OB-804020 @ 30m (2el 80m, 3el 40m, 5el 20m), OB 9-5 @ 20m, 4el SteppIR @ 25m, Dipole for 160m. Win-Test. SO2R for the first ten hours only, then the antenna switching for the 2nd radio failed (turned out to be easily fixable later..). I switched to the "just for fun"-mode (and had some!); thus the low number of multipliers. The new Optibeam tribander (80/40/20m) worked very well; running 80m has never been so enjoyable for me before. Running a bunch of Zone-3-QSOs there on at sunrise was among the best moments of this contest. 48h straight for the first time; turned out to be easier than I thought. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ5MW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 5,507,328 Best multi score ever from my QTH despite some technical problems. IC781 smoked up in the first hours, replaced by IC735. Burned trap in 2nd Beam (A3). Had a lot of fun anyway due to excellent activity. Congrats to ER0WW, who entered assisted unfortunatelly :-) Long live CW! 73 de Manfred, DJ5MW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK0ED Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,595,628 RIG: TT Orion IC-7400 Single SB-1000 Amp @ 300-500W Cushcraft R7 (10/15/20/40) Dipole (160/80) RX Loop (80) Loaded GP (160/80) We are quite satisfied with our result. One station running at 100W all the time, the second one with 300 to 500W depending on RFI. The little R7 worked pretty well, 110 Countries on 40 was great. We were able to break most of the pile ups sooner or later. US signals on 40 weak during the night, W4's stronger than 1's and 2's. JA's loud in the evenings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK1BN Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 358,245 RIG: TS950SD - YAESU FL7000 500Watts - Ant: 2El 35mtrs up - Doublet 2 x40mtrs ....heavy storm and snow on this hill (657mtrs ASL) got a lot of static noise during the snow fall ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK2GZ Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 60,120 Station: K2/100 AL80A Antenna: inverted-L built on friday lost the antenna sunday afternoon, no chance to repair in the darkness, only two nights active and quit the contest sunday evening 73 de Harry, DK2GZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK3GI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,660,796 Sudden QRT due to failure of voltage regulator in the transmitter a few hours before contest finished. 10m: signals below the noise could be worked 15m: not any JA or any zone 25 160m: local noise S9+ only missing zone was zone 1. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK7ZH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 183,148 Antennen: GPA-3 auf einem 6 mtr. Mast. Dipol für 40m, Strahlung N/S Richtung. ICOM IC 765, 100 Watt. Am Samstag leider nicht qrv, am Sonntag ging nicht viel auf 15m. Auf 10m teilweise gute Signale (S7-S9), aber kein "Drankommen". Auf 80 und 160 "gequälte" QSOs mit 40m Dipol, aber immerhin reichte es zu einigen Multis. Aus diesem Grunde auch kein eigener CQ-Ruf, alle QSOs mit S&P. Aufgefallen ist mir insbesonders dass viele Stationen mit dem "H" in meinem Ruhzeichen Probleme hatten. Habe aber mit Sicherheit kein "S" gegeben. Wurde dementsprechend mehrmals korrigiert. Danke für die Geduld. Es waren wieder TOP-DXer unterwegs, danke an Alle... Insgesamt musste ich mit diesen Möglichkeiten wieder recht gut kämpfen, aber bin wie immer zufrieden und Spaß hat es auch wieder gemacht. Bis zum nächsten mal... 73/55 es agbp/cuagn de Manfred ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 225,680 ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, Fritzel 5-ele-tribander, dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1ELY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 209,952 RIG: 3Bander, FD4, TS850, FL2100 Amplifier Just my little, little share of points for the RRDXA. My first Single-OP-Contest, and my first CW-contest on HF ever. I was on for 5 hours on saturday, and 10 hours on sunday, mostly daylight. So emphasis was on 15 and 20m. 80 and 160m were multi-picking without amplifier only just to maximize the score somehow. I made the usual bunch of mistakes every single-op-Rookies makes (e.g. staying to long on wrong bands, and so on...). Nevertheless, i enjoyed it very much and i want to thank the guys that lend me their equipment so that i could become QRV with my own callsign. Vy 73 es 55 de Stefan, DL1ELY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1IAO Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 788,508 TS870 + AL1500 Optibeam OB16-3 (4el on 20m) @ abt 40m on a building (university campus) WT v3.16 on Omnibook XE3 Thanks to Marius DF1MA & Winfried DK9IP for their help at the station! After a 3-year break it´s good to be back in CQWW CW. The Optibeam played very well, especially into far-east and pacific. Due to the downtown location of the university club station the noise floor is somewhat elevated into certain directions. I know that I missed some of the weaker stations. Lots of fun with those fluttery DX signals - CU next year! 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1KSE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 115,962 Operating from friends garden. Setup: Using 10W FT-7 and analog signal processing filter, ANT EFW-40 Longwire. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 523,566 very low score but a lot of fun to work 80m with the short vertical! Rig: FT-1000MP mkV Field Ant: 12m long wire vertical 73`s de Frank DL1REM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,644,925 Station played superbly after some major hardware improvements were implemented over the course of the last 5 months. Most significantly I enjoyed great flexibility from a new all solid state amp for the second radio that Wolf, DF2PY built from scratch. We checked the SO2R-wiring the weekend prior to the contest which was good – no glitches from RFI into the SO2R-box this time. Could keep up with my pre-set goals for most of the time but lost momentum during the last hours, probably paying tribute to a very busy schedule at work. Funny thing is I felt pretty much alert right through the 48 hours I spent in the chair (except for a few runs that were not radio related…), but my low rates towards the end tell a different story, hi. Congrats to DJ1YFK for a good score and edging me out yet again. Like always special thanks to Wolf & family for being super hosts and my XYL and 2 boys for letting me play radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4AAE Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 132,334 99 Country and 28 Zone multipliers using LP and a sloper antenna were more than I had expected during the bottom of the solar cycle! 73 Uwe, DL4AAE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4LBK Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 89,780 Band does not really open to SA/NA in Northern Germany in November during sunspot cycle minimum. 73 Klaas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL5KUD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 664,517 ICOM728 80 watts and dipole 2x30 up 10m as an horizontal V to north, perfect logging system N1MM, many hams with great ears - that´s make fun every years last November weekend. 73 "Jo" DL5KUD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL5RMH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 842,372 I went to our local fieldday location and participated with 100W and a multiband dipole. Unfortunatly the antenna tuner didn't get 160m tuned, so some must-have multis there are missing. Because there was no power connection I needed 120 liters of Diesel to keep the power engine running...! Equipment used: IC-706 MK II AT-700 antenna tuner multiband dipole Win-Test/Linux 73s Martin, DL5RMH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL9JON Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 195,108 nice conds on 40 and 15m,poor conds on 10m. thanks to all fer QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 39,160 Nice to work some new DXCC... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,910,110 Hello, dear Contest friends ! First of all many thanks to Klaus, DJ4PT for offering his nice station for us again for the CQ-WW-CW. It is always a pleasure to operate with such nice antennas and put out the "lovely Quad sound" of the DJ4PT station. Klaus did put in a lot of time and energy in putting all antennas in order right before the contest. Especialy all beverage antennas take a lot of time to put up. Also We want to thank the XYL of Klaus Helga. She always provided us crazy Contest guys all the weekend with great meals and drinks.Especialy a lot of Coffee ;-) We realy feeled to be very welcome. Thank you Helga ! This was the 3rd operation as M/S from DJ4PT station and again the team spirit was nice. Even so we operated together only for the 3rd time, everyone knew what to do and everyone gave his very best. This year we had only 3 active operators who did the operating and so it was a bit hard to do the 48h, but We managed to have the 2 stations maned all the time. The propagation god was not on our side this year. Lady Aurora did a big inpact on the band conditions. Especialy 10,15 and 40m bands were in pretty bad shape from here and closed very early or did not open at all. Anyway, we had a lot of fun and the fun will even be bigger, if we have the sunspots back again. Hopefully soon ! PLEASE ! Last but not least a big THANK YOU to all for the QSOs and we hope to meet you soon again ! For the DP4T-Team Heiko, DK3DM Equipment: RUN: FT-1000D & ACOM 2000A MULT: TS 850 SAT & ACOM 2000A Antennas: 160m : Fullsize Vertical & 5x beverages 80m : 3ele Quad up 42m , vertical & 5x beverages 40m : 5ele Quad up 42m , Delta Loop 20m : stack of 2x6 ele Quads on 37m Tower 15m : stack of 2x6 ele Quads on 37m Tower 10m : stack of 2x6 ele Quads on 37m Tower 20/15/10 : Optibeam 16-3 on 30m Tower ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,763,049 Conditions better than expected. Nice surprises were JA6WIF calling in on 10m and 5H3EE calling in on 80m 15 minutes before the end. Note from DK9TN: In memory of Erich, DL9DW who once thought me the code and passed away two days before this CQWW CW at the age of 87. Thanks for all the QSOs! 73 de DQ4W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 12,853,500 Looking for Murphy? Unfortunately he decided to stay with us :-( Time to fire up the sunspots again - propagation can't get worse anymore, can it? Congrats to DF0HQ for their great effort. Visit us @ http://www.dr1a.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,782,080 We reached nearly 400 QSOs more than last year but missed some 40 Mults. Seems to be because of the bad condx on 10 and 15m? The new antennas did very well on the low bands and are the reason for the higher QSO-Number: Run : FT-1000MP + OM-PA Mult: FT-1000MP + Alpha 91b 160m: Inverted-L 80m: 2 El. Vertical Array 40m: 4 El. Vertical Array 10-20m: Mosley 4 El. + Cushcraft X7 Without Murphy it was pure fun. CU next year 73 de Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E51A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,442,594 Operation from Rarotonga, S. Cooks, by George, K5kg/E51MMM, and Ron, KK9K/E51NNN. We probably did better than we expected. Condx were excellent. 60% of our Q's were with NA, 30% with AS. Lots of 6-banders in the log, including HI3A, YEA!!! 10m had some nice openings. 15m was the money band. No Chinese Dragon on 40, so we have concluded that the Chinese General who runs the Dragon must be a ham!!! There is justice afterall. JA and BY statiions were everywhere all bands all weekend. Also jucy DX from many directions. Had lots of wind that played havoc with the beach verticals. Had several antenna failures due to salt spray. Had to make some repairs on the fly. In the middle of the night our Sigma 40 vertical lit up the night sky with sparks. Put it on the orphan pile, and Ron cobbled up a 40m dipole and hung it low from balcony. Worked like gangbusters the rest of the contest. It felt like we were loud most of the time, and several stns commented about the strength of our sigs. Only ran 500 watts with the Acom 1010's, so the beach verticals really played well. Lots more to say, but Internet time here on Raro is pretty expensive, so 73 for now. Now to see more of the island with time to spare. We QSY for home next weekend. Geo... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7/9A5K Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 557,118 Big thanks to Ivek, T96Q for using a station and everything else he did to support this operation. 73, Chris - 9A5K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,366,295 Conditions in low bands were great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3ALV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 206,496 With 100 E, a vertical, some wires... and a lot of electric noise, it's still a good job! Fortunately, many nice people have very good ears. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5RS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 585,934 Casual operation Spent half the weekend working on shunt feeding the tower on 160m (worked well) and testing some other low band antennas. Great to QSO many good friends. 73 Juan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA6IB Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 15,053,309 Another effort from the lovely island of Ibiza. This year with rain and win, the external work was really hard, but ground planes were improved by the rain. Propagation was clasical on the bottom of the solar cicle, on 10 really poor propagation, only two of the USA big guns were listened for a few minuts as EME signals on that band......but no chance :-(((( The chinese radar must be terrorific in Fair East. Stations from that part of the world were calling and calling on 80/160 with great signals and nobody can work'm. Our antenna setup 160: Inverter L up to 31m h. 80: 25 m.h vertical GP 40: 2 el yagi 31 m.h. Horizontal V (75m x side) pointing USA 20: 5 el yagi 21 m.h. 15: 5 el yagi 24 m.h. 4 el yagi 28 m.h. 10: 5 el yagi 18 m.h. RXing: 2 x beverages 250 and 180 m.long RIGs: ICOM 3x765 1x756proII 1x756 and Yaesu 1x920 Amps: 1xAL1500 1xSB220 and 4xTL922 PCs: CTwin with ethernet "Old fashion" PCs (wath a messe !) we need to improve our PCs !!! JUST NOW !!! This contest was in the memory of Margarita (wife of our host Vicente,EA6FO) who passed away two months ago. !!We never forget you Margarita !! Thanks to all of you and specially to the european M/2 groups for a great and competitive weekend. EA6IB team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RM Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 157,800 73s, Nino EA7RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7TN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 468,006 Band performed well all the weekend, but closing early. Missed a couple of mults from South East Asia, but never heard them... usually they come strong here... I don´t know what happened this time. I planned to beat the LP 20m EA record, standing since 1998, and I did. RIG: Kenwood TS-2000 (90 W) ANT: Spiderbeam 5 bands @ 18m I love this contest ! 73, Nacho. Go QCAO ! "E pluribus ignoramae" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,734,000 2 wire-yagis (3el), 2 bewes, MK5-Field, Al-1500 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8BEX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 1,359,408 Transceiver: FT2000 Power: 100 w. Antenna: Vertical 10 to 80m Software: N1MM Logger Interface: MicroHam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8BVP Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 16,995 My first CQ CW Contest and I enjoyed it. Regular propagation but good contacts. Most of time doing S&P and testing some antennas. TS480SAT@50W Vertical and Low dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EB3EPR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 232,200 Conditions very poor here. 10m completely close Saturday and only a 30 minutes operture on Sunday. 40m surprise me Saturday evening Have been low power and vertical but again lot of fun. Thanks to all for another fantastic weekend. Esteve EB3EPR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE2W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,019,460 First of all, many thanks to EB2BXL and his father for giving us the chance to operate from their QTH. EE2W is NOT a good cw contest callsign at all. we are not EI2W, I2W...that was our main problem: to be copied correctly by weak dx stations. Nice weekend contest. New ham friends. Tnx fer QSO cu agn 73 de EE2W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI/W5GN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 957,864 I'm very happy with 1600 Qs with no directional antennas, and in spite of imperfect antenna SWR (3:1 on 40 because it's too high off the ground, worse on 80 because the 80 Coil has resonance at 3700 in the 3500 switch position), all band were possible and pretty good at that; much better than 2006 CW when I only had 900 Qs (mostly because I didn't know I could run on 7001!) But that won't make the top ten LP from Europe; last year 1.1 Million made 10th place. With only the IC756PROIII, a BigIR Vertical (with the new 80 Meter Coil working, but resonant at 3700, so the Icom Tuner made 80 possible!) and the 252-foot end-fed long-wire (fed with 35 feet vertical small 300 ohm twinlead, so it's almost an Inverted L, but no radials), I was able to run 20, 40, and 80 quite effectively, with 13 hours of over 60 Q's and two peaks at 125/hr. Fifteen very spotty, and 160 is always a challenge to be heard with 100 watts in USA, with only 7 zone 5's worked, no 4's. I heard K5RX several times around 0500-0600 on Saturday, calling others, tried calling both sides of where I heard him, but he never heard me. I got up at 4am Friday, so I could sleep Friday evening from 1900 to 2330, operated until 0630-0930 Saturday morning sleep, then until 2300-0630 Sat/Sun, took an hour nap at 1200 on Sunday, plus a couple of 15 minute interruptions for total on air time of about 36 hours - longest since 1971 CQ WW as KG4CS when I was much younger and did all 48 (but with help from a legal script for Bennies the Navy Dr. for whom I ran patches: Rx said - use as needed to stay awake!). Runs on 80 were a REAL challenge with UA's in particular contining to call over top of directed partial call of USA stations, and the pile-up was often 8-10 deep during last two hours on Sunday. DX-Summit shows only eight times I was spotted during runs; I felt two spots when a new pileup showed up during moderate-rate run periods. Did a fair amount of S&P for multipliers and only skiped a half dozen pileups I knew I couldn't break, so doubt I could have done much more mults unless 15 and 10 had opened, or I have directional antennas, or go HP. Could not work the HS0 that I heard, never heard BY, JA, or VKs. But boy oh boy could I be heard in the Carribean, and Atlantic Islands, almost always on first call. Band changes were excellent since the Tuner was on ANT 2 slot, and the Big IR for 80 is at the same (max) length as 40, and also on 10 and 15 (where it is a 3/4 wavelength vert). Only moving to/from 20 took 20-30 seconds to move the metal from 16 feet to 33 feet. I lost my run freq several times when a louder European station who probably did not hear me took over; first clue was K1TTT calling for what I thought was a dupe until I realized they weren't calling me! Heavy storm on Saturday evening that came up with no warning led to a real thrill: The twinlead feed to the long wire drops 35 feet to near the ground for a raindrop loop, then thru a nearly-closed window to a two-foot section that was solder-spliced to reach the MFJ-969 Tuner, which is connected to the Icom by a one-foot section of RG58 coax. The tuner and rig are on the dining room table as the new radio shack construction is not quite finished. Weather had been very calm on Friday and during the day on Saturday, so I had forgot to tie the twinlead to the window handle. A massive wind gust put so much force on that 35 feet of vertical twinlead that it dragged the tuner off the edge of the table, and was pulling the ICOM over the table edge as well, barely grabbed the Icom in time, and then when I grabbed the twinlead at the back of the tuner to keep it from hitting the floor, the wind was still so strong that the twinlead separated at that soldered splice! Sure am glad this happened while I was at the rig and not napping! 73 Barry, W5GN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI4HQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 169,670 S&P for the entire contest. Zone 32 escaped several times (ZL3BIJ) & I simply couldn't copy HG1S correctly (my fault - not HG1S'!). Gave the new station a good shakedown & had a hoot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI6IZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 994,707 My first contest with my new elecraft K3. The K3 preformed superbly and is a really nice contest radio. conditions seemed good and there was a lot of nice DX active during the contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ER0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 6,876,608 Even with aurora,made a good run on 40 to US.Need a lots to improve the station on low bands. Enjoyed the contest a lot.Congratulations to all my friends,who made a good score with difficult condx. So up set about Jose,CT3NT.You will be more motivated for next year,hi. Ben,DL6FBL,nice score!!!and thanks for all bands greetings. See you next years with,I HOPE,better 160 and 80 receving antenns. Serge,UT5UDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5RY Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 410,000 Concentrated to Mult.Heard about 165 countries & 39 zones. Missed Zone 1,6,12.Heard lots XE,only one CE and nothing in Alaska. Calling CE4CT about 35min,nothing.Good signals come also XE2GG,XE1MM,XE2WWW-also nothing .First day nice Aurora opening to West Coast,but no chance work with low power. RiG:IC775DSP+6el mono 30m/h + 4el QUAD. Specially thanks HK1AR,VP2MSC,AH2R,J3A,KG6DX,T88WV,VK4QO and others ,who calling me. 73!Tom ES5RY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,466,044 I was wrong thinking conditions can't get any worse than they were during SSB. This time 10-40m were all horrible. Only 200 US on 20m says all. No night time US propagation like in SSB and thus I had probably the worst possible QTH in EU for this contest as OH's were working US on 20m during the night. I was lucky to catch W3LPL for double mult on 15m, stumbled on a very weak CQ and it was coming from EU direction 90 degrees off, worked him and he was gone, no other US ever heard. 80 and 160 meters were nice surprise at the same time. Many nice DX's (KL7HBK calling in, ZS4TX with QSY from 80m, PS2T calling in 15min before the end for double mult) and out of the 100 JA worked on all bands more than half are on 160m:) QSO point average is higher on 160m than on 40 meters! I don't know what was wrong with 40m, it was completely dead all the time. The most suprising QSO was a double mult TI8II calling me on 40m at 17z at his noon. I could not believe it as the signal was huge. Missed many easy mults. I can't understand how I did not find 3X5A on 20m, never heard. No ES on 10m:) Never heard anywhere those S7 guys or E5 or KH6 or A3 or 5J0 or many other mults people are talking about. Congratulations to Toni, Ranko and Ben for great scores and thrilling battle. I hope I can put up little stronger competition from my side after a few years.. 73 tonno es5tv statistics: ES5TV By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! 9 ! 65 ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 01 ! ! 27 ! 70 ! ! ! ! 97 ! ! 02 ! ! 26 ! 60 ! ! ! ! 86 ! ! 03 ! ! 27 ! 49 ! ! ! ! 76 ! ! 04 ! ! 43 ! 33 ! ! ! ! 76 ! ! 05 ! 1 ! 93 ! 16 ! ! ! ! 110 ! ! 06 ! ! 96 ! ! 17 ! 2 ! ! 115 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 66 ! 18 ! ! 84 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 69 ! 24 ! 2 ! 95 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 27 ! 60 ! ! 87 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 36 ! 37 ! 2 ! 75 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 92 ! 16 ! ! 108 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 96 ! 9 ! 1 ! 106 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 101 ! 5 ! ! 106 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 75 ! 9 ! ! 84 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 56 ! 4 ! 4 ! ! 64 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 94 ! ! ! ! 94 ! ! 17 ! ! 8 ! 111 ! 1 ! ! ! 120 ! ! 18 ! 15 ! 127 ! ! ! ! ! 142 ! ! 19 ! 19 ! 92 ! ! ! ! ! 111 ! ! 20 ! 67 ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 81 ! ! 21 ! 96 ! ! ! ! ! ! 96 ! ! 22 ! 12 ! 1 ! 6 ! 22 ! ! ! 41 ! ! 23 ! 3 ! 39 ! 19 ! ! ! ! 61 ! ! 00 ! 8 ! 81 ! ! ! ! ! 89 ! ! 01 ! 9 ! 44 ! 1 ! ! ! ! 54 ! ! 02 ! ! 37 ! 20 ! ! ! ! 57 ! ! 03 ! 16 ! 29 ! 6 ! ! ! ! 51 ! ! 04 ! 81 ! 3 ! 6 ! ! ! ! 90 ! ! 05 ! 66 ! 2 ! ! ! ! ! 68 ! ! 06 ! 8 ! 2 ! 55 ! ! 1 ! ! 66 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 10 ! 40 ! ! 50 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 36 ! 10 ! 53 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 19 ! 2 ! 43 ! 64 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 88 ! 2 ! ! 90 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 94 ! 3 ! 1 ! 98 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 30 ! 35 ! 1 ! 66 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 77 ! 3 ! ! 80 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 97 ! 1 ! ! 98 ! ! 15 ! ! ! 10 ! 28 ! 2 ! ! 40 ! ! 16 ! ! 45 ! 5 ! 9 ! ! ! 59 ! ! 17 ! ! 58 ! 16 ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 18 ! 3 ! ! 45 ! ! ! ! 48 ! ! 19 ! 4 ! ! 55 ! ! ! ! 59 ! ! 20 ! 1 ! 1 ! 51 ! ! ! ! 53 ! ! 21 ! ! 1 ! 37 ! ! ! ! 38 ! ! 22 ! 41 ! 3 ! 10 ! ! ! ! 54 ! ! 23 ! 56 ! 3 ! ! ! ! ! 59 ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 506 ! 911 ! 896 ! 1065 ! 309 ! 60 ! 3747 ! Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com ES5TV - Continents By band - CW QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 76.3% ! 2.2% ! 0.8% ! 1.6% ! 18.9% ! 0.2% ! ! 80 ! 73.7% ! 11.3% ! 0.9% ! 1.8% ! 11.5% ! 0.9% ! ! 40 ! 80.2% ! 7.0% ! 1.9% ! 2.3% ! 7.3% ! 1.2% ! ! 20 ! 63.7% ! 21.2% ! 1.4% ! 1.3% ! 11.5% ! 0.9% ! ! 15 ! 53.4% ! 1.3% ! 6.5% ! 7.4% ! 27.2% ! 4.2% ! ! 10 ! 91.7% ! ! ! 3.3% ! 5.0% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com Worked DXCC DXCC | CT | 160 | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL ============================================================= 1A | EU | | | | | | | 1S | AS | | | | | | | 3A | EU | | | | | | | 3B6 | AF | | | | | | | 3B8 | AF | | | 1 | | 2 | | 3 3B9 | AF | | | | | | | 3C | AF | | | | | | | 3C0 | AF | | | | | | | 3D2 | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/c | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/r | OC | | | | | | | 3DA | AF | | 1 | | | | | 1 3V | AF | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 4 3W | AS | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 3X | AF | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 5 3Y/b | AF | | | | | | | 3Y/p | SA | | | | | | | 4J | AS | | 2 | | 1 | 3 | | 6 4L | AS | | 2 | | 1 | 1 | | 4 4O | EU | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | | 3 4S | AS | | | | | | | 4U1I | EU | | | 1 | | | | 1 4U1U | NA | | | | | | | 4U1V | EU | | | | | | | 4W | OC | | | | | | | 4X | AS | 1 | | 4 | 1 | 2 | | 8 5A | AF | | | | | | | 5B | AS | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 5H | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 5N | AF | | | | | | | 5R | AF | | | | | | | 5T | AF | | | | | | | 5U | AF | | | | | | | 5V | AF | | | | | | | 5W | OC | | | | | | | 5X | AF | | | | | | | 5Z | AF | | | | | | | 6W | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 3 6Y | NA | | 2 | | | 1 | | 3 7O | AS | | | | | | | 7P | AF | | | | | | | 7Q | AF | | | | | | | 7X | AF | | | | | | | 8P | NA | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 8Q | AS | | | | | | | 8R | SA | | | | | | | 9A | EU | 4 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 45 9G | AF | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 9H | EU | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | | 3 9J | AF | | | | | | | 9K | AS | 1 | | | | 1 | | 2 9L | AF | | | | | | | 9M2 | AS | | | 1 | | 3 | | 4 9M6 | OC | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 9N | AS | | | | | | | 9Q | AF | | | | | | | 9U | AF | | | | | | | 9V | AS | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 3 9X | AF | | | | | | | 9Y | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 A2 | AF | | | | | | | A3 | OC | | | | | | | A4 | AS | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 A5 | AS | | | | | | | A6 | AS | | | | | | | A7 | AS | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | 3 A9 | AS | | | | | | | AP | AS | | | | | | | BS7 | AS | | | | | | | BV | AS | | | | | | | BV9P | AS | | | | | | | BY | AS | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | | 20 C2 | OC | | | | | | | C3 | EU | | | | | | | C5 | AF | | | | | | | C6 | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 C9 | AF | | | | | | | CE | SA | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 CE0X | SA | | | | | | | CE0Y | SA | | | | | | | CE0Z | SA | | | | | | | CE9 | SA | | | | | | | CM | NA | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 CN | AF | 2 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 5 CP | SA | | | | | | | CT | EU | | | | 2 | 2 | | 4 CT3 | AF | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 8 CU | EU | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 3 CX | SA | | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | 4 CY0 | NA | | | | | | | CY9 | NA | | | | | | | D2 | AF | | | | | | | D4 | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 D6 | AF | | | | | | | DL | EU | 67 | 108 | 105 | 92 | 18 | 9 | 399 DU | OC | | | | | | | E3 | AF | | | | | | | E4 | AS | | | | | | | E5/n | OC | | | | | | | E5/s | OC | | | | | | | E7 | EU | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 23 EA | EU | 1 | 14 | 26 | 20 | 18 | | 79 EA6 | EU | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 6 EA8 | AF | 1 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 2 | | 24 EA9 | AF | | | | | | | EI | EU | 6 | | 2 | 4 | 1 | | 13 EK | AS | | | | | | | EL | AF | | | | | | | EP | AS | | | | | | | ER | EU | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 ES | EU | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | | 14 ET | AF | | | | | | | EU | EU | 3 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 1 | | 30 EX | AS | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | | 3 EY | AS | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | | 3 EZ | AS | | | | | | | F | EU | 12 | 17 | 22 | 31 | 5 | | 87 FG | NA | | | 1 | | | | 1 FH | AF | | | | | | | FJ | NA | | | | | | | FK | OC | | | | | | | FK/c | OC | | | | | | | FM | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 FO | OC | | | | | | | FO/a | OC | | | | | | | FO/c | NA | | | | | | | FO/m | OC | | | | | | | FP | NA | | | | | | | FR | AF | | | | | | | FR/g | AF | | | | | | | FR/j | AF | | | | | | | FR/t | AF | | | | | | | FT5W | AF | | | | | | | FT5X | AF | | | | | | | FT5Z | AF | | | | | | | FW | OC | | | | | | | FY | SA | | | | | | | G | EU | 16 | 18 | 20 | 55 | 2 | | 111 GD | EU | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | | 4 GI | EU | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | | 4 GJ | EU | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | 3 GM | EU | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | | 18 GM/s | EU | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 3 GU | EU | | 1 | | | | | 1 GW | EU | 2 | | | 6 | 1 | | 9 H4 | OC | | | | | | | H40 | OC | | | | | | | HA | EU | 9 | 21 | 27 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 79 HB | EU | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 28 HB0 | EU | | | | | | | HC | SA | | | | | | | HC8 | SA | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 HH | NA | | | | | | | HI | NA | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 HK | SA | | 2 | 1 | | | | 3 HK0/a | NA | | | | | | | HK0/m | SA | | | | | | | HL | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 HM | AS | | | | | | | HP | NA | | | | | | | HR | NA | | 1 | | | | | 1 HS | AS | | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | | 17 HV | EU | | | | | | | HZ | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 I | EU | 6 | 24 | 48 | 47 | 7 | 1 | 133 IG9 | AF | | 2 | 1 | | 2 | | 5 IS | EU | | | 5 | | 1 | | 6 IT9 | EU | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | | 4 J2 | AF | | | | | | | J3 | NA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 J5 | AF | | | | | | | J6 | NA | | | | | | | J7 | NA | | | | | | | J8 | NA | | | | | | | JA | AS | 52 | 11 | 8 | 26 | 3 | | 100 JD/m | OC | | | | | | | JD/o | AS | | | | | | | JT | AS | | 1 | | 2 | | | 3 JW | EU | | | | | | | JW/b | EU | | | | | | | JX | EU | | | | | | | JY | AS | | | | | 1 | | 1 K | NA | 6 | 92 | 57 | 205 | 1 | | 361 KG4 | NA | | | | | | | KH0 | OC | | | | | | | KH1 | OC | | | | | | | KH2 | OC | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 KH3 | OC | | | | | | | KH4 | OC | | | | | | | KH5 | OC | | | | | | | KH5K | OC | | | | | | | KH6 | OC | | | | | | | KH7K | OC | | | | | | | KH8 | OC | | | | | | | KH8/s | OC | | | | | | | KH9 | OC | | | | | | | KL | NA | 1 | | | | | | 1 KP1 | NA | | | | | | | KP2 | NA | 1 | | | | 1 | | 2 KP4 | NA | | | | | | | KP5 | NA | | | | | | | LA | EU | 5 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | | 26 LU | SA | | | 2 | 3 | 7 | | 12 LX | EU | 2 | 1 | 2 | | | | 5 LY | EU | 7 | 10 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 42 LZ | EU | 2 | 9 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 39 OA | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 OD | AS | | | | | | | OE | EU | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 OH | EU | 14 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 59 OH0 | EU | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 OJ0 | EU | | | | | | | OK | EU | 30 | 37 | 51 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 148 OM | EU | 14 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 56 ON | EU | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 OX | NA | | | | | | | OY | EU | | | | | | | OZ | EU | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | | 18 P2 | OC | | | | | | | P4 | SA | 1 | | 1 | | | | 2 PA | EU | 9 | 11 | 10 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 59 PJ2 | SA | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | | 4 PJ7 | NA | | | | | | | PY | SA | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 9 | | 25 PY0F | SA | | | | | | | PY0S | SA | | | | | | | PY0T | SA | | | | | | | PZ | SA | | | | | 1 | | 1 R1FJ | EU | | | | | | | R1MV | EU | | | | | | | S0 | AF | | | | | | | S2 | AS | | | | | | | S5 | EU | 10 | 16 | 23 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 78 S7 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 S9 | AF | | | | | | | SM | EU | 9 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 5 | | 48 SP | EU | 28 | 35 | 47 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 136 ST | AF | | | | | | | SU | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 SV | EU | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | | 16 SV/a | EU | | | | | | | SV5 | EU | | | | | | | SV9 | EU | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 T2 | OC | | | | | | | T30 | OC | | | | | | | T31 | OC | | | | | | | T32 | OC | | | | | | | T33 | OC | | | | | | | T5 | AF | | | | | | | T7 | EU | | | | | | | T8 | OC | | | 1 | | | | 1 TA | AS | 1 | | 1 | | | 1 | 3 TA1 | EU | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 TF | EU | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 TG | NA | | | | | | | TI | NA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 TI9 | NA | | | | | | | TJ | AF | | | | | | | TK | EU | | | | | | | TL | AF | | | | | | | TN | AF | | | | | | | TR | AF | | | | | | | TT | AF | | | | | | | TU | AF | | | | | | | TY | AF | | | | | | | TZ | AF | | | | | | | UA | EU | 49 | 131 | 97 | 105 | 30 | 4 | 416 UA2 | EU | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 6 UA9 | AS | 34 | 66 | 35 | 62 | 33 | 1 | 231 UK | AS | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | 3 UN | AS | | 6 | 3 | 9 | 8 | | 26 UR | EU | 20 | 58 | 43 | 54 | 6 | 1 | 182 V2 | NA | | | | | | | V3 | NA | | | | | | | V4 | NA | | | 1 | | | | 1 V5 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 V6 | OC | | | | | | | V7 | OC | | | | | | | V8 | OC | | | | | | | VE | NA | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | | | 21 VK | OC | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | | 20 VK0H | AF | | | | | | | VK0M | OC | | | | | | | VK9C | OC | | | 1 | | | | 1 VK9L | OC | | | | | | | VK9M | OC | | | | | | | VK9N | OC | | | | | | | VK9W | OC | | | | | | | VK9X | OC | | | | | | | VP2E | NA | | | | | | | VP2M | NA | | | | 2 | | | 2 VP2V | NA | | | | | | | VP5 | NA | | 1 | | | | | 1 VP6 | OC | | | | | | | VP6/d | OC | | | | | | | VP8 | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 VP8/g | SA | | | | | | | VP8/h | SA | | | | | | | VP8/o | SA | | | | | | | VP8/s | SA | | | | | | | VP9 | NA | | | | | | | VQ9 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 VR | AS | | | | | 1 | | 1 VU | AS | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | 10 VU4 | AS | | | | | | | VU7 | AS | | | | | | | XE | NA | | | | | | | XF4 | NA | | | | | | | XT | AF | | | | | | | XU | AS | | | | | | | XW | AS | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 XX9 | AS | | | | | | | XZ | AS | | | | | | | YA | AS | | | | | | | YB | OC | | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 | | 14 YI | AS | | | | | | | YJ | OC | | | | | | | YK | AS | | | | | | | YL | EU | 10 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 36 YN | NA | | | | | | | YO | EU | 9 | 16 | 13 | 18 | | | 56 YS | NA | | | | | | | YU | EU | 8 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 58 YV | SA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | 5 YV0 | NA | | | | | | | Z2 | AF | | | | | | | Z3 | EU | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | | 10 ZA | EU | | | | | | | ZB | EU | | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 ZC4 | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 ZD7 | AF | | | | | | | ZD8 | AF | | | | | | | ZD9 | AF | | | | | | | ZF | NA | | | 1 | | | | 1 ZK2 | OC | | | | | | | ZK3 | OC | | | | | | | ZL | OC | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 ZL7 | OC | | | | | | | ZL8 | OC | | | | | | | ZL9 | OC | | | | | | | ZP | SA | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZS | AF | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 14 ZS8 | AF | | | | | | | ============================================================= | | 507 | 911 | 896 | 1065 | 309 | 60 | 3748 Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6DO Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 47,479 Wow, what a interesting weekend. Building inverted L two weeks before contest. First morning only S&P, first 6 hours - 52 countries and 10 zones. But evening and Sunday morning was terrible. I copied well all Caribians, later eveninh Far East and Pacific, but not one answer me, legal 1kW was not enough. Ohhh propagation???! Thanks for Qs and see you in next contest Neil ES6DO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY7AF Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,054,284 score entered by EY8MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 356,932 Excellent activity and number of DX from all parts of the world. My goal was setting new Zone 17 record which I did. Excellent condition to NA first night. Logged over 50 NA/SA stations during 2 hour pile up. When OA4/N6XQ followed by PJ5NA called me I thought that I am dreaming. :) Electricity still a big problem on country QTH because of flactuations. Krassy K1LZ got his report on 200 W when ampifier protection shut it down. Many very special signals from NA. Most of qso's made on CQ and I am really appreciate everyone who found my signal on the band. I had a lot of fun! Setup Vertical Quad with Reflector Screen to EU/NA Half Square 5 direction Beverages IC775DSP + ACOM2000 Win-Test 73 Nodir EY8MM www.ey8mm.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4DNW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 173,864 thank's to all who have logged me what a real pleasure to meet some friends this year again working with ft1k mk5, acom 1010 700W, 1/4 wave verticale 6 beverage , but with a probleme on 2 of enter they thanks to: tf8sm,n6ar,pp5jr,j88dr,yc2www for calling me special thanks to my friend N0NI you where stronger than our last contact ARRL 2006. 73 Jerome F4DNW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 77,448 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 215,047 Nice contest for me. Best result for me, But no propagation on 10m. Hope get more efficient antennas next time. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5PHW Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 75,973 Waouh ! This contest is really the best one. Not really happy of this score. Only 4000 points (and 60 QSO) more than last year and I spent more time at the station. I spent too much time in trying to find non-worked station. Run was impossible with my poor GP and 100 watts. My signal is too low. I did not work between 00h00 utc and 05h00 utc. See you next year ! Best 73 de F5PHW Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5VHJ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 356,286 Lots of fun! Biggest thrill was working BZ1Z on 40. CW is such a pleasure compared to SSB! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CMF Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,030,751 My initial plan was to do a SOSO40 effort. Unfortunately, I did not have the time to set up the station (inband receiver, receiving antennas...). I then took part to the contest in the SOAB(A) HP [SO1R] category mainly for fun. I spent ca. 27 hours running and tried to maximize the score within my limited time. The propagation was rather good on low bands. Even though I could not get any serious runs to NA the first night, 40M was fine (at least with mid- and long-skips) with a high number of DXCC and Zones. It was even possible to work some NA and JA stations at noon. Conditions were difficult on 15M. I mainly did S&P. As I had to take my off times on both mornings, I lost several multipliers in Asia and Pacific area on 20M and 15M. On 10M, after the first DX spots of African stations (and while all other european stations seemed to be able to work them) were received, I had to wait at least 1 hour before getting a decent propagation and to be able to work them (a short 45 minute opening with 6W, 3X, ZS...). The 4U1ITU station is located a few kilometers away from my QTH. This is not only an easy-to-work multiplier but also a good beacon -especially on the highest bands- to know if it is possible to get any runs :-) As expected, the 160M inverted-L is a simple and efficient way to get multipliers on Topband but performance remains of course limited. 73 de Sebastien, F8CMF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 500,490 Hi, 1st contest in HP with 400w into a G5RV. good operation on 80m and new band 160m. 73's CU david F8CRS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FG/F6ARC Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 325,102 Spent only a few hours on the air in the CQWW at FG5JK's station, in memory of Gerard who passed away in August 2007. My sincere thanks to his widow Veronique for allowing his equipment to be used for the last time during this contest. Rig: TS-870S + FL2100Z 1/4 vertical with 2 radials First contacts were made the second night of the contest, and the last ones about 2 hours before the end. What should I say about the bad behaviour of some operators that call out of turn? It is a waste of time which slow down traffic… See you in another contest (QSLs are not printed yet!) Oliver, F6ARC http://www.dxbeam.com http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM5BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,694,600 Great experience contesting from Caribbean for the first time! So much difference from contesting from the other side of the globe, JA or 9M6. I really learned a lot this opportunity, and enjoyed the contest very much. I made a lot of mistakes during this contest. But the biggest one was that I tried to stay up 48 hours. I was able to stay up for the first 45 hours, and I suddenly collapsed. Contesting from the Caribbean was a so much fun even in the solar cycle bottom. But where were Europeans and US West Coast stations on 10m? I did not hear any of them there. Maybe I should have known the propagation better in advance. Working JA from here was also a fun, but ended up with 58 QSOs on 40m and only 1 QSO on 20m. No other JAs. Many thanks to Laurent FM5BH for his hospitality and for making this great station with his callsign available to me. I hope to be able to stay here longer next time. 73, Saty JE1JKL / 9M6NA -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 0 184 0 0 0 184 184 3.5 0100 0 0 191 0 0 0 191 375 3.7 0200 0 0 179 0 0 0 179 554 3.4 0300 0 0 167 0 0 0 167 721 3.2 0400 0 0 182 0 0 0 182 903 3.5 0500 0 116 25 0 0 0 141 1044 2.7 0600 0 172 0 0 0 0 172 1216 3.3 0700 5 117 0 0 0 0 122 1338 2.3 0800 80 1 6 0 0 0 87 1425 1.7 0900 1 1 80 0 0 0 82 1507 1.6 1000 8 1 5 119 0 0 133 1640 2.6 1100 0 0 52 23 35 0 110 1750 2.1 1200 0 0 0 0 154 1 155 1905 3.0 1300 0 0 0 125 1 0 126 2031 2.4 1400 0 0 0 94 40 1 135 2166 2.6 1500 0 0 0 214 0 0 214 2380 4.1 1600 0 0 0 208 0 0 208 2588 4.0 1700 0 0 0 5 179 1 185 2773 3.6 1800 0 0 0 0 208 0 208 2981 4.0 1900 0 0 0 104 26 3 133 3114 2.6 2000 0 1 10 42 17 1 71 3185 1.4 2100 0 0 37 85 0 0 122 3307 2.3 2200 0 14 0 48 3 0 65 3372 1.2 2300 0 87 0 0 0 0 87 3459 1.7 0000 9 43 0 1 0 0 53 3512 1.0 0100 0 0 113 1 0 0 114 3626 2.2 0200 0 2 94 0 0 0 96 3722 1.8 0300 0 88 0 0 0 0 88 3810 1.7 0400 54 0 19 0 0 0 73 3883 1.4 0500 0 0 136 0 0 0 136 4019 2.6 0600 0 4 68 2 0 0 74 4093 1.4 0700 0 1 68 0 0 0 69 4162 1.3 0800 0 0 58 0 0 0 58 4220 1.1 0900 0 35 27 0 0 0 62 4282 1.2 1000 0 10 52 0 0 0 62 4344 1.2 1100 0 0 21 54 2 0 77 4421 1.5 1200 0 0 0 68 58 0 126 4547 2.4 1300 0 0 0 32 34 2 68 4615 1.3 1400 0 0 0 77 1 2 80 4695 1.5 1500 0 0 0 41 2 7 50 4745 1.0 1600 0 0 0 34 4 0 38 4783 0.7 1700 0 0 0 4 66 5 75 4858 1.4 1800 0 0 0 27 59 0 86 4944 1.7 1900 0 0 0 0 144 0 144 5088 2.8 2000 0 0 0 45 1 0 46 5134 0.9 2100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5134 0.0 2200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5134 0.0 2300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5134 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 157 693 1774 1453 1034 23 5134 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FO5RU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 226,944 no miracle with G5RV and 100W, good propagation on 15 m and 40m, 75% of qso are US 73 FO5RU/F5IRO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5FY Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 2,185,804 Great contest in QRP. QTH Cayenne. Congrates to K1XM in 6V7D for the QRP CW effort, I know wath it is!! Poor 10m this year but some amazing QSO on 160m with 5 watts... 15m and North America give me the better runs, as usual. Thanks for QSO with me. CUAGN soon. 73 Didier / FY5FY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0AZS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 21,522 Thanks to all for the QSO's. Used 15W to a G5RV in a part time effort around family activities like swimming, cycling, shopping and a christening! US stations definitely have the best ears. Pretty much all that I heard and called completed with me. I can't understand why EU stations who were 9+30 with me couldn't hear me depsite repeated calls when no one was replying to them?? Also, do not rely too much on your Super Check Partial feature. Most stations got my call right when they first replied and then started to question it on completion of the QSO. No doubt wondering if the call suggested in Super Check might be right instead. Take it from me... your ears were better! :-) Look forward to the next time when I can put a bit more time in. 73 Marc G0AZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G0CKV Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 138,824 Great fun even with low power and wet strings at low height but also frustrating to have so little oomph at lower elevation angles thus no long path stuff or much in S and SE Asia, not even VK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 642,220 G3TXF first entered a CQWW CW Contest in Nov 1968. Only three CQWW CW contests have been missed in the intervening forty years. This year's entry was 20m SOSB (no-packet). There's a few pix and notes on... http://www.g3txf.com/G3TXF%20at%20home/CQWW-CW-Nov-07/CQWW-CW-Nov-07.html 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 520,000 Got the impression propagation improved Day 2 but was sadly forced to QRT. My litte daughter got taken ill Sunday morning so called it quits with 12 hours still to run. Sometimes we forget radio is just a hobby, and let's face it, there's always next year to try again! 73 es tnx fer the q's Dez FT-1000MP, 100W & Doublet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3YMC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 259,056 Hard going on QRP this time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FAL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 651,192 Used FT2k with Quadra and FT1k. Aerials were dipoles for 160, 80 and 40 with 2 ele for 20, 15 and 10. No VK/ZL or West Coast US but plenty of other DX. 10m was entertaining on Sunday and 15m was quite good both days. 20m was good enough to run to east coast with small station. Lower bands ok but only got across the pond once on 160m. Thanks to all for QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 464,427 Main aim this year was to break the 1000 QSO barrier and that was duly achieved. However to ensure enough rate I spent less time than I normally would calling (and calling!) the more interesting DX/mults on the higher bands. 99% S&P as usual with just a few mini-runs. 80/40/20 were an S&P'ers dream with a constant turnover of new stations to work. 15 had activity but was not as easy as last year to S&P from end to end. 10 had its moments but again was lots of effort for little return. Band of the weekend for me was 160. Great to work "across the pond" again and to work a good number of other stations on the band. Must be some good receive antenna systems out there! IC756ProIII, 100w, 30m inverted V doublet plus sloping half wave dipole on 10m. Great fun as ever and very pleased with the result. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 152,425 I ran 100W for first 12 hours and 400W for remaining 8 hours. A marked difference in response and run rate with the amp! I think that in future I will take part in SOAB HP rather than LP. I was able to crash right through the pile-ups with my amp rather than making a dozen or so calls and sometimes giving up using LP. Commendations from me go to the superb operator(s) at 3X5A, 9Y4AA. I listened to the pile-ups and was amazed at just how well they handled the 'wall' from Europe. Cheers, Terry G4MKP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G5W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,015,218 Rather an indifferent performance from some bands, which I think reflects in our score this year. Great activity, but really hard overnight on Saturday on LF. 40m seemed to be suffering from high absorption and we had some difficulty getting the runs going that night. Nice to see 10m spring into life on Sunday A minor panic on Sunday morning when we lost one bank of antennas on the mult station - SWR went crazy and for a moment we thought we had had a visit from the local wild-life and that the antenna switching control cables had been eaten (which has happened here in the past). In the end it was simply a fractured cable in the relay box that changes over the two banks of antennas between stations here. Fixed after about 30 minutes, but 30 minutes of lost multing time ! Some great LF mults, but hard work to hear some of them with the wall of Europeans calling. Everything else worked well - WinTest was bomb-proof as ever, and we ran five computers on the network, to allow for analysis etc. We ran with a third (spotting) operating position this year, and it was good to be able to listen on all bands (even the active bands) within a few kHz of the G5W signal. Thankfully the previously forecast winds did not materialise (at the beginning of the week it was predicted to be rough for the weekend) and the worst we got was a gentle breeze. Thanks to Chris (G3SJJ), Dave (G4BUO), Justin (G4TSH) and Marios (G0WWW / 5B4WN) for making the journey over to Shropshire to join in the fun - a great team. Station was: Run: FT1000MP MkV + linear (See below for antennas) Mult: FT1000MP + linear (See below for antennas) Spot: FT1000MP MkV + Cushcraft R5 (but works well as an rx antenna on other bands) Antennas: Bank A: 40-10m Force 12 yagi at 80 ft; dipoles for 80/160 Bank B: 20-10m SteppIR at 60ft, Titanex V160HD for 40/80/160 Banks A and B can be changed between the two stations K9AY loop on both stations Win-Test v 3.18 networked ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,565,685 Spent a fair few hours in the field prior to the contest sorting out the 80m TX antenna and also erecting the DX Engineering receive 4-square; got everything up and running first time, something we're not used to ;-) The receive 4-square worked very well and we found it to have amazing F/B which really helped when running NA amongst all the European QRM. It still needs some optimisations (spacing etc). Switching to the west resulted in virtually zero Eu QRM and improved S/N ratio making it much easier with 3-point runs. 40m conditions were not good again meaning we still aren't able to fully gauge the MonstIR's performance; that said, we did work interesting mults between 14-15Z in broad daylight on Sunday: 9V1YC, JT1CO, HL2AEJ, 9M2CNC, T88FY, VK9AA; all with FB sigs. Sadly, Murphy paid us lots of visits this time around... We had no DX cluster on both nights between about 22Z and 07Z which is reflected in our mult totals. In addition, we had problems with 80m TX and high SWR -- was fixed quite quickly when it was noticed that one leg of the antenna was caught around the tower. Finally, on the Sunday, we killed the front-end of the 1000MP; three of us worked on getting the rig back on the air and after replacing a diode, we had an MP which was once again alive and kicking. In last year's CQWW CW, we had great local competition with G5W... This again occurred this year and we have both ended with very similar QSO numbers. It would once again have been a very close score with more mults! Congratulations to them for their performance and thanks for the competition; always makes things interesting. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. 73, G6PZ Contest Group ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0IIO Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 136,316 Another great contest. Condx much better than the SSB last month, however 20 meters closed much earlier. Still finding it quite difficult getting into the greater Pacific area from Scotland. Great cw operators, and much better behaved than SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM2T Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 98,154 Semi /P entry from Barns Ness Lighthouse SCO015. FT1000MP, ETO91b, HB 1/4wave vertical at ground level. Shack was an outbuilding adjacent to the lighthouse, and with cold North winds coming in off the sea all weekend, the comfort of a roof over our heads was most welcome. We used Win-Test logger which worked perfectly all weekend. Set up each station for our individual bands/callsigns, and shared a GPRS connection over the network for our cluster spots. Hard work but great fun nonetheless. 73 John MM0CCC/Jonathan M5FUN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM5A Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 313,060 Semi /P entry from Barns Ness Lighthouse SCO015, with Jonathan M5FUN doing his own SO15(A) entry. FT1000MP, ETO91b, Titanex V80, 40 short radials. Shack was an outbuilding adjacent to the lighthouse, and with cold North East winds coming in off the sea all weekend, the comfort of a roof over our heads was most welcome. We used Win-Test logger which worked perfectly all weekend. Set up each station for our individual bands/callsigns, and shared a GPRS connection over the network for our cluster spots. Hard work but great fun nonetheless. 73 John MM0CCC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU0SUP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 132,696 Just a few hours here and there to have some fun. Tried working 3X5A on 40/80, but just couldn't break the pile-ups. 10m only opened for a brief period here, and I worked all I could hear. Fun as always and enjoyed the thrill of the chase! Thanks to all for the Q's, and my log will on LoTW shortly, but paper QSL's are always welcome. Best 73 Phil GU0SUP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GU4YOX Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 140,085 Good conditions on 80M I thought this year. I missed a lot of mults due to low power and long calling periods with no results but did enjoy myself. Great to work a single station in JA, VR2 and ZL for double mults. See you next year, 73 Bob GU4YOX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: H7/K9NW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 6,420,348 Yet another contest trip put together on relatively short notice. I don't necessarily recommend this approach but sometimes things just work out. It certainly helps to operate from a station with fully functioning antennas. Within 15 minutes of showing up at the house I was 100% QRV. Time to make QSOs! Equipment: IC-746 (non-PRO version) 100w Antennas: 10/15/20 - A3S Tribander @~60' 40/80/160 - Inv V dipoles from top of tower The location is very quiet. My only goal/strategy for the event was to try and make a bunch of QSOs and hand out the H7 (YN) mult to as many as possible on all bands. Spent very little time tuning for mults but ultimately a decent number found me and I ended up with a reasonable score to boot. Nice 10m W/VE opening Sunday morning. VQ9LA and other Africans also very loud there about this time. Around 17-18z on Sunday both 15 and 20 pretty much dropped out to EU. (TM2Y, usually very prominent, was only s6 on 20.) So I went into full-on "ARRL DX mode" for the next few hours going back and forth between the two bands working lots of W/VE. Finished up in the 23z hour on 40m. Every contest has a few of those special moments and this one was no exception: - 160m Saturday evening sounded like 20m for a while with VERY loud EU stations across the band. OM7M called in and was an honest S9+30dB! (That's with no pre-amp.) - K1AR and HK1AR called in at the same time in one instance. - K1AX and K2AX called in at the same time in another instance. - Was actually before the contest but one station said I was only his 5th ever HF QSO and first ever DX QSO! (That's kinda cool!) I may be a contender for semi-strange call of the weekend. Thanks to all the ops around the world that make this the most exciting operating event of the year! And very special thanks to Octavio and Martha Miranda for welcoming me into their home, making me feel like part of the family, keeping me well fed, and providing a wonderful opportunity to enjoy another CQWW contest. See y'all next time. 73, Mike H7/K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA3LN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 301,624 FT-1000MP MkV Field + 3el3b @19m Highs - pretty good propagation but definitely the sun should go on - sometimes surprisingly easy pile-ups - I had excellent runs to USA on both days on fantastic QRGs. I've never thought 100W could hold 14009.2 for 4 and 14006.7 for 3 hours in a CQWW USA prime time. - I like DR1A's feature with the live score table. I could see how I was performing. Sometimes I was really shocked seeing their QSO # increase. :-) - Win-Test 3.17.0 ...flawless Lows - I had some s9+10dB man-made noise for the last 2.5 hours before the band shut-down but couldn't find the source... It wiped out everything even KC1XX/W3LPL standards were barely readable. I think I lost couple of 10 contacts. - I had to use 60 and 285/300 degrees only coz I rotated the yagi semi-manually with going to the tower. - my HFTA has right towards JA. I heard huge JA sigs but couldn't run at all. - 10 cty mults heard but not logged Very low The life with 100W is hard. It's sad to experience the "starting-CQ-without-asking-QRL?" mentality. I know my 100W didn't destroy anybody's S-meter but well... A C4, LY and LZ stn was kind enough to erase me from the run freq when I had pretty good rate. All in all I enjoyed this one very much. I'm very interesting in any audio records to check my signals out. I'm looking forward Randy's archive update with this contest. If you have any clip/time please drop me a line. CU in Stew Perry. 73! Csaba HA3LN --- http://www.ha3ln.hu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA7PO Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 783,520 Excellent contest, good propagation, fine activity, great job Guys! 73' Gabor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB(A)/80 LP Total Score = 172,720 Rig: IC-756 Ant: Vertical(28m), Dipole(inv) Rx ant: LW(2x50m, aperiode) Nice Contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8JV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,903,440 Station setup: radio ts870+ hm pa, ha8be made new power supply for me, and we installation 3 days before contest. THANKS BELA. annt.: 20-10m 4el hm quad up 19m 160-40m vertical 28 mh,+ 2 beverages 300m Negative instant: i lost verry early the 160 m, saturday at 5, magnetic switch smoked. After not one qso on these band. Ten meter onli 100w, last evening without beverages, it was mine fault, wrong connection hi i was verry tired. positive: 4000 qso, mine love 80m, ten hours work, 1200 qso-s, 420 na....... Many thanks to all who called me. 73 and see you 2008 paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8QZ Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 190,390 Nice Contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9ARF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 599,330 TS-870 100 Watts Dipole for 10 / 15 / 20 and 40 M Short Dipole from Kelemen on 160 M Vertical Butternut HF-9VX used on 80 M and sometimes on 40 M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC8N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 30,320,124 A nice weekend working the world. Great competition in the M2 category. Thanks to all the ops who go to special places to make this such a fun event. 73, Steve K6AW/HC8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG8K Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 346,500 +SB220 (500W)-2EL BEAM (ECO)20m up Rig: IC-781 + pwr divider+ +2xgi7b(700W)-AVT4 vertical(ECO) 20m up Without cluster. Tnx for qso's ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 20,135,570 Thanks to Constantino, HI3CCP and his support crew for providing a VFB QTH. See lomadeltoro.com for details. The view from on top of the ridge is terrific, and the extensive tower/antenna/station work has really paid off, making it a Killer Station! Thanks also to Carl, WC4H and Johan, ON4IQ for valuable pre-contest assistance. Julio, AD4Z/HI3A has operated SOABLP from this location in recent years with very solid results, including a 3rd place finish last year. (3) FT-1000MP (2) TL-922, L4B, ALS-600 CTWIN 10.03.002 160 - Inverted vee 80 - 2L wire beam NNE, fixed dipole 40 - 2L rotary, fixed dipole 20 - 4L Stepp-IR rotary, 5L fixed NW 15 - 5L rotary 10 - 7L rotary Power from generators on site. We apologize for the chirpy 15-meter signal on Sunday - a result of hasty equipment shuffling after an apparent computer issue. It was a busy week leading up to the contest, with antenna/rotator repairs needed from hurricane damage, plus rearranging a few antennas. We chose a M/2 setup that dedicated 2 bands each to 3 stations to simplify antenna switching. The HI3 hospitality was tremendous! We attended a Dominican winter league baseball game, since 4 of the 5 Florida ops are big baseball fans. HI3CCP's sister-in-law is from the US and hosted a fabulous and elegant USA-style Thanksgiving dinner. With all the great food and Presidente cervezas (better than their exported version) during the trip, K1TO's nickname became "Uno Mas". N4TO fractured his foot and required a hospital visit for casting, but otherwise the team had no serious mishaps. We were thankful to not have to drive in the hectic traffic in the DR! Operators are all members of the Florida Contest Group: - Julio, AD4Z/HI3A lived in the D.R. for much of his life and now resides in SE FL. Operating almost exclusively LP CW, Julio has racked up some very solid finishes from HI3. - Vic, N4TO has extensive DXpedition experience and is a co-holder of the World M/S and NA M/S records. Vic's fluency in Spanish was invaluable as well. - Ron, K8NZ was recently to PJ2 and was a member of the winning K8AZ operation last November. Ron retired to SW Florida recently. - Blake, N4GI has developed a solid set of skills both on the air and on towers. He's been licensed since 1995 and at age 33 has lots of good efforts ahead of him. Lightning damaged his home station a few months ago, unfortunately. Blake has operated from ZF1A and NQ4I. - Dan, K1TO has enjoyed lots of contest DXpeditions and has been fortunate to be a part of some winning teams. ;<) At least we got some 10-meter opening on Sunday as over 90% of our QSOs were on that second day. 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America CW 418 1029 1599 1653 1350 203 6252 55.8 South America CW 9 28 27 38 35 22 159 1.4 Europe CW 37 337 1546 1468 866 3 4257 38.0 Asia CW 0 23 126 196 16 0 361 3.2 Africa CW 5 15 24 32 26 8 110 1.0 Oceania CW 3 8 25 14 19 1 70 0.6 No JA or KL7 on 15M. Never managed to work the S79UU group - and even missed S7/K9NW! We were impressed by the level of M/2 competition. Despite what should be a new NA record, we will not likely make "the box", as HC8N, EF8M, D4C (assumed), PJ2T, PJ4A and P3F will all finish ahead of us. Congratulations to those teams for fine efforts! Congratulations also to the ZF1A crew who had set the NA M/2 record last year and broke it themselves this year! Who needs sunspots?! Look for HI3A again this weekend in the ARRL 160 Contest as he will defend his SOLP title! Thanks to all for the QSOs and to so many for making trips to rare locations for the best annual CW contest by far! I hope to work many of you in the ARRL 10-Meter Contest, conditions permitting. Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Happy Holidays from all of us! 73, Dan, K1TO President, FCG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 25,608 The primary reason of this entries was to try to work 100 dxcc on top band with 100 qso's but is imposible to make it. All qso's will be posted as a check log so no ones will loose their points very vey happy with my antenna worked a lot of dx stations on the pile up. Amazed me how d4c,3x5a,a71,oz,ea6, cn, Heard my 100 watts first than big guys calling. I am addicted to SSB and RTTY but seriously thinking to make a serious effort on the CW mode... If God will cu you next year... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL1VAU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 83,088 Most QSO's made by S&P.. Enjoyable CW running during spare time.. Used 100W + OCFD.. 73 de Rocky, HL1VAU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 23,616 Hi OM's !! So pse QRS.. QRS.. Am baby in CW and BAREFOOT.... my rig is IC-746 PRO, power is 100watts and 8mH multi trap D,P. QSL is no problem 100% via BURO OR Direct...AM K.A.R.L. LIFE MEMBER... Cu next contest....G,L de HL5YI, Chae ..73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HQ2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,581,488 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 123 354 853 937 1096 52 3415 VE calls = 6 18 41 68 72 2 207 N.A. calls = 13 14 24 26 17 4 98 S.A. calls = 7 13 20 16 34 5 95 Euro calls = 0 96 240 225 183 0 741 Afrc calls = 0 6 3 8 9 0 26 Asia calls = 0 2 10 9 3 0 24 JA calls = 0 5 44 69 1 0 119 Ocen calls = 0 4 7 5 2 0 18 Total calls = 149 512 1242 1363 1417 63 4746 10-15-20 TH7 @ 60 feet 40 inverted V @ 30 feet 80 inverted V at 50 feet 160 inverted V at 50 feet IC-765 (tnx HR2J) AL-811H amp - 600 watts (tnx HR2J) Sorry if I was hard to work, but bad line noise impacted ability to hear on all bands. Thanks to the Radio Club of Honduras for the opportunity to operate at their club station. Thanks to HR2DX, HR2PAC, HR2H, and HR2DMR for assistance. Special thanks to Javier Pinel, HR2J, for incredible hospitality. It felt good to beat CT3NT :>) , but not good to lose to USA stations. 73, Dick, HR2/N6AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1EX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,876,256 Great runs first 14 hours, then the amplifier did not want to do it any more, no way to find the fault, tired, etc. made some s&p and got some sleep. Woke up and made more s&p, then found that it was possible to do some pile-running... but frequency difficult to hold so had to qsy a lot. Finding empty slots not easy, in particular on 40m. 160 was a positive surprise, worked barefoot and with low dipole (@ 20m) JA, CN, CT3 and 130 other fine qsos. Sorry that I had to decline all requests to move to 80m - 80m not allowed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Thanks again to Ken, GW0RHC/HZ1GW for hosting me! Thomas, HZ1EX/PY2ZXU/SM0CXU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 28,120 just s&p'ing with a lot of interruptions - but I did enjoy it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,001,364 I just broke the 1Million barrier with the very last qso at 2359, tnx SN8F! I started the contest tired and after few hours I felt very tired. I have been tired the whole contest, and finished dead tired! I want to apologise the many that, near the end of the contest, surely thought I was a FULL LID: I am sorry but I was falling asleep in the middle of the qso, in front of the keyboard, then suddendly awake, see the call on the screen, realize I have to complete the qso, call again and, finally complete the qso with the report! After too many of these situations, I decided to take a break; when I had almost decided to go to sleep I washed my face and continued standing in front of the radio, and not sitting down till the end anymore!! Down 200Kpoints and 250Qsos respect to last year, but found low bands very good! I still don't believe I completed the DXCC on 40M! And I felt "loud" on 80M, being able to "easily" :) break big pileups! And if only people would take a bit of their time just to "LISTEN" instead of keep calling into nowhere, not even hearing the DX responding to them! would have been even more productive on that band. VERY POOR operating practice, just POWER BELIEVERS!! For the first time in this contest I clearly heard K3LR on 160! but it was for too short, and even not able to give them a call. I am sure they would have picked me up. The Win-Test Objective Tracking (yes, it should be called Targets Tracking) is a very motivating tool. I fought a lot against multipliers and at the end I had only 3 mults less than last year. With so bad 10M it is a great performance! Yes, I think so. Cu next one! Bob, I2WIJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IC8R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,960,184 First effort from ic8r contest station. Lot of troubles!! Tribander felt day before contest, director destoyed!! Still usable...so we did!! New tribander vertical for low bands, worked surpringly well... btw it was real fun for us to work our first cqww cw all bands ever. Cu in 2008!! 73, Sal ik8und (on behalf of ic8r team) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IH9M Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 1,148,255 My first time from IH9 as S.O.S.B. and my first contest in 80m band. All the setup OK (FT1000MP, TL922, vertical 1/4 wave homemade, two beverages, wintest). Thanks to everyone called me during the contest. 73 de Art, IK7JWY / IH9M one of IH9P 2002-3-4-5-6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IH9R Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 1,399,950 CLUB TIKKIRIKI CONTEST CLUB . SETUP : ICOM 756 PRO III HEATKITSB220 , ANTENNA VERTICAL 1/4 WAVE HOME MADE . EWE HOME MADE FOR USA AND JAPAN. BEAUITIFULL CONTEST AND GOOD PROPAGATION FOR JA AND USA . TKS AT ALL CALLED ME DURING THE CONTEST . 73 EMIL IH9R- IZ1GAR ITALY . FROM PANTELLERIA ISLAND AFRICAN ITALY - TIKKIRIKI CONTEST CLUB - ZONE 33 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK1YDB Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 144,024 IC-756PROIII + PA TX ANT DELTA-LOOP@31m RX ANT 4 X EWE LOG N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ2CJ Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 807,357 Very funny contest as usual. Great conditions sunday morning with JA stations. Thanks to all for the QSOs. Working conditions: Ant - C4XL @ 30m agl + TH5 @ 21m agl Rig - IC 765 + PA Stefano, IK2JUB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4E Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 397,769 What a pitty: nothing to be on air on 80 and 160... i used spare time about 15 hours... sometime nice runner 21 and 7 Mhz... To be on cqwwcw 2007 as single was a fine idea...i like it...so much cu next year i hope... IR4E/IK4ZHH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,006,000 Poor conditions on high bands, finally a stable PCL radio connection (IQ4AX-6) and PC network with WT 3.17 helped our score and our multipliers search. Congrats to the team of EA6IB for their usual EU top score, we have only reduced the gap to 1 million points....HI Thanks to all for calling us and to all the Contesters travelling around the world to activate such a great numbers of countries. Thanks to the WWDX contest committee to manage this great event. 73 de IR4X team Monte Capra Bologna Italy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IS0/OL0A Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 164,868 QTH north Sardina, about 100m from the sea, RIG Elecraft K2/100, ant 2el. mini beam, 8m high. Good fun even if condx were rather poor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IU1A Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 146,340 20m Vertical 6 beverages 270m USA , 200m JA, 200m VK, 200m sud Am. , 120m N , 120m S. IC756pro III + pa N1MM logging sw Good contest, for 1st experience on Topband. A major problem for almost all night: after 2 hours ,the rx out of order because of rain and the length of the cable. The afternoon after I went in under the pouring rain and I replaced the switch box. TU for all contact. CU next Year. 73 de Flavio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J28OO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,352,694 First time in CQ WW contest from Africa. Used Icom IC-7000 and Cushcraft R7 vertical antenna. High level of noise and QRM from unlis SSB users on CW part of amateur bands during whole contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J3A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 16,596,648 Looks like we broke the J3A record for total Q's on 40 and 80 meters. Unfortunatey 10 never opened to Europe. On 15 day 2 was much better than day 1. We blew an amp on 80 meters and scrambled to change it out with the 10 meter station. We want to appoligize if we initially messed up calls with a 'z' and/or a 'y' but we had 2 computers with European style keyboards. The 2 letters are reversed. Also the '/' is in a different location. Drove us crazy but we managed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA5FDJ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 11,380,470 Thanks all who worked us , was the same site of JR5VHU in the SSB part (and of course JA5BJC). We had much fun and satisfied with the score at the bottom of the solar-cycle. See you in the next contest! 73's Shin JA5FDJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JA6GCE Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 139,449 5W+6ELE YAGI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0AD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 273,714 Writelog says 14 hours which seems about right. I knocked off at 10:30 PM each night so didn't do too much on the low bands. Had a birthday party Saturday night until about 9 and didn't get started until about 11:30 AM on Sunday. Sunday afternoon was kind of tough trying to get through to the new mults under the packet induced pileups. It was nice to see the Sunday afternoon opening to Europe on 40 from here. Nice signals. I only heard a few whisper of sigs on 10 even though there were a lot of spots. I didn't have second radio going for this one so I didn't really check 10 that often. Worked the 5J0A MWA gang on 15, 20, and 40. They had some nice pileups going but lots of spots were busting their call as HJ0A. 73, Al, K0AD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 519,786 Pro 3 stopped working during Sunday afternoon, and I used my 775dsp back up rig. It was a brief break to have to hook it up to the Alpha 78 and Digi Keyer but all worked perfectly. This was a fun CW Contest. The operators from around the world were nice and courteous and I have increased my low band DXCC totals! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OD Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 73,710 Rig: TS-850, AL-1200 KW Amp, Ground mounted 1/4 wave vertical. 100% S&P Club: Mississippi Valley DX/Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 173,264 Just a casual first-time, part-time effort in CQWW. Conditions seemed very poor the first night but gradually improved a little by Sunday. At times it seemed I couldn't get out of my back yard. Also could not hear a lot of DX that stations 100 mi. south of me were working. Maybe too much auroral absorption this far north. Tried to get runs going several times but most of the few callers were zero-pointers. S&P was the only way to go. Ten was almost totally dead here. The only station I heard was W3LPL faintly calling CQ. I called several times but got only one "QRZ?" and no QSO. Was amused by an African stn. working a huge pile, zeroed on his TX freq., while telling callers to go "up." He never worked any of the dozens who were calling "up," only the ones on his freq. Truly a cluster! Maybe a *brilliant* tactical move to thin out the pile? Ya think? :^) Had mucho fun. 73, Paul-K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 382,298 It's quite "anti-motivational" to scroll through a page and a half of GREEN (double mults) on the 10m band and not hear a single signal! Well actually I heard 3X5A coming in S-9 but he didn't hear me or other locals calling their hearts out! A team from the Minnesota Wireless Assn activated 5J0A and ran up a nice score. Another member was operating from XU but I never saw a spot or heard him on the bands this year. This contest was 100% S&P for me running low power. 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RF Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,175,488 Well, it is nice to be back in the M/M game after a bit of a rest. Thought it would be time to have high-band propagation by now, but it wasn't to be. We had a super team. AA0RS worked 160 and had an all-time mult record for us. KV0Q worked 80 and dogged the band for a great mult total. No runs to Europe and only fair JA runs. K0AV, K7NV and N0NR worked 40 and shared in the dissapointment of very poor conditions. Essentially no European runs and our JA openings were weak and inconsistent. N9RV and W1XE worked 20 with Pat running rate and George picking up qsos on the second rig. The majority of the qsos were logged in about 8 hours of reasonable rate. The rest dribbled in over the rest of the 48 hour period. K0EU and AD1C ran 15. It was very poor with marginal Europe and JA. Every qso was a challenge. KO7X manned 10 with hours of not a single signal on the band. We are looking forward to better conditions so we can really test ourselves and the station. It was a great shakedown run and I have a list of about 20 items to attend to before the next one. Thanks for all the qsos. See you next year. 73, Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RI Class: SOSB(A)/40 LP Total Score = 25,102 IC-756proIII 160m horiz loop N1MM s/w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,574,896 Remember last year, when we thought we were at the bottom of the cycle and it couldn't get any worse? Apparently it can get a lot worse! Tough sledding all weekend. Still great fun. 73 Steve K0SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0TV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,037,552 This year we had a different kind of Murphy than last year. Two of the rotators had indicator problems but we knew about them and how to deal with them at the beginning of the contest. The only problem was that we had to go see which way the antennas were pointing. We could turn them but that took a trip outside to look which way they were pointing. The repaired 40 meter beam worked fabulously. That band was up from last year by a bunch. We had more countries and contacts on 40 than on 15. The upswing of the solar cycle will turn that around. Overall our score was just a little higher than last year. We all had fun watching the scores on http://www.getscores.org Gerry’s web site is now working very well. This year’s MVP for this contest goes to K1BG for overall effort and the top QSO count. Bruce was truly an asset to the team in all regards. Honorable mention goes to K1WD for two solid overnight efforts and to K1HI for a killer run Saturday morning despite a tight schedule. As always K2TE did a bang up job on 40 and 80 both evenings. Once again we all had a blast and can’t wait for next year’s contest. Best 73, Jerry, K0TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 793,104 Just before the contest decided to do Asssited High Power. Got the Alpha 87A back from Alpha and it worked great. A big thanks to Glenn, Anthony, Brad and Mary for getting it up and running. Another big thanks to Carson, WA0RSX for the ground crew work before the contest on the antenna systems and we still have more to do if weather permits. At first the bands were not very good just SA on 15mtrs and some on 10mtrs. Decided to ignore 10mtrs from what I was hearing and did a run on 20mtrs of some JA. Had to leave the shack early that evening due to family matters. Up early to work some 40mtrs and low bands. LP on 40mtrs was good, EU and deep Asia... Another late start on saturday due to family matters. Had a good run for me on 20mtrs sunday morning to EU and then missed some good times again due to family matters.Had good run on 40mtr LP. Finished off the contest inbetween the Broncos loss to Chicago with Asia, SA and Eu on 40mtrs..Some best monment XW1B, P4F, HS0,etc on 40mtrs. What a band...anyway thats it for me going to watch the Pats and Eagles...See you in the next one. PTL bill K0UK Finished off going thru the band and some EU on 40mtrs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XP Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 187,299 Mainly playing around, didn't get on until almost 04Z Friday night, and quit at 09Z. A few new countries on both 80 and 40, thanks to the expeditioners! Entering as SOSB/80 LP; the 40m log will be only as a checklog. Antennas sure do need improvement. In the Pacific, only worked a few KH6s and 2 ZLs on 80m but heard a few strong JAs long path early Sunday evening on 40m. Never heard KL7 loud enough to call them. Didn't bother trying 40m for the Pacific except early Sunday evening and only heard JAs: the AH2 and other Pacifics weren't audible to me. Couldn't get through to E51A Saturday night on 80 to save my life 8-( Good guy award: VE3NE, who, sometime during the last 2 hours on 40m, kindly moved when he happened to land close to some new multiplier I was chasing, called "QRL?" and I told him yes. Heard many instances of guys asking "QRL?" and moving when they got a response but several, especially one N3, seemed to be in a particularly obnoxious mood and insisted on slugging it out with other super-stations; maybe they had a fight with the significant-other just before the contest? ;o/ There were also a few guys, two 9s in particular, who clearly weren't hearing the DX inside the pileups and just added to the din; I never heard them work the DX. So what's new? ;o) All European ops that I heard were great as were the vast majority of Norte Americanos and all the expeditioners. Rig(s): Only one radio at a time, preferably my TS-680S but had to dig out the TS-130S for several hours when nearby strong signals overloaded the 680 early Saturday night on 40m. Ran both at 85 watts output. Surprisingly, had very little trouble with strong stations as close as 300 Hz as long as they weren't overloading these old radios. Only ran into one instance where someone was closer than that and could still copy the DX through them. Unlike in the ARRL DX test last spring, conditions were such that the super stations rarely got so loud as to overload the radios other than Friday night. 80m: Inv V ^ 16m 40m: Sloper ^ 18m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 193,590 A good workout for the new Steppir 3 element beam. Nice to be able to change directions 180 degrees then go back in a few seconds. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,124,577 New 40 m beam works well. 160 antenna did not work. Only one beam for high bands (X7). Need another tribander for SO2R on high bands. Gave up lots of 20m QSOs to get mults on 10 & 15 as I could barely work the loud guys - just like everyone else. Had LZ6A and LZ6W answer the same CQ. Now it's time for some football! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1DG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,331,260 New 80 and 160 antennas seemed to play well. Could not get a good run going on 15 at all. But still had fun! 73, Doug K1DG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,236,064 More fun than expected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 691,446 Rig: FT-1000D & N1MM Logger Antennas: KLM KT-34A at 50 ft., 40m dipole, 80m vertical, 160m vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 300,830 Sigs fell off on 20m by noon Sunday. New amp relays held up OK. CU all for ARRL. Tom K1IM, CT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,425,732 This was the shakedown cruise for the freshly rebuilt K1IR station. Starting in August, I tore the entire station apart - down to an empty room - with the goal of having a more reliable station with fewer interference problems ready to go on the air for the fall season. Just taking the station apart took several days. Man, there were a lot of cables buried behind the operating tables. I marked everything and stored it all away. Slowly, I began to put it all back together. Before actually installing and connecting anything, I had to decide on a variety of basic infrastructure approaches. I devised a new single-point grounding strategy with lightning protection. Next was new furniture. Then a cable management strategy and approaches to AC and DC power distribution. Mitigation of interstation interference was another major objective of the rebuild. After many consultations with W1HIS, K9YC and most recently, John, W1FV, I had all the advice I could stand, so I procured a ton of ferrite and introduced interference-reduction techniques into the rebuild process. It was John's recent work at KC1XX on interference issues that bridged the gap from the theoretical to the practical and allowed me to proceed with a real plan of action - thanks, John, for sharing what you learned. None of this happened quickly. I started a new job back in May, and my time available for personal projects dropped to zero. I stayed up late during weekdays and got up early on weekends to invest time in the rebuild. One of the best decisions I made was to use crimp connectors for all the inside coax cables and DC power cables. This substantially reduced the time required to build all the new cables. Yes - the plan was to replace every single old cable in the shack, making them all the "right" length and standardizing on just one cable type each for low power RF, high power RF and DC. The job wasn't finished when CQ WW SSB arrived. The RF wiring was only partially completed; there were no rotor control cables, and I hadn't even considered installing a computer yet. So, there was no operation in 2007 WW SSB. Tim, KT1D, asked if he could operate the station in ARRL SS CW. I thought this would be a good way to get motivated to finish at least part of the rebuild. I focused on getting two of the four operating positions ready for him. I had enough of the station ready in time and Tim did a great job in the contest. There was still a lot to do to be ready for WW CW three weeks later, so I invested many more late night hours in getting the RF and antenna control parts of the station completed. Then there were the computers. One computer for each operating position with software, computer control and cw interface were required. My old computers were quite varied in processing power, memory size, video capability and operating system. Gerry, W1VE, our Master Computer Guy, came over a full week before the contest, and did nothing but configure and install new computers with me. It took many hours, but we finally ended up with a working configuration at every operating position. All OS versions are now Windows XP, and the contest software is N1MM. CW keying is via MicroKeyers at all but one operating position. During the last week leading up to the contest, I had several remaining RF/antenna issues to deal with. I had to wire in the whole receive antenna switching setup. I had to complete the final station grounding. Around Thursday night, Gerry called and asked if we had any operators for the contest. I was still at work, and told him that wasn't one of the areas I had focused on . . . as a result, the operating team came together at the last minute. Gerry took on the roles of Anchor Op and Chief Recruiter. He was very committed, producing the lions share of our QSOs over the weekend. He also reached out to Rich, K2WR, convincing him that we were the best fit for his situation. His trip to Europe was cancelled at the last minute and, after talking to Gerry, he decided to drive up and join us for the weekend, contributing to the effort around the clock. We are particularly appreciative of Rich's efforts because he did all this in spite of some medical issues he's currently dealing with. Many thanks also to K1VR, a member of the K1IR Core Team. Fred brought stubs from his own station and kept the operation alive and pressing hard overnight; he made sure a lot of great mults went into the log. Andy, K2TJ, and Tim, KT1D, came out to the station on Saturday. They spent a few hours in the chair, but their major contribution to the effort this time was technical. I've had a persistent arcing problem in the 160M inverted-L. I did not have time to troubleshoot it before the contest, and it became a serious problem for us on Friday night at the start of the contest. The problem was so severe, we were essentially unable to work anybody on that band through Friday night. So, when Andy and Tim arrived on Saturday, I recruited them to help find and solve the 160M problem. After quite a few hours and replacing all of the feedline and rebuilding the entire matching network, we finally found the problem. The far end of the L had fallen from the supporting tree, and was laying on the ground, arcing to a radial. The ground in the area was heavily charred; there is no good reason that our Friday night efforts to put power into the antenna hadn't ignited a forest fire. A perennial problem here is the TIC RingRotor that turns the OptiBeam 40M Yagi. On Saturday morning, I found that something had slipped after heavy use of the rotor to work all the Asian mults overnight. I climbed the tower and got the antenna back in alignment. As I write this summary, I am in contact with Carl at TIC General to figure out how to eliminate this problem for good. My role in the contest was limited to technical support because of continuing overload from work. In between fixing antennas, I had to sit at the computer in my home office and get a ton of work done. So, with my limited availability, and with K2TJ and KT1D focused on getting the antenna fixed on Saturday, the operation was fully in the hands of W1VE, K1VR and K2WR, who did a great job of driving QSOs and mults into the log. Congrats to our M/S competitors - W3BGN, KT3Y, K8AZ, W3UA, K2LE, K2BA, K2QMF, W7VJ and any others I may have missed - for their great efforts. For the whole weekend, we watched Gerry's [W1VE] Real-Time Scoreboard. We were very focused on the Multi-Single category, of course, but this year, we only saw W3UA on the scoreboard in M/S. We still had great fun watching K1TTT battling with W2FU and NQ4I in M/M. It was also great to see K5ZD do his thing as Single-Op. Years ago, I pushed Gerry hard to build this tool. He finally got it out there! My observation is that the availability of the scoreboard is something that can have a real, positive influence on contesting. For the competitors, it raises the level of competition when you see your rivals in the list. Whether you are in the position of trying to maintain a lead or knowing you need to come from behind, having the current standings information in front of you is a great motivator. Although I spent the past few months working on the technical side of the K1IR operation, I know that the operator factor has far more impact on contesting success than any other variable. The scoreboard is a great way to help get the most from the operating team. It would be great to see everyone up there banging away for the lead. Multi-Single competitors - consider the gauntlet to have been thrown down. I'd like to challenge all of you to be on the scoreboard by the time the ARRL DX Contests come around in 2008. I know there are some technical challenges for stations who are using contest software programs that aren't yet able to hook into the scoreboard. But, I am willing to bet that W1VE will assist anyone who is motivated to get past those barriers. 73 and see you in February and March! Jim K1IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1KI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,753,195 Very casual weekend. K1KI about 5-6 hours, KM1P about 15. Loud signals from southern EU, not so loud from those to the north. 73 Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LT Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 47,094 I entered this test Single-Op Assisted, Single Band 160 Meters mainly as a warm-up for the ARRL 160 test next week. My main goals were to stay up all night and to make more points than last year. Regarding the first goal, I failed. By the end of the European opening each night, I was unable to maintain momentum, even after a 2 hour nap. Both nights, I got up at 0930Z and checked the packet cluster to see what I missed, and then went back to sleep. I've never been an all night person. I suppose I could multi-op, but K8ND keeps running off to the Caribbean, and one can't enter as a multi-op in a single-band category. Regarding the second goal, I succeeded. About 33% more Qs and about the same number of multipliers makes a bigger score. I operated for the first 20 minutes with the wrong zone programmed in my exchange message. I manually corrected the Cabrillo log to reflect the error. Only 4 contacts were affected. See everyone in the ARRL 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,865,561 After 2 years of building the station it is finally done as follow: antennas 3 towers 1st tower 190 feet: 10 M2 4 x 7 stack 15 M2 3 x 6 stack 20 M2 3 x 6 stack 2nd tower 150 feet: 4 over 4 SteppIR Monster 3rd tower 90 feet: Single SteppIR Monster 40M: 3 monster SteppIR and a full seize 30 feet elevated 4 square. 80M: 4 Element wire Yagi pointed Europe. Full seize 4 square elevated 30 feet, solid ground plane 22000 square feet steel roof and additional 32 full seize radials under each vertical. 160M: Inverted V at 190 feet and my special MIRTA antenna (length 1.5 wave length) pointed to Europe and about 10dB gain to Europe. Equipment: 3 Icom 7800 3 Icom 781 2 acom 2000A amplifiers This station is fully setup for Multi 2; Multi single and single op SO2R For this contest I used SO2R for the first time. (Micro Keyer 2R+) All the switching is fully automated by N1MM software. I started in beginning successfully with SO2R but then I realize that is was kind of confusing and the Micro Keyer gave a lot of bugs, so I went to the old fashion way 2 radio’s and manual controlled switching, I also had to use 2 computers for logging this was a lot of work and a lot of wasted time. I think my station works absolutely fabulous special on 160, 80 and 40 meters. I may never challenge any body on the high bands but on the low band I hope I will have some competion in the future (from the USA) I am glad that there are still a lot of SO2R operators and friend who give me a lot of drive for future contest, thanks to everybody and see you in the next one. Krassy, K1LZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1NQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 358,581 80M vertical way lying on the ground ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,744,234 Replaced all the feedlines 3 days before the contest with N2NL's help - thanks Dave! After a previous HP contest effort an irate neighbor had severely shortened the previous feedlines. I figured a low power effort would forestall a similar action until I get them inside some steel pipe. I am sure the neighbors were confused to see the antennas rotating all weekend and no other evidence of my being radio active. I must admit, it was really fun to play without packet and amplifiers for a change. Ninety percent of the time the 100 watts was totally effective. I did miss a few juicy mults that I'd normally work and it was hard to get any decent runs going on 20 which was my weak link for a top score. I always have trouble hearing on the low bands so I don't think LP made much difference there. Thanks for the Q's and the competition! I see that K1BX has the big SOLP score - Congrats! Paul K1PT OMNI 6+ and FT-1000D N1MM Logger C31XR w/ 3 separate feedlines at 60 feet XM-240 at 72 feet 66' vertical for 80/160 1/4 acre lot on salt water canal with hostile neighbors! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,112,140 Our group grows smaller - moved from MM category to Mult 2. Still had lots of fun, not much sleep, tried the new K3 (like it very much), low band conditions were the best seen in many years from this station - working Zone 23 on 80 was a highlight, and the Saturday morning opening to SE Asia was spectacular on 40 M. Thanks to all participants around the world - job well done! 73, Mark, K1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 215,468 Single indoor wire antenna, near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Jim Cain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,133,188 K1AR preaches that regular activity is one of the secrets to success in contesting. That was brought home to me this weekend. I haven't been on much from home lately because of travel, so it was a surprise when I turned on the radios Friday night and encountered serious intermittent line noise -- most of the time bouncing the meter up to S9 -- at my location, which is normally slightly noisy to the west but dead quiet toward Europe. Monday night after the contest I traced the problem to arcing on a pole across the road from my driveway, about 700 feet from the nearest antenna. Had I done my homework before the contest I might have been able to get it fixed. Instead, the weekend was a teeth-gritting exercise. Most of the time I wasn't able to call CQ because I didn't have a prayer of hearing most callers. I was able to use the noise blanker on 10, but not on the other bands because of too many signals. Normally I can operate CW for many hours at a time without fatigue, but copying through pulsating noise wore me out and I had to take more breaks than usual -- on top of which there was no point in operating at times when most signals were weak. Still, even though I couldn't be competitive this year, it was more fun operating than not operating. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,795,224 First assisted entry in a long time. Spent too much time DXing and not enough time running. All things considered, I would rather have been on from Montserrat! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,588,500 Due to some of our regular gang retiring from contesting, moving away and vacationing (on Dxpedition to J3A), we were down a skeleton crew..so we chose M/S category this year. Due to computer malfunctions we had only two active positions available, needing a chinese fire drill type rearranging and rerouting a million cables- just before the contest started. Most surprising was to find heavy contest activity between 14000 and 14130 kHz. Never even thought of looking there till a spot for VU2PAI appeared on 14122 (worked him on one call). Also, EU was workable on 40 meters 24 hours a day.. Equipment : 2 x FT1000 MPs, 2 x Alpha 87 Amps. Antennas: ( on 4 towers ) 10 m: 8 ele @ 110', 6 ele @ 52', 4 ele @ 96' fixed south 15 m: 5 ele rotary @ 62', 3 ele @ 96' south 20 m: 5 over 5 stack @ 95/65', 3 ele @ 75' 40 m: 4 ele yagi @ 100', 3 ele @75' 80/160 Inv. Vee @ 95', NE/SW beverages ( scheduled for serious uograde next year) It was fun as always- my 53th year of CQWW contesting - from 4 continents Andy K2LE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,415,404 No problems from Murphy here -- just a problem with the alarm clock (the Murphy Bed)? Overslept two hours Sunday morning, missing a good part of the EU opening, an inexcusable lapse for an East Coast station. Fell short of last year's totals, and I could blame the difference in 15M propagation, but I probably would have matched last year but for the alarm clock. Oh well. I was a bit more enthusiastic about the contest this year since the perennial winner Ed, N1UR, was off somewhere on the other side of the world, so not competing in the SOAB LP class. But alas, there's a new kid in town, K1BX, who managed to beat N1UR in SSB, and who looks to take the CW title as well. Congrats! Pete, K2PS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,202,703 Very Poor Condx. Second rig went deaf at the begining. We had a power failure Saturday AM... Had lots of fun. 73, Ted K2QMF and crew ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,308,600 Virtually all S&P. Could not sustain a run. Went to bed Sunday wee hours with high Q expectations, but dreams shattered in am. Spent the day discovering lots of Mults instead. Most fun was busting some pileups on first call. Still my favorite DX test. 100W with low C3SS tribander (amazing antenna) and monoband wires. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,608,749 That was my attempt to make US top 3 in CQWW CW for the 5th time in a row since 2003. Although it looks like I might have made it, with K1LZ having virtually the same score 6 hours before the end, KQ2M and probably someone else, chances are that it will be a very close call. No matter how it's going to turn out, however, I'm quite happy with the outcome. Partially because I fulfilled one of my childish dreams - 80 meters CW DXCC in 48 hours without using THAT thing, partially because I really don't see how I could've done better. Of course, I did make some mistakes here and there but 6M seems to be the practical limit for me in this one. Preparations started immediately after CQWW Phone. WA3FET and I spent most of the weekends working on the station. We got at least one rotating antenna on each 20, 15 and 10, got all of the beverages working and what was the most important - we found the problem with the main 40 meters antenna that was plaguing us for the last two years. It immediately showed up in the score - my 40 numbers are finally up to pair with the other W3 landers. Friday afternoon everything looked great - the station was just perfect, I was really motivated and ready to go and it seemed that nothing could spoil my weekend. Then, an hour before the contest, I started feeling my throat sore. Two hours later it became obvious that I caught some cold while working on the beverages under the rain on Thursday. As strange as it might sound, this really did help a lot. Having to blow my nose off every two minutes kept me awake all 48 hours. I did take an hour off on Sunday morning not because I was tired but just to get rid of the headphones for awhile. The only time I felt like I don't know what I was doing was in the early Sunday afternoon. K1LZ called to chat for a while and then it turned out I was having troubles sending with the paddle. Getting outside for a smoke and a short run did freshen up my head a bit and after that I just kept the shack temperature equal to the outside one. This definitely took care of my sleep deprivation but it felt REALLY cold. Anyway, it was a great contest with all of its downfalls and great moments. Congratulations to K5ZD for the fantastic score and to everyone who made it through the end despite the operator's fatigue and equipment failures. My sincere thanks to Jim, WA3FET for letting me operate his station and all the help and encouragement ! 73, Alex LZ4AX -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 27 18 14 0 0 59 1.9 0100 14 13 0 15 0 0 42 1.4 0200 9 56 12 0 0 0 77 2.5 0300 11 19 1 0 0 0 31 1.0 0400 0 50 28 0 0 0 78 2.5 0500 21 0 21 0 0 0 42 1.4 0600 3 92 8 0 0 0 103 3.3 0700 16 56 2 0 0 0 74 2.4 0800 0 17 28 0 0 0 45 1.5 0900 7 6 16 0 0 0 29 0.9 1000 7 10 11 0 0 0 28 0.9 1100 3 7 2 12 0 0 24 0.8 1200 0 0 1 154 0 0 155 5.0 1300 0 0 0 169 1 0 170 5.5 1400 0 0 0 50 90 0 140 4.5 1500 0 0 0 8 113 0 121 3.9 1600 0 0 0 6 36 0 42 1.4 1700 0 0 0 122 6 0 128 4.1 1800 0 0 0 96 5 1 102 3.3 1900 0 0 0 31 12 0 43 1.4 2000 0 0 0 34 11 0 45 1.5 2100 0 0 57 0 1 0 58 1.9 2200 0 0 114 1 1 0 116 3.8 2300 0 2 39 13 0 0 54 1.7 0000 0 36 24 0 0 0 60 1.9 0100 6 28 0 0 0 0 34 1.1 0200 0 34 9 0 0 0 43 1.4 0300 3 27 3 0 0 0 33 1.1 0400 3 26 0 0 0 0 29 0.9 0500 0 53 1 0 0 0 54 1.7 0600 6 18 3 0 0 0 27 0.9 0700 0 74 0 0 0 0 74 2.4 0800 1 8 12 0 0 0 21 0.7 0900 0 1 4 0 0 0 5 0.2 1000 1 4 0 0 0 0 5 0.2 1100 0 1 7 10 0 0 18 0.6 1200 0 0 2 93 0 0 95 3.1 1300 0 0 0 121 8 0 129 4.2 1400 0 0 0 62 48 4 114 3.7 1500 0 0 0 0 111 5 116 3.8 1600 0 0 0 9 7 21 37 1.2 1700 0 0 0 86 12 0 98 3.2 1800 0 0 0 34 7 4 45 1.5 1900 0 0 1 28 4 0 33 1.1 2000 0 0 19 2 0 0 21 0.7 2100 0 0 38 2 0 0 40 1.3 2200 0 0 49 8 0 0 57 1.8 2300 0 6 42 6 0 0 54 1.7 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 112 672 572 1186 473 35 3050 The best 60 minute rate was 182/hour from 1253 to 1352 The best 30 minute rate was 194/hour from 1253 to 1322 The best 10 minute rate was 204/hour from 1258 to 1307 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 14 22 249 172 441 150 0 1034 33.5 15 23 184 171 361 181 0 920 29.8 16 2 42 31 119 3 0 197 6.4 04 15 44 30 29 10 2 130 4.2 20 2 19 20 48 20 0 109 3.5 05 7 38 21 25 12 3 106 3.4 08 16 19 22 16 14 8 95 3.1 33 4 11 13 14 11 0 53 1.7 09 5 6 12 11 7 4 45 1.5 03 2 15 5 13 6 0 41 1.3 07 3 6 7 9 8 4 37 1.2 13 1 3 6 8 7 6 31 1.0 25 0 2 3 24 0 0 29 0.9 11 0 2 5 7 9 3 26 0.8 31 3 6 5 5 7 0 26 0.8 35 2 2 4 6 5 2 21 0.7 06 1 4 7 4 4 0 20 0.6 38 1 2 1 9 4 1 18 0.6 32 0 4 9 2 3 0 18 0.6 21 0 3 6 4 2 0 15 0.5 17 0 1 1 10 1 0 13 0.4 10 1 2 2 3 2 2 12 0.4 30 0 1 8 1 1 0 11 0.4 02 2 2 2 2 1 0 9 0.3 37 0 0 0 3 3 0 6 0.2 40 0 0 0 4 1 0 5 0.2 12 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.1 18 0 1 3 0 0 0 4 0.1 39 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.1 01 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0.1 27 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.1 36 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.1 23 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 24 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 26 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 29 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.0 22 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 112 672 572 1186 473 35 3050 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1629 2 bands 314 3 bands 138 4 bands 54 5 bands 17 6 bands 13 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: P40W VP5W HC8N LT1F ZF1A J3A 3X5A TI5N PJ4A PJ2T V47NT HI3A H7/K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 13,983,081 Congrats to all of the multi multi operations on their spectacular operations. W3LPL and KC1XX are super competition here in the USA and our hats go off to both teams! The did GREAT! Good job! Special congrats to the M?M teams at NQ4I, K5GO, K0RF and K1TTT. They are doing better and better every time! We know everyone had lots of fun and we had a SUPER time as well! This is what contesting is all about! Thanks to all of the CW contestmen that traveled to Western Pennsylvania to be a part of the K3LR team for CQWW CW 2007. K3UA and K8CX worked DX all night long on 80. Four QSOs with zone 18 and a qso with XW kept spirits high. 40 meter chief operator John, N2NC who has been working on the west coast pushed hard with bandmate Mark, M0DXR from London. They were Working Europe at noon local time on 40 meters! N6MJ and KL9A traveled in from the west coast too and did the 48 hours of hard work on 20 meters working DX all from over the planet. They only missed zone 23! Doug, N6RT and Scotty, N3RA (nice to have him back!) did 15 meters. They can't wait for sunspots. 10 meters was Iron man N3GJ with K3LR newcomer Al, N5UM from Oklahoma City. Lots of time in the chairs with only 100 QSOs. Thanks to Greg, N3SD who filled in on all the bands and made it happen. Special thanks to Dave, W9ZRX who keeps things purring along before, during and after every contest here at K3LR! I'd be lost without you! K3LR Station Description is on teh K3LR website http://www.k3lr.com HARDWARE tab. We'll see you for the ARRL DX contest in February (CW) and March (Phone). For the K3LR team, Seasons Greetings and Very 73! Tim K3LR K3LR@K3LR.com BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES OPERATORs 160 302 730 2.42 25 96 K3LR 80 1144 3056 2.67 32 123 K3UA + K8CX 40 1320 3385 2.56 39 159 N2NC + M0DXR 20 2315 6552 2.83 39 160 N6MJ + KL9A + N3SD 15 685 1815 2.65 30 132 N6RT + N3RA 10 104 191 1.84 14 40 N3GJ + N5UM --------------------------------------------------- Totals 5870 15729 2.68 179 710 => 13,983,081 Continent Statistics 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 122 210 293 241 150 62 1078 17.8 South America 17 24 56 99 79 35 310 5.1 Europe 144 856 830 1724 387 0 3941 65.2 Asia 6 36 75 224 12 0 353 5.8 Africa 12 24 52 55 46 6 195 3.2 Oceania 10 29 54 46 25 2 166 2.7 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 17/19 46/38 103/85 31/24 2/3 ..... 199/169 199/169 1 14/9 62/28 76/24 22/5 . . 174/66 373/235 2 15/10 53/10 59/11 17/4 . . 144/35 517/270 3 16/10 33/15 50/4 16/6 . . 115/35 632/305 4 13/8 40/7 37/6 7/8 . . 97/29 729/334 5 29/12 89/11 40/2 17/7 . . 175/32 904/366 6 28/13 109/8 40/4 9/7 . . 186/32 1090/398 7 29/4 47/4 35/5 11/6 . . 122/19 1212/417 8 11/4 41/6 15/1 6/4 ..... ..... 73/15 1285/432 9 7/0 14/2 16/3 4/2 . . 41/7 1326/439 10 11/6 12/0 15/12 22/9 . . 60/27 1386/466 11 10/4 10/4 22/11 37/14 . . 79/33 1465/499 12 2/0 4/4 28/5 178/33 26/34 1/2 239/78 1704/577 13 . . 8/0 194/9 44/42 5/8 251/59 1955/636 14 . . 8/0 200/10 80/26 2/3 290/39 2245/675 15 . . 5/0 180/6 87/8 1/1 273/15 2518/690 16 ..... ..... 1/0 115/4 34/3 7/5 157/12 2675/702 17 . . 5/0 98/1 28/12 3/0 134/13 2809/715 18 . . 14/1 54/3 28/5 2/1 98/10 2907/725 19 . . 17/1 44/6 20/1 . 81/8 2988/733 20 . 2/0 91/2 34/5 18/2 11/10 156/19 3144/752 21 4/2 35/0 77/3 59/4 10/7 4/2 189/18 3333/770 22 3/2 38/1 88/1 71/3 4/2 1/0 205/9 3538/779 23 3/0 33/1 45/1 27/1 . . 108/3 3646/782 0 14/5 28/1 25/0 9/1 ..... ..... 76/7 3722/789 1 7/1 30/2 25/3 10/3 . . 72/9 3794/798 2 7/1 52/1 22/0 14/1 . . 95/3 3889/801 3 10/5 58/3 19/2 12/0 . . 99/10 3988/811 4 6/0 66/2 17/1 8/0 . . 97/3 4085/814 5 9/0 50/1 16/0 2/0 . . 77/1 4162/815 6 6/1 58/0 10/1 1/0 . . 75/2 4237/817 7 6/0 44/0 12/0 . . . 62/0 4299/817 8 ..... 31/1 14/1 ..... ..... ..... 45/2 4344/819 9 3/3 10/4 7/0 . . . 20/7 4364/826 10 1/0 10/1 6/0 2/0 . . 19/1 4383/827 11 2/0 1/0 2/2 7/0 3/0 . 15/2 4398/829 12 1/0 2/0 17/2 99/3 12/1 . 131/6 4529/835 13 . . 20/1 160/2 50/6 . 230/9 4759/844 14 . . 6/0 135/1 67/4 11/11 219/16 4978/860 15 . . 14/0 135/1 82/1 11/1 242/3 5220/863 16 ..... ..... 4/0 99/0 19/1 23/8 145/9 5365/872 17 . . 7/0 48/2 21/2 14/0 90/4 5455/876 18 . . 8/0 27/0 16/0 3/0 54/0 5509/876 19 . . 19/0 20/1 20/2 1/0 60/3 5569/879 20 . . 26/1 13/0 10/0 2/2 51/3 5620/882 21 1/1 8/0 56/2 18/2 4/0 1/0 88/5 5708/887 22 9/0 9/0 39/0 23/1 . 1/0 81/1 5789/888 23 8/1 19/0 34/0 20/0 . . 81/1 5870/889 DAY1 212/103 668/139 895/182 1453/181 381/145 37/32 ..... 3646/782 DAY2 90/18 476/16 425/16 862/18 304/17 67/22 . 2224/107 TOT 302/121 1144/155 1320/198 2315/199 685/162 104/54 . 5870/889 QSO Counts By Band-Country PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3B8 1 1 2 3DA 1 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 1 3X 1 1 1 1 1 1 4L 2 2 2 1 4O 1 1 1 1 1 4U1I 1 1 1 4X 1 1 3 5 2 5B 1 4 3 5 3 5H 1 1 1 5R 1 1 1 5W 1 1 5X 1 1 6W 1 3 2 3 2 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 7X 1 1 1 8P 1 3 3 4 4 1 9A 6 12 17 21 9 9G 2 1 1 9H 1 1 1 1 1 9K 1 1 1 9M2 1 9M6 1 3 9V 1 9Y 1 1 A3 1 1 A4 1 1 1 A7 1 1 1 BV 1 BY 3 4 C3 1 C6 2 2 3 3 1 C9 1 1 CE 1 2 1 2 1 CE0Y 1 CM 2 3 3 4 1 CN 3 2 1 2 1 CP 2 1 CT 1 2 2 5 2 CT3 3 3 4 5 4 CU 1 1 1 1 1 CX 1 1 3 2 3 2 D2 1 1 1 D4 1 1 1 1 1 1 DL 17 169 130 337 49 DU 1 2 E5/s 1 1 1 1 1 1 E7 1 6 7 11 5 EA 3 33 54 67 45 EA6 2 2 3 3 2 EA8 2 7 13 12 12 EA9 1 1 EI 2 5 3 12 3 ER 2 2 5 1 ES 2 3 2 6 EU 10 2 9 EX 1 EY 1 1 F 8 46 45 92 32 FG 1 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FK 1 1 FM 1 2 3 3 3 2 FO 2 1 1 FR 1 FY 1 1 1 1 G 20 57 39 123 7 GD 1 1 5 1 GI 1 1 1 5 GJ 1 2 1 2 2 GM 1 11 4 24 3 GM/s 1 1 GU 4 2 3 1 GW 4 7 1 13 1 HA 3 34 29 47 15 HB 3 13 17 30 13 HC 1 HC8 1 1 1 1 1 1 HH 1 1 HI 2 2 2 2 2 1 HK 2 2 5 6 7 2 HK0/a 1 1 1 1 1 1 HL 1 3 HP 1 1 1 HR 1 2 4 3 2 2 HS 2 HZ 2 1 1 I 6 43 58 110 54 IG9 1 1 1 1 IS 2 4 10 2 IT9 1 1 3 5 3 J2 1 2 J3 1 1 2 3 1 1 J7 1 J8 1 1 1 1 JA 3 13 21 178 1 JT 1 JW 1 1 JY 1 1 K 29 92 149 82 45 31 KH0 1 KH2 2 2 2 KH6 4 9 7 8 7 1 KL 1 3 2 6 1 KP2 2 1 2 1 1 1 KP4 2 1 2 3 2 2 LA 2 9 2 13 2 LU 1 2 13 29 18 9 LX 1 1 3 1 2 LY 2 14 5 15 1 LZ 1 9 10 18 4 OA 2 1 1 3 1 1 OE 2 6 13 14 5 OH 1 15 11 41 14 OH0 1 1 1 1 1 OK 6 56 75 104 26 OM 5 17 12 28 9 ON 1 18 16 38 6 OY 2 1 1 OZ 2 12 3 21 P4 2 2 3 2 2 2 PA 2 23 21 57 3 PJ2 2 2 2 2 2 2 PJ7 3 1 2 2 1 PY 3 9 18 36 34 12 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 S2 1 S5 7 25 39 50 20 S7 1 2 1 1 SM 6 14 7 35 3 SP 6 42 32 75 4 SU 1 SV 2 2 3 14 2 SV9 1 1 1 1 T8 2 3 TA 1 1 TA1 1 TF 2 5 1 TG 1 4 1 TI 1 1 2 2 1 1 TU 1 1 1 UA 2 42 45 75 3 UA2 1 4 1 3 1 UA9 10 25 14 2 UN 2 1 1 UR 2 33 44 74 2 V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 1 1 1 V5 1 3 3 1 1 V7 1 VE 57 77 88 92 49 7 VK 4 7 20 8 5 VK9C 1 1 VP2E 1 1 VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 1 1 1 1 VP9 1 1 2 1 2 2 VQ9 1 VR 1 1 VU 3 XE 5 5 11 14 12 XF4 1 XW 1 1 1 YB 1 YL 4 6 4 10 YN 1 1 1 1 1 1 YO 1 13 20 33 3 YS 1 2 1 1 1 1 YU 2 19 20 41 18 YV 1 2 3 6 3 2 Z2 1 1 1 Z3 1 5 5 2 ZB 1 ZC4 1 ZD7 1 1 1 ZF 1 1 1 2 2 1 ZL 1 9 13 15 9 ZP 1 3 2 ZS 1 10 9 9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,309,720 IC-7800 HF2500DX 4L qyad wide spaced Super loop 80 160 Inv. L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 34,317 Conditions were better than I expected. Had some nice short S&P bursts during the gray line propogation. I had fun with low power and even lower antennas. :) PK (Paul - K3MZ K2 #3135 K3 #xxx) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,360,158 CQWW is the best!! 10/15m not so good. Great surprise to have XW1A come back to a cq through a European run on 15m Sunday morning. Great skew path opening to Asia on 40m Sunday sunrise. 73, Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PH Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,733,549 As usual, set a goal of 32 hours in the chair. That seems to be all I can manage. Badly misplayed 15 meters on Saturday morning. Remains to be seen if the 20 meter totals made up for it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 51,660 Same crippled setup and time availability that I faced in CQWW SSB, but thankfully less of a struggle on CW! Still lots of fun, despite the challenges! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3STX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 60,214 This was my first ever foray into a QRP contest. I finally got a wattmeter that can go that low, so I thought I would give it a try. I have no idea how well or poor my performance was. I DO know that I was unable to run anytime at all (I expected that) but was actually amazed that I could make it through using my dipole antennas (none higher than 60 feet). How frustrating to have really loud EU stations just CQ in my face while I called over and over and over. 15 was great Saturday morning and afternoon, and while I heard some activity on 10 M I could not get through. I accomplished what I set out to accomplish; learn a little bit of QRP DX, and my DXCC total, after 48 hours of this, stands at 58. paul Kenwood TS-850S/AT 20/40 fan dipole up 40 feet to Eu; 130 foot long center fed Zepp + tuner; 80 M vertical and 160 M inverted L, each sharing about 20 radials ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3SV Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 261,568 Vertical and 100 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,757 Tnx to all for the QSOs FT 897D Hustler Gnd Mtd Vertical Confirmation #: 1049835.cq-ww-cw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 530,067 Always a fun contest. Trying to beat my previous records but couldn't quiet make it. Thanks to all the stations who could pull me out of the noise, particularly on the low bands. Pet peeve is some stations telling me "QSO B4" but they are not in my log and refuse to work me. We both miss that QSO. Guess that's a crowded band problem. TS-570DG, AL811H, A4S, R7, Inv. V, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 199,511 Another contest with s9 line noise. My appologies to all that called me that I could not copy. It is raining today and the noise is gone (for now), the K is down, but the contest finished yesterday! The only station I heard but could not work was 4L0A. I heard several other 4's that worked him. I think they were all in VA, NC, or FL. So I missed Z21. I did manage to work 1 JA on Saturday and heard him again on Sunday. But no others were heard. Worked S79 and 5R8 on first call. Several nice surprises included SU9NC, ZD7X, and YS/K9GY who answered my CQ. Thanks to all for the QSO's and the fun weekend. 73's Neal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4LY Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 37,518 My 90 year old mother-in-law was visiting from northern NY, so I could only sneak away for a few hours. My only goal was to complete seasonal DXCC (the Low Band Monitor challenge) on 80M which I did early Friday night (and I added 11 more by contest end). Running 1 KW to Hygain Hytower with thirty 50' 80M radials and ten 160M 100' radials snaked around where they will fit on my small yard. Heard a number of Colorado friends (what a great score by the gang at K0RF!) and kudos to AA4V and AA4S and others in the Carolina DX Assn who were big gun models of civility in the pileups. I'm already looking forward to next year's CQWWs. See you in the 160M bash! Doug K4LY Inman (upstate) SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4MM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 112,881 Rig: TS-2000 Antenna: 160 Meter Inverted "L" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,992 100 WATTS ON A WIRE! RIG: YAESU FT-897D 100 WATTS OUTPUT ANT: SINGLE WIRE DIPOLES ONLY TRY THIS - IT'S A MIXTURE OF EXCITEMENT, FRUSTRATION, SHEER GLEE, AND A MADDENING ANGER (AT TIMES). IT'S A TRUE MEASURE OF ONE'S COMMITTMENT TO SEEING THINGS THROUGH. MY XYL IS ALWAYS RELIEVED WHEN A CONTEST ENDS. DETAILS: Band..................Aggregate.80......40......20......15......10....Multi Total Contacts..........116......0......41......24......49.......2 Countries Worked.........54......0......33......17......31.......2......83 Continents Worked.........5......0.......5.......4.......5.......2 Zones Worked.............20......0......18.......9......16.......2......45 Total Number of Multipliers:.......128 Total Number of Points:............289 CLAIMED SCORE:...................36,992 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4PI Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 81,848 First night was good but second night was a waste due to high QRN levels from a storm moving through. Ended contest at 12:15 the second day due to noise. Like all fishing stories there were so many that got away due either to they were answering someone else's CQ and would not respond HZ1EX, UR7EM,4X60,TF4M, CX5BW, ZS1REC, and others I can't recall. I think my next outing I will go into the Assisted class to see how many I can work as I miss so many that the MM/MS stations see on packet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 935,716 A QSL card from my 2005 contact with VU4RBI arrived the day of the contest; I thought it was a good omen. Unfortunately, lack of adequate preparation on my part resulted in far fewer hours of operation than I had planned. I didn't get my new filter plans executed in time, and thus I never powered up the second radio at all. This was a 95% S&P operation - only about 50 CQs were worked calling CQ. I just combed the bands from top to bottom, over and over again. Lots of great DX as only the CQWW brings out. Thanks for being there! Hoping for better conditions next year. 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,123,584 My goals were to get 1M points (a first for me in any contest). Big improvement over the 215K from 2006, my first CQWW CW. Had a lot of fun, but would have had more fun if I could have done some running -- well, actually I did try to run a few times but out of 920 Q's, I think I had about 915 from S&P! Had fun with the real-time scoreboard at getscores.org, would be nice to see more people participate. If you use one of the supported logging programs, it is effortless once installed. My 160M and 80M antennas are still suffering from intermittent jumps in SWR that trip the SWR fault protection on the Tokyo Hy-Power amp. I used the AL-80B on those bands and other than one tune-up that resulted in that "burning electrical stuff" smell, all worked well. Hmm, last time that happened, the AL-80B had to go into the shop... hope I caught it in time, so far so good. I did try re-routing the 160M antenna away from tree branches and replacing the insulators but no joy, still having the same problem. However, moving the antenna around did give me that "man is this going to work great" feeling you get whenever you put up a new antenna or "improve" an existing one. When the contest got started at 7PM local I scanned 20M briefly and decided to go straight to 40M. After realizing within the first 15 minutes that I was not going to get anything going running, I began the "2 Day S&P Marathon." Eight hours of grinding it out on 40M and 80M, with a quick side-trip to 160, netted me a whopping 239 Q's by 3:30AM local time, at which point I decided it was time for a break -- after all, can't miss the sunrise grayline! Got about 4 hours sleep and missed the grayline... 6 Q's on 40M and off I went to 20. Since I was S&P-bound, my M.O. was the same for each band. I used WriteLog's bandmap and spot list, and double-clicked my way through the band, trying to get all the mults first. It's kind of fun watching the spots in the bandmap become dark blue. When the bandmap was almost all dark blue, I'd change bands on the radio and see if the "next logical band" had some good prospects (lots of yellow and light blue spots). If it did, I'd work that one until the rate dropped or the band map was all dark blue again. Yes, I do remember how to use the knobs on the radio! But I think the visual aids go along with the audio ones quite nicely. Between the spectrum display on the Icom 756 Pro II, WriteLog's bandmap, and MRP 40's nice visual display of a CW pileup, there were several ways to get "the big picture" at a glance. These all really help improve my efficiency. My wife and I went to see a movie Saturday afternoon -- she is very supportive about this "contest thing" but after all, it is a holiday weekend here in the US. I wanted her to remember more about it than what the back of my head looks like when I'm sporting headphones. I checked it out in the mirror once, it's not so great. I went through the 15 - 20 - 40 - 80 progression again Saturday night, ending a bit after local midnight as things were getting slow (including my brain). Got up Sunday morning about an hour earlier than Saturday, and after a short, not very productive spin through 40M, I headed up to 20M, earlier than I normally would think to go there. Good move! The band was full of stations, and miracle of miracles, they could hear me too, on my homebrew hexbeam at 10 meters. This was the most fun hour of the contest -- I could work stations about as fast as I could click on the bandmap, fine tune the radio, and send my call. Although the peak hour was only 57 Q's, the rate hit 120/hr for a few minutes. Good stuff! Things slowed down for the rest of the day, with a little fun on 10M around local noon. I got into hamming 18 months ago, so at this point my DXCC total for 10M is only 39 entities heard. Funny, but now that small number of entities includes 3X! Although there were a handful of stations that were S5 or better and couldn't hear me at all, there were far more who managed to copy my exchange when it was obvious I must have been an S1 or S2 there. Kudos and thanks! You have to appreciate a DX station's patience with "yet another K" station that adds only QSO points to their totals, while giving me a nice mult. Stuff I'm learning: * Deductions are not a good thing -- I've gotten over being shy about asking for repeats. Hopefully not to excess. I also repeated my call in the exchange when the pileup covered my call as sent by the other station. * Timing is everything. In most pileups, I was able to get through by slipping my call in quickly when the mob stopped calling. My apologies for the times I stepped on the DX. Oops. Thanks to everyone for the Q's and another fun contest! CU next time. 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 883,280 Line noise! S-7 all bands and covering everything from due north to 120 degrees. Low bands were really grim. The noise blanker took it out if there were no signals over S-9+20, like that's going to happen. This week will be spent seeking out this new source of misery.... High point: working 3X5A on 160m, first call. Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,151,040 We have been pretty lucky the past couple of years with conditions during both modes of CQ WW DX however, it caught up with us this weekend. I couldn't get any runs going the first night on 40 or 80. That's with a 3 element wire beam at 140' on 80 and a pair of 4 element 40 meter yagi's at 180'/100'. Then, it got worse. I went to move the multiplier tower (N3HBX has rotating towers) to the Pacific and it gave me a position fault. The tower wouldn't turn. It was pointing to the Caribbean. Next I went to rotate the 15 meter tower, which also contains the Lazy H on 80 as described in a recent NCJ. It went about 20 degrees and faulted. John stopped by mid morning Saturday so I gave him the news. The control relays in the multiplier tower (30 amp contacts) were melted together! The breaker for the 15 meter tower tripped so he reset it. I went to load up the 15 meter stack and the SWR was high. For whatever reason, the 15 meter tower decided to start rotating on its own. After about two revolutions the coax ripped apart and became caught up in the gears. John said it was a real mess! That meant what I had left on 15 was the multipler antennas to the south. Eventually he did get the multiplier tower towards Europe so I had a short run late Sunday as the sun was setting across Western Europe. Also the shredded coax meant no Lazy H so I was left with an inverted V on 80 meters to directions other than Europe. Not the easiest thing to work JA and Pacific with. (OK I'm spoiled) I had visions of hanging it up Sunday afternoon and going home to watch some football. But, I really was still having a good time running John's station. Then it became a contest within a contest to see if I could reach 4 million. Even with a fully functioning station, I would not have caught K5ZD and would have been pressed to match Doug's (K1DG) score. Going in my goal was to try and close the gap from last year and then let the chips fall where they may. There's always next year. Thanks again to N3HBX for allowing me to operate a great station in the best contest of the year. It doesn't get much better than that. Ken Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- 46/42 4/7 --+-- --+-- --+-- 50/49 50/49 D1-0100Z - 5/5 50/44 - - - 55/49 105/98 D1-0200Z 22/23 2/2 7/3 - - - 31/28 136/126 D1-0300Z 3/1 - 68/16 - - - 71/17 207/143 D1-0400Z 4/3 23/9 30/4 - - - 57/16 264/159 D1-0500Z 7/8 49/4 - - - - 56/12 320/171 D1-0600Z 5/4 70/7 1/0 - - - 76/11 396/182 D1-0700Z - 45/1 19/13 - - - 64/14 460/196 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- 45/6 --+-- --+-- --+-- 45/6 505/202 D1-0900Z 1/0 12/7 21/3 - - - 34/10 539/212 D1-1000Z 1/0 3/6 15/13 - - - 19/19 558/231 D1-1100Z 6/8 1/2 - 29/23 - - 36/33 594/264 D1-1200Z - - 4/1 133/22 - - 137/23 731/287 D1-1300Z - - - 132/7 2/3 - 134/10 865/297 D1-1400Z - - - 135/6 6/10 - 141/16 1006/313 D1-1500Z - - - 78/14 1/1 1/2 80/17 1086/330 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 138/8 --+-- --+-- 138/8 1224/338 D1-1700Z - - - 50/3 13/18 5/5 68/26 1292/364 D1-1800Z - - - 2/2 20/18 - 22/20 1314/384 D1-1900Z - - - 40/28 - - 40/28 1354/412 D1-2000Z - - 65/1 3/3 - - 68/4 1422/416 D1-2100Z - - 34/2 8/5 7/4 1/0 50/11 1472/427 D1-2200Z - 20/4 - 19/3 - - 39/7 1511/434 D1-2300Z 6/5 5/2 14/0 1/1 - - 26/8 1537/442 D2-0000Z 5/4 4/0 19/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 28/7 1565/449 D2-0100Z 11/4 3/0 - - - - 14/4 1579/453 D2-0200Z - 11/0 - - - - 11/0 1590/453 44 D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 1590/453 60 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 1590/453 60 D2-0500Z - 48/2 - - - - 48/2 1638/455 11 D2-0600Z - 61/2 - - - - 61/2 1699/457 D2-0700Z 3/0 27/0 3/2 - - - 33/2 1732/459 D2-0800Z --+-- --+-- 8/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/2 1740/461 29 D2-0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1740/461 60 D2-1000Z - - 2/1 - - - 2/1 1742/462 58 D2-1100Z 2/2 5/5 2/2 - - - 9/9 1751/471 D2-1200Z - - - 113/0 - - 113/0 1864/471 D2-1300Z - - - 107/0 7/8 - 114/8 1978/479 D2-1400Z - - - 112/2 7/7 - 119/9 2097/488 D2-1500Z - - - 64/1 8/6 7/11 79/18 2176/506 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 42/0 67/15 --+-- 109/15 2285/521 D2-1700Z - - - 84/0 2/1 - 86/1 2371/522 D2-1800Z - - - 46/1 9/0 - 55/1 2426/523 D2-1900Z - - - 19/9 5/0 - 24/9 2450/532 D2-2000Z - - 82/5 1/0 1/0 - 84/5 2534/537 D2-2100Z - - 57/2 4/1 - - 61/3 2595/540 D2-2200Z - 4/1 22/3 - - - 26/4 2621/544 D2-2300Z 7/3 - 15/2 13/3 - - 35/8 2656/552 Total: 83/65 444/101 587/1351373/142 155/91 14/18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5AF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 157,215 For the most part, this one was painful! I don't ever recall having to work so hard to work so few stations. I was planning on a bit more robust effort, but got discouraged and bored with the tough going. Low Points: Have to drop my call many, many times to establish a qso, and that was only after getting beat by everyone else who called in! I recall one Zone 8 station that I called at least 20 times! (Zone 8 is usually a chip shot for here!) High Points: Getting lucky with a couple of Qs through huge pileups, most noteably with V51AS. Adding two new ones toward 160M DXCC! Band conditions were mostly just OK, but 40M before sunset was quite good both nights. There were S-9 plus static crashes on 80M and 160M that made S&P tough, nonetheless, signal strengths were very good. During a half-hour period starting around 0800Z, I managed to work all continents on 80M, not a big deal for many of you, but something I've never managed to do before as an LP op in this contest. Only tried 10M a couple of times, heard nothing. My station is somewhat in transition, as I'll be replacing my Omni VIs with two K-3s that I should be receiving soon. I'm going to redesign my station with more emphasis on mobility. I'm hoping to lease or perhaps buy a piece of land here in S. Texas, where I can put up some decent antennas that I won't have to keep hidden from neighbors. I also hope I'll be able to operate low poewer from some DX locations with an SO2R station that will fit in a suitcase. Thanks for all the Qs, next year should be better! 73, Paul, K5AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5EWJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 285,950 We had rain all week end. 160 was hopeless with 20 over static crashes. 80 was almost as bad. Ten only opened for a little while and fifteen was only a little better. 40 and 20 were not super, but were really busy with the other bands not so good. But, what the heck, CW is fun even at the bottom of the cycle. The CQWWCW will remain my favorite contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5FP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 296,203 Poor condx here and a couple of thunder storms but didn't cause problems. Lots of fun although I had to call several stations many many times and missed a few that I just could not get. I need more prep work to be ready for the next contest. Antennas: 160 1/4 wave sloper 80 loaded 76 foot tower 40 4 square 10-20 3 element steppir at 76 feet and A4S at 57 feet 73 all Fred K5FP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GA Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 441,892 Finally got a chance to operate CQWW after being away for awhile. Weather was terrible in Texas, and I had rain static from 1200Z to 2200Z on Saturday. I had to use the beverages in order to hear anything the entire 10 hours, and it was brutal. Only mults I missed that I heard were 9V1 and XW1, both very weak. I had planned on leaving at 2100Z Sunday due to family obligations, and with 30 minutes left, I told Mike the only zone I needed that was workable was zone 40. So I turned the yagi northeast and started CQing. Within 10 minutes, TF4M called. After logging it, I turned everything off and went home. Thanks to Mike and Susan for taking care of me. The traditional pre-contest motorcycle trail ride through the woods was frigid but as always, fun and relaxing. Rig: FT-1000MP Mark V & Ten Tec Titan 425 Antenna: 5 el at 85 ft. & 3 el at 60 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5GO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,023,656 Antennas: 160M - Phased Verticals (Broadside NE/SW - Endfire NW/SE) 80M - 4 Square, 4 element wire yagi at 130 feet fixed on Europe (Approximately 80% of all QSOs made using this antenna) 40M - 5L Yagi (103 foot boom) at 135 feet, 3L Quad fixed on JA, Sloping Dipole 20M - 8/8 (114 foot booms) at 146'/73' fixed on Europe, 6L (60 foot boom)rotary, 2L Quad fixed SE 15M - 7/7 (56 foot booms) at 90'/45' (bottom one fixed on Europe) 9L Yagi (81 foot boom) fixed on JA, 4L Yagi fixed SE 10M - 6L at 80 feet Beverages and other receiving antennas Rigs - Mostly IC-765 transceivers and AL-1500 amplifiers - 1500W Pictures and more information at http://www.k5go.com (I'll try to put the live camera of the 40M yagi in a better position in the next few days.) A lot of preparation and high hopes but the radio conditions from Arkansas were just terrible on 40M through 10M. I knew we were in big trouble when I changed a radio out on 40M a few evenings before the contest, thinking something had happened to the front end, only to find out the real problem was the band was dead. Many thanks to those who made long trips to operate the station - W0UA, who came from Colorado, N5RZ and N5OE from Texas, and K0VBU and K0OU who came from the Kansas City area. W5TM, N5XR and K5KA came from Oklahoma and many others from the local area. Included in the list of operators are some who did not operate much, if any, but who have worked VERY hard to make the station what it is. Even my daughter was out Thursday afternoon for four hours in freezing rain laying down radials for a new 160M antenna. W5TM and N5OE were the main operators on 160M and did very well with a new antenna that needs some additional work but has promise. N5RR and N5DX worked 80M and had the best score we have ever posted on that band. The four element wire yagi worked pretty well. The highlight was VK9AA calling in with the Europeans. W0UA and KM5G were the main operators on 40M and got all that could be had out of very poor band conditions. The highlight was a brief long path opening on Saturday morning to Asia where we worked some juicy multipliers. N5RZ and K5KA made all the contacts on 20M and did very well staying with it to get as much out of the band as could possibly be had. K0VBU, K0OU, N5XR and many of the rest of us took our turns on 15M and 10M trying to make the best of what we had to work with. Special thanks to K0RO (formerly KC2G) who spent more time and effort than operating keeping spirits high by making the best Egg McMuffins and Coffee, and N5OE who is invaluable in so many ways during the heat of the battle. Also special thanks to K5ALU, KM5G, K5KA, K5QQ, K0RO, N5RR, K5LG, N5XR, and N7FF for all the work to help get everything ready in the months preceding the contest. We learned a lot about what needs attention and hopefully will continue to get better so when the propagation is good we can make the most of it. My goal is to have everything in place within the next three years and when 10M opens I will operate also. Thank you for the QSOs and spots. 73 & HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL FROM ALL OF US! Stan, K5GO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,842,370 Murphy usually doesn't usually bother us too much here at the K5NA station, but this time he showed up big-time. About 0200Z the second day (Saturday evening local time) the commercial power went completely off while a major cold front was passing through the area. We could see lights in the distance but since we live in the country we were not sure if it was just us or whether it was our general area suffering an outage. The cell tower next door was lighted, but it might have been on emergency back-up power. We were not sure how local the problem was. A call to the power company's trouble reporting line got the general "push one" and "push two" menus. No human being wanted to talk or acknowledge us on Saturday night. We reported the problem and hoped someone would check into it soon. Their priority would be set by how many complaints they got and we were not sure of how many, if any, other homes were affected. Their automated call-in system would offer us no reassurance or target for getting our power back. I proceeded to set up my little Honda generator on the back porch and 1.5 hours after losing power, we were back on the air using emergency power. The little generator wasn't big enough to power the amplifiers, just a couple of barefoot rigs and their computers. For the next 13 hours we ran the two computers and two rigs barefoot doing the best we could. The little generator grunted, groaned, and strained but it was keeping us on the air. One scary moment occurred when I thought I would power up and add the third station and computer to the generator's load. The instant I turned on the third rig, the generator made a loud beep and stopped running. My thought was "Oh no, I just overloaded and destroyed the generator". But instead, the generator had picked that precise moment to run out of gas. What a relief. The regular power came back a little after 1500Z (9:00 AM local) and we quickly brought the amplifiers back on line after not using them for 13 hours. We had suffered with low power all through the night on the low bands and had lost a lot of multipliers that we would have ordinarily worked. It certainly made me more appreciative of what the LP and QRP guys have to endure. Our weekend contest ended up with these extra statistics on station availability: Full station capability - 35 hours (73% of time) Limited station and low power - 11 hours (23% of time) Off the air for emergency setup and refueling - 2 hours (4% of time) Maybe we should buy a bigger generator with 240V availability for the next contest? Who knows? Here's the rest of the story. The low bands were terrific the first night. By sunrise the next morning we had 100 countries on 80 meters and 50 countries on 160M. These were the best first night numbers from here that I can remember. We had high expectations of also doing well the second night before the loss of power took away our low-band competitiveness. 20M and 40M were the money bands though we never really had the great JA runs that we hoped for. 15M was less than average with the openings being briefer than normal and only the higher powered and better equipped stations from Europe coming through. No JA runs were had on this band. 10M was almost totally nonexistent and was the worst I remember for any contest during this cycle. I think we are truly at the bottom of the cycle now. It certainly can't get much worse than this. We had a small team of operators trying to keep both the run and the multi station manned. I admit that when we lost our commercial power, all of us lost some of our focus and enthusiasm needed to carry on at 100% effort. But somehow, we all trudged through it without giving up and we did the best we could. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,574,984 Whew, that was harder than I expected. We are at the bottom of the cycle, but the the Phone contest was so much fun that I expected even better conditions for CW! Great competition for SOAB HP USA this year. Definitely provided the motivation to keep pushing through the poor conditions. The bands were either open with lots of activity or totally dead. At one point I tuned across 20m and found stations all the way up to 14140! And who would have expected 40m to be a daylight band?! The 10m openings we short and spotty. Definitely a good weekend for doing SO2R in order to run and chase mults. Worked two JAs all weekend. First one was on 80m. Second was on 20m on Sunday afternoon. Nice to see so many African stations and multipliers. Wish people would send their calls. I understand the tactical use of not sending the call to run faster, but I would hear guys who had no one calling send TU then wait. I spent a lot of time waiting for people to ID. Not all of us are using packet (and the guys who are should want to hear your call too!). Most annoying to have the guy finally send his call and it gets wiped out by someone calling. Thanks to everyone who participated in making this the best contest of the year! 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 149 510 615 1121 387 0 2782 80.0 NA 60 82 72 85 49 14 362 10.4 AS 1 10 20 27 3 0 61 1.8 AF 9 16 26 34 27 2 114 3.3 SA 4 15 27 29 32 12 119 3.4 OC 2 9 15 5 8 1 40 1.2 Only out of the chair for 3 times. Slept both nights so I would be ready for the high rates during the day. Rates Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-00Z --+-- 24/24 63/47 --+-- --+-- --+-- 87/71 87/71 D1-01Z 1/2 33/19 29/25 - - - 63/46 150/117 D1-02Z 23/19 33/5 - - - - 56/24 206/141 D1-03Z 14/15 20/5 - 6/7 - - 40/27 246/168 D1-04Z - 34/14 16/9 - - - 50/23 296/191 D1-05Z 47/16 21/2 2/2 - - - 70/20 366/211 D1-06Z 64/10 26/5 - - - - 90/15 456/226 D1-07Z 11/7 69/6 - 2/2 - - 82/15 538/241 D1-08Z 1/0 44/5 12/8 --+-- --+-- --+-- 57/13 595/254 D1-09Z - 17/9 8/3 - - - 25/12 620/266 16 D1-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 620/266 60 D1-11Z 1/0 3/2 8/5 12/13 - - 24/20 644/286 28 D1-12Z - - 3/3 135/33 - - 138/36 782/322 D1-13Z - - - 139/10 23/33 - 162/43 944/365 D1-14Z - - - 42/5 98/26 - 140/31 1084/396 D1-15Z - - - 67/10 89/8 - 156/18 1240/414 D1-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 171/6 12/10 --+-- 183/16 1423/430 D1-17Z - - - 110/3 15/9 - 125/12 1548/442 D1-18Z - - - 55/7 15/12 1/2 71/21 1619/463 D1-19Z - - 28/6 35/21 2/1 - 65/28 1684/491 D1-20Z - - 141/6 - 4/1 5/10 150/17 1834/508 D1-21Z - - 117/4 1/2 - 4/5 122/11 1956/519 D1-22Z - - 90/4 6/4 - - 96/8 2052/527 D1-23Z - 31/3 32/2 2/2 - - 65/7 2117/534 D2-00Z --+-- 45/4 13/2 --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/6 2175/540 D2-01Z 7/5 16/3 1/0 - - - 24/8 2199/548 24 D2-02Z 10/3 29/3 15/5 - - - 54/11 2253/559 D2-03Z 10/4 32/2 1/0 1/0 - - 44/6 2297/565 D2-04Z 8/2 34/3 - - - - 42/5 2339/570 D2-05Z 4/0 13/1 20/1 - - - 37/2 2376/572 D2-06Z 3/1 59/0 2/0 - - - 64/1 2440/573 D2-07Z 16/2 14/6 1/0 - - - 31/8 2471/581 D2-08Z --+-- 5/1 1/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 6/1 2477/582 48 D2-09Z - - - - - - 0/0 2477/582 60 D2-10Z - - - - - - 0/0 2477/582 60 D2-11Z - 4/3 8/5 1/0 - - 13/8 2490/590 24 D2-12Z - - - 125/4 3/2 - 128/6 2618/596 D2-13Z - - - 122/0 35/5 - 157/5 2775/601 D2-14Z - - - 11/3 118/6 4/5 133/14 2908/615 D2-15Z - - - 3/0 61/4 8/6 72/10 2980/625 D2-16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 114/3 13/1 4/3 131/7 3111/632 D2-17Z - - - 78/0 5/2 3/0 86/2 3197/634 D2-18Z - - - 39/6 6/1 - 45/7 3242/641 D2-19Z - - 43/2 1/0 3/0 - 47/2 3289/643 D2-20Z - - 28/6 11/3 4/3 - 43/12 3332/655 D2-21Z - - 40/0 6/1 - - 46/1 3378/656 D2-22Z - - 52/0 5/4 - - 57/4 3435/660 D2-23Z 5/1 36/1 1/0 1/0 - - 43/2 3478/662 Total: 225/87 642/126 775/145 1301/149 506/124 29/31 Best 30 minutes: 104 QSOs Best 60 minutes: 187 QSOs Worked 10 stations on 6 bands (a real accomplishment with 10m so poor): 3X5A HC8N HI3A J3A KP2M PJ2T PJ4A VC3J VP5W ZF1A Would be interested in comments from anyone who listened in to the audio streaming. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 30,591 Fairly good conditions. I increased my score 25% over last years score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6DBG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 7,936 Elecraft K2 @5W. Hustler 6BTV on roof with tuned radials is the workhorse; there's also an OCF dipole about 30' up that's a good listening antenna but not much use for contacting DX. CQWW CW was my first contest ever, last year. I'm only competing against myself, of course! Last year, I had 41 Qs, kept a paper log and had no idea about mults. I didn't compute a claimed score (and I can't seem to get at the UBN/NIL report). At that point, I was still working for WAS, rather than worrying about DX, so I had a lot of 0-point Qs. This year, I was concentrating on picking off new DX entities, using N1MM to log and key. Wow, what a difference. Pickings have been slim for the past few months, so I was quite pleased to pick up 10 new ones over a weekend of casual effort. I got up around 0930Z Sunday, intending to get some action on 80, and was surprised to find 80 dead but 40 hopping. QRP is still quite a challenge for this contest, but I managed WAC, minus EU. I think I'm going to have to come up with another antenna to work EU with any reliability. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 82,880 I barely eeked out a better score than last year's. The first 24 hours were impacted by a high noise level from the Santa Ana winds. We didn't have the high winds in Orange County (like Malibu), but the noise floor was 10db over S9 on some bands. The K index at 3 didn't help either. Things quieted down my evening Saturday night (K index 2 also), and I was able to work Africa on 40m. For those of us on the West Coast, working JA's is the name of the game to boost QSO totals. Here is a comparison of 2006 to 2007 JA QSO's Band 2006 2007 80m 0 4 40m 16 11 20m 32 30 15m 19 5 10m 0 0 15 meters just didn't open up this year like it did last year. I was hoping for a 15 meter opening like the CQ WW SSB, but it just didn't happen. Thanks to KH6LC for being my only 5 band sweep. Thanks to K6NA for the 15 meter Zone 3 and USA mults. How many zero pointers do you have in the log, Glenn? There should be an award for that. New countries worked: 3X and 3DA0 I worked 3X5A on 4 bands - amazing ears! The one that got away: ZB2X on 80 - got a "QRZ ??" out of him but that was it Rig: FT-990 100W Antennas: 80 meter dipole sloped from 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee up 50 feet 20 meter dipole (1 element) up 25 feet 15 meter dipole up 25 feet Software: N3FJP CQWW Logger - worked well ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 24,621 Worked what I could of the contest. Since we're having an Open House this weekend, I could only participate part-time. I'm down to just my Butternut HF9V and limited radials now with the house one sale. Used my Yaesu FT-857D and Dentron GLA-1000 at 500 watts. I stayed exclusively in Search and Pounce mode. I spotted when I thought it would be helpful. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 140,104 Part-time effort. Path to Europe still elusive, but good signals from everywhere else. Great participation overall. Always an enjoyable contest. Thanks for the Qs and CU in the next one. 73, John K6MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 436,955 Bands were better than expected, plenty of stations to work (other than on 10). 80 was great to Europe Friday night. Operated the whole contest remotely using my station located 80 miles away. Fortunately the network and control equipment cooperated this time. Worked HC8N, KH7X and KH6LC on 6 bands :-) . Dana, K6NR Station: 400W to C3E@65; 5L 15m @ 45'; 40M 4 square, 80m vertical 160m Inverted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6NV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 25,947 This was mostly a Sat afternoon and Sun morning effort. Kept at 100w on 20 and 15 to avoid neighbor problems, but on 40 1 kw. It was a gas just calling what I could hear on 40m and getting them the first or second call, the high 40m dipole was golden again, had a great time Sat evening until 40m pettered out. 15m was great for me just before the contest ended, same thing to the Pacific, if I could hear them, got them easily. One of these days I will be able to put in more than 6 hrs into this contest. Next project is to revamp the 80m vee into a high inverted L configuration. FT-1000MP AL=80b 3 el yagi 40m dipole @ 80' or so ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 153,908 First time back at CQWW since late 80's. IC 781 Henry 2K 4BTV S9+ noise level on all bands. Wow! How contesting has changed! Surely is refreshing to hear some old familiar calls. Goal to gear up for CQWW CW 2008. Robert Roaney, K6RR rroaney@sprintmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,235,700 Limited effort as busy getting ready to QSY to Aruba on 27 Nov. CU in ARRL 160M Test as P40TA. Ken, K6TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 50,184 Good condx! 15m was almost as crowded as 20m, at times. All S&P for me, inbetween holiday activities. One guy in the 9M pileup was "out of order". Thx for the QSOs. 73, K6TD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 106,133 Mostly on at night for a while cherry picking some new 80m/40m band countries. Kudos to the sharp 3X5A op who pulled me out of the soup on 80m. Lots of Chinese Club stations QRV pumping out RF on the bands! Still too many DX stations operating who don't I.D. frequently enough, and selfishly make other people waste their time waiting. I would generally spin the dial if no I.D. in 3 QSOs and say [explicative deleted]. 73 & Tnx for all the Q's... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 817,200 Tower/yagis this year, vertical/wire last 3 years, made quite a difference. Great fun as always. Decent conditions considering the cycle and level playing field, everyone gets to use them. 40 yagi at 75 ft compares poorly to same 40 yagi at 165 ft - but a heck of a lot better than the vertical. Thanks to all who heard me. 73 Art ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 200,462 Good time , way to much qrn at this station, s9 at times, good thing my FT-1000D has a half way good NB...Europe not real strong on 20 many areas just never came around for me to call...still at the bottom of the cycle, it could have been worse..I won't win a thing, but, just have to be in the mess calling hi..thanks to all for the points ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7BG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 574,425 The kids were home from college for Thanksgiving so I didn't think I'd get as much time in as I did. Guess I worked the night shift in this one with some good daylight hours going unattended. That must have been when 10 opened cuz I never heard a peep on that band. Mostly a S&P effort except for a few good JA runs. Never was able to run Europe much on any band. I could hear stations not all that far south of me working stuff I could barely hear. The auroral oval was bloated from too much turkey I guess. Anyhow, Montana is just a suburb of Edmonton. Highlights were the two double mults late in the game, D2 on 40 and XW on 20. The latter just 2 minutes before the final bell rang. I found a T88 just after that but the clock struck midnight(utc) and I missed that mult on 20. CU in the next one, Matt--K7BG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 193,682 West coast European openings were scarce. Good paths to NA,CA,SA,Asia,Pacific & Africa. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,480,656 Tough conditions from the left coast, particularly on 20M. I didn't expect much from 15 or 10, but 20? Only 85 Europeans on 20M, down from 295 two years ago and only 18 on the second day. 40 long path was good to Europe both mornings but 80 was barely there. On 80 I had 5 European Qs SP first evening, one LP (RU1A) first morning, no Europe SP second evening and two more LP (UA3TCJ, RW4PL) second morning. Worked a single European (SN3R) on 160 - great signal, great ears, wow! Echoing the comments made by others out West, I can't thank enough the JA operators. What would it be like here without you? I'm scared to even think about it. There were a couple of changes to the operating environment at K7ZSD. New switching system rocks! I felt a lot more flexible in my band choices, quick QSYs, checking the openings, etc. Speaking of QSYs, I thought this was quite humorous. With a few hours to go in the contest I find lonely HC8N CQing on 20. I realize that now is the time to get them on 10 I ask if they were there as well. At first, it's a no, but wait, they are willing to QSY, so it's a yes. I move to 28060 and work them there, great! Only at that moment I realize that I still need them on 20 and they are nowhere to be found! I did find them later for a 6 band sweep, but for a few minutes I thought it might not be. Other 6-banders were KH7X and E51A, thanks! This was my first serious SO effort using Win-Test. I was trying to get it to work with a DX Doubler just a couple of hours before the contest because my previous assumption was incorrect. I finally managed to get separate RX and TX switching going, but some functionality was still lacking. Overall, I feel that it's a solid piece of software, but it's hard to make a transition from TR. As always many thanks to Brad and Ruth for their hospitality and a great time! 73, Denis - K7GK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 176,505 Coronal hole or no coronal hole, this contest is always fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7UA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 597,724 Utah DX Assn Rig: IC756P3 + Alpha 99 Ant: 2 El Steppir Yagi and Steppir vertical ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 873,546 FT 1000MP/ Alpha 76; Force 12 6BA; 160/80 Sloper. Thanks for all the Q's...great time here shaking out the antenna system. 73 to all! John K7WP .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7XC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 236,775 Rig : TS-930(PIEXX), Aplha 78 Antennas : 2 ele tribander @20', 80/40 Inv Vee @30', 160M Inv L @ 35' Soapbox : Started out as single band 160 effort. Was having too much fun to stop! Almost completely S&P, Worked almost everything I heard regardless of band. Used N1MM Logger first time in a DX Contest with the 930 under full computer control... All I can say is WOW!!! Thank You N1MM For Raising Contesting To Another Level! Viva Band Maps!!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,818,392 Another fun CQWW. We welcomed K8AZ first-timer W4PA, who showed the Ohio boys how it's done in Tennessee, and drove 8 hours each way for the chance to do so. Difficult conditions, with odd paths everywhere, no 15m runs, 40m going long very early all three nights and 80m staying runnable long after EU sunset. Nothing was normal, but that is what makes contesting fun. Congratulations and a tip of the cap to KT3Y. 73, Tom K8AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8BL Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 5,043 Just playing around looking for new Countries on 160 and giving a Q to friends at DX Contest Stations. Really happy with the performance of my Inverted L Bazooka with only 3 radials and 756 Pro 3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8CC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 988,566 2xFT-1000MP, 5W output 160m: 140' vertical 80m: Vertical 4-square 40m: 3ele at 120' fixed to EU, dipoles at 80’ and 40’ 20m: 5 over 5 15m: 5 over 5 over 5 (fixed EU) 10m: 5 over 5 over 5 (fixed south) Logging with NA 10.65 This contest was way more fun than could be expected from running QRP at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Preparation: Dave had planned to have another Multi-OP event for CQWW, but some time before the contest, it became clear that the broken rotor of the 40m 3ele beam would not be fixed in time. Dave allowed me to use the station for the contest and I weighed the options. A non-functional 40m rotor would probably hurt the least when going QRP, so I decided to do another serious CQWW as SOAB QRP after 1995 (at DL0IU) and 2004 (at KT8X). The bands did not sound good in the days before the contest. Therefore, I set the goal to try and beat the 2004 953k score from KT8X's place, where I used Dennis’ fine 80ft single tower setup. K8CC's antennas are quite a bit larger and I would have an SO2R setup, but would this compensate for the lack of propagation three years down the sunspot cycle? The preparation part that did not work out was to get a good rest before the contest, especially since I had been a little sick during the days before the contest. The night from Thursday to Friday was bad, as I woke up after only six hours at 5am and could not sleep anymore. For the first time ever, I went with the Doorbuster Deal crowds but even later that day, I could not find any rest. So, I went to Dave's place feeling like I had already gone through the first day of the contest. The Contest: As others noted already, the bands did not cooperate too well. It wasn’t too bad either, considering what the sun could have thrown at us. During most of the contest, I would be trailing behind the 2004 score from KT8X’s place. Eventually, I had to make up for a difference of 197 QSOs and 54 Multipliers on 15m and 10m by a better performance on the low bands. I had prepared graphs for QSOs, Multipliers and Score over time from the 2004 effort. I updated these with the results from this effort and put them at http://www.wideopenwest.com/~dl2hbx/WWDX2007/WWDX_04_vs_07_QRP.html . I hovered around the 2004 multiplier graph, but could never get the QSO numbers to reach the 2004 curve. The 2007 score was off by 50k for most of the second day and it only crossed the 2004 line in the final hour of the contest when propagation gods would show some mercy on 20m (JA) and 40m (EU). Over the duration of the contest, I made three attempts at calling CQ for five QSOs in total, everything else was S&P. 40m did open early to EU, as K3LR noted. There were two 10m openings that I caught, one on each day. I agree with Doug, KR2Q that the major benefit of having a second radio when operating QRP is the fact that you can quickly check for propagation on bands and can switch there fast. I normally try to limit the sleep periods to three to four hours. I slept for one hour the first night (11z to 12z), then had to take two hours off early the second night (1z to 3z) and later added an extra three hours from 8z to 11z, since I was close (again) to having hallucinations. With the lack of sleep before the contest, it would have been impossible to do with less sleep during the event. Also, I had in mind that I needed to drive home for one hour the after the contest. SH5 counts 10.5 hours of breaks larger than 15 minutes. Highlights: - Overall: Working so many stations whose patience I would often test. Thank you for pulling me out of the noise! - 160m: CN2FF and 9A1P (at his sunrise) and several Caribbean / Central American stations - 80m: Coming within 88% of the US 80m single band QRP record - 40m: Having a weak D2NX come back to me on the first call - 20m: AH2R, JA on Sunday night, working DXCC on 20! - 15m: Working zones 31 through 38 - 10m: Making DX QSOs at all Some stats: - 6 Band QSOs: 8P5A, HI3A, KP2M, P40W and PJ2T - 5 Band QSOs: 9A1P, HC8N, H7/K9NW, J3A, KH7X, PJ4A, VC3A, VE2TZT, VP5W, and ZF1A - Highest Rate: 47/h (Sat 13z) - 118 different and 28 different zones worked. Observations: Some stations were really testing the patience of the audience as they were not signing for a long string of QSOs. Apparently, they do not run out of callers because of the packet crowds that believe they know who they are calling since they saw the callsign on their PC screen... Breaking pile-ups is really not what you can do running QRP, so I would usually keep tuning when I came across a pile-up and not even bother to find out who was there. This is quite the opposite of what you do in a High Power setup. There were a few instances though where I would get through in a multi-caller situation. In some cases, having antennas that are positioned very high up did help, often in a seemingly marginal propagation situation. In other cases, it helped to stay away from zero beat where everybody else would call – some DX folks are using pretty wide filters. Propagation for a QRP station differs from propagation when running High Power. While this seems to be obvious, a certain fluttery (I called it 'glazing') sound on the signals indicates that you will not get through with QRP despite a still strong signal of the station you are trying to reach. You have to find the ‘good waves in the ocean’ and ride them as long as you can. Typically, a good propagation situation does not last long for a QRP station and you have to frequently look for opportunities on other bands. Using Dave’s well-known callsign definitely helped. Many stations were able to complete the callsign after catching a portion of it. If I had used my own callsign, I would have had more difficulties. I guess that many also wondered about how poor conditions were, because K8CC came in so weak... Afterword: Now it will be up to the log checking to see if this effort beats the 2004 score, as the 2007 raw score is a mere 7k higher than the one from 2004. The 8th call area record (957k, by N8ET in 2000) is just a tad higher than the 2004 result at KT8X, so I hope to pass that score too. I would like to thank everyone who read this writeup until this point, and a particular thank you to all the stations that hung in there and spent time and effort in order to identify my callsign. I remember spending some long five minutes with HI3A on 160m until we had a good QSO and there were several other similar situations. Congrats to Paul at 6V7D who put out a great QRP signal from Africa. Finally, a big thank you to my host Dave, K8CC. It is always a pleasure to operate from your place. 73! Uli, KK8I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,788,402 Could only do a part time effort due to working Friday and Saturday evening. Lots of great DX. 123 countries on 20 without Zone 17 or 18. K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8IA Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 417,594 T-T Orion II, Alpha 91B, M-Squared 40M3L 3 el yagi at 71 ft Another leisurely stroll thru the 40m band! ;-) 73, Bob K8IA Arizona USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 160,552 I blew up my amp a couple days before the contest, so I ended up doing a part time low power effort. Nice to hear the bands full of cw signals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,176,574 Sunspots??? We don't need no stinking sunspots... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8ZZV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 28,912 Good conditions here. Had a great time with three low dipoles and a hundred watts...6 countries I've never worked before. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9CT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 480,320 Enjoyed working good cw ops from around the world. Many have very good ears and good fists. Condx were constantly changing. Enjoyed some of the good openings and endured some lulls. Nice to hear and work the SMC ops at E51, YS, VP2M and H7. 73, Craig ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA3DRR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 15,075 A lot of fun this weekend and a great contesting experience considering the bottom of the cycle. Very surprised to see bigger numbers on 40-meters instead of twenty. I really enjoyed 15-meter propagation through Saturday. Added a few new DXCC countries to my growing 40-meter list as well. Lots of stellar operators behind the keyers and thanks for a great contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA9FOX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 435,200 Casual effort, in between family and work obligations. All but one 15 minute run on 20m was S&P. I was not maximizing score, just having fun... Things that I found FUN: ** Working stuff on 160m and 10m. ** Trying to get 6-band QSOs. I managed 6-banders with 3X5A, 5J0A, 8P5A, D4C, H7/K9NW, HC8N, HI3A, J3A, KP2M, P40W, PJ2T, PJ4A, VP5W, ZF1A. ** Playing DXer, trying to pick up needed band/mode countries. ** Spotting anything that wasn't already in my band map. ** Trying to break through the cluster piles. All in all, a great weekend! STATION DESCRIPTION: Rig: FT-1000MP Amp: AL-1200 10-40m: F12 C4XL (2 ele active each band) @ 95ft 80m: F12 EF180C (rotatable dipole) @ 100ft 160m: Inverted vee @ 90ft Pictures at: http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/gallery 73 - Scott KA9FOX ka9fox@qth.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,098,622 Considering the poor conditions on 15M we were pretty happy with our effort. I had thought we would enter the M/2 class but at the last minute N2TTA joined the crew and that meant someone who would operate probably 36 of the 48 hours. I hate to see people sitting around waiting for a radio so I decided to again be a M/M entry. It generates the most points from this station for the club effort. The truth is that with band and sunspot conditions as they are now a good M/2 effort can make as many points as the level of M/M that we compete. Friday was a busy day. We had a failure in a auxiliary swiching box on the 20M tower so AA1CE came and changed out the unit. I think the wind chill was about 20F. A big difference from the day before when the temperature was around 60F. Great thanks to Dave for coming over. I had hand surgery on Nov. 9th and had just gotten the stitches out this week so I hestitated to climb. KM1X proved again why I stick him on 160M. He considers this punishment but knows he is the "man" when we need a good effort on that band and never complains. Friday night we discovered a high SWR on the middle 20M 204BA. Against my better judgement I woke up Saturday after 2.5 hours sleep and climbed the tower to check things out. A removal and cleaning of the PL-259 seemed to stop what might have been an intermitent problem. That connector had not been removed in probably 8 years. 160M Saturday night was slow after a good night Friday. KM1X decided to check the K1TTT website and I guess things were slow over there too. One of the operators was busy doing a crossword puzzle! Still limited to only the 4-squared system on 40M we missed many of the multipliers that appeared Saturday and Sunday mornings. The VR2, 9V, AH2, etc. all seem to be in the nulls of the system. Seeing us struggle convinced our tower erector KB1DFB that the new 150' tower needs to go up fast. Sunday he lowered the form into the hole we had dug many months ago and we are recommitted to finish this tower. It will probably have a 3 element full size 40M beam on top when finished. Finally we had an FT-2000 (thanks W1TJL) to try during the contest. Towards the end of the contest most operators had begun to "warm up" to the rig. All the other rigs were FT-1000MP and FT-1000MP MarkV. The FT-2000 performed well on the crowded bands but I believe there was still more to learn about this rig. Going from hardware filtering to digital filtering cause many of us to play endlessly to find the settings that best suited our individual ears. Thanks for all the QSOs. - 73 Dick KB1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC0VKN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 51,765 Casual operation. Spent time with family over holiday. Intended to operate harder, but conditions seemed poor and decided to switch gears. Had a good time, though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,006,454 Congratulations all the multi-multis for the great scores this weekend and especially to the W3LPL team for the win!!! Great job, guys! We had Ed, K1EP, join us for the first time and manned 10 Meters through Saturday before N1KWF arrived on Sunday. It's always a real honor and pleasure to have W2RQ and N2AA do their thing on 20 Meters. Thanks for making the trip up, guys. As always, a special thanks to Christine and the girls for opening up their home again and again for these special weekends. We really appreciate it. Thanks for all the QSOs! Happy Holidays to all! Until February, 73, 2007 CQ WW CW Team BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 404 870 2.15 21 87 KA1R 80 1407 3864 2.75 34 123 W1FV 40 1470 4004 2.72 38 148 K1GQ,WA1Z 20 1940 5482 2.83 36 153 W2RQ,N2AA 15 717 1978 2.76 28 128 KC1XX,K1TR 10 157 203 1.29 16 42 K1EP,N1KWF --------------------------------------------------- Totals 6095 16401 2.69 173 681 => 14,006,454 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 173 189 215 200 120 110 1007 16.0 South America 7 23 45 86 82 35 278 4.4 Europe 221 1163 1141 1553 454 0 4532 72.2 Asia 4 32 43 70 7 0 156 2.5 Africa 14 24 50 51 49 11 199 3.2 Oceania 7 21 29 28 22 1 108 1.7 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 25/23 122/47 86/56 35/26 2/4 1/2 271/158 271/158 1 14/9 113/13 67/30 18/3 . . 212/55 483/213 2 17/3 61/16 57/18 19/3 . . 154/40 637/253 3 11/8 68/14 41/8 9/3 . . 129/33 766/286 4 22/9 96/5 46/9 11/3 . . 175/26 941/312 5 37/12 91/8 37/2 16/4 . . 181/26 1122/338 6 26/4 70/8 50/3 3/2 . . 149/17 1271/355 7 26/6 77/10 33/6 13/12 . . 149/34 1420/389 8 7/6 36/3 35/3 10/8 ..... ..... 88/20 1508/409 9 9/1 9/3 20/2 8/6 . . 46/12 1554/421 10 9/2 10/6 6/4 21/9 . . 46/21 1600/442 11 8/4 7/7 19/16 105/18 8/14 1/0 148/59 1748/501 12 4/0 3/0 10/1 177/9 42/33 3/2 239/45 1987/546 13 . . . 168/18 62/38 5/9 235/65 2222/611 14 . . . 160/15 93/25 8/10 261/50 2483/661 15 . . . 152/5 98/3 4/0 254/8 2737/669 16 ..... ..... ..... 104/6 28/6 3/1 135/13 2872/682 17 . . 3/0 88/4 20/6 2/0 113/10 2985/692 18 . . 39/1 39/6 24/3 9/2 111/12 3096/704 19 . . 92/1 39/5 15/1 5/0 151/7 3247/711 20 2/0 17/2 62/3 42/6 26/2 7/9 156/22 3403/733 21 5/3 59/1 86/5 15/2 7/4 11/1 183/16 3586/749 22 33/3 51/0 100/0 11/1 . . 195/4 3781/753 23 10/3 45/2 39/0 7/1 . 1/1 102/7 3883/760 0 4/2 51/0 25/1 2/0 ..... ..... 82/3 3965/763 1 10/1 46/3 26/0 3/0 . . 85/4 4050/767 2 16/0 56/0 30/0 5/1 . . 107/1 4157/768 3 9/4 41/1 22/0 8/0 . . 80/5 4237/773 4 17/2 38/1 15/2 1/2 . . 71/7 4308/780 5 17/1 57/2 18/1 . . . 92/4 4400/784 6 15/1 56/0 14/0 . . . 85/1 4485/785 7 13/0 33/0 5/0 . . . 51/0 4536/785 8 6/1 13/1 18/0 ..... ..... ..... 37/2 4573/787 9 5/0 6/2 11/2 1/0 . . 23/4 4596/791 10 4/0 1/1 5/1 7/0 1/2 . 18/4 4614/795 11 5/0 2/1 13/2 78/0 4/0 . 102/3 4716/798 12 . 1/0 17/2 101/0 7/4 4/1 130/7 4846/805 13 . . . 59/1 53/5 4/1 116/7 4962/812 14 . . 1/0 80/3 92/1 16/10 189/14 5151/826 15 . . 2/1 112/3 66/1 15/1 195/6 5346/832 16 ..... ..... 3/1 88/0 17/0 25/8 133/9 5479/841 17 . . 8/1 38/1 11/2 16/0 73/4 5552/845 18 . . 48/1 31/1 15/0 8/0 102/2 5654/847 19 . 1/0 61/2 22/1 14/1 7/0 105/4 5759/851 20 . 3/0 68/0 10/0 7/1 2/0 90/1 5849/852 21 2/0 17/0 37/1 10/1 5/0 . 71/2 5920/854 22 5/0 24/0 75/0 12/0 . . 116/0 6036/854 23 11/0 26/0 20/0 2/0 . . 59/0 6095/854 DAY1 265/96 935/145 928/168 1270/175 425/139 60/37 ..... 3883/760 DAY2 139/12 472/12 542/18 670/14 292/17 97/21 . 2212/94 TOT 404/108 1407/157 1470/186 1940/189 717/156 157/58 . 6095/854 QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 25 Nov 2007 2359z PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 3B8 1 1 3DA 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 1 3X 3 1 1 2 1 1 4L 2 2 1 1 4O 1 1 1 1 1 4U1I 1 1 4X 1 1 5 4 2 5B 1 4 3 5 1 5H 1 1 1 1 5R 1 1 1 5W 1 1 5X 1 1 6W 2 3 2 3 1 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 7Q 1 7X 1 1 8P 1 2 2 2 4 3 9A 6 15 17 22 16 9G 1 1 3 9H 1 1 1 1 1 9J 1 9K 2 1 2 1 9M6 1 1 9V 1 9Y 1 A3 1 1 A4 1 1 1 1 A7 1 1 1 1 BV 1 BY 1 2 C6 2 2 3 3 1 2 C9 1 1 CE 1 2 1 2 1 CM 1 4 3 2 2 CN 4 2 1 2 1 CP 1 1 CT 2 2 2 5 2 CT3 2 3 6 5 5 CU 2 1 1 1 1 CX 1 3 2 2 1 D2 1 1 1 1 D4 1 1 1 1 1 1 DL 31 220 198 285 65 E5/s 1 2 2 1 1 1 E7 1 3 8 9 6 EA 3 35 59 59 31 EA6 3 1 4 3 2 EA8 3 6 13 10 10 3 EA9 1 1 EI 3 8 7 13 2 EK 1 ER 4 4 4 3 ES 4 4 1 5 EU 13 3 10 EY 1 1 F 7 57 64 69 28 FG 1 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FK 1 1 FM 1 2 3 4 2 2 FO 2 1 1 FR 1 FY 1 1 1 G 27 77 63 117 21 GD 1 1 2 3 1 GI 2 4 3 2 GJ 1 1 1 2 1 GM 2 15 9 23 3 GM/s 1 1 GU 2 3 3 GW 5 8 5 11 2 HA 6 42 45 51 24 HB 3 12 30 33 15 HC 1 HC8 1 1 1 2 1 1 HH 1 1 HI 1 2 2 2 2 2 HK 1 2 3 4 7 2 HK0/a 1 2 1 1 1 HP 2 1 HR 2 2 2 3 2 2 HS 1 HZ 1 3 I 10 55 100 93 58 IG9 1 1 1 1 IS 2 8 8 3 IT9 1 1 1 4 3 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 2 3 1 1 J7 1 J8 1 1 1 1 1 JA 3 4 31 JT 1 JW 1 1 JY 1 K 92 85 103 72 27 79 KH2 1 1 2 KH6 3 7 4 6 7 KL 3 4 KP2 2 1 1 1 1 1 KP4 2 2 2 2 2 LA 1 8 6 13 1 LU 2 7 23 25 10 LX 2 2 2 1 1 LY 3 14 5 17 LZ 2 13 17 21 15 OA 1 1 3 1 1 OE 3 5 21 17 5 OH 5 24 12 33 7 OH0 1 1 1 1 1 OK 9 85 90 82 24 OM 5 18 20 26 11 ON 4 20 22 25 5 OX 1 OY 1 1 2 OZ 6 18 4 19 1 P4 2 2 3 2 2 1 PA 7 39 29 44 7 PJ2 2 2 2 2 2 2 PJ7 2 1 2 2 2 PY 8 16 36 32 13 PZ 1 1 1 1 S2 1 S5 6 26 42 45 27 S7 1 1 1 SM 6 24 9 31 2 SP 14 60 55 78 6 SU 1 1 SV 1 3 6 13 3 SV5 1 SV9 1 1 1 1 T8 1 TA 1 TF 1 2 1 3 2 TG 1 2 1 TI 1 1 1 1 1 1 TU 1 1 2 UA 9 91 37 92 5 UA2 1 4 1 4 UA9 13 14 18 UN 2 1 UR 3 66 51 70 4 V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 1 1 V5 1 1 2 2 1 V7 1 VE 50 65 66 67 38 7 VK 2 4 5 7 3 VK9C 1 1 VP2E 1 1 VP2M 1 2 1 1 1 VP5 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP8 2 2 1 VP9 2 1 1 1 1 VQ9 1 VR 1 1 VU 2 XE 3 3 7 13 15 XF4 1 XW 1 YB 1 YL 4 6 4 7 YN 1 1 1 1 1 1 YO 2 19 29 28 13 YS 2 1 1 1 1 YU 6 27 30 34 20 YV 1 2 2 3 4 1 Z2 1 1 1 1 Z3 1 3 4 1 ZB 1 ZC4 1 ZD7 1 1 ZF 1 1 1 2 2 1 ZL 1 6 10 6 8 ZP 2 1 1 ZS 3 10 9 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 522,000 I had nasal surgery this past week which turned into an emergency room visit on Thanksgiving, which meant I wasn't allowed to do any lifting until next week. So without any chores, half a voice and a 3 hour sitting rule, I was free to operate CW and try to build up my 80 mtr DXCC (the only major band I do not have it on). Outside of about 25 QSOs, all were pounced. Unfortunately, some rain systems here made 80 noisy on Saturday, so I'm glad I concentrated on it on Friday night. Worked V51AS on 80, plus a bunch of Europe! 160 was a bust here - managed to get a few zone credits. 40 was the multiplier band, as I got more mults per QSO than the other bands. Even heard B4B at S9, but couldn't work that elusive China. 20 was great on Sunday afternoon, and it pretty much was where QSOs were plentiful. It as also the pile-up band, and it was hit or miss depending upon the location - I managed to break a few, but on several I just walked away. 15 was surprisingly open to Europe in the morning, and to the south pacific in the afternoon (although no JA). Found S79UU with no waiting! There was even some short skip on 15 on Sunday, as W4/W1 were 20 over. 10 meters was much worse than in SSB weekend, with zones 4-13 showing up for a short time. Had fun - always a hoot to break a pile-up with 100 watts, or work something on a new band. Thanks for the QSOs. -Al IC-756 PRO X7 at 23 mtrs (20-15-10) D4 at 25 mtrs (40-20-15-10) Wermager loop at 21 mtrs (80) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 209,745 I miss 10 meters! Not one QSO this year...not a dit heard yesterday..a glimmer of hope today as there was some activity but I wasn't able to make any contacts. 15M wasn't great either. The band was lousy yesterday. Today was ok but not great. This contest must be some great fun with a load of sunspots. Still a successful weekend here...beat last year's score easily and worked some new countries. 100W, a long piece of wire, and a lot of patience goes a long way. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2RD Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 356,700 Great contest. I hope I wasn't the only one calling HC2SL to no avail for the last hour. HA..(Big Pileup!). What a difference low power can make ! Happy with the results though. Hope you all had as much fun as I did. See you next year ! 73's John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4HXT/6 Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 40,932 This was fun. I had a blast even with the limited time available to operate. The first real CW effort in CQWW. It was also the first time doing QRP in this contest. Yes, you can make contacts with QRP at the bottom of the cycle. (I know I’m crazy, but need to keep the neighbors happy for a few more years.) The loop does a remarkable job. Best moment: ZS4 on 40 in grey line Saturday night, wow. Some guys had a lot of patience with me. The op at CT3KN was unbelievable with me at 30 wpm plus. Thanks! Also the op at KP2M was upper class all the way. Best op I heard in a pileup was HQ2A. What an ear! The Saturday night crew was amazing and should have a great score. Worst moment: The observed mess with 5J0A Saturday night. They tried to work a split but I guess nobody figured it out. Never did work them. To all the stations who pulled me out, you deserve a big THANK YOU! Several of you I worked on 3 bands. Over all 7 new DXCC CTY’s CW for me with 18 new ones on 40 CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE1FO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 366,360 What a blast! Wish I had a few more daytime hours to commit to operating, but could only get away mornings and late evenings. Nice to have 15 open the 2nd day a little better. The new tribander at 30 feet is working surprisingly well. Got through several piles in one or two calls. Very happy to work into zone 36, 37, and 39 on 15M. Also nice to work so many mults on 40 and 80 with only a low (20 feet) dipole on 40 and an HF2V on 80. Had both radios on all weekend, but no true SO2R operating. Just setting up the 2nd rig for band change time. Can't wait for next year (and for the sunspots to return)! 73 de Al, KE1FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KF7E Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 284,048 Lotsa fun for S&P at solar minumum. Alas, a JA run is but a fleeting memory. Did work 3X5A on 5 bands and heard them on 10m. A good year for 160/80 in spite of a damaged antenna. Saludos and kudos. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 339,545 40m was tough at the beginning, but proved to be a great band. 15m was marginal, with mid-QSO deep QSB not uncommon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG6DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,352,144 Team LUCG #1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG7H Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 435,381 IT CAN ONLY GET BETTER EACH YEAR - THIS WAS THE NADIR OF THE SOLAR CYCLE. Anyway, 10 meters was so dead, I didn't even work a VE7, even though I am only 50 miles away! Heard the 3X with a great signal on 80 but couldn't break the east coast pile. Conditions on the lower bands were actually guite good. Had a great time - 73 to all de Craig - KG7H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,192,222 A big MAHALO to all who worked us or tried. Everyone here worked hard before and during the contest. Still a new station, improvements coming, especially on the low bands. We'll be on for the 160 tests and see you all in the spring. 73 and Aloha ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6MB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,497,190 We hit the beach again running low power and wire vertical antennas on 160-10 Meters. Great weather, great conditions = lot's of fun. Thanks for all the calls. Equipment used: Rig: Elecraft K2/100 Antennas: Wire vertical antennas 1/2 wave end feed Power source: Honda generator EU1000i Till next time, 73 and Aloha KH6MB/Martin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6YR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,970,560 In brief for now, The good: Low band antenna changes played pretty well. Got called by some nice mults, and didn't sleep as much as I did during ssb test. I liked using the Orion on cw even though I felt I that I didn't know how to exploit its capabilities, especially when sleep deprived. The bad: After spending a lot of time hunting mults and checking on ten in ssb, I probably went to the opposite extreme. I could not find the eu opening, if there was one. When I could hear them on 40 long path, they were working each other. Bottom line, I just didn't work enough mults. The ugly: Scientific breakthrough - rf increases computer AI, i.e., the damn thing developed a mind of its own with the beam in a certain direction. Characters woould be added to the callsign field, messages changed or repeated randomly, etc. Apologies to those of you who recieved some bizarre exchanges or confirmation messages. All in all, its still fun. Many thanks to all who took the time to call me, even with a M/M, a M/2 and a big SB15 all on the air from KH6. 73, Lou K1YR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7B Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 350,066 My first CW contest from the Pacific. It sure is nice being able to work W/K for 3 pointers. Lots of activiity the first night with lots of good strong signals and a very quiet band. I finished the first night with 950 QSOs and thought I would surely beat the old Oceania record. It was not to be. The second night really stunk. The band opened much later than the first day and signals were much weaker. The worst part was the gigantic static crashes. Guys with signals I would have been able to run the night before before now took three or four repeats. In seven hours of operation I made a grand total of 271 QSOs and could see the record was not going to beaten this year. After CQing for five minutes with signals I couldn't copy with the crashes, and then coming up empty handed after S/Ping for the needed mults, I decided to call it a night at around 10 PM local time. It was good to work lots of old friends after being QRT for all this time. After being stuck on 80 meters for the last six weeks, I hope to get the rest of the antennas up for the higher bands in the next few weeks...maybe even a 160 antenna will sprout in a month or two. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI3O Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 201,450 Operated from my condo roof deck with 12 foot Outbacker antenna powered with 100 watts from FT-897. Unfortunately had to finish a project by Saturday. That's the cause for my low score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI9A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 473,295 Just got in to chase friends around, and actually had some success with a small pistol station. About 15 hours, all S&P via the Writelog bandmap. Alot of fun for the bottom of the cycle, from a tiny station! Rig : ICOM 756 Pro 3 Amp: Heath SB-1000 @ 500 watts Antennas: 10-20 Cushcraft A3 tribander @ 25', 40-80-160 GAP Voyager vertical. Worked all I heard. Sure would have worked more on the low bands if I had RX antennas. Never waited long in the pileups on 40 & 80! 73-Chuck KI9A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ7UN Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 594 Just practicing CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK9A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 259,000 I had a small temporary beam set up from the previous weekend's Sweepstakes Contest and I just played around a little in this contest and had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7CQ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 418,190 BAD BAND CONDX FROM AURORA AND LOT'S OF FUN! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN4Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 159,616 Good band conditions, but did hear a JA or Russian station. Ten was a DUD. My work horse band was 15-meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN5O Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 293,619 Had not worked the contest in 32 years.. Had a lot of fun and added to my country list. Used my 45 year Collins S-Line.. I feel like I had one hand tied behind my back! At times, my 200Hz filter seemed as wide as a barn door. Lots of great CW ops. I'm soooooo rusty, but this contest helped me a lot. I guess my band timing was bad because I didn't hear that many stations in zone 17, 18 or 19. 80M was surprise, even with all the static crashes. All-in-all, I am pleased with my results and hope to better them next year. - 73, Ted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN7T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 114,048 Highlight was working Laos with just two or three minutes left in the contest. Picked up several new countries this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7AA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,966,272 Ants: 160/80 - Cushcraft MA160V/Butternut HF6V over a common radial field (6000' of wire) 40/20 - Optibeam 3 el 40 / 5 el 20 on a 50' boom @ 90' 15 - 4 el at 35' 10 - the HF6V ------------------------------------------------------------- So close to 2M! My first full CQWW effort since moving to AZ in 03, I think I have left coast DX contesting figured out - work JA on 80/40 when it's dark outside, work JA on 20/15/(10) when it's light outside. Almost no EU on 80/40/20 here, just enough to get the mults. No EU on 15, the 10M opening was for 30 mins on Sunday. I love the Sunday S&P multiplier hunting and this year was great! It will always be a thrill to cruise by the unbreakable packet pile up on some poor LU station to find the V5/9G/TU/5H/5X/3DA0 sitting by themselves just 10 kc higher in the band.... 73, Bill KO7AA in Tucson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 751,296 This is the 20th anniversary of my operating as HD5X with a borrowed TS940 with NO filters (my TS830 was stolen en route), a bencher paddle, hand logging and no beverages! Despite these handicaps, I was the first op to break 6,000 cw q's in a contest weekend, (before dupes and UBN) and finished 3rd in the world! Of course in 2007, it is unthinkable to seriously compete without major league radio filtering, a keyer, computer logging and receiving antennas! :-) Now back to the present.... This was a limited operation with the few antennas that I still have up that are working. 20 was a 4L pointed North @ 50' with a busted gamma match and 40 was a dipole @ 50' with one end touching the ground. Even with that you can still work guys! (From Connecticut anyway...) There were some real pleasant surprises in the contest... My 2nd 40 meter qso at 1156z was HS0ZAR! I couldn't believe how loud Fred was and that I was able to get through the pileup! Equally fun was working B1Z, also on 40 at 1149z on Sunday. Both were new countries on 40 worked with a barely functional dipole. XW1A was also a great surprise calling in on 15 @ 1350z Sunday. Working these rare stations and dxpeditions make the contest so much fun! This is a rebuilding year both for my health and my station. I am hopeful that each will be back to contest readiness in the next year or two. It was great to see so many truly-breathtaking low band scores and to be able to qso so many old friends again. 73 and cu in 2008! Bob KQ2M kq2m@earthlink.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 125,584 My first contest as single operator assisted ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 709,218 Oh boy...where to begin. 1st, I am really sorry to learn about CT1BOH (CT3NT) problems. What a bummer. I was chatting with him just 1 day before he left for CT3 and he was really psyched (no surprise). Too bad. Operating Time For some unknown reason, I sat in the chair straight through until 2330z. I haven't done that in a very long time. Unfortunately, at that time, the bands were not great here and I was a bit confused what to do. My wife sed, "go to bed" and I did (????). She woke me up 6 hours later and I got back in the chair, but the bands were marginal. I worked 2 QSO's in two hours and went back to bed. Got up again at 1145 on day 2 and kept going until the end. I don't know if this was a good "strategy" or not. LOL 40 meters: Very strange from W2. Last year, I was loud into EU after sunset. This year...where was EU? I worked zones 5-8 and 35 when I should have been hearing (and working EU). Echoing K3LR's comments, 40m opened to EU very early. On a whim, I checked 40m at 2000z and EU was loud...really loud. And there I was, working EU with QRP on 40m in broad daylight! If Tim sez it was open hours earlier, gee...what did I miss? 10m: I really need to go SO2R. This is my last year as SO1R, even qrp. Randomly kept checking 10. Found the band open and was afraid to leave. Think I worked 17 mults in 1 hours (but not many Qs). Not sure if the time I spend on 10m was worth it. Too late now. This won't happen to me again. On the plus side, K5ZD's famous quote about 10m is still true. I was working guys who I could barely hear here on one call. How did they hear ME? Working DXCC: I always find it fun to see how many DXCC countries can be worked QRP. This year I finished qrp DXCC in 22 hours. I didn't work much else for the next 24, ending up with 111 DXCC with 4 watts. Not bad for QRP at the bottom with very weird condx. COMPARISONs: I did worse than last year, especially on zones. I never did work any JAs (not even one). 2006 Summary (last year): Band QSOs Zones Countries ------------------------------ 160: 14 4 4 80: 59 11 30 40: 173 24 74 20: 262 23 85 15: 237 21 78 10: 22 12 17 ------------------------------ Total: 767 95 288 Total Score = 812,343 RIGS: Last year I predicted that I would be using not just one, but a pair of K2's (Elecraft). Well, I used my K2 (singular) again since my pair of K3's (ordered) has not yet arrived. Worked on 6 bands: ZF1A (wow!) 5 bands: H7/K9NW HC8N HK1AR PJ4A VC3A VP5W 4 bands: 15 stations A very interesting experience! CU on 160 and 10 and Stew! de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,048,678 Wow! The low bands kept me up way past my geezer bedtime! Too bad noise killed me on 160m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT1V Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 127,865 As many of you know, I'm semi temporarily inactive these days due to so many kids I can't keep their names straight, excessive travel, and this sunspot thing. After missing my first major contest in a decade or so ( CQWW SSB) I had to do something competitive for CW, and dedicated last week to antenna work. It didn't work out. I flew back from a "get on the next plane" job on Thanksgiving and started fixing antenna Friday before the contest, even walking a mile or so of Beverages with a 3, 5 and 7 year old in tow. Well, the 160 TX ant seemed to work and the Beverages were mainly up and most of the RX ant switching even worked. That along with no sunspots of note and some almost mandatory daytime activities made single band 160 obvious. Plus I'm a lowband nut. The 513 Qs includes 87 USAs which of course don't add to the score, and 339 EUs. I figured before the contest that 400 EUs might break K3BUs record, and seems I was right but I just couldn't do it this weekend. Was nice having zones 1, 30, 31, 32 and 38 call me the last night! Missed 11, 12 and 13 -- figured I'd get at lest one or two of them but no luck! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT3Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,860,936 TX ants: 160 90' Vert T 80 " " , NW/SE Dipole 40 E/W dipole, " " 4L wire beam to NE 20 5L wire beams NE and NW stacked dipoles N/S, E/W 15 3L delta loop Quad to NE, 5L wire beam to NW stacked dipoles E/W, N/S 10 " " " RX ants: 3 short 2 wire beverages 73 Phil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 213,675 Icom 756 Pro II. Force12 Flagpole (vertical) antenna. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 360,800 Phew, am I beat. This was lots of fun though! First of all, thanks to Bob and family for once again letting me come and spend the weekend with them. Nice to have both NX5M (SB160) and N5XJ (SB10) in the shack too for some conversation during down time. Let me give a big 'ole Texas "Thanks!" to the JA's! You all really came out to play this weekend and I loved every minute of working y'all. 287 JA made it into the log. Knowing I probably wouldn't find a good run frequency at the start, I spent the first hour or so of the contest S&P for as many mults as I could. Found a decent run freq and attempted to run...no such luck. I commented to NX5M on Saturday morning that I must've missed the memo saying 'only EU can CQ this contest'. I continued S&P for another couple of hours sometimes spending up to 10 minutes to work somebody. During the wee hours of Saturday morning, the +20 rain QRN started. According to all the reliable WX sources, we had pretty close to a 100% chance of rain the entire weekend. Great. Around 5am, I just completely gave up. I layed out on the floor with the headphones on and then QRN put me right to sleep. I awoke an hour later with the noise still there...dang. Bob and I went to the local Casita for some delicious breakfast tacos around 8am or so and by that time the rain was coming down ever harder. This trend continued throughout the day. Around 2pm, I went back into the shack and was surprised to hear EU quite loud. I worked my first at 2:20pm local. Bob had told me it would be pretty early but I think I had to hear it for myself. We dodged a couple of big storms Saturday night that I (unfortunately) think K5NA and K5NZ got some of. I stayed in the shack the entire night this time having a bit of success running EU. Around 3am, the JA's and SE Asia really started to boom in. I then had the tough decision of leaving my run frequency to grab the mults or trying to work them with VFO-B. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to run DUAL as I was also recording the entire contest (more on that later). I tried as best I could to keep a run freq and work the mults but wasn't very successful. XW1A and HS0ZAR were two of the hardest q's of the contest. Was pleasantly surprised to be called by a z17 and 9M6AAC (thanks Ed!). By the time 7am rolled around, I was exhausted. I made the (dumb, now that I think of it) decision to leave the radio and come back that night. If I'd stuck with it a bit longer I believe I'd have even more JA's. Oh well. The last four hours felt like they'd never end. I really only S&P looking for new stations and even grabbed a couple more mults in the process. I came into this contest just hoping to beat the W5 record but exceedingly passed that goal. If you would like to hear our QSO, I recorded the entire contest using Audacity. Unfortunately it doesn't time stamp so it may take a few days for me to find and cut out the desired audio. In any case, I'm excited to hear some of the pileups and rare mult Q's again. Thanks for all the Q's and the fun. Colin KU5B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 172,656 Thanks for the Q's! Had fun! 73, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV8Q Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 515,186 S & P the entire weekend. Conditions were decent on all bands. This is the first effort from the Delaware Amateur Radio Association (DELARA) as a club entry. (That's Delaware County, Ohio). Surprised that I didn't hear much of Western EU on 40. No G's in the log at all on 40 meters. Strange!!! Got them everywhere else. Thanks to everyone who pulled this little peanut whistle out of the QRM. See ya'll next year. Rig - TenTec Jupiter @ 100 watts Antenna - G5RV @ 45' Software - N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KY5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 111,938 Put in a token effort. Spent daylight working on new beverage array. Seemed to be adequate activity with minimum propagattion. Congrats to all who put in a F/T effort. Tim, KY5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,613,624 Tks to all for qsos. Lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,801,122 Thanks for calling! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LT1F Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 13,284,333 Nice to share the station with the LR2F gang. We really enjoyed the weekeend with an excellent low band performance. Good food provided by LU2FA and a great hospitality by LU1FKR. We were very happy because we broke the old LU record for M/2 which was the main goal. No broken rigs or antennas, no storm. Was almost perfect except for 10 meters! Thank you for all the qsos! Luc LU1FAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX5T Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 475,200 Got my amplifier repaired in time for the contest (tnx to Louis LX1A), night times were very difficult - condx worse to the last year. This was only my 3rd cqww CW entry. Using only 2 verticals on 7 Mhz I am satisfied with my score. Unfortunately couldn't work some of the multis I heard. Anyhow see you next year again. Tnx for calling me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,432,195 Just a few hours before the Contest we decided to participate in the M/2 Class instead of the M/S. This was our first entry in this class. The LX7I-station is designed for SO2R and M/S and we missed a lot a third station to work some multipliers. A new 160M vertical Loop and 80M vertical were installed just before the contest and worked realy good. (on some other bands, new antennas are already waiting to be put up) The team DJ9IE DL1QW DL4SDW DL8SCG and HB9CVQ worked together for the first time and enjoyed the contest. We had a lot of fun and are very happy with our result as the station is not desinged for this class, Equipment: IC-756Pro 3 and DX2 (800W) FT-1000 MARK5 and AL-1200 (800W) 10M: 5el@16m 15M: 5el@22m 20M: 4el@26m 40M: 2el@29m 80M: GP and Loop 160M: DP and vertical Loop 2 Beverages and K9AY Loop thanks for all who called us, cu in the CQWW160M Pictures and mor infos can be found on www.lx2a.com 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I / LX9DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,008,120 TRX: TS-870, 500W PA ANT: Butternut vertical HF6V-X (80-10) and wire on 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY3W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 40,842 This year - free time limit :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY8O Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 714,224 Raw score from uncecked log. First of all - many thanks for Peter LY1PM for this super position and to Oleg (technical manager :) ) for technical support before and during the every contest. Lets say very average to poor conditions here. Thanks to KL7CQ and V73NS for double mults and the only contacts from zones 1 and 31. Also was blessed by ZD7X, VP8NO, FG5LA, 5J0A, D2NX, VP2MSC on my CQ - BIG THANKS!!! Overall hard and interesting contest with some technical problems (water apears in one stack maching connection of 4 cables, so lost 1 hour on Saturday afternoon during USA open to reconnect only top antenna to PA; problem was fixed on Sunday late morning). Heard but not worked 5 more countries... Thanks to everyone for the nice weekend. Equipment: IC-756PRO2, 1KW, 3x5 el. monobanders stack on 49m rotary mast + 3xKT34xa stack on 42m rotary mast. Software - WinTest (my first real contest operation with it - it rools!). 73, Remi LY8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,417,056 TS850SAT 100W , A3s 3ele yagi 1/2 sloper 80/40 trap sloper 160 Wow , amazing conditions. Can you believe 100 DXCC worked on 40m with a 10m piece of wire,respectivelly 70 DXCC on 80m with a 20m long half sloper. Was little bit tired so only 38 hours operating in 90% S&P mode.On sunday had some nice runs on 15/20 meters for abt 3 hours,otherwise it was S&P. Thanks for patience and CU in RAEM and TBDC from the hill. 73,Nasko LZ9R (LZ3YY) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9W Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,785,233 Building a competitive M/M station is a BIG task. Rebuilding it, is in some aspects, even bigger one. Krassy LZ1ZD started renovation of his hotel ("by coincidence"-Hi QTH of LZ9W,too ) in November 2006. That's why M/M operation in CQWW CW 2006 was not possible, but this made possible for Iliya - LZ4UU to make his greatest dream come true and he has had a rare chance to use LZ9W antennas and equipment for serious SO2R SOAB HP effort. 23 years old boy used the hardware to become No.1 from continental Europe ( letting only CU2A to take the first place in EU from the best EU offshore location possible) It took one LOONG year to rebuild LZ9W. Now we dare to say it is probably the best M/M station in Europe as far as we speak about living conditions in contest room, sleeping rooms and "chat and eat" room.(we have abt 240 sq meters of rooms now plus restaurant and pool working for us,too :-) ) As soon as possible a photo album about rebuilding story of LZ9W will be put on line to view. Present excellent living condx at LZ9W have been made possible by GREAT efforts of owner of the hotel and main money spender - Krassy LZ1ZD ( hotel is still under renovation which will be finished in April-May 2008, but Krassy took care to get LZ9W premises ready for CQWW 2007 contests FIRST !!!). BIG THANKS also go to team members - Rossen LZ1RGM, Ivan LZ1PM, Assen LZ3UM, Andy LZ1ANA,Danko LZ1FG, Krastyo LZ2UZ and his brother LZ2DZ who put countless hours of work to get LZ9W premises to look so comfortable and nice. Some of us got together for CQWW SSB 2007 and made a semi-serious M/M effort (11 400 000 pts) to test antennas after one year of no M/M activity. Few repairs have been done after SSB part and all looked well few hours before CQWW CW 2007. Vesko LZ5VK has became a father of a beautifull daughter on Thursday and was able to come to set up a PC network just two hours before the start of a contest. Since all was wired permanently after station renovation, this time it took him a few minutes to get all PCs working and network with few minor problems worked very well during next 48 hrs. An hour after beggining of a contest the rotor of 20m yagi gave up, but LZ3UM got it in order on the morning. On Saturday morning we realised why 80m run stn made more QSOs during the night than 40m ops - SWR of HB9CV went to 3.5 due to icing of feeding lines. Again Assen LZ3UM was claiming up the tower and after replacing some cables 40m main antenna was on the air again and helped LZ1UQ,LZ2FV,LZ4UU (last few hours) and daytime ops LZ1GC and LZ4TX to make 3104 QSOs on this band. Saturday was a poorer condx day for us here. On Sunday condx got better and this allowed 15m ops(LZ1ANA and LZ3UM) to make total of over 1300 QSOs having about just 300 Qs on Saturday evening. Our THANKS to LZ2PO who has worked almost alone these 2855 QSOs on 20m helped by LZ1ZF for few hours only. Honours go also to Ivan LZ1PM,Iliya LZ4UU and Rossen LZ1RGM who used renovated 4SQR on 80m to make best ever 80m score from LZ9W in CQWW. Our THANKS go to Con - DF4SA ( Spiderbeam ),too. Dear Con, be sure your fiberglass 20m high posts are one of the BEST products a ham ever offered to contesters community ! 160m was tough first night and better second night. Nice multipliers were worked on this band, too. However, announcing stations on the cluster made my life and this of Krastyo LZ2UZ and Danny LZ2UU a real nightmare with countless strong Europeans calling over and over again, with some of them, without even hearing the multiplier signal at all. DX stns should try working split to manage this awfull chaos somehow ( as A45XR did nicely for example ). Our THANKS go to multies hunters - Ico LZ3FN,Iliya LZ4UU, Plamen LZ3FM, Svetly LZ3SM and "slow hours" ops Danko LZ1FG and Ivan LZ1PJ,too. Krassy LZ1ZD this time made just about 60 QSOs and was just ENJOYING the results of his hard work and money spending. A lot of hard work is left for 2008 - two new towers will be installed, stacked fixed yagies for 15 and 10m on two smaller towers will be put up plus if all goes well a 4 el monobander for 40m,too. Sometime in next years to come a dream of LZ1ZD may be fullfilled,too - 3 el rotary monoband yagi for 80m :-). LZ1ZD have bought 5 new radios this month, which will stay permanently in contest room now - two TS950SD, two FT1000MP and one FT1000MKV Field. So, it was real FUN and we enjoyed fully the king of all contests - CQWW CW. See you all in WPX 2008 contests. 73, de Wally LZ2CJ on behalf of all LZ9W M/M Contest Team members ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M6T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,719,445 Rig : 2 x FT1000MP + Alpha 87A + Ten Tec Titan Ants 160 - Inv-V Dipole @ 28m 80 - 4 square + Dipole @ 23m 40 - 402CD @ 30m 20 - 204CD @ 30m + TH5 @ 32m 15 - Extended 155BA @ 30m + TH5 @ 32m 10 - 105CA @ 33m + TH5 @ 32m I'd hoped for a repeat of the SSB leg this weekend, but unfortunately it wasn't to be. This was down to a mixture of conditions, and poor strategy / performance from me. When conditions are disturbed there's usually a fuzzy line of somewhat through Europe, sorth of which things are OK, but maybe not great, and north of which things are awful. In the SSB leg I was the right side of the line with folks like GM7V and ES5TV the wrong side. This time G was firmly the wrong side of the line. 15m conditions were awful with very little ability to run there and similarly at night the MUF from here dropped too low to make 40m runnable to the US after around 0000/0100. Looking further south in Europe you'll see big scores on those bands. That wasn't the whole story though - I should have had probably 70 more mults relatively easily. I've been very inactive the past couple of years which made my CW even more rusty, and this showed in a real weakness doing SO2R with CW with high QRM/rate, and also I just didn't recognise what my targets should have been early enough in the contest. This was my first CQWW CW as a single op and I hadn't done my reaearch properly - little spare time since the SSB leg getting packed up ready to move house. You live and learn! Sincere thanks to Bob, G4BAH for use of the station again, and to Darren, G0WCW for taking Friday off from work to help me put the antennas back together and get them up in the air. 73 and thanks for all the QSOs, Andy, G4PIQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,884,949 Great contest but too bad about conditions on ten meters in northern Europe! Each one is a learning experience - this one included! - and each one gets better. Winds more cooperative than SSB contest and only had to lower the tower (no 80/160 and yagi down to 40 feet) for less than half the time this weekend. Thanks to Alex GD6IA for lending me his portable tower to hold up the 160 wire and to Brian GD4PTV for helping to erect the tower and wires ahead of time. Thanks to all for the fun contacts and the many nice surprises, and to the groups who went to interesting places, making the contest even more fun. See you in the next one! 73, Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MM0LID Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 811,545 Good contest once again, would like to have been active more, but happy with the result.. 160 was quite poor to be honest, lots of stations heard , but just could break through.. the antenna needs to be upgraded.. 10m only brought small opening late sunday morning into the early afternoon.. nice to get a few mults there.. im sure 20m could have brought a lot more aswell, but i spent most of sunday away from the radio on other things, so i lost out on good propogation in the daytime... but all in all good test as usual.. thanks for all the points, and new band slots... setup: Rig : FT2000 ( AL-811H Amp ) 300W Ants : 160 - dipole 80,40 - Folded Dipole , Vertical 20,15,10 - TH6DXX Logging : Writelog 73's cu all soon. MM0LID ( Scott ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MZ5A Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 22 SEE THE PICTURES!! http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/MZ5B-07/MZ5B-07.html Hiya Guys Here is an extract from the shipping forecast ..... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fair Isle, issued on Sunday 25 November 2007 at 0345 Northwesterly storm force 10 decreasing severe gale force 9 imminent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I had travelled to Shetland with Ian G3WVG to help him rig antennas for his 80M SOSB entry as MZ5B. Ian suggested that during the middle of the day, when he was QRT, I should try a casual single band entry on 28MHz using MZ5A. I rigged up a simple vertical and gave it a go. Radio conditions up in Shetland were awful on 28MHz and the weather conditions at the lighthouse were even worse. I made only a handful of contacts and the galeforce winds snapped the vertical! Quite an experience ! 73 Steve GW4BLE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MZ5B Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 277,458 See the pictures!.....http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/MZ5B-07/MZ5B-07.html Hiya Guys Thanks to all those who called me at MZ5B this weekend. I did 80M Single Band (no dx cluster). Conditions were not too bad considering the highish k index. Weather conditions however, were appalling (worse than last year). Here is an extract from the shipping forecast ..... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Fair Isle, issued on Sunday 25 November 2007 at 0345 Northwesterly storm force 10 decreasing severe gale force 9 imminent. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I wasn't in a ship, but I was in a lighthouse on the edge of a 150ft cliff so it amounted to the same result, minus seasickness! Lots of broken antenna wires and bent a Butternut, but I was able to stay on the air and only missed an hour on the Saturday night fixing a broken dipole end. Steve GW4BLE had kindly volunteered to come on the trip to help with antenna rigging etc and he was uncomplaining when I woke him up at 3 am to get him out in the storm to find the end of the 80M dipole. We did find it ..it was flapping around at 40ft above our heads, and illuminated every 15 seconds by the flash of the lighthouse. In an amazing stoke of luck the wind dropped for a second and the weight of the insulator caused the end to drop at exactly the same moment as the light shone , we grabbed the end and tied it off at ground level. It stayed like that until daybreak when I was able to fix it a little higher. The antenna set up was quite simple. Just a Butternut and an inverted vee at 40 ft so I wasn't ever going to be a big signal, nevertheless it was great fun and I was quite pleased with the result. Raw scores ..1558 qsos, 23 zones, 108 counties...Lots of DX mults were heard but not worked, I just didn't have the oomph. Steve did a single band 28Mhz entry using MZ5A. The idea was that it would give him something to do during the day when I was sleeping. In the end it wasn't too productive. 8 qsos, 3 zones and 6 countries. And to add insult to injury, the 10M antenna was snapped off by the wind! Even so, he now holds the record for top 28MHz SOAB score for Shetland. The WebMeister Nigel has already loaded some of Steve's pix on to his excellent G3TXF website. Take a look at.... http://www.g3txf.com/dxtrip/MZ5B-07/MZ5B-07.html Again thanks to Steve for his great help in the atrocious conditions and to Nigel for the website. 73 Ian G3WVG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0BUI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 26,928 Had company most of the weekend. Operated a little bit here and a little bit there. Had fun though. Used N1MM Logger for the first time and it worked well. 73, N0BUI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0HR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 206,488 A contest of firsts here: First real test of new antennas/tower... 4 Ele SteppIR @ 72' (10 thru 20) Cushcraft XM240 @ 82' (40m) Sloper (80m / 160m)... admittedly can't expect too much on the lowbands. Summer tower project pics and blog here: http://www.n0hr.com/hamradio_blog/ First real effort for me using N1MM in a CW contest. Still getting used to a few things. Didn't expect to set the world on fire and couldn't put in a full effort, but was able to get in about 30 hrs. Only one rig (Icom 746) which can be a bit tricky to use when the bands are packed. Worked a lot more CW DX this weekend than I ever have from my QTH - so that was fun. Head cold slowed me a bit... but I've been looking forward to this one for a long time so there wasn't any way I was going to throw in the towel. Glad I didn't, because I had a blast! Thanks to those with some great ears for pulling me out, especially on 80 and 160. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,767,245 Enjoyed our limited M/2 with good friends. From our northern location, there was nothing heard or worked north of EA and EA6 on 15, and those were the only EU stations worked on that band. The low bands were either amazingly good or bad. At times we had such poor propagation that we were stonewalled, and other times it was easy! Excited to make over 100 on both 40 (rotatable dipole at 82')and 80 with a new 80 meter 4 Square just completed. Was great fun to work LP zones 17 and 18 on 80. We were only able to run EU for a couple of hours in the mornings and a little JA in the afternoon on 20. It will be good to get some sun spots so that the preasure comes off of a pretty crowded 20 meter band. Many thanks to the guys for coming out to my vacation home/mini contest station in far NW Wisconsin near Lake Superior. John, N0IJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0OJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 23,320 Very minimal effort after arriving home from the Thanksgiving holiday in New Mexico with family. Worked only Sunday from 1700-2100z. Very surprised with 15m - got a few new countries (including the 9G guys). Next year will have beam and tower up for contest season. Good time overall! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1BAA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,861,056 ICOM 756 PRO 2 AND AL-1200 FORCE 12 4BA @ 60 FT 6L10 @ 35 FT 6L15 @ 35 FT 5L20 @ 70 FT 2L40 @ 80 FT 80M DIPOLE AND SLOPERS Great turn out! WALL-TO-WALL CW on 20M ALL the way to the TOP of the CW BAND!!! GREAT TO SEE THAT!!! This was my first contest from here at the new QTH in MA...and LOVED IT!!!! See you soon! Jose - N1BAA ex N4BAA, KG4SB, YI9BAA, WD4LAH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 390,892 This ended up being a 100% S&P effort. Couldn't get any response from my CQ's this year. Very strange propagation on 15M. I worked many VE6/VE7 and KH6 stations off the back and side of my antenna. These stations were louder with the antenna pointed south. Most interesting QSO's ZF1A and J3A back to back on 80 for a 5 band sweep each Rig: Ten Tec Omni 7 100W Antennas: 20/15/10 4 element Triband Yagi @ 30ft 80/40M dipoles Computer: HP Pavillion running CT software Thanks for the QSO's 73 Rick QTH Braintree MA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,249,896 Score almost identical to last year. What I missed on 10 mtrs I made up on 80 and 160. We need sunspots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 73 Don N1DG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,771,104 Can't complain about condx or activity level this weekend considering where we are in the cycle and recent disturbances. Did a lot more dial spinning to avoid the packet pileups. Thanks for all the q's and apologies to callers I couldn't pull out. 73, Barry N1EU Equipment: Ten-Tec Orion, N1MM Logger 160M: inv L, elevated radials 80M: 1/4 wire vert, elevated radials 40M: delta loop, dipole 20-10M: Force12 C3S tribander @ 50ft Beverage rx ants NE, SE, SW, NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1MGO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 39,220 Lots of fun, just not much time to operate! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1SZ Class: SOAB(A) QRP Total Score = 10,153 This was my 1st CQWW as a QRP. S&P effort this weekend. Thanks to all who listened for my QRP signal. Big kudos to ZM3A, 6W1RW & 3X5A who took the time to listen for my call in the mass calling! Thanks for the new one guys! IC-756Pro, 5W and 100' of #24 AWG at 20'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 332,904 Not a fun weekend. Conditions not as good as SSB weekend. To further complicate matters antenna rotation was restricted to 0-150 degrees due to a fallen tree branch hitting the elements. Going to be fun to remove. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2FF Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 420,700 I think I did pretty well with 100 watts and no anteenna over 50 feet high and no running. It was all packet pouncing. I can't run on CW. I was amazed that I could work anything on 10M. Those signals were weak and I know my signal was probably even weaker as many of the stations I worked there were running linears I am sure. My 80M dipole slopes to the south and it works very well to the south I discovered during this contest. I was happy to get 33 countries there. Thanks to all the good DX operators who heard my peanut whistle for a great contest. I think I have a few new band modes for the DXCC Challenge. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 735,280 Equipment: IC756proIII, AL-1200, Dipoles at 35' All S&P. Missed all of Sunday due to family commitments. Had fun in the time available especially on the low bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,977,944 Thank you, Japan ! Best activity from JA that I can remember in a CW contest ! 572 JA's on 40 ! A better weekend than I expected, with the score down only slightly from last year. First snowstorm of the year brought very bad static crashes on 160. The beverages on my rocky hill aren't nearly as directive as what I had over flat farmland in Colorado, so there were no quiet directions. 80 was great to EU on Friday night, but poor on Saturday night (although I confess to sleeping from 01Z-05Z Saturday night, so maybe there was an opening then). A little long path on 80 both mornings really helped the multiplier numbers. 40 was a bottomless pit of JA's, with lots of BY and HL activity, also. Poor to EU all weekend. Even before sunset, there was no good EU opening. 20 was good for an hour after sunrise to EU, and good to JA from 21Z-01Z. Otherwise, it was either dead, or a Zone 8,9,33 and VE band ! My only EU run all weekend was an hour Sunday AM, on 20. My 20 meters mult number was the best ever for me. Seemed like every time I scanned the band there were lots of new mults. 15 never opened to EU, and only opened to JA for a 1.5 hours. I was very lucky to catch a very short opening on 10 meters to the Caribbean and Africa on Sunday morning, as well as a Pacific opening Sunday afternoon. It would have been very easy to miss the Caribbean opening while working EU on 20 at that time. On the really negative side, this crap of DX not signing their call has got to stop ! This was especially bad from Zone 33 and Zone 38 stations. Even working them and asking their call didn't always elicit the desired response ! Software authors - you need to add a feature that automatically sends the call on the "TU" message every N QSO's, where N <= 5 ! Some selected stats: # EU = 417 # JA/HL/BY = 1133 Thank you, again, Japan, China and Korea ! 73, Steve, N2IC/5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,522,256 Amplifier died 30 minutes prior to the start. I made the decision to try LP for the first time in my life. At 0000z, 20m was dead, 40m had only a few eu. I did some S&p there for one hour then went to 80m. WOW!!!!!! The band was super quiet and I was working everything I heard...EU/AF/SA/Carribean. Who needs an amp! I floated back and forth betwee 40m and 80m until 0500z. What the heck...I would try 160m. Quick qso's with 3x5,cu2, etc,. I went back to 80m at eu sunrise and was still easy to work everything.More S&P until 0800z. Saturday was great into eu on 20m around 1400z. I was able to hold a frequency and run them at 100+.It took me by surprise when E51A called in...I thought he was ES1A until he sent zone 32!! 15m was fair and the beam was pointed due East. No runs, but easy pickings. 40m opened around 1900z, but I had to wait until 2100z to work anything. ( I miss my amp)It was a struggle to compete with the KW's. I missed some easy mults...A45, A71, UN, etc. Sunday morning on 40m, I bagged z17,z18 and missed JT1CO. Sunday was good again on 20m. I made the effort to stay there since 15m was horrible. As expected, 20m closed to eu early and I spent the afternoon cleaning up missed band countries. Lots of Africans on both 20m & 15m. I caught the 1 hour opening on 10m and worked everything I heard including 3X5A. The remainder of the contest had me flipping between 20m, 40m and 80m. Lots of new mults. Bottom line...I did ok, but I miss HP! I am spoiled after 47 years. Congrats to K1BX....I never heard you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NL Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,904,924 SO1R, 80/160: modified HF2V (55ft tall), 1 elevated radial for each band 40: 1/4 wave vertical, 2 elevated radials 20: phased verticals, 1/2 wave spaced, 2 elevated radials each element 15 and 10: both have 1/4 wave verticals with 2 elevated radials each All antennas were located in a 3ft x 120ft space....[disclaimer follows]....on my dock over salt water. Details here: http://www.n2nl.net/gallery/QTH Since I wasn't able to travel to K3LR this weekend, I decided to get on from home as seriously as possible, and have some fun. Unfortunately, I could only really run on 20m. Being close to the Caribbean, there is often high QRN, and without gain antennas I'd get swamped with the S0 buzz of weak callers. As a result, I was a S&P and DXing fool! If you ever wondered about the benefits of salt water, just look at the country totals and what I used for antennas. I truly felt loud and I floored myself at some of the things I was able to work. Zone 17/18/19 on 80m? WOW! 15 and 10m were a disappointment. Many zone 7/8 countries are difficult if not impossible to work on these bands due to my close proximity, and many of those I did work were thanks to the good ears of the ops who heard my signal via scatter. I was surprised, however, to hear a loud VU2PAI on 15m this morning, although I couldn't make it through the European callers. Packet and Win-Test actually greatly improved the fun factor for me - although I cringed many times when I was trying to work something weak and it gets spotted - and the onslaught begins. Although I really was really only competing for top 5 or 10 in the SOA category, I can't express how rewarding it is to operate from a station designed and built by myself. I've got about 5 more years in the USCG until I am eligible for retirement, and I've already got a couple acres of land scoped out [in Florida] for a future permanent station once I can settle down. I can't wait! As always, thanks for the Q's and the on-the-air camaraderie with friends from around the world that makes this sport so great! 73, Dave N2NL/4 Key West ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,501,455 Did you catch the short 10 meter opening? It will get better! No Eu but did work the 3X on 10m. Enjoyed all of the Q's. Thanks, Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 28,470 Friday night started out nice and quiet, and the band was hopping. QRN rolled in around midnight. Saturday night was rough... Highlights included catching HZ1EX all alone and getting him with my first call, working 13 new countries and one new zone... wish there were more Canadian hams, it makes for VERY long hours when there's no DX! Sorry to those I missed and thanks for those who took the time when it was rough going. See ya next weekend ;o) 73, Julius ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,819,000 My thanks to the N3RS team for all the hard work, both during the contest, and over the Summer getting new antennas and rotors up. Nearly everything worked well and only a few minor glitches. Propagation was pretty good for a SSN that is at its lowest. Still have noise generated from the 40M station into 20M, but fortunately, the overlap was minimal and we were able to manage it well. It felt good to be back in a serious contest after missing a couple over the last year. 73 de Sig, N3RS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3TG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 57,275 Low power, poor antenna, lots of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 271,432 I was out of town at the beginning of the contest so I didn't get on until the wee hours Saturday morning. Then I had to QRT several times through Saturday and Sunday for family things since my sister was home for Thanksgiving. Like some guys have said, it was annoying to sit and have to wait 3 or 4 minutes before someone running a frequency sends their call, and half the time it gets wiped out by the pileup. It was fun to break the pileup for 3X5A on 4 bands with my 100 watts and it was nice to have KH6B return one of my CQs on 80M. I had no idea how many points I would get, but I had a great time! 73 de Greg N3ZL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 811,008 I'm surprised I found 14 hours between the four extra adults, two grandkids and the extra dog and cat all wanting to know "where's grandpa?" If we'd only had a pony we could have charged admission. Started Fri night after the rest of the house went to bed - 160/80/40 were great and noise was very low. I ran off 25 countries on 160 and 50 on 80 in under 2 hours of S&P. Saturday night I got back on and 160 and 40 were awful, but 80 sounded very good, particulaly at the EU sunrise - odd. Sunday the visitors took off and I got two hours of run on 20 - condx were good. I moved to 15 and the SWR was 10:1. The dual band 10/15 GP I had "temporarily" put up two years ago choose sometime Saturday night to fall down. I would have really enjoyed this one full time --- the wires in the woods that didn't fall down were working FB. 2M+ would have been easy if I'd had 30 hours and more daytime run time. 2X: FT-1000MP+Inrad, ACOM 2000A Home Brew SO2R, Writelog, wires in the woods. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 449,892 WHO SAID CW IS DEAD ? LOTS OF ACTIVITY.. LOW BANDS WERE GREAT. NICE METING OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES. GOOD TO SEE 10 METERS TRYING TO COME ALIVE AGAIN. 73s JERRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,430,000 For years, I've been writing about how much FUN each contest was, until this one. Single Operator All Band (Assisted) means fighting Packet Pileups ALL Weekend and that is NOT FUN, especially with broken or damaged antennas and outdated Logging / Spotting Software. It's past time to rebuild and refurbish! My emphasis was almost entirely on working MULTIPLIERS which meant leaving HOT Bands (40 and 20) to ply 160, 80, 15, and 10 Meters when they were open but marginal. ALL QSO's were either Hunt and Call or Spot and Call, with NO CQing. Maybe I should go back to LP or QRP with NO Packet Assistance to restore the FUN of Chasing and Finding DX (when the Sunspots return of course). I expect I will fell better about my results (especially the Mults), after a good night's sleep :-). I'm tired, REALLY TIRED. This one took a LOT out of me. Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,847 Extremely limited operating time available this year; but still had tons of fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 91,260 All contacts were S & P. Used only Hamsticks on my auto in the driveway. Received a violation from the HOA on using my Comet next to the house, so I didn't put it up. Had fun! Worked some new ones. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 779,328 Thanks again Tom for letting me operate from your QTH. As always, everything worked to perfection. Thanks to you and Marsha for the hospitality. First hour an even 100 Q's with usual W's calling plus A71EM. Would be nice if US stations counted for something as there's no easy way to tell them on CW they amount to zero points. Several goodies called in the second hour - 5H3EE, 7Z1HL, A45XR, 4L8A, 3X5A, D2DX, D4C (Brought back a lot of memories - D4B) and VP8NO. The heavy-duty stuff started in the 10th hour with 9V1YC, AH2R, TF4M, JT1CO, XW1B, DS5SWL, RK9AWN, FK8IF, DX1DBT, BA4RF, VR2MY, 9M6XRO, T88FY, YC1KAF, HS0AC, XU7WMA, B7P, T88RJ, KG6DX, & T88WV. All but a couple worked LP (S-SW) Saturday afternoon nice to have JW5E call for new one. RZ0CQ worked early Saturday evening in zone 19 for 38th zone. Still needed zones 22 & 34. Didn't give much hope to work all 40 zones needing those two. Sunday morning worked 4U1ITU for a new one at 1121 UTC...middle of the day in Europe. Also worked B4B, HL2AEJ, BA4DX, B3C, S21ZDX (zone 22)!!!, CE0Y/ OE2SNL, XW1A (XW1B the first morning), Fred, K3ZO at HS0ZAR. After S21ZDX left only zone 34 but it never showed up. Was hoping Tom, SU9NC would call but didn't happen..maybe one year will work all 40 zones on 40 meters. Sunday afternoon new ones that called in...TA1DX, 9G5ZS (once wasn't enough he called back about an hour later - worked him again). Really strange when CT6A called at 1939 on Sunday afternoon for a new one - 1st Portugal and country number 151 !! Nice to see friends out at different spots..Andy at V47NT, Mike, K9Nit-Wit at H7, real ole friend, Jim, N6TJ back at 9Y4AA, Fred, K3ZO at HS0ZAR. Know I've left some others out but it's Sunday evening and I'm about shot. Thanks to all who called. This was really great. Soon be my 55th year of hamming and know I'm slowing down a bit but it's still a lot of fun... 73, Paul, N4PN @ W8JI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 82,360 With college kids home for the holiday and lots of family time commitments this was not a very good effort. Couldn't convince my family to go out to eat at ten each night after the good openings at sunset. So I missed "prime time" both Friday and Saturday nights. Oh well ---But I had fun until line noise got out of control Sunday afternoon and I quit. It was fun to hear EU coming through both afternoons as early as 1PM FL time - but I couldn't work them for several hours with my modest station. All S&P; CQ's yielded zero results. Unlike several years back when I could run EU for several hours each night. Called 4L0A a zillion times and not a peep. Only zone I heard that I didn't work. But I didn't hear a bunch of them- 6 less than last year. Not sure how much time I logged. I did sleep a lot both nights! Rig: same ole IC-746, N3FJP AC Log (Tnx Scott- it works great!) and OCF 80 M inv vee at 40 ft and a temporary 1/4 wire GP thrown up in front yard tree. Radials were laid out on the roof, not optimal. Thanks for digging me out. CU next year I hope. Maybe with a temporay wire beam or something to bust through a bit better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4RV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 830,776 Mostly a low band, part time effort, ALL Q's were S&P.. Very quiet band conditions made for an enjoyable contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,858,507 Warm dry wx here in Florida made 160 and 80 very noisy. Lots of time spent waiting for DX stations to finally send their call then to have it QRM'ed by the "constant callers". Antenna for 20, 15 & 10is only a mini tri-bander at 50 feet so I was pleased with the results. 73 Terry N4TB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,572,365 Competition Makes Contesting Interesting I didn't seriously believe that just because N1UR said he was leaving the country that a non-New England station would win. But, just to be sure, I prepared like it. I installed a NE and a SE beverage "just in case." Boy, was I glad. Normally, I listen on my transmitting antennas for 160 & 80, but Thursday I was shocked to find S9+ QRN on both 80 & 160 in the morning hours, when the normal S-meter reading should be about S-2. The noise was about the same level in all four directions with the four-square. I tried shunting the feedpoints of all the verticals with 1/4 WL shorted stubs in case it was some kind of cororna discharge, but it didn't seem to make any difference. With the beverages, the QRN was only S5. I was unable to find the source - it was with me until Monday. So, I would have worked virtually no stations on 80 or 160 if I had gone down my normal path. Conditions were really poor here in 9-land. Last year I worked more stations on 15 with one antenna which didn't turn than with 3 rotating yagis this year. My best hour "running" on 20m was 56. Of course my SMC comrades 150 miles away tell me how good I had it.... Some idle chatter - 199 band changes between QSOs - I'm glad I got that 6-pack fixed! Running out to the tower to change bands last year really got old. 11% of QSOs were with Canada - thank you! The three Africans I heard on 10 (D4C, 3X5A, V51AS) were all S-9 for about 30 minutes Saturday, never heard any on Sunday, nor any sign of Pacific stations at all. Heard N5AW calling CQ on 10 and figured Marv may have had a run going, and therefore probably had great 15m stats, but I would have been wrong. Keeping the second radio on 10 all day almost certainly cut down on my 15m totals, but I didn't want to miss the band if it opened for an hour like in October (it didn't). You guys in New England are on notice that I'll still be here with my single tower when the sunspots return. So bring your A-game or don't come. Terry Zivney, N4TZ/9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4VV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 296,646 Time limited, but enjoyed the contest. First time I have used a K1EL USB keyer with N1MM. Worked great. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4YDU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,226,955 This was a grind for most of the contest, but it was still a lot of fun. It was nice having my fiance (Allison) around. She was quite interested in what I was trying to do and prepared tons of food for me. I went to bed the first night at 0900Z and I was back up at 1130Z. I felt pretty good, but without much on 15M, I figured it was going to be slow going - and it was. I probably missed a few mults on 10 - I had zero qsos there on day one, but I did have some fun there on Sunday afternoon with 3x5a and e51a. Station Radios - IC 751A and IC 735 (the 735 started acting funny, so I switched to my trusty Ten Tec Delta) Antennas: 160M Inverted L 80M GP 40M 2 inverted vees (55 feet up) 20M Halfsquare (75 feet) NE/SE, delta loop (NW/SE) 70 feet 15M 2 el delta loop fixed NE (45 feet), delta loop (50 feet)(SE/NW) 10M 2 el tribander at 22 feet fixed SE, also 40M vee and 20M loop (both fed with open wire to a balanced tuner (new MFJ one) See you in ARRL DX CW 73, Nate/N4YDU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,572,365 Radios: Orion & IC746Pro 100 watts Antennas: 10/15/20 - 4L SteppIR @ 23m, Stacked C3's (2L) @ 31m & 25m fixed NE 40 - Moxon on 42m tower, Lazy H @ 40m NW-SE 80 - Array of 5 sloping dipoles from 40mh tower 160 - 42m tower with 6 elevated radials @ 22m Receiving - NE Beverage 160m long Score down 20% from 2006 - 1.57 meg vs. 1.98, 1093 Q's vs. 1243. 535 mults vs. 586. Congratulations to K1BX on a great score! Definitely not my year. Not that it would have made much difference but still rebuilding antennas from storm damage last spring. Only two high band antennas - one fixed NE and the other a rotary SteppIR. SteppIR is a good antenna but not the best for sharing with SO2R. Had three rotary and one fixed antenna in 2006. On the bright side - highest ever QSO and country totals on 40 and 80 including "DXCC" on 40 for the first time ever in a contest. Nasty weather all weekend. Thunderstorms and rain caused static at times but on the plus side line noise to the SW went away. African and Pacific openings on 10 were a nice surprise but missed a decent opening to the multiplier rich Caribbean. Hope to have a better high band antenna line up for ARRL DX. Enjoyed it. Marv, N5AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 168,903 Since I was still in recovery mode from my recent quadruple bypass surgery, I knew I needed a category to allow me to get some sleep. I opted for 20M SB, and it was a good choice. (Had a follow up visit with the doctor today and everything is great -- I can start lifting more than 5 pounds, drive a car, and go back to work. I've been so bored I'm even looking forward to going back to work!) I was pleased with my mult totals, but am very impressed with the QSO totals turned in by some of the other 20M LP entrants. Again thanks for the fun and contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5XJ Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 7,943 Not too much happening on 10 meters.Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. Worked a few AFs, several ZLs , no EUs or JAs , and one VK near the end of the contest.Always fun operating from NX5M,a station that hears so well, thanks Bob! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6DA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 223,962 Rig: TS-940S Alpha 87 N1MM Software Antennas: 80 - Quarter wave sloper - top at 30 feet 40 - Inv Vee @ 35 feet 20 - Inv Vee @ 35 feet 15 - 40 meter Inv Vee Europe tough, but also amazed at what I could work with just low dipoles. Thanks to all the goods ears on the DX end!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: M/M HP Total Score = 3,945,000 Low bands were fun. The end! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 443,975 Fantastic! I stumbled on to a pile up on 160. I gave one call. The station had everybody QRX and called me! It was 3X5A. Those guys are the best listeners I ever ran into! They were everywhere almost as much as HC8N! Kudos! I did not have much on the low bands (an 80M loop Apex at 50 feet (used it on 40) and I shunt fed the tower on 160). I think I like the bottom of the sunspot cycle better than the top. You really have to move around a lot to keep the rate up. I was running only 100 watts. It still generated a run on 20 and 15. In spite of the poor antenna on 40 I heard LP EU but could not get their attention. 160 was the best I have ever heard it. Everybody listened attentively and I made more Qs than ever before. I do not have the "legs" for the full 48 hours. Everything starts swelling up. I slept 3 times, 3 hours each time. I forgot to pick up the mults on 10M. Thanks Glenn, K6NA for moving up to 10 for zones 3. Also I heard K0RF at the end of the contest but could not get his attention for zone 4. I missed 4 5 & 6. Next year I will tie a string on my finger. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,951,672 First full SOAB effort in CQ WW for quite some time, from the home station. I seem to remember these things as being a bit more fun when there were sunspots. I also seem to remember I used to be able to operate for about 45+ hours out of 48, but couldn't manage it this time. I thought line my noise was cured, but it was still very bad on 160m, hence the poor showing there. The KC2TX receiving loop is on order. I think I got a "Hi Bob" from every continent. :-) I also think 8N1420T/1 must be the most difficult callsign I've ever managed to copy in any contest. It should count as a special mult. :-) My new Force 12 Sigma 180S rotary 80m dipole with Tornado Tuning Drive continues to perform superbly, as does Win-Test. Ant: 5 el 10, 5 el 15, 5 el 20, 3 el 40, 1 el 80, shunt-fed tower for 160. Rig: FT-1000MP (2), Alpha 86, Alpha 87A Software: Win-Test 3.18.0 73, Bob, N6TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6VI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 382,510 Thanks again to N6AA for use of his station. Got a late start, compounded by non-working monitor function on both rigs, so unable to hear my own keying. Resorted to keyboard-send function in TR Log . . . no paddle all weekend! Mostly S&P; not much luck running on any band. Owing to commitments before and after the contest, I didn't push the operating time and slept some both nights. Nonetheless, had fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 72,352 This turned out to be a much better event than I had expected. In spite of zip sunspots and somewhat noisy bands, the DX just kept coming. It was great. At times it seemed like shooting fish in a barrel. I would call, and get an immediate reply, Like no one knew I was QRP :-). If this is how we do with no sunspots, who needs them! I had six different hours where my S&P rate was over 10 QSOs per hour, including band changes. My new strategy seems to work. The weather stayed dry this time, allowing me to concentrate on operating and not on trying to get wet 450 0hm feedline back in matched condition. My (in)famous WimpyWire antenna system was on its best behavior this weekend, allowing me to get around the bands quickly, looking for new stations. I even worked three Chinese stations. Wow, the first and only time I've worked China before was back in 1998. All in all, a great weekend. Hope you had as much fun as I did. Hope to see you all in the next contest. 73, Bob N6WG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 853,632 Rig: FT-1000MP MkV Field Henry 2KD-5 w/two tubes, then one tube, then changed to the AL-1200 Acc: microHAM microKEYER N1MM Logger Ant: Cushcraft X9 @ 17m 40m Dipole @ 17m 80m half sloper @ 12m I thought I was going to do a serious SOAB(A) effort, but that changed when my wife made one of my favorite dinners on Friday night. I had to take a long break, and after returning to the contest, I just couldn't get serious. I had a great time mostly searching and pouncing. I did try four short runs of about 40 Qs each, but I made no serious effort to build the QSO count. My Henry 2KD-5 had a problem at about an hour into the contest. I noticed the normal 1300-1400 Watts had dropped to about 1000 Watts. In looking at the tubes there was an obvious problem. One was bright and the other was pretty dim. It seemed to working pretty well at the 1000 Watt level, so it lasted that way until I decided to work 160m late Saturday night. I then changed to the old reliable Ameritron AL-1200. Thanks to all for the enjoyable time. Maybe next year, I'll try to get serious. Hi Hi 73, Bill N6WS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 365,310 Had fun exercising the K3 in a DX contest... actually, THE DX contest. Much more fun than SS! Rig worked very well indeed. The audio effects processing and noise reduction were very helpful. Spent most of my limited time pointing and shooting. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7AZ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 21,948 IC 746Pro, Multi Inv V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7IR Class: SOSB/160 QRP Total Score = 1,892 Set out to better my zone 3 record in this interesting category and did it in essentially one night. Worked 5 continents missing only Europe. Static crashes from storms over Texas made working the Carribean stations very difficult the first night and impossible the second. Got some sleep the second night before the sunrise session, which wasn't as good as the first morning and netted no new stations. Worked 3X5A on four bands including 160 meters! Go Voodudes! 73 Gary, N7IR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7US Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 114,492 S&P to pick up band countries from new QTH in IL and check out new 2L 40. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7WA Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 108,070 Knowing it was going to be a LP SOSB/20 operation, I started the week by listening to and recording the NCDXF beacon system. I was not impressed by the propagation possibilities. Still, CQWW has a tendency to bring stations out of the woodwork and I had hope. The first 24 hours, that hope was realized. Sure, there wasn't much Europe from the Pacific NW but there was enough to provide needed multipliers. (I heard and worked a total of TWO DL's and it sounds like I was one of the lucky ones locally.) Then, the JA's came out in moderate strength so there was some fun to be had with slow paced runs. I was even working the Pacific and SA at 9PM local. By the time I headed to bed on Saturday night, I had %77 percent of my 2006 QSO totals. Alas, Sunday it was not to be. The closest I could get to Europe on Sunday morning was a weak EI6 and maybe an EA. I did hear EA9, IS0, and CN2 all calling without any real competition but they never heard me - not even a ? Africa popped up, but the pileups were horrendous and propagation made it harder than normal to bust them. I would go away and scan 20M but always end back up at the pileups as there wasn't much else to do except beat my head against those walls. Overall, it was a day of 5-6 Q's an hour. The sunshine outside was a real lure but I kept my butt in the chair with daydreams of a spotted sun for next year (just a few please). I never made it to last year's Q total (29 shy) . I'm gonna chalk it up as a fun weekend... but the vote was a close one. :>) Hope it was fun for you. dink, n7wa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 589,345 First things first. I want to thank Chuck, N7BV and his XYL Karen for their hospitality in hosting me as a single op for this contest. Much work went into getting the station ready for the contest and for the wonderful meals served up to the operating position. This went along way to keeping me in the chair and plugging away. We had a computer glitch in the SO2R keying setup and managed to get it sorted out. I missed the first half hour of the start. . The bad news first. I was expecting at least brief runs on 15 to JA. We had decent openings during the SSB leg and my VOACAP printouts were indicating good SNR ratios for at least an hour. Needless to say that I only worked a handfull from this location. The much better news is that the low bands rocked. I worked quite a few zone 15 multipliers and even a handful of zone 14 on 40M. There were two openings to EU. During the early evening I used a new wire antenna constructed by Chuck and designed by Chuck and Ward N0AX. It played well for the early evening opening. We had solid long path openings in the morning that I used Chuck's sloper system to nab even more EU mults. 80M was wonderful. I didn't manage to work any EU there (I did hear CU2A but was unable to make the contact with Toni). The africa openings were great on both nights. I bagged ZS4TX, V51AS on 80 (and 20). I managed to work 3X5A and D4C on 80, 40 and 20. I must have missed the zone 38 openings on 40M both nights. I thought I played the short 20M EU openings pretty well. It seemed to favor zone 15 the first day and 14 the second. Maybe its just me. I'd like to hear from anyone else who experienced the same prop. I was too eager to get to 40M in the evening so I must have missed out on zones 23, 26, and 29 as a result. 15 never seemed to open broadly or strongly to me. Even the JA opening sucked (see earlier comments). It was so poor that I just gave up on 10 completely. 160 was a pleasant surprise netting 12 countries in 12 zones. Not bad for not having a separate receive antenna. All and all good fun. Many thanks to all the great ops, especially the JA's who were so patient and plentiful on 20M. I'm getting better at SO2R, but I still need work. It is especially difficult to do when tired/fatigued. 73 - Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8EA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 22,200 Thanks Jeff ! Got to use the new Elecraft K3. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8ET Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 402,458 Findlay Ohio was hit by massive flooding this past August, so I did not get a chance to do the usual antenna work I usually do in preparation for the contest, so I chose to run a single band high power effort rather than my usual all-band QRP effort. It was an interesting experience - a bit different than running QRP! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,045,825 As has been said before, that was fun! Especially when compared to SS; I started working the SS in 1972, first WW was in '75 or maybe '76 from W3FA, so SS burnout is a factor. As usual, I was pretty whipped by Friday, no holiday on Thanksgiving for me, just more work than usual. My daughter wanted to go shopping, so being a good dad, we visited Kohl's which wasn't really that crowded at 6PM; returned about 0015Z, fired up at 0037Z. Eu was barely in there from the Mediterranean area on 40, 20 was only open to VE3 on Es, so it was down to 160 for some DX'ing for 30 minutes. 3X5A was easy for a new one, worked 2 HR's, only Eu were S57M, and loud SV3RF. Around 0130 it was up to 80 where condx were below a normal night, but there was a decent amount to work. A lot of the Eu runners were being answered by Eu totally inaudible here. PY was pretty loud in the midst of their summer and V51AS was as loud as the loud Europeans; ZS4TX was much louder than Eu at twice the distance, first call! 160 later was poor, but was able to work a couple of Eu along with multiple CN's and a few Caribbean stations. No running was possible on 80M while I was operating all 3 nights, but I QRT'ed before Eu sunrise. Having no real chance at being competitive, I slept in until 1230Z. Needless to say, the house was pretty full on 20, by then. I had a decent run around 14049 for about a half hour, then it dried up. Around 1335, I decided to try 15 which was barely open to Eu. By the time I swept thru the band picking up AF (6W, 3DA0, 5H, 3X5A) and Med area Eu, it was improving. I actually managed a decent run which surprised me with the limited area in Eu that was open. SM7YEA (rare for condx like this), GW, SP, HB9, E7, CO2NB and TA1AN all called in. The condx dropped down at 1500, so back to S&P, then a run on 20 at 1600 which featured a good rate but enough key clicking QRM to make it miserable to try and copy the really weak ones. Signals seemed really weak compared to higher sunspot years and I tired of trying to dig them out by 1720, so S&P'ed the big guns which were fading fast except SW Eu. I took some time off to eat and walk the dog in the afternoon and was slowed down by the departing Shepherd U football fans. 15 and 20 were still full of unworked mults at 2115Z, so I didn't make 40 until 2215. I ran less than 10 stations before deciding that S&P was going to bear more fruit, it was slow. Condx were better on both 80 and 40 than the night before, but not much of any Eu on 160. The casual ops in Eu were catching some shut eye, so running on 80 was just about nil for me, but the Eu big guns were pretty loud. 40 stayed open to the Eu Med area thru the evening with good signals as well as some very loud AF and SA. The mults kept piling up enough to stick with it till 0345Z. Nothing that rare was worked except 4L and D2 on 40. I had one stretch of 5 double mults within about 9 Q's on 40 and found 3G1X to wrap it up. My score was about 850K by then. The next morning the low bands were poor to put it mildly around sunrise. I made it up to 20 at 1215 and found a spot low in the band and had the mother of all runs. It sounded like a VHF contest at first with weak signals and I had essentially no QRM for 3 hours! Worked 75 Q's in the 45 min till 13Z, then had a 136 and 148 hour. I had only run about 170 Eu's Saturday on 20, so was pretty much fresh meat. The only negatives were S3 QRN and weak signals, but 1 CQ usually brought a couple of decent strengthened callers, not worth trying to dig them out. I apologize for not hearing all of the Eu calling, but the noise cut out the weak ones. I'll call the electric company again. 15 was about the same old guys as yesterday, so up to 10M where the band was the best it was all weekend = open. V51AS was booming in, nice to hear a resident DX op operating the contest seriously. All of my 10M mults and all but 2 of the Q's were worked in the half hour starting 1612Z. If you missed this opening from the mid-Atlantic area, you didn't work much. 20 stayed open maybe a bit later than Saturday, but the even the big gun Germans were weak by 1730. Once 20 closed it was scrape the bottom. Not a whole lot new on 15, only worked FO8ER and multitude of KH6's in OC the whole test. 20 produced some nice mults, but no VK or other OC via LP. I set an infamous record of working NO JA's on any band and breaking 2 Mil, not too many ops can claim that! 80 and 160 were even worse than the rest of the test. Without all of the Eu's active with small stations, this contest would have really been slow. Thanks for your support and the Q's! After the 20M run Sunday, I started to push harder to do well. I was surprised to break 2 Mil having only about 700K at the mid-point. Can't wait for Eu back on 10M in a couple of years! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9ADG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,827 Only had a little time the 2nd night and Sunday AM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9CO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 130,380 Part time effort, mainly late evening hours after family went to bed. It was fun picking off mults in the packet filled bandmap, and busting a few pileups. Thanks to all the DX for getting on! Vy 73, Charlie N9CO TR-Log v6.79 FT-1000MP SB-220 (80-10, no 160) 160m: Inverted-L 80m: Delta Loop, apex at 24.4 meters (feed 1/4 wave from apex) 40m: Cushcraft XM-240 2el. at 29 meters 20m: Homebrew 4el. at 26 meters, KLM KT34-A at 11.3 meters (fixed east) 15m: KLM KT34-A at 11.3 meters (fixed east) 10m: KLM KT34-A at 11.3 meters (fixed east) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9XX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 545,916 99.6% Search-and-pounce, mostly cruising the packet band map, but also a lot of tuning and listening. I tried CQing a few times on Sunday afternoon: once on 20, and again later on 40. Both times, I could snag only one caller - both times it was the same station (VE1DT) - talk about a strange coincidence! Glad he called in - thanks for the points! I started on 40 meters and was disappointed to see conditions so poor to Europe. Only a few EU in my log this night: S50G, CU2A, 9A1P, IS0N. Moved on to 80, and what a nice suprise - lots of easy pickings, even with my low power and poor antenna. Second night did not seem so good early on 80, but it did play better around 0500. Picked up lots more QSOs and mults than I ever imagined with my limited station. No 160 for me - my only QSO on 160 was with VE3ZI, just loading up my 80 meter antenna as best I could to add another double mult. Good ears! 40 meters was at its best in the 3 hours before end of contest - even during pre-sunset time. 20 and 15 are always rather challenging for me, without any kind of direction or gain to work with. I try not to think about it - just call what I hear, move on when it's clear I'm beaten, check back later. The little 10 meter opening on Sunday morning did not produce much for me, but HI3A and VP5W were riding high above the others who were barely ESP. Worked those stations on 5 bands. Lots of stations were worked on 4 bands as well, 80 through 15. Station is as follows: Kenwood TS-850s/at, 100w max SteppIR BigIR vertical (40m-10m) Cushcraft AV-5 trap vertical (80m-10m) Telnet/cable connection to W9ODD cluster node 57 radials under the ground mounted verticals... I physically swapped the antennas on the same mounting post as I moved on to and away from 80m, sometimes working 40 and 20 on the Cushcraft until I could break to swap mountings - the natural 1/4-wave BigIR is far superior to the trap on 40m-10m). Thanks to all who worked so hard to pull my puny signal out of the noise. I know, because we really had to work at some of those QSOs. 73 Dan N9XX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2X Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 43,553 Icom 756Pro, Al-800H amp - 1KW 80 M inverted vee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 46,816 A very part-time effort due to painting project in our home and other less fun, but necessary projects. Propagation about as expected - very little EU worked from here on 80, 40, or 15 (very faintly heard when I was on); same with JA. Missed much of Saturday daytime hours and Sunday PM so don't know what was coming thru then. There are some outstanding DX ops out there. Very frustrating to call stations that are pegging my S-meter and they CQ in my face. You don't have to be crazy to contest with 3 watts, but it helps! As confirmation of my mental status: see you in the next one! Rig: Ten Tec Argonaut 509 - 3 watts out; N3FJP logging software Antennas: 3 el tribander Yagi at 50 feet; dipoles at 45 feet 73, Randy, ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE3F Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,921,660 Great 40 most of the day . It makes up for the lack of 15. If I could only run on cw , the team would have a better score. Steve NE3F & team NE3F ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE9Z Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 101,985 Spent too much time S&P, looking for & trying to break pile-ups. Chased multipliers rather than QSO numbers. Average was 10 QSOs/hour. That's 1 QSO every 6 minutes. Had fun, taking my time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 153,049 Last time I did a concerted effort in this contest was in 2001. We were living in a small condo and I was using small antennas and low power. I logged 411 qso's with a score of 184K. Looking at that log, I had nearly 70% of qsos on 15 and 10 meters. This year those bands made up for less than 18%. Oh, for the sunspots to come back! But nevertheless, even with much better antennas nowdays, I should be thankful I can make DX contacts at all. EU did not open up much either day. It was rather odd to work several Finland stations Saturday morning and not hear much else from EU. Missed most of Sunday due to church duties and got on for the last hour and a half. Let's see, 320 q's in 14 hours......that works out to an average rate of 23 q's per hour. And I treasured every one of them. Highlights were working South Africa (always a treat to hear them in the PNW), working Guinea on 20 and 40, (I love this 40M beam!) and Palau on 40M Sunday morning. Beat out a big pile up too! Loudest station heard, N2IC on 40M. That monster beam of his rocks! Thanks for the Q's. Log will be uploaded to LOTW in a few hours. Paul NG7Z Near Seattle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NH6P Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 10,142 Just wanted to try a new antenna system, well back to the drawing board. This one is like a dummy load! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN1N Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,074,882 Mostly only nighttime available for me this year to operate. 160 sure turned around the second night! 80 was great too. Thanks to all the great contest 'peditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 350,665 Call: NN7SS Op: K6UFO Single-op, All-Band, High-power, Assisted. Op time: 21 hrs. QSOs pts Zones Countries 80m: 41 96 12 20 40m: 84 214 21 53 20m: 233 622 33 91 15m: 88 221 17 48 10m: 6 12 3 3 Totals: 452 1165 86 215 Total qsos 452 Total mults (zones + countries) 301 Total score 350,665 After putting in so much effort to prepare and operate the two sweepstakes, I was not highly motivated for this contest. Then, equipment problems kept me off for the first half-hour! Another couple adjustments and I finally got going. CQing was unproductive, so I was 95 percent search and pounce. I set my goal to work 100 countries ("a DXCC") and managed a total of 101 countries. Worked KH6LC, KH7X and E51A on 5 bands! Got up at 09Z each morning for an hour of low-bands. Was really, really hard to work Europeans on 20m and 40m - and none worked on 80m or 15m. Nice to hear all the locals, and even handed out a few USA/zone3 multipliers. Mark K6UFO, for NN7SS Equipment: Two Yaesu FT-1000MPs Ameritron AL-1200 amplifier 3-el SteppIR at 55' C3 Tribander at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' 80-meter half-sloper NE and SE beverage receiving antennas Two TopTen Band decoders, two ICE-419 filters Coax stub filters for 80, 40, 20 Microham 2x6 antenna switch Writelog software Rate Sheet: QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/14 --+-- --+-- 8/14 8/14 D1-0100Z - - 8/12 8/10 - - 16/22 24/36 D1-0200Z - 6/6 12/14 - - - 18/20 42/56 D1-0300Z - 2/0 7/10 - - - 9/10 51/66 D1-0400Z - 3/5 12/12 - - - 15/17 66/83 D1-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 66/83 D1-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 66/83 D1-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 66/83 D1-0800Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 66/83 D1-0900Z - 12/10 - - - - 12/10 78/93 D1-1000Z - 11/10 11/12 - - - 22/22 100/115 D1-1100Z - - 6/2 - - - 6/2 106/117 D1-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 106/117 D1-1300Z - - - - - - 0/0 106/117 D1-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 106/117 D1-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 106/117 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 106/117 D1-1700Z - - - - 10/15 - 10/15 116/132 D1-1800Z - - - 19/23 2/3 - 21/26 137/158 D1-1900Z - - - 18/20 17/21 - 35/41 172/199 D1-2000Z - - - 5/6 20/7 1/2 26/15 198/214 D1-2100Z - - - 2/2 5/0 - 7/2 205/216 D1-2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 205/216 D1-2300Z - - - 14/11 5/5 - 19/16 224/232 D2-0000Z --+-- --+-- 2/1 29/9 --+-- --+-- 31/10 255/242 D2-0100Z - - 5/7 9/2 - - 14/9 269/251 D2-0200Z - - 2/3 - - - 2/3 271/254 D2-0300Z - - 1/0 5/1 - - 6/1 277/255 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 277/255 D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 277/255 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 277/255 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 277/255 D2-0800Z --+-- 3/1 9/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 12/2 289/257 D2-0900Z - 4/0 6/0 - - - 10/0 299/257 D2-1000Z - - - - - - 0/0 299/257 D2-1100Z - - - - - - 0/0 299/257 D2-1200Z - - - - - - 0/0 299/257 D2-1300Z - - - - - - 0/0 299/257 D2-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 299/257 D2-1500Z - - - - - - 0/0 299/257 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 3/3 1/1 --+-- 4/4 303/261 D2-1700Z - - 3/0 4/3 4/4 - 11/7 314/268 D2-1800Z - - - 6/9 7/4 - 13/13 327/281 D2-1900Z - - - 15/3 7/2 - 22/5 349/286 D2-2000Z - - - 16/5 - 4/4 20/9 369/295 D2-2100Z - - - 4/2 6/3 1/0 11/5 380/300 D2-2200Z - - - 32/1 1/0 - 33/1 413/301 D2-2300Z - - - 36/0 3/0 - 39/0 452/301 Total: 0/0 41/32 84/74 233/124 88/65 6/6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP4Z Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,115,091 What a difficult contest with only 1 radio, one rotator got stuck on north, the other rotator the neddle wasnt pointing in any real direction, So it took like 1500 trips outside to look at the antennas. business situations,calls and other distractions didnt help.. climbing the 140ft tower to fix the 80 mtrs antena late saturday wasnt too smart but contributed to a good total of mults in that band. Jose from now on carry a small generation in your back back.. the same thing happened here when N5TJ made the record, he operated low power due to small generator for 16 hrs but still managed to break the record.. sri man Other than that, the "big event" was simply that, the CW operators are respectful to others and the skill level is amazing.. Its good to hear the Ja's back.. at the bottom of the sun cycle!!!!!!!! fantastic ears from the European crowd on 80/160.. Never heard 10 mtrs this closed in 25 years of contesting... the european groups are certainly taking serious the contest expeditions.. congrats to all... Felipe NP4Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ3X Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 160,094 Whew! Tough condx but still lots of fun. Tnx to all who struggled to copy my puny wimp of a signal. See you next time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 11,219,400 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : NQ4I Mode : CW Category : Multi Operator - Multi Transmitter (MM) Overlay : --- Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Zone/State/... : 5 Locator : EM73LL Operating time : 47h45 BAND QSO CQ DXC DUP POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 277 20 82 3 597 2.16 W4SVO 80 783 30 117 40 1985 2.54 K2SX, W4PRO 40 1426 39 152 24 3935 2.76 VE7ZO, AA4BI 20 1817 35 152 48 5033 2.77 W1MD, K1XX, K2UFT, K0EJ 15 716 28 120 20 1796 2.51 K4TD, KY4V 10 106 18 35 0 204 1.92 N4OX -------------------------------------- TOTAL 5125 170 658 135 13550 2.64 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 11 219 400 Station Powered by all Yaesu radios Soapbox: We had equipment failures of the 160m amp, the 20m run radio, and the Comtek 160 Switch box all during the first 30 minutes of the test...other than that all went well...3 Op's dropped out in the days before the test so we had to shift things around some...we had planned on 3 op's on 40m so we could have Partner mode staffed full time...we still managed to do quite a bit of it anyway...the 8 element 20 m yagi played very well as the mult station antenna....we had to use a single vertical on 160m as the 2 element array had some sort of glitch...conditions on 15m were less than we had anticipated...we finally got a JA for our single zone 25 on 15m....Sunday 15m was very quiet and we had a great run frequency..signals from EU were good, but no great rates at all....guess everybody was tired from staying up all night on the low bands... Our op's really like being able to check the real time internet scores...there was a decent amount of participation with the on-line scoring...sure wish others would join in and see how much it can motivate op's...I had done a lot of work on the 40m stack's after a very poor showing in CQWW SSB, and it appears that the work has accomplished some positive results... It appears that there were far less "busted" spots this time?? This is our best effort by far on the low bands...160m even did it with just a single vertical!!! Outstanding effort by Mr. Low Band BullDog W4SVO!! Our 80m score really improved from previous years...I attribute it to removing the under-performing 3 element yagi...the new 3 vertical array is really doing great...I will be adding an additional 3 elements in the next few months and it will "soup up" or 80m signal!! Plans are under way to shake up the antennas and their placement on all towers..we have a plan that will provide an additional 20 db of across the board gain to the station (and I don't mean an amp...hi) we all know that a db here and a db there, all add up...and its the continual search for another db that drives most of us to do what we do! I am exceptionally proud of my op's and their sacrifice to their families during thanksgiving to be a part of our operation....this is our best effort to date in percentage of the top M-M's score...we are continuing to close the gap on the top three M-M's, and if things come together, we are expecting the rankings to have a top four listing vs top three! QSL for this operation is available via K4PK or LOTW.... 73's from a rainy, wet Georgia this morning...de Rick NQ4I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR4M Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,229,838 We're getting much closer to having NR4M ready for the big time. The core antennas are in place for 80 through 15 - 80 = 4SQ and appear to be working well. 40 = pair 4 el OWAs 190/100ft, 20 = 5/5/5/5 top at 160ft, 15 = 5/5/5 top at 120ft. Using a T over 45 radials on 160 and a KT36XA at 70ft on 10. Also have four 2wl 2 wire beverages for 160/80/40. Condx weren't the best, but the gang had a great time. Looking forward to the ARRL DX where we'll have completed some fine tuning and will be better organized! 73 de Larry K7SV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 59,267 With relatives visiting and family events on Friday night, Saturday evening and Sunday, I knew there was no chance to do an all-band effort, so I opted for 80 meters and managed to squeeze in 16 hours of action. Four years ago when I moved into my current house, I had a total of 33 countries on 80 meters, so to get 78 in one weekend with 19 zones was pretty good. Best DX was ZS4TX on the first night and LT1F the second, which gave me my final two mults of the contest. I heard but could not work zones 30, 32 and 23. Never heard a peep out of KL7 and I missed a couple of Caribbean mults that were evidently active. Conditions were odd at times. Stations that were 20 over 9 CQ'd in my face repeatedly. The skip must have been long because I heard US stations well inland working DX that I could barely hear. My goal was to do better than the W3 record for LP SOSB 80 and I did that by sunrise on Saturday morning. I didn't have much time on the second night, missing Saturday sunset and the first five hours of darkness. Then by 3:30 am local time, I was falling asleep on the keyboard and had to give up on a second attempt to gather some Pacific mults. Thanks to everyone for all the contacts. Please pass on your stories and photos to me over at http://www.radio-sport.net for our CQWW CW coverage. 73 Jamie NS3T TS-2000 100 watts antennas for 80 meters were five inverted L's; some were phased for certain directions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT1Y Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,112,986 My first contest in several years as I've been mostly living in NYC, 300 miles away from my station, the last few years and have been (happily) distracted by my daughter Persephone who was born in Dec 2003. I've been slowly tearing my station apart in prep for a rebuild to be completed before the sunspots go big. Lots of antennas are in various states of disarray. I used 160m & 80m 4-Squares fixed NE, a 2L 40m Yagi fixed 60 degrees and a single 4L SteppIR which was my only rotatable antenna. I have much more aluminum on the ground than in the air. 100% S&P and spot-chasing as I was more interested in blowing the cobwebs off the station than running up a score. Bounced between a trusty Orion and a new Flex-5000C. Worked 3 new DXCCs on 160m. Great low band conditions. I had trouble sending CW a few times during the weekend as my hand just got tired (wasn't using computer keying). I guess my CW muscles have atrophied from disuse! 73, Bill NT1Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 20,514 With two other operators here doing single band efforts I decided I would just mess with 160 a little while working on some other issues in the shack. Should have had several more mults but quickly got frustrated with the lack of "listening to see who the dx is answering" so I just went elsewhere. I say (for 160m); throw your call in there once or twice and then just listen. If everyone would do this instead of sending their call 3-5 times within a 30 second period I think it might speed up the qso process for everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,540,608 Tough cndx for simple low band antennas! 80m was nasty. Not only was I unable to run, it was very difficult to get stations to hear me when replying to their cq. I did notice stations farther east, i.e. Russia, even though they were weaker, were much easier to work. Was able to get short runs on 40m but it was tough going. 20m was pretty good. 15m was surprising for little to none sun activity. My 10m antenna had high swr for some reason but glad to see there was some success by others. Found rf problems in my SO2R during the first few minutes. My hats off to those using SO2R successfully with full rf power. 73; Steve NY3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 9,100,000 Great fun even without the sunspots. Thanks for the qso's. 73, Howie N4AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OA4WW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,254,000 Soapbox : TNX FER QSOS & TNX TO RADIO CLUB PERUANO for hosting me with very special thanks to Manuel, OA4AHW and Pablo OA4DJW getting the "kart" ready. Like in CQ WW CW another real "Village kart race" operation. Arrived at site only one hour before the race. The main reason for the late arrival to the site was that the Customs at the airport confiscated my FT1000MP and getting it out of there took a whole day of paperwork. Driving time was only 40 hours because lack of sleep before the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,676,096 First raw score definitely showing our limits. We were able to set up 3 stations and man them most of the time with one operator per station, for some hours we only had 2 operators in total. We could not do any running on 15m due to local interferences and we could only use the beverages to its full advantage when no other low band station was transmitting (TX and RX-antennas were to close together). But, we had fun, managed to achieve a new OE-record and a good score for BCC. We even could motivate some DXers to join us to operate a contest, otherwise it would have been a 3 man-operation. Weather was kind to us, the snow-storm came minutes after the contest end and blew away one of the beverages. As we have to take down all beverages, no big damage. Cu again next CQWW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE6IMD Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 112,812 Hi, it was great fun again...cu next year! Michael, OE6IMD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,680,000 Biggest thrill was on 15: country mult was 105, but no Canada. Some JA calls are in the log even on 15. Domo arigato. Chinese stations are building up in signal and quantity. Very Good ! Some 40m openings were such we simply did not believe our ears. Technical problems hit us once again, but we continued to the very end of the competition. The most weird problem was one pine tree had grown maybe 10 cm since CQWW SSB creating problem for turning the other tower. Station owner had to go to work with the chainsaw for a few hours to get more free space for the lower 40m yagi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF4MFA Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 24,768 Casual operating on Topband during long weekend break from work. Spirits were high, but conditions low. One JA and US each, couple of Africa and very few Asia in log. Heard some nice DX e.g. 9M2, BY, V4, PJ2 and HS but couldn't break pile-up. Run only for half hour, most of contacts s&p as usual. Thank you for Jouni OH4KZM/OH4JT and Sami OH4KLU for antenna maintenance before contest. Rig: Elecraft K2/100 + kW amplifier TX-antenna: 5 el vertical array RX-antenna: 2 two-wire Beverages, 1 Beverage, W7IUV preamp 73 and Thank You for contacts! Jukka, OF4MFA (Special prefix OF4 for 90 years of Finnish independence) http://sral.fi/oh4mfa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF5A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,197,404 After missing last year's CQWW contests because log-house construction project it was nice to be with you again. Cndx were poor as usual, but Saturday had nice surprise in addition that big aurora, because there was a short 15m opening to USA: ("Riding on the aurora") this was first time after 3 years that I noticed that the old 15m 6/6 was working normally after moved 200ft nearer USA from the Eastern ridge. At the beginning I was testing the SO2R but because no band-pass filters on radios it was difficult to spot under s9 signals - also the "hash" from radio1 was not pleasant to listen. So I was carried by the contest and mostly used radio1. Ezmaster and Win-Test worked flawlesslly through the contest. Somehow time to time I was able to push some button on the lower right when logging the QSO and Win-test thought that I want to jump 10 QSOs earlier on the log - took time slowly to recover on the normal logging area.. Two hour nap between Sat and Sun and a shower during contest was refreshing but took some time from the radio -so did warming pizzas etc. This time I started contest with a rest and did not make any antenna work and repairs just before and during the contest and that was quite relaxing. Thanks for qsos and sorry if I came too near your frequencies with my old FT-1000D with roofing filter and 250Hz filter - well, just have to check if previous owner has done that click modification... 73 de Tapani, OH5BM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF6NIO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,619,828 Before the contest I had a plan to operate more than I finally could. Suffering from tonsillitis made it very difficult to run the contest. Although I took a lot of breaks I was very tired and didn't feel myself well. Running so2r was out of the question this time. Just before the contest my 160m inverted vee broke down. In the contest I had to use a wrong antenna on 160m and hence lost some 30 multipliers. On the ssb-leg I already thought that the propagation couldn't get any worse. How wrong was I. The QSO-distribution on CW was 65% EU and only 15% NA. On Sunday morning the usual greyline opening on the lowbands was completely blocked by the aurora. It really hurt my multipliers on 80m. 20m was a big dissapointment. The band was almost closed after our sunset. The biggest thrill in the contest was when AH2R was coming back to my CQ on 80m. It was also fun to break DXCC on 15m despite the challenging propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF8GZN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 15,660 Worked some qso's just for fun. Rig: FT-990 Antenna: Cushcraft R-7000 @ 35m Software: N1mm Logger v7.9.4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OG0Z Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 17,325 Boys come and go, aurora doesn´t! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BH Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 773,907 Auroral activity due to coronal hole. made us to move from 80 to 40 m. I figured that 40 m would not suffer as much as daytime D-layer attenuation is away during these times. From 60N,25E the grayline is only 600 km away. It was great to log nearly 350 JAs during OH a.m. / JA early evening. W's were difficult as the auroral oval blocked the SP. The 250 W/VEs we worked mostly over LP. First night spend S&P and that payed of since the stations in zones 7, 8, 9 and 10 we strongest then. I slept 8 hours in the 2nd night. Martti has a new 2/2 el (140 ft / 70 ft), which performed well. I could also use a 3-el in another tower! That antenna was better in RX (FB-ratio). On sunday 12Z I had the other beams SP and LP to NA. Greyline carried signals both ways. Our target was the OH-record at 757k made at OH2U with pretty much similar antenna setup (3/3 el + 3-el) in 2004. UBN will bring my score below 757 so next year we'll be trying again. Missed zones 1, 2, 6 and 34. Hrd MZ5B but could find my way into his logbook. Great event. Thanks to the host Martti and Toni OH2UA for the necessary help in getting the station on the air. Configuring of Win-test + MK2R put my IT-skills in a real test. You need an IT-degree to get on the air these days.... ILKKA, OH1WZ Remember to CONTRIBUTE TO PileUP! http://www.helsinki.fi/~korpela/PU/PU.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH4XX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,335,600 This was first contest from my home QTH with new antenna set up. I still have some work to do with station, i.e. low band antennas need some attension. Had some family commitments during the weekend so we had some off times and efford was not serious one. Thanks for the qsos and cu in next one! 73, Mikko OH4XX Antennas: 10-15-20: 2* KT34XA (@35/23) 40: 40-2CD 2 EL @ 40m 80: Inv-V @ 34m 160:half-sloper (to EU) Rigs: 2*FT1000MP Drake L7 Ten-Tec Titan N1MM logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 1,178 Rig TS120V, antenne sloping LW27 mtrs, very bad condx for QRP and LW ant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1JOC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 310,000 rig:FT817,5W,zepp up 17m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2N Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 133,912 TS-850sat, YAGI 7el.mono 14m boom, 15m up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 975,744 ok2zc.nagano.cz this year no time for serious contesting just for fun 73 see you in OK DX RTTY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3R Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 548,709 Great contest on 80m again. The band was in a great shape during the whole contest. Nice runs to NA ( 508 contacts ) nice signals from OC etc. Didn't expect this result with wire antennas only, the 4sq K9AY receiving antenna performed well again. The only down of the contest was some local QRM from NE, which made the JA traffic difficult. Thanks to everyone for calling and cu in the next contest. 73 ! Miro / OK3R ( OK1DVM ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK4RQ Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 759,500 FT100MP + 1kW, ant / only one / HB9CV Strange condx. Bad condx to the USA. NO WKD with ZONE 1 and 34. Thank for QSOs and 73 Pavel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5C Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,147,575 ANT 2x5 el Yagi @52/26m + 3el delta loop @42m Peculiar propagation towards NA, nice opening to JA. Thank's all for a QSO ! 73 ! Jiri ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3M Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 245,295 ft817, horizonatl loop 82m@8m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4W Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 534,000 Propagation was very good for my ant. My first contest with category all band. Really good contest with many DX station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL5Q Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 289,386 I qrv only nine o'clock at Sunday. Nice relax pile-up in this time. All qso listen available in audio archive on http://ol5q.nagano.cz/audio.php (search by call). Cuagn 73, Dan OK1HRA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,428,756 Thaks all for QSOs. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,285,824 At first congrats to our virtual rivals OK5W. This contest have had been a final attack to their score but Mr.Murphy had different idea. Maybe we still arent so much good operators. Who can say ? Trough this our score is the best of worked multipliers since 2001, when we started true contest activity at this QTH. Big thanks to our host from OL5Q team, Mr.Operator Peter OK1FFU. His job was excellent. Thanks to all next team members for their job and access. During WWCW was active also our member Zdenek OK3RM(ex OK1XUV) with his new 70cm EME equipment. 12 EME contacts managed. It seems to be more dificuilt at the same QTH in the same time, but no essential problem monitored. Zdenek provided our food support also. Thanks for that and sometime may be next to back in HF team. I still hope for that. Anyway we had some troubles with power line. Too much PAs conected trough same phase line caused low power from PA at 160/10 or total drop-out at this workplace. We located and remaked it sunday afternoon. Equipment and operators: 160/10(OK1VWK): FT1kMP,Acom2k,(160)Inverted L,(10)5+6el at 15/10m 80/15(OK1IC,OK1FFU): FT1kMP,2x3-500Z+RE400,(80)3el fixed to USA and dipole both at 24m,(15)5+6el at 15/24m, 3el in vertical position at 12m 40(OK1WMV): TS850,Alpha91+AL800HX, 4el KLM at 23m, elevated 1/4wl vertical at 7m 20(OK1DSZ): FT1kMP,2xSRS457+2xRE400, 5el OWA at 20m, TH5MK2 at 15m, phased crossed dipoles at 7m RX ant on 80/160: K9AY loops with BPF and LNA. Thats all for this year. BIG thanks to all who called and supported us in our hard way for better score. I dont have idea now what will be in next time, because of frustration. Propably next to see you in WPX 2008, but who knows ... 73 de Milan OK1VWK on behalf of OL7R team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM0M Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 207,870 Wow what a contest. We prepared the OM0M contest station for M/M. The operation was canceled for several reasons (luck of ops and equipment) just few days before the contest. Last minute decision operate the 160m as SO(A) paid off due to fantastic activity on Top band. The biggest thrill is making decisions tuning for mults or keep the RUN FRQ??……………. Adrenaline flowing high when juice multipliers answer to CQ. Sunday opening to JA with 56 QSOs is the highlight of the contest TNX for all qso and I apologize to them I not heard. Our contest QTH is limited due to property constrains and running beverages is almost impossible…………… I hope the mini Rx -4SQ will be ready for CQWW160. RIG: TS850S + OM2500 + Husquarna (top notch headphones ) ANT: 2el vertical beam Microham keyer II +Wintest VY 73 DX Peter OM0WR P.S. TNX for fantastic support to chef (OM3WZ) who have been prepared delicious meals.................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM5M Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 560,911 Nice contest with nice CONDX (better first night). It was really difficult to call mults and lsn answer in EU smog. There was a lots of stations calling mult without lsn (just click the spot and call, repeat own call again and again, even more then 5 minutes after mults being gone). Try to think about it LZ9..., IR4..., OK1D..., and many UA's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM6KW Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 125,300 Great contest! Very nice CONDX and participation. I used only simple 28m vertical with 7 raised 40m long radials and 1500W home brew PA with Yaesu FT-1000MP MarkV. I made 2 new zones, 2 (VE2IM) and 10 (HC8N) and new country (on my CQ) HZ1EX. Highlight of second evening was Mike VK6HD with his 589 signal. In the future maybe he will use QSX therefore make more people happy. Every multiplier spot generate a lot of QRM on DX freq. Than rate is 1 QSO/5 minutes or worse. Ben DL6FBL (SV9CVY) used QSX hence made perfect operation. Hour before finish Mr. Murphy made me problems with tuning circuit of vertical. I fixed it but after half of hour he was back and I can't use higher power than 400W. Fortunately he did not visit me earlier. I'm pleased because reached 1000 QSO's goal. It was hard work, I got maximum from my hardware. Thanks to everyone ! You all were superb ! Rado OM6KW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,753,259 Congrats to our competitors OM8A & 9A1P for their great score. CU in WW160m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 89,760 Dear contesters A small effort, I was occupied with family duties. Thanks for the qso 's. 73 DIRK on4ct ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON6LY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,083 Just give away some points because of QRL, till next year 73 to all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,756,906 What's happening @ ON5ZO? http://on5zo.spaces.live.com/ Station info: http://www.on5zo.be/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT4A Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 619,464 Glad to be in this nice contest again. I wanted to take part again this year on 40 after doiing 80 last year. Conditions first night not well, but changed in the good way around our sunrise.The second night and evening were ok. The homebrew 4 el mono and homebrew amp are still doiing a great job. My new TenTec ORION is absolutely a thrill, do no want anything else anymore ! Logging was done with N1MM. CW is my first and almost the only mode i use. So thanks all for the nice contest qso's. CUAGN SN IN CW. OT4A - ON4AEK Theo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OV3X Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 741,320 Hi All. Hope all of You had a great weekend. Condx not the best. Next Year shall be better! 20 QSOs less than last Year and 80.000 points less ! Still we have a bunch of stations out there NOT giving their call sign very often. On the top is S79UU! We also have very high speed contesters!. Why do You not slow down - in between - giving Your call sign ? - You are missing so many stations as they simply don't dare calling You as they are NOT sure of Your call sign. When not using packet cluster and internet You are lost and simply have to wait for those operators not giving their c/s. I surely miss ZL6QH from New Zealand. - Did hear others but no luck making a QSO. Normally having QSO with HC8N from 80-10 meters but no luck this Year! Nice having LZ9W back on full scale. Read their input here on the reflector. KL7 totally lost - as with zones 3-4-6. 95% in s&p mode here and tried to catch the African stations but difficult to find. However nice to hear several ZS stations this Year. The OV3X is still being mixed up by OH3X and OK3X so had to change speed to correct You, but You must learn it! Used my IC-775DSP, TH3MK4 at 11 meters, Carolina Windom 80 at 11 meters and an inverted L-antenne (W9INN 80/160m sloper) with 3 radials for 80m and 1 for 160m. 73 and see all of You next Year Jorgen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ1JTE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 432,540 Nice contest as always. No prop. on 28Mhz up here in northen EU. N1MM log program reported "Currupted database" after 400 Q's and just before bedtime here saturday night..Arrg. MS Acces solved the database problem and then I was back in business. Only "backyard" antenna installation here, so I was pleased with my result. www.oz1jte.dk C U next time. Thomas/OZ1JTE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7BQ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 194,085 Running QRP with Elecraft K2 and simple antennas. A dipole for 20 meters and up and an 8 meters long vertical for 40 meters and down. The vertical was top-loaded to 160 meters and performed quite well. I was quite surprised to find 10 meters open shortly on sunday morning to South EU and briefly even to South Africa. 80 meters was surprisingly good from here. 40 meters appeared not to perform as well as I expected. As usual I am surprised how well you can do with QRP (lots of good ears out there) and how little some of the QRO stations seems to hear. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P3F Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 21,520,467 Great fun but conditions on LF and 10m less good than in 2006. M2 is a great category. I think we're hooked. Many excellent operators on the bands who were a real joy to work. Sadly there were some really dirty signals around too. These did anything but enhance proceedings. Our plans for station improvements in time for next year are already being laid. Just think how much more fun this will be with some sun spots. Thanks to everyone for a great weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 11,793,118 Rig: Icom 756ProIII, Alpha 87A (1KW), WinTest V3.17 Antennas: 160: Vertical Dipole, Inverted V @ 70' 80: 3 ele wire yagi pointed EU @ 60', Inverted V @ 70' 40: 4 ele wire yagi pointed EU @ 60', 2 ele wire yagi to US/JA @ 70', F12 C4 20: F12 4 ele @ 72', F12 C4@60' 15: Cushcraft 4 ele @ 82', F12 C4 10: F12 5 ele @ 77', F12 C4 800' beverage EU, 450' beverage US/JA, 500' bev N/S, 500' bev E/W I actually enjoy the bottom of the sunspot cycle .... with its enhanced propagation on 160/80/40. On the other hand, I miss the endless runs of EU and NA on 10M. Hopefully next year BOTH will be true as the spots begin their return. Having done most of the antenna setup work for CQWW PH, this week the planned focus would be various preventative maintenance projects, particularly replacing the two lower sets of guywires on the two Rohn 25G towers with Phillystran. All of the 8+ year old 1/4 inch EHS stell guys were badly rusted and some were frayed, down to as few as 2 intact steel strands....failure was just around the corner. The environment on Aruba is brutal and unforgiving. I expect the Phillystran material will prove to be a much more permanent solution over time. During the 3 days prior to the contest I experienced two amplifier failures. Searching for the problems and implementing fixes consumed considertable time. The ham radio community is terrific on Aruba and my friends responded with several offers of help. I want to thank P43JB, P43E, P43P and P49Y for their generous assistance, without which this CQWW CW would not have happened. Another example: Two hours into the contest the previously very reliable Astron 12V 20A supply that powers my ProIII suffered some sort of failure that would only produce 10 watts output from the XCVR and no more than 300W out of the amp. Again, thanks to the unselfish generosity of Andy, P49Y, I was able to obtain a replacement 12V PS at 4:30 a.m. local time Saturday morning. Fortunately for me there there were no further equipment problems the rest of the weekend. As planned, operated 40M the first two hours, with clock hours of 233 and 211 back to back....a hot start. Then it was on to 160 at 0205, for a reasonably good 150 hour and 31 mults, a nice mix of EU/SA/NA. Then two hours on 80M with nice rates in the 185 range, and 61 mults....the 3 ele wire beam is doing its job, despite being at reduced output(300W) due to failure of the XCVR power supply. Back to 160 at 0500 for another 130 qsos and 31 more mults. 160M is hot tonight! The 06 and 07 hours were 80M EU sunrise time.....rates in the 150s and another 31 mults. My pre-test plan to hit the low bands hard the first night seems to be working with better than expected results. O800 was a transition hour, with stops on 160, 80 and 40, to catch the tail end of EU sunrise and the start of some PAC/AS action on 40. The rate drops below 100 for the first time, the downside to more S&P, but another 15 mults are added. Took 30 minutes off the following hour (09) to go pick up a replacemnt 12V supply offered by P49Y and then get it installed. Still managed another 14 mults and only 31 qsos that hour, but feel more confident now that I'm back to a full KW, and all set for the 20/15 runs to come later in the morning. Sunrise is at roughly 1045Z. Transition from 160 to 80 to 40, mix of S&P and short runs, picking up the NA morning crowd, PAC, Carribean, KL7 and then JAs on 40. Finally go to 20M at about 1200. Band is open to EU with strong signals. Transition to 15 at 1315 and spend several hours running in the 185 range. At 1700 go to 10M for the 1st time....and spend 25 semi-productive minutes knocking off many SA mults, 3X5A, 6V7D, and 2 Texans. But the band isn't very good, and won't be the remainder of the day. Its back to 15M to run the loud and plentiful NA gang. Step down to 20M about 2030 to finish out the first day. Mostly NA but some JAs make it through. Start Day 2 again on 40M. This time I'm working to make up a deficit of EU mults, having concentrated on 160 and 80 the first night. The count of EU mults steadily rises over the next two hours and the rate is a respectable 160/hour. The 0200 hour is devoted to 80m, picking up the EU and AF mults missed the first night. Rate is now dropping, as expected but still over 120/hour. 0300-0800 go into largely S&P mode, reverting to the dreaded DXer syndrome, the result of fatigue and loss of focus. The rate is now substancially below 100/hour, but some nice mults are logged, particularly from AS/AF as their sunrise approaches. Finally just after 0800 decide to take a 2.5 hour nap, and set my new 'super loud' Timex alarm clock, and my three other clocks, to ring off at 1015. Arise refreshed and ready to do more battle on 20/15/10. But first run some on 80 and 40, picking up several NA/SA mults missed earlier, E51A for a double on 80M, and a nice run of JA on 40. Skip 20M and head right to 15 at 1145. This is the last opportunity to fill in the missing EU mults and the band is open. Signals are not all that loud, but for the next 3 hours the rate stays in the 160 range - quite acceptable for Day 2. The missing EU mults are rolling in. VU2PTT calls in at 1450 but a move to 20M is unsuccessful. At 1600 it sounds like 10M has a chance. Hear a few weak NA stations working the loud PY/LU crowd. Find 3X5A for a double, and start calling CQ with the beam SE. Eventually the skip moves to NA, K1ZZ was first in the log, then a string of others. Stuck with 10M for about 1.25 hours, logging about 80 Q and 18 hard earned mults. That was it for 10M. Go back to 15 for a few more hours of mostly NA, running in the 150/hour range, which isn't bad since I was also frequently taking time to S&P for mults (an SO1R operation). This helped, and was amazed how many new mults were found 60 to 120 KC above the band edge. I'm adding about 10 mults/hour. Swing down to 20M for the last time at roughly 1945 for a final burst of W's and some stray EU, AF and AS. Some timely but limited S&P on 15 yielded 5 OC mults. Spent the last hour on 40M. In retrospect, probably should have been there earlier since another 10 mults were added, and 3 more moving stations to 80 and 160. HZ1IK at 2351 was the last mult logged. Looking at the continental breakdown, it didn't surprise me that over 60% of the action was NA, and just 30% EU. My plan had been to run NA hard and often....taking advantage of the P40 pipeline to the US and Canada. ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! ------------------------------------------------------- ! 31.1% ! 62.6% ! 2.2% ! 1.0% ! 2.5% ! 0.6% ! -------------------------------------------------------. Here is the band by band/hour by hour rate table: ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! CW ! CW ! CW ! CW ! CW ! CW ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! ! 233 ! ! ! ! 233 ! ! 01 ! ! ! 211 ! ! ! ! 211 ! ! 02 ! 150 ! ! ! ! ! ! 150 ! ! 03 ! 9 ! 183 ! ! ! ! ! 192 ! ! 04 ! ! 192 ! ! ! ! ! 192 ! ! 05 ! 114 ! 19 ! ! ! ! ! 133 ! ! 06 ! 24 ! 104 ! ! ! ! ! 128 ! ! 07 ! 2 ! 152 ! ! ! ! ! 154 ! ! 08 ! 38 ! 3 ! 51 ! ! ! ! 92 ! ! 09 ! 2 ! 1 ! 27 ! 1 ! ! ! 31 ! ! 10 ! 17 ! 67 ! ! ! ! ! 84 ! ! 11 ! ! 16 ! 99 ! ! ! ! 115 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 20 ! 155 ! ! ! 175 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 48 ! 155 ! ! 203 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 203 ! ! 203 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 96 ! 83 ! ! 179 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 210 ! ! ! 210 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! 11 ! 114 ! 14 ! 139 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 2 ! 168 ! 3 ! 173 ! ! 19 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 195 ! 1 ! 197 ! ! 20 ! ! ! ! 176 ! 43 ! ! 219 ! ! 21 ! ! ! ! 210 ! ! ! 210 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 69 ! 3 ! ! 72 ! ! 23 ! ! ! 51 ! 100 ! ! ! 151 ! ! 00 ! ! ! 169 ! ! ! ! 169 ! ! 01 ! ! ! 152 ! ! ! ! 152 ! ! 02 ! ! 124 ! 16 ! ! ! ! 140 ! ! 03 ! 24 ! 23 ! ! ! ! ! 47 ! ! 04 ! 24 ! 67 ! 3 ! ! ! ! 94 ! ! 05 ! 23 ! ! 6 ! ! ! ! 29 ! ! 06 ! 8 ! 1 ! 58 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! 69 ! ! 07 ! 1 ! 8 ! 67 ! 1 ! 1 ! 2 ! 80 ! ! 08 ! ! 24 ! ! ! ! ! 24 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 10 ! ! 46 ! ! ! ! ! 46 ! ! 11 ! ! 1 ! 38 ! ! 30 ! ! 69 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! ! 171 ! ! 171 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 157 ! ! 158 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 15 ! 116 ! ! 131 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 114 ! 1 ! 1 ! 116 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 1 ! 60 ! 63 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 8 ! 24 ! 38 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 1 ! 5 ! 144 ! 1 ! 151 ! ! 19 ! ! ! ! 47 ! 112 ! ! 159 ! ! 20 ! ! ! ! 149 ! ! ! 149 ! ! 21 ! ! ! ! 110 ! 3 ! ! 113 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 138 ! ! ! 138 ! ! 23 ! 1 ! 1 ! 70 ! 1 ! ! ! 73 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 437 ! 1032 ! 1273 ! 1668 ! 1709 ! 106 ! 6225 ! ! And finally the mults/hour table: ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! CW ! CW ! CW ! CW ! CW ! CW ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! ! 26 ! ! ! ! 26 ! ! 01 ! ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 18 ! ! 02 ! 31 ! ! ! ! ! ! 31 ! ! 03 ! ! 40 ! ! ! ! ! 40 ! ! 04 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! ! 16 ! ! 05 ! 28 ! 1 ! ! ! ! ! 29 ! ! 06 ! 4 ! 12 ! ! ! ! ! 16 ! ! 07 ! 1 ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 15 ! ! 08 ! 5 ! 2 ! 8 ! ! ! ! 15 ! ! 09 ! 3 ! 2 ! 7 ! 2 ! ! ! 14 ! ! 10 ! 3 ! 6 ! ! ! ! ! 9 ! ! 11 ! ! 6 ! 10 ! ! ! ! 16 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 2 ! 37 ! ! ! 39 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 5 ! 46 ! ! 51 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 11 ! ! 11 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 8 ! 3 ! ! 11 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 18 ! ! ! 18 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 6 ! 17 ! 27 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 11 ! 4 ! 19 ! ! 19 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 4 ! 1 ! 6 ! ! 20 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 2 ! ! 9 ! ! 21 ! ! ! ! 4 ! ! ! 4 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 5 ! 4 ! ! 9 ! ! 23 ! ! ! 9 ! 4 ! ! ! 13 ! ! 00 ! ! ! 8 ! ! ! ! 8 ! ! 01 ! ! ! 6 ! ! ! ! 6 ! ! 02 ! ! 6 ! 1 ! ! ! ! 7 ! ! 03 ! 2 ! 6 ! ! ! ! ! 8 ! ! 04 ! 1 ! ! 3 ! ! ! ! 4 ! ! 05 ! 3 ! ! 7 ! ! ! ! 10 ! ! 06 ! 2 ! 1 ! 3 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! 8 ! ! 07 ! 1 ! ! 3 ! 1 ! 1 ! 2 ! 8 ! ! 08 ! ! 2 ! ! ! ! ! 2 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 10 ! ! 2 ! ! ! ! ! 2 ! ! 11 ! ! 1 ! 7 ! ! 4 ! ! 12 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! ! 7 ! ! 7 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 3 ! ! 4 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! 6 ! ! 6 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 1 ! 3 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 1 ! 1 ! 1 ! 12 ! 15 ! ! 17 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 10 ! 5 ! 19 ! ! 18 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 5 ! 1 ! 12 ! ! 19 ! ! ! ! 5 ! 2 ! ! 7 ! ! 20 ! ! ! ! 8 ! ! ! 8 ! ! 21 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 3 ! ! 7 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 3 ! ! ! 3 ! ! 23 ! 1 ! 1 ! 9 ! 2 ! ! ! 13 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 85 ! 118 ! 128 ! 136 ! 131 ! 43 ! 641 ! After the contest the traditional dinner gathering was attended by P40W, P49Y, his daughter Holly, P43L and XYL, and K2UYH, who had been on Aruba for the EME contest this same weekend. Great food and conversation to finish out a great weekend. Looking forward to the next 'big show' in November, 2008. 73, John W2GD/P40W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P49Y Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,579,410 Decided to do a single band 40, as I was on Aruba with my daughter, and wanted to spend some weekend time with her as well as contesting. 40 was certainly in great shape. I'm always amazed when I read the reports to see all the guys who were on that I never worked or heard even with 3000+ contacts. As always, operating from Aruba is also a great social experience, this time including P40W (W2GD), K2UYH, P43L and wife, P43A and wife P43C, P49MR. Thanks for all the QSOs. My only complaint is the dupes from packet mis-spotting, which happened whenever I was spotted as P40Y, instead of P49Y. Lots of guys are pretty clearly looking at their screens and not listening to the calls being sent. Wonder how many of them are in the unassisted category? The new K3 was a delight to use, exposing more clearly my own limits in handling large pileups (limits that I used to blame on the radios, hi). I can honestly say that due to the roofing filters, I was never actually interfered with by nearby stations on this crowded band. Congratulations to Wayne and Eric and all their helpers for this fine product. (The radio can't defy the laws of physics, however, and when everyone calls for the same exact length of time on the same frequency, it's still hard to pick out a call). Also congrats to EA8/OH4NL for a super effort on this band. Rig: Elecraft K3, Alpha 86, 2 el. yagi at 57 feet, CQPWIN ver. 11 software. 73, Andy, AE6Y, P49Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA0JED Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 86,856 Part Time effort at PA6Z station. Equipment: 2 phased verticals, Yaesu FT-1k 400 Watts. 73, Jan PA0JED ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 167,024 Station : Ten Tec Orion II 100W Inv Vee 10m up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PF5X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 260,150 Family obligations kept me from a more serious effort. Nevertheless, did some fun S/P to catch the goodies (e.g. S7, 3X, D4 on 80m), as well as a few short runs on 80m EU. Condx were mediocre at best on the higher bands, 40m was in good shape Saterday evening, but I was not the only one who figured that out ... The going was tough ! ZM3A was incredibly loud on 40m hours before local SS. Thanks to all the DXpedition which make this contest so much fun. CW rules and always will ... -- Enno, PF5X FT1000MP, SPE Expert 1K-FA 3ele SteppIR @ 20m, 40m rot.dipole @ 22m, inv.vee 80m @ 16m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 636,642 Rig: Yaesu FT-2000, 100 W Cushcraft R7 vertical @16m high G5RV dipole 2x 16m, feeding point @15m high http://www.pg7v.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 22,890,136 (Sorry for the delay in posting this report - we've been very busy with antenna work following the contest - see below.) A reasonably uneventful operation, which was an improvement over the long power failure during CQWW SSB. No radio or other equipment failures during the contest period. Nice conditions on the low bands, especially the first night. Sputtering openings on 10 meters as the MUF to everywhere hung at around 25-26 MHz. Lots of competition in Multi-2 this year! Congratulations to the ops at EF8M, HC8N, and PJ4A for their performances! Our raw score isvery close to our nearby "in-country" Bonaire competition at PJ4A (within 160K). If things go as planned for Curacao, we will be in different multipliers for next year's CQWW contests! We had a nice visit from PJ4A operator Larry K5OT on the Tuesday following the contest on his way back to Texas. He got to see the 5-el 20m and 5-el 15m USA antennas "up close and personal", as they came off of their 80-foot tower on the Monday following the contest in order to re-hab and environmentally toughen the 5-el 20-meter yagi. They were lowered to our rooftop "yagi service center, where the boom ends on the 20m antenna were replaced and new stainless boom guy hardware installed. All the aluminum joints were taped and coated with "Liquid Tape" to eliminate the effects of having a station just feet from the Caribbean salt water! We've learned (painfully) how to keep the salt air at bay. This is the last antenna to be lowered and re-habbed in the past year, a major Preventive Maintenance plan that we hope keeps us operating for many more years! (Larry also got to see the towers with their many, many coats of $100-per-gallon 2-part epoxy paint). As always, thanks to the members of the Caribbean Contesting Consortium, who have built and maintain the Signal Point / PJ2T station, to our hosts Geoff W0CG/PJ2DX and Cindy, and to non-Amateurs Janis Galm, Linda Stahl, and Ian Tew! More details about the Club and PJ2T station are at: http://www.pj2t.org. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 22,729,434 Club score: 1/3 to Central Texas DX and Contest Club; 2/3 to South East Contest Club. Thanks to Noah, K2NG/PJ4G for the rental of his great contest station and to Geoff, W0CG/PJ2DX for help with license application. Also thanks for everyone who called. The team worked well together. We had two complete 600W to 1 KW stations, one with an FT1000MP and one with an Icom 756 Pro. Also we had a K2 set up using an unused at the moment antenna to spot multipliers and band openings. We made a few QSOs with this barefoot/miscellaneous antenna station when one of the run stations had a slow run and a few QSOs could be interleved. Three laptops were networked. Unfortunatley, one of the run stations could not be configured to key the rig from the computer, so the operator of that station had to use a keyer and the memories in the Icom rig for keying all QSOs. Darn these new laptops with no LPT ports. We used CTWIN and it was very reliable, but won't key the rig through a COM port. We put out a US and an European beverage antenna and they worked very well. We were able to use them on 160, 80, 40, and 15 meters when signals were at or below the noise level on the transmit antennas. Conditions seemed good on all bands. 160 and 40 played particularly well. 10 was a disappointment, particularly when compared to last year. We heard no Europeans this year, but had a good opening to Europe on 10 last year. Only worked Africa and the Americas. Saw spots for Hawaii, but couldn't hear them. Only a few short openings to US and Canada. We heard HC8N running US stations when we couldn't hear them this far east. FT1000MP, AL1200; Icom 756 Pro, MLA2500, inverted L on 160 (about 90' of vertical height), 80 meter dipole, C3 at about 100', C31XR at 50 feet, 2 element Force Twelve 40 M yagi at 90'. Hope to work you all next trip and from our home stations in between. 73, John, K4BAI. QSL PJ4/home calls and PJ4A via K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP5BZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 165,093 Thank you very much to PP5IZ... your station is wonderfull... See you on the ARRL 10... VY 73 de PP5BZ Fabio ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PR7AR Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 68,616 IC-736 100W ZEPELIM ANTENA@12M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 15,444,000 Has been nice to have the young generation operating the station PS2T I'm convinced that the Multi Single it is more Multi than Single. We had more than 20 people helping the operators. 1) Friends who helped us to eliminate the Power noise coordinated by PY2EQ, and PY2WS 2) Friends who supported us on the antenna maintenance problem coordinated again by PY2EQ and PY2WS, people from IESA plus PU5OGE and PU2RSD. 3) The team incharged for the food coordinated by ZZ5MCO (PY5EG wife), Sofia etc 4) Coffe and diet coke for the operators never been a problem PU5OGE & PU3RSD 5) Claudemir and his wife responsible for the house keeping> They maintened the shack always clean. 6) Finally the operators have maintained during all the constest a high level of sport spirit and motivation. God bless you all Oms PY5EG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY1DX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 330,298 Rig: FT-920 Ant: Cushcraft R-7 First contest as SOAB.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2MTV Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Total Score = 9,968 Rig: FT1000MP MARK V FIELD ABT 100 WATTS, ANTENNA 2 ELE YAGI HOME MADE @10 METER UP, Software N1MMlogger VS. 7.11.1 Tnx fer all QSO. 73. Andy PY2MTV Sto Amaro Isl. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,876,321 "Another N6ZZ Memorial Team" - with pleasure! --------------------------------------------- Will try to write something more next ten days and put at my blog - www.py2ny.blogspot.com. --------------------------------------------- 180w and @20m sloper on 160m 500w and @20m sloper on 80m 600w and 2el @25m on 40m 600w and KT34XA 6el @22m on 10-15-20 N1MM and single radio Yaesu 1000 Field --------------------------------------------- Unbelievable - PZ5X and KV4FZ on 160m !!! Incredible - 47 DXCC on 80m !!! --------------------------------------------- Need to improve CW capabilities to manage huge pile ups and improve station, repairing my 2nd radio and looking for stubs or anything else to separate 2 radios operation - hey, remember that I have only one tower hi hi hi... --------------------------------------------- Phil, N6ZZ, we are doing our noise down here!! Missing you !! --------------------------------------------- PY2NY - Vitor, leaving to Bordeaux, France, next December 25... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2WC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,498,880 first contest in my new home EQUIPAMENTS: YAESU FT 1000MP MARK V FIELD KENWOOD TL 922A - 600WATTS ANTENAS: 8 ELEM LOGPERIODIC (10 TO 20M) 3 ELEM MONOBANDER (40M) WIRE DIPOLO TO 80/160M TANKS TO ALL FRIENDS MAKE QSOS ON THIS CONTEST, CU IN ARRL 10 M (CW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY4PW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,528 I worked limited by my antennas in 10, 15 and 20 meters, but the propagation turned unviable the band of 10 meters, that was completely dead. I operated with some intervals and with a sum of time relatively low, due to professional commitments. My largest fight was against the conditions of the station that are not the ideals. The station is composed by TX/RX Kenwood TS850-S/AT, antenna MOSLEY TA-33 Tribanda for 10,15 and 20 meters and low-pass filter CV-TVX2 of Marine Technology (to stamp the peace with the neighbors). Finally, it was worth for the new worked countries and for participating again of contests after some time without participation conditions. We see each other in the next contest. Luiz - PY4PW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RK4WWF Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,578,339 20-15-10 3-4-4 QQ @ 30 mH, dipoles 2 x FT990, TS870, TS450 3 x Pentium (Network), no DX-cluster used TR4W software v.2.32 (@ http://tr4w.qrz.ru/) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,389,890 Photos: http://www.rk3awl.ru/gallery.php?r=61 Antennas (Q=Quads): 160 - Dipole@105m + Dipole@30m 80 - 2Q@105m + 2Q@80m + 2xQuad@35m 40 - 4Q@30m + 2Q@30m 20 - 6Q@30m + 6Q@30m + 4Q@30m + 3Q@25m 15 - 8Q@30m + 7Q@30m + 6Q@30m + 4Q@25m 10 - 8Q@30m + 6Q@30m + 4Q@25m RX-only antennas: 40-10m - loop@70m + RF preamp 160-40m - Beverages to 8 directions (incl. 2x 3-wire stacks) + RF preamp TCVRs: 3xIC-756PROII, IC-775DX2, FT-1000MP, TS-950SDX PAs: 5 units ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU1A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,306,530 K | NA | 97 | 218 | 216 | 426 | 17 | | 974 VE | NA | 10 | 21 | 10 | 38 | 1 | | 80 JA | AS | 28 | 119 | 156 | 175 | 12 | | 490 We called HC8N on our sunrise time but sudenly he asked USA only. That surprised us very much! Therefore no qso. We had USA openning on 40 during daylight hours over Short Pass and LP. We were able to hear only Big Guns during dark time hours. XE2GG was audible over LP during long period of time. We hoped to work all 40 zones on 80 meters after most difficult 6 and 31 zones been worked. But CE4CT z12 showed up on 80 meters only 09z ,please don't forget about ASR/EUR, that was 3 hours after our SR. We missed also zones 1 and 34,36. Vlad RW1AC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,370,880 No technical problems this time with Saturday evening QRN and wondering what and why am I doing last hour of the contest:-) Some poor operating habits are noticed every year and become worse and worse (calling a DX station on and on without listening on low bands, not signing the call sign, ...). All in all adrenaline was high all weekend. 73, Tine Brajnik, S50A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50G Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,615,686 Very much field day operation :-) Almost no antennas juts 48 before the contest, only 20m yagi was on the tower. »Mission impossible« started on Thursday morning with preparing home-made antennas for all other bands. Hard work until 15 minutes before contest started, we strained 160m dipole on the air in a full dark, 15 min before contest outset :-) Some technical problems during the contest were expected and they happened, too, HI… Taking into account all those circumstances – we are very happy with our score. Nice conditions on low bands, a lot of EU QRM, 10m – dead band. All antennas have been already taken down on Tuesday (winter is coming) and it looks like nothing happened during the weekend, HI. FT-1KMP MV, FT-1KMP, amps Writelog (network – a lot of troubles) 160m. Dipole @ 15m 80m: 4 sloopers 40m: 2 el QUAD @ 20m 20m: 5 el. yagi @ 20m 15m: 5 el. yagi @ 17m 10m: 6 el yagi @ 9m TH6DXX 73 Robert, S57AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50K Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 462,528 Thanks for calls and responses to everyone. Supprised how weak were a lot of signals, missing zones 1, 19, 31. See previous posts for equipment description. 73s de Marko, S50K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51NZ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 175,444 First of all, i must to say thank's to my host Vinko, local farmer who let me do this contest from his farm, and to my father for help me put up the antenna. Thank's to all op's for qso and sorry to the stations which was calling me and i don't heard them. Again nice contest and I have fun. ant: slooping delta loop, slooping dipole, no rx ant. pa: 600 - 900w rig: ts 950sd 73' es hny 2008, Huby ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52AW Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,027,936 Ant: 5L quad + 3L beam Rig: FT-1000 mp mark V + PA 73 de Karl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 537,932 Ant: 2x vertikal Rig: IC-737 + PA 73 de Vinko ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 544,335 Ant 4 x sloper 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 0 1455 0 0 0 0 1455 70.1 NA 0 404 0 0 0 0 404 19.5 AS 0 162 0 0 0 0 162 7.8 AF 0 23 0 0 0 0 23 1.1 SA 0 19 0 0 0 0 19 0.9 OC 0 13 0 0 0 0 13 0.6 Somehow i miss abt 150q from the 1st night (only 600 in the log).I finished second night with 1640q, so the things were going better. Finally, at that time I was already satisfied also with number of the mults, but they just keept comming and comming....C3,YS,VK9,5J0,UK,VR,CX,FY....Specialy thanks to J28OO, VU2BGS, KH7X, AH2R and HC8N for being single double mults. Missed zones were 1, 12, 34 and 36. Also better score would be possible with that missing 50-100 USA and without high aurora activity. Matija/S53MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53O Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 196,388 ts850+pa gs35,ant tower,4 beverig. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53QD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 608,530 Nice Contest in bad condition, 73 Branko. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S54A Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 291,607 Less than last year. No good openings to NA. Only few zone 3 in the afternoon,.. 73 & DX Ivo S54A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 106,216 Decent condx but no EU short skip opening. Only 3 QSO on second radio CQ. Didn't hear zones 1,2,3,19,31, missed few XE. Another 351 QSO on lower bands. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 820,990 Thanks for all qso-s. CU in next contest. 73, Ivo, S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,775,185 FUN 73 de Slavko S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 170,248 Nice contest. Some technical problems, but not noise problems. TNX for all calls! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 15,708 What to say this time? Bad, bad, bad. That's the worst case condition I ever sow! 73, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,433,588 Unable to bring down my cranck-up tild down tower due to high wind before the contest to bring 40 meters rotary dipole back to ham band, it was up to 7300kHz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59A Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 32,207 I was not going to contesting seriously,so whenever I sit down behind the station, I just looked for the MULTs and DXes only.All together I spent arround 20 hours for radio this weekend.It was fun to listen the guys fighting for every single point, as I used to do some years back,hi. I put out only few CQs for about 10 minutes, all other time I was in S&P mode. Whenever a new DX came thru on the cluster, I stayed arround 10 minutes on that frequeny and noticed callers.Most of the time always the same stations,hi.It will be very interesting to see the results, how many of them will announce as SINGLE OP UNASISSTED category, hi. On Sunday arround 19.30Z I had to quit due to rain storm with lightnings like in the summer. I heard 9 mults more, but could not work them,because of weak signals or because of bad manners, some callers covered them calling continously without listening,hi. All in all CONDX were bellow normal. Station was FT1000MpMkV to OM2500 amp and sloping dipoles system with NO Rx ants. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59ABC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,996,784 FT-2000 KW KT34XA 40M-vertical 80&160M-dipoles Win-Test Everything worked perfect except that PA didn’t work on 10m, 160m dipole was to low, Win-test was not connected to the cluster because of TNC and I had a lack of sleep before the contest. 73 Marko S51DS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59W Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 226,256 Spare time s/p operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S79UU Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,336,432 It was Low Bands and contest activity trip + our families' vacations. Thanks to our XYLs for understanding. I hope we satisfied a lot of people with rare S79 multiplier. The rig: Elecraft K2 + ACOM-1010 Antennas: 20/15/10 - 2 el SteppIR @ 2m above the ground :) 40/80 - Inverted V @10m 160 - Inverted V @15m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK3W Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,014,116 First M/M in CQWW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM5MX Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 40,133 Very good conds first night, mediocre to poor following sessions. Nevertheless, great fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6CNN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,729,875 I thought I would do 80m only but changed my mind as the conditions were surprisingly good on the higher bands. Great fun indeed! 73 Andy SM6CNN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6WET Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 455,682 Just like CQWW SSB 2007 I set up my station in our little cabin outside of town. The place has no real close neighbours off season and there are several high pine trees I can use. Some of them from nice neigbours who lend them out to me as long as I put them back HI HI. Rig: FT-920 Amp: Ten-Tec Titan 425 Antennas: 160m: 20m high inverted-L with top part slanting 45° downwards. Antenna is made of 1,5mm¹ wire and supported by a pine tree. 80m: Fullsize ¼-wave wire vertical supported by pine tree. 40m: Elevated ¼-wave wire vertical fed 4m up with 8 elevated radials. 20m: Elevated ¼-wave wire vertical fed 5m up with 2 elevated radials. 15/10m: Chimney mounted 7-band ECO vertical. Listening antenna: Was going to set up a E/W non-terminated beverage for listening but when I finally brought the compass to the place I found that the bobwire fence 5m from the house was going exactly from west to east. I measured the lenght to approx 120m and hooked in on it with a home made 9:1 transformer. It did not cut out alot of side-lobe so I was still getting lots of QRM from south Europe but I got the noise down to zero and I did hear stations like B1Z, JT1CO, VK6HD and several JA stations on 160m. Without it I would never had worked H7 on 160m the morning after the contest. I worked assisted class due to alot of assistance by the YL's good cooking and help getting me out of bed after a few hours of sleep, DX-cluster and alot of assistance from Mr Murphy although I could have done without his help. Mr Murphys assistance included burning up 3 PL-259s, 1 dubble female, letting my radiator on 20m get loose from the connection causing the radiator to get stuck 6m up in a pine tree with the connection, coax and radials on ground. Mr Murphy also caused my multiband vertical that I used on 10/15 to change it's center frequency to higher SSB portion of the band which forced me climb a sheet metal roof with a layer of snow and ice in order to have it adjusted. The most annoying help Mr Murphy provided was however to shut down my dial-up connection very often and easy on 80m - 2 consecutive calls at 30WPM would do it. I never made any running mode operation, my CW abilities is way to small so I was just S/P-ing. Anyhow, I should not say I had any goals for the contest more then it would have been nice to work more then 100 different DXCCs in total and to get a few new on 160m. A complete new country would be nice but when you start to get above 250 countries it gets difficult to find anything new in a contest unless there is a super-size expedition going. Was I surprised when I on Sunday night discovered that I worked more then 90 countries on only 40m...... I quickly set a goal to reach 100 on that band which obviously I did. Now when I finally put all the log in my Lux-Log I can see that in total a 124 countries were worked (excluding Sicily, African Italy and Shetlands) which was far better then any expectations. I gained: 6 counries on 160m +1 on the morning after. 3 countries on 80m 10 countries on 40m 4 countries on 20m 3 countries on 15m 4 countries on 10m The last 4 countries on 10 was a dream come true to me, I have finally worked the 100 countries on 10m and that completes my 5BDXCC (Yea - dont remind me that I need the cards... I know, I know) But I think it is qutie ok for being a small pistol on HF since May 2004. What else: 3 new zones on topband, 1 new zone on 40m, 15 and 10m each. High-lights in no particular order: Finding and killing what Mr Murphy helped me with. Getting a complete new country in the log: Nicaragua. Hearing VK6HD on topband. Hearing E51A on 80m (would have been nice to worked, I am also ZK1WET) Working my friend John 9H1XT that I visited a few months ago. Making a contest Jackpot (work all 6 bands) with 3X5A. I'll see you next year! 73 de Magnus SM6WET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN2K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,059,312 USA Big Gun open >S3 1400-1630 on 20 mtrs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP1NY Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 351,750 Rigs: FT-2000, FT-1000MP Ant: 7el tribander X-7 PA: Home brew 500 W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2PUT Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 44,928 Trx TS850, antena delta, log N1MM 73! Marek SQ2GXO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP3LWP Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 767,715 Trx IC718 ANT lw,W3DZZ,GP tnx all for qso ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP4Z Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 448,918 First I decided SOAB HP Assisted but it was only till 11:00 UTC on Saturday when I found out that my 5 el yagi on 20m is deaf. Propably coax on higher loop run out after 12 years of beaming - sorry goodbye this category. Decide to start on 40m instead (I've had only 2 hours of operation till 11 UTC) After contest I noticed on the morning Saturday there were the best hours of propagation hi. Please see my high number of countries (156). Lost stations I heard: 5X1NH, FK8IS, FO5UW, 5W1SA, JW5E, TU2CI. Cluster pile-up killed them or not pay attention to Europe. Thanks for Contest. I decicade this effort to my father Henrik who died on 23 October 2007 (just before CQWW SSB) after 1 year of pneumonia cancer on age of 71. See you my daddy... :) Rig: OLD IC737A + PA 1kW and 3 el full size yagi on 30mh 73 and see you Wes SP4Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP5DDJ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 231,360 Newly installed Hustler 6BTV did the QRP job on 80m and 40m. To my surprise most of the contacts I made on 160m using 6BTV tuned with ATU instead of short sloper which was supposed to be used. Minimum sunspots gave no chance to play on 15m and my favourite 10m bands, when QRP power is not a disadvantage. Had a great fun and thanks to all who picked my tiny sigs. Special thanks to VY2ZM for answering on 160m - wow ! Best 72'ss Wim SP5DDJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,766,000 Hi. Trying to have a fun , but all the whistles , scraping mikes and other tricks makes me very bud thinking about "radioamateurs" at all.Weather does not help too. Friday ( fixing antennas ) +10C and Sunday afternoon 1ocm of snow and temp. below zero. Any way , thanks to all competitors for the points and cu agn next time. PS As you can see from the summary table the number of QSO is my birth date,hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP6OJE Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 230,384 Thanks for competition, CU nest year ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV1BJW Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 246,560 Both days propagation wasn't good. Passed years, as I remeber, contacts to North and South America acvived even after 1730 utc... For example 2004 my latest evening QSO was at 21:30 utc with States... This year after 1800 utc, contacts to the other side of the Atlantic were impossible. TOTAL running time less than 23 hours. Anyway.. Satisfaction of the activity remains. I 'll CU by the end of January on 160 meters contest. Best regards and health wishes to everybody. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV1DPI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,610,706 Tnx all for calling and for patience. Pileups were unrude after the packet spots but nice!! CU on the next one Antennas: 2el quad (10-20m) Inv-L (40-160m) Power: 500w rig: yaesu ft1000mp markv qsl preffered buro or direct I 'll upload in LotW very soon also ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV9CVY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,333,956 This was my second operation from Michael's place after CQWW SSB 2001, when a storm had put off electricity for 10 hours and most antennas came down. Weather was much more pleasant this time with up to 20 C in the afternoon and no winds during the contest. When I left Frankfurt Tuesday afternoon I had a bad start: "Aegean Airlines" asked 480 Euros for my 48 kilos of excessive baggage (One-Way!), and being as charming as can be didn't help... I arrived at Michael's place late in the evening, and we started to rearrange the station cabling for my FT1000MP and Acom 1000 I had paid that extra money for... Most of Wed, Thu and Fri was spent for small modifications on the antennas, relaxing and having about 2000 QSOs for warming up. I knew that with existing propagation most of my QSOs in the contest would be with Europe - only one point each. The signal path to W/VE is directly over EU, and without sunspots W/VE is far away from here, so chances for good W/VE runs were marginal. Being closer to Asia surely helped regarding signal strength, but QSO numbers are no longer high from that part of the world. I had decided to go for plain old SO1R (one radio) without the burden (and more extra weight) of filters, station automation accessories and other equipment. I had decided to run most of Saturday with only a few "multiplier expeditions" over the bands. This went quite nicely, I had collected 3817 QSOs after the first 24 hours - but with a moderate number of multipliers, of course. On Sunday I tried to catch up on multipliers, yet I still tried to keep the rate up. Only three hours (sunrise/sunset) have less than 100 QSOs, but I found quite some elusive multipliers during these hours. Due to the high number of intra-European contacts the average QSO point value is only 1.69, compared to the usual 2.95 from a DX location, which would be a final score of 12.8M points (looking much nicer than the real 7.3M, hi...) I want to say Thank You to Michael for his hospitality, and all of you for the QSOs during the contest. Next bigger operation will be a 17-day-long contest: I will be part of the VP6DX operation from Ducie Island in February 2008 together with Contesting friends DL6LAU, DL3DXX, DL8LAS (all from DR1A), ES5TV, K3NA, N5IA, SP3DOI, SP5XVY, SV1JG, RA3AUU, UA3AB, and WA6CDR. If all is going well, you should be able to expect a nice DX operation. More on http://www.vp6dx.com (donations welcome, of course... :-) 73 from Crete Ben SV9/DL6FBL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,963,248 Once again everything was done in last minute. We did some stations improvments and did´t have time to check everything. During contest, after 1st 24 h i realize there was some problems in antenna switching and TX/RX filter switching on one operating position. Biggest failure was i didn´t pay to much attetion on this and i solved only part of the problem. This cann explain such low QSO´s nr on 40m and 20m and very high level of interference on 10m. On other side 160m i 80m performed very nice and beverage redesign help us to heard much more multi´s on 80m and 160m as we where able to work. Unfortunatly we aslo "killed" RX one of our FT-2000, but we menaged to repair this few hour later. Thanks for QSO´s and cu in CQWW DX 160m CW! 73 es best dx de OE1EMS/T93J Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,434,335 Team: Danny, T93M; Boris, T93Y; Ivek, T96Q; Edin, T97M and Boban YT9A (ex. YZ1AU) CQ Station: ICOM IC-756PRO-III Alpha 8100 Dell P-III 1GHz desktop + Win-Test v3.18.0 EZ Master Multiplier1: ICOM-IC-756PRO Alpha 91B Dell Inspiron 640m laptop + Win-Test v3.18.0 Multiplier2: ICOM IC-746PRO JRC JRL-2000 Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop + Win-test v3.18.0 Antennas: 160m - 24m shunt fed tower 80m - dipole at 24m 40m - 2el. Cushcraft XM-240 at 18m fixed to USA + 1/4 wave vertical 20m - 4/4 el. YAGI at 25/13m 15m - 5/5 el. YAGI at 18/9m 10m - 5/5 el. YAGI at 21/12m 180m long NE/SW beverage 100m long NW/SE beverage This was a first major contest Multi-Single participation from T93M location. Equipment and software performed without a single problem and team of long-time friends had a great time working THE CONTEST together. Congratulations to our friends at 9A1P and other teams with better scores - we know that we need better low bands antennas to be competitive in highly demanding Multi-Single category and we know that we made quite a few tactical mistakes (spent some time Sunday morning calling CQ on not yet opened 15m and 10m). I think that behavior of some EU low band multiplier chasers needs to be mentioned. Endless sending of own callsign, giving callsign while DX station called someone else or QSO is in place should be penalized somehow because it can be only worse next year. T93M via DJ2MX or K2PF. 73's Boris T93Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TA2RC Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 141,044 Hello! After a year of mental preparation I packed all equipments Wednesday evening and called to Kefken Island contest location.Answer was very bad:A Black Sea Storm damaged the underwater electric line and no AC on fhe island!What a shock!I quickly decided for a DXpedition at home.Fortunately my shack also near salt water.After permission of three neighbours I installed 16 radials to land and 12 radials over salt water!Antenna was a quarter vave inverted L with 18 meters vertical part just over sea side. First half of contest was very well and broke the record after 24 h.But Sunday morning and early Sunday evening was very poor conditions here.Fortunately last 3 hours conditions came back and score improved. A very nice mute competition with team vertical.Congrats to N6BT-C6ARR very close to my score.Now contest is over and cabrillos will fight. Hope to operate this contest from my real contest shack-YM0T next year. Thanks to all station who made QSO and my apologies to many stations that I have no copy them. 73 and CU on CQ 160! Ozer TA2RC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 950,352 We used a Harris RT-1446/RF-350K with an Emtron DX-3 amplifier into three rhombics and a YCCC Double-L. Before the contest Thor had installed a new double L antenna for 80 and 160m so we had high hopes of good low band operation. However propagation did not meet expectations. Nevertheless we had a lot of fun. We had relatively few US QSOs and no JA / VK / ZL opening. There was a surprise 10m Aurora opening resulting in one QSO (OF8X). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TI5N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,665,664 Murphy bit us hard. We traveled to this location to enter the contest as a M/2 but were plagued with interference and equipment issues. We had no choice but to go with M/S. Nevertheless we all had a great time and did the best we could with what we had. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,464,028 NICE CONTEST. WE ALL HOPE TO WORK YOU ALL AGAIN IN 2008 STATION'S RELIABILITY TO FIX ASAP; PC REALLY DON'T LIKE STRONG HF FIELD ANYMORE..... 73 MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,222,530 Congrats to 9A1P for the very impressive multis/QSO numbers and to OL7R for his higher score… Mults make the difference but UBN too ;-) 2006 was a very difficult year for TM2Y with two storms and lot of yagis problems. This year, all works fine for the two CQWW parts. First experience with livescoring http://www.getscores.org/ The first night was rather difficult on the low bands with lot of QRM on receives antennas (2*bev and 1*K9AY). Weather was clear but very frozen, it’s probably the QRM issu. All QSO were made with Tx antennas during this night and we lost lot of qso… Sunday morning just after the sunrise, qrm disappeared and it was a very good time for low bands especially on 160m with lot of NA and SA multis. 40m was bad during the ssb and very good during this part. We did work Asia and OC mults 2 hours before the sunset and SA and OC 2 hours after the sunrise with solid 59 JA stations at 09-10z AM. 3el M2 shorty works but with a very bad front/back since 2006 storm. Shorts openings on 15m so we spent a lot of time on 20m and no enough hunt on this band. Many thanks to F6BEE owner of TM2Y antennas farm… Thanks for all QSO, see you next ... 73’s Franck, F8CRH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM4Q Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,218,439 As usual great fun here ! We must change our strategy on lower bands, too many time on 160 compare to 80 meters. And we must work more on multipliers. So we have a lot of reasons to be back... See you next year and thaks to all of you for reports. F6FYA./. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM6A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 638,324 Many thanks to Joseph F6CTT for his kind hospitality, for giving me the opportunity to enjoy his fabulous contest location and for retuning the TX-antenna for CW before my arrival. In short, a big fun! I specialy appreciated the 100% trouble-free operation ! Below is a quick QSO summary. Full contest story, detailled stats and audio-recordings soon on http://f6irf.blogspot.com/ ALL EU AS NA SA AF OC 2472 1440 120 867 19 16 10 58.25% 4.85% 35.07% 0.77% 0.65% 0.40% Thanks to all for the QSO's, with a special mention for HS0AC, ZS1TX and VK7GN for calling-in and providing the 3 last zone-multipliers. CU soon again from CN2WW/CN5W. Patrick NB Electronic confirmation through LOTW, conventionnal QSL via EA7FTR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9BA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,400,046 Operating conditions: 30mh tower with a 5 band (80m through 10m) antenna on top (can be seen on QRZ.C), 27 mh vertical 12 meters off the shore of bitter SALT lake to the West of the antenna for 160m band, IC-756PROIII, having to burn wood to keep myself warm during the contest and nobody around to serve food either - that's where 3 precious hours of the contest went. Great contest again! CNDX over the TOP - nonexistant. TNX to VY few in NA that did took time to get my call right and made me happy:KC1XX (80&20m),KI1G(20m), VY2TT (20m), K0RF(20m,N9RV @ the Desk), W7WA (20m) and K7GK (20m). These are the only NA stations on 20m I managed to work. 40 was tough till Sun. 13:30z when all of a sudden the polar path got transparent and I even made a run of 20 some QSO's worth! N7UA is THE WINNER for the signal strength on 80m LP both days (s7 s-meter redings at best times), but NO QSO (once Bob almost got it, but he couldn't decode it behind the UA of my UA9BA). CONGRATS to ALL who survived through the contest! CU NEXT YEAR! 73's & GL, Willy UA9BA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9PM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 617,900 Ant: 4 over 4 up 42 mtrs 6 up 25 mtrs 4 up 10 mtrs Canada - 1 QSO USA - 0 No comments ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UP4L Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 552,720 Have not condx over north pole. Was only 1 QSO with USA (thanks KB1H for calling), and 2 QSO with VY2. Hope condx will be better next year. 73! Valery UN7LZ_UP4L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UR3IQO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 723,564 Nice contest! This time I worked High Power, and also used my new vertical (18.5m high top loaded). So had a lot of fun and see that working HP and LP (I used to run 20W power) are of the very different styles. The propagation was not too good on 20m, a bit strange on 15m (I got many DXs there, but there were too little stations) and very bad on 10m. The low bands were the complete surprise (aspecially Sunday morning 3:00-6:00z). I do not remember such opening. It is a pity I could not get TI5M and HQ2A on 80m (I heard them very well and HQ2A even asked "QO?", but EU guys were not gentlemens or had poor receiving). Unfortunately these were the only stations from the 7 zone. Most of the time I was S&P. There were some troubles finding free frequency for RUN. Thanks all who called or answer me! See you in the next contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT1IA Class: SOSB(A)/10 HP Total Score = 14,630 Come taste the band ! 73 Vladimir UT1IA http://www.qsl.net/ut1ia RIG: IC-746, PA ZZ-750 (500W), Hy-Gain TH-3 @30m . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UZ2M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,948,185 TX ANT: 160m-Stack 2x2el Vert delta loop for USA,VP2E,InV 80m-2el delta loop EX8A,InV,2 el delta loop for JA 40m-4el QUAD,2el QUAD,2el QUAD 20m-6el QUAD,4el QUAD,4el QUAD,3 el YAGI,Stack 3x6 el yagi for USA 15m-8el QUAD,6el QUAD,6el QUAD,3 el YAGI 10m-10el QUAD,6el QUAD,6el QUAD,3 el YAGI RX ANT: Bev 350m long-5,23,60,90,160,185,240,270,340 degr azim. Stack 2xBev 350m long for USA,Stack 2xBev 350m long for JA K98(flag) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V47NT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,560,680 We were hoping the bad line noise problem at the station would be fixed before I arrived. Unfortunately, it was worse. I lost a little drive knowing I could not do anything big, but did my best. I was hoping for rain to quiet it down, but it was bright and sunny all weekend :( 10 mtrs was almost unusable. I apologize, there was a big pileup but I could not hear anything through the noise. Other than that, this is still a fabulous location. I can't wait to try this when it's quiet! I made some strategic errors, never was able to run EU on 160. I must have been there at the wrong times. Also missed a bunch of easy mults on 80/15. 40 was so good all the time I never left. Decided to go for qsos and worked way too many 2 pointers. Also, had some trouble with RF in the keyboard erasing some qsos. I apologize in advance if somebody loses the multiplier because of this. Covered the entire keyboard cable in ferrite but it didn't work. Thanks for all the support from V44KAI, V44NK, V44KBP who made sure I was OK all alone on the mountain. And of course to Alex W2OX/V47KP and Joe K3NM for using their home away from home. Station: FT1000MP (Last time for that due to AGC problem with big pileups). Icom Pro II 2x Alpha 91B 105CA @55ft 155CA @40ft TH7DX @40ft 402CD @50ft 80mtr Delta loop @ 50 ft 160m inv L bent No beverages; no room yet. (It's all in the location) :) 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2SG Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 319,800 Please solar gods, provide us some spots! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2WDQ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 179,410 Rig: Yaesu FT-1000 + PA Ameritron AL-80B (750w) Ant: Inverted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3ATT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 71,346 FT-767GX and GP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 916,530 Very casual , spent 85 % of my 27 hours just tuning the band working new mults. Watched hockey ( Leafs lost twice !! ) and got my sleep. Some points for our Contest Club Ontario .... SO1R SO1R SO1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3NR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 800,541 [Mk-V field, HF6V vertical, DX-CC dipole at 35', 160m inv-L at 30'H.] My stretch goal has been to break 1 Meg but I have long way to go. Same lessons every year - I need to spend more time in the chair and try a little harder to fill in the multiplier chart while keeping the rate up. THANKS QSOs ! It was fun. 73, Chris VA3NR ____________________________ Cabrillo Statistics (Version 06f) by K5KA Callsign: VA3NR Category: SINGLE-OP ALL LOW CW Contest: CQ-WW-CW Operators: VA3NR -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 0000 0 30 1 1 0 0 32 32 2.4 0100 80 7 0 0 0 0 87 119 6.6 0200 36 36 0 0 0 0 72 191 5.5 0300 0 90 0 0 0 0 90 281 6.9 0400 61 13 0 0 0 0 74 355 5.6 0500 2 0 37 1 0 0 40 395 3.1 0600 6 21 0 0 0 0 27 422 2.1 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 422 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 422 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 422 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 422 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 422 0.0 1200 0 47 1 0 0 0 48 470 3.7 1300 0 0 2 4 0 0 6 476 0.5 1400 0 0 27 30 0 0 57 533 4.4 1500 0 0 0 41 0 5 46 579 3.5 1600 0 0 0 6 0 1 7 586 0.5 1700 0 0 0 6 0 0 6 592 0.5 1800 0 0 0 6 3 0 9 601 0.7 1900 0 0 9 18 12 0 39 640 3.0 2000 0 0 1 64 0 0 65 705 5.0 2100 0 0 4 41 1 0 46 751 3.5 2200 0 0 30 5 2 0 37 788 2.8 2300 0 2 17 2 0 0 21 809 1.6 0000 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 815 0.5 0100 7 34 1 0 0 0 42 857 3.2 0200 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 860 0.2 0300 19 0 0 0 0 0 19 879 1.5 0400 10 12 6 0 0 0 28 907 2.1 0500 11 23 0 0 0 0 34 941 2.6 0600 0 4 0 0 0 0 4 945 0.3 0700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 0800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 945 0.0 1500 0 0 0 0 29 0 29 974 2.2 1600 0 0 0 0 11 8 19 993 1.5 1700 0 0 0 11 6 6 23 1016 1.8 1800 0 0 0 8 25 0 33 1049 2.5 1900 0 0 0 43 13 0 56 1105 4.3 2000 0 0 0 52 1 0 53 1158 4.0 2100 0 0 6 3 0 0 9 1167 0.7 2200 0 0 59 1 0 0 60 1227 4.6 2300 0 39 19 3 0 0 61 1288 4.7 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 235 358 226 346 103 20 1288 Gross QSO's=1310 Dupes=22 Net QSO's=1288 Unique callsigns worked = 882 The best 60 minute rate was 107/hour from 0118 to 0217 The best 30 minute rate was 128/hour from 0118 to 0147 The best 10 minute rate was 174/hour from 2339 to 2348 The best 1 minute rates were: 5 QSO's/minute 3 times. 4 QSO's/minute 21 times. 3 QSO's/minute 59 times. 2 QSO's/minute 212 times. 1 QSO's/minute 588 times. There were 57 bandchanges and 4 (0.3%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 11 4 854 5 336 6 70 7 8 8 1 9 6 10 2 ------------ C o u n t r y S u m m a r y ------------------ Country 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------------- 3X 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 6W 0 0 1 1 2 0 4 0.3 6Y 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.3 8P 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 0.2 9A 0 0 1 3 0 0 4 0.3 9G 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 9Y 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 C6 2 1 2 1 0 0 6 0.5 CE 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 CM 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 CN 1 2 0 2 1 0 6 0.5 CT 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.2 CT3 0 1 2 2 1 0 6 0.5 CU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 D4 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 DL 0 2 3 13 0 0 18 1.4 EA 0 1 4 3 0 0 8 0.6 EA6 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.3 EA8 0 1 4 2 2 0 9 0.7 EI 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 F 0 2 1 3 0 0 6 0.5 FG 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 FJ 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0.2 FM 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2 FY 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 G 0 2 0 7 0 0 9 0.7 GD 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 HA 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2 HB 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 HC8 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.4 HI 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.4 HK 0 0 3 1 3 0 7 0.5 HK0/a 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 HP 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 HR 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 I 0 3 2 4 1 0 10 0.8 *IG9 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 IS 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 *IT9 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 J3 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.3 J7 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 J8 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 K 225 305 159 215 47 11 962 74.7 KG4 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.2 KH6 0 5 3 4 3 0 15 1.2 KL 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 KP2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 KP4 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 LA 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 LU 0 0 1 1 3 0 5 0.4 LX 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2 LZ 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2 OA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 OH 0 0 0 7 0 0 7 0.5 OK 0 1 3 5 0 0 9 0.7 OM 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 ON 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 OZ 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 P4 0 0 2 1 1 0 4 0.3 PA 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.2 PJ2 1 2 2 2 2 0 9 0.7 PY 0 0 1 2 4 1 8 0.6 PZ 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 S5 0 2 1 3 0 0 6 0.5 SM 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 SP 0 1 0 4 0 0 5 0.4 SV 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 T9 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 TI 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 UA 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 UR 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 V2 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0.2 V3 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.3 V4 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.3 V5 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 VE 4 6 3 8 1 0 22 1.7 VP2E 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 VP2M 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 0.2 VP5 1 0 1 1 1 1 5 0.4 VP8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 XE 0 1 1 5 3 0 10 0.8 YN 0 1 0 1 1 1 4 0.3 YU 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 YV 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 ZB 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 ZF 0 1 1 1 2 1 6 0.5 ZK1/s 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 5 133 177 93 73 16 2 494 37.7 4 89 113 55 70 7 9 343 26.2 3 6 21 13 81 25 0 146 11.1 14 0 13 10 38 3 0 64 4.9 8 4 7 15 14 14 5 59 4.5 15 0 9 10 30 1 0 50 3.8 9 1 2 8 7 7 0 25 1.9 33 1 5 6 6 4 0 22 1.7 31 0 5 3 4 3 0 15 1.1 7 0 1 2 5 4 2 14 1.1 35 0 0 3 3 5 0 11 0.8 6 0 1 1 5 3 0 10 0.8 11 0 0 1 2 4 1 8 0.6 13 0 0 1 1 4 0 6 0.5 10 0 1 1 2 1 1 6 0.5 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 5 0.4 20 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.2 38 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 16 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 12 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 0.2 32 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 235 358 226 346 103 20 1288 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 636 2 bands 144 3 bands 57 4 bands 32 5 bands 13 6 bands 0 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 110 186 94 204 37 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 615,582 Gear: * 1 x 80M delta loop * 2 x 40M half-squares * 1 x trapped vertical * 3 ele. CL-33 tribander at ~45' * FT-2000 (great QRM-beater) + SB221 (bulletproof amp) * N1MM Logger (outstanding) * SP5CFD's CW TuneIn (software for tuning CW. Wish more guys could do that) ================================================= Year-over-year comparison: QSOs Ctry Zones Score 2002 675 147 63 313,740 2003 865 115 73 351,936 2004 1,421 146 79 697,500 2005 1,014 126 61 411,587 2006 1,476 163 78 775,297 35 hrs 2007 1,470 129 69 615,582 < HP 32 hrs ================================================= Short Version: Wow. Conditions were lousy over the pole, but pretty good on 80M and 40M to Asia. Some surprises from Africa, saw Chinese stations active, and lots of JA action on 80M. Antenna issues limited the fun on 20 and 15. Unassisted keeps a guy roaming when not running. Long Version: I let down the "another N6ZZ memorial" team (K1XM at 6V7D, PY2NY, W1KM, N1UR at 9M6AAC, and me) but did all I could from here. Hope Paul, Vitor, Greg and Ed had a blast (we posted on livescores so I was able to watch 6V7D and PY2NY crank up their totals all weekend. Well done guys!) Figured on 1,700 Qs and 1.2M points. Didn't come close on either. Had calculated higher totals provided by running HP, but it was not to be. For zones, I did OK (compared to last year) but the country mults just weren't there with the antennas I have and the band openings I got. Worked just a dozen EU stations all weekend on 20M (SM, F, CT, OH, S5, E7, UA). No Europe opening Saturday morning, and virtually no opening Sunday morning. Heard OF8L big into BC a few times, but that was about it. The trapped tribander has been acting up lately and this weekend really proved a serious problem on 20M and 15M (never looked at 10M but it's probably shot, too). Cold weather has arrived, and I may have to wait till spring now to get the antenna down and look over the traps -- one or more is buggered. Had elevated SWR and the performance of a dipole this weekend on 15. Was frustrating to hear South America and not be able to raise them with a KW. Not a lot better (but a little) on 20M. Front-to-back seems trashed. Last year, I made hay on 160M but this year the inverted-L wouldn't play at all (could hear 'em, just couldn't load it up at all). The horizontal wire at about 70' up runs along a PVC-coated steel cable -- I guess it closely couples to the element. Was worth a try -- wish I'd had time to test more before the contest but only got it in the air Friday afternoon. Will suspend it by a foot or two and see if that fixes things. At least I can do that in winter weather. Friday off work, switched to 300-ohm twinlead feeder for the 80M delta loop (replacing the standard 50-ohm to 1/4-wave matching section feeder). Worked FB -- tuned well on all the bands, though it only heard really well on 80M and 40M (the bands I wanted to use it on anyway). 80M JA runs were very solid this time. 40M half-squares were really great. Using two of them for instant switching between CA-ZL/EU and US/Asia, plus a pair of elevated verticals for EU (though there was no opening to use that system). 40M went long early, as it has recently. Friday morning at 8 a.m. Pacific, there was a great big EU long-path opening on 40M (first time I've seen one that I could tell was coming out of the south). Heard 20 countries in an hour, and worked a few for fun. S9 signals. I hoped to see it on the weekend, but not a sniff of it. Would have been tremendous! Nice surprises: ZS1EL calling in on 20M Sunday morning and VP8NO in the afternoon. Also 3X5A was a nice find on 40 and 20. Best presence: E51A had good signals all weekend on 4 bands. Liked running HP as it held a frequency all right. Enjoyed some great runs (well, for me at least). It's hard to believe I had more Qs and mults last year with 100W -- I lost a lot of ground with the flakey tribander this year, and made up for it a bit with more domestic Qs on 80-40-20: Band 2007 2006 Q CTY ZONE Q CTY ZONE 160M - - - 141 6 6 80M 352 24 13 240 24 15 40M 312 33 18 230 33 17 20M 761 52 25 620 63 24 15M 72 20 13 244 36 15 10M - - - 1 1 1 1470 129 69 1476 163 78 Fell 6 Qs short of last year, which I'd have made up if not for dupes who called in on 40 while I was going for broke in the final half hour. Sure wonder what the heck these guys logged the first time around. Must take my hat off to W/K ops -- I love this contest, but I'd like it a lot less if most domestic stations were worth zippo points. I was quite happy to point the antenna SE from here, turn on the MFJ noise canceler for the power line noise, and hand out two points to whomever came along. That was great. Had a lot of fun, but knew almost from the beginning with the balking Classic 33 that performance was sunk on the high bands. Will be that way till I get at it to repair or replace. Wonder how long this antenna has been bad... Hmmm. If you don't hear me messing about in boats for a while, it's because of that now-lousy trapped beam. First time I've ever looked forward to going to the low bands for the night. Anyone use a DF4SA Spiderbeam in CQWW this year? History of contest scores and stories at: http://www3.telus.net/va7st ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,252,700 Great fun... Was trying to better last year's score, but fell 400k short...Condx just weren't there...Sleeping through the alarm clock Sunday morning didn't help either... Had a brief 15 minute window on 10 M, too bad it didn't last a bit longer, would have been interesting... Only 6-bander, W4MYA, thanks Bob... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1RGB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,025,514 Oh man, that was fun! This time last year I was sitting back and enjoying the results of the first contest in which I had ever scored over one million points. Thinking that I might never achieve that again, I told Bev right up front that my goal this year was to work the equivalent of DXCC – i.e., more than 100 countries – in a single contest. And yes, she knows what DXCC is – I casually point out my certificate every time she comes into my man-cave. In the end, I worked at least 111 DXCC entities. I'm quite pleased with that because I did it somewhat the hard way: 1. I did it with 100W; 2. I did not use a spotting network (a rather useless tool if you are low power and without a beam, anyway. What are you going to do if you see a rare one spotted? Eat the ensuing pile-up?); 3. The first 100 DXCC entities were all S&P. No running; 4. All the CW was deliberately sent by my hand, not by the keyboard. That is because by my observation, repeated use of keyboard rig keying results in the ruination of a good CW fist (or does that make you go blind? I can't remember what my father told me.); and 5. All my antennas are omni-directional, so I cannot achieve any directional gain when I need a specific mult or geographical area. DXCC #100 was 9H3HH and he had so much trouble with my call in the weak signals and pile-up that I was very reluctant to provide my exchange until I heard him repeat my call correctly. That delay lead to some smart-ass on the side who said in CW, quite distinctly, "Just send it, man!" I snickered to myself. (Sorry, guys.) When I had reached that stage, I was only about 300 Qs short of the record 1111 I had made last year, so I took a page out of VE1AI's contest book and used my big multiplier base to run NA high up on on a relatively quiet 20M band on Sunday afternoon, with the keyer set well below the blistering stage so as to recruit the Sunday casual ops, and thereby build up my total score. That worked very well. I had a sustained rate of 116 Qs/hour for a full hour, with gusts to 240, which ain't bad for here. I quit when I saw that I had reached 1112 Qs, a tactical error inasmuch as re-scoring removed my bonus Q (I had duped our friend Joe, AA4NN) and so I only tied for my own record there. I should have worked a couple of "spares". However, the bottom line above is now my personal best for total score in any contest ever, and that now becomes next year's target. At this point, with four hours still left in the contest, I was a mental and physical basket case, and simply went QRT. I just could not stay at it any longer. That was difficult to do because the bands were just jammed with new multipliers and new call signs. Favourites: KH6 on 80M; E5/s on two bands; 4U1ITU on 14138 KHz (!). Unsolved mystery: NY4A said to me, "You're doing great, Gary. See you next summer." NY4A is the Potomac Valley ARC, so who the heck was the op?! There are some very, very clicky big guns out there. The PRO III fought valiantly with that, and I found I could improve the situation by changing the filter shape to sharp. Still, it's disappointing and awfully hard on the ears after a few hours. My K3/100 is now on its way from Canada Border Services in Montreal where it had been mistakenly held hostage (a whole `nother story), and we will see how well it deals with that problem. No better than any other rig, I suspect. And while the 80M band switch on the BigIR Mk I vertical is currently U/S, I did manage to coax it to work on the original configuration of 40M and up, and I am absolutely delighted with its performance on 10M and 15M where signals were extremely weak, yet I could be heard and I could hear. See y'all in the next one. 73, Gary, VE1RGB __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Visit Your Group Yahoo! Groups Endurance Zone A Yahoo! Group for better endurance. Real Food Group Share recipes, restaurant ratings and favorite meals. Fitness Challenge on Yahoo! Groups Get in shape w/the Special K Challenge. . __,_._,___ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2DWA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 107,325 New QTH, not radio neither antennas installed yet, but as I wanted to be in CQWWCW, I borrowed some stuff from locals, install a G5RV in a temporary 10 feet height mast, invited VE2GK for a coffe/some operation and we had a blast, we operated around 9 hours in total, I try to teach Gary how to use CT software on-going meanwhile we S&P between bands. Last hour we have good run of US stations in 80 meter, it was the only time we called CQ. Many thanks to all the people that made an effort on copy our small signal. Not a big score but we are sure we win our category in this city (Aylmer QC). Although I haven't radio at home, I'm very happy because after four years off of the air, I'm active again in a CQWW from my own QTH Equipment Description: Yaesu FT-101 (Borrowed from VE3NJ), Amp 300 Watts (Borrowed from VE2/LU5CAM), Antenna: multiband wire antenna G5RV @ 10 feet. Thanks all for QSOs, we are planning to be again as MS in ARRL 160 CW 73, Claudio VE2DWA/LU7DW/VE3AP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 639,276 THANKS FOR ALL QSO'S AND FOR GOOD OPERATORS IN REMOTE AREAS I WAS SUPPOSE TO GIVE A FEW QSO POINTS... (STUPID THING I DID WAS TO PUT DOWN THE HF2V VERT I TESTED ON THE GROUND FOR FUTUR GP PLANS, AND STORED IT BEFORE THE SNOW LAST WEEK !?%%$) STILL I SAID I WOULD IMPROVE 160M BEFORE WINTER... MAY BE NEXT YEAR ?! First time I work DXCC SINGLE BAND in a weekend FROM HOME. Stations were VERY LOUD AT TIMES... (WX0B +45db on 15m !) Nothing heard on 10M... but manage to work 5X band: W3LPL K3LR AND V47NT Nice to log 4X BAND: 3X5A EF8M HC8N HI3A HQ2A J3A ZF1A VP5W VP2MSC V26K KP2M KC1XX K5GO K1TTT K1RX K1AR RIG: IC-756PROIII, POWER 300W ANTENNA: A3S, G5RV 160-80-40 ALL QSO'S UPLOADED ON EQSL.CC SEE INFO ON QRZ.COM/VE2FU 73' GL TO ALL PHIL VE2FU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FWW Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 252,399 Was using a 480 with good filters.... Who said small radios are not contesting radios???? 10 hours of operation only... Thanks to all NOEL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2IM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,542,144 Rather disappointing effort, but mostly because of lousy conditions and poor low band antennas. Nothing really broke. WX: snow storm, windy, 5 to 10 deg. Celcius below zero, 15 to 20 cm of snow. Big thanks to Rodrigue VE2NN, Alex VE2XAA and Paul VE3TA for their invaluable help. Thanks to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2TZT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,562,791 Numbers, especially multi, are speaking by themselves : Much time lost in S&P, Much multi lost during Run =>I need to go to SO2R. Thank to every callers, hope to see you again during ARRL 160 next weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,087,435 Major interruption due to a "scheduled" 6 hour interruption of electricity thanks to Hydro One, which turned into a seven hour outage and cost us the 20 and 15 meter openings to Europe on Sunday - tough beans!! Lots of fun and great food thanks to Eric, VE3CR and his XYL Sheila, plenty of time for conversation during the hydro outage!!! A brand new 80 and 160 m. antenna. I'd have to say we were pleased with the results, but would like to have the extra seven hours in our log!!! Many thanks to all who travelled great distances to activate DX locations - great work, you are an integral part of CQWW CW!! Hope everyone had as much fun as we did! Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,874,106 With thanks to Paul, VE3SY for letting me operate from his fine station again and to Dragan, VE3FF for loaning me his MK2R+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FH Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 125,022 TS-940S Dipoles and R5 N1MM Logger V7.10.12 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 742,080 Like a lot of people (I'm sure I'm not alone here), I struggle with trying to find a balance between Running and S&Ping for mults. This contest was no exception. As a "common" VE3 / Zone 4 station, combined with the fact that I have not been on the air with my own call for at least a couple of years, I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of how many mults would call me. That being said, I was called by A71, VP2M, EA6, 2xJ28, 2xGD, JW, 4xZS, 3xTF, OX, A45, ZD7, and KG6. (All of which I am very grateful for :=) I realize that if I'm not calling CQ, the mults aren't going to find me, but at the same time I'm guessing there are a lot of DX stations who didn't / don't do a lot of S&Ping. I also struggle with deciding what speed to send CW. I want to send fast enough to get through the pileups as efficiently as possible, but at the same time entice the casual contester to call. Neither of the above topics are new to a lot of people reading this. I had an interesting opening the first night between 0600Z and 0630Z where the only stations I could hear (besides the one's I had already worked) were in Zone 17 or 18. One of them was a QRP UA9 who wrote in his 3830 report that he worked 0 W's and only 1 VE :=) I only found 2 stations who gave me the dreaded "QSO B4" message who didn't want to work me. After some convincing they both gave me a report, which would have been the easiest thing to do in the first place. Like a few others have reported, I came across a couple of