CQWW SSB Soapbox built 12-4-2007 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 1A3A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,631,066 The only one chance in our ham life to be there for the CQWW. A great experience, a lot of fun, new friends and a lot of antennas works !! We were jammed from over 20 hours from the begining of the Contest, and we forced to jump over the band to look for a free frequency, aplogies with who has called us, mainly on 40m. A good Field Style activity we cannot compete with EU big guns, even from a rare Entity, but we had the opportunity to give a chance to every one to work us, and the new prefix too. Thank's to every one called us ... Setup Antennas: 10m 4 el Yagi 15m 3 el Yagi 20m 3 el Yagi 40m 2 el Yagi + Delta Loop 80m 1/4 Wave Vertical + US Beverage + 4 direction K9AY 160m Inverted V dipole 20m high + US Beverage + 4 direction K9AY ICOM 781, ICOM 756PRO, ICOM 756PRO//, ICOM 756PRO/// ICOM 746PRO, ICOM 7400, ICOM 765, FT1000 TL922, ICOM 2KL, ALpha 99, Acom 1000 8 PC networked, 3G Flat Internet connection Win Test 3.16 Best 73 de Fabio I4UFH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 3DA0WW Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 7,013,010 QSL via LZ3HI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L4WW Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 608,580 Great contest… and great feelings (especially after it is over!). This is second time for me in the CQWW SOSB and first time on 80m.....again big enjoinment. The cyclone which came just few days before the contest and brought some heavy rains and associated few thunderstorms was something I was afraid most but luckily everything was over Friday evening and I enjoyed an excellent condition throughout the contest, almost no noise or statics. I can not say the same on propagation. The first day was far better than the second . Just compare only ca 300 QSOs , 3 zones and handful countries in last 12 hours to the rest. I was really struggling to copy surprisingly weakened signals from EU, though QRM from big European stations remained at almost the same level. At the same time the beginning of this very second day, thanks to gray line propagation (and 3 el. Yagi!) has produced few good LP contacts with zone 3. Sorry for K7… I started QSO with and he was really coming strong when suddenly my FT1000D went quiet and despite of all my efforts came back in only 2 minutes. Still wonder what has happened but had no problems for the rest of the contest. When I was back had no immediate replies and decided that it was not worth trying to struggle over 30.000 km to get more zone 3 (though zone 1 could be a great reward, but was not sure about) Sorry guys if I raised expectations there, will try to work you maybe in 2 weeks time when I plan to be in the village again. Both days had short but very good openings to VK and ZL and as aresult surprisingly easy 29,30, 32 zones. I guess I was lucky with zones 10 and 31 at the same time have missed easy 22 and 40. 3 el Yagi installed this summer worked very well and total 31 zones is probably good confirmation of that. Due to absence of the static noise almost all the receiving was done on Yagi. I head EU/USA beverage but my overall RX commutation still requires some further work, which I now understand much better after the contest. Great contest and to say last (and by far not the least), record of Asia from1999 was broken by more than doubling it. All the best to everyone and hope to meet you again soon. 73 Gia 4L4WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,208,470 New SO2R station layout with fully automation works fine and it’s really something I am proud about. This time was no lucky with weather. As station is very weather dependable ( hilltop and poor grounding ), huge thunderstorm put me in position to think about quitting contest and switching station off for grounding. But I decided to put in some risk. Low bands were so noisy, even on beverages and I did not use my advantage on low bands at all. Even on beverages I had noise on few S unit levels. It was funny that I was running on 160M first night, because on 80M and 40M I had terrible static. Beverages were only on 160M useful at that moment. In generally conditions were good. Second day I expected to have luck with USA conditions on high bands, but it was worse than first afternoon. Thanks’ to all for calling and see you in CQ WW CW. Ranko – 4O3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4X0V Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,812,256 This operation could not have been possible without the help of Mony, 4X6ZK, the architect of the club station at Mikveh Israel School in Holon, Israel. The 4X0V worked seemlessly together and the result speaks for itself. We believe that this might be the first M/2 operation ever in the CQWW test from 4X. The operators were: Steve, AA4V, Isle of Palms, SC, Gay, N4SF, Vista, CA, Mony, 4X6ZK and Jan, 4X1VK of Israel. Our dear friend, Aron, 4X1FQ provided valuable logistics assistance and Ros, 4Z5LA, did the computer networking and set up. We used N1MM for logging and it worked flawlessly as did the station itself. We had absolutely no station problems (other than tired operator errors) throughout the 48 hours. A combination of W3NQN and ICE bandpass filters kept everyone's signal in the right place. We couldn't have pulled this off without them. Rigs: 2 x Yaesu FT1000MP, 1 x FT1000MPMkV Field standby (but never needed) Amps: Acom 1000, Kenwood TL922, Heathkit SB220 standby (but never used) Antennas: Station #1 Cushcraft A3S, 2 el 40M yagi, full wave loop for 80M an d inverted V for 160. Pennant receiving antenna pointed at Europe Station #2 Mosley Classic 33, Butternut vertical for 40, 80 and 160. We dedicate this operation to Hanina, 4X4MU (SK) for his devotion to Amateur Radio in Israel and his mentoring and good influence on us all. Last, but not least, a big thank you to all who worked us...what a terrific weekend!!! CU next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 5H3EE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,072,952 Inverted Vee @ 14m, FT890, FL-2100Z Compared with last year, bad condx this time. Almost useless to call CQ on other bands then 15m. Last year I was barefoot with the same antenna and had nice pileups even on 20m and 10m. Probably my signal was covered, because of the good conditions on the northern hemisphere. Some nice runs to NA on 15m. See you in cw. 73 Mike, 5H3EE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6F75A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,954,440 The 6F75A is special call for the 75th Anniversary of FMRE, Mexico's IARU Society. QSL info on QRZ.com. The contest team was Diego LU8ADX/AY8A who came to give us a great speech about Contesting on the FMRE's Acapulco Convention a week ago; Ismael XE1AY tree times expeditioner to Revillagigedo XF4 and Ramon XE1KK (me). This was the first phone multi-op operation from my station and everything worked well. We had a great time but our call was a real tongue-twister. As usual the best part is having Qs with all of you our good friends. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6I2AUB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 181,438 Team Contesting Vitamins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6V7G Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 1,233,571 TS870 and 3 elements monoband yagi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6W1RY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,584,228 I made lots of plans to do better than last year, but the local QRN beat me down. Not having a rotating beam hurt the score, so I should be happy with the results. I did not run across as many familiar call signs this year, maybe they took the weekend off and are preparing instead for CW! Many thanks to all how called me and got into the log. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1V Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,916,192 I would like to thank our team of excellent ops (W2GB Steve, W1VE Gerry, CT1ILT Filipe, LU9ESD Manu) for making the journey to Jamaica for CQWW. A special thanks for our Young Ham Contest Program winner Manu, LU9ESD, who is an incredible SSB contester (now, if we can just get him to master cw). Another special thanks goes to Stacy (my wife) and Anna (Steve's wife) for all their hard work, preparing food, drinks, transportation and more! I would also like to express my sorrow for Robert, W5AJ, who was unable to make it due to illness. You were missed! Still experiencing growing pains, we were not without problems. When we arrived on the island we discovered many issues. We came prepared to fix the top ring rotor with 2 spare motors, gear boxes and sprockets. Manu (LU9ESD) was a real trooper spending long hours (some in the rain) on the top of the 140' tower fixing the ring rotor. Although it was repaired, the feedback indicator never provided true bearing information making it difficult to know exactly where it was pointed. To add insult to injury, the bottom ring stopped working with the antenna fixed at 23 degrees (could have been worse!). There was no Internet service when we arrived. We also lost a computer and had to buy a new one ($58,000 JM). Despite repeated calls and a visit to the Internet office in Mo'Bay, they never fixed our Internet connection until Saturday evening. Combined with two bad CT-17's and no working serial cables, we were without any rig control or packet. We finally got packet working late Saturday evening. This is evident by our low number of multipliers. Despite the station issues and the loss of W5AJ, we had 5 good ops and three working stations so it was decided we would maximize our fun and operate M/M. I must say this was a bold move because the station was designed for M/S or M/2 and we had only 5 ops! We got off to a great start. With three stations running all night, I woke to find we had nearly 4 million points in less than 12 hours. We were having fun! Early Saturday afternoon, we had nearly 8 million points when disaster struck. We lost an IC-7800. Poof! It just shut down and never came back on. Back to Icom for repair! We moved on, with only two radios. Too bad we couldn't switch back to M/2. Mid morning Sunday, we were blessed with a TS-870 loaned by 6Y5GC. After having only 2 rigs and no Internet for half the contest, we were back in business. A fantastic time was had by all. The stacks on 10/15/20 worked incredibly well. I only wish they were on separate towers as there is some interference between 10 and 15 meters and it would be helpful to point them in different directions. Thank you to everyone who put us in their logs! We appreciate the contact! Please take a moment to visit the 6Y1V website (www.6y1v.com) and if you know a young ham or someone who knows a young ham 21 or younger, tell them about the Young Ham Contest Program so we can make their dream come true! 73, David ~ 6Y1V/KY1V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 8P5A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 12,651,856 Last operation from my cottage in Barbados. I will be able to continue in a compromise fashion and time will tell how well it will work. Except for Sunday morning, the contest went well. Low band QRN was very bad but the 10 meter opening to EU was a pleasant surprise. Besides an intermittent display on a TS-850, the station performed flawlessly. Very long story at http://tgeorgens.home.mindspring.com Thanks to all the stations who called in. Thanks to my wife Kathleen who makes this all possible QSL via NN1N (thanks to Dave also) 73, Tom W2SC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1P Class: M/S HP Total Score = 11,523,576 Wow what an weekend. As usual we ended antenna building friday afternoon and setup the station just in time for the start. Hot start with nice 40m runs, condx were quite good and much better than expected. Even 10m opened with great short skip condx and some DX qsos which brought us 106dxcc on that band. Everything worked fine and we had great time all together. Sunday afternoon in the middle of the US run a big t-storm visited us and we had to shut down for an hour and spent another hour in big qrn with no possibility to RX expect on beverages. At the end as usual I have to say: WE LOVE THIS GAME!!! Used FT1000mp's and OM-Power amp's 160m vertical with 30 radials 80m vertical with 60 radials 40m 4el OWA @20m 20m 5el OWA @23m 15m 6el OWA @18m 10m 6el OWA @24m RX >200m beverages 73 and cu in the CW leg Dave, 9A1UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 420,552 Operators: 9A3BEW 9A3BLY 9A3BED 9A3BBW 9A3BER 9A6XX 9A8MM 9A3BIM Rigs: 2x Kenwood TS-440S, later changed one 440S with TS-940S Power: 100W, Ant: Inv. V 160m, Inv. V 80/40m, Inv. V 40m, 2el Quad 20/15/10m Software: Writelog Great performance shown from 14 years hamlets, especially young YL 9A3BLY during 28MHz short skip to DL/PA. Great will showed from 9A3BER & 9A3BED who operated whole saturday nihgt. 9A3BIM & 9A6XX putted up fullsize inverted V during nights in center of town :) We did solid 85 qso (28 dx) during just few hours s&p work on 1.8MHz Unfortunatly we had two problems: Our Kenwood PS-50 power supply got wild and gave unexcpected 24V ? so our 440S broked down. Afterwards we switched to TS-940S who's bad modulation caused RF on our computers so cuputers crashed and that was about the end of contest. Many thanx to 9A8MM who brought Lafayette power supply to club. Sunday morning when taking down our 'night' antenna for 1.8Mhz I managed to broke fiberglass fole unfortunatlly. But in fact this was the first time that 9A7P was qrv on 1.8 MHz during the contest from this location. Many thanks to all involved in this contest. 73 es cu in WAE DX RTTY de 9A3BIM & 9A7P contest team _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 160m Summary Zones 9 14 15 16 20 Countries 1A 9A DL EA ER ES EU F HA HB I IT9 LY LZ OE OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SP T7 T9 UR YO YU YV 80m Summary Zones 14 15 16 17 20 21 33 Countries 1A 3V 4L 5B 9A CN DL EA EA6 EA9 EI ER ES EU F G GM GW HA HB HB0 I IS IT9 LA LX LY LZ OE OH OK OM ON OZ PA S5 SP SV T7 T9 UA UA2 UA9 UR YL YO YU Z3 40m Summary Zones 5 7 8 9 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 33 35 Countries 1A 3V 4U1I 5B 6Y 9A 9K CN CT DL EA EA9 EK ER ES F G GI GM GW HA HB HB0 HL HR I IT9 K LA LY LZ OE OH OH0 OK OM ON PA PJ2 S5 SM SP SV SV5 T9 TA UA UA2 UA9 UK UN UR YL YO YU Z3 20m Summary Zones 3 4 5 8 11 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 33 35 40 Countries 3V 4L 4X 5B 6Y 9A A7 C5 CN CT CT3 DL EA EA6 EA8 EA9 EI EK ER ES EU F G GM GW HB I IG9 IT9 K LA LX LY LZ OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ PA PY S5 SM SP SV SV5 SV9 TF UA UA2 UA9 UN UR VE YL YO YU Z3 15m Summary Zones 2 4 5 8 11 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 33 35 38 Countries 3DA 3V 4X 5B 9A C5 CN DL EA EA8 EI EK ER EU F G GM GU I IT9 K LA LZ OH ON OZ PA PY S5 SM SV TA UA UA9 UR VE VP5 YL YO ZC4 ZS 10m Summary Zones 14 15 16 19 20 Countries 9A DL EA EI ES EU F G GI GM GW I IT9 LA LY OE OH OH0 OK ON OZ PA S5 SM SP TA UA UA2 UR YL YO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A8MM Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 1,410 I was working QRP single band (20m)as usual with FT-857D and an inverted V antenna. Crowded bands, strong signals, but unfortunately not much luck with QSOs. Thanks to G3TXF for his effort trying to work me. See (hopefuly more of) you down the log in CW part :) Marko, 9A8MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,485,136 We had great time in this contest, 10m was not wide open but we made some qso with NA and this is good sign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CCO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 154,760 Surprisingly good band conditions on 15M this year. 40M was bad however. Thank you for all the QSOs. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9M2CNC Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 274,992 Station - IC 756 Pro 1, SPE Expert 1K amplifier @ 400W Antenna - Force 12 C3-S at 12m Highlights: 1. A 126 hour into Europe at 1500Z on the Sunday with S9+ signals. Sadly only for 1.5 hours... 2. Working K3LR half an hour before the end of the contest. Sadly no other East Coast worked Lowlights: 1. QRM 2. QRM 3. QRM The band was very noisy with splatter plus IMD from my Pro I. Most of the time I was unable to hear stations. Good participation from 9M2 - 9M2GCN, 9M2CCO and 9M4DXX all heard. Even better participation from HS and congratulations to Khun Champ E21EIC for beating my Single Band score running only LP - Khun Dej E21YDP's station rocks. Great score as well from Steve, V8FEO and nice to hear V8 back on the bands. Next contest will be CQWW CW with more focus on LF this time. Thank you for the QSOs. All QSOs will be loaded in LoTW during the week. 73 de Rich, G4ZFE/9M2CNC/HS0ZGZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A45WD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 3,494,400 Nice surprise to see 15 m and 10 m bands open like in the "good old days". Although condx to North America were poor on all bands. I worked only few of the big guns from USA and some of the NA-SA multipliers. Chasing multipliers on 80 and 40 m bands was a tough job due to my power and wire antennas. Altogether, at the bottom of the solar cycle, I am happy with the final result. I am expecting better propagation for next year... Or not??!! See you in CQ-WW-CW from my home location (YO9HP). 73, Alex A45WD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A57AL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,225,437 Tnx for all contacts. I cant collect all off you, it was very noisy on the freq. CU in CW 73, Ivo S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: A71BX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,295,700 Big fun in the sun in Doha, Qatar. Juma, A71EM, suggested a multi-single about two weeks ahead of the contest. He had been promising Ali, A71BX, they would multi-op together and invited me and Hank KI4MF to join them. His next words were we don't have a working 80 or 160 antenna. So we put up an Alpha Delta sloper on his fixed tower a week before the contest and got it working. Too much noise made us go the whole 9 yards and put up a short beverage for Europe/NA. Juma set up two stations so we could make faster band changes. He has a small tower on the house and a small crankup next to it, each with a tribander, one with the sloper and one with a rotary dipole for 40. The night before the contest we finished the beverage and began to cut and solder coaxial stub filters for the amplifier outputs which also went through full-power matchboxes, providing enough station isolation to work multipliers on the second station. Juma insisted we take time out for lunch each day, and we stopped a bit before the end (3AM start and finish). Good fun all around, and we even had some 10m condx! For the group, Dave K5GN in A7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA1K Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,246,250 15 meters was a pleasant surprise. Made the switch to N1MM logging software about a week before the contest. Flawless interfacing with Orion 1 and Ft1000MP but only partial success controlling the DX Doubler and I was out of time to debug so used DXD in manual mode. But I had some audio problems with the mic connection to the Orion so this ended up being mostly about an SO1.1R weekend. But the logging went smoothly despite my limited advance practice. Did a major re-configuration of the monoband glass-tube amps this year, getting rid of the three grid-driven amps and now all (5 of them) are grounded grid, mostly single 4-1000's with one pair of 3-500z. Newly acquired Alpha filled in on the sixth band. Station details at www.aa1k.us. CQ WW SSB - 2007-10-27 0000Z to 2007-10-29 0000Z - 2379 QSOs AA1K Max Rates: 2007-10-27 1200Z - 5.0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by AA1K 2007-10-27 1327Z - 3.2 per minute (10 minute(s)), 192 per hour by AA1K 2007-10-27 1330Z - 2.3 per minute (60 minute(s)), 136 per hour by AA1K Date Hour Total 1_8 3_5 7 14 21 28 Running Total 2007-10-27 0 51 35 16 51 2007-10-27 1 26 5 9 12 77 2007-10-27 2 35 25 10 112 2007-10-27 3 39 7 24 8 151 2007-10-27 4 56 3 53 207 2007-10-27 5 23 3 8 10 2 230 2007-10-27 6 16 13 2 1 246 2007-10-27 7 1 1 247 2007-10-27 9 22 22 269 2007-10-27 10 28 2 5 16 5 297 2007-10-27 11 78 37 41 375 2007-10-27 12 119 119 494 2007-10-27 13 125 125 619 2007-10-27 14 88 88 707 2007-10-27 15 118 118 825 2007-10-27 16 72 66 6 897 2007-10-27 17 39 6 23 10 936 2007-10-27 18 64 58 6 1000 2007-10-27 19 120 113 7 1120 2007-10-27 20 79 68 11 1199 2007-10-27 21 73 62 11 1272 2007-10-27 22 16 1 8 7 1288 2007-10-27 23 17 1 16 1305 2007-10-28 0 9 9 1314 2007-10-28 1 18 15 3 1332 2007-10-28 5 2 2 1334 2007-10-28 6 14 9 1 4 1348 2007-10-28 7 64 2 62 1412 2007-10-28 8 13 8 5 1425 2007-10-28 9 6 1 2 3 1431 2007-10-28 10 11 3 6 2 1442 2007-10-28 11 15 4 11 1457 2007-10-28 12 31 24 7 1488 2007-10-28 13 104 3 101 1592 2007-10-28 14 104 104 1696 2007-10-28 15 130 130 1826 2007-10-28 16 74 73 1 1900 2007-10-28 17 76 67 9 1976 2007-10-28 18 118 116 2 2094 2007-10-28 19 76 74 2 2170 2007-10-28 20 53 8 4 41 2223 2007-10-28 21 37 3 17 13 4 2260 2007-10-28 22 42 35 7 2302 2007-10-28 23 22 12 4 6 2324 Total All Hours 2324 43 153 172 804 1079 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,223,914 My X9 tribander was intermittent on 20M - I suspect the feed has a mechanical problem. Lots of other problems - I think my station is tired! Unexpected conditions - 15 and 10 were decent. I thought 80 was tougher than ususal. 73 Bud AA3B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 173,160 Antennas: all wires, G5RV @ 35ft 10-40m, 80m Inverted L, 160m inverted V @ 50ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,160 Enjoyed the whole contest as much as I could work this time. I had to work, so will look forward to next weekend as my weekend off and time for CW :0) Propogation was a little strange in the beginning, but began to level out after a few hours. Thanks to N1MM contest software without which it would all be much harder to implement. 73 fer nw es gud DX, QSL VIA: LotW, BUR, e-QSL Bob AD5VJ Old calls: WB5ZQU/WY5L/KH3-KE5CTY-N5IET http://www.ad5vj.com/ Member: CTDXCC, NTCC, STXDXCC 10X#-37210, SMIRK#-5177 FISTS#-12637, SKCC#-2369 NAQCC#-1966, FP#-1141, RARS#-149 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 48,433 Only had a short time I could contest this weekend and most of that time was at night. At the last minute I decided to run QRO and dusted off the old Henry 2K2 figuring I could put out about 500W without setting off the neighborhood. Saturday morning I decided to check out 10M and 15M before going to the default of 20M. By the time I had worked all I could copy on 10 and 15 my time was up so ended up not working many on 20m. Had the most fun on 40M in a while once I convinced myself that split on 40M wasn't as bad as I remembered. Until next time, 73 AD6ZJ, Loren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD8J Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 16,896 Be nice if all the DX stations low on 40 meters would listen up. You missed a lot of contacts by not doing so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AG4RZ Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 68,904 Not bad for my first serious QRP entry. FT-817 and the ole' tribander at 42 feet. Thanks for the q's, gang!! Tim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI2N Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,419 Wow; even with 15 opening up pretty good, 20 was STILL a mess. C'mon, sunspots! Thanks to everyone who dug me out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI4ME Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 70,664 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ World Wide Log 2.6 CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB CALLSIGN: AI4ME CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP-ASSISTED ALL LOW CLAIMED-SCORE: 70664 OPERATORS: AI4ME CLUB: Potomac Valley Radio Club NAME: Don Michalek ADDRESS: 2437 Broomsedge Trail ADDRESS: Virginia Beach, VA 23456 ADDRESS: (e-mail) ai4me@cox.net SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: SOAPBOX: QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0208 AI4ME 59 05 KC1XX 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0210 AI4ME 59 05 VP9I 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0213 AI4ME 59 05 PJ4E 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0215 AI4ME 59 05 K1SND 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0216 AI4ME 59 05 W1MAW 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0216 AI4ME 59 05 AA1ON 59 05 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-27 0226 AI4ME 59 05 K1TTT 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0250 AI4ME 59 05 K3LR 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0251 AI4ME 59 05 VP5T 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0256 AI4ME 59 05 N4EK 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 0257 AI4ME 59 05 VP5DX 59 08 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-27 0315 AI4ME 59 05 WP2Z 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1345 AI4ME 59 05 DK5DQ 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1349 AI4ME 59 05 V26B 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1350 AI4ME 59 05 PY2NY 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1353 AI4ME 59 05 DR1A 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1355 AI4ME 59 05 S50A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1356 AI4ME 59 05 PA6Z 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1357 AI4ME 59 05 EI7M 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1404 AI4ME 59 05 S59N 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1406 AI4ME 59 05 9A1P 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1407 AI4ME 59 05 YT0Z 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1410 AI4ME 59 05 EB1BOA 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1411 AI4ME 59 05 G6PZ 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1413 AI4ME 59 05 LX7I 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1418 AI4ME 59 05 9A1A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1423 AI4ME 59 05 OM8A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1425 AI4ME 59 05 J3A 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1427 AI4ME 59 05 F8KDX 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1427 AI4ME 59 05 IV3HAX 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1428 AI4ME 59 05 K1TO 59 05 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1428 AI4ME 59 05 DL0WW 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1430 AI4ME 59 05 IO5O 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1433 AI4ME 59 05 DJ8OG 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1433 AI4ME 59 05 S53MM 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1438 AI4ME 59 05 N2IC 59 04 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1439 AI4ME 59 05 ZY7C 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1440 AI4ME 59 05 G4BUO 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1442 AI4ME 59 05 M8C 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1445 AI4ME 59 05 CQ3T 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1447 AI4ME 59 05 T93M 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1450 AI4ME 59 05 DR5Z 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1452 AI4ME 59 05 EB1WW 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1455 AI4ME 59 05 IS0/K7QB 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1457 AI4ME 59 05 T93J 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1500 AI4ME 59 05 AO8A 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1501 AI4ME 59 05 P43A 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1503 AI4ME 59 05 TM7F 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1504 AI4ME 59 05 DJ4PT 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1506 AI4ME 59 05 TM6M 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1512 AI4ME 59 05 LZ9W 59 20 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1514 AI4ME 59 05 PJ2T 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1515 AI4ME 59 05 GW4BLE 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1518 AI4ME 59 05 DQ4Q 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1521 AI4ME 59 05 4O3A 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1522 AI4ME 59 05 PC5W 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1523 AI4ME 59 05 CQ9K 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1524 AI4ME 59 05 IZ4COW 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1525 AI4ME 59 05 DR5N 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1528 AI4ME 59 05 VO1KVT 59 05 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1530 AI4ME 59 05 S50O 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1531 AI4ME 59 05 TM2Y 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1532 AI4ME 59 05 XE2WWW 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1555 AI4ME 59 05 CT2HWP 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1557 AI4ME 59 05 EA4KD 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1557 AI4ME 59 05 IZ2DPX 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1559 AI4ME 59 05 PA0IJM 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1623 AI4ME 59 05 6W1RY 59 35 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1711 AI4ME 59 05 TI5N 59 07 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1713 AI4ME 59 05 NP2KW 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 1749 AI4ME 59 05 8P5A 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1756 AI4ME 59 05 ZX5J 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1758 AI4ME 59 05 WA7NB 59 03 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1812 AI4ME 59 05 CT9L 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1814 AI4ME 59 05 C50C 59 35 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1816 AI4ME 59 05 MI0LLL 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1822 AI4ME 59 05 CN3A 59 33 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1825 AI4ME 59 05 HI3K 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1825 AI4ME 59 05 P40A 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1829 AI4ME 59 05 6F75A 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1831 AI4ME 59 05 DP4K 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1836 AI4ME 59 05 VO1MP 59 05 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1840 AI4ME 59 05 NP4Z 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1841 AI4ME 59 05 9A4W 59 15 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1843 AI4ME 59 05 P40W 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1844 AI4ME 59 05 CU2A 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1846 AI4ME 59 05 CC0Y 59 12 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1939 AI4ME 59 05 KH6YR 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1940 AI4ME 59 05 ZF2AH 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1941 AI4ME 59 05 VE6AO 59 04 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1944 AI4ME 59 05 T48K 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1946 AI4ME 59 05 XE1CQ 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1948 AI4ME 59 05 HK6K 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1948 AI4ME 59 05 CU3A 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1954 AI4ME 59 05 ZY7EAM 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 1959 AI4ME 59 05 HC8N 59 10 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2000 AI4ME 59 05 KH7Y 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2002 AI4ME 59 05 KH6LC 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2004 AI4ME 59 05 FY5KE 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2011 AI4ME 59 05 6Y1V 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2015 AI4ME 59 05 ZV5E 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2017 AI4ME 59 05 LS1D 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2020 AI4ME 59 05 CX1CCC 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2022 AI4ME 59 05 PJ4E 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2024 AI4ME 59 05 PY2BK 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2025 AI4ME 59 05 V47KP 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2031 AI4ME 59 05 ZS9X 59 38 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2034 AI4ME 59 05 VE6FI 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2038 AI4ME 59 05 C6AQW 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2042 AI4ME 59 05 WP2Z 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2043 AI4ME 59 05 VE6WQ 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2044 AI4ME 59 05 EA1WX 59 14 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2052 AI4ME 59 05 LR4E 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2053 AI4ME 59 05 P40PA 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2055 AI4ME 59 05 LR2F 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2057 AI4ME 59 05 HC8N 59 10 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2101 AI4ME 59 05 P40W 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2103 AI4ME 59 05 LP1H 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2106 AI4ME 59 05 P40A 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2109 AI4ME 59 05 HQ9R 59 07 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-27 2110 AI4ME 59 05 PJ2T 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2138 AI4ME 59 05 FM/K9NW 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2150 AI4ME 59 05 PY2NA 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2152 AI4ME 59 05 PY3FOX 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-27 2153 AI4ME 59 05 PZ5XX 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2200 AI4ME 59 05 HC1JQ 59 10 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2203 AI4ME 59 05 VC6S 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2212 AI4ME 59 05 9Y4D 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2223 AI4ME 59 05 PJ2T 59 09 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2233 AI4ME 59 05 VE7SZ 59 03 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2241 AI4ME 59 05 HI3C 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-27 2253 AI4ME 59 05 VE7SV 59 03 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1842 AI4ME 59 05 8P5A 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1845 AI4ME 59 05 VP5DX 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1845 AI4ME 59 05 CU2CR 59 14 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1846 AI4ME 59 05 VE5UF 59 04 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1848 AI4ME 59 05 XE2S 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1850 AI4ME 59 05 PX2T 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1853 AI4ME 59 05 HQ9R 59 07 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 1854 AI4ME 59 05 NP2B 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1900 AI4ME 59 05 VE5ZX 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1901 AI4ME 59 05 V47KP 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1907 AI4ME 59 05 VE2DXY 59 02 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1913 AI4ME 59 05 VE3CX 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1915 AI4ME 59 05 AO1O 59 14 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1919 AI4ME 59 05 VC3X 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1921 AI4ME 59 05 VE6AO 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1924 AI4ME 59 05 AO8A 59 33 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1928 AI4ME 59 05 VY2ZM 59 05 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1930 AI4ME 59 05 DR1A 59 14 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1931 AI4ME 59 05 CU3A 59 14 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1935 AI4ME 59 05 ZY7C 59 11 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1936 AI4ME 59 05 6Y1V 59 08 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1936 AI4ME 59 05 S50K 59 15 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1938 AI4ME 59 05 W5WMU 59 04 QSO: 14000 PH 2007-10-28 1948 AI4ME 59 05 CN3A 59 33 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 1956 AI4ME 59 05 V47KP 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 1957 AI4ME 59 05 WP2Z 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2001 AI4ME 59 05 LQ5H 59 13 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2002 AI4ME 59 05 CE4CT 59 12 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2005 AI4ME 59 05 V26B 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2007 AI4ME 59 05 NP2KW 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2008 AI4ME 59 05 C50C 59 35 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2009 AI4ME 59 05 PJ4E 59 09 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2011 AI4ME 59 05 HP1AVS 59 07 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2019 AI4ME 59 05 J3A 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2021 AI4ME 59 05 FM/K9NW 59 08 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2028 AI4ME 59 05 XR6T 59 12 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2034 AI4ME 59 05 CO8LY 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2042 AI4ME 59 05 LS2D 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2043 AI4ME 59 05 LR2F 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2043 AI4ME 59 05 YV4A 59 09 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2045 AI4ME 59 05 LP1H 59 13 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2058 AI4ME 59 05 T49C 59 08 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2059 AI4ME 59 05 PY3DX 59 11 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2101 AI4ME 59 05 PY2GH 59 11 QSO: 28000 PH 2007-10-28 2111 AI4ME 59 05 XE2S 59 06 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2116 AI4ME 59 05 KH7X 59 31 QSO: 21000 PH 2007-10-28 2121 AI4ME 59 05 HI3T 59 08 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2317 AI4ME 59 05 IR4X 59 15 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2318 AI4ME 59 05 OT5A 59 14 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2320 AI4ME 59 05 HK6K 59 09 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2321 AI4ME 59 05 9A1P 59 15 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2322 AI4ME 59 05 VA3VO 59 04 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2327 AI4ME 59 05 VE2IM 59 02 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2337 AI4ME 59 05 VE3NE 59 04 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2341 AI4ME 59 05 LZ9W 59 20 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2343 AI4ME 59 05 V26B 59 08 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2345 AI4ME 59 05 DR1A 59 14 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2347 AI4ME 59 05 AO8A 59 33 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2347 AI4ME 59 05 VA3DX 59 04 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2355 AI4ME 59 05 9Y4W 59 09 QSO: 7000 PH 2007-10-28 2356 AI4ME 59 05 VE3NWA 59 04 END-OF-LOG: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AI6V Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,257,200 Not the greatest conditions but our JA runs on 40 and 20 helped a lot. We had planned to be Multi Two but Carl's beloved Alpha 77 sputtered and died 10 minutes before the start. Working mults barefoot thereafter was really a challenge! Carl, by the way, was one of the OPs at the Vatican as HV50VR. He worked over 3k stations during the daylight hours. He said he has never heard pileups like that before! Jack, KF6T Auburn ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AL2F Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 71,340 Came up short compared to last year. I just moved and only have an 80m dipole fed w/ ladder line and dipoles for 40/15 and 20. Thanks to the stations that worked me. 73 - AL2F Kris in Anchor Point, AK. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AM3SSB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,650,436 We lost one of the operators on friday so we face the M/S with 3 bodies, so the multipliers amount has been hited. Also due to work duties we couldn't finish the contest leaving the operation Sunday afternoon. No major technical problems and amazing propagation conditions in 10m and 15m. Thanks to everybody who contact us, spotted us and for your comments about our callsign (beatiful but loooooong) and our signal. AM3SSB Eugeni - EA3QP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AW2WFR Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 4,344 ! Hr ! ! ----------------- ! 03 ! 141 ! ! 04 ! 113 ! ! 05 ! 77 ! ! 06 ! 33 ! ! 07 ! 85 ! ! 08 ! 107 ! ! 09 ! 208 ! ! 10 ! 99 ! ! 11 ! 48 ! ! 12 ! 7 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 14 ! ! ! 15 ! ! ! 16 ! ! ! 17 ! 157 ! ! 18 ! 186 ! ! 19 ! 158 ! ! 20 ! 191 ! ! 21 ! 55 ! ! 22 ! 61 ! ! 23 ! 89 ! ! 00 ! 35 ! ! 01 ! 47 ! ! 02 ! 30 ! ! 03 ! 86 ! ! 04 ! 21 ! ! 05 ! 21 ! ! 06 ! 95 ! ! 07 ! 78 ! ! 08 ! 118 ! ! 09 ! 86 ! ! 10 ! 87 ! ! 11 ! 130 ! ! 12 ! 142 ! ! 13 ! 232 ! ! 14 ! 167 ! ! 15 ! 166 ! ! 16 ! 121 ! ! 17 ! 130 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: B7P Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,681,778 We first time run CQWW DX SSB contest in M/M. Many funs! Thanks for the QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: BA4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 775,008 This time we planned to get more new comers involved,so we've done a field day style operation.Condition was so bad,only big guns could work,but we had a lot of fun,looking forward to the next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: BG1ND Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 32,339 I think the condition very bad .and missed it some station due to very strong noise for all band not QRV on 80/160meter band .thanks for bg1fo bg1chm and my sister.working 34 hour hehe thinks lot VY 73&88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C4M Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 270,048 Good Contest! Thanks to all. This yaer many Carribean - may be help add 6 meter up no my previous Vertical 30 meters hihgh? Like usually, noise+spark+local trub from electrical sparky on hotels and restoraunt. I confused that many USA station call me, but noise level time and nime was S+10 db. Congratulations to all participants with great CONTEST! It's my 50th CQWW, first was in 1957. Used my old IC-706, which gift to me by Vadim UA9CLB and home made PA 1KW output. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C50C Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 29,529,080 We have a great time in Gambia. Arrived on 16th October and start to build the station for the contest. After about 36k QSO b4 the contest we enjoy another 12k QSOs in M/2 category. Thank to you guys for all QSOs and hope to see you in other contests. More info http://www.om0c.com/gambia 73 de Rich OM2TW & C50C team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: C6APR Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,398,086 Thanks to all for the QSOs and to the many who found for us for multi-band QSOs. We more than tripled our last year's score, even with low sun spots. The rig was an IC-7000 and THP Amp. The antennas: 160m - two phased Inverted Ls; 80/40m - two phased HF2Vs verticals; Home made receiving loop for 160m/80m; 20m,15m,10m - 2 R5s verticals phased broadside to US/JA; and - 2 R5s verticals phased broadside to EU We had a backup IC-7000 and amp but never needed them. In total we transported 500 pound of rigs, antennas, and coax in a private plane for our second CQWW SSB from the site: Crooked Island Lodge,Pittstown Point, Crooked Island, Bahamas. QSOs are also good for IOTA NA-113 and ARLHS Lighthouse BAH-005. It was a nice surprise to find 10m open several times. 15m was our best band. We confirmed that verticals play very well near salt water and phased verticals play very well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,910,842 Nice Contest, thanks to all Contesters ¡ ¡ ¡ 73 CE4CT Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN2R Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 277,900 700 QSOs in first day. Last 6 hours was a washout with QRN storm. 160M peaked on 22 October for me. Downhill from there and throughout the contest weekend. Better luck next time. Thanks to all who worked me through the QRN on the second day. The faster you could say your call, the better it was through QRN. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CN3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 20,875,728 Finally is arrived and in a while is gone. CQWW SSB 2007 was the contest we was wait for the entire year after our first experience with the new Morocco Contest Station project we started in mid 2006. Last year CQWW SSB was our first test and we got the second place WW in the M/S category. Good result, great experience but not enough. FK5KE team was, last year and this year, our main competitor, the great French team had a lot of experience, the already optimize the French Guiana contest station in the last years with incredible results in the CQWW SSB M/S in the last 4 year ( 2003 2nd WW, 2004 3rd WW, 2005 1st WW, 2006 1st WW). After 2006 CQ WW and our 2nd place WW , we decided to be more concentrate to optimize some important aspect : operators, antennas, contest strategies. In the mean time we tested some change in the ARRL CW, ARRL SSB, WPX SSB, WPX CW during entire 2007. Last Sept. we were in Morocco again to work and prepare the station for the CQWW SSB effort and the intention was to put the new 5 el. 20Mt. monoband on a new higher tower and to work the WAE SSB, but at the end we didn’t made any qso’s……only 4 days of very hard work. With two rotators blocked, a lot of little troubles and the second fixed 3 el. 20 Mt. antenna on the ground we come back to Milan, Italy destroyed and with the moral under our foots. But….after one week, without discuss about radio, we start to built the CN3A team for the SSB. IK2SGC Matt, IK2QEI Steve, IZ2FFK Luca, YO3JR Andy, I2WIJ Roberto, IK2EAD Romeo, IK2BCP Guido and CN8WW Said. We made a great improvement on each band especially on 10mt. with 9mt. higher antenna tower respect the past, 20Mt. new 5 el. @22mt. and a fixed one at 9 mt. , 4 square verticals on 80mt. For this new 80mt. antenna we have to thanks Romeo, Guido and Roberto. They fixed all the 4 square system in 1 day with an incredible result during the contest utilizing home-brew QEI/BCP phasing antenna system. Matteo made one of his career best qso with these antennas contacting KH7X on 80m during the contest. Stefano spent 2 days fixing with Luca the broken rotators, while in the mean time Andy, Matteo with the Said support “invent” a 24+20 mt. vertical inverted L 160mt. antenna. (we lost it the second day after a big wind storm).... :-(( We start the contest tired as always but concentrated to do the best on runner station and in particular on the multipliers. At 04:00 we got a power failure covered by our new power generator, no good opening on 10Mt. band even if we got e-sporadic conditions with only some EU countries, no US and North America, after 24 hour with about 4600 qso’s we started to understand we were in a way to overachieved our 2006 result. We had a very interesting grow on 80Mt. with our great 4 square antenna we change completely our presence on the band and our ability to get more multipliers. The morning of the second day we were at the right time on 20Mt. during opening period with the JA. We made JA long path for more then 2 and half hours with great fun. After that we moved to 15 Mt. with great EU opening. We checked continuously 10 Mt. with a big effort to catch multipliers on this band and we got at the end 93 countries. KC1XX was the first US station in our log on 10Mt with VY2LI after few minutes. After the late afternoon 15Mt. band drop we move on 20Mt. to make the usual US/EU pileup. We finish the contest running US on 40mt. With more than 8500 qso’s and 659 Multiplier, we beat our 2006 claimed result with more than 1400 qso’s and about 3 M points. We registered a drop in term of multiplier respect last year. Finally we would like to thanks the participants all the over the world, all the team components, Spiros SV8CS, ARRAM Society of Morocco, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Omar and our fellow Jim W7EJ/CN2R and CQ Amateur Radio Magazine for “The Contest” organization. And cu the next one!!! 73's to all de CN3A aka 5D5A Matt IK2SGC - Steve IK2QEI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1ENQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 220,980 After 13 years since last my CQWW, here I am. No real preparation, came late from work and cleaned the shack table for the laptop etc. My main goal, due to my conditions was to make more than 100k points. Only had a long wire, turned into dipole, antenna (30m longwire = 24/6 dipole) and an Icom 706MKIIG with 1.9kHz SSB Narrow filter. First hours only scored a few big-guns and then went to sleep (busy working week). Tried to wake up early (6/7 hours sleep) and start fresh to achieve my goal. Higher bands opened a few hours after and went from 40m to 10m, 20 meters were too crowded for a litle gun like me. Although my conditions were bad i still could manage nice mults, failed to get IM0/IK0FMB on 10m. The 15m were great, 20 and 40m was the place where chaos ruled. Must thank to the good ears from some stations that pulled me out of noise where others tried once and prefered to call cq test over and over.... Failed to get the Sunday US 10m opening, it was lunch time but my main goal was already achieved by that time. Since i've been away from contesting this was like a training exercise. Big thanks to Paulo, CT1ETE for the PS50 so that saturday afternoon I could output 100W. Highlights: .Could hear YB0ZZ but was on the same frequency of some US station. .Worked a couple of new DXCCs. .Hearing the "Thanks for Multiplier" from some stations, specially sunday night, from VE2Z, also a new mult for me on 40m(zone 2). He tried hard to get my call :) Thanks! Not so good: .Some bands too crowded! (20 and 40m) .high static noise on lower bands (80 and 160) .Stations using the same frequencies. .Extra High Power and over-modulation. Some stations took too much bandwith. Had to use the attenuator a few times. Conclusion: 557 QSOs and over 200k points was not bad for a small long wire and a radio without many filtering capabilities. Thanks all. C U on the bands. PS: Super Duper did not count 4U1WRC !?!? It gave me 0 points and no Multiplier. I think that at least 1 point it should give. 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1JLZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,201,446 Thanks to all for calling. 73! Jiri, CT1JLZ / OK1RF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CU2A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 8,213,760 I felt that conditions were really odd this year. On Sunday I could not get any stateside runs on 15 or 20 until last couple of hours of the contest. I have amazing number of EU QSO overall, even I tried to beam to NA when ever there was any propagation to that direction. 10mtrs was a disappointment also. I heard EU stations working each other but from CU the skip was quite local and it didn’t make sense to run 300 DL stations on 10 when 15m was producing some DX Q’s at the same time. There’s always room for improvement. I felt that this time I could have been using 2nd radio more efficient way. Also I’m not that satisfied with my multiplier, even it’s something like 50 mults more than year ago. Thanks to all for QSO’s and many QSY’s during the contest. Special thanks once again to my great hosts Paula (CU2DX) & José (CU2CE) and to whole Azores-Finland Friendship Consortium for great support. See ya on CW again as CU2A! 73 de Toni, OH2UA Ps. more details coming soon at www.cu2a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX6VM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,491,608 First night a big thunderstorm so needed to stop, happy to sleep, hi hi... Great to find so many friends. First time in SOAB!, great to move to another bands and excelent with the topband QSO´s, instead a very big QRN!... See you in CQWW CW... 73, Jorge CX6VM QSL VIA W3HNK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 181,396 73´s Dan QSL via KA5TUF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF0HQ Class: M/M HP Total Score = 15,783,666 Congrats to the DR1A team! CUL in CQWW CW 73 Lothar, DL3TD/DF0HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF1DX Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 236,328 Murphy was here. :-( cu next month. 73 Jürgen, DF1DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH0GHU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 845,852 Rig: TT ORION, ACOM1000. - endfed wire antenna (34m), 3-8m agl, used for 160m and for 80m-RX - Doublet 2x10m for 40m-10m, Inverted-V, peak at ca. 10m - Inverted L for 80m, also used with success on 15m/10m - Wire-GP for 20m (+10m with forced matching) @Roof Condx surprised with good openings on 15m/10m, partially through Sporadic-E within and around Europe, partially through F2 propagation mainly to Africa, South America, the Carribean, and the eastern part of North America. Condx to all other regions were as bad as to be expected while being just at the bottom of the solar cycle - I hope things will improve soon. See you all in CQ WWDX CW, Uli DH0GHU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH0MA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 790,128 DH0MA (17 Yrs, Lic since 2006) and I did a small M/S. TT Orion, 8877 PA 2 Ele for 10/15/20 @ 10 meters L/4 Sloper on 40 T-Ant for 80/160 12m high. From the US, worked mostly east coast. Except for W7WA and K7RL on 20, no west coast was worked. Nice 10m opening on SUN afternoon adding a few South American Multis. Also great signals from SE Asia and Arfica. N4PN and K4ZW very strong on 40. Heard N0NI on 80 but couldnt reach him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DH8BQA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 54,740 Quite nice E-skip openings all over Europe on Saturday almost all day long with very good activity. Had a ball running virtually hundreds of Europeans with my small station (IC-7000, 100 W + 3 ele Mononband Yagi). Also had a small but very nice Caribean opening on Saturday evening providing quite a few extra mults not even dreamed of before the contest. ;-)) Also quite good South America signals on the first afternoon. Sunday saw just a few spotty ES openings, but it was rather difficult to run then. The rest of Europe seemed to be more favoured with propagation the second day than north-eastern Germany. Besides listening to VO1MP at S2 signal levels (plus a stupid 59+ EC2 station on the same frequency who had no sense concerning what was going on) the double/triple hop E-skip opening on Sunday afternoon was not usable from my location (simply no right 1st hop into the other two ES clouds). :-(( Anyway, to put it in a nutshell: had a fu..ing lot of fun! :-)) Who said 10 m was dead in sunspot minimum? Just rely on some ES and there we go ... ;-)) 73, Olli ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1OJ Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 300,720 Running low power with vertical (FT-1000MP/GAP-Titan) really is a hard job. Sure will be better in CW operating EA8OM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ8OG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,722,898 I could work again at DJ6QT´s station. It was very nice to run the contest from this station. It was real fun to run high rates almost all the time. A nice surprise was the last hour on 40m. Very strong signals from US and VE made it a real pleasure to work in that incredible high QRM. I planed to go QRT some hours before the end but now Im happy that I stayed on. Thanks for all who called me. Sorry for those I couldnt pick out of the QRM. Hope to see you again in the next contest. Vy73 Matt, DJ8OG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 335,808 Icom IC-746pro, Heathkit SB-200, 5-ele-tribander, dipoles, Toshiba M4, N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0TUM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,633,320 CU in the CW leg! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,789,499 Nice to meet so many old friends again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1REM Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 499,476 RIG: 12m long vertical + 100 W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 575,352 It was hard to run on any band for me so I did S&P most of the time. The lesson I have learned once again is that monobanders make the difference.... However, the new vertical works well on the low bands but I need to get a decent receive antenna for 160. Sorry for those which I could not hear on 160 due to the noise here in my QTH. Maik DL2AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2ARD Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 1,252,080 RIG: FT 1000MP MKV , ACOM 2000 , KT34XA + JP2000 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2MWB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,262,275 First entry in M/S class. IC-756 PRO III 10/15/20m SteppIr 3el 40m rotary dipole 80m 1/4 vertical 160m dipole 66m Nice openings on 10 & 15! vy 73s DL2MBW & DD1MAT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL6UAA Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 3,610 YAESU FT847 + horizontal V dipole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL7AOS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 672,465 Only 36 hours of operating time due to time constraints, no antenna for 160m, no cluster assistance and only two operators. Had much fun anyways, conditions were better than expected, nice short skip on 10m. Thanks to Mary for the hospitality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DM7A Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 108,432 TS850 / TL922 / tribander, dipoles Only QRV for the first few hours of the contest. No fun. See you in CQWW CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO1SAR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2 Hard to work the Station with a wet nail. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9PL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,936 FT-897, Wires, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DO9ST Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 94,956 Nice portable Contest. Only Wireantenna with Kenwood TS-480SAT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4Q Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 808,338 better conditions than expected... thanks to all callers... vy 73 Jo dq4q@df9zp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,724,650 Condx on 40 not good, but 10 was a surprise with openings on both days. Enjoyed operating in a large group with 4 hour shifts - this way, SSB - even on 40 meters - is tolerable. Looking forward for CQWW CW next month! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR1A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,137,732 Thanks for all QSOs, and also thanks for the competition to the other M/M teams. We are a little bit proud to act as some kind of reference: we know that numerous stations are monitoring our Realtime Online Score on our website http://www.dr1a.com all 48 hours (!) to get an idea of how we are doing... :-) That's fine. Only from time to time we would wish to see how our competition is doing, too. Like in a horse race where every jockey can see his peers. Maybe we can encourage our serious competitors to let us know how they are doing - by telling us on the band, signing our guestbook or sending an E-Mail with the actual band-by-band breakdown every few hours... ;-) We'll hope and see. See you soon in the CW contest ! 73 from the DR1A Team Ben DL6FBL (I will be SOAB HP from SV9CVY in CW...) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DV1JM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 289,760 start late due some commitment but able to work as many as i could. not as good as last year but the fun is stiil the same. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E21EIC Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 322,872 Band Very Noisy !! Thanks E21YDP and HS0EHF. CU in CQ WW CW from Zone:26 73, Champ, E21EIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7/DK6XZ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 891,440 CLUB : BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA CONTEST CLUB ( BHCC ) NAME : Suad Zukic, DK6XZ ADDRESS : Gymnasiumstr. 104 75175 Pforzheim LOCATION : SMETOVI, NEAR THE CITY OF ZENICA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 21 2626 5065 139 + 37 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 2626 5065 139 + 37 SCORE : 891440 =================== Remarks: It was a great time - after more than 18 years! I enjoyed fully the 38 hours of contest activity. Thank you all for the contacts and your pation. My special thanks to Danny, T93M who have repaired our old clubs linear amplifier just days before the contest and have supported me generally at my contest revival. I thank also to my Radio Club, T91EZC, allowing me to use our contest location on the mountine Smetovi. I became also greatest support by the guys of the BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA CONTEST CLUB, who have giving me usiful advises for the contest ( T93J, T99W, T93Y, T94CT, T90T etc. ). Thank you all! Something about E7 prefix: Due to the fact, that my BH-License with callsign T94XZ have expired 3 years ago - and respectively the discussion in the contestmen circles about E7 prefix - I requested the country COMMUNICATIONS REGULATORY AGENCY - CRA ( www.rak.ba ) for an advise: The responsible officer concluded and confirmed to me, that the only legal way for my amateur radio activity from Bosnia and Herzegovina could be using the German licensed callsign with by ITU dedicated country pefix E7!! So I did it that way... This made a bit troubles for a number of logging software and forced me to explane during contest, "what" and "who" is E7. It was sometimes a hard job to call stations: much of repeating and explaning was needed. But sorry for losed time of some of you as well... Interesting: The highlight for me was successful call to 8P5A to the end of the contest: I screamed E7..E7..E7... in the middle of his US-pile-up - as he finaly recognized me asking "who is E7?" and turned his antenna to Europe - to be my new multiplier. I was waiting for him since last night, as he was booming at first, to "disappeare" second later by turning his ant. system to NA and starting there an extreme pile-up. I tought, no chance to work him any more... Many of interesting countries came on my CQ frequency and "gave me multis" - thank you very much for that. About location and equipment: Contest location: SMETOVI by Radio Club Zenica, T91EZC ( ~ 1.020 m ASL ) Antenna: X7 by CUSHCRAFT, 7 EL Tribander @30m ( sponsored by T93M - tnx ) Transceiver: YAESU FT-1000 MP ( INRAD filter 1,8 KHz ) Headset: HEIL PRO-SET 4 Amplifier: KENWOOD TL922 ( output ~ 700 W PEP ) Computer: TOSHIBA Satellite PIII 1GHz ( WIN XP ) Logging software: UCXLog by DL7UCX The contest location and the antenna were proven matter. Both worked properly. First day, nice sunny weather - the rest of the snow desappears slowely. Next day foggy and colder ( but I was able to see all of that only for some minutes ). I was disappointed to realize saturday morning that the switching from TX to RX works not preperly. I actualy did not have ears in first seconds and was able to copy only sigs coming to me with over S-7. Later I found out "technic" to solve the problem by pressing the brake button on the rotator!!! That made -trough some induction - the sensitivity of the receiver comes back. It was funny needing to do it a couple of hundrets of times druing the contest. Many of worthy time was losed that way and several weak ( especialy JA ) signals gone probably away. On the first day the amplifier switched 4 times to stand-by ( in order to cool down abt. 20 minutes !! ). That happened again and again - in the middle of NA pile-up! I losed that way my nerves completely ( working rithm and frequencies as well ). No problems any more, since I have started to drive the PA with only 60 - 80 W. That was the story. Do hope to see you in CW. Hopefuly my FT-1000 MP is coming back from its reparation at the right time. Best 73´s and thanks to the contest organizers Suad, DK6XZ PS: I would appreciate very much any comment regarding my signal during the contest ( resp. some records )... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1DDO Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 150,000 Yaesu FT Dx-9000 Contest Acom 2000A Sennheiser HMD-280-Pro Home made dipole on the balcony... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA3EYO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 85,608 Second year in this contest ( first year 14.700 ponts) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA4KR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,700,000 I need some improvement on 160 meters. 73 de Julio EA4KR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5AER Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 42,750 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : EA5AER Mode : PHONE Category : Single Operator (SO) Overlay : --- Band(s) : Single band (SB) 40 m Class : Low Power (LP) Zone/State/... : 14 Locator : JM08BU Operating time : 15h32 BAND QSO CQ DXC DUP POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 80 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 40 352 15 75 4 475 1.35 20 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 15 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 352 15 75 4 475 1.35 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 42 750 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,984,878 Becase last minute family duties, I can't be at AM3SSB MS with my friends and I apologize them for that. I can be on only 24 hours, but I enjoy the bands conditions: 10m was a big surprise with the nice EU sporadic, 15m wide open to NA the sunday afternoon. I find 20m less crowed that the past contests and 40m... well, impossible, but I'm sure that in the near future I will remember this split operation on this band. Thanks very much for the calls and ear me. 73 de Jose. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7RU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,193,840 Overall competition in general. As always thank my good friend George EA7HZ the great assistance provided to me by making the point season for competitions. Bad conditions in 10m two days. In 15m and 20m good condition especially Saturday. On Sunday, a few stations NA except the most potent. In 40m, 80m and 160m lot of static noise due to storms. Thank you all for the contact. See you next contest. 73` de EA7RU Cris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA7TN Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 372,446 I love CW ! TS-2000 (90W) Spiderbeam tribander @ 18m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8/OH4NL Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 847,448 2 wire yagis (3el), 3 beverages, Yaesu-radios, AL-amplifiers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA8BEX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,359,408 Transceiver: FT2000 Antenna: Vertical 10 to 80 m, 110 m high and 2 miles from sea. Software: N1MM Logger Interface: MicroHam mk2r ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA9LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,153,409 Unfortunately I cannot finish contest, I've got cold, the headaech was horrible and I cannot support one second more actived during the contest. Propagation was better than last year but I cannot give a full opinion, but okay, will see what happened in WPXssb. One more time thank's to everyone call me. 73 ea9lz Jorge ea9lz@hotmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EB4HCI Class: SOSB/20 QRP Total Score = 147 ¡Hello!. My first CQWWDX SSB.My Score is very poor,but to have a good time. My working conditions: TX: YAESU FT-817 + 40W ANT: Dipolo tagra DDK-20 73,S and good DX. EB4HCI Segismundo Doñate Vaquero Spain ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ED5ON/6 Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 48,894 My first time in EA6, first time on SOSB 80. Did not make my expected goal but had great fun anyway. A full writeup will follow in due course. Thanks to all for your patience in pulling me out of the noise. 73 de Duncan ED5ON/6 (EA5ON) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EE2W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,828,913 Antennas: - Explorer 14 Tribander. - TH3 Tribander. - Dipole 40m. (EA5BRE). - Fullsize Vertical 80m. - Shorted Vertical 160m. Thank you for all the QSOs. See you on the CW part. 73! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI4HQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 55,918 FT-2000. 160m: Inverted L & K9AY, 40m: GP, 20m: GP Mediocre conditions but good fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EI7M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 9,197,097 After sveral years with no major problems, we had several this year which certainly impacted on the final score. The main problem was a couple of hours in the rotator for the 40m beam and the mult stations tri-bander failed, thankfully it failed pointing at NA which at least was a usefull direction. Conditions were down on last year with nowhere near as good a propagation. 10m score down and didn't get the SP-E propagation to NA which others have reported. 80m very good on Saturday night with long NA runs and 40m in good shape as well. JA's hard to find this year with no substantial runs. We were in general pleased with the result this year considering the problems we had, Q's are up on last year but mults down which was not surprising being not able to turn the antennas, but the overall score was up. Thanks to all that called us and hopefully we will be on for the CW leg depending if we can get enough operators. Neil EI3JE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EK0B Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,017,696 Great test and big step ahead from us next year should be really much much better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ER0WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,204,346 Nice opening on 15,unfortunatly,lost last 4!!! hours. Anyway,nice to hear a lots of friends. CU in CW part,Serge UT5UDX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES375UT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 557,024 Limited operation time!Very funny call and interesting heard how good ears has operators.Joke was: one operator says "You have very long call and sorry i not copy You"!? Best rate was on 10m at 8z =143QSOs See all on CW part! 73!Tom ES5RY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5MC Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 163,718 Rig: TS-850 + PA (GU43) Ant: wire vertical, dipole, 1 beverage 200m long @240 deg Was willing to make better than an old ES best score on 80m SSB - and luckily succeeded. The plans to improve significantly my antenna set-up for 80 did not come to reality and a 4SQ would probably be the next year's project. As the propagation was also rather lousy, then most of the QSO-s were made with Europe, accompaning with single DX-s from other continents. No chance to have anybody coming back on my cq from the US or Japan... (so, e.g. 9 US and 4 Japanese stations in my log only :) And also - evidently, contesting has become a "festival of serious tubes", a GU-43 level is history... CU around! Arvo, ES5MC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,942,199 It was the easiest full 48 hours I have done I guess, no problems to stay up with the help of ca 5 cans of energy drink. No food for 3 days and lost ca 5 kilos:) Propagation was terrible towards NA and JA. I am very amazed to have so many QSOs but luckily EU helped out. I have only 500 US contacts on all bands together!! Can it be any worse than that? Most of the 450 US on 20m came during midnight opening that I have never had before. Pretty unusual to end the contest with 110 QSOs in the last 30 minutes!:) That surely helped to keep the eyes open. Just ca 100 JA on 20m and only 1 strange LP QSO to JA on 15m! Was aiming for 40 zones on 20m but missed CE. Tried to QSY CE4CT from 15m but no propagation. Big thanks to Ramon, XE1KK for giving me double mult in the last hour from 6F75A! The new 45m rotating tower with Optibeam antennas installed in autumn really gave me more flexibility in choosing antennas and helped a lot, especially 3 el yagi on 80m that usually beats 4 Square noticably. Antennas used were: 160m: full size 4 Square and wire vertical 80m: full size 4 Square and 3 el yagi at 36m 40m: 2 stacks of 3 over 3, both at 42/22m 10-20: stack of 4 JP2000 tribanders (3 el 20, 3 el 15, 4 el 10) on 45m tower and another stack of 3 tribanders at 34m tower. 20: 5 over 5 at 42/22m 15: 5 over 5 at 29/15m 10: 6 over 6 at 26/19m Unfortunately my 2nd Radio amplifier ACOM 2000A developed a relay problem and kept triggering protection saying relay open or sth and that meant I could not go on transmit sometimes. I lost a few mults because of that. Still ca 550 2nd Radio QSOs. ES5TV - Continents By band - SSB QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 92.0% ! 0.6% ! 0.4% ! 1.4% ! 5.6% ! ! ! 80 ! 88.2% ! 2.7% ! 1.2% ! 1.7% ! 5.8% ! 0.5% ! ! 40 ! 80.8% ! 4.1% ! 4.3% ! 1.6% ! 7.1% ! 2.2% ! ! 20 ! 54.3% ! 25.3% ! 1.3% ! 1.8% ! 13.8% ! 3.5% ! ! 15 ! 86.3% ! 1.6% ! 4.3% ! 3.5% ! 3.4% ! 0.9% ! ! 10 ! 92.1% ! ! ! 6.3% ! 1.6% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 00 ! ! 18 ! 67 ! ! ! ! 85 ! ! 01 ! ! 24 ! 92 ! ! ! ! 116 ! ! 02 ! 1 ! 63 ! 38 ! ! ! ! 102 ! ! 03 ! 38 ! 135 ! ! ! ! ! 173 ! ! 04 ! 21 ! 98 ! ! ! ! ! 119 ! ! 05 ! 4 ! 90 ! 31 ! ! ! ! 125 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 124 ! 53 ! ! ! 177 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 152 ! 4 ! ! 156 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 226 ! 12 ! ! 238 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 87 ! 107 ! 16 ! 210 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! ! 151 ! 34 ! 185 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 27 ! 35 ! 51 ! 113 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 142 ! 6 ! ! 148 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 5 ! 79 ! 4 ! 2 ! 90 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 2 ! 83 ! 10 ! 4 ! 99 ! ! 15 ! ! 13 ! 123 ! ! ! ! 136 ! ! 16 ! 70 ! 54 ! ! 12 ! ! ! 136 ! ! 17 ! 105 ! 1 ! 10 ! 4 ! ! ! 120 ! ! 18 ! 36 ! 14 ! 4 ! 42 ! ! ! 96 ! ! 19 ! 1 ! 3 ! 109 ! 12 ! ! ! 125 ! ! 20 ! 10 ! ! 96 ! ! ! ! 106 ! ! 21 ! 1 ! 3 ! 95 ! 3 ! ! ! 102 ! ! 22 ! ! ! 25 ! 162 ! ! ! 187 ! ! 23 ! 3 ! 2 ! 24 ! 66 ! ! ! 95 ! ! 00 ! ! 9 ! 65 ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 01 ! 28 ! 20 ! 2 ! ! ! ! 50 ! ! 02 ! 1 ! 5 ! 70 ! ! ! ! 76 ! ! 03 ! 5 ! 2 ! 53 ! ! ! ! 60 ! ! 04 ! 86 ! ! 6 ! 4 ! ! ! 96 ! ! 05 ! 17 ! 5 ! 1 ! 40 ! 2 ! ! 65 ! ! 06 ! ! ! ! 109 ! 6 ! ! 115 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 14 ! 132 ! ! 146 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 164 ! 1 ! 171 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 79 ! 59 ! 139 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 110 ! 1 ! 18 ! 129 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 136 ! ! 1 ! 137 ! ! 12 ! ! ! ! 96 ! ! 5 ! 101 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 150 ! ! 157 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 4 ! 90 ! ! 94 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 6 ! 142 ! ! 148 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 38 ! 59 ! ! 97 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 11 ! 92 ! ! ! 103 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 95 ! ! ! ! 95 ! ! 19 ! ! 101 ! ! ! ! ! 101 ! ! 20 ! 74 ! ! ! ! ! ! 74 ! ! 21 ! ! ! 54 ! 4 ! ! ! 58 ! ! 22 ! ! ! ! 67 ! ! ! 67 ! ! 23 ! ! ! ! 161 ! ! ! 161 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 501 ! 660 ! 1202 ! 2045 ! 1154 ! 191 ! 5753 ! Worked DXCC DXCC | CT | 160 | 80 | 40 | 20 | 15 | 10 | TOTAL ============================================================= 1A | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 1S | AS | | | | | | | 3A | EU | | | 1 | | | | 1 3B6 | AF | | | | | | | 3B8 | AF | | | | | | | 3B9 | AF | | | | | | | 3C | AF | | | | | | | 3C0 | AF | | | | | | | 3D2 | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/c | OC | | | | | | | 3D2/r | OC | | | | | | | 3DA | AF | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 3V | AF | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 3W | AS | | | | | | | 3X | AF | | | | | | | 3Y/b | AF | | | | | | | 3Y/p | SA | | | | | | | 4J | AS | | | 1 | | | | 1 4L | AS | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | | 3 4O | EU | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 4S | AS | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 4U1I | EU | | | | | | | 4U1U | NA | | | | | | | 4U1V | EU | | | | | | | 4W | OC | | | | | | | 4X | AS | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 6 | | 19 5A | AF | | | | | | | 5B | AS | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | | 13 5H | AF | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 5N | AF | | | | | | | 5R | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 5T | AF | | | | | | | 5U | AF | | | | | | | 5V | AF | | | | | | | 5W | OC | | | | | | | 5X | AF | | | | | | | 5Z | AF | | | | | | | 6W | AF | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 3 6Y | NA | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 7O | AS | | | | | | | 7P | AF | | | | | | | 7Q | AF | | | | | | | 7X | AF | | | | | | | 8P | NA | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 8Q | AS | | | | | | | 8R | SA | | | | | | | 9A | EU | 5 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 12 | 4 | 64 9G | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 9H | EU | | | | | | | 9J | AF | | | | | | | 9K | AS | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 9L | AF | | | | | | | 9M2 | AS | | | 1 | 2 | 2 | | 5 9M6 | OC | | | 3 | 1 | 1 | | 5 9N | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 9Q | AF | | | | | | | 9U | AF | | | | | | | 9V | AS | | | 1 | 3 | | | 4 9X | AF | | | | | | | 9Y | SA | | | | | | | A2 | AF | | | | | | | A3 | OC | | | | | | | A4 | AS | | | | 2 | | | 2 A5 | AS | | | | | | | A6 | AS | | | | 2 | 3 | | 5 A7 | AS | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 A9 | AS | | | | | | | AP | AS | | | | | | | BS7 | AS | | | | | | | BV | AS | | | 1 | | | | 1 BV9P | AS | | | | | | | BY | AS | | 1 | 7 | 23 | | | 31 C2 | OC | | | | | | | C3 | EU | | 1 | | | | | 1 C5 | AF | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 C6 | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 C9 | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 CE | SA | | | 3 | | 2 | | 5 CE0X | SA | | | | | | | CE0Y | SA | | | | | | | CE0Z | SA | | | | | | | CE9 | SA | | | | | | | CM | NA | | | | | | | CN | AF | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | | 12 CP | SA | | | | | | | CT | EU | 1 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 11 | | 37 CT3 | AF | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 13 CU | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 6 CX | SA | | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | | 12 CY0 | NA | | | | | | | CY9 | NA | | | | | | | D2 | AF | | | | | | | D4 | AF | | | | | | | D6 | AF | | | | | | | DL | EU | 80 | 76 | 153 | 209 | 323 | 17 | 858 DU | OC | | | 3 | 7 | | | 10 E3 | AF | | | | | | | E4 | AS | | | | | | | E5/n | OC | | | | | | | E5/s | OC | | | | | | | E7 | EU | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 20 EA | EU | 3 | 15 | 60 | 74 | 85 | 1 | 238 EA6 | EU | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | | 12 EA8 | AF | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | | 21 EA9 | AF | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 5 EI | EU | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 16 EK | AS | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 | | 6 EL | AF | | | | | | | EP | AS | | | | | | | ER | EU | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 ES | EU | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 19 ET | AF | | | | | | | EU | EU | 4 | 7 | 12 | 3 | | | 26 EX | AS | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 4 EY | AS | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 EZ | AS | | | | | | | F | EU | 11 | 23 | 39 | 53 | 30 | 6 | 162 FG | NA | | | | | | | FH | AF | | | | | | | FJ | NA | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 3 FK | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 FK/c | OC | | | | | | | FM | NA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | 4 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 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | | 4 G | EU | 19 | 28 | 35 | 51 | 21 | 17 | 171 GD | EU | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 GI | EU | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | | 16 GJ | EU | | | | | | | GM | EU | 3 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 32 GM/s | EU | | | 1 | 1 | | | 2 GU | EU | | 1 | 2 | | | | 3 GW | EU | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 H4 | OC | | | | | | | H40 | OC | | | | | | | HA | EU | 3 | 5 | 14 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 57 HB | EU | 2 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 39 HB0 | EU | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 5 HC | SA | | | | 2 | | | 2 HC8 | SA | | 1 | | | 1 | | 2 HH | NA | | | | | | | HI | NA | | | | 1 | 2 | | 3 HK | SA | | 1 | 1 | 3 | | | 5 HK0/a | NA | | | | | | | HK0/m | SA | | | | | | | HL | AS | | | | 5 | | | 5 HM | AS | | | | | | | HP | NA | | | | 2 | | | 2 HR | NA | | | | | | | HS | AS | | | 1 | 7 | 2 | | 10 HV | EU | | | | 1 | | | 1 HZ | AS | | | 3 | 2 | 1 | | 6 I | EU | 23 | 22 | 105 | 106 | 91 | 25 | 372 IG9 | AF | | | | 1 | | | 1 IS | EU | | | 1 | 5 | 7 | | 13 IT9 | EU | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 34 J2 | AF | | | | | | | J3 | NA | | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 J5 | AF | | | | | | | J6 | NA | | | | | | | J7 | NA | | | | | | | J8 | NA | | | | | 1 | | 1 JA | AS | | 1 | 7 | 108 | 1 | | 117 JD/m | OC | | | | | | | JD/o | AS | | | | | | | JT | AS | | | | | | | JW | EU | | | | 1 | | | 1 JW/b | EU | | | | | | | JX | EU | | | | | | | JY | AS | | | | | | | K | NA | | 11 | 32 | 457 | 5 | | 505 KG4 | NA | | | | | | | KH0 | OC | | | | | | | KH1 | OC | | | | | | | KH2 | OC | | | | 3 | | | 3 KH3 | OC | | | | | | | KH4 | OC | | | | | | | KH5 | OC | | | | | | | KH5K | OC | | | | | | | KH6 | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 KH7K | OC | | | | | | | KH8 | OC | | | | | | | KH8/s | OC | | | | | | | KH9 | OC | | | | | | | KL | NA | | | | 6 | | | 6 KP1 | NA | | | | | | | KP2 | NA | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 5 KP4 | NA | | 1 | 2 | 2 | | | 5 KP5 | NA | | | | | | | LA | EU | 6 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 3 | | 35 LU | SA | | 1 | 11 | 7 | 15 | | 34 LX | EU | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 LY | EU | 15 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 39 LZ | EU | 6 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 46 OA | SA | | | | | | | OD | AS | | | | | | | OE | EU | 3 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 28 | 2 | 67 OH | EU | 30 | 20 | 6 | 24 | 13 | 3 | 96 OH0 | EU | 1 | 2 | | 1 | | | 4 OJ0 | EU | | | | | | | OK | EU | 26 | 34 | 54 | 50 | 51 | 2 | 217 OM | EU | 8 | 10 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 67 ON | EU | 6 | 11 | 15 | 27 | 28 | 3 | 90 OX | NA | | | | | | | OY | EU | | | | | | | OZ | EU | 3 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 2 | | 44 P2 | OC | | | | | | | P4 | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 PA | EU | 8 | 14 | 25 | 43 | 41 | 4 | 135 PJ2 | SA | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 6 PJ7 | NA | | | | | | | PY | SA | 1 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 24 | | 59 PY0F | SA | | | | | | | PY0S | SA | | | | | | | PY0T | SA | | | | | | | PZ | SA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 R1FJ | EU | | | | | | | R1MV | EU | | | | | | | S0 | AF | | | | | | | S2 | AS | | | | | | | S5 | EU | 11 | 10 | 24 | 18 | 27 | 7 | 97 S7 | AF | | | | | | | S9 | AF | | | | | | | SM | EU | 10 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 54 SP | EU | 31 | 31 | 69 | 50 | 16 | | 197 ST | AF | | | | | | 1 | 1 SU | AF | | | | 1 | 2 | | 3 SV | EU | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 38 SV/a | EU | | | | | | | SV5 | EU | 1 | | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 SV9 | EU | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 | | 7 T2 | OC | | | | | | | T30 | OC | | | | | | | T31 | OC | | | | | | | T32 | OC | | | | | | | T33 | OC | | | | | | | T5 | AF | | | | | | | T7 | EU | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 4 T8 | OC | | | | | | | TA | AS | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 12 TA1 | EU | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 3 TF | EU | | | | 2 | | | 2 TG | NA | | | | | | | TI | NA | | 1 | | | | | 1 TI9 | NA | | | | | | | TJ | AF | | | | | | | TK | EU | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 TL | AF | | | | | | | TN | AF | | | | | | | TR | AF | | | | 1 | | | 1 TT | AF | | | | 1 | | | 1 TU | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 TY | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 TZ | AF | | | | | | | UA | EU | 58 | 83 | 110 | 85 | 23 | 9 | 368 UA2 | EU | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 UA9 | AS | 18 | 21 | 35 | 93 | 3 | | 170 UK | AS | 1 | | | | | | 1 UN | AS | | 3 | 2 | 8 | | | 13 UR | EU | 26 | 40 | 44 | 43 | 27 | 7 | 187 V2 | NA | | 1 | 1 | | | | 2 V3 | NA | | | | | | | V4 | NA | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 4 V5 | AF | | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 V6 | OC | | | | | | | V7 | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 V8 | OC | | | 1 | 2 | | | 3 VE | NA | 1 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 5 | | 50 VK | OC | | 3 | 12 | 31 | 2 | | 48 VK0H | AF | | | | | | | VK0M | OC | | | | | | | VK9C | OC | | | | | | | VK9L | OC | | | | | | | VK9M | OC | | | | | | | VK9N | OC | | | | | | | VK9W | OC | | | | | | | VK9X | OC | | | | | | | VP2E | NA | | | | | | | VP2M | NA | | | | | | | VP2V | NA | | | | | | | VP5 | NA | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 5 VP6 | OC | | | | | | | VP6/d | OC | | | | | | | VP8 | SA | | | 1 | | | | 1 VP8/g | SA | | | | | | | VP8/h | SA | | | | | | | VP8/o | SA | | | | | | | VP8/s | SA | | | | | | | VP9 | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 VQ9 | AF | | | | 1 | 1 | | 2 VR | AS | | 1 | 3 | 2 | | | 6 VU | AS | | | 5 | 6 | 8 | | 19 VU4 | AS | | | | | | | VU7 | AS | | | | | | | XE | NA | | | | 1 | | | 1 XF4 | NA | | | | | | | XT | AF | | | | | | | XU | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 XW | AS | | | | 2 | | | 2 XX9 | AS | | | | | | | XZ | AS | | | | | | | YA | AS | | | | 1 | | | 1 YB | OC | | | 3 | 14 | 7 | | 24 YI | AS | | | | | | | YJ | OC | | | | | | | YK | AS | | | | | | | YL | EU | 7 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 29 YN | NA | | | | | | | YO | EU | 10 | 10 | 24 | 22 | 32 | 17 | 115 YS | NA | | | | | | | YU | EU | 3 | 16 | 15 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 70 YV | SA | | | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 5 YV0 | NA | | | | | | | Z2 | AF | | | | | | | Z3 | EU | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 ZA | EU | | | | | | | ZB | EU | | | | | | | ZC4 | AS | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZD7 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZD8 | AF | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZD9 | AF | | | | | | | ZF | NA | | | | | | | ZK2 | OC | | | | | | | ZK3 | OC | | | | | | | ZL | OC | | | 4 | 9 | | | 13 ZL7 | OC | | | | 1 | | | 1 ZL8 | OC | | | | | | | ZL9 | OC | | | | | | | ZP | SA | | | | | 1 | | 1 ZS | AF | | | 1 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 27 ZS8 | AF | | | | | | | ============================================================= | | 501 | 659 | 1201 | 2044 | 1154 | 191 | 5750 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com CU in CW 73 Tonno ES5TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EY8MM Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 286,520 IC775DSP + Acom 2000A Bi-Square Weast-East @ 55 m tower Bi-Square North-South @ 55 m tower 3 el Delta Loop to EU between two 28 m towers 4 Beverage antennas Everything worked great and no Murphy visits. Only problem is too much noise on BV to Pacific cost me few mults. Nice experience! Main problem to keep CQ freq. Instantly somebody from EU comes on. QRM inside EU are too high and to keep frequency you need to produce realy strong signal. Overal goal was to set Zone 17 record as my QTH is deep in continent and not really competitive on Low Band contesting. Great condition second morning to Carribean. Signals were so strong that it was easy to hunt. Prop did not open to EU from Carribean and my signal was quite competitive. Missed V4 mult from Carribean. Second night was dissapointing. Band was noisy and no real good signals even from big guns. No NA signals at all. Loudest signals: NA-WE3C EU-RU6LA SA-HK6K AS-UA9PC AF-TS6A OC-KH7B and KH7X. Quite a few outstanding Mults came to my CQ. I will put some expanded results, audio, photos and statistics shortly on my WEB. Now looking for audio recording of my signal to put audio of qso's from both points. Please contact me directly if you have it. CU in CQ WW CW! 73, Nodir EY8MM www.ey8mm.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4BKV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,670,886 As usual, great fun in this contest, and i enjoy for the first time a 'real' antenna on 160m (a 168m loop wire), that is also working fine on 80/40m. Others antennas this year are a dual-band dipole for 80/40m and a Yagi KT34 for 20/15/10m, Rig is a FT1000MP and second rig for SO2R is FT897 connected to a multiband dipole. Still have to improve my home made interface for SO2R but i'm happy with my multi score at least (i still have to improve the strategy of EU-QSO vs DX-QSO ...). Till next year !! Vincent F4BKV http://www.f4bkv.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4FDA Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 41,600 FT 920 :100w antenna vert mono 10M still playing with my small conditions, but i had lot of fun. see you in next contest. David ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F4FLQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,003,472 Tnx for all QSO's it's my first cqwwdx contest. See you next. Best 73's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 136,521 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 132,192 Nice contest on 15M. nothing on 10M, the zoo on 40m in Europe (usefull RF gain knob set to minimum HI). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 58,480 Hi, using FT1kMPmarkV fiel, 100w,Heil HC4, G5RV & Vertical 1/4 7mhz. Made only 8hours because of family visiting.........hi and my objectif was to made new-one/band/mode. and I did. extra conditions on 10m with my best dx LT1F on my g5rv real 59, also HA8.. 59+50. also 15m good opennings to SA with 59+10 with PY stations. just regrates with some stations heard but to weak or to much people calling like P4,VP2,HC8...... but a few new one: 3DA0,4U1. see you on cw F8CRS david ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FM/K9NW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,112,679 Another great CQWW event!! Decent condx and great activity. Added a new DX Engineering noise cancelling box to the mix which made it possible to work through the local QRN on the low bands. Thanks once again to Laurent, FM5BH for providing a great station and great hospitality! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FS/K1XM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,025,332 Station: TS-2000, Alpha 78 Antennas: Tennadyne Log, 40 dipole, 80 and 160 inverted vees Special thanks to Mort, W1UQ/PJ7UQ/FS5UQ and his family for the use of the station, equipment, place to stay, and their help overall. This wasn't intended to be a very serious operation, which is good because a few things went wrong. Among them: 3. The Alpha 78 had a fried bandswitch section. I jumpered it and could use it in manual tune mode on 160-15. It wouldn't tune on 10 (too much capacitance). I had an Alpha 374 that would run on 10 meters but when I turned it on it tripped the main breaker for the building. Note that it did not blow the fuses or trip the breaker for the circuit. The problem is that this is a commercial installation and the main breaker has ground fault protection. The 374 has a 120 volt fan and the fan is wired between one leg of the power and the neutral. This caused the amp to draw current on the neutral wire and the breaker shut down the building. 2. I had to put up the 40 meter antenna Friday morning in the rain. My original antenna plan proved too dangerous due to the weather so I built and installed a dipole. I started the contest wiped out. 1. The beam was facing the wrong way (West, I think) for most of the weekend. Sunday morning I was missing such rare mults as HA, SP, and UR on 20. After the rain stopped I got it aimed at Europe and left it there. 0. It was a phone contest. For the CQ WW CW I'll be on as 6V7D, probably SOAB QRP. See you all then! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: FY5KE Class: M/S HP Total Score = 19,922,175 Powered by Win-Test 3.17.0 http://www.win-test.com It still was a very hard job to set up the station and beverages (high temp and high humidity). We have set up a 4-square on 40m this year in addition to the existing 20-m high 2el yagi, hoping that it could help us improving our score on that band. This new antenna was made using 4 Dx-Wire fiberglass masts and a home made Collins hybrid phasing system (F1HAR, F5HRY). The dummy load was built with a 50-ohm non-inductive resistor designed to support 1kW when immersed into an oil bath. Unfortunately, we didn't find any non-conductive oil in Kourou and we tried to substitute it with some Demineralised Water. SWR was not perfect on 40 but it was just enough to do the job! This new antenna enabled us to increase worked Q and DXCC, compared to 2006. As usual, we installed 6 beverage receiving antennas which worked as great, as expected. The lowest point is actually to being able to localize the ground rods because of the dense vegetation which covers them now. In addition, the tropical rains caused a driving in the ground of the rods. Despite of the help of a GPS, it is necessary to clean out the area where the rod is supposed to be with a machete, and to carefully look around for something which could be the ground rod! In spite of lots of efforts in filtering (RX and TX filters, stubs), we suffered some inter-band interferences which handicaped the runners in their labor. It was necessary to be attentive to the band openings, especially for the very capricious 10. The main band was 15, on which we achieved third of the total Q and the best rates (6 hrs over 250 Q/hr). We finally achieved more Q, but less mults, than 2006. The overall claimed score is a bit lower than last year, and is under the amazing score of CN3A! Congrats, guys! Thanks everybody for calls and points, and CU next year! 73 from all the FY5KE contest team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 621,120 Friday : Erected a 3-el 20m yagi on a crank-up at 80ft at Devon QTH. Started off at 02z on the Saturday. Surprised to hear some short-skip to Europe at this time as well as the usual assortment of weak South Americans. Stayed working on 20m throughout much of Saturday up to 23z, by which time 20m was all but washed out. But also took a few lengthy rest breaks during the day, particularly when the wall-to-wall noise on 20m (with all those splattery signals -- mine probably included!) became just too much to bear in the headphones. Presumably the new world of DVK (of which I am now an avid devotee!) and the associated sound-cards are as much to blame for the splattery QRM as the more traditional flat-topping of severely over-driven linears? After about four hours sleep, Sunday started at 05z, by which time 20m was already quite lively. Stuck at it through to about 22z, but again with several breaks during the day in order to give my head an occasional rest! Propagation was patchy. JAs were all but unworkable on the Saturday, whereas a dozen or so appeared in the log on Sunday. It was quite the opposite with the West Coast. A good handful of W6/W7 were worked on the Saturday, admittedly with mostly quite weak and fluttery signals but hardly any W6/W7 were worked on the Sunday. Luckily just one KL7 and one KH6 made it into the log to save the day for Zones 01 and 31. Missing Zones were 19 (none of several UA0's worked was sufficently far East), 23 (JU1F hrd but not wrked), 29 (never hrd a VK6), 36, 37 and 39 (looked for VQ9X, but never found). Station : FT-1k MP MkV, Acom 2000 amp, 3el-yagi at 80ft, Win-Test (magic!). A microHAM was used for the DVK. Ian G3WVG saved the day. Without Ian's help I would have never been able to set up the DVK etc. But once set, it worked fine. 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 19,458 My father, Bill, (G4EHT) put a 1/4 wave wire for 40M up last week and invited me to test his 'fishing pole' antenna. And when the XYL said go and play radio, you never question her judgement. Phone isn't my cup of tea generally, so I viewed it as a chance to casually work a few entities on SSB. Conditions seemed average - but better than I expected, as on the Friday I thought it could be an unmitigated disaster working 40M phone low power. Besides, I haven't got a 2.0 kHz narrow SSB filter in the transceiver! Fortunately I surpassed my expectations and Searched & Pounced to 58 countries from 11 zones. I heard more though, VK7GK (Z30) was booming at Saturday breakfast but couldn't crack his pile. ZS9X (Z38) was borderline both evenings but unruly rabble so never bothered. V47KP (Z08) was good each night but always a big pile-up. HC2AQ (Z10) was consistently strong and largely in the clear just below 7200 kHz but I figured he had high QRN/QRM. ZY7C (Z11) could not hear me either. Only North American beyond the east coast was W9RE who was genuinely strong but couldn't hear my puny 100W. On CW it would have been a VERY different story with most of the above! Whilst not generally considered DX, Guernsey and Shetland were unexpected bonuses. Thanks Colin, FAL. Murphy visited twice; Dad showed me the his heath-robinson feed arrangement and the feeder went open circuit when we returned to the shack. Later, I somehow managed to over-write a previous QSO. I knew it was a Mult as the country total had decreased by 1. By a process of elimination - manually recalling which countries I thought I'd worked I found 9Y4W had been overwritten. And yes, I hadn't turned the automatic backup feature on! Lesson learned. Roll on next month for THE contest mode! 73 Dez ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4BUO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,400,868 SO2R with FT1000MP and IC735. First time with rig control and antenna switching working on both radios. Win-Test worked a treat but swapping with Ctrl-S was a bit scary at times! Antennas: 160m shunt fed tower 80m delta loop 40m 4-square 20m 4el up 73ft, delta loop 15m 4el up 83ft 10m 4el up 78ft K9AY receive antenna for 160 & 80 Really hard work in the low power section - on 20m in particular it was impossible to find and hold a run frequency, so just about all the QSOs were S+P. Things were much easier on 15 and 10m. Didn't get C50C on 40m. He was listening on 7.270 and seemed to be working a number of Europeans! Dave G4BUO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FAL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 531,257 Great bonus to have 15m in such good shape and plenty of local Qs on 10m too. I have recently put up a dipole for 160m and this was a bit disappointing - mostly heating the clouds I guess. I tried using SO2R and on the few occasions that I managed to hold a run frequency, I did manage to have a handful of Qs on another band - and even if it doesn't improve my score it at least it kept me awake! 73 and thanks to all for the contacts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4FKA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 236,592 IC756ProIII; MFJ993 auto-tuner; 30m inverted V doublet at 10m; half wave 12m sloping dipole, top end at 10m. Great conditions on the higher bands. 15 was something like its old self. Greatest pleasure was 10m which was open for some time on both days, particularly Saturday. As you can see from the QSO totals, I concentrated on the two higher bands to take advantage of the conditions. Mainly S&P, but some useful runs into EU on 10m as well. Highlight (and shock!) of the weekend was being called and and worked by B4B in Zone 24 on 10m whilst otherwise working a run of EUs on the sloping dipole. Simple station as usual but amazing what some good conditions can bring with a bit of patience through the wall of noise. Just keep calling and calling and if that doesn't work call again! As ever, pleased to give points to the serious entrants and hope you all do well. Hope also that conditions stay up for the CW leg. Geoff G4FKA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G6PZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,388,430 Conditions much better than expected, in particular 15m and 10m; in addition, weather conditions much better than expected as gale force winds were a possibility and could have resulted in lowered towers. Luckily, this was not the case and we were able to keep all towers at full height. Some alterations to station setup prior to the contest so we were able to use the MonstIR yagi on the higher bands for the mult station and being able to use said yagi on 40m on either the run or the mult operation positions. First night 80m was good and we had good runs to NA. We had unexpected sp-E EU opening on 10m and 15m was in excellent shape also to NA; 20m produced some good W6/W7 runs however these were not experienced on the second day. However, lack of JA run on the first day was made up for on the second day. Murphy did not pay us a visit this year and the only real issue experienced was one leg of the 80m phased vertical array making contact with the boom on one of the SteppIRs. Also, the local curry house not delivering 5 rice dishes with our now standard contest curry. Highlights included 10m opening to NA on the Sunday, good 15m runs, good cluster connectivity, MonstIR performance (including on HF) and the winds (or lack thereof). We could have perhaps run more on 40m but we just could not get any serious runs going there to NA -- the exception being the last two or so hours of the contest where we were able to keep a decent rate. See you in CW. G6PZ CG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 510,120 Sadly, this year's CQ WW SSB was a complete non-event. I had a few issues which really put a damper on my enthusiasm (which doesn't take much to dampen these days) and my score. I entered the Assisted section. I don't know why, when you're given your mults on a plate, the rate just falls through the floor. I think it's essential to ignore the cluster until at least midnight on Saturday night! Strangely, as others have said, it's not Single Op Assisted, it's Single Op Distracted. This was borne out by my rapidly failing score on Saturday morning. Using the wonderful WinTest objective facility I could see that I was falling behind after 0400 without any let-up on my enthusiasm up till then (compared to 2005). My 15m signal was awful. Apologies for that. I was given a couple of 'bad audio' reports when I started running on 15m, although I was unaware of the cause. I listened on my second radio, and sure enough, it was awful. I disconnected everything that might have allowed RF in, but to no avail. I tried running using the second radio (FT1000MP + Collins 30S1) and it was as bad. Very strange when you get RF feedback in the same manner on two separate radios! It looks like it's the antenna. I had to repair the feeder last week, so perhaps there's more to the problem than meets the eye. So 15m was out of the frame. I couldn't copy stuff on 20m. This was a real pain. Conditions were good and the band was busy. I now realise that I am not better than the radio. I've always refused to buy additional SSB filters for my radios. I now realise that I'm not better than the radio, and that filters are an essential part of a decent transceiver. I nearly bought two new ones last night! 160m set the phone off. Every time I transmitted on 160m I set the house telephone off. It's done this in the recent past but I never really dwelt on it. This was serious and I couldn't go on. As to why, I have no idea. Was it doing it to the next door neighbour's phone too? Up until July this year it was not a problem, and nothing on 160m (or the phone system) has changed. In fact I actually removed the phone line from the shack earlier this year. It must be RF getting in to the actual phone line, which passes by the antenna field at about 20 feet high. Very simply, it must be over-powering the phone. So, no 160m either. 10m was open and was jumping, but for me, only with lots of Europeans. I called CQ and worked strings of DL's and OE's. I felt this wasn't as productive as it might have appeared at first. I have some horrible bug which I caught in Ghana a few weeks ago which I can't shake off. Have now been put on a course of some extremely potent anti-biotic. I'm run down. (Just adding this to the list of excuses!) But it was the 20m and filtering problem which finally did it for me. I find it incredibly difficult to walk away from a contest. It takes me to a place I don't want to go (mentally). I am tired for a start, which I am not good at handling these days, as mild paranoia seems to creep in (I think - I'm not an expert). Then I just get so depressed once I have had a sleep because I feel that I could rescue the situation, but then another side says - no way, you're .5 mil points behind already. So, last night I booked my flight to operate at CT9L in November! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM0IIO Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 104,416 Ft-1000MP and 20m EDZ. QRM from all directions, but still had a ball. Great contest. 73, George ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GM7V Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,755,320 The contest itself was a bit disappointing to be honest. For me, conditions were NOT very good. I am always amused by how high activity is interpreted as 'good conditions' during CQWW. 160m - Spent a bit more time here than usual in a search for QSOs! No transatlantic signals on the first night, two USA and three VE on the second, no zone 8, ZY7C and several others didn't hear me. 80m - 8.8% QSOs were NA and these came in dribs and drabs, no decent runs and they were rarely loud. Very little to the east either and I missed some African multipliers 40m - several have reported on the odd conditions. For me they were just bad. Probably the worst path to NA I can remember in this contest (only 9% of QSOs), even less to Asia with a big gap in zones east of the z17/21 line until I work z30 long path. Very odd spells where the band almost faded out. Maybe MUF falling below 7MHz here. Certainly killed by the aurora. Sunday evening saw better signals from the NW but I didn't seem to be able to make any headway. Regarding activity below 7.040, it now seems that this territory is regarded as 'open' where before, at least it seemed good hunting ground for non-Eu QSOs. Not any more. I am not sure that I, or anyone else has quite figured out what to do with our access above 7.1MHz? 20m - Thank God for 20m. At least I could make some QSOs though it was several hours each morning before the audible stations became workable. NA was present on day one but mostly zone 5, zone 4 stations were weak and watery and Z3 absent. They were better on day 2 but zone 3 was weak and had less than 10 QSOs here. Missed zone 6. Never had a hope of zone 1 or 31, zone 12 was never found, 19 and 27 were propagation-wise perhaps a skip too far (north) and I missed three African zones. Only a third of QSOs were NA. 15m - Despite this being my best points per Q band, it was also my worst band, relatively speaking. Propagation here was really killed on day one but perked up after 1300 on day 2. 15m was very poor F2-wise and the Sporadic E was less strong than on 10m, thus it was hard to make headway. I only had 145 Qs on 15m on day one and could only manage 3 z5 stations. Both mornings were dreadful, could not work beyond zone17 or zone21. 10m - Sporadic E was better than nothing and spiced up things a bit but Africans were scanty and SA was hard to get at all. In retrospect I spent rather too long here looking for stuff beyond zone14 / 15 and may have been better employed elsewhere. Es seemed more widespread on Sunday. Someone posted a comment this year, echoing something I've been bleating on about for years. If you are using a DVK but it's not your voice in the message, you (may) cause great confusion. Thanks for all the QSOs and all the fun (and frustration!). Next year....... CU in CW Keith GM4YXI (GM7V) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: GW4BLE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,273,791 Calimed score not far off that in 2006, but last year I lost the 2nd radio after about nine hours, and ended up with 30 more mults! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 18,400 Rig: IC-756 Ant: Vertical 5/8wawe (28m) Nice contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC8N Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 29,300,000 Congratulations to AO8A on victory and to C50C for their outstanding field day style effort. Sorry for the delay in posting this message. We took some family time in zone 10 after the contest and just returned home on Sunday. We were not packet assisted during this contest. See you in November! --Trey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 10,001,137 This contest proved that SSB can be fun, too. Although we do not like SSB contests and we rarely have enough motivation to one seriously this time we fully enjoyed the game and were glad to enter. Rigs: 2x TS-950 SDX’s and HM amps Antennas: 160m: dipole on the trees @18m 80m: dipoles @18m 40m: 2 el HB9CV @ 22m 20m: 5 ele Yagi at 13m 15m: 6 ele Yagi at 17m 10m: 5 ele Yagi at 27m, 4 ele Yagi @6m Beverages were used for low band Rxing NA (350m) and JA (175m) and served for every 1000 QSOs (Ararat 10 yrs old) Arriving to the station on Thursday night and finding several antennas disfunctional due to storm damage and theft (!) gave us a very dark outlook for the weekend but alcohol dissolves pessimism and goulash relaxes minds so after a general reset on team members + HA6PN birthday celebration (singing included) we started to rebuild antennas, fix beverages etc on Friday morning. By 20 GMT everything seemed to be ready and working so we could even had a nap before the contest started. The aurora killed the fun of our Nordic friends but gave us some nice EU runs on very short skip. Seeing the last10 often above 500 and once even on 600 (link) gave a mental boost. The EU rate was so high that it was not worth to bother with the weak JA’s at that time. Saturday produced nice NA runs on 15 and 20 but 15m condx stopped at East W0 and did not yield any zone 3. 40m was in a bad shape throughout the night but 80 and 160 were OK. Sunday morning did not greet us with repeating the Saturday Es so we stayed on 40m and enjoying 200+ hours from EU. At this moment the contest really felt like an EUHFC where some DX were also allowed. Working JA’s well beyond their SS on the high bands forecasted loooong NA openings and some more pileups. 15m opened up with great rates again with even some Zone 3’s dropping in. 10m NA opening never materialized for us, it seems that the multi-hop Es favoured south G – F – Central Italy – 9A – 5B axis. The 15 and 20 remained open quite late with strong but rare NA calls and frequent and weak EY calls. The last hour produced a nice simplex USA run in the newly opened 40m band segment. Frequency fights were not very bad this year but splatter was all around. The freq fights to remember was S52ZW, IF9A and AA1K. As the long-haul DXs seemed to trace closer DXs (like W0s and W7s calling in after or during a steady East Coast stream) and breaking the pileup by these made it very difficult to recover it back. We are quite happy with the score and it seems that all major Central EU M/S finished around 10M so let the UBN set the final order :) Congrats to 9A1P for their success again! Funny and not-so funny moments (flames should be directed to ha1ag only): vp5t: cq contest vp5t hg6n: hotel germany six november vp5t: who is the germany six? hg6n: hotel germany six november vp5t: I said, who is the germany six? hg6n: hotel germany six november vp5t: I want the germany six and not hotel germany six november! The best ear award goes to ZM2M – they produced a good signal around 1230 GMT on 40m. To my biggest surprise they even answered me after calling them 2-3 times. The shittiest signal award this year goes to EU1AZ for his AM-SSB/WB-FM combination. Effectively jamming and wiping out 10 kHz of 20m in prime EU-AS time is an achievement which could have offered him a career 40 years ago. The definition of LOUD is UA9CLB on 80m. Usually HA6NL can produce that kind of 80m signal from being abt 5 km away. HG6N running on 15m when the overstressed AGC shuts down receiver… the reason is 2 kHz (!) below: famous W1 contester: CQ contest call call listening 21143 21143 HG6N: Can you move away? You are just destroying my pileup. famous W1 contester: no, I have been running here for an hour :) I was wondering how productive that hour was with all the calls he got on 21143… 73! zoli ha1ag ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3K Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 602,234 Thank you, for a nice contest, it was fun……. 73 & DX Edwin HI3k Ex HI3NR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HI3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 4,435,888 Thanks to all station logged this time!! The worst contest begining ever from this site, at 6:00 utc on saturday only 250 station logged and lookslike as on EME propagation one way propa also heavy lightning storm and heavy winds and rain, at that time and totally devastated with the results so far I leaved the operating room and went to my Dear Je to be consolated. I wake up around 11:30 UTC and try it again on 20 meter for a short time then the propa did a 360 degrees turned and the pile up start for hours then at a big power outage on Saturday from 19:00 till 23:30 utc pulled me to work with a FT857D with an emergency battery and paper logs (no computer due to UPS run off after 1 hour running) and a hand mic but, I am sturborn as a mule or even worst and did not resign. On Sunday things becomes better and played a long time on 15 and 10 and leaved the 20 for the last band. On 160 and 80 things played different and better than on 40 ( the worst band in the contest) this band leave me wishing the pile up from EU but did never came. Congrats to the virtually winner P40A FB and great Job again hope next year if God will things get different for me... A lot of murphys around by the way at the time of the contest my island been hit by a heavy tropical storm ( heavy electric storm and very high winds) but not enought to pull out form the waves on Monday news i read more than 100 casualties and thousands of homeless. Thanks again and if God will let's see you in next pile... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK3W Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 44,625 NICE BAND, NICE CONTEST. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6P Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 296,412 ICOM 735 MOSLEY TA 33JR-N ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,696 AM only BAREFOOT,,, CU agn another band and mode , G,L DE hl5yi CHAE.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1GW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,074,756 Many thanks to Ken, HZ1GW/GW0RHC for hosting me! Thomas HZ1EX/PY2ZXU/SM0CXU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HZ1IK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 111,435 I did not know which band to enter 10m or 40m... Last year I entered 10m so I finally decided to go for 40m this year. Thanks for all the nice qsos in the contest. 73 Manfred, HZ1IK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I4JUQ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 100,344 This is my first contest experience, after 35 years of radio, due to finally install a TRUE antenna (klm 4el). Pleasant experience, many stations from all the world, a general good education, many dx-call very intresting also for dxcc activity and now, the CW! meet you on hf Giovanni I4JUQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IO4T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,336,980 Wow! Vy good contest QSO and score record at IO4T. Our team is improving on year after year. Vy good job on mult station this year. Tnx for visiting, supporting (and operating a little) to IW9HIK IZ4DYQ IK2JUB. RUN MULT FT1000MP - IC761 AL1200 - TL922 Mult station was a real "mults only". Filters dunestar, stubs. Switch boxes by IZ4EFN. ***On IO4T roof: 10m 4 yagi (5m hight on the roof) 15m 5L (12m hight on the roof) 20m 5L (10m hight on the roof) 10/15/20 KLM KT34A 40m flat top full size dipole (6m hight on the roof looking to US), sloping dipole n/e 80m sloping dipole + 1/4 vertical "biscia" 160m dipole + vertical "biscia" ***On IO4T garden (2-300m of coax away from shack): K9AY, beverage 200m to USA, beverage 160m to JA Our big improvement since last IARU HF has been otpimize K9AY and put down BVGs. XCL HVM job, EFN help and pre-contest tests helped a lot! We are in Modena city and probably full dipped on a big noise area. Rx antenna are to improve since still are noisy (IK2JUB ears are sure on that!) but already are a big help in copy callsigns rapidly on 80/160. I think conditions were bad but not very bad as expected for outside EU. Thanks to Es on 10 and 15 we run away from crowded 20m. 160: many eu but 2 z5 qsos only (VY2ZM, K3BU) 80: our money band during night, good number US qso on 2nd night, no way to break pileup on many Carribean mults. 40: for the first time (thanks to new flat top dipole) we were able to run a little split US and a good number of EU for our personal best 460 QSO! 20: as expected vy crowded band many EU but not too bad to JA and US. Lost some zone and some mult as we always on 20m... 15: the only real "more then expected" band; some JA in the early morning then EU then a quite a good number of US east cost mainly z5. Just one z3 qso: WE7K answered to our run. 10: vy hard... openings were on Es but seemed to be better on z14 since many spots were totally absent! We put on the log KC1XX NQ4I K1TTT AA1ON during a vy little 5 minute opening when others EU were running better. On Asia mult too we listen few of we saw on the cluster. On all bands but mainly on 80/40 calling mults has been a real hard fight with other big EU team. See you on WWCW, any comments to ik4vet@gmail.com 73s Andrea IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4B Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 393,752 I enjoied very much this year contest, had a great fun even at solar cicle bottom with zero sun spot. Score is only slightly down since last year (same antenna, same contest qth, same power legal limit). FT-2000 trx performed well. To further increase front end against strong out of band signals I used our passive Cauer pb filter (QEX March/Aprile 2003) http://xoomer.alice.it/sergiocartoceti/ QSL via IK4AUY (buro is fine). Best Regards and see you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4M Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,744,897 It's now proved: Murphy definitely loves our antennas... We noticed too late, after the contest have begun, that the 160m dipole had high SWR. All the rest worked ok, until Murphy payed us another visit on the second night: this time the 40m 3El had a major failure and forced us to continue the whole night with a 1/4 wave vertical... a pity, since 40m were not in a good shape and some more aluminum would have definitely helped improving the rate. Despite that, we had great fun. 15m surprisingly have been our money band this year, with some nice NA runs until late, specially on Saturday. This is probably our best result in M/S and, being at the bottom of the cycle, it means that our hard work have paid off. We still need further improvements... let's see what's next! CU in the CW part. IR4M Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4X Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 16,580,000 Another amazing CQWW contest. Unexpected conditions on 20 and 15 meters. It is a great pleasure to work all friend that always calling us in every contests from many many years. Every time is a great job to prepare stations, antennas and computers but every time is a great fun . Our qsos records this year but with a lower average in points/qsos. Many thanks to all entrants that make this game so thrilling. Cu on CW. 73 de MONTE CAPRA CONTEST TEAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IS0/K7QB Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,645,968 rig :IC 756 + TS 950D ant :TH6DXX + HF2V + 80mt wire with atu log :WinTest 3.17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ1LBG Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,001,966 Very good contest...Thanks to all... Incredible opening on 10 and 15...40, as usual, impossible to make running... 73 and see you in the next contest IZ1LBG Filippo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J3A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,463,740 Score was direct from the logging program. We had some reasonably decent propagation but high QRN levels, which is typical of the Caribbean. We worked a number of 6 banders and I think that many of them were happy about that. We did do significantly better on 160 this year than last. We were low on some of the other bands for various reasons. BTW, if you worked us on 20M, we were using an Elecraft K3 to an AL1200. Thanks for all the QSOs and see you next time. QSL via WA1S. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J42T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,913,186 NICE TO BE ALL TOGETHER TO A NEW SHACK AFTER 2 YEARS. GREAT FUN !! A PROBLEM WITH THE DRIVE ELEMENT FROM STEPPIR (thanks TASOS for the solution) , FORCE THREE OF US TO SPEND ALL NIGHT AT THE TOP OF THE ROOF UNDER THE RAIN TO FIX IT. WE WELCOME IN OUR TEAM VICKY SV2KBS(YL) , DIANA SV2HRV(XYL) and TASOS SV2YM. HPE CU SOON. BEST REGARDS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JQ1BVI Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 964,896 Have a fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: JR5VHU Class: M/M HP Total Score = 6,769,200 Thanks all worked us! We (JR5VHU +Ops) operated at the site where JA5BJC (passed away this April) set up his M/M heaven in 1992. We worked hard as he did and had a very nice time in the contest. We'll see you in the CQWW CW contest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0EJ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 83,916 exercised the 80M loop with my 1000MP from home for a few hours between work and chores. I was surprised how well 10M sounded - LOUD zone 8 in addition to the normal LU/PY QSO Party. Tnx to all the contest-peditions for the fun. 73, Mark K0EJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0GAS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 35,280 a WILD WEEKEND! ESPECIALLY WHEN I GOT INTO THE WRONG LOG EARLY SUN AM. tHINK I GOT IT ALL STRAIGHTENED OUT! VERY GLAD TO SEE 15 AND 10 OPENING UP A LITTLE. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0MD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 145,928 Despite band conditions, I was delighted with the DX I worked, especially on 80 meters. I was surprised at how well 10 and 15 meters worked during the Sunday of the contest. I found 40 meters to be a tough band for operation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 691,718 That was painful. Lots of work for little rewards. JA's were easier to work on 80 than they were on 40, where they kept cqing in my face. Thought the 40 m antenna was broken until the VKs and ZLs came right back to me. 20 m was also a mess with alligators on every freq. 15 was a pleasant surprise and 10 showed some life. Made it interesting. I'll do better in SS, and then hope to join the multi-op for CW WW. CU all next weekend. Thanks to all for the Q's and the fun. K0OU Steve in MO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 737,933 I decided to maximize my score for the Phone event and figured the assisted category would help. I did S&P the entire contest. I was running 300 ~ 500 Watts which raises me one notch above the LP category, but I did have to wait my turn in many of the pileups. I find the last two hours are the most difficult because everyone is trying to snatch up multipliers before time runs out! I only spent enough time to pick off easy contacts and multipliers on 160m. There were no WX storms in this area to disrupt 160m and 75m DX signals. The 40m band is always a challenge with unpredictable conditions and split operation. But once I get a few splits logged, 40m adds to the contesting exitement when you have to find stations, set up the splits, and work them. I noticed some DX stations were taking advantage of their expanded frequency privledges in the 7100 ~ 7200 KHz range. The big surprise was to have 10m and 15m openings on both Saturday and Sunday. My band QSO totals are virtually equal for 40/10 and 20/15. I didn't plan that outcome, I just followed the packet activity and band openings as they came and went. I even noticed messages on the packet system about 10m being open between SA and EU. One of my contest goals is to achieve DXCC in one contest. I made it. I logged 114 entities, and missed 20m single band DXCC by 2 countries. There were a couple spotted I left on the table because the signals/propogation was marginal and the pileup was too big. Propogation stole some multipliers on 15m Sunday afternoon. There were a dozen JA stations spotted, they were strong enough to verify their callsigns, but the NA to AS path just wasn't strong enough for them to hear me calling! There were a few other Asians (9M6, VR10, XU, and V) stations that avoided my log as well. I steup my internal Icom DVK and used that for sending my ID and signal reports. It "felt like" my response rate was much better compared to when I called using the mic. It sure saved on my voice. Well the second BIG one for the 2007/8 contest season is behind me (CQWW DX RTTY is my first big one). My station shake down was nearly flawless, with only a problem with my 144/440 vertical at the top of the tower. I installed it several years ago and only hooked a piece of coax and a radio on Friday afternoon. It can't hear beans. 73 de Bob - KØRC in MN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RF Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 3,850 No time to get on but had to do something so I played on 160. 73, Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0SR Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,171,265 Conditions definitely worse than last year. Lots of people calling CQ in my face :( It has to get better someday, right ? 73 SR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BV Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 102,678 20 meters was pretty darned crowded. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1BX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,752,630 IC-775, IC-761, DXD 160- Loaded Tower, 3 radials, 500' beverage 80- Inv Vee @ 60' 40- 402-CD @ 50' (new 10/07) 20, 15, 10- X7 @ 60' & A3 South @ 30' The antennas sit atop a steep ridge that drops 250' from North to East to South. Elevation is 560'. To the NE there are no higher hills for at least 3 miles. N1MM Logger Fixed 402-CD coil 1 hr before test (fold over tower) Finished clip-leading 160 tuner caps & putting down 3 radials on 160 5 mins before test Slept 30 mins first night in the chair. Took 2 off hours Sat night to watch World Series game. Slept 5 hours Sun AM, made 1 contact (FS/K1XM on 80) then slept 2 more hours as I was groggy from the Tylenol PM, duh. Almost all S&P. Sunday's 10m open was just like a good 6m opening. As the E clouds moved, each new country would come in for a few minutes - from I north to GI. Minimal use of 2nd radio as I have not finished the filters yet. I did get the KK1L 2X6 relay controller working with the lockout feature. Chose not to go assisted this year (at 2355Z) as I have improved the station enough. Two years ago I had an FT-847 and an A3. Without packet I lost 19 countries on 20 meters (from 2006), but with the new 40m 2 el beam, I gained 13 on 40m. Also 15 m condx helped this year. Since I could not hold a FQ on 20 or 15, I spent more time on 10m. I realized that since I have to spend 95% of my time tuning the bands, I can find enough mults. Also, there are so many stations following the latest spots, I was always fighting KW stations. My wife came into the shack Friday evening just before the test. I showed her the 2 rotor controllers and asked if she knew what that meant. I said "I finally have 2 towers!" She doesn't get it. I told her each time one of kids move out, I get another tower. I *should* be up to 4 towers before the sunspot peak. And, the rule is once the tower is up, it stays up. It doesn't matter how many kids move back in, otherwise, I will start counting grandkids. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1IM Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 333,526 Signal strengths from EU became weak on Sunday ! Low Q's this year, but higher score than last over my 207k. Had the first chance to try my 70'/35'/ TH6 stack WITH BIP or L / U. Can't wait for the CW weekend...C U all there and see you agn in Dayton ! Tom, k1im Union, Ct ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1RX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,191,680 Not our best effort but still a great weekend as usual with a few issues - operator shortage, one op was just coming off an illness that affected the voice, magic 2 el. wire beam on 80 M did not work (feed line issue, no time to fix), conditions were apparently fair on the low bands but given the antenna issues, did rather poorly there and the high bands were amazing - 15 was almost like the ole days! 10 M open to Eu on Sunday - wow what is the bottom of the sunspot cycle coming to? Think we all got more sleep that we planned and did you hear, the New England Patriots (American Football) won again - now 8 wins! And one other interesting footnote, the Boston Red Sox are what we call in America, the World Champs, after winning the World Series following the CQ WW SSB test for 2007! Okay, so I was a little distracted! (Hey Matt, AD1C - what do you think about them Rockies now?) Thanks to all that called and answered our calls during this wild weekend! This station continues to help the new ops getting into contesting - love that aspect of the hobby and being able to provide a nice setup to facilitate a good experience. Thanks to Glen, K1GW for flying up from NC to play radio! 73, Mark, K1RX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,891,449 Surprisingly good condx for zero sunspots. Seemed at times like the Zone 14 QSO Party. Had 1052 Z14 QSOs and over half of the 15 & 75 M QSOs were Z14. Clearly, the new HF ops in many of those countries are having a positive impact. Had over 800 Qs on 15 the first day, then slept in until after 15Z Sunday and found the band closing to EU 2 hrs earlier than on Saturday. Still no SO2R on SSB here, so missed lots of easy mults. Will be with a multi-op group as HI3A for CW. 73, Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TTT Class: M/M HP Total Score = 8,815,424 Nice run of Europe on 10m Sunday morning. Added a bunch of multipliers really quick in that one. New 4-square on 80m was definately worth the summer work! And having a volunteer to do most of 40m was a REALLY big help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2DBK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 111,544 Boy, were things tough on Saturday. I'm just running 100w to a G5RV, and folks just couldn't hear me, even when nobody else was calling. Lots of improvement on Sunday, but boy do I miss a little help from old Sol! It was nice to see 10 and 15 open, and there were a few surprises in there for me, like working 5H3EE on the first call on 15m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,643,749 Conditions better than expected ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2PS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 874,293 A bit down from last year, but didn't put in as much time. Among other things, had Penn State to watch (unfortunately they lost, but Saturday night seemed pretty dead anyway, so not a big deal), and also the Eagles (who won, but probably cost me a few points). Thanks to the op at K2AX who moved to 15 for the zone 5 QSO in the last hour. I really need to get that stuff out of the way earlier. Congrats again to Ed, N1UR for another terrific effort in SOAB LP. Thought he was still gonna be in Asia, but all the competing LP guys will have to look forward to CQWW CW for that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2RD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 311,360 First DX contest from home qth. Usually operate at K6IDX multi station but Saturday night wedding kept me home. Really different using Hexbeam at 40 feet and GP for 80/40 instead of big hardware at K6IDX. Great fun nonetheless. Thanks to all for the qsos and listening for my weak signal. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 26,712 Unexpected house guests limited my operating time in addition to my normal non-SSB proclivities (too much chance that a neighbor might realize that RFI they were experiencing might be man made). Sounded like much better condx than had been expected. Maybe there is hope for cw. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2TE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,282,319 My usual part-time effort as I did the night shift at W1HH. Found 80 & 40 stunk so that made for a long night. On the other hand, I was very surprised to see 10 bubble up briefly on Sunday for Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3AN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 116,725 FT-1000MP, 135' inverted L for 80/40, single element delta loop at 55' (oriented E/W) for 20-10. My first entry in many years for the CQWW-SSB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,069,884 The first phone contest I actually did enjoy. I've been neglecting the station for too long and it finally paid me back. After the European sunrise on Saturday it became clear that it is not going to be a competitive entry, so I just took the ride. For a first time in a phone contest didn't get a headache and didn't even feel sleepy. Went to bed both nights mostly because no one would hear me anymore and it was REALLY frustrating. At some point got really irritated and even yelled at some guys who insisted on giving their calls only once despite my 6th or 7th request for a refill. After that developed a new rule - just move on after the second request. It really did work for me - saved a lot of time. Well, maybe some contacts too. Congratulations to K5ZD for the fantastic score ! I knew that M/S stations will have hard time trying to get him but couldn't imagine that it would be tough for M/2 too. Congratulations also to NN3W and K4ZW for proving that big scores do not come from New England only. Thanks to Jim, WA3FET for letting me operate the station again and to all of you who called. CU in CW ! 73, Alex LZ4AX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3DNE Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 319,634 Low and small antenna + low sunspot # = Low Score! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3EST Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,615,795 six hours lost due to power outage on saturday cost us some qsos and mults 73 Phil KT3Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LR Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,777,150 Congrats to all of the Multi Multi Contest stations, especially KC1XX and W3LPL for fine scores and great competition. It certainly was another MAJOR FUN radio contesting weekend with some of the very best Contestmen (and ContestLadies!)on the planet here at K3LR. Extreme thanks to Dave, W9ZRX who interrupted his vacation and worked countless hours getting the station ready to go. Everything worked perfect. My sincere thanks to the operators who drove long hours (N2NT, N2NC, W2RQ. LU7DW was the longest drive at 12 hours) and to the ops that flew in (like N9RV from his new home in Montana and KL9A from Idaho + K1AR from New Hampshire and KI4MTU from Georgia). With a K3LR radio room full of great operators it is all about having fun on the radio for 48 hours. I am very pleased with the operation of our new 24 element 20 meter Yagi array. I never thought that working more than 3300 QSOs on 20 meters was possible from Western Pennsylvania, but K1AR, N2NT and N3SD did just that! A Super 239 hour to Europe on Saturday morning! Ashley, KI4MTU came back to K3LR for more 40 meter contest fun. A great time was had by all! For the K3LR station description, pictures and details, please see the K3LR web page at http://www.k3lr.com The 2006 K3LR CQWW video is on www.youtube.com Search for K3LR. We’ll see you in 4 weeks for the CQWW CW contest! See you then (on all 6 bands)! For the K3LR Multi Multi Team, 73! Tim K3LR K3LR@K3LR.com BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES OPs 160 394 405 1.03 18 60 N2NC 80 1030 2475 2.40 28 105 K8CX W9ZRX K3LR 40 1294 2833 2.19 32 125 N9RV W2RQ KI4MTU 20 3321 9289 2.80 39 169 N2NT K1AR N3SD 15 2042 5559 2.72 32 146 K3UA KL9A 10 375 729 1.94 20 61 N3GJ LU7DW --------------------------------------------------- Totals 8456 21290 2.52 169 666 => 17,777,150 Continent Statistics K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent North America 328 478 548 389 302 191 2236 25.6 South America 12 34 55 127 147 163 538 6.2 Europe 45 506 612 2502 1513 16 5194 59.4 Asia 1 16 25 251 22 1 316 3.6 Africa 9 14 26 67 63 11 190 2.2 Oceania 3 29 73 100 63 2 270 3.1 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 49/14 23/22 73/60 146/42 62/31 19/9 372/178 372/178 1 24/10 28/16 72/23 62/15 31/4 3/1 220/69 592/247 2 44/3 32/20 47/13 44/1 11/0 1/0 179/37 771/284 3 28/10 49/16 21/4 25/0 7/0 . 130/30 901/314 4 25/4 72/13 31/7 9/2 . . 137/26 1038/340 5 7/5 81/11 37/3 7/0 . . 132/19 1170/359 6 13/5 53/6 37/7 11/0 . . 114/18 1284/377 7 10/5 36/3 58/5 13/1 . . 117/14 1401/391 8 6/0 15/4 48/4 16/2 ..... ..... 85/10 1486/401 9 13/0 18/5 30/4 4/0 . . 65/9 1551/410 10 24/2 21/0 13/1 5/5 1/2 . 64/10 1615/420 11 11/0 9/1 3/2 141/44 28/13 . 192/60 1807/480 12 . 12/0 9/2 239/14 72/32 . 332/48 2139/528 13 . 13/0 6/0 134/11 186/20 8/2 347/33 2486/561 14 . 8/0 18/0 148/5 111/10 21/4 306/19 2792/580 15 . 14/0 21/0 167/7 172/11 22/22 396/40 3188/620 16 ..... 6/0 12/0 189/9 156/4 15/7 378/20 3566/640 17 . 10/0 17/0 171/7 96/7 13/4 307/18 3873/658 18 . 11/0 17/0 121/10 120/8 9/0 278/18 4151/676 19 . 13/0 19/0 124/2 61/3 69/14 286/19 4437/695 20 . 15/0 21/0 134/1 50/4 64/4 284/9 4721/704 21 . 15/0 31/4 81/3 38/6 16/3 181/16 4902/720 22 6/2 24/1 58/2 92/5 14/0 . 194/10 5096/730 23 7/0 33/0 49/1 86/4 2/0 . 177/5 5273/735 0 1/2 50/0 51/2 19/1 ..... ..... 121/5 5394/740 1 2/2 45/5 26/0 2/0 . . 75/7 5469/747 2 15/4 44/1 22/1 3/0 . . 84/6 5553/753 3 11/5 29/2 24/0 1/0 . . 65/7 5618/760 4 3/1 24/0 33/0 6/0 . . 66/1 5684/761 5 3/0 24/1 26/1 1/0 . . 54/2 5738/763 6 4/0 31/0 20/2 3/0 . . 58/2 5796/765 7 7/0 16/0 61/1 . . . 84/1 5880/766 8 9/0 15/2 26/0 ..... ..... ..... 50/2 5930/768 9 15/0 5/0 24/0 . . . 44/0 5974/768 10 19/2 7/2 17/0 2/0 . . 45/4 6019/772 11 16/0 6/2 10/3 73/2 18/2 . 123/9 6142/781 12 . 14/0 4/1 123/1 88/6 . 229/8 6371/789 13 . 13/0 10/0 93/0 175/5 7/4 298/9 6669/798 14 . 3/0 7/0 82/4 181/4 8/3 281/11 6950/809 15 . 2/0 8/0 110/0 123/0 . 243/0 7193/809 16 ..... 6/0 5/0 93/0 73/2 6/1 183/3 7376/812 17 . 5/0 12/0 95/1 37/1 4/0 153/2 7529/814 18 . 5/0 8/0 119/3 32/1 13/0 177/4 7706/818 19 . 9/0 21/0 99/0 33/1 27/0 189/1 7895/819 20 . 7/0 11/1 79/1 27/0 39/3 163/5 8058/824 21 . 10/0 42/1 71/1 16/0 11/0 150/2 8208/826 22 . 11/0 18/1 49/3 19/1 . 97/5 8305/831 23 22/2 38/0 60/1 29/1 2/0 . 151/4 8456/835 DAY1 267/60 611/118 748/142 2169/190 1218/155 260/70 ..... 5273/735 DAY2 127/18 419/15 546/15 1152/18 824/23 115/11 . 3183/100 TOT 394/78 1030/133 1294/157 3321/208 2042/178 375/81 . 8456/835 QSO Counts By Band-Country K3LR CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 1A 2 1 1 1 1 3A 1 3B8 1 1 1 3DA 1 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 2 4L 1 1 4O 1 1 1 1 1 4S 1 4U1I 2 1 1 4X 1 4 8 4 5B 1 5 3 5 4 5H 1 3 1 5U 1 5X 1 5Z 2 2 6W 1 2 2 3 2 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 7X 2 1 8P 1 2 3 2 2 2 9A 2 11 9 35 18 9G 1 1 9H 1 1 9J 1 1 9K 1 2 2 1 1 9M2 2 9M6 1 9Y 1 1 1 1 A3 1 A4 1 1 A6 1 1 1 A7 1 1 1 BV 4 BY 12 C3 1 1 C5 1 1 1 1 1 1 C6 1 1 1 2 1 1 C9 1 1 1 CE 2 4 13 14 11 CE0Y 2 CM 2 3 5 3 3 1 CN 2 3 3 8 3 CP 2 CT 8 14 23 19 CT3 3 3 3 4 3 3 CU 1 1 1 4 5 2 CX 3 2 6 9 11 DL 6 97 112 443 284 2 DU 1 3 E5/s 1 3 3 E7 1 6 2 9 5 EA 2 35 59 180 158 EA6 1 1 4 8 EA8 1 2 5 15 15 2 EA9 1 1 1 2 EI 1 5 7 18 16 EK 1 2 1 EL 1 ER 1 1 2 2 ES 2 2 4 EU 1 1 4 EX 1 EY 1 F 5 35 37 180 124 2 FG 1 1 2 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FM 1 1 2 2 2 3 FR 1 FY 1 1 1 2 2 1 G 3 50 89 300 135 2 GD 1 3 6 4 GI 1 4 6 21 12 GJ 3 1 GM 1 10 10 37 24 GU 3 3 2 GW 8 4 30 14 HA 2 5 7 31 10 HB 5 14 45 24 HB0 1 1 2 2 1 HC 1 1 4 1 1 HC8 1 1 1 2 1 1 HH 1 1 1 HI 1 1 2 2 2 1 HK 1 2 3 9 9 7 HL 2 HP 1 2 2 HR 1 2 2 6 6 4 HS 3 HV 1 1 HZ 2 6 1 I 3 40 40 311 214 3 IG9 1 IS 2 1 9 8 IT9 5 3 20 16 J2 1 1 1 J3 1 1 1 1 2 1 J6 1 1 J7 1 1 J8 1 1 1 1 JA 6 8 161 3 JW 1 1 1 K 226 84 263 159 140 106 KG4 1 1 1 KH0 1 1 KH2 2 4 2 3 KH6 1 9 8 11 15 2 KL 1 1 10 1 KP2 3 1 4 4 4 6 KP4 3 3 6 2 8 8 LA 1 3 11 8 LU 9 10 35 36 49 LX 4 2 4 2 LY 3 2 11 3 LZ 7 4 16 14 OA 1 1 1 OE 1 6 10 43 27 OH 6 2 39 8 OH0 1 3 OK 3 15 25 71 45 OM 1 8 7 15 13 ON 1 10 21 76 46 2 OZ 5 12 5 P4 3 3 3 5 5 4 PA 2 20 19 123 52 2 PJ2 2 2 2 3 3 2 PY 1 6 23 38 51 63 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 S5 3 11 23 42 41 1 SM 8 24 13 SP 1 17 19 71 43 ST 1 1 SU 1 2 SV 2 3 20 13 SV5 1 1 1 1 SV9 1 3 3 T7 1 1 1 1 1 TA 1 1 3 4 TA1 3 1 TF 3 TG 1 4 2 1 TI 1 4 2 7 6 3 TK 3 TT 1 1 TU 1 UA 12 8 83 9 UA2 1 1 2 1 UA9 1 26 1 UN 7 UR 18 12 31 13 V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 2 2 1 V5 2 3 1 V7 1 1 1 V8 1 VE 74 358 236 148 85 30 VK 2 12 39 37 23 VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP2V 1 1 VP5 2 2 2 2 2 2 VP8 1 1 1 1 VP9 2 1 1 3 2 1 VQ9 1 1 1 VR 1 XE 4 6 9 18 19 7 XU 1 YB 1 7 YL 3 YO 2 6 23 21 YU 10 6 30 17 YV 2 2 1 2 9 4 Z3 1 1 3 2 ZA 1 1 ZC4 1 ZD7 1 ZD8 1 ZF 1 ZL 6 17 33 16 ZL7 1 ZP 1 1 2 1 5 ZS 1 1 3 10 15 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3OO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,595,573 Nice conditions with no sunspots. Things should be amazing when we get some. SOAPBOX: To the stations that just just say QRZ at the end of a QSO I will not wait for you to send a call sign. QRZ has not been worked yet in my log so you are a new qso. Not giving your callsign is your problem not mine. I like my call I guess you don't like yours. To this point in a 42 year contest career I have yet to log station QRZ. 73,Rick K3OO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3PP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 51,830 This is a crummy score, but I could only do the contest from my weekend cabin, where I only have a Butternut vertical and a mediocre-to-crummy RF location, depending on direction. My amplifier is on the blink, so I was forced to go LP. Still, it was fun to get into the fray after such a long hiatus. Hopefully, I'll be back in good shape for CW. TU to all VY 73 de Glenn K3PP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,077,304 Not bad for no sunspots. Some bands up some down but all in all seemed better than last year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3ZJ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 52,830 Not bad for a sloping dipole made out of hook-up wire costing $1. and erected just b4 start. Regards to all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4AB Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,124,718 Temporary antennas...wires in trees. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4BK Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 14,025 Yaesu FT-897D Hustler 5 Band Vertical Inverted Vee on 80 Meters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DLI Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 77,572 Orion II with 100 WTs and Antenna was 135 foot dipole up 55 feet feed with 450-ohm ladder line and used a Johnson Matchbox. Only operated Saturday afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon until contest end. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 652,707 What a difference from RTTY contest last month. The only hole in propagation was over the pole, missing zones 17,18,19,22,23,24,26, and 34. I still can't get the qsos that the NE stations get. Best hour was at 2200 Saturday with 185. With all the rain we got last week, the line noise not too bad. Constant S5 to the west and S3 to the NE. About 2 hours on Sunday of S9 to NE, so I just stopped to have a meal and a short nap. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 383,469 This was mostly a daytime, high-band, S&P operation. And, this is the first time I've ever operated assisted/packet from my home QTH. Wanted to see how N1MM would work in this environment. It was kind of wierd clicking spots instead of spinning the radio knob. One thing this kind of operation appears to do is to increase the mult total. Another thing I noticed was some of the big guns jumping all over bad spots. Obviously, if accuracy is a goal, there is no substitute to actually listening to the other guy's callsign before you pounce. Thanks for all the Q's. 73....//Steve K4EU FT-1000/Field QRO HF2500X 8 ele LP up 55' for 20-10 Quarter-wave wire vertical for 40 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4LY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 65,893 Taking 3 1/2 hours out to watch my Colorado Rockies Saturday night almost ruined the contest for me! However, the CQWW is just too much fun for disappointments. After last year's field day style wire antennas and a 10/15/20 trap dipole which astonishingly placed 6th SOLP USA (with my old call W0AH), I had hoped to get the TH7 up by this fall. It didn't happen, but the 53' Hygain Hytower was up, and I decided to play low band (and QRO, which I seldom do). Earlier this month, I found that a 160M 1/4 wl 35 degree slopping wire from the base of the Hytower to the 70' level (and beyond 30' to my 55' VHF tower) worked OK on 160 and didn't screw up the other bands. Problem was- so far, only 25 50' radials on 75 and only 4 100' radials on 160M partly because the road is 40'south of the Hytower and my house is 50' north of the Hytower. However, it worked pretty well, and I met my motivation goal of squeaking into the top 6, SO SB HP both 160 and 75, based on LAST year's scores. For receive, the pair of flag antennas worked pretty well- much better than the transmit antennas, but I sure miss those beverages I had in CO! I like to compare the SC 8/10ths of an acre lot and antennas with the Colorado 5 acres and my W0AH antenna farm. In 1999, I did a similar 20 hour SOHP 75M SSB CQWW effort. Using a better antenna, a delta loop, my 75M score there was 75 19 41, good enough for 5th USA. Of course, there was less low band interest then (and probably poorer conditions)at the top of the cycle. Also, Europe is very difficult to work from Colorado as JA is difficult to work from here on SSB (I worked one JA). This weekend, I probably should have attempted some runs, but all those years of LP and QRP make me a pretty good S+P'er, so that's what I did. Thanks for the contacts and the fun. CU in the SS, WW CW and 160M test, but next year I hope to be watching the victorious Rockies and therefore probably will again do a limited WW phone effort as, alas, will be my WW CW next month when the mother-in-law is visiting. Doug K4LY Inman SC EM85wb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4OD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 51,948 Total Contacts: 151 Total QSO Pts : 351 Total Multipliers: 148 Total Claimed Score: 51,948 Single Operator - All Band - Low Power Rig: Ft-897D 100 Watts Antennas: All wire dipoles ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 904,806 I actually had a pretty good time despite a lack of running conditions: 226 contacts were made calling by CQ, with about 90% running on 15 meters. 678 contacts were made by S&P. There always seemed to be a better average (hourly) rate available by S&P than by calling CQ. This is not as true from here on CW. Twenty meters in particular did not support running Europe from here at any time during the contest. A power outage during the peak Saturday morning European run did not help a whole lot. I wound up operating exactly 24 hours. I've got to save some energy for CW SS, naturally. I think J3A was the only six-bander worked. I never did find an opening to Europe on 10 meters. I love finding guys like ZD7X all by themselves before the packet mobs descend. Speaking of which, the pileup behavior seemed to have improved a notch from previous years. I swear more people are learning the importance of signing their call sign also. Keep up the good work everybody! Sorry to hear that the Caribbean got clobbered so hard with lightning; it sounded tough there at night. Congrats to all the Single and Multi champions who slugged it out. It looks like there was a lot of exciting competition, and some close races. The activity level in the CQWW SSB is simply amazing. I used to hate phone contesting, but I learned some of the "Zen of phone contesting" after a few multi-op experiences at loud stations. You just have to accept the QRM, and let your brain get the call signs. After a while, it almost becomes natural to hear calls pop out of ear-splitting splatter on both sides of the bandpass slot. CU in the CQWW CW contest. (And Sweepstakes next weekend!) 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4SSU Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 439,916 Somewhat last minute decision to operate @ Dave's place and test drive his new QTH. Didn't start until mid Saturday morning local time, so operating hours are way down from desired as I'm sure also is the score. Equipment and antennas worked flawlessly. The station is still in 'construction' phase, but the 20m antennas are up, thus the entry - SOSB 20m. Thx Dave for everything and the those that we worked. 73 Brian NA4BW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4WX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 156,546 Rig: Ten Tec Omni VI - 90 watts Ant: G5RV up 75 ft in the trees Had lots of fun chasing DX between birthday parties, church, and some family obligations. Nice to see 15 and 10 meters open and active for a change. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 525,133 Icom 756ProII, THP amp usually running abt 800 watts, inv el on 160M, K1JEK Cobra Ultralights on 40 and 80, homebrew hexbeam up 35 feet on 20-15-10. I didn't think I would operate that many hours but once the score crossed 200K I kept thinking "just break the next 50K barrier." The points mount up faster and faster so it's hard to stop! Had several social obligations through the weekend so missed Friday and Sunday evenings. I tried running a few times but never could get any rate going so stuck to S&P. 15M was less crowded and more productive than 20M for me. 10M was better on Saturday than Sunday. Several stations were loud on 160M but seemed to have local QRN - lots of us calling but they weren't hearing anyone. After starting to get hoarse, I played with the voice keyer on the Icom and managed to get it going well enough by Sunday that I could do about 70% of the Q's that way. Not sure it really mattered but if the op didn't get my complete call the first time he answered the voice keyer, I switched back to yelling into the mike. The part of my call that people seemed to miss the most was the first letter, coming back with "Whiskey Four Xray Delta" or just "Four Xray Delta" about 20% of the time. Probably just QRM. My family appreciated the voice keyer approach! I think they like CW and RTTY tests better so they don't have to listen to me hollering "Kilo Four Xray Delta" all weekend! The Tokyo Hy Power amp held up well, although it would often fault out on 160M even though my SWR meter was showing 1.1:1. Dragged the AL 80B out of the closet and hooked it up for 160M and had no problems. At times you can't beat the old technology... I think I'll find some space for it on the operating desk so I can use it on 160M all the time. Made some DXCC progress with 31 new entity-bands and 9 new entity-modes. Happy to get C50C on 80M, managed to log them and C52C on all bands 160-10 except 12. Thanks to all for the Q's and fun. Last year I only made about 39K points in this one so nice to raise the bar, although I suppose that means next year I have to clear my calendar even more for the weekend! Looking forward to SS and CQ WW CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,888,638 A lot of work this summer & fall has gone into what we affectionately call the Goat Farm. Steve (NR4M) has no goats. The name comes from another 2-word phrase that starts with goat but doesn’t end in farm. But I digress. This spring about 2 hours into WPX CW I blew out my 40 meter beam. With all the work to be done at the farm and with other work to be done in our group, we have not gotten around to fixing it. That was kind of the plan anyway. Spend the energy building up the farm and operate WW SSB from there. Certainly not for a lack of trying on our part, but we just were not able to get the 4-square for 80 meters up in time. So the weekend before WW SSB K4HR & I retuned the 80 meter inverted V @100’ for SSB, put up a reflector element behind it, and declared it an 80 meter beam. If anyone wants to see pictures of the big 40 meter tower going up, K4EC posted them at http://picasaweb.google.com/k4ec.frank/NR4M40MeterTowerAntennas I think it’s best run in the slideshow mode. Here’s the antenna line up at the farm, so far: 160 – single “T” element with 4 ground mounted radials (just ran out of time for more) 80 – as described above with another inverted V @ 70’ facing east/west 40 – 4/4 OWA design at 100’ & 190’ 20 – 5/5/5/5 OWA design at 40’/80’/120’/160’ ( I think each beam has various pieces of element(s) missing or bent. We're eventually going to rebuild the stack with larger schedule elements. But operating with it, you would never know) 15 – 5/5/5 @ 40’/80’/120’ 10 – KT36 @ 70’ RX – one reversible beverage heading NE/SW Overall I’m satisfied with the results but I did expect to hit 5 million based on my calculations after day one. More Q’s this year but less mults. I had an absolute blast with the new station. Friday was a real roller coaster of a day. I was taking a shower in the morning and noticed the water pressure getting very low. Yup the well pump went out. While checking the circuit breaker, I noticed the breaker for the septic pump was tripped. Turn it on. It hummed and snapped right back off. Double whammy! No lightning strike or anything like that. Just bad luck. Called the plumber and they said they would be out around noon. 2:30 rolls around, the plumber still hasn’t arrived so I say to my wife, “honey I need to go.” We still had some small things to finish at the farm. While finishing set-up, I just about destroy my Writelog SO2R box trying to fix a broken ground problem on one of the audio jacks. It’s an hour before the contest and I don’t have SO2R capabilities. I’m sick to my stomach at this point. All the work we put into the farm, the push to get ready for WW SSB, and I might not be able to take full advantage of it because of a small circuit board with a couple of broken audio jacks, which was my doing. Manage a “GF” fix (there’s those two words again) and I’m back in business. Thanks to K3NC for bringing his box over but thankfully I didn’t need it. Never managed to get a pre-contest nap. Sometimes life happens. Ken K4ZW Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm OffTime D1-0000Z --+-- --+-- 32/18 7/9 17/13 4/5 60/45 60/45 D1-0100Z - - 26/13 39/26 3/1 - 68/40 128/85 D1-0200Z - 41/27 13/7 3/0 - - 57/34 185/119 D1-0300Z - 42/11 17/6 5/2 - - 64/19 249/138 D1-0400Z 10/10 38/11 5/2 - - - 53/23 302/161 D1-0500Z 7/4 8/1 19/5 1/2 - - 35/12 337/173 D1-0600Z - 9/7 22/5 1/0 - - 32/12 369/185 D1-0700Z - 13/9 49/14 - - - 62/23 431/208 D1-0800Z --+-- 6/1 80/5 1/1 --+-- --+-- 87/7 518/215 D1-0900Z 2/1 8/6 50/4 - - - 60/11 578/226 D1-1000Z - 1/0 10/9 3/5 - - 14/14 592/240 D1-1100Z - - - 92/29 6/8 - 98/37 690/277 D1-1200Z - - - 73/5 67/24 - 140/29 830/306 D1-1300Z - - - 6/2 202/14 - 208/16 1038/322 D1-1400Z - - - 38/4 63/3 2/0 103/7 1141/329 D1-1500Z - - - 48/5 71/5 - 119/10 1260/339 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 13/0 91/8 6/5 110/13 1370/352 D1-1700Z - - - 62/2 18/2 1/1 81/5 1451/357 D1-1800Z - - - 82/5 10/6 2/3 94/14 1545/371 D1-1900Z - - - 68/3 20/11 - 88/14 1633/385 D1-2000Z - - - 81/1 - 29/12 110/13 1743/398 D1-2100Z - - - 90/0 3/0 9/3 102/3 1845/401 D1-2200Z - 1/1 - 20/5 14/8 - 35/14 1880/415 D1-2300Z 2/3 - - 31/10 - - 33/13 1913/428 D2-0000Z --+-- 16/5 --+-- 2/0 --+-- --+-- 18/5 1931/433 D2-0100Z 5/3 3/2 13/6 - - - 21/11 1952/444 D2-0200Z 7/8 - 10/2 1/0 - - 18/10 1970/454 D2-0300Z 1/1 10/4 11/0 - - - 22/5 1992/459 D2-0400Z - 13/3 9/3 - - - 22/6 2014/465 D2-0500Z 2/1 29/7 1/1 - - - 32/9 2046/474 D2-0600Z 6/3 39/3 - - - - 45/6 2091/480 D2-0700Z - 3/0 49/3 - - - 52/3 2143/483 D2-0800Z --+-- 3/0 32/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 35/1 2178/484 D2-0900Z - 3/2 2/0 - - - 5/2 2183/486 48 D2-1000Z 1/0 2/0 8/5 2/1 - - 13/6 2196/492 D2-1100Z - - 4/1 50/0 6/2 - 60/3 2256/495 D2-1200Z - - - 6/1 91/1 - 97/2 2353/497 D2-1300Z - - - 4/0 123/0 - 127/0 2480/497 D2-1400Z - - - - 130/2 3/3 133/5 2613/502 D2-1500Z - - - 8/3 97/4 - 105/7 2718/509 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 3/0 24/2 --+-- 27/2 2745/511 D2-1700Z - - - 57/2 4/1 - 61/3 2806/514 D2-1800Z - - - 65/4 3/3 4/1 72/8 2878/522 D2-1900Z - - - 61/3 - 13/6 74/9 2952/531 D2-2000Z - - - 45/5 2/1 5/2 52/8 3004/539 D2-2100Z - - - 47/5 5/1 1/0 53/6 3057/545 D2-2200Z - - - 22/3 8/4 - 30/7 3087/552 D2-2300Z 2/2 1/0 - 25/4 - - 28/6 3115/558 Total: 45/36 289/100 462/1101162/1471078/124 79/41 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 496,026 Glad to see 10 open (a little) for a change. See you in the Sweeps. 73, Mark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5EWJ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 532,356 There sure are a lot of stations using poor quality digital recordings to CQ. I had to listen to some a lot of times to figure out the station call. It is also a problem when signals are weak and QRM heavy when a different voice answers than CQd. I suppose that digitized voice is here to stay, but we could at least use high quality and try to make the CQ and operator sound alike. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5FP Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 110,920 I am not much for SSB contest but I had fun anyway. My antennas are small and low so I can't compete with most other contesters who have bigger and higher antennas. Lots of fun though. Looking forward to the CW contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,656,844 The CQWW Phone is always a fun contest. Especially when you do it with friends who are great operators. The conditions were generally down from last year and we are also down appropriately from what we did last year (3.7M) in the same category. The only surprise was the brief opening to Europe on Sunday morning. I don't know If it happened on Saturday morning too, but if it did we must have missed it. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,014,760 Thanks to K5TR for the use of his station. He has a fantastic location and a great setup. We had a few visits from murphy during the contest, but in the end everything worked out well. This was my first time operating any CQWW as a single op, so it was a learning experience. I think I did ok, but need to work on doing a better job on multipliers. I felt like I spent a lot of time doing S&P on 20, but still only came up with 26 zones and 90 countries. Thats not nearly enough. 15M was always the better run band, but in retrospect I should have spent some more time CQing on 20 to pick up a few more mults. I decided to try doing 48 hours if I could, but it didnt happen. I had to get up at 4am friday morning to catch a flight to Austin TX, so I only had about 5 hours sleep. I wasnt able to take a nap before the contest started, so I was tired from the beginning. The first night was easy because of all the adrenaline I had going. The 2nd night I started to crash hard. I kept slugging it out on the low bands because I was picking up some good mults. Finally around 09z I had to lay down for an hour. An hour wasnt nearly enough. The hallucinations really set in sunday morning. I couldnt concentrate anymore. I was so tired that I wasnt able to do SO2R anymore. I kept falling asleep at the radio. Towards the end of the contest I couldnt even remember what my call was. If I were to do it again I will probably sleep atleast 3 hours sunday night. George was a great host and I am glad I made the trip. 73, Dan N6MJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,328,458 Wow. Not at all what I expected for conditions. The high bands were great and the low bands were a challenge (to put it nicely). Not complaining at all. It was fun! Slept 2 hours the first night. My daughter's soccer game was cancelled due to rain so didn't have to stop on Sat morning. Got to stay home and enjoy the great rates. On the second night, it was so slow that I decided it would be worth far more to sleep and be ready for the daylight hours than it would be to chase a few extra mults. DX contests are really fun on Sunday after you sleep 5 hours! More great rates on Sunday - especially on 15m. Thanks to GW4BLE for alerting me that 10m was open. Seemed like multi-hop E. Heard HZ1GW running Europeans on 10m, but couldn't break the pileup. Nice to see so many new calls from Europe. The elimination of CW is a good thing for contest rates! Most worked countries: Germany 579 Italy 331 England 256 Spain 218 France 195 Netherlands 127 Canada 122 Japan 98 <- Wow! I usually work just a few. All on 20m. I like this contest because there seem to be an unlimited number of multipliers. Just wish some stations would remember that not everyone is on packet, so they do need to send their calls and announce their listening frequencies every once in awhile. Everyone is still figuring out how to handle the new allocations on 40 and 75. Still seems to be best to work split, but sure is nice to be able to call guys on their own frequency at times. Streaming audio ran all weekend. Have the contest recorded, but not sure I want to listen to all that QRM again. Will post the sound files to my web site after the log submission deadline. Continents: 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % SA 5 16 16 60 51 61 209 5.7 NA 38 49 69 106 64 25 351 9.6 AF 5 9 9 30 21 2 76 2.1 EU 24 184 218 1263 1120 18 2827 77.5 AS 0 3 3 128 14 0 148 4.1 OC 1 4 9 11 12 0 37 1.0 Rates: QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off 00Z --+-- --+-- 38/34 29/24 --+-- --+-- 67/58 67/58 01Z 4/3 19/21 29/13 8/4 - - 60/41 127/99 02Z - 58/33 10/7 - - - 68/40 195/139 03Z 17/15 5/1 13/10 14/9 - - 49/35 244/174 04Z 3/2 62/9 2/2 - - - 67/13 311/187 05Z 14/9 17/9 8/2 - - - 39/20 350/207 06Z 2/1 26/9 3/0 - - - 31/10 381/217 07Z - 16/5 86/9 - - - 102/14 483/231 08Z --+-- 10/6 24/4 1/1 --+-- --+-- 35/11 518/242 27 09Z - - - - - - 0/0 518/242 60 10Z 1/2 4/0 2/1 4/5 - - 11/8 529/250 45 11Z - - - 147/39 5/6 - 152/45 681/295 12Z - - - 52/4 141/32 - 193/36 874/331 13Z - - - 7/1 161/10 - 168/11 1042/342 14Z - - - 11/3 83/12 3/4 97/19 1139/361 15Z - - - 154/5 1/1 - 155/6 1294/367 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 136/5 --+-- --+-- 136/5 1430/372 17Z - - - 2/0 73/22 10/6 85/28 1515/400 18Z - - - 111/10 9/5 - 120/15 1635/415 19Z - - - 90/2 23/8 - 113/10 1748/425 20Z - - - 54/1 2/1 52/27 108/29 1856/454 21Z - - - 102/7 24/8 - 126/15 1982/469 22Z - - 2/0 56/10 5/3 - 63/13 2045/482 15 23Z - 3/2 2/1 64/8 - - 69/11 2114/493 00Z 1/2 2/1 24/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 27/6 2141/499 01Z 9/6 - 10/6 1/0 - - 20/12 2161/511 02Z 11/2 23/5 - 1/0 - - 35/7 2196/518 03Z 5/3 6/0 18/5 - - - 29/8 2225/526 04Z 1/1 5/0 2/0 - - - 8/1 2233/527 46 05Z - - - - - - 0/0 2233/527 60 06Z - - - - - - 0/0 2233/527 60 07Z - - - - - - 0/0 2233/527 60 08Z --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- --+-- 0/0 2233/527 60 09Z 1/1 3/2 5/2 - - - 9/5 2242/532 24 10Z 3/3 5/1 4/1 6/3 - - 18/8 2260/540 11Z - - 1/0 99/3 1/0 - 101/3 2361/543 12Z - - - 18/0 145/4 - 163/4 2524/547 13Z - - - - 165/9 11/8 176/17 2700/564 14Z - - - - 181/4 7/2 188/6 2888/570 15Z - - - 7/1 126/1 - 133/2 3021/572 16Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 12/0 92/3 --+-- 104/3 3125/575 17Z - - - 68/1 12/0 - 80/1 3205/576 18Z - - - 72/1 8/0 - 80/1 3285/577 19Z - - - 50/4 8/2 13/3 71/9 3356/586 20Z - - - 94/2 - 6/0 100/2 3456/588 21Z - - - 74/7 10/3 4/1 88/11 3544/599 22Z - - 5/1 42/0 7/3 - 54/4 3598/603 23Z 1/0 1/0 36/1 13/2 - - 51/3 3649/606 Totals: 73/50 265/104 324/102 1599/162 1282/137 106/51 Best 60 minutes: 201 QSOs 1520-1619z Worked on 6 bands: 6Y1V, 8P5A, C50C, DF0HQ, DR1A, FS/K1XM, HC8N, J3A, P40W, PJ2T, PJ4E, V26B, V47KP, VP2MDG, WP2Z 20 others on 5 bands. See you in CQ WW CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 7,300 Phone is a great challenge low power with my "invisible" antennas.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6GEP Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 112,144 This is my 2nd time entering CQWW, rather than just cherry-picking DX. The big story was obviously 15 meters. That has got to be the most fun you can have on 15 meters with no sunspots. We partied like it was 1999! Absolutely amazing. I am so glad I put up a dedicated 15m dipole rather than tune my 40m dipole. I am looking forward to reading K7RA's Propagation Report this week to see him explain this extraordinary propagation on 15. From Southern Calif, 15 what white hot on Saturday, and cooled down to red hot on Sunday. 15 really finished strong too. In the last 3 minutes I picked up 2 zone-country doublets - VC2C and 9M8YY. I guess I matched my totals from last year on 20, but it sure seemed like a dud compared to 15. I forced myself to go over there, but it just didn't produce the multipliers like 15. 75 and 40 were so-so. At 2200z Sunday I had a loud pipeline into Brazil. The LU's and CX's faded out. Only PY's. The only new-new country for me was Easter Is - CC0Y. Did they pick a great year to be SOSB/15, or what? Same goes for A35RK. Lots of band counters like A35RK, VC2C, CQ9K, mainly on 15. Tnx to K6RBS for answering my "CQ Zone 3" on 10 meters. I am glad I ran assisted mode - I found quite a few mults that way. I think I will run assisted on CW too. Rig: FT-990 Ants: 80 meter dipole sloped from 50 feet 40 meter inverted vee up 50 feet at apex 20 meter 2 element dipole beam - pointed west on first day, east the second 15 meter dipole up 25 feet 10 meter ringo ranger N3FJP Software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6JEB Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 13,286 Squeezed in some S&P between Honey-Do's. Some new countries for me. I was happy to see some good DX on 40m and of course the increased 15m activity. 73 de K6JEB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 29,241 Contest should have started Sunday PM!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 206,823 Always an exciting contest, even with relatively poor propagation conditions to Europe. Thanks for the QSOs and CU in SS. 73, John, K6MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 8,400 Just piddled a bit cherry picking here and there in between other stuff and my pal W6SC's 60th birthday bash with a great live band. Nice to work both N6AA & W6NV at CQ9K, and quite surprised to hear a W/K op voice coming from B1Z. Miracles never cease! 73 & GLITCOM's... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 167,359 Saturday= no Europe for the most part. Sunday little better, but not much...sure glad Central an South America were strong, helped the totals...thanks to all for a fun time as usual, won't win anything, but then that isn't what it is all about for me anyhow... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7LAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 22,330 Started out 80 Single band and that was worthless and a mistake on my part. Lost desire real quick on this mode....Work us as VP5W in the CQ WW coming up next month... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7MM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 260,142 V8FEO Brunei answers my CQ; HS0ZDG Thailand in the final minute = wow! Where was VU? Dan at K7MM, VU3MMW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7RL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,771,400 That was tough. A high K index and a low solar flux spelled disaster for my score this year. Overall, I am down almost 1 meg from 2006. In hindsight, the low bands just did not produce; which made for two very long and frustrating nights! Mult totals are significantly lower as poor EU paths and mediocre JA runs added to the frustration. On the high bands, 15m was all S&P until a late (but most welcomed) Sunday afternoon JA run. And the reliable 20m band sputtered as typically long and robust EU runs did not materialize. This is the bottom, right? Thank you to all the great operators worldwide that make this such a fun contest, especially the 1,793 stations that made it into my log! 73 de Mitch, K7RL P.S. Congrats to the big scores back east! Wow! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 76,128 Very little time, but great to hear the bands in better shape than expected. Good test for some antenna upgrades here...all seemed to do well. On to WWCW. Thanks for all the Q's and 73..........John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZSD Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,557,750 Another fun time had by all. Really no equipment failures, antennas worked good, the food was great, and the camaraderie was the best. Even the Oregon football teams won. The HD TV was a big hit. As reported by many others, the propagation sucked, especially on the low bands. One expects 10 and 15 to be thin at this point, but no Europe on 40 or 80 meters. We heard OE1A, OH1TX, and OH0B on 80, but the QRM there must have muted our signal. We had a great crew here over the weekend, some coming and going, but I really appreciate the tenacity of all here who stuck in there for a lot of slow rate. We had only the first hour of the test with rate over a hundred, it was 130. Of course, the yearly reduction of JA s continues. Only the VK s, and the BA s seem to be on the increase. Very few Pacific Islands heard here, just not many traveling that direction with the propagation so poor. Even stations here on the west coast seem fewer, we lost two multis this past year, W7GG and NK7U have taken down the towers. This affair may end up renaming as the Eastern Seaboard – Europe contest. Thanks to all who called in, the operators seem to get better every year. See you in the next one……..Brad and the crew at Smoke Ranch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,767,550 First time use for that station and for all ops of Win-Test. The program worked smoothly and all found the transition from using CT to be seamless. Huge thanks to Dave, W9ZRX for all the help in installing the new network. Also thanks to K3LR and N8TR for encouraging the switch. Fun contest, although the low bands were disappointing, given expectations for the bottom of the cycle. 10m was a surprise on Saturday; not so much on Sunday. And no matter what we tried, we could not get a decent run going on 40, despite having reasonably competitive hardware, and had to result to S&P only on that band. 'AZ hit several gremlins: (1) we lost a vertical in the 80m 4-square early Friday evening (repaired Saturday afternoon); (2) due to a typing error on the connect scrip, no 10m spots came through to the logging computers until Sunday; (3) the Telnet link to the cluster kept choking up (due to ancient computer hardware)and needed frequent rebooting; and (4) a dirty or failing relay contact on the 80m amp caused us hearing problems both nights. All in all it was a great weekend. Special thanks to new 'AZ Crew member Tony, W4OI, who braved the 20m QRM and slugged it out all weekend as our primary run op. And, of course, hearty congratulations to K9RS, W3UA and all those who topped our score. 73, Tom, K8AZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: M/S HP Total Score = 608,283 Need more horsepower....PT effort due to work commitments......10 meters was good...too bad I missed the openings! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 221,960 I spent time picking some of the low hanging DX fruit of the weekend. All was search and pounce. Much more time and it would have become painful. Ten meters seemed surprisingly good on Saturday afternoon, which gave me incentive to go at the other bands. See you all on CW from PJ2T. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 37,065 A CW operator in a SSB contest, hah! Missed the first 20 hrs of the contest due to work (Friday) and attending the Audi driving experience in Joliet(IL) (Saturday) http://audidrivingexperience.com/ Check out the new Audi R8...Nice! Limited to 10-20m here for SSB. SWR too high on 40m SSB. Nice to see 10m open! Onward to Sweepstakes CW... Best of health to all, Eric Yaesu FT-990 Cushcraft R8 WriteLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MUG Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 9,328 I had several goals for this contest. 1. to qso with EK0B accomplished 2. test out new 10m rhombic accomplished. 3. to work some new countries on 160m BUST!! 4. Take any surprising dx as they come accomplished--- B1Z So, even though 10m was lousy and 160m was lousy for my bad antenna, I had fun. Even though my least favorite form of contest is ssb, there is something more personal than the other modes. Thanks to all who QSO'd and to CQ and a special thanks to all those inveterate travelers who go all over the globe and put up great antennas to put the spice in these contests! 73, Darrell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA0CSW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 2,132 Running a vertical antenna. Wish I had more Q's, but still had fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 508,090 All S&P. Beat last years score and hope to do better next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA9FOX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 480,260 Had a full weekend of contesting conflicts, including 3 Halloween events with the kids (kids are aged 4, 7 and 10), but I got in front of the radio as often as I could. Almost all QSOs were from S&P. Fun to work so many friends from around the world. Station: Rigs: FT-1000MP Amp: AL-1200 Antennas (1 tower): F12 C4XL @ 95ft (2 ele on 20m & 40m) F12 EF180C @ 100ft (rotatable dipole on 75m) 160m Vee @ 90ft Pictures at: http://www.qth.com/ka9fox/gallery CU in November! Scott KA9FOX ka9fox@qth.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB0FHP Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 1,020 Oh it was really ugly. I didn't get home until very late Sat. morning from a business trip after wanting to leave early. Had rig, microphone, antenna problems. I nearly gave up. But with some effort I was able to make a few contacts in the last couple hours of the contest. I had high hopes for this event and was looking forward to it all year. But reality got in the way of my hopes and plans. Perhaps next year it will be better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB1H Class: M/M HP Total Score = 5,910,306 The list of operators looks long enough but the truth is that most were parttime operators. The only fulltime calls were W1TJL, K1EBY, N2TTA and NB1U with the last two leaving about three hours before the end of the contest. W1TJL, N2TTA, and NB1U were the daytime operators and all others took turns during the overnights. We are in the middle of putting up a new 40 Meter tower and antennas so we were limited to the 4-Square and a South sloper. This really hurt us when the Pacific multipliers showed up on Sunday morning. The 4-Square works great but does have nulls in between the major lobes some of which are important directions. We did quite a bit better than last year but still lack the runners needed to really get the score up. Generally we do not like SSB and struggle to keep the radios manned. Most of the crew rather watch baseball, football, or even NASCAR than sit in front of a radio during a SSB contest. Oh yea, some of them like to eat also! W1UJ rushd up to the station for his overnight Saturday when he looked at the webcam and saw a feast going on that he was missing. Another low rate hour! Once again we found that the middle 20 meter antenna (204BA @ 65 feet) was better to hear the weaker Europeans than any other single antenna of combination of the stack at midday Sunday. Needless to say we are looking forward to the CW weekend but will probably drop to a M/2 entry. The list of operators above drops to about only 3 or 4 with N2TTA planning on a DXPedition to KV4. Yuri accounted for approximatley 1/3 our SSB QSOs! W1TJL and NB1U did almost the remaining 2/3. Luckily K1EBY, NB1U, and KM1X are CW operators and plan on a fulltime effort in CQWW CW. The Realtime scoring is great but it does discourage some operators when they see how much better other stations might be doing on certain bands. I (KB1H) find it to be an incentive and positive tool but have seen it also dampen the enthusiasm. Operators crying why we don't do better. I usually say the other guy is a better operator and that quiets the uprising. Truthfully we have a few problems but heck, the sunspots will be back someday. We did get a visit from a few prospective operators and are hoping they will join us in the future. Thanks all for the QSOs and see everyone in four weeks. 73 - Dick, KB1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC1XX Class: M/M HP Total Score = 17,614,109 BAND QSO QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES 160 235 307 1.31 15 50 WC1M 80 873 2339 2.68 28 110 W1FV,N1KWF 40 904 2225 2.46 28 110 WA1Z,K1GQ 20 3305 9160 2.77 39 169 KM3T,KC1F 15 2415 6882 2.85 28 150 KC1XX,OE6MBG 10 371 806 2.17 19 65 N1KWF -------------------------------------------------------------- Totals 8103 21719 2.68 157 654 => 17,614,109 Excellent job by the K3LR and W3LPL teams! As it turns out, this was a real horse race with Team LR this time. Wow! We ran with a lean crew during the weekend so everyone was busy. It was really great to have Mike OE6MBG and his lovely XYL Sissy (OE6YWF) visiting New Hampshire. Mike shared the 15m duties with Matt this weekend. Mike also appears to have won the WAE SSB from the station on a different leg of his trip - strong work Mike! Kudos to Dick WC1M and Randy N1KWF who manned opposite ends of the spectrum and turned in great scores under suppressed conditions on those bands. It was truly great to hold our own and have a virtual tie on 20m with K3LR. That's competition at its best! And hats off to Matt and Mike for a superb job on 15m, beating all the competition on that band! We continue to benefit from having great hostesses in Christine and the girls, who keep us going in this crazy game we play with support, great food and entertainment. Also special thanks to Sissy for helping out as well. We are a truly lucky bunch of guys. Thanks for all the Qs! See you in CQWW CW! 73, The XX Team Continental Breakdown: QSOs by Continent 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent ------------------------------------------------------------------ North America SSB 197 190 290 372 208 138 1395 16.7 South America SSB 8 23 40 110 168 137 486 5.8 Europe SSB 27 626 526 2617 1990 93 5879 70.5 Asia SSB 1 17 9 216 24 2 269 3.2 Africa SSB 7 19 24 70 65 10 195 2.3 Oceania SSB 1 20 32 30 35 1 119 1.4 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0 16/10 35/27 58/47 119/42 44/29 1/2 273/157 273/157 1 13/1 55/25 43/12 55/10 27/5 24/7 217/60 490/217 2 11/4 47/23 28/15 24/2 6/0 1/2 117/46 607/263 3 12/7 46/18 18/11 8/1 . . 84/37 691/300 4 14/7 94/14 22/8 1/0 . . 131/29 822/329 5 18/7 70/5 30/6 2/0 . . 120/18 942/347 6 11/4 46/4 27/3 6/2 . . 90/13 1032/360 7 4/4 30/6 72/5 7/3 . . 113/18 1145/378 8 5/1 23/4 22/4 7/8 ..... ..... 57/17 1202/395 9 4/0 21/3 14/0 4/2 1/0 . 44/5 1246/400 10 14/1 4/0 9/1 79/26 10/15 . 116/43 1362/443 11 9/2 1/1 1/0 235/13 68/33 3/3 317/52 1679/495 12 . . 11/0 200/12 247/17 15/7 473/36 2152/531 13 . . . 133/13 258/17 19/1 410/31 2562/562 14 . . . 144/5 137/15 21/6 302/26 2864/588 15 . . . 186/6 165/4 19/13 370/23 3234/611 16 ..... ..... 4/0 182/13 123/3 11/5 320/21 3554/632 17 . . 18/0 137/7 105/8 19/3 279/18 3833/650 18 . . 3/0 119/5 73/6 8/0 203/11 4036/661 19 . . 2/0 116/3 57/1 38/9 213/13 4249/674 20 . . 15/0 145/4 55/5 28/5 243/14 4492/688 21 . 22/4 34/6 114/3 30/1 16/3 216/17 4708/705 22 3/0 38/0 22/0 101/8 5/2 1/0 170/10 4878/715 23 10/0 33/1 68/2 51/3 1/0 . 163/6 5041/721 0 12/3 29/0 14/1 1/0 ..... ..... 56/4 5097/725 1 12/5 33/0 16/2 3/0 . . 64/7 5161/732 2 10/3 26/0 13/3 2/0 . . 51/6 5212/738 3 3/4 25/0 16/1 2/0 . . 46/5 5258/743 4 5/1 12/0 24/0 . . . 41/1 5299/744 5 5/0 31/1 23/2 . . . 59/3 5358/747 6 1/0 30/0 30/2 . . . 61/2 5419/749 7 1/0 21/0 22/0 . . . 44/0 5463/749 8 2/0 9/0 11/1 ..... ..... ..... 22/1 5485/750 9 5/0 5/0 22/0 2/0 . . 34/0 5519/750 10 6/0 2/2 5/0 36/0 . . 49/2 5568/752 11 2/0 5/0 3/1 135/3 37/0 . 182/4 5750/756 12 . . 2/2 101/1 196/4 4/1 303/8 6053/764 13 . . 9/0 91/3 181/6 45/10 326/19 6379/783 14 . . 9/0 89/0 164/0 37/2 299/2 6678/785 15 . 5/0 14/0 95/0 132/1 4/0 250/1 6928/786 16 ..... 8/0 16/0 92/1 108/3 1/0 225/4 7153/790 17 . . 11/0 109/1 58/1 7/0 185/2 7338/792 18 . . 1/0 74/3 21/1 13/2 109/6 7447/798 19 . 6/0 2/0 80/1 46/1 10/0 144/2 7591/800 20 . 8/0 3/1 82/1 29/0 18/3 140/5 7731/805 21 3/0 5/0 36/1 66/0 24/0 8/0 142/1 7873/806 22 5/0 30/0 45/0 54/1 7/0 . 141/1 8014/807 23 19/1 18/0 36/1 16/2 . . 89/4 8103/811 DAY1 144/48 565/135 521/120 2175/191 1412/161 224/66 ..... 5041/721 DAY2 91/17 308/3 383/18 1130/17 1003/17 147/18 . 3062/90 TOT 235/65 873/138 904/138 3305/208 2415/178 371/84 . 8103/811 High Rate Info (courtesy of K5KA'S CBS tool) (Note: Only done for bands with occasional rates over 150/hour) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 14 MHz: The best 60 minute rate was 243/hour from 1047 to 1146Z The best 30 minute rate was 260/hour from 1048 to 1117Z The best 10 minute rate was 330/hour from 1056 to 1105Z The best 1 minute rates were: 7 QSO's/minute 4 times. 6 QSO's/minute 17 times. 5 QSO's/minute 56 times. 4 QSO's/minute 144 times. 3 QSO's/minute 280 times. 2 QSO's/minute 466 times. 1 QSO's/minute 547 times. 21 MHz: The best 60 minute rate was 273/hour from 1212 to 1311Z The best 30 minute rate was 290/hour from 1219 to 1248Z The best 10 minute rate was 318/hour from 1229 to 1238Z The best 1 minute rates were: 7 QSO's/minute 2 times. 6 QSO's/minute 24 times. 5 QSO's/minute 60 times. 4 QSO's/minute 117 times. 3 QSO's/minute 177 times. 2 QSO's/minute 264 times. 1 QSO's/minute 430 times. QSO Counts By Band-Country KC1XX CQ WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Multi Multi 28 Oct 2007 PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 1A 1 1 1 1 3A 1 3B8 1 1 3DA 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 1 4L 1 1 4O 1 1 1 1 1 4U1I 1 1 1 4U1V 1 4X 3 1 4 7 5B 1 5 4 5 4 1 5H 1 4 1 5R 1 1 5U 1 5X 1 5Z 3 2 6W 1 1 2 3 2 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 1 7X 1 2 8P 1 2 3 2 2 2 8R 1 1 9A 1 16 13 31 25 9G 1 1 9H 2 2 9J 1 1 9K 2 1 3 1 9M6 1 9N 1 9Q 1 9Y 1 2 1 A3 1 A4 1 2 1 A6 1 1 A7 2 1 A9 1 BV 3 BY 8 C3 1 1 1 C5 1 1 1 1 1 1 C6 1 1 1 2 2 1 C9 1 1 1 CE 1 4 9 12 11 CE0Y 1 CE9 1 CM 3 3 3 5 CN 2 2 2 6 4 2 CP 2 CT 8 10 26 23 CT3 3 3 3 3 4 1 CU 1 1 2 2 4 2 CX 1 6 12 12 DL 2 112 89 479 423 7 DU 3 E5/s 1 E7 5 3 8 8 EA 41 42 162 186 4 EA6 1 8 5 EA8 1 3 7 13 16 1 EA9 1 1 2 2 EI 2 6 7 21 15 2 EK 1 2 2 EL 1 1 ER 1 1 5 4 ES 1 3 3 2 EU 3 12 1 EX 1 EY 1 F 2 41 32 155 172 16 FG 1 1 2 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FM 1 1 2 4 2 3 FR 2 FY 1 1 1 2 3 1 G 3 62 64 308 183 22 GD 1 6 1 GI 1 5 7 23 8 GJ 4 3 GM 2 7 10 49 20 GM/s 1 GU 3 4 3 GW 2 10 8 26 23 4 HA 10 4 32 23 HB 6 13 33 29 HB0 1 1 2 3 2 HC 1 1 5 3 1 HC8 1 1 1 1 2 1 HH 1 1 1 HI 1 2 2 4 3 1 HK 2 3 7 11 6 HL 4 HP 2 2 1 HR 1 3 2 4 4 4 HS 1 HV 1 1 HZ 1 5 2 I 1 50 42 281 241 14 IG9 1 IS 1 1 10 7 2 IT9 5 6 15 18 1 J2 1 1 1 1 J3 1 1 3 1 1 1 J6 1 1 J8 1 1 1 1 JA 1 1 143 JW 1 1 K 104 46 104 200 78 88 KG4 1 1 KH2 2 KH6 1 7 5 5 15 1 KL 1 6 1 KP2 2 1 3 4 4 4 KP4 2 3 3 2 10 5 LA 1 4 1 16 11 LU 6 6 24 46 43 LX 4 3 4 6 1 LY 4 1 21 6 LZ 8 2 17 14 1 OA 1 1 OE 1 6 11 37 36 OH 8 3 46 20 OH0 2 3 1 OK 1 30 16 88 55 OM 12 6 18 16 ON 2 12 19 65 47 9 OZ 10 27 12 P4 2 3 3 5 5 5 PA 1 19 16 106 78 7 PJ2 2 2 2 3 3 2 PY 4 13 34 52 49 PZ 1 1 1 2 1 1 S5 1 13 18 43 45 1 SM 10 1 42 18 SP 1 21 20 99 61 ST 2 1 SU 1 2 SV 3 1 18 12 SV5 1 2 1 1 SV9 1 3 4 T7 1 1 1 1 TA 1 4 4 1 TA1 2 2 TF 1 5 TG 1 2 1 1 TI 2 3 2 5 5 3 TK 1 2 TR 1 TT 1 TU 1 1 UA 20 11 108 24 UA2 2 2 3 UA9 1 20 UN 4 UR 15 9 63 26 V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 2 2 1 V5 2 2 2 2 V7 1 1 1 V8 1 VE 73 109 143 95 56 6 VK 8 20 9 9 VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 1 2 2 2 2 2 VP8 1 1 VP9 1 1 1 2 2 2 VQ9 1 1 VR 1 XE 1 5 7 20 17 3 XU 1 YB 1 YL 3 1 4 2 YO 5 4 26 26 YU 14 10 30 21 YV 1 1 2 2 11 3 Z3 2 1 4 3 ZA 1 1 ZC4 1 ZD7 1 ZD8 1 ZF 1 ZL 5 6 6 8 ZL7 1 ZP 1 3 1 2 ZS 1 3 14 11 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 172,176 My station is under construction!! However, I have the 10m and 15m monobanders at 77' and 71' done. Just did not seem that 10m was open when I was operating so mostly worked South America--which the signal were very good!Used the tribander at 40' for most of SA stations. The 15m monobander worked very well both to Europe and Asia. Had make shift rotation for the 10m and 15m that was somewhat difficult at times, but help is coming to resolve this. Have a pretty good time on 160m with an inverted vee at 65'. Seem to work pretty good into the Caribbean and South America. All in all, everything seemed to go pretty good. Thanks for all the contacts and hope to see some in SS next month. Thanks Jim/KC4HW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC5R Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 513,422 Was just going to cruise around a bit, and then I ended up spending 16 hours working DX. Conditions were good considering the sunspot cycle. Heard lots of goodies on Sunday morning on 40 (SE Asia), but couldn't get through to the VR2 or the YB. Bagged my first JA on 80 mtr phone. Should have spent a bit more time on 160mtrs, but my antenna isn't really up to snuff there. Had a blast on 15. Outside of about 10 Qs, all were pouncing. Was set-up on 40, but K3LR decided to go 1/2 KC below and let it rip. Atleast his stations on 160 and 10 gave me the USA/zone 5 mult, to make up for the 40 ops heavy handedness. Looking forward to a more serene SS contest! -Al ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2I Class: M/S HP Total Score = 648,108 Equipment problems, slowed our progress. Amp was down (relay failure) for 1/2 the contest. Balun failed on 15 meter monobander at beginning of the contest and we could not repair it. 40 meter NE sloper match box went up in flames, built a new/improved version and got running again! Both Bob's have ICD implants and can't work on antenna's when there is RF in near field, so station had to be down for repairs. Otherwise we had fun and made a few contacts! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD2MX Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 7,089 I just dabbled a bit each afternoon. Here and there I found somebody without a pileup or who had a great signal who could hear my puny 100 watts from my simple wire antenna. A lousy antenna really makes itself known in a SSB test. At least 15M was open both days so there was refuge from the usual 20M mayhem. Who needs sunspots anyway? Wasn't able to work anybody on 10M though I could hear a lot. What a difference CW makes. I'm looking forward to CW WW weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD5J Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,624 2007 CQ World-Wide DX Contest KD5J SINGLE-OP-LP Zone: 04 Band QSOs QSO pts. Mults. -------------------------------------------- 40m 3 7 5 20m 1 3 2 15m 7 20 8 10m 11 28 13 -------------------------------------------- TOTALS 22 58 28 Claimed score = 1624 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE3D Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 234,975 Antenna was never aligned with rotor heading due to slipping mast joint. This was a big drag in trying to break into pileups. It was wonderful to hear 10m alive for a while and 15 mtr was also great. Sunday the bands sort of pooped out later in the day. One of these weekends I'll stay up all night for 40 and 80. Then watch out! Regards Ed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4IGC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 20,056 Despite the good conditions for the contest, it was vey challanging to run QRP in this one. I mostly did search and pounce which worked out much better than trying to yell into the mic for hours on end with no results. Tried a new stealth vertical wire antenna made out of enamaled wire with 18 1/4 wave radials for twenty as an experiment. Just wanted to see how it would work. I was very pleased in its performance in the test, made lots of contacts running 5 watts PEP throughout North and South America and the Carribean. Unfortunatly, no contacts into EU with the vertical using QRP. I feel that if I was running 100 watts, the results would have been much better. Rig used was the Yaesu 1KMP FD, antennas used was everything in the arsonal, whatever worked at the time. For the amount of time that I spent in the contest, I feel that I did very well and look forward to next year. Many TNX for all who listened and gave me Q's see you next test! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG6DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,405,521 There seemed to be a lot of one way propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6GMP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 349,713 Best run and rate I ever had on 21.250 for a couple hours just before the end. Couldnt tune amp on 80 so all qsos on 80 were barefoot with wire antenna, never heard any contesters on 40m at all and my C3S yago has gone bad on 10, SWR was out of sight so no qsos on ten. Sunday morning I had just short of 600 and was hoping I could get to 600 by the end and ended up over 1000. Thanks for all the Qs. ALOHA de Gary KH6GMP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6LC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,909,760 Special thanks to Lloyd, KH6LC, for allowing me to use his most excellent station. Conditions were much better than we expected, and the station played extremely well. Problems with low band antennas and amplifier kept me off 75/160 the first night. 15M was amazing! Thanks to everyone who operated, and also those friends here in KH6 that supported me in this effort. We'll be on in full force for WW CW! Jeff N6GQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6MB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 1,197,364 We camped out on the beach and operated field day style using low power and wire antennas. Weather cooperated nicely and everyone enjoyed the event. Equipment used: Icom 756Pro2. Honda EU1000I generator for power. Wire vertical antennas 80-40M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH6YR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,111,372 Thanks to my great host, Max KH6ZM, and to everybody who called me among the many KH6 stations that were on the air. Fifteen was tremendous and the 5 minute opening on ten to the northeast was very interesting. I worked LR, LPL and XX in about 2 minutes, then nothing. Probably spent too much time on 10, and as usual, too much sleep. Congrats to Jeff N6GQ @ KH6LC, a wonderful score from KH6. Hope to see you all again in cw. Lou K1YR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7B Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 319,146 Wow, this sure was fun! After going QRT in early 2006 and only having a mobile out here in KH6 it sure was fun to have a tower up and to be in a contest again. The antennas I ordered from M2 are somewhere on the Pacific on a container to the Big Island so had to operate 80 meters. In the past few weeks I have put up four 2-element delta/quad loops strung from various ropes and Phillyastran run from my new 150 foot tower. With only about a week on 75 out here to get my feel for propagation from KH6 I decided to make a serious run for the Oceaniac SSB record. After the first night I knew I had a serious chance of breaking it. By early Sunday morning I had eclipsed the old 280K and finally wound up with my last QSO with DU9RG (a new mult)with a 40K margin for error. What a difference working the contest from out here! After taking Europe for granted for many years, it is a big struggle to even work zone 14 and 15 on the short path. I think I had four Europeans in the log. However, the upside is all those W/K stations now count for big points. Plus the elusive Asian countries and zones are easy. You win some and lose some! It was great working all my old friends back on the mainland after such a long time off the air. It's great to be back in contesting again. A great big mahalo (thank you) to everyone for the QSOs and all the spots. See you all in the CW affair. Bill K4XS/KH7XS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KI4ES Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 11,520 Got to have better antennas for CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KJ6RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 34,874 This was a test for my new (to me) KLM 40M-2 yagi. Was a warm up for the SS. Had a good time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KK1L Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 223,803 Nothing exciting to report. Great conditions on high bands. I spent very little time on when the low bands were open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,358,870 First multiple transmitter shake down for the new contest station on the Kenai. Thanks to the old team members from Fairbanks for flying down. Kept this low key with minimum crew to allow station shut down to find any problems and repair which proved unnecessary. Score does not reflect station performance due any hardware limitations. Prime time 40 meter op, that would be me, left his position multiple times to try and work friends on topband. Crew also noticed the same op, me again, has a lack of enthusiasm for SSB contesting. Low bands were excellent at the start of the week with many Europe stations worked on 80 and 160. This weekend it was a struggle just to work W7's. Ten meters was a bust here and just generated heat for the building. 15 opened up the second day for four hours of good rate. Hope everybody noticed contesting is coming to BY. Worked many BY stations this weekend, tnx. Early reports by e-mail and phone indicate this station is working "stuff" not heard from the old location 100 miles South of the Arctic circle. Locals in this area also report the same thing indicating this ocean view hilltop location and the antenna stacks, heights via HFTA will be okay for radio. Old traditions die hard. After the contest we always have dried out fish sticks for post contest debriefing. Crew mutinied. Wigi,AL7IF served up fresh Kenai King salmon caught in the area. Kenai Alaska is known for the best fishing in the world and is not the place for fish sticks I was told. Thanks to KL2R club president Larry, N1TX/KL7 for coming when he has his own multi-op station to take care of. 73 Rich KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KN3A Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 21,756 Sunday afternoon was great, the Steelers won and 10 Meters (my favorite band) was open It just doesn't get any better than that! I didn't get to spend much time in this contest, and I prefer CW and the digital contests better anyway. Thanks to everyone who strained to hear my 75 watt signal. 73--Scott Kenwood TS-450SAT G5RV @ 35 Ft. N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KO7X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 233,037 My usual part time effort. Did not expect such good conditions on the high bands at this point in the sunspot cycle. We are virtually at rock bottom but 10 and 15 were hopping on Saturday. A proud member of the GMCC Ski Bums team. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KP4KE Class: SOSB/40 QRP Total Score = 355,695 Very good contest my 4 watts and 5 elem antenna can not break the big pileup of C50C hear him very nice 10 db but never get a call back same history with ZS9X more than one hour calling . I have a lot of fun but no more 40 meters QRP Radio IC 751A at 4.5 watts at 65' two deltas and two verticals 32' and a lot of wire see next year in 80 meters HASTA LA VISTA de KP4KE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR1ST Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 24,255 Rig: IC-756ProIII Pwr: 5 Watts Ant: - three remotely switched 20m doublets in a triangle configuration @ 30ft for 20m and up - 40m vertical doublet for 40m and up - 40m horizontal doublet @ 30 feet - 80m inverted V, apex at 55ft - 160m inverted L with 28 radials It certainly is challenging trying a contest at QRP levels. But for many of us, it's a necessity. I have to deal with quite a bit of RFI/TVI problems when I run more than just a few Watts, but I rather get on the air with these few Watts, than stay off the air because I can't run the full gallon. Instead, I concentrate on building the best antennas my backyard allows for. I put in only a very limited effort. I decided that the weather Saturday afternoon was just too nice to sit inside yelling in the mic while I could implement the changes on my VHF/UHF antenna system I had planned. So I only worked a few hours on Saturday morning and thought I'd hang it up for this contest. But Sunday afternoon I decided to do a little sprint to see what I could work, hoping that everyone had worked everyone so that I didn't had to deal with big pile ups. That surely paid off. My score is certainly not stellar, but I'm satisfied with it, considering the effort I put in it. I had one interesting Q with station....let's call him Double-Dog. For some reason I still needed zone 3. Double-Dog in zone 3 had a loud signal, so I figured he could hear me. Well he did, and he got only 1 letter wrong on the first round. So I tried to correct it and he asked if I was a US station. I said, yes I am, but I need your zone. "I'll pass on you then, he answered". He then proceeded to work a different station outside the US who was already in his log, and he had several "productive" exchanges with that station trying to convince him that he really was in the log. The fact that Double-Dog was not in the other station's log was not apparent to Double-Dog, and he could have just worked him again instead of exchanging date and time info and what not, as dupes are not penalized. Anyway, I changed antennas to have more gain in his direction and called him again. He comes right back at me, hearing me just fine apparently. So I repeat my call with my zone and that I just need his zone. Sounding annoyed, he tells me that he can't hear me because I'm too weak and that I will need to get zone 3 from someone else! So I can have a QSO with him, he knows what I need, but I'm too weak for a zone exchange. Sure, bud! Indeed, I think Double-Dog is full of bark and probably needs to be taken out for a walk, and maybe a puppy class in sportsmanship (and on working dupes perhaps, too). I'm glad that the Double-Dogs are in the minority in these contests. I really appreciate the time folks took to dig my signal out of the mud. Hopefully next time we'll have a few sunspots to play with. 73, --Alex KR1ST http://www.kr1st.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 399,504 Very casual effort (I'm not big phone fan). Only QRV 6 hours of the first 24 including just 1.5 hours from the start until hitting the sheets. My goal was to work DXCC qrp at the bottom of the sunspot cycle. I worked 97...close enough, considering how few hours I put in. I spent lots of time casually tuning around, skipping needed QSO's, looking for mults. It was certainly different for me. I echo K5ZD's observation that sleep works wonders. Some guys list their BEST DX, so I'll list my WORST DX: K2TTT (that's zone 5) around 5 miles from me for a double mult on 10m @2006z on day 2. Apparently, he needed USA too! To paraphrase Mickey Mantle: If I knew the bands were going to be so good, I would have put in more hours. Seeing the 3830 scores and comments makes me sick about my approach. Oh well. But had a great weekend relaxing around the yard enjoying the sun, tracing coax, etc. Discovered that somehow my RG17 run to the back tower got used to feed my 80m inverted V. Pretty funny. A couple "issues" for me. Somehow, CT ended up using an ARRL cty file (don't ask me how), so my running score was low (but I didn't know that until the contest was over). At 2300z (7pm local), my wife called me down for dinner (the "usual" contest end time). Since I was casual, I didn't care...so I missed 430 minutes near the end. After installing the correct CTY file and seeing my final score, I sure wish I had made one more QSO. LOL. RIG: FT817. Waiting for my K3. CU in SS and CQWW CW, de Doug KR2Q PS...heard some EU on 10m (mostly G-land and ON9) but no EU Q's with qrp (I tried). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR4F Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 479,288 The pecan tree now grabs the antenna and could only rotate between about 280 deg and 80 deg to the north. So, all the great activity on 10m and 15m to the south was very frustrating. But, the contest was a blast! (All S&P except for one QSO). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4PD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 36,240 Force12 Flagpole (Vertical). Great to hear activity on 10m and 15m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT4ZB Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 82,425 Decided to celebrate the bottom of the cycle with a bare bone setup for the contest. Yaesu Ft-1000D,20m dipole and no spotting cluster. New tower and antennas will be up for future contests. Band conditions seemed good here with a ZL/VK opening the first morning (although nothing the next). Worked the big guns and found a good selection of others, many of which were very patient picking my signal out of the QRM. Loads of fun and thanks to all who helped sponsor the contest and participated. Jere - KT4ZB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KT7G Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 50,945 sometimes propogation was there and sometimes it just was dead.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 56,863 600 watts, center fed zepp @ 35 ft , 1/4 wave vertical. Congrats to N4PN on his big score. I listened to him for awhile on Sunday morning running EU on 40 (like he was on 20 meters) and couldn't hear 90% of what was calling him. It's pretty amazing what the difference is between having a big antenna vs something more modest. Maybe some day I can reach that level CU all on CW from PJ4A Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KV1J Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 512,866 Nice to see some openings on 10M. 80 and 160 seemed tough this time. First time with the 4 ele SteppIR. The 180 flip feature was great. Also having a rotatable 40M dipole at 80' with the SteppIR was nice. Took off prime time to watch the Red Sox Saturday night. 99 percent S&P. Thanks for the contacts! Had fun! 73, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KX7M Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 132,810 Only testing WinTest Denny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LA3S Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 570,554 Have not operated CQWW SSB LP since 2003, and now I remember why! Too much splatter and fuzz, and almost impossible to find a free frequency. I was often tempted to ask the CQ'ers to borrow their frequency for a while. But kind of fun anyway. Frustrating low number of DX from this area, but surprising short skip on 15 and 10. More Qs compared to '03, but 30% lower score. Highlight: short periode on 15 on Sunday with rates higher than 250/h. Hope to do better in CW section. Svein, LA3BO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,280,019 Had a great time on the bands this weekend. Still suffering with poor mult antennas. Poor propagation the first day, but nice to see 15 meter open to NA for a change, even though it was a short opening. Cu in the cw contest in a month. LA6YEA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,178,088 Thanks to everyone who called. LB1GB Bjorn LB8IB Olaf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LP1H Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,105,202 Thank a lot to all Stations that were comunicated whit us !!! LP1H QSL VIA : EA5KB See you soon, 73 LP1H TEAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LQ0D Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 18,574 Thanks to all stations contacted. Too many lost by the QRN. 73s DXs de Dario LU3DR / LQ0D ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LR2F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,267,116 Great to have the chance to operate from LR2F. Beautiful place. The shack is located in one of the corners of a 3800 acres farm. We were visited by Murphy quiet a lot this weekend! First of all, lost the whole first night due to a strong winds storm, then lightnings strikes were all over the place till 05 UTC. Finally started the contest at 8 utc, but with the idea to enter SOSB 15, as the first night was complete lost to work the low bands. Operated 15 mts till 17 utc on Sat when LU4FPZ showed up, and then we decided to have a little mor fun doing MS. The mult station was only able to work for a few hours, as LU4FPZ visited us part time. It was fun dough. Tnx everybody for the Qs, and tnx LU2FA for his kind hospitality and support. 73 the crew @ LR2F - 2006 CQ WW DX SSB Contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU1FDU Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 51,337 Its my first cq ww ssb and i have enjoyed it. I have discovered a new side of ham radio. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU3JVO Class: SOSB(A)/10 LP Total Score = 87,420 ANT: Dipole @7mts 100w RIG: IC-756PRO TNX ALL QSO´S CU ON CQ WW CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU4DX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,369,000 Rig: Icom IC-775DSP (INRAD roofing and narrow filters) Amp: Ameritron AL-1200 Ant: 6 El. triband yagi (20/15/10) @ 24mH 2 El. yagi (40) @ 27mH Dipole (80) @ 20mH Soft: N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LW3EWZ Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 2,560 Very poor and very few hours of operation, much qrn and few conditions in the band, in the second day my son matias was taken to the hospital and I could not continue contest, we will be in the next contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LW6DW Class: M/S HP Total Score = 888,675 Amazing 10 meters conditions! First multi-single operation for GDXNorte. A good experience for averyone. See you next time! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,934,598 It was again a great pleasure to take part in the contest and want to thank everybody who called me. I finished all antennaworks just in time, on friday afternoon. Everything worked very well, except on 80m where the new antenna still needs some adjusment. Nearly all QSOs were mad with my 80M Loop. This year I spend again too much time for working multipliers instead of making QSOs, but I was able to increase my score from last year about 1.000.000. I tried for the first time to be actif the whole 48hours which became very hard at the end. I hope to cu in the CQWWCW as M/? 73s and enjoy contesting Philippe LX2A / LX7I WWYC and 27years old www.lx2a.com Equipment: IC-756 Pro 3 DX2 IC-756 AL-1200 MK2R+ Wintest 10M: 5el@ 16m und FB-33@19m 15M: 5el@ 22m 20M: 4el@ 26m und FB-33@19m 40M: 2el@ 29m und Dipol @ 18m 80M: Loop and Vertcal 160: Dipol @24m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 7,815,536 Sorry !! I was running assisted 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY2IJ Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 138,278 Poor propagation to NA - almost missed USA as mult, but 3 VE in log. Many unexpected mults - including 2 zone 19 stations. Amazing number of German stations - 309 - personal best - big thanks.. 94.5 % - EU. 5 Beverages / 6 directions. Thanks and CU in WAAE RTTY! Arunas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY8O Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 871,910 Finaly done more then expexted before the contest. DX conditions where poor so there was around 1700 EU QSOs.... But I have had a great fun - thanks to you fellow friends! Equipment: IC-756PRO3, PA 1KW, 3 x 5 el. stack on the 49 meters rotary mast + 3 x 5 el. KT34XA stack on the 42 meters rotary mast. Thanks and see you in CW part - 20 m. as well. 73, Remi LY8O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY9Y Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,119,638 Thanks everybody for contact. 73 Jurgis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M4A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,706,587 Our annual entry in CQ WW is one of the highlights of the year at Cambridge University Wireless Society, and this year we celebrate the 75th anniversary of our G6UW callsign. Once again we had a large team of operators with a wide range of contesting experience, mostly current students at the University or recent graduates. We struggled with conditions as they were but were pleased to better both our 2005 and 2006 claimed scores this year. Thanks to everyone for a great weekend. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M6T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,663,822 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 It became clear a month or so ago that we weren't going to be anywhere far enough forward to do a proper effort at multi-multi from the new M6T site so I got the opportunity to do a single op entry. There was quite a lot of work to be done. The only antennas up were the 80m 4 square and a TH5. Thanks to Dave, G4BUO for coming up the previous Sunday and helping me get the stuff done where it helps to have two pairs of hands. I was then able to spend Thursday and Friday finishing off the antenna build, winding up the towers, swearing at halliards (what sort of rope do you need so they don't twist!) and wire antennas and building the station. This was my first real serious SOAB contest effort since the birth of our daughter almost two years go - don't seem to have had the time somehow! I was worried about how my general state of sleep deprivation would effect my ability to do a long stretch, but a decent station and SO2R generally keeps things interesting enough and I managed 45 hours operating. I was sure that I set the alarm for 1 hour 15 mins sleep, but I obviously got it wrong with automatic time updates on my Windows phone and took 2 hours 15 mins... Probably a good thing! I've done this contest a number of times since 2001 operating from G4MRS at work. I've always complained about the noise level and it was fabulous to be able to operate from a quiet site this year and with some monobanders. It's a bit difficult to tell because effectively the station was new to me, but I thought that conditions were a bit better than we could have hoped for given the position of the cycle and the auroral activity. Sure - northerly paths were awful - I can't remember not having worked a JA on 15m in this contest before, missing zone 3 on 40 and 80 was bad, and openings to the West Coast of the US were very poor - but I can't reconcile my score with lousy conditions. There were some decent openings on 20/15 and I thought 80 was OK, but not spectacular. No major hardware failures. I had one rotator control box which decided to stop allowing me to move the antenna clockwise, and a most bizarre fault on one of the FT1000MPs where I think it got software defined radio jealousy syndrome - I was in the middle of one of the best runs of the contest on 15 and went to transmit and there was no drive. CW worked, but Tx audio on SSB had just disappeared. I blamed my dodgey microphone connections for a minute or so, but radio 2 was fine and swapping mic connectors left the problem with the radio. Turning the radio on and off didn't help, but a master reset cured it...... I had visions of a frantic 15 minues with the covers off another radio swapping filters coming on! I tried to start the contest on 40m, but just couldn't make it run and scurried back to 80m for the night where the 4 square was very effective. In fact in general - I just couldn't make 40m work well this weekend at all - from the comments I've seen I was not alone. As usual the contest is something of a blur. No spectacular hours but decent rate throughout. Tried to work the 2nd radio hard, but probably didn't do as much as I should have done (as usual!). As usual there are a bunch of holes in my multiplier sheet - some of which are just stupidity (e.g. GW on 15). Saturday I didn't think 15m was in very good shape and ran most of the US opening on 20m. On Sunday 15m sounded even worse in the morning, but I stuck the run radio on 15 at 0902 as soon as a pass of DU9RG from 20 came off with decent signals and didn't move from there until it closed quite early at 1630 (and I should probably have moved earlier tha this but was a bit of a zombie at that point). What I didn't realise was that 20 was also pretty poor at that stage, but would come back to life somewhat about 1800. Some US stations were workable on 10 from here on the Sunday, but the rate was better on 15 so I stayed there after a quick try on 10. Ran a few JAs on 40m again - which is always amazing and was called by AH2R there (which was even more of a surprise). Thanks to everyone for the QSOs and moves, and particular thanks to Bob, G4BAH for use of the station again. Any comments about my signal strength relative to others in this area would be useful to help evaluate what's working. 73, Andy, G4PIQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0CCE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,018,536 First time for a real effort at a phone contest (mostly a cw op) - lots of fun and a learning experience. Murphy visited three times in the night: sudden intermittent high swr on the SteppIR indicated a problem unlikely to be repaired at night. The promised gale force winds appeared about the same time, so the tower had to be lowered, taking down the 80m and 160m wire antennas. A hastily erected all-band "vertical" (30-45 degrees off vertical sometimes in the wind!) with no radials was the only antenna used for the second 2/3s of the contest. Apologies and thanks to the many stations that had to dig my weak signals out of the QRM, requiring repeats and hard work! Given my weak signals on 40 and 80, and no 160m antenna, I surrendered the fight on Saturday night and got up early to catch the gray line openings on Sunday. I noticed that the first two stations I worked were drifting in frequency and I had to follow them with the tuning knob to get the report - only to realize that my transceiver was drifting! Fortunately, there was a second one at hand, so after a swap and reconfiguration the station was back up and running. It was nice to hear 10m open so well, although it was frustrating to hear EU to the south of me working the US on Sunday while I couldn't hear them at all this far north with the vertical! Six stations were worked on 6 bands: CU2A, DF0HQ, DR1A, EB1WW, HG6N and PA6Z - with many others on four or five bands; a great chance to fill in many band-slots. Good conditions, lots of great operators, lots of fun....now bring on the CW contest! 73 and thanks to all! Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MI0LLL Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,044,785 Antennas 10m 5L US + KT36XA 15m 5L US + KT36XA 20m KT36XA 40m 2L at 60ft 80m inverted V at 60ft 160m inverted L So that is what it is like to run SOAB HP in the CQWW… mmmmm interesting. By far my two weakest bands were 40m and 80m which I put down to the limited height of these two antennas finding it very hard to source 3 point QSO’s, ZL2FT has posted a few videos on youtube this morning of conditions on 40m as heard from ZL land which is so very different when operating from within Europe. By far the most single blunder here was lack of sleep leading up to the test (due to work commitments and last minute antenna work), I should have taken off work on Friday and took two hours sleep on the first night, but no I was determined to go the whole 48h however all Saturday morning I had severe migraine headaches and come 1200z I could not operate any more, (it realy was that bad) just when 15m opened to the US, I went to bed until I awakened again at 1700z. I never got time to get up any beverages for the low bands but was surprised at the mults that I did log on 160 including several US, and I know there were a lot more calling, yea no ears you likely said. Conditions on 15 and 20 on the Sunday were super, 10m did show signs of opening to the US but decided to stick with the high rate on 15m. Before every contest at the bottom of the check list is to get the voice keyer working (sound card and rigblaster plus) there is always a panic and a rush for about 3 hours before the contest, this time i did not get it working at all. A few stats below Thanks to all who called Chris MI0LLL ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 85.5% ! 8.6% ! 0.3% ! 2.8% ! 2.8% ! ! ! 80 ! 82.6% ! 13.2% ! 0.9% ! 1.3% ! 2.0% ! ! ! 40 ! 71.3% ! 23.3% ! 1.7% ! 1.0% ! 2.3% ! 0.4% ! ! 20 ! 34.0% ! 61.1% ! 1.2% ! 0.7% ! 2.6% ! 0.4% ! ! 15 ! 38.3% ! 58.3% ! 1.4% ! 1.0% ! 0.7% ! 0.2% ! ! 10 ! 96.0% ! 0.4% ! ! 0.4% ! 3.2% ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! Hr ! ! ----------------- ! 00 ! 39 ! ! 01 ! 85 ! ! 02 ! 54 ! ! 03 ! 141 ! ! 04 ! 113 ! ! 05 ! 77 ! ! 06 ! 33 ! ! 07 ! 85 ! ! 08 ! 107 ! ! 09 ! 209 ! ! 10 ! 99 ! ! 11 ! 48 ! ! 12 ! 7 ! ! 13 ! ! ! 14 ! ! ! 15 ! ! ! 16 ! ! ! 17 ! 157 ! ! 18 ! 186 ! ! 19 ! 158 ! ! 20 ! 191 ! ! 21 ! 55 ! ! 22 ! 61 ! ! 23 ! 89 ! ! 00 ! 35 ! ! 01 ! 47 ! ! 02 ! 30 ! ! 03 ! 86 ! ! 04 ! 21 ! ! 05 ! 21 ! ! 06 ! 95 ! ! 07 ! 78 ! ! 08 ! 118 ! ! 09 ! 86 ! ! 10 ! 87 ! ! 11 ! 130 ! ! 12 ! 142 ! ! 13 ! 232 ! ! 14 ! 167 ! ! 15 ! 166 ! ! 16 ! 121 ! ! 17 ! 130 ! ! 18 ! 152 ! ! 19 ! 94 ! ! 20 ! 143 ! ! 21 ! 137 ! ! 22 ! 94 ! ! 23 ! 87 ! ----------------- ! ! 4493 ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MM0ERK Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 41,116 enjoyed the contest conditons not to good.but enjoyed my-self.N1MM logging programe runs well.could have done better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0HF Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 147,060 Had some strange rain static on Saturday morning that hurt my rx to EU on 15, made up for it Sunday, though. Not much low band operation here, antennas are work-in-progress at the moment. The 10m opening to SA gave me a boost, like the one the Rockies felt when the score was 5-6 during last night's game! It too was short lived. I snagged C5, 6W and an EA8 on 10m which gives me hope better time are ahead. '73 Dan Rig ICOM 775 DSP Alpha 86 C3 yagi@55' Verticals, slopers for 40/80m. N1MM Logger Audio EQ/voice keyer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0IJ Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 993,352 Pretty tough from the far NW Wisconsin location, but still great fun. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N0KE Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 291,824 I hope we have some more sunspots by next year! Not much in the way of Europe on any band with QRP. It was nice to see 10m open both afternoons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DC Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 44,460 RIG Ten Tec OMNI 7 MFJ Differnetial T Tuner Heil Proset Plus ANTENNAS 10/15/20M HyGain Explorer 14 @ 30 ft 80/40M dipoles Computer HP Pavillion running CT Had very limited time this weekend due to family commitments. First time using my new OMNI 7. I found myself making a few mistakes with the dual VFO's. Big problems on 20M due with unexpectedly high SWR. Decided to stay off 20 due to reports of RF in the audio. Very nice opening on 10M Sunday afternoon. Thanks for the QSO's. I will have more time for CW later this month. 73 Rick QTH Braintree MA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1DG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,816,620 Good to see even a short opening to EU on 10 Sunday AM. Had to QRT early afternoon Sunday for a business trip, but was only going to go for 1 million points anyway so very pleased. 15 only band able to find a hole to run. Real surprise to find 15 so good given the solar numbers. 20 wall to wall QRM. 80 and 160 a real struggle. Don ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1ESE Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 171 No effort here at all. I operated for probably a total of an hour stretched over the period of 4 hours when I was in the shack. I was seeing a lot of spot activity on 15M so left the VFO parked there while I was working on other projects. Antenna here was a simple 40M dipole strung between two apartment buildings. I was operating 5W with my recently built K2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1IW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,733,750 What a blast. Surprising conditions for a solar minimum. Equipment problems prevented an SO2R effort this time. Still learning the FT2K, but the more I use it, the more I like it. Confirmed that adding the 30M/40M conversion kit to the top SteppIR, giving me a rotatable 40M dipole at 90', was a smart move. The Alpha 87A went to Pluto early in the contest (Like me, I think it really prefers CW to SSB... HI) so had to run the solid state PW1 for the duration. Thanks for the Qs and see you all in CQWW CW! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,119,488 First full-time effort from the new station. Still lots of work to do, but making progress. I had two radios, but I'm not really set up for 2-radio operation. Yet. Station: 160 - Inv L 80 - wire 4-square 40 - XM240 at 110 feet 20/15/10 - 4-el SteppIRs at 95 and 60 feet; 5-el 15 at 40 feet Rigs: 756 Pro3, FT1000D Nice to see 15 open and even a few Europeans on 10 - and HZ1GW was a very nice surprise there as well. Found him just as he told his big European pileup to stand by and ask if there were any NA stations. Congrats to K5ZD for once again showing how it's done. And thanks to everyone for the QSOs. 73, Doug K1DG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1PGA Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 724,416 I only decided to particpate in the contest on Friday morning, so it was almost a complete cold-start of the entire station, end to end. The radio had been unplugged and boxed up since last winter. I needed to get almost all of the antennas out of storage in the garage and installed up into the trees (there are no towers at N1PGA). New feed lines were rolled out for most antennas. Fortunately the WX was terrific and I had left most of the support lines and pulleys up in all of the trees from last spring. All the antennas except one are home brew, so I was very familar with the assembly and install process and so it all came together pretty quickly. Rig: FT-1000MkV Field Homebrew Antennas: (each suspended in or in between trees) 10m 2-el Quad NE @ 30' 15m 2-el Quad NE @ 35' 20m 2-el Quad NE @ 45' 40m Dipole @ 55' 80m 1/4w vertical over 4 raised radials 160m InvVee @ 65' F12 C3 @ 45' fixed South (also suspended from a tree) 550' Beverage NE (sure wish more people in EU had one) I'm glad to hear that I was not the only one who had a tough time on the low bands Saturday night... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1SZ Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 2,184 Not much of an effort here. Tnx to all who pulled my 5 Watt signal from a low antenna out of the noise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1TM Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 118,110 Tough going this weekend schedule wise ..had to operate during less than optimum times which the rate per hour shows. Argonaut II still going strong after 15 years. Yet to be convinced that my K2 transmit audio is better. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,450,540 Very unusual contest from here. Suprisingly good on 10 and 15. 20 was decent but insane much of the time. 40, 80, and 160 were brutal from here up north. The disturbed conditions seemed to light up and 10 and 15 and dramatically increase the absorbtion on the lower bands. I was able to pound away all night the first night expecting the second night to get better (based on prop forecasts). Actually from 00 - 05Z Sunday was as bad as I have ever seen it on 40 - 160. Never worked an EU on 160. 40M combined for 3 issues. The MUF was below 7Mhz into EU by 02Z, the absorbtion was bad, and all of EU doesn't start listening split until about 23Z even though they are very workable from here by 2030Z. The 20M Asia opening Saturday night was pretty darned good. Rivaling much higher sunspot years although it closed early. Still, I was able to work about 30 JAs (very high for me), BY, HL, KL7. Very nice. This one was 80% S & P. There was no running even attempted on 80. I tried a few times on 40M but abandoned it. On 20M the running produced a much slower rate than S & P and it seemed like there was just endless layers of people to call, so much of the time I did. Only successfully running later in the afternoons. 15M was runnable from here some of the time and with decent rate (50 - 80 Qs per hour) but some time S & P was much more productive. 10M was a a lot of HISS and then a few LU and PY and then an explosion for about an hour that was pretty cool to zone 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13. On Sunday it was very subdued but I did hear about 7 or 8 EU stations and even worked one (a G). The pacific seemed all but non-existant from this QTH. Worked KH6, VK, ZL. Not sure if there was a lot more, but couldn't hear it from here. All and all a slug fest on 20 - 160 but surprisingly fun on 15 and 10. I will be operating as 9M6AAC in CQ WW CW. 73 Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 254,163 Started out thinking about playing a bit on 160m. Made a few Q's and pulled the plug. On Saturday the high bands seemed pretty good so I decided to break off and get my voice keyer working. I finally did and it was pretty cool working the contest without speaking. I'll have to make up some good audio files now that I know how. OK, OK, I'm a bit behind on the technology side of contesting. So what's next, SO2R? Hmmmmm. Probably the first SSB contest I actually had fun in. FT1000MP, Drake L7 1kW, TH6DXX 50', 40m slopers, 160m Inverted L. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2GC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 416,460 Equipment: IC756proIII, al-1200, dipoles @35' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,813,217 Congrats to N6MJ @ K5TR for winning the battle of the W5 single-ops ! For European propagation, this was probably the worst CQWW SSB I have operated from the Western USA. On 40, 20 and 15 meters it was the same story - pretty good conditions to EA, F and I, and almost no propagation anywhere farther north or east. At least there was decent JA propagation on those bands, which made it a fun contest. If you think that all of W5 has the same propagation, consider these QSO totals: EU JA N2IC 363 841 K5TR 935 359 N2IC is in southwestern New Mexico (I can see Zones 3 and 6 from my QTH). K5TR is near Austin, TX. About 600 miles between them. For those of you who like fun (but probably invalid) conclusions, that means that 1 mile = 1 more(or less) European QSO and 1 less(or more) JA QSO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,379,631 Part time effort...step-daughter decided to get married Saturday night!! Lost 6 hours of prime time operating. Very difficult to get anything going on 20m and 15 meters on Saturday....wall to wall QRM and splatter. Sunday much better. Sticky rotor on 15m yagi was the only visit from Murphy. Still have lots to do before CQWW-CW. Thanks for all the qsos.........Carol ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2MUN Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 482,937 Nice to see 15 meters wide open to east coast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2RM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,496,814 Appreciate the help of K3ZV both operating and helping the internal setup of computers, etc. A real good team mate for me. 15 meters was suprizingly good, and 20 meters had lots of QRM, but was real good sevaral hours before sunset on Sunday night. One of these days we'll hopefully get the station back to full strength. 73, N2RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 901,552 I enjoyed the test and thanks for all the Q's. All S&P w/cluster, no Eu on 10m but did work a few AF stations. A busy weekend, I had a band job, my Grandson's foot ball game and a dinner engagement. 73 to all, Wayne ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3GNW Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 646,852 The effort and expense to put in a beam was worth it. Best score ever. Some more time in the chair and improved conditions and there is no reason for me not to break a million points. Even added a few new countries to my totals. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3KHK Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 14,268 I had a fun time on 10m opening! Mostly S&P. Upside one new country worked Equipment: Rig: ICOM 756 PRO II @100W Antenna1: 160m G5RV @ 40' Computer: P4 3.0 GHz 2Gig RAM WinXP Software: N1MM Interface: MicroKEYER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3MX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 546,480 Wow nice to see 10m come to life! Not much time to play in this year's contest. What a shame too, as the conditions seemed to be pretty good. Some really nice scores being posted. I hope CQWW CW is just as good. That should be a full effort instead of the measly 13 hours I got in this past weekend. 73 to all de N3MX Steve... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RD Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 852,768 An S7-9 noise at 45 degrees put a damper on the European run all day Saturday, but thankfully was not present on Sunday. I was very pleased to see how well 15 opened to most parts of the world at the low of the sunspot cycle. Missed Zone 2, which should have been easy. 73 - Dave N3RD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 53,100 Unexpected health issues and several op's being unavailable eliminated the chance of a multi-op effort here this year. Dave, N3RD, used the station to operate 15M with excellent results. That provided me with an opportunity to put in a few hours to evaluate the new DX-Engineering Rx 4-square array on 80M. It was the only antenna I used for receiving during the 5 and 1/2 hours I was able to put in. It was a super performer and I was very pleased! I only put in a couple of hours each night because I still tire easily due to all the med's I'm taking. Hopefully, we will find the new noise source and fix it before the CW portion of the CQWW. Dave really did well fighting it all day on Saturday. look for us as a M/2 on CW. Thanks to all those who called in. I had a good, albeit short, time. 73 de Sig, N3RS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3XLS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 31,527 Had fun working DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ZA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,530,598 Had a few short runs but not very productive. Otherwise, CTRL up/down and function keys to operate, and grind it out! Still fun. Realtime scoring helped spur me on. N1MM free contestlogger Ver 7.10.7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4CW/1 Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 431,703 I couldn't get a run going on any band, so it was S&P for 99% of the Q's. What a delight finding 10 open to the east, and particularly working HZ1GW. 40 was a big bust, and I didn't even try 80/75 with my low Windom. No antenna on 160... Maybe it was conditions, but I found that stations couldn't copy me barefoot, and my kilowatt was barely adequate...lots of repeats were requested. It was very difficult working thru the wall of southern stations when calling the Caribbean and SA stations...they had the edge in that direction! SS CW is next from this QTH, then it's back to NC for the Winter! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4DL Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 123,952 FCG Low Power Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4EEB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 71,883 Played around with the contest as time permitted during the weekend. It was fun to hear 15-meters open from Europe to Hawaii. Lots of big signals. Good luck to everyone. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4JF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 241,029 GREAT TO HR THE BANDS PERKING UP AGAIN..NICE MEETING OLD FRIENDS AND MAKING NEW ONES..ALL S&P. 73s JERRY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,416,716 WOW, What a Weekend ! The first 24 hours were incredible with Packet Info Overload. It was quite a balancing act going between S&P and *manually* spinning the VFO to spot frequencies (yep, I'm still living in the 80's). Every time I left a band, I knew I was leaving points on the table, only to be rewarded by incredibly good conditions on the next band. I played HARD on 20M for 1 hour, 40M for 3 hours, and bounced between 80 and 160 for the next 4 hours. Most of my Low Band Contacts for the weekend were made in that 8 hour stretch. Saturday morning, (after 3 hours of sleep) I took a quick spin across 80, 40, and 20M during the 1200Z hour, then off to 15 and 10 Meters for the rest of the morning. A couple of hoours on 20M around noon, then 3 hours on 15 and 10 and back to 20M at 22Z. By 0100Z Saturday night, this operator and the bands seemed 'tired'. As usual, the Low Bands were dominated by Big Signals from familiar callsigns with little 'fresh meat' calling CQ. I spent too much time fiddling around and not sleeping well (only another 4 hours). When I awoke WAY too early, I discovered the Amp was dead (ANOTHER Grid to Filament short this week!) I gambled that the other original tube had died, put in the second 3-500Z from an old SB220, and was back in business (with only ONE more spare fuse!) Sunday was spent filling in the missing Q's and mults on 20M with excursions to 15M every hour. NOTHING new was worked on 10M, hearing only familiar callsigns when scanning the band quickly. It was an unusual allocation of time, BUT it seemed to fit the way propagation played with a fortuitous outcome. Only a very few QSO's were made on CQ's (1%). ONE HOUR after the end of the contest, a Cloud of foul smelling SMOKE engulfed the amplifier. Everything points to the Blower Moter. Maybe that's why the tubes failed :-( It took a day of ventilating the room to eliminate the stench. The situation in the back yard wasn't any better. The Director of the 3L20 broke off in a storm (last spring) due to a close by tree that is now 5 ft taller than the antenna. The now 2L20 was parked on EU. The reflector of the 5L20 is bent and gets often prevents rotation of it and the 4L15 so they were pareked on EU also. My trusty TH7 at 40 ft carried the ball for everything outside EU and much of EU during midday. Tuners (and amp) often had to be retuned when QSYing between the Low, Middle, and High Ends of 40 and 80 Meters. Talk about competing with High Powered Automatic Transmissions with an underpowered Stick Shift! It works a LOT better / smoother on CW... Tom N4KG in North Alabama ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,344 IC7000/dipole all bands. Only limited operating time, and I dont do phone contests very well, but I had a great time. My IC746pro went west on me early on, but the IC7K worked out great!! See everyone next weekend in my favorite test. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 136,718 15 meters is "KING". Worked C50C on 10 thru 40, big surprise. Had fun! Made my goal of 200 Q's and 100,000 points. Not bad for using Hamsticks on my car for 10, 15 and 20 plus a Comet CHA205B. All QSO's were S&P. Moe, N4LZ Summerfield, FL PS [1043267.cq-ww-ssb] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4MO Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 142,758 LONG HAUL ZONES JUST NOT HEARD THIS YEAR! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 421,640 FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANKS TO TOM, W8JI FOR THE INVITATION TO OPERATE SINGLE OP FROM HIS UNBELIEVABLE QTH. THE NEW STACKED 3 OVER 3 YAGIS ON 40 METERS PERFORMED FLAWLESSLY. ALSO, HAD A DIPOLE AND VERTICAL WITH INSTANT SWITCHING. WAS ABLE TO HAVE A FAIR RUN FROM THE START. NOISE PICKED UP LATER IN THE EVENING BUT ONLY SLOWED DOWN THE RATE SLIGHTLY. WAS ABLE TO WORK INTO EUROPE AND DEEP RUSSIA UP UNTIL 1045 UTC....WORKED GW3ORL AT 1052 FOR THE LAST ONE SATURDAY MORNING WHICH WAS GETTING CLOSE TO MID-DAY IN THE U.K. - UNBELIEVABLE! WAS STILL ABOUT 14,000 POINTS BEHIND THE CURRENT U.S. RECORD WHEN I CAME HOME FOR A NAP/SHOWER ON SUNDAY MORNING. RETURNED TO TOM'S AROUND 5PM LOCAL TO FIND THE BAND JUST BEGINNING TO OPEN. WAS ABLE TO FIND A SMALL SPOT JUST INSIDE THE U.S. BAND AND BETWEEN SEVERAL COMMERCIAL STATIONS. NEEDING ABOUT 80 - THREE POINT CONTACTS, THINGS STARTED SLOWLY. BUT BY 6 O'CLOCK, THE BAND SUDDENLY OPENED UP AND WAS ABLE TO HAVE A GOOD RUN TO THE END FINISHING WITH 144 MORE Q's ON SUNDAY EVENING. SOME BETTER DX INCLUDED VQ9X, B7P, JT1CO (LP over South Pole), SEVERAL UA0's IN ZONE 18, FOUR VK6's (zone 29), YB0ZZ, 3DA0WW, 9K2HN/9K2MU, A45WD, A71BX, A61HH, WH0AC, DU9RG/DU9ASJ AND MANY LOUD JA's. GUESS QSO APPRECIATED THE MOST....HB0/DF4TD/Mobile - WHO CALLED AND CALLED AND HUNG IN THERE UNTIL I GOT THE CALL CORRECT. THANKS AGAIN TOM AND MARSHA....AS ALWAYS - IT WAS SIMPLY GREAT!! 73, Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 203,454 95% low power- but the opportunity for two new DXCC made me hit the 'lil 400 watter a few times! Had fun for a casual effort! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TZ/9 Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,120,960 99.9% S&P - exactly one response to my many CQs - couldn't even get stateside stations to respond to the CQs. All hardware worked ok this time. Very limited use of right hand made two-radio S&P very difficult since I could only tune one radio at a time. The 10/15 meter antenna at 99 feet was noticably superior to the one at 45 feet in non-Europe directions. I note that the higher scoring stations have big boosts from hills/mountains/ridges that are unavailable to us flatlanders. No Europeans or Oceania heard on 10m; worked 5 Africans. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,186,370 Equipment: Orion + Icom 746PRO Antennas: 10/15/20 - 4L SteppIR @ 75', C3 (2L) @ 42' fixed SE 40: Moxon (own design) @ 137', Lazy H @ 130' for JA/SA 80: 5 sloping dipoles with tuned feedlines from 135' tower 160: 137' tower with elevated radials at 70' You guys with more modest antennas may think this is whining but I've still not fully recovered from last springs storm damage which destroyed my SteppIR among other things. In fact what is left of the SteppIR is still on one of my 135 foot towers. Attempted to take it down just before the contest to replace it with a new SteppIR delivered on Tuesday but decided I could not do it safely. Ended up installing the new antenna on a 75 foot tower instead. The lower height made a definite difference on 20 meters but seems to play as well as ever on 15 and 10. Biggest downer was having only two antennas for the high bands -the SteppIR and a C3 fixed SE at 40 feet both on the same tower. With no bandpass filters it was not very effective for SO2R but my microphone switching refused to work anyway so mostly just used one radio. The good news antenna wise was my new 40 meter Moxon. Finally gives me an antenna with a low SWR in the phone band. Despite only so-so conditions on the low bands I ended up with my highest totals ever for this contest on both 40 and 80. Easily worked almost every thing I heard on 40 for a change (except of course those who frustratingly never listened in the US band) Ten was better than expected Saturday with lots of Caribbean and South American stations plus KH6FI and ZM2M. Sunday morning on a hunch I switched to 10 at 1415 UTC with the beam on Europe and low and behold there were signals. Ended up working 7 Europeans (G, ON, PA, DA) in 5 minutes and then they were gone. Sounded like openings I have heard on 6 meters. C50C boomed in for a few minutes Sunday afternoon then disappeared buy LU, PY, CX and CE were there for hours. Phone is not my favorite mode but enjoyed the contest and am looking forward to CW - hopefully with some further antenna improvements. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AN Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 44,352 Another glorious weekend to study propagation, good or bad. Thank you all for the QSOs and the excitement! I spent the first 14 hours on 40 meters single band. Slept for about 6 hours, did some things around the house, headed back for more at 00Z. After 90 minutes I decided things weren't going to improve over Friday night's conditions and headed out to a social event. Spent another 90 minutes around 07Z before heading for bed. At 21Z I came back to the radio and had a ball running mults on 10/15/20 until the "show" ended. Great fun! It certainly is frustrating to listen to juicy DX calling CQ below 7100 and not listening split. But how ironic that we get so upset about someone violating self administered contest rules and yet seem to accept the practice of violating FCC rules by transmitting out of band to ask said juicy DX to "listen up." Confusing VFOs and thus transmitting out of band is, at least, usually accidental. Hopefully we don't take too long to realize our error, hi! Conditions were frustrating at times. A few zone 14 heard/worked. IR4X, OK5 and two S5 stations heard but no joy despite many, many attempts. Nothing heard from zones 15 to 23. Many BY stations heard but never listening up. That must have happened Saturday night while I slumbered. ZS9X and C50C were beacons! Looking forward to CW! 73, David, N6AN ps. I was on the DXXE-Full Vitamins team. Felicidades to the plethora of XE stations active to give you zone 6! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CK Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 46,360 Nice condx to Asia on 20M, Saturday evening. Fun, part time effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6HC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 46,343 I don't usual bother turning on the radio for this contest, but there wasn't anything interesting on TV on Friday night, so I broke with tradition and fired up the hardware about 8 PM local time. I had a short chat with Art (CQ9K/W6XD) and John (PJ4E/K6AM) during the contest. Hopefully, I'll be able to play in CQWWCW next month. Good luck to everyone in SS. Arnie N6HC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6IG Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 2,220 First contest with new 160 TX and RX antennas. Started Friday night attempting to perhaps break old W6 single band 160 record, but realized conditions weren't going to allow that, so fired up packet and did a lot of DX chasing. Earlier in the week, worked C52C before sunset with S9 signals, didn't hear a peep from them this weekend, also never heard CN2R. Never heard any W1 stations, no zone 2 heard, heard VY2ZM once, barely heard KL7RA. Signals good from Carribean. Heard several mults that were working others but didn't answer my CQs. HC8N always rock-crushingly loud! Sure wish there were more Pacific activity, but that is always the case... Used newly-installed K9AY loop controller from Array Solutions, it worked rather well. But I need to put up some beverages before CW weekend. TX antenna 1/2 wave sloper. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6NU Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 21,185 It was nice to see 15M open to AF. No EU though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 26,235 A casual, late night (after the gigs) effort trolling for NCCC expeditioners and loud signals, while attempting to get wireless internet running in the shack - never did! May have to go B class in SS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RV Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 284,410 A lot of fun. Just retired so it is time to finish the antennas and station. See everyone on CW next month. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 174,135 I really did buy a new microphone at HRO on Saturday just so I could work a few friends in this contest. They all seemed amazed that I actually found a microphone. The old Heil Proset-4 (not the Proset Plus) is still a winner. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6VI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 435,092 This began as mentoring some operators with limited or no HF experience at N6AA's well located station while Dick was off operating the contest from Madeira. The biggest kick was watching a nine-year-old General, who was hesitant to try it at first, get so wrapped up that his mom couldn't pull him away from the radio. He's hooked! When they left each day, I picked up the slack operating with my own call. The visitors had enjoyed the daytime propagation on 20, 15 and even 10m, so the majority of my hours were on the lower bands. Still, I got some good hours in Sunday on 20 and 15m. Thanks to Dick for generously making his station available. It was fun to play with some tall antennas again. 73, Marty N6VI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WG Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 18,542 This was a true ordeal, about the toughest time I've had in a contest since I started about five or six years ago. A big noise came on Friday evening and knocked me off the air for four hours. When I went back, it had dropped enough I could work a few stations, but further effort wasn't justified then. Saturday the noise had dropped, so I was able to grind out QSOs through the day, but at a miserable rate. Things were so bad at the end of Friday night that I would have been very happy to make 5000 points by the end of the contest. By Saturday night I had all of 7700 points, and felt that I had done pretty well under the conditions here. Sunday I put in most of the day and finally squeezed out enough QSOs to top 100 Qs and just a bit over 18500 points. No new countries this time, though. Tremendously relieved to have done this well with what I have. I'm just continuously amazed how other stations can copy my QRP ssb signals through noise and lousy propagation. Thanks to everyone for the patience and the repeats. I'm told things will get better someday :-) See you in the contests. 73, Bob N6WG The Little Station with Attitude ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6WS Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 296,401 Yaesu FT-1000MP MkV Field Cushcraft X-9 @ 17m 40m dipole @ 17m 75m sloper @ 12m I played in the contest running mostly QRP on 20-15-10 and low power on 80-40. On the more difficult pileups, I had to resort to 100W on 20-15-10 to make it through. My thanks to the organizers. See you in a month on CW! 73, Bill N6WS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6XT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 105,431 I was getting familiar with my 4 element SteppIR. In between cleaning up ash after fire and family stopping by we happen to get in 16hrs. 40m and 80m folded dipole. 4 Element SteppIR 10-20m. I hope to have more time next year to work this contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 710,268 We entered the Multi-2 class for the maximum enjoyment for everyone involved, not becase we thought we would be competitive against the Big Guns™. Being able to run on both stations had a certain ring to it, as opposed to S&P'ing on one with the poor propagation. We did have a great time and some showed-off their culinary skills. Can not remember eating so well during a contest! 73, Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7RQ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,100,294 Equipment: Position 1: T-T Orion II to Alpha 91B, Dunestar 600 BPF auto-switched by Array Solutions LCRD Position 2: TS-870 S to Alpha 76 (tnx K7WP!), Dunestar 600 BPF manually switched, Idiom Press rotator interface to Yaesu 2800 at position 1. Software: N1MM Logger, performing in its usual flawless manner. N8LP "LP-Rotor" for position 2 control of rotator box at position 1. Antennas: 160 - Shunt fed 78' tower with 54 radials 80M - Inverted Vee, 66' apex (shunt fed network soon for this band too) 40 - M-Squared 40M3L 3 el yagi at 71', supplemented by hasty Saturday erected Inv L to cover high phone segment better. Worked ok 20 - 3 el SteppIR at 78' 15 - 3 el SteppIR at 78'; 40M Inv L 10 - 3 el SteppIR at 78' Special Thanks: To Monty N7CIX, for his assistance in helping me network the two positions. It was complicated by two computers having vastly different operating systems. TNX MONTY! To John K7WP, for the loan of one of his Alpha 76 amps, when our new SPE amp was never delivered by contest time. John even drove a round trip 40 miles to deliver it, when he realized how time crunched we were Friday. TNX JOHN! To Mike KC7V, for making a pair of Dunestar 600 BP Filter assemblies available for purchase at a very attractive price. They worked awesome Mike! To QRP Contester Extraordinaire, Gary N7IR, for helping me measure antenna isolation and BPF characteristics with all that neat HP gear he has. That gave me great piece of mind Gary, and let me know where the "trouble" band combinations were. TNX! THIS WAS "THE CONTEST THAT ALMOST WASN'T" Sandy, N7RQ, and I were married in June. Part of integrating our lives was the realization that she is as enthused about contesting and DXing as I am, so integration of her station, for both DXing and Contesting, was foremost on my plate. Many hours and dollars were spent making the shack readied for two stations. An operating position was developed and a dedicated 120v 30 amp circuit installed just for her stuff. A separate 240v amp circuit was installed as well, for a new SPE 1K-FA for her position. Dunestar Bandpass filers were acquired and its characteristics and antenna isolation was measured to develop an deployment plan. Auto switching was acquired too, Array Solutions LCRD for the Orion II and Elecraft KRC2 for the N7RQ TS-870S. Some things went smooth, some didn't. Most that didn't will be rectified in the coming months and hopefully be fully ready for ARRL DX SSB, our next M/S planned. The first problem arose due to the usual situation of one coax for the three high bands. No way could we operate a Run and a Mult station on those bands. Next will be a separate antenna to supplement the SteppIR and offer the needed flexibility. The Dunestar 600 BPF's, obviously designed for cw band ends, both have unusually high loss on 75m ssb. Both on the order of 5 db! Because you transmit as well as receive thru these filters, that meant they must be deenergized for 75m operation. Thus, it was measured and concluded that we could not safely (receiver safety) operate 75 and ANY other band in the usual Run+Mult configuration with them deenergized. Also, by our (N7IR and I) measurements, it was on "the ragged edge of risky" to operate 40 and 15 at the same time. I took the conservative road here and didnt. More to evaluate here later as well. A separate antenna, away from the existing tower, will do the trick. In addition, the quickly constructed Elecraft KRC2 decoder, although it passed the checkout procedure, doesnt recognize the band data from the TS-870S. More to look at re this, and soon. That left 40 and 20 as the only possible simultaneous Run + Mult situations. OK for a first time, but certainly not ideal. The mising new amp became the hot button, as we got close to the contest day. It would be a pretty inefficient M/S if position 2 could only run 100w! Fortunately, good friend John K7WP came thru with the loan of a Alpha 76. Hooray! Networking the two computers sounded like a cinch. Unfortunately one was a Win 2000 machine and the other a Win98SE machine. They didnt like eachother. Fortunately, local networking guru N7CIX spent almost a day emailing back and forth with me and we finally got them talking. BUT, I couldnt get N1MM talking! Ten hours if screwing around with that and all of a sudden N1MM started networking, and that was in the wee hours of Friday morning. All was setup in time for the contest but then Murphy stung! Thirty minutes before the contest the 3 el SteppIR lost its mind. High swr everywhere in the ham bands. The 15m setting looked fine on 23Mhz, ugh! The usual calibrate procedure didnt fix a thing. Successive Retract + Calibrate doings did eventually fix it, but not until we had been in the contest, very inefficiently, for 30 minutes and performed that procedure at least three times. This made quick band changes on 10-15-20 impossible as I now had to get the antenna analyzer out, each time, and make the sure antenna had gone to where the display indicated. Follow up will be very soon with the SteppIR folks. Several other minor equipment issues came up during the weekend, one of which was due to a brain dead K8IA. That all worked out. Nope, I wont tell you what stupid thing I did. (Hey, I've had 5 hrs of sleep since Thursday!) ;-) I did, primarily, the evening low bands and Sandy primarily did the daytime high bands. That worked out well until I fell ill on Saturday evening. Unfortunately, the rig(s) remained unattended for a good part of Saturday night. The 40m line score you see is embarassingly low, but basically a one night total. Aw, the band was crappy anyway.;-) This contest was a good baseline for us. We know where our contest strengths and weeknesses lie and where our equipment/antenna limitations are. We know what we need to do to integrate addional ops. This was good, we'll see you all again soon! 73, Bob K8IA (2nd op at N7RQ) Arizona, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,219,804 Enjoyed the better conditions on 10 & 15 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8RA Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,000,304 Biggest boo-boo was on 15M Sunday AM. I started to run on 15, but signals were weak and copy on most answers to my CQ's was difficult. After 2 hours of this, I noticed that the receiver was still set from the night before to use the beverage antenna as the receive antenna. So on 15M I was transmitting with the yagi on the high tower, but listening on a low wire- a typical alligator- big mouth and small ears- I was really mad at myself!!! Europe, please forgive me! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 162,225 Nice to hear 10M open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 90,692 Due to family commitments and a curious power outage that lasted two hours on Saturday afternoon I was only able to play around a little. Conditions were very amazing. It was great to see some openings on 10 this far north. And 15 was incredible. Too bad that I didn't have time for a serious entry this time around! Thanks again to everybody that pulled my QRP signal out of the QRM. There are a lot of great operators out there. 73, Randy, ND0C Equipment: Yaesu FT897D run at 5 watts output, Heil BM-10 with HC-4, N3FJP logging program Antennas: Wilson SY-3 three element tribander at 50 feet; dipole at 45 feet ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND6S Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 73,982 Lots of S and P! Only JA run was the last ten minutes. Thanks to all the DX-peditions and the VE's. Logged with TR...the greatest software on a clunky computer. Play of the day, Hearing K5TR work HC8N. If you blinked, you missed it. Thanks George. I was going to give out a worst processer award, but the list got too long. How about 4 pts for ssb Q's without a processer? CU from C6AGY in the CW version next month. Ray ND6S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,128 Only was on for little over an hour on Saturday and didn't know until early Sunday that the XYL had planned an "outing" for the whole day! Still fun for a newbie contester and am looking forward to CW WW. Rig: FT-1000MP Mk V Field 80M OCF dipole N3FJP logging s/w ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ4F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 230,724 S&P only ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NM2L Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 124,160 Great time even for an almost exclusively CW guy like me. All bands, one wire, 350 ft horizontal loop. The Honey-Do list and other real life matters shortened the total operating time, but the score is what it is. This was a 10 on the fun meter. Some people around here would call it a "hoot". 73 de Greg NM2L, Sugar Hill, Ga ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,513,832 Thanks to John Evans N3HBX for letting me use the Poolesville station. Most things worked perfectly (including the new power splitting utility – it came in handy!). A couple issues to be dealt with. BTW, if you haven’t heard, John has been locked in a litigation battle concerning his amateur radio towers which were code-compliant, fully reviewed and tested, and carefully constructed. The Court of Appeals for Maryland (the state “supreme” court) recently found that all the permitting done was proper and that John had done all he needed to do to get his dream realized. Unfortunately, his neighbor continues to feel otherwise and has continued to engage John in a civil lawsuit. This has cost John money in excess of six figures…..Thank you Mr. Evans for persisting in your dream That was quite a weekend! 15 was pretty damned good. 40 was good. 80 and 160 were not as good as I would have liked them to have been. 20 was mayhem. 10 meters – what 10 meters? Sporadic E opening? I heard KC1XX calling CQ….HZ1GW. Huh? Nothing here. Lots of LUs and PUs though. I had several goals this weekend. I met them all except one…. Raised my score by 10 percent, improved my performance on 40 meters (wow!), work SO2R hard, did not get bothered by QRM, etc. All those goals were met. I had to take 15 minutes off to switch rig pairs. John told me that the sensitivity on one FT1000 MP was shot but that I could use the preamp, the IPO select, and RF gain to compensate. Unfortunately, those techniques created hash on loud stations and was very difficult to use. It made running radio 2 (MP) nearly impossible in the crowded conditions. So, I stopped using the FT1000s and switched to the Orions. And honestly, I’m now hooked on them. Unfortunately, there is a keying or line relay problem on one Orion and it hangs the audio. Sometimes stations are normal strength, other times they’re rather weak. You have to key the rig to break the “attenuation” problem. Rather than write narrative, I’ll free write thoughts. It feels great when you are a Stateside station and to face a pileup of three stations calling you: a SV9, a ZS, and a 5R8. Nice! I guess I need to get out more. Rain static was bad on Friday night and continued into Saturday morning. That caused problems on 80 and 160 despite the fact that HBX put up a 350’ long beverage in the rain Friday (thanks again John). My multiplier count on the low bands would have been a LOT higher had I been able to hear (or conversely) had the EU guys heard me. I heard T7, 1A and others on 80, and heard a boatload of stuff on 160 that just were not hearing stateside. Absorption perhaps? Where were the Russia guys?????? Not one zone 17 or zone 18 this year. No zone 22 again, for that matter. Despite the fact that we have new allocations on 75, why do folks insist on listening “up”??? I had clear frequencies around 3.675 but few callers. My highest rate was when I parked myself on 3833 and listened down below 3.700. I slept 90 minutes, and may have taken the wrong off time this year now that I look at my rate sheet. To make matters worse, I frankly had NO idea what I was doing for the first 30 minutes after I work up. Hint for next year: shower IMMEDIATELY after waking up… I am starting to agree with NQ4I on the stateside QSO matter. I had 231 W/VE QSOs. It got so frustrating with poor stateside ops covering up EU callers in pileups that I reprogrammed my CQ message on Sunday (CQ OUTSIDE of the United States). Somebody said I should be DQed. Fine… Incredible levels of participation out of EU. The Spanish guys (many using AO calls), DLs, Is, Fs, and Gs were out in force. For an African country, lots of ZSs too! Why do hams in a certain EU country persist in using the last two (or the middle two)? Granted I’m not going to get full calls on every QSX, but c’mon. I’m still working on SO2R, but I counted over 250 second radio contacts (that’s close to 8 percent of all QSOs). A LOT of multipliers were picked up by sweeping up and down the bands on radio 2 and picking them off as I came across them. I had only three frequency wars this weekend. Won two and bowed out on the third. No jammers this year which was nice. I even crept up to 14.229 without the SSTVers going ape. Congrats to K5ZD. I knew that the Day of Reckoning would come. I think that it has arrived… CU in the next test! Sweeps!!!!!111111 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN4F Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 476,286 Whole 400,000 pts better than last year, great conditions on 20/15/10 for a change from here anyway. Usual big guns worked on all bands. Had fun..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 340,101 Multi-op with some friends on Vashon Island, WA. Just a single radio and time-out for sleep and projects around the house and shack. Managed to break a footswitch and the 80W west sloper, but otherwise things held together. Here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, not a peep heard on 10m until Sunday noon, and then a good short opening. 15m was quite good considering zero sunspots. 20m was usual reliable, but we just fell short of 100 countries there, mostly due to difficulty working Europe in the mornings. 40m was tough going, but Dave N7LKL mastered the 40m split. 80m had loud Broadcast noise that I'll have to track down and fix. Didn't even listen on 160m. Jim WA7KYI diligently searched for new stations on sunday afternoon, but it got pretty slow and quiet toward the end. The calculator says we worked most often JA's, then PY's and LU's. Some notable DX here in the Pacific Northwest of USA was the 1A, HV for Europe; the JT and ZK1 to the west. Thanks to everybody for the contacts! Equipment: Yaesu FT-1000MP Ameritron AL-1200 amp 3-el SteppIR at 55' Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50' 80-meter half-sloper Writelog software QSOs by hour and band. 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm 0000Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 22 1 ---+- 23 23 0100Z - - - 16 - - 16 39 0200Z - - 13 17 - - 30 69 0300Z - - 8 11 - - 19 88 0400Z - - 1 12 - - 13 101 0500Z - - - - - - 0 101 0600Z - - - - - - 0 101 0700Z - - - - - - 0 101 0800Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 0 101 0900Z - - - - - - 0 101 1000Z - - - - - - 0 101 1100Z - - - - - - 0 101 1200Z - - - - - - 0 101 1300Z - - - - - - 0 101 1400Z - - - - - - 0 101 1500Z - - 1 - - - 1 102 1600Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 21 ---+- ---+- 21 123 1700Z - - - 3 - - 3 126 1800Z - - - - - - 0 126 1900Z - - - 2 - - 2 128 2000Z - - - 1 29 - 30 158 2100Z - - - 2 21 - 23 181 2200Z - - - 10 40 - 50 231 2300Z - - - 15 9 - 24 255 0000Z ---+- ---+- ---+- 8 ---+- ---+- 8 263 0100Z - - 2 13 - - 15 278 0200Z - - 5 - - - 5 283 0300Z - - 5 - - - 5 288 0400Z - 6 7 - - - 13 301 0500Z - - - - - - 0 301 0600Z - - - - - - 0 301 0700Z - - - - - - 0 301 0800Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 0 301 0900Z - - - - - - 0 301 1000Z - - - - - - 0 301 1100Z - - - - - - 0 301 1200Z - - - - - - 0 301 1300Z - - - - - - 0 301 1400Z - - - - - - 0 301 1500Z - 1 - 15 3 - 19 320 1600Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 5 ---+- 5 325 1700Z - - - - 20 - 20 345 1800Z - - - 28 6 - 34 379 1900Z - - - - 2 13 15 394 2000Z - - - 2 4 6 12 406 2100Z - - - 3 5 - 8 414 2200Z - - - - 12 - 12 426 2300Z - - - 22 13 - 35 461 Total: 0 7 42 223 170 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NP2KW Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 795,928 Under an intense tropical depression w/ 35mph wind and flash floods that dumped more than 5 inches of rain from start to finish made the low bands were useless. A great disappointment was 40M. I kept hearing booming EU stations that couldn't hear anyone, I seriously thought they had abandoned their stations w/ the voice keyer running. 10M was fantastic, can't wait for the ARRL 10M test. Kudos to NQ1I who worked me on 5 bands, nice work. Also W3LPL,N0NI,N2BJ among others. Europe didn't hear me till' 1200L on Sunday,but W/VE was everywhere and plentyfull, thanks for following me around guys! STATS CTRY QSO's PERCENT NA.........1307.........82.6 SA..........137..........8.7 EU..........120..........7.6 AF...........10..........0.6 OC............7..........0.4 AS............2..........0.1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ3X Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 166,452 Man, CQWWSSB with 100w and wires is TOUGH! But it's also a lot of fun. Thanks to all who pulled my pipsqueak signal out of the muck. See you in CW! vy 73 de NQ3X QSL: Direct (preferred), LoTW, eQSL. I respond 100% to QSL requests w/SAE and return postage! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NQ4I Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,511,722 No Equipment failures! New 20m 8 el worked great on mult station. New 80m 3 el vertical array did a nice job also...will be adding an additional 3 elements to it in the very near future. Our score is up 20% from last years score. A good time was had by all. Food was excellent. The weather co-operated nicely. It was one of the nicest fall weekends yet. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NS3T Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 282,490 Things actually turned out pretty good for me this weekend. The XYL was out of town with friends, so I played Mr. Mom with the two harmonics (3 and 1) and still managed to squeeze in a lot of time in the shack. I hated to turn off the rig with four hours left to go while 10 meters open, but that was the family schedule. After the 2006 CQ WW contests, it was obvious that 40 and 80 were still bands that I could make some antenna improvements. 80 was better this year thanks to an inverted L. Mother Nature made 40 worse by knocking down two of my wire antennas. I finally put up a 1/4 wave vertical this past week in order to have a second antenna for that band. It gave me a ZL double mult on 40, so it was worth the effort. Missing the two hours before sunset each day on 40 to Europe meant I didn't make many contacts there. I tried to CQ a decent amount on 75 meters in hopes of finding more VE's. I put 87 VE Q's in the log (19 percent of my total) - over half were on 75m, so that worked. The kids made sure it was eventful. The 14 month old decided to get up at 4:15am local time on Saturday and not go back to sleep until around 6am. Then his sister got up for good at 6:30 am. SO much for the opening of 15 and 20 to Europe on both days. I didn't sleep the first night, mainly because if I'm sleeping, I'm not on the air. I made it to 11pm on night #2 and then got up around 4:30am on Sunday. As usual, if you had a contact with me, it was all on tape. The system keeps getting better and better refined with each major contest. Writelog makes it all possible, along with the more than 16,000 wav files now on the shack computer. Thanks to all those who had nice words about my contest news web site. If you want to send along operating photos for possible use, please do so. 73 Jamie NS3T http://www.radio-sport.net Your home for ham radio contest news QSO/ZN+DX by hour and band Hour 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total Cumm Off D1-0000Z 2/4 2/3 2/4 --+-- --+-- 1/2 7/13 7/13 30 D1-0100Z 1/1 7/3 2/1 - 1/2 2/1 13/8 20/21 D1-0200Z 4/2 8/6 - 2/4 - - 14/12 34/33 D1-0300Z 3/1 10/0 3/6 2/4 - - 18/11 52/44 D1-0400Z 7/0 3/2 8/8 - - - 18/10 70/54 D1-0500Z 4/1 5/4 5/6 - - - 14/11 84/65 D1-0600Z 3/2 10/9 7/7 - - - 20/18 104/83 D1-0700Z - 9/6 3/3 3/5 - - 15/14 119/97 D1-0800Z --+-- 8/3 7/5 --+-- --+-- --+-- 15/8 134/105 D1-0900Z - 6/1 6/1 - - - 12/2 146/107 D1-1000Z 2/1 1/2 1/1 1/2 - - 5/6 151/113 D1-1100Z - - 1/1 13/13 3/5 - 17/19 168/132 D1-1200Z - - - - 5/6 - 5/6 173/138 D1-1300Z - - - - 8/4 - 8/4 181/142 D1-1400Z - - - 4/3 8/6 1/2 13/11 194/153 D1-1500Z - - - - 2/1 1/2 3/3 197/156 45 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 11/7 13/13 4/4 28/24 225/180 17 D1-1700Z - - - 15/6 14/8 1/0 30/14 255/194 D1-1800Z - - - 3/2 4/4 4/4 11/10 266/204 21 D1-1900Z - - - - 2/1 - 2/1 268/205 60 D1-2000Z - - - - - - 0/0 268/205 60 D1-2100Z - - - - - - 0/0 268/205 60 D1-2200Z - - - - - - 0/0 268/205 60 D1-2300Z - - - - - - 0/0 268/205 60 D2-0000Z --+-- 7/0 1/0 --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/0 276/205 24 D2-0100Z - 6/0 2/1 - - - 8/1 284/206 D2-0200Z - 2/0 2/2 - - - 4/2 288/208 39 D2-0300Z - - - - - - 0/0 288/208 60 D2-0400Z - - - - - - 0/0 288/208 60 D2-0500Z - - - - - - 0/0 288/208 60 D2-0600Z - - - - - - 0/0 288/208 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - - 0/0 288/208 60 D2-0800Z --+-- 3/0 1/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 4/1 292/209 46 D2-0900Z 2/0 6/1 2/2 - - - 10/3 302/212 D2-1000Z 1/1 12/2 1/0 1/0 - - 15/3 317/215 D2-1100Z - - 2/1 1/0 - - 3/1 320/216 40 D2-1200Z - - 2/0 4/3 12/5 - 18/8 338/224 3 D2-1300Z - - - 4/2 4/3 - 8/5 346/229 20 D2-1400Z - - - - - - 0/0 346/229 60 D2-1500Z - - - 10/5 15/4 - 25/9 371/238 3 D2-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 8/0 8/3 --+-- 16/3 387/241 D2-1700Z - - - 11/3 10/2 - 21/5 408/246 D2-1800Z - - - 7/2 1/0 19/4 27/6 435/252 D2-1900Z - - - 1/1 5/0 13/12 19/13 454/265 D2-2000Z - - - - - 1/0 1/0 455/265 Total: 29/13 105/42 58/50 101/62 115/67 47/31 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 113,375 My only intent for this weekend was to put the 40m stuff through a decent test after having to make a few repairs. Did not get on for the first 4 hours as I was out of town so I had to go out and hook up the switching system in the dark. 99.5% of my time on the air this weekend was search and pounce. No way I could do that on 40m for a seriously extended period even if I wanted to. Learned something: VK2FLTJ is a real call. I kept thinking I was getting it wrong. This station called me during a brief run Sunday morning. Once he confirmed I had it correct I moved on. The next caller was another VK so I asked about the unusual call. I was not aware that a call such as that indicates an entry level license limited to 10w output. Now I understand why I was having a difficult time hearing it. Heard several zone 17/18 in there both mornings long path but none of them were listening up in the US phone band. Being just a search and pounce guy this weekend gave me a chance to hear the many mistakes we make when working 40m in a ssb dx contest. But some seemed to not have a clue. I heard one guy calling a dx station on 7021, someone commented that he was out of band, his response was that he could not work the dx if he did not transmit on the same frequency. I even had an interesting comment on Sunday morning when I did my 30 minutes of running a frequency. Think I was on 7129 listening down on 7076 or something and a US station called me on my listening frequency. I commented that he should not be calling me there. He responded, "What about YOUR frequency?" I was like....well, what about it? I guess some people do not know that we can do ssb down to 7125 now. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX7TT Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 90,306 Did not get to work the contest full time. Had out of state visitors but did get to play a little. Was basically looking for zones and to up the DXCC count and did Ok with it.. Worked some new ones here from Idaho. With stations outside the U.S. it was hard to work them due to all the qrm from within the U.S. But that is the way it goes. It was fun none the less.. Now waiting for the WPX with the new call.. Ed NX7TT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 399,465 Well, that was interesting. Band conditions really weren't so bad (at least while I was on). I didn't have much time alone in the shack this weekend as my wife was out of town and it was just "me and the boys" at the house. I did manage a few hours here and there while they played computer or watched a little football. I experienced periodic SWR problems on the Quad for the first time ever. Apparently, a few drops of the over 4 inches of rain we received on Thurs/Frid. found it's way to the connector. It did dry out it seems on Sunday and things were better. Guess it is an issue though that will require attention since it surely won't "fix itself." I had the fun of a couple runs but most of my operation was S/P which is not my favorite way to operate. Ohwell. Another year or so and we'll be back to wide open 10 and 15m which plays well to my little station. It was great to run in to so many of you all. 73 and Good DX! Jeff NX9T www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2S Class: M/M HP Total Score = 9,185,004 Contest of records: first ever M/M from OE2S with just 3 stations, 71% of contacts with Europe, score helps bcc and we have another OE-record! Definitve winner of antenna building contest: setup of 3 wirebeams plus 3 beverages and a tribander on friday (in addition to permanent set-up) and removal of everything monday morning cu in CW as M/??? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE4A Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 455,312 Just few days before contest we put up new antenna for 80m @ OE4A, 2 el yagi from Optibeam. http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=30 Before Contest we didn´t have oportunity to test it, i left for contest to Bosnia and Stefan OE8SKQ made first QSO´s just before contest start! Target was to set new OE rekord, but Stefan OE8SKQ did great job claiming new EU rekord. Unfortunatly same was done by F6CTT who have more as 500 k points and our congratulations for excellent result. Setup was very simple FT-1000MP Mark V + amp + 2 el yagi @ 25m. No RX or no other TX antena was installed. I will be again in Bosnia and i hope Stefan will operate also in CW Part! 73 es best dx de OE1EMS/T93J Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF1F Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,957,714 TS-2000 (no DVK) + HL2K (800 watts), 160m: inv V, 80m: GP, 40m: 3/2el, 20m: 4/4el + 4 el, 15m: 4/4el + 4 el, 10m: 6el Another "just for fun" contest under the red Aurora oval. Didn't want to miss the best SSB contest of the year and like the last year made a relaxed operation to cumulate some points for CCF and WWYC team. From north condx were like last year, mostly disturbed, but some interesting openings happened. I would say that DX propagation on high bands was better last year, but low bands were better this year (160m antenna was not performing well, our 72 m high inv V is broken). Score with similar set up last year was almost equal. 10m had super E-skip condx on Saturday, but never noticed any DX openings there. I worked 25 % of all my DX-qsos in the last 1½ hours of the contest when band finally opened to USA big time (opening folded 15 minutes before the end) and the last hour was my best! CU on CW from CT8T! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF4A Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 4,600,000 Thanks to JP, OH6RX, for mentoring and strategy setting + motivation. We had FUN. Mikko, OH4XX motto was "conditions don't kick". Biggest thrill was on the last hour when 20 opened to North America. Also 40 was open for maybe 30 minutes or so. 40 produced also many Japanese calls during Sunday Afternoon our time. Arigato! CU all on CW ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OF6NIO Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,426,432 I worked the SSB leg just for fun and learning so2r with a lot of short breaks and a good night sleep. The propagation was as poor as expected so I mainly S&P for multipliers on saturday. In the evening after 21Z we had a good 90 min pile-up into NA on 20m. Later on sunday 20m opened into NA just after 22Z and stayed open until the end. Only 28% NA and 59% EU tells it all about the propagation. Asia was few and far between. A good short skip opening on 10m was a nice surprise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH1JO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 313,170 Abt two years in the amateur radio and this was my first real contest i took part in, before i have just been giving points to contest stations,it was the first time now when not just giving but getting points too..853 qsos in LP category from auroral zone in 32 hrs.. could have done better but this was not too serious attempt..maybe next time will try a bit harder and operate a few more hrs longer. Mostly S&P, few good runs on 15mb on sunday which gave me abt half of my total qsos..I did concentrate to work on 15 and find as much multipliers there as possible.. so even doing s&p on other bands i checked 15 & 10 frequently to find new ones. Will be improving antenna setup for the future contests..now on 40 had just dipole, next time possibly 2 elem yagi or 2 over 2. On 80 just gp and on 160 dipole which will remain the same also in the future. Enjoyed my first Real contest.. Tnx to all I wkd and see you in the next time! Qsl via Bureau if needed.. 73´s de Jari OH1JO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2BP Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 16,289 Some S&P for fun. Bad conditions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH5BM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,712,880 Building and testing new SO2R system with Ezmaster and Microham Double Ten antenna switch also learning to use WIN-TEST. Listening two radios was not so bad as I was told, so far I am not afraid to continue on the learning curve. Not too many stations found and worked with radio 2, but i am looking for some filters for 2nd radio and coaxial stubs after linear so that might help. Also found 2 commands on win-test: ctrl-s to swap radios and finally that asterisk (*) on NUMPAD! Which chages the active radio. Some 10m opening and K7SV on 80 were highlights during the test. See you on CW still tangling with new SO2R and Win-test,which is new to me, but works nicely with Ezmaster. 73 de Tapani, OH5BM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH8VJ Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 1,537 Pain with 100W and long wire antenna! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1AIJ Class: SOSB/15 QRP Total Score = 10,502 Bad condx for QRP sigs on 21Mhz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1CDJ Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 433,827 RIG: 5 el. yagi@15m 3 el. yagi@12m 2x "good old" Drake L-4b PA It was my first contest from new QTH.Conditions was not so good during Saturday. I was very happy when on Sunday evening got short pileup from W6. Thanks to all for QSO. 73 Ondra OK1CDJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1JOC Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 45,276 FT817,5W pwr,end fed zepp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1KT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,127,840 Rig : FT1000MP-MV + AL 80B with about 600 W (except 160 and 80m) Cushcraft A3S, Vertical for 40m, Inv.V for 80m and LW for 160m. Pretty good openning on 10m Sat morning (rates climbed up to 240). The result is a bit better than last year, but only 29 hrs of contesting, suffered by flu....not so bad. I will look forward the CW part. Thanks to all who answered my call. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1OUE Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,370,410 Thanks to all for your connection, see you again next contest. 73 club OK1OUE RIG: FT847 , TS440 PA: ACOM 1010, L4B ANT: 160m ...78m LW, 1/4 sloper 80m....30m high full loop, 1/4 slooper 40m....1/4 full vertikal, 78m LW 20m....3 el tribander, 1/2 vertikal 10m....3 el tribander 10m....3 el tribander ANT: RX: K9AY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2N Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 136,510 TS850sat 7 el.YAGI mono, up15m, boom 15m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK2ZAW Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 135,096 Thanks for nice contest. Thanks all from Solnice contest QTH. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK5R Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 841,512 ANT 2x5Y full size @52/26m + single el. delta loop. Third time in a row I went for 40m SB. I am starting to feel that 40M/SB operation was created for masochists only. "Normal man" can not enter such a category. Worst were the afternoons. Stations were something like 200Hz apart. I had a friendly conversation with MW5W who started to CQ 150Hz from me being 59+40dB and I politely asked him if he could move maybe 150Hz more that it would be beneficial for both of us and (thanks !) he went away. This is just to let some of you know how it looks down here in the heart of EU. This year no visits from Murphy but have the smallest "claim". The propagation towards NA specifically towards western parts of NA was almost nonexistent oposed to propagation to some 2000km i.e. Middle East where most of the broadcasters are and I believe you can imagine the HAVOC they make..... I have not a single VE western of VE3. I believe there is a significant amount of W6/7 with decent equipment who never made it to EU this year on 40m. The propagation started to improve Sunday afternoon - too late. During SA/SU night there were not a short periods when I could not hear a single USA !! Even the "mega trio" (LR,LPL,XX) was not audible !!!!! For some comparison with two previous years a few "interesting" zones: zone 3 4 5 14 15 16 17 25 32 2005 16 200 435 960 403 252 63 196 11 2006 56 220 482 1059 482 262 58 120 15 2007 8 161 396 1123 443 260 45 163 16 most interesting is that 10th most active zone was 24 !!!!! with 23 calls in the log. Who would believe it a few years back. I am looking forward to a time when zone 24 would compensate for the lack of stations in zone 25 and starts to eliminate the disadvantage of being so far to the east of EU. Congrats to 9A4W and AO8A - of course contesting with an average 2.9x is "different story" than with 1.xx. I wonder how much YT8A will have ? Thanks for the QSO and hope to see you again. 73 ! Jiri OK1RI - OK5R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK6Y Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 627,396 Thanks for all contacts. See you in OK DX Contest :-) 73! Tom ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK7M Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 354,380 Nice contest, the goal was to break the current OK record, what was achieved after 24 hours. Some very nice runs, the best hour was 190. Ne NA signals were a bit damped wkd only 198 contacts. Thanks everyone for the contact and patience in sometimes difficult band and traffic conditions. 73 ! Daniel OK7M ( OK1DIG ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL3Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,017,194 Thanks all for contact and see you in the CW part. 73 Martin OK1HMP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL6P Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 350,529 Only for fun from my little home station. Thaks all for QSOs. 73, Petr ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7C Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,655,235 Eqiupment: 3el. ECO Tribander 20/15/10m @10m diplole 40,80m @25m IC-7400+PA 1kW That was a very hard contest in true multi-single category. 73! & MNI TNX for QSO's Michal, OK1WMR Radioclub OK1KVK/OL7C http://www.ok1kvk.nagano.cz http://www.ol7c.nagano.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL7R Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,040,602 TNX for all contacts. Info about RIG is on the www.OL7R.net This is our best result of all. 73 see you in CW part :-) Vendy OL7R HF Contest team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8R Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 380,575 I worked first night till morning and few hours during day and evening as OL8R. On second day afternoon I joined OL3Z team. They have much better antenna setup and I could enjoy pileups there :) On 40m first night I was just in S&P mode, not a chance to make real pileups 73 Petr OK1FCJ/OL8R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL9Z Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 545,328 RIG: TS690s,homebrew PA 800w,5 el yagi 25m high and 3 el yagi 15 m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM0M Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,852,160 CU IN CW PART. OM8AW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM5M Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 394,095 FT1000MP + PA Vertical 27m 3xbeverages 170m to US/Carib., VK/ZL, JA Good result, not so CONDX. Signals from US was unusually weak. Worked only 150 W/K and 8 VE ... . CU in CW part, finally out of SSB ZOO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4CT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 408,170 This was a good excercise for my operating skills, I dislike the 48 hour contest format for a single operator category. The fun and money bands where 10 m with an good opening on saterday evening, and 40 m on saterday morning. All qso's done in s&p. 73 DIRK on4ct eq : mark V , x7 , dipoles , n1mm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4WW Class: SOSB(A)/160 HP Total Score = 89,712 Sunday morning, half an hour before sunrise, the main housefuse blew. The fault was rectified by an electrician of the utility company. He sure did not look happy on a Sunday morning:) He was even less happy, because the fault was caused by his own company a few weeks earlier, when they dug a trench in the pavement to put in a gaz pipe. By digging the trench, the 220V mains cable was touched/lifted by the crane, pulling the wires in the houses main fuse, damaging the fuse unit. Sunday afternoon, the amplifier went SK at 1630z. End of contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON6OM Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 13,442 I work with a Window antenne (FD4) about 10 high.I work a few new DXCC's. My station, Yaesu FT-1000MP, power 100 Watt. My score : 120 qso's / 143 Points / 74 Countries and 20 Zones. See you in the next contest, WAE DX RTTY Contest. 73 de ON6OM Rene ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON9CMV Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,111,990 I want to thank Theo, ON4ATW, for hosting me for the CQWW DX Contest. Theo and his family made me feel at home! Theo's got a great station! I had been askign questions of other European contesters to get a feel for propagation and strategies. The bands were in pretty good shape throughout most of the weekend although it appeared that there was an RF wall from Minnesota down to Texas on Saturday. It was fun to run the JA's on 40M and work all the activity on 10M and 15M. I think I stayed too long on 15 & 40 and should have been on 20M more. I learned alot and had a blast! It was great to meet many of the Belgian amateurs! Thanks again to Theo for a great time at his shack! Anyone have an opening for a guest op for next year?!? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ4B Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 376,340 After 1 hour of contest my amplifier broke. I could do a 80% repair, but of course wasted a lot of time. My first year of contesting, so I still have to learn a lot. 40 and 80 m hardly workable due to heavy QRM from local industrial activities. All QSO's in S&P because affraid to blow up the amp again. Had a lot of fun anyhow! Be back next year. Eq. FT1000 MkV, HA1YA 1 kW amp., MA5B minibeam, G5RV, N1MM 73 Wim - OQ4B = ON4BHQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OQ5M Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 378,219 TNX for the QSOs. I posted some observations here: http://on5zo.spaces.live.com/ 73 de Franki ON5ZO = OQ5M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OT5A Class: M/M HP Total Score = 12,750,042 Hello all, finally we can send you our results from the CQWW contest. We had a large number of participants and in these large crew a large number where "new contester". But as you can see they did a great job. So guys congrats. We hope to be ready again for the WPX contest next year. Also many thanks for all station who contact us and your support in many QSO's. If you like to see some more info and pictures pse visit our URRL at: http://www.on7lr.org Best regards for OT5A, Guy ON7NB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OV3X Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 223,184 Sunday morning NQ4I transmitted on 7159 KHz and listened on 7010 KHz for hours. This is NOT according the contest rules. There is no commen sence in this. In Europe we are now allowed to transmit above 7100 KHz so no reason to spoil the DX window for the CW operators on 40 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ1JTE Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 384,306 Good condx on 28Mhz. And that is rare up here in nothen EU these days. Missed a lot of the usual stations and zones in AS.(Something good at the TV?). My station is a backyard installation, so I am saticfied with my score. Details on my setup can be found on www.oz1jte.dk C U next year or mayby in the CW test. Thomas/OZ1JTE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7TTT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 9,933 Condx veeery poor for a vertical and 75W SWL class would have been a more wise choice. cu next year 73 Peter OZ5WQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OZ7X Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 212,113 First contest with my 2 new 3 element delta loops up 150 and 120 feet. Both antennas can be switched 180 degrees. See http://pictures.oz5kf.dk/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P33W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 17,471,520 Propagation surprises this year again with HF bands. Very heavy 80 and 160 m noice, so missed a lot of EUs calling but great mult score for us on low bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 8,070,000 I arrived at my Aruba home about a week before the contest. Even though there are some permanent antennas installed, setting up for a contest is still quite a bit of work. I needed to string out many ground radials under the 160m vertical, install the 80m dipole, pennant and short Beverage antennas. There are also no transceivers at the house and I had to set up a SO2R station in a bedroom. Fortunately everything worked perfectly and I had time to work on the house a little before my wife arrived on Tuesday afternoon. Unfortunately rain and thunderstorms moved into the area and remained for much of the trip, however we still managed to have a nice vacation time together. We enjoyed hand feeding the fish while snorkeling at Baby Beach, and had some very nice dinners. On Friday the sky cleared up a little and we enjoyed relaxing on Palm Beach near all of the hotels, which is how I like to prepare for a contest. I started the contest on 20m and the band stayed productive for about 1 1/2 hours. I then switched to the low bands for the remainder of the evening. They were noisy and working stations on 80m and 160m was definitely a struggle running LP, but luckily 40m was in good shape. Around sunrise, I switched back to 20m and ran a number of European stations for several hours and then switched to 15m to run Europe on that band. About an hour later, (around 1430z) I discovered a little opening on 10m. My rates on 15m were good, and I hated switching bands, however at this point in the sunspot cycle 10m is unpredictable and I took whatever opening I could find. 10m was slow at this point, but every new multiplier was exciting. I later went back to 15m and ran Europe some more. When that slowed down (around 1730z) I turned the antennas toward the US and ran them for the first time in the contest on 15m. The rates were fantastic - from 1800z to 1859z I made 325 QSOs. About an hour later 10m opened nicely into the US yielding a rate of over 200 QSOs per hour. On the second day of the contest the low bands were even noisier and I also had some local thunderstorms creating QRN. The thunderstorms also made operating uncomfortable so I decided to take a break for a meal, shower and nap. When I returned to the radio the thunderstorms had passed and I was refreshed. Rates were noticeably slower on the second day and I was able to spend more time hunting for multipliers. Some Caribbean stations were difficult to work on the back of their beam, but with two radios I was still able to run stations while slowly breaking the pileups. CQ WW is a great contest with much activity from all over the world and I had a fun time participating in this event. On Monday after the contest the temporary antennas were removed, the station was disassembled and the house was put back to its normal condition. My wife helped a lot with this by rolling up all of the wires and ropes. Later that evening we celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary at the Flying Fishbone, a very nice restaurant on the beach - actually our table was in the water. It was nice to see W2GD / P40W again. He’s been operating this contest from Aruba for decades and has certainly given me a lot of helpful advice. Aruba is a nice vacation and contesting spot and I am fortunate that I was able to do both during this trip. I would like to thank everyone for the QSOs. I would also like to thank my QSL manager, WD9DZV for all of his assistance. 73, John john@p40a.com Antenna Picture and description: http://www.qrz.com/p40a ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40PA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 7,090,608 SO1R this time, Orion II + Acom amp, OptiBeam tribander @60 ft, 2 el 40 fixed north @45 ft, 80m dipole @30 ft, 160m inverted L. Not an especially good job of chasing down mults, I was having a hard time on the low bands as well :-) congrats to those who got me on 160, I'm sure I was an alligator to the USA with the S9+20 to 30 atmospheric noise this weekend from T-storms over YV down here. And a big thank you to Joop, P43JB and XYL Yvonne for having me at their house for the weekend. A very enjoyable weekend on the radio. More complete writeup on my journalspace page later in the week. Scott W4PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P40W Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 9,384,575 Rig: IC756ProII, TenTec Titan 425 (1KW) SO1R WinTest Software V 3.17 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 COMMENTS: All week I knew there would be 'issues' this time largely weather related that would ultimately had a trickle down effect on how the contest played out for me. With a tropical depression forming over KP4 the normal wind/wx pattern was disrupted, the easterly trade winds replaced by a quite rare westerly flow. This created a wet unstable air mass overhead that produced persistent cloudiness, showers and t-storms. Heavy showers and local t-storms cost me 1.5 days of precious outdoor setup work time, delaying the final station antenna prep until late Friday morning. I was physically tired going into the contest after climbing one of my towers four times on Friday morning to repair coax and rotator control cable failures. This probably played some part in my problems with sleep management later in the weekend. Given the elevated QRN levels from the TD, I expected low band operation would be a challenge and it certainly turned out that way. Poor 160M and 80M propagation to EU Friday night further complicated the situation. It took persistent calling to raise even the louder EU stns. on these bands. Opened up on 20M, but it was never heart pumping great and conditions deteriorated at least 30 minutes earlier than last year, forcing a confrontation with the low band QRN that much sooner. Daytime 20 and 15 seemed quite good for the most part, but the longer haul opennings to AS seemed down from last year. 10M was just about a carbon copy of 2006 but the EU signals were less abundant. Had a hot 311 hour on 10 Saturday afternoon, it was open coast to coast. The unexpected arrival of P43A on 15M Saturday morning added to the overall level of difficulty but these things happen (P43A is located just 150M away and runs a full KW). The beverages helped somewhat. Regarding off time, the first night worked out perfectly, took an hour just before sunrise which left me feeling alert and rested all day Saturday. At 0130Z the second night I decided to take a 1.5 hour nap and then go the rest of the way. Unfortunately despite three alarms buzzing, the nap turned turned into a nearly 7 hour siesta. As a result I missed most of low band EU time Saturday night, and took at least 4 more hours of off time than I would have otherwise. My mistake will probably cost me at least one place in the final results, and left me pretty upset with myself, but I finally decided it wasn't the end of the world and forged on. Still had a great time operating what I and others consider to be the second most competitve and fun DX contest of the year (CQWW CW is still #1 and will always be the "big show" in my book). Made time on this trip to socalize with P40PA (W4PA) who operated from P43JB's QTH. Took Scott on the nickle tour of P4 stations (P49MR, P40A, P43P, P49Y/P40L and of course P40W/P40R). Then we enjoyed Thursday evening dinner together with Joop P43JB and his XYL Yvonne. On Friday Scott and I had a high carb lunch at Pizza Hut and hit the food stores for last minute contest munchies. Special congrats to my friends 8P5A and VY2ZM for their FB SOAB HP scores, and to all the operators worldwide who made an effort to participate, particularly those who traveled outside their home countries to supply some rare mults. CU again in CQWW CW from P40W. 73, John W2GD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA60LIM Class: M/S LP Total Score = 73,732 Set up: Ten Tec Orion I 100W Dipole 3,5m up fer 40m Inv vee 10m up VERON Section/club A31 (Noord and Midden Limburg - county/province) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. To promote contesting in the club we applied fer the special call PA60LIM (gr...uh..ugly fer phone...hi) and invited members to join the PA3ARM shack and make contacts. Instead of nice CW tones the endless "six zero lima india mike" repetitions were heard in the headphones. Nice experience to be in this "phone monster" contest fer the first time. QSL requests via PE1NCP! Cu in the CQWW CW contest (vy limited operation) 73 de Harry PA3ARM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA6Z Class: M/M HP Total Score = 7,737,997 Again our team enjoyed an FB contest with all bands in good shape, especially 160 was great for us. The 20m station suffered from technical problems: rotor failure and amplifier brake down 2 times. On 40m we still have some work to do... 73 & CU in CQWW CW! Team PA6Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PF5X Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 53,179 Nice to hear 10m open. 15m was in good shape and I had a fun run Sunday afternoon towards NA. CU in the real part (CW) of contest. -- Enno, PF5X cw dx.nl FT1000MP, Expert 1K-FA, 3 el SteppIR @20m, 40m rotary dipole @ 22m N1MM 7.10.9 proving freeware is bestware ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PG7V Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 429,135 Rig: Yaesu FT-2000, 100 W Cushcraft R7 vertical @16m high G5RV dipole 2x 16m, feeding point @15m high Longwire for 160m http://www.pg7v.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2T Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 14,541,195 Two failures of commercial power, the worst thunderstorm we have ever seen here, and almost non-existent conditions to Europe took a lot of the fun out of this one. Hard to believe, but only 8.6% of our QSOs were Europe as compared to the usual 38% or so. Still, we had a lot of fun and hung in there after being tempted to turn off the rigs and just watch the Red Sox beat the Rockies. Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning the most incredible lightning storm we've seen here nailed us. This is tremendously unusual, as these usually stay offshore. Lightning in all quadrants, close and loud. We shut down and isolated the station electrically as the rain came in torrents. Predictably, the commercial power died about 30 minutes into the storm. I fired up the generator, and after the rain ended we got back on the air barefoot with two transmitters. 40 was not bad, even with only 100 watts, but 80 barefoot was a waste of time. Naturally, this is the first contest where I had not filled the fuel can, so I headed out on the 110 minute round trip to the island's 24 hour gas station at 1:40 AM, leaving W1MD running the west coast on 40. On the way back I got stuck behind an accident cleanup that was blocking the only highway, adding to the delay. By the time I got back the power was back up, so we secured the generator, fired up the amps, and woke up the ops. Sunday conditions were no better with an almost complete inability to establish any runs into Europe, even in the Europe-only bands. Shortly after cleaning up the generator and putting the cables away the power dropped again around 4 PM Sunday afternoon. We fought the temptation to surrender and were back on barefoot within 10 minutes, running that way for about 90 minutes until we got back on the mains with the amps. The Titan III refused to make RF after this Sunday afternoon restart, so I hot-swapped in another amp while K1EA patiently worked around my antics on 20. (We fixed the Titan III and it tested good on Monday morning.) Also, the rain left us without Internet connectivity much of the weekend. Now that the contest is over, of course, the weather is calm, sun is out, bands are improving, and the data connection is back fast and solid. Many thanks to Craig (K1QX) and Ken (K1EA) for making their first trip to Curacao. Too bad they ran squarely into Murphy. And we regret greatly that W6PH was not able to make it here, stopped by wildfire smoke on I-5 and unable to get to LAX Thursday morning. Thanks for the Qs, and sincere congratulations to Kyle's (WA4PGM) PJ4E crew and to everyone else who waxed us fair and square in this one. Nice work, guys! Great contesting. Now it's on to CW, thank goodness, and we'll hope that things go better. Thanks also to all of the CCC members and guests who make this PJ2T operation a reality. 73 from Geoff, W0CG, PJ2DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ4E Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 20,600,646 It's amazing how fast a year goes by and CQWW kicks off contest season again for everyone. I started my planning right after our operation in 2006. Many operators expressed their interest in joining the team for 2007 and I appreciate everyone who emailed in asking. PJ4 - Bonaire is a small island located about 50 miles North off the coast of Venezuela and is apart of what is called the "ABC Island" of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao. Population is around 15,000 people; tourism, diving, snorkeling, wind surfing, and salt make up most of the economy for the island. Averages high temperatures are around 87 degrees with lows in mid-70's. Beautiful blue water and not usually threaten by hurricanes the ABC islands are a very popular vacation spot for many. Team PJ4E this year consisted of K6AM, N0VD, W0CN, WK4Y, WA4PGM, WZ8P, and local PA3CNX(soon PJ4NX). All seasoned operators and most operating from many places all the world. K6AM - John traveled directly to Bonaire and everyone met him for is arrival. John came loaded for bear with several cases for goodies. When it comes to building switching audio antenna voice keying do hickies John has quite a few that work well. He's also a frequent traveler when it comes to contesting. N0VD - Kelly a return op from last year and now soon to be resident was a pleasure to have on the team again. He also had video audio laptop recording thinga ma bobbs that soon hopefully will turn out to be a small video of the trip. You can see more about him at: http://www.dxcentral.com/ W0CN - Dan met Roy and I at the Miami airport it was funny when we arrived the departure terminal and looked for him and not having met before was unsure what each may look like so I called him on my cell phone only to find out we were less than 10 feet away to begin with!!!! Dan is active Air Force and has traveled to many rare places are the world. From MIA we flew to Curacao, here we would stay for 3 nights at Sunset Waters and visiting Geoff and Cindy Howard at Signal Point(PJ2T). Dan made close to 2000 Qso's as PJ2/W0CN during that time. WK4Y - Roy had the trip of a lifetime for his first contest expedition. We've operated together for many years at W4MYA's and while mobile during the VA QSO Parties. He was eager to run and did and excellent job filling the logs from both PJ2 and PJ4. WA4PGM - Thank you everyone for the contacts it's you who make the contest without your participation CQWW wouldn't be one of the best. This was my second year as PJ4E and it keeps getting better. Each year our 3 night trip to Curacao is always a special treat when we're able to visit Geoff and Cindy. Your hospitality is appreciated by everyone!!!!!!!!!! Everyone enjoyed operated from the famous "Signal Point". When I read your score on 3830 I was very disappointed to see you guys having so much trouble. We've emailed many times about going head to head as Multi-2 and was happy to hear your team was deciding to give it a go. It was unfortunately for both us as the low band noise was extremely bad due the to the fact of storms in Curacao and Venezuela. I'm sure the Tropical Depression wasn't helping either so my apologizes to everyone who called and called. Believe me we tried and installed 2 beverages plus a K9AY rx array, when it's 20 to 30 over 9 don't look for a fun night. I was one of the operators Saturday night so I had my ears tortured. Around 1:30AM Sunday I decided to switch to 20 meters and found the band wide open to the Middle East, Asia, Europe and picked up many multipliers and zones. Quickly, SV, SV9, A7, 9N, 9M2, 5H, 7X, A6, and others were in the log. We hardly had any problems that wasn't quickly resolved, the network performed great(thanks N1MM). Plans are already in the works to operate PJ4E next year. Logs will be uploaded to eQSL and LOTW, QSL PJ4E via WA4PGM with SASE or SAE and $1 if you prefer direct. WZ8P - Everett arrived CUR on Sunday and Geoff and I met him outside. He's been to many places like J68, HK0, VP2E, and had many stories to share. Lots of energy and was outstanding operator, he even worked a 5, 7, and 11 year old operators. Everett had a fun time on trip except the when his flight Miami to Columbus, Ohio was canceled. He finally made it home on Wednesday morning with no luggage! See: http://wz8p.com/ for more about him. PA3CNX - Peter soon to be PJ4NX is now a resident from Holland and his knowledge of the island certainly helped us in many ways. He been active on the many bands HF to UHF even EME and soon will be building a new house and station so look for his signal only to get stronger. Thank you my friend for everything!!!!!!!! See ya next year!! 73, Kyle Clubs: W0CN - Florida Contest Group (FCG) WK4Y & WA4PGM - Potomac Valley Radio Club (PVRC) WZ8P - Mad River Radio Club (MRRC) N0VD - Grand Mesa Contesters of Colorado (GMCC) K6AM - Southern California Contest Club (SCCC) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PP1CZ Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,329,435 Great time I spent there. This contest is always a party to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,139,897 Impressive propagation Thursday on the high bands. 10 meters at that day was really fantastic. Seems that continues to be good during the contest. 20 meters on the first day was fine and I end up with 1600 QSOs. Second day conditions droop down and I made no more than 650 Qs. It was fine to return back on SOSB. Thanks for being on my log. 73 Oms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PU2LSM Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 341,214 THIS WAS MY FIRST PARTICIPATION IN A CONTEST IN FULL TIME...I AM HAM ONLY 4 MONTHS, I´M HAPPY WITH MY RESULTS. A SPECIAL THANKS TO MAMIRO(PY2DM), I AM REALLY THANKFUL FOR RECEIVED ME IN HIS EXCELLENT STATION. I WISH TO BE ON ANOTHER CONTEST AND TO CATCH YOU ON FREQ. 73 ALAN PU2LSM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2BK Class: SOSB(A)/15 HP Total Score = 897,176 After exchange of plans in last hour, because the friends who would go to operate m/s had not been able to appear, finished for choosing the band of 15 meters because I believed that would be in better conditions of propagation what he confirmed during the operation. Thanks to all for the contacts and especially to the PY2DM for received in your station. In we will see in the next ones you contest them 73. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One radio Yaesu FT857D Amplifier Drake L4B 5 elements Yagi N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2CX Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 246,568 BAD CONDITIONS WITH EUROPE. RUNNING TS450 SAT KENWOOD ANTENNA YAGI 6 ELEMENTS MONOBAND MIC HEIL PROSET PLUS HC4 SOFTWARE N1MM V 10.10 TNX FOR ALL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2DY Class: SOSB(A)/40 HP Total Score = 69,104 Runing with my old and good FT 920(many histories with this radio). FL 2100 B. Two elements yagi short wire. Headset. See you in another season of CQWW SSB. 73`S to all. PY2DY TONY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2MTV Class: SOSB(A)/15 LP Total Score = 142,245 Rig: FT1000MP Field 100 watts, antenna 2 ele Yagi @ 31 feet up, LOG: N1MMLogger VS. 10.10.0 TNX FER ALL QSO, 73. André PY2MTV Guarujá SP - Brazil São Paulo Contest Group (SPCG) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NA Class: M/2 LP Total Score = 1,590,729 It´s too hard when we operate low power, mainly on 20m and 40m. Thanks for the QSOs, see you all in CQWW CW. Rig: IC-706MKII, TH7DX @ 18m, 2el. 40m shortly @ 16m, Inverted Vee 80m. 73/DX PY2NDX - Rafael PY2NA - Mark Sorocaba, SP Brazil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 4,069,800 After long long long time, back to All Band effort (maybe, last time was 2000 under AB Low Power) and from my own home! Totally different than work at PS2T 60km near... And doing 48 hours?!?! Now I can understand why N6TJ, PY5EG, ZX5J, CT1BOH, OH2MM and a lot of other guys are heroes hi hi hi... Near of the end, I was trying to eat the keyboard and talking to the dinner plates hi hi... Big surprise on 10 meters, or even my modest multipliers on 80m, just using sloper and 300 watts... Could be better working multipliers but was fun to remember old times and doing a very long pile-ups on the bands, including 40m... I am really happy doing this from my home and recovering the possibility to do more than 4.000 QSOs here. Know why? See rig description and some other data, specially runs etc etc. All the best and see you at CW contest... -------------------- One Radio FT1000mpMK-V Field all INRAD filters including Roofing Filter. Software was N1MM and controller MK2R+ (with problem on 20m). Amplifier Alpha 91B using Class A (Yaesu Function) to drive 25w and getting 500w/600w out, nothing more. 200w 160m, 300w 80m, 600w 10-15-20m. Boomset Heil HC-4 Noise Reduction Earphone. W6EL propagation maps. 2el 40-2CD(40) 25m high, 6el KT34XA(10-15-20) 22m high, AlphaDelta 1/4 sloper(160/80) 20m high. ----------------------------- 3344 QSOs (with dupes) - PY2NY Max Rates: 2007-10-27 0013Z - 7,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 420 per hour by PY2NY 2007-10-27 0022Z - 4,9 per minute (10 minute(s)), 294 per hour by PY2NY 2007-10-27 0101Z - 3,6 per minute (60 minute(s)), 218 per hour by PY2NY ----------------------------- PY2NY - Off Times >= 30 Minutes 10/27/07 06:23Z - 10/27/07 07:51Z 88 mins 10/27/07 10:07Z - 10/27/07 10:39Z 32 mins 10/27/07 12:10Z - 10/27/07 13:00Z 50 mins 10/27/07 23:53Z - 10/28/07 00:37Z 44 mins 10/28/07 05:44Z - 10/28/07 09:21Z 217 mins 10/28/07 10:28Z - 10/28/07 11:35Z 67 mins Total Time Off 8,30 hours; Total Time On 39,70 hours ----------------------------- PY2NY Runs >10 QSOs - only over than 100/h 2007-10-27 0001 - 0008Z, 21275 kHz, 21 Qs, 177,0/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0012 - 0104Z, 14269 kHz, 206 Qs, 240,2/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0112 - 0126Z, 7165 kHz, 41 Qs, 178,7/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0209 - 0230Z, 14258 kHz, 66 Qs, 187,8/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0238 - 0306Z, 14258 kHz, 49 Qs, 105,7/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0420 - 0449Z, 7038 kHz, 64 Qs, 129,9/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0756 - 0804Z, 14165 kHz, 14 Qs, 107,2/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 0934 - 0958Z, 14181 kHz, 40 Qs, 100,1/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 1508 - 1516Z, 21220 kHz, 15 Qs, 105,5/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 1749 - 1918Z, 21242 kHz, 199 Qs, 134,8/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 1922 - 2055Z, 28451 kHz, 311 Qs, 198,9/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 2057 - 2149Z, 28452 kHz, 180 Qs, 206,0/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 2211 - 2256Z, 21258 kHz, 160 Qs, 212,4/hr PY2NY 2007-10-27 2301 - 2351Z, 14266 kHz, 139 Qs, 167,2/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 0110 - 0230Z, 7165 kHz, 169 Qs, 126,5/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 1634 - 1714Z, 21187 kHz, 102 Qs, 152,3/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 1806 - 1856Z, 28468 kHz, 88 Qs, 105,9/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 1908 - 1950Z, 14151 kHz, 84 Qs, 120,8/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 1959 - 2051Z, 28468 kHz, 120 Qs, 139,4/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 2055 - 2105Z, 21276 kHz, 21 Qs, 126,2/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 2110 - 2137Z, 14164 kHz, 75 Qs, 169,3/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 2148 - 2210Z, 21239 kHz, 72 Qs, 201,2/hr PY2NY 2007-10-28 2222 - 2259Z, 14171 kHz, 101 Qs, 162,6/hr PY2NY ------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2YU Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 388,500 Hi guys, Worst conditions that I ever see on 10m, only 5 JA´s, few europeans, the contest was most USA run! My TS-450S died 2 hours before contest start, operated with old TS-130S + hand mic + 400W + 3 el. tribander (vy poooorr)... Thanks all who called me during the contest. See you all in CQWW CW! 73/DX PY2YU - Tom PX2W in contests (Since 2000) py2yu@terra.com.br py2yu@hotmail.com (MSN) Sorocaba, SP Brazil ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2ZY Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 179,645 RUNNING : IC 746 - ICOM ANTENNA YAGI 5 ELEMENTS MONOBAND SOFTWARE N1MM V 7.10.10 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 769,477 As time goes by, it's nice to be on the air, meeting those friends that you only know their callsigns and take place in this fantastic game. Hope God gimme health to be among them for uncontable years and a good propagation in order to listen better and be heard louder. Thanks to everyone who took part, specially those fellows that are in my log. I'll see you next month! 73 de Paul - PY3DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PZ5XX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 6,167,616 Operator: Olli, HP1WW, Village kart (DIY) race driver Soapbox: TNX FER QSOS! TNX TO RAMON, PZ5RA - http://www.dxholiday.com/sa/pz.htm Another "Village kart race" operation, pure DIY style! Arrived at site a couple of hours before the race ready to kart around. This time driving lasted only 38 hours because the tropical storm blocked the track and did not allow the aimed 46 hours operation. Left for home only 5 hours after the contest and arrived there 17 hours later. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 6,511,590 Continent List 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 0 41 29 156 5 0 231 VE calls = 0 4 3 21 5 0 33 N.A. calls = 0 18 14 21 9 0 62 S.A. calls = 2 16 35 31 24 0 108 Euro calls = 298 745 1097 1265 602 257 4264 Afrc calls = 6 13 14 28 33 12 106 Asia calls = 33 69 127 141 61 14 445 JA calls = 0 32 106 118 7 0 263 Ocen calls = 0 6 34 36 15 0 91 Total calls = 339 944 1459 1817 761 283 5603 HOUR 160SSB 80SSB 40SSB 20SSB 15SSB 10SSB TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 0 16 182 35 0 0 0 233 233 1 18 150 11 0 0 0 179 412 2 44 32 10 16 0 0 102 514 3 0 56 31 7 0 0 94 608 4 0 1 142 23 0 0 166 774 5 0 0 65 62 36 1 164 938 6 0 0 2 218 13 7 240 1178 7 0 0 1 270 0 14 285 1463 8 0 0 0 214 0 19 233 1696 9 0 0 0 9 41 190 240 1936 10 0 0 0 9 177 12 198 2134 11 0 0 4 102 13 20 139 2273 12 0 0 28 98 3 1 130 2403 13 0 0 78 40 1 0 119 2522 14 0 3 115 2 2 0 122 2644 15 0 0 95 0 0 1 96 2740 16 2 1 116 1 0 0 120 2860 17 0 2 109 0 0 0 111 2971 18 0 0 111 0 0 0 111 3082 19 0 0 87 0 0 0 87 3169 20 2 57 0 5 0 0 64 3233 21 2 18 0 25 2 0 47 3280 22 3 2 111 0 0 0 116 3396 23 43 1 55 2 0 0 101 3497 0 65 1 2 0 0 0 68 3565 1 0 68 0 0 0 0 68 3633 2 17 21 2 0 0 0 40 3673 3 3 20 0 0 0 0 23 3696 4 0 44 0 1 0 0 45 3741 5 0 0 55 3 3 0 61 3802 6 0 0 0 115 0 0 115 3917 7 0 0 0 27 71 1 99 4016 8 0 0 0 0 189 2 191 4207 9 0 0 0 1 165 1 167 4374 10 0 0 0 46 15 14 75 4449 11 0 0 0 101 1 0 102 4551 12 0 0 0 118 8 0 126 4677 13 0 3 0 90 18 0 111 4788 14 0 1 2 122 2 0 127 4915 15 0 0 13 90 1 0 104 5019 16 0 1 88 0 0 0 89 5108 17 0 1 74 0 0 0 75 5183 18 4 71 13 0 0 0 88 5271 19 87 0 0 0 0 0 87 5358 20 22 30 0 0 0 0 52 5410 21 0 56 1 0 0 0 57 5467 22 0 94 0 0 0 0 94 5561 23 11 28 3 0 0 0 42 5603 TOTAL 339 944 1459 1817 761 283 Great contest, but bad propagation. QSL via W3HNK Max/RV3BA http://www.rk3awl.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3BM Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 248,745 Bad prop but great contest! Lot of fun! Rig: IC-756pro3+h.m. linear with GU-84B tetrode, 6-el OWA monoband Yagi on 14m long boom, 21m hihg. Win-Test ver.3.17.0 (great software!) 73! Mike ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU6LA Class: SOSB(A)/80 HP Total Score = 208,800 TS-850 + PA cross bi-square quads @85m beverages not in log 1, 3, 6, 12, 31, 32, 34, 36, 39, 40 Z Countries 1A 3DA 3V 3W 4L 4O 4S 4U1I 4X 5B 5H 6Y 8P 9A 9K 9V A4 A7 BY C5 C6 CM CN CT CT3 CU DL DU E7 EA EA6 EA8 EA9 EI EK ER ES EU EX EY F FJ FY G GD GI GM GM/s GW HA HB HB0 HC8 HI HK HL HR I IG9 IS IT9 J2 J3 J6 JA JT K KP2 KP4 LA LU LX LY LZ OD OE OH OH0 OK OM ON OZ P4 PA PJ2 PY S5 SM SP SV SV5 SV9 T7 TA TA1 TI UA UA2 UA9 UN UR V2 VE VK VP2M VP5 VP9 VR YB YL YO YU YV Z3 ZS 80M % EU 856 80.3 AF 14 1.3 AS 119 11.2 NA 57 5.3 SA 13 1.2 OC 7 0.7 QSOs: DL-118, SP-69, UR-62, I-59, UA9/0-49, OK-47, UA-46(0 points), Gs-38, EA-33, K-33, YO-33, JA-32, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW1AC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 3,832,623 It's first time operation in CQ WW as SOAB. Really was fun ! it's very hard to find any mult by second radio, I need more practice :))... only 1 JA - 15 820 NA - all bands break off 0333 - 0440 0630 - 0921 1524 - 1541 the best hours 07 161 08 165 21 188 22 181 16 143 19 148 23 212 - -last hour :)) Vlad RW1AC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50A Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,500,000 Condx not good but better than expected. Mistake was expectation of opening on 40m and lost time due to wait for it :-) Murphy destroyed 80m antenna and WX brought few times off period due to storms. Wonder what to do to break the walls of signals to get some answers? 73, Tine Brajnik, S50A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50K Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,234,560 Unlike last year started at 00z and closing the first day at 23z. 5h sleep and, run through the day, closing 30 min before the ctest end. Lots of qrm, on frequency and severe qrn the second day afternoon from the rain. Sorry for the calls that were not responded. Lots of EU, many G, I, YO, DL, F stations, losts of marginal signals from dx stations. Less VK and JA than expected. Bright moments were definetly calls by V73RY, ZL7/DL2AH the second morning via long pass with +20dB sigs. Also VK4SJ arround that time came in with 59 via long pass with 10 W and mobile. Hope for QSL card. Second morning still missing zones 34, 36, 37 was well worth calling for some time in that direction, all coming in with good sigs to later complete with all 40 zones. Being served by Steppir, KLM, Icom and Harris. 73s de Marko, S50K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50U Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 160,332 Contest : CQ World Wide DX Contest Callsign : S50U Mode : PHONE Category : Single Operator - Assisted (SOA) Band(s) : All bands (AB) Class : High Power (HP) Operating time : 7h BAND QSO DUP DXC CQ POINTS AVG -------------------------------------- 160 36 0 26 7 54 1.50 80 100 0 40 10 132 1.32 40 54 0 30 12 80 1.48 20 237 4 30 11 559 2.36 15 17 0 13 7 37 2.18 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 -------------------------------------- TOTAL 444 4 139 47 862 1.94 ====================================== TOTAL SCORE : 160 332 Powered by Win-Test 3.7.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51A Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 929,736 Pozdravljeni! My first SOAB! It was like when i started with soab 80, i just didnt know where/what/how! With the support of my good friend the icom 746, which this time was nearly impossible to operate on 40/80/160 (low ip3 bla bla bla) - had s constant noise on 40m at 59+20, so i'm sorry if i didnt answer to your call's! It was a good run for experience, but still since i never was on 40m ssb for more as the ocasional QSO the results r lacking there and on 80m. An unexpected off time for 5h on sat night costed me the 1500Q/1M points. But it's all good. Thanks to the support (pre/in the contest and after) of Andrej s56zab without who my operation would've been totaly a different experience...realy thank you and i owe you at least some beers :) To Ziga, who heleped andrej setting the 40m antena's, while i was on the job. Tine s50a and Kristjan s50xx who offered me good informations and to all that i've bugged on the phone and the WWYC guys!. Allways a pleasure working WWYC on air! Equip: Icom 746 Ant: th6dxx 10/15/20 @15m 40m: dipole @9m and Eco vertical (didnt work realy good) 80m: Inv V @15m 160m: Inv V @15m Conditions were astonishing from the fact that 10/15 were fairly opened. Worked realy some nice qso's and had few runs on 10m (my only runs! Thanks to all the PA hams that answered (never worked so many PA). Qso of the day CX on the band almost closed! 15m fairly fun with lots of karibian, pitty for the lost ju1f, jt,9m2, lots of others NO VK or ZL!!! actualy i heard 1 VK an 1 ZL the whole contest :/ ) Best qso VQ9X tu! 20m...oh :/ My 746 had a singnal allways + 40!!! on the whole band! th6dxx is bad on this band and i had to tune it to go to 14.350 :/ Sorry to the fans of the antenna, but compared to kt34xa... it is just bad. Problems with 70% of 3 points qso and NO RUN WHATSOEVER! almost noone came on cq.... Best QSO my friends @ Ve7SV (spent 10 minutes, but it was worth it! ) 40m :) 59+++ signals and trying to get someting out of the noise :) Did what i could since i slept sat night :). (FS/K1XM as last qso of the ctest) 80m The dipole on 15m is totaly dissapointing...i didnt work even 9k2hn who usualy is realy realy good (and i work him from home with a dipole on 9m every time XD ).....time to improve...Skyloop maybe! No Caribian :/ (4u1wrc came on CQ TU!) 160m The 160 on contest was my first....Thanks to rl3a who saved my day with a multiplayer! in the night time it was refreshing and i actualy had a run on 160 with 100W :) Yey! Thank you all again and hope to hear you on the bands! Bostjan - Ian S55O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 1,236,273 CU in CW part ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53F Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 895,014 MNI TNX to Karl - S52AW invited me to his location again. This year he put up a new 3L Yagi at 30 m AGL , next to existing 5 L QUAD at 60 m AGL. The second antenna improved my score from last year for 1000 QSO and 100k pts, even the conditions were worse. That could be the reason I missed a lot of DX pts. I also missed quite easy MPL Z1 and Z19. I also had only 2 hour break . The biggest problem was my voice keyer, which did not work, so I had to use my own voice, like back in the old days. It was very hard. Next I had some complications with switching between the 3 antennas. I missed a lot of QSO-s due to very crowed band, also on the USA freq. between 7.200 to 7.300 MHz. I do apologize to all stations who called me and did not get my replay. However I had great fun. Before the contest I thought that 3.000 QSO-s was “mission impossible”. See you again in WW CW. I’ll be weaker, because I will be operating from my location with 2 x vertical on 7 MHz. S52AW, Drago (owner) will be booming on 40m in SOSB . The picture of the monster S52AW QUAD can be seen on: http://shrani.si/f/C/FZ/1nB1rwhQ/s52awquad.jpg 73 de S53F Vinko Zone total 2 5 3 13 4 188 5 383 6 8 7 7 8 29 9 18 10 2 11 16 12 2 13 7 14 1142 15 612 16 288 17 44 18 21 20 100 21 10 22 2 23 3 24 17 25 172 26 2 27 5 28 9 29 2 30 22 32 16 33 16 35 2 37 1 38 4 40 2 Total 3170 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53MM Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 677,000 160M 80M 40M 20M 15M 10M Total % EU 0 0 0 0 904 0 904 50.2 AS 0 0 0 0 191 0 191 10.6 OC 0 0 0 0 33 0 33 1.8 AF 0 0 0 0 38 0 38 2.1 SA 0 0 0 0 64 0 64 3.6 NA 0 0 0 0 570 0 570 31.7 513 W calls 125 G calls 50 JA calls Missed zones: 1,3,19, 31 Ant: 5el @ 12m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57AL Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,225,437 Tnx for all contacts. I cant collect all off you, it was very noisy on the freq. CU in CW 73, Ivo S57AL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 4,049,942 NICE CONTEST. I STAY TOO LONG ON 10 AND ALSO ON 160. 20 WAS OVERCROWDED AND IT WAS A HARD JOB TO FIND AND KEEP GOOD RUN FRQ. I MISS A LOT OF "EASY" MULTIPLIERS BUT REALIZE THAT AFTER THE CONTEST. ANYWAY IT WAS FUN, I ENJOY IT. HARDLY WAIT FOR CW PART. 73 DE SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57M Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 101,094 Very noisy band all days - static crashes to S9 and more! Sorry for some calls. The highlight was B1Z on CQ - the new one for me.See you on CW ! GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57S Class: SOSB/10 HP Total Score = 102,265 After two surgical operations, 740 QSO's was my limit this time. I couldn't stay at station for a long time so I've forced to take a lot of time-outs. Nice E-Sporadic around Europe both days makes 10m contesting fun. Ratings jumps up to 180 sometimes, but 1 pointers of course couldn't deliver high final score. Bad propagation to the east, and even worse to N/W. For me, NP4A was the most northern station I've manage to work. Africa was well open both days but poor activity from there. South America: Hey guys again! Why always forget for us in Europe at 18-20 UTC. Contest is also here, not only in USA! At that time of the day we can easily copy you 55-57 when your antennas are toward USA. It is nearly impossible to get your attention. Not to say make QSO with you at that time of the day unless you turn beam to Europe. I just don't understand! We're also 3 pointers, a lot of softy MTPLRs waiting for you here in EU, but no. It's so easier runnig USA Pile-ups. You are realy lucky, if you ask me, bad strategy, but still, wheter we like it or not you always won the 10m contests! Live isn't fair... Thanks for all QSO'S, Aleksander, S57S ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SA5D Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 370,180 Thank heaven for the Voice-Keyer! Had a soar throat all weekend and had to trust the MFJ-434 all the time. Fun with so good opening on 10m. 73's de John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SJ2A Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 153,908 I worked a few hours for the first time from SM2EKM station since the station I usually use has been sold. I had intentions to do this one full time but my neck messed with me and when also conditions were terrible I decided to do something useful with my time instead and went home. So about 11 hours behind the radio. We'll see if I'll operate any in the CW leg. Might just do it for fun in semi-serious DX mode. 5/5el + 4el FT1000D + Homebrew amp 73 de Mike (SM3WMV) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SJ4F Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 159,120 Was offered a cabin the in mountains during the contest weekend. Didi not want to miss the action so brought the equipment and some wire and a vertical along. Cabing was on the mountain side with a decent shot to the west and south but did not hear any dx east. Actually it was so steep downhills that with the dipole about 50 feet up in the trees I was looking down over the dipole just by moving about 200 feet away!! First time in my life I have been looking down over my antenna! Amazed I was able to catch any DX! Had a great weekend though! ;) 73 Goran SJ4F (SM4DHF) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK7OA Class: M/S LP Total Score = 457,373 Our fisrt CQ WW DX SSB Contest ! 73 ! SM7YGZ, SM7YLZ, SM7LXV & SG7A @ SK7OA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6U Class: SOSB(A)/20 HP Total Score = 460,816 Wow! Conditions up here was not very good. The aurora made me feel very QRP compared to stations further south. Other stations sneaked up much closer this year than they usually do, making the QRM outrageous most of the time. Gave up being serious at saturday night, because of the conditions. Worked rest of the contest in some kind of "vacation" style. Most people said conditions on 20m was about the same as last year, showing what a big difference it makes to be 2 degrees further north than I'm used to. Worked 20m last year from SK6AW with a single 4el beam and 750w. Got the same number of multipliers this year, and I even worked 25% NA last year compared to 12% this year. Working with SK0UX FB equipment and great hilltop QTH again was very fun tho. Everything worked perfect thru the entire weekend, not even the slightest problem appeared. Huge thanks to SM0W/Teemu for hosting me, providing everything needed and even a little bit more! Antennas: NA: 6el QUAD JA: 5el EU: 4el ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM6WET Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 383,169 THE VERTICAL APPROACH I am very pleased with this contest as it is since I started on HF in 2004 the best result I ever had in a DX Contest. Ofcource the propagition was quite bad even though 10m was a surprise. However there was nothing wrong with the activity. Could have been a few more stations on in different African countries. But maybee I was just out of luck. My normal conditions is a very small lot of 480m² minus the space for the house, the garage and 2 parking lots. As you can imagine there is not much space for antennas and topband is just out of the questions if I dont put up some balloon supported vertical. I will have to choose between ¼-wave vertical on 40m or inverted-L on 80m + a tribander. Therefor I chosen to go to the summer cabin in the woods for this contest. It has it's advantages like: No TVI, less noise and static, no disturbing neigbours, friends or solicitors, YL not wanting me to fix this and that on the house and most importantly lots of 20m high pine trees. The disadvantage is however: Cabin is not insulated meaning alot of time shuffling wood in the furnace, lots of time carrying in wood to the furnice, only a outhouse toilet which is freezing cold and worst of all - no beam. Setup: Tranciever: Yaesu FT-920 (No SSB filter, it only fits 1 and it is for CW) Amp: Ten-Tec Titan 425 Interfaces: Exodin soundcard interface and Microham interface to keep the log on the right band. Log: Writelog 10,47 DVK: Soundboard DVK in Writelog but changed to built in DVK in rig. Cluster: Rolled out some 50m telephone cable to neighbour cabin and used dial-up internet access on free call number (ofcource with neibours permission). Antennas: 10m: ECO Antenne 7-band multiband vertical 15m: ECO Antenne 7-band multiband vertical 20m: Vertical wire dipole with radial slightly leaning towards west, feed up 7m. Wirethickness 6mm² and insulated. 40m: ¼-wave wire vertical hung in a burch tree, feed point up 4m with a RF-choke and 8 elevated radials leaning down to 1,5m hight. Antenna is over a swampy ground and overlooks a lake towards the west so the radial stakes towards west was hit down right on the edge between lake and land. All wire 1,5mm². Had a half-square beam made but never put it up. 80m: ¼-wave wire vertical hung in a pine tree, feed aprox 1m over ground with 12 on-ground radials (I know should be more but hey, it was a weekend setup). Vertical was 1,5mm² and radials a mix. 160m: ¼-wave wire sloping inverted L hung from a pine tree. The model was feeding it up at approx 4m, 16m vertical and then the rest slanting/leaning away as far as possible, the end came some 6m from the ground. There was 2 elevated radials going north and south only. I had no radials below to make a ground grid. Wire was 1mm². No special recieving antennas (unfortunatly). All the contests I entered have been for the main goal of working some new DX countries, new band countries or new states or similar. That have been the main focus and therefor I have put a great effort in trying to work multipliers, countries I new would be new and just having a good time. This time I was going to try to put more effort into 160m and 10m as I had not worked a 100 countries there yet. A wise ham I know once said, that if one put an effort into a contest one should be able to work a DXCC over a contest weekend. I dont know if he ment with a large beam or as me, with only verticals but I never managed to do it from home with my 3-el tribander on top of my chimney. At home I only got around 85ish. Calculating countries worked when I finally got all the QSOs in my Lux-Log main logging software I was surprised to see that I finally done it. 105 DXCC and that is ofcource not counting the contest multiplier of Sicily as a country. So - what misshappens did I have......? Only a few 5. A few times I started to not get any power out, I turned to CW for a quick tune and the power out was back and also when I went to Sideband, perhaps there was some protection thingy that moved in on the Titan. I experianced this problem a few times during the last night. Clicking spotted calls on the bandmap should be done carefully, some stations were spotted with a QSX out of my band. One has to pay attention to if the radio goes split and were it goes. It is easy to TX out of band. Another problem I had was with the writelog DVK. Everything worked fine trying out the echo microphone application running my Heil headset into the mic input of the soundboard of my home desktop computer, then out of the soundboard through my Exodin interface into the patch port of the FT-920. However, when doing this with my laptop my voice was sooooo low on modulation I could barely hear myself in the monitor even if I screamed in the mic when recording - the noise was however very loud. I never found out what was wrong but instead used the build in DVK on the rig when calling CQ. Due to my DVK problems I would estimate that 2% of my QSOs were running and the rest S&P. Yet another problem was on 10/15/20 - lots of stations reported me being very very strong in signal but having crap modulation. On the other hand there was alot of stations on the lower bands who forgot their normal fiveninefourteen or fivenineonesix and actually told me "wow, your banging" or "Magnus your +50 in spain". I sometimes had to turn down my power or even shut of my amp to get through a pile-up. I dont think there was anything wrong with the amp, instead I think I somehow got HF in my station due to the antennas for 10/15 and 20 being on the house or right next to it. I drove home my YL spouce on Sunday afternoon and about half way back popping my stereo loud I had a feeling the car was very swurvy. After some 5Km I started to feel some strange smell and I thought I heard some strange noise. Turning of the stereo I heard a strange BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG coming from the rear of my car so I turned in on a side road and went out to inspect. Well was my rear left tire very broken and even smoking a bit or what? I felt it with my fingertip and actually got a small 3rd degree burn. I lost some time changing tires due to those stupid original scissor jackers and how about the lock bolts. Something about the bands: 10m good: I actually worked a new country on 10m getting me only 4 from 5BDXCC. There were openings to Asia, Africa, SA as well as most parts of Europe. 10m bad: Called on stations in the following countries with a full KW but even though the may not have had anyone calling back to them they did'nt hear me: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Aruba, Bonaire, US Virgin, South Africa, Gambia, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and more. Maybee I should by one of thos cheap 4el-CB beams and tune it for 10m. 15m good: Some nice openings, I guess it is always like that but just bad activation. Actually worked more on 15m then 20m. Worked 2 new band countries. 15m bad: Missed alot ones just like on 10m. 20m good: Seemed to have quite a good path to USA/Canada, everyone I called came right back to me. Worked 3 new band countries. 20m bad: This vertical was doing real good towards W and SE but had to yell my lungs soar to even work France or Spain. Maybee leaning too much and being a vertidip it´s one and only radial should have gone straight down instead of leaning a bit towards NW. 40m good: Too beat this antenna I have to put up a beam! There was no stations pile-up that I could'nt break in max 2 calls. Worked a whole 9 new band countries. Really nice conditions on sunday morning with ZL booming in over USA. 80m good: In comparisson the 80m antenna works great but it could use some more radials. Very happy to work C50C in Gambia on 80m as well as 4U1WRC in ITU Geneva. That was my only 2 new countries on 80m. Thought I would get HV on 80m but they never turned up when I was on the band. 160m good: Worked 7 new band countries on 160m excluding that I actually worked my first JA on topband testing the antenna a few hours before the start of the contest. I am now 3/4 from having QSOs enough to claim cards to a DXCC. The band was very very very crowded and it was sometimes extremely difficult to hear the week DX trough lots of QRM. Some nice ones 1A3A Sovereign order of Malta, AO8A in Canary Islands, EA6LP in Balearic Isl was a new, EK0B in Armenia, P3F in Cyprus, YZ8A and a few Canadians. 40/80/160m bad: If only I could hear all I wanted to work. I heard several stations in the West Indies and SA on topband but could never call in between the side QRM because I would never be able to hear if the came back. Also missed C50C and a ZS station like that. Was looking for HV alot on topband but when those times happend they were spotted I could never hear them. Most funniest episode: I got through to HC8N in Galapagos and the said "Thanx for multiplier, can you go on 80m we´re on 3720". A while later I call them on 80m and they thank for the multiplier and ask me "Can you go on 40?", I told them that I allready worked them on 40m and was asked to go on 80m wheroff they reply, "Oh yea How´bout 160?" Lessons learned: 1. Get my high band antennas away from the cabin to reduce HF/RF problems. 2. It seems other stations heard me better on the low bands. I need to: 2.1 Get a filter (have for CQWW CW) for SSB. 2.2 Put up beverages to null out my EU friends so that I can hear the DX. Some thing for NA stations to think about: Not all European countries have recieved more allocation on 40m above 7100. You still need to listen below 7100 to get among others SM in the log on 40m. That be all! CU in CQWW-CW 73 de Magnus SM6WET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN3R Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 160,994 This year, before contest everything was against, so this operation could not have been possible without the help of friends from SP3KEY & SP3PJY clubs. Farmer finished his agricultural work in thursday - one day before event. Result his job: one pole supporting 4 SQ K9AY was broken, lot of radials broken and of course no beverages. Wieslaw, SQ3BME help me to rebuild 4 SQ K9AY. Thank you very much! Thanks Bogdan SP3RBR and Slawek SP3WVC I recover one beverage (US) in saturday evening. Great thanks to all! During contest everything goes perfect. Aurora "touch" my location (200 km SW from Kaz SP2FAX) only from time to time. 450 QSO first night incl. 7 US, 1 VE and few Central America mults - more whenever before. All overseas signals weak, excepting VY2ZM, W3LPL and K3BU who was 57 one hour after my SR! Second night was also good, but after midnight rate go down to around 20/hour and comming up after 2 hours. Few rare mults came i.e. Brasill. Up to my sun rise around 20 US & few Canadian called me. Mostly of them was weak, but workable! Last evening bring unexpected 300 QSO including NA stations and rare mult - China. Finally amazing 350 German stations in the log, and 48 US! Up to today I can`t belive it! It is more then for example PA (42) stations! Thanks to all who called me and CU in CQWW CW. Wieslaw, SP6HEQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SN6Z Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,298,084 Unexpected condx on high bands in the bottom of the cycle.10M could be better due to the conditions on 15M but proably this will be too many hapiness for one time:) Thanks for all qso - it was good fun and propagation check for the upcoming cq ww cw:) Vy73 de Maciek ... --.- -.... -- ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SO2R Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 150,385 The complete poor propagation on NA - only several qso with U.S.A./Canada. Northern Poland then bad place at aurora. Any way, first time in history of every SSB contest on 160 such quantity qso -more 1460. It is thanks of the fantastic activity from Europe. E.g. 405 German stations in the log. There congratulates SN3R of the new Eu record. Kaz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2PUT Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 16,008 trx. TS850, ant. Delta, soft. N1MM 73 Mark SQ2GXO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP3LWP Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 58,782 Trx - IC 718 Ant - GP 5/8 16m up Thanks for all QSO's See you in CQWW part CW Bert sp3lwp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SQ9CNN Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 29,232 ;) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SX5P Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 6,245,880 FIRST OF ALL THANK YOU ALL AMATEURS FOR PARTICIPATING TO THE CONTEST ... WE HOPE THAT WE GAVE OPPORTUNITY TO ALMOST EVERYBODY TO WORK US ... WE ARE ONE OF THE SMALL TEAMS IN THIS CATEGORY AND WE ARE MORE THAN SATISFIED WITH OUR SCORE . WE HAVE INCREASED ALL OUR SUBTOTALS (QSO's , ZONES , COUNTRIES) BY 10% AND IT IS THE FIRST TIME THAT A RHODIAN TEAM ACHIEVES TO ENTER THE TOP 5 IN THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT ... WE DID A LOT OF WORK THIS SUMMER BY CHANGING A TOWER (FROM 12M HIGH TO 22M HIGH), CHANGING THE EXPLORER BEAM (40/20/15/10) TO THE MOSLEY PRO 67B (IF YOU WANT A MULTI BEAM WITH 2 ELEMENTS ON 40m CHOOSE THIS ONE ) AND WE UPGRADED TO THE FT-2000 FROM THE FT-1000MP . PLUS WE INTRODUCED TWO SIMPLE ANTENNAS FOR 80M ( WE CALL THEM HALF LOOPS ON 12m HIGH) AND CREATED A 5 BENT ELEMENT ARRAYS (AROUND THE 22M TOWER ) FOR 160M WITH 50 EARTH RADIALS 20M LONG. ESPECIALLY THE 80M HALF LOOPS INCREASED 50% OUR QSO's IN THAT BAND AND 15% IN ZN+DX . THEY OUTPERFORMED THE VERTICAL + K9AY LOOPS COMBINATION THAT WE WERE USING PREVIOUSLY ... PROPAGATION WAS NOT AS IT WAS EXPECTED TO BE AND WE MISSED A LOT OF QSO'S IN 20M AND 15M BAND ESPECIALLY SATURDAY MORNING ... ONE OF OUR AMPLIFIER GAVE UP DURING THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND DAY , WHICH WAS THE REASON THAT THE SX5P COULD NOT BE HEARD STRONGLY TOWARDS N.AMERICA FOR MORE THAN 2 HOURS ... OVERALL WE ARE SATISFIED WITH OUR EFFORTS SINCE WE OPENED OUR TEAM TO NEW OPERATORS AND FOUND NEW TALENTED MEMBERS ... AGAIN THANK YOU ALL FOR CONTACTING US AND HOPE TO HAVE OUR INTERNET SITE READY BEFORE THE WPX CONTEST ... FOR THE SX5P TEAM , DENIS (SV5FRD) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93J Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 12,031,996 First I want to thank the following friends, hams and non hams, for their great help: 9A1TT Richard, 9A3AG Sasa, 9A5K Kreso, Adnan, Abidin, Cibi, Damir, Dado, Dragan, Drago, Mita, OE1SZW Arpad, OE1WWA Walter, OE3GCU Günther, OE3WLB Wolfgang, OE3WWB Willy, OE4RLC Rainer, OE8SKQ Stefan, T90T Vlado, T90R Ranko, T96C Zoka, T98U Robi and many others....! In the middle of September I decided to operate CQ WW DX SSB Contest from my new QTH in Bosnia. The Question was if it would be possible to setup the station for an all-band operation until the contest. Because of work and family duties I (we) had only limited time to do this, 2 weekends and 1.5 days before the contest. At that time only 2 el 40m@ 33m and KT34XA @8m were installed http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/displayimage.php?album=28&pos=24 and most of remaining hardware (90%) had to be brought in from Austria or from somewhere else! On the first weekend we delivered as much hardware as we could, travelling with 2 cars and one trailer. http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/displayimage.php?album=28&pos=12 http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/displayimage.php?album=28&pos=25 Don’t ask me how we managed to cross all borders from Austria to Bosnia without any problems. :) That weekend we prepared the tower and other hardware and poured the foundations for the tower and guy wire anchors! You can see more pics about that weekend at the following link http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=28 Two weeks later we brought in another carload of hardware to the QTH. During that weekend we put up 2 new towers and 5 antennas! There was not much time left to test anything but we made a few QSOs on 20m! Pics from that weekend can be seen at this link http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=29 In between I also spent some time @ OE4A doing some antenna work. Feel free to look at the pics from this gallery http://www.emssolutions.at/cpg149/thumbnails.php?album=30 Finally on Thursday late afternoon we started the final preparations for the contest! Unfortunately this time Mr. Murphy did not leave us alone....I don’t remember anymore how much repair work we did on Friday, everything we touched needed repair... Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to repair everything and we even thought about doing SOSB instead of M/2! Finally with much handikap (one amp less and station setup not like we wanted to have it) we decided to enter M/2 JFF (just for fun). Nobody from the team knew how our station would be performing, we didn’t have time to check inter-stations interference, etc... The idea was to participate in M/2 category in order to find most of the problems we need to fix in future and in operating M/2 we would have more fun as in other categories! But band condx were great and our station was performing better than we expected. Our best band was 15m where we had our best rates, 6 hours in a row during Saturday afternoon over 200 QSOs /h with best 60min rate of 274 QSOs/h! During the contest we made some tactical errors (but we are not angry about that because this team had never operated M/2 in CQWW before and this was our first CQWW operating together). Also a broken relay on Station 1 amplifier during the 2nd night (we repaired this Sunday morning) caused us some trouble and we stayed with only one station on the air till Sunday morning! Finally our score was better than expected but we know there is much more potential there! Our Setup: Station 1 FT-2000 + homemade amp 160m-10m Station 2 FT-1000MP + homemade amp 20m-6m this was in use on 20/15/10 FT-2000 + Drake L7 this was in use on 160/80/40 160m Inv V @ 50m 80m Inv V @ 30m 40m 2 el yagi @ 33m 20m 4 el yagi @ 33m 15m 6 el yagi @ 29m 10m 6 el yagi @ 24m 160/80/40 Titanex V160HD (only 2 radials, didn’t have time to make more) 20/15/10 KT34XA @ 18m 2 phased beverages 150m long to NA 1 beverage 120m long to north east (JAs) 73 es best dx and cu in CW Part de T93J/OE1EMS Braco ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T99W Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 766,304 Ant: 4 el hy gain up 30m, ASL 1300m TS 850, + 500 W OUT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM2Y Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,604,674 A few technical problems with amps, not enough QSOs, especially on 40m. As noticed by several other EUs, 40m sounded strange both nights and woke up in the last 2 hours. Good surprises with good 15 m and unexpected 10m. Congrats to our competitors for nice scores. C U in CW ! Jacques, F6BEE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9BA Class: SOSB/80 LP Total Score = 93,541 Very difficult CONDX this time! It certainly felt like LOW POWER. Spent more than 2 hours trying to work ZY7C in between S&P QSOs, but never broke through. What was their ANT? They were true s9+15-20dB here! Next loudest SA was FY5KE (didn't make into their log either, though). 8P5A was the only NA that was moving S-meter over the weekend. Sunday was worse than Saturday. Not one single run this time. 98% of QSOs were S&P. TNX ALL for patience and QSOs CU in CW one in 4 weeks. 73's & GL, Willy UA9BA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UT7L Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,480,247 Thanks all for QSO's!!! CU in the CQ WW CW 73 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V26B Class: M/M HP Total Score = 21,838,906 Best 80m ever thanks to Ni1N. No goats this year. We did the best we could on 160m, for all you complainers the QRN this year was 20 over with the TD in the vicinity. You come down and listen yourself, or better yet improve your antennas, then we will hear you. Brian N3OC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V4/NE1RD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 79,800 We traveled to St. Kits bringing all the radio stuff with us on a "100 Pound DXpedition". My choice of QTH was disappointing: we were at the base of a big hill with the US behind it. (Poor planning on my part.) We brought a 2-el tribander which was mounted on painters poles and a couple of fiberglass masts for low-band verticals. The yagi performed reasonably well. The verticals had a tough time with that hill. I was going to put in more of an effort but the location didn't merit it. So, I had fun, put some in the log, and chalked it up to experience. Now I have nothing left to do but lounge by the pool. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2SG Class: SOSB/20 LP Total Score = 44,700 Missed half of the contest, began saturday late afternoon. Tnx for the Q's. My first SS CW next weekend! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DF Class: SOAB QRP Total Score = 138,450 Nice to get in and mix it up with the big guns! Almost doubled my score from last year. Condx on higher bands were a welcome surprise! As usual,it's a jungle out there when you run qrp! 73, Doug VA3DF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3DX Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 267,852 Very casual contest , points for CCO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3XQ Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 51,548 First contest on the 15 meter band for me. Conditions Sunday were very poor. My QTH had very strong atmospheric noise here with a constant s9 noise level. Pulling out the signals was tough. Used a 2 element wire beam. One end is strung 35'in a tree and the other is angled down and attached with bungee cords to various trees on my property. Everytime I needed to change transmitting directions, I had to run outside and swing the beam around by tying it to another tree or flipping it over to face the opposite direction. Then boot it back into the house and call the station. Man what a workout, but that wire beam is really a super antenna. Good contest, lots of stations on 15 and that was great fun. jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3YP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 633,327 Friday and Saturday I was away from home and I wasn't able to start contest on time. I started operating on Saturday night at 02:00 UTC and operate for 5 hour on 80M/40M and make 450 QSO’s. My 160M transmitting antenna wasn’t ready and I didn’t make any QSO on 160M. Condition was nice, but I wasn’t able to make more QSO’s because of my disability. I take a sleep for 5 hours and start operating Sunday at 11:30 UTC, conditions was nice and I worked mostly on higher bands. Sunday afternoon I take a sleep again and I mist short opening on 10M. After all, for 14 hours operating period I have a nice score. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7FC Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 480,984 I HAD A GREAT TIME ... THANKS TO ALL THAT CALLED ME ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 123,367 * FT-2000 + SB221 * N1MM Logger * 3 ele. tribander @ 45' * 2 x 40M half-squares * 80M delta loop * 160M Inverted-L (80' high/50' horizontal) ================================================= SFI=67 A=14 K=4 == Rotten prop on all bands * I'm not a phone op. Now I remember why. It's rough work * Almost every DX station was a new mode-country for me :) * Had some practice running. Those few 4Q/minutes were great fun * Bad bands + incessant power line noise (thanks a heap, B.C. Hydro) = some tough slogging. * Ran unassisted, but cluster would have really helped S&P production ================================================= Went in with very low expectations as conditions looked bad. Used this one to get my feet wet (damp, anyway) in a full-tilt phone test. The station's SSB kit consists of a Heil Pro Set Plus and footswitch (obtained after dabbling in WAE SSB last month), and otherwise all CW-band antennas. Must say the FT-2000 played great -- made it possible to fend off some very heavy QRM. Got exactly what I expected: low production. Wondered many times what the hard-core stations were thinking about conditions, and how many guys sat this one out. Going by the modestly populated bands Friday and Saturday night, I suspect attendance was low. Was impressed by the number of VE7s active -- must have heard a dozen of us over the weekend (though big VE7/VE6 signals here on 80M through 15M usually mean DX conditions are marginal, if not totally bleak). Bands were truly lousy -- not as bad as some recent weekends, but still lousy. 20M and 15M success here is limited by the tribander's CW settings. Definitely wasn't being heard too well at the high end of either band. Low ends were FB but stations not in the same abundance, especially when running stateside. Evenings at the microphone (voice finding its way from the shack through furnace ducts to the kids' bedrooms upstairs) prompted a case of 'XYL and harmonic' supression: "Keep it down!" I was told by the three non-hams in the family late Friday night. Being a sport and seeing as bands were quite rotten, I went QRT during the wee hours, but was at it again for 40M at 6 a.m. and damn the torpedoes, hi. "Over and over again. 'QSL five nine three...' what does that even mean?" one kid asked over breakfast. "That's what points sound like," I replied. "Don't worry. At this rate, none of us will go deaf from it." Note to self: use the rig's DVK next time out. 160M -- Heard a coupld W6s but they couldn't hear me. Inverted-L over a dozen temporary radials wasn't enough with unamplified 100W SSB even for close-in regional stuff this weekend. 80M -- Touch-and-go propagation. Some JAs heard Sunday a.m. but none worked. Only DX worked were KH7, XE, 8P, KL7. Didn't feel like a WW contest there at all. 40M -- Seemed pretty good to SA. No EU or AS worked, but a couple of Pacific (KH6 and ZL only). Slim pickings finding stateside guys not split down below 7040 for EU (worked those who said they were also listening on their own freq, but didn't want to go way, way low to work 'em split). 20M -- No EU opening Saturday here, just a few big guns not pointing to the western part of NA. SA was super. Sunday morning EU opened much better but still no hell. A nice sampling of UK stations, plus SM, OH, F, I, DL, UA1, ES and that was about it. In the final hour found AS wide open for VR2, B7P and UAO mults. 15M -- Not bad to NA/SA on Saturday, but a lot weaker Sunday here. Better conditions than I've seen in several months, though. Was not a wasteland as it has been. Alas, no EU or AS. 10M -- One lone SA station. Not another sound heard. Unique calls: 309 of 359. Only four-bander: KH7X (80M-15M) Will be back for more next time. Gotta hope for better in the CW leg next month and sweepstakes weekends. See you in the fray. -- Bud VA7ST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VC6S Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,042,006 We can neither confirm or deny if we had any propagation !!! CU for the CW event. 73, Max & Gord ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1DHD Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 488,835 Great weekend and the station (modest though it is) performed quite well. I was pleased to work K3LR on all bands except 10m (did not hear anything on 10 when I checked periodically over the weekend), especially since I just had a opportunity recently to watch the video of his contest station and what I presume was the 2006 CQ WW SSB and CW tests. Thanks to all who gave me QSOs this weekend. Howard - VE1DHD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SOSB(A)/20 LP Total Score = 328,153 9 hours off-and-on of clicking spots on the bandmap, and pushing buttons on the DVS-2...Might have spent 1 hour total running...This was bureau QSL card replying weekend, almost done... Set out to do nothing but make 500 Q's and get 100 DXCC on 20...This score will be officially submitted as a SOSB(A)20... Highlight...Good openings on 15 and 10, something not seen here in awhile for any length of time... Lowlight...WWIIDDEE sigs everywhere...One IV3 station was calling on 14.224.5, I could hear his splatter on 14.231... Looking forward to SS CW and of course the BIG one, CQWW CW...Look for myself, ZX9X, ZS1EL, V26K and K5UN, The Code Sharks Team entry...Looking to better our 4th place WW finish last year... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 75,192 RAMDOM OPERATION only ...This is not my favorite mode. Nice to see some good opening on 15M Just great to hear DU B BV V8 working NA ... Wished I had the extra 10dB but did not want to work the neighborhood! Missed K3LR on 15M for 6 bander. 73' cu in CW/RTTY! Phil VE2FU EQSL uploaded on www.EQSL.cc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2HIT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 207,900 Great contest despite the fact that this is the bottom of the cycle! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2IM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 5,576,323 This is my 9th year of traveling to Zone 2 for CQ WW Contests. The plan was to drive together with Paul VE3TA, who generously agreed to help with driving and antenna installation, but unfortunately he had to cancel due to other obligations. However, he gave me invaluable gift - his Alpha 87a, for which I am very grateful. I didn't do such a long driving (1500 km one way) for years, so this appeared to be quite a challenge. Another problem was the beam at VE2CSI, which was damaged late last year and has not been fixed up until recently, but thanks to VE2NN and crew, they managed to put it up on Monday, 4 days before the contest. Anyway, I left Toronto on Tuesday around 3 P.M. and was in Montreal at around 9 P.M. after first 550 km of driving. Stayed overnight at my buddy's (VE2XAA) place and left for Sept-Iles at around 6:30 in the morning. The driving was good, weather was excellent and I already made a half way at around noon when get on the ferry at Tadoussac. Everything was just cool and I felt great. Usually Mr. Murphy - one way or another accompanies every trip to Zone 2. This time he decided to strike early and in very different manner. About 1250 km into the journey (250 km before Sept-Iles) suddenly I heard very loud crash sound at the rear of my car followed by grinding noise coming from the rear of my Subaru Outback. I pulled over and checked everything - no visible damage, nothing was leaking. I decided to carry on at the speed of 60-70 km/h, because the noise was more tolerable at this speed. Made it into Sept-iles late in the evening, met Rodrigue VE2NN and he gave me keys from the location. Next morning I went to nearest Subaru dealership (the good thing it was right across the road, maybe 500 meters from VE2CSI) and to my delight the manger was speaking good English. They told me to leave a car so the tech would be able to examine it and promised to give me a call in about half oh ah hour. I came back, installed my vertical for the 2nd radio and set up the station. It was 2 P.M. - almost 4 hours since I left my car - nobody called. I called myself and they answered that technician just came from lunch break and will be taking my car for a road test. Good news. Anyway, the problem was my hand break. Something broke inside the rear tire drum and damaged it. Good news - my car was fixed (except for the hand break that needs to be repaired). Bad news - my trip became $300 more expensive. Friday morning the VE2DXY (KD3TB, K3FMQ and KD3RF) gang paid me a usual visit on Friday morning. At that time station consisted of FT1000MP, IC746, Alpha 87, SB220 and 2 identical laptops was almost set up as SO2R. Almost - because laptops did not want to talk to each other. Actually, each laptop saw the other one, I could ping one from another and vise versa, just one of them for some mysterious reason did not want to share his information with the other one while using N1MM. With CTWin everything was perfect, network worked well, however, there was absolutely impossible to activate PTT under CtWin and I did not really want to use two different foot switches... I finally screwed up with one laptop so it wouldn't boot, that left me with only one computer and I had to rewire everything to be able to do SO2R with one computer. I didn't have access to internet in the shack so I had to drive twice to the motel of VE2DXY to download latest version of N1MM and some other stuff. Finally around 6:30 local time - an hour and a half before the contest - everything was up and running with one laptop and I even managed to drive quickly to the store to buy some grocery for the contest. Started contest on 20 m with 2nd radio on 40, run was pretty decent on 20 with 99.9% callers being from the U.S. Calling anybody on a second radio with 800 watts and vertical was quite a challenge, so I managed very few 2nd radio QSO in the first couple of hours. I also encountered another problem with IC746 - for some reason, when using N1MM voice keyer with laptop internal soundcard the input audio level was too low even at a maximum volume control level and significantly lower than when you just use microphone. later I ended up giving up on a second radio, used it on the 2nd radio just for 3 or 4 QSO. Alpha 87a was such a beauty allowing you a quick band change, so I was able to move countless amount of people from band to band. However, presence of another 3, all - Multi-Op stations from Zone 2 made me ...eeeh...not too interesting for some guys that I was trying to move. Also from my experience, I found it much more difficult to concentrate on SO2R in SSB Contest, rather than in CW. Another pain in a back was 40 meters band. My both antennas did not resonate above 7200 so I missed almost 99.9% of DX stations from EU and Oceania that were listening above 7200 and never bothered to check their own frequency. Also, being up North means that a lot of guys simply do not hear you. VK3YXC, ZM2M and others were simply CQing in my face on 40, not even asking for repeat... 15 was hot both days. I stayed on 15 almost the whole day Saturday, missing some easy 20 m mults and short 10 m openings. But I simply couldn't resist. Sometimes the pile-up was enormous. next day I paid more attention to 20 and 10 and managed to raise a count of mults on 20 significantly, but 10 was not as good as on Saturday. I slept 2 hours the first night and 4 hours on the 2nd night. After the contest we met at Mikey's for our annual "Zone 2" dinner. It was so nice to see old friends from VE2DXY and VA2ZM multi stations. Really, these guys are heroes. VE2DXY crew came all the way from Pennsylvania, driving 1600 km one way, and VA2ZM drove 950 km from Montreal. They definitely won't make it into the top ten, and probably will not even make into K3EST's "special mention" list, but they keep on doing it every year... Don't ask me why - I don't know. I don't know why I'm doing it. Just for fun??? Next morning I woke up at 7 A.M. with heavy head and eye infection, spent 3 hours putting down antennas and packing equipment and left Sept-Iles around 10:30 in the morning. You don't want to know what some people do while driving 1000 km's alone and trying to keep themselves awake! :-) Anyway, I made it to Montreal at around 9 P.M., spent a night at my friend's place again, and finally on Tuesday around noon I safely arrived home. Big thank you to: - Rodrigue VE2NN and Sept-Iles club members for invaluable help; - Alex VE2XAA and his family for warm hospitality in Montreal; - Paul VE3TA for the loan of Alpha 87 and support; - VE2DXY crew (KD3TB, KD3RF and K3FMQ) for their help; - Gus VO1MP for help with parts for Mosley PRO37; - everybody who moved for me giving me new multipliers; - all for the QSOs. Congratulations to Jeff VY2ZM and John VC3J on their fantastic scores. Great stations and excellent operators! See you all in CQ WW CW. 73 Yuri VE3DZ VE2IM VO1AAM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3CX Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,725,552 Nice to see 10 was open on Saturday. On Sunday, Europeans were saying 10 was wide open - band was dead quiet here. Interesting skewed path on 15 on Sunday - point and Europe, and their signals went down. Point at Carribean, and work both SA and Europe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3FRX Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 16,683 First contest since moving back to Ontario from Alberta, where I was VE6GJ. Retired to acreage about 3mi East of Lake Huron, about 1 hr North of London, ON. Just got the station temporarily set up using a Double Extended Zepp at 40ft and my Kenwood TS-950SDX and N1MM (ver. 7.1). All seem to be working well, but had to go out of town contest weekend and only managed 5 hours (Fri start and Sunday). Great conditions with 10 and 15 open and managed to contact Senegal on 80m. So looking forward to 160m contest next. Thanks for the Qs and look for better logs in the future from VE3FRX. 73, Jeff, VE3FRX. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GLO Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 28,896 Conditions were quite good on 15 mtrs on Saturday evening. Hopefully signs of things to come. 10 mtrs not open at all at my QTH. Bob, VE3GLO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SOSB/160 LP Total Score = 6,588 Condx were terrible. Although QRN was very low, around S4 on the vertical, S0 on the RX antennas, propagation just wasn't there. Even local stations were down 30 - 40 db at times compared to other years. It felt like everyone was QRP. The usual power houses like HC8N were at the noise level, or below it at times. Even the big EU guns like CN2R were way down. Listening to the big east coast Multi Multi's trying to, and failing at times, to work EU let me know that that it wasn't just myself having a hard time. We can hope for better condx for the CW part but since that is in exactly 28 days.... Well, you know what I mean. 73 Brian VE3MGY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NB Class: M/S LP Total Score = 294,532 Work, shift changes mid week,out of town family visting for the week with a sick 1 year old, all leading up to contest weekend added lots of fun before we got started. Bands didn't quite open up on 10 but we were able make some contacts,lower bands were more of a challenge. Thanks to James VE3TPZ, for sorting out some computer problems with Writelog and getting computer working properly. Thanks everybody for calls and points, and CU next year! 73 Mark VE3NB Rig:Kenwood TS480sat Antenna's:TGM MQ34SR Mini Quad,G5RV and Alpha Delta DX-B Logging:Writelog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 394,389 Way better condx than in the last few months. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3RCN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 29,694 Good contest to test out the new Kenwood 2000. Lots of buttons....and many with multiple functions. Lots to learn before the Nov SS test. Only up to page 22 of the 150 page manual. Look forward to using satellites. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 84,864 Decent conditions and lots of participation made for a good time! Thanks to all who worked me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3SY Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 39,878 A very part time effort this year and it was sure nice to see 15 and 10 very active. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 762,027 First real SSB contest for me and now I really know that I prefer CW. Got the headset interfaced to the rig about 30 minutes before the contest but couldn't get the voice keyer running. Temporary 20 M beam helped but was unable to get anything going on 20M on Saturday; just lack of experience. Inverted vee for 80 and low dipoles for 160 & 40. Managed a few runs on 160 and 80 and was happy to see the rate meter go above 400 several times. Best 10 minute rate was 444/hr. Nice to work almost 100 countries on 20 including a few JA and Pacific. Was happy with 43 Countries out of 83 Qs on 15 using the 40 M dipole but it was a real slog and couldn't work many that I called. Same frustration on 160 where I could hear a lot more DX than I could work. Orion I, A2000 & Wintest 3.17 73, Paul, VE3TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 2,545,608 10 Qs on second radio. Smoked 756Pro2 Front End @ 2230 on Sunday - So that's what bandpass filters are for :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 581,954 As I was doing a SO operation this year at VE3SY I decided to try SB20 to get in some reasonable sleep time. Good start on Friday evening and then Saturday followed with good conditions. By the end of Saturday over 1000 Qs were in the log resulting from good runs into Europe, U.S. and Japan. I recall CQWW weekends where it was tough to do that working all bands. hi. Sunday morning was very slow and I was wishing for more than the 800 watts I was running. Good mults that I could hear well could not hear me. But by Sunday afternoon good propagation returned with another good run into Europe. A number of mults called me from Africa and the Pacific which helped out in the zone and country counts. Thanks to Paul VE3SY for the use of his amp and antenna and to Marg VE3BLJ and Barb for the great meals. Another memorable contest at VE3SY. 73, Don VE3XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE4EAR Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 270,522 So Much for a plan! Carefully researched last years effort and all the propagation charts I could find. I created an hour by hour plan of what band to be on in order to maximize the zone count. Whou could have guessed that the A and K indexs would essentiually close down 80 and 40m here. The only signals I could work were really big guns and all south of my location. It was if Asia and Europe did not exist! Any contact that required a near polar route or had to pass through the Aurora was virtually impossible. Manage only a small handfull of Zone 14 and 15 on 20 and 15 but those were the big guns. I could hear all the US stations working EU all day long on 20 and on 40 in the evening, but not a sniff here. Can you say Propagation Black Hole!!! On the upside 15 and even 10 opened and provided a few contacts. 10 was open both afternoons to deep South America and the Caribean. 15 was a bit more open and included Africa and some nice South Pacific catches late on Sunday afternoon. Added a few more to the DXCC list! Oh well, no sense crying over poor propagation right! I choose to live under the big RF absorbtion machine. Next year I will have the beam and tower up, no more wires I hope! Thanks to all the great ears and Q's Ed VE4EAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE5UA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 604,504 Very poor propagation to europe from here on all bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6WQ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 729,344 Given the poor conditions during the CQWW RTTY contest and the 27 day rotation of coronal holes we knew that conditions were unlikely to be very good for the SSB run. As predicted the high speed stream from the coronal hole hit on Thursday and continued through most of the weekend. This made for some pretty tough paths through the polar absorption area. The result was that we never had a run to Europe and only worked the high power big stations. Our normal midnight opening to the deep Russians, Eastern Europe, Indian Ocean and Middle East was very poor on both nights. Conditions to the far east were not much better although they improved significantly on Sunday afternoon. Conditions to the US were generally good with some very good runs on Sat and Sun afternoon. Heard about 20 countries while tuning the band that I could not work. This is one of the lowest multiplier and points/QSO that I can remember. Operating from VE6JY's superstation with the 20m stack of 6 element OWA beams on 48 ft booms + another fixed on Oceania. Rig was FT1000mp Alpha 77. Thanks to Don for his great hospitality. We will see what happens for CQWW CW but the coronal hole is timed to hit again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6WZ Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 52,836 Rig: Icom IC-7800 Ant: 2 el Yagi 100’ Was hoping for better conditions on 80m, but I was shut out of EU, although I did copy some SP EU, but no QSO’s. Also had good copy on 4L4WW via LP in the morning but he couldn’t hear me. SA and Caribbean was solid though. Asia was not well represented, and Oceania was “thinner than usual”. B3C had a consistent signal but no ears for my signal. All-in-all I came up quite short on mults compared to previous years. No visits from Murphy, which was good.....everything worked fine and I had fun. Thanks to everyone who answered my CQ’s!!! 73, de steve ve6wz. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7ABC Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 65,302 Band conditions from my QTH this year were very poor, couple that with an unusual high (S9+) noise level for the most part, a rotator indicator that failed, (makes for fun wondering were the beam is pointed from the basement) and it was a lot of work to dig out the points I got. Openings to EU/AF few and far between, and the Pacific area other than Hawaii were also slim pickings. However the fun was still there. My thanks to all who answered my little pistol signal. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7BZ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 163,149 For a contest that started out with absolutely stinko conditions, I was pleasantly surprised at the end result. My first log entry on 20m was C50C which gave hope for band conditions, but this hope was short lived as anything other than NA, JA and SA was a real challenge. Too many minutes invested per QSO for the points gained -- but there were no real alternatives in the early hours of the contest if you wanted the mults. While 20m remained open well into darkness on Friday evening, it seemed a struggle for each point. During the day, Saturday was certainly more productive on 20m, but again nothing to really get excited about. At SS, 80m showed promise, but it didn't seem to take long to work all stations heard on the band and the runs were very short. Sunday was when the conditions (at my station) really took a positive turn! Band conditions on 20m were okay in the early afternoon, but the huge surprise was how strong 15m proved to be right through to the end of the contest. Log entries on 15m -- at this point in the cycle, for us here is the Pacific Northwest are relatively few and far between. Yes there are openings now and then, but this opening during the contest was like the good old days on 15m. For the last four and half hours of the contest the run never stopped or dried up -- it was a constant flow with even a few nice surprises. Signal reports from most stations in NA and SA indicated I was being very well heard, but one of the surprises was being called by Michael, VP8NO who had a very nice signal. Periodically I asked the stronger 15m stations where they were located to get an idea of the path / opening. The opening was definitely north south and it held through to within 40 minutes of the end of the contest. Then just as it came, it began to dry up but during the transition time at about 2315z the path changed to JA and the Pacific. Even before the north south path really began to close, I was being called by JA's off the back of the antenna. When the NA run began to slow to a trickle, I switched to JA and the Pacific which produced several new mults in the last 40 minutes of the contest. All in all, it was a pleasant afternoon on 15m which is something that I've not been able to say for a very long time. But such is life near the entrance to the sometimes black hole of propagation here in the Pacific Northwest. My thanks to each and every station that stopped by to give me the points -- you made the contest truly enjoyable. 73 de Paul, VE7BZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7GL Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,342,837 Rotten condx towards EU both short and long path on all bands, and not much from JA either. 15M was north/south propagation but Africa came through just fine on 40-15M. 10M just wasn't there from our location. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7IN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 159,890 This wasn't going to be a full effort, but wanted to try and get on to make some points for the club. A slow start as had our 29th Anniversary dinner Friday, so didn't get on at start plus really didn't make an effort to get up early for the hoped for European openings on 20. Also discovered on Friday setup, 80 meter antenna needed repair and more annoying, the 15/10 side mount didn't want to rotate, did the repair on the 80 and freed up the side mount when I got back from dropping Trish off for her treatment Saturday afternoon, kudos to number 1 step daughter who volunteered to pick up Mom so I could attempt to get on contesting. Hard to comment on conditions from my station as it needs many repairs. I enjoyed getting back on after missing the whole contest season last year, especially the last 3 hours on Sunday were terrific with a great run for me on 20, the highlights being called by AO8A for a double mult in the last hour then CN4P and CQ9K. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,638,242 Thanks to our operator team. What a great group of gentlemen who continue to operate with enthusiasm even during this period of low sunspot activity. Mr. Murphy visited a couple of times with a loss of TX on a FT1000MP MKV being the most serious problem. This team is definitely looking forward to improved conditions. Thanks to all who provided us with points and a special thank you to those who spotted us. It is appreciated. See you all on CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 506,022 Thanks to Allan, VE7SZ, for hosting me for another CQWW SSB contest. On this particular weekend the station played great, but the op ended up in bed sick after Saturday night. The score reflects zero QSOs during the last 16 hours of the contest. Good rates on Saturday afternoon to the USA, very few JAs, primarily S&P only to EU on Saturday, and no polar propagation heard at all (no Z17, 18, 22). Pretty typical for this time in the cycle from VE7. 73, Gary VA7RR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7UQ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 205,650 Operated this one from the cottage at Timothy Lake. Was hoping to head up there Thursday, but that didn't happen. It's a 5 1/2 hour drive from home in Surrey, I arrived 3 hours prior to the contest start with all the radio equipment etc sitting in boxes on the back seat of the truck. There was no time to waste to get the truck unloaded, station set up, tower cranked up, G5RV hung, wood stove fired up etc etc. All things considered, the contest went okay, but only having a G5RV for 40M and 80M meant there wasn't much to work after sunset. So thats a priority, 40M and 80M antenna improvements and have to come up with something for 160M that will fit on my 1/2 acre. Also think an amplifier might be finding its way home with me from Dayton 2008. It is always a treat to operate a contest from the cabin, don't have to worry about the phone ringing (since there isn't one), the only interruptions are usually to reload the wood stove. Miss the internet (and running water!), but that's a story for another time. Thanks to all the stations that called me, looking forward to the next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK1CC Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 2,325,966 Good conditions on Saturday, but much poorer Sunday (with storms and local QRM making things difficult).. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK2CZ Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 45 Had to cancel my favouritee zone 29 VK8AA 40m effort at the last minute - major work and IEEE related events overtook the planning.. left the receiver at home sitting on the old 10m yagi pointed north, and snared a few stations in a coffee break. The 120m long coax to my big 80m/40m wire arrays was short circuit, and best I could find was that a large tree had blown down in the past month and crushed the cable.. again, sadly no time to replace or repair it.. the tree and the TDR were in about the same position.. always next year ;-} cheers, David. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4EMM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 880,341 Congratulations to Scott Watson VK4CZ for his great effort against severe storm conditions. Local storms made low bands very difficult. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4TI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 948,060 We had hassles from: A couple of PCs over the two days An amplifier Tribander dodgy 40/80 vertical which caused much hassle for the more able antenna minded members of the Team, as they got saddled with trying to fix it My ATU - death by moisture due to the storm Dodgy TX/RX relay on my MP - needs to be fixed ASAP! Andrew's Icom got stroppy and refused to switch Trent's amplifier initially - it cured itself! LF was pretty much unusable during the contest. HF was more interesting and we had a great run on 10m at the begining of the contest. It was as much as I could do to get the calls into the log. Great fun. 15m also did much of the same - but sporadically. 20m was a little variable too, but often provided a great run. 40m was not usuable due to TVI problems. 80m was a non-starter for all manner of reasons, but antenna hassles didn't help. 160m was a re-tuned 80m antenna and was engulfed in storm static and local noise. All in all a part-time, band limited and un-assisted MS attempt for the VK4TI Team. The score will easily be improved upon! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK4WR Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 1,853,940 Down on last year. Had to qrt late sunday night due to severe thunderstorms. Otherwise a great time had by all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VK6DXI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 756,184 Lots of signals on lower bands. Even 160m on Sunday morning was crowded with Eu calls. But hearing is one thing and getting through is another. 80 and 40m very busy. Lots of 40 m signals from Eu were S9+++. 20 and 15m were fine first day, but very limited on Sunday. 10m was quiet all the time.... So... it can only get better now. This time wire antennas only :-( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 352,641 The culmination of an adventure.... I got the 30/40 upgrade for my SteppIR beam in August and got it put up. Everything was going great until my mast broke last Sunday and the whole thing wound up in my flower garden. Minimal damage but the 30/40 driven element housing was broken so I had to reinstall the original 20M motor. Luckily I never caved in a sold it :) Decided to run 15M HP again this year to see if I could eclipse my last-year's score. Wanted to get 100 countries and more points and managed to do it with a couple hours to spare. Saturday was quite nice out so I chose to spend some time out around and on the bike. Gotta take advantage when it comes. A few good runs and I got a couple new band-countries out of it. All in all, a fun time. The rig, amp and antenna worked great. This was the first real test of my voice keyer and that worked great too. Thanks for the Qs and CU in SS CW. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1KVT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 318,246 Another fun contest, got a chance to try my new Mosley TA53M beam for the first time. Everything works fine, bring on the DX. 73 Ken VO1KVT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1MP Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 2,802,519 ANOTHER CQWW COME AND GONE…. FUN AS USUAL CONDITIONS WERE NOT GREAT ESPECIALLY LOW BANDS FROM HERE …… OR I GUESS MORE APPROPRIATELY MY RATHER SMALL LOWBAND ANTENNAS JUST DON’T CUT IT WHEN CONDITIONS ARE MARGINAL …… AFTER A BIT OF FUTILE AND NON PRODUCTIVE CQ’IN ON 80 ……… I FIGURED I MIGHT AS WELL HEAD FOR THE SACK…….. BOTH 40/80/160 SEEMED TO HAVE RECOVERED VERY WELL BY SUNDAY MORNING AND 10 METERS PROVIDED A NICE SURPRIZE WITH OPENINGS TO EUROPE , THE CARIBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA…… AND YIELDED 48 COUNTRIES AND 14 ZONES ….MEBBE THE PUNDITS WHO HAVE VOCALIZED SOME SERIOUS RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CYCLE ARE ALL WET .. LET’S HOPE SO………. N1MM SEZ I OPERATED 24 … SEEMED LONGER … HOWEVER I DID A LOT OF S & P SO IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE LIKE 26 OR 27 …… ….TRIED MY HAND AGAIN AT SO2R …. STILL IN LEARNING STAGES. SO OPERATOR INEPTITIDE SURELY DECREASED THE SCORE ……. SUCH AS IT WAS …… … AS ALWAYS A FUN CONTEST AND THE DROVES OF NEWLY MINTED HF’ERS FROM EUROPE SURELY HELPED MAKE THE RUNS BETTER……. HAD A FEW HOURS OF RUNS CLOSE TO 300 PER HOUR …….. A COUPLE OF 8 PER MINUTE OR 480 PER HR ……… 10 MINUTES OF 6.5 OR 350 PER HR …. NICE TO BE RUNNING WHEN CONDITIONS ARE LIKE THAT HI !! SPENT MOST OF THE WEEK PRIOR TO CONTEST WORKING ON ANTENNAS………… SAME … STUFF HERE HI ! LEAVE IT UNTIL FEW DAYS BEFORE THE CONTEST ….. ……IN ANY EVENT CQWW IS INVARIABLY WELL ATTENDED AND AS ALWAYS A FUN CONTEST .. HOPE TO CATCH Y’ALL NEXT ONE …………..GLWCDR GUS VO1MP SET UP : STN 1 : FT 1000MP FIELD AND ALPHA 87A STN 2 : FT 1000MP FIELD AND ALPHA 78A (78 WITH PAIR OF 3CX800’S MOD’FD BY DICK BYRD) 160 METERS SHUNT FED TOWER SYSTEM 80 METERS 2 DIPOLES 40 METERS 5 ELEMENT SWITCHABLE ARRAY + DIPOLE 20 METERS 4 ELEMENT OWA DE VO1MP 15 METERS 5 ELEMENT OWA DE VO1MP 10 METERS 7 ELEMENT OWA DE VO1MP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP2MDG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,942,000 RUN Station: TS-570SG, Clipperton-L, CL-33 yagi, low dipoles for 40/80/160. MULT Station: TS-570DG, 6-BTV. The Clipperton-L melted down 3 hours into the contest. We fought through it for 9 hours until Frankie (VP2MNI) saved us with an AL-572. W4GKA bore the brunt of the low-power operating and did an amazing job. The vertical worked surprisingly well, but you just can't break pileups with 100W to a vertical. We ran out 13 radials of 55 feet each underneath the vertical when we installed it. Within 15 minutes, a herd of goats had tangled them all. Luckily, the goats left them alone after we straightened the radials out. We had some exciting runs to the states on 15M, and Europe was very productive on both 15M and 20M. When the Mult station heard other Carib stations working the states on 10M Saturday, we moved the Run station to 10M and had an excellent European run followed by a screaming run to the states. Happily, I (K2DM) got to be the op for most of this excitement. K3ZM worked much of the Saturday night shift, trying to catch up from the low-power performance on Friday night. I took over before sunrise on Sunday, and I hope I wasn't hallucinating when I worked a KH7 and an EA4 on 160M. While 10M wasn't as productive on Sunday, 20M and 15M were still hot, including a 265 hour to the states on 15M by K3ZM. If you didn't work Montserrat this weekend, you didn't try! As always, it is so cool to have runs spiced up by old friends and club mates calling. Thanks to all! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VP9I Class: M/S LP Total Score = 2,465,280 This was a joint FCG (W3TB), FRC (K3YD) contest DXpedition at the QTH of Ed Kelly, VP9GE. Equipment: IC-756Pro Antennas: Cushcraft A-4S, 40 meter dipole, double size G5RV and 160 meter inverted-L. We went out to VP9 hoping that 15 meters might be open a bit so that we could escape being in a 20 meter “snake pit” during daylight hours. We’d say that 15 opened--1169 Q’s, in 61 countries! Ten was a real nice surprise for this time in the sunspot cycle giving us 23 countries and 102 QSO. Seventy of those Q’s came in a Friday evening opening around 0130Z into zones 4 and 5; most of those 10M signals were as solid as those on a local FM repeater. We never felt challenged by the exciter-level power limit in VP9. We could quickly establish a run when we switched bands. Because the rates were so good and running was so easy, we might not have hunted mult’s enough. Most of the mults in our log called us. A second radio hunting mults (allowed in M/S) could have contributed more. However, that would involve bringing a second computer to network to the run station, a second transceiver, and an antenna tuner. Because this was our first joint contest DXpedition we opted to keep the packing simple and light with one radio and one laptop. Being only 700 miles east of the US meant that signal from the States, Canada and Mexico tended to be LOUD! Regardless of the direction of our beam, they pounded in. If we went below the US phone bands looking for EU, the VE’s still pounded in off the side of the beam. When we “played to our strength” by turning the Yagi west, we had great rates on 20 and 15! A comment about the antennas. Although some were low, relative to the ground, they were 70’ to 100’ above the nearby (150 yards) Atlantic Ocean on a northwest sloping site. Nothing like location and terrain to give signals a boost! We had a minor mechanical problem with our antenna matching unit which kept us off 80 and 160 on Friday evening. On Saturday, we managed a repair (NOTE: Always, always take a Leatherman tool in your check bag!) and managed 450+ Q’s on the low bands Saturday night. Our apologies to those we missed Friday. Coming from the Eastern PA (K3YD, writing) I’m used to crisp Fall temperatures, and leaves on the ground for CQWW-SSB. We spend the entire contest period in T-shirt and shorts. The daytime temps were about 80 and sunny; the night-time “cooled down” to about 70. Of course, W3TB who lives near Tampa didn’t think this weather was at all unusual. (again ‘YD) I hand carried my ‘756Pro in a small, hard sided suitcase, padded with clothing and foam rubber. I did have to remove the radio for TSA’s X-ray screening, but was never questioned about it! I’m thinking smaller, lighter radio for my next trip, though. By the time I got home Monday night, I think both of my arms were stretched an inch longer! Our thanks to Ed and his wonderful family for allowing us to operate from their home on the warm, sunny island of Bermuda. Thanks, also, Ed for all your help in getting our Bermuda operating permit and with showing us around Bermuda. We can’t wait to return. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VU2PTT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 271,975 Rig: Icom 746 PRO - 100 Watts Ant: F12 C3/S up 30' above my roof, Wire vertical with 1 radial on 40m Software: N1MM Logger 7.10.7 with DVK feature Just installed my Force-12 C3/S 30 feet above my roof on the day before the contest :) It works but seems to be a problem with the balun - must try and get a F12 B-1 balun somehow before the CW part. Ran 100W from an IC-746 PRO and if only the Sun could help a bit. A 40m wire vertical was thrown up on the day of the contest for good measure and DVK from N1MM Logger works quite well - won't hesitate to do phone contests anymore :) Nice late opening on 10m the 2nd day and FY5KE calling in on my CQ there took the cake!! The only NA heard on 20m was K3LR who managed to miss getting my full call - he got PTT though! On 15m, the only NA station heard was VO1HE. Nice ones worked include C50C, 1A3A, V73RY, and as always HC8N among others. Thanks for your sharp ears guys! Special thanks go to Brad K7ZSD who helped find, dismantle and ship the C3/S for me from Portland to LA when I was there. See you in the CW part!!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2LI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,092,678 Can't remember the last time I filled in numbers for all six bands.Mounted a semi-serious effort but had to put in some play time with my visiting grandson who has shown some interest in Grampie's radios.Hit the sack both nights for some serious rest, so most of my operating was between 6am and midnite local.It was tough sledding on 20m Sunday with high QRM level so apologies for many repeats.ST,J28 and 9J2 were new countries for me on any band,thanks for calling.Hope we got in your log.73,Bill ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VY2ZM Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 10,104,834 Wow! Condx were much better on 15m than I was expecting - with rates over 200 for 5 hours on Saturday morning. I wasn't ready for this....and it was nice to work a zone 17 and 18 once again on that band. Lowband condx were remarkably good as well - even 10m opened some to EU the 2nd day. I think I was late on Sunday morning for the best part of the EU opening but did manage a few to get a few for zones 14/15/20. I managed a 300 hour on Sunday afternoon into the USA on 20M - probably my best ever from here (or anywhere else for that matter.) 40m was very very tough both nights - even with some new antennas that were installed over the summer - phone is always a struggle no matter what you do on that band. Give me CW on that band ANY DAY!! All in all, it was fun to operate this weekend and I am pleased with the results as it was a personal best from this station. This contest should be great fun once again in a few years when 10m returns. Many thanks to all the old friends who called in - it was nice to see some of the old timers like F2YT, I8MPO, GI3OQR and others that I am too tired to remember just now. CU next month on CW. 73 JEFF VY2ZM K1ZM@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0AIH Class: M/M HP Total Score = 2,354,517 http://www.qth.com/w0aih/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 78,088 Enjoyed the great Friday evening openings on 20 and 15. Thanks for the Q's! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ETT Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 162,360 Had too many family things to do this weekend so had only limited time. Nice treat was that 10m opened to Carribean and South America, especially on Sunday noon plus a couple hours. Thanks to all the expeditioners who made the contest fun chasing multipliers on all bands. 73 Ken, W0ETT Rig: IC756pro3 to yagis and vertical. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0LM Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 48,763 Nice to get some 15 and 10 meter propogation at the bottom of the cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0SMW Class: SOSB/10 LP Total Score = 297 Sarah is 9 years old and entered as a technician class, restricted to 10 meters and low power. She enjoyed the contest and hopes to do more contests, if she can persuade her father, K0MD, to give her more 'radio time'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0ZA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 114,739 I planned on a full effort, but had to give to settle for limited time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1AO Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 275,825 I enjoyed a few hours of S&P in a weekend otherwise full of other committments. Hopefully, the deck will be clear for CQWW CW. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1CTN Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 644,085 My first high power contest and the linear dies just before the contest on 160, 80 and 40 meters. I have to operate on 80 and 40 with 200 watts output, 20-15-10 at a kilowatt out from a troublesome Amp Supply LK 500 ZA. Looks like some parasitics ate some of the bandswitch and tank coil. Repairs are underway...before I am finished I'll know this amp like the back of my hand. My Inverted L for 160 will not load, so no 160 this time around. Signals wall to wall on 20 meters. Nice to have propagation on 10 and 15. Rig: FT 1000MP Mk 5 Power output: 1 kw 20-15-10, 200 watts 80 and 40 :( Ant Farm: 80 meter dipole at 50 feet 40 meter dipole at 50 feet T10 log periodic at 53 feet 73 Dave W1CTN Radio Ansonia ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 348,086 Not much time available Sunday. Missed not having an antenna for 75 meters. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1HH Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 3,259,797 Several of the regular operators could not make this contest so we were thinking about making the effort a M/S but instead we decided to stay a M/2 and use the contest to do some training and concentrate on having fun instead. We did both. KB1NYQ and his father K1UZK were new operators here and they both had a lot of fun. MVP for this contest goes to KB1NYQ who spent a lot of time in the chair and actually made the most contacts. He's a new contester and is now quite excited about contesting. New blood is really wonderful. Jerry, K0TV ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1HIS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 493,592 Single antenna for all bands: Wire, length = 22 m (71'), height = 6 m (20'). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1KQ Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 403,522 Tribander (TA-33 Classic) at 33' and linear loaded dipole at 75' +/-. FT-1000D - AL-811H Tucker T-3000 Tuner (Vectronics HFT-1500) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1XX Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 25,920 Rotor problems limited time and effort. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 617,344 Amazing conditions Sunday on 15m and 10m for such a poor solar flux index. Limited operating time but still a great contest with all the international activity. Looking forward to even more stations working higher in the band on 40m. Icom 756 PRO2 + Acom 2000A 3 el SteppIR + 40m dipole element 80m inverted V 160 inverted L ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2IRT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,439,022 Less time on this year that I'd wanted (about an hour less than last year). Even though we're lower in the sunspot cycle than last year, conditions were vastly better this time out and Saturday's nice 10m opening helped me score a personal best-ever in CQWW in terms of both points and Q's. All in all, I racked up 17 more total countries and 5 more zones than in 2006. We were lucky to have good weather here this year, which also played a big part. In 2006 some severe thunderstorms on Friday night and 50-60MPH gusts on Saturday meant the tower was down much of the first 24 hours. The biggest surprise to me was 10 holding up despite an A-index in the teens all weekend. 40 continues to be my worst band (by far) but I had great luck on both 20 and 15, getting over 100 entities again on both. Again this year I had no luck in running, but point-and-click operating yielded some decent rates when conditions were good. As always, the best operating event of the year. 73 to all! Peter, W2IRT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2UP Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 1,109,790 Met my 1 meg SSB quota in 10 hours - not too painful, even for my recently downsized (single radio) station. I replaced 3 TH7's with a single C31XR and was very pleased with performance. I noted a significant improvement, especially on 15m (was nice to see 15m alive!) Bad news is my 2 month old IC7800 died Sunday morning. Seems to be the all-too-common bad finals in this overpriced POS. Wish I had my FT1000D back... Had a great EU run on 20m Saturday afternoon with the rate meter going over 300! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3/T98T Class: SOSB/15 LP Total Score = 202,120 TS690s + 3el beam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 659,464 Lost 15M radio capability early Saturday morning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LPL Class: M/M HP Total Score = 14,360,565 BAND QSOs QSO PTS PTS/QSO ZONES COUNTRIES OPERATORS 160 318 494 1.55 17 63 K1HTV AI3M 80 875 1976 2.26 27 105 W3IDT K4ZA AC6WI 40 1158 2891 2.50 29 121 WR3Z KD4D 20 2410 6848 2.84 39 154 K3MIM K3MM K3RA 15 1742 4968 2.85 32 146 ND3A W3IDT K3MIM K4ZA 10 258 618 2.40 18 56 W3LPL W3IDT ND3A NK3R --------------------------------------------------- Totals 6761 17795 2.63 162 645 => 14,360,565 Congratulations to the K3LR and KC1XX teams for their outstanding efforts. This was an amazing contest for the bottom of the sunspot cycle. Especially memorable was listing to some W1 stations running Europeans on 10 meters. Only a few mostly weak Europeans made it into the W3LPL 10 meter log this time. Lets hope for more exciting conditions in the CQ WW CW. See you then! Thanks to everyone for all of the Q's and mults. 73 from the W3LPL Team Continent Breakdown 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent SSB North America 230 344 294 252 153 95 1368 19.6 South America 12 35 49 109 121 151 477 6.8 Europe 71 488 761 1876 1417 15 4628 66.2 Asia 2 9 19 115 22 0 167 2.4 Africa 10 16 22 51 41 9 149 2.1 Oceania 2 10 51 107 34 3 207 3.0 BREAKDOWN QSO/mults HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 0 12/12 49/29 94/53 59/51 34/31 15/7 263/183 263/183 1 17/3 53/16 73/24 40/8 18/3 5/3 206/57 469/240 2 12/5 58/23 78/18 27/2 5/0 1/0 181/48 650/288 3 15/7 71/18 37/10 40/1 . . 163/36 813/324 4 13/9 44/6 49/4 29/0 . . 135/19 948/343 5 24/13 60/11 42/3 16/0 . . 142/27 1090/370 6 16/4 46/6 66/7 15/2 . . 143/19 1233/389 7 9/6 30/3 86/8 27/3 . . 152/20 1385/409 8 6/1 14/6 55/5 5/2 ..... ..... 80/14 1465/423 9 9/1 18/1 37/3 . . . 64/5 1529/428 10 20/2 28/1 11/0 19/9 4/6 . 82/18 1611/446 11 7/0 18/3 . 125/33 39/21 . 189/57 1800/503 12 . 1/0 5/0 140/11 140/37 . 286/48 2086/551 13 . . . 119/8 131/19 2/0 252/27 2338/578 14 . . . 144/4 101/11 12/1 257/16 2595/594 15 . . . 174/7 120/1 24/19 318/27 2913/621 16 ..... ..... ..... 137/4 102/3 11/6 250/13 3163/634 17 . . . 117/5 63/5 22/8 202/18 3365/652 18 . . . 95/5 76/6 10/2 181/13 3546/665 19 . . . 83/4 33/2 35/9 151/15 3697/680 20 . . 5/0 111/3 26/2 36/3 178/8 3875/688 21 1/0 14/0 44/2 106/1 21/3 15/3 201/9 4076/697 22 15/0 21/1 23/1 30/4 19/3 . 108/9 4184/706 23 14/0 32/0 51/1 26/5 7/0 . 130/6 4314/712 0 29/3 45/0 32/0 4/1 ..... ..... 110/4 4424/716 1 7/2 41/2 13/0 . . . 61/4 4485/720 2 11/2 20/0 30/1 . . . 61/3 4546/723 3 8/6 39/1 18/0 2/0 . . 67/7 4613/730 4 12/2 23/0 15/2 . . . 50/4 4663/734 5 8/1 18/2 21/1 . . . 47/4 4710/738 6 11/1 20/0 49/3 . . . 80/4 4790/742 7 4/0 12/0 68/0 1/0 . . 85/0 4875/742 8 8/0 16/3 51/0 ..... ..... ..... 75/3 4950/745 9 11/0 11/0 6/0 1/0 . . 29/0 4979/745 10 9/0 15/0 3/0 6/0 . . 33/0 5012/745 11 5/0 13/0 2/0 70/3 22/0 . 112/3 5124/748 12 . 7/0 . 55/0 154/4 . 216/4 5340/752 13 . . . 45/0 147/2 5/5 197/7 5537/759 14 . . . 59/1 127/1 8/1 194/3 5731/762 15 . . . 56/0 114/4 . 170/4 5901/766 16 ..... ..... ..... 55/4 81/3 2/1 138/8 6039/774 17 . . . 51/1 34/4 3/0 88/5 6127/779 18 . . . 81/0 28/0 13/0 122/0 6249/779 19 . . . 62/4 34/2 18/2 114/8 6363/787 20 . . 4/1 50/2 29/0 13/2 96/5 6459/792 21 . 2/0 25/0 62/1 20/2 8/2 117/5 6576/797 22 2/0 29/0 35/0 40/2 10/3 . 116/5 6692/802 23 3/0 7/0 30/3 26/2 3/0 . 69/5 6761/807 DAY1 190/63 557/124 756/139 1684/172 939/153 188/61 ..... 4314/712 DAY2 128/17 318/8 402/11 726/21 803/25 70/13 . 2447/95 TOT 318/80 875/132 1158/150 2410/193 1742/178 258/74 . 6761/807 QSO Counts By Band-Country PRFX 160 80 40 20 15 10 1A 1 1 1 1 1 3A 1 3B8 1 3D2 1 3DA 1 1 1 1 3V 1 1 1 1 1 4L 1 2 4O 1 1 1 1 1 4U1I 1 1 1 4X 1 4 8 6 5B 1 4 4 4 3 5H 1 3 1 5Z 1 6W 1 2 1 3 2 6Y 1 1 1 1 1 2 7X 1 8P 1 2 3 2 2 2 9A 2 14 16 22 17 9J 2 1 9K 1 1 2 1 9M6 1 9N 1 9Y 1 1 2 1 A3 1 A4 1 1 1 A6 1 1 A7 1 1 1 A9 1 BV 3 BY 8 C3 1 1 1 C5 1 1 1 1 1 3 C6 1 1 1 2 1 1 C9 1 CE 4 4 9 9 11 CE0Y 1 CM 2 3 4 2 4 2 CN 3 3 2 7 2 CP 1 CT 4 12 24 19 CT3 4 4 3 4 4 2 CU 2 1 3 3 2 2 CX 2 2 6 8 12 DL 6 92 146 361 302 1 DU 2 E5/s 1 3 2 1 E7 1 4 3 7 5 EA 2 28 52 137 114 EA6 1 1 5 5 EA8 1 2 6 10 12 2 EA9 1 1 1 1 EI 2 5 10 14 15 EK 2 1 EL 1 1 1 1 ER 2 1 4 2 ES 1 3 4 1 EU 1 4 1 F 7 37 38 113 116 3 FG 1 1 1 FJ 1 1 1 1 1 1 FM 1 1 2 4 1 2 FY 1 1 2 2 1 1 G 11 48 114 171 147 3 GD 1 2 4 4 GI 2 5 7 13 13 GJ 1 1 GM 2 7 11 33 23 GU 2 2 GW 4 7 5 17 11 HA 6 9 24 8 HB 5 19 27 23 HB0 1 1 2 3 2 HC 1 1 4 3 1 HC8 1 1 1 1 3 1 HH 1 1 1 HI 1 1 3 2 2 1 HK 1 2 2 5 7 6 HP 3 1 1 HR 1 2 2 4 6 4 HS 2 HV 1 1 HZ 2 5 2 I 4 38 57 192 187 5 IG9 1 IS 2 1 5 6 IT9 1 3 5 14 12 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 1 2 1 1 J6 1 1 J8 1 1 1 1 JA 1 4 62 1 JW 1 1 K 126 173 163 103 66 37 KG4 1 1 1 1 1 1 KH0 1 1 KH2 2 3 1 KH6 2 6 9 6 10 2 KL 1 7 1 KP2 3 3 3 3 2 5 KP4 3 6 5 1 3 9 LA 2 4 11 7 LU 11 8 24 32 48 LX 2 4 3 3 LY 1 3 5 15 5 LZ 7 4 16 17 OA 1 1 1 1 OE 1 4 15 30 30 OH 1 8 25 8 OH0 1 4 OK 3 21 31 66 29 OM 4 11 8 13 8 ON 3 12 29 60 38 1 OZ 1 4 2 16 13 P4 3 3 4 5 3 4 PA 3 17 21 102 52 PJ2 2 3 2 4 3 2 PY 1 4 17 39 38 53 PZ 1 1 1 1 1 1 S5 2 11 20 34 27 SM 6 1 32 10 SP 3 17 26 81 47 ST 1 1 SU 1 SV 3 6 10 12 SV5 1 2 1 1 SV9 1 3 2 T7 1 1 1 1 TA 1 1 1 2 3 TA1 1 TF 4 1 TG 1 2 1 1 TI 1 3 2 3 6 3 TR 1 1 TT 1 TU 1 UA 12 9 42 13 UA2 2 2 2 1 UA9 7 UK 1 UN 2 UR 1 13 15 38 15 V2 1 1 1 1 1 1 V3 1 1 1 1 V4 1 1 1 2 2 1 V5 1 V7 1 1 1 1 VE 76 133 85 81 29 5 VK 2 27 57 9 VP2M 1 1 1 1 1 1 VP5 2 2 2 3 2 2 VP8 1 1 1 2 VP9 1 1 1 2 2 2 VQ9 1 1 VR 1 XE 4 5 8 14 10 5 XU 1 YB 2 YL 2 2 4 1 YO 6 7 25 20 YU 11 12 25 10 YV 2 2 1 3 7 4 Z3 2 1 4 2 ZA 1 1 ZC4 1 ZD7 1 ZD8 1 ZF 2 ZL 1 11 29 9 ZL7 1 ZP 1 2 1 3 ZS 1 2 12 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3UA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,352,334 Nice test. The highlight was an hour on 15 with 160+ QSOs on Sunday morning -- the first time ever from this QTH (since I moved here in 2004). The biggest flop -- missed 10 meter opening to EU at the very same time. All my fault -- I should not let NU3C to sleep -- the mult radio was on 10, I saw the band scope dancing like crazy, but was so occupied with the pileup... It costs us at least 30 mults -- not enough to catch up with K9RS, but still sad. Another disappointment -- poor performance of our 160 meter vertical. It was not just the matter of propagation -- W1JR (less than 10 miles west of my QTH) easily worked C50C, but I didn't despite many calls. I need to get back to the drawing board and build something serious for 80 and 160. Maybe next summer project... Thanks to N1MM for keeping score on the http://www.getscores.org/ -- real encouragement, especially on Saturday morning when they were ahead of us. Indeed, I would love to see more people posting their scores -- it makes the test more live. I hope W1VE will fix the detailed scoreboard before the CQ WW CW. I wish the real winners show up on the scoreboard during the test, too -- so we "the small pistols" could run after them. K5ZD proved that it doesn't hurt! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3USA Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 43,549 A couple of hours Sunday afternoon being some fresh meat, although it was still all search and pounce by me. Thank you CQWW for not sharing the ARRL's fixation about using more than one callsign during a contest. 73 - Jim K8MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4EE Class: SOAB(A) LP Total Score = 185,136 TS-440S, G5RV es R7000 Tnx for the Qs, 73, Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4GHD Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 100,128 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: N3FJP's CQ World Wide Log 2.6 CONTEST: CQ-WW-SSB CALLSIGN: W4GHD CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH CLAIMED-SCORE: 100128 OPERATORS: W4GHD CLUB: Tennessee Contest Group NAME: Hilton Dean ADDRESS: 4942 Tyne Valley Blvd. ADDRESS: Nashville, TN 37220 ADDRESS: (e-mail) hilton.dean@comcast.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 19,592 I didn't really expect to operate the contest, but I'm glad I did. I discovered that I'll need a better 20 meter antenna before Sweeps, as I seem to have an intermittent connection somewhere on the 20m dipole. I was also happy to hear 15 meters open on both days. Its been a while since I operated a contest with my favorite band open enough for my piddly rectangular loop. I was also able to spend some time checking out the new locations on the 80m and 40m dipoles. I expect they will do a good job during sweeps, as they seem to hear much better than before. I'll find out soon enough, as I hear rumor there is a popular contest coming soon. ;) Christmas Wish List: Sunspots Real Antennas Fancy New Radio The CW Skills of My Mentors BUFF Amplifier Sunspots Did I Mention Sunspots? note: The list is not necessarily in order of need or desire. 73 W4KAZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KW Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 702,420 Great 10 Mtr opening on Sunday, just not long enough. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Heard some of thr TCG guys on. 73's Bert ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4MYA Class: M/M HP Total Score = 4,140,672 Limited operation CU in CW Take care ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4NTI Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 324,051 Did we slip into some sort of a time warp or something? With nothing to indicate it, the bands were like 5 years ago. Even Ten showed decent life. Mostly into South America and the Car of course, but at least it was there. 15 Came to life early, and in fact in my case outpreformed my 20 meter action. 20 was good and reliable, think it was better on Sunday actually. Starting to be fun again guys. Dan/W4NTI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PTS Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 12,375 Was kind of a non-weekend for me...lots of work, not too much play time. Had a good time on 15...took advantage of slightly less crazy conditions than on 20. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RK Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 42,952 Not much time available but lots of fun. Always enjoy looking for other stations with my suffix: "RK" Best one worked this time was A35RK in Tonga, Fiji. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4RM Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 5,360,338 We had a great time, other the summer we added a new mult station and antenna beverage switch box for all the stations. These upgrades worked great and helped to improve our score from last year. Conditions were down on 160M and up on 10M could this be the start of something good? I hope so!!!! 73 Bill W4RM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: SOAB LP Total Score = 506,217 I did not have a good feeling about this year's contest because I have been too busy to participate in my usual "warmup contests", CAQP & PAQP. Matter of fact, the last contest I was in seriously was the IARU HF in July. I was almost tempted to quit after the terrible conditions on Friday night and early Saturday morning. Once the storms left the area, things began to pick up and I was able to beat last year's score when the contest was only half finished. That made me decide to stick with it instead of watching college football or playing with the kids. I started having computer problems Saturday evening and I had to keep fooling with it and that kept me from working a number of contacts. I can't complain about my 100 watts and a G5RV. It allowed me to work a couple of new countries for me during this one. And it definitely performed better than last year!!! It was great to hear all of the big guns and especially my friend Paul, N4PN, working hard on 40 meters. I always listen in amazement to the efficiency of stations such as W3LPL, K3LR, N4PN, and W5WMU to name just a few. I can't wait until we get some sunspots!!!! I really appreciate all of the effort that everyone took digging my puny signal out of the mud and being patient as I had to repeat my call a few times. Thanks for all of the Q's! See you next year when I try to top this year's personal best score! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4VIC Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 268,135 GEAR: IC-756 PROIII ACOM 1000 Force 12 C-4 80 meter dipole @ 30 ft. N3FPJ CQ WW Log 2.6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WS Class: SOAB HP Total Score = 1,420,180 This was my First attempt at Single-Op in CQWW. I came up a little short of my goal of 2,000 Q's and 400 mults. And 40Hr's op time. But theres always next time? The bands were much better Sat. than Sunday from here. Fri. nite was a N-S duck shoot. 15M was outstanding Sat. but not quite as good Sunday. I lost my 5ele. 20m ant. due to the heavy rains all day Fri. & Sat. So the mult ant. (C3) held its own. There is a BIG difference between 5ele & 2ele at the same height.I missed any 10m openings there may have been from here but I never heard a peep when I did check. However I did work several new ones and had some interesting DX call me. Thanks to all for the Q's. And to W4WS crew for there support. ( They operated W4NC this year from the Forsyth Amateur Radio Club station.) KG4NEP/V26RW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4WTB Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 3,403,620 Great contest this year ... Better than Expected .... here's my rundown by band ............ 10 meters ... Nice openings at noon and evening hours to S / SE .... Southern Africa also Coming through.... Good propagation both days ......Better than last year !! 15 Meters ... WOW !!! ... Amazing conditions both Days .... If you didn't " RUN " on 15.. you missed a bunch of Q's... I worked mobiles ... attic antennas .. etc ... endless Europeans calling !! 20 Meters ... Great Propagation both days and lot's of multipliers ... Qrm was incredible though.. I only have one multi-band yagi ( 3 elements for 20 ) on this band ... so trying to establish a run is tough ...... Great opening into Asia on Sunday at evening .. during last hour of contest !! 40 Meters ... Average both days ... I could hear many Europeans, well past their sunrise.... Worked the usual ... Europe / VK / JA .... VK6LK ( Robin ) was very loud on the short path 80 Meters ... Lot's of signals on 80 ..... Europe was tough at our sunset .... Much easier to work them at the European Sunrise ..... Good opening into JA and VK at our sunrise ...... Most notable QSO was VK6LK ( Robin ) LONG PATH !!! .... Sunday afternoon ... Still daylight here !! 160 Meters ... Always tough for me ... My RX antennas are much better than my TX antenna !! I heard several Europeans with decent signals both days ...... propagation to S / SE was typical.... but had QRN in that direction ..... I worked the usual Caribbean stations for the easy muti's. I had 2 hours of sleep on Saturday Afternoon .... as I found myself falling asleep in between contacts !! ( Hi Hi ) ..... I may have lost a few Q's, but It worked out ok ... I felt much better Saturday night. I had 3 hours of sleep in the wee hours of Sunday morning ..... this worked great ... and I had plenty of energy all day Sunday ...... I have yet to make a complete 48 hours.... maybe next year !! I worked 14 stations on all 6 bands ..... 6Y1V , 8P5A , C6APR , FY5KE , HC8N , HI3T , J3A , PJ2T , PJ4E , T48K , V26B , V47KP , VP5T , WP2Z My Best Rates ....... 30 Minutes .... 84 Q's 60 Minutes .... 155 Q's 120 Minutes ... 272 Q's Most Worked Countries ( Top 10 )........... Country Qso's Percent % 1. Germany 246 12.0 2. Italy 148 7.2 3. England 125 6.1 4. Canada 107 5.2 5. Spain 95 4.6 6. France 77 3.7 7. Brazil 71 3.4 8. Netherlands 60 2.9 9. Argentina 53 2.6 10. Belgium 45 2.2 147 Total Countries / 36 total Zones .... Worked on ALL BANDS combined. My Eqpt for 2007 CQWW .............. Rig ....... Yaesu FT-1000 D ( Only 1 Rig Used ) ....w / MFJ Voice Keyer Amp ....... Ameritron Al-1500 Software .. N1MM TX Antennas .............. 10 /15 / 20 ............. Multiband Yagi @ 100 ft ......and a pair of phased Slopers to S/SE 40 ........................... Rotatable Dipole @ 110 ft .... and a pair of phased Slopers to S/SE 80 ........................... 1/4 Wave ( 62.5 ft ) Wire Vertical w/ 120 radials 160 ......................... 1/2 wave Inverted V @ 90 ft RX Antennas .................... NE ..... 720 ft Beverage E ...... 480 ft Beverage SE ..... 330 ft Beverage NW ..... 480 ft Beverage W ...... 480 ft Beverage SW ..... and Misc Directions > K9AY Loop Great Contest this year ..... Should be even better next year !! Tnx to everyone for all the Q's .... 73's and God Bless .......... W4WTB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5BAK Class: M/S HP Total Score = 696,456 Joey (W5BAK) and Mark (K5EXX) wanted to come play some so let them have it for a Sat only operation. Chased packet spots mostly, I ran some Sat morning but not very productive. Think they were fired up to do DXCC on 20m. Enjoyed having Mark here for his first contest operation, think he is hooked! We ate well, did some shooting, and worked a little DX.. a fun day! later nz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5CPT Class: SOAB(A) HP Total Score = 227,920 My first contest with a directional antenna and an amp. I can see how the addition of these can make contesting much more interesting and complicated. A meager effort for sure, but I will use it as a benchmark to measure my performance and the performance of my