IARU Soapbox built 7-17-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0A Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,766,196 First time ever in this contest and completely different experience not to be a multiplier (that as well first time!). It was worth trying for many reasons first of all it becomes obvious what skills/experience/tactical moves etc you are lacking to be competitive though obviously zone 29 is far from being competitive but nevertheless, absolute majority of us taking part in this and other contests still having great fun. I arrived in my village, where the station is located, just one hour prior to the contest for family reasons and had no chance to install 160m sloping dipole which was removed a month ago for some repair/new antenna installation works. 20m was ok but mainly for EU, unfortunately propagation was not helping at all towards US, and I ended with only handful QSOs with NA stations. 10 was poor and 15 was better (though not stabile) in almost any directions but unfortunately I was not getting enough attention for obvious reasons and being aside from the main traffic it was hard to keep pace. Whenever beams were pointing to me signal increases were dramatic. Looks that with high K index low bands were in a better shape but there I had hard time to figure out what to on 40m, when I first went there was absolutely no place to take, the band was fully occupied with HQ stations one after another and you all know what signals they had. The second time I had more success and in fact number of NA as well SA and Caribbean stations were showing pretty good strength of their signals. 80m as well looked ok but.....at one stage when rate has slowed down I fall asleep for one hour (and that's on my sunrise!) and if not XYL who noted that there was no QRM coming from next room I seriously doubt I could escape with only one hour. Moral- take a good rest prior to the contest (and of course do your antenna work in advance!) In overall I am happy, some new settings in the stations are working well....a bit disappointed too that I could add around 300,000 more easily with 160m antenna and that one hour I missed but that for the next year, hopefully with less excuses :-) 73! Gia 4L4WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 17,747,124 Thanks to everybody who called us! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,091,264 Conditions were much better at the end... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AA4FU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 115,690 Tough conditions with my verticals. The first six hours or so were more like the NA QSO party than a DX contest. I finally started working some of the EU HQ stations late Saturday afternoon, but never really worked too many others. My normal S&P strategy dried up quickly in this one, so spent more time calling CQ and it worked good on 80m. I had a few DX stations call me and the number of 4, 6 & 7 zone stations was enough to add a few extra points. The number of zones & HQ stations is approximate. The totals are correct but had to do a hand count to break out the HQ stations. Rig: Kenwood TS-570D Antennas: Cushcraft R-8 Vertical 40 - 10m; MA80/40 80 & 160 (with external tuner) Other: microHam micro Keyer; Heil Quiet Phone headset; N1MM software ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB2E Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 42,910 Only had wire antennas working on 20m and 80m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AB7E Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 242,816 First time I've given this contest a decent effort and I made some errors in judgment, but I had fun and I'll give it a better shot next year. Maybe we'll even have some sunspots by then. 73, Dave AB7E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC0W Class: M/S LP Total Score = 24,640 No Q's on 160 ph and 10 meters due to operating NU1AW/0 on those bands. Worked at a more casual pace as I spent time learning Win-Test. Very impressed with it and plan to use more in the future. Bill AC0W ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AC5AA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,638 Only had a very short time available to get on. 20m was already dead, my 40 DX antenna was down, so had to use the low G5RV. 80m was almost a total bust due to antenna problems. Looks like I have work to do before the Fall! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD5VJ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 18,424 Contest was allot of fun and thanks to one and all for the contacts. Really enjoyed this contest thanks for N1MM software, which is not only FREE but is in my opinion and many others THE BEST CONTESTING SOFTWARE ANYWHERE. Thanks to everyone for a great time. Bob AD5VJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AD6ZJ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 49,600 Only could last about 10.5 hours. I was counting on 80M for some action and when the action wasn't there I started to doze off. Decided to pull the plug about 1:30AM having passed my goal of 250 by an additional 33. My CW is rusty so I just did S&P on CW. If I could get my copy speed up I could do much better by running. Still, this was the best I have been able to do in a contest since February. 10/15/20M tribander 10 feet off the roof 40M and 80M Irrigation pipe vertical up the pine tree at 60 feet 160M inverted L with max hight of 35 feet. 73 AD6ZJ, Loren ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AK4I Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 42,042 I started out planning on working only phone but after about 3 and one half hours the pool was getting pretty shallow so I started running CW. In the end I ended up making more contact with CW than with Phone. I ran exclusively in S&P mode. Next time I think I'll run in S&P for CW where my CW skills won't support a barrage of calls and in S&P and Running on phone. See you in October. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: AT6T Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 287,554 It was fun to run the VU HQ station from my SO station with a special call sign. The contest started well for me, with close to 400 QSOs in the log in the first 6 hours, but this was to be short-lived. The night hours were very unproductive on 40m, and a small opening on 20m after 20z to NA brought in about 8 QSOs. We had an extended power outage from 03z on the 13th till the end of the contest, thus making the last 9 hours of the contest a low power S&P affair @ 50 watts from my emergency supply batteries. The computer backup supply lasted for about 6 hours and I spent the last 3 hours of the contest the old fashioned way - paper logging :) Happy to give out the ARSI HQ multiplier to all comers and look forward to a very organized VU effort next year from multiple stations. As ususal, the log will be uploaded to LoTW and QSLs will be available soon from VU2PTT. See you all next year. 73 de Prasad VU2PTT, W2PTT and now AT6T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CE4CT Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 257,868 Very bad conditions, but enjoy same, this is my last contest in my apartment, I chague the QTH I hope to return soon, may be for CQWPX SSB 2009 like "CE4CT RELOADED" Thank's to all and specially to my friends that were here operating my station in my apartment VE7SV, LU1FAM, XQ4CW and CE3NR. 73 CE4CT Roberto ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CT1ENQ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 122,240 This year conditions seemed worse than last year, not so many dx stations worked or even listened. Short skip on 10m allowed me to work a few EA and even CS8HQ which was booming sunday morning. Lower bands had too much QRN but enough to work a few HQ and HP stations. As I said, not so many DX but here are some of the stations that i've heard but could not make it 'thru' their log: ZY6MP, LS1D, PR1T, VA2RAC, K3ZO, W1QK, 9Y4D, K9RS... Must say that ZD8Z was always very strong on 15m, saturday and sunday. My conditions were bad, used the Icom 706MKiiG without CW Narrow filter, running 100W into and off-center feed home made dipole, for all bands with manual tuner MFJ971. On lower bands, some RF Leaks made the internal keyer work with strange behaviour, forcing me to lower power to 40/50W to allow correct behaviour. Before starting the contest i established the goal of making twice the Qs of last year (207) and that was achieved and the score doubled. Well, last year i think i worked less time and only on SSB. Only worked around 12h but with many gaps at vital hours. So not a real effort but anyway it was a very nice contest as usual. Must say that Mr. Murphy made a visit and lost the first hour of the contest trying to make N1MM logger work but it always blocked, so no DVK nor CAT. Went to Super Duper and all was ok except DVK that was not working. Must loose some time to fine-tune this problem. Thanks all for the Qs. vy 73 es mni dx ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CW7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 607,184 Fun contest once propagation opened late Sat afternoon. Nice to see 15m starting to come back. 20m was rocking until midnite here, usually closes around 8pm local. Rig: K3 w/Acom 1000 Ant: 3 ele Steppir @17m and Force 12 Vertical dipole on 40m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ1YFK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 556,227 TS850 + PA 750W + 3el, Dipoles @ 25m Couldn't make a full effort this time, but had a lot of fun. Good activity, half-decent condx. Cabrillo Statistics (Version 06f) by K5KA Callsign: DJ1YFK Category: SINGLE-OP ALL HIGH Contest: IARU-HF Operators: DJ1YFK -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y --------------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Rate Total Pct -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1200 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1500 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1600 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1700 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 1800 0 0 0 27 38 10 75 75 7.1 1900 0 0 0 124 0 0 124 199 11.7 2000 0 0 0 105 0 0 105 304 9.9 2100 0 0 0 75 0 0 75 379 7.1 2200 0 85 0 13 0 0 98 477 9.2 2300 0 92 0 0 0 0 92 569 8.7 0000 0 79 0 0 0 0 79 648 7.4 0100 2 3 2 2 2 2 13 661 1.2 0200 13 0 41 0 0 0 54 715 5.1 0300 7 0 69 0 0 0 76 791 7.2 0400 0 0 54 0 0 0 54 845 5.1 0500 0 0 79 0 0 0 79 924 7.4 0600 0 0 16 23 0 11 50 974 4.7 0700 0 0 0 71 0 0 71 1045 6.7 0800 0 0 0 14 0 0 14 1059 1.3 0900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1059 0.0 1000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1059 0.0 1100 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1059 0.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 22 259 261 454 40 23 1059 Gross QSO's=1062 Dupes=3 Net QSO's=1059 Unique callsigns worked = 794 The best 60 minute rate was 133/hour from 1915 to 2014 The best 30 minute rate was 134/hour from 1915 to 1944 The best 10 minute rate was 156/hour from 1915 to 1924 The best 1 minute rates were: 4 QSO's/minute 9 times. 3 QSO's/minute 74 times. 2 QSO's/minute 240 times. 1 QSO's/minute 321 times. There were 14 bandchanges and 0 (0.0%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 1 4 294 5 503 6 240 7 8 8 9 9 4 ------------ M u l t i p l i e r S u m m a r y ------------ Mult 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 29 1 91 89 97 2 7 287 27.0 28 0 94 67 79 2 1 243 22.9 8 0 2 25 102 10 1 140 13.2 27 0 14 15 51 1 1 82 7.7 30 0 17 8 15 0 0 40 3.8 18 0 8 9 16 3 2 38 3.6 7 0 0 3 22 1 0 26 2.4 37 1 2 2 8 1 1 15 1.4 4 0 0 2 9 3 0 14 1.3 DARC 2 2 2 2 2 2 12 1.1 9 0 0 1 7 0 0 8 0.8 REF 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.6 CRC 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 0.6 SRS 2 1 1 1 1 0 6 0.6 RSGB 2 1 1 1 1 0 6 0.6 14 0 0 1 4 1 0 6 0.6 PZK 2 1 1 1 0 1 6 0.6 ARI 2 0 1 1 0 1 5 0.5 SARA 1 1 1 1 0 1 5 0.5 UARL 0 1 1 1 1 1 5 0.5 VERON 0 0 1 1 1 1 4 0.4 URE 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.4 OVSV 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.4 BFRR 0 1 1 1 1 0 4 0.4 39 0 0 2 2 0 0 4 0.4 MRASZ 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.4 RL 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.4 BH 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.4 ZRS 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.4 HRS 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.4 FRR 1 1 1 1 0 0 4 0.4 RAC 0 0 1 1 0 1 3 0.3 13 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 0.3 REP 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.3 LRMD 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.3 36 0 1 0 2 0 0 3 0.3 11 0 0 2 1 0 0 3 0.3 20 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 0.3 31 0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0.3 UBA 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 0.3 FRA 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0.2 LRAL 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 EDR 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0.2 12 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0.2 USKA 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2 BFRA 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2 SSA 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0.2 54 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0.2 RCU 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0.1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 AARC 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 15 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 46 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 IARU 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 19 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.1 IRTS 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 RCV 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 FMRE 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 SRAL 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 ERAU 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 SRR 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 23 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0.1 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 22 259 261 454 40 23 1059 Multi-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 614 2 bands 135 3 bands 25 4 bands 12 5 bands 5 6 bands 3 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: TM0HQ OL4HQ DA0HQ ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 1 147 120 324 13 9 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ2YA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 60,840 Chasing HQs with LP was fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DJ7EC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 282,420 Lot´s of QRN on 160, so I just wkd Multis there.Condx on Highbands better than in WPX, lots of fb DX. Nice surprise was ZD8Z on 20 and 15, tnx fer new one :-). 73, Hauke DJ7EC GO WWYC !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 317,858 RIG: ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, Ameritron AL-80B Fritzel 5-ele tribander, dipole 2x24m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK9TN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,083,072 Many thanks to Rudi, DL5MEV for letting me use his excellent station! It was a nice surprise to hear VE1TK, K1DG and WP4WW real load on 10m. High QRN levels on the low bands. CU in the next one. 73 Chris DK9TN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1IAO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,169,403 WT v3.21.0 on 2x HP Omnibook XE3 2x TS870, Alpha87A, AL1500, WX0B bandpass filters (10) 6el Yagi @24m (40) 3el Yagi @20m (linear-loaded) (15) 5el Yagi @25m (80) Bobtail (NW/SE) & Delta Loop (20) 5el Yagi @27m (160) shunt-fed 27m tower 2R-QSOs: 366 Fair condx to W/VE with just a few Westcoast stations worked (EU-QSOs: 64%). Lots of QSYs and 2-Radio action to keep up the rate and squeeze the most out of the bands. Enjoyed the 24h format as usual! 73, Stefan DL1IAO@contesting.com http://www.dl1iao.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1KSE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 58,650 Operating from friends garden. Rig: FT-857D. Power: 100W. Antenna: Longwire. Human ressources: Trained for staying awake and having fun :)... Well there are some errors by some mistakes in usage of the logger software. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL2AA Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 599,742 During the first half of the contest all went quite promising. I was ahead of my plan but after about 2300z the struggle for every QSO began. Heard several US stations on 40 before sunrise my time but could barely make it. So I could fill the log only with a few Zone 7 and 8 calls on this band. Except for the HQ stations 160 was ridiculous. At least some nice mults there. 10 was in good shape and I could get some unexpected zones in the log. The few JA's I worked on 20 were not enough to get my score over the 600.000 mark. Pretty disappointing event this year... Maik DL2AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL3YM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 217,038 XYL's birthday, kindergarden summer party for the kids and BBQ with colleagues were all scheduled for the weekend, thus making it difficult to concentrate on the really important topics, hi. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 881,592 My first try SO2R, need more practice... Also first time with beverage (90&270deg.) at our station, great improve! FT1000D, FT1000MV, 2xAcom2000 Optibeam 16-3, JP2000, 2el 40m, Dipol 80m and V160 73, Uli http://www.d8obq.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DS5KJR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 21,141 cu agn next contest...de ds5kjr yeo.73 .. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E21EIC Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 396,905 Congratulation to Karl, HS0ZDG (K4YT) who make an activities from Thailand. I had take a braked for 8 Hrs, because of RAIN !! 73, Champ, E21EIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA1WX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 511,626 I have used the cluster so I afraid I should be MultiOp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,918,601 I don't have the station ready for a full effort, but the good conditions on 10m. at the contests begin was exciting. Also I was fine to find good friends calling: Jeff NX9T and Bill K4CIA call me on 15m. and they do a QSY to 10m with quite good signals and this encourage me. The opening on 10m was mostly to Central EU and UK and I, but I can make a good handful of USA QSO. I enjoy the contest, and the bands seem full with HQ stations. I can work a lot of new callsing, particularly from Germany: they were well trained and good ops. Congratulations to they and the DARC work. Anyway, I get my QSO record on 24 hours alone, and I'm happy with to do that on the solar minimum. Thanks everybody fot answer my calls and to listen me. 73 de Jose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EM5HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 25,309,085 Thanks to all of our callers in this test. Very sorry can't listen to many who call us. This is only raw result, final results will be later, because local net and log problems in some working positions. Now we working on the final logs compillation. Our special thanks to stations working us 12 times. All of them will be awarded with T-shirts with EM5HQ symbols. Foto from positions will be available later on www.bscc.in. QSL-cards via UR5EAW. EM5HQ team are: UR0MC,UT7QF,UX7IA,UR5IOK,UT8IO,UR5MID,UT7MW,US7MM UT5DL,UT9FJ,UT4FJ,UR5FEO,UR5FEL,UT0FF,UT2XQ,UT7XX,UT7GX,UR4LTX,UR5WMM, UT1WZ,UT3WX,US2IR,UT3IZ,US1ITU,UY6IM,UU5WW,UU2JQ,UU0JX,UT7UV,UY2UA,UX2HO, UZ1HZ,UR3HR,UT5UY,UR7HCX,UX0HX,UX0FF,UR5FAV,UX3FW,UR5FBK,UT3FM,UR7GO, UR7GW,UT7UT,UR7VA,UR2VA,UT1IA,UY5HF,UW1GZ,UT2IY,UT2IJ,UX2IO,UR0IM, UT2UB,UU0JM,UU1AZ,UU1DX,UU4JMG,UU5MAF,UU8JK,UR5EAW,UR3MP,UT0FT,UT5UGR, UT7DK,UX3MZ,UT3UA,UU5JBO... 73! EM5HQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5RW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,185,723 Mostly a Europen test - 88% of total QSO count. Almost no US for me, just a new calls during the last hour on 20m. 40m ja 160 m ssb portons were occupied by HQ stations with almost no chance to give a CQ for others. 10m opened for 1 hour in Saturday evening producing the best rate in this test. Thanks for the fun, Rein, ES5RW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 653,884 Powered by Win-Test 3.21.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5LCU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 110,433 Despite a poor propagation, I beat my last 2 years scores. Thanks to opening to North America on 20m during the night. 73 Fabrice F5LCU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5RD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 47,400 This contest is very pleasant. 220 QSO's with 50 Watts in a multiband center feed antenna on 80 to 15 m and 3 elements Yagi on 10 m. I'm very happy. The most difficult band was 80 m because we had storm Saturday evening. Thanks to all who worked me. See you again in 2009. F5RD Bernard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F6BEE Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,008,198 First contest with new K3. Comfortable ! Where were the exotic Russian zones ? I also missed the few Africans and too many HQs. The 24 hours format is nice. Thank you all for calling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8AOF Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 86,372 My contest in mono operator but only mono band 10M class C. Good propagation Es saturday in Europe some stations from North América and south America, but nothing from ASia. Vy 73s from F8AOF jerome cuagn next contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F8CRS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 127,836 Hello, using vertical 1/4 40m and 15m ---G5RV for other bands. good openning to the USA on 15m and SA on 10m. 73 david f8crs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4EHT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,664 TS-570, 70 Watts, HF9V ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4ERW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 99,484 Rig: TS850 + AL811 Antennas: 20/15/10 TH3 @ 15m 80/40 Dipole @ 10m ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 483,560 Used my FT2000 for the first few hours and then finished off with the newly acquired K3. I am delighted with my FT2000 but as a receiver it really is not in the same league as the K3. The K3 for me is a rate maker, all I need to be able to do is read 'EH5H' at 45 wpm and I've cracked it! Thanks for Qs everyone and see you in IOTA. Cheers, Terry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HC8N Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,606,660 Definitely tougher conditions than 2006. Although 10M was pretty good during the week, it failed to show up on Saturday. Lots of activity, I never felt like I was running out of people to work. Thanks for all the Q`s! 73, Steve K6AW/HC1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,903,600 Enjoyable contest, although we missed a good summer EU Es on the high bands. The 10m opening to JA and NA was a bonus. 20m was much worse condx and activity-wise than expected. 73, zoli ha1ag ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HK6P Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 362,089 RADIO IC 765 ANTENA MOSLEY TA 53 PLUS 40M KIT G5RV AMPLI HEATKIT SB 220 500W UNVELIABLE 10M OPEN, 15 VERY BAD, 20 GOOD, 40 GOOD, 80 BAD RECEPTION FOR ME, I NEED A GOOD ANTENA, 160 NOT POWER HK6P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,841 cu agn next contest ..de hl5yi chae.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IR4E Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 8,100 ...in a spare time... see u on wae dx contest cw 9th 10th August... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9HUV/2 Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 3,538 Thanks to all ! Good Luck. Sal it9huv/2. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IT9RBW Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 972,504 Nice contest,good condx on 20m,problem on 40m setup.I can't worked much multiplier on 40m aniway i'm sutisfaction of the final result.I can't do better to my location... thanks to all IT9RBW joe ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ1LBG Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 679,266 Another very good contest with an increbible opening on 20m. At local time 3 AM there were NA station with signal 59++. Thanks very much to all for contact... Hope in a same opening in CQ WW in October. Filippo IZ1LBG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ8GCB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 732,600 Basic setup, with an yagi tribander and a single vertical on 40/80/160. Rotor stopped to work around 19.00 z in south east direction (not the best one from southern europe...hi!!)of course we had to wait first lights of sunday to fix it, so we missed any opening to America (if there was, on saturday night). Final result was just 10 us stations in the whole log!! The final score, of course, suffered the lack of NA stations, and seems very low, compared with the quite large number of stations we worked. Btw qso target was 1500, and we did it. Icom 756 pro alpha 78 5 elements yagi (@ 16 meters) tribander vertical 40/80/160 (12,5 meters high) wintest 3.20 Cu in 2009, Sal ik8und ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: J48D Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 337,038 That was a holiday operation, just one vertical antenna, 15m wire on 12m fiber pole, a SGC tuner and an ICOM IC-706 MkIIG (unfortunately without CW-Filter). Sorry for some late answers and queries caused by the wide IF of this TRX. My TRX went dead on the travel and I had the opportunity to borrow this one. The greek island Corfu was as enjoying as the contest. cu next year Wolfgang SV8/DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0HW Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 217,974 Another Superb contest. My goal this contest was to work it the entire 24 hours. Goal was acomplished and I now know I can do it. I have tried in the past and never completed the mission. I knew I was making a lot more CW contacts than phone throughout the contest so it surprised me to find that I had made more QSOs on 80 phone than on 80 CW. It must have been the bad QRN with the 250 filter on 80 that made it not a wanted mode! It is always fun to find the W1AW/ and the NU1AW/ station each year and see if they can be worked on all bands. This year I didn't even come close. VA2RAC seemed to be the most active this year. it really surpised me to find out that the rate didn't go down to much in the wee hours of the morning and it was quite good for me. 20 meters finally did drop out about 2 AM here. ICOM 756 PRO II, Writelog, HyGain HyTower, HyGain TH11DX, Dipoles on 80 and 160 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 450,534 Good fun. Good rates. Mostly stateside with a smattering of DX. Lots of HQ stations on 20 ssb. Lots of noise on 40 and 80. Most time I've ever spent in this one. Don't know the number of HQ mults, since my program does not list them separately. Tnx to all for the Q's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 83,312 Didn't have time for a full effort but at least got to play a little. Fun contest. Nice surprise to work EU on 160 from MN in July! Nothing heard on 10 despite it being open only a couple of days earlier. Thanks for the Q's! 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0RH Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 469,357 Thanks for the Q's......Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0UK Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 100,660 Fun contest for the middle of the summer. Band conditions were good all things considered. Start 80/40 west coast and JA some VK/ZL, 20mtrs open all the times I was on the air. Had trouble breaking into Eu such as DL's and eastern EU. Guess the 150wts and tribanders werent doing good. 15mtrs to West Coast and Texas. 10mtrs to Texas and heard some west coast but 150wts didnt cut it. Great opening at 0900 hours in JA and VK/ZL. Plus fun having some SA call while CQ'ing on 80mtrs phone. All in All not bad. Didnt hear any GMCC'er that I know. Heard Steve N2IC running on cw on 20mtrs and 40mtrs. Plus the west coast had some good runs to JA on 20mtrs and 40mtrs. Worked N6RO Ken, K9YC Jim both had excellent signals here into Co. Hope you all had fun. I did. PTL bill K0UK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1DG Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,279,620 First time I've ever done this contest (except for WRTC). Lots of fun, especially the nice surprise 10M European opening. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,029,072 73 , Krassy K1LZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1PT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 569,724 No Skimmer. Lost a few hours to very close lightning Saturday afternoon and a short nap in the wee hours. It was a real pleasure to operate without the constant buzz of powerline noise. Many transformers and bad hardware have been replaced over the last few years. Thank you, Kevin and Florida Power and Light! I decided to operate LP this year in deference to my neighbors. I'm a bit more sensitive since having all of the feedlines chopped last year! Thanks for the Q's N1MM logger TenTec OMNI 6+ C31XR @ 60' XM-240 @ 75' 80/160 vertical on the salt water ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1TN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 19,431 15 Meters started to open to Europe about 30 minutes before the end of the contest Sunday morning and I even worked a couple with my Slinky; I have a feeling that band conditions may be better today than they were on Saturday. Dang. Sure were strange conditions overall. On 40, not long after sunrise on Sunday, K1AR, close by in New Hampshire, was higher on my S-meter than any signal I have ever seen on my Slinky, nearly broke the meter. Finally got that 3CX250000 working eh John? In fact, 40 was very good the last two hours but there was hardly any activity. Maybe everyone was up on slopbucket. Jim Cain, K1TN/2 Atlantic City, NJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZZI Class: M/S HP Total Score = 520,030 Lots of QRN here this weekend. I could hear some EU stns calling and just couldn't pull out the weak ones. I need to work on improving my time management AND keep my butt in the chair 24 hrs! I didn't really expect to do as well as I did though. Packet didn't buy much and that was a mistake decision. I'm happy for my best IARU score yet and it was a blast. Thanks for ALL the Q's!! 73, Ralph K1ZZI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2LE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 250,999 Tough going at a noisy QTH with just a vertical and a wire in the trees.. Also, lost 5 hours of prime op. time 2200-0300 Z due to dinner engagement Surprizingly 10 meters was open to EU for quite a while but could work only the loud HQ stations. But you must love the level of activity in a 24 hr. contest Andy K2LE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ZR Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 31,240 Casual 7 hour effort. Had a great time under challenging conditions. IC-765 @ 100 watts with End Fed and Center Fed Wires. Logged with paper & pencil. New shack laptop with N1MM coming soon. Best 73 to all, Dick, K2ZR Niagara County, New York ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,133,024 No "skimmers" of any kind used here. I would do almost anything legal to improve my scores but that definitely is too much. Again, thanks to WA3FET for letting me use his station. 73, Alex LZ4AX -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 1200 0 0 0 94 10 0 104 4.5 1300 0 0 0 105 22 0 127 5.5 1400 0 0 0 0 87 14 101 4.3 1500 0 0 0 0 70 38 108 4.6 1600 0 0 0 0 111 8 119 5.1 1700 0 0 0 17 115 0 132 5.7 1800 0 0 0 27 103 0 130 5.6 1900 0 0 0 69 19 0 88 3.8 2000 0 0 0 114 7 0 121 5.2 2100 0 0 0 139 3 0 142 6.1 2200 0 0 0 122 1 2 125 5.4 2300 0 0 0 114 2 1 117 5.0 0000 0 0 107 2 0 0 109 4.7 0100 0 0 110 5 0 0 115 4.9 0200 4 33 0 10 0 0 47 2.0 0300 23 46 0 0 0 0 69 3.0 0400 5 52 32 0 0 0 89 3.8 0500 4 19 52 0 0 0 75 3.2 0600 2 12 24 7 0 0 45 1.9 0700 10 41 22 0 0 0 73 3.1 0800 36 18 10 0 0 0 64 2.8 0900 0 5 6 35 0 0 46 2.0 1000 0 2 12 53 0 0 67 2.9 1100 0 0 1 92 0 0 93 4.0 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 84 228 376 1005 550 63 2306 Band Total x1 x3 x5 1.8 84 55 23 6 3.5 228 126 79 23 7 376 139 105 132 14 1005 173 238 594 21 550 116 93 341 28 63 38 12 13 Total 2306 647 550 1109 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3LL/6 Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 96,564 Tougher propagation than last year, but seemed that there were more HQ stations out this year. Thanks to 8N4HQ for listening up in 40m US phone band -he seemed to be one of the few in APAC to do so. Only EU heard was EA5DFV (able to work him too!). Also thanks to 8N2HQ for answering my CQ on 80m. Lost rotor direction indicator halfway through contest. Used timing and running outside to figure out direction. After a while of those gymnastics I just pointed the beam to APAC and left it alone. Station: TS-940S/AT AL-811 A3S at 15 feet 80/40 Trap dipole at 20 feet N1MM Logger ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3TD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 2,261 Inverted L 30'H x 75'L IC-756ProII N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,508,696 1 Skimmer attached to the Mult station. Seemed to keep me focused on the 2nd radio. Does not feel just like packet, but the end result should be similar. Maybe less distraction, but not much. 73 Chas K3WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4CX Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 28,101 Zones = Points HQ Mults = Multipliers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4DJ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 166,464 Nice contest. Trying to preserve my "amateur" status. N1MM didn't show HQs Mults so my count is +/- TS-570DG, AL-811H(400w), Low A4S, R-7, N1MM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4QPL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 253,152 Zones and HQ Mults not separated in this posting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 76,896 What a nice break from the summer contest doldrums! It seemed like HQ stations were everywhere, thanks for all the work to put them on the air. This was a part time effort for me, contesting for the sheer fun of it. Mostly S&P but managed to find a couple of unusually primo run frequencies around 14.015 and 7.015 so enjoyed seeing how "the other 10% lives" for a little while. Spent the last 35 minutes on 7.015 and watched the rate meter top 150 for 5 minutes, that was exhilarating! Only one new band-entity, first CW EK. EU on 20 was pretty dismal in the first hour of the contest so I was steeling myself for a painful slog. The first hour was mostly US stations, although there were half a dozen HQ's - SP, YV, VE, OK, K, and LU. I worked W1AW/9 in the second hour, always nice to work the home IARU station. OY was pounding in on 20M and got them in the log too. Only a couple of EU's in the second hour. Time to go work on the pool -- having been gone all week it needed it! Didn't come back until 1800, but by then 10M was showing some life although I only had one EU station. 15M on the other hand was nicely open to EU. I went "out of contest" long enough to work two EA's and a CT on 6M, both new ones there for me. At 1830 I went back to 20M and now EU was starting to shine. Very solid SSB contacts from southern EU, and I stayed on 20M for 91 Q's and a couple of hours. (Yeah, not exactly neck snapping rate but it was still fun!). Social obligations in the form of a Steve Winwood / Tom Petty concert took me away from the dials until midnight -- great show if you're into them, highly recommended. My ears were ringing from the concert, next time I'll have to try to tune the ringing to 700 Hz so I have a built-in CW zero-beat tone in my head. I decided to start at 160M and work my way up, since I figured 160M would peter out sooner than the other bands. Only a few signals on 160M but they were loud and clear including EA8, and there was really very little summer time QRN. The sunspot gods may not be smiling on us at the moment, but Es and clear weather definitely made this contest more fun than it should have been. I spent about 45 minutes on 80M and picked up 20 Q's, mostly K/VE but EA8, EA, CT, 9A, HK and couple of LU's too. I decided to see what was up on 40M and then grab some sleep. Got about 40 Q's on 40, it kept me awake until 0530. Very nice EU propagation with LZ, LX, EI, LY, OM, G, HA, OH, S5, HB, EA, SP, F, 9A, CT, YO, and DL all making it into the log. Also HC8 who had a great pileup going at 1AM local here, VP9, V3, J3, and LU. Well worth staying up after midnight with ringing ears! I opened my eyes enough to see it was 6AM and decided I wasn't going to be setting any records with 7 hours at the dials so snored until 7:20AM local, then decided to drag myself out of bed and see if I could have some fun running 40M for the last half hour. Good call! I parked on 7.015 and picked up 54 Q's in 30 minutes. I know that's de rigeur for many of you but it was a lot of fun to be fresh meat for the last 30 minutes! Sorry to the weak ones I couldn't dig out, but there were enough strong stations that I decided to follow the money. I did work a half dozen stations at the noise level and I noticed that it took a while to get a flow of stations going again after finishing a "slow Q." Also was interesting playing with my CQ speed a bit to see what affect it had. Nothing drastic, but setting WriteLog at 22WPM would seem to attract more casual stations, but it felt slow and I would crank it up to 25 or 28WPM to see if that made any difference. I guess it's hard to do a controlled experiment here but it would be interesting to hear people's strategies for CQ speeds on different bands and at different points in the test. I guess if I was working most of the contest, by the end I would be working mostly casual stations and slower would be better. Being fresh meat towards the end, probably makes sense to CQ faster. That's all from here. Thanks to everyone for the fun and Q's and CU in the next one. Icom 756 Pro II Tokyo Hy-Power HL-1.5KFX Homebrew Hexbeam 20-6M Cobra Ultralight Sr. for 80M, Jr. for 40M 165' Inv L for 160M WriteLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 200,485 Didn't intend to operate in this one but I turned on the rig and played around for a few minutes and then decided to turn on the amp, and then got hooked. Yeah, conditions could have been better. I didn't even hear Europe until late night on 20m when OJ0, TF, SM and a few russians made it in. On the other hand, there was a large number of VK/ZL stations, but relatively few JAs. Encouraged by the activity, I spent Sunday working on my new 600' ne/sw stealth beverage. c'mon sunspots! thanks to all who gave me a Q. 73, Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5DU Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 559 I operated from the car while driving around doing errands. I almost went off the road only once and spent a long time at traffic lights while I logged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ER Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 313,720 Getting more comfortable with SO2R. Had 66 actual 2nd radio Q's(most were mults), plus allowed smarter band change decisions. Enjoyed working many I've met at Dayton/CTU. See you in the next one. 71! Mark, K5ER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 25,069 Nasty thunderboomers for most of the contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5KG Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,093,308 I Managed to put in a full 24 hours this year. Found condx to be reasonably good, although I thought that condx were better in the second half of the contest rather than in the first half. Unfortunately, 10m never did really materialize. 15m did open briefly to Europe. I was impressed with the quantity of HQ stations this year. It seemed like there were lots of them...tnx guys for the effort. Our newly purchased used Icom 756 ProIII failed at 4am. It just turned itself off, and then came back on. But it went off again 5 minutes later, so off the bench she came! Fortunately, I still had my ProII, so I finished the contest with that radio. The final 5 hours of the contest were grueling. 20m was dead, which left 40, 80 and 160 as the only choices. Eventually, 40 and 80 were worked out, and 160 was of little use to me due to only having a poor antenna. I was using the 80m inv. vee barefoot on 160, so it was only good for near-in QSOs. So these last 5 hours were a matter of scanning 40 and 80 looking for anything workable. I did manage to work a KH6 and KL7RA on 80, and I believe that is a first for me from my FL QTH. In the last hour of the contest, 20m came alive with Euros, but propagation was such that they were difficult to work and impossible to get a run going. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5MR Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 83,940 Single Op NO SKIMMER!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,397,830 This is the first time I have done mixed mode in this contest. My preferences are to operate CW only or do a multi-op where I am the CW operator and the other guy does the phone operating. But I used to do serious phone contests over 30 years ago. I found that I could still do fairly well on phone and maybe I didn't embarass myself too badly. My target was to try for a 50-50 balance of CW to Phone QSOs. But my CW tendencies pulled me towards CW by a ratio of 63% to 37%. I don't know if a better balance might have helped my score or not. I tried Skimmer here with a haywire lash up that allowed me to hook some of the lower antennas or beverages into the SDR receiver. There were times when it did a good job of populating the band map. But like Packet, a lot of the calls were wrong or not there when I listened. I haven't figured out yet if it helped me or just distracted me. I spent a lot of time looking for Skimmer spots instead of doing what I should have been doing, CQing. My laptop for Skimmer was a slower machine and it fell behind decoding when the band was heavly populated. But I was just learning the process and probably have a lot to do in order to use this tool effectively. I do think that with better antennas and the right hardware, Skimmer will be a contesting force. There were times when it was exactly like having packet spot data available anytime you needed it. My opinion is that Skimmer should NOT be allowed for the single-op category in the future. But it is new and interesting technology and will be fine for assisted or multi-op categories. Congratulations to N5DX for a fine mixed-mode effort from the mid-west. 73, Richard - K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5OT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 53,056 Managed to squeeze in a few hours from home around pre-scheduled family activities. Enjoyed passing out some QSOs while getting better acquainted with the new radio. Rig: Elecraft K3 at 100W Antennas: Low dipoles in the trees. TR-Log No skimmer, packet, or other aids 73, Larry K5OT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,254,780 Another fun IARU. I had not really thought about it until today but the last time I did this contest from here was in 2005. I was in Brazil in 2006 and I did not do the contest last year. It was good to be back. There sure are a lot of new SSB ops on the bands here in the USA these days. It will be interesting when 15 and 10 start coming back - I think the contact totals will go up. Normally in this contest I have been getting about 2000 contacts so I was a bit surprised to have over 2400 contacts this year. Both 40 and 80 seemed to be in very good shape and the EU stations that I could hear were easy to work on both bands. Some really fine scores out there at the bottom of the cycle in the summer - can't wait for some real conditions on 15 meters in this contest. Lot-o-numbers...... Callsign Used : K5TR Operator : K5TR Station : K5TR Category : SO SSB HP Default Exchange : 59 07 Team/Club : CTDXCC BAND Raw QSOs Valid QSOs Points Mults Zones _______________________________________________________ 160SSB 11 11 27 2 6 80SSB 132 132 342 11 13 40SSB 564 554 1522 24 25 20SSB 1473 1426 4078 28 30 15SSB 277 276 840 18 18 10SSB 58 58 162 1 4 _______________________________________________________ Totals 2515 2457 6971 84 96 Final Score = 1254780 points. Station: http://www.k5tr.net/ 160 - 1/4 wave sloping verticals sloped east and west - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 80 - Half wave sloping dipoles - sloped NE, NW from 120'. - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 40 - Force 12 240N at 120' - Cushcraft 40-2CD at 87' - NE, NW, SE, SW beverages ~500' long 20 - 6 element yagi at 80' fixed NE - 6 element yagi at 80' - 6 element yagi 40' fixed NW - 4 element yagi 60' fixed SE 15 - 6 element yagi at 70' - 6 element yagi at 35' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 50' fixed SE 10 - 6 element yagi at 60' - 6 element yagi at 30' fixed NE - 4 element yagi at 40' fixed SE 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 8 100 444 1173 207 57 1989 VE calls = 2 15 27 68 15 1 128 N.A. calls = 0 1 7 32 2 0 42 S.A. calls = 1 6 16 32 14 0 69 Euro calls = 0 5 28 94 33 0 160 Afrc calls = 0 1 2 2 5 0 10 Asia calls = 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 JA calls = 0 0 3 3 0 0 6 Ocen calls = 0 4 27 18 0 0 49 Totals = 11 132 554 1426 276 58 2457 HR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOTAL SCORE -- ----- ------ -------- -------- ------- ------- ------ --------- ----- 12 --- --- 43/6 33/7 --- --- 76/13 76/13 0.00M 13 --- --- --- 151/7 4/2 --- 155/9 231/22 0.01M 14 --- --- --- 174/2 5/2 --- 179/4 410/26 0.03M 15 --- --- --- 164/3 2/2 --- 166/5 576/31 0.05M 16 --- --- --- 86/1 48/6 2/1 136/8 712/39 0.08M 17 --- --- --- --- 73/8 45/3 118/11 830/50 0.12M 18 --- --- --- 12/7 98/8 11/1 121/16 951/66 0.18M 19 --- --- --- 145/2 8/5 --- 153/7 1104/73 0.23M 20 --- --- --- 121/0 --- --- 121/0 1225/73 0.25M 21 --- --- --- 108/2 --- --- 108/2 1333/75 0.28M 22 --- --- --- 75/10 22/2 --- 97/12 1430/87 0.35M 23 --- --- 7/1 54/3 1/1 --- 62/5 1492/92 0.39M 0 --- --- --- 89/2 15/0 --- 104/2 1596/94 0.43M 1 --- --- 27/15 75/1 --- --- 102/16 1698/110 0.53M 2 --- 7/7 69/7 28/3 --- --- 104/17 1802/127 0.65M 3 1/1 4/2 12/4 60/3 --- --- 77/10 1879/137 0.73M 4 --- 2/0 132/2 27/2 --- --- 161/4 2040/141 0.82M 5 --- 22/6 63/4 --- --- --- 85/10 2125/151 0.91M 6 1/1 12/2 43/3 19/1 --- --- 75/7 2200/158 0.98M 7 6/5 41/4 36/1 --- --- --- 83/10 2283/168 1.08M 8 3/1 9/1 38/4 --- --- --- 50/6 2333/174 1.15M 9 --- 22/2 19/1 --- --- --- 41/3 2374/177 1.19M 10 --- 13/0 15/1 --- --- --- 28/1 2402/178 1.21M 11 --- --- 51/0 5/2 --- --- 56/2 2458/180 1.25M D1 0/0 0/0 50/7 1123/44 261/36 58/5 1492/92 D2 11/8 132/24 505/42 303/14 15/0 0/0 966/88 TO 11/8 132/24 555/49 1426/58 276/36 58/5 2458/180 Gross QSO's=2515 Dupes=58 Net QSO's=2457 Unique callsigns worked = 1857 The best 60 minute rate was 197/hour from 1346 to 1445 The best 30 minute rate was 208/hour from 1346 to 1415 The best 10 minute rate was 264/hour from 0425 to 0434 The best 1 minute rates were: 8 QSO's/minute 1 times. 7 QSO's/minute 0 times. 6 QSO's/minute 8 times. 5 QSO's/minute 40 times. 4 QSO's/minute 105 times. 3 QSO's/minute 211 times. 2 QSO's/minute 378 times. 1 QSO's/minute 392 times. There were 337 bandchanges and 145 (5.9%) probable 2nd radio QSO's. Number of letters in callsigns Letters # worked ----------------- 3 11 4 653 5 1053 6 717 7 12 8 5 9 4 10 2 lti-band QSO's ---------------- 1 bands 1427 2 bands 305 3 bands 92 4 bands 22 5 bands 10 6 bands 1 The following stations were worked on 6 bands: W1AW/9 ----- S i n g l e B a n d Q S O ' s ----- Band 160 80 40 20 15 10 ---------------------------------------------- QSOs 0 23 251 1046 90 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5WA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 622,839 What a lot of fun! This was my first SO2R contest from my new location at W5SJS's "Ranch". There is currently only one antenna per band, but we have BIG plans. My 2 new K3s were extremely fun to use and I look forward to having more sleep before I try this again. I only got 3 hours of sleep on Friday night, so I was only able to stay awake for 17-18 hours during the contest. Conditions for south Texas seemed poor at the beginning, but got better. Had an OK opening on 15 and a bit of 10, so that was a pleasant surprise. Our one beverage really helped during 3-4 hours of bad storm QRN. Unfortunately, our 3 element 80M delta loop @ 110' is only pointed NE, so I didn't work too much in other directions. Can't wait to get the 80M 4-Square up and get beverages in all directions. Also, having more than one antenna per band will be a huge benefit. Wait till next year. ;-) Thought I was going to run N1MM software, but waited too late to config it and fell back to my old trusty TRlog/DOS. I still love this program best for SO2R CW and haven't found anything to replace it in the Win world, but I think N1MM will be the choice going forward assuming TR4W doesn't end up getting its SO2R capability running. I configured a glitch into TRlog and will have about 30 dupes in my raw number, but end score should be a bit over 600K. Bob Evans, K5WA P.S. What's a skimmer? ;-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,502,519 An interesting and entertaining contest. Always fun to do SO2R with both modes. I was a single parent for the first 12 hours of the contest. That meant stealing operating time between entertaining my 6 year old daughter. So missed some of the best hours. Operated both radios hard when I was on, but knew I was not going to be competitive. Contest started out kind of slow. Bands didn't seem very open - except for all the very loud HQ stations. DA0HQ, OL4HQ, and OM8HQ were beacons on 15m all the first day. Suprised to find 10m open to Europe for hours. Mostly to southern Europe with very little activity except HQ stations. Missed some good rate hours (the 3 hours before sunset). Also spent some time DXing on the low bands and on 10m. Very suprised to get on at 0030z and find the low bands in great shape. Was able to run on 80 and even had some answers on 160. The Eu stations were very loud the 90 minutes around their sunrise. Hard to crack the Europeans working each other during their morning and midday. Nice opening on 15 meters during the last hour. Had several stations say I was the only USA on the band. That's cool! Never heard a JA all weekend! Only worked 5 UA9/0 stations. Anything over the pole wasn't happening. Worked URE HQ station EF8U on every band/mode except 160m SSB! Also worked HG80HQ, NU1AW/0, OE1A, and YT8HQ on all 6 bands. Could have had 9A0HQ, but their 160 op couldn't hear (in spite of being almost S8 here!). Ended up operating way more than I had intended. Only slept 2 hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 781,356 Hey how about those W6 1x1 calls.. They were the West Coast Regional Radio Team Championship boys competing on two man teams ala the WRTC. Hope you got to work them all on many bands. Results of the WCRRTC will be posted shortly here and on the SCCC web site. As for me, I almost never operate high power from home. Hope the neighbors will forgive me. Sure is a lot more fun though to be able to hold down a spot and get through to the weak EU's with one call. 20 was in pretty good shape but not at the usual times. Worked most of the DX late at night. Had a good JA run after midnight! 40 was OK to Asia but no EU to speak of with this little rotary dipole at 50 ft. I was on 20 during the EU sunrise anyway. It was a bit tricky doing SO2R with only one amp. Pretty much used the second radio on the opposite mode on the same band and shared the amp with a transfer relay. it worked OK but I couldn't easily check the other bands. Thanks to all the new guys and gals who jumped in to see what the commotion was about. You accounted for most of our 3 pointers on ssb. CU all from PJ4E and ZF1A again this year for the CQWW's. John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6CSL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,312 Over-all, conditions were poor. I sure hope we get some better conditions next year. I guess the biggest excitement this year was having worked B4HQ. I took him a couple of repeats to get my call correct. The other surprise was working EF8U. That one was a new country for me. Due to the bad conditions this ended up being far more like a domestic contest instead of a DX contest. I would also like know what happened to everyone after 12:00Z. Did everyone go to bed, or did the bands all die? 73's to all, and TNX to the KB'ers who made my log. Bert, K6CSL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6LRG Class: M/S HP Total Score = 241,775 It was the first major M/S effort from the new LARGE contest station, 1800' atop Patterson Pass in Livermore, CA. We have the usual bevy of issues that plague a new station (e.g. antennas cut for one portion of the band, but not the other, antennas that don't exist at all, building beverages, importing gear at the last minute, computer networking, shortage of space for gear, etc.). But we had someone in front of the radio at all times, and the scheduling worked out quite well. On the upside, the energy of this new crew is incredible. I just happened to stumble across LARGE/K6LRG on their very active local 2m repeater before the VHF contest last month and have now done three contests with them. It took these guys to spark up an old, jaded ham of 30 years (and I'm only 44). These folks are MOTIVATED, so expect much more of them in the future. 73/Robin/K4VU in Pleasanton, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6MM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 73,140 Half-time effort, in between the electronics Flea Market, faucet repair, and trying to keep cool. Challenging contest. Never heard Europe. Can't wait for sunspots to return. FT-1000MP Mark V; 500-600 watts; F12C3SS (36 ft.) + G5RV + Homebrew helically wound 160M vertical. Thanks for the Qs - 73, John K6MM. www.k6mm.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6RM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 24,058 100 W from Icom 706 to G5RV at 35 ft. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6TD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 78,744 CYCLE 23 sure put a damper on this 'test. Heard east coast working EU. Never heard them on west coast. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6VVA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 301 Just a few generator powered QSOs with a TS-480SAT from Locust Peak on a Carolina Windom 160 Special and then a TH3, Jr. @ 25ft AGL (fixed at 70 degrees) that we finally got up yesterday to further test-the-waters there. Wish I could have operated more. It was amazing to finally hear N6RO loud on 20m for a change! I really wanted to hand out some Q's from home last night, but the rules wouldn't allow me to operate from 2 different locations. Special apologies to my good friend Jim @ ZD8Z for not connecting at least once, and another Jim pal (N3BB) for no Q's. I.O.U. guys. Tnx to fellow NCCC members N6RO, N6TV, K9YC, W6NV, N6XI and K6TA for 6 of my 21 QSOs from Locust Peak. 73... Rick, K6VVA * The Locust ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 120,405 good op's on cw and loads of fun...thanks for all the calls...even a little europe on a mostly stateside contest... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7EG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 15,846 Except for good Asiaian opening Sat AM, condx were generally rotten. Gave up after 7 hours. GO WWDXC!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7GK Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 16,836 Admittedly, not a serious effort, but zone-to-HQ ratio of almost 5:1 speaks for itself. Pretty much a contest-enhanced DX-ing. 73, Denis - K7GK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7HBN Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 20,240 Hot fun in the summertime. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7WA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 26,359 Ran a 66 ft wire through the flower beds for a counterpoise on the 80 meter antenna and it really paid off! Thanks for all the QSOs. IC-735 100W 20 m: Hamstick Dipole at 23 ft 40 m: Off Center Fed Dipole at 25 ft 80 m: 40 m feedline and dipole (Inverted L?) with counterpoise ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K7ZS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 24,672 Obviously just a short effort, as stated elsewhere, COME ON SUNSPOTS! 73 Kevin K7ZS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AJS Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 212,205 The contest went so-so. Conditions were pretty rotten. I was still awake at midnight when I shut down for the night, but the noise on 80 was horrible, I was having trouble finding new stations on 40, I decided to get some shut-eye. After listening to 80, I didn’t even try 160, perhaps I should have, just for the fun of it. Maybe if I had stayed up through the night I would have had better luck to the west, I’ll have to “tough it out” next time. I worked very little EU, and paths over the pole were almost non-existent. No JA or SE Asia in the log. I did get a few VK/ZL stations and Hawaii, but that was about it from the Pacific. I did get some stations on 15 meters, and even 10 meters showed up for a little bit. For evidence of the bad conditions, I compared my score this year to the score the last time I put a full effort into IARU, in 2006. That year, I had 783 contacts, 2271 contact points and 159 multipliers for a total score of 361,089. My points per QSO that year was 2.90, this year it was 2.46. Terrible conditions. To add salt to the wound, I worked exactly *no* new countries or zones in IARU for the CQ DX Marathon...:-( Rigs: FT1000MP, FT897D SO2R: W5XD Multi-Keyer Ants: 3/4 ele quad, 204-ft G5RV, 130-ft Sloper Software: WriteLog 10.58e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8GL Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 526,695 10 meters...YES! Heard UA9CDV but couldn't make it thru! Heard the East Coast running Europe...sigh! Biggest suprise was FINALLY getting ZD8Z on 160...Thanx Jim! Had a great time...lotsa QRN due to local storms. And...what a treat to be working VK/ZL at midnight local on 20 meters! Thanks to everyone for the contacts! Greg K8GL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8MR Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 16,770 The spirit only moved me for a couple of hours, but I always like to pass out at least a few qsos to the deserving. Cool to work somebody on all band-modes. TM0HQ was heard for at least an hour around 23z on 10 meters, at times hitting S9. I even took an out of contest detour to check six meters but nothing heard there. Hope to see lots of you in the CQ WW VHF contest next weekend, and the Ohio QSO Party on Saturday, August 23. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9ES Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 518,148 Ran Single Operator, CW, all bands, high power Band QSO's Points Total Mults 80 81 141 17 40 449 1203 50 20 657 1853 50 15 187 287 26 10 7 17 5 ---------------------------- Total 1381 3501 148 Score: 518,148 Radio: IC756 Pro-2 with Tentec Titan 425 KW Winkey (built into Navigator Interface) Software: N1MM Antennas: 10-15-20 TH6DXX at 35 feet 40-80 Gap Challenger Vertical Club: Florida Contest Group Conditions were not really bad, worked JA, ZL, VK, KH2 on 40 and 80 with the Gap Vertical. The TH6 at 35 feet seemed to work well. Worked many FCG members. Limited in time because XYL was recovering from surgery and I had to help her at several times. 73's Eric K9ES ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 3,822 Was able to procrastinate (from packing for a business trip) by squeaking in a little operating time. With a K=4 at the start things were almost like ARRL sweepstakes as far as condx. 73, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9JY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 6,500 First contest with the new ZeroFive Vertical and it was great to be back on the air. Conditions were poor in the Pacific Northwest until Saturday night. Thanks to all those noticing the K9JY zone of 6 and not the normal 7 from the Midwest! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9MMS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 57,174 Part time effort. Entered contest very sleep-deprived -- not good. Not much DX heard -- low motivation. Log heavily weighted with zone 8 -- not very exciting -- where are those sun spots? Mostly S&P (76% of QSOs). Started late and quit early to do other things. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9NW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 895,638 One radio. Skimmer free. Another fun IARU event is in the books! There were thunderstorms within 100 miles of my QTH in one or more directions for the entire contest period so QRN levels were challenging at times to say the least, especially the low bands. But no storms directly overhead so I was able to stay QRV. Condx were nothing too exciting at the start but at least they improved as things progressed. Can't ever remember starting the contest on 40M from Indiana. The polar paths never opened - just smatterings here and there - so most of the Asiatic Russian zones were missed, as well as the large volume of QSOs in general from Russia. Several of the EU HQ stations were in on 10M Es for lengthy periods of time with nice signals but there was no volume to be had. 342 EU QSOs 3 JA QSOs (all on 40M - none even heard on any other band) 1004 W/VE QSOs I'm sure looking forward to a return of the days when those EU and W/VE numbers are swapped. Thanks, as always, to John and Jean! 73, Mike K9NW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9RS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,571,548 Fortunately the poor conditions at 12z were the worst of the weekend but our very slow start is certainloy reflected in the score. Nice to experience 10M e-skip again this year, but it was apparent stations in New England and the Maritimes were enjoying much better 10M conditions than we were. Our 160M score is down some, we found an unexpected high SWR condition on the 4 square, and it wasn't possible to fix. Probably cost 20Q and 5 mults. Overall, our M/S score was up nearly 20% compared to 2007, having paid more attention to chasing mults and making better band/mode selections. Great contest. Many thanks to Ray, K9RS, for loaning us his very FB station this weekend while he enjoyed some well deserved family vacation time at the Delaware shore. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1ARB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 221,652 First. my full time effort turned part-time, and then Lee WB1ADR joined me to turn my single-op into a multi-op. As a "solo multi-op," I played around S&P between some chores and antenna work looking for mults on 10 and 15. Finally went to 20m and had some nice runs around 19:00 and 21:00. I had one of my best hours ever during 22:00 before breaking to pick up WB1ADR. Back around 02:00, Lee ripped off a nice run until we hit a couple of hardware problems First, we spent nearl an hour with RF in our audio until Lee noticed that the lead was barely connected to the power supply, causng the terminals to turn red hot! Switching to a back up supply cured the problem. Soon after, the amp went off-line and we were barefoot for a while until we tracked down an intermittent control cable. Back on track, we had a nice run on 40 and then a couple on 80. Things really slowed down around 3:00 AM local (actually, WE really slowed down!) and our lack of sleep overwhelmed our meager skills. We struggled from there, with one final run on 40 and around 10:00. All in all, a fun time. Thanks for all the Q's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA1CQR Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 24 Set up in a park waiting the fireworks to start at Sailfest with a IC746 with a small battery back and dipole tossed up in a tree. I got all kinds of looks, but had ball for the little while I could operate. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KA2KON Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 77,550 About the same score as last year, but it took a lot more effort. For me, the conditions were pretty bad. During the last few hours of the contest there were few stations to work. We need more sunspots. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB4KBS Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,346 This was my first-ever CW-only ham radio contest. A huge thanks goes to W3WL and the gang at the North Fulton Amateur Radio League (NFARL) for their inspiration during Field Day. I will confess upfront that I used CW Skimmer. You can be "a hater" if you want to, but without it I would have just turned the rig off and not even tried. With an average sending speed that was 25WPM+, and some ops sounding like machine gune fire, whats a beginner to do? Stay out of the pool and only let "the big boys" have all of the fun? So what if I had my "water wings" on? By the end of the contest I was providing fills with the iambic keyer, and picking out partial calls, so for me, it was a great experience. CW Skimmer gave me the confidence I needed to wade into a major contest and provide a few more contacts to the real players. Discount my score if you feel you must, but you can't discount my enjoyment of the event; and yes, I did enjoy it enough to stay up until nearly 1:30AM even though I had a 5:00AM alarm clock expecting to see my shining face. Monday won't be fun... for my co-workers, I'll be whistling "CQ TEST" all day :) -Scott, KB4KBS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB7Q Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 46,872 A K3 and a random wire on from Yellowstone Park. Just seeing what the rig can do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KB9OWD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 203,567 Mults are listed under zones however are the combined zones and HQ Mults for each band. Good to be back on the bands after a small group effort for field day and very time limited in WPX CW. Low power, from the "black hole" and no sunspots, my chances to compete nationally are slim and this requires me to compete alot with myself setting personal goals. Last year, I fell asleep with auto CQ on about 5:10 A.M. with an hour and 50 minutes to go. I woke up with no ambition and called it quits early then. So, goal #1 was to make it the entire 24 hours. Goal #2 was to complete 1,000 qso's. While to alot this is done before the half way point, running 100 watts to a TH7 at 50 feet with only a 1/4 wave for 80 meters up about 40 feet for 40, 80 and parts of 160, not to mention the sunspots and propogation for this part of the country, this is much easier said than done. Goal #3 was in 2 parts, beat last years score and finish in the top 10 U.S., low power mixed. Well, as for #1, I made it with relatively few problems. Only struggle was about 4 AM local with 3 hours to go. I stood up, kept the auto CQ on on 80 CW and ran a decent string, stretched and walked in place for about 15 minutes and the yawns passed and made it through all 24 hours with relatively little problems. Goal #2 came at 4:06 A.M., during the mini fatigue stretch when qso # 1000 entered the log. As for #3, I beat last years score by about 17,000 points. Top 10 mixed LP will have to wait and see. So, met all my goals to this point and am happy. My luck with guest oping somewhere to compete have all been met with prompt "no" replies up to this point so I am either asking in the places or lack luck. However, will continue to try I guess! Conditions here about the same as reflected by many, horrible to start and seemed to get better as things went on. Basically no noise overnight on 40 and 80 here and worked coast to coast most of the night on 80 with almost no repeats needed, great conditions there! I checked 10 here about every 15 minutes throughout the day into late evening and worked everything I heard, nothing! 15 was in tough shape on this end with only a few signals poking through and did work what I heard there. 20 produced some good runs for LP from here and had 3 seperate hours over 100 qso's. The single wire for 80 is rough to tune on 160 and can get about 50 watts tops, so thanks to those that heard me, just popped up there for a few minutes to find a few "loud mults". Glad to pick up W1AW/9 and NU1AW/0 there. RU1A for a new mult as well as NU1AW/0 and 2 other HQ mults on 20 in the last 1/2 hour as it was opening were a good way to end! So, am happy with the results from here. No frequency fights at all that I remember. Only kicked off my frequency once by a "big gun" who I will not name that cq'ed basically zero beat on top of me on 80 Saturday evening, no "QRL" and ignored my QSY and IN USE replies which ended a good 60 minutes or so there. So only once, can't complain. Nice to run into alot of radio friends after several months and the blood is again pumping for the upcoming fall season. See many of you in the NAQP CW and SSB in August! If anyone needs an op or is open to a guest op, please let me know. Looking to do some traveling mixed with radio! 73 Ryan KB9OWD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC7V Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 27,438 I used Skimmer and found it to be useful. It certainly fills the bandmap quickly. Lots of busted calls but most were familiar to me but you do need to confirm. I ran 100 watts and did not have problems on 10-20 but had to make adjustments on the HF gain and IF gain for 40-80. I used my 160m sloper as the antenna for the SDR-IQ receiver. With high power you'd need protection. My call was being spotted over a bunch of frequencies on 40 & 80 (in N1MM within my station using the SDR-IQ server)until I reduced both the HF and IF gain. Too many other things to do so not a full effort but it was fun to play with new technology. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KD4HXT Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 57,078 Wow. At first I thought this event was a bust. Than the saturday night 40-meter run was a blast. The sun went down and the band opened up. Never even looked at 80. Missed any openings on 10 or 15. Band condx will make log checking reports interesting. Proof that you can have fun with a Low Loop and 100 watts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KG4CUY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 54,648 It was nice having 20m open so late at night. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KH7B Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 2,189,088 First time I have done the IARU since 2001 and that was part of the FCG W1AW/4 operation, and first time from KH6. It is a very different contest from out here. Those bucketloads of zone 8 1-pointers now are 5-pointers. You can run JA and Chinese stations, but EU runs are a rarity. I still hae a big problem tuning my ears to the BA accent....very hard to understand some of these ops even without QRM. I got the M2 40m Yagi finally set on a rotator the day before the contest, so was competitive on 10-80 for this one, but still have no antenna for 160. I also still am not set up for SO2R and this also hurt the score. Getting up at 1 AM to start a contest at 2 AM is kinda strange. 20 was pretty much toast, the A and the K were up, so 40 and 80 were the only place to go. Started out in the "window" we have in KH6 from 7075 to 7100 and ran a good 100+ hour and switched back and forth between it and 80 until 20 opened. From there it was off to the races with hordes of W/K stations calling. The overall rate never dipped below 100/hr for the entire contest although it got close during mid day on Saturday. 20 from 4 PM to 6 PM was huge with a big pile W/K stations calling. Many of these were "Sunday drivers" who had to have their hands held to get a report, so that slowed the rate down a bit 15 was so-so during the day with no EU and a light representation of Asia/US and VK/ZL. 10 pretty much stunk with no stations east of the Mississippi, just some E-skip to W6 mostly. 20 was huge Saturday night with great runs of Asian mixed with HQ stations calling in and some garden variety EU calling. Finished the last few hours running W/K in the US phone band and then fighting the huge QRM in the 7075-7100 40 meter band, trying to generate JA runs and picking up mults and then finally dropping down to 80 CQing and fishing for mults. The last hour pretty well was the low spot of the contest with the rate meter running a 50 hour. It seemed like conditions improved over the weekend. There were times I didn't miss my SO2R at all during the 150-200 hours on 20. But when thing were dragging at the end of the contest, and during mid day when 20 was pretty much out and 15 and 10 were just fair, the SO2R really would have helped pass the time and been productive. Next year I should have the tower loaded for 160 and have some sort of SO2R set up. I'll be back for a full 24 hour effort. It was fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL5DX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 326,456 Conditions in Alaska were not very good. It was not possible to sustain a very long run. I had a great time at KL7FH's new and improving contest station, though. And it's been a long time since I operated a contest full bore, even a 24 hour contest. A few glitches with the WriteLog software had me cursing, but otherwise things went well. I am happy to report that I worked a "Clean Sweep" of HQ stations! Alaska locals worked: AL1G, KL7RA Texas (close to home) worked: K5WA, K5NA, W9DX, NR5M, NX5M, N5DO, NO5W Thanks for the Q's!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KL7RA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 799,180 For just 24 hour contest why am I still so tired? Lot's of fun with a steady rate all 24 hours as we always hadone band open to somewhere. Low Europe totals as that opening was short and only on 20. Tried to stay on SSB for rate but CW had more activity. Worked many VK/ZL stations in their prime winter conditions and even South America on 160 now that they can hear us. Fixed one antenna a day before the contest and used my SO2R setup instead of the whole station keeping this low key even starting the contest late. No skimmer, SCP or packet. Okay, I did turn on packet at the end but didn't pounce any spots. Is the ten minute rule really necessary for Multi-op? Thanks to Wigi and Kris for coming up/down and operating a radio and losing a weekend of fishing. 73 Rich, KL7RA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KQ6ES Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 45,485 I had a hard time with this one. I was just too tired to give it my best although I easily beat last year's score in fewer hours. The response to my CQ was very poor until 11pm when I was able to camp on 40m for two hours at a steady 50 rate. Soon after that I got a headache and called it a day. See you next time. John kq6es ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 41,004 IC756PRO, AL811H (500 watts) 130 foot center fed zepp @ 35 ft SE/NW 20 meter dipole @ 50 ft Wish I could have spend more time in the contest but babysitting duties cut into my operating time. Plus it's hard for me to get motivated do any contest seriously at home without any good antennas. Nice to see 15 and 10 meters open up to EU. I worked TM0HQ and 9A0HQ on 10 meters with my zepp antenna. 73, Jeff Note : Zones + HQ Mults are combined in the Zones column ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KZ5D Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 618,168 Sorry that I couldn't break down the mults by zone and HQ station. Lots of fun although I had to deal with heavy QRN on Saturday afternoon from 2200Z to 0600Z Sunday. A big thunderstorm just sat over my QTH and kept the noise at an almost impossible level. Sorry for all the repeats. Still a great contest in the middle of summer. I like the 24 hour format. In fact, my stamina didn't hold out for all 24 hours as the report indicates. Maybe next year we'll see a few more sunspots. 72% of my QSOs were US. Don't know where all these guys found 10 meters open. Nothing heard here although I checked often. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LP1H Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,128,568 thank you for all ham's that contacted with me, 73, listening in next contest LP1H QSL VIA EA5KB Ramon, LP1H ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LW3EWZ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 4,970 many hours many problems but happy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY9Y Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,359,864 1 hour before the contest lighting destroyed my SO2R, damagged computer and one ACOM2000A. Lost first 3 hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9R Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 789,248 TS850SAT 100W ,Antennas: 160 - Two Inv.vees 80/40 - PA3HBB Vertical 20/15/10 2el. Quad 15 - Sloper 10 - New home made 4el.yagi - DK7ZB design. Bad conditions forced me to look for multis and forged for running.Only few bursts over 100 qso rate during several short runs.New 4 el. yagi worked very well. Few hours before contest I work many russians with huge signals on 10. As they are 3 pointers in the contest I decide to point 4el. to 30 deg. and run them on 10. Later in the contest there was no conditions! Just an hour before I write this there was a huge opening on ten for UA/UR... My congratulations to K5ZD for pulling me out of summer QRN on 160m. Now it's time to built a 4el. 15m yagi and make something to rotate them. Thanks to OK3C and other CW LP contesters for great race. CU in the next one de Nasko, LZ9R ( LZ3YY ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M0CFW Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 864 I just pull out FT817 and Buddipole from my closet to do this contest for couple of hours. Quite tough to work as antenna is just put outside apartment in central London. Thanks to those who picks up my weak signal! 73 de Kazu JK3GAD/M0CFW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MD0C Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 1,258,062 No skimmer, no cluster, no SO2R, no amplifier Thanks to the CDXC for letting me use their short call, MD0C Highlights: having FO5RH come back to my CQ on a quiet 20m band at 03:30 local time, working ZD8Z on Top Band for a new country on 160m, and watching the rate meter dancing above 200. Lowlights: having S9 stations calling CQ and not hearing my low power calling! The 24-hour format makes for a fun contest. Thanks to all who gave me a QSO - see you all in the next one (IOTA)! 73 Bob FT DX 9000D, N1MM, MK2R+, 4-el SteppIR at 70ft, inverted vees on tower ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: MM0ERK Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 16,380 NICE TO WORK ON 15MTRS GAVE POINTS AWAY ENJOYED THE CONTEST N1MM WORKED WELL BRIAN....MM0ERK... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1LN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 217,360 Didn't have much time to participate this weekend...yes, my choice. K3 # 1193 arrived on Thursday afternoon. By Sunday morning (after the contest had already ended) the K3 was done and on the air but something had to suffer. Now K3 #1193 is sitting next to K3 #1062. This was the first time I got to use the K3 in a contest and it was indeed a pleasure. I look forward to many more as well as hosting some multi-op events in the near future. Conditions were not very consistent from here in NC. Twenty mtr EU opened late on Saturday, so I decided to mow the lawn before it got real hot. By 11:00 I was back in the house (I was real hot...) and 20 sounded like it had been open for hours. Because it had. After a few hours of building and going out wiht my wife, it was back on the air. Saturday evening started with my EU beverage not working. Fortunately it was not yet dark. Out to the cable house I went with all the tools to quickly exchange the coax connector on the temp RG8X. After the quick swap it was back in business. Good thing as EU was banging in on 40. Without the NE beverage the US mid-west storm would have made the couple of hours I spent there much less fun. 40 was also fun on Sunday morning. I got back on about 10:30 UTC and was working US, VE and Carib when V63 called in, shortly followed by a few VKs and ZLs. All in all - 8 hrs of fun - the K3 is here to stay. 73, Bruce - N1LN (aka: NC4KW) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N1UR Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 511,609 The old LP USA SSB Only record was 328k. This was a very changing contest with conditions. I had a terrible opening hour with EU not easily workable on 20 and the US not really open either. But as the day progressed, things got better. On 10 and 15, I was just not strong enough with LP to run but was able to work much of the EU heard. I tried running quite a bit on 15 with very limited results. 20 was a reasonable running band to USA and sometimes EU. But EU SSB activity seemed very low actually other than HQ stations. Even though the sunrise EU opening on 20 at 05Z+ was there, I could not generate any calls from CQs and had worked literally every station CQing. I took an hour at 1am to be fresh for the balance and that was a really good idea. I actually heard JA about 15 mins befire the end of the contest but the 2 stations that I heard calling could not hear me. I felt pretty loud on 20M and 40M. My 80M west direction still needs work. I set out to push the bar up on the LP SSB record number for this contest and did so. There is A LOT more that can be done with that score with better conditions. By the way, USA SSB participation was excellent. I was over 100 an hour many times on 20 and 40 with the beams west. 73 Ed N1UR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2CU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,681 S&P for an hour looking for HQ stations. 73, Tom N2CU <>< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,345,751 As usual, New Mexico thunderstorms kept this from being a 24 hour effort. Hilltops are no place to play chicken with mother nature ! No Skimmer here - just the old-fashioned SO2R. Conditions to EU were rotten on 20 and 15 - just barely good enough to S&P some HQ station. Pretty decent EU on 40 before local sunset, until a thunderstorm caused an hour of unplanned QRT. No JA propagation on any band until around 07Z, but was quite good on 20, 40 and 80 after 07Z until the end of the contest. 40 and 80 were amazingly quiet after 09Z - sounded more like wintertime. Never heard anything east of here on 10 meters but it must have been there sometime - the bioactive, organically assisted skimmer failed ! Thanks for the QSO's. 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NS Class: M/S HP Total Score = 85,653 All mults listed as 'zones'- logger didn't show difference. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2QT Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 377,508 Beat the LP SSB score from last year by about 10%, but see that N1UR beat it by over 50%. Seemed harder to get a run of US or Europe this year. Also maddening to get no response from CQing stations that were well over S9 here. Wanted to try SO2R but didn't get it figured out in time, although now have all the pieces in place. Rig : FT1000 MKV Field Antennas : KT34 at 55 ft, 3 El Steppir 50 ft shuntfed tower on 80/160, 40M rotary dipole 56 ft 80M dipole 60 ft ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 106,553 The first 6 to 8 hours were excruciatingly slow, particularly when compared to last year. Almost tossed in the entire effort, but didn't... My QSO count was way down, particularly for domestic QSOs, not sure why beyond poor propagation. 20 was lousy most of the weekend on the plus side there were good EU openings on 10 and 15. Considering I was running QRP, I was tickled to work so many EU HQ stations on one or two calls on both 10 and 15. On the other hand, I never heard W1AW/9 on 10 (or many other stations from that area) QSO counts were way down compared to last year on 10 and 15, but multipliers were up. Come to think of it, not much from the Pacific on 15 either, which is unusual. 20 picked up nicely Saturday night, to Asiatic Russia and some northern EU and Pacific stations, no luck with Japan. I did hear one JA on 40. Thanks for all the attempts and patience! 73, Julius ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,260,063 This could have lined up to be a great contest weekend, but sometimes things simply don't go well. My wife was off helping one of our kids with the California grand kids, and I was all set to hit it hard. The weather was good, and the recently installed new twenty meter antenna modification, "the heater," a third 205CA fixed on EU and the USA NE between the previous two antennas in the twenty meter stack, was operational and working well after heroic efforts by K5OT and N5TW on the tower and K5NA and W5JAW and me on the ground. That's a long, convoluted story, including a defective new BN4000 HP balun from Hy-Gain. I was not allowed to climb as I am recovering from knee surgery. The IARU is a semi-perfect contest, it lasts long enough to be a challenge but not long enough to be the ham radio version of running a super marathon, and it has plenty of world wide activity, plus everyone can work everyone for real credit. There is very good regional competition as well. I was really worked up and nervous as this would be an opportunity for point credit in the WRTC qualification process. I had spent some time in the shack the previous two days making sure all was well, and had uncovered and "fixed" some unusual TR glitches with the new CTY.dat file and had relearned how to program the old K1EA DVPs for the unusual chore of operating some SSB on a serious contest. Finally, all was well. Or so I thought. Unfortunately for me, it seems when I get up too high for a contest and get too worked up, it doesn't bode well. I slept poorly Friday night, waking up several times. Finally, at 4:30 AM, I threw in the towel, got up, and took a shower and got something to eat. It was too early to do much of anything but to sit and be nervous. Here in Texas, the contest starts at 7 AM on forty meters with some prime Asian conditions before spending the rest of the day on the high frequency bands with EU and other places. When I moved one of the SO2R stations to twenty meters at 1243Z, the SWR was sky-high, and everything went haywire. I checked all the usual obvious things, and the small multiplier yagi on a separate tower worked fine. There was a problem with "the heater," the antenna system from hell. It had been working fine after the repairs mentioned above, and I had used it Thursday night in the NS Sprint. I took off my headphones and walked around for a minute or two, to clear my head. Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem. The previous coaxial phasing box which had been in use for a long time still was up on the tower, so I had the option of quitting right then and there, or going up and putting two of the three yagi feedlines back into that box. I ended up getting out my climbing belt and some stuff and going up the tower and doing that. It was a calm morning and nice up there, but definitely not recommended to be on the tower during the contest. Physically, my leg was OK. It was much worse later on to be sitting down for almost twenty four hours. So I moved the original two antennas back to the phasing box and climbed back down. Fortunately, the "old" system worked just fine, and at 1327Z I got back on twenty meters, all sweaty and in a not-good emotional state. That was a hectic forty minute off time which certainly was not planned! Following that, all seemed to work well. The bands were poor, and it appeared that fifteen and ten would not open at all. Then, slowly and creakily, they did open to some extent, if only to the stations with very good antennas or in southern EU. The big EU HQ stations were beacons for hours and hours and TM0HQ was solid copy on ten meter CW at 2330Z!! During the late afternoon, I turned the low fifteen meter yagi to the SW to listen for VK or ZL stations, and it got hung up somehow and became stuck. So up another tower went good old N3BB, who at this time already had his climbing gear on the floor nearby. That trip was very quick as the side mount had become jammed against large bolt threads. One good jerk and it was freed. The view was nice from up there but again, tower climbs are not recommended during a contest. That little jaunt was another twenty minutes, so that is the reason my operating time was 23 hours and not 24 hours. My frame of mind was not great for sure. The third and final nasty little surprise was when I got on eighty meters and found my sloper system had very high SWR. I could use it, with about 900 Watts max output, as the Alpha would fault above that level. It seemed to get out OK, but clearly something is going on with the matching system, a StackMatch. So that's another problem on the to-do list. I knew I would suffer some on the score, and tried very hard to work the second radio hard to find and work mults the best I could. I had decided not to use a Skimmer before the contest, and actually my mult totals were pretty good for me, being the same as K5NA, who usually beats me handily on mults and who was using a Skimmer. Richard had a great QSO total and a super score, and also K5PI, who was operating out at the W5KFT ranch station, turned out to be a SSB fiend, and racked up amazing phone totals. I tried phone and seemed to have high rates, but the point/QSO and the lack of mults on phone always led m e back to CW. Thanks to KH6NF (80 to 160) and VE1ZJ (40 to 80) for two successful moves. I could have tried more moves, but just didn't. I did ask HL2AEJ to move from 40 to 80 at 1037Z. He said "I have only a dipole" but agreed to try it. I could hear him tuning up on the 80 meter frequency, and thought we had it made. He then came on and called me, then a CQ. I called and called him, but he was not able to hear me. What frustration! But he was very nice to try. I was able to work the JA HQ station on 80 with no problems, but was unable to work a JA for Zone 45. JA7COI was on CQing on 3501 in the final ten minutes of the contest and I spent my final ten minutes calling him and listening to "TV Bob," N6TV, Skimmer and all, swoop in and work him easily. We just did not have good propagation to JA on 80. On the other hand, the conditions to JA on 40 were really excellent Sunday morning. All in all, I am glad I didn't throw in the towel, and stuck with it. The off times were just one of these things. Usually, we get a storm and are off for an hour, so it seems "the bear" always gets his one hour one way or another. Congrats to K5NA and K5PI at W5KFT for terrific scores and efforts. Both guys beat me and did a fantastic job. The N5DX results were just amazing. I hope our friends on the east coast realize just how amazing this score is from W5. I don't think enough people understand how difficult it is in these European-centric contests to do that well from the midwest/south. I was so tired toward the end in the IARU this year, at least before things started to heat up as daybreak approached and the bands picked up, that I had a hard time staying awake. In fact, at 0755Z, on one-sixty, I tried a CQ and actually fell asleep for a microsecond working W7AT. I "woke" to find him calling me looking for the report, and I pressed the key and sent it, realizing I had dozed off after entering his call but before pressing the key to send him the report! I slept for two different five hour stretches today, on Sunday. Sorry for getting this report out a bit late. Thanks to all the great operators out there on both CW and SSB. Such talent all over the world. Here are a few numbers: RATE HOUR 160CW 160SSB 80CW 80SSB 40CW 40SSB 20CW 20SSB 15CW 15SSB 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 12 0 0 5 0 74 0 1 0 0 0 0 80 80 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 1 0 0 0 33 113 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 174 3 0 0 177 290 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 20 0 0 72 362 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 54 17 1 11 83 445 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 51 57 19 0 7 134 579 18 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 102 3 14 119 698 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 68 67 1 2 0 138 836 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 77 0 25 3 0 105 941 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 30 32 0 0 92 1033 22 0 0 0 0 2 0 37 1 31 0 0 71 1104 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 79 22 0 0 0 101 1205 0 0 0 0 0 25 0 92 0 0 0 0 117 1322 1 0 0 0 0 76 0 31 0 0 0 0 107 1429 2 0 0 0 0 97 25 3 0 0 0 0 125 1554 3 0 0 0 0 0 173 0 0 0 0 0 173 1727 4 7 0 4 0 48 3 0 0 0 0 0 62 1789 5 1 2 25 0 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 104 1893 6 16 1 28 11 8 14 0 0 0 0 0 78 1971 7 5 1 36 0 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 2051 8 14 0 6 0 47 0 0 0 0 0 0 67 2118 9 3 0 10 0 61 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 2192 10 1 0 5 6 58 0 0 0 0 0 0 70 2262 11 1 0 9 0 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 2338 TOTAL 48 4 128 17 600 291 501 458 250 9 32 08IARU N3BB Mult Summary 160BTH arrl ure 08 02 rac 61 07 37 iaru 04 06 80BTH 06 04 02 14 rccr rcu rac 11 rcv 07 08 iaru ure 12 arrl 61 09 jarl 40BTH 07 60 sara pzk frr arrl 02 rsgb nzart 01 06 11 28 rep ref 37 03 bh 46 55 08 34 04 uarl ari mrasz 61 iaru 58 44 12 ure zrs 29 srs 27 uba fmre 64 54 45 darc bfra crc rac 15 ovsv 10 aarc jarl 59 09 uska hrs 39 14 irts rccr r3 16 20BTH rac 12 crc 61 ref rcv sara 15 01 18 08 07 iaru 13 veron pzk bh 46 ac ari 04 11 rsgb 10 66 hrs rl srs 45 30 17 28 06 frr mrasz 39 ovsv fmre srr 14 09 02 03 37 27 zrs ure darc uba 31 15BTH cars rsgb 36 66 18 mrasz uarl ovsv 39 45 07 hrs 11 37 27 pzk crc arrl 06 08 srs ari ref uba bh zrs 29 02 04 rca ure darc 28 veron sara 09 01 10BTH 09 08 07 darc ari 28 hrs ure 37 27 ref 06 bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3ME Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 102,460 Had a good time participating AND was able to entice a non-contester over for a bit to encourage him to join in future events. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3RS Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 498,916 This was supposed to be just a few hours, but I found conditions on 15 and 10 good enough to keep playing with my new K3 "toy". Took a couple of long breaks, went to bed at 10 PM local, and then got on at 7 AM for the last hour on 40M, which was rocking. Bottom line: I HAD FUN! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3XLS Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 24,336 Had a hard time making 233 QSO's but it was all in good fun, hope those 233 QSO makes a difference in someone's score ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4AF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,215,894 Pretty good condx and low noise level made it a blast. I dont have the breakout of hq vs zones, so zones is the total of both. 73, Howie N4AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4DW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 24,512 Results above are as tallied by N1MM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4GG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 440,132 2X: FT-1000MP, ACOM 2000A. Home-brew SO2R, Writelog, Wires-in-the-woods. No Skimmer, no packett. Wanted to get in a full 24 hours and see how the station (and operator) are performing these days - but gave it up at 19 hours - over-tired from putting all the wires back up after a bad storm took them down this prior Monday evening. Condx were typical of summertime on HF at the minimum: low SFI and plenty of D-layer. 10 and 15 opened better than expected. 15 was better to EU than 20 most of the day and 20 opened to EU very very late. 20 down through 160 were great to the West after 0400Z. VKs, KH6s etc. loud on all bands. 80 and 160 were good to EU as well. Unfortunately, the QRN here from local storms made 80 and 160 really challenging - and the bulk of them were in the paths I needed. The K9AY loop spent all night with the null on the storms rather than the peak on the signals. The spare computer had the US WX map up the whole time. Instant pileups would show up from time to time. Packett? Skimmer? Not sure how to tell anymore. This was lots of fun despite the QRN , shortened operating time and zero time for prep. On to NAQP - but with the amps off I may skip it. No fun when signals are below the noise floor. GG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4KG Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 80,560 I find it hard to get motivated to take this contest seriously with it's unfairly punitive scoring system. How can anyone justify awarding only 1 point for QSO's within your zone while awarding 3 points to your competitors in adjacent zones for contacts within your zone? It's RIDICULOUS. And what's with only 1 point for the HQ stations, most of whom are in Europe, while QSO's with non-HQ stations in Europe are 5 points each. Also RIDICULOUS. Then there is the issue of counting HQ stations as MULTIPLIERS. What's with that? There can probably never be a scoring system that is totally fair in awarding QSP points by Zone or Continent, but this 1/3/5 point system is grossly unfair and punitive to stations in high population zones. The RTTY contests seem to do the best job of point allocation with 1 point for ones own COUNTRY, 2 points for ones own CONTINENT, and 3 points for Other Continents. The Above, Lousy Conditions for DX, and 2 hours of Severe Thunderstorms overhead limited my participation to only a few hours. Most contacts were worked at 100 Watts, with a 1 hour HP run on 40M and HP needed to raise LR5F on 80M. Tom N4KG in North Alabama, almost as far from EU as possible in Zone 8. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 7,955 Visitors, errands and thunderstorms severely limited my participation. I should have put in more time at the start of the contest, but I thought I was going to have more time in the afternoon and evening. Great fun, though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4LZ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 16,356 Bad storms in Central Florida. Hamsticks worked well on car. Had fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4OGW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 870,750 Logging program (N1MM) does not separate HQ vs zone mult in summary. Very similar to last year here, score within a few hundred points of last year's final score, so will be lower with logging mistakes. Had about 300 more qso's last year, all in domestic E-skip on 10/15. Breakdown on 160-20 within 15 qso's of last time on each band! Nice to work a few western EU on 10m. EU or JA never really runnable from here. Very little Asia and non-HQ EU's. As usual, if I was in zone 7 (just west of me), the final score would go up a lot because of the ton of zone 8 stations. I used 1 skimmer on the mult radio. It was only used for 160-20, I forgot that the K2's I use invert on 15/10, which screwed up the Softrock freq calibration there. I don't think Skimmer made much difference here- had 206 mults last year, only 9 less. I think I would have found the mults I got S&P with or without skimmer, and of course many more come while calling cq. From this part of the country, the problem is not finding the HQ mults, but getting them to hear you... Tor N4OGW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,002,972 SFI65 & A-growing over weekend to 20 and still lots of stations to work. Hard to compete in this one with very limited station but still lots of fun. Nice having EL2DX & 9G5ZS call in. Sure good to hear old pal, Jim, N6TJ out at ZD8Z again. Sure he has a killer score. YN2KDJ was everywhere and with a great signal on all bands. Thanks to VE2RAC for all six bands and maybe a couple of others also. Too tired to check now...later. 73, Paul, N4PN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4PSE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 102,569 Very slow start with poor conditions Saturday AM. Really picked up early Saturday evening. I need a good antenna with a low take off angle for early AM EU on 20. They just can't hear me! Low tribander works fine later in the day but really stinks for the early EU openings. Also need to glue my rear to the chair for longer operating periods. All in all- lots of fun for a, lil pistol station with a very poor operator. Rig IC 746 - 100 w 80M OCF @ 40ft TA 32 Jr @ 28 ft Wire trapped vertical for 30/40. Tnx for the Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4TB Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 298,584 Had to shutdown and disconnect several times because of t-storms. Despite the QRN and limited operating time I still had fun. 73 Terry N4TB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N4ZZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 382,788 Storms got too close on two occasions and had to pull the plug until they passed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW/0 Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 92,120 My annual chance remember what the average ham contends with - 100 watts to a 25 foot high G5RV at our vacation home in SW Colorado. Definitely easier back home in Texas with big antennas but still fun. Was pleasantly surprised at being able to work so much DX on 40 and even 80 with such a modest set up. EF8U, ZD8Z, LU7HN, HC8N, and ZL6A all worked on both bands and a bunch of Europeans on 40. Despite being further west this QTH is poor to JA - we are on the east side of a fairly steep sloping hill. Probably helps the signal to the east though. Fifteen was a disappointment. Heard EF8U and several Europeans but none worked. Only signals on 10 were a few 6's. Local thunderstorm shut things down for several hours Saturday afternoon. Would have been a real blow had I been serious about the contest. Using N5AW/0 caused some confusion with NU1AW/0. Would probably have made a few more Q's leaving off the /0. Guess I'm old fashioned but like the guy on the other end to know I'm not operating from the home station in Texas. Thanks for the Q's. - Marv, N5AW/0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DO Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 422,520 Thanks to K5FD for the use of his shack and antennas. I had spent considerable time and expense fixing my 40M beam, only to find during the Thursday night NCCC Sprint that it was not working after all. So I went back to K5FD's shack, which worked well. Friday night I thought I would go to sleep early to get a good night's sleep. That backfired, and I had difficulty falling asleep and spent the rest of the short night tossing and turning. The contest went well, except it seemed for the early hours to be a domestic contest, with little DX. As a one radio operation I missed the 10M openings others mentioned -- every time I listed on 10M I heard no activity at all. I was planning to operate the full 24 hours, but about 2 AM on Sunday a thunderstorm with a little rain rolled in. One particularly loud lightening strike / thunder clap sounded like it was awfully close, so I shut down for 30 minutes. Around 3:00 AM it sounded like the lightening was back again, so I shut down a second time. This time I thought I would take a quick 15 minute nap, so I laid down in the back of my SUV and told myself to wake up in 15 minutes. Amazingly enough, I did. However I think the only thing that little nap accomplished was to tell my body how nice it would be to sleep longer, so the rest of the contest was a struggle to stay awake. As always, lots of fun! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,579,688 Thanks to K5KA for the use of his DX Doubler for the last two contests while mine was being fixed. Bill, N5RR, has a great Skimmer setup with an RF Space SDR IQ on a laptop that he let me borrow for the second time (first was the WPX contest). It worked flawlessly and really helped me get close to my mult goal of 244, which was K5NA's multi-single total from last year. I really appreciate, Bill letting me use his Skimmer setup, and we will probably have one of our own soon for the multi-multi contests we work. I think Skimmer helped me a lot with beefing up my multiplier total. Especially with the headquarter stations on 15, 20, and 40. It does need to learn how to copy HQ instead of SQ. Conditions were not great here in Arkansas. 0 Asians on 20 meters other than some JA stations around midnight local time and a few Saturday morning. Earlier this week the band was wide open to HS, BY, etc in the morning. 40 meter conditions were decent with a good opening around sunset to Europe. Unfortunately a big storm came through and I shut the station down for 1.5 hours just after sunset while it passed. 10 meters seemed to be dead the entire contest, but based on other reports, I may have missed an opening? Many stations were gracious enough to move, especially on the low bands. 73, Kevin/N5DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6AN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 654,372 My thanks to Dave BEll, W6AQ, (and you, too, Sam!)for inviting me to operate from his hilltop home. It's much nicer to see over the San Gabriel mountains than to look up at them like we do in Pasadena, hi! I used Dave's K3 which was a learning experience what with the frequency agility required for an all band mixed effort. The receiver is very good, and the noise reduction feature was not really noticed until I tried turning it off. What a difference! I can see by the numbers the DXer in me is still a problem. While others are keeping the rate up continuously I am "smelling the roses" tuning the bands for weak goodies. The station consisted of a K3 (subreceiver coming soon), Alpha 87A, tuner, a yagi each for 10/15/20/40, inverted vee for 80 and a vertical for 160. I certainly felt loud everywhere. Only minor station glitches, no major Murphy visits. The last few hours were spent on 40 where I had a nice run. 20 meters Saturday night was great fun, open to Asia like an oyster. I could have been there sooner for the plethora of 5 pointers to be had. W6YI was everywhere, seemingly at once. Danny gets around, you know! It was good to hear ZD8Z going verrrry fast on 15 meters. As usual, he heard me. Except for a 25 minute rest on the floor, I operated the full period. The JA run at the end helped keep me awake. 73, David N6AN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6CCH Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 338,124 Thanks for all the contacts. A momentary lack of electrons in the shack relieved me of a few QSOs at 15:55Z. If you get a NIL from this, my appologies we'll blame it on a switching transient with the local utility. I'll look at the settings in WL to insure it is saving more frequently to lessen the impact in the future if it happens again. All in all a fun time. 40m was nice and quiet on Sunday evening local time with respect to the AM broadcast stations. Still not paying enough attention to the low bands, but when 20 was so productive, it is hard to move on. Found that with AGC off, EU HQ stations could be worked when there was not a lot of loud stations nearby. Still learning and experimenting. 73 de N6CCH aka Rebar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6GEO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 352 My Indian (Kachina) died so I was forced to use the TS130S. Ant is Mag loop at 21ft. Band condx were terrible. No JA's, no South Americans, much less, anyhing from Europe or Asia. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6RO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,084,671 Now, that was fun, but gruelling for an OF. SO2R (no skimmer, etc.) takes constant concentration, which I could not maintain for more than a couple of hours straight. For relief, I took off the headset, turned on the CQ loop, and just ran Qs. Congrats to N6TV, we had a horse-race in NCCC territory. Here's the numbers: HOUR 160CW 80CW 40CW 20CW 15CW 10CW TOTAL ACCUM ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ----- ----- 12 2 45 42 0 0 0 89 89 13 0 5 103 8 0 0 116 205 14 0 0 52 63 0 0 115 320 15 0 0 0 118 9 0 127 447 16 0 0 0 81 38 0 119 566 17 0 0 0 23 60 11 94 660 18 0 0 0 0 42 19 61 721 19 0 0 0 18 32 1 51 772 20 0 0 0 62 16 0 78 850 21 0 0 0 15 31 0 46 896 22 0 0 0 27 17 0 44 940 23 0 0 0 37 12 0 49 989 0 0 0 6 46 5 0 57 1046 1 0 0 16 36 0 0 52 1098 2 0 0 57 27 0 0 84 1182 3 0 0 39 28 0 0 67 1249 4 0 29 41 26 0 0 96 1345 5 0 27 52 16 0 0 95 1440 6 2 6 26 28 0 0 62 1502 7 35 30 1 15 0 0 81 1583 8 7 10 47 18 0 0 82 1665 9 4 30 41 0 0 0 75 1740 10 1 37 32 0 0 0 70 1810 11 0 15 48 0 0 0 63 1873 TOTAL 51 234 603 692 262 31 TRLog reports 539 bandchanges, approx. 460 second radio QSOs 160 80 40 20 15 10 30 17 12 ALL --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --- USA calls = 38 152 295 470 170 22 0 0 0 1147 VE calls = 9 14 30 54 21 8 0 0 0 136 N.A. calls = 0 5 9 14 1 1 0 0 0 30 S.A. calls = 0 6 9 15 3 0 0 0 0 33 Euro calls = 0 0 9 50 14 0 0 0 0 73 Afrc calls = 0 0 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 8 Asia calls = 0 4 32 21 3 0 0 0 0 60 JA calls = 2 38 186 51 40 0 0 0 0 317 Ocen calls = 2 15 30 14 8 0 0 0 0 69 Total calls = 51 234 603 692 262 31 0 0 0 1873 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,051,029 My first contest using CW Skimmer 1.2 with a Perseus SDR (no SoftRocks here). Using CW Skimmer can be more fun than the old-fashioned way of doing things. I worked almost every multiplier by "Skimming" or CQing, just to see what it could do. What a pleasure it was not to manually tune past duplicate after duplicate when looking for new stations to call. Now, it's far from perfect, often spotting calls like M5WMU (instead of W5WMU), but these were relatively easy to deal with once I got used to ignoring them. As for the contest, a combination of no sunspots and a K-index as high as 5 does not make for good conditions, though there certainly was plenty of CW activity anyway. My score did improve compared to last year when I didn't have CW Skimmer or an automated SO2R box. I had 125 more QSOs and 19 more mults. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7BV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 268,261 We use the IARU contest to expose newer hams, who do not have home HF stations, to HF contesting. Conditions - come on sunspots!! Thanks for the QSOs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 252,890 Dink, N7WA let me run this one from his station alone this year breaking a 5 year tradition of doing this as a multi single. It seems like he weighed the options. Do I do yard work around the house or the IARU from the PAC NW at the bottom of the cycle in mid July? I guess I'm just a masochist. As usual he and his XYL Diane, KB7DNE were gracious hosts, allowing me to run wires across the lawn and hang even more wires on the tower. Thanks guys. I thought 40 and 80 sounded fairly good at the start. The A index was slated to go to 20. It appears that the worst of it hit just before the contest started and then it tapered off. I thought 80 sounded great. The amp died late Sat night so I was limited to low power on 40/80 for the large majority of the low band action. I did have some DX call in during my LP CW runs. I was shocked when a YN station called me. I also had one or two PY's call in as well. The antenna was an inverted vee for 80 (albeit a nice one peaking at 90 ft). 40 was decent but not great. I had a YB call in while running early Sat morning. It was also cool to work ZD8Z at his sunrise on 40M (Jim N6TJ). No EU although I heard OM8HQ fairly loud. Not much DX on 20. Some EU but no EU runs. A high point on 20 was when EL2DX called in. That is a new one for me. 15 sounded like 10 did 2 years ago. I worked very little DX on 15. Almost all of the Q's were stateside. 10, well... zippo. I did manage to work one of my club mates about 20 miles away for a quick mult. The equipment failures put a damper on the score, but that is the way it goes sometimes. See you in CQWW CW from VP5W. 73 - Guy, N7ZG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 89,369 It would have been not worth any effort without the wonderful sporadic E openings that provided many hours of 15M openings and 4 hours or so 10M to EU. I was slow to realize that 15 was open which hurt the score; at 14Z, 20M was absolutely dead into EU. I heard all parts of EU except LA, SM, OH and UA3-6 on 15M. Running QRP, you quickly discover how some ops keep the CQ's a running until a loud signal hits them over the head while others can copy a whisper. When the rate is slow enough to keep CQ'ing repeatedly, it's time to listen carefully. Kudos to OL4HQ for hearing me on 75M! I tried running briefly a few times, but to no avail. With my limited operating time, it just was counter productive to try and run W's to the west. From a S&P perspective, most of the activity was from zones 7-8 and the EU HQ stations. They had enourmous signals compared to most of the few other EU's calling CQ's. 10 closed around 19Z to EU, but was open again at 2330Z and HQ beacons 9A0HQ, S50HQ, and TM0HQ were there. 40 sounded pretty good around sunset except to northern EU, but some stations couldn't hear me. It was even a effort to work some zone 8's due to other callers. Operating QRP is both rewarding and frustrating, a bit too frustrating most of the time at the bottom of the cycle. Biggest thrill was easily working ZD8Z on 20, but couldn't touch him on 15. LZ7HQ wins the award for the poorest listener, but maybe QRN was part of the problem. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8NOE Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,392 Got about 2.5 hrs total in, but had some good contacts. Even managed to work a few members to give them a point. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N9ADG Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,503 It was fun to do be on the air again, even for a little bit. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA2M Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 50,320 Rig : Yaesu FT-1000MP, Ten-Tec Titan 800W Antenna: 40M Delta Loop Soapbox : Log uploaded to LoTW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4BW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 323 Conflicts - no time for this 1. 73 Brian ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NA4K Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 247,903 Conditions very much like last year. Guess that we are still at the bottom of the solar cycle. Steve NA4K ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 40,238 - Tough going with only 5 watts. I hoped we might get some Es on 10, but no such luck. 15 had only a short opening and 20 was, of course, jam-packed. Every European QSO was an ordeal. High summer noise levels on 40 and 80 too. Thanks again to everybody for the good ears and patience. I need to get an antenna for 160 - need the mults. It is amazing though how easy it can be to pick up some nice mults before the packet hordes descend on them. Good old fashioned tuning the dial and listening can pay dividends! Station: Yaesu FT 897D at 5 watts, 3 el tribander at 50 feet, dipole at 45 feet. 73, Randy,ND0C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NE7D Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 46,368 Motorola FT-1000MP Mark-V Field, K-5 Logikeyer, N1MM Logger, Spiderbeam (10/15/20) and OCF Dipole (40/80). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NF4A Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 516,260 I apologize for repeat requests especially on 80 and 40. I still haven't located the line noise source at the new QTH. The combination of high line noise on 80 and 40 and running 100 watts made the last 6 hours brutal ;). Finally gave up at 10Z. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NI7T Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 13,650 Continuing to work on my new QTH in Quincy CA....At this point I am using all wire antennas but the 150 foot Ponderosa Pine trees make a great platform for Vees and Dipoles..I hope this fall to have a rotable beam or two plus some receiving antennas for 80/160. Two hightlights for this contest First: the 20M opening to the Pacific into the late evening. and Second: about 1000Z I fell asleep while sitting in front of my Pro II I awoke with a start and was shocked to find I had acquired a second op sitting in front my TS 850 in the adjacent second position. My new operator was a full size Barn Rat who was sitting on the table with his tail on the paddle watching me..I threw him a set of earphones but he left so I decided I could still enter as a single op... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,014,880 Raw numbers after prelim merge of files (sorry, can't quite extract SSB v. CW breakdown) - I think some HQ station data is undercounted. Thanks to John N3HBX for having KD4D and I up to the Poolesville QTH. Nothing broke, nothing blew up, and no towers ran away. Hurray!!!!!!!!! My first IARU in nearly 15 years, and certainly my first M/S. To be honest, I hate M/S in this test. You're teased because you have packet and Skimmer (will leave that for another discussion), but you can't chase any packet spots other than what is on your band and particular mode. The lack of a mult transmitter is PAINFUL. In the meantime, the Single op stations can move others, bounce all over the bands with the second radio, and go nuts generally. Condx were lousy at first but improved as the day went on, and were actually rather decent on Sunday morning. It would have probably been a very good contest day on 15 had the contest not ended at 1200z. Nice little opening on 10 meters - I assume mostly Eskip. We employed the 7 element "death ray" at 190 feet to fish out many of those EU contacts. Amazingly, the weather cooperated here. In fact the static was less bothersome than during Russia DX when it was downright attrocious. CU next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN7SS Class: SO SSB QRP Total Score = 14,223 After examining last year's results, I figured the category where I had the best chance for a "Top Ten" finish was Single-Op, SSB only, QRP. So I recorded my messages, turned down the power and began the tune and call, tune and call... Ouch - No sunspots, A index up to 20, and lots of summer static in North America. In the end, all that work and only one African (EA8) and no Europeans in the log. Also no 160m contacts - though I tried calling several people. The local start time of 5AM is pretty poor conditions, only the low bands open, and I only managed two contacts in the first hour! (nobody was listening very hard yet.) Everytime I wandered away from 20m the rate would plummet, so I'd be back trying to compete with the crowd. As usual for QRP, calling CQ wasn't productive - so it was back to tune and call. If the station wasn't at least S9, they were unlikely to answer me, so I had to search and call the loudest big guns. My tuning knob got a great workout, I learned how to call at least ten times before giving up, and in the end I still fell short of my goal of 200 QSOs. Well, next year we might have some sunspots... Thanks for the contacts, NN7SS (K6UFO) 80-meter half-sloper 40m: Cushcraft 40-2CD yagi at 50ft 20m: 3-el SteppIR at 50ft Yaesu FT-1000MP Writelog software QSO by hour and band. 80M PH 40M PH 20M PH 15M PH 10M PH Total Cumm Off D1-1200Z 1 1 - - - 2 2 45 D1-1300Z - 1 9 - - 10 12 D1-1400Z - - 11 2 - 13 25 D1-1500Z - - 13 4 - 17 42 D1-1600Z ---+- ---+- 11 5 ---+- 16 58 D1-1700Z - - 8 7 - 15 73 D1-1800Z - - - 7 - 7 80 D1-1900Z - - 1 4 1 6 86 34 D1-2000Z - - 5 3 1 9 95 D1-2100Z - - 7 4 - 11 106 D1-2200Z - - 1 - - 1 107 58 D1-2300Z - - 4 - - 4 111 14 D2-0000Z ---+- ---+- 7 ---+- ---+- 7 118 D2-0100Z - - 12 - - 12 130 34 D2-0200Z - - 8 - - 8 138 D2-0300Z - 6 11 - - 17 155 D2-0400Z - 6 15 - - 21 176 D2-0500Z 2 7 1 - - 10 186 6 D2-0600Z - - - - - 0 186 60 D2-0700Z - - - - - 0 186 60 D2-0800Z ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- ---+- 0 186 60 D2-0900Z 1 1 - - - 2 188 53 D2-1000Z 2 1 - - - 3 191 Total: 6 23 124 36 2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NO5W Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 73,209 Zone vs HQ Mults not tallied at this point. Radio:IC-7000 + 40/20M wires at 25ft USB Interface: Navigator by US Interface Software: CQ/X de NO5W Rough going with minimal setup and conditions not great, especially early Saturday afternoon, but great fun as always with lots of top notch CW ops. Biggest grin was breaking the pileup on ZD8Z on second call -- great ears. Thanks to V31UB (Colin KU5B) for my only 15M Q. 73/Chuck ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NR3X Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 400,554 Not too much DX to run, but the rates to NA made it fun. 86 percent of my qsos were with NA and just more than 7 percent were with Europe. However, I did manage to work at least one European on each band. Total time on the radio was 22 hours. My neighbors came over and pulled me away for a tasty plate of food from the grill...the break kind of re-charged me. I took a nap from 3:30 am local until 5 a.m. local. I kept falling to sleep before that. Radio 1 - ICOM 765 Radio 2 - Kenwood 930 Software: Writelog Crude SO2R setup but includes WX0B six pack and dunestar mixer Antennas: 160M - Inverted L 80M: Ground plane 40M: Halfsquare NE/SW, Dipole NW/SE 20M: Bi-Square NE/SW, Dipole, Tribander fixed West at 30 feet 15M: Bi-Square NE/SW (new this week), Dipole NW/SE, Tribander fixed west 10M: Tribander fixed west, dipole N/S Receive 350 foot beverage Nice to hear all of the activity. See you from the Core Banks (NA067) as N4a with K4CZ and W4KAZ in two weeks. 73, Nate/N4YDU - NR3X ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NT4XT Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 32,450 SOAPBOX: Woke up late, after spending all Friday st Six Flags Over Georgia... but just in time to take the kids to a matinee. Came back, and settled in after lunch. Decided to stay QRP casually. Ended up having tons of fun! My admiration always extends to all those who strive to copy signals requiring repeats. The biggest radio-feat I've ever witnessed in my life, given conditions, happened in this contest: KH7X , digging me out of the ether on 80 meters. 5 Watts, 80 meters, GA to HI, horizontal no more than a quarter wave up. That was as thrilling to me as a day at Six Flags, and I rode every coaster several times. Goliath four times. Look at the pattern of an 80m Loop Skywire cloud burner on 80m. So whomever was working the KH7X station on 80CW is a radio immortal. Again many thanks to all who bothered to copy 229 signals. I had a blast. Also amazing, were AH2L, ZL6A, KH6NF, and KL7RA working me on 40. I forgot to put my wire in Marconi mode for a hand-full on 160. Maybe next year I'll remember! :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX5M Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 160,310 HQ mults are not shown in the breakdown. Zones = zones + hq mults. I actually stayed at this longer than I expected too. I woke up 30 minutes before the start of the contest but decided to sleep in. Got in the shack an hour late. This proves I was not real serious about this. I decided to do this one with my backup antennas which is a 4 high stack of tribanders and wires for the low bands. I never even connected the 160m antenna. Made one qso on 160 with N4OGW using the 80m vee and a high swr (good ears!) Saturday late afternoon I decided that I was going to use better antennas on 20 and 40 so I connected 3 of the 20m yagis and the top 40m beam. I was a bit shocked that so many could actually hear me with a Q-power signal. Pretty good signals from EU on 10m for a while, peaking at s7 but I just did not have enough power to work them considering that the triband antennas (which is all that I used on 10 and 15) are well over 400 feet away from the shack and fed with a long run of RG213. There is a lot of power loss in that setup but so be it. I just wanted to keep the setup simple. If I decide to this thing next year qrp I am most certainly going to use the better antennas and put in more time. Thanks for the patience digging me out of the noise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 36,090 It was actually a rather busy weekend for me so only mustered a couple (2) hours to operate. However, I must say it was a fun 2 hours! It is always great to run into so many friends, both near and far. A highlight was crossing paths with Jose, EA5DFV on both 15m then moving with him to 10m. As always, THANK YOU for the contacts, the radio friendship, and making contesting so much fun. See you all in the fall. 73, Jeff nx9t www.qsl.net/nx9t ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH2XX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 577,208 Nice activity and quite good propagation too. Should have worked more on 10m the first day. EF8U was the first station that I worked on all 5 bands - nice sig. ZD8Z was loud too but managed to log him only on 80,40 and 15m. 73 and cu in the next one! Kari, OH2XX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1DSA Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 3,552 Thanks to all who pulled out my QRPP signal from the contest noise. RIG: TS-690S (reduced PWR to QRPP) PWR: 1W out. ANT: INDOOR HALF-SIZE G5RV (in a loft of my house) SW: SD 12.23 73 & CU next year! Rom@n, OK1DSA http://ok1dsa.wz.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1JOC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 302,000 rig: TS570d,aers: doublet,verticals,loops ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK3C Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 800,052 less mults than last yaer, missed 10m opening on Saturday and soon switch to 80/40m from 20m I think big mistake for me nice USA/VE QSOs on 20m late Saturday night see you in IOTA 24/LP/CW Ludek ok2zc.nagano.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL4HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 18,140,592 http://olhq.crk.cz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,919,624 Always only one radio - FT1000MP + 1 kW PA Now yet another handicap - toothache, hi, Thank for QSOs 73 Pavel OK1DRQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OP4K Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 155,268 Spent Saturday at OT5A to teach other ops how to run pile-ups in a contest. I absolutely had no plan or intention to participate in this contest from my home QTH but when I came back from OT5A at 19.00Z, 20 m was still widely open till 23.00Z. On Sunday I swept 10, 15 and 40 m to log all heard HQ stations and stopped at 11.00Z due to other commitments in the afternoon. Had pritty nice runs Saturday and Sunday OP4K Max Rates: 2008-07-12 2248Z - 1,4 per minute (60 minute(s)), 82 per hour by OP4K 2008-07-13 0917Z - 2,3 per minute (10 minute(s)), 138 per hour by OP4K 2008-07-13 1028Z - 5,0 per minute (1 minute(s)), 300 per hour by OP4K 73 to all de Joe and thanks for the Q's CU in the next contest ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: P33W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,743,500 A portable QTH operation with 3 days of building antennas at 35-40 degrees C. Real DX-pedition style and sun-burned operators. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 296,258 Station : Ten Tec Orion II 100W inv. vee 2x8 m for all bands (no 160m ant) 2 x 10m dipole fer 20m NA/Eastern EU (NW/SE) NO CW SKIMMER ! Nice event agn wid "open" 10/15m bands ; Saturday in particular; missed 1,5 hr in the afternoon due to family obligations. Therefore condx better than I expected. Challenge fer me in particular to compete with the "big" dutch stations with beams and HP. Cu in 2009! 73 Hrry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PJ2X Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,176,448 10 m never opened here and 15 m was also surprisingly poor this time. Then we had big t-storms most of the night so hearing on low bands was lot of work. I think I like 48 hrs contest more as one can try to fix things on 2nd day... But it was lot of fun and plan to be back next year somewhere again. Thanks for all QSOs and also to CCC and Geoff W0CG for use of the great station. - Marko N5ZO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PS2T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 2,015,651 Hi Folks Has been nice to activate PS2T as MS again. Even more pleasure to have my Brother OH2MM Ville with us. PY2NY Vitor coordinated the operation and our friends PY2WS (Marcos) and PU2RSD (Danilo) have been responsible for technical issues, specially with TI problems. Poor propagation but with a lot of fun. Thanks for being in our log. 73 Oms PY5EG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PW2D Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,531,467 Thanks again to PY2DM, Mamiro for hosting us. HQ mults are only a submittal technicality PY2ZXU, SM0CXU, Thomas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2SEX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 82,698 Is nice to be active again, but too hard work low bands on LP(100w), I started trying get any responds back, but no luck, Big signals and nothing coming back, but when the night cames, the things get better and better. I could work almost everything I heard, just left the V63WWA, DU1EV AND FO/N6JA as well as I missed too much the our Zone 13, my own country and no hard activation on 40m, too sad. My Call sign take some laughs off, I think I'm the most SEXY Call sign in Brazil, hihihihi.. too sex (2sex). hihihihi. I used only a 40m yagi 2 El. (UA402DA) and my Yaesu FT-450. I enjoyed a lot, all night long, how could I left that fun for 5 years? I go to bed at 11:30 UTC and woke up at 14:20, I will travel to USA today for a work. I'm too tired but happy to be on the air again! Cuagn on the next one and if everything going right, my Tri-band will be on my tower. 73's PY2SEX - Alex (PY1KS) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2WC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 405,888 Hi to all Have big problem with TVI, operate only in spare time, 40m antenna is broken,(used 80m wire dipole in this band), but have fun. CU IN WAE 73 PY2WC - WAL ARAUCARIA MEMBER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 3,718,102 www.rk3awl.ru ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RM3F Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,183,436 24 hour format is much better then 48 one. 73! UA3DPX/RM3F/RK3FWA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52OP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 735,348 Thanks for QSO's! No CW-SKIMMER! 73! Sandi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S53MM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,615,504 This contest was last worked in 1995. Then there were more zones for mults and some of the HQs. Now there is majority of HQ stations as mults. 4el 3-bander and 3 inv.Vees ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 942,336 I guess I was SO2R with Skimmer collecting callsigns in first 48 kHz of all contest bands. Very comfortable operation with prior knowledge of majority of the callsigns at the bands. Some juicy DX and K1ZZ AC found manually by turning the VFO knob old fashioned way. Short skip condx with missing rare Siberian zones on CW. It was fun and my homemade QRO in PC box operated flawlessly. 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56G Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 5,698 Had just a couple of hours. A lot of fun on upper bands with simple fishing rod antenna. Thanks for all good ears and pacience :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57U Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 642,348 Because of predicted high wind I have to lowered ma cranck-up tower to 12 meters only. Yes, wind really came and made a lot of damages to houses around in Slovenia! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SK7OA Class: M/S HP Total Score = 305,252 This was our first contest with a PA, Kenwood TL-922, it did a great work on 20m. This year we had 105 QSO more then last year bad less points. This must be becouse we had less multipliers then last year. 73 from the contest team @ SK7OA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 600,441 Rig: TS-930S, HM PA 0.5kW Ant: verticals&wires Soft: Win-Test 3.21.0 73! Slaw sp2lnw ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SP9LJD Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,080,000 Heavy storms passed nearby when we had the best propagation to US, so 7 hours with big difficulties and 4 hours additional break. Anyhow I get new SP record. Thanks for every QSO's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TM0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 22,706,550 TNX very much to everybody! TM0HQ team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY5LW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 482,770 Not a serious effort with "field setup" from country side... Only simple wires used, together with FT100D trx. 90% S&P, only on sunday morning I had a several runs on 15 and 20 meters. Almost every time when I called even europeans, the answer was "?" or "uy?", especially on 40 and 80, I could not to break any station calling together with me. My congratulations to the guys with "best ears": VY2ZM, K5ZD and N3RS, who can read my weak signals on 80m! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: V31UB Class: M/S HP Total Score = 840,708 First, I'd like to thank Eddy for teaming up with me for this and for the use of his TS-480. I'd talked to him last year and told him we'd be taking the annual trip to Belize again and he decided to come down the same time as well. This was a lot of fun. The rates were overall fairly good so we never really got too bored. The mult total is lacking but we were just having too much fun running to go and chase them. Fortunately, we found that a lot of them called us as the contest progressed. Learning experience for next year! This was Eddy's real introduction to automated keying and he picked it up very quickly...although he couldn't help but keep his fingers on the paddles. We were sent a recording by NO5W and had a laugh as we heard Eddy's trademark ".-." after the exchange was sent. We didn't have any major problems this time. The power did go out for half an hour or so but didn't seem to slow us down much. The weather kept away and we enjoyed a regular breeze throughout. Thanks to those that called us; we sure had a great time. All QSO's from IARU and V31UB are now on LOTW! Kenwood TS-480 200w 2el quad for 10-20m at 10m HF2V 40/80m in salt water lagoon Writelog 10.67B 73, Colin KU5B/V31UB and Eddy K5WQG/V31MR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2RAC Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 2,883,096 VA2RAC IARU 2008 Operators: VE2DWA VA2UK LW8EXF VE2TZT VA2WDQ VE2XAA VA2UP VE2DX VA2SG First HQ experience for us in this event. We had about 45 days to setup in a very big territory and made our best in conditions. We all had a good time and will try to improve performance. Surprising opening on 10m, 40m being a bit disappointing. Quebec is getting a long way back in radiosport and we will continue to improve its representation. Strange that lot of stations dont know VA*RAC are Canada HQ stations. Tnx for all the QSOs, mults CUL es 73! VA2RAC IARU team 2008 http://www.contestgroupduquebec.com Première expérience HQ pour vous. Nous avons eu environ 45 jours pour s'organiser dans un énorme territoire et avons fait de notre mieux dans les conditions. Nous avons tous eu beaucoup de plaisir et tenterons d'améliorer nos performances. Ouverture surprenante sur 10m, 40m étant un peu décevant. Le Québec revient de loin dans le domaine du radiosport et nous continuerons d'améliorer sa représsentation. Étrange que certaines stations ne savent pas que VA*RAC sont les stations HQ du Canada. Merci à tous pour les QSOs, mults, CUL et 73! L'équipe VA2RAC IARU 2008 http://www.contestgroupduquebec.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3ATT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 52,136 GP & FT-767GX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA3WU Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 48,556 Callsign: VA3WU Single Operator, Phone Only, Low Power Category-Operator: SINGLE-OP Category-Transmitter: ONE Category-Mode: SSB Category-Power: LOW Category-Station: FIXED Category-Assisted: NON-ASSISTED Location: Ontario - ON Name: Rick Barron Address: 8 Swayze Crt. Thorold, Ontario, Canada (e-mail) rbarron18@cogeco.ca Log Deadline: 2008-08-12 12:00:00 UTC Received at: 2008-07-13 15:46:12 UTC Reported QSOs: 266 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7KO Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 74,692 Thanks to all the stations for picking my LP sig out of the mud! See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 179,120 Overview: Sun Spots: 0 as of 07/10/2008 :: Flux: 65 | Ap: 3 | Kp: 2 | Au=6 Pretty much a domestic contest this year, with 673 of my 733 Qs being from North America. Only 8 EU stations, 21 South America, 12 Oceania, and 24 from Asia. Yeesh. Only 21 HQ stations worked (vs. 40 last year). Just 59 zones worked (vs. 70 last year). QSOs up by 30 but score down 58,000 points due to lack of mults. I ran mixed mode but I stuck to CW for most of the time because phone operation was so bleak. Antennas are all optimized for CW bands and none are very wide-banded so SSB gets short shrift . Didn't S&P very often, which I am sure hurt the mult count but kept rates fun. Found myself walking away from the radio several times, accounting for the 15 hours on-time. Contest diary: Got to bed at 11 p.m. Friday night (6 hours before start). Up half an hour early for a fresh-air walk-about in the back yard as first light arrives in British Columbia. Check antennas, add a little tension to the catenary to keep the wire antennas high. Very calm at this time of day, so up goes the tower to a whopping 45'. 5 a.m. (1200z) Need a great start out of the gate -- have both the 40M and 80M vertical arrays switched to the Pacific and Asia. Nothing happening on 80M so start on 40M. It's a domestic festival until JA1YPA appears at 1226z, then ZLs, VKs and JAs show up in earnest just after 1300z. Rates in the first few hours: 65, 37, 80 and 27. Up and down. 6:20 a.m. (1420z) Move to 20M. It's real early for 20M out here in the Pacific time zone, but my first Q is the RCV mult from YV. Go to 15M and then 10M (yay -- I made 10M contacts!). But have to go back to 20M for rate and it's all North America for 5 straight hours, until finding TM0HQ for the REF mult around 1930z. Work exactly 6 EU stations (including 3 HQs) and that's all there is for the opening on Saturday. There's a flurry of three more EU stations at 2220z. 20M is hopping with signals, QRM and QSB, and I have a good clear frequency for a while before fellows move in on either side of me. The FT-2000 rocks in this environment. I think everyone I work is calling me and in sync, but could be a few are working my slot-mates (slightly delayed replies, etc.). For this reason, I only pick out calls close to zero-beat with me. Someone far off frequency has to throw out a few extra calls to get my attention -- when you're searching and pouncing, turn the RIT knob to "Off" and apply SuperGlue. If you have a tin ear or your rig doesn't show CW tuning, try SP5CFD's "CW Tune-In" software to see where you're tuning: http://www.va3cr.net/software/Utilities.htm It's early afternoon, and I take an hour off and raise the 40M bush verticals that point to Europe, ready for an evening EU opening. Also pull the hanging-straight-down 160M inverted-L's horizontal section out so it's at least an end-fed inverted-V. 5:30 p.m. (0030z) Ap-index has gone from 3 up to 20 in a big hurry. There's no hope: we have lousy, rotten, horrible propagation. 20M is tough even to the U.S. from BC. Flux: 65 | Ap: 20 | Kp: 2. 5:45 p.m. (0045z) High Ap index might leave the low bands in OK shape. Cannot stay on 20M. Go to 40M about 2 hours earlier than usual. Rates are slow at first but pick up -- best rates are 87 and 89 in the 0400z and 0500z hours. 11 p.m. (0600z) Spend the evening riding the bands from 40 to 80 to 20 to 40 to 160 (at just 50 watts, which is all I can get into the mismatched Inverted-L) and back to 40M. No EU opening at all here, even on the bush verticals. But ZD8Z Ascension Is. calls in with a great signal for a thrill on 40M. Up on 20M there's a very weak midnight opening to EU with about four needed HQ stations calling but they're in the noise, probably working Asia, and can't hear me even when I open up the carburetor to the 3-500Zs. 1:13 a.m. (0813z) After an hour on 80M working slow rate W/VE and sparse DX, I decide to nap for an hour or two and get back on for the 40M grand-slam into Asia in the final two hours. 5:34 a.m. (1234z) Open my eyes and see the clock. Contest ended half an hour ago. Back to sleep with nothing to do but dream about next year. We'll have sunspots by then, almost guaranteed. Just as I thought last year. And the year before that. I did my best, and it wasn't very good. So on to better things: off to Longbeach on Vancouver Island for some surf and sun with the kids. Will close out July vacation season with NAQP RTTY next Saturday. (Aurora Busters unite!) Thanks to everyone for a fun 24-hour test. See you all again soon. -- Bud, VA7ST http://www3.telus.net/va7st Year Qs Pts. Mult Score (claimed) --------------------------------------- 2008 733 2239 80 179,120 -- 21 HQ SOmixed (HP) 2007 703 2091 114 238,374 -- 40 HQ SOCW (HP) 2006 630 2012 96 193,152 -- 44 HQ SOCW (LP) 2005 267 843 42 35,406 -- 10 HQ SOCW (LP) 2004 462 1446 88 127,248 SOCW (LP) 2003 181 31 17,019 SOCW (LP) 2002 235 799 77 61,523 -- 27 HQ SOCW (LP) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE1OP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 40,621 An hour Saturday morning, an hour Saturday evening and an hour and a bit Sunday morning...Wx too nice to be in the shack this weekend...Still waiting for some Cycle 24 propagation, although 15 showed some signs of life when I was on... 73, Scott VE1OP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE2FU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 132,004 I was expecting worse conditions. Few hours here and there…family commitments prevent me from making the most from the band openings. Most qso was S/P with a few run on quiet bands. Missed the 10M opening to get some 6 band station in LOG. Was fun to follow my friend VE2FWW on live score…but finally realize he was in higher gear! (Antenna farm not to compare). RIG: FT-1000MP MKV Field, AL-811 ALC limited to 300W MAX ANT: Cushcraft A3S, G5RV 160-80-40 INTERFACE: Microkeyer II SOFTWARE: WIN-TEST v3.21 ALL QSO uploaded on http://www.EQSL.cc Info qrz.com/ve2fu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3DZ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,209,600 It was nice to visit Peter, VE3AD and operate his station located up in "cottage country" some 270 km North of Toronto. We spent all day Friday trying to install antennas for 80 and 160 m CW bands. The 80 m antenna appeared to work just perfectly, but 160 m did not work at all... So I managed to make few Q's just loading 80 m antenna. Peter's new 4 el. SteppIR worked pretty decently on high bands, thanks also to the Emtron amplifier that I borrowed from Paul, VE3TA. Infortunately, I caught really bad cold and sinus right after the contest so the whole operation was a struggle, with a lot of hot fluids and breaks... Anyway, managed to put in 21 hours... Still recovering (today is Tuesday) at home now. Thanks to all for the Q's and again to Peter VE3AD for hosting me. Hope to do better next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3GSI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 214,368 I found it interesting that there were a good number of EU and some US stations that did not hear my low power station, as they did not answer my replies or called CQ right on top or very close to me. Yet most had a good signal here at this station. I had a good time in the contest, looking forward to next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3MGY Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 17,000 Casual on and off S&P only during the day and night for 10 to 15 minutes at a time to check the new antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3NE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 547,107 Wanted to make thousand Qs or half million points. Both accoplished despite lousy 20m from my side. Ten was open late in the evening to EU but only few stns came through. 80m sounded very good. Some Californians were extremely strong. 160 was also quite good too. ZD8Z came to my CQ...almost busted his call because of QRM but then his signal came up strong. Good show...good operators...great fun. 73 Lali, VE3NE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3TA Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 209,115 73, Paul, VE3TA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3UTT Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,198,575 Our first MS together to see how the new K3 works under fire - in a word EXCELLENT. We could only use one K3 since no bandpass filters were available. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE3XD Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 139,200 Casual effort. All S&P. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE6EX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 241,955 Hi All: Well that was a new effort/setup outta town for me to try out the local prop/chances Banff area. 1107qs', no eu at all on the high bands; not even a whisper... 40 was the best of all off wire in the trees; hi bands were off a th4 3el tribander up just off the roof of the ski lodge with the rig in the basement next to the furnace. No tvi complaints tho'with running an amp. I wanted to be out of the lo pwr league for once and for all.. VE6EX was:: Kenwood TS 850sat with full inrads and onboard voice recorder for ssb. Kenwood TL 922 to ~800w keydown (except for 160 with 80m ant and rig tuner); both ran great. dipole in the trees for 80, plus tuner for 160, loop for 40 and tribander for 20 and up. TRLOG did the real work perfectly as ever and I tried to stay awake. The contesting condx may not be the best but the skiing is ***Absolutely World Class***... Cheers, Dan VE6EX.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7CC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,095,840 I used N1MM. Cannot see a way to break out the HQ and Zone mults. Special thanks to VE7SV for the loan of filters for SO2R setup. Although 20 meter phone was very productive, I was not able to work all who called. Too much local noise, lightning static and QRM. This was the only band I had a serious problem copying callers. Did not have even one European call me. All were S&P. Used a K3 and FT1000D. The K3 is by far the best radio I have ever used. Lee ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7FO Class: M/S HP Total Score = 33,345 The other ops couldn't make it so just one op. Used spots, though, so still in M/S category. Cranked the power up to the max I have - 200 watts. Not a real serious effort. Cndx not vy good. A little disappointing because on Aug 8 (Z) 15 was open to W6WX from here for all 24 hrs and 10 for 23 hrs and, to 4U1UN, 8 hrs and 6 hrs respectively. (FAROS with R7 vert at 45 ft). Mostly NA and SA. Worked a few Eu, JA, VK, ZL and, to my amazement, D4C on 40 phone with a dipole at about 40 ft. Man, he must have a quiet location. N1MM doesn't appear to provide a breakdown of mults and no time to do it manually, so put in some numbers which add up to the total mults. One day I'll write a little program to do it. Wouldn't be difficult, Haven't done much contesting in the last year or so, other than some M/2 at VE7UF. It was nice to get on and hear all the familiar calls rolling in again even if cndx were poor and time limited. Thanks for the Qs, folks, and hope to be on with some newbies again in NAQP RTTY. 73, Jim VE7FO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7SV Class: M/S HP Total Score = 685,949 We had fun but it was a struggle from the Black Hole of North America. Good thing the weather was fantastic!! We are ready for sunspots!! The 10 minute rule was a handicap not being able to move mults to other bands. The 24 hour format is enjoyable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE7XF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 292,026 Uggghhh!!! 50% more Qs on 40 than 20! And NASA tells me that everything is 'normal' !! (Insert usual rant about Plasma TV and now noisy wall warts :-( 'mp, Acom, Steppir, wires. rp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VE9CEH Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 144,840 Thanks to all and 73. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HE Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 28,640 IARU Score Summary Sheet Start Date : 2008-07-12 CallSign Used : VO1HE Operator(s) : VO1HE Operator Category : SINGLE-OP Band : ALL Power : HIGH Mode : CW Default Exchange : 9 Gridsquare : GN37PO Name : Paul J. Piercey Address : 66 Rumboldt Pl. City/State/Zip : St. John's NL A1A 5K9 Country : Canada ARRL Section : NL Club/Team : East Coast Canada Contest Club Software : N1MM Logger V8.6.3 Band QSOs Pts Sec 7 51 161 27 14 37 111 23 21 26 72 20 28 10 14 10 Total 124 358 80 Score : 28,640 Almost forgot about this one. Never got involved until it was halfway over. Nice to hear a bit of activity on 10M. Around 0200 the only station I could hear on 10 was DA0HQ with a lot of flutter. Not many calling CQ except the HQ stations on 10. 15M was bad. No really strong signals at all. 40 was good and 20 was OK. CU in the next one. 73 -- Paul VO1HE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VO1HP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 70,900 First QSO at 17:55Z ... too many distractions! First time in this contest ... enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised to work 15 and 10! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 320,175 I'm rarely home in July at this time, so it was really fun to play this weekend even though I knew I wouldn't be able to put in a full effort due to several other commitments (at really inopportune DX times!). My mults really show that, but the rate and the good on-the-air company made up for it. Didn't count up the HQ mults so included them in the zone count, but I'd guess around 20. Will have to schedule this one in next year .. it's too much fun to pass up! 73, Bob, w0bh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0RAA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 7,696 Band conditions would have been great if this was a US only contest. I was beginning to think that nobody was in it except Zones 6, 7 & 8. It was still fun. Thanks to those that gave me a contact. When the bands finally come back to life, this will be one of my favorite contests that I will definitely be in. With guests arriving on Monday, 7/14, I had honey-do's that could not be put off, thus a somewhat miserable showing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W0SD Class: M/S HP Total Score = 1,016,770 First time with this group multi single in this contest. We didn't know going into this what to expect, and we all came out the end of it saying that it was a FUN contest, very intersting strategy multi-single. Condition wise, for the bottom of the cycle, it was interesting. Not much for Europe or Japan, just very short openings, had a little Es on 10m, but overall 20m was THE band again. Amazingly, 80m was very good also. We all had a great time, and plan to do this next year and onward. Thanks especially to Edith- W0OE, and Ed- W0SD for hosting us and putting up with the invasion! Thanks so much for the Q's and the fun on the air! 73 God Bless from the W0SD gang, IARU 2008, W0SD-W0OE-W0DB-WD0T. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1EBI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 553,676 If major contests create their own propagation, perhaps this was the one that broke the trend. High activity, but several quarters of the globe just were not heard here. Some new antennas seemed to help, this was my best production in a 24-hour contest. Thanks for all the QSO's. George W1EBI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1NN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 346,038 A tough contest to operate with low power and dipoles, but still fun and challenging. The first 12 hours were very tough, although I did manage to do some running on 20. Things picked up in the evening and 40 produced a couple of decent hours and I could work anything I could hear (except JA on Sunday morning). Unfortunately, my best band, 80, didn't have much activity. The computer software was counting 3 points for in-zone contacts, so the above score is probably overstated. 73, Hal W1NN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W1ZT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 529,115 Great to have both 15m and 10m available this year. Thanks for all the QSOs and this is one of the most enjoyable operating weekends in the contest schedule. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2B Class: M/S HP Total Score = 129,935 Total of 877 Q's, 1999 points, 65 sections. Had some great stateside runs going, but Europe was pretty well a wash. Propagation was very poor and local noise levels were bordering on extreme. Thanks for working W2B, the special event station commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the North Jersey DX Association and the ARRL second district incoming QSL bureau. (QSL via W2IRT). 73, Peter and Ryan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W2LHL Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 42,840 the verticals must have picked up all thunderstorms in North America. Still, very good contest. Thanks for the contacts. 100w., 40 ft. vertical, 4btv. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 222,272 IC706MKII transmitter had no output on 80M and 160M. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W3YY Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 83,868 The solar flux may remain at 66 the rest of our lives, but this contest shows we can still have some fun. I enjoyed doing some phone contesting again with my new transmit audio setup. It's been pretty much all CW the last 20 years. (Zone and HQ Mults shown above are a guess - Needed to put in something to submit the form) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,134,720 FT1000MP x2, AL1500, K1TO's antenna farm. My first SO2R operation in just over two years. Dan, K1TO, invited me to use his excellent station in Myakka City, FL. and worked hard to get it all ready and keep it all working properly. Many thanks to Dan for his hospitality. I gave it an effort in the General class bands. Congrats to all the higher scorers. Thanks for all the QSOs. W4AN is the South East Contest Club call sign. QSL to K4BAI. Note that it was not quite a full-time effort due to a short thunderstorm on Saturday afternoon. I did make a number of SSB QSOs, but they are all shown above as CW since the version of CT that we used did not break down the QSO totals by modes and K1TO won't be able to send me the log until he does some computer repair. 73, John, K4BAI. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4AU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 101,840 This contest was the first big test for my new K3, which performed fantastically. I had planned to be SO2R, but ended up never turning on the second rig! Unfortunately, summer chores and family obligations took precedence, and I was only able to put in a few hours. It was a pleasure to pick up a few 10 meter Q's and work some Europeans on this band Saturday afternoon. 9A0HQ was the only station worked on all 5 bands (I never got on 160). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4IX Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 363,540 Just put the station together on Friday at my new QTH in S.C. Put up an old G5RV in the trees at 35 feet, and then put up a 1/4 wave 40 meter loop on some other trees. The 40 meter loop really didnt play as well as the G5RV ( loop was only 5 feet off the grounf ) but there wer some times it was invaluable, like at 2350Z I was hearing TM0HQ and 9A0HQ on 10 meters with the G5RV but of course I was way under manned to make the Q's, but then I checked them out on the 40 meter loop and they sounded better, so I used my tuner and got a fairly decent match, gave them several calls each and worked them both...whew!! ya just never know...Nice to have wrkd EL2DX early in the morning, have ZL6A call me at 0600Z, and to wrap it up worked VK6AA after sunrise...( also nice to snag R0HQ, RG9A, and a few others, but missed the UA0 in Zone 31 and hrd KG6DX and AH2L for awhile but just cldnt get through ). STILL COULD HAVE USED SOME REAL ANTENNAS!! Hi Hi..Will get something up before October..73's and tnx fer all the Q's... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4KAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 58,950 Not much DX heard/worked, but the locals showed up. One point is better than zero points, and a summer contest at the sunspot minimum with inadequate antennas is still better than turning the radio off. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,060,913 I don't have the breakout of zones vs HQ mults from N1MM. QSO totals in the CW column are both modes per band. CW QSO's = 1471, SSB = 414. As usual, too much time on the code mode :-) Full contest description etc on my journal at w4pa.journalspace.com TNX to Rick K4TD for having me at his efficient well-laid out contest station! It's more fun when it's easy. Scott W4PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4PM Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 106,550 Points used in score calculation - 1185 Rig:Ten Tec Omni VII, Ameritron ALS-600 400W (The O7 is a great contest rig!) Antenna: 176' CF Zepp at 60' I had limited time to play due to mother's and mother-in-law's Bithhdays this weekend. Conditions not all that great for DX but lots of U.S. stations allowed the rates to climb up to 250/hr at times. I was away all day on Saturday so little was done on 15 and I didn't even listen on 10 meters. My second contest using N1MM. That program is great. I love the ESM mode! Thanks for the Q's. 73, Puck, W4PM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4SVO Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 285,413 10 meters never open up. Last year had 215 Q's. Oh well! I did work more mults, but about 50 less Q's than last year. Not much activity from Europe. Only HQ stations. This contest has gone down the hill. Mark W4SVO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W4TMN Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 160,082 I didn't do as well as last year, but I got close.....As usual, my goal is just to beat last year's score. Toward the end of the contest, it looked like I had a pretty good chance to meet my goal, but it was just not to be. Were conditions really that bad, or did Toano, VA fall into a black hole?? I didn't think I would ever hear anything more than zones 7 and 8 for the first half of the contest. I was working anyone I could, but the one pointers kept my score from going anywhere fast. Conditions finally began to change and started racking up a few new multipliers and some more QSO points. The odds were against me from the start. Just a week before the contest, my G5RV came down in a storm. With no antenna, I was not going to make many contacts. Fortunately, I was able to get it back up somewhat close to what I had before, so at least someone would hear me. I knew I was in trouble when I had to work overtime the night before the start of the contest. I got home only two hours before the start of the contest. Work this week was a bear and I had worked lots of overtime, so I had no time for testing prior to the start of the contest. I only got the contest set up on my laptop during a break at work on Friday night. So, unfortunately, testing would have to occur during the contest. Fortunately, everything seemed to work fine.....except propagation. Due to the lack of sleep and bad band conditions, I never could get any good runs going. I did have a couple of periods where I was able to get a good rate going, but they didn't last long. S&P did not do any better for me. The Europeans just weren't making it to me on 20 the way I would have liked. I did find myself drifting off a couple of times before recovering and hitting another dose of caffeine. I have had a good run for a couple of years being first place in the class in the section (thanks to N2QT doing so well last year!). It looks as though Mark did it again this year in a big way! Thanks for everyone who patiently gave me a Q!!!! Hershel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5FO Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 129,780 A lot of great operators. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5KFT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,284,920 I almost never do SSB, but this was pretty fun. It was definitely interesting to see "how the other half lives". :-) I had a few equipment troubles -- what would contesting be without them? Most notably, the top 40M beam had spun 45 degrees out of alignment. I had a compensation factor in my head, but in the wee hours I forgot which way to compensate and ended up beaming NNE for Asia -- argh! Lots of activity and pretty good conditions for this point in the cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5VX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 510,410 I spent a little more than a causal effort this time. I usually get tired listening to the QRN. Some real interesting openings on 10 and 15 to europe. Bad noise on 80 and 160 but that's summertime. It sure will be nice when the sunspots come back. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5WZ Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 38,100 ** My logging software does not break out the zone vs HQ mults. This contest marks the 10th anniversary of my first solo contest ever for IARU 1998, in which I won the LA section as KD5CAS in SO-ALL-LOW-SSB. I had only been introduced to contesting 2 weeks earlier at Field Day 1998. This year, I planned to only work up to 14 hours from the start. Had in the back of my mind an expected QSO count in the neighborhood of 500-600. I sure missed that mark! This is my first contest since building my new shack and moving my operating postition. Several glitches have been discovered that are inconvenient, if not downright annoying. Thankfully, none are major. Things like RF in places it shouldn't be making my voice keyer useless for the contest. The spare computer monitor (primary monitor died 2 weeks ago) that is apparently on its last leg, and gets dimmer and dimmer as the contest goes on. Wanting/needing a foot rest to change my leg position for comfort. They are now at the top of my "to-do" list for interior work. Antennas, in my estimation, are currently a weak link. Dipoles on 160, 80, 40, with none higher than about 40 feet. All my dipoles are east-west, simply because that is the only place I have trees from which to hang them. 2-element quad at 45 feet for 20, 15, and 10 via a single feedline. This arrangement limits my SO2R to 1 radio on the high bands and 1 radio on the low bands. I sure would have liked to be on 20 and 15 at the same time during the day. For me, mid-day in summer on a 40m dipole at 20 feet is not the optimal way to go. It seemed that band conditions were pretty poor. I hammered away calling CQ for a couple of hours on 20m 14.174 from 1600z to 1800z, netting a total of 56 Qs. This 2 hour period yielded my best rates of the contest; much lower than I had hoped for. The best 60 minute rate was 41/hour from 1615 to 1714 The best 30 minute rate was 44/hour from 1616 to 1645 The best 10 minute rate was 60/hour from 1622 to 1631 Thanks to all who did work me! It was still fun, and as always, some experience gained will help in the next one! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W5ZL Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 642,879 My Old Man told me it would be important for me to someday have “friends in high places”. I, of course, took him literally, and for the past few years a childhood ham friend who now owns a phenomenal hill overlooking a whole lot of the Central Texas hill country) has very generously invited me and Bob W5EK, whom I’ve also known since I was eleven years old, to take over Casa Bloomquist for IARU weekend. For that and all that comes with having Marv N5AW and Judy as friends I’m incredibly blessed. Thanks, guys. Bob and I had a great time as always this weekend doing our best imitations of “real” contesters, and really appreciate your sharing your beautiful ranch and antenna amenities with us once again. Just a note, when we got out to the shack late Friday afternoon it was 99 degrees inside (just a degree or so warmer than outside), and the A/C wasn’t working. Bob and I set up our respective single op positions (he enters SOLP CW under his call, and I run SOLP mixed under mine, sharing antennas and shack space with our own Pro II’s) with sweat dripping from every pore. We literally had to go outside to cool down, and it was looking like a miserably uncomfortable IARU ahead – in fact, I wasn’t altogether sure it wouldn’t be better to just load everything back up in the car and retreat to Austin. We took a break and went into town for dinner Friday night and then returned to the shack for some last tweaks before retiring to the main house where the A/C was fine. As we were about to walk down the hill Chuck KB5YKJ showed up and said he would fix the A/C at the shack. Is this good service or what??!! Marv had called Chuck from his Colorado vacation home (N5AW/0) to ask if he could help resolve the problem, and next thing we knew it was history – as were probably a few thousand fire ants that had chosen to take up residence in the relay box out by the compressor. Chuck, you’re now officially an IARU Legend! Summary – 24 hours (though I’m not sure I was all there for the last two hours – how DO these guys do 48?????) No internet or other assistance (other than KB5YKJ fixing the A/C) Radio – IC-756 Pro II All Marv’s wonderful antennas divided by two N1MM logging software No SO2R or other fancy stuff (except a USB WinKey) Terry AB5K’s individual band pass filters (which we basically didn’t end up using, as we never had interstation interference of consequence. I'm sure there's a place in N1MM that splits out Zones and HQ Mults but I don't see it. It reports that I had 183 "Secs", which may be a blend of zones and HQ mults, but I'm not sure, so I left those fields blank in the 3830 form. Incidentally, W5EK’s SOLP CW totals were quite good considering I was the one with primary controls of which antennas were routed to which radios, meaning he generally got short shrift. I don’t have the specifics of bands/Q’s/mults, but Bob had a total of 653 Q’s for 1938 points (2.97 pts/Q) and 161 sections, scoring 312K and change. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6OAT Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 64,232 My thanks to N6WG for giving me the Zone 6 mult on 6 bands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6SX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 5,825 Omni VI+, AL-1200, 80-meter dipole at 46 feet with Matchbox, TRLog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W6YI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,796,711 Thanks to W6YI for the use of his station once again. Everything worked flawlessly, and even the noise stayed away for this one. I havent done Mixed Mode in this contest in a long time, so strategy was a little different than CW only. My basic strategy was when all else fails, go to 20SSB and run W's. Since conditions were so poor, I ended up spending a lot of time there. Participation from the US was very good, with a little over 2000 W's in the log. I only worked about 50 EU total, with almost all of them being HQ stations. Congrats to all the big scores out there. 73, Dan N6MJ and for the record, no skimmer was used and heres a few numbers: -------------- Q S O R a t e S u m m a r y -------------- Hour 160 80 40 20 15 10 Total Pct ------------------------------------------------------------- 1200 1 49 71 0 0 0 121 4.4 1300 0 4 123 19 0 0 146 5.3 1400 0 0 38 86 0 0 124 4.5 1500 0 0 0 140 8 0 148 5.4 1600 0 0 0 137 21 0 158 5.7 1700 0 0 0 151 18 5 174 6.3 1800 0 0 0 104 26 1 131 4.8 1900 0 0 0 49 75 0 124 4.5 2000 0 0 0 106 20 0 126 4.6 2100 0 0 0 50 29 0 79 2.9 2200 0 0 0 63 16 0 79 2.9 2300 0 0 0 79 12 0 91 3.3 0000 0 0 19 67 2 0 88 3.2 0100 0 0 56 38 0 0 94 3.4 0200 0 0 98 52 0 0 150 5.4 0300 0 0 52 39 0 0 91 3.3 0400 0 9 22 64 2 0 97 3.5 0500 0 18 51 39 0 0 108 3.9 0600 3 20 4 72 0 0 99 3.6 0700 9 6 80 34 2 0 131 4.8 0800 18 24 41 32 0 0 115 4.2 0900 5 40 53 6 0 0 104 3.8 1000 10 29 51 4 0 0 94 3.4 1100 2 13 59 0 0 0 74 2.7 ------------------------------------------------------ Total 48 212 818 1431 231 6 2746 Gross QSO's=2757 Dupes=11 Net QSO's=2746 Unique callsigns worked = 1925 The best 60 minute rate was 196/hour from 1531 to 1630 The best 30 minute rate was 218/hour from 1546 to 1615 The best 10 minute rate was 234/hour from 1606 to 1615 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7QN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 28,595 All bands used Hustler Mobile whips. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 786,638 Dick, K6KR, and Dean, N6BV, operated a laid-back IARU contest. We operate using "WRTC" rules as a "multi-multi" -- meaning that we ignored the 10-minute IARU rule designed for M/S operation. Our log is submitted thus as a Check Log. The W7RN/K5RC station is undergoing major antenna upgrades, so we used whatever antennas were not being worked on -- still a considerable antenna arsenal! We had a 6L15 at 40 feet, 6L20/6L20 at 135/70 feet, 4L40 at 70 feet, and an 80-m dipole at 100'. All the wildfires in Northern California/Nevada wreaked not only a toll on the forests, but they also put a lot of ash/soot on the powerline insulators. The normally very quiet W7RN location thus was plagued with a fairly constant S7 noise level on all the bands, with the worst azimuths from 300 degrees (JA) through Europe all the way through North down to 180 degrees. That meant CW operation was much more effective than SSB, and it also meant that finding HQ multipliers was considerably hampered, especially to Europe. We could hear other W6/W7 stations working Europeans that we couldn't hear because the Euros were just under the S5 QRN level. However, we did have some decent 140+ hours into North America! We had 1832 QSOs into North America, 186 QSOs to Japan, 63 QSOs to Oceania, and only 21 total QSOs to Europe. Sigh... Tom, K5RC, and Midge, K7AFO, are fantastic hosts and they made both Dick and I feel very much at home up on the burgeoning antenna farm above Reno. Thanks for having us! Thanks also to N6TV who gave us some crucial help setting up Win-Test before the contest. Both Dick and I were impressed with Win-Test. It's a keeper. 73, Dean, N6BV BREAKDOWN QSO/mults W7RN IARU HF Championship Multi Multi HOUR 160 80 40 20 15 10 HR TOT CUM TOT 12 ..... 7/5 80/13 ..... ..... ..... 87/18 87/18 13 . 3/2 70/3 34/11 . . 107/16 194/34 14 . . . 131/1 . . 131/1 325/35 15 . . . 119/3 2/1 . 121/4 446/39 16 . . . 115/2 1/0 . 116/2 562/41 17 . . . 83/0 26/5 . 109/5 671/46 18 . . . 91/0 30/5 1/1 122/6 793/52 19 . . . 27/1 40/1 . 67/2 860/54 20 ..... ..... ..... 82/1 ..... ..... 82/1 942/55 21 . . 1/1 58/2 6/2 . 65/5 1007/60 22 . . . 40/1 8/1 . 48/2 1055/62 23 . . 2/0 47/5 1/1 . 50/6 1105/68 0 . . 25/3 19/1 . . 44/4 1149/72 1 . . 73/4 2/0 . . 75/4 1224/76 2 . . 115/2 6/5 . . 121/7 1345/83 3 . . 133/2 13/4 . . 146/6 1491/89 4 ..... ..... 146/3 ..... ..... ..... 146/3 1637/92 5 . 2/1 80/2 10/5 . . 92/8 1729/100 6 . . 105/2 8/3 . . 113/5 1842/105 7 . . 46/0 4/1 . . 50/1 1892/106 8 . 26/1 4/0 56/3 . . 86/4 1978/110 9 . 60/8 16/3 1/1 . . 77/12 2055/122 10 . 45/2 6/0 . . . 51/2 2106/124 11 . 37/2 14/1 . . . 51/3 2157/127 12 ..... ..... 1/0 ..... ..... ..... 1/0 2158/127 13 . . . . . . . 2158/127 14 . . . . . . . 2158/127 15 . . . . . . . 2158/127 16 . . . . . . . 2158/127 17 . . . . . . . 2158/127 18 . . . . . . . 2158/127 19 . . . . . . . 2158/127 20 ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... 2158/127 21 . . . . . . . 2158/127 22 . . . . . . . 2158/127 23 . . . . . . . 2158/127 DAY1 . 180/21 916/39 946/50 114/16 1/1 . 2157/127 DAY2 . . 1/0 . . . . 1/0 TOT . 180/21 917/39 946/50 114/16 1/1 . 2158/127 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WA Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 986,302 A total of 39 JA worked on 20, 40 and 80. I had an even smaller total of Europeans. No JA heard at all on 10 and 15. 73 de Dan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 38,054 Was planning on putting more time in on this one but had to put the XYL in the hospital Friday night for some tests so spent most of Saturday at the hosp. Got on for a bit after I got home. Band conditions were bad again from the PNW. Worked a few Europeans on 20 late in the evening. Worked 1 JA station amd 2 VK's. Never heard any other Asian stations. Biggest surprise was being called by Jim ZD8Z on 40 during a run of U.S. stations. Thanks Jim! This is one of my favorite contests as I can usually run some U.S. stations with a few DX stations thrown in. 73 and thanks for the Q's. Tom W7WHY Radio 1 TS-450SAT + SB-200 Radio 2 FT-840 160/80 meter inverted 'L', 80 meter dipole, 40 meter vertical and dipole, 20 meter 2 el monobander. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W7YAQ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 292,240 This was my first serious contest effort from our new QTH near Sisters, Oregon. K7PN and his crew got the 70 foot tower completed and 3-element Steppir with 40/30 dipole option installed on Monday. I set up a MA160V 160M vertical on Wednesday, and I put up an inverted vee for 80 on Friday. It was also a chance to get familiar with the new K3. I’m happy with the new gear, although there were times when I questioned whether the Steppir was working NE to EU (25 QSOs total) or NW to JA (28 QSOs). The K3 is a big improvement over previous receivers I have used. Like someone mentioned on their post, I kept the K3 noise reduction feature on during the whole contest. It seemed to help with the QRN. It's also nice to be able to move lower in the band, knowing that if there is a tiny opening near a strong signal, I can still call CQ and hear the weak replies. I do need to investigate though why the rig was only producing 70 watts out on 20 meters, but 100 watts on the other bands. This contest is one of my favorites, because of the 24-hour format and the propagation conditions (summertime) are so different from those in contest season. I was hoping to operate the whole 24 hours, but with this turning primarily into a domestic contest, the generally poor conditions, and my advancing seniority I needed a couple of breaks and finally pulled the big switch at 0930Z. The concentration of HQ stations in Europe really hurts the West Coast scores (even in the best of conditions), and it certainly was interesting looking at some of the postings where the ratio of Zones to HQ is as low as 1 to 2 in the East, close 1 to 1 in the Midwest, and as high as 2 to 1 in the West. Thank goodness for W1AW/9, NU1AW/0, and VA2RAC!! And thanks for the fun and QSOs!! 73, Bob W7YAQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8AV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 771,615 Had serious thoughts about doing something else at the start of the contest due to very poor conditions here. But I hung in there. 15 was pretty good in the afternoon and 20 got rolling later on. Had some rain static several times due to a pretty good batch of showers that came through in the afternoon. Thanks for the patience from all the stations that were trying to work me when the QRN from the rain was almost S-9. Never made it to 10. I listened for a bit from time to time but never heard anything that would make me want to abandon what rates on 15 and 20 to go there. I'll be glad when the sun spots return, it will make this contest more enjoyable and I will probably be able to stay up for the full 24 hours. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: W8MJ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 265,160 Part time effort from here. Seem like activity was good. W8MJ Ken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WA6ST Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 41,968 Managed personal goal of beating my own score from last year: fewer mults than 2007, reflecting rotten propagation -- only one JA -- but more Qs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WB4ROA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 4,112 Enjoyed the Contest very much. As age grows, I like the 24 hr. format more and more. Had some reasonable propagation and sufficient signals. Dsappointed that I heard no Africa or Middle East. As always, things at home distracted me and at time that should have been spent contesting! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WC1M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,301,882 CW Skimmer was used for at least 90% of the second radio mults. More on that later. Congrats to Alex for a big win, well-deserved. Congrats to Chas and Steve as well, for their fine performances (I didn't know New Mexico was such a good contest location… ;-) Alex blew away all of us with Qs and mults, notably without Skimmer. Usually, I'm closer to the leaders in Qs, and far behind in mults. This time, I was way behind Alex, Chas and Steve in Qs, but had more mults than Chas and Steve. In particular, I did much better with HQ stations than in previous years. These stations are unique, so they're harder to find than new zones. Since my operating skills haven't improved all that much from last year, I can only assume that Skimmer is the reason for the better mult performance. My QSOs were substantially lower this year compared with last year, even though I worked over 50 more mults. I believe this was primarily due to poor conditions on 20 in Northern New England on Saturday morning. As often happens at the sunspot minimum, conditions favored folks to the south. I can see from K1DG's score at N1LI, which is at about the same latitude as my station, that his 20m Qs weren't great, either. Quite a few northeasterners reported poor results on 20m at the start of the contest. Last year I had 123 Qs on 20 the first hour, but this year only managed a paltry 54 -- and 10 of those were on 15m! 20 didn't really open up until 1500z, and then the rate was barely over 80/hr. The band never improved after that, although there was a nice EU sunrise opening on Sunday morning that provided a few mults. The band opened quite early Sunday, at about 0930z. Haven't seen that phenomenon for years. Unfortunately, the contest was almost over by then. All together, I worked only 65% as many Qs on 20 as last year. What's really odd is that 15 was open to EU all morning, well enough to run for about 2 hours from 1630z-1830z. The peak hour was about 90, better than any rate I saw on 20 Saturday morning. My QSO total this year was double last year's, and I worked 50% more mults. Even more unexpected was the 10m opening to EU that occurred at about the same time. I didn't run on 10, but picked up 23 much-needed mults. Actually, I was busily running 15 and S&Ping 20 for quite a while Saturday morning when I suddenly realized that if I could run 15 at high rate, 10 could be open. I remember audibly gasping at the thought. I put Skimmer on 10 and, sure enough, the bandmap started filling up. It's not been worth checking 10 much in the past couple of years, so this was a real surprise. For all I know, 10 might have been open earlier -- I didn't check until about 1700z. Since K1DG had about the same mults on 10 as I did, and not a whole lot more Qs, I must've caught most of the opening. 20 picked up again late Saturday afternoon, as expected, but the rate never got much over 60/hr. 40 opened on schedule at about 2200z, and the rate took off about an hour later. The 0000z hour was hot, and I pulled in 135 Qs. The 10-minute rate meter hit 190 several times. I had similar total Qs on 40 this year as last year, but 10 more mults. That's probably due top Skimmer, though I do have a better 2-el 40m beam up now (a Cal-AV 2D-40A replaced the old 40-2CD.) 80 and 160 were pretty noisy, but I had somewhat better Qs on both bands. Mults were much better than last year. With antennas the same, and conditions probably similar (possibly noisier), I suspect Skimmer was the reason I did better. It takes a lot of time to tune through those bands, listening for weak signals, and Skimmer can do the same in less than five minutes -- while I CQ on 40. Why did I use Skimmer? Well, I wanted to get first-hand experience using it for a serious single-op effort, and no one knows if Skimmer will be allowed in that category beyond this year's IARU contest. The IARU format, which emphasizes mults in general and includes unique HQ station mults, presented a golden opportunity to test the effects of using Skimmer without packet. I'm something of an ideal test candidate because my scores in IARU (and other contests that emphasize mults) almost always suffer from low mults compared with the leaders. Anyone who reads my posts on 3830 knows what a crybaby I am about my mult performances. I can run, but I'm still learning how to S&P and use the second radio more effectively. My best performances have been in WPX, where almost any contact can result in a new mult (i.e., it's a run contest, and you don't have to hunt for mults when you S&P -- just work everybody and they'll come.) I'm thinking about doing a detailed writeup of my experiences setting up and using Skimmer. Suffice it to say that I spent many, many hours (and quite a few late nights) getting it working, and in the end was not able to produce an optimal configuration due to hardware and software limitations. For various reasons, I had to share one of my SO2R radios with Skimmer, and that resulted in some fairly awkward operating requirements. For deeply technical reasons, which I won't go into here, I had to let Skimmer run for a while to fill up Writelog's bandmap, then stop Skimmer while I worked the spots. I could only scan one band at a time (my S&P band.) I had to stop Skimmer while I S&Ped, which is why I did almost no manual tuning on the Skimmer radio. I felt that was OK: it was a good test to see how well I could do with just Skimmer. Pretty well: second highest claimed mults so far. Not bad for almost no tuning. I did wonder if I could have done better by tuning for mults, but it seemed Skimmer was picking up anything I'd have been able to hear, and a lot faster. Several times I'd get to a Skimmer spot and the station had vacated the frequency. Sometimes I found a different new mult, or happened to hear one calling off-frequency. That's about all the tuning I did, except one period in the wee hours when I could get any rate going and worked Skimmer spots on one radio while tuning the other radio. I was really surprised at the accuracy of Skimmer's spots (I used "paranoid" mode with the SCP master.dat file.) I was also surprised at how Skimmer was able to dig out really weak ones, and how fast the bandmap filled. What more could I have done with manual tuning? I certainly benefited from not having to do that while running at high rate. I also benefited from Skimmer continuing to gather spots while I took a bathroom break or went to the kitchen for something to eat. (That's fine in this contest, but what about contests that have mandatory break periods?) I also benefited from increased rate during dedicated point-and-shoot sessions. By focusing just on the Skimmer spots, and not running on the other radio, I was able to get the rate up over 90/hr for a sustained period -- and this was at a time when I was struggling to make 50/hr on the run radio. One important note: as I do with packet, I never trusted the Skimmer spot. I always listened for confirmation of the call sign. It was accurate well over 95% of the time. Probably over 99% of the time. There were a few problems. I had technical glitches early in the contest that wasted some operating time. I also found the new configuration required new techniques, things I had not practiced before. Skimmer was a bit of a distraction at times, which may have affected my run proficiency. But not all that much. Probably the most serious problem was that Writelog wasn't able to identify HQ stations as new mults unless they were new zones. I guess it picks up the HQ information from the comment field in packet spots, which doesn't apply to Skimmer spots. W4PA implied that his Skimmer knew the HQ mults, so perhaps N1MM is smarter about that. Skimmer's spots slowed down if I CQed on the radio it was monitoring, but it was still able to get a few spots between transmissions. There are a number of software changes that would make Skimmer much more useful under contest conditions. I can think of at least one logging program change that would enhance Skimmer as well (being able to grab spots to VFO B on my K3 would have helped a lot.) If I had it to do over, I would use Skimmer on at least two dedicated radios in addition to the S&P radio (and maybe the run radio, too.) That would require rewiring my switching system to route antennas to receivers other than my original SO2R pair. Probably some dedicated verticals and/or receive arrays would be helpful, too. My experience and reaction are similar to W4PA's: Skimmer is a lot like packet, and it definitely helps. With an optimal setup, and more practice, I believe I could have done even better on mults. Maybe not enough to win, but that's because 20 was so bad for us up north. I have to say, however, that I had a lot of fun using Skimmer. I've never felt that way about packet. I used packet for a couple of all-out efforts back when I first got serious about contesting in the late 90s. I used autotune amps so I could point-and-shoot packet spots very fast. But my friend W1ECT shamed me by pointing out that there was little skill involved in clicking on packet spots to work mults. I knew he was right, because I quickly found using packet to be boring -- not enough challenge. I've done all my single-op efforts unassisted ever since. I've used packet extensively at multis over the years, but have never liked it. I've even suggested informal packet-less competitions between multis, but no one has been willing to take me up on it. I always look forward to clearing out the spot window so I can tune for new mults. So why was Skimmer fun? Well, I think it had a lot to do with the heavy challenge I had getting it setup. Skimmer technology is fascinating, and appeals to the software engineer in me (30 years in that business.) Also, it was challenging to work out a system for making the most of my limited configuration, and I was learning on the job so to speak. I was also awed by how quickly Skimmer filled the bandmap, and very pleased that all the spots were coming from *my* antennas. This was truly the list of calls that my station could hear. It was actually gratifying near the end of the contest to see, with a fair degree of certainty, that I had pretty-much cleared the bands of new mults. If I were to continue to use Skimmer, however, I think it would remain fun for only a few more contests. Once I optimized my configuration to eliminate the awkwardness, and could see and work spots at will on all the open bands, then I think it would be a lot like packet and I would get bored with it. Although it's nice to see all the calls my station can hear, I would miss the old thrill of the hunt -- working a new mult I found myself by tuning and listening. Something to think about. 73, Dick WC1M (see below for station details) Antennas: 160M - trapped vee @90', trapped vee @65' 80M - delta loop @75' (broken), trapped vee @90', trapped vee @65' 40M - Cal-Av 2D-40A @110', 4-square 20M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 4-el @72' 15M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50', 5-el @50' 10M - 4/4/4 SteppIRs @96'/64'/34' on TICs, C3E @50' Tower#1: Cal-AV 2D-40A, 4-el SteppIRs, 160/80 trapped vee 770-MDP: Force-12 EF-420 AB-577 #1: Force-12 EF-515 AB-577 #2: Force-12 C3E Delta loop and trapped vee hung from trees 580' beverage aimed 20-degrees Equipment: Elecraft K3 + LP-PAN + CW Skimmer + Alpha 87A, Ten-Tec Orion + Acom 2000A, Writelog, W5XD+ keyer/switcher, homebrew Windows antenna switching/tuning software ("AntennaMaster"), Hamation Relay Drivers, TopTen and KK1L SO2R switches, Green Heron and Hy-Gain rotor controllers, microHam Stack Switch and StackMax. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 312,576 Nice little opening to EU on 10M around 22Z Saturday. Worked the HQ "beacons" and a couple others. Fun contest, despite the not so good conditions. Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WF4W Class: M/S LP Total Score = 101,200 Always a fun contest. I wanted to try and get in at least 20 hours but failed at that number. But I did well for my meager station, 13 3/4 hours and low power. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 376,960 73, Will, wj9b, dit dit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT2AAA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 238,847 IC-745 + Dipoles for 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m. No electronic keyer for CW and only one coax cable. I needed almost 20-25 min to change bands, as I must always put down the pole holding antenna and then raising it up again on my own. 80m operation was well beyond sunrise, but I still manage to work 58 qso in 45 min. As we had extremly hot days and night during weekend, I stayed whole contest outside, working from backyard. It feels really special when you work all those loud US stations on 40m under the thousands stars. Somehow I feel that this was the nicest contest I ever participated. Hear you in IOTA test... 73, GL, AAA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: YT8HQ Class: Headquarters HP Total Score = 15,052,725 Call: YT8HQ Category: Headquarters Power: High Power Band: All Band Mode: Mixed Mode Country: Serbia BAND QSO QSO-PTS PTS/Q ZONES HQ STNS 160 854 1606 1.88 14 31 80 1556 3138 2.02 24 36 40 3124 7612 2.44 39 49 20 4279 12013 2.81 51 59 15 2515 6527 2.60 38 49 10 1103 2779 2.52 24 33 --------------------------------------------------- Totals 13431 33675 2.51 190 257 Score: 15,052,725 points Continent Statistics YT8HQ IARU HF Championship Multi Multi 12 Jul 2008 1642z 160 80 40 20 15 10 ALL percent CW North America CW 5 44 274 508 242 12 1085 7.9 South America CW 0 2 11 14 22 0 49 0.4 Europe CW 464 869 1105 1451 1145 433 5467 40.0 Asia CW 13 46 81 280 84 34 538 3.9 Africa CW 2 8 6 16 12 1 45 0.3 Oceania CW 0 1 7 10 2 0 20 0.1 SSB North America SSB 1 11 134 301 37 9 493 3.6 South America SSB 1 6 37 35 26 10 115 0.8 Europe SSB 361 562 1377 1672 956 575 5503 40.3 Asia SSB 8 22 82 86 50 31 279 2.0 Africa SSB 1 5 8 23 8 5 50 0.4 Oceania SSB 0 0 12 9 1 0 22 0.2 ------------------------- QSO By MODE BAND SSB CW ------------------------- 160 371 483 80 605 952 40 1640 1484 20 2110 2169 15 1072 1444 10 629 476 --------------------------------- Total 6427 + 7008 = 13431 --------------------------------- Operator List: 160 sssb Z36W YU3AA YU7AC YU7KF YU7HI 160 cw YT5Z YU7KC YU7CM 80 ssb YT7KF YU7VX YU7AV 80 cw YT4T YU2M YU0U YU1RA 40 ssb YT1XX YT2A YU1EA YT1WW YU1EW 40 cw YT7WA YU5RA YU7DW YU7GW 20 ssb YT8T YT1BD YU1JW YU1ZZ 20 cw YT2T YT2B YT1BX YT5TT YU2A YU8YL YU2EA 15 ssb YU3A YT2U YT2RX 15 cw YT1AA YU1NW YU1DW YU1AU YT1TA YU1KX 10 ssb YT7DQ YT7EE YU7ZZ YU7PT Bence Bela Tucsok Gabi 10 cw YU7FN YU7AR Equipment Description @ Location: 160 ssb Zabalj TS930S - PA TL922 1,Kw - In V @ 20m + 3 x Beverage 160 cw Senta 2 x DRAKE TR7 - PA 1,3 Kw - GP 1/4 wl + 6x Beverage 80 ssb Kikinda TS870S - PA 1,5 Kw - 2 x ZL specijal + 3 x Beverage 80 cw BG-Cerak TS2000 + TS930S - PA 1 Kw - 3el Wes, 2el East + 2 x Beverage 40 ssb BG-Borca TS940S + TS850S- PA GU84 1,5 Kw - 4 el YAGI @ 20m + 4el @ 20m INV V fix NA 40 cw Muzlja FT767 - PA 2xGU81m 1,4 Kw - 3 el YAGI @ 30m + 3 el QUAD + GP 20 ssb Zlatibor TS930S - PA 2xGU81m 1,4Kw - 4 el QUAD @ 15M 20 cw Nis TS930S + FT1000 - PA GU78 1,5 Kw - 5 el YAGI @ 30m + 2 el QUAD 15 ssb Sombor TS450S + TS930S - PA SB220 900 w - KLM 6 el @ 25 + TH3MK3 15 cw Pozarevac TS2000 + TS930S - PA GU78 1,5 Kw + SB220 - 4 el QUAD @ 20m 10 ssb Coka 2 x TS930S - PA GS35B 700w + SB220 300w - 5 el Yagi @ 15m + 2 el Quad 10 cw Ada TS950SD - PA 1,3 Kw - 5 el YAGI @ 20m + In V dipole MAILING ADDRESS: Savez Radio-amatera Srbije YT8HQ Po Box 48 11001 Belgrade SERBIA E-mail: yu1srs@beotel.yu YT8HQ 2008 LOG manager Milan,YU1ZZ - YT0Z YT8HQ 2008 Team leader Voja ,YU7AV - YT3A We thank you all for your contacts with YT8HQ. We will confirm all the QSO`s via buro. Please do not reply.Please call us again next year. 73`s YT8HQ team 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 128,122 SO1R Antennas:- C/Craft A3S @ 50ft Amp:- Acom-1000 Rig:- Icom-756 Pro3 Software:- CT 10.03 Thanks to the organisers and to everyone for the Q's. I could only manage to fit in a couple of hours but it was nice to see 10M open. Log is on LOTW. Paper Qsl's are still welcome. CU in the VHF next weekend. 73 Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZS6AA Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 409,216 Conditions are usually difficult in our winter, especially near the bottom of the sunspot cycle. However propagation seemed better during the contest than it has been for the past couple of weeks - or maybe it's just the number of stations on air and my determination to dig them out! Propagation wasn't good enough for much SO2R as it was rare to have two bands open with one runnable, so I concentrated on trying to improve my S&P, and run for short occasions when possible. I was updating the getscores.org live scoring, and had a bit of a tussle going with Herman PA3BFH who was close to my score for most of the contest. I'm not sure whether he was watching the scores but I was, especially near the end when he was catching up with me... TS-850S / TS-930S Force 12 C-31XR @ 18m, Optibeam OB2-40 @ 20m, 80m dipole. Thanks to all the fine ops out there. I'm sure I will have enjoyed it once I've rested :) 73 Andrew ZS6AA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ZW5B Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 1,202,746 Many Thanks to Mr. Oms PY5EG for let me use his Super Station. 10m propagation was very poor, and no antena for 80m and 160m in this contest. Many multipliers from South America. Index of Calls Call: 4L0A Class: SO SSB HP Call: 5B4AII Class: SO Mixed HP Call: 9A0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: AA3B Class: SO CW HP Call: AA4FU Class: SO CW LP Call: AA8LL Class: M/S HP Call: AB2E Class: SO CW HP Call: AB7E Class: SO CW LP Call: AC0W Class: M/S LP Call: AC5AA Class: SO CW LP Call: AD5VJ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AD6ZJ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AE4Y Class: SO CW LP Call: AI4G Class: SO SSB LP Call: AK4I Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AL1G Class: SO Mixed HP Call: AT6T Class: Headquarters HP Call: AY4D Class: SO SSB HP Call: CE4CT Class: SO SSB HP Call: CT1ENQ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: CW7T Class: M/S HP Call: DA0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: DF1DX Class: SO CW QRP Call: DJ1YFK Class: SO CW HP Call: DJ2YA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DJ7EC Class: SO CW LP Call: DK8EY Class: SO Mixed HP Call: DK9TN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: DL1IAO Class: SO CW HP Call: DL1KSE Class: SO CW LP Call: DL1Z Class: SO SSB HP Call: DL2AA Class: SO SSB HP Call: DL2UH Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DL3YM Class: SO CW LP Call: DL8SCG Class: SO CW HP Call: DL9YAJ Class: SO SSB HP Call: DO9ST Class: SO Mixed LP Call: DP4K Class: SO SSB HP Call: DS5KJR Class: SO CW LP Call: E21EIC Class: SO Mixed LP Call: EA1WX Class: SO CW HP Call: EA3JW Class: SO CW HP Call: EA4DRV Class: SO CW HP Call: EA5DFV Class: SO SSB HP Call: EF8U Class: Headquarters HP Call: EM5HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: ES5RR Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ES5RW Class: SO SSB HP Call: F5CQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: F5IN Class: SO CW HP Call: F5LCU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: F5RD Class: SO SSB LP Call: F6BEE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: F8AOF Class: SO SSB HP Call: F8CRS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: F8DVD Class: SO SSB HP Call: G4EHT Class: SO CW LP Call: G4ERW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: G4MKP Class: SO CW HP Call: GM0DBW Class: SO SSB HP Call: HC8N Class: SO CW HP Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Call: HK6P Class: SO SSB HP Call: HL5YI Class: SO CW LP Call: IR4E Class: SO Mixed LP Call: IS0/IT9VDQ Class: SO CW LP Call: IT9HUV/2 Class: SO SSB QRP Call: IT9RBW Class: SO SSB HP Call: IZ1LBG Class: SO SSB HP Call: IZ8GCB Class: M/S HP Call: J48D Class: SO CW LP Call: JF1NHD Class: SO CW HP Call: K0AD Class: SO CW LP Call: K0FX Class: SO CW HP Call: K0HW Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K0KX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0OU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K0PK Class: SO CW LP Call: K0RH Class: SO SSB HP Call: K0UK Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K1DG Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K1GU Class: SO CW HP Call: K1HT Class: SO CW LP Call: K1LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K1PT Class: SO CW LP Call: K1TN Class: SO CW LP Call: K1VU Class: SO SSB LP Call: K1ZZI Class: M/S HP Call: K2LE Class: SO CW HP Call: K2QMF Class: M/S HP Call: K2SX Class: SO CW HP Call: K2ZR Class: SO CW LP Call: K3CR Class: SO CW HP Call: K3JT Class: SO CW HP Call: K3LL/6 Class: SO SSB HP Call: K3MQ Class: SO CW LP Call: K3TD Class: SO SSB LP Call: K3WI Class: SO CW HP Call: K3WW Class: SO CW HP Call: K3ZO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4AB Class: SO SSB LP Call: K4CX Class: SO SSB LP Call: K4CZ Class: SO CW LP Call: K4DJ Class: SO CW HP Call: K4FTO Class: SO CW LP Call: K4HAL Class: SO CW HP Call: K4IU Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4MX Class: SO CW LP Call: K4QPL Class: SO CW LP Call: K4WW Class: SO CW HP Call: K4XD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K4XU Class: SO CW HP Call: K5DU Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K5ER Class: SO SSB HP Call: K5KA Class: SO CW LP Call: K5KG Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K5MR Class: SO CW HP Call: K5NA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K5OT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K5TR Class: SO SSB HP Call: K5WA Class: SO CW HP Call: K5ZD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6CSL Class: SO CW LP Call: K6III Class: M/S HP Call: K6LRG Class: M/S HP Call: K6MM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6RM Class: SO CW LP Call: K6TA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6TD Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K6VVA Class: SO CW LP Call: K7ABV Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7EG Class: SO CW HP Call: K7GK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: K7HBN Class: SO CW QRP Call: K7WA Class: SO CW LP Call: K7ZS Class: SO CW LP Call: K8AJS Class: SO CW HP Call: K8GL Class: SO CW HP Call: K8GT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K8MR Class: SO Mixed LP Call: K9ES Class: SO CW HP Call: K9GY Class: SO CW LP Call: K9JY Class: SO CW HP Call: K9MMS Class: SO CW LP Call: K9NW Class: SO CW HP Call: K9RS Class: M/S HP Call: KA1ARB Class: M/S HP Call: KA1CQR Class: SO SSB QRP Call: KA2KON Class: SO SSB LP Call: KA4OTB Class: SO SSB LP Call: KA6SGT Class: SO CW QRP Call: KB4KBS Class: SO CW LP Call: KB7Q Class: SO CW LP Call: KB9OWD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KC7V Class: SO CW LP Call: KD4HXT Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KD5J Class: SO CW LP Call: KG4CUY Class: SO CW HP Call: KH7B Class: SO SSB HP Call: KI7Y Class: SO CW LP Call: KL5DX Class: SO CW HP Call: KL7RA Class: M/S HP Call: KO7X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: KQ6ES Class: SO CW LP Call: KR4F Class: SO CW LP Call: KS8O Class: SO Mixed LP Call: KU8E Class: SO CW HP Call: KZ5D Class: SO CW HP Call: LA2AB Class: SO CW HP Call: LP1H Class: SO SSB HP Call: LW3EWZ Class: SO SSB HP Call: LY1C Class: SO CW LP Call: LY9Y Class: SO Mixed HP Call: LZ9R Class: SO CW LP Call: LZ9W Class: SO Mixed HP Call: M0BLF Class: SO Mixed LP Call: M0CFW Class: SO CW QRP Call: MD0C Class: SO Mixed LP Call: MM0ERK Class: SO SSB HP Call: N0NI Class: M/S HP Call: N1LN Class: SO CW HP Call: N1SXL Class: SO SSB LP Call: N1UR Class: SO SSB LP Call: N1WR Class: SO CW HP Call: N2CU Class: SO CW LP Call: N2IC Class: SO CW HP Call: N2MUN Class: SO SSB HP Call: N2NS Class: M/S HP Call: N2QT Class: SO SSB LP Call: N2SQW Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N2WN Class: SO CW QRP Call: N3BB Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N3BM Class: SO CW LP Call: N3ME Class: SO SSB HP Call: N3RS Class: SO CW HP Call: N3UA Class: SO CW LP Call: N3XLS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N4AF Class: SO CW HP Call: N4DW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4GG Class: SO CW HP Call: N4KG Class: SO CW HP Call: N4LF Class: SO CW LP Call: N4LZ Class: SO SSB HP Call: N4OGW Class: SO CW HP Call: N4PN Class: SO CW HP Call: N4PSE Class: SO CW LP Call: N4TB Class: SO CW LP Call: N4UC Class: SO CW LP Call: N4ZZ Class: SO CW HP Call: N5AW/0 Class: SO CW LP Call: N5DO Class: SO Mixed LP Call: N5DX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N5WLA Class: M/S LP Call: N6AN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6CCH Class: SO SSB HP Call: N6GEO Class: SO CW LP Call: N6NF Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6QQ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N6RO Class: SO CW HP Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Call: N6TW Class: SO CW HP Call: N7BV Class: M/S HP Call: N7ZG Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N8II Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: N8NOE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: N9ADG Class: SO CW LP Call: N9FC Class: SO CW HP Call: NA2M Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NA4BW Class: SO CW LP Call: NA4K Class: SO CW LP Call: NB7V Class: SO SSB HP Call: ND0C Class: SO SSB QRP Call: NE7D Class: SO CW LP Call: NF4A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NI7T Class: SO CW LP Call: NN2NN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NN3W Class: M/S HP Call: NN7SS Class: SO SSB QRP Call: NO5W Class: SO CW LP Call: NR3X Class: SO Mixed LP Call: NT4XT Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: NT6X Class: SO Mixed HP Call: NV8N Class: M/S LP Call: NX5M Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: NX9T Class: SO SSB HP Call: OE1A Class: Headquarters HP Call: OH2XX Class: SO CW HP Call: OK1DSA Class: SO CW QRP Call: OK1JOC Class: SO CW LP Call: OK3C Class: SO CW LP Call: OK6Y Class: SO Mixed LP Call: OL4HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: OL8M Class: SO CW HP Call: OM7YL Class: SO SSB LP Call: OP4K Class: SO SSB HP Call: OR2A Class: SO Mixed LP Call: OT1A Class: SO CW HP Call: P33W Class: M/S HP Call: PA3ARM Class: SO CW LP Call: PG7V Class: SO CW LP Call: PJ2X Class: SO SSB HP Call: PR1T Class: M/S HP Call: PR7AR Class: SO CW LP Call: PS2T Class: M/S HP Call: PW2D Class: M/S HP Call: PY2SEX Class: SO CW LP Call: PY2WC Class: SO CW HP Call: PY2ZY Class: SO SSB QRP Call: RA3CM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Call: RM3F Class: SO Mixed HP Call: RS3A Class: SO Mixed HP Call: S51NM Class: SO Mixed LP Call: S52OP Class: SO CW LP Call: S53MM Class: SO Mixed HP Call: S56A Class: SO CW HP Call: S56G Class: SO SSB LP Call: S57U Class: SO CW LP Call: SE5E Class: SO CW HP Call: SK7OA Class: M/S HP Call: SN8R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: SP2LNW Class: SO CW HP Call: SP9LJD Class: SO SSB HP Call: SV2DCD Class: SO SSB HP Call: TM0HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: UA6LV Class: SO CW HP Call: UP0L Class: SO Mixed HP Call: UP4L Class: SO CW HP Call: UY5LW Class: SO CW LP Call: UY5ZZ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: V31UB Class: M/S HP Call: VA2RAC Class: Headquarters HP Call: VA3ATT Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3RJ Class: SO CW LP Call: VA3WU Class: SO SSB LP Call: VA7KO Class: SO CW LP Call: VA7RN Class: SO CW HP Call: VA7ST Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE1DT Class: SO CW HP Call: VE1OP Class: SO CW HP Call: VE1RGB Class: SO CW LP Call: VE2FU Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3CX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3DZ Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3EJ Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE3GSI Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3MGY Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: VE3NE Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3RZ Class: SO CW LP Call: VE3TA Class: SO CW HP Call: VE3UTT Class: M/S HP Call: VE3XD Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE6EX Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7CC Class: SO Mixed HP Call: VE7FO Class: M/S HP Call: VE7NS Class: SO Mixed LP Call: VE7SV Class: M/S HP Call: VE7XF Class: SO CW HP Call: VE9CEH Class: SO SSB LP Call: VO1HE Class: SO CW HP Call: VO1HP Class: SO CW LP Call: W0BH Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W0RAA Class: SO CW LP Call: W0SD Class: M/S HP Call: W1EBI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W1NN Class: SO CW LP Call: W1TO Class: SO CW LP Call: W1ZT Class: SO CW HP Call: W2B Class: M/S HP Call: W2LHL Class: SO CW LP Call: W2OO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W2RDS Class: SO SSB HP Call: W3BP Class: SO CW LP Call: W3CP Class: SO CW LP Call: W3KL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W3LJ Class: M/S HP Call: W3LL Class: SO SSB LP Call: W3YY Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4AN Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4AU Class: SO CW LP Call: W4IX Class: SO CW LP Call: W4KAZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W4NZ Class: SO CW HP Call: W4PA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W4PM Class: SO CW HP Call: W4SVO Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4TMN Class: SO SSB LP Call: W4UAT Class: SO CW HP Call: W4ZE Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5FO Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5KFT Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W5VX Class: SO CW HP Call: W5WZ Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W5ZL Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W6OAT Class: SO CW HP Call: W6SX Class: SO CW HP Call: W6TK Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W6YI Class: SO Mixed HP Call: W7QN Class: SO Mixed LP Call: W7RN Class: M/S HP Call: W7TMT Class: SO CW LP Call: W7WA Class: SO SSB HP Call: W7WHY Class: SO CW HP Call: W7YAQ Class: SO CW LP Call: W8AV Class: SO CW HP Call: W8MJ Class: SO CW HP Call: WA6BOB Class: SO CW HP Call: WA6ST Class: SO SSB HP Call: WB4ROA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WB4TDH Class: SO CW LP Call: WC1M Class: SO CW HP Call: WC6H Class: SO Mixed HP Call: WD4AHZ Class: SO CW LP Call: WF4W Class: M/S LP Call: WJ9B Class: SO CW LP Call: WN3R Class: M/S HP Call: WS1L Class: SO Mixed LP Call: WT8C Class: M/S HP Call: WW9R Class: SO Mixed HP Call: YL6W Class: SO Mixed HP Call: YL8M Class: SO CW HP Call: YT2AAA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: YT8HQ Class: Headquarters HP Call: YU1LA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW HP Call: ZS6AA Class: SO CW LP Call: ZW5B Class: SO SSB HP Index of Calls organized by Class Class: Headquarters HP Call: 9A0HQ Call: AT6T Call: DA0HQ Call: EF8U Call: EM5HQ Call: OE1A Call: OL4HQ Call: TM0HQ Call: VA2RAC Call: YT8HQ Class: M/S HP Call: AA8LL Call: CW7T Call: HG6N Call: IZ8GCB Call: K1ZZI Call: K2QMF Call: K6III Call: K6LRG Call: K9RS Call: KA1ARB Call: KL7RA Call: N0NI Call: N2NS Call: N7BV Call: NN3W Call: P33W Call: PR1T Call: PS2T Call: PW2D Call: RL3A Call: SK7OA Call: V31UB Call: VE3UTT Call: VE7FO Call: VE7SV Call: W0SD Call: W2B Call: W3LJ Call: W7RN Call: WN3R Call: WT8C Class: M/S LP Call: AC0W Call: N5WLA Call: NV8N Call: WF4W Class: SO CW HP Call: AA3B Call: AB2E Call: DJ1YFK Call: DL1IAO Call: DL8SCG Call: EA1WX Call: EA3JW Call: EA4DRV Call: F5IN Call: G4MKP Call: HC8N Call: JF1NHD Call: K0FX Call: K1GU Call: K2LE Call: K2SX Call: K3CR Call: K3JT Call: K3WI Call: K3WW Call: K4DJ Call: K4HAL Call: K4WW Call: K4XU Call: K5MR Call: K5WA Call: K7EG Call: K8AJS Call: K8GL Call: K9ES Call: K9JY Call: K9NW Call: KG4CUY Call: KL5DX Call: KU8E Call: KZ5D Call: LA2AB Call: N1LN Call: N1WR Call: N2IC Call: N3RS Call: N4AF Call: N4DW Call: N4GG Call: N4KG Call: N4OGW Call: N4PN Call: N4ZZ Call: N6RO Call: N6TV Call: N6TW Call: N9FC Call: OH2XX Call: OL8M Call: OT1A Call: PY2WC Call: S56A Call: SE5E Call: SP2LNW Call: UA6LV Call: UP4L Call: VA7RN Call: VE1DT Call: VE1OP Call: VE2FU Call: VE3DZ Call: VE3TA Call: VE7XF Call: VO1HE Call: W1ZT Call: W4NZ Call: W4PM Call: W4UAT Call: W5VX Call: W6OAT Call: W6SX Call: W7WHY Call: W8AV Call: W8MJ Call: WA6BOB Call: WC1M Call: YL8M Call: ZC4LI Class: SO CW LP Call: AA4FU Call: AB7E Call: AC5AA Call: AE4Y Call: DJ7EC Call: DL1KSE Call: DL3YM Call: DS5KJR Call: G4EHT Call: HL5YI Call: IS0/IT9VDQ Call: J48D Call: K0AD Call: K0PK Call: K1HT Call: K1PT Call: K1TN Call: K2ZR Call: K3MQ Call: K4CZ Call: K4FTO Call: K4MX Call: K4QPL Call: K5KA Call: K6CSL Call: K6RM Call: K6VVA Call: K7WA Call: K7ZS Call: K9GY Call: K9MMS Call: KB4KBS Call: KB7Q Call: KC7V Call: KD5J Call: KI7Y Call: KQ6ES Call: KR4F Call: LY1C Call: LZ9R Call: N2CU Call: N3BM Call: N3UA Call: N4LF Call: N4PSE Call: N4TB Call: N4UC Call: N5AW/0 Call: N6GEO Call: N9ADG Call: NA4BW Call: NA4K Call: NE7D Call: NI7T Call: NO5W Call: OK1JOC Call: OK3C Call: PA3ARM Call: PG7V Call: PR7AR Call: PY2SEX Call: S52OP Call: S57U Call: UY5LW Call: VA3ATT Call: VA3RJ Call: VA7KO Call: VE1RGB Call: VE3GSI Call: VE3NE Call: VE3RZ Call: VO1HP Call: W0RAA Call: W1NN Call: W1TO Call: W2LHL Call: W3BP Call: W3CP Call: W4AU Call: W4IX Call: W7TMT Call: W7YAQ Call: WB4TDH Call: WD4AHZ Call: WJ9B Call: ZS6AA Class: SO CW QRP Call: DF1DX Call: K7HBN Call: KA6SGT Call: M0CFW Call: N2WN Call: OK1DSA Class: SO Mixed HP Call: 5B4AII Call: AK4I Call: AL1G Call: DK8EY Call: DK9TN Call: ES5RR Call: F5CQ Call: F6BEE Call: G4ERW Call: K0KX Call: K0OU Call: K1DG Call: K1LZ Call: K3ZO Call: K4IU Call: K4XD Call: K5KG Call: K5NA Call: K5ZD Call: K6AM Call: K6MM Call: K6TA Call: K6TD Call: K7ABV Call: K7GK Call: KO7X Call: LY9Y Call: LZ9W Call: N2SQW Call: N3BB Call: N5DX Call: N6AN Call: N6NF Call: N6QQ Call: N7ZG Call: N8NOE Call: NA2M Call: NN2NN Call: NT6X Call: RA3CM Call: RM3F Call: RS3A Call: S53MM Call: SN8R Call: UP0L Call: UY5ZZ Call: VA7ST Call: VE3CX Call: VE3EJ Call: VE6EX Call: VE7CC Call: W0BH Call: W1EBI Call: W2OO Call: W3YY Call: W4AN Call: W4PA Call: W4ZE Call: W5FO Call: W5KFT Call: W6TK Call: W6YI Call: WB4ROA Call: WC6H Call: WW9R Call: YL6W Call: YU1LA Class: SO Mixed LP Call: AD5VJ Call: AD6ZJ Call: CT1ENQ Call: DJ2YA Call: DL2UH Call: DO9ST Call: E21EIC Call: F5LCU Call: F8CRS Call: IR4E Call: K0HW Call: K0UK Call: K5DU Call: K5OT Call: K8GT Call: K8MR Call: KB9OWD Call: KD4HXT Call: KS8O Call: M0BLF Call: MD0C Call: N3XLS Call: N5DO Call: NF4A Call: NR3X Call: OK6Y Call: OR2A Call: S51NM Call: VE3XD Call: VE7NS Call: W3KL Call: W4KAZ Call: W5WZ Call: W5ZL Call: W7QN Call: WS1L Call: YT2AAA Class: SO Mixed QRP Call: N8II Call: NT4XT Call: NX5M Call: VE3MGY Class: SO SSB HP Call: 4L0A Call: AY4D Call: CE4CT Call: DL1Z Call: DL2AA Call: DL9YAJ Call: DP4K Call: EA5DFV Call: ES5RW Call: F8AOF Call: F8DVD Call: GM0DBW Call: HK6P Call: IT9RBW Call: IZ1LBG Call: K0RH Call: K3LL/6 Call: K5ER Call: K5TR Call: KH7B Call: LP1H Call: LW3EWZ Call: MM0ERK Call: N2MUN Call: N3ME Call: N4LZ Call: N6CCH Call: NB7V Call: NX9T Call: OP4K Call: PJ2X Call: SP9LJD Call: SV2DCD Call: W2RDS Call: W7WA Call: WA6ST Call: ZW5B Class: SO SSB LP Call: AI4G Call: F5RD Call: K1VU Call: K3TD Call: K4AB Call: K4CX Call: KA2KON Call: KA4OTB Call: N1SXL Call: N1UR Call: N2QT Call: OM7YL Call: S56G Call: VA3WU Call: VE9CEH Call: W3LL Call: W4SVO Call: W4TMN Class: SO SSB QRP Call: IT9HUV/2 Call: KA1CQR Call: ND0C Call: NN7SS Call: PY2ZY