Rus DX Soapbox built 5-15-2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4L0A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 11,017,641 I'm very thankful to Gia 4L4WW for getting me use his great station again !!! Also I'm very grateful to Gia's family for their hospitality. See you next year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 15,244,074 Few days prior the contest I had lightning shot on two towers. Many devices were burned inside the shack, but worse problem was damage on 2L80 yagi. An antenna was down Wednesday and day after it was up again, repaired. It took a lot of my energy, as I had to do it alone with Boro, 4O6Z who is on location during March. Friday we repaired the rest of burned devices and had all in working conditions again. Harry, RA3AUU and Dima, RW9USU arrived Friday, and Andy, UA3AB was on location at Sunday, together with Dragan, 4O4A and Rob, SM7YGZ, who come to visit us. Contest was operated mostly by Russian guests and it was just question of routine. Good ops, average conditions (almost dead 10M and bad 15M) and score is at the end as I expected. It is easy to conclude that with better conditions on 15M and 10M is easily possible to make around 4500Qs in that contest. Amazing..! Thanks to all who calling us and see you in WPX SSB Ranko – 4O3A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4O7AMD Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 29,972 Great contest! QSL for RDXC2008 via EA7FTR! Best 73's Nikola 4O7AMD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 4U1ITU Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 10,686,305 Band Mode QSOs Pts Cty Sec 1.8 CW 269 1275 38 28 1.8 LSB 14 44 2 0 3.5 CW 654 3403 50 52 3.5 LSB 15 68 1 1 7 CW 1153 6354 63 55 7 LSB 287 1847 10 5 14 CW 726 4567 27 18 14 USB 428 2964 36 50 21 CW 114 561 42 15 21 USB 7 35 2 0 28 CW 12 38 9 0 28 USB 1 5 1 0 Total Both 3680 21161 281 224 Brut Score : 10,686,305 Rig : IC765 + PA / IC756pro3 + PA (500W<1000W) Antennas : SteppIR 3el, FB53, 40-2CD, Dipoles Misc : N1MM-logger, Microham microkeyers, Band-decoders and Antenna switching system, ICE band-filters ops : Phil F6IFY, Pat F6IRF, Seb F8CMF, Andrey RW3AH, Nico SV3SJ The RDXC is one of the club favorite contest. This year the operation, was decided during the dinner following the IARC General-assembly, where we met with Andrey, currently in Geneva for his professional duties. A day trip to Montichiari (N.Italy) "DX and Contest corner" event, during the previous weekend provided an excellent opportunity to build-up the "team-spirit". Station preparation was done by Nico and myself on thursday and Friday. The club Butternut vertical being out of service after the winter heavy winds, we installed temporary 80 and 160 dipoles. We also installed a K9AY, but the antenna being just a few meters away from the 80m dipole the terminating resistor burned during the first 80m run... anyway, the performances of the K9AY were strongly affected by the proximity of the transmitting dipoles and the RX-performance improvement was far from being obvious (NE being our worst direction in terms of noise !). By chance, this has been the only technical problem experienced during the contest. We finaly decided to go for the MO2T category just a couple of hours before the start, after we could verify that the level of mutual-interferences between the stations was acceptable (it was actualy excellent with near to zero mutual interferences - except Seb's audio volume when operating SSB ;-) Conditions have been extremely poor, with low SFI, high Aurora and K-index. On top of the usual "high man-made noise", characteristic of the station, we also had a few static-rain showers during the night... As in 2006 and despite Andrey's talents, we never managed to keep a sustained SSB-run going, thus our low percentage of SSB-Q's vs CW-Q's. Anyway, knowing the limitations of the station, we did not expect to be competitive and our objective was clearly to give the multiplier to a maximum of participants, more than fighting for the first place; the essential being that we really had an enjoyable weekend and great pile-ups... A bit of E-sporadic allowed a few 10m QSO's at the end of the contest and 160m has been better than we expected with a s9+10 noise floor ! Personnaly I will keep in mind the first hour on 80m CW, with the most compact pile I have heard for quite some time (amazingly, and despite the fact that the 80m antenna seemed to work OK, all our SSB-attempts on this band remained unfructuous !) Thanks to Attila OM1AM, president of IARC and station manager for his support, the assistance in station configuration and for the QSL-work. All logged QSO's will be confirmed through LOTW, conventionnal QSL's will be replied through the bureau or direct through IARC P.O. Box 6 CH-1211 Geneva 20 Switzerland. Thanks to all for the QSO's and to the "Soyuz Radioljubitelej Rossii" for the perfect organization. More stats, pictures and a video will added soon on http://f6irf.blogspot.com/ You may also visit Andy's home page http://www.qsl.net/rw3ah/eng/e_rw3ah.htm and the IARC homepage http://life.itu.int/radioclub/ (where you can consult the "online log" which will be updated after the contest log deadline) On behalf on the team and IARC Patrick F6IRF Just a few statistics: ======================================== CTY TOT 160 80 40 20 15 10 ======================================== 4J 3 1 2 4L 2 1 1 4O 4 1 1 1 1 4X 15 1 9 4 1 5B 16 2 2 4 5 3 6Y 2 1 1 9A 31 6 12 9 3 1 9H 1 1 9K 2 2 9V 1 1 A4 1 1 BY 2 1 1 C9 1 1 CN 2 2 CT 3 3 CT3 2 1 1 CX 2 1 1 DL 253 34 75 94 39 9 2 E7 12 2 3 4 3 EA 26 3 7 15 1 EA8 11 1 2 2 4 2 EA9 3 1 1 1 EI 2 2 EK 3 1 2 ER 12 1 6 5 ES 30 4 5 11 9 1 ET 1 1 EU 38 2 7 10 16 3 EX 2 1 1 EY 3 2 1 F 36 6 8 11 5 3 3 G 75 8 16 37 12 2 GI 3 1 1 1 GM 4 1 3 GW 2 1 1 HA 47 5 15 25 2 HB 24 2 8 6 4 3 1 HL 2 2 HZ 3 2 1 I 79 15 19 37 5 2 1 J2 1 1 J3 1 1 JA 21 7 14 JT 1 1 K 350 62 169 119 KP4 1 1 LA 30 6 4 11 7 1 1 LU 4 4 LX 3 1 1 1 LY 96 9 25 30 31 1 LZ 44 3 6 15 15 4 1 OE 17 2 5 7 2 1 OH 43 4 8 14 15 2 OH0 8 1 2 2 2 1 OK 80 8 27 34 7 4 OM 33 4 8 15 5 1 ON 10 2 4 4 OX 1 1 OZ 16 2 4 3 7 P4 3 1 1 1 PA 36 4 8 18 5 1 PY 17 11 1 5 R1FJ 1 1 S5 36 9 12 10 4 1 SM 38 4 6 10 16 2 SP 133 12 21 53 38 9 SV 24 2 2 7 13 SV9 2 1 1 T7 1 1 T8 2 1 1 TA 5 4 1 TF 7 2 5 TK 1 1 UA 985 60 157 356 392 20 UA2 25 2 4 6 12 1 UA9 268 4 25 115 120 4 UN 29 3 13 11 2 UR 317 32 44 117 116 8 VE 47 5 22 20 VK 2 2 VQ9 1 1 VU 1 1 XE 1 1 YL 47 4 10 13 16 4 YO 59 7 9 27 15 1 YU 50 7 16 21 3 3 YV 7 1 4 1 1 Z3 4 1 3 ZC4 3 1 1 1 ZL 3 2 1 ZS 4 2 1 1 ======================================== Total 3680 283 669 1440 1154 121 13 ======================================== ======================================== OBL TOT 160 80 40 20 15 10 ======================================== AD 13 1 5 7 AL 7 1 3 3 AM 1 1 AR 13 1 2 5 5 BA 21 1 3 7 9 1 BO 25 3 4 9 9 BR 12 6 6 CB 45 1 6 19 18 1 CT 2 1 1 CU 4 1 2 1 FJ 1 1 HA 1 1 HK 1 1 HM 9 3 6 IR 5 5 IV 15 2 3 5 5 KA 26 2 4 7 12 1 KB 2 1 1 KC 4 3 1 KE 16 1 1 5 9 KG 25 2 5 8 10 KI 10 1 5 4 KK 13 10 3 KL 6 2 1 3 KM 1 1 KN 5 4 1 KO 16 8 8 KR 68 4 8 24 28 4 KS 14 2 5 7 KU 13 2 3 8 LO 32 1 7 12 12 LP 7 1 4 2 MA 92 9 15 29 36 3 MD 9 2 2 2 1 2 MO 125 7 14 50 53 1 MR 8 2 6 MU 6 1 2 3 NN 20 1 3 8 8 NO 1 1 NS 14 1 7 6 NV 6 1 3 2 OB 26 3 11 12 OM 17 2 7 7 1 OR 13 1 3 5 4 PE 22 1 2 7 10 2 PK 1 1 PM 18 2 6 10 PS 11 2 2 7 RA 11 1 2 5 3 RO 39 5 8 18 8 SA 17 3 3 6 5 SL 1 1 SM 15 1 6 7 1 SP 43 1 7 18 17 SR 19 2 5 12 ST 30 3 6 9 9 3 SV 36 6 18 11 1 TA 21 2 4 7 7 1 TB 38 3 6 12 15 2 TL 8 2 4 2 TN 1 1 TO 8 1 4 3 TU 1 1 TV 9 1 4 4 UD 23 3 4 6 10 UL 11 1 2 4 4 VG 12 4 4 4 VL 22 5 7 10 VO 18 1 2 7 8 VR 54 3 10 19 21 1 YA 2 2 YN 7 2 5 YR 24 4 7 13 ======================================== Total 1292 66 189 483 529 25 0 ======================================== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 6Y1LZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,680,128 I start the contest very good on 20 SSB and for the first 1 1/2 hour I thought I will have a very good score, until I changed the band to 40 meters. From that point I realize that I could not hear any thing on 40, 80 and 160. I started struggling with a Caribbean noise and a huge pile up on 40 and the only ones I could hear was the stations with a signal of more than 59+20. At 1 point I was embarrassed that I could not handle the pile up, I went to 80 the situation was the same and 160 also. I had beverages and K9AY loop and that did not help at all. So I apologize to every one who called and called me on all 3 low bands. On the end the mission is accomplice. I am happy with the score and unhappy the way I performed. Usually the low bands for me are the strongest bands but this time the noise did not allow me to do that. Thanks to every one who worked 6Y1LZ and see you in the next contest. 73 Кrassy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A1UN Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 5,580,076 What to say, well few days before the contest I was very motivated but than lot of things went wrong. Friday came to the location and noticed some malfunctions on most of the ants, just two weeks b4 everything was ok for arrl. So 1st 160m vertical was broken, we managed to repair it but somehow I couldnt get better swr than 1:1.8 so had to use limited power on that band. Some of our neighbours had fun with 80m vertical radial sistem end all wires were together full of knots, spent a few hours repairing and spreading radials around. 40m looked OK, 20m resonance somehow went 500khz up, I think that some water got into the coax but was too late to repair that. 15m and 10m were fb but useless in this part of the cycle. After noticed all this problems the plan was to repair 160m on friday and solve radial thing on saturday morning. We did that without problems and I had smile on my face again, except I was tired because I was at 07am already on contest qth. Than happend the worst thing that could happen in a contest, 40m key band antenna 4el full size yagi was stuck to west. With antenna in this position I had more than 25db attenuation in the most importatnt direction for this contest. Here decided to run the contest anyway and do as much as possible with this setup. Started running on 20m and after first 4 hours had 600+ qsos. Than the time for 40m arrived but with ant to west there was no chance to get any run to Russia nor keep the qrg clear. Already at 18z had first usa calling in on 40m but unforunatly this is not arrl dx is the rdxc. Later 80m was quite good but the gap with the big boys was already really big. Motivation went deep down and was thinking few times to qrt but kept working till the end. Hope Murphy did enough for this season so I belive it could not get worse for the next contest :) Congrats to OM3LA,9A5X,S50A and others for great efforts. 73 Dave 9A1UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9A7T Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,992,500 Great contest, less activity from Russia than last year but lot of DX as well, good propagation on low bands but very poor on 15 & 10. Unfortunately only 2 operators here and no directional antennas and no amplifier for multiplier station, but we have still bettered our last year claimed score for abt 300k. See you all next year, hopefully with some sunspots help as well. 73 Zlatko, 9A2EU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: 9K2HN Class: M/S HP Total Score = 12,045,590 Condition was poor on the 15m and nothing heard on 10m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX6VM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 162,105 Short time in the contest. Very interesting, hope to have time next year for a full entry Many russian stations very very strong in low bands, congratulations... 73, Jorge CX6VM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: CX9AU Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 40,144 TS 440/SAT 40 MTS DIPOLE LINEAL 3 X 4CX 150 1 KW Dan CX9AU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DD4B Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 704,572 Another Russian DX Contest. Great activity. EU was on 20m almost "death zone", no SM, OZ, GM, GW, EI, 4O, UA2... Thanks to all who called me. 73, CU in RDXC 2009... Zik VE3ZIK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DF1DX Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 160,000 Just a few hours with my new K3. Works fb! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK3WW Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 94,572 Rig: Elecraft K2 Ant: Logper 15 El 40-10m - 13m up ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DK8EY Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 453,767 ICOM IC-7400, Heathkit SB-200, 2x24m dipole, 5-ele-tribander ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL1Z Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 38,005 Did only part time phone. It was boring that almost any Russian station did not call CQ in English. Antenna: 1/4 Vertical with just two elevated radials Rig: IC-751A, modified L4B 73 Peter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL4ME Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,155,544 RIG: TS850, ZZ-750 ANT: Dipoles, Spiderbeam (beaming east, sorry - Rotor was out of order). Thanks for contacts. Ron (DL4ME) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DL6FBL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 7,419,230 Due to ongoing maintenance work at the DR1A station I could not use some antennas / equipment, so I only have 4 oblasts on 15 meters, and missed most of the UA0-stuff on 40 and 80 meters... DR1A is set up as a Multi/Multi station, with "band shacks" in separate rooms. When I wanted to change bands, I had to stand up, throw my headphones away and run to the other room (not exactly what you want for effective SO2R operation, hi...). The contest was a good way back to "normality" after the fine pile-ups during my recent stay at VP6DX. In the contest I also worked my fellow VP6DX colleagues ES5TV, and RA3AUU/UA3AB (at 4O3A). I did also appreciate the numerous on-the-air comments about our VP6DX activity. It seems that most people are happy with what we did there... :-) 73 Ben DL6FBL http://www.dr1a.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DP4K Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,041,945 Hi @ all ! This was not our year for RDXC. 40m antenna on the ground after storm "Emma" So only a delta loop for 40m and no good amplifier for the mult station. But we wanted to be in the RDXC again this year, because it is one of our highlight of the contest year. We tried to make the best out of what we had and had some fun together. Congratulations to all the big scores out there ! Many thanks to all for the QSOs and we hope to meet you soon again ! 73 de DP4K team ! See our HP for some pictures : http://www.DP4K.de ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DQ4W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 11,013,795 Unfortunately 15m never really opened up. The only loud station there was 9K2HN. However, always a fine contest with high rates over 24 hours. Congrats to our competitors at DR0W. 73 de DQ4W. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR0W Class: M/2 HP Total Score = 13,440,489 Thanks to DL1IAO and DK1MM, who joined me this year, my planned SOAB CW entry turned out to be Multi OP! We decided a few minutes before the start to enter MO2T for more fun and better club score. 15m was difficult to Russia this year, not to speak about 10. But from here it only can get better :-) Really a great contest and as Zoli said, the highlight of the year! 73 de Manfred, DJ5MW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: DR4A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,897,632 This was my 1st time participation in the Russian DX. It´s a very nice contest with a very lot of stations, quite high rates and I also like more the 24h contest because they don´t eat up the whole weekend ... We have to improve our antenna situation. Didn´t have an antenna for 160m, 10m was completely dead and 15m didn´t really open up to Russia, but I´m quite satiafied with this first time result. Next station - WPX CW in Mai cu there 73 de Wolfgang DK9VZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: E7/DK6XZ Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 1,455,597 CONTEST : RUSSIAN-DX CATEGORY : SINGLE-OP 20M HIGH MIXED CALLSIGN : E7/DK6XZ Band QSOs Points Multiplier ----------------------------------------- 14 1576 10179 70 + 73 ----------------------------------------- TOTAL 1576 10179 70 + 73 SCORE : 1455597 =================== Remarks: Dear Gentlemen It was for my the first time to work in RDXC and I was really enjoying it fully. Find the recommandation given by T93Y and the idea to work in as a very fine matter. Studied before a bit the writings on the RDXC-site and did realize live, why this contest is growing and growing: Fantastic activity and excellent operation of the Russian guys. The organizer is oviously working active on the popularity of the contest. Thank you for that and for giving us oportunity to work 2 contests in the same time ( CW and/or SSB ). According to my statistics only 10% of logged stations are worked in both modes!! I was having more luck with phone ( 930 Qs ) than CW ( 646 Qs ). E7/DK... is simply too long for CW and new PX E7 made additonal confusion to some guys - to slow me down and finally decide to only CQ. I reached my target of 1500 Qs, but there was place for more. Without DX-cluster I was of course handicaped, but never belived to miss even 24 DXCCs ( according to Tonnos, ES5TV, claimed score ) at the end. Many US-Stations contributed ( 265 Qs/17% ) and helped to fulfill the late evening hours. EU-Russians with 30% ( 478 Qs ) were on place 1 and place 3 AS-Russians with 15% ( 238 Qs ). Some "exsotic DX" as 8P,DS, P40, 6Y I worked, but missed 4O3A, LX7I and some other EUs. QSO statistics: EU 934 / AS 306 / NA 309 / SA 15 / AF 10 / OC 2 ( > 50 dupes ) Next time will hear you from Bosnia as E77XZ. Thank you all to joining in and increasing the joy. Congratulations to Boris, T93Y, who was doing excellent job in telegraphy all band game. Thanks to my clubstation E71EZC permiting me to use our nice location on 1020 m asl. 73 Suad, DK6XZ / E77XZ Post Scriptum: Arived to my hometown with the family on Saturday morning - for Easter Holidays, said hello to my father and went to the snowy mountains, alone. It must be love... I am very thankful to my family having greatest understanding for my passion. By the way: the half of the bagages in the car were HAM-equipment. Equipment: YAESU FT-1000 MP + KENWOOD TL922 ( 700 W ) Antenna: CUSHCRAFT X7 @30m Paddle: KENT PC: TOSHIBA SATELLITE PIII 1GHz + UCXLog software "I have observed all competition rules as well as all regulations for Amateur Radio in my country. My report is correct and true to the best of my knowledge." Signed Suad Zukic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA5DFV Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 4,009,644 Great contest. Just now at Eastern holliday begin, I decide to do a more serius effort on this nice contest: thanks always to the family for permit it and his support to this crazy hobby. I enjoy each minute of the contest: the quite good propagation on 15m in the firts hours, the crowed 20m band, the fight with the deliberate QRM (with records of my own voice and others artifacts), the long night on 40m with no one contact with NA, my poor antennas on 80 and 160m, the slow and quite run on 20m early sunday with many russian QSO, and, of curse, the final adrenalin for get the point till 4Meg. Always with the worry about don't make any strategy errors, irrecoverable on a 24 hours contest. Maybe, this contests will be more funny with a team, and we will try this on a near future, I hope. Thanks everybody for call me and answer my calls with great efficiency. 73 de Jose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EA9LZ Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 4,644,234 First time in this contest I like, but unfortunately very poor conditions I can operated only 18 hours....... maybe next time better. powered by wintest 3.19 I am really very happy with this program great job. CU in WPX contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: EF8T Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 1,224,773 FT2000 - 100W, multi-dipoles inverted V antennas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES2MC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,947,644 Rig: TS-850 (SO1R) + PA (GU-43) Ant: 160m inv L 80/40m dipoles 20m delta loop No chance to compete on upper bands with a simple wire delta on 20m and 40m dipole for 15m... Multiplier count remained modest too as was not doing special mult chase very much. Also, did not stay up for all night, took a 3 hours nap, thus missing some low band contacts for sure. First time for me to make a SO entry in this contest - a nice experience! Hopefully will be better equipped next year! :) CU in WPX from ES90C multi-op operation, 73, Arvo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES5TV Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 9,073,972 Great stuff. This contest is getting really interesting. I admit that it is even more interesting as we have a fair chance here to compete with the rest of the Europe and even with the world from Nothern EU:) And as it is so hard already now to pick correct strategy in terms of bands and modes it will be even much more difficult when the sunspots come up and the contest becomes even more popular. I am sure I made many mistakes here by initially just sticking to one mode per band first day and did not change the QRG enough. I just don't know why I operated so little CW on 80m, but found so nice free spot on 3788 and did not want to leave:) But I was not really concentrating on rate but multipliers as I thought this will be the important factor at the end. Not very satisfied with oblasts count but DXCC is quite surprising even to myself:) I think it was also my first SO2R MIXED mode contest with Win-Test and it worked very fine. I found it even quite comfortable to operate two radios with two ears in different modes as signals are easier to separate:) Yes, it happened a few times I tried to say QRZ with footswitch to A radio that was in CW:) In total made 415 2nd Radio QSOs (no run QSOs there) and out of those 262 were new mults at the time of the QSO. The slow rates of up to 130-140 per hour allow a lot of time for 2nd Radio. The propagation out from EU was really bad. I did not work any JAs on 80 and 160 and no K on 160. Only 1 (!) K on 80 (K1ZM finally heard me at my sunrise) and 40 (K3ZO only audible one) and only 1 (!) VE on 160 (VE1ZZ called in), 80 and 40 (both bands VE3RM was the only audible VE all through the night!!). Horrible! Still a lot of mults I missed. Did not get through the pileups of 6V7E on 160m, ZC4LI on 15m, ZS4TX on 10m. Got CQs as replies from many guys including 4L0A on 15m, 4U1ITU on 10m, OZ1ADL on 15m (after QSY), RD3A on 10m (and several other Russian stations there), ZM2B on 20m, etc.. Heard also several EU stations on 10m that could not copy me. Still 10m mults are even better than expected. Stations worked on 10m are: LZ9W, YL3FT, DL3TD, HG6L, OK2QX, SN9D, YU2A, YL2KO, OH6LI, D2NX, F8DBF, RW4PL, LZ130LO, UU5WW (by far the strongest), RU1A, 9J2M, 9A5X, YL2KO, UA4FRL. Greatly appreciated VQ9JC calling in on 160m again like it has been a nice tradition in every last contest, thanks!! So congratulations to UU0JM for great score and I seem to have been lucky Mr. Murphy visiting many strong competitors from EU:) He visited me also just 1 hour before the contest and broke my band decoders so that I had to invent some very quick and dirty rotary switches for switching antennas and BPFs manually. So started a few minutes late but luckily nothing more happened , just band changes took some more time. Some statistics below and hope to CU in WPX SSB where we will be M/2 probably as this contest is not rated very high for WRTC:) 73 Tonno ES5TV ES5TV By band - All modes QSOs (with dupes) - By time ! Hr !160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 !Total! ------------------------------------------ ! 12 ! ! ! !106 ! 6 ! 1 ! 113 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 60 ! 15 ! 4 ! 79 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! 59 ! 12 ! ! 71 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 53 ! 2 ! ! 55 ! ! 16 ! ! ! 10 ! 76 ! ! ! 86 ! ! 17 ! ! 6 !114 ! ! ! ! 120 ! ! 18 ! ! 15 !114 ! ! ! ! 129 ! ! 19 ! ! 34 ! 69 ! ! ! ! 103 ! ! 20 ! !101 ! 22 ! ! ! ! 123 ! ! 21 ! 29 !119 ! ! ! ! ! 148 ! ! 22 ! 60 ! 51 ! 1 ! ! ! ! 112 ! ! 23 ! 95 ! 4 ! 7 ! ! ! ! 106 ! ! 00 ! 71 ! 11 ! 16 ! ! ! ! 98 ! ! 01 ! 69 ! 15 ! 10 ! ! ! ! 94 ! ! 02 ! 82 ! 12 ! ! ! ! ! 94 ! ! 03 ! 4 ! 70 ! 28 ! ! ! ! 102 ! ! 04 ! 1 ! 9 ! 71 ! 4 ! ! ! 85 ! ! 05 ! 1 ! 1 ! 72 ! 22 ! 1 ! ! 97 ! ! 06 ! ! ! 37 ! 53 ! 8 ! ! 98 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! 62 ! 34 ! ! 96 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 8 ! 58 ! 4 ! 70 ! ! 09 ! ! ! 2 ! 5 ! 67 ! 2 ! 76 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 69 ! 21 ! 8 ! 98 ! ! 11 ! ! ! 1 !140 ! 1 ! ! 142 ! ------------------------------------------ ! !412 !448 !574 !717 !225 ! 19 !2395 ! ES5TV - Continents By band - SSB QSOs (with dupes) ! Band ! EU ! NA ! SA ! AF ! AS ! OC ! -------------------------------------------------------------- ! 160 ! 93.3% ! ! ! 0.8% ! 5.9% ! ! ! 80 ! 86.9% ! 1.0% ! 0.3% ! 1.0% ! 10.5% ! 0.3% ! ! 40 ! 70.7% ! 0.5% ! 4.3% ! 1.0% ! 23.6% ! ! ! 20 ! 63.0% ! 9.6% ! 1.7% ! 1.1% ! 23.2% ! 1.5% ! ! 15 ! 48.4% ! ! 2.2% ! 5.4% ! 38.7% ! 5.4% ! ! 10 ! 100.0% ! ! ! ! ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Worked oblasts ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! TOTAL ====================================================== SP ! 5 ! 1 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! ! 8 LO ! 2 ! 2 ! 1 ! 3 ! 1 ! 1 ! 10 KL ! 2 ! 1 ! ! 1 ! ! ! 4 AR ! 2 ! 4 ! 2 ! 2 ! ! ! 10 NO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! VO ! 4 ! 3 ! 1 ! 1 ! ! ! 9 NV ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 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MV ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ====================================================== ! 199 ! 185 ! 233 ! 263 ! 88 ! 3 ! 971 Worked DXCC DXCC|160C|160S| 80C| 80S| 40C| 40S| 20C| 20S| 15C| 15S| 10C| 10S|TOTAL ======================================================================= 1A | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1S | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3A | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3B6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3B8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3B9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3C | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3C0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3D2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3D2/c| | | | | | | | | | | | | 3D2/r| | | | | | | | | | | | | 3DA | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3V | | | | | | | | 1| | | | | 1 3W | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3X | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3Y/b | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3Y/p | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4J | | | 1| | | | 1| 1| | | | | 3 4L | 1| | 1| | | 1| | 1| | | | | 4 4O | 1| | | 1| 1| | | 1| | 1| | | 5 4S | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4U1I | 1| | 1| | 1| | 1| 1| 1| | | | 6 4U1U | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4U1V | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4W | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4X | | | | 1| 1| | | 1| 1| 1| | | 5 5A | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5B | 2| 2| | 1| 1| 1| 1| 1| | 2| | | 11 5H | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5N | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5R | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5T | | | | | 1| | | | | | | | 1 5U | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5V | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5W | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5X | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5Z | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6W | | | 1| | 1| | 1| | 1| | | | 4 6Y | | | | 1| 1| | 1| | | | | | 3 7O | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7P | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7Q | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7X | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8P | | | | | | | | 1| | | | | 1 8Q | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8R | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9A | 3| 2| 1| 2| 6| | | 4| 3| | 1| | 22 9G | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9H | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9J | | | | | | | | | | | 1| | 1 9K | | | 1| | 1| | 1| | | 1| | | 4 9L | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9M2 | | | | | | | | 2| | 2| | | 4 9M6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9N | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9Q | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9U | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9V | | | | | | | | 3| | 1| | | 4 9X | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9Y | | | | 1| | | | 2| | | | | 3 A2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | A3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | A4 | | | | | 1| | | | | 1| | | 2 A5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | A6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | A7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | A9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | AP | | | | | | | | | | | | | BS7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | BV | | | | | | | | | | | | | BV9P | | | | | | | | | | | | | BY | | | | | 1| | 2| 3| | 2| | | 8 C2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | C3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | C5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | C6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | C9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | CE | | | | | | | | | | | | | CE0X | | | | | | | | | | | | | CE0Y | | | | | | | | | | | | | CE0Z | | | | | | | | | | | | | CE9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | CM | | | | | | | | | | | | | CN | | | | | 1| 1| | | | | | | 2 CP | | | | | | | | | | | | | CT | | | 1| | 1| 1| | 4| | | | | 7 CT3 | | | | | 1| | 1| | | | | | 2 CU | | | | | | | | | | | | | CX | | | | | | 1| | | | | | | 1 CY0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | CY9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | D2 | | | | | | | | | 1| | 1| | 2 D4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | D6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | DL | 18| 5| 5| 38| 40| 9| 4| 23| 13| 4| 1| | 160 DU | | | | | | | | | | | | | E3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | E4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | E5/n | | | | | | | | | | | | | E5/s | | | | | | | | | | | | | E7 | | | 1| | 1| | 3| 2| 1| 1| | | 9 EA | 1| 1| 1| 1| 1| 3| 2| 15| | 1| | | 26 EA6 | | | | | | | | 3| | | | | 3 EA8 | 1| | | 2| 1| | 3| 3| 1| | | | 11 EA9 | | 1| | 1| | 1| | 1| | 1| | | 5 EI | | 1| | | | 1| | 2| | | | | 4 EK | 1| | | | | 2| | 3| | | | | 6 EL | | | | | | | | | | | | | EP | | | | | | | | | | | | | ER | 1| | 2| 1| 1| | | 1| | | | | 6 ES | 4| 1| 1| | 4| | 1| 1| 1| 1| | | 14 ET | | | | | | | | | | 1| | | 1 EU | 2| 1| | 2| 1| | 1| | 1| | | | 8 EX | | | | 1| | 2| 1| | 1| | | | 5 EY | | | | | 1| | | | | 1| | | 2 EZ | | | | | | | | | | | | | F | 1| | | 2| 4| | 1| 25| 2| | 1| | 36 FG | | | | | | | | 1| | | | | 1 FH | | | | | | | | | | | | | FJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | FK | | | | | | | | | | | | | FK/c | | | | | | | | | | | | | FM | | | | | | | | | | | | | FO | | | | | | | | | | | | | FO/a | | | | | | | | | | | | | FO/c | | | | | | | | | | | | | FO/m | | | | | | | | | | | | | FP | | | | | | | | | | | | | FR | | | | | | | | | | | | | FR/g | | | | | | | | | | | | | FR/j | | | | | | | | | | | | | FR/t | | | | | | | | | | | | | FS | | | | | | | | | | | | | FT5W | | | | | | | | | | | | | FT5X | | | | | | | | | | | | | FT5Z | | | | | | | | | | | | | FW | | | | | | | | | | | | | FY | | | | | | | | | | | | | G | 2| 1| | 6| 4| 1| | 12| 2| | | | 28 GD | | | | | | | | | | | | | GI | | 1| | 1| 1| | | 1| | | | | 4 GJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | GM | 1| | | 2| | 1| | 3| | | | | 7 GM/s | | | | | | | | | | | | | GU | | | 1| | | | | 1| | | | | 2 GW | | | | | | | 1| | | | | | 1 H4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | H40 | | | | | | | | | | | | | HA | 10| | 4| 2| 7| 2| 5| 7| 2| | 1| | 40 HB | 1| | 1| | 3| | | 2| | | | | 7 HB0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | HC | | | | | | | | | | | | | HC8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | HH | | | | | | | | | | | | | HI | | | | | | 1| | 1| | | | | 2 HK | | | | | | | | 1| | | | | 1 HK0/a| | | | | | | | | | | | | HK0/m| | | | | | | | | | | | | HL | | | | | | | 1| | | 1| | | 2 HM | | | | | | | | | | | | | HP | | | | | | | | | | | | | HR | | | | | | | | | | | | | HS | | | | | | | | 4| | 1| | | 5 HV | | | | | | | | | | | | | HZ | | | | | | | | | | | | | I | 3| 2| 2| 11| 11| 4| 2| 52| | | | | 87 IG9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | IS | | | | 1| | | | 1| | | | | 2 IT9 | | 1| | 2| 3| 2| 1| 7| | | | | 16 J2 | | | | | | | | | | 1| | | 1 J3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | J5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | J6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | J7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | J8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | JA | | | | | 1| | 10| 2| 1| | | | 14 JD/m | | | | | | | | | | | | | JD/o | | | | | | | | | | | | | JT | | | 1| | 1| | 1| 1| | | | | 4 JW | | | | | | | | | | | | | JW/b | | | | | | | | | | | | | JX | | | | | | | | | | | | | JY | | | | | | | | | | | | | K | | | | 1| 1| | | 44| | | | | 46 KG4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH2 | | | | | | | | 1| | | | | 1 KH3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH5K | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH7K | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KH8/s| | | | | | | | | | | | | KH9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KL | | | | | | | | | | | | | KP1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KP2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | KP4 | | | | 1| | | | 1| | | | | 2 KP5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | LA | 2| | | 1| 1| | 1| 1| 1| | | | 7 LU | | | | | | 2| | 1| 1| | | | 4 LX | | 1| | 2| | 1| | 1| | 1| | | 6 LY | 12| 6| 2| 3| 10| | | 7| 3| | | | 43 LZ | 1| 1| 4| 3| 8| | 2| 5| 6| 1| 2| | 33 OA | | | | | | | | | | | | | OD | | | | | | | | | | | | | OE | 1| 1| | 2| 1| | | 6| 1| 1| | | 13 OH | 3| | 1| | 3| | 1| 4| 1| | 1| | 14 OH0 | 1| | 1| | | 1| 1| | | | | | 4 OJ0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | OK | 5| | 7| 6| 18| 3| 1| | 4| | 1| | 45 OM | 3| | | 5| 4| | 2| 2| 1| | | | 17 ON | | | | 2| 1| 1| | 2| 1| | | | 7 OX | | | | | | | | | | | | | OY | | | | | | | | | | | | | OZ | 1| | | 2| 1| | | 1| | | | | 5 P2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | P4 | | | | | | | | 2| | | | | 2 PA | 2| | | 9| 10| | | 5| 2| | | | 28 PJ2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | PJ7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | PY | | | 2| | 2| 5| | 2| 1| 2| | | 14 PY0F | | | | | | | | | | | | | PY0S | | | | | | | | | | | | | PY0T | | | | | | | | | | | | | PZ | | | | | | | | | | | | | R1FJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | R1MV | | | | | | | | | | | | | S0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | S2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | S5 | 6| 2| 1| 3| 8| 2| 2| 8| | 3| | | 35 S7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | S9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | SM | 3| | 2| | 1| | 1| 2| | | | | 9 SP | 6| 6| 3| 19| 12| 3| 1| 6| 1| 1| 1| | 59 ST | | | | | | | | | | | | | SU | | | | | | | | | | | | | SV | 1| | | 2| 2| | | 9| | | | | 14 SV/a | | | | | | | | | | | | | SV5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | SV9 | | | | | | | | 1| | | | | 1 T2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | T30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | T31 | | | | | | | | | | | | | T32 | | | | | | | | | | | | | T33 | | | | | | | | | | | | | T5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | T7 | 1| | | | | | | | | | | | 1 T8 | | | | | | | 1| | | | | | 1 TA | | | | 1| | 1| | 1| | | | | 3 TA1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | TF | 1| | 1| | 1| | | 2| | | | | 5 TG | | | | | | | | | | | | | TI | | | | | | | | | | | | | TI9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | TJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | TK | | | 1| | 1| 1| | 1| | | | | 4 TL | | | | | | | | | | | | | TN | | | | | | | | | | | | | TR | | | | | | | | | | | | | TT | | | | | | | | | | | | | TU | | | | | | | | | | | | | TY | | | | | | | | | | | | | TZ | | | | | | | | | | | | | UA | 104| 56| 49| 98| 88| 86| 40| 73| 35| 27| 2| 1| 659 UA2 | 3| 1| 1| | 1| | | 1| | | | | 7 UA9 | 31| 4| 10| 27| 19| 42| 57| 96| 6| 20| | | 312 UK | 1| | 1| | | | | | | | | | 2 UN | 4| 1| 2| 2| 2| | 1| 3| | 2| | | 17 UR | 30| 12| 8| 30| 35| 19| 5| 16| 22| 3| 1| | 181 V2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | V3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | V4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | V5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | V6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | V7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | V8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | VE | 1| | 1| | 1| | | 4| | | | | 7 VK | | | | 1| 1| | 2| 3| | 1| | | 8 VK0H | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK0M | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK9C | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK9L | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK9M | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK9N | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK9W | | | | | | | | | | | | | VK9X | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP2E | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP2M | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP2V | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP5 | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP6/d| | | | | | | | | | | | | VP8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | VP8/g| | | | | | | | | | | | | VP8/h| | | | | | | | | | | | | VP8/o| | | | | | | | | | | | | VP8/s| | | | | | | | | | | | | VP9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | VQ9 | 1| | | | 1| | 1| | 1| | | | 4 VR | | | | | | | | 3| | 1| | | 4 VU | 1| | | | 1| | | 1| 1| | | | 4 VU4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | VU7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | XE | | | | | | | | | | | | | XF4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | XT | | | | | | | | | | | | | XU | | | | | | | 1| | 1| | | | 2 XW | | | | | | | | | | | | | XX9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | XZ | | | | | | | | | | | | | YA | | | | | | | | | | | | | YB | | | | | | | | 4| | 4| | | 8 YI | | | | | | | | | | | | | YJ | | | | | | | | | | | | | YK | | | | | | | | | | | | | YL | 6| 4| 4| 1| 5| | | 1| 2| | 2| 1| 26 YN | | | | | | | | | | | | | YO | 5| 5| 2| 6| 10| 2| 3| 9| 3| | | | 45 YS | | | | | | | | | | | | | YU | 2| | 3| 6| 9| 4| 3| 11| 4| | 1| | 43 YV | | | 1| | | 1| | 1| | | | | 3 YV0 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Z2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Z3 | | | | | 1| | 1| | | | | | 2 ZA | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZB | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZC4 | 1| | 1| | 1| | 1| | | | | | 4 ZD7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZD8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZD9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZF | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZK2 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZK3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZL | | | | | 1| | | | | | | | 1 ZL7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZL8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZL9 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZP | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZS | | | 1| | 1| | | 1| 2| 2| | | 7 ZS8 | | | | | | | | | | | | | ======================================================================= | 293| 119| 135| 313| 366| 208| 174| 543| 132| 93| 17| 2| 2395 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ES6Q Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,322,570 SSB courses needed ;-) Snow, rain and sun, no propagation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: F5IN Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,838,282 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com http://perso.wanadoo.fr/f5in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3TXF Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 356,400 Great contest. Sorry, but was QRV for only about five hours. [We had a CDXC Chiltern DX Club Dinner on the Saturday evening!] 73 - Nigel G3TXF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G3WW Class: SO CW QRP Total Score = 11,526 Just a couple of hours operating early Saturday afternoon, good fun. Signals on 15m seemed to be on scewed paths, further south than usual. I decided against using the /QRP suffix as my licence does not allow it. Perhaps the organisers of this excellent contest should make the power category form part of the exchange with the serial number. IC-7000, 5 Watts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: G4MKP Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 323,188 Good fun. Should have stuck to cw rather than mixed. Cheers, Terry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA3LN Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 721,810 FT-1000MP MkV Field + HM PA 300W 3el3b Yagi @19m This succeeded much better than last year. The propagation was not very bad but too much time spent with S&P. This 300 watts is medium power. Even if I found a semi-clear spot I couldn't hold it for long. Anyway... this was a good fun before I leave to ZS6 again. I'm looking forward the competition’s score. ;-) CU maybe in the WPX SSB. 73! Csaba HA3LN --- http://www.ha3ln.hu/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8BE Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,416,683 Rig: IC-756 Ant: Vertical(28m), 8el. Log. per.(up~15m) Nice contest, tnx all! Next year agn! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HA8IC Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 573,403 Great contest! Tnx for all! 73/dx Imre ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HB9ARF Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 755,386 TS-870 - 100 Watts Dipole for 10/15/20 and 40 M Short Dipole from Kelemen for 160 M Butternut HF9-VX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG6N Class: M/S HP Total Score = 12,673,229 Rig: 2x FT1000MP, TS-950sdx backup Amps: Alpha 91B + HM Antennas: 160m: dipole on trees @18m 80m: dipoles on trees @18m 40m: 2 el HB9CV for 8 MHz ;-) at 22m 20m: 5 ele Yagi at 13m, 5 ele Yagi at 22m 15m: 6 ele Yagi at 17m 10m: 4 ele Yagi at 6m, 5 ele Yagi at 30m Beverage rx antennas: 350m to NA, 180m to JA SW: Wintest 3.19, worked ok, except it did not recognize R0Q as multiplier. This year we decided to do MS in RusDx to share the fun of the best contest of the year. We had beautiful wx over the whole weekend except Friday afternoon when we installed the 2nd 20m antenna freezing in the pouring rain and strong wind! Vy tnx to HA6PN for his sacrifice to spend 4 hours on the tower in that wx. We had some great runs and some techncial mishaps but most of them solved by HA6ND on the spot. Too bad that the low band fun was lessened by the thunderstorm QRN in NA. We heard many NA stn's with big sigs (6Y1LZ was LOUD) but couldn't work any. We could not get through to K5ZD on our sunrise sked either - and if Randy could not get our nr it must have been really bad. Luckily several minutes after sunrise a booming N2NL called in and we got the QSO and the elusive W mult quickly. Tnx Dave! 40m and 20m was a madhouse. Finding a freq on those bands was impossible without stepping on someone's toes. sorry but it was not personal ;) 15m was fun and OM3LA served as a good beacon - when Ivan started to get calls we QSYed to 15m to get rewarded by many EU Rus mults. We owe you a beer Ivan ! :-) Sorry for those whom I turned away with NIL but I did not want to guess serial nr's and risk the penalty. I heard an EME-like ZL1TM on 15m but he could not hear us. Our 10m EME, scatter and LOS QSOs praise HA3OV who patiently pulled them out. The contest gains more and more popularity and it brings some bad things too. This year we had some ugly freq fights as well. Funny that those guys who are so nice at the hamfest beer evenings can turn into agressive maniacs in the darkness of their shacks... This year I noticed much less Russian calls and much more international participants - it is clearly reflected in the P/Q figures. Congrats to Harry and co for their great score from 4o as well as to the lids on TK! 73! zoli ha1ag ps: we are clearly ageing: not a single can of beer was consumed on Saturday/Sunday... If it keeps changing like this we might soon end up eating veggie dishes and drinking fruit juice during contests! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HG7T Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 4,989,509 I work FTDX9000DX +PA My Ant:2X4ele SteppIR yagi Up 40m V160HD Titanex Gp and INV Dipole and K9AY Rx ant. Verry verry good contest i first work in Russian Dx Contest (hi..) Vy73/Dx Tibi HA7TM www.ha7tm.hu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: HL5YI Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 4,116 Cu next contest.. I will happy time. G,L de hl5yi chae 73.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I2WIJ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 3,500,110 I feel short of about 200+ qso, my unwritten target was 1500+ and 4M+ points to get the italian record. No chance without 15M! I don't know if I missed a sort of an opening, maybe early on saturday, but I don't think so. The funny thing (well...not exactly funny) was on sunday when I could only hear ZS4TX and 9K2HN, well over S9, and then just the feeling of a lot of others stations on the band by looking at the bandmap's spot, but just noise on the headphones! There are some highlights anyway. I was called by a loud T88NS while running on 20M on saturday, put him in the log and hit F1 with nonchalance, then realizing it wasn't the more familiar Bosnia! Hey, but that's Pacific! Quickly turned the beam a bit south, trying to catch some VK or ZL, at least. Then worked my friend Mike, KH6ND, on sunday on 20M. That's not an easy path either. Found 80M in quite a good shape, balancing the noisy 40M. There, on 80M, I had my best hour, 21z with 117 qso. At about 15.45 I saw a ZS4TX spot on 10M. I decided to check that spot. Went to 10M but nobody was there. Check again the spot and realized it was 30 minute old! What is it? Check the cluster time and saw it was in bad delay. (see later on this). Made a short sweep on 10M and found D2NX. Called him barefoot. Nice cacth. In the way back to 20M decided to quickly check the 15M. I use to digit the frequency in the Win-Test call sign field, to get there, and went to 21025. et voilà, here there is ZS4TX! Called him, barefoot again, and asked a qsy to 10M. He agreed and we had the qso on 10M as well. The downside now: the 20M was full to make me sick; frequency fights everywhere everytime, and QRM all around. A mess. The packet cluster (UHF link, 1200 bps) was not so reliable, and started to get slow. At a certain point (15.30z) I had the spots coming in with some 25-30min. delay! Disconnected and stayed in monitor till after midnight, when all the users went to bed! :) Then reconnected and the link stayed more or less good till one hour before contest end, when started to slow down again, but only within a few minutes delay. Usually I don't use the cluster, so nothing to work on in the next future, even if it is not clear to me yet if the delays were in the link to the Flex-Net node or in the packet cluster node. I vote for the second one. My thankfullness to my Radio Club for letting me use the IQ2MI/IU2M setup. And thanks to Randy, K5ZD, for the 160M sked (and qso!). You are very kind, OM. ICOM IC-765 Ameritron AL-1200. TH7DXX Hy-Gain 2L for 40M Dipole for 80M Inv. L for 160M ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: I4VEQ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 7,291,210 Maybe I should claim MO cos of Mr.Murphy assistance. Saturday alarm clock didn't ring, thus I woke up at 10am. At that time I still had to pick up one radio, switches, coax and some other BS at my low band dxing QTH plus the 110km trip by car. So I arrived at IR4X at 12.15 local time, 45 minutes b4 the contest start :-S Thus, my ambitious SO2R setup looked like: 6x2 manual switch, BPF manually switched pulling in/out filters, no CAT on both radios, no CW interface on both radios, 100w on the 2nd radio, no voice keyer, single PC, MP3 reader headphone for 2nd radio, control boxes all around the shack (jumping in/out of the chair).... It was clear I was not going to compete seriously but I decided to have some fun (and believe me besides all the S..T I had RDXC **IS** FUN!!!) and get the 910 points for WRTC. The cherry upon the cake was losing 80m ant at 01z. Pity as I lost tons of DXCC, OB and USA runs on this band. I went off for abt 30mins but couldn't find the problem. After the contest I figured out it was the 12V wire switching for CW/SSB and 2nd 80m ant that went wrong. Since the BS happened while I was working 4Z5LA I would congratulate with him since he heard my serial NR. using some meters of coax as antenna :-) I was not aware the rotator issue with 80m ant was solved then I worked Russians with the antenna fixed USA resulting in some spots with LOUD or BIG SIG comments from US.... Excellent low band condx, several US stns were S-9 on the meter on 160m. Many of them called in but asked for serial many times (QRN??). Best ears seemed to belong to N2NT and N2NL compared to usual 160m big guns. I have been quite surprised to hear some of the SOAB-MIX competitors with equal or lower numbers during the contest so that it was a boost to my moral! I see and heard some guys had their pile of troubles as well like DL6FBL, 9A1UN and a few others. Besides all the troubles it was nice to have 9A5X and OM3LA within 200/300 qsos. On the other hand I think OM3LA cheerleadering (or was that selfspotting??) by OM2VL/OM3RM was a bit too much. I would say a powerful station like OM8A doesn't need all that cluster assistance like little pistols ;-) I also realized some people got confused by the "4V" chars on CW producing interesting calls like IV4Q, IV3EQ, IV4EQ, SV4Q....wonder when we Italians will be allowed to use 2x1 in RDXC. Lowlights were some quick QRG fights, some Russians calling in 3 times within 15 mins (ie. 20m SSB), my lack of Russian knowledge (I noticed some Russian guys have troubles to understand English numbers/callsign). I'll be back in 2009 without a last minute setup for a better score. Matt.EYZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IK8UND Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,045,770 No cluster...tribander rotor stopped (at n/e...at least) 1 hour before start, but a real nice contest to run, 20 and 40 meters were too crowdy, no way to keep a clean frequency for a long time. Absolutely disappointing conditions on 15. Cu next year, 73s ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IQ4AX Class: M/S HP Total Score = 7,117,707 RDXC is one of my favourite contest. Great numbers, vy good job from organizers. 1st full time effor @IO4T was a great experience, good rates on every band/mode, great work on multiplier station. Bad high band contitions, good 80/160 where we made more than expected. We probably miss MS italian top score, we'll try next year. FT1000MP, IC761 AL1500, AL1200 Filters dunestar, stubs. Switch boxes by IZ4EFN. IO4T roof: 10m 4/4 (5-11m hight I4LEC design) 15m 5L (12m hight) 20m 5L (10m hight) 40m flat top full size dipole (6m hight) 80m dipole + 1/4 vertical "biscia" 160m dipole + vertical "biscia" IO4T garden (2/300m away from shack): K9AY, beverage 200m USA + 160m UA/JA WIN-TEST 3.19 We are going to put down 15+20m antennas for some work. See you in a few months with 40m beam that we missed a lot till now. 73s Andy IK4VET ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IV3RLB Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 591,311 Always fun on Russian Dx Contest . Thanks for Qso's 73's Ciao.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: IZ1LBG Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 156,145 Part-time contest Very good pile-up in the morning. Thanks for QSO!!! See all in the WPX SSB!!! FILIPPO IZ1LBG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0PK Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 149,684 Conditions were about as bad as during ARRL DX SSB. Signals on 15 were strong when there were any. Seemed pretty quiet much of the time. 10 never opened here. 20 was the place to be. It was nice to hold a run freq. for a change. Lots of QRN on 160, 80 & 40. Had a good time anyway. Thanks for the Qs. 73 - Paul, K0PK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K0XP Class: SOSB/40 LP Total Score = 13,393 SOSB 40m CW only, part-time. It's a pity SOs can't enter single-band, single mode; who in their right mind would ever want to work voice mode on 40m? 8-) QRN on 80m was the worst I've ever heard it and European sigs were extra weak both nights; I'd originally intended to work 80m only but very quickly found it uninhabitable. 40m wasn't much better but the new antlers worked wonders; frequently couldn't hear those calling. Got into a peeing contest with a PY who insisted on trying to take the clear freq I'd been on for 4 minutes Saturday night; maybe he was off on his 2nd radio when I found the "clear" frequency on which I'd already made 2 Qs before he returned ;o) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1EP Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 8,670 Just playing around. Lots of QRN on 160 and 80. I thought I would try to work some new mults there but the noise level was just too high. Also noted a couple of signals (CW) that were excessively wide. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1GU Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 229,504 Terrible local conditions with thunderstorms most of the day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1XM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 185,088 A case of bronchitis kept me from operating seriously. Mostly search and pounce - no CQ when there was a possibility more than one station would call, my brain couldn't handle it. Also didn't use packet, again probably couldn't have dealt with it. The low band conditions reminded me of the ARRL SSB, but at least this was CW - not working anyone on CW is much more enjoyable than not working them on phone. It was fun to hear the WRTC contenders going at it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K1ZM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,211,513 I really liked this contest - I just wish I had showed up with my game face on to operate it more intelligently! No excuses.... There was a trade off between chasing packet spots and mults this weekend that I obviously could have optimized better than I did and this choice (once made) put me well behind the QSO leaders almost immediately - this was was clear to me after the third hour & as the contest progressed from there. At one point, I counted 5 stations having qso totals quite a bit ahead of my own.... To make matters worse, there was yet another commercial power failure from 1055z - 1135z on Sunday morning that made any chance I had to maximize the final hour impossible. Still, having a chance to place well in the end offers some consolation - HI! Congrats to Randy - K5ZD - who really showed how to separate the men from the "rest of the gang" in this one. Well done OM! CU in the next one 73 JEFF K1ZM@aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2ONP Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 166,937 First time ever in this contest, and really enjoyed it. Surprised at the amount of activity. All of the big contest stations were there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K2SX Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 73,538 Noise level high due to thunder/lightening storms. Signal levels low due to low sunspots. Time low due to other higher priorities (not of my own choosing, necessarily). Still, good activity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3CR Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,278,247 Felt like aligator most of the time ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3MQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 112,270 My single NE/SW beverage earned it's keep! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K3WW Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 739,137 Great contest, limited time. 40 was brutal for me..many signals in the heavy noise. 73 Chas K3WW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4EA Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 16,802 Would have been nice to works some Russian stations. Alas, the K index was too high! I did copy 4L0A with S4-5 for about 20 minutes. Couldn't break through the pile-up of European stations. VQ9JC was copyable for several hours, but had quite a struggle with the huge pile-up. Neal, K4EA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4RO Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,067 This image pretty much tells the story of the 2008 RUDX contest from middle Tennessee: http://www.k4ro.net/images/lightning_RUDX.jpg Oh well. Maybe next year... 73 -Kirk K4RO ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4XD Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 44,233 Part time effort for fun -- but the most fun was the last 30 minutes when the bands finally opened to EU / RU! The rest of the time the conditions were pretty weak here. When the QSB and QRN got to me, I went outside and finished hooking up my ICE lightning protectors near the entrance to the shack. I put coax suppressors in the K9AY and two RG-213 lines, and rotor cable suppressors in the hexbeam rotor, K9AY control, and remote antenna switch control lines. I used one of the ICE crossbars that clamps on top of the ground rod to mount the suppressors. I still need to run my SPG in the shack out to this connection, and then bond it to the house electric ground which fortunately is only 10 feet away. I feel better. I really don't want to unplug all this stuff every time I leave the shack, but I realize a direct hit will take out everything. Thanks for overnighting the cables Joel! Back to the 'test. I started out on 40M at 1200 Saturday, and it was the American Bandscan. All US except one ZL and one KH6. Things were pretty slow there so I hopped up to 20M at 1230 and S&P'd my way up the band. Weak signals and QRN, yum. Anyone who thinks CW Skimmer is going to turn this murk into click and log is dreaming. We need Ron Popeil's CW Magic Restorer for that. After about an hour of that I was at 27 Q's and decided I'd had enough fun for the morning. My wife and I went downtown and took in the Raleigh St. Patrick's Day Parade -- just about everyone with a tractor, pickup truck and a business to hawk was in the parade. I think next year we should have a float for the Russian DX Contestants and enjoy the puzzled looks on the crowd's face as we drive by with Morse code booming out of our hip-hop sound system. A nice Cajun lunch and a cold Abita brand tuning oil won out over an afternoon of Heil-assisted ear torture. At 2000 I was back S&P'ing 20, not much new, then checked 15M and logged four PY's. Yawn. 6V7E was booming on 20, that was a nice treat after the other relatively mundane fare. Took some time off after an hour, then back at 2315 and got 4U1ITU on 40M, which was a new band-slot for me. ZS4TX was doing a nice job on 40M too. I hit 100 Q's at 0115 (it was that kind of day), and spent 0230-0330 straining through the static on 80M. That brought me to 120 Q's and time to call it a night. Checked 160M briefly but NBN (nothing but noise). Woke up at 1030, made some coffee, and hit 80M at 1047. Very little QRN, yay! Picked up 7 Q's on 160M, just K/VE. At 1124 I went up to 20M and as it says at the start of this, finally a band worth working! But only 30 mins left in the contest. Lots of stations and pretty decent sounding too. I think the propagation gods have a twisted sense of humor. Got 22 Q's in 35 minutes, I know, hardly a barn burner, but all S&P and I had to wait in line. I am keeping the advice to "move on quickly if you can't S&P right away" in mind, and I didn't spend time on the weaker signals who didn't answer my first call. I also took Bert's advice about "opening up the CW filter" to heart and went with 800 Hz instead of my usual tactic of 250 Hz and less. It did seem to help. I think if the noise level is very low, the narrow filter works well. If the noise is bad, opening up the filter seems to reduce it. At least that's the impression I had this morning. I guess the bottom line is keep twisting knobs until you can copy! That's it for this time gang, from the serial numbers I saw I know a lot of folks did very well, so it was probably the operator and station more than conditions, but I just found this one pretty slow going except at the end. 73, Rowland K4XD ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K4ZW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,184,570 20 started out gang busters for the first 30 minutes or so with the rate meter up around 165. I was thinking wow this is great! Then it was as if someone turned off the valve. The next couple hour’s, runs would come in bursts and then dry up. Kind of strange as signals were plenty strong. Weather storms in the area made a real mess of 40 meters on down. There were several periods early Sunday morning when the rain static was so bad on 40 I couldn’t hear a single station, not even the locals. As for 160, I grabbed the US & VE multiplier then got the heck out of there. There was no way I was going to grab any DX on that band. I spent a lot of time on CW, with the filter bandwidth cranked down around 300 hz or less to deal with the noise. Not much else to do but play the hand you’re dealt. Nevertheless, this is a fun contest with plenty of participation. I had a good time! It was a little odd for me having packet available. In fact I didn’t give it a lot of thought ahead of time and I have a hunch I didn’t utilize it as well as I should have. Hour 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total Cumm OffTime D1-1200Z - - - 111/30 - - 111/30 111/30 D1-1300Z - - - 82/9 - - 82/9 193/39 D1-1400Z - - - 99/8 5/5 - 104/13 297/52 D1-1500Z - - - 99/3 4/4 - 103/7 400/59 D1-1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 84/6 5/3 --+-- 89/9 489/68 D1-1700Z - - - 85/6 5/1 - 90/7 579/75 D1-1800Z - - - 79/6 1/0 - 80/6 659/81 D1-1900Z - - - 48/2 10/3 2/1 60/6 719/87 D1-2000Z - - - 90/6 9/1 1/1 100/8 819/95 D1-2100Z - - 9/6 53/4 1/0 5/2 68/12 887/107 D1-2200Z - - 73/17 7/1 - - 80/18 967/125 D1-2300Z - - 69/12 6/0 - - 75/12 1042/137 D2-0000Z --+-- 6/6 62/4 6/1 --+-- --+-- 74/11 1116/148 D2-0100Z - 11/7 42/5 - - - 53/12 1169/160 D2-0200Z - 25/9 20/2 - - - 45/11 1214/171 D2-0300Z 2/2 33/1 21/3 - - - 56/6 1270/177 D2-0400Z - 14/9 24/4 - - - 38/13 1308/190 D2-0500Z - 35/6 5/3 - - - 40/9 1348/199 D2-0600Z - 18/1 18/2 - - - 36/3 1384/202 D2-0700Z - 2/1 41/2 - - - 43/3 1427/205 D2-0800Z --+-- 2/0 58/3 --+-- --+-- --+-- 60/3 1487/208 D2-0900Z - 3/0 23/2 - - - 26/2 1513/210 D2-1000Z - 4/3 8/0 5/0 - - 17/3 1530/213 D2-1100Z - - - 56/4 - - 56/4 1586/217 Total: 2/2 153/43 473/65 910/86 40/17 8/4 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total % EU 0 70 299 674 1 0 1044 65.8 NA 2 72 147 160 11 3 395 24.9 SA 0 4 11 15 18 5 53 3.3 AS 0 1 7 44 0 0 52 3.3 AF 0 3 3 11 5 0 22 1.4 OC 0 3 6 5 5 0 19 1.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5NA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 893,089 This is the first time that I have done the RDXC Contest. I realize that I picked a bad year with low sun spots for my first try, but it was still a lot of fun. I did some CQ MIR Contest efforts many years ago from New York and found that the RDXC Contest format to be very similar. I used to enjoy CQ MIR and got much pleasure from the fancy certificates, lapel pens, and medallions that they would send. I still have a box of them somewhere around here. Remembering CQ MIR was all the experience I had to go on while getting ready to give the RDXC a try. With no prior history in this contest, I had no idea until it was over if I was operating wisely or not. With band conditions very poor, it is easy to be seduced by the high rates of working other USA SSB Stations. I did some of that to build up my QSO count, but was always anxious to get back to working DX and watching for Russian openings. That is just the DXer in me. Activity from Europe was great. But I was disappointed that so few JA stations were operating in this contest. Maybe some public relations in Japan would raise their activity level for next year’s event. Lately we have had a serious line noise problem here at the Radio Rancho. During a M/S for the ARRL DX SSB Contest, the operators had to struggle to copy weak signals because of it. I have since traced the noise source, I think, to a 14.4 KV wire splice about ¼ mile from our house. I tried to get the power company out to fix it before the RDXC, but they march to their own drummer. When you can see a wire splice glowing like a 25W light bulb after dark, you know there must be a problem. The noise point source is SE of the house and was grinding away for about 80 percent of the contest. I found on some bands I could work around the noise part of the time by compromise selections of antennas and directions. Some bands, like on 40M, it seemed I could do nothing to help matters. The noise would usually vary in intensity and at its worst, there was nothing I could do except take a short break and hope it would be less noisy when I returned. I actually don’t think that I ran enough on the low bands, 40M especially. But I was usually afraid that I would get a lot of callers below the line noise level. Also I am a DXer by nature and I enjoy chasing packet spots and especially finding a new multiplier that hasn’t been spotted yet. I think I did about as well as I could under the current conditions, both local noise and propagation circumstances. I enjoyed this contest enough to try to return and do it again next year. Thanks to everyone for the QSOs. 73, Richard – K5NA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K5ZD Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,729,683 There's no meters like 20 meters! Nice run the first hour to start the contest. Great run in the last hour to finish. Lots of lots of G and PA stations on 20m SSB. Got a lot of QSO number 001 on Saturday afternoon. Very noisy on 80/160. I could tell that the Europeans were hearing me better than I could hear them. With the high level of log checking in this contest, I tried to take extra time to confirm calls and numbers. Even so, I am sure the log checkers will find lots of errors in my log. Many stations were so weak, it was difficult to know if I copied the number correctly. Didn't help that I was watching the Formula 1 race live from Australia during European sunrise. My first experience doing a serious effort mixed mode and with packet. Packet is a big help for finding multipliers and QSOs. Many times I found myself getting lazy and just chasing spots instead of tuning. Felt strange to be CQing on CW in one ear and tuning for SSB in the other (or vice versa). Thanks to the WRTC qualifying system for pushing me into the category and the new challenge. Lots of great competition in the USA this year. Can't wait to see how everyone did and what their strategy was during the night hours when things were slow. I decided to sleep! Worked 5T5DC on 2 bands. Didn't get a number so logged as 000. Will let the log checkers decide that one. 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total % EU 10 107 211 788 9 0 1125 65.0 NA 38 74 102 171 21 4 410 23.7 AS 1 2 5 78 0 0 86 5.0 OC 1 1 6 8 6 0 22 1.3 AF 2 5 9 16 8 0 40 2.3 SA 0 2 5 12 22 5 46 2.7 QSOs to by country: 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total Russia UA 9 18 128 155 UA9 2 48 50 UA2 1 4 5 R1FJ 1 1 Other K 30 52 83 141 13 4 323 DL 2 16 29 79 1 127 G 1 4 8 112 125 I 3 7 18 50 2 80 UR 1 6 8 52 67 VE 7 17 16 18 3 61 PA 2 4 49 55 HA 1 6 12 29 48 F 3 10 25 38 YU 5 12 20 37 WriteLog rate sheet only shows countries and not Oblasts. Hour 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total Cumm Off 1200Z - - 5/4 146/33 - - 151/37 151/37 1300Z - - - 140/8 2/2 - 142/10 293/47 1400Z - - - 78/6 13/9 - 91/15 384/62 1500Z - - - 56/7 16/6 - 72/13 456/75 1600Z --+-- --+-- --+-- 58/6 12/3 5/3 75/12 531/87 1700Z - - - 148/5 1/0 - 149/5 680/92 1800Z - - - 89/6 5/0 - 94/6 774/98 1900Z - - - 29/2 3/1 - 32/3 806/101 40 2000Z - - - 116/3 8/1 - 124/4 930/105 2100Z - - 40/20 26/4 4/2 4/0 74/26 1004/131 2200Z - - 42/5 32/3 2/0 - 76/8 1080/139 2300Z - 9/9 36/5 3/0 - - 48/14 1128/153 0000Z --+-- --+-- 24/6 18/4 --+-- --+-- 42/10 1170/163 32 0100Z - 33/13 31/4 2/0 - - 66/17 1236/180 0200Z 5/2 19/9 43/6 - - - 67/17 1303/197 0300Z 27/7 32/4 1/1 - - - 60/12 1363/209 0400Z 8/2 50/6 5/1 - - - 63/9 1426/218 0500Z 6/2 20/3 26/3 - - - 52/8 1478/226 0600Z - 18/2 31/2 - - - 49/4 1527/230 15 0700Z - 2/2 40/2 - - - 42/4 1569/234 0800Z 2/0 3/0 9/1 --+-- --+-- --+-- 14/1 1583/235 40 0900Z - - - - - - 0/0 1583/235 60 1000Z 4/1 1/0 5/0 6/0 - - 16/1 1599/236 35 1100Z - 4/0 - 127/1 - - 131/1 1730/237 Total: 52/14 191/48 338/60 1074/88 66/24 9/3 Station Details: Radio 1 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Alpha 76CA Radio 2 - Yeasu FT-1000D + Ameritron AL-1200 Tower 1 - 100' Rohn 45G 40-2CD @ 110' 205CA @ 100' / 50' 5-el 15 @70' / 35' 160m 1/4-wave GP with 4 elevated radials Tower 2 - 90' Rohn 25G 6-el 10 @90' with 4/4 @ 60'/30' 40m 1/2-wave sloper to west 80m wire 4 square hanging from tower with 16 radials per vertical 160m shunt feed tower with 32 radials Tower 3 - 40' Rohn 25G TH7DXX at 40' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6AM Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 220,606 How do you make up for lousy conditions, no propagation to western Russia and very little to Europe, a very modest station, a west coast location, computers going nuts from RF, getting sick, the main rig dying so no SO2R, the amp cutting off due to overheat, and a high noise level? In the immortal words of Jack (of Jack in the Box hambergers), One word - VOLUME Thanks to the over 700 of you that gave me a number less than 100, mostly less than 10. Many of you are newly minted hams and will soon make great contesters. All those 2 point Q's really add up. CU in the WPX SSB from 6Y1V and the WPX CW from ZF2AM. I expect things will be a lot better there. John, K6AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K6XX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 509,278 This one is very difficult from Northern California. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K8AZ Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,465,928 K5ZD wrote in his 3830 summary: >My first experience doing a serious effort mixed mode and with packet. Packet >is a big help for finding multipliers and QSOs. Many times I found myself >getting lazy and just chasing spots instead of tuning. Felt strange to be >CQing on CW in one ear and tuning for SSB in the other (or vice versa). Thanks >to the WRTC qualifying system for pushing me into the category and the new >challenge. Second on all of that. First time running a mixed mode SO contest. First time using packet as a serious SO. First time using Win-Test for a SO2R contest effort. Hectic weekend - left Knoxville 10 am Friday>500 mile drive>K8AZ>sleep 8 hours>24 hour contest>sleep 6 hours>500 mile drive>home 11:30 pm Sunday night. I'm TIRED and taking Monday off work as a mental health day. Contest went well. Only mistake was I should have worked more SSB in the first few hours during peak EU. No Europe heard or worked on 15. First time with Win-Test SO2R. I'm doing it wrong, but I am not familiar enough with the software yet to understand the SO2R operation the "right" way. It went fine regardless, but I need some face time with the manual and the program during a non-contest situation to maximize my use of it. I bought it 2 years ago; you'd think by now I'd have gotten around to it... Mni Tnx to Tom, K8AZ for having me over to run this one as a single op this weekend. 73 Scott W4PA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: K9GY Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 5,764 Choice between contesting or doing the taxes, hah! Decided to hand out some points. Also tested out a new Yaesu FT-450 for a friend. 73, Eric ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KC4HW Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 354 Well just happened to notice this going on 15m. Really did not hear to much. Worked 3 Hawaii stations and mostly SA... Never did hear any Russians! Ran 200 watts, 5L15m at 72' and a small tribander at 40'. The tribander could not hear too much at all... Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KE9I Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 387,228 Nice to work some Russian stations on 20. Band really never opened very well though. 40M and 80M not very productive, high QRN and QSB. 15M what can you do, wait until the spots come back ! Thanks for all the Qs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KR2Q Class: SO Mixed QRP Total Score = 2,772 Not much of an effort, but I did hang some curtain rods and other honey-do stuff. :-) Signing "/QRP" as requested in the RULES didn't seem to be a problem. About 25% of the guys I worked didn't reply with the /qrp, but most did, especially DX. It did not seem to help me when I called CQ. No software, so everything was done by hand. RIG: Elecraft K3 at 5 watts output. de Doug KR2Q ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU5B Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 32,487 I was planning a pretty serious op but things came up and I couldn't find a close last minute place to op. So, this was a painful operation from home. I'm pretty sure my line noise has come back in the last day as every band had +10 or more noise...I really felt like a gator this weekend. Called but didn't work any Russians. Had to go look and test drive a Smart car today so that cut a few hours into the op time and a nice dinner with the folks cut even more. Nontheless, it was fun! Highlights were having a US pile on 20m (I felt like I was back at NX5M during NAQP SSB) and working TF3CW for an all time new country. See y'all in WPX SSB from NX5M. Colin KU5B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: KU8E Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 18,675 Started late and didn't hear many Russian stations. I was suprised when UA4HZ called me at 2317Z on 20 CW. The only other one I worked was RV6BK on 40 CW. Heard a few other RU stations on 40 CW but none of them could hear anyone calling them from the USA. Did mostly S&P handing out contacts to my friends trying to qualify for WRTC. 73, Jeff KU8E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN3Z Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 4,031,788 First time SOAB cw full time for LA8HGA. Great contest - but condx not the best. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LN8W Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 6,226,660 Great contest with very good activity ! Back to SO2R again and it took me about 10 hours before i got used to it. Also very strange to run CW on the run radio and listening SSB on the 2nd radio. I wonder how many contests it will take to get comfortable with SO2R ???. Propagation was not the best but that`s just the way it goes in LA land. Last time we didnt have any solar disturbance in a whole contest was back in 1999 if i remember it correctly ... :-)) 73 and see you in WRTC (maybe) Olaf LB8IB la8w.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LS1D Class: SOSB/15 HP Total Score = 477,396 CU WPX SSB 73 de Tim LW9EOC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LU1FDU Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 4,263 START-OF-LOG: 2.0 CREATED-BY: SD V13.39 and SDCHECK V13.39 CONTEST: RDXC CALLSIGN: LU1FDU CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 80M HIGH SSB CLAIMED-SCORE: 4263 NAME: EZEQUIEL REINALDI ADDRESS: MENDOZA 566 ADDRESS: CP 2520 LAS ROSAS ADDRESS: SANTA FE - ARGENTINA CLUB: LUCG OPERATORS: LU1FDU X-RADIOS: TS440S X-ANTENNAS: DIPOLE X-EMAIL: lu1fdu@yahoo.com.ar SOAPBOX: FIRST TIME ON 80 MTS X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: Valid QSOs: 0 36 0 0 0 0 36 X-SUMMARY: Mults: 0 21 0 0 0 0 21 X-SUMMARY: Points: 0 203 0 0 0 0 203 X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: Area Mults: 0 6 0 0 0 0 6 X-SUMMARY: X-SUMMARY: Country Mults: 0 15 0 0 0 0 15 X-SUMMARY: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LX7I Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 5,070,312 this was my second participation in the RDXC. As I was very busy repairung and improving antennas, I was very interested to know, how everything will work in the contest. Due to the lack of propagation on 10 and 15m, I was not able to improve my last years score. The contest was very hard and had never a real good run with only a few NAs and JAs in the log. I did not feal to be strong on 20M and I will put up a second monobander for 20M. My number of QSOs is not so high compared to some other stations but I was able to make a high number of multipliers on each band, also on 80M and 160M. The new 4-Square for 80M finally works. !!! Also the new internet connection in the shack made the cluster connection more reliable. I hope to meet you in the WPX Contest, More Informations will be availabel on my new homepage: www.lx2a.com 73s de Philippe LX2A / LX7I / LX9DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LY4U Class: SOSB/80 HP Total Score = 933,400 Vertical did not work, thus small DX mult, great fun anyway - thanks to all who called and to old buddy LY7M for hosting me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ4UU Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 2,715,471 Totally SO2ndR operation-never called a single CQ,which i dont feel as mistake- the activity was extremely high.Thanks to my neighbour Stefan LZ2DB for borrowing me his AT-230 for 160...it's still a band that i dont like so much,but at least had some mults that time.Have to mention RL3A-the only 6 bander and UA3PW for giving me TL mult on 10-15-20-40 in 4 minutes. Here is the ratesheet if someone is interested: QSOs Mults Points 12:00 - 12:59 71 48 585 13:00 - 13:59 62 14 427 14:00 - 14:59 57 24 349 15:00 - 15:59 68 35 447 16:00 - 16:59 44 13 311 17:00 - 17:59 58 24 346 18:00 - 18:59 75 30 417 19:00 - 19:59 75 21 459 20:00 - 20:59 61 13 328 21:00 - 21:59 67 15 382 22:00 - 22:59 58 6 288 23:00 - 23:59 45 11 291 00:00 - 00:59 30 9 187 01:00 - 01:59 39 8 264 02:00 - 02:59 38 8 198 03:00 - 03:59 29 4 184 04:00 - 04:59 30 2 180 05:00 - 05:59 28 7 270 06:00 - 06:59 26 5 234 07:00 - 07:59 32 10 251 08:00 - 08:59 28 9 261 09:00 - 09:59 37 22 297 10:00 - 10:59 34 11 212 11:00 - 11:59 39 7 191 73 and cu in WPX SSB! Iliya LZ4UU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ8A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 6,672,930 Excelent activity from Russia! Condx was bad on 15m and almost nothing on 10m. Thanks to all friends who worked with me and CUAGN! 73! Boyan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: LZ9A Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 5,660,864 Great Contest!!! Thanks to all who calling me and see you in WPX SSB 73 Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: M6T Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 7,279,572 Happy enough with this for a first attempt at this contest - surprisingly close to the approachable competition (from this geography) so far. Several lessons learnt and hope to apply them next year. Firstly the good things Lots of activity, some good runs, nothing broke My bigest problem was that this was my first serious contest with Win-Test (the proper packet and oblast support finally pushed me over the edge for this contest). I need to take my TR configured SO2R brain out and put it back in the other way round. Sent all sorts of odd messages, directed headphones to strange places, deleted a few QSOs through operator error and generally got irritated, but I now think I know enough to configure the program better. I saw a comment from Scott W4PA this morning that saying almost the same thing! Had somewhat intermittent cluster connectivity mostly during the first few hours. Conditions were lousy. I guess they were no worse than in the SSB ARRL (although I wasn't active in anger for that), but - especially on Sunday, 20m sounded like 15m, 15m sounded like 10m and 10m sounded like 24 GHz As usual many thanks to Bob, G4BAH for the use of the station. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2IC Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,103,654 From the southwest USA, conditions were extremely poor to Europe and Russia on all bands, resulting in very poor multiplier numbers. Just a short, non-runnable, opening on 20 after sunrise, and short, sporadic openings on 40 and 80 at night. In this contest, activity from USA contesters leaves much to be desired, compared to CQWW, ARRL DX and WPX. That left me with nothing to do during the daytime hours but run non-contesting USA stations on 20 meter SSB. I haven't done a single-op contest using outside DX spotting in at least 15 years, so that felt a little strange. With such poor conditions, the DX spotting from the eastern USA was of very limited value. Don't think I'll play in this contest again until there are sunspots. Just not fun. Thanks for the QSO's. 73, Steve, N2IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2NT Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,193,828 I posted this earlier, but didn't make it to 3830 for some reason. I won't repeat myself, but QRN levels and poor condx made this a most unpleasant contest. I am looking forward to next year, since RDXC is a favorite of mine. 73, Andy N2NT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N2WN Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 221,382 Seemed to struggle this year to work any quantity of DX. There was great stateside participation, which kept me busy. Nice flurry of activity during the last hour, with better RU openings, although they started to fade. Much noise Saturday from local storms and had to shut down several times due to local lightning. Only worked two /QRP stations, one US and one in Spain, heard some calling QRP stations, but no joy here. Received fewer multi thousand serial numbers this time around... 73, Julius n2wn K2/100 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N3BB Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 745,068 Very disappointing results after working hard in a contest where operating from the USA southwest was akin to being at a party but being in the room for the "other" kids while the in-crowd partied hardy. Congrats to N2IC and K5NA for good results in a difficult assignment. I haven't seen KU1CW's score yet but this certainly was difficult for me. The schedule turned out to be tough as I had to travel to Washington DC the week of the contest, arriving home at eleven PM Friday night. But I slept pretty well for five hours and got up Saturday morning feeling good. The weather here was perfect, sunny and dry without much wind. The bands were a bit noisy and that turned out to be a problem as my NE (EU) beverage was inoperable. A tree limb must have come down on it this last week. I haven't been out yet to find out what is wrong. So on 160 and 80 meters, I listened to the transmit antenna to EU. There were some EU mults on 80 that were spotted but I simply could not hear well enough to call them as I could not get the nuber. In fact, there were a quite a few stations which I called and worked, but then had to sit and listen for two or three (or more)Qs which followed in order to hear the exchange number, and calculate back to what they gave me. I hope not many of these will be busted, as copy was rough. But those mult numbers were not bad-they didn't kill me. Twenty meters (and to some extent fifteen meters) did. I think the problem was in my head, as when I got to the radio room Saturday AM at 6:30 AM, the Alpha 76 manually tuned amp I use for runs would not work. It defaulted when it was keyed. That amp has been quite reliable for years, so that was an inauspicious development. I worked the non-run station with the FT1000MP barefoot. That may sound like the reason for the very low mults on 20 and 15 but I don't think so. As N5AW, our very own LP king, has stated, LP is pretty good for S&P. It really hurts in the running capability. There were a few occasions where a mult didn't hear me on LP, but very few. That definitely was *not* the reason for my low mult totals. It probably was an attempt to overcompensate with higher QSO numbers. Of course the right thing is to do both. N2IC shows how to do both, and K5NA here in town had a terrific effort with outstanding mult numbers and a solid QSO total. Looking at both their numbers, I think K5NA's fantastic ability to work mults while doing a solid job on QSOs simply beat me-solidly-plain and simple. There were portions of the day and early evening where there was very little non-NA to work. Those portions, for me, were 20 meter SSB SS-like run fests. Frankly those were the pits. Maybe that's where I missed some spots. I don't know. But there were many stations who called with numbers of 1 or 2 or so. For some weird reason, W7s must have some conspiracy against contesting as there were quite a few who would not give me #1. They would come back and say "acknowledge" or some other terse one word response. So I would say something like "thanks OM, I am logging you with #1. Now this technically might make these non-valid, but I think they will stay in the log. One of the DXpeditions, a 5T5, would not give a number, so I took them out of the log on the one band on which I called. They were lids in my opinion. The VP6DX operators showed how to do do a DXpedition in the midst of a big contest. So congrats to the people who were able to get around the poor conditions. The WRTC impact on the RDXC was evident here in NA as many top operators were on. The RDX contest, on paper, is a great contest: 24 hours (not too long, but still a challenge to stay sharp for 24 hours straight),mixed mode-so both CW and SSB skills are necessary, lots of mults with both DXCC and Oblasts, a "real" exchange, and thorough log checking. But the lack of activity here and no openings on 15 or 10 meters to EU or JA made it tough. As expected, the RDXC is Russian and EU centered, but I was a little surprised by the lack of more JA participation. The packet thing is still new to me as I almost entirely SO2R Single-op. But my demonstrated lack of skills in finding mults really jumped out and bit me in this one. That is a major area for me to improve. Again, great results by some of our best W5 operators. Way to go guys! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5AW Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 57,624 Just playing around. Don't use packet and I don't make serious entries in contests where I am forced to compete against those who do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N5DX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,278,192 This was the first time I've worked the Russian DX Contest. It is also the first time to do mixed mode and packet. I'll be just fine with turning the packet off for the next contest. It is nice to have people spotting stations for you, but it is also much more rewarding to fine that new mult or contact on the second radio without any assistance. Big turnout in our "local" competition from our WRTC defined area. I worked N2IC, KU1CW, and K5NA several times. I'm not sure how I missed N3BB? With all of the competition, it was easy to keep my motivation high throughout the contest. The station worked flawlessly, and conditions were pretty much as expected. It seems like 40 has become progressively worse over the past two years. It was very poor this year. Very limited European opening at my sunset and no opening at European sunrise. Hopefully, it will be better for the WPX contests, but I'm not holding my breath. I'll see everyone in a few weeks for WPX SSB as NN5J. 73 Kevin/N5DX P.S. I did not use skimmer in this contest. I hope the contest sponsors address the use of this technology soon. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N6TV Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 26,322 I was planning to do full time SOAB-CW, but conditions were so poor from W6-land that it didn't seem worth the effort this year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N7ZG Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 124,620 I decided to operate this one from my buddy Mike "Dink" Dinkelman's QTH. This was a good decision. Mike's 100 foot tower sports a 2 element shorty forty at 100 feet and a C31XR at 90 feet for the high bands. Also, on a side mount is a TH6 at 60 ft for working mults. I didn't bother much with the second radio as 15 didn't open up much so this one was basically a 20/40 affair. There wasn't much of a quality prop overlap on these bands from here. My mult totals were down on 20 over last year, but 40 more than made up for it. Yea, the bands weren't great but I agree with other contesters sentiment on the Russian DX. This one will be great when the solar cycle ramps up. Also, cool was the number of casual phone ops (ostensibly newly licensed) that were willing to hand out Q's. K6AM details this in his post. I had a similar experience. Thanks again to Mike and Diane for hosting me. It's always great to operate from there. I've sold both of my rigs and I'm waiting for my pair of K3's to show up. I'm worried about having them in time for WPX CW. Fingers are crossed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: N8BJQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 245,572 Twenty was decent - noise was very high on the low bands. After the first couple of hours I decided watching basketball was more productive. Did not hear much from the west coast and deep Russia. Trying to use 2 radios with only one good ear is not fun. My right ear sounds like a broken speaker for some reason still undiscovered by the doctors. Woke up a week or so ago nearly deaf in my right ear. Perhaps we can make a new category - SO2R1E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NG7Z Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 25,974 For as much time as I spent on this contest, I sure don't have the contacts to show for it. Very disappointing results on 80M. I couldn't buy a contact. Seemed there was one way skip on that band to the Pacific NW. East coast stations were loud but I gave up after numerous "no answers" and many requests for repeats. 40M was much better after 6pm local. Prior to that, one way skip seemed to be the order of the day. Again, east coasters were loud but since it was still light here, they had a hard time hearing me. So I spent more time on 20M. If there was an opening to EU Sat morning, I must have missed it because they were very light by 11am local. Had a ham club meeting I didn't want to miss. Bright spot was working a couple of VKs on 40M early Sun morning and picking up some oblasts on 20M late Sat afternoon. Never could hear deep RU stations either on 20M or 40M. Sure hope the sunspots get here sooner rather than later. Thanks for the q's and see you in the BARTG next weekend as W7MRC. Equipment at NG7Z superstation. IC-756P3, C3 at 60ft, 40-2CD at 50ft, wires for low bands, tired old TRlog on DOS laptop. No spotting used. 100% VFO control. 73 Paul NG7Z ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NJ1F Class: M/S HP Total Score = 26,491 Just fooling around, The Static on the low bands made it very hard to hear stations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NN3W Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,043,165 Horrible rain static and thunderstorm QRN from the storms that hit Atlanta on Friday absolutely murdered me. I had S9 +20 rain static for close to two hours and elevated noise from 2300z to 0900z - a killer.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: NY4A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 1,177,448 Very tough condx. Thunderstorms & lack of high lattitude propagation made it difficult. My hat is off to the guys who stayed up all night. 73, Howie N4AF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2GEN Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 156,055 Just a short time with LP, but a nice and funny contest, cu again next year! 73, Gerald, OE2GEN, ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE2VEL Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,994,950 just played around at OE2S testing, which antennas are still working after winter storms. Stayed longer than planned due to nice activity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OE3KAB Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 346,850 Rig: Kenwood TS480HX 200w Ant: Doublet 2x27m 13m up, Beam OBW10-5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH0Z Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 7,224,714 Thanks Juha OH1JT and Ari OH5DX for possibility to try excelent OH0Z position. It was a great pleasure to operate this impressive station from OH0 land. 73 Jurgis LY2CY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OH6LI Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 6,600,000 Really bad conditions on upper bands forced to concentrate on low bands. The 10m QSOs are lucky tries. My contest started with computer problems that persisted throughout the event. Some serial numbers are corrupted at my end and some time was lost trying to fix the problem(s). My oblast score is a mystery and end score is in ballpark 6.6M. The first radio went deaf and the tower with 80m antenna stopped rotating. For some odd reason I had found enough tools at the QTH (our cottage) so I could turn it to direction Russia. Second radio was operational through the contest. One VK on 160 made me smile but the most Lucky Surprise were some JA QSOs on 160. Arigato! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OK1IC Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 168,794 RIG: FT1000MP POWER: 400W ANT: Vertical Thanks for all QSO CU! 73 Tomas OK1IC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OL8M Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 5,929,680 Thanks for contacts. This time was many QRM from close manufactory - this is my longtime problem + not very best condxs and result is here.....but ufb contest. many station. Congrats to T93Y, DL3TD, LZ8A, OH6LI, ZC4LI and etc ... I have only one TCVR / much hardly races with SO2R / 73 Pavel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: OM3LA Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 9,543,320 Big Thank to my friends for helping to repair the damaged stuff we found at the QTH friday afternoon before the contest. 7 days before the RDXC I did catch a cold. I had fever up to 39C and felt really bad. But 2 days before the contest my health improved and I was really looking forward to the contest. The plan was to come over on friday afternoon, install the second radio a play a bit on the bands, then go to bed, sleep well and wake up on saturday and lift up 80m yagi. But the things went wrong a bit. I met Rasto OM3BH in Bratislava. After visiting Joe OM7ZZ from Microham where I got my MKII and some cables we had a short lunch and drived to OM8A contest site. We got the stuff out of the cars and I started to put the station together. Wolfgang OE3WLB was already waiting for us. What we found was a destroyed antenna switching system probably after lightening strike. Brano OM2KW did an excellent job and repaired the switch just in time. Wolfgang OE3WLB made some improvements on the PA and repaired the destroyed band pass filter - he finished his job at 3:oo in the morning. Rasto OM3BH with Tibi OM3RM tuned the 80m yagi into ssb part of the band and lifted the 80m yagi into its working position just in time. BTW I had the best feeling on 80m - this yagi played extremly good. Rasto installed beverage for NE and supported me with coffee and tee during the contest. Thank you Rasto. I slept only 3,5 hours from friday to saturday and was very tired. I saw a lot of multis in the packet window but had not enough energy to use the second radio. I tryied but the rate went down. I decided to go for high rates. It is easier to stay awake in pile up then when turning the tuning knob. Thank you for the nice contest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: ON4CT Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 262,050 Nice contest with a nice website. Good weather on saterday since weeks, some gardering need to be done. My back is painfull now. I operated a few hours. The 20 m band was a battlefield no change to run on a qrg with 100 w. On 15m, at sunday morning RL3A was only S1 here, he could not pick up my signal, so I qsy'ed back to 20 m in the mud.... 73 DIRK on4ct ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PA3ARM Class: SO CW LP Total Score = 256,908 Had a computer crash Friday so started manually first 1,5 hr on 20m before I had to QRT fer rest of the day. (tabletennismatch). Back 22.00Z fer 4 hrs wid restored PC es N1MM.... (tu who fixed it!). After a good sleep back last 3 hrs. Station : Ten Tec Orion II 100W 2x10m dipole fer 20m NA 2x 8m inv vee other cu in 2009 Harry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NDX Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,263,608 Hi guys, Tnx for all QSOs. Sorry about 40m, I didn´t copy a lot of station because big massive QRM of stations on the band. Was operating with IC-706MKII without any filters. Thanks to N2IC, RU1A and my friend ZX5J (PP5JR) for 160m QSOs. Rig: IC-706MKII Amp: Dentron MLA-2500B (2x 4CX400A) - 500 Watts Ant: 10/15/20 - 3DX3 with SWR problems @ 14 meters 40 - 2 el. Yagi @ 19 meters 80 - Dipole @ 15 meters 160 - Dipole @ 10 meters 160m 80m 40m 20m 15m 10m Total % EU 1 36 212 105 460 3 817 60.8 NA 1 9 79 145 97 16 347 25.8 SA 1 5 12 16 14 6 54 4.0 AF 0 2 2 8 6 4 22 1.6 AS 0 7 54 31 8 1 101 7.5 OC 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 0.2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: PY2NY Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 2,214,709 Just figure out that CW and SSB Qsos were exactly on same quantity! What´s a coincidence !! Thank you Atilano, for giving permission to use PS2T station and leave me use my own callsign... Band Mode QSOs Pts Cty Sec 3,5 CW 8 37 7 0 3,5 LSB 8 42 5 1 7 CW 199 1196 35 26 7 LSB 75 444 15 9 14 CW 204 1232 36 23 14 USB 244 1265 15 3 21 CW 353 2030 23 17 21 USB 421 2236 34 5 28 USB 16 69 5 0 Total Both 1528 8551 175 84 Score: 2.214.709 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RL3A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,481,174 73 de Serge RU3RQ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RT6A Class: M/S HP Total Score = 8,172,708 Thanks for the contest. A lot of fun as always! See you next year! 73! de RT6A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RU6LWZ Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,395,768 It is a lot of problems with Rig,s after 10 years of absence in MS... See you the next year ! 73!Vlad ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW4PL Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,850,554 CU next contest! 73, Andy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: RW9USA Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 5,170,821 SO1R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S50A Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 8,218,749 Some problems with software, so mults score is worse than expected. Lost of time with staying on 15/10 too long. cu next one,73 Tine Brajnik, S50A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S51CK Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 491,139 73 DE Ivo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S52W Class: M/S HP Total Score = 4,819,076 IC756 TS850 3el ECO & wires ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S56A Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,499,255 Homemade GS31B QRO survived with microwave oven transformer and PC fans! Top band antenna selection failed and I slept for a while. It was fun, especially last QSO VQ9JC on 15 m. 73 de Mario, S56A ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57DX Class: SOSB/160 HP Total Score = 315,588 PART TIME ACTIVITY, JUST FOR FUN. MY WIFE PAVLA S56DX OPERATED SINGLE 20 M AND I START ON 160 WHEN SHE IS FINNISHED 20 M IN THE EVENING. SO I MIST FIRST 4-5 HOURS. ANYWAY IT WAS FUN! 73 DE SLAVKO S57DX ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S57UN Class: SOSB/40 HP Total Score = 1,269,216 Very nice contest with nice QSO rates.I work interesting countries and calls,especially R35NP from Russian Arctic station. RIG,ANT:Kenwood TS950SDX,1Kw,2el YAGI,Vertical 73 Renato S57UN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: S59ABC Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 4,842,180 FT-2000 kW KT34XA 40m-vert. 80&160m-dip. Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 73 Marko S51DS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SM5D Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 2,110,330 Rig: TS480 LK500ZC GP + OB9-5 N1MM 73 de John SM5D / SM5DJZ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SO9DX Class: SO SSB HP Total Score = 6,708,507 Great contest! Thanks to all who calling me... Many thanks for friendly reception to club SN9D, and first of all SP9LJD. QSL via UA3FDX! 73, "Mir" Powered by Win-Test 3.18.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: SV1DPI Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 1,021,275 I run some hours Saturday afternoon and abt 1 hour only Sunday morning as i would like to go a walk with my family. The strong sun was beautiful and a temptation to stay in shack. Anyway i really enjoyed the pileup and the very big participation. Tnx for all qsos and see you on the next one... 73... Kostas SV1DPI Rig Yaesu ft1000mp markv Amp zz-1600 Ant 2el quad(10-20) and Inv-L (40-160) Software: writelog 10.65 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: T93Y Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 7,329,700 Equipment: ICOM IC-756PRO-III ICOM-IC-756PRO Alpha 8100 Emtron DX-2b (TNX T98A) Dell P-III 1GHz desktop + Win-Test v3.19.0 EZ Master Antennas: 160m - 24m shunt fed tower 80m - dipole at 24m 40m - 2el. Cushcraft XM-240 at 18m fixed to USA + 1/4 wave vertical 20m - 4/4 el. YAGI at 25/13m 15m - 5/5 el. YAGI at 18/9m 10m - 5/5 el. YAGI at 21/12m 180m long NE/SW beverage 120m long NW beverage First of all I would like to thank Danny, T93M letting me operate this great contest from his QTH. This was a first time I have tried SO2R and I think it is the reason I felt like zombie after the contest. I would not mention how it looked at the begin and how many times, especially at the end of contest, I thought radio 2 station is answering my CQ :-) I can say that I am happy with number of multipliers worked but I have missed quite a few countries on 15m at the begin of the contest. Simply rate on 20m was too good for SO2R beginner and to leave it and go to 15m... Now I need to manually enter RDA (http://www.rdaward.org) for 942 Russia QSO's in my main LOG. There must be a few new districts for me :-) Thanks to everybody calling. This was my last contest under T9 callsign and coming Saturday (actually 21. March at 2300UTC) we will finally start using E7 callsigns. Only two and three letter calls will be licensed at this time so until my E73Y application is hopefully granted (applications are being received until mid April), you will find me on the bands as E73TW... 73's Boris T93Y Here are some statistics: T93Y By band - All modes QSOs (without dupes) - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 12 ! ! ! ! 170 ! ! ! 170 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 148 ! ! ! 148 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 2 ! 86 ! 7 ! ! 95 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 63 ! 22 ! ! 85 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 87 ! 6 ! ! 93 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 16 ! 80 ! ! ! 96 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 87 ! 12 ! ! ! 99 ! ! 19 ! ! 2 ! 105 ! ! ! ! 107 ! ! 20 ! ! 117 ! 4 ! ! ! ! 121 ! ! 21 ! 27 ! 62 ! ! ! ! ! 89 ! ! 22 ! 48 ! 8 ! 39 ! ! ! ! 95 ! ! 23 ! 4 ! 5 ! 91 ! ! ! ! 100 ! ! 00 ! 10 ! 9 ! 76 ! ! ! ! 95 ! ! 01 ! 26 ! 83 ! 2 ! ! ! ! 111 ! ! 02 ! ! 101 ! ! ! ! ! 101 ! ! 03 ! 40 ! 29 ! 3 ! ! ! ! 72 ! ! 04 ! 1 ! 86 ! ! 2 ! ! ! 89 ! ! 05 ! ! 6 ! 33 ! 14 ! 1 ! ! 54 ! ! 06 ! ! ! ! 52 ! 5 ! ! 57 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 3 ! 18 ! 11 ! ! 32 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! 45 ! 23 ! ! 68 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 23 ! 47 ! 16 ! 86 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 41 ! 30 ! ! 71 ! ! 11 ! ! ! 1 ! 81 ! 2 ! ! 84 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 156 ! 508 ! 462 ! 922 ! 154 ! 16 ! 2218 ! Multipliers - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 12 ! ! ! ! 69 ! ! ! 69 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 18 ! ! ! 18 ! ! 14 ! ! ! 2 ! 7 ! 7 ! ! 16 ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 8 ! ! 15 ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 7 ! 3 ! ! 10 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 15 ! 8 ! ! ! 23 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 35 ! 1 ! ! ! 36 ! ! 19 ! ! 2 ! 22 ! ! ! ! 24 ! ! 20 ! ! 55 ! 4 ! ! ! ! 59 ! ! 21 ! 25 ! 17 ! ! ! ! ! 42 ! ! 22 ! 15 ! 8 ! 9 ! ! ! ! 32 ! ! 23 ! 3 ! 5 ! 12 ! ! ! ! 20 ! ! 00 ! 4 ! 9 ! 7 ! ! ! ! 20 ! ! 01 ! 12 ! 9 ! 2 ! ! ! ! 23 ! ! 02 ! ! 2 ! ! ! ! ! 2 ! ! 03 ! 8 ! 2 ! 3 ! ! ! ! 13 ! ! 04 ! ! 3 ! ! 1 ! ! ! 4 ! ! 05 ! ! 1 ! 4 ! 7 ! 1 ! ! 13 ! ! 06 ! ! ! ! 5 ! 6 ! ! 11 ! ! 07 ! ! ! 3 ! 2 ! 9 ! ! 14 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! ! 11 ! ! 11 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 19 ! 8 ! 28 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 5 ! 3 ! ! 8 ! ! 11 ! ! ! 1 ! 4 ! 2 ! ! 7 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 67 ! 113 ! 119 ! 142 ! 69 ! 8 ! 518 ! Oblasts - By time ! Hr ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! Total ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! 12 ! ! ! ! 50 ! ! ! 50 ! ! 13 ! ! ! ! 8 ! ! ! 8 ! ! 14 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 15 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 16 ! ! ! ! 3 ! ! ! 3 ! ! 17 ! ! ! 9 ! ! ! ! 9 ! ! 18 ! ! ! 25 ! ! ! ! 25 ! ! 19 ! ! ! 8 ! ! ! ! 8 ! ! 20 ! ! 33 ! 2 ! ! ! ! 35 ! ! 21 ! 12 ! 9 ! ! ! ! ! 21 ! ! 22 ! 5 ! 4 ! 4 ! ! ! ! 13 ! ! 23 ! ! 3 ! 4 ! ! ! ! 7 ! ! 00 ! 3 ! 5 ! 5 ! ! ! ! 13 ! ! 01 ! 7 ! 4 ! ! ! ! ! 11 ! ! 02 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 03 ! 6 ! ! ! ! ! ! 6 ! ! 04 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 05 ! ! ! 1 ! 4 ! ! ! 5 ! ! 06 ! ! ! ! 3 ! 1 ! ! 4 ! ! 07 ! ! ! ! ! 5 ! ! 5 ! ! 08 ! ! ! ! ! 8 ! ! 8 ! ! 09 ! ! ! ! ! 14 ! 5 ! 19 ! ! 10 ! ! ! ! 1 ! 2 ! ! 3 ! ! 11 ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! ! 1 ! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! 33 ! 58 ! 58 ! 70 ! 30 ! 5 ! 254 ! Worked oblasts ! 160 ! 80 ! 40 ! 20 ! 15 ! 10 ! 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PK ! ! 1 ! ! 3 ! ! ! 4 BU ! ! ! ! ! ! ! YA ! ! ! 1 ! 3 ! ! ! 4 IR ! ! ! ! 2 ! ! ! 2 CT ! ! ! 2 ! 3 ! ! ! 5 HA ! ! ! ! ! ! ! KY ! ! ! ! ! ! ! TU ! ! ! ! ! 1 ! ! 1 KT ! ! ! ! ! ! ! AN ! ! ! ! ! ! ! FJ ! ! ! ! ! ! ! MV ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ====================================================== ! 55 ! 204 ! 197 ! 405 ! 79 ! 12 ! 952 Powered by Win-Test 3.19.0 http://www.win-test.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TF3CW Class: SOSB/20 HP Total Score = 225,016 A great contest, and well organized. CU next year for sure. Siggi TF3CW ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: TK/9A8MM Class: M/S HP Total Score = 5,218,740 Equipment: Shack: TS440S+SB220 Photo: http://www.rkp.hr/active/components/com_ponygallery/img_pictures/IMG_1157.JPG Antennas: Spiderbeam (20-10m) GP 40m wih 6 radials Inv Vee 80m @ 10m Inv Vee 160m @ 10m Photo (op. 9A8MM): http://www.rkp.hr/active/components/com_ponygallery/img_pictures/IMG_1075.JPG Another great RDXC weekend is over. This was our 3rd in a row DXped activity for this contest (EA6 in 2006 and HB0 in 2007) and by far our most successful. Being able to put all of the equipment into one single car trunk and making over 2000 QSOs in RDXC and over 4000 QSOs in a about 35 hours on air activity from Corsica makes us really happy. Nothing to complain. A lot of fun, work and pleasure. Hear you next year, hopefully again from some nice mult DXCC or we might just go back to beautiful Corsica. As for our two previous DXpeds you will be able to see our short video soon on http://www.youtube.com/9a8mm 73, Hrle - 9A6XX on the behalf of the TK/9A8MM Team ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UA9BA Class: SO Mixed LP Total Score = 3,822,010 The way this contest is progressing and gaining respect all over the world is just amazing! My congratulations to the organizers! Way to go!!! 73's GL, Willy UA9BA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UU7J Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 9,898,475 73!to All de Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: UY7C Class: SO SSB LP Total Score = 1,149,702 IC: 746+wires. Tnx to all for QSO's! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA2WDQ Class: SO CW HP Total Score = 324,135 Rig: Yaesu FT-1000 PA: AL-80B, 750 watts Ant: 2 el. MQ-26 and Inverted L The propagation was not good as expected (((( ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call: VA7ST Class: SO Mixed HP Total Score = 96,825 FT-2000 (SO1R) + SB221 at ~500-800w 3-element Mosley CL-33 at 45' 40M -- two half-squares 80M -- one delta loop 160M -- Inverted-L SFI 70 | A 10 | K 2 Tough sledding. I hope a good time was had by all, despite conditions and odd paths. I should have been at the rig full-time but only put in 10.5 hours total -- just couldn't justify losing much sleep for under-10/hr rates in the wee hours, (or mid-afternoon for that matter). 10M -- Completely dead. 15M -- Not much there, either. South America and southeastern U.S. only. Worked 6 CW and 6 phone. 20M -- Pretty good at times, but pretty lousy at times, too. EU opening Saturday morning was so-so -- opened late and never hit a fever pitch here. Band is in OK shape if I get to work South Africa, so ZS1EL and ZS4TX were very welcome finds. A handful of Asiatic Russians worked around 2245z and again several weak but workable at 0000z, but didn't hear much from EU Russia at any time. Worked just 26 phone Qs (1 oblast). Called CQ a time or two with brief flurries but not sustainahle even though I think I had a workable signal. Just didn't seem like much activity. OH6NIO called in with a big signal while I was beaming Asia (75 degrees west of OH). 40M -- All CW. Good domestic conditions, and a fairly strong 40M CW central EU opening late Saturday afternoon. Worked 2 oblasts. Could not make the most of the opening as the half-square to EU is compromised, firing across part of my US/JA half-square, which reduces gain on the polar path in favor of the southwest. Modeling (after building, naturally) told me to watch for this, and on-air performance confirmed it. A fix is in the works. Must note ZS4TX was very loud here around 0100z (I NEVER get to work South Africa on 40M). 80M -- All Cw. High noise this weekend on the delta loop. No DX heard. 160M -- A couple of close in stations, and that's all. (If George W2SC is not in California, I want what he's got for antennas). Other notes: Worked VE7SV and VE7CC a few times (not easy on 20M from 400 kms away). Lee CC had well over 1000 Q when we had our final Q on 80M around 11 p.m. local (0545z), so he was definitely finding a lot of stations I wasn't (I had just over 300), and there was still a lot of time for him to play on the low bands. I didn't find enough activity to keep at it much after that, though I considered closing the 800 Q gap between us -- I just needed 80 additional hours, hi. It's not an accurate measure of contest activity, but livescores.org didn't have great hordes of people posting (40 or so -- about half of ARRL DX SSB numbers). http://www.getscores.org. I leave the web browser open in an unused part of the desktop, so I can see how my category pals are doing while I plaintively bleat "CQ" and guys tune past me. Hope the TX5C lads have a safe voyage from Clipperton. Sounds like WX and QRN gave them trouble in the final few days. Missed them on 160M despite hours of calling with SWR-limited 50W. Had hoped to fill a couple more high-band slots in RDXC if they were ending with a Ducie-type contest run (handing out serial numbers), but I saw spots early Saturday morning saying they were loading the boat. The guys did a fine job under trying condition. Prep work Friday evening included replacing a pair of Schottky diodes in the AEA AT-3000 tuner metering circuit -- second time I've burned up these puppies. Should handle my